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

Winter Bingo Board!

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. ;-)

Remember...

This Challenge looks harder than it is. You only need one BINGO to finish.

... Of course, you're welcome to claim as many as you can. It's gonna be a long winter.

I love the graphic and the encouraging words, Renee. I’m going to try it.

I wasn't going to do another challenge, but the board is so pretty that ...I'm in.

Im also a sucker for a visual. :)

Winter BINGO




B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering - Surrender to the Scot
B4: Mystery or Thriller - Lethal Practice
B5: Current Event Related

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

N1: Classic - The Scarlet Pimpernel
N2: Made into a Movie - Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction - CyberStorm
N5: Humor - The Golden Rule of Schmoozing: The Authentic Practice of Treating Others Well

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover - Tied
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical - A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

O1: Published Last Year - Stillhouse Lake
O2: Epistolary - Lady Susan
O3: Gold Lettering - The Dog Stars
O4: Based on Mythology - The Goddess Test
O5: Math/Science - How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever

I'm in for this one! I don't think I'm going to complete Autumn Bingo, so I'm trying to start the year off right. Thanks for organizing, Renee!

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel - Pride & Prejudice (Marvel Edition) (1/15)
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series - Uglies (1/11)
I2: Middle Grade - Chasing Lincoln's Killer (2/22)
I3: Blue Cover - You're Never Weird on the Internet (1/5)
I4: > 400 pages - X Isle (1/9)
I5: Personal Improvement - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (1/26)

N1: Classic - The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories (1/2)
N2: Made into a Movie - The Zookeeper's Wife (1/6)
N3: FREE - The Diary of Petr Ginz (1/1)
N4: Science Fiction - Pretties (1/17)
N5: Humor - Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between (1/13)

G1: Magical Realism - The Thief Lord (3/7)
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover - I Served the King of England (2/10)
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary - 84 Charing Cross Road (1/12)
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

I am looking forward to participating in this, beginning in January. Is it okay if titles we use for this go across other challenges (like Dust Your Shelves, TBR challenge, etc)?

I'll settle for a single Bingo!

B1: Award Winner - To Kill a Mockingbird - 1/19/18
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller The Dinner
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 - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - 1/12/2018
N3: FREE - Treating Epilepsy Naturally: A Guide to Alternative and Adjunct Therapies
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: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

I'm in again

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Fantastic Four: Evil Adversaries
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Quidditch Through the Ages
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic - Wuthering Heights
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE - Alice Collection
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+ - Openly straight
G3: X-Men how it all began
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering - Tales of Beedle the bard
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

I have a question about the year published in-- is it still 2015 or can we use 2017?

Looking forward to this!

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

I1: Start a Series - Triptych (Will Grant #1)
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover - Dead Heat
I4: > 400 pages - Beyond Reach
I5: Personal Improvement - The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE - Highlander Most Wanted
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor - Hardcore Twenty-Four

G1: Magical Realism - Lily and the Octopus
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover - Whiskey Rebellion
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year - Origin
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering - Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
O4: Based on Mythology - The Bear and the Nightingale
O5: Math/Science - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller1st to Die1/1
B5: Current Event Related

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

N1: ClassicThe Scarlet Letter
N2: Made into a MoviePride and Prejudice
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'm in!

B1: Award Winner Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel,
2017 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel)
B2: Graphic Novel Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause
B3: Silver Lettering Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber
B4: Mystery or Thriller I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
B5: Current Events Related Unspeakable by Chris Hedges

I1: Start a Series Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap #1) by Adriana Trigiani
I2: Middle Grade Finding Perfect by Elly Swartz
I3: Blue Cover How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
I4: > 400 pages Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs
I5: Personal Improvement You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

N1: Classic The Ice Palace (Norwegian classic) by Tarjei Vesaas
N2: Made into a Movie The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
N3: FREE Fever Dreams by Samantha Schweblin
N4: Science Fiction The Fold by Peter Clines
N5: Humor Seriously...I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres

G1: Magical Realism The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
G2: LGBTQ+ This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
G3: White Cover Eleanor by Jason Gurley
G4: Published In Your Birth Year The Breaking Point by Daphne du Maurier
G5: Biographical Night by Elie Wiesel

O1: Published Last Year Millard Salter's Last Day by Jacob Appel
O2: Epistolary The Letters by Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger
O3: Gold Lettering From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
O4: Based on Mythology The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
O5: Math/Science Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Sheerly

Completed all Bingos to get a blackout on 3/13/18!

This is so tempting- I’ll have to try it. I’m starting with the I column:

I1: Start a Series The Blackhouse - Peter May
I2: Middle Grade Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
I3: Blue Cover The Stranger - Saskia Sarginson
I4: > 400 pages The Doll's House - M.J. Arlidge (438 pages)
I5: Personal Improvement The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying - Marie Kondō

I column completed.

Epistolary was my nemesis last year. I’m gonna read Dune this year and get it done.
Count me in

I'm in!

B1: Award Winner Far from the Tree Finished 1-29-18
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related--Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Finished 1-25-18

I1: Start a Series--A Hidden Fire Finished 2-18-18
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement--Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions completed 1/1/18


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

G1: Magical Realism--The Astonishing Color of After finished 1-17-18
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover--The Bake-Off finished 1-20-18
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year --The Greatest Challenge Of Them All finished 1-14-18
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

Great beginning to the challenge, Stephanie.

Rosemarie wrote: "Great beginning to the challenge, Stephanie."

Thank you!

