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@aus.fangirl.reads Bookish Bingo.
So Jess set up this super fun reading bingo that ran from 6th-12th April, to keep us entertained during these crazy self-isolation times and it also coincided with the Easter long weekend. I found it to be a really great challenge, that encouraged me to read more and step out of my comfort zone for some categories too! Definitely go and give her bookstagram account some love @aus.fangirl.reads 📚
Here’s the bingo board and all the books I read to tick off the categories:
- A book set in your country: Tomorrow When The War Began by John Marsden.
- A book with an animal or monster on the cover: No Place For An Octopus by Claire Zorn.
- Short Story Collection or Poetry: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
- One Word Title: Matilda by Roald Dahl.
- A book published in 2020: Emily and the Very Big Feeling by Celeste Cannell.
- PHOTO CHALLENGE: Shelf Portrait (you and your shelves):
- CHALLENGE: Read a book in 24 hours: The Spiderwick Chronicles – The Ironwood Tree by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black.
- A book picked by someone else: One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by David Bader.
- Blue on the cover: The Chronicles of Narnia – The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis.
- PHOTO CHALLENGE: Show your height in books:
- CHALLENGE: read a book in one sitting: The Spiderwick Chronicles – Lucinda’s Secret by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black.
- A book set in space or has to do with space: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars – Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher.
- Re-read a book: The Spiderwick Chronicles – The Seeing Stone by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black.
- A graphic novel, comic or manga: Hamlet by No Fear Shakespeare.
- A book 150 pages or under: The Spiderwick Chronicles – The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black.
- Listen to an audiobook: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, narrated by Karen Gillan.
Categorical Reading Challenge 2020.
50 different categories, each book can only be used to fill a category once. Be creative and step out of your comfort zone! I’ll add the books to this table each time I complete a new category.
I’ll add a copy of this reading challenge to my blog page so you can download it and join in too!
| Category | Book Title | Author |
| A book that’s published in 2020 | Emily and the Very Big Feeling | Celeste Cannell |
| A book with a great first line | ||
| A book about a book club | ||
| A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics | Break The Fall | Jennifer Iacopelli |
| A bildungsroman | ||
| The first book you touch on the shelf with your eyes closed | ||
| A book with an upside down image on the cover | One of Us Is Next | Karen M. McManus |
| A book with the same title as a movie but unrelated to it | Ashes to Ashes | Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian |
| A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name | ||
| A book about or involving social media | 29 Dates | Melissa De La Cruz |
| A book with a book on the cover | One Hundred Great Books in Haiku | David Bader |
| A medical thriller | ||
| A book with a made up language | William Shakespeare’s Star Wars | Ian Doescher |
| A book set in a country beginning with C | This Is My Song | Richard Yaxley |
| A book you chose because its title attracted your attention | One Strange Accident | Kay Wyont |
| A book published the month of your birthday | The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Ironwood Tree | Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black |
| A book about or by a woman in STEM | ||
| A book that won an award in 2019 | ||
| A book about a subject you know nothing about | ||
| A book with only words on the cover | No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference | Greta Thunberg |
| A book with a pun in the title | Bookshop Girl in Paris (got creative here, the main character’s name is Paige Turner) | Chloe Coles |
| A book with a non-traditional family | The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Seeing Stone | Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black |
| A book with a robot, cyborg or AI character | ||
| A book with a bird on the cover | ||
| A book with gold, silver or bronze in the title | ||
| A book you meant to read in 2019 | No Place For An Octopus | Claire Zorn |
| A book with a three word title | One Inner Voice | Kay Wyont |
| A book with more than twenty letters in its title | Diva and Flea: A Parisian Tale | Mo Willems & Tony DiTerlizzi |
| A book by or about a journalist | ||
| A book written by an author in their twenties | ||
| A book about one of the Seven Deadly Sins | ||
| A book set in the 20s of any century | ||
| A book with a pink cover | Fire with Fire | Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian |
| A book that leaves you thinking | Boy 87 | Ele Fountain |
| A book written in first person | ||
| A book from the Fantasy genre | The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide | Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black |
| A book in the Narnia series | The Magician’s Nephew | C.S. Lewis |
| A book with a foreword | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| A book with a character who wears glasses | Matilda | Roald Dahl |
| A book by an author you previously disliked | ||
| A book set in winter | ||
| A book about one of the creative arts | ||
| A ‘how to’ book | ||
| A graphic novel | Hamlet | No Fear Shakespeare |
| A memoir that has been made into a movie | ||
| A book from a sub-genre of your favourite genre | ||
| A book that contains more than just text | The Road Not Taken | Robert Frost |
| A book containing a famous pair of characters | John Keats and Virginia Woolf: from Hampstead to Rome | Roberto Einaudi & Keats Shelley House |
| A book you don’t own | 488 Rules for Life | Kitty Flannagan |
| A book of your choice | Tomorrow When The War Began | John Marsden |
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