The Reading Challenge Group discussion

Starting March 22nd and running until the end of June, here is our spring bingo!
Feel free to copy 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

Mission: Claim at least one "Bingo!" before the first day of summer!

RULES & GUIDELINES

Not too many of these as it is supposed to be fun after all :)

* As with traditional Bingo, you can go for a horizontal, vertical, diagonal, "X" or "around the world" (perimeter). Or aim big and go for a black out (all squares)!

* A book can only be used once on the sheet.

* Interpret the categories as broadly as you like.

Spring Bingo Categories

✔B1: Award Nominated The Secret Garden
✔B2: Memoir Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
✔B3: Audio Book In Cold Blood
✔B4: Green Cover
✔B5: Pretty Dress Walk the Plank: A Vampire Pirate Romance

I1: Published before 1900
✔I2: Travel The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
✔I3: Horror or Suspense Crooked River
✔I4: Mental Illness Warriors Heart: Ash
✔I5: Fairies or Fae Seeds of Sorrow

✔N1: Published This Year Slice of Death
✔N2: Yellow Cover
✔N3: FREE The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: The Original Classic Edition by Agatha Christie - Unabridged and Annotated For Modern Hercule Poirot Readers and Mystery Book Clubs
✔N4: Romance A Destiny of Dragons
✔N5: Male POV Northwest Angle

✔G1: Tear-Jerker Fighting Words
✔G2: In Translation Navidad En Camelot
✔G3: Minority Studies Memphis
✔G4: Young Adult Under a Big Top
✔G5: Magical Powers Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

✔O1: Fairy Tale Retelling Misrule
✔O2: Historical (F or NF) Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
✔O3: Play The Unexpected Guest
✔O4: Based on a True story All Creatures Great and Small
✔O5: Pink Cover Lessons in Chemistry

I would like to do this. it looks like lots of fun.

Spring Bingo Categories

B1: Award Nominated - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
B2: Memoir -
B3: Audio Book - Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
B4: Green Cover - Growing Up by Angela Thirkell maybe a stretch but cover has a garden scene with lots of green.
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900 - Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness -Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year - French Braid by Anne Tyler
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE
N4: Romance - Outback Roads: The Nanny by Annie Seaton
N5: Male POV - The Scomo Diaries by Tosh Greenslade satirical take on our PM by the brilliant Tosh Greenslade, read by Francis Greenslade.

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation - Silver Pebbles by Hansjörg Schneider trans from the German by Mike Mitchell
G3: Minority Studies
G4: Young Adult - The Twins at St Clare's by Enid Blyton
G5: Magical Powers -

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) - How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization by Mary Beard
O3: Play - Collected Plays of W. Somerset Maugham: A Man of Honour.
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

Here we go again!

Spring Bingo 2022

B1:
B2: Memoir- Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Confessions of an English Opium Eater
B3:
B4:
B5:

I1:Published before 1900-Robur-le-Conquérant by Jules Verne
I2: Travel- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
I3: Horror or Suspense- Dracula by Bram Stoker
I4:
I5: Faeries or fae: Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober by E.T.A. Hoffmann

N1:
N2:
N3:
N4:
N5:

G1:
G2:
G3:
G4:
G5: Magical Powers- Fairhaven Rising by L.E. Modesitt Jr.

O1: Fairy tale retelling- The Jack Tales by Richard Chase
O2:
O3:
O4:
O5:

Yay! I'm in for this!

B1: Award Nominated - Strangers on a Train
B2: Memoir - My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is the New Black, or, a Culture-Up Manifesto
B3: Audio Book - Hideaway
B4: Green Cover - Before Ever After
B5: Pretty Dress - Love Her or Lose Her

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel - Out of the Silence: After the Crash
I3: Horror or Suspense - Big Little Lies
I4: Mental Illness - A Feast for Crows
I5: Fairies or Fae - Darkfever (started before the end of the challenge)

N1: Published This Year - The Paid Bridesmaid
N2: Yellow Cover - Nauti Deceptions
N3: FREE - The Colors of all the Cattle
N4: Romance - Out of Control
N5: Male POV - Dexter Is Dead

G1: Tear-Jerker - People We Meet on Vacation
G2: In Translation - Return to the Enchanted Island
G3: Minority Studies - Lightning Strike
G4: Young Adult - White Cat
G5: Magical Powers - The Ex Hex

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling - Mistress of All Evil
O2: Historical (F or NF) - The Last Green Valley
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story - The Caiman
O5: Pink Cover - Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive

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

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 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

COMPLETED ON 256/5/22

Okay, I managed everything except book before 1900! Just didn't get around to it, lol!

You still have a little over 2 weeks, Eileen.

Way to go on all your Bingos!

Thanks, Rosemarie! I'm still playing catchup with all my ARCS (the total opposite of published before 1900, lol!), so I am not sure I'll sneak in a classic. We will see! I haven't given up yet!

This has been a great challenge and I have managed to fill at least two in each category. Hope to join in another soon. Thanks everyone.

Way to go, Penny!

Managed to get all but 3 “squares”. Maybe 2 if I finish Darkfever soon. Yay!

Fantastic, Cindy!

Great job, Cindy!

Thanks, Rosemarie and Eileen!

Will there be a summer bingo? Or taking a break from this?

I love these “games”. 😊

I’m not sure, Cindy.

Cindy wrote: "Thanks, Rosemarie and Eileen!

Will there be a summer bingo? Or taking a break from this?

I love these “games”. 😊"

I find them fun too, lol!

The bingos don't change from year to year, so anyone can always do a bingo in their own thread.
The only thing I know how to do is set up the monthly challenges!

Okay, I just tried setting up a summer bingo using the old template. Does that work?

Eileen wrote: "Okay, I just tried setting up a summer bingo using the old template. Does that work?"

Perfect! Thank you!

So clever, Eileen!

Spring Bingo: Managed to squeeze2 bingos in this time.
Down N column: 6/24
Left to right diagonal: 6/30

March 22nd and running until the end of June, here is our spring bingo!

✔B1: Award Nominated: Local Woman Missing (Goodreads nominee) - 5/26
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book: Rule of Wolves - 6/13
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
✔I2: Travel: A Darker Shade of Magic - 4/28
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

✔N1: Published This Year: Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases - 6/24
✔N2: Yellow Cover: Hit List - 4/30
✔N3: FREE: Kiss the Dead - 6/18
✔N4: Romance: Taming a Maverick - 4/10
✔N5: Male POV: Black Water Rising - 4/1

G1: Tear-Jerker: It All Falls Down - 5/9
G2: In Translation: Sword of Destiny - 4/12
G3: Minority Studies
✔G4: Young Adult: King of Scars - 5/14
G5: Magical Powers: Graveyard Dust - 4/10

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF): Sold Down the River - 5/29
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
✔O5: Pink Cover: Eloise - 6/30

Way to go, Brenda!

Nice job, Brenda!