Indian Readers discussion

We are having a Bingo Challenge for the months of April and May. You can have a board of 9, 16, or 25, according to number of books you can read in two months. Only thing you need is some kind of theme for your Bingo. Like you can pick a color bingo and you have to read books which have covers with different colors. Or objects on covers, or award winners, or places you have visited or you want to visit. Be creative. So, yeah sign up!

Im signing in for 16

Completed 9/16

Theme - colours in titles.

✔️🥳1.🌈 A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers
21/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️🥳 🌈 Indigo Ridge
26/4 🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️🥳.🌈 Blue-Eyed Devil
15/4 🌟🌟🌟

✔️🥳🌈 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
6/4 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️🥳🌈 The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop
14/4 🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️🥳🌈 Five Quarters of the Orange
15/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️7🥳 🌈 A Redbird Christmas
19/4 🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️🥳8.🌈The Golden Couple
16/5 3.75🌟

✔️🥳 9.🌈Get a Life, Chloe
Brown
20/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️10.🌈A Cup of Silver Linings

11.🌈Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

12.🌈The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

13.🌈 White Nights
14.🌈 Black and Blue
15.🌈A Study in Scarlet Women
16.🌈 The Turquoise Mask
17.🌈Between Shades of Gray
18🌈The Lavender Garden
19.🌈Where Rainbows End
20.🌈Until Sage
21.🌈 Darling Rose Gold

So either I'm over shot by 5 books or missing te goal by 4 books 😁

Hi, I'm signing up for 9

Armchair travelling this summer... I plan to read books set in..
1. Outer Space
2. Anywhere south of the Equator.
3. A fantasy world
4. Island/ Beach
5. Scandinavia
6. High seas/ River
7. Middle East/ Desert
8. Scotland
9. Tomorrow Land

this is an exciting game. I am in for a 9 board bingo.

I might join with a board of 1 :D

I might join, though I'm not sure of 9 books..


I am choosing different genres..

Currently Reading:



Choices:

1) YA -- 10 Blind Dates

2) Graphic Novels-- Shadow of the Batgirl

3) Romance-- Made in Korea

4) Historical Fiction-- The Indigo Girl

5) Fiction-- To All the Boys I've Loved Before

6) Mystery-- Sad Cypress

7) Middle Grade-- The Tea Dragon Society

8) Non-fiction Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

9) Contemporary -- Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions

Seems interesting, I’m signing up for 9.
Theme: Pulitzer Prize Book winners

I am in for a 9 board bingo. Translations. Completed 6/9

1. Odiya ଛମାଣ ଆଠ ଗୁଣ୍ଠ Chha Mana Atha Guntha Six Acres and a Third
2. Hindi. Tamas
3. Kannada. Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man April 14. 4 stars
4. Vietnamese. The Mountains Sing April 6. 5 stars.
5. Thai. Arid Dreams April 14. 4 stars.
6. Fillipino. Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not)
7. Japanese. A Drifting Life May 19. 5 stars.
8. Assamese. The Loneliness of Hira Barua May 31. 4 stars.
9. Marathi. Cobalt Blue - April 3. 3.5 stars

Add-ons (including wrap-ups of current reads)
1. Malayalam. Valli - April 9. 5 stars
2. Chinese. Psychic Princess - April 8. 5 stars
3. German. Heidi - April 15. 5 stars

I'm signing up for a 16 book Bingo...

Theme is Around the world - Completed - 6/16

1. Australia - The Thorn Birds -
2. Mexico - What the Moon Saw
3.Canada - Letters Across the Sea
4. Greece - The Summer House in Santorini
5.
6. Cambodia - The Rent Collector
7. Spain - The Muse
8. Thailand - Arid Dreams
9.Korea The Island of Sea Women
10. Italy - Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
11. Ireland - Normal People
12. Netherlands - Girl with a Pearl Earring
13. France - A Moveable Feast
14. Japan - Pachinko
15. USA - Magic Burns
16. Switzerland - Heidi In progress

I'm in for a 9 board bingo. Still deciding theme.

What's this exactly?
9 board bingo? 16 board bingo?

We are supposed to read like 9x9 = 81 books in 2 months???

wow!! can someone do that? last year, I came across someone's reading challenge, and that was 450 books. how does one do that? my Conservative number of 100 is really difficult, especially towards the end.

you need to decide whether you want to read 9 books or 16 books or 25. The boards will be either 3×3 or 4×4 or 5×5

Leena wrote: "you need to decide whether you want to read 9 books or 16 books or 25. The boards will be either 3×3 or 4×4 or 5×5"

Ok this makes more sense.
3x3= 9 books in 2 months
4x4= 16 books in 2 months
5x5= 25 books in 2 months.

I was assuming 9x9 grid.

This is a individual challenge is it? Since it is grouped under Group Challenges??

individual challenge

I will take the 9 board. Theme is Russian Literature.

wow!! I'm looking forward to your list

Bookworm wrote: "I'm in for a 9 board bingo. Still deciding theme."

Theme is Women Authors. Will try for a dual theme for the same board. Let's see.

I will sign up for 25.
Theme : Fantasy

* Female Author Based
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

* Male Author Based
f. The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
g. Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
h.
i.
j.

k. 1 with the word Lie in the title.
l. 1 with the word Truth in the title
m.1 novel about Wolves
n. 1 novel about Rats

o. 1 novel about Dogs
The Last
One can argue Dairnes are not dogs though they have way too similar features 🤣

p. 1 novel about Time
q. 1 novel about Stars
r. 1 novel about Dragons
s. 1 Short Story Collections
t.1 novel set in a different continent apart from Europe/Asia/America
u. Running out of Ideas
v. Running out of Ideas
w. Running out of Ideas
x. Running out of Ideas
y. 1 novel which is probably a tome. Why do I punish myself like this???
z. Hey I said 25books only!

