The Reading Challenge Group discussion

Mission: Claim at least one "Bingo!" before March 20 (the first day of spring)!

The Mods have put our heads together to create some new bingo categories and boards that will change with the seasons. (Fans of Karen's Original Bingo, don't worry... We'll be keeping that one for summer.)

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

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

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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. ;-)

I love Bingo. :) I will see how the books fall with my other challenges though.

Completed Squares: 4

B1: Award Winner--The Poet X
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller--Jar of Hearts
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover--My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel
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--Dream Country
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering--The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

I am in for this one. I love Bingo too.

Winter Bingo

B1: Award winner- Frangipani House by Beryl Gilroy
B2: Graphic novel - El Deafo by Cece Bell
B3: Silver lettering - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
B4: Mystery/thriller - Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
B5:

I1: Start a series - The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
I2: Middle grade - Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
I3: Blue cover - Wie Uli der Knecht glücklich wird by Jeremias Gotthelf
I4: >400 pages - Menschliches, Allzumenschliches. Ein Buch für freie Geister by Friedrich Nietzsche
I5: Personal improvement - Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster

N1: Classic - The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
N2: Made into a movie - Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Bernard Nordhoff
N3: Free- The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
N4: Science Fiction - Tales of Space and Time by H.G. Wells
N5: Humor - Heavy Weather by P.G. Wodehouse

G1:
G2:
G3: White cover - Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink
G4: Published in your birth year - The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
G5: Biographical - Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse

O1:
O2:
O3: Gold lettering- Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
O4: Based on mythology- The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes
O5:

I am 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: These Happy Golden Years (2/16)
I3: Blue Cover: Paris for One and Other Stories (2/9)
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic: The Long Winter (1/23)
N2: Made into a Movie: The Secret Garden (3/7)
N3: FREE: Just-So Stories (1/1)
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism: Mary Poppins (1/3)
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical: Becoming (1/19)

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

I'll play again

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

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

✓N1: Classic Arsenic and Old Lace
✓N2: Made into a Movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
✓N3: FREE: The Lying Game
✓N4: Science Fiction The Machine Stops
✓N5: Humor How to Think Like a Cat

✓G1: Magical Realism The Red Garden
✓G2: LGBTQ+ Everything Under
✓G3: White Cover S is For Southern
✓G4: Published In Your Birth Year Time Out of Joint
✓G5: Biographical Don't Sing at the Table

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
✓O3: Gold Lettering The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

Two Bingos for me this time :)

My favourite challenge. Let's go!

B1: Award Winner - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
B2: Graphic Novel - Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu
B3: Silver Lettering - Bird Box by Josh Malerman
B4: Mystery or Thriller - Call for the Dead by John le Carré
B5: Current Event Related - Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey

I1: Start a Series - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover - Skyward Volume 1: My Low-G Life by Joe Henderson
I4: > 400 pages - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic - 1984 by George Orwell
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE: - I Hate Fairyland #1 by Skottie Young
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 think I'll try this again!

I think I'll try this again!

I’m in!

LOVE Bingo!

Winter Bingo Template

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering - Where the Forest Meets the Stars
B4: Mystery or Thriller - Let Me Lie
B5: Current Event Related - A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention

I1: Start a Series - Don't Tell
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover - Love for Scale
I4: > 400 pages - Have You Seen Her?
I5: Personal Improvement - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

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

G1: Magical Realism - The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover - Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical - Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

O1: Published Last Year - Of Blood and Bone
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering - A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance: Help for the Losses in Life
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science - The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

Count me in!

Sounds interesting! Count me in!

So great to see so many players this year!!

I'm back again

B1: Award Winner
B2: Spider-Man Coming home
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Cape Fear
B5: The Poet X

I1: Start a Series 
I2: The Dinosaur's Packed Lunch
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement 

N1: Classic
N2: Civil War
N3: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
N4: Prophet
N5: Blame It On Bianca Del Rio

G1: Magical Realism
G2: The Last Days Of Archie Maxwell
G3: Crossed Volume 4
G4: Published In Your Birth Year 
G5: The Fixer

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Me and Mr J
O3: Before I Die
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Spider-Man Blue

I'll try it again :)

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

I1: Start a Series
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie - To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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

Winter Bingo

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

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

N1: Classic - The Importance of Being Earnest
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

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

Let's try this :)

B1: Award Winner - Children of Blood and Bone
B2: Graphic Novel - Preludes & Nocturnes
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller - Menschensöhne
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series - Sleeping Giants
I2: Middle Grade - The Silver Mask
I3: Blue Cover - Sommerwind
I4: > 400 pages - The Book Thief
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic - The Old Man and the Sea
N2: Made into a Movie - Ronja Räubertochter
N3: FREE - The Book of Life
N4: Science Fiction - Brave New World
N5: Humor - Life, the Universe and Everything

G1: Magical Realism - Down Among the Sticks and Bones
G2: LGBTQ+ - Radio Silence
G3: White Cover - I Am the Messenger
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year - Let's Talk About Love
O2: Epistolary - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology - Odd and the Frost Giants
O5: Math/Science

I’ll try this:

B1: Award Winner The Color Purple
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller And Then There Were None
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series The Magician's Nephew
I2: Middle Grade Anne of Green Gables
I3: Blue Cover

