The Reading Challenge Group discussion

Starting March 22nd and running until June 21st, here is our spring bingo!
Feel free to cop and paste the template to keep track!

Spring Bingo Categories

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE
N4: Romance
N5: Male POV

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G4: Young Adult
G5: Magical Powers

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

Oooh, okay, sounds like fun! I never did finish the last book from the previous Bingo, but I'm okay with that, lol! I'm game for a fresh start!

Spring Bingo

✔ B1: Award Nominated The Stand
✔ B2: Memoir Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
✔ B3: Audio Book Swan Song
✔ B4: Green Cover
✔ B5: Pretty Dress

✔ I1: Published before 1900 Bleak House
✔ I2: Travel The Key Quest
✔ I3: Horror or Suspense In the Dark
✔ I4: Mental Illness The Silent Patient: The First Three Chapters
✔ I5: Fairies or Fae A Court of Thorns and Roses

✔ N1: Published This Year Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe
✔ N2: Yellow Cover
✔ N3: FREE Moonscript
✔ N4: Romance Smoke Bitten
✔ N5: Male POV Killing Floor, Jack Reacher

✔ G1: Tear-Jerker Brave Girl, Quiet Girl: A Novel
✔ G2: In Translation The Only Child, Korean
✔ G3: Minority Studies The Water Dancer
✔ G4: Young Adult Found
✔ G5: Magical Powers Penric and the Shaman

✔ O1: Fairy Tale Retelling Fairest Son Snow White
✔ O2: Historical (F or NF) Big Lies in a Small Town
✔ O3: Play The Importance of Being Earnest
✔ O4: Based on a True story In the Time of the Butterflies
✔ O5: Pink Cover

I'm in for this one! 🌷💐

B1:
B2: Memoir -The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake by Dany Laferrière
B3:
B4:
B5: Pretty dress: Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace

I1: Published before 1900 - A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
I2: Travel - Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture by José Saramago
I3: Horror or suspense - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
I4:
I5: Faeries or fae - The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald

N1:
N2: Yellow cover- They Were Divided by Miklós Bánffy
N3: Free - The Massacre At Paris: With The Death Of The Duke Of Guise by Christopher Marlowe
N4:
N5: Male POV- The Moneylender of Toulouse by Alan Gordon

G1: Tear-jerker - The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
G2: In translation- The Conference of Birds by Attar of Nishapur
G3: Minority Studies - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
G4: Young adult - The Clue in the Old Stagecoach
G5: Magical powers - The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot

O1:
O2: Historical - Noticia de un secuestro by Gabriel García Márquez
O3: Play- Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller
O4: Based on a true story- Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus
O5: Pink cover - A Motor-flight through France by Edith Wharton

I'm in again also! I'll try for 4 Bingo's (1 more than I got in Winter). :-)

Last updated: 6/15/2020.
Books read: 23
Bingos: Met my goal - 8 bingos! 2's, N's, 1's, 4's, G's, both diagonals, B's

Spring Bingo Categories

✔️ B1: Award Nominated The Testaments 3/28/2020
✔️ B2: Memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 4/30/2020
✔️ B3: Audio Book Exit West 6/11/2020
✔️ B4: Green Cover Little Fires Everywhere 4/6/2020
✔️ B5: Pretty Dress Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen 6/14/2020

✔️ I1: Published before 1900 Pride and Prejudice 5/21/2020
✔️ I2: Travel The Floating Feldmans 4/16/2020
✔️ I3: Horror or Suspense Seeing Red 5/31/2020
✔️ I4: Mental Illness The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor 5/25/2020
I5: Fairies or Fae

✔️ N1: Published This Year Break Shot: My First 21 Years 4/11/2020
✔️ N2: Yellow Cover The Great Believers 4/30/2020
✔️ N3: FREE Year of Yes 5/23/2020
✔️ N4: Romance Normal People 5/10/2020
✔️ N5: Male POV The Prophet 3/22/2020

✔️ G1: Tear-Jerker News of the World 5/27/2020
✔️ G2: In Translation Strange Weather in Tokyo 4/10/2020
✔️ G3: Minority Studies The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 5/16/2020
✔️ G4: Young Adult A Wind in the Door 5/29/2020
✔️ G5: Magical Powers The House of the Spirits 4/24/2020

✔️ O1: Fairy Tale Retelling Cinder 4/1/2020
✔️ O2: Historical (F or NF) Cattle To Courts: A History of Tennis In Texas 6/3/2020
O3: Play
✔️ O4: Based on a True story Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 4/5/2020
✔️ O5: Pink Cover Red, White & Royal Blue 5/24/2020

Love bingo! - got 2 by June 21st

Spring Bingo Categories

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir - Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
B3: Audio Book - A Share in Death
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress - I Owe You One

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel - Precious and Grace
I3: Horror or Suspense - Broken Silence
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae - Smoke Bitten

N1: Published This Year - Bring It Home
N2: Yellow Cover - The Escape Room
N3: FREE - Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
N4: Romance - Twice Tempted
N5: Male POV - A Clash of Kings

G1: Tear-Jerker - Five Feet Apart
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G4: Young Adult - The Tree Shepherd's Daughter
G5: Magical Powers - The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) - Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story - A Longer Fall (part of the story involves the true story of St Moses the Black)
O5: Pink Cover - The Assistants

I’ll try this - thanks, Jenny.

