The Reading Challenge Group discussion

This challenge begins on January 1.
Mission: Claim at least one "Bingo!" before March 20 (the first day of spring)!

RULES & GUIDELINES

Not too many of these as it is supposed to be fun after all :)

* As with traditional Bingo, you can go for a horizontal, vertical, diagonal, "X" or "around the world" (perimeter). Or aim big and go for a black out (all squares)!

* A book can only be used once on the sheet.

* Interpret the categories as broadly as you like.

* Feel free to copy and paste the template below to record your books:

Winter Bingo Template (Copy to your own thread)

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

Definitions (Updated as questions arise)...

Middle Grade- also called "Intermediate." Usually a chapter book written for children between the ages of 9-15. Newbury titles would fit here. Also, the Harry Potter books, Beverly Cleary, Rick Riordan, the Magic Treehouse series, Little House series, Anne of Green Gables, The Black Stallion, etc.

Magical Realism- "Matthew Strecher defines magic realism as "what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe." (from Wikipedia)
For example, Beloved or One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Epistolary- written as a series of letters (or diary entries). For example, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

Made Into A Movie- does not have to be recently

Based on Mythology- some examples might be The Lightning Thief or Till We Have Faces or Grendel. Use your own judgement.

Color/Lettering blocks refer to the cover of the book. Wintery colors for this one. Spring Bingo will have different colors and categories. ;-)

Winter Bingo Board!

I am in for this one. I will start with the top row:

B1: Award Winner Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (Newbery Medal 1933)s
I1: Start of a Series Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
N1: Classic Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
G1: Magical Realism Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez
O1: Published in 2016 Yevgeny Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (This is a brand-new translation from 2016.)

B2:
I2: Middle Grade The Chestry Oak by Kate Seredy
N2: Made into a movie Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
G2:
O2:

B3: Silver Lettering 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
I3: Blue Cover Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth
N3: Free Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock
G3: White Cover A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
O3: Gold Lettering The House on Prague Street by Hana Demetz

B4: Mystery The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
I4: >400 pages Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
N4: Science Fiction Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
G4:
O4:

B5:
I5:
N5: Humor Turvey by Earle Birney
G5: Biographical I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
O5:

I'm in for this!

Winter Bingo

B1: Award Winner - If I Stay
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering - Today Will Be Different
B4: Mystery or Thriller - Echoes in Death
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series - Taking Shots
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover - Trying to Score
I4: > 400 pages - Crimson Death
I5: Personal Improvement - Lighten Up: Love What You Have, Have What You Need, Be Happier with Less

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie - The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
N3: FREE - Hexed
N4: Science Fiction - The Star Tablet
N5: Humor - I Did (But I Wouldn't Now)

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical - I'm Proud of You: Life Lessons from My Friend Fred Rogers

O1: Published Last Year - The Mistletoe Secret
O2: Epistolary - The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember (not quite epistolary but close enough for bingo purposes - this was a series of anecdotes and quotes arranged under a few general headings)
O3: Gold Lettering - Sweet Revenge
O4: Based on Mythology - Red Rising
O5: Math/Science

B1: Award Winner - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn - Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) for Young Adult (2006),
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering - - The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
B4: Mystery or Thriller - Break No Bones
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I2: Middle Grade - Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
I3: Blue Cover -
I4: > 400 pages - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
I5: Personal Improvement - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

N1: Classic - Antony and Cleopatra
N2: Made into a Movie - The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion by Tim Crothers
N3: FREE - One Good Friend Deserves Another by Lisa Verge Higgins
N4: Science Fiction - 2001: A Space Odyssey
N5: Humor - Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith

G1: Magical Realism - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
G2: LGBTQ+ - A Place at the Table: A Novel
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
O2: Epistolary - A Soft Place to Land
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology - American Gods
O5: Math/Science

I'm in - I love Bingo :)

B1: Award Winner - I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller - The Last Mile - David Baldacci
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde
N2: Made into a Movie - Where the Heart Is ~ Billie Letts
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

Winter Bingo Template

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

Yay Bingo! I'm going for the bottom row.

