Filled the 'Starts With J' tile on my #BookBingo card with 'Japanese Gothic' by Kylie Lee Baker. An intense and unsettling time travel story dressed as a ghost story that had me hooked. Super gory, great characters. Brilliant.
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#BookBingo Update! Continued April Daniels's Nemesis series with 'Sovereign' for my Own Voices square. I Love this series so much. Great characters, and great superhero fight scenes.
And don't forget: Trans Rights are human rights!
#BookBingo update time! Read 'The Adventure of the Demonic Ox' by Lois McMaster Bujold. Book #14 of her Penric and Desdemona series, and the series is still going strong. Wonderful story where magic doesn't stop the everyday drama of kids growing up.
Fifth and sixth bingos of 2026!
- Disability or Mental Health: The Unbalancing by R.B. Lemberg
- No Sex/Romance: Strange Houses by Uketsu
- Historical (fiction or non-fiction): Viimeiset jumalattaret by Kateřina - Tučková
Author You've Never Read Before: How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster) by Marie Cardno
- ebook/audiobook: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, book 10
- Main Character over the age of 30: Queen Demon by Martha Wells
- No Sex/Romance: Strange Houses by Uketsu
- Crime/Mystery: Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada
- Female Author: How to Get the Girl (And Not Destroy the World) by Marie Cardno
- First Person POV: Dryad by Chris Howard
Fourth bingo of 2026! (I'm not counting diagonals or corners)
- An Author's Debut/First book: After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
- Author You've Never Read Before: How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster) by Marie Cardno
- Short Story/Novella: 2026 ABC challenge, letters A & B
- From Your TBR: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- YA/Children's: Jacob's Transition Goals by Arthur Webber
Third bingo of 2026!
- Non-fiction: We Did Okay, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins
- Main Character over the age of 30: Queen Demon by Martha Wells
- Set in a Country Other Than Your Own: Last Rites by Ozzy Osbourne
- An Author's Debut/First book: After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
- Graphic Novel or Comic: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
#BookBingo Update! Read 'The Long Habit of Living' by Joe Haldeman as my 'Written in the 80s' book. My only other Haldeman read was 'The Forever War' so reading this was disappointing. This story just never clicked for me, though it has some cool bits.
Second bingo of 2026!
- A Favourite Author Blurbed It: Koti kadulla by Tii Juden & Laura Juntunen
- First Person POV: Dryad by Chris Howard
- Banned Book: Sirpin ja moukarin alla by Kirsti Huurre
- YA/Children's: Jacob's Transition Goals by Arthur Webber
- Job/Profession in the Title: How to Get a Date with the Evil Queen by Marie Cardno
First bingo of 2026!
- Non-fiction: We Did Okay, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins
- Disability or Mental Health: The Unbalancing by R.B. Lemberg
- Figure/s Without Facial Features on the Cover: Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace
- Pet or Animal Companion: Sarviini puhkeaa lehti – ihmeellinen Reidar Särestöniemi by Noora Vaarala
- A Favourite Author Blurbed It: Koti kadulla by Tii Juden & Laura Juntunen
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