Bingo:
First in a series: Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
Silver or gold on cover: The River of Silver by S.A. Chakraborty
Free Space: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Borrowed from the library: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
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New to me author: Before I saw you by Amy K Sorrells
Read with a book club: The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
FREE: Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Heroine in STEM field: Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
1st book of 2023: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Bingo!!!
Published in January - A Thousand Miles to Graceland
Fictional Setting - The Viper
One Person on the Cover - Drake
Punctuation in the Title - His Grace, The Duke
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First in a series: Bayou Book Thief by Ellen Byron
Title begins with J: Just Desserts by Virginia Smith
New-to-you author: Vinyl Resting Place by Olivia Blacke
Meant to read in 2022: A Cure For What Ales You by Ellie Alexander
Published in January: Cheddar Late Than Dead by Linda Reilly
BINGO! Top row
First in a series-Hanging Girl:Emmy Rose #1 by Dean Rasmussen
Title begins with J- Jack, A Book About A Dog Where The Dog Doesn’t Die In The End by
Ray Braswell
New to you author- Nick Jones, And Then She Vanished
Meant to read in 2022- In The Vanishing Hour by Sarah Beth Martin
Published in January- Caroline by Blair Howard (published 1/31 but I read an ARC)
First in a Series- The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra
Property is inherited- The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
Multilingual protagonist- The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
Picked up for the cover- Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
Silver or gold on the cover- The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner
Debut book- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Nonfiction- I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
New-to-you author- My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
Read with a book club- The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Heroine in STEM field- Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
First book you read in 2023- The Flames by Sophie Haydock
American history- Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit
Borrowed from the library- A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
Title begins with W- Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr
Published in January- The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
Fictional setting- The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
One person on the cover- Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Punctuation in title- Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun
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This is too funny. I literally read three different books this month that were essentially about magic houses - The Wizard’s Butler, The Keeper of Enchanted Rooms, and The Miniscule Mansion of Myra Malone. I had no idea that this was essentially a really niche genre until this month
How was the Jim Thorpe book? I’m originally from OK and remember I once had a school field trip where we visited the house he grew up in.
first book in a series (How to Lose at Love - Sara Ney), silver or gold on the cover (A Greene Family Christmas - Piper Rayne), Free (Not Ypur Ex’s Hexes - April Asher), borrowed from the library (Paybacks a Witch - Lana Harper), post TBR
published in January (Sex, Tries, and Videotape - Isla Olsen), fictional setting (Desire in His Blood - Zoey Draven), one person on the cover (Turn Me On - Lauren Blakely), punctuation in the title (Pet to the Tentacle Monsters! - Lila Ford), post TBR
Bingo x 5
Off to plan my February TBR!
Bingo #2 4th row down
Meant to read in 2022- In the Vanishing Hour by Sarah Beth Martin
Set in a small town- Northern Exposure by Nora Roberts
American History- Mad Girls Of New York by Maya Rodale
Borrowed from the library- Triple Cross by James Patterson
Title begins with W- Woodson Falls:2 Sunset Trail by Andrea O’Connor
I don’t typically have a TBR cause I’m a mood reader. So I’m hoping to finish The Ogress and the Orphans tomorrow for the last book of Jan and with that
Breaking And Entering
Nancy O’Toole
*First book you read in 2023
Casindra Lost: Paradisi Chronicles
Marti Ward
*Meant to read in 2022
Justice
Dustin Stevens
*Title begins with J
Every Dying Hour
Justin Rishel
*First in a series
The Fireballer
Mark Stevens
*Published in January
3:10am
Nick Pirog
*Punctuation in the title
Ahsoka
E.K. Johnston
*New to you author