Bryony (BBGirl55) Travels in Time and Space

Hi I am Bryony, I'mean 37 years old and I live in the UK. I will read anything, tough I favor Scifi and fantasy and Comic books. There is always a good helping of Doctor Who. This will be my 13th year here on 75's, let's hope I do better than I did in the last few year's.

So here I am again let's see how this goes!

How I rate books:

*****Best Book Ever. will read it again countless times.
****1/2Almost perfect, book will be kept, might read again.
**** Enjoyable book and would recommend to others.
***1/2 Enjoyable book.
*** Was good.
**1/2 had an ok story or was written ok.
** it had words it made sense I suppose.
*1/2oh no no no no!
* Blah!

List to complete #1

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Gift-wrapped list:

1. Books, Books, Books.
2.Children's, Adventure, lost in a new world, 1st in series
3. Fiction, Dark, Twisted trip down the rabbit hole.
4. Fiction, 'In a blink it appeared', Love & Magic.
5. Young Adult, Magic School, Love & Hate
6. Fiction, Simi Dystopian, altered Animals, calls himself Snowman.
7. Young Adult, Romance odd couple.
8. Young Adult, 'We just want to get on with our lives, 'we are not Chosen but we are awesome'.
9.Fantasy/Horror, Dark, Twisted trip down the rabbit hole.
10.Children's, Lost in a new world, 1st in a series.
11.Children's, Adventure, hidden world, making use of things.
12. Steampunk & Spies
13. Scifi, Time travel, humour, race against time.
14. Fiction, Books, Books, a bit of mystery and more books
15. Scifi, Cyberpunk, Gritty, classic.
16. Fiction, Trains, books and romance.
17. Scifi, Dystopian, cure for death, war has begun, happiest place on earth.
18. Fiction, Loss.
19. Fantasy, Romance, Sky pirates', fallen star.
20. Fiction, Satire, Dog nonsense.
21. Romance, Anti-Love story

Categories for 2021

The Book Backlog - The TBR Mountain this is quite extensive need to start whitling it down

2. 01000100 01101001 01100111 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 - Books on my Kindle.

3. Trip to the Bookshop - New books bought or gifted in 2021.

4. The more you know. - Non Fiction, I would like to read more of this this year.

5. Capes, Carriages and Cannibals - Graphic Novals and Comic Books

6. Books to Read before I die - My TBR list

7. Travels in Time & Space - Feeding my Doctor Who adiction.

8. Let Someone else Choose - Recomendations by you lovely people.

9. Murder Most Fowl - Crime and Murder Mystery.

10. We only have to listen - Audio books.

11. Someone New - Authors that are new to me.

12. What's the point being Grown-up if you can't be Childish sometimes - YA and Childrens books.

13. Again! Again! - The Rereads.

14. This is Your Life - Biographies, like non fiction I need to read more.

15. This looks Good... ...oh look Harry Potter Book put down because I decided to read Harry Potter.

16. Sorcerer's & Spaceships Scifi and Fantasy.

17. The Shining Lights - read a book by one of my favourite Authors.

18. In For the Long haul - Ongoing Series.

19. Gathering Dust - Books that I have owned for more that 10 years that are still un read.

20. It's a surprise - A couple of years ago I wraped up about 20 books, anytime I wanted a surprise read.

Bingo - going to see how this goes.

Welcome back!

Nice to see you back, Bryony.

Hi, Bryony! Oh, you've got some *really* good ones on that List #1 up there!

>6 BBGirl55: I'm always gobsmacked that anyone can finish one of those Bingo things. You go on with your bad self in 2021!

>7 drneutron: Hi Jim, thanks for setting this all up for everyone

>8 PaulCranswick: Hi Paul.

>9 scaifea: Hi, yes I have been told that many times, I belive its the BBC's Big Read list from the early 2000's. As only the first 4 Harry Potters are on the list.

>10 richardderus: Hi Richard, I have never finished the Bingo card, the closest I got was in 2010 when I was short 2 squares.

Hope you enjoy your 2021 reading! Welcome back -- and good luck with the BINGO card. I had to force myself to find books for a couple categories last year. They just weren't my normal genre.

>12 thornton37814: Hi, I hope I can complete it as I never have, I do already have 12 books lined up. We will see how it gose.

Ok I am done with 2020 forward to 2021 and the meme:

Describe yourself: The Girl Who Cirumnaviagated Fairyland in a ship of her own Making

Describe how you feel: The Traitor

Describe where you currently live: The Axis of Insanity

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The White Room

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Lifeboat and the Deathboat

Your favorite food is: The Harvest

Your favorite time of day is: The Twilight Kingdom

Your best friend is: Someone I Once Knew

You and your friends are: Little Women

What’s the weather like: Lies

You fear: The Mouthless Dead

What is the best advice you have to give: The Bekdel Test

Thought for the day: Ready Player Two

What is life for you: Heartstopper

How you would like to die: concealed Weapons

Your soul’s present condition: Time in a Bottle

What was 2020 like for you? Arrangements of War

What do you want from 2021? The Tea Dragon Society

Not bad considring I only read 33 books!

Best wishes for a better 2021!

