Finish More Series in 2022 Project!

[Rebecca]

Just two updates to share:

Bingo (full published series completed):
☐A1 Trilogy: Jade City, need to read Jade War and Jade Legacy
✅ B1 Science Fiction: The Exiled Fleet
✅ C1 Fresh Off the Press: Locklands

☐A2 ★★★★★ First Book: first was The Nine and I'll read The Fall this year
☐B2 Favorite Author: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
☐C2 Fantasy: Into the Riverlands (release in October)

☐A3 BIPOC Author: Bloodmarked (release in November)
✅ B3 Duology: Silver in the Wood and Drowned Country
✅ C3 Binge Read: High Jinx which is the second book in the Cursed Luck series (should be 3 books eventually) and I read the fist book this year as well Cursed Luck

My Emojis!:
Bingos:
Bonuses: from The Exiled Fleet and The Last Watch 🌈 and 🐱‍👤, from High Jinx 👸, from Drowned Country 🌱, Locklands 🗿

Series Completed in 2022: 4

[Gabi]

Bingo complete!

last row:

- Fresh off the press: The Fall of Babel - finishing book of the 4 books series
- Fantasy: The Echoes of Fall, starting with The Tiger and the Wolf - 3 books
- Binge Read: Wayne and Wax series starting with The Alloy of Law - 3 books

middle row:

- Science Fiction: Uplift series starting with Sundiver - 6 books in all, read books 3, 5 and 6 this year.
- Favourite Author: Final Architect series starting with Shards of Earth - 2 books so far, book 2 read this year.
- Duology: The Carls starting with An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - 2 books read this year.

First row:

- Trilogy: Beggars starting with Beggars in Spain - 3 books in all, read books 2 and 3 this year.
- First Book was 5 Stars: Stormlight Archive starting with The Way of Kings - 6 books so far, re-read books 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5 and 4 this year.
- BiPoC author: Poppy Wars starting with The Poppy War - 3 books in all, read books 2 and 3 this year.




So far I have earned following emojis:

🦊🦊🦊 for all finished rows
🐺🐺🐺 for all finished columns
🦝🦝 for the two diagonals

and the golden trophy: 🏆

Extra emojis:

1) Non-human land creature/animal on the cover or in the title: 🐯 (2022 is the year of the water tiger) The Tiger and the Wolf

3) A flower/plant on the cover or in title: 🌱 The Uplift War

4) Wings/flying creature/cloud on the cover or in title: 🐝 The Hyena and the Hawk

5) Book or cover features a scientist/researcher/scholar: 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Rhythm of War

6) Book or cover features a rogue/thief/pirate/assassin: 🐱‍👤Shadows of Self

7) Book or cover features an aristocrat/royalty/emperor/empress: 👸🤴 The Bear and the Serpent

8) Book or cover features a physician/doctor/healer: 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ Beggars Ride

10) Book has LGBTQ+ representation: 🌈 The Fall of Babel

11) Fire/flame on cover or in title: 🔥 The Burning God

12) Book or cover features ruins, a mask or a statue 🗿 The Bands of Mourning


Only 2 and 9 are missing.

[Eva]

Congrats on this completed bingo board, Gabi! 🌟🥳

You rock!! 🐱‍🏍🌈

[Llyren]

Gabi wrote: "Bingo complete!"

Wow! Congratulation!

[CBRetriever]

Gabi wrote: "Bingo complete!"

Congrats - I'm only half done

[Meredith]

Gabi wrote: "Bingo complete!
..."

Congrats, great job!

[Jamie]

Eva wrote: "Jamie wrote: "Looks like my series for Science Fiction will be either Ben Bova's Grand Tour series or Iain M. Banks's Culture series. I am working my way through both this year, though I am having ..."

I am just starting Redemption Ark this week (so I can listen to the audiobook I checked out from my library before it expires). I wouldn't mind buddy reading the rest of the series, if you want to dive in this week. :) I also have a bunch of other Reynolds novels on my tbr stack for this season.

[Eva]

Sounds great! I've sent you a friend request for the buddy-read. :-)

[Kirsi]

I can now cross out C2 Binge-read with Kerri Maniscalco's Stalking Jack the Ripper series.

[Kirsi]

Ack, I meant C3 - damn my phone.

[CBRetriever]

CBRetriever wrote: "Binge-Read: L.M. Modesitt's Saga of Recluce series - this will take a long, long time as it's 18 books"

I'm changing this to S.L. Viehl's Stardoc series and I just started the Recluce series and don't think I'll finish it by the end of the year. This series is 10 books and I'm on book 6 right now

[Eva]

I'd love to hear what you think of Stardoc - I loved the old Sector General series about a space hospital for aliens, and I'm curious about this one.

