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2MarthaJeanne
Editado: Ene 1, 2015, 8:34 pm

See http://www.librarything.com/topic/185276

2015 Bingo! This is not the final list yet, but I want to start setting books

*Read a book translated from a language you don't speak/read Zusammen ist man weniger allein
#Read a book someone else chooses for you
#Read a book you loved as a child
*Read a book about a subject/topic of which you're (mostly) unfamiliar Die Entschlüsselung des Himmels
Read a book about autism
Read a book about language(s)
#Read a book about/with scientists
Read a book with a natural disaster
*Read a book centered around a major historical event Blackout
Read a book about/with correspondence, epistolary, or letters
Read a book with a LGBTQ main character
#Read a book with a protagonist of the opposite gender
*Read a book set in a country other than your own
*Read a book where an animal is of importance McCaffery?
*Read a book that is based on a fairy tale or myth
Read a book with a mythical creature
Read a book where prophecy, signs, or portents are part of the plot
Read a book that's a genre bender
*Read a book inspired by another piece of fiction Longbourn
Read a book that's completely outside your comfort zone
Read a book published in 1915
*Read a book whose author has the same first name as your mother or grandmother Jeanne Theoharis December HistoryCAT
#Read a book you've owned for more than 1 year Testament of Youth
#Read a book by an LT Author

Bingo books are marked in the monthly plan with #.

3MarthaJeanne
Editado: Sep 13, 2014, 2:50 am

I think I have decided that next year I will move to 15 x 10 in each of Fiction, Nonfiction, and German. I think the German is doable if I move the fiction back in. After all, I read a lot of children's fiction in German for my work at school.

I want to reread a few fiction bricks - starting with Auel's series. With only 150 to read over the year, that should be quite doable. (If I am willing to say that Jean=Jeanne, that is also a Bingo square.)

I am free to count bricks of over 500 pages as 2 books, of over 700 pages as 3 books. These books tend to be dense, too, so the feel of the book may decide in borderline cases. (And of course, it has to be that many pages of text. Notes and indices don't count.)

4.Monkey.
Sep 4, 2014, 4:18 am

Sounds like a plan. :)

5MarthaJeanne
Editado: Abr 1, 2015, 8:27 pm

First quarter group reads.

Call the Midwife Bio hosting READ
Shadows of the Workhouse library, READ
Farewell to the East End library, READ

January
Die Entschlüsselung des Himmels HistoryCAT time Library, READ
Die schönsten Tiroler Sagen HistoryCAT theme READ
Steadfast SFFFCAT READ
Testament of Youth BiographyKIT READ
(RandomCAT - Sitting this one out)

February
Portrait of a Lady
Band of Angels HistoryCAT time/theme READ
Get off the unicorn SFFFCAT 'Classic' READ
Green as Grass BiographyKIT READ
Pride and Predudice READ
(RandomCAT - Sitting this one out)

March
Women in the Viking age HistoryCAT time/theme READ
City of Illusions SFFFCAT READ
Chasing the Flame BiographyKIT READ
Foundation reading
(RandomCAT - Sitting this one out again)

6MarthaJeanne
Editado: Jun 30, 2015, 5:06 pm

Second quarter group reads
Hosting RandomCAT in June

April
Thomas Becket : warrior, priest, rebel : a 900 year old story retold HistoryCAT time/theme BioKIT groupread READ
The Goose Girl SFFFCAT READ
Mansfield Park READ
The Women of the Cousins' War BioKIT READ
Love Medicine READ

May
In the wake of the plague : the Black Death and the world it made HistoryCAT time and theme READ
Bastion SFFFCAT Library READ
Rowan's rule BiographyKIT READ

June
The stripping of the altars HistoryCAT time and theme
All Clear SFFFCAT Library READ
My heart is my own BiographyKIT READ

7MarthaJeanne
Editado: Sep 21, 2015, 1:49 am

Third Quarter group reads
Sense and Sensibility READ
Tudors READ

July
Witch child HistoryCAT time + theme READ
Daughter of Regals SFFFCAT READ
Der kleine Adler : Napoleons Sohn BiographyKIT READ

August
The Black Count HistoryCAT time + themen BioKIT READ
Belle : the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice bioKIT READ
Foundation's Edge SFFFCAT READ
Emma

September
Longbourn HistoryCAT time/theme READ
APEX Book of World SF 4 SFFFCAT READ
Tamerlane BiographyKIT

8MarthaJeanne
Editado: Nov 24, 2015, 9:34 am

Fourth Quarter group reads

October
HistoryCAT time
HistoryCAT theme
SFFFCAT
Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong BiographyKIT READ
Civil War

November
Waiting for the Barbarians READ
HistoryCAT time
HistoryCAT theme
SFFFCAT
I. Asimov BiographyKIT

December
#The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks HistoryCAT time/theme BiographyKIT
SFFFCAT
Persuasion
#Pointed Roofs Gutenberg

9MarthaJeanne
Oct 3, 2014, 6:24 pm

>3 MarthaJeanne:
Changed my mind.

