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

Saved for Board. (If I can locate it)

Yay! I'm a big fan of Bingo.

B1: Award Winner A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev (National Jewish Book Award)
B2
B3
B4: Mystery The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
B5

I1: Start a series Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
I2: Middle grade The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
I3: Blue cover Murder in Three Acts by Agatha Christie
I4: >400 pages The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H.G. Wells
I5

N1: Classic Michel Strogoff by Jules Verne
N2: Made into a movie Solaris by Stanisław Lem
N3: Free The Penguin John Lennon
N4: Science fiction: Hector Servadac by Jules Verne
N5: Humour: The Stray Lamb by Thorne Smith


G1
G2
G3
G4
G5

O1
O2
O3
O4
O5: Based on mythology-Sunjata by Bamba Suso

Heck yeah! Bingo is always fun!

Ooh, I love Bingo!

Winter Bingo

✔ B1: Award Winner A Single Shard
✔ B2: Graphic Novel Heartstopper: Volume Four
✔ B3: Silver Lettering
✔ B4: Mystery or Thriller A Study in Scarlet
✔ B5: Current Event Related Room to Dream

✔ I1: Start a Series City Spies
✔ I2: Middle Grade Forbidden City
✔ I3: Blue Cover
✔ I4: > 400 pages Brideshead Revisited
✔ I5: Personal Improvement Big Panda & Tiny Dragon - Special Edition

✔ N1: Classic Tess of the D'Urbervilles
✔ N2: Made into a Movie The Sign of the Four
N3: FREE
✔ N4: Science Fiction Pandora's Menagerie
✔ N5: Humor Los tipos malos

✔ G1: Magical Realism Pet
✔ G2: LGBTQ+ Fortune Favors the Dead
✔ G3: White Cover
✔ G4: Published In Your Birth Year The Lathe of Heaven
✔ G5: Biographical His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

✔ O1: Published Last Year Golden Gate
✔ O2: Epistolary 84, Charing Cross Road
✔ O3: Gold Lettering In a Garden Burning Gold
✔ O4: Based on Mythology Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined
✔ O5: Math/Science The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

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 - A Deadly Edition by Victoria Gilbert
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

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Winter Bingo Template

B1: Award Winner - Ordinary Grace
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering - Over the Edge
B4: Mystery or Thriller - Dark Roads
B5: Current Event Related - Love, Comment, Subscribe

I1: Start a Series - The Unsung Hero
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover - Long, Tall Cowboy Christmas
I4: > 400 pages - Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
I5: Personal Improvement - Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE - Landline
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor - The Sweetest Thing

G1: Magical Realism - Three More Months
G2: LGBTQ+ - Cop Town
G3: White Cover - Love Lettering
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year - Enjoy the View
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering - The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science - Where the Crawdads Sing

Woohoo I love Bingo

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

Reading Challenge group
Winter Bingo Template
(Backdated to the beginning of this year)

B1: Award WinnerDeath of a Salesman
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering Glimpsing Heaven: The Stories and Science of Life After Death
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
B4: Mystery or ThrillerThe Maid
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
B5: Current Event RelatedThe Plane That Wasn't There: Why We Haven't Found Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
I1: Start a SeriesPumpkin SoupbyHelen Cooper
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I2: Middle GradeChains
✔ (19/2/22)★★★★
I3: Blue Cover Billy Budd, Sailor
✔ (25/1/22)★★★★
I4: > 400 pagesThe Giver of Stars
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I5: Personal Improvement Keep Moving: And Other Truths About Living Well Longerby Dick Van Dyke
✔(8/2/22) ★ ★ ★
N1: ClassicGreat Expectations
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N2: Made into a MovieAll My Sons
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
N3: FREEA Shropshire Lad
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N4: Science FictionSolaris
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N5: HumorBrewster's Millions
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★

G1: Magical RealismPortrait of Jennie
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
G2: LGBTQ+Poems of West & EastbyVita Sackville-West
✔ (17/2/22)★★★★★
G3: White Cover Olive Oatman: A Life From Beginning to End
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: BiographicalAlexandra Feodorovna: A Life From Beginning to End
✔★ ★ ★ ★

O1: Published Last Year
O2: Epistolarycollected letters of c s lewis volume 1
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
O3: Gold Lettering Twain's Feast
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
O4: Based on MythologyThe Whale Rider
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
O5: Math/ScienceWhen Breath Becomes Air
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Vicky wrote: "Winter Bingo Template
(Backdated to the beginning of this year-Renee,please let me know if you would prefer me to start from the time I made the entry.)

B1: Award Winner[book:Death of a Salesman|1..."

Yes, post date! Everything counts from January through March!

I've got a Bingo-the N's (message 4)

Completed a top row bingo!
Mission: Claim at least one "Bingo!" before March 20

✔B1: Award Winner: The Alchemist - January
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering: Six of Crows - February
B4: Mystery or Thriller: Not Quite Dead Enough - March
B5: Current Event Related

✔I1: Start a Series: A Free Man of Color - January
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover: Something to Hide - 2/26
I4: > 400 pages: Crooked Kingdom (576 pages) - March
I5: Personal Improvement

✔N1: Classic: A Doll's House - February
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE: The Rose Journal: Rose Gardner Journal Entries - February
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor: Triple Dare - January

✔G1: Magical Realism: Oil and Dust - March
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover: Ice and Bone: Tracking an Alaskan Serial Killer - March
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

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

Congrats on your Bingo, Brenda!

I didn't quite finish all of mine (hoping to finish the last one tomorrow), but I did have a few bingos before my birthday (and the first day of Spring!)! See message 6 above. :) As a fun bonus, I read the book from my birth year on my birthday!

Way to go, Eileen!

Thanks Rosemarie!

That’s great Eileen

I wanted a blackout but only managed 2 bingos by spring. Nevertheless it was still loads of fun!

I enjoy these side “games”

Yeah, these side games definitely make things interesting. :)

Just under the wire I got my blackout, woo hoo!

Way to go! 🎉

You all did great! Congratulations! I was happy I got one.

Thanks. I was happy to get one as well.

Are you having a Summer Bingo 🤗 I have been following this thread and so much fun. I’d love to try!

Our spring bingo thread has just been opened, Penny.

Hurrah. Joining now thanks.