JAZZY'S BINGO-BANGO-BONGO! CHALLENGE 2023

[Jazzy]

Eyes down! Let the game commence...!




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[Jazzy]

✅ Row 1

✅ B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999
Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller
✅ I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2023
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Jean Rhys
✅ N1: Classic of the Americas
Jacob's Room (1922) - Virginia Woolf
✅ G1: Classic from a group poll that did not win
The Enchanted April (1922) - Elizabeth von Arnim
✅ O1: Book Published before 1900
A Child of the Jago (1896) - Arthur Morrison

[Jazzy]

✅ Row 2

✅ B2: Classic written in your native language
The Beautiful and Damned (1922) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
✅ I2: Classic biography/autobiography or memoir
History of My Life (1789) - Giacomo Casanova
✅ N2: Classic Western
While the Billy Boils (1896) - Henry Lawson
✅ G2: Classic action or adventure
The Worst Journey in the World (1922) - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
✅ O2: New-To-You Classic Author
Captain Blood (1922) - Rafael Sabatini

[Jazzy]

Row 3

✅ B3: Classic of Europe
The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry France
✅ I3: Classic horror or gothic
At the Mountains of Madness (1931) - H.P. Lovecraft
✅ N3: Reader’s Choice
[bookThe Secret Adversary|282900] (1922) - Agatha Christie
✅ G3: Classic history or historical fiction
A Month in the Country (1980) - J.L. Carr
✅ O3: Classic of Asia
The Vendor of Sweets (1967) - R.K. Narayan India

[Jazzy]

Row 4

✅ B4: Classic involving art
Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955) - Crockett Johnson
✅ I4: Classic comedy, satire, or humour
Measure for Measure (1604) - William Shakespeare
✅ N4: Classic mystery or thriller
The Odessa File (1972) - Frederick Forsyth
✅ G4: Classic fantasy or science fiction
Metropolis (1925) - Thea von Harbou
✅ O4: Classic in translation
Vera - Elizabeth von Arnim

[Jazzy]

Row 5

✅ B5: Classic from your bookshelf
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1960) - Henry Farrell
✅ I5: Book from the group’s Favourites of 2022
To Sir, With Love (1959) - E.R. Braithwaite
✅ N5: Classic of Africa or Oceania
Songs of the Army of the Night (1888) - Francis Adams Australia
✅ G5: Book from the Group’s 2023 Bookshelf
Praise of Folly (1511) - Erasmus
✅ O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949
A Passage To India (1924) - E.M. Forster

[Jazzy]

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Have a great year with your bingo challenge, Jazzy.

[Jazzy]

Thank you Katy x
Choosing the books is like looking through the window of the toy shop!

[Jazzy]

Finally chosen all my books!

[Jazzy]

[Jazzy]

[Klowey]

😮
I am so impressed with your BINGO list. I hope you are able to blackout.

[Jazzy]

Klowey wrote: "😮
I am so impressed with your BINGO list. I hope you are able to blackout."

Many thanks Klowey! I did it last year and enjoyed it ever so much, hoping for a repeat performance!

[Laurie]

I loved looking at your choices for each bingo square. So many are completely new to me. And the pictures are a wonderful addition to your thread. Happy reading!

[Jazzy]

Laurie wrote: "I loved looking at your choices for each bingo square. So many are completely new to me. And the pictures are a wonderful addition to your thread. Happy reading!"

Thank you Laurie, that's so kind! Perhaps you will look into some of these books too xx

[Nike]

As always I love the pictures you decorate the site with! Can't you teach me ... us ... how to insert pictures? 💜👌

[Jazzy]

Nike wrote: "As always I love the pictures you decorate the site with! Can't you teach me ... us ... how to insert pictures? 💜👌"

yes it's really quite easy. i go to a photo i want to add (sometimes finding the photo is the hard bit!) then right click and copy image address - i'm on a mac by the way. I go to the place i want to add the image and then i use the HTML to do so.

< img src="paste the copied link here" > but take away the spaces after the < and before the >

img src means IMAGE SOURCE

It might be easier with a video, and I found this

https://www.alessandratorreink.com/ho...

Hope that helps!





gifs work too!

[Jazzy]

Three to go!

[Janelle]

Wow amazing, Jazzy !!

[Jazzy]

Janelle wrote: "Wow amazing, Jazzy !!"

Many thanks Janelle! xx

[Wobbley]

Jazzy wrote: "Three to go!"

That's fantastic! Which ones have been your favourites?

[Jazzy]

Wobbley wrote: That's fantastic! Which ones have been your favourites?"

Thank you so much!
They're all good - many are re-reads, but i think the book that meant the most this time around is The Worst Journey in the World (1922) by Cherry, Apsley Cherry-Garrard. The expedition left him with life-long PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) - although they didn't have a name for it at the time.

[Wobbley]

That one sounds so harrowing! I have never been to Antarctica, but I saw a display about that journey in a museum in New Zealand some years ago, and just seeing the display and reading the placards actually made me cry.

[Jazzy]

Wobbley wrote: "That one sounds so harrowing! I have never been to Antarctica, but I saw a display about that journey in a museum in New Zealand some years ago, and just seeing the display and reading the placards..."

This wasn't about the race to the pole, but they were on a scientific expedition to collected penguin eggs, with the hopes they would be fertilised and thus provide a link to help understand evolution. It was brutal and Cherry was lucky to be alive at the end of it.

I think you'll like it. My friend Ross, who is also reading this, has recommended The Birthday Boys (1993) by Beryl Bainbridge.

[Wobbley]

Jazzy wrote: "It was brutal and Cherry was lucky to be alive at the end of it."

Yikes! I wonder how much they knew about what they were getting into when they got on that boat...

[Jazzy]

And some of them actually went back.

[Carolien]

You know this is an annual challenge, don't you? You're doing amazing! Quite a few on my TBR here. What did you think of A year in the Country?

[Jazzy]

Carolien wrote: "You know this is an annual challenge, don't you? You're doing amazing! Quite a few on my TBR here. What did you think of A year in the Country?"

It was a very sweet story, kind of like an independent film (my son says he doesn't like those because 'nothing happens', but things DO happen) I found it pleasurable.

and Yes I know it's an annual challenge, but I have many of them and am trying to work my way through them all. The last 3 books will take longer! Thank you! xx

[Carolien]

Keep going, Jazzy! I always find something in your challenges to add to my list. I'll definitely read A Year in the Country as I like independent films too.

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

Jazzy you are very close and so quickly. Your photo backgrounds are always so much fun.

[Jazzy]

Thank you so much Carolien and Lynn I'm so happy you like them xx

[Wobbley]

Ha! I love the one with the cat sleeping on all the books!

[Sara, New School Classics]

You are going to be working on your second card in a few days! How impressive you are.

[Nike]

Wow, you are reading fast!

[Cynda]

Look at you go!

[Jazzy]

wow many, many thanks for all the kind comments! I like the cat pics but really love the couple happily running up the hill with the mushroom cloud in the background.

[Jazzy]

One to go!

[Wobbley]

Amazing progress, Jazzy!

[Jazzy]

Sorted!

And thanks Wobbley :)

Now to work on my MAD HATTER'S TEA PARTY!

[Janelle]

Congrats Jazzy 🎉🎉🎉

[Jazzy]

ooh many thanks Janelle! Have a cuppa tea and some cake! xx

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

Congratulations on completing Bingo Jazzy!

[Annette]

Wow! And congratulations!

[Carolien]

Congratulations, Jazzy!

[Jazzy]

Thanks a million Lynn, Annet and Carolien!
Time for a Bingo After-Party I think!