Series Project (Progress/Finish Your Series in 2021)

[Aga]

I've crossed another box - Genere-Bender. Of course, it's a completely different series than planned.

I've read the last book from the "Małe Licho" ("Little Boogie"?) series by Polish author Marta Kisiel who is my high school friend and an acknowledged urban fantasy writer. The series was started as an adult urban fantasy comedy then it became something I call "a rural fantasy". After three books there was a continuation focusing on the main characters' son and it's an urban/rural fantasy comedy/horror for kids! Yep! And the kid's series (now containing another 3 books) won some awards.

On the cover of the book, there is a landscape 🌺 and two boys (ok 1,5 of a boy - I'll explain later) 💃 and there is a fantastical creature in the title - Licho who is infact an angel... 🦄. The main caracter is half a boy (his mother is a human) half a ghost (his father is a ghost) and half a goo (yep, there's a third half) so I collect a 👻.

So far I've crossed 3 boxes Trilogy, Sci-Fi, and Genere-Bender so I probably should go for Fantasy next to get a bingo.

[Eva]

Oh no (or possibly yay - if the series is a good one)! Which series is it?

[Meredith]

June updates, I read
4. Fantasy: Ghost Train to New Orleans, Mur Lafferty,
6. Genre-bender: Deathless Divide, Justina Ireland

X23
XXX
78X

and I earned ninja cat row: 🐱‍👤
also earned so far: diagonal hipster cat: 🐱‍👓

Bonuses:
7) has a real animal/name of one on the cover: you collect that animal's emoji 🐰🐒🐅🦅🦚🐟 etc. (repeatable); Raven Stratagem, bird🦅
9) features an alien/vampire/zombie/ghost: you collect the 👽or 🧛‍♂️ or 🧟‍♀️ or 👻 (repeatable): Ghost Train to New Orleans, 🧛‍♂️; Deathless Divide 🧟‍♀️
12) features a very cold, icy environment or a very hot one: you collect ice ❄ or fire 🔥 (repeatable); ❄ Fatal Grace (Canada in winter), ❄ Frost Fair Affair (fantasy-England in winter)

emojis earned so far: 🌺💃🔪🐞🛸🕵️‍♂️🐞🐞💕
+ june:🧛‍♂️ ❄ ❄🦅🧟‍♀️

[Eva]

You seem well on your way to completing the board and all bonus prompts by the end of the year - congrats! 👏

[Meredith]

Eva wrote: "You seem well on your way to completing the board and all bonus prompts by the end of the year - congrats! 👏"

Thanks! I've put some extra attention on this challenge over the past month or so.

[Llyren]

I can offer two completed series:
Julie Kagawa - Shadow of the Fox completed my first column and won me an astro-cat 🐱‍🚀
The two sequels Soul of the Sword (🔪) and Night of the Dragon (🐉) nicely fitting two open bonus-challenges.

I also read the companion novel Katherine Addison - The Witness for the Dead and am now caught up with the world of the Goblin Emperor. I could technically move around my bingo spaces but since I still have quite some time left in the year, I'll hold off on that for now...
Do Ghouls count as Zombies? If so, I would like to claim one for the bonus. 🧟‍♀️

[Eva]

Congratulations! Yes, ghouls count as zombies. :-)

[Llyren]

Yay! Then my ghost is now joined by a zombie!

[CBRetriever]

I'm switching from

New to you = Steven Stanton's Bloodlight Chronicles
to
Toby Venables's Guy of Gisbourne series

I read the first book in a two book omnibus and enjoyed it and am now partway into the second book. Then I'll purchase the third and complete the Bingo card.

Then I'll sit down and figure out my bonuses so far.

