As always, links to go my reviews on Goodreads. Currently, I’m one book ahead of where I need to be to meet my goal for the 2012 Reading Challenge. Clearly I was unnecessarily worried about the Dumas throwing me off course. (And also about finishing it in time for a mid-March book club meeting. Der.)

• The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged), Alexandre Dumas
• Solar, Ian McEwan
• Heft, Liz Moore
• The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, Alina Bronsky
• The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World, and the Way We Live Today, Ted Conover