WomanBingoPUP November reads

I hope I didn't miss an existing thread somewhere?

Anyhow, I'm trying to finish the Bingos before the year ends and am looking for titles that work for both. So far, I have finished
Career of evil for the different genre
Death at the opera for the Golden Age detective fiction and
Impératrice for the female ruler squares.

I don't think you've missed it as I didn't see one either.

I finished Loving Frank by Nancy Horan for the "by or about a woman" square.

There's no chance this year that I'll finish the Pup, but I'm still enjoying it.

>1 MissWatson: >2 dudes22: No thread had been created.
Thanks for creating it, MissWatson.

The last couple of months I have been letting someone who has something to report create the thread. I'm hoping to finish the challenge; I have only two to go, but the women in the military is especially hard for me to read. Also, I just moved unexpectedly two weeks ago so that my reading has suffered.

Glad that people are enjoying this PUP.

>2 dudes22: >3 sallylou61: I am still optimistic that I can finish, but the "ethnic" authors are hard to fill from my own shelves which is my priority. But it is still fun.

I don't think I'll finish, but I'm still having fun trying. I filled two more squares so far this month:
About a female critter: Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire, main character is a changeling, half human/half fae
Made into a movie: The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, this was excellent.

I don't think I'll finish, but I'm still having fun trying. I filled two more squares so far this month:
About a female critter: Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire, main character is a changeling, half human/half fae
Made into a movie: The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, this was excellent.

male pseudonym

And I finished Rose et Blanche, ou la comédienne et la religieuse, the first work George Sand ever published, as far as I have been able to ascertain. She co-wrote it with Jules Sandeau, under the pseudonym of J. Sand, whose last part she then chose for herself.
It is a tale of two young women who cannot find happiness where they are looking for it and ends on a sad note after much emotional upheaval.
It was first published in 1831 in five volumes which run to an amzaing 1214 pages, no doubt because of those long sentences, breathlessly piling up simile after simile, until they fill two pages. It is also very contemporaneous, starting in 1825 and ending shortly after the July revolution, there's much reference to current events.
Another Bingo on my card!

I've decided to put Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman in the "autobiography, memoir, correspondence" block.

Euphrat Queen fills the "women in science" slot and also proved to be a great read. It tells the story of an expedition with two steamboats on the Euphrates in 1836-1837 and proves again that real life writes the most amazing stories. You couldn't make this up.

The East India Company is looking for ways to shorten the lines of comunication with India (the Suez Canal hasn't been built yet), and Thomas Love Peacock (yes, him of Nightmare Abbey) comes up with the idea of taking two of these new-fangled steamships, disassemble them, ship them to the coast of Syria, transport them across the desert to the Euphrates, reassemble them, travel down the river and from there through the Red Sea to India. An excitable Irishman, Francis Rawdon Chesney, is named to command the expedition, and a young German couple, natural scientists, also travel along. Nothing goes according to plan, of course.

The autor draws extensively on the diaries and memoirs of the the expedition members, and especially on the travelogue Pauline Helfer wrote on behalf of her husband. She was the only woman on board and spent part of the time in men's clothes, since the fanatical Muslims of the area would have stoned her otherwise. This gives a rather impressionistic view of the whole expedition, just the highlights, so to speak. The most interesting bits come when she shows the same event from different perspectives.

However, the best part, in my mind, comes at the end when she relates what became of the various survivors: James Fitzjames ended up as captain of HMS Erebus and perished with the Franklin expedition. James Estcot took part in the charge of the Light Brigade. Lt. Lynch married a daughter of the English resident and became eventually the grandfather of Harry Kessler. Pauline returned to Germany a widow and met her hero, Alexander von Humboldt, before she married into one of the most important families in Prague. Six degrees of separation, indeed. One of the most intriguing and romantic figures in this ensemble must have been Lynch's father-in-law, Robert Taylor, who actually eloped with and married a Persian princess. I've noted down at least six books that I want to read now.

Another Bingo, too!