Three Questions - January 11-20

Continuing with Okapi's Questions:

12 Jan: Hot Tea Day: Do you drink hot tea? If so, what kinds?
I'm a Brit and tea has to be hot!  Although I am known on occasions to wander around and return to a rapidly cooling cup, which I still drink.  It's black tea, and generally whatever is sold as the main own brand by the supermarket.

18 Jan: Winnie the Pooh Day: Do you have a favorite Winnie the Pooh character? Or story?
I think Pooh Bear himself is my favourite character, although part of me resembles Tigger, although I don't bounce all over people, if something appeals I tend to be enthusiastic.  The Daughter has a soft spot for Eeyore and over the years has collected quite a few.  We bought her an Eeyore oodie for Christmas.  And then I have created Tigger Holmes, who works with two Watsons (like David Burke and Edward Hardwicke for Granada TV), Pooh!Watson and Eeyore!Watson and, when pushed, Rabbit in the role of Mycroft.  My favourite story is In Which Piglet Meets A Heffalump.

20 Jan: Cheese Lovers Day: Do you love cheese? What kind(s)?
Yes.  Cheddar, Double Gloucester, Leicester, Wensleydale, Brie, Camembert etc

Book Bingo 2024

Rather slow to get this posted, but I am again taking part in kingstoken  book bingo





Book in a Series - A Taste for Killing (Sarah Hawkswood) [Bradecote and Catchpole series]
Author You've Never Read Before - Death and Croissants (Ian Moore)
Book Older Than You Are - Felicie (Georges Simenon) [1944]
Fairy Tale or fairy Tale Retelling - SUBSTITUTE: ebook or audiobook - The Underground Library (Jennifer Ryan) [audiobook]
Graphic novel or Comic - FREE CHOICE: Death at the President's Lodgings (Michael Innes)

Pet or Animal Companion - Wolf at the Door (Sarah Hawkswood) [The wolf, Anda, is a companion of one of the characters]
A Main Character Over the Age of 30 - Eudora Honeysett is Quite Well, Thank You (Annie Lyons) [85]
LGBTQ+ - One Love (Matt Cain)
Multiple POVs - Holmes, Marple and Poe (James Patterson)
Under 100 pages - Game On (Matt Cain)

Romance Plot or Sub-plot - The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
Translated - The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Georges Simenon) [French] (audiobook)
Free Space - A Nest of Vipers (Harini Nagendra)
Humour - Lords and Ladies (Terry Pratchett)
Non-fiction - A Traveller's History of Poland (John Radzilowski)

Thriller or Suspense - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (John Le Carré) (audiobook)
With a Blue Cover - Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent (Judi Dench)
POC Author - Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials (Ovidia Yu)
Horror or Paranormal - SUBSTITUTE: historical - The Stone Carvers (Jane Urquhart) [1900s-1920s]
Colour in the Title - Murder under a Red Moon (Harini Nagendra) [Red]

Seasonal Read - Murder the Sun (ed Cecily Gayford)
Book from you TBR - Mugby Junction (Charles Dickens) [bought last year after an online course]
Crime or Mystery - Impact of Evidence (Carol Carnac)
Sci-fi or Fantasy - Artificial Condition (Martha Wells)
Banned Book - FREE CHOICE: Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves)