February 2021 BingoDOG Reads

I'll start off the month again with my pick for an author who is new to you: How Quickly She Disappears by Raymond Fleischmann. This is his first novel.

I'm reading This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing, a memoir by Jacqueline Winspear, the author of the Maisie Dobbs series, for the Time square.

>2 sallylou61: - "Daisy Masie" ? LOL

>3 dudes22: Thanks for pointing out my error! I've made the correction. And, we were even talking about the series in a zoom meeting I just attended -- and I brought up the series (correctly)!

>4 sallylou61: - I thought it was cute!

Reading Glass Bead Game. I think this might work for arts and recreation because a great deal involves musicology. It is a SF novel set in the 23rd century.

For the Element square I read Fire in the thatch, an unsatisfactory forties mystery by E. C. R. Lorac.

I am reading the latest Alexander McCall Smith in the #1 Ladies Detective series How to Raise an Elephant for the "southern hemisphere" square and also finishing Manhunt by Janet Evanovich for the "one word title" square.

Third Girl by Agatha Christie goes well for "Senior Citizen Protagonist". Hercule Poirot is called old by a young woman in the first chapter and has to chew on that a lot throughout the story.

As I didn't like this novel at all, I'm pleased that at least I can use it to fill another BingoDOG square!

>9 MissBrangwen: I suspect all the protagonists in classic style murder mysteries were born old, lol.

I read Mr Tiger, Betsy, and the Blue Moon, by Sally Gardner, which is a younger children's fantasy novel with many delightful illustrations, and was printed in a font supposedly more readable by dyslexic people. The girl protagonist Betsy goes on a quest with her dad who is an ice-cream maker, and her mum who is a mermaid, and a princess who has been turned into a toad, and Mr Tiger who is a circus ringmaster, and an extensive team of emigrant Gongalong acrobats who are all very small (and have very small ponies too). Whimsical. 3.5*

I read this this with children so it wasn't my choice but I'm hoping the "blue moon" counts as a measure of time, e.g. "once in a blue moon", for the "Book about time or with a time word in the title" square.

My love story is Maria Christina : Tagebuch einer Tochter, where Maria Theresia's favourite daughter tells her romance with Prince Albert to her diary.

I did Redemption by David Baldacci for the one-word title square

I read The Lifecycle of Software Objects for the SFFKit and put it in the center square, which gives me my first bingo.

Claiming the Arts & Recreation square having read Square Haunting biographies of 5 women writers and scholars who all lived in the same Bloomsbury square.

I read The Crown in Crisis by Alexander Larman for the "Free Space" since I read it for February GenreCAT biography.

I finished The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac which I am using for the "set somewhere you'd like to visit" square since it mainly set in Paris.

Completed Manhunt by Janet Evanovich for "one word title" square. BingoDog card complete--got 'em all!

>18 LadyoftheLodge: Congratulations!

>18 LadyoftheLodge: That's mighty impressive!

>18 LadyoftheLodge: Wow, congratulations!

>18 LadyoftheLodge: Congrats!

>11 spiralsheep: I like that logic!

>18 LadyoftheLodge: Wow! Amazing!!

>18 LadyoftheLodge: Wow! Congrats to you!

Deleted. Forgot that "impulse read" was supposed to be due to title or colour. (Wiki says "color". Is that right? It's not "cover"? If it's cover, this could fit...) I know we just had this discussion somewhere, but I've already forgotten...

>25 LibraryCin: Impulse read: picked because of the title or the cover. -- This appears several times on the BingoDOG planning thread.

For the history square, I read Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America by Mark A. Bradley. I could have used this for the 20 or fewer LT authors square since it has 9 members (as of Feb. 5th), but I have another book which I'm planning to read this month which also fits that square.

>25 LibraryCin: When I picked up The Sweet Flypaper of Life last month, the title is what initially intrigued me, but the co-author (Langston Hughes) added to the "must read immediately" status. I counted it for the impulse read, because it was the title that first caught my attention.

>25 LibraryCin:, >26 sallylou61: If you tell us that you picked an impulse read because of the title or cover, we'll believe you! It's not critical.

