Reading with Style discussion

Here's where to plan for Sweet Sixteen Bingo if you wish. Plans are not required.

Here's my tentative plan, pending decisions about other tasks.

B1 - equal letters first and last name
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
B2 - 51% not in US/Canada/UK/Ireland/Australia/NZ
The Morgue Keeper by Ruyan Meng
B3 - Author's latest book
North Woods by Daniel Mason
B4 - Title starts/ends same letter
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
B5 - 1 and 6 in publication year
Rocked by Livia Grant
B1 - equal letters first and last name
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
I2 - set 200+ years before publication date
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
N3 - free
(TBD)
G4 - four word title
Because They Wanted To: Stories by Mary Gaitskill
O5 - alliterative title
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith

Planning:

O1 - Single word title that contains at least 10 letters
Persuasion by Jane Austen
✓ 15.2 O2 - Author with a six letter last name
Cane by Jean Toomer
O3 - Set at least 51% in the tropics
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré (Nigeria)
O4 - No E in title or author name
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
✓ 15.4 O5 - Alliterative title
Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams


B1 - Equal number of letters in first and last names
The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
✓ 15.5 I1 - Title and subtitle do not contain the word "The"
Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney
✓ 15.3 N1 - Winner or finalist of Neustadt International Prize
Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
✓ 15.1 G1 - Author's 1st, 6th, or 16th book
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
O1 - Single word title that contains at least 10 letters
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Playground by Richard Powers
Chenneville by Paulette Jiles

Extra:
B3 - Author's last or latest book
The Names by Florence Knapp
B4 - Title starts and ends with same letter
Tilt by Emma Pattee
✓ 15.6 I5 - Book without chapter numbers
The Four Seasons: Poems by J.D. McClatchy
✓ 15.7 G4 - Book with a 4 word title
The Moon Before Morning by W.S. Merwin
N2 - Book written by two authors
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

Ooo! Planning!

B1: Amerika by Franz Kafka
I1: Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
N1: The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez (1972)
G1: Storm Front by Jim Butcher (first book)
O1: Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

B1: Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell
I2: First Comes Scandal by Julia Quinn
N3: The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
G4: The Couturier of Milan by Ian Hamilton
O5: Flying Finish by Dick Francis

>Sept 14 - diagonal bingo completed

?The Lost Language of Oysters by Alexander McCall Smith

Across the top and down the right side! 😂

N1: Neustadt: John Banville (2016): Elegy for April by Benjamin Black
B1: equal letters: Maigret's Holiday by Georges Simenon
I1 - no the: Barn Blind by Jane Smiley
G1 - 16th Book: Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon
O1: one word title: Chenneville by Paulette Jiles

O1: one word title: Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
O2: 6 ltr last name: The Disappearance of Signora Giulia by Piero Chiara
O3: Tropics: The Other Side Of Silence by André Brink (Namibia)
O4: No E: Luck by Joan Barfoot
O5: Alliterative title: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

I from bingo vertical
I – 1 no “The” – On Copper Street by Chris Nickson
2 – set 200 yrs before pub’n – The Crucible by Arthur Miller
3 – 6 awards – The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
4 – short stories – The Devil and the Deep edited by Ellen Datlow
5 – no chapter nos. – The Ruins by Scott Smith

3 horizontal
3 -- 1 – author’s last book – Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
2 – 6 awards – The Dry by Jane Harper
3 – FREE –
4 – set in future – Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds
5 – set in tropical country – St. Barts Breakdown: A Mick Sever Mystery by Don Bruns

Row 4

✔️B4: title starts/ends with same letter
The Only One Left by Riley Sager

✔️I4: essays Life and Art: Essays by Richard Russo

✔️N4: 1 and 6 in MPE page count
The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen

✔️G4: 4-word title All the Beautiful Lies by Peter Swanson

✔️ O4: No E in title or author name Last Contract by Clark Howard


Column B
B1: equal letters in names Prison Noir by Joyce Carol Oates

B2: foreign capital city An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

B3: latest book: Never Flinch by Stephen King

✔️B4: title starts/ends with the same letter
The Last Great Death Stunt by Clark Howard

✔️B5: 1 and 6 in publication year On Love by Charles Bukowski