Day: May 22, 2019
BL-opoly: Dice Roll #2
(Germany is UTC (GMT) +1, so it’s already May 22 here and I’m allowed to roll again.) This puts me on square 15: The Mountain Cabin — read a book with a tree (or trees) on the cover, or that has a main character who is a father. Louise Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves […]
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My Final Two Detection Club Bingo Reads
My final two Detection Club bingo squares are Playing Politics and Singletons. (Yey!! Almost done!) For the first of these squares, I will be re-reading Ngaio Marsh’s Nursing Home Murder — not my favorite book by Marsh, but I have it on hand, I’m in the process of reworking my way through Marsh’s Inspector Alleyn […]
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Miles Burton (aka John Rhode): The Secret of High Eldersham
Oh Lordy. Let me count the ways — or probably, better not. Short version: Lillelara, I’m positive this one isn’t for you. (Nor for BT, for that matter.) Let’s just pocket the $3 this equals to in BL-opoly money and move on, shall we? Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1889717/reading-progress-update-i-ve-read-100
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Detection Club Bingo: My Progress So Far
Whee — only two squres to go for blackout! The Squares / Chapters: 1. A New Era Dawns: Ernest Bramah – The Tales of Max Carrados; Emmuska Orczy – The Old Man in the Corner 2. The Birth of the Golden Age: A.A. Milne – The Red House Mystery 3. The Great Detectives: Margery […]
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