I will aim at 15 categories each of 10-15 books each in fiction and nonfiction. German and English will be mixed, but statistics kept separately.

10MarthaJeanne
Editado: Ago 7, 2015, 5:56 pm

HistoryCAT

January: BC to 1 Myths & Legends Die Entschlüsselung des Himmels

February: 1 to 500 Religion Band of Angels

March: 500 to 1000 Exploration & Conquest Women in the Viking age

April: 1000 to 1300 Crime & Mysteries Thomas Becket : warrior, priest, rebel : a 900 year old story retold

May: 1300 to 1500 Plagues & Disasters In the wake of the plague

June: 1500 to 1600 Culture & the Arts The stripping of the altars

July: 1600 to 1700 Immigration & Migration Witch Child

August: 1700 to 1800 Medicine & Disease Black Count

September: 1800 to 1850 Lifestyles of Ordinary People Longbourn

October: 1850 to 1900 Science & Technology

November: 1900 to 1945 War & Peace

December: 1945 to 1990 Civil Rights & Equality The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

11MarthaJeanne
Editado: Jul 17, 2015, 5:39 am

BioKIT themes are

January Medicine Testament of Youth
February Post WWII Britain Elizabeth the Queen
March Poverty Chasing the Flame

April Medieval England The Women of the Cousins' War
May Religious leaders Rowan's Rule
June Murder Victims My Heart is my Own

July France Der kleine Adler
August Caribbean Belle : the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
September Tamerlane

October Afro-Americans Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong
November Literary Autobiography I. Asimov
December Civil Rights The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

12lkernagh
Dic 25, 2014, 3:16 pm

I am looking forward to seeing how you fill out your Bingo! Are you going to go for a black out (all squares) or a smaller Bingo of a line?

13MarthaJeanne
Dic 25, 2014, 3:21 pm

It should not be difficult to fill the whole thing.

14MarthaJeanne
Editado: Feb 1, 2015, 6:32 pm

January

Fiction

English
New books 4
Library books 1
Second hand books 4
Rereads 5
E-books/Gutenberg 1/1
Total 15

German

New books 2
Library books 2
Second hand books
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 4
(19)

Nonfiction

English
New books 3
Library books 2
Second hand books 1
Rereads 2
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 8

German
New books 2
Library books 4
Second hand books
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 6
(14)

Totals
English
New books 7
Library books 3
Second hand books 5
Rereads 7
E-books/Gutenberg 1/1
Total 23

German
New books 4
Library books 6
Second hand books
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 10

New books 11
Library books 9
Second hand books 5
Rereads 7
E-books/Gutenberg 1/1
Total 33



Categories

Fiction
Nonfiction

15christina_reads
Feb 2, 2015, 3:31 pm

Wow, look at you go with that Bingo card! Will you have finished the whole card by the end of February? :)

16MarthaJeanne
Editado: Feb 2, 2015, 3:48 pm

Probably not. The ancestor one I have a book for, but for other resons it is scheduled for December.

Besides, these are the easy ones. The ones I don't have to look for books for.

17christina_reads
Feb 3, 2015, 4:57 pm

>16 MarthaJeanne: Yeah, good point. I'm sure it will get harder for me as I go along, too.

18MarthaJeanne
Editado: Feb 28, 2015, 4:58 pm

February has not been a good month for reading. It may not be quite as bad as it looks, as some have been long books that only count as one here, but I have counted as two in the categories.

The reason I haven't read that much is that my mother was here, and we talked a lot.

Fiction
English
New books 4
Library books 3
Second hand books 8
Rereads 9
E-books/Gutenberg 2/2
Total 26

German

New books 2
Library books 2
Second hand books
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 4

Nonfiction
English
New books 5
Library books 4
Second hand books 2
Rereads 2
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 13

German
New books 5
Library books 10
Second hand books
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 15

Totals
New books 16
Library books 19
Second hand books 10
Rereads 11
E-books/Gutenberg 2/2
Total 58

I got another Bingo. (2nd row) I hope I can fill a few more squares next month, but I need to specifically work on it.



19MarthaJeanne
Editado: mayo 31, 2015, 12:20 pm

March

Finished the first Bingo card, and started a second.

Fiction

English

New books 6
Library books 10
Second hand books 8
Rereads 13
E-books/Gutenberg 5/3
Total 42

German

New books 3
Library books 6
Second hand books
Rereads 1
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 10
(52)

Nonfiction

English
New books 8
Library books 6
Second hand books 2
Rereads 4
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 20

German
New books 7
Library books 15
Second hand books
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 22
(42)

Totals
New books 24
Library books 37
Second hand books 10
Rereads 18
E-books/Gutenberg 5/3
Total 94

My March totals last year were a lot higher. This won't get me finished. I would need at least 57 each in fiction and nonfiction.

