The Reading Challenge Group discussion

BABY GOT BOOK-ROUND 2! (12/6/22-12/6/23)

-got to "Catch 22" last time,aiming for ✦Forty winks OR✦Fifty-fifty this year!

Chunkster Challenge (450+ pages or Audiobook 12 hrs+ )

✦ Three cheers = 3 books (✔10/1/2019) +(✔19/7/22)
✦Take 5 = 5 books(✔19/1/2019)
✦Behind the 8 ball: = 8 books (✔8/2/2019)
✦ Bakers dozen: = 13 books(✔8/8/2019)
✦Catch 22: = 22 books (✔12/12/2019)
✦Forty winks = 40 books
✦Fifty-fifty: = 50 books

Some good choices:

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2.Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from Willam the Conqueror to Elizabeth IIbyTracy Borman
3.Toward the GleambyT.M. Doran
4.In This House of BredebyRumer Godden
5.Phineas FinnbyAnthony Trollope
6.Jerusalem: The BiographybySimon Sebag Montefiore
7.The Other Bennet SisterbyJanice Hadlow
8.The Ragged Trousered PhilanthropistsbyRobert Tressell
9.Quo VadisbyHenryk Sienkiewicz
10.
11.Cancer WardbyAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
12.The DeerslayerbyJames Fenimore Cooper
13.The Tenth Region of the Night: Sword and Serpent Book IIbyTaylor R. Marshall
14.Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John BuchanbyUrsula Buchan
15.The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the SaintsbyRalph Martin
16.Queens of the ConquestbyAlison Weir
17.Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and InheritancebyBarack Obama
18.The Frozen Lake: A Vintage MysterybyElizabeth Edmondson
19.The BellbyIris Murdoch
20.South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917byErnest Shackleton
21.The Book of Two WaysbyJodi Picoult
22.Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret MitchellbyAnne Edwards
23.Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. LewisbyAbigail Santamaria
24.The Song of BernadettebyFranz Werfel
25.Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush DynastybyJ. Randy Taraborrelli
26.Dirty Glory: Go Where Your Best Prayers Take YoubyPete Greig
27.Elizabeth: The Forgotten YearsbyJohn Guy
28.Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood YearsbyJulie Andrews Edwards
29.The Brothers KaramazovbyFyodor Dostoevsky
30.The Bronte BBC Radio Drama Collection: Seven full-cast dramatisationsbyCharlotte Brontë
31Great Lion of GodbyTaylor Caldwell
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33 Mansfield ParkbyJane Austen
34After the New Testament: The Writings of the Apostolic FathersbyBart D. Ehrman
35The Dead Sea ScrollsbyGary A. Rendsburg
36The Bronte BBC Radio Drama Collection: Seven full-cast dramatisationsbyCharlotte Brontë
37.Beau GestebyP.C. Wren
38The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066byMarc Morris
39The ParasitesbyDaphne du Maurier
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✦ Three cheers + ✦Take 5 = 5 books
1.Moby-Dick or, the WhalebyHerman Melville
✔17/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
2.The Eustace DiamondsbyAnthony Trollope
✔20/6/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3.Mary BartonbyElizabeth Gaskell
✔19/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
4.Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and SonbyMartin Sheen
✔23/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
5,Master WolseybyLaura Dowers
✔13/8/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
✦Behind the 8 ball: = 8 books
6Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier
✔ (20/8/22)★★★★★
7.The Tenant of Wildfell HallbyAnne Brontë
✔ (28/8/22)★★★★★
8.Shardlake: The Complete BBC Radio CollectionbyC.J. Sansom
✔ (7/9/22)★★★★★
✦ Bakers dozen: = 13 books
9..Royal EscapebyGeorgette Heyer
✔24/9/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
10.North and SouthbyElizabeth Gaskell
✔24/10/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
11.The Good ServantbyFern Britton
✔7/12/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
12.Elizabeth: The Forgotten YearsbyJohn Guy
✔1/1/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
13.Brideshead RevisitedbyEvelyn Waugh

2023 Planner

1/50

1 A book you meant to read in 2022
Cranfordby Elizabeth Gaskell
2 A book you bought from an independent bookstore
The Marriage PortraitbyMaggie O'Farrell
3 A book about a vacation
Lift Up Your Heart: A 10-Day Personal Retreat with St. Francis de SalesbyJohn BurnsOR
You and Me on VacationbyEmily HenryOR
Mr Golightly's HolidaybySalley Vickers
4 A book by a first-time author
Adam Bedeby George EliotOR
Where Angels Fear to TreadbyE.M. ForsterOR
Tears of AmberbySofía SegoviaOR
Deliver HerbyPatricia Perry Donovan
5 A book with mythical creatures
That Hideous StrengthbyC.S. Lewis
6 A book about a forbidden romance
Lady on the CoinbyMargaret Campbell Barnes
7 A book with "Girl" in the title
The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and JulietbyOlivia HusseyOR
The Girl on the TrainbyPaula Hawkins
8 A celebrity memoir
Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret MitchellbyAnne Edwards
9 A book with a color in the title
Green LightbyLloyd C. Douglas
10 A romance with a fat lead
11 A book about or set in Hollywood
Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and LearningbyKirk Douglas
12 A book published in spring 2023
13 A book published the year you were born
The Dean's WatchbyElizabeth Goudge
14 A modern retelling of a classic
The WintersbyLisa Gabriele
15 A book with a song lyric as its title
The Silent Stars Go BybySally Nicholls
16 A book where the main character's name is in the title
Thomas Merton on William FaulknerbyThomas Merton
17 A book with a love triangle
Desperate RemediesbyThomas Hardy
The Age of InnocencebyEdith Wharton
OR IvanhoebyWalter Scott
18 A book that's been banned or challenged in any state in 2022
19 A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge
" A book that you own but have never read"(2015)
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
✔1/1/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
20 A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023
ShriverbyChris Belden
21 A book set in the decade you were born
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kenby[author:John Guynedy, 1917-1963|4424]byRobert Dallek
22 A book with a queer lead
Brideshead RevisitedbyEvelyn Waugh
23 A book with a map
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest TrailbyCheryl Strayed
24 A book with a rabbit on the cover
The Velveteen RabbitbyMargery Williams Bianco
25 A book with just text on the cover
Wives and DaughtersbyElizabeth Gaskell
26 The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
ArmisticebyFrancis Brett Young
27 A #BookTok recommendation
The Book ThiefbyMarkus Zusak
28 A book you bought secondhand
Out of the Silent PlanetbyC.S. Lewis
29 A book your friend recommended
The Ladies' Midnight Swimming ClubbyFaith Hogan
30 A book that's on a celebrity book-club list
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand AlonebyBrené Brown
31 A book about a family
The Chosen byElizabeth Lowry
32 A book that comes out in the second half of 2023
33 A book about an athlete/sport
Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on EarthbyAdharanand Finn
34 A historical-fiction book
A Parcel of PatternsbyJill Paton Walsh
35 A book about divorce
The Parent TrapbyErich Kästner
36 A book you think your best friend would like
Apologia Pro Vita SuabyJohn Henry Newman
37 A book you should have read in high school
St. Thomas's Eveby Jean Plaidy
38 A book you read more than 10 years ago
PerelandrabyC.S. Lewis
39 A book you wish you could read for the first time again