[CBRetriever]

and I'm done with the Bigo card - 3 columns and 3 rows

New to you = Toby Venable's Guy of Gisbourne series
Fantasy = Feist's Riftwar Saga
Trilogy = The Chronicles of Tornor Trilogy: Watchtower, The Dancers of Arun, and The Northern Girl
Favorite Author = Adrian Tchaikovsky's Echoes of the Fall
Science Fiction = Patternist
Quartet = Hambly's Winterlands series
Debut Author = Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman series
Genre Bender = Lynn Hightower's Elaki series
Longer Series = Night Threads series

now to spend some time figuring out the bonuses tomorrow

[Eva]

Woohoo!! You're so early, CB👏👏👏

Here's your well-deserved trophy: 🏆

[Llyren]

@CBRetriever: Wow, congratulations - that was fast! Now, on to a second round? ;-)

[CBRetriever]

Llyren wrote: "@CBRetriever: Wow, congratulations - that was fast! Now, on to a second round? ;-)"

no, no, not yet - I have to finish the TBR and Alphabet as well as the around the world challenges first

I have finished Lackey's Urban Elves series though which should count towards a send Long Series

[Eva]

Update on my bonus points:

Sapphire Flames 💃
Wild Sign 🦄
A Court of Mist and Fury 💕
The Ghost Brigades ✨
Caliban's War 🛸
The Well of Ascension🔪
The Hero of Ages🌺
Dragons of Winter Night🐉
Blood of Assassins 🕵️‍♂️

9/12

[Llyren]

Naomi Kritzer's Chaos on CatNet fills my genre-bender spot and gives me my second astrocat 🐱‍🚀.
And a nice cat 🐈 for my animal collection.

And another feline companion is added by Lightning in the Blood:
It's a jaguar - anyone an idea for a matching emoji? The closest I could find is for a leopard🐆 but it's missing the black color...

[CBRetriever]

try searching on black leopard or black jaguar emoji?

[Llyren]

I tried but haven't been successful. I mean, I could go for 🐈‍⬛, which exists or 🐆⬛. *shrugs*

[Myriel]

In the last days I've read the 3 Lady Astronaut novels by Mary Robinette Kowal and although the two sequels only help me build my lady bug army, the series fulfils the Trilogy square.

The Calculating Stars

The Fated Sky

The Relentless Moon

That leaves the Fantasy square as the last remaining one!

[Roo]

I am indecisive and have changed some squares! (to make it harder for myself for some reason)

I've only completed one column and have one astro cat 🐱🚀! I have 4 squares total.

Debut author - The Kingston Cycle by C. L. Polk
Genre Bender - The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
Longer Series - The Discworld Witches Series by Terry Pratchett
Trilogy - The Market of Monsters Trilogy by Rebecca Schaeffer

Also made progress on The Wayward Children Series and The Wayfarers Quartet.

9/12 emojis earned:
❄️ Stormsong
💕 Soulstar
🔪 When Villains Rise
🐇 Wyrd Sisters
💃🏽 Witches Abroad
🕵️‍♂️ Maskerade
🧛‍♂️ Carpe Jugulum
✨ A Closed and Common Orbit
🌺 Down Among the Sticks and Bones

And four lucky ladybugs 🐞🐞🐞🐞

[Eva]

Update:

Gemina: 👽
Obsidio: ❄

And I've got the Science Fiction square covered.

Only bonus still missing:

7) sequel with a real animal/name of one on the cover

+ one lucky ladybug 🐞 for Bitterblue

[Myriel]

I've finished another series that doesn't help me one single bit for this challenge ^^'

I've completed the Interdependency-Trilogy by John Scalzi:

The Collapsing Empire

The Consuming Fire

The Last Emperox

But at least my lady bug army has recruited two new members ;-)

[DivaDiane]

I’m pretty much failing too, AMC (or is it AMG?!? Sorry)! I have to give this challenge some serious thought, because I have made progress but I don’t think I’ve got more than one square checked off and haven’t come here to report, like, ever. Very time one of you posts, I’m reminded, but...

[CBRetriever]

After filling the squares, I've finished two series:

Longer Series = Elizabeth Moon's Paladins Legacy
Science Fiction = Mark Lawrence's Impossible Times
and started on
the second book in Favorite Author = Django Wexler's Wells of Sorcery

[DivaDiane]

So I had a little look-see and I have finished the Debut Author series, with Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire, which I read in January and A Desolation Called Peace from April.

