Book Bingo 2023 & Yuletide

[nonesensed]

I got not one, but TWO lovely gifts for Yuletide this year! They're both in the Much Ado About Nothing (2011) fandom and they're brilliant <3<3<3

Links to fics:
- Contempt, Farewell
- by this day (she's a fair lady)


And I just remembered that lovely bingo card made by kingstoken so I managed to get that filled out today too:




Didn't complete it, but I think I did pretty well still, all things considered :)

Books for the Bingo Card (left to right, row by row)
* "The Perfect Assassin" by K. A. Doore = Crime or Mystery
* "Watership Down"/"Den långa flykten" by Richard Adams (translated by Britt G. Hallqvist) = Banned Book
* "Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy" by Jeff VanderMeer = Book made into a Movie or TV series
* "Bara pest" by Lyudmila Ulitskaya (translated by Mikael Nydahl) = Historical (fiction or non-fiction)
* "Edgar Allan Poe Sixty-Seven Tales" by Edgar Allan Poe = Number in the Title
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* "Our Wives Under the Sea" by Julia Armfield = Female Author
* "Family Business" by Jonathan Sims = Book from your TBR
* "The Bone Maker" by Sarah Beth Durst = Three Word Title
* "Bleak Spirit RPG" by Chris Longhurst
* "Vi bara lyder: En berättelse om Arbetsförmedlingen" by Roland Paulsen = Written by an Author from your State or Country
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* "The Thorn of Dentonhill" by Marshall Ryan Maresca = Person's Name in the Title
* "The Tethered Mage" by Melissa Caruso = Book with a Woman Protagonist
* "Tintenherz" by Cornelia Funke = FREE SPACE (read a book in German)
* "Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart" by Jane Lindskold ="Animal on the Cover"
* "Invader" by C.J. Cherryh = Sci-fi or Fantasy
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* "With a Voice that is Often Still Confused But is Becoming Ever Louder and Clearer" by J. R. Hamantaschen = Author You've Never Read Before
* "Some by Virtue Fall" by Alexandra Rowland = LGBT+
* "Labyrinth's Heart" by M.A. Carrick = More than 300 pages
* "Den Sårade Divan: Om psykets estetik" by Karin Johannisson = Disability or Mental Health
* "Children of Time", "Children of Ruin" & "Children of Memory" by Adrian Tchaikovsky = Recommended
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* "The Oleander Sword" by Tasha Suri = Romance Plot or Sub-plot
* "The First Sister" by Linden A. Lewis = Action or Thriller
* Read no books for 1988
* Didn't read any audiobooks or ebooks this year
* No mythology this year

Comments

[flo_nelja]

Nice, lots of reading!
Do you know the details about how Watership Down has been banned, or was it just in a list? I'm curious?

[nonesensed]

Most of these were fun and/or interesting reads! Sadly, I can't recommend "With a Voice that is Often Still Confused But is Becoming Ever Louder and Clearer" by J. R. Hamantaschen despite its neat title. It really wasn't the book for me.

While filling out this bingo card, I did a google search on the books I'd read this year, so please take my "research" with a huge grain of salt, but Watership Down did come up as banned. It's never been fully banned in the US, even if a lot of schools have banned it from school libraries, but it has apparently been banned in both China and the then-Soviet Union.

Sources, in case you want to check that out further :)
https://readingdangerously.home.blog/2019/03/23/banned-books-report-004-watership-down-by-richard-adams/
https://listverse.com/2012/12/09/10-stupidly-banned-childrens-books/
https://debsdespatches.com/2017/09/27/banned-books/
https://watershipdown.fandom.com/wiki/Watership_Down_(book) (under "Trivia" at the end of the page)

[flo_nelja]

Thank you!
Yeah it makes sense, lots of things have been banned in China or USSR!
It's also one of the only ones I read, the others being Family Business and Tintenherz, and at least some of the Poe stories!

[nonesensed]

I suspect most semi-famous books have been banned some place at this point XD

What did you think of Tintenherz and Family Business? I enjoyed Family Business though I suspect I should have read Titenherz when I was much younger to fully "get it".

[flo_nelja]

Yeah I enjoyed Family Business too but a bit less so than Thirteen Storeys.

Tinterherz had fun concepts and characters but was getting long and repetitive in the village part, I love volumes 2 and 3 better.

[nonesensed]

Same for me. The kind of horror stories Sims tends to write work best when they're shorter or episodic, like in Thirteen Storeys - though I think most horror stories work best when short, so I'm biased there 😆

I'm almost through Tinteblut and I think that'll be it for me when it comes to the Titenwelt trilogy. I've been very frustrated with almost every decision the characters have made and how pretty much everything that can go wrong does go wrong no matter what the cast does. Aaaand my suspension of disbelief was killed quite quick when it's shown that our dear main character has risked life and limb to go live in a fantasy world where she's a second class citizen in so many ways and will be sold into slavery if she partakes in her favorite hobby, when she literally could try to go into Any Other Fantasy World...

I do like the concept of the story itself, it's just the execution that's not for me 😅