Book Bingo Blackout cardIt’s been a busy summer of reading on the couch, reading at the lake, and reading on planes and boats, BUT I think I can say that all the hard, hard work was worth it: I completed my #NWBookBingo blackout! (Although there have been some lineup changes along the way. Just because I was trying to complete my card doesn’t mean I don’t still honor the 50-page rule.)

If you want to play, it’s still not too late — entries are accepted through Sept. 8, so you’ve got all of Labor Day weekend to read feverishly. Prizes include bookstore gift cards and an entire season’s worth of tickets to Seattle Arts and Lectures events! Here’s the Book Bingo playing card to download and there’s a whole series of blog posts with book suggestions on the Seattle Public Library blog.

My final list:

Checked out from the library: City of Stairs
From an independent bookstore: Eleanor the Queen
Set in the NW: I Am Princess X
#WeNeedDiverseBooks: Rez Life
Translated from another language: All Days Are Night
Collection of short stories: Redeployment
Out of your comfort zone: How to Bake Pi
Set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit: Tyringham Park
You own, but had never read: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Prizewinner: All the Light We Cannot See
Banned: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Local author: Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage
Author under 30: The Fishermen
Turned into a movie: 12 Years a Slave
Graphic novel: Here
Collection of poetry: Senegal Taxi
Young adult book: Rook
Memoir: God Save the Queen Diva!
Published the year you were born (gulp): The Last Enchantment
Reread: Cryptonomicon
Recommended by a friend: The Girls of Atomic City
You’ve been meaning to read: North Korea Confidential
From your childhood: The Princess and the Goblin
You finish reading in a day: A Desperate Fortune

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