Categories
Children's fiction
Science Fiction and Fantasy
International fiction (includes US)
Biographies

First Bingo card completed.

20MarthaJeanne
Editado: mayo 31, 2015, 5:49 pm

May

Fiction

English
New books 12
Library books 14
Second hand books 9
Rereads 16
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 14/6/3
Total 65

German

New books 5
Library books 8
Second hand books
Rereads 1
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 14
(79)

Nonfiction

English
New books 20
Library books 8
Second hand books 3
Rereads 7
E-books/Gutenberg 1/0/1
Total 39

German
New books 13
Library books 21
Second hand books
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 34
(73)

Totals
New books 50
Library books 51
Second hand books 12
Rereads 24
E-books/Gutenberg 15/6/4
Total 152

Categories
* Children's books
* Science Fiction and Fantasy
* International reading (includes US)
100 years or more

*Biography
People and cultures (includes Austria)
Theology

21MarthaJeanne
Editado: Jun 30, 2015, 5:16 pm

June

Fiction

English

New books 12
Library books 18
Second hand books 11
Rereads 20
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 15/6/3
Total 71

German

New books 5
Library books 10
Second hand books
Rereads 1
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 16

Nonfiction

English

New books 23
Library books 8
Second hand books 5
Rereads 8
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 3/1/2
Total 47

German
New books 18
Library books 27
Second hand books 1
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 46

Totals

New books 58
Library books 63
Second hand books 17
Rereads 29
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 18/7/5
Total 185

Categories of at least 10 (* means 15)

Children's books in English
Children's books in German
Asimov and Valdemar
* Other Science Fiction and Fantasy
* International reading (includes US)
100 years or more
Prehistory

UK Biography
Other Biography
People and cultures (includes Austria)
*Theology
Food

I will certainly end up with 15 categories of 10 or more in fiction.

Whether the same will be true in nonfiction is less clear.

How many of the categories will fill to 15 is also open at this point.

Second Bingo card completed.

22MarthaJeanne
Editado: Ago 3, 2015, 6:00 pm

Month of July

Fiction

English
New books 14
Library books 19
Second hand books 16
Rereads 23
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 20/7/5
Total 102

German

New books 5
Library books 13
Second hand books
Rereads 1
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 19

Nonfiction

English
New books 28
Library books 9
Second hand books 6
Rereads 10
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 5/2/3
Total 58

German
New books 20
Library books 30
Second hand books 1
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 51

Totals
English
New books 67
Library books 71
Second hand books 33
Rereads 34
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 25/9/8
Total 230

Children's books in English
Children's books in German
Asimov
* Other Science Fiction and Fantasy
UK and US
* International reading
100 years or more
Prehistory
Short Stories (Includes those listed in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

*UK Biography (includes 4 from Theology)
Other Biography
*People and cultures (includes Austria)
*Theology
*Food
Textiles
*Other

Together 16 categories, 7 starred.



Looking good.

23MarthaJeanne
Editado: Sep 1, 2015, 5:06 am

Month of August

Fiction
English
New books 16
Library books 21
Second hand books 18
Rereads 26
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 23/9/6
Total 104

German

New books 6
Library books 14
Second hand books
Rereads 1
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 21

Together 125

Nonfiction
English
New books 33
Library books 10
Second hand books 6
Rereads 10
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive11/4/5
Total 70

German
New books 24
Library books 36
Second hand books 1
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 61

Other
New books 2

Together 133

Totals

New books 81
Library books 81
Second hand books 25
Rereads 37
E-books 34/13/11
Total 258

Categories

Children's books in English
* Children's books in German
Asimov
* Other Science Fiction and Fantasy
UK and US
* International reading
100 years or more
* Prehistory and ancient world
Short Stories (Includes those listed in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

*UK Biography (includes 2 from Theology)
*Other Biography
*People and cultures (includes Austria)
*Theology
*Food
Textiles
History
*Arts and Sciences
*Other

Two thirds of the year gone, and I have 9 categories in each of fiction and nonfiction. That sounds really good. I have a total of 11 at 15 or over, so by the end of September I should have a single 15/15.

