Around the World in 80 Books discussion

MAGIC SQUARES 2022: Around the World in 80 Days
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12/01/22: 23/25 Completed

✅A1 - Sci-Fi:
✔️The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

✅A2 - Bio or Autobio:
✔️I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

✅A3 - MC with disability:
✔️True Biz, by Sara Novic

✅A4 - Caribbean author:
✔️Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

✅A5 - Nonbinary or trans author:
✔️The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Zoukhadar

✅B1 - Food-themed:
✔️My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

✅B2 - Publ in last 3 years:
✔️Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

✅B3 - Set in Africa:
✔️Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

✅B4 - Nobel Laureate:
✔️Sula by Toni Morrison

✅B5 - Book by Local author:
✔️The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

✅C1 - Set in Canada or Canadian author:
✔️Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

✅C2 - Classic Horror:
✔️The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

✅C3 - Sports and/or Recreation:
✔️The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Or river)

✅C4 - Between 100 and 200 pgs:
✔️A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

✅C5 - Translated woman author:
✔️The Notebook by Agota Kristof

✅D1 - Debut novel:
✔The Sparrow
My Year of Meats

✅D2 - 19th century classic:
✔Emma by Jane Austen

✅D3 - Historical Fiction:
✔When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

D4 - Translated from Korean:

✅D5 - Epistolary:
✔Lady Susan by Jane Austen

✅E1 - Country not read in 2021: Uruguay
Cantoras

✅E2 - Book about a journey:
✔The Lincoln Highway

✅E3 - Rivers, lakes, or swamps: -
✔ The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

E4 - Medieval woman author:

✅E5 - Set in Southern Hemisphere:
✔A Town Like Alice

✅A1 - Sci-Fi:
✔The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
✔Sea of Tranquility - by Emily St John Mandel
✔The Employees by Olga Ravn
✔The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula leGuin
✔A Psalm for the Wild-Built

✅A2 - Bio or Autobio:
✔I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
✔Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

✅A3 - MC with disability:
✔️True Biz
✔The Overstory (a character, not the main character)

✅A4 - Caribbean author:
✔️Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevido
✔Felix Ever After
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✅A5 - Nonbinary or trans author:
✔The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Zoukhadar
✔Felix Ever After

✅B1 - Food-themed:
✔My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
✔We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
✔Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Kingsolver

✅B2 - Publ in last 3 years:
✔Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason - 2020
✔Sea of Tranquility
✔The Lincoln Highway -By Amor Towles - 2021
✔The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak - 2021
✔The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Richardson - 2022
✔Apples Never Fall -2021
✔The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St James

✅B3 - Set in Africa:
✔Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

✅B4 - Nobel Laureate:
✔Sula by Toni Morrison

✅B5 - Book by Local author:
✔The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

✅C1 - Set in Canada or Canadian author:
✔Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
✔ The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

✅C2 - Classic Horror:
✔The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

✅C3 - Sports and/or Recreation:
✔The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
✔Beartown by Fredrik Backman

✅C4 - Between 100 and 200 pgs:
✔A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
✔Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
✔The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula le Guin

✅C5 - Translated woman author:
✔The Notebook by Agota Kristof

✅D1 - Debut novel:
✔The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
✔My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
others

✅D2 - 19th century classic:
✔Emma by Jane Austen
✔Washington Square by Henry James

✅D3 - Historical Fiction:
✔ When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
✔The Marriage of Opposites
✔The Remains of the Day
✔The Bombay Prince

D4 - Translated from Korean:
Kim JeYoung born 1982 or other

✅D5 - Epistolary:
✔Lady Susan by Jane Austen

✅E1 - Country not read in 2021:
✔Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood - South Africa
✔The Marriage of Opposites St Thomas

✅E2 - Book about a journey:
✔The Lincoln Highway -By Amor Towles - 2021
✔The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
✔A Town Like Alice
✔ The Sparrow

✅E3 - Rivers, lakes, or swamps:
✔The Hobbit
✔The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

E4 - Medieval woman author:
The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon

✅E5 - Set in Southern Hemisphere:
✔A Town Like Alice

Updated June 10, 2022

completed:
A1 A2 __ A4 A5
B1 B2 B3 B4 B5
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5
D1 D2 D3 __ D5
E1 E2 E3 __ E5

Updated December 1, 2022

I'm probably not going to finish all 25, but I'm going to count this a win for all the Bingo combinations I completed !

completed 23/25:
A1 A2 A3 A4 A5
B1 B2 B3 B4 B5
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5
D1 D2 D3 __ D5
E1 E2 E3 __ E5