40 A book by an author with the same initials as you
Roller GirlbyVictoria Jamieson
41 A book written during NaNoWriMo
42 A book based on a popular movie
ArrivalbyTed Chiang
43 A book that takes place entirely in one day
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a DaybyWinifred Watson
44 A book that was self-published
Still AlicebyLisa Genova
45 A book that started out as fan fiction
Pride and PremeditationbyTirzah Price OR
Pride, Prejudice and PoisonbyElizabeth Blake
46 A book with a pet character
Ring of Bright WaterbyGavin Maxwell
47 A book about a holiday that's not Christmas
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605byAntonia Fraser
48 A book that features two languages
Moon TigerbyPenelope Lively
49 The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
The Complete Works of Johanna SpyribyJohanna Spyri
50 A book with alliteration in the title
Desert Dangers and Delights: Stories, Teachings, and SourcesbyJohn Michael Talbot

UK Book Club UK Counties Challenge (Open ended)

Expecting to go at a very leisurely pace!
8 Counties Left-as of 14/12/22

33/41
ENGLAND

1. Bedfordshire (Bedford, Luton, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Biggleswade, Sandy)
The Midnight LibrarybyMatt Haig
✔ (23/10/21)★★★★★
2. Berkshire (Reading, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Newbury, Windsor, Wokingham, Abingdon)
Elizabeth of York: The Last White RosebyAlison Weir
✔ (19/5/22)★★★★★
3. Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury, Milton Keynes, Slough, Buckingham, High Wycombe)
The Return of the SoldierbyRebecca West
✔ (25/6/21)★★★★★
4. Cambridgeshire (Cambridge, Wisbech, Ely, March, Whittlesey, Chatteris, Linton)
When Breath Becomes Airby Paul Kalanithi (This fine doctor studied for a time at Cambridge University)
✔ (6/1/22)★★★★★
5. Cheshire (Chester, Stockport, Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead, Wallasey, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Crewe)
Cranfordby Elizabeth Gaskell
Where Shall We Run To?: A MemoirbyAlan Garner
6. Cornwall (Bodmin, Truro, Camborne, Redruth, St. Austell, Falmouth, Penzance, Newquay)
Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier
✔ (20/8/22)★★★★★
7. Cumberland (Carlisle, Whitehaven, Workington, Penrith, Keswick, Brampton)
The Tenant of Wildfell HallbyAnne Brontë
✔ (28/8/22)★★★★★
8. Derbyshire (Derby, Chesterfield, Glossop, Ilkeston, Long Eaton, Swadlincote, Buxton, Matlock, Ashbourne)
A Parcel of PatternsbyJill Paton Walsh


9. Devon (Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay, Paignton, Barnstaple, Tiverton, Newton Abbot, Tavistock)
Tarka the OtterbyHenry Williamson
✔6/7/21 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
10. Dorset (Dorchester, Poole, Weymouth, Sherborne, Wimborne Minster, Shaftesbury)
The Children of the New Forestby Frederick Marryat
✔22/1/21 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
11. Durham (Durham, Sunderland, Stockton-on-Tees, Darlington, Hartlepool, Gateshead, Washington)
Doctor of the High FellsbyElizabeth Gill

12. Essex (Chelmsford, Basildon, Romford, Southend, Colchester, Harlow, Brentwood, West Ham)
The Snow GoosebyPaul Gallico
✔ (3/5/21)★★★★★
13. Gloucestershire (Gloucester, Bristol, Cheltenham, Stroud, Cirencester, Tewkesbury)
Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S. Forester (travelling on the Thames and Severn Canal in Gloucestershire)
✔ (17/9/21)★★★★★
14. Hampshire (Winchester, Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Basingstoke, Newport)
CharlottebyHelen Moffett
✔ (24/8/21)★★★★
15. Herefordshire (Hereford, Ross-on-Wye, Leominster, Ledbury, Bromyard, Kington)
Random Questby John Wyndham
✔ (7/8/22)★★★★★
16. Hertfordshire (Hertford, Watford, St. Albans, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Hatfield)
Elizabeth by David Starkey
(Elizabeth spent a significant part of her childhood in Hatfield House,Hertfordshire.)
✔ (13/9/21)★★★★
17. Huntingdonshire (Huntingdon, St. Ives, St. Neots, Ramsey, Yaxley)
The Children of Green Knoweby Lucy M. Boston
✔15/9/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
18. Kent (Maidstone, Canterbury, Bromley, Rochester, Margate, Folkestone, Dover, Greenwich)
The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles Dickens (set in Rochester)
✔ (6/9/21)★★★★★
19. Lancashire (Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Bolton, Warrington, Barrow-in-Furness)
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
✔19/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
20. Leicestershire (Leicester, Loughborough, Hinckley, Melton Mowbray, Coalville, Lutterworth)
King Richard IIIbyWilliam Shakespeare
✔16/9/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
21. Lincolnshire (Lincoln, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Boston, Grantham, Stamford, Skegness, Louth)
The Quiet GentlemanbyGeorgette Heyer

