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MK's 2019 Books, Alphabetical -
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BINGO BOARD - MK's Bingo Titles 2019 in List FormB1: 18th Century or Earlier Classic - Moll Flanders
B2: Book Chosen by the Cover - The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Newbery award book)
B3: European Classic - Beowulf (for kids, Sutcliff)
B4: Telegraph’s 100 Novels List
B5: 20th Century Classic - A Grain of Wheat
I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2019 - The Maltese Falcon
I2: New-to-You Author - Moving On
I3: Classic Play
I4: Literary Prize of Your Country - Let the Great World Spin
I5: Classic on Your Bookshelf For over a Year - Treasure Island
N1: South American Classic
N2: Short Story Collection - The Adventures of Brother Arcadius and Pangur Ban: 11 Tales
N3: FREE SPACE - The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
N4: Poetry or Essay Collection - Beowulf (Crossley-Holland translation)
N5: Asian Classic
G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize - Monk's Hood
G2: Classic By a Female Author - Saint Peter's Fair
G3: Classic Non-fiction - Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
G4: Written by Nobel Laureate - Murder in the Cathedral
G5: Book from the Group's 2019 Bookshelf - The Pillars of the Earth
O1: 19th Century Classic - The Chimes
O2: Classic Sci-fi or Fantasy - The Children of Men
O3: Classic Comedy or Satire
O4: Classic Romance
O5: 21st Century Potential Classic - Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel
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BINGO BOARD - MK's Bingo Authors 2019 in List Form
B1: 18th Century or Earlier Classic - Daniel Defoe
B2: Book Chosen by the Cover - Kelly Barnhill
B3: European Classic - Rosemary Sutcliff
B4: Telegraph’s 100 Novels List
B5: 20th Century Classic - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2019 - Dashiell Hammett
I2: New-to-You Author - Sara Steger
I3: Classic Play -
I4: Literary Prize of Your Country - Colum McCann
I5: Classic on Your Bookshelf For over a Year - Robert Louis Stevenson
N1: South American Classic
N2: Short Story Collection - Margaret Nagel
N3: FREE SPACE - Jack Whyte
N4: Poetry or Essay Collection - Kevin Crossley-Holland
N5: Asian Classic
G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize - Ellis Peters
G2: Classic By a Female Author - Ellis Peters
G3: Classic Non-fiction - Mary Mann Hamilton
G4: Written by Nobel Laureate - T.S. Eliot
G5: Book from the Group's 2019 Bookshelf - Ken Follett
O1: 19th Century Classic - Charles Dickens
O2: Classic Sci-fi or Fantasy - P.D. James
O3: Classic Comedy or Satire
O4: Classic Romance
O5: 21st Century Potential Classic - John Guy
.MK's 2019 Books
MK's Books - 2019 Reading Challenge
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MK's 2019 Challenge Threads (or Posts) ...
• A-Z Author Challenge
• A-Z Title Challenge
• Classic Bingo Challenge
• Old & New Classic Challenge
• Reading George Eliot 2019 Challenge
• Quest for Women Authors Challenge
MK's Other Challenge Threads (or Posts) ...
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I love the idea of doing author portraits. Potentially stealing that idea!
LOL, Bob! It's easy to make a clean slate look organized ;-).Angie, go for it! (I hate the way it looks when you start adding some in, when there's not a 'placeholder' :-p
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Lynn wrote: "I like your space holders on the Bingo board. I make mistakes trying to just use O in the spot."Thx! Swipe them, they keep the columns and rows lined up, which pleases me :p
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Bob wrote: "Five finished, you've been busy."I have, I guess! ^-^
One was short; one was a listen, a re-read; three were compulsively readable! *grin*
I had put The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill into slot B2 'Book Chosen by the Cover', but I just noticed, if I move it instead to I4 'Literary Prize of Your Country', I get my first Bingo :).So for now, B5, I4, N3, G2, O1 are slotted with:
B5. One Corpse Too Many, by Ellis Peters
I4. The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill (Newbery book)
N3. The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by B.C. Dee (picture book)
G2. Saint Peter's Fair, by Ellis Peters
O1. The Chimes, by Charles Dickens
... giving me my first (of 13 possible) level one bingos :). I can see books get moved around alot throughout the year, so I don't know how the board will end the year, but for right now:
(1 of 13) Level One Bingo, Five-In-A-Row, diagonal:
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haha! TY :)So silly the delight lining them all up in a row was. With a picture book in the free space, it really made me giggle. I coulda swapped the free space for one of the other books, but it cracked me up.
lol
Congrats on your first bingo.I like the way you have included the authors' photos too.
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Congrats on the first bingo! I'm also impressed by your organising skills.
