The Reading Challenge Group discussion

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.

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

Woo hoo! I'm in!

Winter Bingo:

✔ B1: Award Winner A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
✔ B2: Graphic Novel Lighter Than My Shadow
✔ B3: Silver Lettering
✔ B4: Mystery or Thriller One of Us Is Lying
✔ B5: Current Event Related Thick: And Other Essays

✔ I1: Start a Series Bunnicula
✔ I2: Middle Grade The Bootlace Magician
✔ I3: Blue Cover
✔ I4: > 400 pages Colombiano
I5: Personal Improvement A List is Not Enough: A Modern Woman's Guide to Goal Setting, Time Management & Productivity

✔ N1: Classic An American Tragedy
✔ N2: Made into a Movie Of Mice and Men
✔ N3: FREE The Giver of Stars
✔ N4: Science Fiction The Ice Limit
✔ N5: Humor A Man Called Ove

✔ G1: Magical Realism The Master and Margarita
✔ G2: LGBTQ+ Leah on the Offbeat
✔ G3: White Cover
✔ G4: Published In Your Birth Year Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
✔ G5: Biographical Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

✔ O1: Published Last Year A Trick of Light
✔ O2: Epistolary On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
✔ O3: Gold Lettering The Golden Compass
✔ O4: Based on Mythology Nils: The Tree of Life
✔ O5: Math/Science: Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

I'm in!

B1: Award winner - Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
B2: Graphic novel - X-Men: Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont
B3: Silver lettering - Crónica del alba, 3 by Ramón J. Sender
B4: Mystery - Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
B5:

I1:
I2: Middle grade- The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
I3: Blue cover - The Provinces Of The Roman Empire: The European Provinces by Theodor Mommsen
I4:
I5:

N1: Classic- The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
N2: Made into a movie - A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
N3: Free - Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
N4: Science Fiction - Contact by Carl Sagan
N5: Humour- The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz

G1: Magical realism - The Blue Fox by Sjón
G2: LGBTQ+ - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
G3: White cover - Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
G4:
G5:

O1:
O2: Epistolary - Lettre à ma mère by Georges Simenon
O3: Gold lettering - Memories by Julian Huxley
O4: Based on mythology - The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe
O5:

Love the Bingos - count me in!

Last updated: 3/20/2020
Completed: 18 of 25
Goal: At least 3 bingos! Yay! I did it.

Bingos completed: 1's, 5's, I's

Winter Bingo
✔️ B1: Award Winner The Overstory 2/16/2020
B2: Graphic Novel
✔️ B3: Silver Lettering The Dutch House 2/23/2020
✔️ B4: Mystery or Thriller The Lola Quartet 2/22/2020
✔️ B5: Current Event Related The Dry 3/12/2020

✔️ I1: Start a Series Still Life 1/13/2020
✔️ I2: Middle Grade Holes 3/20/2020
✔️ I3: Blue Cover Half of a Yellow Sun 3/9/2020
✔️ I4: > 400 pages City of Girls 3/19/2020
✔️ I5: Personal Improvement Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life 3/15/2020

✔️ N1: Classic Beloved 02/02/2020
✔️ N2: Made into a Movie The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 2/10/2020
✔️ N3: FREE The Virgin Suicides 3/1/2020
N4: Science Fiction The Testaments
✔️ N5: Humor Book Love 2/29/2020

✔️ G1: Magical Realism The Night Circus 2/17/2020
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
✔️ G5: Biographical Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed 1/20/2020

✔️ O1: Published Last Year A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II 2/5/2020
✔️ O2: Epistolary 84, Charing Cross Road 2/1/2020
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
✔️O5: Math/Science Prodigal Summer 1/25/2020

Love bingo!!