>25 LibraryCin: Personally I think any reason for an impulse read would be fine. My own choice was a re-read that was nowhere on my radar until someone else mentioned reading the book for the first time. I could modify all of my posts to state that title or cover are *examples* of reasons for an impulse read if that would help.

Thank you all! I will count it, then! (The wiki said "color", so that's what confused me! I thought it an odd reason to pick something as an impulse read...)

"Oh, here's a book with a blue cover - my favourite colour, so I'll read this one!" LOL!

So.... my impulse read... (It was actually chosen for the MysteryKIT, but it was not on my tbr; was chosen - at least in part - due to the cover.)

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter / Theodora Goss
3 stars

Mary Jekyll (Dr. Jekyll’s daughter) and some other ladies who are daughters, descendants, and/or creations of Dr. Moreau, Frankenstein, and Mr. Hyde (and more), have gathered to tell their stories, including a story of working with Sherlock Holmes to solve some murders. All these men (except Holmes) were doctors, scientists, inventors, etc, and did plenty of (human) experiments, including in some cases, on their daughters. They were part of an Alchemists’ Society. Mr. Hyde’s daughter was unknown to Mary until after both of Mary’s parents had died. Together, these women tell their own stories in addition to their story of searching for a murderer.

It was ok. For me, the idea of the story was better than the execution, but that doesn’t surprise me. I’m not a fan of Sherlock Holmes (or any of the classic characters in this book), nor have I even found any spinoffs that I really like. But I was still hoping. I listened to the audio, but I’ve heard this narrator before, so I don’t blame the narration for my “ok” rating. I did enjoy the little “breakouts” where the women would chat amongst themselves as they wrote their story; however, I will not be continuing the series.

I read The Ladies are Upstairs by Merle Collins, which is a collection of short stories set mostly on a fictional Caribbean island resembling Grenada, and the last story very definitely has a "senior citizen as the protagonist". 4.5*

>31 LibraryCin: Sorry, that was likely my mistake when I set up the wiki. You know how you can sometimes type one word but see something entirely different. I thought I put "cover" but I see it does indeed say "color." Anyway, I'll correct that!

I read Kingdomtide for the senior citizen protagonist square. The senior citizen is a 72-year-old woman who is the only survivor of a small plane crash in the Bitterroot Mountains in Montana and has to make her way back to civilization.

>34 sturlington: Thank you! :-) And yup - easy to do!

Thanks everyone for the kind messages. The stars must have lined up in my favor for BingoDOG this time around. This is the first time I have completed the card so quickly. The earliest I have completed in the past was April.

Congratulations! 25 books in a little over a month is great reading even if it wasn't for the Bingo card.

I have used Clair de lune {et autres nouvelles} for the "light or dark word in the title".

I've filled the "nature or environment" square with Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash, which spends a lot of time at sea and talks about the environmental impact of human activities on the fisheries.

Contains a love story: A Dance in Donegal by Jennifer Deibel.

I finished Kein Ort. Nirgends by Christa Wolf (published in English as "No Place On Earth"). It has 174 pages and therefore fits the "Less Than 200 pages" square.

I used A Red Death by Walter Mosley for "by or about a marginalized group". Not only is Easy Rawlins (the main character) a black man in 1950s Los Angeles but in this book, he gets friendly with a Jewish labor organizer with Communist leanings... And that gives me my first BINGO!

I have also completed 2 other squares:
"2 or more authors" -- Late Harvest Havoc by Jean-Pierre Alaux & Noël Balen
"character you'd be friends with" - Thank You, Jeeves (either Bertie Wooster or Jeeves would fit the bill!)

It may be a tiny bit of a stretch, but I'm using In the Company of Crows and Ravens for "title that describes you." If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you're definitionally in the company of crows especially and ravens occasionally. I feed crows peanuts in my backyard, and every evening in the fall and winter a flock of them streams overhead on their nightly commute to their big roost in Bothell. Also, every time I take a "what bird are you" online quiz, it comes up either Crow or Raven.

I'm recommending Henry Green's Doting very highly. If you've never read anything by Green, please give him a go, if not Doting, then one of his others. Party Going is my favourite so far, but Doting comes close.

>43 susanna.fraser: I love your use of that square!