I haven't done any swapping around of books yet, but I did add in two more books, Moll Flanders in the top left corner, and The Martian, in the bottom right corner:
B1: Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
O1: The Chimes by Charles Dickens
B5: One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
O5: The Martian by Andy Weir
... giving me my second (of 13 possible) level one bingos :). I can see books get moved around alot throughout the year, so I don't know how the board will end the year, but for right now:
(2 of 13) Level One Bingo, Four Corners: Mark off the four outside corners of the Bingo board:
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I did add in three more books, and swapped out one of my Cadfael (because there were three) books for A Grain of Wheat (which was a re-read for me. The swap was the bottom left corner, the three adds were Zodiac in I2, Murder in the Cathedral in G4, and Beowulf (Sutcliff edition) in B3.
Swapping out one of the Cadfael's brings my total number of books read, but not in the Bingo Board, to five:
Not In Bingo Board
Beowulf (for kids, Kevin Crossley-Holland, 1999, Charles Keeping (Illustrator))
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (Heritage Press hardback)
Moll Flanders (Signet Classics paperback)
Moll Flanders (Penguin Classics paperback)
One Corpse Too Many
I thought about putting the Beowulf for kids, or the third Cadfael in place of the picture book for the "Free Space", but it still makes me giggle having it in the middle, so there it stays (for now, I have another I have in mind to put there, when I finish the book).
I had originally intended to slot Murder ... in the 'Classic Play' slot, but unbeknownst to me, until I was reading the author bio, T.S. Eliot was a Nobel Laureate. So, since slotting it there gave me a third bingo, that's where I put the book :).
B1: Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
I2: Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
N3: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by B.C. Dee
G4: Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
O5: The Martian by Andy Weir
... giving me my third (of 13 possible) level one bingos - an also an "X"! (which is not a bingo :-p) :). I can see books get moved around a lot throughout the year, so I don't know how the board will end the year, but for right now:
(3 of 13) Level One Bingo, Five-In-A-Row, diagonal:
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LOL!!Boxes and columns, that's my thing ;-)
It's oddly satisfying :D
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Bob wrote: "You do know that you put a big old "X" on your Bingo card. It looks like a word search puzzle, :)"I do know about the "X". It made me giggle :D
LOL I like the word search puzzle .... yup, I can see it now
To maintain the symmetry, it'd be awful nice if I1 and O3 filled themselves in next ;-)edit - hm. I'm reading I1 right now (Maltese Falcon), anyone got a good comedy or satire for O3? :D
(edit x 2 ... maybe Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court! Always wanted to read that one ... )
I added in five more books, and did a couple swaps. One of the swaps was to sub in a new book, and one of the swaps was to move a book from one square to another, so I could add in a new book. I ended up swapping out the picture book I'd had in the center spot for "Free Space", adding in a new book (Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, by John Guy) because I really loved that book, more than the picture book made me giggle to have it in there ;-). I had originally intended to eventually swap out the picture book for a different book, but Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel won out over that one, too. ;-)
The other swap moved The Girl Who Drank the Moon back to B2 "Book Chosen By the Cover", and adding into the space cleared, I4 "Literary Prize of your country", a book by Colum McCann, which won several awards, among them the National Book Award for 2009. The book is Let the Great World Spin.
Besides Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, and Let the Great World Spin, the other three new adds in are:
- The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett in spot "I1 Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2019"
- Beowulf, translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland, introduced by Bruce Mitchell in spot "N4 Poetry or Essay Collection". I've read three unabridged 'grown-up' translations of Beowulf so far, and so far, this one is my favorite of the unabridged versions. I still have a few more I'm reading, tho, so we'll see :).
- The Adventures of Brother Arcadius and Pangur Ban: 11 Tales, by Margaret Nagel in spot "N2: Short Story Collection".
Swapping out one of the picture book brings my total number of books read, but not in the Bingo Board, to thirteen:
Not In Bingo Board
Beowulf (paperback, for kids, Kevin Crossley-Holland, 1999, Charles Keeping (Illustrator) )
Beowulf (graphic novel, Gareth Hinds)
Beowulf (kindle, Rebsamen translation)
Beowulf the Warrior (hardcover, for kids, Ian Serraillier, Severin (Illustrator) )
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (Tolkien translation)
Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, The (Heritage Press hardback)
Beowulf (hardcover, for kids, Michael Morpurgo, Michael Foreman (Illustrator) )
Girl Who Drank the Moon, The (rhyming picture book)
Kid Beowulf: The Blood-Bound Oath (#1)
Maltese Falcon, The (audiobook CD)
Moll Flanders (Signet Classics paperback)
Moll Flanders (Penguin Classics paperback)
One Corpse Too Many
(4 of 13) Level One Bingo, Five-In-A-Row, horizontal across "the 2s":
B2: Book Chosen by the Cover - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
I2: New-to-You Author - Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
N2: Short Story Collection - The Adventures of Brother Arcadius and Pangur Ban: 11 Tales by Margaret Nagel
G2: Classic By a Female Author - Saint Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters
O2: Classic Sci-fi or Fantasy - The Children of Men by P.D. James
... giving me my fourth (of 13 possible) level one bingos :). I can see books get moved around a lot throughout the year, so I don't know how the board will end the year, but for right now:
BINGO BOARD - MK's Bingo Titles 2019 in Bookcovers Form - Mar 15, 2019
1: B1.