B5: Current Events
I5: Personal Improvement
N5: Humor
G5: Biographical
O5: Math/Science

I've been waiting for this post!

B1: Award Winner: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
B2: Graphic Novel: Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
B3: Silver Lettering: The Expats
B4: Mystery or Thriller: Death Comes to Pemberley
B5: Current Event Related: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

I1: Start a Series: Little House in the Big Woods
I2: Middle Grade: Farmer Boy
I3: Blue Cover: Sense & Sensibility
I4: > 400 pages: Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice
I5: Personal Improvement: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

N1: Classic: The Wind in the Willows
N2: Made into a Movie: Little House on the Prairie
N3: FREE: Karnak Café
N4: Science Fiction: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
N5: Humor: Alice in Tumblr-land

G1: Magical Realism: One Hundred Years of Solitude
G2: LGBTQ+: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
G3: White Cover: Far Appalachia: Following the New River North
G4: Published In Your Birth Year: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
G5: Biographical: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

O1: Published Last Year: The Real Liddy James
O2: Epistolary: Ella Minnow Pea
O3: Gold Lettering: All Quiet on the Western Front
O4: Based on Mythology: The Lightning Thief
O5: Math/Science: The Brain: The Story of You

I'm in

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages Cress
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

I am going to give this one a try this year. Looks like it would be a fun way to select new books.

I am in for N down.

N1: Classic ~ Northanger Abbey 1/9/17
N2: Made into a Movie ~ Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 1/18/17
N3: FREE ~ 15th Affair 1/15/17
N4: Science Fiction ~ Navigators of Dune 1/14/17
N5: Humor ~ Turbo Twenty-Three 1/19/17

BINGO!

I'm in.

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

Winter Bingo Template (Copy to your own thread)

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction - Armada
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

I will definitely try!
B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series The Elfstones of Shannara
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREEHeat Stroke
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical Miles of Memories: One Woman's Journey to All 50 States

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

I will try this.

Winter Bingo Template (Copy to your own thread)

B1: Award Winner Bel Canto
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller The Trial
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series Open and Shut
I2: Middle Grade Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
I3: Blue Cover The Blue Bath
I4: > 400 pages My Notorious Life
I5: Personal Improvement Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

N1: Classic A Christmas Carol
N2: Made into a MovieInsurgent
N3: FREE Melting the Ice
N4: Science Fiction Divergent
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism Fever Dream
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year All the Missing Girls
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

Fun! Bingo is awesome :) I'm in

Edit: going for row three, I put in my planned books (all but two were on my tbr woo hoo!)

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
✔️B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
✔️I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE (I don't know yet ha!)
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover A TRAGIC KIND OF WONDERFUL (following my theme of reading ya contemporaries with mental illness thrown in)
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
✔️O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

B1: Award Winner -
B2: Graphic Novel -
B3: Silver Lettering -
B4: Mystery or Thriller -
B5: Current Event Related -

I1: Start a Series -
I2: Middle Grade -
I3: Blue Cover -
I4: > 400 pages -
I5: Personal Improvement -

N1: Classic -
N2: Made into a Movie -
N3: FREE - D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
N4: Science Fiction -
N5: Humor -

G1: Magical Realism -
G2: LGBTQ+ -
G3: White Cover -
G4: Published In Your Birth Year -
G5: Biographical -

O1: Published Last Year -
O2: Epistolary -
O3: Gold Lettering -
O4: Based on Mythology -
O5: Math/Science -

I'll try again! See how far I can get!
B1: Award Winner Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man
B2: Graphic Novel Princess Jellyfish 2-in-1 Omnibus, Volume 01
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller The Triumph of Night
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series Bright Young Things
I2: Middle Grade The Visitor
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages Shirley
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic Mansfield Park
N2: Made into a Movie I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
N3: FREE The Bell Jar
N4: Science Fiction Eternity's End
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism Different
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover My Hero Academia, Vol. 5
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers

O1: Published Last Year A Buccaneer at Heart
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering Beautiful Days
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

One Bingo completed: N down.