Hello Bryony, - that's a great TBR list you have there with some fantastic reads in it. Let's hope we all have a better 2021 to get through our TBR lists.

Happy reading in 2021, Bryony!

Happy New Year, Bryony!

And keep up with my friends here, Bryony. Have a great 2021.

Dropping off my and wishing you the best of new years in 2021!

Happy New Year Bryony!

>15 DianaNL: >17 FAMeulstee: >18 MickyFine: >19 PaulCranswick: >20 ronincats: >21 norabelle414: Thank You and Happy New Year to all of you

>16 Only2rs: I have had both lists for a while now, slowly chipping away at them. I wish you a happy reading year.

What is currently being read and listned too:

Pysical Books:

The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell - this is almost finished and once it is a new vote for surprise books will go up.

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham - This was started sometime last year and has spilled in to this year should by my first Square on my Bingodog Card.

Foxglove Summer By Ben Aaronovitch - the 5th book in 'The Rivers of London' serise and a very likely contender for another Bingodog Square.

Audio:

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - once completed a great big tick for my TBR list.

The Doctor Who:

Oh No it isn't! By Paul Cornell

Dropping a star and admiring your lists. Happy new year!

>24 AnneDC: Thank You Happy New Year to You. I love a list, some say far to much.

10ish years of the meme side by side, I seamed to have missed 2012 but did 2 in 2016. Some question I answered in 2020 only

Describe yourself

2011: Green Angel
2013: Running Through Corridors
2014: Divergent
2015: Fangirl
2016: Queen of Shadows
2016: I am Number Four
2017: The Reader on the 6:25
2018: The DUFF
2019: Wildflower
2020: The Girl Who Cirumnaviagated Fairyland in a ship of her own Making

Describe how you feel:

2011: Dead Until Dark
2013: The Girl You left Behind
2014: Guarded
2015: The Woman who Died a lot
2016: I Wish
2016: Crushed
2017: Calamity
2018: (I Hate Fairyland) Fluff My Life
2019: The Unknown
2020: The Traitor

Describe where you currently live:

2011: Dead in Dallas
2013: Whiskey Beach
2014: The Hidden Kingdom
2015: Rivers of London
2016: The Last Kingdom
2016: Prisoners of Time
2017: Notes from an Small Island
2018: Land of the Dead
2019: Kingdom of Ash
2020: The Axis of Insanity

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:

2011: Glass Houses
2013: 84 Charing Cross Road
2014: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
2015: Treasure Island
2016: Northanger Abbey
2016: Throne of Glass
2017: Brideshead Revisited
2018: Find Your Way Home
2019: Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
2020: The White Room

Your favorite form of transportation is:

2011: Truckers
2013: Mortal Engines
2014: The Divorce Express
2015: Armada
2016: The Very Hungary Caterpillar
2016: The Girl on the Train
2017: The Time Machine
2018: The Golden Bird
2019: On the Road
2020: The Lifeboat and the Deathboat

Your favorite food is:

2020: The Harvest

Your favorite time of day is:

2020: The Twilight Kingdom

Your best friend is:

2011: Emma
2013: Scarlet
2014: Cress
2015: Making it Up
2016: Rebecca
2016: Super Famous
2017: Romeo and/or Juliet
2018: The Rapture
2019: Alice
2020: Someone I Once Knew

You and your friends are:

2011: Super Team
2013: Fanboys Vs. Zombies
2014: Fairest in all the Land
2015: Sass and Sorcery
2016: Kindered Spirits
2016: Freaks and Geeks
2017: Generation Dead
2018: Spare Parts
2019: The Furies
2020: Little Women

What’s the weather like

2011: Cyote Moon
2013: Trouble in Paradise
2014: Perfect
2015: Winter
2016: Wicked
2016: Viral
2017: Empire of Storms
2018: Storm Warning
2019: The Eye of the Storm
2020: Lies

You fear:

2011: Predators and Prey
2013: The Roots of Evil
2014: Snobs
2015: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'Rygoth
2016: The Woman in Black
2016: Old Demons
2017: The Godfather
2018: The Chimes of Midnight
2019: Creatures of Beauty
2020: The Mouthless Dead

What is the best advice you have to give:

2011: We are All Made of Glue
2013: There is no Dog
2014: What You Want, Not What You Need
2015: No Normal
2016: To all the boys I've Loved Before
2016: Love Dares You
2017: You're Never weird on the Internet (almost)
2018: Blame it on BiancavDel Rio
2019: The Big Blue Book
2020: The Bekdel Test

Thought for the day:

2011: One of Our Thursdays is Missing
2013: Picture Me Gone
2014: Ready Player One
2015: Happily Ever After
2016: Clamor for Glamor
2016: I Hate Fairyland
2017: The Rest of us just Live Here
2018: Now We Are Six Hundred
2019: Five Twenty-nine
2020: Ready Player Two

What is life for you:

2020: Heartstopper

How you would like to die:

2011: Live and Let Die
2013: The Spear of Destiny
2014: The Sleeping Princess
2015: Chicken Tenders
2016: The Cuckoo's Calling
2016: Blood Puddin'
2017: Sour Grapes
2018: I Went to a Marvellous Party
2019: The Light at the End
2020: Concealed Weapons

Your soul’s present condition

2011: Soulless
2013: Something Borrowed
2014: Wide Awake
2015: Buried Alive
2016: Level Up
2016: In Pieces on the Ground
2017: Whispers Underground
2018: ..ish
2019: Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom
2020: Time in a Bottle

>26 BBGirl55: I'm glad I'm not the only one who compiled theirs! It's fun to look over the old ones.

