It's February!

 

Hello book friends!  And it's February and spring will be coming - well, in a few weeks.  No, we are not having bluebonnets yet, but I'm hoping for a good year and so decided to share a picture of them.  Actually, we may not have a good wildflower year because we've not had much moisture and that is needed.  We shall see.  We did have an ice/sleet/freezing rain storm a couple of weeks ago and got through that.  Actually, it wasn't as bad as it could have been because the freezing rain became sleet and that's better for our roads.  I know that I've said before that Central Texas does not deal with freezing moisture well.  Happily, we're on the other side of it.  We'll see if we get another time of super-cold, but hopefully not.

My reading has been kind of slow.  I did read 7 books in January and that's OK enough.  Attended my afternoon book group meeting and also my mystery book group meeting.  I've already shared about the books we discussed.  This next week will hopefully include two book groups.  Our mystery group will meet Thursday evening and we'll be discussing The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict.  I'll try to share what the group thought about it perhaps at the end of next week.  I'm also going to attend a new book group that I've visited a couple of times so far, the 2nd Tuesday of the month.  It's called a 'Book Cafe' and it's at the library where I volunteer a couple of times a week.  In this group, everyone comes and shares what they have been reading, makes suggestions to others for books they might like, and the librarian who leads it usually has a few questions for us talk about or share thoughts on.  I wasn't sure if I would like the format, but decided I would try it and I've liked it a lot.  The group seems to have about 10-11 people and the reading suggestions have been across all genres, but quite interesting.  I'll try to share a bit about what occurs.  I will say that it has concerned me that some libraries seem to be sort of phasing out book groups a bit.  Has that happened at your library?  I'd hate to see 'in-person' book groups that do talk about specific books become a thing of the past.  I'll keep attending mine as long as I can.  

Hope you all have a good weekend!  Are you watching the Olympics?  We are and I'm going to close out this post and go watch more.  Take care and happy reading!  And Happy February!