B1: Award Winner - Speak
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering - Only the Rain
B4: Mystery or Thriller - No One Left to Tell
B5: Current Event Related - Unspeakable Things

I1: Start a Series - A Study in Scarlet Women
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover. - The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
I4: > 400 pages - The Institute
I5: Personal Improvement - Best Self: Be You, Only Better

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE - The Great Passage
N4: Science Fiction - A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
N5: Humor - 99 Percent Mine

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+ - Golden in Death
G3: White Cover - You Belong to Me
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical - Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey

O1: Published Last Year - Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-free Life
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering - You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science - The Perfect Wife

I'm in again
backtracked from the first day of winter (22/12/19)


B1: Kindred Spirits - (12/03/20)
B2: Crossed Vol 11 - (29/01/20)
B3: Once Upon a Dream - (27/01/20)
B4: Ghost Writer - (22/12/19)
B5: Confidence: How to Overcome Your Limiting Beliefs and Achieve Your Goals - (03/03/20)

I1: August - Blue Belles - (03/03/20)
I2: Mouse Magic - (01/01/20) 
I3: Our Endless Numbered Days - (01/01/20)
I4: Cilka's Journey - (15/02/20)
I5: Motivational Switch - (31/01/20)

N1: Heart Of Darkness - (15/01/20)
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: The Secret of Fern Island - (27/12/19)
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Good Omens - (03/03/20)

G1: Magical Realism
G2: Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda- (31/01/20)
G3: Speckledy Hen - (31/12/19)
G4: Published In Your Birth Year 
G5: Borrowed Finery - (19/03/20)

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary
O3: Sonnets (10/02/20)
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Wonder - (29/12/19)


BINGO TOTAL - 4

✔ B1: Award Winner The Firefly Letters 3/6/20, 3*
✔ B2: Graphic Novel The Plain Janes 1/8/20 - 1/9/20, 5*
✔ B3: Silver Lettering The Way Life Was Forever 3/16/20, 1*
✔ B4: Mystery or Thriller Imaginary Friend 2/13/20 - 3/4/20, 4*
✔ B5: Current Event Related Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran’s 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal ― Recovering from PTSD and Moral Injury through Meditation 1/12/20 - 1/15/20, 5*

✔ I1: Start a Series The Isle of the Lost: The Graphic Novel 1/15/20, 4*
✔ I2: Middle Grade Return to the Isle of the Lost: The Graphic Novel 1/15/20, 4*
✔ I3: Blue Cover What Is the Story of Doctor Who? 1/15/20, 5*
✔ I4: > 400 pages Crank 2/25/20 - 2/26/20, 5*
✔ I5: Personal Improvement Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You 1/13/20, 5*

✔ N1: Classic Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel 3/6/20, 4*
✔ N2: Made into a Movie To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel 3/4/20, 4*
✔ N3: FREE CAFFEINE AND NICOTINE 2/12/20, 3*
✔ N4: Science Fiction The Binge Watcher's Guide To Doctor Who: A History of Doctor Who and the First Female Doctor 1/10/20 - 1/11/20, 4*
✔ N5: Humor Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened 2/14/20 - 2/17/20, 4*

✔ G1: Magical Realism Belzhar 3/18/20, 5*
✔ G2: LGBTQ+ Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son 2/22/20, 5*
✔ G3: White Cover Book Love 1/13/20, 5*
✔ G4: Published In Your Birth Year The Dark Half 3/19/20, 4*
✔ G5: Biographical Me 1/22/20 - 1/29/20, 5*

✔O1: Published Last Year To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope 2/9/20 - 2/20/20, 5*
✔O2: Epistolary Letters From An Astrophysicist 2/23/20 - 2/27/20, 4*
✔ O3: Gold Lettering Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The Journey: Behind the Scenes of the Award-Winning Stage Production 1/10/20, 5*
✔ O4: Based on Mythology Beowulf 3/19/20, 3*
✔ O5: Math/Science Doctor Who: Keeping Up with the Joneses 2/23/20 - 2/24/20, 4*

I just got my first ever "X" bingo with Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. :) (message 3)

Congrats,Eileen!