Let's see if I can finish another.

B4: Mystery/Thriller ~
I4: +400 pages ~
N4: Science Fiction ~
G4: Published in your Birth Year ~
O4: Based on Mythology ~

Nice work, Lynette!

Quick question: For 01 (Published Last Year), are people using 2015, 2016, or does it not matter? I've seen both and figured I'd ask :-)

It should be something published in 2016.

Renee wrote: "It should be something published in 2016."

That's what I thought--thanks for clarifying!

:)

I got my first Bingo, the N's

N1 Of Mice and Men
N2 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
N3 Nonsense Novels
N4 Children of God
N5 Turvey

Nicely done Rosemarie. Checking your titles :0)

Woot woot!

If you haven't read Of Mice and Men, I highly recommend it, even if it sad. My least favourite was Nomsense Novels; I didn't they were funny.

B3 - Ash and Silver by Carol Berg
I3 - Dreamer's Pool by Juliet Marillier
N3 - Sabriel by Garth Nix
G3 - A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain
O3 - The Forgotten Room by Karen White

Nice work, Summer.

Woot woot!

I was considering Murder in Time. What did you think of it?

I couldn't put it down. :) Kendra is intelligent and tenacious. The scenes from both time periods are engaging and I hope McElwain considers a contemporary suspense series in addition to this one.

Great to hear. Thanks, Summer.

I'm one book away from my first Winter Bingo... Any suggestions for "a book published last year." I've looked over the 2016 lists but nothing jumps out.

I am going to use a brand-new translation of Eugene Onegin published last year.

Anthony Briggs Yevgeny Onegin

My daughter enjoyed The Nest. I read Homegoing and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2.

Hi Renee,

Have you readRebel of the Sands? It is a YA fantasy novel set in a desert filled with magic and one of my favorites published last year.

BINGO #2


Row 4 across

Mystery/Thriller ~ The Lake House 2/4/17
+400 pages ~ Doctor Zhivago 1/27/17
Science Fiction ~ The War of the Worlds2/8/17
Published in your Birth Year ~ Williwaw 2/14/17
Based on Mythology ~ The King Must Die2/1/17

I enjoyed them all except Williwaw. Good thing it was short.

Going to be pretty broad in my interpretations - I'm playing catch up. (I've pretty much just counted white and yellow as silver and gold - without the metallic finish)

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering - The Girl on the Train
B4: Mystery or Thriller - Darktown
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover - Armada
I4: > 400 pages - American Assassin
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie - Tripwire
N3: FREE - He Said/She Said
N4: Science Fiction - Storm Front
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover - The Girl Before
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering - The Firemaker
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

I'm actually so close to getting a Bingo! i swear reading only graphic novels so far isn't cheating....

B1: Award Winner
B2-Graphic Novel - Seconds
B3-Silver Lettering - MoonCop
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover - Night Shift
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE - The Beach at night
N4: Science Fiction How To Talk To Girls At Parties
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover- The Wicked and The Divine
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering - Butterfly Beach
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

Do they have 400+ page graphic novels?

Rosemarie wrote: "Do they have 400+ page graphic novels?"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

I haven't read it myself, but this could cover you i'm sure! :D

That looks like a great book.

Bingo! I completed the "I" column. I plan on working on another Bingo or two if possible.

Way to go!

I was just looking at my Bingo board to see what I needed to read next to get my first Bingo....and realized I've had a diagonal Bingo for about a week now that I didn't notice!! Yahoo! Onto the next one!

B5: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
I4: Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice
N3: Karnak Café
G2: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
O1: The Real Liddy James

Love when that happens!