BingoDOG reads in January

Hello and Happy New Year, everyone! What are you reading for the BingoDOG this month? I'm currently reading Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George, which is a debut novel. But I may count it for the "artistic character" square instead...I need to get a little farther into it before I know whether that would be applicable. What squares are you targeting (or have you already completed) this month? Don't forget to add your Bingo reads to the wiki! https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2019_BingoDog

My first one is The Vanishing Man by Charles Finch. I'm using it for the series square, it's the new title in the Charles Lennox series.

Well, I'm having odd problems. The first post didn't appear but of course after I posted it again the first showed up and I couldn't get the right Touchstone, it went to a book that had no similarity with the one I read.

So, here's the second. I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel. I'm using it for the 4+ rating on LT, the rating is 4.18.

Thanks for starting this thread, Christina! I like seeing what people are using to fill their bingo cards.

My first read of the year also happened to fill a BingoDOG square: The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors, by Dan Jones, is my "read a CAT" selection. I earmarked it for the February TBRCAT, a borrowed book that you've yet to read. I borrowed this from the library shortly after it came out and had to return it unread because it had holds on it. Then my parents ended up buying a copy, so I borrowed that one!

I just finished reading a collection of short stories, Honeymoon in Hell, by Fredric Brown, which is my January read for the SFF-KIT. It fills the Short stories or essays square. I will put together a short review but--not tonight. I am feeling proud of myself for launching into my first year in the Category Challenge!

My first square will probably be the animal in significant role square since I'm reading Watership Down by Richard Adams which features rabbits for my book club which meets in two weeks. I'm also planning to Learning to See by Elise Hooper for LT Early Reviewers and the artistic character square (about Dorothea Lange, the photographer) and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller for another book club, which meets at the end of the month, for the debut novel square.

If time permits, I hope to read Glass Houses by Louise Penny for the RandomCAT and series square.

Correction: first square: In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway -- finished reading Jan. 3rd for my retirement community short story class to be held Jan. 4th -- should have realized there is a short stories or essays square.

I read Passing Strange by Ellen Klages for the "artistic character" square. I was drawn to this book by its lovely cover, which is actually a painting that plays a prominent role in the story.

I finished a children's book Serafinas Geheimnis – 3x schwarzer Kater and a book bullet from ChrischiHH and last year's challenge with Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch by Michael Ende.

edited for touchstone

For the medicine/health square I read - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty which is set at a health resort. Happily I also ended up reading something for the artistic character square by accident since I didn't realize the main character was an artist until I started reading it. It was The Royal Wulff Murders featuring an artist/PI/fisherman.

I have read Q & A which was my Read a Cat square, and Three Early Stories for short stories/essays. Starting the year easy!

I read Chernobyl Prayer which relates to medicine or health as it discussed the acute and chronic health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.

ETA: Changed my mind! Chernobyl Prayer also fits Eastern European author and setting - I think this is a better fit and I will probably find something else for the medicine/health square.

So, I enjoyed my Fredric Brown short stories enough that I picked up one of his mystery novels from the same physical shelf and read it. One for the Road was also very enjoyable, although the plot depends upon a big coincidence. Only after I had read it did I realize it is a double homophone title. So that's another Bingo square!

I read Head On by John Scalzi, which is part of a series

I have filled two Bingo squares:
Made into a movie: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Fairy Tale: Snow White and Other Stories by The Brothers Grimm

Two books read and easy pickings to fill two Bingo squares:

Book in Translation - The Fourth Secret by Andrea Camilleri
Debut Novel - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

I picked a fairy tale from Ludwig Bechstein's Märchen und Sagen for the square, Das Waldhäuschen und seine Bewohner, where an old couple share a house with a cat and a snake and they tell each other fairy tales featuring cats and snakes.

Three books and three squares -

part of a series - Cave of Bones

alliteration - Of Blood and Bone

Weather word in title - Storm Front

I don't plan my Bingo reads so I was surprised that all three fit a square. Totally by chance.

Hi everyone! The BingoDOG for 2019 seems to be off to a good start.

I've read Death in a Darkening Mist for the part of a series prompt.

I've completed Blessed Are Those Who Thirst for the book in translation prompt.

I'm currently reading Where the Crawdads Sing for the title contains a homophone word prompt.

Animals (on cover, in title, and focus of book!