>27 thornton37814: I saw ot on your thread and had to do it, how could I not.

I finished a couple of books.



1. The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell ****

Finished : 7/1/21
Challenge: it's a surprise, bingodog: type of building in title.

I have been chipping away at this for a while, It is a book about bookshops what's not to love. Jen Campbell takes us through the world in bookshops from the largest to the smallest too the most hidden. It is glorious, a journey I really liked it,

And something from the past the revival of the Question.

Question: What is the name of your favourite bookshop?



2. Oh No It Isn't! by Paul Cornell ****

Finished: 7/1/21
Challenge: Travels in Time and Space

This was just fun! An addition to the Doctor Who collection

Question: Have you ever been to a pantomime?

Bingo - going to see how this goes.

And please vote for what I read next

1. Books, Books, Books.
2.Children's, Adventure, lost in a new world, 1st in series
3. Fiction, Dark, Twisted trip down the rabbit hole.
4. Fiction, 'In a blink it appeared', Love & Magic.
5. Young Adult, Magic School, Love & Hate
6. Fiction, Simi Dystopian, altered Animals, calls himself Snowman.
7. Young Adult, Romance odd couple.
8. Young Adult, 'We just want to get on with our lives, 'we are not Chosen but we are awesome'.
9.Fantasy/Horror, Dark, Twisted trip down the rabbit hole.
10.Children's, Lost in a new world, 1st in a series.
11.Children's, Adventure, hidden world, making use of things.
12. Steampunk & Spies
13. Scifi, Time travel, humour, race against time.
14. Fiction, Books, Books, a bit of mystery and more books
15. Scifi, Cyberpunk, Gritty, classic.
16. Fiction, Trains, books and romance.
17. Scifi, Dystopian, cure for death, war has begun, happiest place on earth.
18. Fiction, Loss.
19. Fantasy, Romance, Sky pirates', fallen star.
20. Fiction, Satire, Dog nonsense.
21. Romance, Anti-Love story

>29 BBGirl55: The name of my favorite bookshop is Donner.
And yes, I have been to a pantomime, but it was over 45 years ago.

>30 BBGirl55: My vote is for #20. Fiction, Satire, Dog nonsense

Favorite bookshop: Prairie Lights, in Iowa City. I've only been there a handful of times, but I have such good memories of LT meetups there.

I've never been to a pantomime, but I've always wanted to.

I vote for #2!

Favourite local bookshop is the Wee Book Inn - great selection of used books and both locations have store cats. *heart eyes*

Sadly I've never been to a panto.

I vote for 15.

>26 BBGirl55: Wow that is completist!

I vote for 15

Happy new year, Bryony! Looking forward to following your 2021 reading.

>31 BBGirl55: I vote for #4

>32 FAMeulstee: >33 scaifea: >34 MickyFine: >35 PaulCranswick: >36 bell7: Thank You for all your votes. The vote will stay open till the weekend.

And for those that have never seen a Pantomime I belive there are some up on YouTube.

Audio book down



3. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith ****1/2

Finished: 11/1/21
Challenge: Books to read before I Die, We only have to Listen.

3 down only 72 to go! January has been a solid reading month so far; nothing below 4* and this was the best so far.

Beautiful, engaging but often startling. The words just flow with such ease. Characters that I both loved and loathed in equal measure, I laughed, cried got frustrated and I loved the open ending. The only reason it did not get a perfect 5* was it frustrated me so often I had to stop listening. Fantastic story.

Question: Have you ever kept a Diary?

>37 BBGirl55: I'm so glad you liked that one! I loved it when I read it a couple of years ago.

I kept a diary as a kid, but haven't really since. Although I guess you could count this: When Charlie was five or six, he gave me a blank journal as a birthday present and I decided to use it to record our favorite part of each day, so I started asking him as part of our bedtime routine, "What was your favorite part of the day today?" and then writing our answers down. I did it for a year and now it's a lovely keepsake.

>38 scaifea: I would contact that as a diary, Charlie is a fantastic person I am sure some of his answer were both profund and heartfelt.

I really like I Capture the Castle it was so atmospheric and moved me so much.

4. Deltora Quest The Forest of Silence by Emily Rodda ***1/2

Finished: 12/1/21
Challenges: What's the point being Grown-up if you can't be Childish sometimes, Bingodog: Southern Hemisphere

The first in this series from this Australian aurtor, it was very quick and to the point a high fantasy adventure for children. I feel I would have liked it much more if I was a bit younger. I would suggest it to anyone who has kids that like adventure and darling do.

Question: What is the first Children's Adventure book you remember reading?

Bingo - going to see how this goes.

What is currently being read and listned too:

Pysical Books:

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham - This was started sometime last year and has spilled in to this year should by my first Square on my Bingodog Card.