22. Middlesex (City of London, Harrow, Enfield, Staines, Ealing, Potters Bar, Westminster )
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actorby Alec Guinness
✔16/12/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
23. Norfolk (Norwich, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn, Dereham, Cromer, Hunstanton)
Richeldis of WalsinghambySally Thomas

24. Northamptonshire (Northampton, Peterborough, Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough)
Mary Queen of Scotsby Antonia Fraser
✔27/4/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
25. Northumberland (Alnwick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Morpeth, Hexham, Berwick-upon-Tweed)
To the Island of Tides: A Journey to LindisfarnebyAlistair Moffat
✔23/6/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
26. Nottinghamshire (Nottingham, Mansfield, Worksop, Newark, Retford, Southwell)

27. Oxfordshire (Oxford, Banbury, Witney, Bicester, Henley-on-Thames, Carterton, Thame)
The Unquiet BonesbyMelvin R. Starr
✔(3/5/22)★★★★★
28. Rutland (Oakham, Uppingham. Cottesmore)
Set In StonebyRobert Goddard

29. Shropshire (Shrewsbury, Telford, Oswestry, Bridgnorth, Whitchurch, Market Drayton, Ludlow)
Catherine, Called Birdyby Karen Cushman
✔27/9/21 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
30. Somerset (Taunton, Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Yeovil, Bridgwater, Wells, Glastonbury)
Christmas at the Crescentby Veronica Henry
✔22/11/21 ★ ★ ★ ★
31. Staffordshire (Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Cannock, Lichfield)
The Potter's HandbyA.N. Wilson
32. Suffolk (Ipswich, Bury St. Edmunds, Lowestoft, Felixstowe, Sudbury, Haverhill, Bungay)
The Dig: A Novel Based on True Eventsby John Preston
✔2/8/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
33. Surrey (Guildford, Croydon, Woking, Sutton, Kingston-on-Thames, Wandsworth, Wimbledon, Brixton)
Athelstan: The Making of England by Tom Holland
✔21/10/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
34. Sussex (Chichester, Brighton, Worthing, Crawley, Hastings, Eastbourne, Bognor Regis, Horsham)
Blessings in Disguise by Alec Guinness
✔16/12/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
35. Warwickshire (Warwick, Birmingham, Coventry, Nuneaton, Rugby, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon)
An Eagle in the Snowby Michael Morpurgo
✔7/2/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
36. Westmorland (Appleby, Kendal, Windermere, Ambleside, Kirkby Lonsdale)
The Tale of Pigling BlandbyBeatrix Potter
✔19/9/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
37. Wiltshire (Trowbridge, Salisbury, Swindon, Chippenham, Devizes, Marlborough, Warminster)
Bring Up The Bodies / The Mirror and The Light by Hilary Mantel
✔30/6/21 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
38. Worcestershire (Worcester, Dudley, Kidderminster, Stourbridge, Halesowen, Malvern, Evesham)
Royal Escape: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable historical adventurebyGeorgette Heyer
✔24/9/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
39. Yorkshire
a) North Riding (Northallerton, Middlesbrough, Scarborough, Whitby)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
✔27/9/21 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★byDavid Mitchell
b) East Riding (Beverley, Hull, Bridlington, Driffield, Hornsea, Filey)
Shardlake: The Complete BBC Radio Collection
byC.J. Sansom
✔13/9/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
c) West Riding (Wakefield, Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Halifax, Harrogate)
Richard IIbyWilliam Shakespeare
(Richard II died in Pontefract Castle.W,Yorks}
✔4/2/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★





Both photographs taken by me in Christchurch,Dorset.

"Catching up on Classics" 2023 Classic Bingo Challenge

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https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999
Green LightbyLloyd C. Douglas
B2: Classic written in your native language
Wives and DaughtersbyElizabeth Gaskell
B3: Classic of Europe
The Dean's WatchbyElizabeth Goudge
B4: Classic involving art
The Agony and the EcstasybyIrving Stone
B5: Classic from your bookshelf
Apologia Pro Vita SuabyJohn Henry Newman

I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2023
A Christmas MemorybyTruman Capote
I2: Classic biography/autobiography or memoir
Ring of Bright WaterbyGavin Maxwell
I3: Classic horror or gothic
Lady Audley's SecretbyMary Elizabeth Braddon
I4: Classic comedy, satire, or humor
My Man JeevesbyP.G. Wodehouse
I5: Book from the group’s Favorites of 2022
The Keys of the KingdombyA.J. Cronin

N1: Classic of the Americas
The House of MirthbyEdith Wharton
N2: Classic Western
Riders of the DawnbyLouis L'Amour
N3: Reader’s Choice
Lost in YonkersbyNeil Simon
N4: Classic mystery or thriller
No Name: By Wilkie Collins - IllustratedbyWilkie Collins
N5: Classic of Africa or Oceania

G1: Classic from a group poll that did not win
Desperate RemediesbyThomas Hardy
G2: Classic action or adventure
The Power HousebyJohn Buchan
G3: Classic history or historical fiction
Requiem for a WrenbyNevil Shute
G4: Class fantasy or science fiction
That Hideous StrengthbyC.S. Lewis
G5: Book from the Group’s 2023 Bookshelf