Bird Watching for Dummies / Bill Thompson III
4 stars

Another one of the “For Dummies” books, this one focuses on bird watching. It not only goes through ways to help you learn how to ID birds (what to watch for, listen for, etc.), but also ways to make your yard more bird-friendly (feeders, shelter, water… also gardening – what types of trees, shrubs, flowers, etc), keeping lists, sketching, what to look for in binoculars, field guides, and more.

I always enjoy these books – there is usually some humour thrown in, though this one had maybe less than some of the others I’ve read. This one was published in 1997, though, so a bit outdated, as he mentions organizations with their mailing addresses, rather than a website, for instance; there was one chapter that included Internet and email resources, but CD-ROMs are also mentioned. Other than that, though, I thought there was a lot of good information here. Oh, I’ve seen comments about the colour photos, but my edition didn’t have that (maybe that was just in the 1st edition?).

I have just finished I Am Legend by Richard Matheson and have used it for the "Made into a Movie" square. It was an excellent read.

I decided to use Speak Easy, Speak Love for the "artistic character" square, since one of the main characters is a novelist, and another is a jazz singer.

I'm currently reading Stuart Palmer's The Penguin Pool Murder for the "animal in the title/on the cover/plays a significant role" square. Penguins in the title and on the cover!

I just read West Coast Avengers #3 by Kelly Thompson, which features at least two (up to six, depending on how you count mutants and humanoid aliens) human figures on the cover.

Two more Bingo squares filled:

Title Contains Homophone Word - Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Short Stories or Essays - Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King

To fill the "Part of a Series" square, I used my recently completed Inspector Montalbano read, A Voice in the Night by Andrea Camilleri.

Read a CAT

The Parasite / Ramsey Campbell
3 stars

When Rose is a child, she is taken to a séance where something happens, but she can’t remember it. As an adult, suddenly there are odd things happening to her. She is scared and doesn’t understand what’s going on, until a friend, Diana, tries to help her understand that Rose seems to be able to leave her body and float around. Rose doesn’t believe it at first, but things soon change.

It was ok. A bit odd at times, but I thought the end (probably the last quarter of the book) was much better than the rest of it, as it sped up as things really came to a head.

For the "animal on the cover..." square, I read West Coast Avengers #4 by Kelly Thompson, which features a dog on the cover.

Currently reading What Happens in London by Julia Quinn for the "part of a series" square -- it's book 2 in the Bevelstoke series.

I've had a few more bingo reads. Love this time of year when it's so easy to fit something to a square.

Part of a series - Iced Under by Barbara Ross; fourth in her Maine Clambake series
Weather related - White Darkness by David Grann; weather played a huge role in his Antarctic explorations
Children's or YA - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery; this was a reread of one of my favorite childhood books

>28 LittleTaiko: Agree, Stacy -- so far all my 2019 reads have counted for Bingo!

I'm now starting Amber & Dusk by Lyra Selene, which I'll count for the "debut novel" square.

Filled two more squares:
In translation: The Council of Twelve by Oliver Potzsch, from German
Debut Novel: Quicksand by Nella Larsen

I have a third:

Homophone: Winding Stair Massacre (stare) by Douglas C. Jones

Books read so far: In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway -- for short stories or essays -- these are short stories
Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman who Revealed the Real America by Elise Hooper -- for artistic character -- about the famous photographer, whose first husband was an artist and who had many friends who were artists or photographers

Two more squares:

In Translation: The Death of Achilles by Boris Akunin
Homophone: Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes by Karin Slaughter (hare, blew, ayes - so many homophones!)

Just finished Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman, which works for the debut author square.

"2 or More Human Figures on Cover" - A New Day by Beryl Matthews

I finished Where the Crawdads Sing (wear) for the title contains a homophone word prompt. It was a read!!

>36 EBT1002: - I think I'll be taking a book bullet for this - first one for the year - only took 10 days...

I read How to Fix the Future and used "to" (too, two) as a homophone. OK I got the square but not through the front door.

One more square down.

Food related - Carbs & Cadavers by Ellery Adams - a cozy mystery involving a group of friends who form a supper club in an effort to lose weight.

Gone With The Wind for the made into a movie square.
And the re-read has made me want to watch the movie again!

