Historical Fictionistas discussion

Hey all! I now realize that having everyone reporting their progress ONLY in individual threads is kinda boring, and I really want to see what everyone is reading and how the tasks are being interpreted and stuff... so while I'm not changing the individual SCORING thread aspect (so that everyone's BINGO cards & scores are manageable), I do also want to encourage us to post statuses together in a thread as well. :)

Let us know how it's going! I'll start:

N1 - Religion: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Finished 4/10

1 Point, 0 Bonus
Total Score = 1 point

Becky; Glad you added this thread!

B3 - Historical Mystery Genre; Finished 04-09-21; Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
3 points, 0 bonus

*I3 - HF Female Author; Finished 04-13-21; The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
3 points, 0 bonus

Total Score = 6 points
Total books read: 2

Thank you, Becky.

B1* - HF set in Asia - The Last Chinese Chef = 1

B4 - Modern Classic - The Beautiful and the Damned = 4

B5 - Published Between 2010-2020 - Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression = 5

I5 - POC Author - Paradise = 5

G5 - Oldest Book of TBR - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest = 5

O1 - Set in Egypt, Africa, or Middle East - My Name Is Red = 1

** 5 tasks completed = 1 bonus point

TOTAL = 22 points

Lorna wrote: "Thank you, Becky.

B1* - HF set in Asia - The Last Chinese Chef = 1

B4 - Modern Classic - The Beautiful and the Damned = 4

B5 - Published Between 2010-2020 - [book:Bu..."

Lorna, if I'm reading the scoring rules correctly you are entitled to one bonus point for having completed five tasks.

G4 - (auto)biography: Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (finished April 3rd)

G5 - 1st person narration: Maid of Secrets (finished April 4th)

O3 - published between 2010 - 2020: The Lady's Maid: A Novel (finished April 5th)

B1 - HF set in Asia: Murder in Old Bombay (finished April 7th)

I3 - HF by Female Author: Crouchback (finished April 10th)

B2 - Oldest book on TBR: The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy (finished April 11th)

G1 - Historical mystery (genre): The Last Passenger (finished April 11th)

19 task points, 1 bonus point (5 tasks completed)

Julia wrote: "Lorna, if I'm reading the scoring rules correctly you are entitled to one bonus point for having completed five tasks."

Correct!

Thank you, Julia and Becky.

N1 - Author with my Name: Rebel by Beverly Jenkins (finished April 3rd)

I5 - Historical Thriller Fictional: The Historian by Elizabeth Kosovo (finished April 13th)

G1 - Mythology: A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes (finished April 14th)

7 task points, 0 bonus
Total score - 7 points

O5 The Last Night in London 4/05= 5 points
B1* When We Were Young & Brave 4/11 = 1 point
N3 Euphoria 4/15 = 3 points

Total points 9 points

N3 - FREE - Library Book : Medicus by Ruth Downie
Comp 4/4/21 - 3 pts

N4 - Graphic Novel : Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
Comp 4/4/21 - 4 pts

I3 - Written by a female author : The Spies of Shilling Lane by Jennifer Ryan
Comp 4/9/21 - 3 pts

B1 - HF Set in Asia : Singapore Sapphire by A.M. Stuart
Comp 4/13/21 - 1 pt

B5 - Book with a name in the title: Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon
Comp 4/15/21 - 5 pts

Tasks - 16 pts
Bonus - 5 tasks completed - 1 pt
Total - 17 pts

I love how you guys have like 13 books read already and I'm on #2. LOL

Read:
G5 - POC author: Invisible Man
Finished 4/15
5 points

Cumulative Total: 6 points

Read so far:

B5 --Book over 500 pages The Hope by Herman Wouk
Finished 4/22/2021
5 points

I4--First person narrative Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie finished 5/6/2021
4 points

I5--Dress to Success by Isabel Wolff
Finished 4/5
5 points

Ni Set in Asia Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
Finished 4/14
1 point

N2 A title with a titular woman Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
Finished 4/16
2 points
N3 Free Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie finished 4/28/2021
3 points

N4 Set during wartime The Burning Roses by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (WWI) finished 4/24/2021
4 points

N5 An Asian author The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Finished 4/13
5 points

G2 Less than 300 pages Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier (228 pages) finished 4/19/2021
2 points

G5 Historical mystery The Angel Court Affair by Anne Perry finished 4/19/2021
5 points
O2 The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown finished 5/3/2021
2 points

O4 Book with a name in the title: Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller finished 4/28/2021
4 points

O5 Favorite genre (historical fiction--what else??) The White Road by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Finished 4/6
5 points