[CBRetriever]

Eva wrote: "I'd love to hear what you think of Stardoc - I loved the old Sector General series about a space hospital for aliens, and I'm curious about this one."

I don't like Rebel Ice, but that seems very common amongst readers. So far, it's OK, but rape and torture occur in the books, so if those are a turn off, I'd recommend skipping it.

[CBRetriever]

Finished Joe Abercrombie's Age of Madness series for Favorite Author giving me two columns. Two more squares to go:

BIPOC Author: Sabaa Tahir's An Ember in the Ashes series

Duology: Oliver Pötzsch Faust series

to complete the board

[CBRetriever]

Finished Binge Reading S.L. Viehl/s Stardoc series for my first row. Now just have the two mentioned above to start and finish

[Leonie]

CBRetriever wrote: "Finished Binge Reading S.L. Viehl/s Stardoc series for my first row. Now just have the two mentioned above to start and finish"

What did you think, CB? I've just read the first three, and although I enjoyed the first couple, the third one...not so much...

[CBRetriever]

They're readable but not fantastic. The book I had problems with was the 6th book: Rebel Ice.

[Leonie]

CBRetriever wrote: "They're readable but not fantastic. The book I had problems with was the 6th book: Rebel Ice."

I just read a few reviews about that one. Given that book three wasn't a lot of fun, I think perhaps I might pause in the series. There are many other books I want to read.

[Tamara]

I'm going slowly, slowly, on my challenge. Currently reading book 2.5 of The Stormlight Archive (of which I think there are 4 main books at the moment). I'm not sure how far I'll get this year - certainly going to read 3, and maybe 3.5 in that time. 4 is definitely a possibility. This will probably go in my 'longer series' slot - unless I read them all this year; then it will be the binge-read.

I found and read the most recent (#7) of the Green Rider books, Winterlight. Is there a 🐎 to win?? 😊
Would this fit in 'Fresh off the Press'? (Published late last year - can't remember if this needs to be from the current year or not).

[Gabi]

Tamara wrote: "Would this fit in 'Fresh off the Press'? (Published late last year - can't remember if this needs to be from the current year or not)."

Yes, it does. In the subtext in the first post it says it has to be from 2020, 2021 or 2022.

[Eva]

"Is there a horse to win?" For land creatures on the cover you get a tiger emoji (for year of the tiger) but you can definitely have a horsey instead. (Cannot post them at the moment because I'm on mobile.)

[Olga]

It looks sooo intimidating, but I think I'll give it a try )))

Bingo
☐ A1 Trilogy
☐ B1 Science Fiction
✔ C1 Fresh Off the Press - Leviathan Falls: Book 9 of the Expanse
☐ A2 First Book was 5 stars
✔ B2 Favorite Author - Mistborn Series (all published so far)
☐ C2 Fantasy
☐ A3 BIPOC Author
☐ B3 Duology
☐ C3 Binge Read -

Bonus
✔ Non-human land creature/animal on the cover or in the title: 🐯 - Mort
☐ Water/any other liquid on the cover or in the title: 🌊
☐ A flower/plant on the cover or in title: 🌱
☐ Wings/flying creature/cloud on the cover or in title: 🐝
☐ Book or cover features a scientist/researcher/scholar: 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬
☐ Book or cover features a rogue/thief/pirate/assassin: 🐱‍👤
✔ Book or cover features an aristocrat/royalty/emperor/empress: 👸🤴 - The Well of Ascension
☐ Book or cover features a physician/doctor/healer: 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️
☐ Sun/moon/star(s) on cover or in title: 🌞
☐ Book has LGBTQ+ representation: 🌈
☐ Fire/flame on cover or in title: 🔥
☐ Book or cover features ruins, a mask or a statue 🗿

General rules
☐ If you collect all 12 bonus emojis, you get a medal: 🏅
☐ Earn an extra sparkle ✨ if you used only sequels for fulfilling the 12 bonuses.
☐ Participants who complete both the bingo board and all 12 bonus challenges by the end of 2022 get a gold medal: 🥇 and much acclaim and applause!

My Emojis!
Bingos:
Bonuses:

Series Completed in 2022:
The Expanse
Mistborn

[Eva]

Awesome! Good luck, Olga! Have fun - with C1 and B2 you already almost have a diagonal Bingo. :)

[Olga]

Thanks Eva!
These are just those that I remember, I'll give it a closer look and fill in the ones that are in progress a bit later. When I'm not torn apart by two kids ))
I have a few series that I need to decide where to put ))

Am I allowed to change cards later (like move from Fantasy to Binge and add another fantasy)?

