Book Bingo 2022: Complete!
Jul. 24th, 2022 05:41 pmBig, big thanks to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kingstoken for hosting the challenge and doing up the card!!
POC Author: The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison. I read the large print version, and it was 600 pages. The entries span forty years but they were very interesting. Politics, the writing process, history.
Recommended: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller [audiobook, narrated by Frazer Douglas, 11 hours]. This is the story of Achilles told through his lover Patroclus. I liked it once the Trojan War started. I don't like coming of age stories, so that part was not interesting to me. But I still binge-listened because Frazer Douglas does an excellent job with the voices.
Wild Card: Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare by Cyril Hare. I love Cyril Hare and this book is perfect for me. Very clever detective stories. Short and concise and really clever. I had read maybe four or five before but most were new to me.
Set in Your State or Country: Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman [audiobook, narrated by Debroah Hazlett, 10 hours]. A decent, forgettable story. Baltimore is the nearest city to where I live. I recognized many of the place names. It's a female journalist turned investigator. If you like Janet Evanovich, this is sort of the Baltimore equivalent. I won't read another but it was fine to listen to while I worked on a puzzle.
Place in the Title: The Cornish Coast Murders by John Bude [1935, e-book]. Part of the British Library Crime Classics collection. Another fine but forgettable story. I liked the setting. But the resolution to the crime required a bit more suspension of disbelief than I like to give.
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kingstoken for hosting the challenge and doing up the card!!
POC Author: The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison. I read the large print version, and it was 600 pages. The entries span forty years but they were very interesting. Politics, the writing process, history.
Recommended: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller [audiobook, narrated by Frazer Douglas, 11 hours]. This is the story of Achilles told through his lover Patroclus. I liked it once the Trojan War started. I don't like coming of age stories, so that part was not interesting to me. But I still binge-listened because Frazer Douglas does an excellent job with the voices.
Wild Card: Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare by Cyril Hare. I love Cyril Hare and this book is perfect for me. Very clever detective stories. Short and concise and really clever. I had read maybe four or five before but most were new to me.
Set in Your State or Country: Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman [audiobook, narrated by Debroah Hazlett, 10 hours]. A decent, forgettable story. Baltimore is the nearest city to where I live. I recognized many of the place names. It's a female journalist turned investigator. If you like Janet Evanovich, this is sort of the Baltimore equivalent. I won't read another but it was fine to listen to while I worked on a puzzle.
Place in the Title: The Cornish Coast Murders by John Bude [1935, e-book]. Part of the British Library Crime Classics collection. Another fine but forgettable story. I liked the setting. But the resolution to the crime required a bit more suspension of disbelief than I like to give.
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