I'm one book away from finishing several others:

Fantasy - Tornor Trilogy, by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Science Fiction - Lock In, by Scalzi, John
Genre Bender - This Broken Earth, by N. K. Jemisin, and
Favorite author - Ursula K. Le Guin - Earthsea (one short story/novella yet to read

I have more to read for "New to You Author", "Quartet" and "Longer Series" for which I plan to get as far as I can on Seanan Maguire, The Starfarers Quartet and Murderbot respectively.

[Meredith]

I started a list a couple months back comparing series I made progress on and new series I started and they were about equal. :(

[Roo]

I now have a ninja cat to compete with my astro cat!
🐱‍👤 VS 🐱‍🚀

Debut author - The Kingston Cycle by C. L. Polk
Genre Bender - The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
Longer Series - The Discworld Witches Series by Terry Pratchett
Trilogy - The Market of Monsters Trilogy by Rebecca Schaeffer
Quartet - The Wayfarers Quartet by Becky Chambers
Fantasy - The Simon Snow Series by Rainbow Rowell

11/12 emojis earned:
❄️ Stormsong
💕 Soulstar
🔪 When Villains Rise
🐇 Wyrd Sisters
💃🏽 Witches Abroad
🕵️‍♂️ Maskerade
🧛‍♂️ Carpe Jugulum
✨ A Closed and Common Orbit
🌺 Down Among the Sticks and Bones
🐉 The Tropic of Serpents
🛸 Record of a Spaceborn Few

And a bonus alien:
👽 The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

And five ladybugs 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞

Now just to finish the last three squares...

[CBRetriever]

for my second go at the squares (all filled in once) I finished

Favorite Author = Django Wexler's Wells of Sorcery
and
Trilogy = Pamela Sargent's Watchstar Trilogy

to add to my already finished

Longer Series = Elizabeth Moon's Paladins Legacy
Science Fiction = Mark Lawrence's Impossible Times

[Myriel]

I just finished Redemptor and with this the Raybearer / Redemptor duology by Jordan Ifueko:

Raybearer

Redemptor

With this series I could fill my last missing square - Fantasy. My bingo is complete 🍾🥳

And with the sequel I also added some exotics to my animal farm: a crocodile 🐊 and a rhino 🦏

Now I'm only missing 2 of the bonus challenges.

[Myriel]

With the second book of the Poppy War trilogy I finally met a dragon 🐉

The Dragon Republic

[Myriel]

I've now finished the Poppy War trilogy by R.F. Kuang with

The Burning God

but for the bonus challenge it only sends reinforcements for my lady bug army 🐞.

And then I read the two books from the Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo:

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

The sequel adds 🐅🐅🐅 to my exotic little animal farm.

[Llyren]

Myriel wrote: With this series I could fill my last missing square - Fantasy. My bingo is complete

Congratulations! I need to update my chart here soon but I still need the tetralogy - having a couple in mind, though ;-)

[Roo]

I haven’t completed any new squares yet, but I have finished my bonus challenges!

12/12 emojis earned!
❄️ Stormsong
💕 Soulstar
🔪 When Villains Rise
🐇 Wyrd Sisters
💃🏽 Witches Abroad
🕵️‍♂️ Maskerade
🧛‍♂️ Carpe Jugulum
✨ A Closed and Common Orbit
🌺 Down Among the Sticks and Bones
🐉 The Tropic of Serpents
🛸 Record of a Spaceborn Few
🦄 The Voyage of the Basilisk

and some repeatables:
👽 The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
🧟 Come Tumbling Down

Plus eight ladybugs! 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞

[DivaDiane]

I really have to sit down and figure out what emoji I’ve earned!

I finished 3 books to complete two more squares: Ancillary Sword and ...Mercy for the trilogy square. Interference (Semiosis #2) for Science Fiction.

[Llyren]

Roo wrote: "I haven’t completed any new squares yet, but I have finished my bonus challenges!

