{"id":4942,"date":"2026-02-28T20:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:20:27","slug":"february-2026-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2026\/02\/february-2026-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2026 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No re-reads this month &#8211; that&#8217;s a little unusual but welcome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The Vocation Lectures<\/em> &#8211; Max Weber, 1917-1919 (tr. Rodney Livingstone). My first <a href=\"https:\/\/catherineproject.org\/general-offerings\/\">Catherine Project<\/a> seminar &#8211; I hope to do more. Quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Hallmarked Man<\/em> &#8211; Robert Galbraith, 2025. Needed a real editor so badly! But apparently I keep checking these out, even though some of the past ones were so unmemorable that I completely forgot I already read them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Orbital<\/em> &#8211; Samantha Harvey, 2023. Second Monday; quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Raising Hare: A Memoir<\/em> &#8211; Chloe Dalton, 2025. Nature\/Enviro; quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Piranesi<\/em> &#8211; Susanna Clarke, 2020. Massachusetts Center for the Book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massbook.org\/readingchallenge\">reading challenge<\/a>, &#8220;A book outside your usual genres or spin the genre wheel.&#8221; I wrote &#8220;The genre spinner gave me Fantasy, so I finally read this book that&#8217;s been on my to-read pile since it came out. I loved <em>Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell<\/em>, and this didn&#8217;t disappoint &#8211; truly delightful and absorbing. I regret waiting so long!&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory<\/em> &#8211; Deena Kastor, 2018. The speaker at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sugarloafmountainathletic.org\/\">Sugarloaf Mountain Athletic Club<\/a> annual meeting mentioned this book several times, so I checked it out ASAP. I have mixed feelings about reading memoirs of super-fast people, since I&#8217;m so slow, but the mindset aspect was pretty good. My favorite part was Kastor following her coach&#8217;s advice for getting ready for an evening run: &#8220;Sometimes I was so giddy about it that when I climbed into bed for a nap I shouted out loud, &#8216;This is my job!&#8217; and fell back into a deep slumber.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Power and the Glory<\/em> &#8211; Graham Greene, 1940. Great Books selection; quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Book Lovers<\/em> &#8211; Emily Henry, 2022. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.askamanager.org\/\">Ask a Manager<\/a> commentariat recommendation; I found it quite charming and enjoyed the mocking of the Hallmark small-town tropes. The setting wasn&#8217;t very plausible &#8211; only one restaurant but a three-story library with automatic doors and multiple meeting rooms &#8211; but I was happy to suspend my disbelief.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Theo of Golden<\/em> &#8211; Allen Levi, 2023. I heard about this huge bestseller in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/books\/2025\/12\/24\/theo-of-golden-novel\/\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a> and was intrigued. Not great writing but I found it much more compelling than I expected, despite its flaws.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Look Now&#8221; &#8211; Daphne Du Maurier, 1971. Far Out Film watched the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don%27t_Look_Now\">Nicolas Roeg adaptation<\/a>, which generated a great discussion. The story is good too but I prefer the film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No re-reads this month &#8211; that&#8217;s a little unusual but welcome! Short story &#8220;Don&#8217;t Look Now&#8221; &#8211; Daphne Du Maurier, 1971. Far Out Film watched the Nicolas Roeg adaptation, which generated a great discussion. The story is good too but I prefer the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}