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I'm posting the thread so that members can begin making plans for this mini-challenge. Please refrain from posting comments until Holly and I can finish setting up. It actually takes a bit to do the coordinating since we're in different countries with different schedules.

I'll make an announcement as soon as this challenge is "officially" open.
Thanks for your patience.

Mission: Claim at least one "Bingo!" before June 20 (the first day of summer)!

This is an all new bingo for 2016! The Mods have put our heads together to create some new bingo categories and boards that will change with the seasons. (Fans of Karen's Original Bingo, don't worry... We'll be keeping that one for summer.)

RULES & GUIDELINES

Not too many of these as it is supposed to be fun after all :)

* As with traditional Bingo, you can go for a horizontal, vertical, diagonal, "X" or "around the world" (perimeter). Or aim big and go for a black out (all squares)!

* A book can only be used once on the sheet.

* Interpret the categories as broadly as you like.

* Feel free to copy and paste the template below to record your books:

Spring Bingo Categories

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE
N4: Romance
N5: Male POV

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G5: Young Adult
G6: Magical Powers

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

Here's the board!

Great! I love the library theme! Spring Bingo is officially open for posts. Huzzah!

Remember: You can set your own level with a single "Bingo!" or as many as you like.

Don't forget to post "Bingo!" when you've completed each one so we can celebrat

Reserved for updates/definitions

Thanks, Renee and Holly. I'd like to join in and try to go for a blackout.

2016 RCG, Spring Bingo
Duration: March 20 - June 20, 2016

B1: Award Nominated Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, 4-5-16 (4*), review National Book Award for Nonfiction (2015), ALA Alex Award (2016), Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2015), ŷ������ Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
B2: Memoir Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story Christina Thompson, 3-26-16 (3*), review
B3: Audio Book Confess Colleen Hoover, 4-4-16 (4*), review
B4: Green Cover The Maze Runner James Dasher, 6-9-16 (3*) review
B5: Pretty Dress The Selection Kiera Cass, The Selection #1, 4-4-16 (4*), review

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel Until Tomorrow Robin Jones-Gunn, Christy & Todd: College Years, 3-31-16 (2-1/2*), review College-age kids travel around Europe together.
I3: Horror or Suspense From the Corner of His Eye Dean Koontz, 4-17-16 (3*), review
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae Into the Dreaming: With Bonus Material Karen Marie Moning, Highlander #8, 6-4-16 (2-1/2*), review

N1: Published This Year Big Rock Lauren Blakely, 5-31-16 (4*) review
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE
N4: Romance Ravished by a Highlander Paula Quinn, #1 Children of the Mist, 3-22-16 (5*), review This has a cheesy title, but it's an excellent book. I recommend it!
N5: Male POV Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show: A Novel of Ireland Frank Delaney, 3-30-16 (3-1/2*), review MC thinks back on his life and shares his memories of when he and his father first met Venetia Kelly at a traveling carnival, and how that fateful meeting disrupted their lives.

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation Billie Anna Gavalda, 6-6-16 (4*), review
G3: Minority Studies
G5: Young Adult A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle, Time Quintet #1, 3-24-16 (2-1/2*), review
G6: Magical Powers Dark Witch Nora Roberts, #1 Cousins O'Dwyer, 3-29-16 (3*), review

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 4-5-16 (5*), review
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story Follow the River James Alexander Thom, 5-24-16 (4*), review
O5: Pink Cover

I'm going to give this a go again (it took me forever to get a bingo on the winter 'card')

B1: Award Nominated - The Good Girl
B2: Memoir - I Regret Nothing
B3: Audio Book - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense - Obsession in Death
I4: Mental Illness - Them Bones
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover - The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days
N3: FREE - Neverwhere
N4: Romance - The Total Package
N5: Male POV - Dexter's Final Cut

G1: Tear-Jerker - Innocent Traitor
G2: In Translation - Like Water for Chocolate
G3: Minority Studies - I Want Candy
G5: Young Adult - I Am Not A Serial Killer
G6: Magical Powers - Stardust of Yesterday

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling - may be a stretch since it's based Alice in Wonderland but I'm using Wonderment in Death
O2: Historical (F or NF) - Virgins: An Outlander Novella
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story - The Things They Carried
O5: Pink Cover - Tart

Looks like fun; I'm in!