>44 pamelad: I haven't heard of Henry Green before, so that's a great rec!

I read Tiare in Bloom by Celestine Vaite, which is a chicklit-style novel set in Tahiti about a middle-aged couple in their forties but told mostly from the husband's point of view and especially delves into the meaning and practice of various forms of fatherhood. It's technically the third novel in a series but it worked for me as a standalone. As ever with this relatively light-hearted style of social commentary, a reader is either in tune with the author's humour and perspective on life or not but I think this novel is easy to enjoy (and I'm not the target audience for this genre). 4*

This is a book "set somewhere you’d like to visit" because who wouldn't want to visit Tahiti?! (I know, there's always one....)

I've decided to be friends with Psmith, in Psmith, Journalist by P. G, Wodehouse.

5 squares to go!

While The Warden by Anthony Trollope isn't a typical love story, there is one included in this novel and it is quite decisive to the progress of the plot - so that's one more square down!

Very much an "impulse read" as I didn't know it existed this morning!

I read How to Avoid a Tragedy, by David Henry Wilson, 2003, which is a play script rewriting four Shakespearian tragedies to happy endings: The Moor the Merrier; Entente Cordelia; and Hamlet and Macbeth, All Hale. A couple of laughs, a couple of groans, and some shenanigans exiting stage alright.

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"But if our words and actions caused offence,
We beg to plead the case for the defence:
By changing these existing tragic courses,
We do but what the Bard did with his sources."

I read The Dark Archive for dark or light word in the title, though I only recommend it if you've read the previous 6 books in the series--otherwise you'll be utterly baffled.

Set somewhere I'd like to visit

The Real James Herriot / James Wight
3.75 stars

“James Herriot” was the pseudonym of a veterinarian, James “Alf” Wight, who became an author after decades of veterinary practice in the countryside of England in the mid-20th century. This biography was written by his son. Instead of, like Herriot’s books, a focus on the animals, this book focuses on Alf and the people in his life – his family, lifelong friends, veterinary partners, and more – starting with his life in the country and his vet practice, then switching to writing books, which he also really seemed to enjoy.

I’ve only read a couple of Herriot’s books, but I’ve really enjoyed them. This biography is very good, as well, and of course, there have to be a few animal stories thrown in – not only of a few of the patients, but also of Alf’s own pets. It’s been a bit too long for me to remember the “characters” in Herriot’s books to compare them to the real life versions of those people, but I still quite liked this book.

I read The Castle of Inside Out by David Henry Wilson, which is children's novel with glorious gothy ghastly illustrations by the inimitable Chris Riddell. 5*

BingoDOG: Book with a type of building in the title

I just finished Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice by Paula Byrne, which speaks a lot about the history of the slave trade and the status of black individuals in 18th-century England.

For the "time" square I read This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir by Jacqueline Winspear, the author of the Maisie Dobbs series of mysteries. I have really enjoyed the Maisie Dobbs books which I've read, and was a bit disappointed with this memoir. The first part of the book seemed to be much more about her parents than about Jacqueline herself. The chapters in most of the rest of the memoir focused on particular topics such as Jacqueline's going to school, her interest in getting a horse, stories about her large extended family, Jacqueline's working to help support the family, etc. The title of the book, "This time next year we'll be laughing" was one of her father's favorite sayings; she felt close to her father and had problems with her mother. However, most of the book was enjoyable, and the book both started off and ended with her parents' deaths which was effective.

I read Battlepug: War on Christmas by Mike Norton, which is a graphic novel sequel to his original excellent Battlepug webcomic with script and art all by Norton. This is the mighty tale of a barbarian warrior and his trusty steed the giant, erm, pug dog known as Battlepug (aka Sir Sprinkles Goodsniffer von Wigglebottom) and the friends they make along the way.... And, yes, it's every morsel as mad as it sounds. Full marks, despite the cliffhanger ending, but probably only if you've read the preceding five volumes (or the compendious Compugdium). 5*

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"But the wind grows colder already. // Maybe we should stop somewhere and find some pants."

BingoDOG: Book with a one-word title

I finished Never Never, written by two authors (James Patterson and Candice Fox).

This is my second bingo! Yay!

