Book Bingo 2024

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the challenge of the day is....Book Bingo!

This is organized by the lovely kingstoken. If you'd like to participate here is the card and the information.



Pet or Animal Companion: Hop Til You Drop by J. M. Griffin. This is #3 in the Jules & Bun Mystery series. Jules runs a rabbit rescue and a yarn shop. And Bun is her rabbit, with whom she has a telepathic bond. The murder takes place at an Easter egg hunt. It's...kind of awful. Bun is not cute. He's kind of obnoxious (with no other characteristic like genius a la Sherlock Holmes to make up for being obnoxious). I don't think cozies are my thing. It could have been cute. But it was kind of tiresome.

Book from your TBR: How to be a Poet by Jo Bell and Jane Commane. This was a very helpful guide. It covers the process, writer's block, inspiration, and there is a lot about publishing and practices in modern poetry publishing. What editors are looking for. How to submit. How to build a track record. Techniques to make your work more serious and things not to do. Interspersed are some philosophical bits which were also good, food for thought.

Sci-Fi or Fantasy: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. I listened to the audiobook version which is good. Narrated by Grover Gardner who is a solid American narrator. 8 hours. I learned of it from garonne. I kept thinking, 'oh this is science fiction' or 'oh, this is like Star Trek' or 'oh, this guy is like William Shatner and this lady is like one of the Star Trek ladies.' It is very heterosexual. I don't have any desire to read another but it didn't bother me. Probably what a science fiction lover would say if they read a Golden Age of crime novel.

Cordelia Naismith, the captain of a Betan Astronomical Survey ship, is exploring a newly discovered planet when her base camp is attacked. While investigating, she is surprised by a soldier, hits her head on a rock, and awakens to find that, while most of her crew has escaped, she is marooned with an injured Betan ensign and Captain Lord Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar, notorious as the "Butcher of Komarr", who has been left for dead by a treacherous rival. During their five-day hike to a secret Barrayaran cache, she finds Vorkosigan not at all the monster his reputation suggests, and she is strongly attracted to him.



Book in a Series: A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny. Audiobook. 13 hours. Narrated by Robert Bathurst.
Book older than you are: Death in Captivity by Michael Gilbert. 8 hours. Narrated by Gordon Griffin.
Graphic novel or Comic: Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido.
Animal or Pet Companion: Hop 'Til You Drop by J. M. Griffin.
Multiple POVs: Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka. [Translated by Sam Malissa]
Romance Plot or Sub-plot: Possession by A. S. Byatt.
Traslated: The Mill House Murders by Yukito Ayasuji [Translated by Ho-Ling Wong]
With a Blue Cover: The Pattern in the Carpet: a Personal History with Jigsaws by Margaret Drabble.
Non-fiction: The Wager by David Grann. Audiobook. 8.5 hours. Narrated by Dion Graham.
Seasonal Read: Valentine Murder by Leslie Meier.
Book from your TBR: How to be a Poet by Jo Bell and Jane Commane.
Crime or Mystery: The Long Call by Ann Cleeves. 11 hours. Narrated by Ben Aldridge.
Sci-Fi or Fantasy: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. Audiobool. 8 hours. Narrated by Grover Gardener.
Banned Book: I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Book bingo coming along nicely - and you've got a row!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes! Finally a row! Thank you.

[kingstoken]

Bingo card is looking great! And thanks for the promo.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! :)

[debriswoman]

This is progressing very well :-)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

[garonne]

I kept thinking, 'oh this is science fiction' or 'oh, this is like Star Trek' or 'oh, this guy is like William Shatner and this lady is like one of the Star Trek ladies.'

Haha, yes. I kept thinking 'this is like Georgette Heyer'. At first I thought it was just because I don't have a lot of points of reference for het romance. But actually it turned out that the author of Shards of Honor WAS a fan of Heyer's.