Whoa halfway there! My bingo roundup (26/50 done!)

5:53 pm | August 30, 2019 |

I’m planning on two cards, which is why I hadn’t noticed when I passed the 50% mark this month! Bingo might have slightly taken over my life. Going for hero mode and I want to both thank and curse the person who came up with it because this is fun, and haaaaard.

Chime in and tell me how your book bingo is going!

I seem to have messed up the visual card part of my spreadsheet, but here’s the normal one hard mode and normal mode. And this is my book log with what books fit where, I was gonna paste the info here but realised it would have taken an eternity.

Stats:

I had a few personal goals starting out too, try for at least 25% self-pub, at least 50% women to catch up with all the amazing authors I’d somehow not heard of till last year, as many as I can Romanian and some classics. I’ve got 37 books read, but only 26 that fit bingo. Unless I counted wrong, of the 37 I’ve got 54% women, 35% self pub, 10% each classics and Romanian. I’ve got around half audiobooks. I can also dial it down to 3 – 4 bingo books/month till March and still be on track, leaving time to catch up with new releases.

The links in the post are all goodreads and reviews here, though some shorter reviews I’ve missed when uploading to the blog.  It is also highly likely I mess up some of the links.

Oh and if you’re interested in underrated books, I’ve also got this post for you with mini-reviews of bingo books from last year that have under 2500ish ratings on Goodreads and how they fit this year’s squares.

Hard card:

First Row Across:

  • Slice of Life / Small Scale Fantasy – The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, review – amazing book with the most likeable, kind protagonist learning how to rule an empire, not action focussed at all

  • A SFF Novel Featuring a Character With a Disability – The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold . If you haven’t already, drop everything and read this book. Fun, well written, clever space adventure with smart manic protagonist

  • SFF Novella – Când penele roșii vor plânge by Lucian Dragoş Bogdan, review, sci fi exploring the problems and morality of bringing back an extinct sentient race

  • Self-Published SFF Novel –Clockworld: The Iron City by Ben Myatt, review steampunk/clockpunk adventure, cool worldbuilding

  • SFF Novel Featuring Twins – Ce vad Dragonii by Diana Geacar, review middle grade gamelit, kinda Alice in videogameland

Second Row Across:

Third Row Across:

  • 2nd Chance – Currently reading Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

  • Afrofuturism – planned Binti but just now realized it doesn’t count for hard mode

  • SFF Novel Published in 2019 Fortune’s Fool by Angela Boord, review an assassin out for revenge in an Italy-inspired setting

  • Middle Grade SFF Novel – Wishes and Wellingtons by Julie Berry, boarding school girl finds a genie

  • A Personal Recommendation from r/Fantasy – Planned Spirits Rising by Krista D Ball

Fourth Row Across:

  • Any r/fantasy Book Club Book of the Month OR r/fantasy Read-along Book City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty, a hustler from Egypt ends up in Djinn City, which is beautiful

  • Media Tie-In Novel – planned a Stranger Things novel

  • Novel Featuring an AI Character –For We Are Many: Bobiverse, Book 2 by Dennis E. Taylor , review geek ends up as AI of space probe has to save humanity

  • SFF Novel That Has a Title of Four or More Words – Planned The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

  • Retelling! – Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett, retelling Macbeth and other Shakespear plays,

Fifth Row Across:

  • SFF Novel by an Australian Author – We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson, review eastern inspired epic fantasy with a whoresassin and lots of beheadings

  • The Final Book of a Series – not sure yet

  • #OwnVoices – planned Ballad of the Beanstalk by amy McNutty but forgot it’s not hard mode

  • LitRPG – Changing Faces by Sarah Lin, review a villain in transposed to the body of a player character and hates boxes

  • Five SFF Short Stories – The Mage-Born Anthology by Kayleigh Nicol, review short stories with each of the siblings in the Mage-Born series

First Row Across:

  • Slice of Life / Small Scale Fantasy –Balam, Spring by Travis M. Riddle, review a death in a sleepy town is investigated by the new doctor

  • A SFF Novel Featuring a Character With a Disability – Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft,  tourism gone wrong at the Tower of Babel

  • SFF Novella –The Dispatcher by John Scalzi , review short noir mystery with interesting worldbuilding thing

  • Self-Published SFF Novel –They Mostly Come Out at Night by Benedict Patrick, review folktale and horror mix in creepy forest story

  • SFF Novel Featuring Twins – currently, very very very slowly, reading Silmarillion

Second Row Across:

  • Format: Graphic Novel: Monstress by Marjorie M. Liu, gonna write a review after I finish 3 volumes. It’s gorgeous

  • SFF Novel by a Local to You Author – Ciudatul caz al umbrelor by Daniel Timariu, review, novella of Dresden Files set in my city

Fourth Row Across:

Fifth Row Across:

  • SFF Novel by an Australian Author –currently reading Sabriel by Garth Nix for the readalong on r/Abhorsen

  • The Final Book of a Series – Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, Ocean’s 11 with magic and teens

Tags:

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.