Last night I stayed up very late to read Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center in a single sitting. It works for the "classical element in the title" square.

The protagonist of Birnbäume blühen weiß is blinded in a car accident and the novel tells the story of how he and his family deal with that. I'm using this book for "By or About a Marginalized Group", although I have qualms about the depiction of blindness in the work.

>18 LadyoftheLodge: Congratulations! What an accomplishment!

>54 sallylou61: What an appropriate title for our current year. Hoping this time next year we will be pandemic-free and laughing.

For the two or more authors square I read The Lying Room by Nicci French, the husband and wife writing duo, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French.

I used a short biography of composer Claudio Monteverdi for the "aerts and recreation" square: Monteverdi.

My 31st book of the year and my first completed BingoDOG card with a different book for each of the 25 squares. \o/

I read Time Song: journeys in search of a submerged land, by Julia Blackburn, which is a lightweight examination of geography, archaeology, and personal history, in this case in and around "Doggerland" the undersea bank and plains that have sometimes formed a land bridge between Britain and continental Europe. 4*

BingoDOG: Nature or environment

>61 spiralsheep: Congrats on completing your Bingo card!

>62 christina_reads: Thank you!

>61 spiralsheep: Excellent work!

>64 rabbitprincess: Thank you! More fun than work though. :D

>65 spiralsheep: I agree! I had a lot of fun choosing books to fit the Bingo squares. This year it seemed to go easier for me then in the past. Maybe that was because I did not try so hard and did not plan so far in advance.

>66 LadyoftheLodge: Oh, I missed that you'd BINGOed a full card, congratulations! I'm glad you're having fun. :D

I'm reading my way around the world, and trying to reduce my To Read shelf, so I have less flexibility than usual but the squares were generous to me. I'm enjoying the companionship along the way too.

>61 spiralsheep: Congratulations!

>68 pamelad: Thank you!

Congrats to both spiralsheep and LadyoftheLodge for completing a BINGO card.

Big congrats to those who've already completed a card!

I read Shit, Actually, Lindy West's essays on popular movies of the past few decades (most of them takedowns--the title is her judgment upon Love, Actually) for the Arts & Recreation square.

Read The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz for the "Book with a type of building in the title"

>70 thornton37814: Thanks! It is a good achievement and reading motivator for me, and I always end up reading some books I would not have otherwise picked up.

One word title: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.

I read Ways of Dying, by Zakes Mda, which is a novel set in an unnamed city on the coast of South Africa, presumably based on Cape Town, in 1993-4, shortly before the transition to inclusive democracy . The protagonist is a professional mourner who meets a woman from his home village at the funeral of her son in the city about twenty years after he last saw her. Unusually the story has a third person plural narrator, a collective "we", the people of the city and the village who have individually witnessed events but are recounting them from a communal perspective (I think this is a nod towards collective oral traditions of narrative and also omniscient ancestors).

The usual "ways of dying" for each age group - accidents, violence, and illness - occur as natural events in various characters' lives. But each day means more when we understand we have so little time on this earth, and the saddest way of dying is giving up on life while you're still alive. 5*

BingoDOG: By or about a marginalised group (or groups in this case)

>72 bookworm3091: I'm reading the same one. It should fit there for me too!

Now I'm torn. Last year I completed my Bingo card just from women authors. This year I've just finished my first book by a man. It would fit several squares and it was so awful that I'm tempted to use it, so that at least I get some benefit out of it.

I can't recommend anyone read Mordew even if I could use it for squares including "one word title" and "used magic".

>77 Helenliz: You could start a second BingoDOG card for male and female authors (or just male authors). I usually end up doing two cards, the second of which is just women authors.

Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Høeg takes place in Copenhagen and Greenland and I'd love to visit both, so that's another square down!

I visited Copenhagen in 2015 and would love to go back because it was a wonderful place. The polar regions fascinate me and it would be fantastic to visit them one day, probably on a cruise, although I wouldn't like to go on one of the very big ships, but pick the provider very cautiously.

