Hey everyone, we’re now halfway through our third annual community book bingo challenge!
What is book bingo, you ask? Basically, read something for each of five squares in a line on this year’s card, and you’re done! (That's five works total, or more if you want to.) You don’t even have read books: any type or length of literary work, including comics, audiobooks, poems, short-form nonfiction, etc., will do.
There’s still plenty of time (six whole months, in fact). Plus, anything you’ve read since May is eligible, so if you haven’t joined in yet, you may have already made progress by accident! If you'd like help finding bingo reads, the community is always happy to offer recommendations based on what you enjoy; alternatively, check out the challenge on Storygraph for hundreds of (mostly fiction) suggestions.
If you’re already working on bingo, how’s it going so far? (This is also the perfect time to give constructive feedback we can incorporate into next year’s challenge.)
The last day of bingo is April 30th! A turn-in post will go up in the latter half of April. Even if you don’t end up finishing the challenge, we’d love to hear that you gave it a shot!
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On behalf of myself, Dresden, and JaymesRS, thanks for being here, and happy reading!
Time to go through my reading log and fill this in.
Beginning of May I was finishing up the last of the Revelation Space universe with Machine Vendetta. That checks off a bunch of the bottom. It's a sci-fi mystery novel with multiple perspective characters, one of which is nearing retirement. I've marked this purple.
May to July, I read the Dungeon Crawler Carl books. As a series, they cover a lot of the missing cells on the right and finish columns D and E. I've marked this yellow.
I then read The Faith of Beasts, James S. A. Corey's new book. Doesn't really hit any cells I haven't already.
In August, I re-read the Bartimaeus series, one I loved as a child. Delightful little series. Importantly for this, it has footnotes. This is marked dark green.
At the end of August, I read John Scalzi's Android's Dream, which was excellent. At the beginning of September, I read Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns, which was also excellent. Neither hits anything new, so not marking for them.
Next, I read Sanderson's Isles of the Emberdark, which has a prominent nature component. I concluded September and spent the first half of October on Robert Jackson Bennett's latest series, starting with The Tainted Cup. This also has a strong nature focus. Emberdark in black, Corruption series in light green.
In early October, I went on a road trip with my wife. On the trip, we listened to two audiobooks. The first was Tusks, Tails & Teacakes, the best part of which was that it had punctuation in the title. I kid, it was a cute fantasy romance with enough other stuff going on to keep it interesting. Marking this one red. The other one we listened to was the latest Bobiverse book, but that hits so many of the same cells that I'm skipping it.
I'm currently reading the Old Man's War series by Scalzi. Very good. Doesn't hit anything new, but I marked it in pink anyway.
Still haven't completed any Bingos since Dungeon Crawler Carl. That center space is hard.
That's quite a full card already, nice work! (And your color choices are gorgeous, too.) I have faith you can figure out something for that center square in the next six months. ;)