BingoDOG reads in December

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BingoDOG reads in December

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1christina_reads
dec 3, 2018, 10:26 am

Anyone else still trying to complete their 2018 Bingo challenge? I'm currently reading Francis Duncan's Murder for Christmas, which I'm counting for the "beautiful cover" square. I wouldn't really call it beautiful, but I do find it very visually appealing.



After this, I have just one more square to fill -- "published more than 100 years ago"! What are you reading to finish up your 2018 Bingo challenge?

2staci426
dec 3, 2018, 10:55 am

I am working on Old Christmas by Washington Irving for the set during a holiday square. Then I will only have one more, related to the Pacific Ocean, for a full bingo card. Still not sure what I will read for that one.

3Kristelh
dec 3, 2018, 11:02 am

the square that says contains an X, can that be any where in title/name or the first letter?

4EBT1002
Redigerat: dec 3, 2018, 2:46 pm

I have two squares to go:
I plan to read The Autobiography of Malcolm X when my turn comes up in the library queue.
I'm listening to the excellent Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon Winchester for the Pacific Ocean prompt.

5clue
dec 3, 2018, 3:44 pm

I have had one square left open for a couple of months..."rank in the title." I have a couple of books on my TBR that I could/should read but neither appeal to me right now. I'm headed for the library soon and I think I'll check out The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville. Or something.

6christina_reads
dec 3, 2018, 3:48 pm

>3 Kristelh: I interpreted it to mean having an X anywhere in the title, not necessarily the first letter. I read Unexpected Night by Elizabeth Daly for that square.

>5 clue: If it helps, I read "rank" to include titles of nobility as well as military ranks...my chosen book had "queen" in the title.

7EBT1002
dec 3, 2018, 3:50 pm

>5 clue: and >6 christina_reads: I did the same thing and read something with "King" in the title.

8rabbitprincess
dec 3, 2018, 6:02 pm

>3 Kristelh: That's what I did. I chose Return of the Sphinx, by Hugh MacLennan, for that square.

I have one book left: Black Money, by Ross MacDonald, which will be used for the "relates to the Pacific Ocean" square because it is set in California.

9staci426
dec 4, 2018, 8:56 am

>4 EBT1002: Thanks for mentioning Pacific. It sounds interesting. I will see if I can find a copy of that for my last square.

10rabbitprincess
dec 8, 2018, 2:53 pm

Finally blacked out my card with Black Money!

11MissWatson
dec 9, 2018, 11:10 am

>10 rabbitprincess: Congrats, rp!

I filled the "originally wriiten in a different language" with a Chinese classic, Die Reise in den Westen. First complete translation into German, 1319 pages long, this took me almost a year to finish. But definitely worth the time.

12MissWatson
dec 10, 2018, 6:50 am

I filled the poetry or play with Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Weber, a play about Silesian handloom weavers rising against their employers in 1844.
Three squares left, and I have even found a book for the Pacific Ocean, I think.

13christina_reads
dec 10, 2018, 12:14 pm

>10 rabbitprincess: Congratulations!

I've also completed the final square of my Bingo card, "published more than 100 years ago," with Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Ella Cheever Thayer (published in 1880). I liked it overall, although I wanted a happier ending for some of the secondary characters!

14rabbitprincess
dec 10, 2018, 6:12 pm

>13 christina_reads: Woo hoo! Congrats on completing your card as well!

15MissWatson
Redigerat: dec 15, 2018, 12:03 pm

Tiedemanns Tochter filled the relative name slot, otherwise not worthy of mention. A tale for teenage girls from the 1950s, totally insipid.

16EBT1002
dec 16, 2018, 5:25 pm

Well, the library queue for The Autobiography of Malcolm X is moving ever so slowly so I think I need to choose something else. I am confident that I'll finish Pacific by Simon Winchester by December 31.

17MissWatson
dec 18, 2018, 4:22 am

And another dud for the Pacific Ocean square: In distant waters is part of the Nathaniel drinkwater series, and in this he is sent to the Pacific with vague orders to do something about Russian incursions into Alaska and Canada. Dull language, dull characters, dull plot.

