C! I know it’s a gimme, with the free square in the middle, but I just started my last book in that row (the free square), The Scarlet Pimpernel (hard mode from the “Older Than You Are” square). I’m about halfway done now.

After that, I guess I’ll just read through as much of the card as I can before the end of April, while taking breaks for whatever catches my fancy. I just read a couple of fantasy novels by Margaret Owen that I very much enjoyed, and she has another book coming out in a few months.

I started Victor LaValle’s The Devil in Silver for the “Institutional” square of Book Bingo (and it seems well-written so far, don’t get me wrong), but I’m taking a break in the middle to read some lighter fare.

I’m just trying to get through one row for Book Bingo instead of scattershot reading throughout the card, but my focus is all over the place.

Came here to say this, it’s not quite cozy fantasy to me, but it’s definitely a change of pace from world-ending stakes.