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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Bookish Bingo!


Thanks to The Unruly Reader there's a new reading bingo card for 2017 with 25 fun new squares to fill. Well, 22 of the categories look like a lot of fun; 3 of them are going to be a bit of a challenge for me:  Mid-Century Modern, Boomer Lit, and the Library of Congress Fiction Prize. I'm not looking forward to those. But ALL the others should be fairly easy to read and complete. I can't explain why, but I love filling in each bingo square with the books that I read. In fact, bookish bingo is one of my favorite things. If you've never tried it before, check out Unruly Reader's explanation of each of the different squares, print out your own Bingo card, and play along. You can go for a simple bingo, or for reading bingo blackout. Either way, it's loads of fun!

Happy Reading!

18 comments:

  1. I'm afraid most of my reading falls into the Guilty Pleasure category! I look forward to seeing how your card fills up. :)

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    1. The trick is making your guilty pleasures somehow fit the other categories. ;)

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  2. Good luck with your Bingo! I always fail at these kinds of things but they are fun to play :)

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    1. I've gotten blackout the last two years, but I might not make it this time around. I can at least get a bingo, though! :) Thanks for commenting.

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  3. I am always tempted to try these Bingo cards. I saw on Twitter last night that was for reading diversely, and it was so so tempting! I'm trying to be good though. Have fun with this!

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    1. I say print one out and give a go...if you don't finish it, or throw it away halfway through the year, no one else has to know. :) You read a lot of books; you'd be surprised how easy a bingo card can be to fill.

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  4. This sounds fun, but I'm afraid most of my reading choices go by whim or decided at the last minute, lol. Anyways, have fun and looking forward to all your reviews, as always. :)

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    1. I know what you mean reading by whim and whimsy. I read that way, too. But it's funny how many books I pick up by chance also happen to fill in a square on reading bingo. And the other squares often push me to read outside myself.

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  5. Oh fun! I haven't seen this before! I might just have to join!

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    1. Ooh, do! Then we can share book titles as we fill in our squares. :)

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  6. This sounds like a fun reading challenge! We had a similar reading challenge (marking off squares) on our blog a couple of years ago and it was a nice way to get me to read books I probably wouldn't have picked up otherwise. I'll have to look at this a little closer and see if I could do it. :)

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    1. Check it out. I think it's a lot of fun. And even if I don't finish the entire bingo, like you said I end up reading books I wouldn't have otherwise. Which is always a good thing. :)

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  7. I tried to to the Books on the Nightstand Bingo a couple of years in a row. The most fun I had was trying to think up books to fit the squares but I actually never got a black out.

    What are the cut-offs for Boomer Lit and Midcentury Modern? Do you know?

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    1. The Unruly Reader describes "Boomer Lit" as a book written by baby boomers, for baby boomers; and for Midcentury Modern you pick your century--any one you want--then choose a book in the midst of that century that has a progressive or modern outlook. Got any suggestions?

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    2. I would have suggested Main Street by Lewis Sinclair for the Midcentury Modern but I see you have already read it. Maybe you could try Peyton Place by Grace Metalious? It is maybe more scandalous than progressive (it is pretty soapy), but I thought it was fun.

      For the Boomer Lit I immediately think of Bill O'Reilly, but I don't think that is your style! Have you read Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand? I am not sure when the author, Helen Simmonson, was born, but I would guess one could interpret that the story was geared towards the Boomer generation. It was a sweet story, I thought.

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    3. Thanks for the suggestions! At least now I have some ideas for these two categories. And I have been wanting to try Helen Simmonson. I'll let you know how it goes. :)

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  8. A lot of my reading is Guilty Pleasure. I like this Bingo card, though; the categories are unusual and most of them are pretty open to interpretation. ...But for now, I'd better get back to my Assigned Reading (a book I'm indexing.)

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