Book Bingo: February 2020 (II)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

New:
The First Book in a Series: A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis [ebook]
Non-fiction: The Interior Castle by Saint Teresa of Avila
An Animal on the Cover: Devotions by Mary Oliver
Children/YA: Clay the Cromer Crab and the Invasion of the Jeellyfish by Salena Dawson
Colour in the Title: Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh [ebook]
100 pages or less: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

I also read: Flying too High by Kerry Greenwood, which could be used for the Free Space.

Previously:

Humour: Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
Movie/TV tie-in: War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (audiobook)
Mystery/Crime: This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas
Title has a Name in It: Lord Darcy Investigates by Randall Garrett (e-book)
An Author You've Never Read Before: The Raven Tower by Anne Leckie (audiobook)

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Your book bingo card is already looking really good!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thanks! I have 2 books by Olvidia Yu but I haven't started either yet. The Frangipani Mystery and Aunty Lee's Delights.

[smallhobbit]

As you know, I really enjoyed The Frangipani Mystery, but haven't read Aunty Lee's Delights, so will be interested to know what you think.

[kingstoken]

Looking great! You're almost half way there and it's only February!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thanks. Yeah, I need to slow down. But it will get harder.

[luthienberen]

Looking fascinating! Happy reading! :)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thanks!

[write_out]

What an interesting challenge! I might have to try this myself.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Cool! kingstoken and smallhobbit and I are all using the same board: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/73915.html

[ancientreader]

How did you like Nnedi Okorafor? I have been feeling a little terrible-person-ish because I tried hard to read Akata Witch but I found her prose so flat I just couldn't get through it.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I liked it. I'd like to read the other books in the Binti series (when my TBR pile is a bit smaller). I do have a library hold for the audio version of Binti and I am looking forward to hearing it. I think I'll be able to say more about the prose when I listen to it.

It was like Star Wars to me (the first Star Wars) but better because female and African. I like all the Namibian elements. I like the twist. I thought it was one kind of story then it became a different kind of story. Tentacles! That's fun. I don't read hardly any SF (but I did get another Anne Leckie book at the library, the first in the Ancillary series) so it was fun for me. And only 90 pages. But lots and lots of world building.