Bonus points: 5 tasks completed: 1 point
BINGO completed 5 points
5 tasks completed again 1 point
complete all of one letter: 2 points
Cumulative total: 56 points

Wow, you have all read so much... I'm very slow, only two books so far:

I4: Library Book - Klara and the Sun
Finished 4/10
4 points

O1: Novel about a real historical figure - The Red Queen
Finished 4/17
1 point

Total: 5 points

*N5 - Award Winner: Agatha Award 2018 Best First Novel; Finished 04-19-21 A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman
5 points, 0 bonus

Previous Point Total: 6 points
Total Bingo Score: 11 points
Total Books Read: 3

Great idea Becky! Here's my report as of this morning.
G3 - The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross = 3
N5 - The Rent Collector = 5
G5 - The Paris Secret = 5
N4 - The Alienist = 4
O3 - Literary Murder = 3

B1 - The Ronin's Mistress = 1
B4 - To The Stars Through Difficulties = 4
B5 - In the Dream House = 5
I3 - Where the Light Enters = 3
G2 - West with Giraffes = 2

B2 - The Seven Sisters = 2

Total Basic Score: 37

✅Complete 5 tasks in any order: G3, N5, G5, N4, O3 = 1
✅Complete the word Bingo: B1, I3, N5, G3, O3 = 5
✅Complete 5 tasks in any order:B1, B4, B5, I3, G2 = 1

Total Bonus Score: 7
Grand Total BINGO Score = 44

Nice, Diane! You're killing it! :)

G3 - The First Mrs. Rothschild - Novel about real historical person, 3 points - finished 4/15

O5 - Never Borrow a Baronet - Library book, 5 points - finished 4/17

N3 - Battle of Brothers - Free Space, 3 points - finished 4/18

O2 - No Choice But Freedom: A Novel of Treachery and Triumph in Colonial America - HF by a new to me author, 2 points - finished 4/18

B3 - The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax - Titular woman with her own identity, 3 points - finished 4/18

N5 - In Farleigh Field - Award winner (Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel 2017), 5 points - finished 4/19

21 Task points

19 Bonus points:
1 for completing 5 books (B2, B1, G3, O5, N3)
5 for miscellaneous BINGO (B1, I3, N3, G4, O3)
3 for all of one number ((B3, I3, N3, O3, G3)
10 for completing all Standard Tasks (B1, I3, N5, G4, O2)

B3 First Person Narrator-Read April 8th-Concrete Rose= 3 points


I1 Judge a Book by the Cover Read April 17th = 1 point
I2- POC author Read April 12th Clap When You Land= 2 points
I3 HF by a female authorRead April 10th-The Rose Code= 3 points
I4- Fantasy or HF Fantasy Read April 17th A Darker Shade of Magic = 4 points

N2 Novel about a real historical person- Read April 23rd The Mystery of Mrs. Christie = 2 points

O3 A library book- Read April 22nd A Deadly Education= 3 points

General Score= 18 points
Complete Any 5 tasks in any order (B3, I3, I2, I4, I1)= 1 bonus point

Total= 19 points

Read:
G2- Light/Humorous - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
2 points

G4*- Historical nonfiction or biography - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
4 points

B4- Library Book - Blacktop Wasteland
4 points

Previously reported:
G5 - POC author: Invisible Man - 5 points
N1 - Religion: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - 1 point

Tasks - 16 pts
Bonus - 5 tasks completed - 1 pt
Total - 17 pts

*O2 - HF New to You Author;
Finished 04-24-21; Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce
2 points, 0 bonus

Previous Point Total: 11 points
Total Bingo Score: 13 points
Total Books Read: 4

I finished all of the standard tasks and got my first BINGO.

B1 HF Set in Asia The Samurai's Garden 4/20
I3 HF Written by a Female Author People of the Book 4/14
N5 Award Winner Things Fall Apart 4/10
G4 Historical Nonfication or Biography Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4/22
O2 New to You Author The Book of Longings 4/5

Task Points: 15
Bonus Points: 16
Total Points: 31

Awesome Ruth Ann!

