Book Bingo: April 2026
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G-1: Author's Debut/First Book: A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin. The April![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
bookclub_dw book. It is an easy read. A fantasy novel about a poor village girl with a tragic past who travels to a tea-making competition in the princess court to win a remedy for her dying sister. Warning: ends on a cliffhanger.
N-2: Historical (fiction or nonfiction): Keats: a brief life in 9 poems and one epitaph by Lucasta Miller. A nice overview of Keats' life and death and impact. Audiobook.
O-2: eBook/audiobook: The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves. This is the latest Shetland/Jimmy Perez novel and of course Jimmy can't catch a break. His best friend is murdered. But his best friend is kind of a loser and the killer comes out of left field at the end with a motive that isn't hinted at until the last quarter of the book. Do not recommend, my eye-rolling muscles got a good workout, but the narrator is good. Audiobook.
I-3: Crime/Mystery: Tokyo Express by Seicho Mastumoro. A solid Japanese police procedural. Very much about train time tables a la Freeman Wills Croft. Audiobook. I have a soft spot for the narrator.
O-3: Book Older than You are: The Dispossessed [1974] by Ursula K. Le Guin. A science fiction classic about a planet and a moon and a physicist who travels from the latter to the former and back. A philosophical treatise on government or lack of it, human nature, time, and space. To give a quote:
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future. If time and reason are functions of each other, if wer are creatures of time, then we had better know it, and try to make the best of it.
G-1: Author's Debut/First Book: A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin. The April
bookclub_dw book. It is an easy read. A fantasy novel about a poor village girl with a tragic past who travels to a tea-making competition in the princess court to win a remedy for her dying sister. Warning: ends on a cliffhanger. N-2: Historical (fiction or nonfiction): Keats: a brief life in 9 poems and one epitaph by Lucasta Miller. A nice overview of Keats' life and death and impact. Audiobook.
O-2: eBook/audiobook: The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves. This is the latest Shetland/Jimmy Perez novel and of course Jimmy can't catch a break. His best friend is murdered. But his best friend is kind of a loser and the killer comes out of left field at the end with a motive that isn't hinted at until the last quarter of the book. Do not recommend, my eye-rolling muscles got a good workout, but the narrator is good. Audiobook.
I-3: Crime/Mystery: Tokyo Express by Seicho Mastumoro. A solid Japanese police procedural. Very much about train time tables a la Freeman Wills Croft. Audiobook. I have a soft spot for the narrator.
O-3: Book Older than You are: The Dispossessed [1974] by Ursula K. Le Guin. A science fiction classic about a planet and a moon and a physicist who travels from the latter to the former and back. A philosophical treatise on government or lack of it, human nature, time, and space. To give a quote:
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future. If time and reason are functions of each other, if wer are creatures of time, then we had better know it, and try to make the best of it.
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Date: 2026-04-29 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2026-04-29 09:19 pm (UTC)You probably know this already, but A Magic Steeped in Poison is a duology. The second part is called A Venom Dark and Sweet. They are a good read.
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Date: 2026-04-30 12:49 am (UTC)I assumed there was another one. I probably won't read it but I am glad I read this one.