Book Bingo: June 2021 [COMPLETE]
Jun. 8th, 2021 02:01 pmFirst of all, a big thank you to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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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.
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