Foxglove Summer By Ben Aaronovitch - the 5th book in 'The Rivers of London' serise and a very likely contender for another Bingodog Square.

Audio:

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

The Doctor Who:

The Thirteenth Doctor volume 1 A New Beginning by Jody Houser, Rachael Stott, Giorgia Sposito & Enrica Eren Angiolini

I have spent my day off work putting away the Christmas DVD's only to unearth more books. I have 3 shelfing units which brakes down to 17 shelfs. 12 of those contain books, the rest contain storage bookes and my rather large dvd colection. Not to mention all my childhood books that are in boxes under my bed. I think the books have taken over.

>40 BBGirl55: Hmm, this is a toughy, especially since it's hard to define what counts as an adventure novel. Nancy Drew tended towards a lot of adventures but she's technically mystery...

>42 BBGirl55: Some really fun reads, Bryony, and you're moving at a spanking pace through the year's reads. I hope it keeps up!

>43 BBGirl55: As they should...after all they're BOOKshelves.

>44 MickyFine: This is true Micky but alot of childrens books are multiple genre; for example the first adventure book I remember reading was The Lion, The Witch and The Waldrobe which is also fantasy folowd by Five on Treasure Island which is also a mystey. Adventure covers a large amount of childrens books.

>45 richardderus: All my extremities are crossed, I hope I can keep it up! I am more worid that they are going to start piling up on the floor again.

>46 BBGirl55: It's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for me, too!

>47 scaifea: Love that series!



5. The Thirteenth Doctor volume 1 A New Beginning by Jody Houser, Rachael Stott, Giorgia Sposito & Enrica Eren Angiolini ****

Finished: 13/1/21
Challenge: Travels in Time and Space

A nice quick comic book staring 13th Doctor and Fam. There is and Alien stealing time traveler's too steal riches and being for him of course The Doctor has to interven. This was fun and made me laugh a few times.

Question: If you where given the opportunity to travel in both time and space, would you?

>48 BBGirl55: Of course I'd take a trip in the TARDIS. Even if there is an awful lot of running.

>49 MickyFine: Fantastic response, made me laugh.

On the 15th January it was my Thingaversary I have been here 12 years. So on to the required no shame book haul, I get 13 this year!

Bought with gifted money:

The Ickabog by J. K. Rowling
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Danger Gang by Tom Fletcher
My So-called Bollywood life by Nissan Sharma

Bought at works book drive:

Nation by Terry Pratchett
The Woman who went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend

On Audible

Backwards and in Heels by Alicia Malone
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Best. Movie. Year. Ever. By Brian Raftery
Legendary Children by Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Away with the Penguins by Hazel Prior

>40 BBGirl55: I would expect it was the first Famous Five book, Bryony.

Have a great weekend.

6. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher ****

Finished: 16/1/21
Challenges: This is Your Life , Bingodog Made you laugh

Another fantastic self mocking story of this troubled star. She reads it with such gusto and verve it is like she is in the room. Fantastic. A life that is sorely missed.

Question: Which Celebraty would you like to meet living or dead?

>53 BBGirl55: Well I will take the question in the spirit in which I think you meant it because I don't believe that you meant that we suggest which celebrity we wished to meet when they were dead! Probably one of my poetic heroes, I guess. Possibly Dylan Thomas. Still living Stephen Fry would be a possible but I'd love to lay down a few tracks with Jeff Lynne.

>48 BBGirl55: In time most definitely if I could have any level of control and the benefits of modern science. It is funny that whilst I would be happy to back in time I would not be anywhere near as keen to go forward!

>51 BBGirl55: Enjoy your Thingaversary haul.

>52 PaulCranswick: Five go to Tresure island. It is quite high on my first read list.

>54 PaulCranswick: I love Stephen Fry!!!!!

>55 PaulCranswick: I like you would go back in time. Going forward is not something I think I can handle.

>57 thornton37814: Oh I plan too 🙂

So the winner of the vote is:

15. Scifi, Cyberpunk, Gritty, classic.

Which is.....

...Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

This has been on my pysical self for 14 years!!!! I really should read it.

What is currently being read and listned too:

Pysical Books:

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham - This was started sometime last year and has spilled in to this year should by my first Square on my Bingodog Card.

Foxglove Summer By Ben Aaronovitch - the 5th book in 'The Rivers of London' serise and a very likely contender for another Bingodog Square.

Gift wapped books:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

Audio:

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

The Doctor Who:

Doctor Who Faith Stealer by Graham Duff

Oh, yay for Good Omens!! How's the audio version?

Wow, you have lots of inspiring lists. My favorite list title was:
01000100 01101001 01100111 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 which I did verify is digital in ASCII.

I will have to come back to your thread to mine out some science fiction. Good reading in 2021.

>61 scaifea: It is good so far, only a little way in to it.

>62 brewbooks: I was wondering if anyone would notice that, there is bound to be a lot of scifi and fantasy but mostly Doctor Who.

7. Doctor Who Faith Stealer by Graham Duff ***1/2

Finished: 19/1/21
Challenge: Travels in Time and Space

The Doctor, Charley and C'rizz stumble upon The Multihaven where a vast array of faiths and religions live side by side in harmony, or do they?

