Collegedale Public Library discussion

What is everyone reading for April? It looks like Christina, Olivia, Bailey, Valarie, & myself all have a Bingo.

Has anyone read a book in any category that they would have ordinarily have read that they loved?

Is anyone working on a Black out of the Bingo Board and how is that going?

I am going for a blackout board. I only have 3 books to go! I definitely struggled to get through a few books and can honestly say they one that shocked me the most was reading Forrest Gump. I never would’ve read it since I watched the movie already. But boy is the book soooo much different than the movie.

I read matzah ball surprise for my book about another religion. it takes place over Passover, though it doesn't talk too much about the religious aspect but still more than the average Christian fiction.

Just finished the 25th book to complete a blackout!
Ended with Wild by Cheryl Strayed.

Congratulations on your blackout of the Bingo Board Christina Clark!

I'm planning to go for blackout but trying not to do it too quickly. I tend to have multiple books for each category, especially a book set in the south. I guess for that I'll count No Good Tea Goes Unpunished. it's a mystery series set on one of the outer banks islands featuring a gal who runs a tea shop and cafe

Darn, I'm late to the party! But I've read, i.e., listened, quite a lot this year so I've inadvertently fulfilled several categories. I'm struggling to think of any book for the "Circus/Carnival" category. The three that come to mind are "Water for Elephants," "Something Wicked This Way Comes," and "Night Circus"...all three I've read in previous years. Any other suggestions?

I have never read that one.

Christina wrote: "I am going for a blackout board. I only have 3 books to go! I definitely struggled to get through a few books and can honestly say they one that shocked me the most was reading Forrest Gump. I neve..."

Love tea shop mysteries!

Sara wrote: "I'm planning to go for blackout but trying not to do it too quickly. I tend to have multiple books for each category, especially a book set in the south. I guess for that I'll count No Good Tea Goe..."

Glad that you are joining the challenge! The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff, The Circus Train by Amita Parikh are some suggestions.

Sheri wrote: "Darn, I'm late to the party! But I've read, i.e., listened, quite a lot this year so I've inadvertently fulfilled several categories. I'm struggling to think of any book for the "Circus/Carnival" c..."

I just finished my blackout board yesterday. Some of my recents are The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel for my initials, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton for my birth year, Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender for a book about a polarizing issue, and All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore as a memoir of someone I admire.

I'm just checking off bingo spots as they come while I read for my different book clubs and things. just finished Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow so I checked off a Story about Friends!

I used that book for the Friends category too. Reminded me of the series "Halt and Catch Fire" that aired a few years ago.

I'm the tortoise with the bingo chart but just finished My Daughter's Keeper, a WW2 novel based on a true story of a Jewish Holocaust survivor.

I'm reading the monuments men for a book about ww2

finished monuments men. definitely watch the movie first because it barely scratches the surface. (similarly, I just watched woman in gold after reading the book and found the movie disappointing, an oversimplification of events.)

reading buried in a good book by Tamara Berry for an award winning book

Two more books to go with the 9 books in the Reading Rainbow Adult Reading Challenge for June-July 2023. Anybody else doing this one? I finished the whole bingo board and moved to this challenge for summer

I'm not familiar with the reading rainbow challenge

I’m doing reading rainbow! I have finished a black, and yellow and I’m almost done with red. Blue next. 🌈

Sarah, check the library’s Facebook for information regarding the Reading Rainbow challenge. It’s good through July!

Just finished the last book for the Reading Rainbow challenge!!! Anybody else?

I'm trying not to double-dip books between challenges so I haven't yet made a bingo; I've been busy focusing on the shorter-term challenges

I finally got a bingo! I swear, if I had tried to check if as many squares as possible without getting one, I couldn't have done it better. going for blackout now

I'm reading the dead zone for book published my birth year. it's kind of hard, with so much going on, I can only take so much darkness at a time.