Here’s what I completed in February (in addition to the usual barrage of New Yorkers and Wired). My take on each of these can be found on Goodreads.com (I can’t link directly to my review for a given book, so I haven’t bothered to link at all. But if you’re on Goodreads, friend me and you can see them.)

• Becoming Madame Mao, Anchee Min
• Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, Joe Dominguez
• The Boleyn Inheritance, Phillipa Gregory
• An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, Brock Clarke
• A Hatred for Tulips, Richard Lourie
• The Tatooed Girl, Joyce Carol Oates
• She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff, Charlie Anders
• Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
• How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time, Kara Jesella
• Missing Mom, Joyce Carol Oates