Communally Sourced Reading Bingo is live!

[hamsterwoman]

Thank you all for the brainstorming and voting and checking in over the last week or so! I think this thing is ready to go...

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[aome]

Main male/female do not fall in love: Emerald House Rising by pegkerr.

Self-published: See loupnoir.

Books heavily featuring children: Harry Potter (before he becomes a teen, anyway), Madeleine L'Engle, Smekday, Phantom Tollbooth.

Animals: Redwall, Wind in the Willows (Watership Down would qualify for "rodents" as well, and so would WitW, btw)

Books made into movies: Divergent, The Giver, Hunger Games, HP, Percy Jackson, Star Wars and Star Trek (or is it that the movies were made into books? :P), The Fault In Our Stars, LotR/Hobbit, Twilight (yes, well...), The Help, Pride & Prejudice, City of Bones, The Book Thief, Princess Bride, bunch of Nicholas Sparks books, Atonement, Memoirs of a Geisha (also takes place in Asia), Holes, Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, see more here.

Set in Australia: The Thorn Birds, Bill Bryson's "In A Sunburned Country".

Funny books: Many Dave Barry books but especially Dave Barry's Guide to Guys. Many books by Bill Bryson. Neil Patrick Harris' "Choose Your Own Autobiography", PTerry.

Fandom-friend authors: cassieclare, Sarah

[hamsterwoman]

Ooh, thank you for all the recs! I was hoping you would have some transgender recs especially :)

And The Princess Bride is a really great suggestion for the "met first as a movie" one! I think a lot more people HAVE seen the movie than read the book and the book is pretty good in its own way.

Set in 17th C - does "The Crucible" qualify?

*googles* Yep, it makes it by like 7 years

And thank you for suggestion Cassie and SRB for the fandom-friends one. Not only did I put them down, but it also reminded me they're both friends with Holly Black, and that Justine Larbalestier (who has coathored a book with SRB) is married to Scott Westerfeld.

[a_phoenixdragon]

This is awesome!!

*HUGS*

[hamsterwoman]

Thank you! I hope that even folks who don't choose to play pick up some interesting recs if nothing else :)

[ikel89]

I think I'm doing the Random one, with fractals because why not :P Not sure about any deadlines, though - I'm suuuuuch a scatterbrain these days, especially without reading commutes. And be back with recs whenever I sit down and brainstorm it!

[hamsterwoman]

Yay fractals! :D *considers making you a special bingo card with a background of critters frolicking amidst Greek ruins* :P

And, yeah, no deadline for me either, 'cos otherwise I'd just be randomly checking things off, and I don't want it to turn into a chore.

Will be very happy to add your recs whenever you have a chance to provide them! :D

[ikel89]

Aren't you the kindest XD But yeah, I think the next book review is coming up with the bingo card! Problem is, a lot of books I'm reading right now fall into several categories at once, pfft.

[hamsterwoman]

Heh, I'm having the same problem -- I just finished a book by a queer author with a queer POC protagonist and a major character with a physical disability. And I was not even going to prioritize the serious bingo!

[_profiterole_]

The cards are so pretty! :-) And you did a great job with the rec list. I had already looked at all the comments, but it's very practical to have it organised category by category now.

Funny books:
- Tom Holt, whose style reminds me of Terry Pratchett
- A Hero at the End of the World by Erin Claiborne (also has a queer, Asian protagonist)

[hamsterwoman]

Thank you! :DD

The multiple threads in the other post had so much good stuff that I couldn't get into a straight list, but, especially once we got above 50 comments and the threads collapsed, I was having a lot of trouble tracking things down.

Thank you for the additional recs! This reminds me that I need to start carrying my Tom Holt book from sephystabbity with me so I can finish it :)

[_profiterole_]

Yes, collapsed threads limit the use of the search function. :/ I think it's easier with a simplified and organised list and, since you linked to the previous post, people can go dig into the comments when they want more info.

[hamsterwoman]

I wish LJ had an "expand all comments" function...

[mauvais_pli]

Wow, you really pulled all the stops XD To my somewhat shame I keep binging on tv and movies and haven't read a single thing this month yet, but I'll be jumping right on it. Thank you for setting it all up!

Recs off the top of my head:

for epic poems there's also Beowulf and Kalevala, and both Eddas

queer authors: Alison Bechdel (also graphic novels), Patricia Highsmith, Christopher Isherwood, I'm feeling Virginia Woolf frankly, David Levithan, Allen Ginsberg..

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier has a nameless protagonist.

I'll maybe edit/comment as I think of more.

[hamsterwoman]

Wow, you really pulled all the stops XD

Heh, these were very good for the "any work but the work that needs doing" impulses I've been having all month :P

I hope you enjoy, and thank you for the help with the prompts and recs!

Ooh, this might be my chance to finally read Kalevala instead of relying on reverse-engineered knowledge from Narn i Hin Hurin :P

And ooh, you mentioning Isherwood reminds me of Auden (for friends/contemporaries), and also of the fact that I did not include any queer poets under the queer authors rec, which I must remedy posthaste!