12th December 2020 – Another reading challenge completed! I have ticked off five out of seven reading challenges with the completion of my Books and Bites Bingo challenge. I remember with the one category, a book that got bad reviews, someone got very upset that I’d chosen the book I did – but the fact is that all books are going to have bad reviews, and not everybody will agree or will like what someone else chooses for a certain category – but I chose that one because it had bad reviews from other people. Most books in this challenge filled several other categories in other challenges, and towards the end of the year, I found myself doubling or tripling up on a lot of things because I just didn’t have the time.
What I liked about this one was that the categories were open to interpretation, and I was a able to make books fit categories. Open challenges like this where categories are not too prescriptive and that are not overly American-centric like some other challenges are entirely more pleasant to do, because there’s no pressure to find a book based on super specifics based around the author or the plot – which makes the reading experience much more stressful than it should be, so next year, I will not be doing such overly prescriptive challenges with categories that are so specific, I would either fail, or come to resent reading and I don’t want that to happen.
So below I have linked all my Books and Bites challenge posts in a nice and easy reference for everyone!
Books and Bites Bingo
Set in Europe: Josephine’s Garden by Stephanie Parkyn
Debut Novel: The Soldier’s Curse by Meg and Tom Keneally (Monsarrat Series Book One)
Travel Memoir: The Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D. Lapinski
Published More than 100 Years Ago: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Written in the First Person: Pippa’s Island: Puppy Pandemonium by Belinda Murrell
A Book with a door on the cover: The Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valour by Ally Carter
Written by someone called Jane: Persuasion by Jane Austen
An Australian crime or thriller: A Testament of Character (Rowland Sinclair #10) by Sulari Gentill
Wherever you go: Wherever You Go (Around the World Supper Club) by Monique Mulligan
Eco-themes: The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte
A Neil Gaiman book: Pirate Stew by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
Short story collection: Radio National Fictions (various short stories on ABC Listen app
Published the year you were born: Pigs Might Fly by Emily Rodda
Makes you blush: The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome by Katrina Nannestad
That book you keep putting off: The Louvre by James Gardiner
A book with lots of hype: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (Ravenclaw Edition)
Has “the girl” in the title: The Girl She Was by Rebecca Freeborn
A book with bad reviews: Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan
Book to movie: Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr
Scary: The Monstrous Devices by Damien Love
Someone you love’s fave book: Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
Made into a TV Series: The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy’s Big Day by Ann M Martin
Fave childhood book: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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