O1: Book Published before 1900
The Complete Works of Johanna SpyribyJohanna Spyri
O2: New-To-You Classic Author
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a DaybyWinifred Watson
O3: Classic of Asia
The Good EarthbyPearl S. Buck
O4: Classic in translation
The School For WivesbyMolière
O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949
Brideshead RevisitedbyEvelyn Waugh

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I am considering this challenge.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium
Challenge #4 - Members Choice
Challenge #5 - Short Story
Challenge #6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Challenge #8 - Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult
Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories
Challenge #12 - A-Z Author
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title

Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium

1870-1880Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
1880-1890A Country DoctorbySarah Orne Jewett
1890-1900TrilbybyGeorge du Maurier
1900-1910The House of MirthbyEdith Wharton
1910-1920The Beasts of TarzanbyEdgar Rice Burroughs
1920-1930The Sun Also RisesbyErnest Hemingway
1930-1940The Good EarthbyPearl S. Buck
1940-1950Brideshead RevisitedbyEvelyn Waugh
1950-1960The BellbyIris Murdoch
1960-1970The Agony and the EcstasybyIrving Stone

Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, from any genre or era you want.

IDEAS

1.R.D. Blackmore
2.Zane Grey
3Cornelia Meigs
4.Mary Elizabeth Braddon
5.Hendrik Willem van Loon
6.Pierre Abélard
7.Booth Tarkington
8.Markus Zusak
9.Marcellino D'Ambrosio
10.Dorsey Armstrong
13.Anne M. Butler
14.Melanie Benjamin
15.Genevieve Cogman
16.Tony Kevin
17.Elizabeth Gilbert
18.Jon Krakauer

Good luck on your challenges and happy reading, Vicky!

Love the photos!

Rosemarie wrote: "Good luck on your challenges and happy reading, Vicky!

Love the photos!"

Many thanks,Rosemary-very happy to be here in the group!

You can also check any of our previous years' maxi and mini challenges and use them on your personal thread. Or not.😉

COMPLETED CHALLENGES



Reading Challenge Group
Clue: The Character Challenge 2022

Super challenge!I remember the version of Cluedo launched in the seventies-I think I still have the old game-although one or two of the "Weapons"may now be missing!

Miss Scarlet: career in law
Bartleby the Scrivener
✔10/2/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Colonel Mustard: career in the military
The Children of the New Forest (Edward Beverley was a soldier in the Kings army.)
✔22/1/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Nurse White: career in medicine
When Breath Becomes Air
✔5/1/21 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Reverend Green: career in religion
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soulby Maria Faustyna Kowalska
✔ (17/2/22)★★★★★
Professor Plum: career in education
Winter World
[✔10/2/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Mrs. Peacock: career in business
[book:Brewster's Millions|27778096]
✔21/1/22★ ★ ★ ★
Sergeant Gray: career in law enforcement
The Price
✔7/2/21 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Mr. Brown: career as a con artist or spy
ChainsbyLaurie Halse Anderson
(Main character spied for the George Washingtons army.)
✔19/2/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Extra-Credit..
Mr. Black/Mr. Boddy: is dead or dies in the story
The Great FireNewbery medal winner about the events of the Great Chicago Fire.
✔23/1/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

(Challenge Completed 19/2/22)

"Catching up on Classics" 2022 Classic Bingo Challenge
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B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999
The Sense of Wonder
✔ (23/1/22)★★★★★
B2: Classic written in your native language
All My Sons
✔ (18/1/22)★★★★
B3: Classic Science or Philosophy
Silent Spring
✔ (23/2/22)★★★★★
B4: Classic Banned Book
Death of a Salesman
✔ (16/1/22)★★★★★
B5: A Classic NOT on Our Bookshelf that Should be There
Passing
✔ (23/1/22)★★★★★
I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2022
The Last Question
✔ (5/2/22)★★★★★
I2: New-To-You Classic Author
A Raisin in the Sun
✔ (17/1/22)★★★★★
I3: Classic Drama or Play
A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
✔ (19/1/22)★★★★
I4: Classic Over 500 pages
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soulby Maria Faustyna Kowalska
✔ (17/2/22)★★★★★
I5: Literary Prize or Your Country or Region
Pumpkin Soupby Helen Cooper
Kate Greenaway medalist
✔ (29/1/22)★★★★★
N1: Classic Involving Music
The Pied Piper of HamelinbyRobert BrowningandKate Greenaway
✔ (19/1/22)★★★★★
N2: Classic Mythology or Folklore
The Sword in the Stone
✔ (4/2/22)★★★★★
N3: Free Space
The Rivalsby Richard Brinsley Sheridan
✔ (8/1/22)★★★★★
N4: Classic Poetry or Essay Collection
A Shropshire Lad
✔ (14/1/22)★★★★★
N5: Classic by an Author from a Country you didn’t Read in 2021
Life of St. Anthony of Egypt
✔ (15/1/22)★★★★★
G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize (Newbery Medal 1996)
The Great FirebyJim Murphy
✔ (23/1/22)★★★★★
G2: Book from a group poll during your birthday month
The Misanthrope
✔ (24/1/22)★★★★★
G3: Classic Tragedy
Richard II
✔ (4/2/22)★★★★★
G4: Group Bingo Participant Pick (Nidhi's top ten)
All Quiet on the Western Front
✔ (27/4/22)★★★★★
G5: Book from the Group’s 2022 Bookshelf
Bartleby the Scrivener
✔ (10/2/22)★★★★
O1: Book Published before 1900
Billy Budd, Sailor
✔ (25/1/22)★★★★
O2: Children’s Classic
The Children of the New Forest
✔ (22/1/22)★★★★★
O3: Classic Short Story Collection
Consider Her Ways and Others
✔ (18/2/22)★★★★★
O4: Classic in translation
Solaris
✔ (16/1/22)★★★★★
O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949
Brewster's Millions
✔ (21/1/22)★★★★*