I4: > 400 pages I Am Pilgrim
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic Mrs Dalloway
N2: Made into a Movie The Nightingale
N3: FREE Blackout
N4: Science Fiction The Star
N5: Humor The Provincial Lady in America

G1: Magical Realism Broken Homes
G2: LGBTQ+ Orlando: A Biography
G3: White Cover

G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical The Road From Coorain

O1: Published Last Year Everything Under
O2: Epistolary Daddy Long-Legs:
O3: Gold Lettering Dissolution
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science Enigma

Row 1 completed 27 January
Column N completed 7 February

Got my first Bingo. I'm on a roll at the moment, see how much progress I can make

B1: Award Winner - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
B2: Graphic Novel - Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu
B3: Silver Lettering - Bird Box by Josh Malerman
B4: Mystery or Thriller - Call for the Dead by John le Carré
B5: Current Event Related - Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey

Way to go, Gareth!

First Bingo ever in such a challenge :D

N1: Classic - The Old Man and the Sea
N2: Made into a Movie - Ronja Räubertochter
N3: FREE - The Book of Life
N4: Science Fiction - Brave New World
N5: Humor - Life, the Universe and Everything

Way to go, Nele!

Congratulations, Gareth and Nele! Will you try for a second Bingo?

Renee wrote: "Congratulations, Gareth and Nele! Will you try for a second Bingo?"

Thank you Renee and Rosemarie!
I will for sure go for at least one more Bingo :)

I'm in for Winter Bingo! Updated 3/23/2019.

Final count - 3 bingos: 1's, 3's, N's; very close on I's,G's and 5's

B1: Award Winner The History of Love 3/4/2019
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering Station Eleven 2/8/2019
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series My Brilliant Friend 3/8/2019
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover An American Marriage 2/3/2019
I4: > 400 pages Beneath a Scarlet Sky 2/14/2019
I5: Personal Improvement This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order 1/18/2019

N1: Classic My Man Jeeves 1/26/2019
N2: Made into a Movie The Nightingale 2/20/2019
N3: FREE Dog Songs 2/24/2019
N4: Science Fiction Ready Player One 1/20/2019
N5: Humor Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir 3/13/2019

G1: Magical Realism Harry's Trees 1/30/2019
G2: LGBTQ+ Less 2/3/19
G3: White Cover Building A Story Brand 3/4/2019
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea 1/9/2019

O1: Published Last Year A Place for Us 1/9/2019
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle 1/5/2019
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 2/23/2019

I would like to do this if it's not to late to join, I'll try maybe it will push me to get more reading in.

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 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 1/10/2019
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 The Waiting Room 2/11/2019
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

You have lots of time, Michele. Good luck on your challenge.

I got my first Bingo - the N's (message 6)

How Nice! Also Nifty! :D

Thanks. 🤣

Finally a bingo!

All 3's - see message #13 for the books.

Going to try for more...

Congrats, Cindy!

Thanks! :)

I now have Bingo #2- the I's. (Message 6)

Congrats to all on your Bingos so far!

Thanks!

Winter Bingo Template

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering Head On
B4: Mystery or Thriller Before the Fall
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series Furies of Calderon
I2: Middle Grade The Wishing Spell
I3: Blue Cover An American Marriage
I4: > 400 pages Luna and the Lie
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie Mortal Engines
N3: FREE Magic Triumphs
N4: Science Fiction The Only Harmless Great Thing
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+ The Song of Achilles
G3: White Cover I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
G4: Published In Your Birth Year The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year My Favorite Half-Night Stand
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering Red Sister
O4: Based on Mythology The Unleashing
O5: Math/Science

Row 3 Bingo



B3 - Silver Lettering: A Court of Mist and Fury
I3 - Blue Cover: Quidditch Through the Ages
N3 - Free: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
G3 - White Cover: The Hate U Give
O3 - Gold Lettering: The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Seeing what I have planned for March I don't think I'll manage another Bingo...

Way to go, Susy! I like your bingo card.

Thank you Rosemarie! I've been looking for an app that wouldn't be too complicated lol Really happy with the result :)

Winter Bingo

First BINGO

B1: Award Winner - Elevation
I1: Start a Series - The Chase
N1: Classic - The Importance of Being Earnest
G1: Magical Realism - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
O1: Published Last Year - The Ragged Edge of Night

Way to go, Megan!

megan wrote: "Winter Bingo

First BINGO

B1: Award Winner - Elevation
I1: Start a Series - The Chase
N1: Classic - The Importance of Being Earnest
G1: Magical Realis..."

Congrats Megan!

I got two more Bingos-the 3's and the 4's

(Message 6)

Got my first bingo! The 1's... Hopefully a couple more to follow!
Edited on March 10 -- rearranged and changed B1 book.

B1: Award Winner - The History of Love
I1: Start a Series - My Brilliant Friend
N1: Classic - My Man Jeeves
G1: Magical Realism - Harry's Trees
O1: Published Last Year - A Place for Us

Way to go, Mary Anne!

Got my first bingo - the 3's. (Message 40)

B3: Silver Lettering Head On
I3: Blue Cover An American Marriage
N3: FREE Magic Triumphs
G3: White Cover I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
O3: Gold Lettering Red Sister