Read: B5- Politics or Intrigue - When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
5 points

Cumulative Total: 21 Points

As of 4/27
O5 The Last Night in London 4/05 =5 pts
B1* When We Were Young & Brave 4/11 = 1 pt
N3 Euphoria 4/15 = 3 pts
I2 Betrayal in Time 4/27 = 2 points
G4* 1776 4/26 4 pts

Task points= 15
Bonus points 5 tasks in any order 1 pt
Bingo 5 points
Diagonal Bingo 4 points
Total Points 25 points

Previous totals, Message 15
Total Basic Score: 37
Total Bonus Score: 7
Grand Total BINGO Score = 44

N3 - All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis = 3
B3 - The Stationery Shop = 3
I2 - The Mirror & the Light =2
O5 - The House in the Cerulean Sea = 5

N2 - A Morbid Taste for Bones = 2
O2 - Vera = 2
New Total Basic Score: 54

✅Complete all of one number: 3: B3, I3, N3, G3, O3 =3
✅Complete all of one letter: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 = 2
✅Complete 5 tasks in any order: B2, N3, B3, I2, O5 = 1
✅Complete the word Bingo #2: B4, I2, N4, G5, O5 =5
✅ Complete all of one number:2: B2, I2, N2, G2, O2= 3

New Total Bonus Score: 21
New Grand Total BINGO Score = 75

Previous totals in message 17

B4 - A Meditation on Murder - Set on an island, 4 points - finished 4/22

I1 - The Lady and the Panda: the True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal - animal on cover, 1 point - finished 4/24


O1 - Band of Sisters - New Release (published March 2021), 1 point - finished 4/25

I4 - Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis - LGBTQ+ or non-binary main character, 4 points - finished 4/25

This post:
10 Task points
1 Bonus point for completing 5 books (O2, N3, B5, B4, I1)

New totals:
Task points 50
Bonus points 21
Total points 71

Read: I5- An Author's first book - The Song of Achilles

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All Completed:

B4- Library Book - Blacktop Wasteland
B5- Politics or Intrigue - When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

I5- An Author's first book - The Song of Achilles

N1- Religion - Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

G2- Light/Humorous - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
G4*- Historical nonfiction or biography - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
G5- POC author - Invisible Man

Task Points: 26
Bonus Points:
5 tasks completed = 1 pt

Total: 27

Previous total in message 21

Diagonal BINGO

I2 Gold Rush Toward the Midnight Sun 4/23
N3 Free Space The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 4/28
O5 Animal on the Cover The Murmur of Bees 5/4

Task Points 25
Bonus Points 25
Total Points 50

Previous total in message 12 updated to 57 points with the additon of I4--first person narrative--Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie finished 5/6/2021

Previous totals in message 26

B5 – Tempest in the Tea Room – Religion, 5 points - finished 4/29
N2 – The Kingdom of Back - Fantasy, 2 points – finished 4/30
I2 – The Secret Stealers – Set during wartime, 2 points - finished 5/2
O4 – Overground Railroad: The Green Book Roots of Black Travel in America – POC author, 4 points - finished 5/2

This post:
13 Task points
9 Bonus points:
1 for any 5 tasks (O1, I4, B5, N2, I2)
4 for Diagonal BINGO (B1, I2, N3, G4, O5)
2 for all one letter (B1, B2, B3, B4, B5)
2 for all one letter (O1, O2, O3, O4, O5)

New totals:
Task points 63
Bonus points 30
Total points 93

Read: N3- FREE - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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All Completed:

B4- Library Book - Blacktop Wasteland
B5- Politics or Intrigue - When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

I5- An Author's first book - The Song of Achilles

N1- Religion - Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
N3- FREE - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

G2- Light/Humorous - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
G4*- Historical nonfiction or biography - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
G5- POC author - Invisible Man

Task Points: 29
Bonus Points:
5 tasks completed = 1 pt

Total: 30

Update:
G2 - Novel about a real historical figure: Learning to See by Elise Hooper
Comp 4/20/21 - 2 pt

O1 - Favorite Genre (Historical Mystery): The Queen's Accomplice by Susan Elia MacNeal
Comp 4/26/21 - 1 pt

O3 - Light or humorous: Gone Gull by Donna Andrews
Comp 4/29/21 - 3 pts

G3 - Authors 1st book: Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
Comp 5/2/21 - 3 pts

B3 - POC Author: A Death in Harlem by Karla F.C. Holloway
Comp 5/8/21 - 3 pts

Task points - 12 pts
Bonus - 5 tasks - 1pt
Bonus - All of one number (3) - 3 pts
Bonus - BINGO (B3, I3, N3, G3, O3) - 5 pts
Update total - 21 pts
Previous update (Post 10) - 17 pts
Challenge total - 38 pts

B1 - HF set in Asia - The Silence of Bones = 1

I1 - Favorite Genre - The Last Night in London=1
I2 - Library Book - The Sweet Taste of Muscadines = 2
I3 - HF by female Author - Displacement = 3
I4 - Historical Mystery/Thriller/Suspense - The Broken Girls = 4