Note: This list looks kinda long and very tough to achieve in 2 months.
Why do this?
Why?
Why?

I don't understand what's Bingo ,Have we to use squares of numbers .Then why can't we use 1,4 because for me reading 9 books in just 2 months is too difficult. Is the limit of 2 months only .If it were an annual challenge I wud have thought more books.Please clarify

Mansi wrote: "I don't understand what's Bingo ,Have we to use squares of numbers .Then why can't we use 1,4 because for me reading 9 books in just 2 months is too difficult. Is the limit of 2 months only .If it ..."

Then you can go for 4. :) Read four book having same theme

I am going for 3x3. Theme is women/woman on cover.

Same great I ideas so far. Will keep an eye on everyone's board.

I need clarification with concept , EmLo...
I opted for 9 wala board
I have to formulate a theme and then don't I need a bingo board and then roll my dice and choose?

my theme is award winning books ..

if I just read 9 award winning books how does it become a Bingo game ?

I mean, I choose 9 award winning themes put on my bingo board

like
regional award
newberry
man booker
international booker
Nobel
pulitzer

then r oll dice and then keep on scratching?

Zumi wrote: "I need clarification with concept , EmLo...
I opted for 9 wala board
I have to formulate a theme and then don't I need a bingo board and then roll my dice and choose?

my theme is award winning boo..."

Me too.. though I am thinking of the theme..

@Tazmeen I am going with forming my own board , roll my dice and strike off the columns.. Will add more zing to the game.
just need to think of 9 different variations on award winners .

Hmm, that sounds perfect.. Do you mind if I use it as well?

Please go ahead ...:)

Zumi wrote: "I mean, I choose 9 award winning themes put on my bingo board

like
regional award
newberry
man booker
international booker
Nobel
pulitzer

then r oll dice and then keep on scratching?"

If you want to roll the dice, then go ahead. You must have to read 9 books having a common theme.

yes... I made a dice rolling board :)

I'm in..

Theme : Fantasy

3*3 grid

Zumi wrote: "Please go ahead ...:)"

Thank you ❤️

I’ll try and get to 9 books.

Might try different colours or as many genres as I can (if I can define nine categories).

Leena wrote: "wow!! can someone do that? last year, I came across someone's reading challenge, and that was 450 books. how does one do that? my Conservative number of 100 is really difficult, especially towards ..."

For me reaching 30 a year is a big goal.
Hope in future i have a goal of 100 books.

I am being ambitious and selecting 9 books.
Theme: 3 non-fiction books
3: Audio books
3: Fantasy books (This might be impossible and might just read mystery/thriller)

Main goal being 9 books in 2 months.
Cheers!

all the best Kavya

Kavya Rao wrote: "For me reaching 30 a year is a big goal.
Hope in future i have a goal of 100 books.
"

Good luck, Kavya!

Signing up for 9.

Theme: Down the Centuries
Books set or written in the last nine centuries, one each.

20th century: The Magic Mountain

19th century: The Birth of Tragedy

18th century: The Marriage of Figaro

17 century: Paradise Lost

16th century: Kenilworth

15th century: La Celestina

14th century: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

13th century: Parzival

12th century: The Lais of Marie de France

Bingo Board:
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wow!! Akanksha. That's a fantastic list

Akanksha wrote: "Signing up for 9.

Theme: Down the Centuries
Books set or written in the last nine centuries, one each.

20th century: The Magic Mountain

19th century: [book:The Count of Monte Cris..."

Good luck! this is one great list.

Em, I've a serious issue. I've been trying to get onto the GR Web page hut ut keeps diverting me back to the app. In the app,I can't hyperlink the titles I've read. what can I do? I need to update my challenges

Did you try desktop? And if it still happens, just the add titles without the hyperlink. Book titles are enough.

I've tried desktop, but let me give this another try tomorrow

I'm in! 😊 9 board bingo with:
1. Book to movie adaptation
2. Graphic novel
3. Non fiction
4. Chunker/tome
5. Novella/short book
6. Contemporary
7. Popular book
8. Translated
9. Self help

My 9 (3x3) board bingo:
Theme: Women Authors
Most of the books listed are my final choices for the challenge. But I do have backup options. :D

1. Award Winner - The Fifth Season
2. Underrated on GRs (<5k ratings) - Untold Night and Day
3. Classic - Rebecca
4. Mythological Reteling - Circe
5. That was Challenged/Banned - The Bluest Eye
6. Translation - Convenience Store Woman
7. Made into TV series/movie - The Handmaid’s Tale
8. Short Story Collection - The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
9. Themes of Mental Heath - Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Bonus prompts: (so that I have choice to swap with any of the above) lol
1. Classic Speculative Fiction - The Left Hand of Darkness
2. Nobel Prize Author - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
3. Nonfiction - TBD
4. Poetry - Bluets

That's an impressive list, Bookworm. All the Best

Leena wrote: "That's an impressive list, Bookworm. All the Best"

Thanks, Leena. All the best to you too! :D

My 9 board bingo:
Theme: Russian Literature

1. A Condemned Man - The House of the Dead
2. A Dead Poet - Pale Fire
3. An Anti-hero - A Hero of Our Time
4. Revisionist Legends - The Master and Margarita
5. From Greece to Russia - Medea and Her Children
6. Generational Rifts - Fathers and Sons
7. 24 Hour Photo - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
8. Love - The Light and the Dark
9. Two Chekhov's Guns - The Cherry Orchard

Leena wrote: "I've tried desktop, but let me give this another try tomorrow"

Maybe you need to uninstall the app. Hope to see your list.