Around the World in 80 Books discussion

A 1. . . .
B . . . .
C . . . 4.
D . . . .
E . . . . 5

✔A1) Translated from an Indian Regional language - 22 recognized Indian national languages: Hindi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Marathi, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Rajasthani, Sindhi, Assamese (Asamiya), Maithili and Odia.
The Story of a Goat - Perumal Murugan, N. Kalyan Raman (translator) (3 stars) 9/29/23 - set in Tamil Nadu in South India and translated from the Tamil
✔A2) Set on an island
Aunty Lee's Delights (Singaporean Mystery #1) - Ovidia Yu (4 stars) 1/29/23 - set in Singapore
✔A3) Has character that shares your profession
The Book of Longings – Sue Monk Kidd (3 stars) 3/11/23 - MC becomes a librarian as I was
✔A4) Tropical setting
The Dangerous Harem (Dino Island, #3) – J. R. Hogan (1 star) 5/28/23 - fantasy Dino Island, very tropical
✔A5) BTBA (Best Translated Book) award winner or nominee - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Tr...
The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa (3 stars) 10/15/23

✔B1) Fire, flood or hurricane
West with Giraffes – Lynda Rutledge (5 stars) 3/15/23 - 1938 hurricane at start and flash flood while traveling in Texas
✔B2) Dream vacation
A Year of Second Chances – Buffy Andrews (3 stars) 1/20/23 - MC and best friend take a 3 week vacation to follow Route 66 from Chicago to LA - on their bucket list
✔B3) TBR book completion
Dragon Teeth – Michael Crichton (2 stars) 1/3/23 - added to TBR 1/3/2020
✔B4) Central or South American author - Seven countries in Central America: Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Mexico is not included.
South American continent generally includes twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela; two dependent territories: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and one internal territory: French Guiana
Out of the Silence: After the Crash - Eduardo Strauch Urioste, Jennie Erikson (Translator) (3 stars) 2/11/23 - author from Uruguay
✔B5) BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) author
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake - Tiya Miles (4 stars) 2/6/23 - author is Black

✔C1) Set in a Nordic country - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland
The Memory of Love – Linda Olsson (5 stars) 12/27/23 - Sweden
✔C2) Set in hotels, inns, guesthouses etc
Spellbound Falls (Spellbound Falls #1) - Janet Chapman (4 stars) 2/10/23 - set at a camping resort
✔C3) An African classic
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (5 stars) 7/3/23
C4) Nonfiction - history
✔C5) LBGTQ character
The Red Address Book – Sofia Lundberg (3 stars) 1/14/23 - MC's best friend is gay

✔D1) Published in the year you were born - 1947
Murder Has a Motive (Mordecai Tremaine Mystery, #2) – Francis Duncan (3 stars) 11/29/23
✔D2) 1 book set in adjacent countries
True North: A Memoir – Jill Ker Conway (4 stars) 7/17/23 half in each place - Boston, US/Toronto, CA
✔D3) Planes trains & automobiles
B785 (Cyborgs: More than Machines, #3) – Eve Langlais (3 stars) 4/17/23 - most of story takes place on a space ship
✔D4) Polar setting - set within the Arctic or Antarctic
Dr. Do-or-DieDr. Do-Or-Die (Doctors in Danger, #2) – Lara Lacombe (3 stars) 4/6/23 - set in Antarctica
✔D5) Fewer than 1,000 Goodreads ratings
The Man in the Tent: My Life under Canvas - Part Three: France and Albania ( The Man in the Tent, #3) – Tony Beardsall (4 stars) 1/5/23 - 316 ratings

✔E1) Pacific Islander author - Native inhabitants of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, including Hawaii and New Zealand but not Australia, Japan, Indonesia or Philippines
Miss Benson's Beetle – Rachel Joyce (3 stars) 1/22/23 - set in New Caledonia
✔E2) Historical mystery set before 1900
The Black Country (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #2) – Alex Grecian (4 stars) 2/22/23 - set in 1890
✔E3) Fairytale or folklore
Spinning Starlight – R. C. Lewis (5 stars) 10/2/23 - retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans
✔E4) Set during a war
Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I – Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb (4 stars) 1/13/23
E5) More than 500 pages

I will not be getting a full card Bingo this year. I have 3 to go and need to concentrate on other challenges for year end. But this is not a loss since I have achieved many single Bingos on this board.

Looking forward to next year's board.

Finished another book. Only off by 2 now.