>37 dudes22: my work here is done. 🙂

I finished Das Calderon Imperium by Léa Cohen who is Bulgarian (she uses that name when living in Switzerland) and writes a fantastic story about four families in the recent history of Bulgaria.

ETC

I've filled the part of a series square with Death of a Nightingale by Lena Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis, book 3 in the Nina Borg Danish mystery series.

My first Bingo square - Indigo Dying by Susan Wittig Albert for the "part of a series" square.

I've two squares filled so far, accidentally like. Just finished reading The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton - for debut novel. And fitting into the square for a book featuring siblings: The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry - includes a pair of twins as protagonists.

Artistic character. Anne is definitely artistic, as is another character, Ben

The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant / Joanna Wiebe
4 stars

Anne is being sent to a private school across the country from her California home, on an island in New England. It’s a school with mostly rich kids, so Anne isn’t sure how her dad managed to pull some strings to get her in. However he managed it, she’s hoping for a fresh start with other kids who don’t know her. But, when she arrives, there is something very odd about this school… She is heartened to find someone she knew from California is also there, though, and he seems to be the only person interested in being friends.

I really enjoyed this! Yeah, many of the characters were unlikeable, but they’re teenagers. That didn’t bother me. I was interested and curious to find out what the heck was going on at this school! There were a few surprises along the way, though at least one of them I guessed very shortly before it was revealed, anyway. Unfortunately, it’s one of those books that ended on a cliffhanger. I’m not a big fan of that, but I was hoping, as I read, that it would be the first in a series, and it looks like it’s a trilogy. I will definitely pick up the next book.

Off to a good start on BingoDOG with a third book read (not that I won't still be working on it in December - lol). For 12/part of a series A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab.

A fun read, I enjoyed the characters - will likely read the rest of the trilogy anon.

Originally had this as my YA pick as it was on YA lists at my library and on goodreads - going with the author's classification however, as I just noticed a note on GR that states the author uses her initials for her adult novels, and her first name for her YA.

Second hit on my card: Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall for the Debut Novel square.

Just finished The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan - for the debut novel square.
A lovely gentle read.

4+ stars LT rating

The Book of Negroes / Lawrence Hill.
3.75 stars (3rd read; overall - all 3 reads, 4 stars)

**********POSSIBLE SPOILERS***********
In the mid-1700s, Aminata is only 11-years old when her parents are murdered and she is kidnapped from her village in Africa. She is forced to walk for months to the ocean where she boards a ship to cross. She arrives in South Carolina, where she is sold to an indigo plantation owner and works there until she is then sold to another man and his wife, where she helps keep their home. After a number of years, "Meena" escapes to New York, and after a time, she finds herself in "The Book of Negroes" - a real list of Negroes who want to escape New York and the rebels for Nova Scotia as British Loyalists. All her life, she has really just wanted to go home, back to her village in Africa.
*********END SPOILERS***********

This was very very good, there was so much detail, and it seemed so realistic. The Book of Negroes was a real list - something I had never heard of - and it was interesting (and sad) to read how the mostly former slaves were treated when they arrived in Canada. I waffled for a long time between giving the book 4 or 4.5 stars; unfortunately I lowered it to 4 stars because I was disappointed in the ending, which took away from the book's realism for me.

Reread, 2 years later:
I still really enjoyed this book on a reread. I did remember some parts of the book before I even started rereading it, and a lot of the rest of the book came back to me as I read. My rating remains the same as the first time around.

3rd read, just over 5 years after the last time:
3.75 stars
This is my 3rd time reading this one, and I think rereading is just not for me. I rated it 4 stars the first two times, and 3.5 this time around, but I listened to the audio this time and would give an extra ¼ star for the narrator, so 3.75 this time. Good story; still find the ending unbelievable. I really don’t think I should reread it again, though – not without a long long time in between, at least.

I have finally finished reading Watership Down by Richard Adams, a very long (474 p. of text) novel featuring rabbits for the animal square. I had a hard time getting interested in it until the last third of the book which became a page-turner.

How can I search for books that have LT rating of 4.0+?

>52 LadyoftheLodge: I searched my tbr books and chose a display with "Average Rating" then sorted by rating.

My Sister, the Serial Killer seems like a natural fit for the About or Featuring Siblings square.

>53 VivienneR: . Thanks for suggesting this.

I have completed the "Book Title Contains 6 or More Words" with At The Sign Of The Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper.

