My favorite reading challenge is back! r/Fantasy Book Bingo started its eleventh year on April 1, celebrating with the annual release of a new Bingo card. For those who aren’t familiar, it’s an annual reading challenge with 25 different categories of books to read for the following year. Anything you were less than halfway through… Continue reading Planning 2025 Fantasy Bingo
Each year since my pandemic-fueled reading binge, I’ve completed two full cards for the r/Fantasy Bingo challenge: one themed card and one regular card. This year, my entire theme is being regular—each square has an optional “hard mode” to give the reader an extra challenge, and I’ve filled an entire card with books that cannot… Continue reading Not-So-Hard: My 2024 Fantasy Bingo Card
For the past few years, I’ve been doing two r/Fantasy Bingo cards each year: one themed card, and one regular card. I finished my 2023 themed card back in 2023, but with my regular card coming so close to the deadline, I decided to hold my full review so that I could highlight which squares… Continue reading 2023 Fantasy Bingo, 2024 Bingo Squares
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
