Flash Bingo

Pretty Deadly Reviews hosts seasonal Bingo Challenges, where you only have a few months to get as many Bingos as possible. So I thought I sign up for the Spring one and see how I do. For this challenge, the books must be read between March 1st and May 31st.


Bekka, the host, provides some ideas for the categories, and I'll draw my ASCII bingo square to keep track:

X X X X X
X X X X X
X X X X X
X X X X X
X X X X X

BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BLACK OUT!

Second Chance – This is simply a book that you previously put down, but you’re giving it another chance. Other second chance options include: a reread, giving an author a second chance after you didn’t like their first book, giving a series a second chance after you decided to quit.

• Grave Peril, Jim Butcher 3/21/16 (reread)

Set in Space

• Havoc, Ann Aguirre 4/28/16

Nonbinary MC – the Main Character’s gender does not fall into the binary system

• Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson 5/12/16

Under 200 Pages: 

• Give Me Wings, Kathy Lowinger 3/12/16

Ugly Cover

• The Year of Living Dangerously, C.J. Koch 5/5/16

Set over 200 Years Ago – Not necessarily written then, just set during a time period that long ago

• Not Always a Saint, Mary Jo Putney 3/18/16

March, April, May Release:

• Republic, Lindsay Buroker 3/23/16

Criminals – Assassins, pirates, thieves, drug dealers, mob families, anything goes

• Most Dangerous, Steve Sheinkin 3/18/16. I like this pick, because it's about Ellsberg releasing the Pentagon Papers, which was technically an illegal act (so he's a criminal) and documents illegals acts by the government, which flung itself into farcical illegal acts in retaliation.

Metallic Lettering: 

• Archangel's Enigma, Nalini Singh 4/20/16

Based on a real event – doesn’t have to be nonfiction

• The Spies of Mississippi, Rick Bowers 3/12/16

Book Toward Another Challenge – Doing a paranormal romance challenge? A contemporary challenge? Read a book toward one of your other challenges. Only doing the Goodreads Challenge? Reader’s Choice!

• Courage and Defiance, Deborah Hopkinson 3/31/16 (Cybils Finalists)

Green Cover

• Hild, Nicola Griffith 4/13/16

Free

• Paper Towns, John Green 3/17/16

Retelling – Fairytales, historical events, mythology, Arthurian retellings, Shakespeare retellings, anything really

• Tell the Wind and Fire, Sarah Rees Brennan 4/19/16

Set in More Than One Country

Becoming Naomi Leon, Pam Munoz Ryan 3/1/16

Characters are Not Human – Aliens, werewolves, robots, etc

• Fire Touched, Patricia Briggs 4/1/16

Rec'd By More Than One Friend

• Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean 4/23/16

Flowers on the Cover

• The Bride's Story 7, Kaoru Mori 3/29/16

MC Shares Your First Initial

• The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemison, 4/23/16 (Essen -- Elizabeth)

Written Under a Pen Name

• Clean Sweep, Ilona Andrews 4/7/16 (It's a pen name for a couple.)

Written by More Than One Author

• Bayard Rustin: The Invisible Activist,  Jacquiline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long

End of the World – Apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic fiction

• An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet 4/17/16

Number In the Title

• Twin Spica 6, Kou Yaginuma 3/28/16

Non-Fiction

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo 4/3/16

Standalone:

• Dumplin', Julie Murphy 3/8/16