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✔️Completed Squares
Blackout Completed 12/11/21
✔️B1: Book From Our Group’s Shelf Prior to 2021-War and Peace, Long Read 2014, Finished 2/23/21
✔️B2: Book That Has Been Made Into Film-Forrest Gump, 4/17/21
✔️B3: Booker Prize Winner-1979, The Sea, The Sea, 12/1121
✔️B4: Classic Romance-Washington Square, Finished 3/29/21
✔️B5: Classic of Europe-Fathers and Sons, Finished 4/1/21
✔️I1: Classic Adventure- The Deerslayer, Finished 6/22/21
✔️I2: Book Published or Written 1700 or earlier-Don Juan, 1665, Finished 2/26/21
✔️I3: Classic Short Story Collection-Cabbages and Kings, Finished 3/28/21
✔️I4: Book Published in the 19th Century-The Warden, Finished 2/1/21
✔️I5: New To Me Classic Author-Guy de Maupassant, The Inn, Finished 1/18/21
✔️N1: Nobel Laureate, Literature 1962-John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat, Finished 6/7/21
✔️N2: History or Historical Fiction-Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, Finished 3/25/21
✔️N3: Reader’s Choice-Joan of Arc, Finished 4/14/21
✔️N4: Classic Satire or Comedy-Mother Night, Finished 5/7/21
✔️N5: Newberry Medal Winner-1979, The Westing Game, Finished 3/21/21
✔️G1: Classic Female Author-Donna Tartt, The Secret History, Finished 3/17/21
✔️G2: Book Published in the 18th Century-Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Finished 1/16/21
✔️Completed G3: Nonfiction-Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War, Finished 5/2/21
✔️G4: Book Published in the 20th Century-Angle of Repose, Finished 3/7/21
✔️G5: Book From Another Book Club or Library List-The Snow Child, The Life of a Book Addict, Jan. 2020, Finished 2/28/21
✔️O1: Classic of Africa-Tarzan of the Apes, Finished 4/3/21
✔️O2: Classic Mystery, Suspense, or Thriller-The A.B.C. Murders, Finished 5/19/21
✔️O3: Pulitzer Prize Winner-Drama 1948, A Streetcar Named Desire, Finished 2/18/21
✔️O4: 100 Must-Read Classics in Translation-The Master and Margarita, 4/24/21
✔️O5: Book From Our Group’s 2021 Bookshelf-The Captain's Daughter, Finished 1/4/21
Completed: 25/25
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This sounds like a great plan, Bob. I’m going to try to read as many of my own books as possible too. Happy Holidays!
Good luck with reading from from your bookshelf, Bob. I need to do that, too, and a lot of my Bingo options are there. But, truth to tell, I also put a lot of new options — shiny, new, hard to resist options. Just saying.
Terry wrote: "Good luck with reading from from your bookshelf, Bob. I need to do that, too, and a lot of my Bingo options are there. But, truth to tell, I also put a lot of new options — shiny, new, hard to resi..."LOL
Way to go, Bob! I didn't think you could not do a Bingo card! Glad you're joining in, and hope you can use all the books on your shelf for the challenge :)
Usually I completely change my plans when I'm doing a challenge so your "no plans" idea will be fine, Bob. We all have the habit of buying too many books.
I think you are wise, Bob. If this year taught us anything, it's that sometimes we have to catch as catch can! Enjoy your reading.
By the way, Bob, love the name of your Bingo challenge!
A great plan indeed, Bob. Having fun and making a dent on the list of own books are my only goals for my first-ever Bingo too. Enjoy your reading!ETA: I may steal the book covers idea ;-)
You caved pretty quick! The reading plans I’ve made for this year are for books I already have, can read online through Gutenberg, or can get digitally from the library. It is limiting my options for sure, but I’m gonna be relaxed about the whole thing this year. Happy reading!
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So I’ll list this as a future potential bingo. I just had to share the coincidence. None of these are finished by all are well under way with a couple almost finished.
Five books no planning and a Bingo. I need to go get a lottery ticket.
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That's amazing, Bob--I think it bodes well for the year!(And you made a nice chart, which I'm going to copy, now that I see the trick about Placeholder 01. :-) Thanks!)
This is a great start to the year! I hope you have more such moments of serendipity. What did you think of Angle of Repose?
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I let wishful thinking get the best of me.
I don’t have a Bingo with my first five books.
My wishful thinking has made a fool of me.
I should have looked closer at square I2,
My lack of attention has made me look the fool
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.
I2: Book Published or Written 1700 or earlier. The “or earlier” is important here. Yesterday I thought I had a Bingo with the first five books I have started to read this year. Sadly I have screwed up. Songs of Innocence and of Experience was published in 1789, not 1700 or earlier. I can use it for square G2: Book Published in the 18th Century, but that doesn’t help feeling foolish about not paying attention and losing the unplanned bingo.
Oh well, live and learn. And steal from old TV shows, Hee Haw!
And you’re off 😊I’m still just looking at covers LOL
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Bob, I see that you read Joan of Arc by Mark Twain. If you should become interested in a nonfiction version of the story--Twain did a great fictionalized yet truthful version--I suggest Joan of Arc: A History by Helen Castor. . . . Enjoy your summer reading!
Way to go, Bob! You are almost at the finish line!
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Cynda, I found the historical fiction Joan of Arc story by Twain to be fascinating. Thanks for the non-fiction suggestion, I will be on the lookout for a copy.
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Lynn wrote: "Wow, only one to go!! You have been a reading powerhouse this year!"
Yes, I’ve not done any posting since January, just quietly reading and working for a blackout. I am currently reading my last book, The Sea, The Sea and I am enjoying it a lot. However, I have been sidetracked by The Deerslayer and currently The Fountainhead and have not focused on The Sea as much as I should. Two more weeks tops and I will blackout this bingo challenge.
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I hope you get back into The Sea, The Sea. I loved it!
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I wonder if mid-year or summer is my problem, but I am feeling myself slide right into that slump you describe. Good luck keeping yourself on solid ground.
This is frustrating, Bob. I have a couple of great books right now that are taking me forever to read. And I hate losing that thread, as Sara describes. But then sometimes when I go with my distractions, they take me to great places! Here's to avoiding the reading slump, whichever road you take. :-)
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Well done Bob. I have read Washington Square and watched two movie versions. The end is always so dramatic and unexpected.
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Taking so long to finish this book is not a reflection on the book’s quality, I just had a few of life’s roadblocks pop up on me this year. I set this book aside and just picked back up about 10 days ago. It is my first by Iris Murdoch and I found it to be exceptional.
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Somehow I didn't know that Forrest Gump was actually a book before it was a movie. Interesting.
Wonderful that you were able to finish and love The Sea, The Sea--I'm looking forward to that one. Congratulations, Bob!
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Catch as Catch Can-defined as the best one can do with whatever is available. Or, something done by any means or in any possible way, often haphazardly. That’s my plan for playing this year, que sera sera, whatever will be will be.
This next year I’m not going to take things to seriously, especially my challenges. I hope 90% of my reading this year is off my ever growing bookshelf. If I don’t already own it, forget it. This may make finishing challenges difficult. That said I have already found at least 3 books I want, hopefully through the library, hopefully they will stay open.
So on to next year, no hard planning, just letting it happen day by day, book by book.