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
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
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 hit another personal record this year, although my first year of keeping a robust reading spreadsheet showed me that some of my goals were ill-formed. After reading 70 books last year, my spreadsheet shows 86 novels and novellas attempted this year and 80 finished, totaling a little under 32,000 pages read (average novel/novella page… Continue reading Reading Goals: 2021 in Review, 2022 in Preview
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
I started 2020 with the goal of reading 25 books and participating in r/Fantasy’s bingo challenge for the first time. I considered that ambitious, not having hit 20 books in a year since I was ten years-old and crushing a new middle-grade series every month. But 365 days and one global pandemic later, I’ve read… Continue reading 2021 Reading Goals and TBR Sketch