This was quick and very enjoyable.

Question: What is your experience with lucid dreams?



8. Spirit by Stephen Cole ***1/2

Finished: 19/1/21
Challenge: Travels in Time and Space

Part of the Gallifrey series, Romana and Leela friendship are still strained after the events of the last story, Romana feels they go somewhere to relax and destress, it really does not go to plan. Again quick and enjoyable.

Question: If you could trade places with one other person to see their point of view, who would it be?

>64 BBGirl55: Trade place to see their point of view......tempted to say Chump but I may not survive the experience. At the moment possibly my team's football coach Leeds United's magnificent Marcelo Bielsa as he refuses interviews in English, is possibly the game's deepest thinker and does things with players and situations I do not understand.

>65 PaulCranswick: I feel it would be interesting to be in any football managers head especially in this current climate. Many this season have played their cards very close to their chest.

9. Doctor Who The Last by Gary Hopkins ****

Finished: 28/1/21
Challenge: Travels in Time and Space

Still with 8th Doctor, Charley and C'rizz as they continue their hunt for the TARDIS. This time they find themselves on a planet which is dieing when Charley is injured and C'rizz is separated from the group they discover political powers at play, but all is not what it seams.

Quick and interesting.

Question: What plot twist in a story had you most gagged, shook to your core because it was so fantastic?

10. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham ****

Finished: 29/1/21
Challenges: Sorcerer's & Spaceships and Bingodog: Read a CAT or KIT

This was one I started last year, but because of a massive reading slump it was put down. The only other John Wyndham book I have read is Day of the Triffids which I really liked. This started great slumped a bit in the middle and really picked up at the end. The only major problem I have with the story was we where told it rather than shown it. I liked this.

Question: What is your position on alien life being out there in the universe?

What is currently being read and listned too:

Pysical Books:

Foxglove Summer By Ben Aaronovitch - the 5th book in 'The Rivers of London' serise and a very likely contender for another Bingodog Square.

Gift wapped books:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

Audio:

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

The Doctor Who:

This is a test.....

....it worked

Now just need to make it smaller?

That worked too.

January Wrap up

Number of Books Read: 10

Tree: 3
Kindle: 0
Audio: 7

The Doctor Who count: 5

From Mount TBR: 3

Bingodog Squares: 4

Female: 5
Male: 5
Both: 0

Favourite book of the month:



My best month for a few years.

>73 BBGirl55: Quite a solid reading month, Bryony.

>74 PaulCranswick: I am very happy.

>73 BBGirl55:
I love your book breakdown (tree, Kindle, audio)

Wishing you a good weekend, Bryony.

>76 Deedledee: It amuses me.

>77 PaulCranswick: Hi Paul, I hope you had good weekend(s) aswell.

Febuary has been a very iratic and slow reading month. But I now have 10 days off work so I hope to catch hear and read a bit more.

Books I have completed this month will be updated some time in the next couple of days.

Hello Byrony! I'm dropping a star and will definitely be back to check up on the Doctor and your other outings.

Have you heard about the new star wars publishing even called The High Republic? I have nearly finished the first book Light of the Jedi. The stories take place 200 years before The Phantom Menace and introduce a whole slew of new characters, Jedi, Republic, and villains alike. I never knew if you were a Star Wars fan, but this is great spot to jump on without any Skywalker baggage.

>79 brodiew2: Hi thanks for popping by, I do like Star Wars but am very behind on most of it. But this looks fun.

11. Rat Queens: High Fantasies by Kurtis J. Wiebe ****

Finished: 15/2/21
Challenges: The Book Backlog, Capes, Carriages and Cannibals

This series continues to be great, I may even get to the other three volumes I have this year. This was fun, chaotic and thought provoking. The Rat Queens are a win every time.

Question: Have you ever created your own fantasy world?

12. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman *****

Finished:19/2/21
Challenges: Books to Read before I die, Bingodog: 2 or more Authors.

I can't for the life of me work out why it took me so long to get around to this book. It is by two of my favourite Authors, about the battle between good and evil and highjinx of the Doomsday. But till now was it really on my radar? No... well yes um maybe.

What can I say this was fantastic! Funny, melancholy and just outright bonkers. I expect nothing less of Pratchett and Gaiman, you can barely tell when it switches from author too author it is that good and we'll edited by far my favourite thing I have read this year.

Question: If you found out about the end of days what would be the first thing you would do?

13. Beyond the Sun by Matt Jones ***

Finished: 23/2/21
Challenges: Travels in Time and Space

More from Bernice Summerfeild, it was fast paced but a bit confusing in places but over all quite a good story.

Question: Are you a sun worshiper of is the shade more your jam?

14. Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch ****

Finished: 28/2/21
Challenges: In for the long haul , Bingodog:About or contains Magic.

We are taken away from London and in to the countryside and it is a nice change of pace that our protagonist is not completely comfortable with. I continue to enjoy this series of books, though this ended so suddenly and I did not enjoy it as much as it's predecessors. I still will continue with these, I am to far in now.

Question: In your opinion which is most likely, Ghosts , Fairies or Alien's?