Only one more to go, the one set on a holiday, and so far Baldacci's Christmas train is not winning me over.

18clue
dec 18, 2018, 10:35 am

I read too late last night but completed The Romanov Empress by C.W. Gortner. This works for the "rank" square and finishes my Bingo card.

19Kristelh
dec 18, 2018, 11:27 am

Thanks everyone, I looked back and found a title with x in in so now all I have left is "read a cat, which I've done but I always leave this one for last. So I will be filling that in soon and will be done with Bingo 2018, on to 2019.

20MissWatson
dec 19, 2018, 5:03 am

I have given up on Baldacci's The Christmas Train, not my kind of book at all. My sister has set Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch aside for me which I'm going to read over the holidays. It's set on New Year's Eve, and thus I will have completed my second Bingo card.

21Kristelh
dec 19, 2018, 1:21 pm

>20 MissWatson:, two bingo cards, that's great!

22EBT1002
dec 19, 2018, 10:40 pm

I've decided on The Essex Serpent for the X square. I've been wanting to read it but had forgotten about it over the past couple of months!

23MissWatson
Redigerat: dec 20, 2018, 9:35 am

>21 Kristelh: Thanks!
I filled it with a placeholder for now, The mysterious Mr Quin which starts on New Year's Eve, because I wanted to see the blacked-out card. Just in case I don't get to the book by Ende, holidays often interfere with reading plans.

ETC

24EBT1002
dec 29, 2018, 5:04 pm

I finished The Essex Serpent for the X square. But my BingoDOG images have disappeared -- from all my threads! Does anyone know what happened?

25sallylou61
Redigerat: dec 29, 2018, 8:05 pm

>24 EBT1002: Something must have happened pretty much LT wide. The cards seem to have disappeared both on the 2018 and 2019 challenges.

26lkernagh
dec 29, 2018, 9:08 pm

>24 EBT1002: - You can edit your post where the bingo card is and "revive" it by changing http to https in the URL code for the card. ;-)

27EBT1002
dec 31, 2018, 12:12 am

>26 lkernagh: Thank you, Lori!

28thornton37814
dec 31, 2018, 12:02 pm

29EBT1002
Redigerat: dec 31, 2018, 9:07 pm

2018 BingoDOG Completed!!! (whew -- just in time!)

1. Title contains name of a famous person, real or fictional ~ Saving Mozart by Raphaël Jérusalmy
2. Published more than 100 years ago ~ Nicholas Nickleby
3. Originally in a different language ~ Go, Went, Gone (German)
4. New-to-you author ~ God Stalk by P.C. Hodgell
5. Relative name in title ~ Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
6. Money in title ~ Sugar Money by Jane Harris
7. Published in 2018 ~ An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
8. X somewhere in the title ~ The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
9. Fat book - 500 plus pages ~ The Overstory by Richard Powers (502 pp.)
10. Set during a holiday ~ Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
11. LGBTQ central character ~ Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
12. Book on the 1001 list ~ The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
13. Read a CAT (middle square) ~ Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
14. Number in title ~ We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
15. Book that is humorous ~ Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos
16. Book bought in 2017 that hasn’t been read yet ~ Bad Feminist
17. Title contains something you would see in the sky ~ Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
18. Related to Pacific Ocean ~ Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon Winchester
19. Book that fits at least 2 KIT’s/CAT’s ~ Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
20. Book with a beautiful cover (in your opinion) ~ Hounds of Spring by Lucy Andrews Cummin
21. Autobiography/memoir ~ Negroland by Margo Jefferson
22. Poetry or plays ~ Heartbeat by Sharon Creech (novel in verse)
23. A long-time TBR ~ The Long Song by Andrea Levy
24. Story involves travel ~ The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie
25. Title contains a person’s rank, real or fictional ~ Killer in King's Cove by Iona Whishaw

30sturlington
Redigerat: jan 1, 2019, 11:04 am

>29 EBT1002: Congrats!

Final read of the year: Ice, a longtime tbr. I did not complete my card, though.