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Reading Challenge 2016: TFG Bingo
TFG's 2015 Best Reads:(view spoiler)
TFG's 2015 Worst Reads:
(view spoiler)
Participants:
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Finishers:
Kathy - BLACKOUT (12 lines)
Louize - 3 lines
Maria - 5 lines
Meliza - 3 lines
Monique - 3 lines
Veronica - 6 lines
[Updated last September 9.]
Bingo!!!18
Best read: The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Worst read: The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories
Bingo!!!17
Best Read: Kite of Stars by Dean Alfar
Worst Read: Ligo na U, Lapit na Me by Eros Atalia
Ranee, Mommy Louize, please follow Ingrid's format. :)
BINGO!!!25
Best Read of 2015: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (I so love this book. It was wonderfully written and the world-building was so good which made it easier for me to visualize the story. I am so looking forward to the Glass Sword)
Worst Read of 2015: Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder (I love the series, I just didn't want how the author too much backtracked on the 2nd book - Magic Study. It just didn't work for me.)
e-mail address: arwenlawliet@gmail.com
BINGO!16
Best Read of 2015:
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Worst Read:
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
E-mail Address: (view spoiler)
BINGO!53
Best Read: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Worst Read: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
e-mail address: (view spoiler)
BINGO!57
Best read: The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Worst read: Call It Sleep (my least liked book of 2015; my worst read is now in the Hall of Shame)
email address: (view spoiler)
Bingo!11
Best Read: Station Eleven
Worst Read: The Blue Flower
email address: moniquedemata[at]yahoo[dot]com
Bingo!8
Best Read: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Worst Read: Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
email address: mawi.lopez@gmail.com
Whoops, I'm joining, too. Bingo!
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Best: Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
Runners-up: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Austerlitz
Worst: Neuromancer by William Gibson
Bingo4(Favorite Number, Thanks to I am Number 4 and Four as Tobias Eaton)
Best:
Worst:
priestessrielvaldez07@gmail.com
Bingo!!!30
Best: A Tale For The Tine Being by Ruth Ozeki
Worst: Cinder by Marissa Meyer UGHHH (view spoiler)
email: (view spoiler)
Oh wow, this looks fun! Pajoin? : )BINGO!
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[One of my] Best Read in 2015: Heart On A Shoestring by Marilyn Grey
Worst [ever] Read in 2015: One Night At The Call Center by Chetan Bhagat
Email: ofaleinebaniqued@y!
Bingo! Number 70Best: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Worst: Creep by Jennifer Hillier
Email: bingo card received
Bingo!!!13
Best:
Worst:
maricana (at) gmail (dot) com
Bingo! Number 07Best: Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Worst: Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Email: (view spoiler)
Bingo!10
Best Read: Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
Worst Read: Captive Prince: Volume One by C.S. Pacat
(view spoiler)
Hi, I've already sent the TFG Bingo Cards. If you haven't received yours, please verify the email address that you provided. For those who have already received theirs, you may delete the email address in your comment.Now, if you have questions about the bingo squares or if you want to ask for recommendations, fire away!
Angus, for the six words in title, are conjunctions and articles counted? Example: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy-this allowed to fall under said item?
Tin wrote: "Angus, for the six words in title, are conjunctions and articles counted? Example: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy-this allowed to fall under said item?"Yes, they do. Run a word count in a word processing program (MS Word and the likes) to verify.
Which brings me to a point. Hyphenated words only count as one. Updated the notes.
Update my best and worst read on Message 16.When I read the number 30 in the bingo list, it says HORROR huhuhu I need to prepare myself
Bingo! 60.
Best read: Confess by Colleen Hoover
Worst read: Never Never (also) by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher
Email: auxtrinidad@gmail.com
I also updated my best and worst reads above. :)
Late to the party!BINGOOOOOO!!!!!!
Best Read: Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
Worst Read: Love and Misadventure by Lang Leav (Hall of Shamer? Then, ) The Catastrophic History of You and Me by Jess Rothenberg
Number: 06
Email: (view spoiler)
BINGO!!26
Best Read: The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Worst Read: Sula by Toni Morrison
Email address: (view spoiler)
Hi! Is it necessary that we read all? Or just up to the point that we already have a pattern? Which brings me to the question, what are the valid patterns? Are they just like in the real BINGO game? :)
Pwede pa? Here is mine
#14
Best read: to kill a mockingbird ( i've read many great books last year but this one needs commendation)
Worst read: doctor mars (not worth it, seriously)
Email add (view spoiler)
Gene wrote: "Hi! Is it necessary that we read all? Or just up to the point that we already have a pattern? Which brings me to the question, what are the valid patterns? Are they just like in the real BINGO game..."No, not necessary. Yes, one is enough. Straight lines of five squares. Yes, they are. I'll copy-paste two items from the instructions that also answer these.
-The goal is to mark a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal pattern of five squares on your TFG Bingo Card.
-You may continue creating additional patterns after the achieving your first pattern.
A question? What's the connection between the number we chose and the bingo card? Is it an additional criterion for the books we will read to create the bingo patterns?
Hi Angus, I updated my best and worst reads!
Marie wrote: "A question? What's the connection between the number we chose and the bingo card? Is it an additional criterion for the books we will read to create the bingo patterns?"The number we chose just corresponds to our individual Bingo card. Different bingo card, different set of categories/squares.
