After last years complete nonexistent Book Bingo attempt, I am calling this a win. Not only for making it, but also for getting quite a lot of spaces filled. I liked my categories and I think I managed a great variety in books in filling each spot. Of course practically none have reviews, but maybe through the upcoming year I will be able to fill some review gaps with these books. Especially cause some were really great reads.
I am particularly proud of a few of them because they have been incomplete for decades. Decades. Now I can finally say I have finished them. Things like finally finishing The Hitchiker’s series, or finally finishing a book about The Simpsons I started reading sometime prior to 2010. That has to be an achievement in itself.
I took a few chances on these books too, looking for a certain style of book for research purposes, or to fit a holiday mood. Some were because I needed a book in that moment and it suited, others I had been hanging out to read for ages and finally got around to it. I love doing these bingos because it gives me a chance to pick things up, or finally read something I have had sitting on my shelf patiently waiting. It makes me broaden my reading, but it also makes me read the stuff I want to read but find excuse after excuse, or it seems to hard. I might try and force my hand a bit more next year and get through my TBR and my own shelves, especially because this one was filled accidentally. I should try to actively complete it next time. I already don’t like my chances but one can live in hope.
Did you do a bingo card this year? If you’re looking for ideas check through my bingo tag to find previous years and see if you can challenge yourself next year.
Graphic Novel – The Eleventh Hour by Clint McElroy
Self Published – Slither by Nikki Rae
Movie Adaptation – Nimona by ND Stevenson
Own Voices – Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal by Anna Whateley
Non Fiction – How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess
Bisexual MC – Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
Anthology – Holiday Haunts by Wendy Dalrymple and Imogen Markwell-Tweed
Short Stories – Through the Woods ed. Emily Carroll
Finish a Series – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
On TBR Pile – The Words We Keep by Erin Stewart
Fairytale Retelling – The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
Free Choice – Maybe Next Time by Cesca Major
Was a Gift –Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Author You’ve Never Read – The Eternal Return of Clara Hart by Louise Finch
Chosen for the Cover – Blob by Anne Appert
Retelling a Classic – Dracula Daily by Matt Kirkland/Bram Stoker
Published This Year – Dial M for Mudcake by Kaz Delaney
One Word Title – Royals by Tegan Bennett Daylight
Set in Australia – Law of Entanglement by Laurinda Lawrence
Started and Never Finished – Planet Simpson by Chris Turner
Owned But Never Read – Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
This year I’ve compiled a document filled with previous book bingo categories and found it’s a thousand times easier to pick 24 from the list than it is to try and remember or think up ones every new year. One of those things that would have been handy years ago but at least I have it now. I found some on there I’d used years ago and totally forgot about, as well as scouted some new ones for something different.
I will admit triumph may be a big word to use but given the circumstances and the difficulties (can we call them that?) of the previous couple years I think having most of my card filled in is a triumph. Though looking at the last couple years an almost filled card seems to be as far as I go, I haven’t had a filled card since 2018 but whether officially a win is getting a line or a full card who knows what’s right and what isn’t. My card my rules I think at this point; a win is what I decide it is and to be honest I think I change my own rules every year.
January is such a busy blogging time because it’s when I set up everything for the coming year and get all my challenges lined up. This time round it’s my Book Bingo. This year I have chosen a mix of old and new in my 25 categories. I have kept a lot from last year but I have also mixed up a few others.
Lost in a Good Book 