Thanks! After you(?) got the X last quarter, I thought it would be fun to try achieving! :)

You remember correctly. That was my first X ever.

It was fun, wasn't it? :D

You're right! It was.

I just finished row 2 with On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.

You are going strong, Eileen!

Thanks Rosemarie! Many of the books for this month's genre happened to fit a lot of these categories. If I am able, I might try this for a second time--we'll see. But this is one of my favorite "games" here, lol.

Winter Bingo Template

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller ~ Explosive Beginnings ~ Blast Rites ~ Book 1 ~ 01-06
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series ~ Daddy of the Month Club ~ Series Prequel ~ 01-02
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE ~ Missy's Wish ~ The Lindstroms ~ Book 2 ~ 01-11
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism ~ Wolf's Bane ~ Moon Marked ~ Book 1 ~ 01-18
G2: LGBTQ+ ~ Deliberately Bound ~ Bound ~ Book 3.5 ~ 01-13
G3: White Cover ~How to Make Amazing Dinners ~ Top 30 Fast, Easy & Delicious Meal Recipes, Volune 3) ~ 01-07
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year ~ 02-26-2019 ~ Low Country Hero ~ Safe Haven ~ Book 1 ~ 01-19
O2: Epistolary ~ Skeeter: A Cat Tale ~ 01-06
O3: Gold Lettering ~ Burnout ~ NYPD Blue & Gold ~ Book 1 ~ 01-16
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science ~ Dinosaurs ~ 01-13

Hey, how do we find a book with silver lettering? LOL!

eta: Okay, I think I figured it out. If I enlarge this cover, the lettering looks like silver metal, so that will work. I assume it's silver since Witcher uses a silver sword to defeat the non-human creatures.

It sure looks like silver to me.

Rosemarie wrote: "It sure looks like silver to me."

Cool, that will work. I was browsing my audible library recently thinking of books I wanted to move up in the queue and I decided it was time to start the Witcher series. :)

I finally got a Bingo--the N's. Message 4.

Woo hoo! Congratulations!

Thanks, Eileen.

Your board looks really pretty, lol! I love the symmetry!

Thanks! That is purely by chance.

I love it when that happens!

This looks like the right challenge for me!! Let's go!

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 Bloody Rose
I4: > 400 pages: Bloody Rose
I5: Personal Improvement Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

N1: Classic Ender's Game
N2: Made into a Movie Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
N3: FREE Mystic River
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

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

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolary Gilead
O3: Gold Lettering Leaders Eat Last
O4: Based on Mythology Bloody Rose
O5: Math/Science Permanent Record

I have my second Bingo- the 2's

Message 4

Congratulations, Rosemarie!

Thank you, Eileen.

I have I5 left, but I haven't been able to get myself to read that, lol!

Eileen wrote: "I have I5 left, but I haven't been able to get myself to read that, lol!"

You got this!

I got my third Bingo, the G's (message 4)

Rosemarie wrote: "I got my third Bingo, the G's (message 4)"

Congratulations! I still need one more book, but I have too many other books I want to read first, lol.

Thanks. I know what you mean about just one more book.

Ah well, it's all about reading good books, right? :D

That is so true! 😉

Finished off with 4 bingos!

Way to go, Beth!

Rosemarie wrote: "Way to go, Beth!"

Thanks, how did you do?

I got three bingos.

Woo! that's great :)

Wow, great job, Beth and Rosemarie! I still need to read one more book for a blackout, but I'm not really motivated to read that book right now. I'd rather get lost in fiction, lol.

Thanks!

Happy Spring to everyone in the northern hemisphere!

Thanks, Rosemarie! It's early this year! Of course we never had a winter to speak of, so Spring came even earlier, lol!

Eileen, it all depends on if you can live without that 1 book, which I'm sure you can! go get lost in that fiction, you deserve it

Thanks, Beth! Yeah, we'll see. I won't force myself to do it, but if I decide to do it before the end of the month, I'll do it.