N3 - Free - When Breath Becomes Air = 3

G2 - Published between 2010-2020 - The Inheritance Games = 2

* 5 tasks completed = 1 bonus point

TOTAL = 17 points

*G4 Historical Non-Fiction Finished 05-01-21 D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose

Previous point total Message #20: 13 points
Bingo Score: 4 points
Bonus (#1) 5 tasks B3, I3, N5, G4, O2: 1 point
Bonus (#1) Word Bingo B3, I3, N5, G4, O2: 5 points

Total score: 23 points
Total books read: 5

B5 Romance To Sir Phillip, With Love, Julia Quinn
N4 Set on an island The Last Anniversary, Liane Moriarty
N5 Award winner A Long Petal of the Sea, Isabelle Allende
G3 BCE Setting The Seven Wonders, Steven Saylor
O5 Library Book When He Was Wicked, Julia Quinn

Total: 47 points

📚 25 of 25
Completed the Card!!

My complete scoring: here

My last book: The Only Woman in the Room
for recommended by a friend

Book I especially enjoyed that I never would have read if not for Bingo?
A Town Like Alice
for a book with name in the title

Thanks for a fun challenge! It was so much fun to pick prompts, place them on the Bingo card. and then find a book to fit each one.

Completed I2--an author's first book The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton on 5/12/2021

2 points added to previous total from Comment 29 for a total of 59 points

B4 LGBTQ: Finished 05-04-21 Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Previous total: 23 points
Bingo Score: 4 points
Total score: 27 points
Total books read: 6

G4: Recommended by a friend by Rachel Maddow finished 5/13/2021 4 points

Bonus tasks
Complete 5 tasks: 1 point
Complete diagonal Bingo: 4 points
Complete a Bingo: 5 points
Total 14 points
Challenge total: 73 points

N3 FREE: Finished 05-14-21 Publish and Perish #4 Francis Bacon by Anna Castle

Previous total: 27 points
Bingo score: 3 points
Total score: 30 points
Total books read: 7

B1: book set in Asia Peony by Pearl S. Buck finished 5/14/2021 1 point

Previous score 73 points
Bingo score: 1 point
Bonus: all of one number: B5, I5, N5, G5, O5: 3 points
Total score: 77 points

Read: G3- Published between 2010-2020 - Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

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All Completed:

B4- Library Book - Blacktop Wasteland
B5- Politics or Intrigue - When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

I5- An Author's first book - The Song of Achilles

N1- Religion - Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
N3- FREE - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

G2- Light/Humorous - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
G3- Published between 2010-2020 - Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
G4*- Historical nonfiction or biography - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
G5- POC author - Invisible Man

Task Points: 32
Bonus Points:
5 tasks completed = 1 pt

Total: 33

Finished G3: book about siblings, non-royal The Measure of Days by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles finished 5/18/2021
Book total: 3 points
Added to previous total for challenge total: 79 points

N4-Set on a island: Finished 05-18-21 The Lieutenant's Nurse by Sara Ackerman

Previous total: 30 points
Bingo score: 4 points
Total score: 34 points
Total books read: 8

I edited messages #38, #40, and #44 to correctly show my total points as 34 not 49. I had added in bonus points not earned yet. Slightly confused on scoring :)

Previous total in message 28

Diagonal BINGO

I4 About a Real Historical Figure The Empress
G2 Set During Wartime Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
O1 Book with a Name in the Title The Passion According to Carmela

Task Points 37
Bonus Points 34
Total Points 71

previous points 25

G5 The Lions of Fifth Avenue 5 pts
N5 * The Poisonwood Bible 5 pts
I5 Lost in Paris 5 pts
B4 Moloka'i 4 pts

Task Points 34
Bonus 10
Total 44 Points as of 5/19

I haven’t been keeping score. I might have to make it a task for when I’ve finished the bingo square (if possible).

O1: a bestseller Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens finished 5/19/2021
1 point

New bonus tasks: Complete a diagonal Bingo (O1, G2, N3, I4, B5)
4 points
Spell the word BINGO: 5 points

New total: 89 points

Previous totals in post 30

N1 - The Big Over Easy - Humor, 1 point - finished 5/8

I5 - The Count of Monte Cristo - over 500 pages, 5 points - finished 5/19

This post:
6 Task points
8 Bonus points:
3 points - completed all one number (B1, I1, N1, G1, O1)
3 points - completed all one number (B5, I5, N5, G5, O5)
2 points - completed all one letter (I1, I2, I3, I4, I5)

New totals:
Task points 69
Bonus points 38
Total points 107