Since it's now 'officially' spring, is it okay to start on the new bingo or does it start on a specific date?

What does 'pretty dress' mean?

Cover with s dress on it. I think.

Ooh this looks fun!! (Bold means has been read, ones with a book next to it but aren't bold means plan to read/am currently reading)

Spring Bingo Categories

B1: Award Nominated: The House of Hades
B2: Memoir: Hello Life!
B3: Audio Book: Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up
B4: Green Cover: The Demigod Diaries
B5: Pretty Dress: Untamed

I1: Published before 1900: Pride and Prejudice
I2: Travel: Ensnared
I3: Horror or Suspense: A Monster Calls
I4: Mental Illness: Splintered
I5: Fairies or Fae: Lady Midnight

N1: Published This Year: The Hidden Oracle
N2: Yellow Cover: Carry On (the cover that i have is yellow)
N3: FREE: Heist Society
N4: Romance: Uncommon Criminals
N5: Male POV: The Moth in the Mirror

G1: Tear-Jerker: The Blood of Olympus
G2: In Translation: The Diary of a Young Girl
G3: Minority Studies: Reboot
G5: Young Adult: The Demigod Files
G6: Magical Powers: The Mark of Athena

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling: Unhinged
O2: Historical (F or NF): I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
O3: Play: Romeo and Juliet
O4: Based on a True story: The Story of My Life
O5: Pink Cover: Coco Caramel

Bingos
1) B1, B2, B3, B4, B5
2) N1, N2, N3, N4, N5
3) O5, G4, N3, I2, B1
4) I1, I2, I3, I4, I5
5) G1, G2, G3, G4, G5
6)

The official start date was March 20. Holly and I have finished on our end, so go ahead and start.

I would say that "Pretty Dress" relates to a dress on the cover. With or without a person in it. If anyone has a different interpretation, let me know.

SPRING BINGO -Let's read some books!!

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel - Budi Hamlet, pane Hamlete!
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE
N4: Romance
N5: Male POV

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G5: Young Adult
G6: Magical Powers

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover Prokleta avlija

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir - Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover - The Wind in the Willows
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense - The Grownup
I4: Mental Illness - Sophie's Choice
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year - The Queen of the Night
N2: Yellow Cover - Uprooted
N3: FREE - Ali's Pretty Little Lies
N4: Romance - Naked in Death
N5: Male POV - The Knife of Never Letting Go

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G4: Young Adult - The Nightmare Affair
G5: Magical Powers

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

Spring Bingo Categories

B1: Award Nominated The Perfect Order of Things by David Gilmour - Trillium Book Award Nominee for English-language (2012)
B2: Memoir - French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle
B3: Audio Book - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
B4: Green Cover - Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel - Traversa by Fran Sandham
I3: Horror or Suspense - The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae -

N1: Published This Year - And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile
N2: Yellow Cover - -I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
N3: FREE
N4: Romance - Landline by Rainbow Rowell
N5: Male POV - The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

G1: Tear-Jerker - Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
G2: In Translation - Frog by Mo Yan
G3: Minority Studies - Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja
G5: Young Adult - The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
G6: Magical Powers - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

Here's my spot. :)

Spring Bingo
Bingo completed!

