Hello everyone, welcome to 2023. I haven't been very active on my blog lately, but there is still a lot happening behind the scenes that I think you might find interesting. First let's talk about 2022. I published two stories this year for the weekly Reedsy Writing Prompts contest, Paula's Refuge in October and A …
Tag: book bingo
Book Bingo 2022 Card
Time to roll a new bingo card to play with this year. I have a list of over 200 challenges that my bingo generator can draw from, so I never know quite what I'll be working on. Here's what I rolled this year. I like this card. It has a variety of challenges, asks for …
Book Bingo Challenge 2021 Results
I read a lot of great books in 2021. In total I read 71 books, with a total of about 14,634 pages. This year I was marking off books on a randomly generated book bingo card, and I got three bingos. I almost finished the card, but there were a few easy tiles I missed. …
Book Bingo Review #3
Look at my Book Bingo Card; I managed to sneak a bingo in right at the end. This was a diagonal line, that includes the free square, so I can talk about any book I want. I'm going to use that square to talk about a book I hated, although the four from actual challenges …
Book Bingo Review #2
In my last book bingo reviews, I was optimistic that my next bingo would be coming soon. That did not happen. We're halfway through September and I have just gotten my second bingo. I am quite proud of myself. This is going to be an interesting post, because this row contains two books that I …
Tour the Sol System Bingo Challenge
I have been itching to make a new book bingo card, and with the year more than half over, it seems like a good time to see if anyone is up for a new reading challenge. I'm doing terrible at my yearly Random Book Bingo Card, but why not start another one? This isn't a …
Book Bingo Review #1
Woo-hoo, I got a bingo. And I got it before the year was half over. So far this year, I've read some really good books. Some absolutely amazing books, and a few meh books. These five reviews are a good cross section of these different tiers, so I'm going to get right into the reviews. …
Book Bingo 2021
I fired up my book bingo generator and here is the card I got. I have a year to work on it, and I think this one will be a bit easier than last year. When I originally rolled this card, I ended up getting a few challenges from my last card. I spun the …
My 2020 in Books
Time to look at what I read in 2020, and make some plans for 2021. Let's start with my book bingo challenge. I got three bingos and filled all but five tiles. I enjoyed this challenge a lot, and it led me to seek out a range of books I might not have picked up …
2020 Book Bingo: Bingo #3 Review
Wow, all but one of the books in this row (Briar Rose) I have already talked about in some way befort. So, yay, quick post full of copy and pasting. I have extended the other reviews a bit, added a few thoughts on the books now that it's been a while since I read them, …
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