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel - Vader by Kieron Gillen
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller - The Confession by Jo Spain
B5: Current Event Related - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

I1: Start a Series - Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
I2: Middle Grade - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
I3: Blue Cover - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
I4: > 400 pages - The Firm by John Grisham
I5: Personal Improvement - The Lazy Teacher's Handbook: How Your Students Learn More When You Teach Less by Jim Smith

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction - Admiral by Sean Danker
N5: Humor - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

G1: Magical Realism - Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
G2: LGBTQ+ - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
G3: White Cover - The Man on the Mountaintop by Susan Trott
G4: Published In Your Birth Year - Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
G5: Biographical -Over and Out: My Innings of a Lifetime with Test Match Special by Henry Blofeld

O1: Published Last Year - How Not To Be a Boy by Robert Webb
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering - Killing Gravity by Corey J. White
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science - How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer by Adrian Newey



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WInter Bingo

B1 - Award winner The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
B2
B3
B4 - Mystery or thriller The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
B5

I1 - Start a series Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
I2 - Middle grade Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery
I3 - Blue cover Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
I4 - Greater than 400 pages Eclipse of the Sun by Michael D. O'Brien
I5

N1- Classic The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
N2 - Made into a movie The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
N3 - Free Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
N4 - Science fiction The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
N5 - Humor - The Westminster Alice by Saki

G1 - Magical realism Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
G2
G3 - White cover En attendant Godot by Samuel Beckett
G4 - Published in my birth year River of the Sun by
James Ramsey Ullman
G5 - Biographical Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying by Wayson Choy

O1
O2
O3 - Gold lettering Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
O4 - Based on mythology The Aeneid by Virgil
O5

Following Trisha’s example (thanks for the idea, Trisha), I ‘m doing a diagonal (B1-O5) and a row (5).

B1 - Award Winner - Amsterdam Man Booker award
B5 - current events - The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage
I2 - Middle Grade - The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid
I5 - Personal improvement - How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - What Other People Think of Me Is None of My Business
N3 - FREE
N5 - Humor The Girls of Slender Means
G4 - Published in birth year The Glass Bead Game
G5 - Biographical - Goodbye to All That
O5 - Science/math - The Other Einstein

Winter BINGO 2018 - Maxi Challenge

B1: Award Winner - Far from the Tree
B2: Graphic Novel -Justice League, Volume 1: Origin
B3: Silver Lettering -
B4: Mystery or Thriller - The Girl on the Train
B5: Current Event Related - Dear Martin

I1: Start a Series - Snow Like Ashes
I2: Middle Grade - The Lost Hero
I3: Blue Cover - Ugly Love
I4: > 400 pages Ice Like Fire
I5: Personal Improvement - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie - Vampire Academy
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction - Sleeping Giants
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism -
G2: LGBTQ+ - Call Me by Your Name
G3: White Cover - The Cruel Prince
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

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

I completed my first Bingo...my first time, so I think I did it right lol. Let me know if I didn't, please! (message 17)

Yeah! I'm in! Aiming for a blackout.

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

I1: Start a Series - Stolen Songbird
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover - Write Your Novel From the Middle: A New Approach for Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction - Echoes of the Long War
N5: Humor

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

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

Good luck, Ophelia.

Way to go, Nancy!

I got my first Bingo! The Ns!

(message 10)

Congrats!!!

Nancy wrote: "I completed my first Bingo...my first time, so I think I did it right lol. Let me know if I didn't, please! (message 17)"

Congratulations!

Woo! First bingo down, and I'm one book off making a second. Here's the one I've got so far

B5: Current Event Related - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
I5: Personal Improvement - The Lazy Teacher's Handbook: How Your Students Learn More When You Teach Less by Jim Smith
N5: Humour - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
G5: Biographical - Over and Out: My Innings of a Lifetime with Test Match Special by Henry Blofeld
O5: Math/Science - How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer by Adrian Newey

Way to go, Gareth!

Here I come with a little bit of overdoing :)

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B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel Sandman Special #1: The Song of Orpheus
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade Coraline
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology American Gods
O5: Math/Science The Grand Design

I guess it will be a tad bit funny if I ever got to reading the book, whose cover I chose for sample :D

Second Bingo achieved

G1: Magical Realism - Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
G2: LGBTQ+ - How Not To Be a Boy by Robert Webb
G3: White Cover - The Man on the Mountaintop by Susan Trott
G4: Published In Your Birth Year - Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
G5: Biographical -Over and Out: My Innings of a Lifetime with Test Match Special by Henry Blofeld

You're on a roll, Gareth. Great work!

Double BINGO.

Row 5✔️
Diagonal B1 I2 N3 G4 O5✔️

For books, see M25.
This challenge was so much fun. I’m a BINGO convert now.

Fantastic, Linda. It's fun to get two at once.

Another bingo...

I1: Start a Series - Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
I2: Middle Grade - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
I3: Blue Cover - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
I4: > 400 pages - The Firm by John Grisham
I5: Personal Improvement - The Lazy Teacher's Handbook: How Your Students Learn More When You Teach Less by Jim Smith

9 to go for a full house. I'm not sure I'll manage it in a month

Good luck, Gareth. Hope you get your full house!

Rosemarie wrote: "Fantastic, Linda. It's fun to get two at once."

Thanks, Rosemarie!

I finally got my first Bingo:

B4- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
I4- Eclipse of the Sun
N4- The Machine Stops
G4- River of the Sun
O4- The Aeneid

Nice going Rosemarie!

We have so many Bingos already! Very exciting! Congrats to everyone!!!

Thanks, Nancy.

2nd Bingo---the Is! (Message 10)

Way to go, Amanda!

Thank you!!