What is currently being read and listned too:

Pysical Books:

Danger Cosmetics To Go: A cosmetics company on the edge! By Mira Manga

Gift wapped books:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

Audio:

Finding My Voice by Nadiya Hussain

The Doctor Who:

January Wrap up

Number of Books Read: 4 (14)

Tree: 2 (5)
Kindle: 0 (0)
Audio: 2 (9)

The Doctor Who count: 1 (6)

From Mount TBR: 1 (4)

Bingodog Squares: 2 (6)

Female: 0 (5)
Male: 5 (10)
Both: 0

Favourite book of the month:



Not as much read as in January but I an still on target to reach 75 books this year. Just have to read 6.1 books a month.

Hello Bryony.

>86 BBGirl55: I have a copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep city out on my bookcase but I have never read it. How is it?

>87 BBGirl55: I have been on the fence about good omens for years. In fact just last night I started watching the TV show.

As for the Doctor, I finally got around to watching the last 3 episodes of the last season. I thought children of time was Jody spesh performance by far though not sure how I feel about the content. And I have had a great time with the actor who is presently playing the Master.

>88 brodiew2: So very sorry for the late reply, this month got away from me. I have not read much of Do Androids Dream of electric sheep, so really don't have an opinion on it yet.

As for Doctor who I really liked the last series even if it messes with contanuity.

15. Unit The Coup by Simon Guerrier *** 1/2

Finished: 2/3/21
Challenge: Travels in Time and Space

A nice quick easy listen, misadventures and hijinks.

Question Has your first impression ever been wrong?

16. Gallifrey: Pandora by Justin Richards ****

Finished: 2/3/21
Challenges: Travels in Time and Space

A conclusion of sorts to a lot of plots this series has had and New stories starting I am looking forward to continue this series.

Question: What do you think of politics in general?

17. Finding My Voice by Nadiya Hussain ****

Finished: 11.3.21
Challenges:This is Your Life, You only have to listen

Nadiya won a series of The Great Britshow Bake Off and has only gone from strength to strength. Writing cookery books, appearing in more self lead TV shows and even baked a cake for the Queen. This is a book about her struggles in every stage of her life but how she has learnt to use her voice to stand out and be counted.

This was fun and honest, by the end of the book you felt you knew her inside and out. The good the bad and the funny.

Question: Do you like to bake?

I do enjoy baking, Bryony. Tried my hand at making cheesecake this weekend and it turned out pretty darn good if I say so myself.

>92 BBGirl55: Hani is a great baker and Belle, the youngest, seems likely to follow in her footsteps.

Missing your regular presence here. Where has your TARDIS landed recently?

>93 MickyFine: Cheese Cake yum. What is your favorite thing to bake?

>94 PaulCranswick: Hi Paul, mostly my Tardis has been taking me to work or I have been sleeping.

>95 BBGirl55: Hmmm, cookies are probably my specialty. I'm planning to make chewy ginger cookies this weekend.

18. Best Movie Year Ever: How 1999 blew up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery ****
Finished: 23.4.21
Challenges: You Just have to listen, Bingodog about history or alternative history

I really enjoyed this book, I like films almost as much as books and the late 90's early 00's was when both my Sister and I really got in to watching films. This took me back it talked about lots of films I remembered watching at the cinema, the book takes us behind how the films such as The Blair Witch Project, The Martix and Fight Club.

It just took me back and I learnt lots of stuff about the films and the time I did not know.

Great to see you posting, Bryony.

Bryony, Bryony, where for art thou, Bryony?

>99 PaulCranswick: Yes, sorry I am here. Moving rrally scrambles your brian

So much has happened since I have been gone, they is alot to talk about but for now I finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep so need everyone to pick my next read from my gift wrapped books

1. Books, Books, Books.
2.Children's, Adventure, lost in a new world, 1st in series
3. Fiction, Dark, Twisted trip down the rabbit hole.
4. Fiction, 'In a blink it appeared', Love & Magic.
5. Young Adult, Magic School, Love & Hate
6. Fiction, Simi Dystopian, altered Animals, calls himself Snowman.
7. Young Adult, Romance odd couple.
8. Young Adult, 'We just want to get on with our lives, 'we are not Chosen but we are awesome'.
9.Fantasy/Horror, Dark, Twisted trip down the rabbit hole.
10.Children's, Lost in a new world, 1st in a series.
11.Children's, Adventure, hidden world, making use of things.
12. Steampunk & Spies
13. Scifi, Time travel, humour, race against time.
14. Fiction, Books, Books, a bit of mystery and more books
15. Scifi, Cyberpunk, Gritty, classic.
16. Fiction, Trains, books and romance.
17. Scifi, Dystopian, cure for death, war has begun, happiest place on earth.
18. Fiction, Loss.
19. Fantasy, Romance, Sky pirates', fallen star.
20. Fiction, Satire, Dog nonsense.
21. Romance, Anti-Love story

>100 BBGirl55: Great to see you posting, Bryony.

>101 BBGirl55: My pick is #18.

I’d love to see number 3!

Nice to see you, Bryony. I'll vote for #4!