24MarthaJeanne
Editado: Oct 1, 2015, 12:56 pm

Now Sepember is over

Fiction

English
New books 18
Library books 22
Second hand books 22
Rereads 29
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 30/10/10
Total 121

German

New books 6
Library books 17
Second hand books
Rereads 1
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 24

Together 145

Nonfiction

English
New books 37
Library books 12
Second hand books 8
Rereads 11
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 11/4/5
Total 79

German
New books 27
Library books 44
Second hand books 2
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 73

Other
New books 2
Total 2

Together 154

Totals
New books 90
Library books 95
Second hand books 32
Rereads 41
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 41/14/15
Total 299

Categories

Children's books in English
* Children's books in German
Asimov
Lackey, MZB, McCaffrey
Other Science Fiction and Fantasy
* US and UK
* Other Individual countries
International books
* 100 years or more
* Prehistory and ancient world
Short Stories (Includes those listed in Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Other

*UK Biography
Other Biography
People and cultures
*Theology
Food
*Textiles
History
*Arts and sciences
*Other
*Austria (includes biography) (includes cookbooks)

Currently I have 12/5 and 10/6 So things could be combined to make a 15x15 Perhaps more important is that I am above 10x10 on each.



This is the fourth Bingo card. Once I read a CAT I will have a first BINGO.

25MarthaJeanne
Editado: Oct 31, 2015, 6:49 pm

End of October

Fiction

English
New books 18
Library books 24
Second hand books 29
Rereads 33
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 32/11/11
Total 136

German

New books 7
Library books 20
Second hand books
Rereads 1
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 28

Nonfiction
English
New books 41
Library books 13
Second hand books 8
Rereads 11
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive12/4/6
Total 85

German
New books 27
Library books 50
Second hand books 2
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 79

Totals

New books 93
Library books 107
Second hand books 39
Rereads 45
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 44/15/17
Total 328

Categories

13/4

Children's books in English
* Children's picture books in German
*Asimov
Lackey, MZB, McCaffrey
Other Science Fiction and Fantasy
US
Asia
Other Individual countries
International books
* 100 years or more
* Prehistory and ancient world
Short Stories (Includes those listed in Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Other

10/7
*UK Biography
Other Biography
*People and cultures
*Theology
Food
*Textiles
History
*Arts and sciences
*Other
*Austria (includes biography) (includes cookbooks)

It ought to be possible to get 15 categories of 10 in fiction and 10 categories in nonfiction by the end of the year.

In nonfiction I need to work on history. In fiction it is less clear what needs work.

26MarthaJeanne
Editado: Nov 30, 2015, 4:37 pm

End of November

Fiction

English
New books 20
Library books 25
Second hand books 31
Rereads 37
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 35/12/12

German

New books 7
Library books 21
Second hand books
Rereads 1
E-books/Gutenberg

Other
E-books 1

Total 178

Nonfiction

English
New books 45
Library books 15
Second hand books 8
Rereads 11
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 14/4/8

German
New books 28
Library books 58
Second hand books 2
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg

Other
New books 2

Total 183

Totals

New books 102
Library books 119
Second hand books 41
Rereads 49
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 50/16/20

Total 361

Categories

Fiction 15/4
Children's books in English
* Children's picture books in German
*Asimov
Lackey
McCaffrey and Willis
Other Science Fiction and Fantasy
US
Asia
UK
International books
Other countries
* 100 years or more
* Prehistory and ancient world
Short Stories (Includes those listed in Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Other

Nonfiction 12/11
*UK Biography
*Other Biography
*People and cultures
*Theology
*Food
*Textiles
*History
*Science
*Other
*Austria (includes biography) (includes cookbooks)
*Arts (includes those in Theology)
Gender, language, education



So, Basic challenges are done, the only question is how well I will finish.

The fourth BingoDOG will be finished by the end of the week.

27lkernagh
Dic 20, 2015, 1:40 pm

Well done on managing to complete 4 Bingo cards this year!

28MarthaJeanne
Editado: Dic 31, 2015, 7:54 pm

Final statistics for the year

Fiction

English
New books 22
Library books 26
Second hand books 36
Rereads 40
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 39/12/14
Total 163

German

New books 7
Library books 21
Second hand books
Rereads 1
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 29

Other
E-books 1

Total Fiction 193

Nonfiction

English
New books 49
Library books 16
Second hand books 10
Rereads 11
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 17/5/10
Total 103

German
New books 29
Library books 64
Second hand books 2
Rereads
E-books/Gutenberg
Total 95

Other
New books 2

Total Nonfiction 200

Totals
New books 109
Library books 127
Second hand books 48
Rereads 52
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 57/17/24
Total 393

According to the catalogue I read 407 in 2015.

In both fiction and nonfiction I was able to complete 15 categories of 10, including 10 of 15. (Books of over 500 pages counted as 2 towards categories, but only once in the books read.)

I finished 2014 with 425 books.

2013 with 498.

I think in general this is improving health. I'm reading less because I am doing more other things.

EBooks are staying at about one a week, which is enough. The largest number are from OverDrive, followed by Gutenberg. Many of the rest have been ER or MG. I find it very difficult to pay for eBooks. They don't seem real to me.