[Eva]

Of course! :)

[Tamara]

Good on you, Gabi, for going back and checking. I was obviously too lazy.

Thanks, Eva. I'll take the horse! 🐎🐴 Not sure which one. Any horses are good 💙💚

Olga, how did you find Mort? (As in, what did you think). I've read the 2nd in that mini-series about him, and liked it, but am not generally a fan of Terry Pratchett's books, although I have liked a few. I think I like this character, though, so it makes me think about reading the other 2 in the mini-series.

[Llyren]

I am overdue for an update and I actually have a few books to add:

Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time (4) - The Shadow Rising gives me the 🗿 for the ruins of Rhuidean.

Since I have now read the final Wayfarers novel Becky Chambers - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, I'll use that one for the stars and switch The Theft of Sunlight in order to get the 🐱‍👤. Additionally, it fills my "first book was 5 stars" bingo field.

I caught up with Monstress by rereading Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen and reading Monstress, Vol. 5: Warchild and Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow but I'm not counting those for anything.

Arkady Martine - A Desolation Called Peace gives me the Science-Fiction bingo field (and my first bingo, a 🦊!) as well as the 👸🤴for the current and the young emperor to be.

So for now, I'm missing three bingo fields and the first bonus.

[Meredith]

I've been slow at filling the bingo board, but I recently finished all the bonus challenges.

1) bingo board

4/9

1XX
45X
X89

in progress 1. Trilogy, The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (read 1 of 2)
✔️ 2. 1st Book was 5 stars, Where the Drowned Girls Go
✔️3. BIPOC author, Revenant Gun
in progress 4. Science fiction, Rachel Peng series (read one of 2), State Machine
Reading 5. Favorite author, Spelunking Through Hell
✔️6. Duology, Crooked Kingdom
✔️7. Fresh off the press, Along the Saltwise Sea
8. Fantasy,
in progress/Reading 9. Binge-read, duopoly: read Escaping Exodus; reading Symbiosis,


2) bonus challenges

1) Non-human land creature/animal on the cover or in the title: 🐯 (2022 is the year of the water tiger) The Persian Always Meows Twice.
2) Water/any other liquid on the cover or in the title: 🌊 Where the Drowned Girls Go
3) A flower/plant on the cover or in title: 🌱The Girl in the Green Silk Gown
4) Wings/flying creature/cloud on the cover or in title: 🐝 Crooked Kingdom
5) Book or cover features a scientist/researcher/scholar: 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬Spider Bones
6) Book or cover features a rogue/thief/pirate/assassin: 🐱‍👤 Along the Saltwise Sea
7) Book or cover features an aristocrat/royalty/emperor/empress: 👸🤴A Fatal Waltz
8) Book or cover features a physician/doctor/healer: 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️Dead Beat
9) Sun/moon/star(s) on cover or in title: 🌞 Revenant Gun
10) Book has LGBTQ+ representation: 🌈 State Machine
11) Fire/flame on cover or in title: 🔥 The Brutal Telling
12) Book or cover features ruins, a mask or a statue 🗿 Blood Rites (gargoyles)

Plus, I awarded myself a ladybug for any series reads that didn't fill any of the criteria (because I liked the ladybugs last year). So, I have 6 ladybugs.

🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞
Letter of Mary
A red herring without mustard
Soulless
Bury your dead
Ashes of honor
Sentence is Death

[Roo]

Good progress everyone! I meant to update at the beginning of July but I haven't made a ton of progress so I put it off.

5/9 squares complete, with one little wolf 🐺

✓ Trilogy: The Montague Siblings Trilogy
☐ 5 Star First Book: The Locked Tomb Series - still counting down the days until September!
☐ BIPOC author: The Singing Hills Cycle - just waiting on the last one to be released.

✓ Science Fiction: The Earthseed Duology
☐ Favorite Author: The Faeries of Dreamdark Series - still haven't got around to these -_-
✓ Duology: The Innis Lear Duology

✓ Fresh off the Press: The Wayward Children Series
✓ Fantasy: The Founders Trilogy
☐ Binge Read: Not sure what I'm going to do with this one...waiting to see what series could fill the bonus challenges.