>77 Helenliz: >78 sallylou61: I like the idea of starting another card for that one so that you don't have to see it on your nice main card :)

I read The Serpent's Egg, which was Caroline Stevermer's first novel, and is a fantasy of manners set in a not-Elizabethan not-England. The author demonstrates at least a basic understanding of how her chosen social system would function in practical terms, but the plot didn't work for me and I didn't find any of the characters especially engaging. I don't want to spoiler anything that isn't immediately obvious from the beginning, but I note that the realm would be more peaceful if everyone with a francophone surname was arrested as soon as they appeared, lol, which I don't think was consciously intentional on the author's part. 2.5*

BingoDOG: Book with or about magic

I read Inland by Tea Obreht for the About History or Alternate History square. It is set in the Territories of Western America, primarily Arizona, during the 1800s, and I learned about something new in reading it: the US Camel Corps.

For the 20 members or less square, I read Daughters of the Dream: Eight Girls from Richmond Who Grew Up in the Civil Rights Era by Tamara Lucas Copeland, which is in 6 libraries. This is an excellent memoir of 8 upper middle class black girls/women who grew up in Richmond, VA, the former capital of the Confederate States of America. It tells their stories in three sections: their school years when they were very close (1956-1968); their college and years establishing their careers and families when they had other close friends (1969-1994), and the years they got back together and renewed their friendships and closeness (1994-2018, the year the book was published). These girls grew up in very supportive, 2-parent families who valued education and tried to protect their daughters from the racial situation. The eight women were not as protective of their children, feeling they had been too protected growing up. They became "eight successful African American women. Seventy-five percent have a graduate degree ... Most of us ended up in a helping profession. ... We have a higher rate of divorce than the national average (62% vs. 50%). ... All except one of us still live within about 100 miles of Richmond, our home" (p. 219 for all quotes). Interwoven within the whole story is what was happening racially in the United States at the time described and their feeling or their parents feeling about the events.

I read A Lady's Ride Across Spanish Honduras by "Maria Soltera" (pseudonym), an 1880s travelogue reprinted from Blackwood's Magazine, about an English spinster travelling coast to coast across the country by mule to become a school teacher serving colonists in their new banana plantations. As one would expect from non-fiction travel writing aimed at the readers of Blackwood's, who were a comparatively well-informed audience, this extended essay is full of astute observations and mildly amusing incidents. Perhaps more surprisingly the author is unafraid to compare cultural differences such as Mexican craftwork and Spanish names and Honduran sanitation favourably against their English counterparts, although it probably goes without saying that she also reproduces some racist and classist stereotypes.

In conclusion: I'm now slightly bitter that no stranger has ever given me a revolver and a bag of coconuts. 3.5*

BingoDOG: Book shared with 20 or fewer members (4 of us total)

I used A Perfect Match by Jill McGown for "Title Describes You" because I got married last October! :-)

>85 MissBrangwen: I love it! :)

Claiming House of Splendid Isolation for the building in the title.

>85 MissBrangwen: >:-D

I read The Black Sheep and other fables, by Augusto Monterroso, which is a collection of very short fables. 4.5*

BingoDOG: "title that describes you" because how could I, spiralsheep, possibly choose otherwise?! :D

I'm counting The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris for "About History Or Alternate History" because it includes many historical aspects: The Civil Rights Movement and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, but also more recent ones such as the Great Recession of 2008, the Black Lives Matter movement, the Me Too movement and the election of Donald Trump.

>76 thornton37814: Nice! I actually picked it up for the Feb MysteryKIT :)

Just finished The Assassin by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott for the two or more authors square

I read The Women in Black, by Madeleine St John, which is a novel about the lives of women working in the Ladies' Frocks Department at Goode's Department Store in Sydney, Australia, during the 1950s. 4*

BingoDOG: Set in or author from the Southern Hemisphere

I read Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral by Jessis Redmon Fauset for the contains a love story square.

I finished Nordic Fauna and I'm using that for the less than 200 pages square. It comes in at a spare 154.

I used Educated for the "title describes you" square.

Contains a love story.
And this gives me my first bingo!