I1.
N1. 
G1.
O1.
2: B2.
I2.
N2.
G2.
O2.
3: B3.
I3. N3.
G3. O3. 4: B4.
I4.
N4.
G4.
O4. 5: B5.
I5.
N5. G5.
O5.
BINGO BOARD - MK's Bingo Authors 2019 in Portraits Form - Mar 15, 2019
1: B1.
I1.
N1.
G1.
O1.
2: B2.
I2.
N2.
G2.
O2.
3: B3.
I3.
N3.
G3.
O3.
4: B4.
I4.
N4.
G4.
O4.
5: B5.
I5.
N5.
G5.
O5.
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I see 4 Bingos and you are very close to covering the entire card. Great job!
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2: B2.
3: B3.
4: B4.
5: B5.
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The Rules ...
Katy wrote: "Classics Bingo 2019 (view spoiler)[
The goal is to focus your reading on literary classics.
Read a classic that fits the description of a square. You may NOT count the same book twice for different categories in this challenge. Each book can be applied to only one square, even if it fulfills the requirements of multiple squares. All books read to mark off squares must be finished in 2019.
Level One Bingo
Four Corners: Mark off the four outside corners of the Bingo board.
Five-in-a-Row: Mark off five squares in a row. This can be done horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
Level Two Bingo
Small Box: Mark off all the 9 inner squares of the board (including the free square), leaving blank the 16 outside border squares.
Level Three Bingo
Outside Box: Mark off all 16 of the outer squares, leaving blank the 9 inner squares.
Level Four Bingo
Blackout! Mark off all the squares of the board. " (hide spoiler)]
Katy wrote: "Classic Bingo 2019
Clarifications & Suggestions: (view spoiler)[
★B1: 18th Century or Earlier Classic
Read a book published (written) before 1801.
★B2: Book Chosen by the Cover
Choose a book whose cover appeals to you
★B3: European Classic
Read a classic that is either set in the given geographical area, or is written by an author native to that geographical area. Goodreads Places: Books categorized by setting or Wikipedia: List of Novelists by Nationality
★B4: Telegraph’s 100 Novels List
Read a book form Telegraph's 100 Novels List, On Goodreads, On List Challenges
★B5: 20th Century Classic
Read a book published (written) from January 1, 1901 – December 31, 2000)
★I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2019
Read a book which has been on the group shelf before this year.
★I2: New-to-You Author:
Read a book by an author whose works you have never read.
★I3: Classic Play
Read a classic play.
★I4: Literary Prize of Your Country
Read a book that was awarded a literary prize of the country or region where you live. Goodreads List of Literary Prizes or Wikipedia List of Literary Prizes
★I5: Classic on Your Bookshelf For over a Year
Read a classic that has been on your bookshelf for a year or more, or one that has been on the shelf longer than the average book.
★N1: South American Classic
Read a classic that is either set in the given geographical area, or is written by an author native to that geographical area. Goodreads Places: Books categorized by setting or Wikipedia: List of Novelists by Nationality
★N2: Short Story Collection
Read a short story or a collection of short stories.
★N3: FREE SPACE:
Read any book you like
★N4: Poetry or Essay Collection
Read a collection of poetry or essays.
★N5: Asian Classic
Read a classic that is either set in the given geographical area, or is written by an author native to that geographical area. Goodreads Places: Books categorized by setting or Wikipedia: List of Novelists by Nationality
★G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize
Read a book that was awarded a literary prize of a country/region other than where you live. Goodreads List of Literary Prizes or Wikipedia List of Literary Prizes
★G2: Classic By a Female Author
Read a classic written by a female author.
★G3: Classic Non-fiction
Read a classic that has been shelved on Goodreads with the specified genre. (Look on the right side of a book’s Goodreads page for its listed genres.)
★G4: Written by Nobel Laureate
Read a book that was written by a Nobel Prize-winning author. List of Nobel Laureates
★G5: Book from the Group’s 2019 Bookshelf
Read at least one group read in 2019
★O1: 19th Century Classic
Read a book published (written) from January 1, 1801 – December 31, 1900)
★O2: Classic Sci-fi or Fantasy
Read a classic that has been shelved on Goodreads with the specified genre. (Look on the right side of a book’s Goodreads page for its listed genres.)
★O3: Classic Comedy or Satire
Read a classic that has been shelved on Goodreads with the specified genre. (Look on the right side of a book’s Goodreads page for its listed genres.)
★O4: Classic Romance
Read a classic that has been shelved on Goodreads with the specified genre. (Look on the right side of a book’s Goodreads page for its listed genres.)
★O5: 21st Century Potential Classic
Read a book published from January 1, 2001 – Present that you think will become a classic." (hide spoiler)]
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