Emoji Bonuses:
1. 🐯
2. 🌊
5. 👩‍🔬
6. 🐱‍👤
7. 👸
8. 👨‍⚕️
9. 🌞

[CBRetriever]

Finished the Duology square: Oliver Pötzsch's Faust two book series

one square to go to complete the card

[CBRetriever]

Finished the Bingo card with

BIPOC Author: Sabaa Tahir's An Ember in the Ashes series

and I just have the following two to complete the Bonuses:


10) Book has LGBTQ+ representation: 🌈 The Infernal Battalion (The Shadow Campaigns, #5) Wexler, Django Book 5 one of the main characters is lesbian

12) Book or cover features ruins, a mask or a statue 🗿 Redemption's Blade Tchaikovsky, Adrian Book 1 ruins after a battle on the cover

[Beth]

Awesome, CB! And it isn't even October. 🥳

[Llyren]

@CBRetriever: Congratulations!

[Eva]

🎉✨🎊

[Myriel]

CBRetriever wrote: "Finished the Bingo card"

Congratulations!

[Meredith]

After a strategic adjustment to one of my planned reads, I have finished the bingo card.

1. Trilogy: The Girl in the Green Silk Gown, Angel of the Overpass, Seanan McGuires Ghost Roads trilogy finished.
2. 1st Book was 5 stars: Where the Drowned Girls Go, Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series.
3. BIPOC author: Revenant Gun, finally finished Yoon Ha Lee's Hexarchate trilogy
4. Science fiction: State Machine, Brute Force, K B Spangler's Rachel Peng series.
5. Favorite author: Spelunking Through Hell, Seanan McGuire's Incryptid series.
6. Duology: Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows duology.
7. Fresh off the press: Along the Saltwise Sea, A. Deborah Barker (AKA Seanan McGuire) Up-and-Under series.
8. Fantasy: Lady Liesl's Seaside Surprise, Tansy Rayner Roberts' Teacup Magic series.
9. Binge-read: Escaping Exodus Symbiosis, Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus duology.

[Llyren]

@Meredith: yay, congratulations!
Oh, I love the Hexarchate books! Do you plan on reading the collection as well?

[Meredith]

Llyren wrote: "@Meredith: yay, congratulations!
Oh, I love the Hexarchate books! Do you plan on reading the collection as well?"

Thanks! Yes, I definitely will read the collection. I think I've read one or two of the stories already, but I understand that Lee includes some commentary on the stories as well.

[CBRetriever]

finished the Bonus part of the Challenge

1) Non-human land creature/animal on the cover or in the title: 🐯 = Beast Master's Circus by Norton, Andre = 4 has large cat on cover of Kindle version
2) Water/"blood"/other liquid on the cover or in the title: 🌊 = On the Seas of Destiny by Emerson, Ru = 3 has three ships on an ocean on cover of Kindle version
3) A flower/plant on the cover or in title: 🌱 = The Trials of Koli by Carey, M.j = 2 has vines on cover of Kindle version
4) Wings/flying creature/cloud on the cover or in title: 🐝 = Promises to Keep by Lint, Charles de = 12 has birds flying on cover of Kindle version

5) Book or cover features a scientist/researcher/scholar: 🧪 = Eternity Row by Viehl, S.L. = 5 has features a doctor on cover of Kindle version
6) Book or cover features a rogue/thief/pirate/assassin: 🐱‍👤 = Sword and Shadow by Sagara, Michelle = 2 has assassin / executioner is the main character
7) Book or cover features an aristocrat/royalty/emperor/empress: 👑 = In the Caves of Exile by Emerson, Ru = 2 has exiled queen
8) Book or cover features a physician/doctor/healer: 🩺 = Endurance by Viehl. S.L. = 3 has the main character is a doctor

9) Sun/moon/star(s) on cover or in title: 🌞 = A Closed and Common Orbit by Chamber, Becky = 2 has stars on cover of Kindle version
10) Book has LGBTQ+ representation: 🌈 = Freehold by Williamson, Michael Z. = 1 has the main characters is in a permanent menage a trois
11) Fire/flame on cover or in title: 🔥 = The Legion of Flame by Ryan, Anthony = 2 has flame in the title
12) Book or cover features ruins, a mask or a statue 🗿 = Redemption's Blade by Tchaikovsky, Adrian = 1 has ruins after a battle on cover of Kindle version

[Myriel]

Congratulations! 🥳

I'm still working on the last bingo square: binge-read
But according to my calculations, I should finish the last audiobook of "The Wheel of Time" just in time before christmas *fingers crossed*

[CBRetriever]

Myriel wrote: "Congratulations! 🥳

I'm still working on the last bingo square: binge-read
But according to my calculations, I should finish the last audiobook of "The Wheel of Time" just in time before christmas ..."

that's epic. I'm working on the Saga of Recluce, but that one's as long as the Wheel of Time and I'm only on Book 6

[Beth]

My series reading was unimpressive this year. I started far more series than I continued or finished. Though I am pretty proud of finishing a full series within 2022.