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
📌B5: Pretty Dress


I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE
N4: Romance
N5: Male POV

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
📌G4: Young Adult Watership Down by Richard Adams
G5: Magical Powers

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

I'm in! This is going to be fun :)

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover - Tales of the Peculiar
B5: Pretty Dress - The Heir

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense - The Neighbour
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE
N4: Romance
N5: Male POV

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G4: Young Adult - City of Fallen Angels
G5: Magical Powers - Serpent & Dove

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) - Clockwork Princess
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover - Wicked Fox

I'm back again

B1: Heartstopper Vol 1 (04/06/20)
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Dreamland (31/03/20)
B5: Radiant (20/03/20)

I1: The Strange Case Of DR. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (07/06/20)
I2: Heartstopper Vol 2 (04/06/20)
I3: Crossed vol 12 (09/04/20)
I4: The Day I Died (06/05/20)
I5: Ballad - (18/06/20)

N1: Heartstopper vol 3 (04/06/20)
N2: Llive Llaugh Llove (25/04/20)
N3: 101 Short Stories (17/05/20)
N4: Lament (25/05/20)
N5: A Crime Short Story Collection (3 stories were male pov, (22/05/20)

G1: Bookends (12/05/20)
2: In Translation
G3: The Book Of Tea (04/06/20)
G4: Whisper (03/04/20)
G5: Snow Like Ashes (06/05/20)

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Shimmer (24/03/20)

TOTAL - 4

I wasn't able to participate in the winter bingo but I am joining in for the spring one.

B1: Award Nominated
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld - The Discomfort of Evening
B2: Memoir
Stephanie Land - Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
Kapka Kassabova - To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
Mary Seacole - Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
I2: Travel
Simon Winchester - Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
I3: Horror or Suspense
Sheridan Le Fanu - Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories
I4: Mental Illness
Jenny Offill - Last Things
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
Fernanda Melchor - Hurricane Season
N2: Yellow Cover
Eva Meijer - Bird Cottage
N3: FREE
Moussa Konate - L'affaire des coupeurs de têtes
N4: Romance
N5: Male POV
Deborah Levy - The Man Who Saw Everything

G1: Tear-Jerker
Nathacha Appanah - The Last Brother
G2: In Translation
Bandi - The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
G3: Minority Studies
G4: Young Adult
G5: Magical Powers
Anna James - Tilly and the Bookwanderers

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
O2: Historical (F or NF)
Anne Applebaum - Gulag: A History
O3: Play
Arthur Miller - The Crucible
O4: Based on a True story
Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon
O5: Pink Cover
Jonas Jonasson - Le vieux qui ne voulait pas feter son anniversaire

I'm participating too!
Spring Bingo Categories

B1:
B2:
B3:
B4: Green Cover-Little Fires Everywhere
B5:

I1:
I2:
I3: Suspense-Two Can Keep a Secret
I4:
I5:

N1:
N2: Yellow Cover-Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
N3:
N4: Romance-P.S. I Still Love You
N5:

G1:
G2:
G3:
G4: Young Adult-Tweet Cute
G5: Magical Powers-A Heart So Fierce and Broken

O1:
O2:
O3:
O4:
O5:

Looks like fun!

Spring Bingo Categories

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover - Irish Rose by Nora Roberts
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE - The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
N4: Romance - Irish Thoroughbred by Nora Roberts
N5: Male POV

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G4: Young Adult
G5: Magical Powers - Nora Roberts - Year One

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) - The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story - Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian - My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph by Yusra Mardini
O5: Pink Cover - Fashionably Late by Beth Kendrick

Would Macbeth: A Novel for "Play" even though it's not a play in this form? It's a retelling of Macbeth. I read his "Hamlet" retelling a couple months ago and really enjoyed it!

That sounds pretty iffy to me, Eileen. Oscar Wilde plays are fun and fast reads, if you are looking for ideas. A very interesting play is An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley- and it's short too.

Yeah, I was very much torn on that one. I do want to read it though, and will, but it's definitely not a play in this form. I AM looking for some ideas, so maybe I'll check out An Inspector Calls (if I can get it) or maybe I'll finally give The Importance of Being Earnest a try!

Spring Bingo Categories

B1: Award Nominated Gone Girl
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book Twisted Twenty-Six
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE A Stranger in the Mist
N4: Romance The House on the Beach
N5: Male POV Fahrenheit 451

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G4: Young Adult Number the Stars
G5: Magical Powers

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) The Nightingale
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

Yay, I got a black out! My last book was N2, The Mouse Watch, which was kind of a fun book. :)

See message 2.

Eileen wrote: "Yay, I got a black out! My last book was N2, The Mouse Watch, which was kind of a fun book. :)

See message 2."

Yaaay congrats!

Thanks! I didn't quite finish the last one, so I was on a mission this time, lol!

Way to go, Eileen!🎉

Thanks, Rosemarie! :)

Eileen wrote: "Yay, I got a black out! My last book was N2, The Mouse Watch, which was kind of a fun book. :)

See message 2."

Congrats Eileen!

Thanks, Valerie!

I finally got my first Bingo- the G's (message 3)

Congratulations, Rosemarie!

Thank you, Eileen!

I have a second bingo- the 2's in message 3.

Congratulations, Rosemarie!

Thanks, Eileen.

I now have three Bingos, this time the 5's.

If I've counted well, I think I managed three bingos (message 9): the O's, the 1s, and the 2s.

Rosemarie wrote: "I now have three Bingos, this time the 5's."

Congrats Rosemarie!

Thanks, Valerie!

And congrats to you too!

Rosemarie wrote: "I now have three Bingos, this time the 5's."

Wow, nice job! Making your way through quickly!

Thanks.
I can't wait for the summer bingo!

Congrats everyone on your bingos! I'll see you in the summer one

Thanks, Beth!