>52 LadyoftheLodge: >53 VivienneR: That makes a lot more sense than my technique, which was basically to check individual book pages to see their ratings! :)

Went for "low hanging fruit" and counted my SeriesCAT read A Nest of Vipers by Andrea Camilleri for the Read a CAT Bingo square.

It's so easy to fill squares this month! For January's fourth square I read The Maltese Falcon for the "made into a movie" square.

>53 VivienneR: - Thanks to your tip, I realized that the book I just wrapped up, The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, had a rating of 4.0 or higher. I found it to be more of a 3.5 but enjoyed it nonetheless.

Two recent finishes both fill squares.
How to be both by Ali Smith for Features an artistic character
Wrote for luck by DJ Taylor for Short stories or essays.

For "related to medicine or health" I read The Radium Girls: the dark story of America's shining women by Kate Moore and I know my opinion goes against the grain here.

While I found the subject fascinating, and the book well-researched and comprehensive, I found Moore's writing repetitive, overwrought and with too many characters. I feel bad giving this book a low rating, when so many young women suffered greatly providing the story, but just it didn't work for me.

Before switching to the print version, I listened to the first part of the audio version but found Angela Brazil's reading absolutely unbearable.

>62 VivienneR: . I hadn't thought of this book for that square. However, it would be a chore for me to read it since I agree with your opinion. Shortly after the book was published, I purchased the hard cover edition, and read the first twelve chapters, but agree with you about its having too many characters and being repetitious. I also thought it skipped around a lot. I was interested in reading about the Drinker doctors since they were the brother and sister-in-law of the author Catherine Drinker and discussed in her Family Portrait which I enjoyed reading many years ago.

>63 sallylou61: I'm so glad to see your comment, Allison. The book gets such accolades that I was afraid of offending some people. That's an interesting finding about the doctors and their connection.

Took advantage of my January SFFKIT read to fill the "Animal in Title, Cover, Significant Role" square: The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher, where one of the significant characters is a sentient cat, Rowl.

>65 lkernagh: Ooh, a sentient cat character. Tempting.

Weather

The Perfect Storm / Sebastian Junger
3.5 stars

In 1991, a storm hit the Atlantic Ocean off the Eastern coast of the US and Canada. There were fishing boats out there: one of them, the “Andrea Gail”, disappeared and others had people aboard who needed to be rescued. In addition, the book includes information about fishing and the fishing industry, and the history of both. It also includes some information about weather and storms.

It was good, but there was a lot of detail that I just ended up skimming over. The author talked to families and loved ones of the missing fishermen, and to some of the rescuers and survivors, as well as others who had a link to the people caught in the storm. There were a lot of people to keep track of, and I was unsuccessful at much of that, often forgetting who was who unless there was a reminder. There is no way to know what happened aboard the Andrea Gail, so that is kept to speculation about what most fishermen were likely to do in similar circumstances. Some of the fishing techniques upset me (trawling), and I’m sure things have gotten worse since 1991 (and 1997 when the book was published), but that also wasn’t news, sadly. Probably the most interesting parts of the book, for me, were the descriptions of the various rescues.

Children's book

Child of the Wolves / Elizabeth Hall
4 stars

Granite is a Siberian husky, born in Alaska. When he is about to be sold, he runs away into the wilderness where he comes across a wolf, Snowdrift – a mom who has recently lost all her puppies to humans who have stolen them away. Snowdrift takes on Granite, though the other wolves in the pack mostly don’t like him much. As Granite grows, he learns more and more about how to fit in with the pack.

This is told from Granite’s point of view and I really enjoyed it. There is an author’s note at the start that talks about animal intelligence and emotions and she obviously wanted to show that in this book. It did take some time for Granite to learn how to behave as a wolf, as it didn’t come naturally to the dog. I really liked this children’s story.

I finished Slan yesterday which has two 'human' figures (mutants actually) on the cover (going with the Lavaturtle's definition in >22 lavaturtle:).

And I finished Still Alice today, which is about a woman diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, for the related to medicine or health square.

For the Short Stories and Essays square, I read What if This Were Enough?, a collection of essays by Heather Havrilesky.

I've finished Peace Like a River by Leif Enger for the "debut novel" block.

Thumbprint by Friedrich Glauser gets me the part of a series square!