>102 PaulCranswick: Yer My Tardis got stuck in the vortex and thanks for voting

>103 drneutron: Hi thanks for the vote

>104 MickyFine: Hey Micky, it is nice to be here. Thanks for the vote

I finished 3 Books today, granted one was a reread but this has not happend 2008. I am way behind with posting what I have read this year, hope to catch up with it soon.

Just need to decide what to read next....

>101 BBGirl55: My vote is again for #20 :-)

I'm going to vote for #11 this time!

>106 FAMeulstee: and >107 bell7: Thank You both for the vote.

Time to start puting up bookd I have finshed this so far this year.

19. Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll *****
Finished: 31.3.21
Challenges: Again, Again!

My Favourite Childhood book reread again well listesed to this time on audable.

20. Doctor Who The Myth Makers by Donald Cotton ****
Finished: 31.3.21
Challenges: Travels in Time and Space

A good solid Doctor Who story was over to quickly.

21. Earth to Matthew by Paula Danziger ****
Finished: 1.4.21
Challenges: Again, Again!

Another Childhood favourite and costent reread just an easy fun read

22. The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman ****
Finished: 12.4.21
Challenges: The More You Know, Bingodog About Time or has time in the title

That poem that for a moment united the world.

23. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel *****
Finished: 15.4.21
Challenges: Someone New Bingodog suggested by another Generation

I have to Thank Paul and My Godmother for suggesting this book it was Fantastic. Dramatic, heart rentching and also funny. I found the writing very clever, witty and had the gratest ease every word was there for a reasion nothing was out of place.

This is how our Pandemic could have gone...

24. Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness ****
Finished: 21.4.21
Challenges: This is Your Life, You only have to listen.

Mr Van Ness is quite the charecter, 1/5 of the Fab 5 from the newest version of Queer Eye; famboant, loued the biggest fan of figure skating.

He is a work in proggress because he is still learning to love himself for his querks and flaws.

This had the nack of making me laugh out loued one second but then pound my heart to dust the next this was fantasic.

>110 BBGirl55: Glad you liked that one, Bryony.

Have a splendid weekend.

>112 PaulCranswick: Thank you for siggesting it 😁

Ok so the vote has not worked could everyone that voted chose a second choice

1. Books, Books, Books.
2.Children's, Adventure, lost in a new world, 1st in series
3. Fiction, Dark, Twisted trip down the rabbit hole.
4. Fiction, 'In a blink it appeared', Love & Magic.
5. Young Adult, Magic School, Love & Hate
6. Fiction, Simi Dystopian, altered Animals, calls himself Snowman.
7. Young Adult, Romance odd couple.
8. Young Adult, 'We just want to get on with our lives, 'we are not Chosen but we are awesome'.
9.Fantasy/Horror, Dark, Twisted trip down the rabbit hole.
10.Children's, Lost in a new world, 1st in a series.
11.Children's, Adventure, hidden world, making use of things.
12. Steampunk & Spies
13. Scifi, Time travel, humour, race against time.
14. Fiction, Books, Books, a bit of mystery and more books
15. Scifi, Cyberpunk, Gritty, classic.
16. Fiction, Trains, books and romance.
17. Scifi, Dystopian, cure for death, war has begun, happiest place on earth.
18. Fiction, Loss.
19. Fantasy, Romance, Sky pirates', fallen star.
20. Fiction, Satire, Dog nonsense.
21. Romance, Anti-Love story

Hmmm, my second choice would be #5

Well, how about #6?

My second choice is #11.

>114 bell7: >115 drneutron: >116 FAMeulstee: Thank You for the votes

>116 FAMeulstee: I'll also cast my second vote for #11, Bryony.

>118 PaulCranswick: Thank you Paul

So the book vote is closed and the winner

11.Children's, Adventure, hidden world, making use of things

Mini drum roll🥁🥁🥁

The Uncommoners The Crooked Sixpence by Jennifer Bell

Alittle bit of easy reading

>120 BBGirl55: Enjoy, Bryony.

Have a great weekend.

Bryony?

Here >122 PaulCranswick: just very busy with work but here

25. Backwards and in Heels by Alicia Malone *****
Finished: 1.5.21
Challenges: The More you know, Bingodog By or about a marginalised group

This was fantastic, all about the women who have worked in are working and should be working in Hollywood. The most astounding fact I took away from this book, there were more female directors in the 1920's then there are now. Just think about that.

26. Away with the Penguins by Hazel Prior *****
Finished: 22.5.21
Challenges: Someone New, Bingodog Senior Citizen Protagonist

My favourite book of the year, I have been telling all my reading friends to read this. Just charming, heartwarming easy read.

27. Legendary Children by Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez ****
Finished: 17.6.21
Challenges: The More we Know, Bingodog Impulse Read

Very enjoyable, very informative and very honest.

28. Do Androids Dream of electric sheep by Philip K. Dickens ****
Finished: 17.7.21
Challenges: It's a surprise, Sorcerer's & Spaceships

To be honest I struggled with this to begin with, but after a couple of chapters it picked up pace and was very, very good.

29. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn ***
Finished: 23.7.21
Challenges: Trip to the Bookshop, Bingodog Contains a love story

Not bad, not fantastic just OK. Yes I like many others got swept up in the Bridgeton binge.

