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message 1: by Nora (last edited May 04, 2018 04:59AM) (new)

Nora | 13 comments Level One Bingo
Four Corners: Mark off the four outside corners of the Bingo board.
Five-in-a-Row: Mark off five squares in a row. This can be done horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Level Two Bingo
Small Box: Mark off all the 9 inner squares of the board (including the free square), leaving blank the 16 outside border squares.

Level Three Bingo
Outside Box: Mark off all 16 of the outer squares, leaving blank the 9 inner squares.

Level Four Bingo
Blackout! Mark off all the squares of the board.

books may change, and there will be a lot of books by austrian writers :)

B1: Written by Nobel Laureate - Der Traum Des Kelten by Mario Vargas Llosa
B2: Children’s Classic - The BFG by Roald Dahl finished 02.05.18
B3 Government Banned Book - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
B4: Classic Made into a Film/TV - Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux; Effie Briest by Theodor Fontane; Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß by Robert Musil
B5: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize - The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman finished 01.04.18

I1: 20th Century Classic - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden finished 29.03.18
I2: New-to-You Author - Ist das ein Mensch? by Primo Levi finished 14.01.18
I3: Mystery or Crime Classic - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
I4: Classic of More than 500 Pages - Die Brüder Karamasov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I5: 18th Century or Earlier Classic - William Shakespeare; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Friedrich Schiller; The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

N1: North American Classic - William Faulkner
N2: Classic Short Story - A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
N3: FREE SPACE - American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis; Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit by Gabriel García Márquez
N4: Classic Play - Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
N5: African Classic - J.M. Coetzee

G1: 19th Century Classic - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; Johann Nestroy
G2: Finest Works of Fiction (Martin Seymour-Smith & Editors) - Emma by Jane Austen
G3: Adventure or Action Classic - Wolfsblut by Jack London; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
G4: Group Read - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
G5: 21st Century Potential Classic - Sabbath's Theatre by Philip Roth, Der Gott der kleinen Dinge by Arundhati Roy

O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region - The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth
O2: Lesser known book by a famous author - The Waves by Virginia Woolf
O3: Australia, Antarctica, or Oceania Classic - Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
O4: A Classic that you have put off reading - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil; Dracula by Bram Stoker
O5: Classic written by a Female Author -Kassandra by Christa Wolf finished 27.01.18


message 2: by Nora (new)

Nora | 13 comments Never participated, so really excited! the categories sound really great :)


message 3: by Bat-Cat (new)

Bat-Cat | 977 comments Nora wrote: "Never participated, so really excited! the categories sound really great :)"

Lots of luck, Nora. It is bunches of fun!!! :-)


message 4: by Katy, Old School Classics (new)

Katy (kathy_h) | 9524 comments Mod
Nora wrote: "Never participated, so really excited! the categories sound really great :)"

Glad to have you excited and in the challenge. Happy reading for the new year.


message 5: by Nora (new)

Nora | 13 comments Bat-Cat wrote: "Nora wrote: "Never participated, so really excited! the categories sound really great :)"

Lots of luck, Nora. It is bunches of fun!!! :-)"

thank you! i'm really looking forward to it :)


message 6: by Nora (new)

Nora | 13 comments Katy wrote: "Nora wrote: "Never participated, so really excited! the categories sound really great :)"

Glad to have you excited and in the challenge. Happy reading for the new year."


thank you!


message 7: by Susie (new)

Susie | 761 comments I have some the same books for my bingo challenge, so I'll be checking in here...good luck!


message 8: by Nora (new)

Nora | 13 comments Susie wrote: "I have some the same books for my bingo challenge, so I'll be checking in here...good luck!"

good to know! :)


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