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir Binge
B3: Audio Book Paper Towns
B4: Green Cover The Lightning Thief
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900 Little Women
I2: Travel The Yoga of Max's Discontent
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness My Heart and Other Black Holes
I5: Fairies or Fae School for Good and Evil

N1: Published This Year The Hidden Oracle
N2: Yellow Cover Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
N3: FREE
N4: Romance The Change
N5: Male POV Storm Front

G1: Tear-Jerker The Lovely Bones
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G4: Young Adult
G5: Magical Powers The Sea of Monsters

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

So I didn't quite manage a full house on the winter bingo but I'm excited to try again:


B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE
N4: Romance
N5: Male POV

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G5: Young Adult
G6: Magical Powers

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

Hooray for Bingo! So glad to have so many members join the game!

I found an ebook on my kindle that's a retelling of Alice in Wonderland and I thought it would be perfect for the fairy tale retelling but then I questioned whether Alice is a fairy tale or not. Would you consider it a fairy tale?

I probably wouldn't but you certainly can. If you think of it as a fairytale, then use the retelling. You should go with your gut.

Oh, I'm in!

Spring Bingo! (March 20-June 20)

B1: Award Nominated The House on Mango Street (3/28/16)
B2: Memoir Orange Is the New Black (3/25/16)
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress The Milliner's Secret (3/20/16)

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America (5/11/16)
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year When I'm Gone (4/2/16)
N2: Yellow Cover How I Became a Famous Novelist (5/24/16)
N3: FREE The Man in the High Castle (4/20/16)
N4: Romance While You Were Mine (3/30/16)
N5: Male POV Lolita (5/17/16)

G1: Tear-Jerker Me Before You (4/17/16)
G2: In Translation The Little Prince (5/25/16)
G3: Minority Studies We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (4/13/16)
G4: Young Adult
G5: Magical Powers

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) Brooklyn (4/3/16)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

I'm in! I will post as I finish!

Amanda-
I'd count it since you finished when you did. I've had books linger around for months before I get around to finishing them. I usually go the the end date as a rule of thumb.

Thanks, Renee! That's what I figured :-)

I'm thinking of trying it too, I am reading the help

Oops was not done, where would it fit best. I will work out what others I can get then post my list :)

Oh another really interesting challenge... One more certainly can't make much difference...can it? Ok, count me in :0)

Glad to have you along, Veronique!

:0)

Spring Bingo

B1: Award Nominated - Uprooted (19th May)
B2: Memoir - The Complete Maus (29th April)
B3: Audio Book - They Came to Baghdad (4th May)
B4: Green Cover - An Unsuitable Job For A Woman (12th April)
B5: Pretty Dress - The Suffragette Scandal (31st March)

I1: Published before 1900 - North and South (23rd April)
I2: Travel -
I3: Horror or Suspense - The Blank Wall (21st April)
I4: Mental Illness - The Turn of the Screw (14th June)
I5: Fairies or Fae - Throne of Glass (12th June)

N1: Published This Year - On the Edge of Gone (11th April)
N2: Yellow Cover - La femme au carnet rouge (30th April)
N3: FREE - The Remains of the Day (2nd May)
N4: Romance - Miss Buncle Married (24th March)
N5: Male POV - Space Case (28th March)

G1: Tear-Jerker -
G2: In Translation - The Reader on the 6.27 (1st may)
G3: Minority Studies - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (5th June)
G5: Young Adult - Jackaby (30th March)
G6: Magical Powers - Steelheart (1st April)

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling -
O2: Historical (F or NF) - Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942 (27th April)
O3: Play -
O4: Based on a True story -
O5: Pink Cover -

Aiming to do better than the winter one
Bold is what i'm working on
Bold and striked out is done

Spring Bingo (March 20th - June 20th)

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover Talking to the dead
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense Miss Peregrine's Home for peculiar Children
I4: Mental Illness Of Mice and Men
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover Stuart Little The Storybook
N3: FREE
N4: Romance
N5: Male POV

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G4: Young Adult
G5: Magical Powers Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone Illustrated edition

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover Kindred Spirits

Concentrating on getting at least one bingo.

Quick questions, for minority studies what could it include?

