It’s my favorite part of the reading year: r/Fantasy Bingo is back! For those who aren’t familiar, Bingo is an annual challenge that runs from April 1 until March 31 of the following year. Five in a row (or column, or diagonal) is the traditional bingo, but the most popular way to play r/Fantasy Bingo… Continue reading Planning 2024 Fantasy Bingo
As I have each year since the pandemic, I’ve not only completed a full card in the r/Fantasy Bingo Challenge, I’ve completed one with its own special theme. I love the way the challenge churns through my TBR and brings to my attention books I otherwise would never have noticed or would have let languish… Continue reading Time Warp Book Bingo: 25 Books for Two Cards (2015, 2023)
When I turned in my 2022 Fantasy Bingo card, I promised I had a second themed card in the works. Well, it’s ready, perhaps my most ambitious theme in three years of participating in this reading challenge. In addition to the usual challenge of filling 25 squares with books by 25 different authors, I added… Continue reading 2022 Fantasy Bingo Card: Hipster Mode
r/Fantasy’s Book Bingo is back, and with it comes my favorite period on the reading calendar: the massive influx of recommendations and churning of the TBR that comes from a new Bingo card with 25 different categories to satisfy. Filling out a card requires reading–between now and March 31, 2024–25 books by 25 different authors,… Continue reading Planning 2023 Fantasy Bingo
My favorite reading challenge is winding down, and for the third consecutive year, I have completed a pair of Bingo cards. I’ll talk more about my themed card in a while (probably after April 1), but today, we’re looking at my first totally unplanned Bingo card. Sure, I went through the recommendation threads last… Continue reading 2022 Fantasy Bingo Card
Y’all my favorite reading challenge is 100% back for another year, with r/Fantasy Book Bingo, which challenges sci-fi/fantasy aficionados to read 25 books by 25 different authors across 25 categories between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023. Last year, I got a little ambitious with a pair of themed cards, one hard mode and… Continue reading Planning 2022 Fantasy Bingo
I’ve talked a lot about my favorite reading challenge, r/Fantasy Book Bingo, and how spreading out your reading among so many authors leaves you dangling off a lot of cliffs. So this year, I decided to complete a themed card with all sequels to see who’s kidding who. As with my previous card, I’ve ranked… Continue reading 2021 Fantasy Bingo: The Sequel
My second year of completing an r/Fantasy Book Bingo card was also my first year of recording a card that hit Hard Mode for every single square. As with last year, I’m finishing with a ranking of the books I read this year, along with some mini-reviews, and a brief note on how bad the… Continue reading 2021 Fantasy Bingo Card (Hard Mode)
Every year on April 1, r/Fantasy releases a new board for their annual Bingo challenge. Completing it requires filling 25 squares with 25 different books by 25 different authors. Each square has an optional hard mode, for added challenge, and some participants will also do themed cards (for instance, I filled out a card last… Continue reading Planning for 2021 Fantasy Bingo
This has been my first year participating in the r/Fantasy book bingo, which has quickly become one of my favorite reading challenges. To complete the board, you need to read 25 books (well, 24 books and a handful of short stories) by 25 different authors, all fitting into various bingo categories. It’s been a wonderful… Continue reading So Long and Thanks for All the Cliffs: A Year of Book Bingo