Popsugar 2022
COMPLETED 8/6/2022

(50/50)
REGULAR
1. A book published in 2022
The MaidbyNita Prose
✔ (3/2/22)★★★★★
2. A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship
The Plane That Wasn't There: Why We Haven't Found Malaysia Airlines Flight 370by Jeff Wise
✔ (8/1/22)★★★★★
3. A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society
Consider Her Ways and Othersby John Wyndham
✔ (17/2/22)★★★★★
4. A book with a tiger on the cover or "tiger" in the title
The Tiger Who Came to Teaby Judith Kerr
✔ (8/1/22)★★★★★
5. A sapphic book
Poems of West & EastbyVita Sackville-West
✔ (17/2/22)★★★★★
6. A book by a Latinx author
The CaimanbyMaria Eugenia Manrique
✔ (8/1/22)★★★★★
7. A book with an onomatopoeia in its title Silent Springby Rachel Carson
✔ (23/2/22)★★★★★
8. A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid
A Lifetime of Wisdom: Embracing the Way God Heals YoubyJoni Eareckson Tada
✔ (21/5/22)★★★★★
9. A book about a "found family"
Great ExpectationsbyCharles Dickens
✔ (6/1/22)★★★★★
10. An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner
Cry, the Beloved CountrybyAlan Paton
✔ (1/6/22)★★★★★
11. A #BookTok recommendation
Where the Forest Meets the Starsby Glendy Vanderah
✔ (16/2/22)★★★★★
12. A book about the afterlife
Glimpsing Heaven: The Stories and Science of Life After DeathbyJudy Bachrach
✔ (9/1/22)★★★★★
13. A book set in the 1980s
Joni and Ken: An Untold Love Storyby Ken & Joni Eareckson Tada
✔ (30/4/22)★★★★★
14. A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title
SpoonbyAmy Krouse Rosenthal
✔ (25/5/22)★★★★★
15. A book by a Pacific Islander author
The Whale Riderby Witi Ihimaera
✔ (28/1/22)★★★★★
16. A book about witches
Good Night, BaddiesbyDeborah Underwood
✔ (25/5/22)★★★★
17. A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022
The Midwich CuckoosbyJohn Wyndham
✔ (28/1/22)★★★★★
18. A romance novel by a BIPOC author
✔ (27/1/22)★★★★
19. A book that takes place during your favorite season
Winter World by A.G. Riddle
✔ (10/2/22)★★★★★
20. A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read
Solarisby Stanisław Lem
✔ (17/1/22)★★★★★
21. A book about a band or musical group
The Four Musicians: A German Fairytale retold in rhyme. Four elderly animals decide to go to Bremen to start a band.byMary Rowitz
✔ (3/5/21)★★★★★
22. A book with a character on the ace spectrum
The Best of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1byArthur Conan Doyle
✔ (10/5/22)★★★★★
23. A book with a recipe in it
Twain's Feast
✔ (18/2/22)★★★★
24. A book you can read in one sitting
Alexandra Feodorovna: A Life From Beginning to EndbyHourly History
✔ (8/1/22)★★★★★
25. A book about a secret
The Giver of StarsbyJojo Moyes
✔ (12/1/22)★★★★
26. A book with a misleading title
The Phone Box at the Edge of the WorldbyLaura Imai Messina
✔ (12/1/22)★★★★★
27. A Hugo Award winner
Project Hail MarybyAndy Weir
✔ (30/5/22)★★★★★
28. A book set during a holiday
Amazing PeacebyMaya Angelou
✔ (13/2/22)★★★★★
29. A different book by an author you read in 2021
The Rivalsby Richard Brinsley Sheridan
✔ (8/1/22)★★★★★
30. A book with the name of a board game in the title
Life of St. Anthony of EgyptbyAthanasius of Alexandria
✔ (14/1/22)★★★★★
31. A book featuring a man-made disaster
All My Sonsby Arthur Miller
✔ (18/1/22)★★★★
32. A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon Page The Cromwell EnigmabyDerek Wilson
"Derek Wilson is a fine historian - and he can also tell a gripping story. This is historical fiction at its best, effortlessly underpinned by a wealth of research by a writer whose understanding of the period is profound." -- Alison Weir
✔ (8/6/22)★★★
33. A social-horror book
All Quiet on the Western FrontbyErich Maria Remarque
✔ (27/4/22)★★★★★
34. A book set in Victorian times
Olive Oatman: A Life From Beginning to EndbyHourly History
✔ (9/1/22)★★★★
35. A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title
A Hundred Billion Trillion StarsbySeth Fishman
✔ (25/5/22)★★★★★
36. A book you know nothing about
The MisanthropeMolière
✔ (24/1/22)★★★★★
37. A book about gender identity
Twelth Night or What You Willby William Shakespeare
✔ (20/1/22)★★★★★
38. A book featuring a party
The Birthday Partyby Harold Pinter
✔ (7/1/22)★★★★
39. An #OwnVoices SFF (science fiction and fantasy) book
The Deepby Rivers Solomon
✔ (23/5/22)★★★
40. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge-
When Breath Becomes Airby Paul Kalanithi
Any that allows me to include this wonderful memoir!
✔ (6/1/22)★★★★★

Advanced

41. A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title
Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwandaby Emmanuel M. Katongole
✔ (8/2/22)★★★★★
42. A book that features two languages
The Sword in the Stoneby T.H. White
✔ (5/2/22)★★★★★
43. A book with a palindromic title
The Eve of St. AgnesbyJohn Keats
✔ (8/1/22)★★★★★
44. A duology (1)The Unquiet Bones Melvin R. Starr
✔(3/5/22)★★★★
45.A duology (2)A Corpse at St Andrews ChapelbyMelvin R. Starr
✔(9/5/2022)★★★★
46. A book about someone leading a double life
Passingby Nella Larsen
✔ (23/1/22)★★★★★
47. A book featuring a parallel reality
Portrait of Jennieby Robert Nathan
✔ (6/1/22)★★★★
48. A book with two POVs
Richard IIby William Shakespeare
✔ (4/2/22)★★★★★
49. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (1) CHICAGO
The Great Fireby Jim Murphy
✔ (23/1/22)★★★★★
50. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities"(2)VILNIUS
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soulby Maria Faustyna Kowalska
✔ (17/2/22)★★★★★

