Seeing the posts by FictionFan and by Susan at A Life in Books, reminded me how much I look forward to the annual ritual of Reading Bingo. I never pick books in order to fit the squares – I’m not that organised in my reading – but it’s fun to look back at the books I’ve read in the year and try to match them with the categories.
I’m happy to say, I’ve managed it again this year – how about you? Click on the book titles to read my review.
A Book With More Than 500 Pages – Macbeth by Jo Nesbo
A Forgotten Classic – The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby
A Book That Became A Movie – Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
A Book Published This Year – Entanglement by Katy Mahood
A Book With A Number In The Title – Six Stories by Matt Wesolowski
A Book Written By Someone Under Thirty – The Dark Tide by Vera Brittain
A Book With Non-Human Characters – The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
A Funny Book – Dear Mrs. Bird by A. J. Pearce
A Science Fiction or Fantasy Book – The Things We Learn When We’re Dead by Charlie Laidlaw
A Book With A Mystery – The Power-House by John Buchan
A Book With A One-Word Title – Hold by Michael Donkor
A Book Of Short Stories – The Word for Freedom by Amanda Saint & Rose McGinty (eds.)
Free Square: A Literary Prize Winner – The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers (The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction)
A Book Set On A Different Continent – The Emperor of Shoes by Spencer Wise
A Book Of Non-Fiction – The Long and Winding Road by Alan Johnson
The First Book By A Favourite Author – The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
A Book You Heard About Online – Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
A Best-Selling Book – The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (#75 in W H Smith fiction Chart)
A Book Based On A True Story – The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford
A Book At The Bottom Of Your To Be Read Pile – The Good Father by S. R. Wilsher
A Book Your Friend Loves – Miss Marley by Vanessa Lafaye and Rebecca Mascull
A Book That Scares You – Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell
A Book That Is More Than 10 Years Old – Carol by Patricia Highsmith
The Second Book In A Series – I Will Find You (Seal Island #2) by Daniela Sacerdoti
A Book With A Blue Cover – The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau
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Well done! I must see if I’ve managed it this year, I hope so!
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Bet you have 😁
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Thanks for the link, Cathy, and congrats on a full house! I’ve just begun reading Entanglement and am throughly enjoying it.
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Well done!!! 😀 That’s also why I never set out to fill these kind of things in. I always feel pressured to find something that fits the category. Very cool that yours have fitted in nicely though. 😀
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I must admit the one I struggled with was a book written by someone under thirty. It’s so difficult to find out authors’ ages (although I don’t blame for keeping it to themselves).
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Amazingly done!
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Bingo! Well done! And a great-looking list – I’ve only read a few of them, but there are several more I’d like to read – The Thirteenth Tale and The Gallows Pole to name but two! Glad to see you found a space for Buchan! The one I always struggle most with is the “under 30”, and I always end up surprised at how many authors wrote great books so young. Thanks for the link! 😀
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