I just finished Hotshot Doc by R.S. Grey for the "topic/character related to medicine/health" square...the hero is a surgeon, and the heroine is a surgical assistant. A fun, quick read if you like contemporary romance!

Two more bingo squares filled. Both completely by happenstance:

"Weather Word in Title or Book Involves Weather Event" - The Pyramid of Mud by Andrea Camilleri - the majority of the story occurs during torrential rains
"Author Uses Middle Name or Initial" - Benediction by Alan Kent Haruf, which I discovered when I was looking up the original publication date

>75 lkernagh: - I might use Haruf for that block too. I'll have to see what I already had picked.

I've decided to use What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg for the "about or featuring siblings" block. Although told by one sister the book is about a summer when both sisters were young.

Last night I finished The Strangler Fig by John Stephen Strange, whose real name was Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett. This mystery from 1930 is set on an island off the coast of Florida and offers an elaborate Golden Age plot. I'm using it for the middle name/initial square.

For the debut novel square, I'm using The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.

A great choice for "Short Stories", I listened to Harriet Walter read Best of Women's Short Stories 2. Every one a gem!

Book in translation

Bad Wolf / Nele Neuhaus
4 stars

When a dead girl is found floating in a river, detective Pia ends up on a case with far-reaching consequences. And multiple cases that match up, including a popular tv celebrity who has taken on a new topic for her sometimes-controversial show, but it’s not a topic she is sharing with anyone until she gets everything lined up. Unfortunately for her, someone knows what she’s looking into and she is in danger, as well.

Another really good book in this series. I do wish all the books were translated into English and it would have been nice to read them in order. But, that’s not the case. They are pretty much standalones, with the police the connecting thread between the books, including their personal lives. Previous cases are mentioned, but really just in passing. The book is divided into days and there are snippets from different characters’ points of view during each day, so there are a lot of characters to follow, which can get a bit confusing, but overall, it wasn’t too bad for following and the story was certainly enough for me to really enjoy it.

I used my January Calendar CAT read for the "read a CAT": The empire of ashes. Not quite as good as I hoped for.

For the "part of a series" square, I read Glass Houses by Louise Penny in the Armand Gamache series.

I used my RandomCAT for January for the debut novel square--The Darkness Knows by Cheryl Honigford.

I'm taking the LT rating 4+ square for The Sunburnt Queen, a great South African nonfiction read!

I just finished The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake for the food-related title or topic square.
Loved it!

I've read Shine by Jodi Picoult for the block "short stories or essays".

I'm in the middle of Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans, which has an LT rating of 4.14.

I finished The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams for the "at least 6 words in the title" square.

January Progress report:

Author uses middle name Maud Hart Lovelace
Debut novel The Darkness Knows
About sibs Ramona Quimby Age 8
Mentioned in another book When We Were Very Young
Animal title, cover Whittington
Alliterative Title The Darling Dahlias and the Poinsettia Puzzle
Part of a series Getting Old is a Disaster
Made into a movie Good-bye Christopher Robin
Fairy Tale The Musubi Man: Hawai'i's Gingerbread Man
In translation A Maigret Christmas
Homophone title Assaulted Caramel
LT rating 4.0+ Carney's House Party
Children/YA Who Was Anne Frank?
Essays Howards End is on the Landing

I finished A Visit From the Goon Squad for 6+ words in the main title.

I finished City of thieves for the two human figures on the cover; it shows Lev and his friend Kolya walking. Amazing tale from the Siege of Leningrad in 1942.

I filled three bingo squares in January.

Two human figures on the cover: The Deadly Sisterhood, by Leonie Frieda. The cover is Botticelli's fresco Venus and the Graces Offering Gifts to a Young Girl

Part of a Series: The Beautiful Mystery, by Louise Penny. Part of the Armand Gamache series.

Title contains a homonym: Maestros and their Music, by John Mauceri. Their/there/they're.

For the siblings square, I've read Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison.

I participated in a readathon this weekend and read a few more Bingo books:

- Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard for the "children's or young adult" square -- it's a YA fantasy novel
- Viscount Vagabond by Loretta Chase for the "alliterative title" square
- Crazy for You by Jennifer Crusie for the "title contains homophone word" square -- for/four/fore and you/ewe
- Murder, Magic, and What We Wore by Kelly Jones for the "main title has 6+ words" square

>94 sallylou61:--That is on my TBR list! I found a digital copy for $1.99 the day after I bought a hard cover copy at the bookstore!