>125 BBGirl55: I read Away with the Penguins (which here was titled How the Penguins Saved Veronica) recently and quite enjoyed it. Glad to see it was a cozy read for you. :)

>127 MickyFine: Hi Micky I really liked it.

For those not interested in Doctor who skip this post. All 14 were listened too or read between end of July and the start of September.

30. Doctor Who: Caerdroia by Lloyd Rose ****

31. World's of Big Finish ****

32. Doctor Who: Out of Time by Matt Fitton ***1/2

33. Doctor Who: The Next Life by Gary Russell ***

34. Doctor Who: Her Final Flight by Julian Shortman ****

35. Doctor Who: The Gates of Hell by David Llewellyn ****

36. Doctor Who: The Juggernauts by Scott Alan Woodard ****

37. Doctor Who: The Game by Darin Henry ****1/2

38. Doctor Who: The Ratings War by Steve Lyons ****

39. Bernice Summerfield Walking to Babylon by Kate Orman ****

40. Doctor Who: Dreamtime by Simon A. Forward ****

41. Gallifrey: Insurgency Steve Lyons ****

42. Gallifrey: Imperiatrix by Stewart Sheargold ****

43. Doctor Who: No Place by James Goss ***1/2

>128 BBGirl55: A world plus other worlds of fun with the Doctor Who books!

>129 PaulCranswick: Hi Paul sorry about the late reply. Yes I like a Doctor Who book.

OK up next week have the month of September (I am so far behind at this point, I am hoping I get this updated before the end of the year.) September was good, 2 5* books, a childhood reread and a bit more Doctor Who.

44. Early Riser by Jasper Fforde *****
Finished: 6.9.21
Challenges: The Shining Lights, Bingodog Nature or Environment

Fforde is always a win for me, I have never disliked any of his books. This again was fantastic, he is the king of world building and the pun. Just pure joy.

45. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes *****
Finished: 8.9.21
Challenges: The Shining Lights, Bingodog Set somewhere you'ed like to visit

Moyes is another author who can do no wrong, and a book about books, a library and female friendship I was going to love it. Though to be honest I knew nothing about this book going in and I am glad. This was fantastic.

46. Sweet Valley Twins: Jessica's Cookie Disaster by Francine Pascal
Finished: 8.9.21
Challenges: Again Again

Always fun. One of the first books I remember reading in the 3 years between the ages 9 to 11 when I devoured all the books in my local children's library.

And the Doctor Who's

47. Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures One Mile Down by Jenny T Colgan ****

48. Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures The Creeping Death by Roy Gill ****1/2
Finished (both) 11.9.21
Challenges: Travels in Time and Space

Both Donna stories both great

49. Doctor Who: Catch 1782 by Alison Lawson ***1/2
Finished: 20.9.21
Challenges: Travels in Time and Space

Good

Have a lovely holiday, Bryony

May all your surprises be good ones this Holiday season.

>133 ronincats: >134 PaulCranswick: >135 richardderus: Thank You it was a very busy one.

October and November are next.

50. The Uncommoners: The Crooked Sixpence by Jennifer Bell ****
Finished: 28.10.21
Challenges: What's the point of being Grown-up if you can't be Childish sometimes, Bingodog New to you author

Nice easy read. Very good

51. Birthright by Nigeria Robinson ****
Finished: 8.11.21
Challenges: Travels in Time and Space

An other Bernice Summerfield this time with giant alien bugs.

52. A History of Britain in 21 Women by Jennifer Murray ****1/2
Finished: 8.11.21
Challenges: The more you know.

I really enjoyed this, always interesting to hear about the strong women in Britain's past and present.

53. Release the Beast by Bimini Bon Boulash ****
Finished: 12.11.21
Challenges: Just Listen, bingodog title that describes you

This was fun and over far to soon

54.The Planet in a Pickle Jar by Martin Stanev ****
Finished: 24.11.21
Challenges: What's the point being Grown-up if you can't be Childish sometimes, bingodog under 200 pages
Very sweet and cute

And we made it to December

55.City of Bones by Cassandra Clare ****
Finished: 21.12.21
Challenges: This looks Good... oh look Harry Potter, Bingodog A character You'ed be Friends with.

I enjoyed this and am going to continue with the serise. I can't belive it has taken me over a decade to get to this serise. And for those wondering: I would be friends with Magnus Baine

56. English History Made brief, irreverent and pleasurable by Lacey Baldwin Smith ****
Finished: 29.12.21
Challenges: The More you Know

This brief English history was consise, well plotted and very funny at times.

57.Goddess Mode by Zoe Quin & Robbi Rodriguez ***1/2
Finished: 30.12.21
Challenges: Capes, Carriages and Cannibals, Bingodog owned by 20 or fewer LT members

It was just ok in storry the art was fantastic.

I think that is me done with 2021. I will put my wrap-up and meme up on my 2022 thread

>139 BBGirl55: Magnus is pretty dang delightful.

Forget your stresses and strains
As the old year wanes;
All that now remains
Is to bring you good cheer
With wine, liquor or beer
And wish you a special new year.

Happy New Year, Bryony.