Started:
(doesn't include "one and done," series I started and decided not to continue. they were all group reads.)
1. Rockton by Kelley Armstrong
2. Project Arcadia by Mishell Baker
3. Pingkang Li Mysteries by Jeannie Lin
4. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
5. Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter by Reia
6. Anita Blake by Laurell K Hamilton
7. Crown of Stars by Kate Elliott

Continued, not yet finished
1. Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
(haven't read Nona yet)
2. Log Horizon by Mamare Touno
3. Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse

Finished
1. Murderbot by Martha Wells (to date)
(I only read a single novella in 2022, but hey, it counts)
2. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System by Mo Xang Tong Xiu
(this is the one I read start to finish this year)
3. I Swear I Won't Bother You Again by Reina Soratani
(seems to be on hiatus after two volumes)

I don't see myself making significant progress on anything else this year, but if I do, I'll edit this post. :)

[Eva]

Congratulations to Meredith and CB for completing the whole Bingo already!! Awesome job, guys!

@Beth: the year’s not over yet, you can still complete more if you want to! By the way, which one of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu’s series should I read/start with? Which one is your favorite/recommendation for me?

[Rebecca]

I'm in the same boat as Beth, I started more series than I finished this year. And I didn't get to two of the prompts. I can always do better next year!

Bingo (full published series completed):
✅ A1 Trilogy: previously Jade City but I couldn't get around to reading the next two books, so its now Song of the Forever Rains, Dance of a Burning Sea, and Symphony for a Deadly Throne
✅ B1 Science Fiction: The Exiled Fleet
✅ C1 Fresh Off the Press: Locklands

✅ A2 ★★★★★ First Book: was going to be The Nine but instead I read The Golden Enclaves to round out that series.
☐B2 Favorite Author: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
☐C2 Fantasy: Into the Riverlands (release in October)

✅ A3 BIPOC Author: Bloodmarked
✅ B3 Duology: Silver in the Wood and Drowned Country
✅ C3 Binge Read: High Jinx which is the second book in the Cursed Luck series (should be 3 books eventually) and I read the fist book this year as well Cursed Luck

My Emojis!:
Bingos: 🦊 🐺
Bonuses: from The Exiled Fleet and The Last Watch 🌈 and 🐱‍👤, from High Jinx 👸, from Drowned Country 🌱, Locklands 🗿, Dance of a Burning Sea 🌊,

Series Completed in 2022: 7

[Llyren]

I might read some more sequels this year but I'm not holding my breath...

Thanks to my completion of The Aurora Cycle (Trilogy), The Raybearer Duology (BIPOC author) and The Green Bone Saga (Fantasy), I have now filled all of my Bingo-Fields!

And Redemptor gives me my last bonus 🐯 with its crocodile and rhino.

Adding some extra ✨ for using only sequels.

[Eva]

Congrats, Llyren!! 🎉 🏆✨

(We seem to have a similar taste - I've read the same trilogies and am about to read Redemptor, too!)

And congrats to you, Rebecca: 7 series completed is still a LOT! 🎉👏

I need to hurry and come up with a new bingo board for 2023... Would it be good to make it bigger and more varied? That way, people could go for specific rows or columns they like, but a full board would be harder. What are your opinions?

[CBRetriever]

I like the current 2022 way especially since I'm one of those who goes for the entire board

[Amy (Other Amy)]

CBRetriever wrote: "I like the current 2022 way especially since I'm one of those who goes for the entire board"

Agree. (I totally ate dirt for my challenges this year but I am gearing up for next year!) I think this challenge is nigh perfect the way it is currently set up. Finding a series to fill each prompt that also has books to fill the individual badges is enjoyably crunchy, but totally doable. More board would be pretty overwhelming, especially if one is doing other challenges that require non-series reading.

If anyone needs more series challenge, they could start repeating previous years, since you've kindly given us new prompts each year, Eva.

[Llyren]

I also usually just about manage the whole board, so a larger one would probably be quite challenging.
I loved the "collectable"-feature we had for the badges last year - that was a wonderful additional motivation to read more sequels :-)

[Meredith]

I like the 3X3 board, especially since folks might read more than one book per square. I also love collecting the bonus emojis and other emoji prizes.

I have really enjoyed this challenge the last couple years, it has helped push me to work on and even finish several series.

Maybe for variety, there could be a wild card square? or pick a favorite prompt from the past 2 years?