Book Bingo: June 2021 [COMPLETE]

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

First of all, a big thank you to kingstoken for creating the bingo board. I may clear the board and try to do a second one for the second half of 2021. If it looks like I'm making progress, I'll post.




Free Space: The Murder in the Mill-Race by ECR Lorac [e-book]. ECR Lorac is one of my new favourite authors. She wrote murder mysteries set in and around WWII in England and has a great talent for local description. In this one, a young doctor and his wife go to a small Devon village and the old lady who runs the orphanage is drowned. Inspector MacDonald mystery. I will probably end up reading all the ECR Lorac I can find. I have 3 more available to me via my online library system.

Hobbies/Crafts: Magical Miniature Gardens & Homes by Donna Webber. I do like miniature scenes. I did a miniature library last year, and I have a miniature coffee shop in the closet waiting to be done which I got for Christmas. This was fun and with a nature element, which I liked aesthetically, philosophically, and visually, but which means I won't ever actually do any of the scenes (with real plants and moss). I don't have or want plants because it's enough for me to take care of the boys. I don't want more responsibilities or things that require unending maintenance and, for me, don't give an equal amount of pleasure. And the author goes on and on as if fairies are real and how to 'welcome' them to your yard with these little tableaus, which made me think of poor ACD getting hoodwinked by some trick photography. Very pretty little scenes, however, and clear instructions how to make them.

Disabled Author: Call me Ahab by Anne Finger [e-book from archive.org]. I really liked this author's writing style, though she writes a bit too much about sex for me. But this is a collection of short stories about disabled people from history and literature (i.e., what if Helen Keller and Freida Kahlo met? What's the story behind the dwarf in the Velasquez painting? Or Goliath from the Bible?). I would definitely read more by her.




Full List

Graphic Novel: The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O'Neill
Colour in the Title: Rhode Island Red by Charlotte Carter [e-book]
Sci-fi/Fantasy: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Romance: One Night in Boukos by A. J. Demas [e-book]
Historical (fiction/nonfiction): Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March, audiobook, 16 hours, narrated by Vikas Adam
Published in 2021: The Gentle Art of Fortune-Hunting by K. J. Charles [e-book].
Author You've Not Read Before: Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink
E-book/Audiobook: The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham, audiobook, 8 hours narrated by David Case/Frederick Davidson
YA/Children's: Song of a Whale by Lynne Kelly
Recommended: Sword Dance by A. J. Demas [e-book]
Biography/Autobiography: Auguste Rodin by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Non-fiction: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles & Ted Orland
Free Space: The Murder in the Mill-Race by ECR Lorac [e-book]
Banned Book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley [audiobook, narrated by Michael York]
Number in the Title: Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims [e-book]
Crime/Mystery: It Walks by Night by John Dickson Carr [e-book]
LBGTQ Author: Vermilion by Nathan Aldyne [e-book]
Hobbies/Crafts: Magical Miniature Gardens & Homes by Donna Webber
Disabled Author: Call me Ahab by Anne Finger [e-book]
Female Identifying Author: The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell
Award-winner/Bestseller: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman [audiobook, narrated by Lesley Manville].
Movie/TV Tie-in: The Getaway by Jim Thompson [e-book]
POC Author: If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes
Classic/Published Before 1985: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, audiobook, 17 hours, narrated by David Case/Frederick Davidson
Collection/Anthology: Murder in the Manor, edited by Martin Edwards [e-book]

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Wow, Congratulations! That's really quick.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!

[firecat]

Congratulations! The Miniature Gardens book sounds fascinating. Wow, Darwin narrated by David Case...!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! The Miniature Gardens was very twee. About 10 cute little dioramas to invite 'fairies' to your space. Yes, Case did both The Voyage of the Beagle (more interesting to me) and The Origin of the Species. It was easy to listen non-fiction in his voice.

[kingstoken]

Congratulations on completing your full book bingo card!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much! And thank you again for setting up the card. Like I said, I may do a second one.