Two more Bingo squares filled:

"About or Featuring Siblings" - The Tie That Binds by Kent Haruf where a large part of the story is about brother and sister Edith and Lyman Goodnough.
"Made into a Movie" - Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf with movie adaptation starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.

Thanks to hailelib for bringing the movie adaptation to my attention, I have completed my first line in my Bingo card.

>97 lkernagh: . Congratulations, Lori. I see that you also have almost half of your BingoCARD squares filled: 12 out of 25! That is impressive so early in the year. (I know that sometimes the last ones can be the hardest though, but you are making excellent progress.)

I have been trying to decide what to read for the homophone word square since I'm finding What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool extremely detailed on aspects of 19th century life about which I could read Jane Austen and tell from the context all I needed to know. With its long approximately 135 page glossary, if I'm curious about a word in 19th century literature, I could try looking there. This section is definite a reference book.

I have a number of books containing "to" or "for" in the title, but wanted to use a more important word. Last night I glanced at my bookshelf containing books about Presidents and first ladies, and discovered My Dear President: Letters between Presidents and their Wives {selected and edited} by Gerald W. Gawalt, which I think will be a fun read for this square. (I usually don't get so hung up on one square, especially this early in the year. However, it's one of my corner square so effects three bingo lines; I have already filled in two corner squares.)

I've had so much luck this month - one bingo down and several others pending.

Award Winner - Small Island by Andrea Levy - won the Orange prize
Animal feature - A Killer Plot by Ellery Adams - the main character treats her dog like her best friend and he plays a pivotal role in tracking down the killer. Plus he's on the cover.
Debut - The Man on the Washing Machine by Susan Cox

I filled 6 Bingo Squares during the month of January:

3. About Siblings: The Profession of Violence by John Pearson
5. Mentioned in Another Book: City by Clifford D. Simak
17. Made into a Movie: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
20. Title Has 6 or More Words: At The Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper
21. Cover Contains At Least 2 Human Figures: A New Day by Beryl Matthews
22. Translated Book: Excursion to Tindari by Andrea Camilleri

I'm counting The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen for the "book bullet" square.

I finished Impostors by Scott Westerfeld, which prominently features twin siblings. I was planning to read this for February's YA SeriesCAT, but it was so exciting I couldn't wait!

I've covered 5 BINGO squares this month:

1. Medical - Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle by Mary J. MacLeod
2. Homophone - Winding Stair by Douglas C. Jones
3. Series - The Vanishing Man by Charles Finch
4. 4 Stars - I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel
5. Debut - When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

I read A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe and using it for 6+words in title square.

I've had a pretty good January for Bingo squares:

Part of a series ~ Death in a Darkening Mist by Iona Whishaw
Read a CAT ~ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (January RandomCAT)
Prize-winning book ~ The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens ~ 1970 Booker Prize winner
Short stories or essays ~ Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
Book made into a movie ~ Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Main title has 6 or more words ~ A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Book in translation ~ Blessed are Those Who Thirst by Anne Holt
Book has an LT rating of 4.0 or more ~ Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Title contains a homophone word ~ Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Great job everyone!

I managed three more this month:
Made into a movie - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Book in translation - I'm Travelling Alone (Norwegian)
Read a CAT - All Together Dead (January CalendarCAT)

For a total of 6!

I'm reading this in February but for the "at least two human figures on the cover" square, I've got Last Friends by Jane Gardam.

Question for the group: Would a bride and groom wedding cake topper count as "at least two human figures on the cover"? If yes, then I will be counting the latest Flavia de Luce mystery The Golden Tresses of the Dead for this square... once I finish reading it, that is. ;-)

>109 lkernagh: I see two figures on that cover, Lori, and they look human to me - I say it counts!

My BINGO reads for January were:

- a debut novel The Keeper of Lost Things
- read a CAT Q & A
- short stories or essays Three Early Stories
- made into a movie Gone With The Wind
- food-related title or topic The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

5 squares down!

>109 lkernagh: I say yes.

>109 lkernagh: Yes, count it.

>110 DeltaQueen50: , >112 clue: and >113 LadyoftheLodge: - Thanks! ... and apologies for posting this in the January thread considering it is a February Bingo read. ;-)