For me, personally, I hit a bit of a slump and only finished three books, none of which I ended up using for book bingo.

I did, however, finish a book today and have achieved my first bingo!

As for recs, if you like historical mysteries, I started the Ameila Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters, and was absolutely enchanted by the first book, Crocodile on the Sandbank. You can read more about them, here.

Yey for bingo!!! \o/

Thanks!

Congrats on your bingo!

Thank you!

Well done for Bingo!!

I think I saw Amelia Peabody books on sale on Kindle... I should have got one!

Thanks! :D

I have the second and third books in the series. Hopefully I'll like them as much as the first one!

I have finished a book this month, started a new one and ordered three others that will fill squares!

Woo-Hoo!! That's great!

Sweet!

Excellent!

Still no bingo. i'm reading the patrick melrose novels again alongside the episodes. One more to read this week and a final episode next Sunday then onto some new books!

Congrats to anyone achieving a bingo!

Best of luck!

Thank you! x

I'm almost at the end of a book for the 'number or colour in the title' square, and after that I'm one square away from two possible bingo lines. I think I know which one I'm going for, so my next book will probably be the biography/autobiography, which should get me a straight line bingo. \o/

I seem to be having a non-fiction phase at the moment, after reading several novels in the first few months of the year. I'm quite amused by how many non-fiction books I'm managing to read to fill these squares. I like how the prompts/squares are so broad and flexible that they can equally apply to fiction or non-fiction, so thanks, mods! :-)

I'm still behind on doing book reviews for the ones I've read. Must have a catch up soon, before I forget the details of what I wanted to say about them.

You are very welcome! We definitely didn't want filling the squares to be stressful for anyone, so we're both very happy that you've been able to fill squares with your currently preferred reading material. :D

The bingo has certainly helped me make a dent in my to-read pile this year. At the start of the year when I got my bingo card, I was going through the pile and making a list of which books would fit particular squares! I was quite pleased when I realised a non-fiction book about bronze age archaeology would fit the 'colour or number in the title' square.

That is so awesome! :D

I'm still in the same state I was last check-in, reading some quite big books but being too busy with work and travel to really get stuck in. I did make a bit of an inroads in some reading this weekend, but nowhere near finishing anything just yet.

Best of luck to you!

Thank you!

Isn't it annoying when RL gets in the way of reading?! Hope you manage to finish something soon.

Isn't it just? At least I'm enjoying everything I'm reading at the moment :D

I managed to read more books this month and I've achieved bingo (https://little-huntress.livejournal.com/38924.html). I hadn't even realized I was going to until I crossed off the mystery/crime square. I've started reading Fun Home which will fill the Non-Fiction square.

The square I have no idea how I'll fill is Out of Your Comfort Zone. I don't know what it could be.

You could always use a wildcard for that square.

That hadn't even occured to me, I'd forgotten about them. Thanks for the suggestion.

No problem! :D

Well done for your Bingo!

I have got hold of The Day of the Jackal which was published the year I was born. I also bought Slaughterhouse 5, because Ren in Footloose says its a classic :D

I have plans to read Richard III, as I'm going to see it in July.

All these plans, and not much reading!! *g*

The Day of the Jackal sounds good! I hope you like it.

You've still got plenty of time we're just now only almost at the halfway mark.

How are we half way through the year?? :D

I know, right?

It’s scary crazy isn’t it?!

I know!!!

I can’t wait to hear about Richard III that’s awesome!

They are building a theatre like The Globe in York for the summer!! D1 and clea and I are going :)

How awesome!! I so wished I lived over there because I would be tagging along with you three (and Jo) all the time!!

Now that really would be perfect!!

My friend Vicky wanted to go but it's not cheap! She lives near York. Her hubby and daughter wanted to go too but that would make it over £120

We nearly died when we saw ticket prices! At least we are only paying for our own, families can be expensive *g* I think it was a case of... sod it *g* Plus accommodation in York is twice what we pay wherever we go usually.

Wow that is expensive but I probably would have said screw it too!! LOL

I'vedone no reading since finishing my last book. Um.. a few weeks ago now. I am hoping to catch up this weekend and start my next book which will likely be Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology.

Edit - damn I'd already replied to this post! See, I don'y know what I'm doing any more! My brain is fried!

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*hugs* No worries, we've all been there.

Hope you enjoy Norse Mythology!

hahahahaha I am so glad I'm not the only one doing that these days! :D