Readi✔ (ng Challenge group
Spring Bingo Categories
(Starting March 22nd and running until the end of June)


COMPLETED ON 25/5/22

B1: Award Nominated The GiverbyLois Lowry
14/5/22)★★★★★
B2: MemoirNo Place to Lay One's HeadbyFrançoise Frenkel
25/5/22)★★★★★
B3: Audio Book The Clean and Wholesome Land
✔ (1/5/22)★★★★
B4: Green Cover The Pensioner
✔ (27/4/22)★★★★★
B5: Pretty DressElizabeth of York: The Last White Rose
✔ (19/5/22)★★★★★

I1: Published before 1900 All Quiet on the Western Front
✔ (27/4/22)★★★★★
I2: TravelThe Other Side of the HedgebyE.M. Forster
(1/5/22)★★★★★
I3: Horror or SuspenseThe Mystery of the Circular ChamberbyL.T. Meade
(3/5/22)★★★★★
I4: Mental IllnessIn The DarkbyE. Nesbit
(3/5/22)★★★★★
I5: Fairies or FaeThe Snail and the Rose-Tree With Color Illustrations
(1/5/22)★★★★★
N1: Published This YearThe Last White Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York
✔ (2/4/22)★★★★
N2: Yellow CoverA Lifetime of Wisdom: Embracing the Way God Heals YoubyJoni Eareckson Tada
✔ (21/5/22)★★★★★

N3: FREEThe Little Frenchman and His Water Lots: With Other Sketches of the Times
✔ (1/5/22)★★★★
N4: Romance A Farewell to Arms
✔ (27/4/22)★★★★★
N5: Male POV Typhoon
✔ (27/4/22)★★★★
G1: Tear-JerkerJoni and Ken: An Untold Love Story
✔ (30/4/22)★ ★ ★ ★

G2: In TranslationThe Passage of the Red SeabyHenry Murger
✔ (1/5/22)★★★★★
G3: Minority Studies Gathering Blue
✔ (16/5/22)★★★★★
G4: Young AdultThe Deepby Rivers Solomon
✔ (23/5/22)★★★★★
G5: Magical PowersThe Flying Trunk
✔1/5/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
O1: Fairy Tale Retelling Good Night, Baddies
✔25/5/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
O2: Historical (F or NF)Mary Queen of Scots
✔22/4/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
O3: Play Henry V
✔21/4/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
O4: Based on a True story Firstborn: A Tudor Rose short story
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
O5: Pink Cover Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli
✔25/5/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★



Winter Bingo Template
(Backdated to the beginning of this year)
Time UP! UNFINISHED DUE TO LENT (NO CHALLENGES)

B1: Award WinnerDeath of a Salesman
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering Glimpsing Heaven: The Stories and Science of Life After Death
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
B4: Mystery or ThrillerThe Maid
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
B5: Current Event RelatedThe Plane That Wasn't There: Why We Haven't Found Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
I1: Start a SeriesPumpkin SoupbyHelen Cooper
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I2: Middle GradeChains
✔ (19/2/22)★★★★
I3: Blue Cover Billy Budd, Sailor
✔ (25/1/22)★★★★
I4: > 400 pagesThe Giver of Stars
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I5: Personal Improvement Keep Moving: And Other Truths About Living Well Longerby Dick Van Dyke
✔(8/2/22) ★ ★ ★
N1: ClassicGreat Expectations
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N2: Made into a MovieAll My Sons
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
N3: FREEA Shropshire Lad
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N4: Science FictionSolaris
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N5: HumorBrewster's Millions
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★

G1: Magical RealismPortrait of Jennie
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
G2: LGBTQ+Poems of West & EastbyVita Sackville-West
✔ (17/2/22)★★★★★
G3: White Cover Olive Oatman: A Life From Beginning to End
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: BiographicalAlexandra Feodorovna: A Life From Beginning to End
✔★ ★ ★ ★

O1: Published Last YearOnce There Were Wolves
O2: Epistolarycollected letters of c s lewis volume 1
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
O3: Gold Lettering Twain's Feast
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★
O4: Based on MythologyThe Whale Rider
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
O5: Math/ScienceWhen Breath Becomes Air
✔ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★


SUMMER BINGO
(will run from July 1 through September 21)

(25/25)

CATEGORIES...

B1: Exploration - A book out of your comfort zone
Moby-Dick or, the WhalebyHerman Melville
✔17/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
B2: Congratulations! - An award winning book (can include Goodreads choice awards)
Hello LighthousebySophie Blackall (Caldecott Medal Winner.2019)
✔18/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
B3: Participation - A group read (this or any other group)
Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heartby Jacques Philippe(Summer Book Club Reading choice on Hallow App)
✔13/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
B4: Information - A non-fiction book or one based on a true story
The Dig: A Novel Based on True Eventsby John Preston
✔2/8/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
B5: Collaboration - A discovery made through Goodreads such as through recommendations, suggestions from GR friends, newsletter etc.
Salar the SalmonbyHenry Williamson
✔15/8/22 ★ ★ ★ ★