The Shoemaker's Wife / Adriana Trigiani
4 stars

It’s around 1900 in Italy. Ciro and his brother are only about 5 and 6 years old when their mother, who has just lost her husband (the boys’ father) and just can’t cope, drops them off at a convent. She tells them to be good, help out, and she’ll be back in 6 months for them. Well, she doesn’t come back. At 15-years old, Ciro is hired out to dig a grave for a little girl, when he meets, Enza, that little girl’s oldest sister. There is an instant connection. But, something happens soon after and they are kept apart.

Some time later, they both separately arrive in America – New York City, to be exact. Ciro is a shoemaker’s apprentice, while Enza is working as a maid (very ill-treated), and also finds a job as a seamstress at the Metropolitan Opera. We follow their lives as immigrants in the US in the early 20th century.

I really liked this. It didn’t move fast, but I really enjoyed the story, and was rooting for Ciro and Enza. I liked the characters and their relationships. The author’s note at the end tells us that this is based on Trigiani’s grandparents’ lives.

>96 LibraryCin: Congrats on your first bingo! And this sounds like a lovely story.

I've finished Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy for the "more than 2 authors" block. They are a mother/daughter writing team.

>96 LibraryCin: Congratulations on your first bingo of 2021!

> I read Family Album : three novellas, by Claribel Alegria, which is a collection of three translated magical realist novellas first published in Spanish between 1977 and 1985. 3.5*

BingoDOG: Book with fewer than 200 pages

>97 MissBrangwen: >99 spiralsheep: Thank you!

For the "recommended by a person from another generation" square, I read Eiger Dreams: ventures among men and mountains by Jon Krakauer.

With a strong fear of heights, I have no interest in climbing but Krakauer can capture the reader's interest no matter the subject. The chapters on climbing are gripping, but the one titled "On Being Tentbound" is just as entertaining. Who knew being stuck in a tent for several days in an icy storm could provide so much material. Krakauer does not fade for an instant in this outstanding collection.

This was one of the "emergency" heap of his favourite books my son brought to me when libraries were locked-down last spring. My only regret is that I didn't get to it sooner.

I read Thorn by Intisar Khanani for the "one-word title" square. A very enjoyable retelling of "The Goose Girl"!

Type of building in title: The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

I read A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson, which is a deservedly award winning poetry collection. The opening section memorialises the disastrous Grenfell Tower fire in London. The subsequent sections include poems about slavery, migration, Black Britishness or Black Britons if you prefer, and art. 5*

BingoDOG: Book you heartily recommend.

I heartily recommend An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir if you'd like to read YA fantasy (although many describe it as crossing over into adult, and I'd say so, too), taking place in a world based an Ancient Rome, and including some romance.

This is my fourth bingo! :-)

My February squares:
1. One-word title - Becoming - COMPLETED
2. By or about a marginalized group - Caste - COMPLETED
5. Arts and recreation - The Mermaid Mahjong Circle: A Fairy Tale for Women - COMPLETED
7. Book you heartily recommend Devoted - COMPLETED
14. Set in or author from the Southern Hemisphere - The Kimberley Secret - COMPLETED
15. A book that made you laugh - Hot Off The Press: A Hailey Webb mystery - COMPLETED
17. Author you haven’t read before The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett - COMPLETED
20. Book you share with 20 or fewer members on LT - The Great Book of Florida - COMPLETED
25. Book with or about magic - Murder at St. Margaret - COMPLETED

I'm using Why Willows Weep for the more than 2 authors. each of 19 authors wrote a short story about a native tree species and they were collected in this book for the Woodland Trust. It was a good collection of myth and fable in a variety of story telling styles.

I completed the following squares in February:

A Senior Citizen as Protagonist: Miss Clare Remembers by Miss Read
A Character I Would Like As A Friend: While I Live by John Marsden
Read a Cat/Kit: Grave's End by Elaine Mercado
A Love Story: Desperate Duchesses by Eloisa James
Classic Element in Title: Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina

This brings me to a YTD total of 10 squares completed. No line bingos yet.

And it's March! Time for a new thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/330259

I used Spillover, which is about zoonotic viruses, for the Nature square.

Oops, wrong month!

my February bingo reads were
Nature or Environment - The Yellow House, a memoir, Hurricane Katrina
Contains a love story - The Music of What Happens lgbtq love story
New to me author: Ethan Canin - The Palace Thief
> 200 pages Citizen, An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine