November BingoDOG reads

Some of us are still working on our Bingo cards, while others have started a second card! If you're currently working on a Bingo, what are you reading this month? Please share below, and don't forget to update the wiki!

Also, if you haven't seen it yet, check out the BingoDOG 2021 planning thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/325298. Looks like we have more than enough suggestions for squares, but there's still time to add to the list! :)

I have one square left, the "published in the year of your birth" square. To avoid using my actual year of birth, I am using any of the birth years of the members of the Tragically Hip, whose songs are the theme of my challenge. I've lined up Shooting Script, by Gavin Lyall, which was published in 1966, the year drummer Johnny Fay was born.

For the "about a journalist" square, I read If It Bleeds by Stephen King. The title (one story of four) refers to that motto of television news, "If it bleeds, it leads." The story is about a TV reporter who is also something else.

I've got the same two left from several months. I'll be intentional this week. I just need to force myself into the stacks to retrieve books. Hopefully I can remember to do it before the library is open or at least right after it opens and not many are present. I don't like leaving my office once people are in the building unless I absolutely have to do so.

1. File M for Murder by Miranda James
2. Rounding the Mark by Andrea Camilleri
3. An Incomplete Obituary for Damien Stewart Wilson by Sean Rose
4. Sugar and Vice by Eve Calder
5. Life on Mars by Jon Agee
6. Letters, 1796-1817 by Jane Austen; edited by R. W. Chapman
7. The Thief of Auschwitz by Jon Clinch
8. Death Finds a Way by Lorine McGinnis Schulze
9. Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T. S. Eliot
10. A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
11. Corned Beef and Casualties by Lynn Cahoon
12. Murder by the Book by Lauren Elliott
13. The Art of Uzbek Cooking by Lynn Visson (GeoCAT)
14. Kanahena: A Cherokee Story by Susan L. Roth
15. Julio Bunny Goes to the Library by Nicoletta Costa
16. The Little Berlin Cookbook by Rose Marie Schulze (Berlin native)
17. The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
18. A Killer in King's Cove by Iona Whishaw
19. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
20. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan
21. The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth by Thomas Morris
22. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
23. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers (Arthur Ransome's Legacy Library)
24. Much Ado About Nutmeg by Sarah Fox
25. Keep Calm and Carry On, Children by Sharon K. Mayhew (World War II evacuation of children from London)

>5 thornton37814: Congratulations on finishing your BingoDog card. I enjoyed seeing what you read.

>5 thornton37814: - Congratulations on finishing. Almost time to start next year's card.

>5 thornton37814: Congratulations Lori!

I'm behind this year and still have three more squares to fill although I'm pretty sure I'll finish.

Just filled the "set in Asia" square with The boat people by Sharon Bala.
Based on the real story of a ship arriving in Vancouver filled with refugees from Sri Lanka. Bala does a fantastic job of telling their story and the stories of the officials who must determine if they are legitimate refugees or potential terrorists. When I see refugees arriving I've always thought they were safe, but from now on I will remember this book and know they have a long difficult time ahead to prove their case.

One more square filled, this time with a title having 3 consecutive letters of Bingo.

Bring me Back by B.A. Paris 3★
OK but this psychological mystery was a bit repetitive and had little complexity.

I used The Summer Book for the book published the year i was born. Lovely book that I'd probably not have come across otherwise.
2 to go...

I added another square Rose Blanche for INVOLVES A REAL HISTORICAL EVENT.
This gives me my first BINGO.

>11 lowelibrary: Hurray for bingo!