I1: Listed it - A book from your GR to-read list
Introduction to the Devout LifebyFrancis de Sales
✔14/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I2: Bought it - A book you own but have not yet read
Random QuestbyJohn Wyndham
✔7/8/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
I3: Eyed it - A book you have been meaning to read for a while now
Master WolseybyLaura Dowers
✔13/8/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I4: Downloaded it - An ebook you own but that you have not yet read or an audiobook you have not yet listened to
4.Cardinal WolseybyMandell Creighton
✔6/8/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I5: Scored it! - A book you got for free e.g. sale, gift, giveaway, library etc.
A Family ElopementbyH.G. Wells
✔22/7/22 ★ ★ ★


N1: Oldie but goodie - A classic
The Practice of the Presence of GodbyBrother Lawrence
✔8/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N2: New kid on the block - A book published this year
Forsaken: The Thomas Wolsey TrilogybyLaura Dowers
✔13/9/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N3: FREE - Any book that strikes your fancy :)
FencesbyAugust Wilson
✔3/8/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N4: Yesterday's news - A book released last year that you haven't yet read
Power & Glory: The Thomas Wolsey TrilogybyLaura Dowers
✔18/8/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N5: Everybody's talking - A buzz-worthy book, one that you have heard others raving about or that everybody but you seems to have read
Man's Search for MeaningbyViktor E. Frankl
✔25/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

G1: Nice to meet you - A book by an author new to you
Tarka the OtterbyHenry Williamson
✔6/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
G2: You seem familiar - A book by an author you have heard a lot about
Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and SonbyMartin Sheen
✔23/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
G3: One of the girls - A book by a female author
Mary BartonbyElizabeth Gaskell
✔19/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
G4: One of the guys - A book by a male author
Henry VIIIbyWilliam Shakespeare
✔31/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
G5: Old friends - A book you haven't yet read by an author whose work you like
ChockybyJohn Wyndham
✔31/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

O1: Take a stand - A stand-alone book
Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier
✔ (20/8/22)★★★★★
O2: Take a friend - Any book from a series
Driving Miss DaisybyAlfred Uhry Atlanta Series)
✔30/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
O3: Take a trip - A book set in different locale, continent or culture from your own
The Water BabiesbyCharles Kingsley
✔1/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
O4: Take a look - An adult book, any genre
Playing BurtonbyMark Jenkins
✔30/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
O5: Take a break - A YA book
Peter Pan: An Audible Original DramabyJ.M. Barrie
✔5/8/22 ★ ★ ★ ★

BACK TO CLASSICS JUNE CHALLENGE-Back to the Fifties!

I'm in as usual!
June 2022 Challenge
-BTW,GREAT challenge!!!

Back to the 1950s
1/6/22 - 30/6/22

(5/5)

Choices will be taken from something by :
John Wyndham
The Kraken Wakes
✔ (3/6/22)★★★★

Arthur Miller
An Enemy of the People: An Adaptation of the Play by Henrik Ibsen
✔ (7/6/22)★★★★★

Samuel Becket
Krapp's Last Tape
✔ (7/6/22)★★★★★

John Osborne
The Entertainer
✔ (7/6/22)★★★★★

Georgette Heyer
Sprig Muslin

Graham Greene
The Potting Shed
✔ (9/6/22)★★★★★
The Quiet American


Nicholas Monsarrat
The Ship That Died of Shame

Iris Murdoch
The Bell

C S Lewis
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Shoddy Lands


Nevil Shute
Requiem for a Wren
Beyond The Black Stump


Taylor Caldwell
Dear and Glorious Physician

Possibly more,,,,

FINISHED 14/12/2022

New challenges for 2022
Reading Challenge group
2022 Monthly Mini-Challenge

-ONGOING!!!!

*January: General Fiction(Novels)
February: Plays and Poetry and Romance!
March: Mystery and Suspense
April: Western/Humour/Adventure
May: Female Authors
June: Fantasy/Graphic Novels
July: Chldren's/YA
August: Memoirs, Biography, Travel
September: Science Fiction/Dystopia
October: Supernatural, Thriller, Horror
November: Historical Fiction and any Non-fiction
December: Classics, Short Stories, Fairy Tales

JANUARY -General Fiction(Novels)
1. Read a novel that has more than 150 pages.
The Children of the New Forest
✔22/1/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2. Read a book by an author that is new to you.
Passing
✔23/1/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3. Read, or reread, the first book in a series.
The Sword in the Stone
✔5/2/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

FEBRUARY-Plays and Poetry and Romance!
1. Read a book with a two-word title.
The Price
✔7/2/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2. Read, watch or listen to a play.
A Memory of Two Mondays
✔ (22/1/22)★★★★★
3. Read a romance OR share a love poem with the group.
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
✔ (16/2/22)★★★★

MARCH: Mystery and Suspense
1. Read a mystery.The Fenchurch Street Mystery
✔ (2/5/22)★★★★★
2. Read a book that's 300+ pages long.A Corpse at St Andrews Chapelby Melvin R. Starr
✔ (3/5/22)★★★★
3. Read a book set in a place (big or small, real or fictional)starting with "M".The Mystery of the Circular Chamberby L.T. Meade
✔3/5/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

APRIL: Western/Humour/Adventure
1. April Fool's Day-read a book that makes you laugh or smile.
The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots: With Other Sketches of the Times
✔ (1/5/22)★★★★
2. Read a book set in a place you would love to visit or re-visit.
(France)Henry V
✔21/4/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3. Read a book that has a four word title.
The Buller-Podington Compact
✔4/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

MAY:FEMALE AUTHORS.
1. Read a book by a female author new to you.The Schoolmaster's ProgressbyCaroline Kirkland
✔1/5/22 ★ ★ ★
2. Read a book with the name of a family member or a person's name in the title.
Lena WracebyMay Sinclair
✔12/5/22 ★ ★
3. Read or reread a book or short story by one of your favourite female authors.In the Dark by E. Nesbit
✔3/4/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

JUNE:FANTASY AND GRAPHIC NOVELS

1. Read a graphic novel or a comic collection.
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic NovelbyFred FordhamandHarper Lee
✔10/6/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