Minority Studies could vary depending on where you are in the world. For me, as an American, I'd probably take a look at...

African American Authors
Hispanic or Asian American Authors
LGBTQ+ Relevant
Women's Studies

(There are probably a host of possibilities on the Boxall list from about 1950 to current day, if you're looking for ideas.)

This slightly helped thankyou, I probably have something somewhere

Going to give this a try! It gives me some direction without being too restrictive.

Spring Bingo Categories

B1: Award Nominated- In Cold Blood
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900 - The Scarlet Letter 4/4/16
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year - Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice 5/9/16
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE - A Gathering of Shadows 5/22/16
N4: Romance - The Bride 4/21/16
N5: Male POV

G1: Tear-Jerker - When Breath Becomes Air 6/1/16
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G4: Young Adult - 99 Days 4/19/16
G5: Magical Powers - A Darker Shade of Magic 5/15/16

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling - While Beauty Slept 5/1/16
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story - In the Unlikely Event 4/15/16
O5: Pink Cover

I'm in I'm in! (Mar 20 to Jun 20)

B1: Award Nominated - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
B2: Memoir - Strictly Ballroom: Tales from the Dancefloor: Foxtrot your way to happiness
B3: Audio Book - The Island of Dr. Moreau
B4: Green Cover - Shield of Straw
B5: Pretty Dress - Ever After

I1: Published before 1900 - Six Records of a Floating Life
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year - Eligible
N2: Yellow Cover - While the Light Lasts
N3: FREE - The Wind in the Willows
N4: Romance - Beautiful Disaster
N5: Male POV - Bright Lights, Big City

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation - Evil and the Mask
G3: Minority Studies - Crossing the Mangrove
G5: Young Adult - Word Nerd
G6: Magical Powers

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling - The Book of Lost Things
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play - Long Day's Journey into Night
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

I got my Spr-ingo finally!

lol. I like it!

I realise I never actually signed up for this one (I manage to copy the template and stuff but forgot to comment).

B1: Award Nominated - Go Set a Watchman
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress - The Ashford Affair

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel - Raiders of the Nile
I3: Horror or Suspense - The Other Daughter
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE -Street of the Five Moons
N4: Romance - That Summer
N5: Male POV - Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G5: Young Adult
G6: Magical Powers - Fright Court

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) - Empire
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

Still no bingo aha, slowly plodding on though, I seem to be going for whatever, whenever

Would you guys stray more towards putting Of Mice and Men in Historical or even maybe mental illness (because Lennie)?

I'd probably use it where I needed it to put me closer to a achieving Bingo!
Either category seems fine. :)

Spring Bingo
Duration: March 20-June 20 2016

B1: Award Nominated Allegiant
B2: Memoir How to Be a Woman
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel Trains and Lovers
I3: Horror or Suspense The Other Me
I4: Mental Illness Reasons to Stay Alive
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year EU Referendum 2016
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE Rhumba
N4: Romance Insurgent
N5: Male POV The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

G1: Tear-Jerker All the Bright Places
G2: In Translation The Midnight Palace
G3: Minority Studies My Life on the Road
G4: Young Adult Divergent
G5: Magical Powers Red Queen

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) A Year of Marvellous Ways
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story Martin Harbottle's Appreciation of Time
O5: Pink Cover

Don't Forget... There's still time to work on your Spring Bingo cards.

Nearly got one (missing the Free book - message 31)... :O)

Lol. Well, that should be an easy fix. :D

Renee wrote: "Lol. Well, that should be an easy fix. :D"

I cannot believe I'm sharing this ... but would you believe I thought the 'free' one was meant literally, as in costing nothing... (hiding face in shame). Silly me!

Ha! Actually, I think that's probably what it means in regular bingo. But we've used it as a "free choice" since we started doing Bingo challenges in this group. (I blame Karen. Kidding!)

Bingo :O)
And what a book to do it with! - (Review of The Remains of the Day)