WomanBingoPUP -- May reads

What are you reading this month (May) for the WomanBingoPUP?

Please remember to list your reading on the WomanBingoPUP wiki:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/2016_WomanBingoPUP

I'm just finished reading Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County by Kristen Green (379.263) for the published in the last 10 years square (published in 2015) and am currently reading Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman (365) for the Autobiography, Memoir, Correspondence square. Either one would also be a Cat trick fitting into all 3 cats

Just finished Master Georgie for the Women in Combat square. I figure it works because the main character follows the man she loves into the heart of the Crimean conflict.

I have finally finished reading Sara M. Robinson's Sometimes the Little Town, a collection of poetry, for the poetry or plays square. I usually enjoy Sara's poetry, and read her collections within a few days. For this one, I had to spread out my reading of it since I was disappointed in this collection about people in the small town of Elkton, Virginia, in the 1950s. I would have liked to have had a brief description of who the people were in addition to the poems about them. Often I could not tell whether or not Sara actually knew the people. She was describing people in photographs taken by her father, Hobby Robinson, a famous local Elkton photographer.

This gives me a bingo in the fourth vertical row.

Short story collection: I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly, and Other Stories by Mary Ladd Gavell

Different genre: Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown -- lesbian fiction by writer of mysteries, screen plays, poetry, etc.

New to You author: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

about a female critter: Saving Sadie and Sasha by Laura S. Jones (female pit bulls)

Poetry or plays -- Sometimes the Little Town by Sara M. Robinson (poetry)

I've finished the excellent A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews that won the Governor General's Award and fills the Award Winner square.

I decided to count The Book of Phoenix for the female critter square because the central character is really more of a god/angel/phoenix and because I'm unlikely to fill this square otherwise.

I read Temple Grandin's Animals Make Us Human which was published when she was 62 so I am using it for the 'published when author was over 60 years of age' square. Review is on my thread here http://www.librarything.com/topic/204813#5576827. I recommend the book for pet owners or livestock owners.

I used Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart for the author writing in a different genre square. This was an historical fiction/mystery, most of the author's other work is nature related non-fiction.

I read I Shall Be Near To You for the woman in combat square . It's about a young bride who joins her husband in combat during the Civil War .

I've read two for the challenge this month: The Children of Green Knowe by L. M. Boston for the "over 60" challenge (she was 62), and Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn for the award winner challenge. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History. Both were quite good.

Those two books allowed me to complete my first bingo for the challenge! Running down the second column, I have the following:
2. Author over 60 Years Old: The Children of Green Knowe by L. M. Boston
7. Made into a Movie: The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart
12. Award Winner: Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn
17. Less than 10 Years Old: Dreaming Death by J. Kathleen Cheney
22. Women in Science: Survival by Julie E. Czerneda

>9 inge87: Congrats!

>10 sturlington: Thanks!

I've finished another book for the challenge: Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay, for the 1920s & 30s mystery square. It's a 1935 murder mystery set at an Oxford women's college. That was the same year as Dorothy L. Sayers' excellent Gaudy Night—also set at a fictional Oxford women's college—but other than the publication year and the setting the two books are quite different.

For "An Unconventional Role for a Woman" I have read The Queen of the South in which the female main character becomes a drug kingpin.

I have just read Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie for the 1920-30's detective fiction square. This gives me a second bingo -- this time a diagonal from the upper right corner to lower left corner.

Women in non-traditional roles: Sisters of the Wind: Voices of Early Women Aviators by Elizabeth S. Bell.

Different genre by same author: Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown -- a lesbian novel by an author who usually writes mysteries.

By or about a woman/women: Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers by Anna M. Speicher.

Made into a Movie: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

1920-30's Detective fiction: Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (her earliest Miss Marple novel)

So far in May:

Women in Science Lab Girl - Hope Jahren - really enjoyed this one!
About a Spy: Mrs Pollifax on the China Station - Dorothy Gilmore -

I've gotten my first two Bingo's this month. It's funny how inspiring getting a Bingo is! I had thought I wouldn't try for a blackout, but now I think I may make it.

I read the YA novel We Were Liars by E. Lockhart for the 'different genre than you normally read by an author who writes in more than one genre' square. E. Lockhart is Emily Jenkins' pseudonym. She writes a lot of children's books under her real name and under her pseudonym she writes YA. It was disappointing. My review is here https://www.librarything.com/topic/204813#5585363.

I used Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap " for the "same author - different genre".

>16 DeltaQueen50: That's a fun play to watch. I've seen it twice, but not in the last 25 years -- once in London and once at a community theater in Pennsylvania. When I looked up Agatha Christie a couple of days ago, I remembered how much I had enjoyed seeing this one play and Ten Little Indians.

>17 sallylou61: I would love to see The Mousetrap! She uses some of her classic touches - country house, guests snowed in etc. It would be a fun one to see performed - even knowing the twist!

I finished Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives for the short story collection square. Excellent read!

I read two this month that fit - Open Secrets for short story collection and Between Shades of Gray for less than 10 years old.

I read The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien from my tbr pile.

One more quick one for May: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah for the women in combat square.

And one more for me - Old Filth by Jane Gardam for the 'Author over 60' square. Loved the book!