Book Bingo: April 2023
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Written by an Author from your State or Country: When I saw Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic I thought of this square. I normally try to find a Baltimore writer but I think this book fulfills the spirit of the prompt very well.
Person's Name in the Title: Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkley. Anthony Berkley is a mystery writer from the Golden Age of Crime. He is brilliant. He is also an obnoxious misogynist. It depends on my mood whether I can ignore the latter in favor of the former. He also likes his last minute twists (which I love). The murder takes place at a fancy dress/costume party where guests dress as famous murderers or victims and the victim has a severe case of Borderline Personality Disorder, for those familiar with it. I have BPD myself so it's easy to see. And Roger Sherringham (Berkley's detective) loathes her. But the crime is clever and the twists are many, many and I did get some glee in watching Sherringham twist himself into knots. Amazing ending, too. Excellent narration. I listened to it on youtube here.
ebook or audiobook: Post after Post-mortem by ECR Lorac. Another Golden Age of Crime work. I love Lorac and was very pleased to find this full length version on Youtube here. Lorace's detective MacDonald investigates the supposed suicide of a young writer. A letter lost in the mail which arrives after the death makes the family suspicious that it wasn't suicide after all. Very well done. Good narration, too.
Crime or Mystery: The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman
Book Made into Movie or TV Series: Dead Souls by Ian Rankin
Female Author: Come Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie Mallowan
Three Word Title: Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Craft, Hobby, or Cookbook: The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A. J. Jacobs.
Written by an Author from your State or Country: Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic edited by Alice Quinn
Person's Name in the Title: Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkley
Book with Woman Protagonist: Absent in Spring by Mary Westmacott
Author You've Never Read Before: Kill 'em and Leave by James McBride
More than 300 Pages: Moby Dick by Henry Melville
Romance Plot or Subplot: Sundays with Oliver by Karen Jensen
ebook or audiobook: Post after post-portem by ECR Lorac
Written by an Author from your State or Country: When I saw Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic I thought of this square. I normally try to find a Baltimore writer but I think this book fulfills the spirit of the prompt very well.
Person's Name in the Title: Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkley. Anthony Berkley is a mystery writer from the Golden Age of Crime. He is brilliant. He is also an obnoxious misogynist. It depends on my mood whether I can ignore the latter in favor of the former. He also likes his last minute twists (which I love). The murder takes place at a fancy dress/costume party where guests dress as famous murderers or victims and the victim has a severe case of Borderline Personality Disorder, for those familiar with it. I have BPD myself so it's easy to see. And Roger Sherringham (Berkley's detective) loathes her. But the crime is clever and the twists are many, many and I did get some glee in watching Sherringham twist himself into knots. Amazing ending, too. Excellent narration. I listened to it on youtube here.
ebook or audiobook: Post after Post-mortem by ECR Lorac. Another Golden Age of Crime work. I love Lorac and was very pleased to find this full length version on Youtube here. Lorace's detective MacDonald investigates the supposed suicide of a young writer. A letter lost in the mail which arrives after the death makes the family suspicious that it wasn't suicide after all. Very well done. Good narration, too.
Crime or Mystery: The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman
Book Made into Movie or TV Series: Dead Souls by Ian Rankin
Female Author: Come Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie Mallowan
Three Word Title: Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Craft, Hobby, or Cookbook: The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A. J. Jacobs.
Written by an Author from your State or Country: Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic edited by Alice Quinn
Person's Name in the Title: Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkley
Book with Woman Protagonist: Absent in Spring by Mary Westmacott
Author You've Never Read Before: Kill 'em and Leave by James McBride
More than 300 Pages: Moby Dick by Henry Melville
Romance Plot or Subplot: Sundays with Oliver by Karen Jensen
ebook or audiobook: Post after post-portem by ECR Lorac
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