Bingo!23
Best read: Finnikin of the Rock
Challenge book: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Mine is a challenge book because i love you guys and i do not want to subject you to the horrors of my worst reads. Hahaha.
And why just one best read? So many good books i read last year. Honorable mentions: And Then There Were None, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Faithful Place, and my favorite Mitchell-- number9dream
Email add: gracedr17 at gmail dot com
^Gwaxa: Finnikin FTW! Read on to Froi of the Exiles, please. Hehehe
Maria: done with the series. Gobbled it in one week. Hahaha.
Marie: Tama si Meliza. Each card is unique. And I've already generated the card squares a couple of months ago (bored lang, haha), then I assigned numbers to them.Meliza: Thanks!
Updated the lists above. Will send bingo cards tonight. Hi, Gwaxa! Anong paandar yang challenge book? Haha!
Bingo!21
Best Read: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Worst Read: Aimee and the Heartthrob by Ophelia London (nobody should have to read this)
thecodenameblue at gmail
Hi! What does it mean by "About Books/Book Industry" and "TFG 2014 FilReaderCon Recommendation"? And by poetry collection...does that mean I have to read every poem of one poet?
Ah ok, got it. Thank Meliza & Angus! :-)
Aly wrote: "Hi! What does it mean by "About Books/Book Industry" and "TFG 2014 FilReaderCon Recommendation"? And by poetry collection...does that mean I have to read every poem of one poet?"-One of the main themes of the book should be about books or the publishing industry. It's as simple as that, no need to complicate it. An example would be 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, which is about the friendship of a reader and a used books seller.
-Please see this link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... The square is supposed to be 2013 instead of 2014, but the books in that list should be the qualified ones.
-You don't have to read every poem from a poet. You just need to read one poetry collection (a book of poems) from one poet. Example: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda.
BINGO! Am I late to the party??? I was able to finish my challenge book last year (The Inheritance of Loss - 4 stars) and I'm up for another challenge, yeehah!Best Read: The Night Circus
Worst Read: High Fidelity - not necessarily spiteful, but this is the book which I gave the lowest rating (2 stars).
Email: (view spoiler)
Lynai wrote: "BINGO! Am I late to the party???"Lynai! :D
You need to pick a number from 1-75, and this number should be an original one - those at the top have already their cards based on the chosen number (I picked 30 hehehe)
Then Angus shall send you your card. Goodluck on the Bingo~
Lynai wrote: "BINGO! Am I late to the party??? I was able to finish my challenge book last year (The Inheritance of Loss - 4 stars) and I'm up for another challenge, yeehah!Best Read: [book:The Ni..."
Hi Lynai, I need a number for your bingo card. Also, we try our best not to select an F2F book as the best/worst, so maybe you can select the next worst? :)
By the way, no one is late to this party! So feel free to shout Bingo anytime you are ready to take on the challenge. :)
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With that, we have devised a reading challenge that will not force you to read a specific title. All you have to do is to read books that you only wish to read. Where's the challenge in that? Well, that's what the TFG Bingo Card is for.
You want to participate? Do these five things:
-Shout BINGO!
-Select any number from 1 to 75.
-Tell us your best read of 2015.
-Tell us your worst read of 2015.
-Leave your email address for the delivery of your TFG Bingo Card.
Notes:
-If a number has already been selected, you may no longer pick that.
-You may explain why the books you picked are your best and worst, but you can only choose one each.
-For those attending the F2F on Saturday, please put a placeholder on your best and worst entries for the sake of suspense. Let's just edit them after the F2F, please?
-The TFG Bingo Card will be delivered to the email address you provided.
-Print the TFG Bingo Card and let the bingo squares guide your reading.
Instructions:
-Any book that matches a bingo square allows you to mark that square once you finish that book. For example, if you've just finished reading To Kill a Mockingbird and there's a square that says "Animal in the title", you get to mark that square.
-A book may only be used once to mark a square. For example, if there are squares that say "Animal in the title" and "Debut novel of an author", choose which square you will mark with To Kill a Mockingbird.
-The goal is to mark a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal pattern of five squares on your TFG Bingo Card.
-You may continue creating additional patterns after the achieving your first pattern.
-Each pattern is worth one TFG Bingo sticker. So if you manage a blackout, you'll get 12 TFG Bingo stickers.
-Stickers will be awarded during F2Fs. Just present your TFG Bingo Card and TFG Passport to me.
-TFG Bingo Cards will be sent to your email addresses starting January 24.
-TFG Bingo will run from January 1 to TFG Christmas Party.
-Books read from January 1 to January 23 are valid.
-F2F books, past and present, are invalid.
-Rereads are also invalid.
And remember, once you've completed a pattern, shout Bingo! List the books you've finished reading. It would be nice if there's an accompanying photo so that everyone can see the pattern you've made.
TFG's Best and the Worst Reads of 2015:
Regular bingo cards have a "Free" square. The TFG Bingo Cards do not. Instead of the "Free" square, the "Best/Worst" square is used. This allows us to explore the books that the TFG members loved and hated. Please watch this thread for the full list of our best and worst reads, and for further notes and guidance regarding the squares.