BL Bookish Bingo Club
Halloween Bingo 2020: The Rest of the Game and Wrap-Up
Sooo, that’s another bingo game behind us already! Many thanks to our game hosts for successfully moving the game from BookLikes to a new venue and organizing one heck of a game despite that venue’s built-in limitations. I had a great time and would only have wished I could have participated more throughout the game […]
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Halloween Bingo 2020: The Second Week (+1 Day)
Posting this on Monday instead of Sunday again … oh well. I guess after a near-phenomenal first bingo week it was only to be expected that the second week would not be quite as fabulous. Mind you, I’m not complaining — my card is coming together nicely, and none of the books I read this […]
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Halloween Bingo 2020: The First Week (+1 Day)
This year’s Halloween Bingo started a lot more promising than last year’s with a strong joint entry in Michael Connelly’s Bosch and Ballard series, and in fact, not one of the books I read earned less than a four-star rating — with the standout being Nicholas Blake’s The Beast Must Die, which turned out to […]
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To my new followers …
I see I’ve picked up a number of new followers since I started sprucing up this blog last month: First of all: Welcome! Up until mid-July 2020, this used to be my backup blog for my online activity, most of which primarily happened on a book blogging site called BookLikes. That website, alas, took a […]
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Bingo Call: 10/31/19 – Genre: Suspense
Reblogged from: Moonlight Murder Last Call! Bingo is officially over. Genre: Suspense: anything that fits into the suspense genre. Book list linked here. Original post: http://moonlightreader.booklikes.com/post/1942289/bingo-call-10-31-19
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Halloween Bingo: Book Selections – UPDATED
Like virtually all of my book consumption this year, my Halloween Bingo books are more or less necessarily going to have to be primarily audiobooks. So I had a look at my Audible and CD collections what might fit the bill for my card, and here’s what I’ve come up with (mostly new-to-me books but […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019: Tracking Post — Blackout! (And bingos Nos. 12 and 13.)
Many thanks to Moonlight Reader and Obsidian Blue for hosting this game for the fourth year in a row, bigger and better than ever before! Witih today’s call, I’ve blacked out my card, in addition to collecting my final bingos (nos. 12 and 13). Somewhat to my surprise, after completing my books for my […]
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Bingo Call: 10/30/2019 – Murder Most Foul
Reblogged from: Obsidian Blue Murder Most Foul: any murder mystery. Book list linked here. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1980295/bingo-call-10-30-2019
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Bingo call: 10/29/19 – Fear the Drowning Deep
Reblogged from: Moonlight Murder Fear the Drowning Deep: books with sea-related elements: sea creatures, ships, and sharks. Book list linked here. Non-genre-specific square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1979523/bingo-call-10-29-19
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Bingo Call: 10/28/2019 – Magical Realism
Reblogged from: Obsidian Blue Magical Realism: a style of fiction that paints a realistic view of the modern world while also adding magical elements Book list linked here. Supernatural square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1979039/bingo-call-10-28-2019
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Bingo call: 10/27/19 – Shifters
Reblogged from: Moonlight Murder Shifters: werewolves, skin-walkers and all other therianthropes. Book list linked here. Supernatural square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1978737/bingo-call-10-27-19
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Bingo Call: 10/26/2019 – Terror in a Small Town
Reblogged from: Obsidian Blue Terror in a Small Town: any horror book where the action primarily occurs in a small town or village. Examples would include: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, It by Stephen King. Book list linked here. Horror square. (But mysteries & suspense featuring terror / horrific events may […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019: Twenty Fifth and Final Extra Square – Classic Horror
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1977889/halloween-bingo-2019-twenty-fifth-and-final-extra-square
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Bingo call: 10/25/19 – Gothic
Reblogged from: Moonlight Murder Gothic: any book with significant: a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance. Book list linked here. Non-genre-specific square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1977852/bingo-call-10-25-19
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Bingo Call: 10/24/2019 – Doomsday
Reblogged from: Obsidian Blue Doomsday: anything related to the end of the world, doomsday cults, or a post-apocalypse world. Book list linked here. Non-genre-specific square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1977033/bingo-call-10-24-2019
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Halloween Bingo 2019: Twenty Fourth Extra Square – Classic Noir
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1976204/halloween-bingo-2019-twenty-fourth-second-extra-square
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Bingo call: 10/23/19 – Aliens
Reblogged from: Moonlight Murder Aliens: any mystery, horror, suspense or supernatural book that includes aliens, either here on earth, or in space. Book list linked here. Non-genre-specific square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1976150/bingo-call-10-23-19
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Halloween Bingo 2019: Twenty Third Extra Square – Serial / Spree Killer
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1975278/halloween-bingo-2019-twenty-third-second-extra-square
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Bingo Call: 10/22/2019 – Grave or Graveyard
Reblogged from: Obsidian Blue Grave or Graveyard: Books that have a grave or graveyard on their covers, in their titles, or any book primarily set in a graveyard. Book list linked here. Non-genre-specific square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1974989/bingo-call-10-22-2019
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Halloween Bingo 2019: Twenty First and Twenty Second Extra Square – Full Moon & King of Fear
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1974242/halloween-bingo-2019-twenty-first-and-twenty-second-extra-square
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