Month: September 2019
Halloween Bingo 2019: Second Extra Square – Supernatural
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1960810/halloween-bingo-2019-second-extra-square
Read MoreTerry Pratchett: Monstrous Regiment
I had initially been planning to read Terry Pratchett’s Pyramids (also the Discworld group’s October group read) for this square, but given that I was ready for the square before October had rolled around and I still want to do the Discworld group read in any event, a quick switch to another one of Pratchett’s […]
Read MoreHalloween Bingo 2019: The Fourth Week
Reading blackout before the end of the first bingo month and two more completed bingos in week 4 for a total of three bingos so far — if anybody had told me this going in, I’d have questioned their sanity. Not least because I had a major project to complete this month, which I knew […]
Read MoreDelia Owens: Where the Crawdads Sing
A wonderfully atmospheric book set in the marshes on the North Carolina coast; the story of Kya Clark, who is successively abandoned by her entire family while still a child, manages to survive in the derelict family home with the help of a few well-meaning friends, autodidactically (though jump-started by a former friend of her […]
Read MoreClayton Rawson: Death from a Top Hat
My first book of this week was another excursion into the world of Golden Age mysteries; this time one set in the U.S.; the first book of Clayton Rawson’s Great Merlini series, focusing on a famous magician who, instead of resting on his laurels, has opened a magic shop and, as a sideline, agrees to […]
Read MoreBingo Call: 9/30/2019 – Locked Room Mystery
Reblogged from: Obsidian Blue Locked Room Mystery: a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime (almost always murder) is committed in circumstances under which it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime or evade detection in the course of getting in and out of the crime scene. Book list linked here. […]
Read MoreHalloween Bingo 2019: First Extra Square – Thirteen
As I said elsewhere, I’ve decided to read books for a few extra bingo squares now that I’ve finished those on my own card. First one up: Rex Stout’s And Be a Villain for Square 13 — as it’s the 13th book of the Nero Wolfe series. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1960151/halloween-bingo-2019-first-extra-square
Read MoreMargaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale & The Testaments
~ Gilead ~ Well, that was as soul-drenching as any double bill ever was (even though The Testaments is marginally more optimistic than The Handmaid’s Tale). It’s not always a good idea for an author to revisit one of their standout classics decades later, but in this instance it clearly worked. Atwood stays faithful to […]
Read MoreBingo Call: 9/28/2019 – Paint It Black
Reblogged from: Obsidian Blue Paint It Black: Any book with a cover that is primarily black or has the word black in the title, was written by a black author, or relates to rock and roll music. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1959748/bingo-call-9-28-2019
Read MoreBingo call: 9/27/19 – It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Reblogged from: Moonlight Murder It Was A Dark and Stormy Night: This is another throwback to 2016 – any book that takes place on “a dark and stormy night.” Book list linked here. Non-genre-specific square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1959348/bingo-call-9-27-19
Read MoreHalloween Bingo 2019: Final Square
For my final bingo square — “International Woman of Mystery” — I’ve decided on a Margaret Atwood double bill: a reread of The Handmaid’s Tale followed by its recent sequel, The Testaments … if I can stand that extended exposure to Gilead, that is, and don’t end up bailing out of The Handmaid’s Tale halfway […]
Read MoreBingo Call: 9/26/2019 – In the Dark, Dark Woods
Reblogged from: Obsidian Blue In The Dark, Dark Woods: a mystery, suspense, horror or supernatural book in which the forest/woods plays a significant role, or which has a forest/woods on the cover. Book list linked here. Non-genre-specific square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1958667/bingo-call-9-26-2019
Read MoreBingo Call: 9/24/2019 – Deadlands
Reblogged from: Obsidian Blue Deadlands: elements of the undead – zombies, wights, vampires and other revenants; Book list linked here. Supernatural square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1957201/bingo-call-9-24-2019
Read MoreFor any mystery fans still looking for a book for the “Fear the Drowning Deep” bingo square …
… this short story compilation from the British Library Crime Classics series looks like it would fit the bill. (Link to Obi’s review HERE: obi.booklikes.com/post/1956924/post) Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1957146/for-any-mystery-fans-still-looking-for-a-book-for-the-fear-the-drowning-deep-bingo-square
Read MoreTerry Pratchett: Guards! Guards!
This is a book that ought to be read today more than ever: The eighth Discworld novel and the first book of the Night Watch subseries — but first and foremost, an exploration of just how a political system can fail and slip into dictatorship right before everybody’s eyes. Whatever it was that motivated Pratchett […]
Read MoreToni Morrison: Beloved
The book that accompanied me throughout this third week of September 2019, bit by bit, in both audio and the print version. And oh, what a writer the world lost when Toni Morrison died. This wasn’t my first book by her, but it brought home her extraordinary qualities as a writer all over again: There […]
Read MoreTrudi Canavan: The Magicians’ Guild
The first book of Canavan’s Black Magician trilogy and, while it started out enjoyable enough, another book that ultimately failed to live up to my expectations. (It’s by no means awful, but it also didn’t entice me to continue with the series, however much the ending may have be trying to do just that.) The […]
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