Wow - Congratulations!
That's a very nice list ;-)

[CBRetriever]

I have one book left to finish to get the bonuses: A Fortress of Grey Ice for the cold setting

[CBRetriever]

Finally finished my Bonus Challenge:

1) has a dragon (or the word dragon) on the cover: you get the dragon 🐉 = Dragonshadow #2 in series
2) has a weapon (or the name of a weapon) on the cover: you collect the knife 🔪 = Kings of the North (Paladin's Legacy, #2) #2 in series
3) has a person on the cover: you collect the dancer 💃 = City of Stone and Silence #2 in series
4) has a landscape on the cover: you collect the flower 🌺 = Down Among the Sticks and Bones #2 in series
5) has stars or planets on the cover: you collect the star ✨ = Eye of the Comet #2 in series
6) has an fantastical creature or the name of one on the cover: you collect the unicorn 🦄 = The Kraken's Tooth #2 in series
7) has a real animal on the cover: you collect that animal's emoji 🐰🐒🐅🦅🦚🐟 etc. (repeatable) = Knight of the Demon Queen #3 in series
8) features a murder investigation: you collect the detective 🕵️‍♂️ = White Night #9 in series
9) features an alien/vampire/zombie: you collect the 👽or 🧛‍♂️ or 🧟‍♀️ (repeatable) = Changes #12 in series
10) features a love story/couple/some romantic elements: you collect the hearts 💕 = The Hidden Masters of Marandur #2 in series
11) features space travel: you collect the UFO 🛸 = Harrow the Ninth #2 in series
12) features a very cold, icy environment or a very hot one: you collect ice ❄ or fire 🔥 (repeatable) = The Fortress of Grey Ice #2 in series

[DivaDiane]

Wow, well done, Chessie!

[Myriel]

Congratulation!

[CBRetriever]

thanks - #12 took the longest time to finish as i had to read book 1 first

[Eva]

Congratulations! People are really doing such a great job on this challenge. 🤩

[Roo]

So close! Just one more square to go!

I caught up with The Wayward Chidren Series, so all I have left is to finish is The Memoirs of Lady Trent Series for my new author square!

And I have added one bonus emoji - 🔥 for In the Labyrinth of Drakes.

[Myriel]

With the latest two installments of the Penric & Desdemona series I added a snake 🐍 and a white mouse 🐁 to my animal farm.

The Assassins of Thasalon

Knot of Shadows

Still looking for a fantastical creature though ...

[Llyren]

So, for some housekeeping:

John Scalzi's Interdependency Trilpogy fills my Sci-Fi Square and gives me two Lady-Bugs: 🐞🐞
With Mary Robinette Kowal - The Fated Sky and The Relentless Moon, I'm up to date with another Sci-Fi and gain two more Lady-Bugs: 🐞🐞
R.F. Kuang - The Burning God completes the trilogy and provides another Lady-Bug: 🐞
Erin Bowman - Immunity has Zombies -> 🧟‍♀️‍

R.F. Kuang - The Dragon Republic completes my final Bonus challenge:
6) has a fantastical/not real creature or the name of one on the cover: you collect the unicorn 🦄

Therefore I have now all 12 bonus challenges covered at least once - that means I get a medal, right? ;-)

I'm still missing the quartet for the bingo, though...

[Myriel]

After catching up with the Penric & Desdemona series I continued with the World of the Five Gods:

The Curse of Chalion

Paladin of Souls

The Hallowed Hunt

This gives me some more ghosts 👻 and a wolf 🐺 and a leopard 🐆 for my ever growing animal farm.

[Eva]

Llyren wrote: "So, for some housekeeping:

John Scalzi's Interdependency Trilpogy fills my Sci-Fi Square and gives me two Lady-Bugs: 🐞🐞
With Mary Robinette Kowal - The Fated Sky and The Relentless Moon, I'm up to..."

You get a medal!! 🏅 Display it proudly! 👏👏👏

[Reed]

Not really

[Roo]

if there is another discussion thread and another bingo board, yeah! it's fun to see everyone's progress. i probably wouldn't do it on my own.

[Eva]

Then I'll make another bingo board for next year, as well. :-)

[Myriel]

Thanks Eva, much appreciated. The series challenge was/is much fun and it inspired me to actually finish some series instead of only ever starting new ones ^^'

So I'm really looking forward to another bingo next year :)

[Aga]

I’ll join you next year too. I don’t think I’m going to make it this year, but I would like to try one more time :)