2. Read a fantasy.
MessengerbyLois Lowry
✔10/6/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3. Read a book set on an island, at the seashore or beach, or on the water(ocean, lake, etc.
Tarka the OtterbyHenry Williamson
✔6/7/21 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★


JULY:CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT

1. Read or reread a children's or YA book The Water BabiesbyCharles Kingsley
✔ (1/7/22)★★★★
2. Read a book that has the name of a colour or flower in the title
The Rose ChildbyJohanna Spyri
✔29/6/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
3. Read a book that has a word that starts with "J" or "U" in the title or an author whose first or last name starts with either of those letters
What Sami Sings With The BirdsbyJohanna Spyri
✔7/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

AUGUST/MEMOIRS-BIOGRAPHY-TRAVEL

1. Read a book written in the first person
Playing BurtonbyMark Jenkins
✔30/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2. Read a book where one or more of the characters go on a journey OR read a travel book
Driving Miss DaisybyAlfred Uhry
✔30/7/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
3. Read a book with a title that starts with the words "A" or "An"
A Visit in Verse to HalemaumaubyFrank Cowan
✔31/7/22 ★ ★ ★

SEPTEMBER: Science Fiction/Dystopia

1. Read any science fiction book
Missing LinkbyFrank Herbert
✔1/9/21 ★ ★ ★ ★
2. Read a book set in any school, college or university
Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast AudioplaybyOrson Scott Card
✔18/9/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3. Read a book set in a dystopian or post apocalyptic world/society
The ChrysalidsbyJohn Wyndham
✔2/9/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

OCTOBER:Supernatural, Thriller, Horror

1. Read a book, including children's lit and picture books, which features witches, ghosts or Halloween.
The Woman in BlackbySusan Hill
✔28/10/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2. Read a book or short story that is classified as Horror by goodreads.
The Horror of the HeightsbyArthur Conan Doyle
✔5/11/22 ★ ★
3. Read a book whose title starts with a word beginning with "O"
Our Little GhostbyLouisa May Alcott
✔14/12/22 ★ ★ ★ ★


NOVEMBER: Historical Fiction and any Non-fiction

1. Read a historical fiction novel set in any time period.
My Friend the EnemybyDan Smith
✔5/11/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
2. Read a non-fiction book about any topic that interests you.
Landlinesby Raynor Winn
✔5/11/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
3. Read a book with a red, orange, yellow or brown cover.
The Silver Sword: A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisationbyIan Serraillier
✔21/11/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

DECEMBER: Classics, Short Stories, Fairy Tales

1. Read or reread any short story or fairy tale.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely FinebyGail Honeyman BBC Abridged Version
✔21/11/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2. Read a book or story set at Christmas or other holiday times.
Rag-and-Bone ChristmasbyDilly Court
✔11/12/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3. Read a children's book, including picture books
My Friend the Enemy by Dan Smith
✔27/11/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

FINISHED 14/12/2022

(25/25)

🍁🍂🍁 FALL BINGO 🍁🍂🍁

B1- Multiple Awards
DoggerbyShirley Hughes
✔22/10/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
B2- Never Finished
CorpusbyRory Clements
✔24/10/22 ★ ★
B3- Courtroom or Crime
Partners: A Rogue Lawyer Short StorybyJohn Grisham
✔16/10/22 ★ ★ ★ ★

B4- Orange Cover
The Universal Brother: Charles de Foucauld speaks to us todaybyLittle Sister Kathleen of Jesus
✔22/10/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
B5- Politics
The Kennedy CurseBYJames Patterson
✔21/10/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I1- Finish a Series
Bill Martin's Bears Series
✔14/12/2022★ ★ ★ ★
I2- Beloved Children's
Olivia and the Missing ToybyIan Falconer
✔27/9/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
I3- Adventure
My Friend the EnemybyDan Smith
✔14/11/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I4- Dysfunctional Family
Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My LifebyJay Blades
✔14/10/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I5- Sweater on Cover
The Christmas Sweater: A Picture BookbyThe Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book
✔14/12/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

✔1/12/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N1- GR Award Nominated
Olivia and the Fairy PrincessesbyIan Falconer
✔23/9/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
N2- Challenges Social Norms
Brother John: A Monk, a Pilgrim and the Purpose of LifebyAugust Turak
✔2/11/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
N3- FREE
The Good ServantbyFern Britton
✔7/12/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
N4- Senior Romance
Landlinesby Raynor Winn
✔5/11/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
N5- Hometown Setting
Rag-and-Bone ChristmasbyDilly Court
✔11/12/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

G1- First Person POV
The Woman in Blackby Susan Hill
✔28/10/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
G2- Red Cover
CorduroybyDon Freeman
✔14/12/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
G3- Unfamiliar Territory
North and Southby Elizabeth Gaskell
✔24/10/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
G4- Highly Recommended
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely FinebyGail Honeyman
✔20/11/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
G5- Supernatural Character
Where Snow Angels GobyMaggie O'Farrell
✔ (1/11/22)★★★★
O1- Foreign Setting
The Silver Sword: A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisationbyIan Serraillier
✔22/11/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
O2- Time Travel
The Trouble with Time TravelbyStephen W. Martin
✔ (1/11/22)★★★★
O3- Illustrated
Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with no FeathersbyJohn Burningham
✔ (30/9/22)★★★★
O4- Religion
The Great Poets: Gerard Manley HopkinsbyGerard Manley Hopkins
✔25/10/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
O5- Brown Cover
Too Much GluebyJason Lefebvre
✔14/12/22 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Congratulations on all your Bingos, Vicky! 👏🎉⭐️

Rosemarie wrote: "Congratulations on all your Bingos, Vicky! 👏🎉⭐️"
Many thanks,Rosemary!Thank you to you and the team for devising them!I have also found keeping all my challenges on Goodreads in one thread very useful indeed and look forward to doing the same,next year :)