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Book Bingo Brainstorming

I'm a little late with this, but I've been little busy with end of year stuff. Anyways, we need a book bingo card for 2021, and we need to think up some squares. I will make the card up using the same website as last year.

stonepicnicking_okapi,

smallhobbit, and whoever else would like to participate this year, please leave your ideas in the comments.

I would really like a square for "sci-fi/fantasy", and maybe ones for "non-fiction" and "graphic novels" but I'm willing to compromise on those two.

List so far (we need 24, plus one free space):
*Sci-fi/Fantasy
*Non-Fiction
*Graphic Novel
*Crime/Mystery
*Colour in the title
*Number in the title
*Title begins with first letter of your name
*Historical (fiction/non-fiction)
*An author you've not read before
*Collection/Anthology
*Recommended
*Published in 2021
*POC Author
*Audiobook/ebook
*Movie/TV tie-in
*YA/Children's
*Classic/Published before 1985
*Award winning/Bestseller
*Female identifying Author
*Banned Book
*Biography/Autobiography
*Romance
*LGBTQ+ Author
*Disabled author
*Hobbies/Crafts
That should do it!

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Things I'd like:
Crime/Mystery
Audiobook
Part of a series

I also like the general title based ones:
Colour in the title
Number in the title
Title begins with first letter of name (which could be either DW or actual name)

Definitely 'non-fiction'
Also, perhaps:
Historical (either fiction or non-fiction)
An author you've not read before

All of these sound like really good ideas.

Another one I thought I might like is "media tie-in", I've been reading a lot of Star Trek novels, and I got some SPN books for Christmas so that would help me out, but I don't know if that is good for you.

Another thought, can we make it "audiobook/ebook", just because I think I have only listened to three audiobooks in my entire life.

Sounds good - I don't have ebooks, so that makes us equal.

I started a list on the post to keep track.

I don't mind sci-fi/fantasy. Non-fiction and graphic novel are okay with me, too.

There are genres (sci-fi, mystery, romance). There's also non-fiction or poetry. One could be 'collection/anthology' meaning a collection of short stories or poems. I don't mind media tie-in but I have no idea what I would do for that. But that's part of the challenge, no? Then there's X in the title/cover. Like Red (or blue or green) in the title or animal on the cover. Author who is new to you. POC Author.

I'm assuming we'll have two additional free choices, plus two substitute categories again. That way we can have everyone's favourite and if it's something you can't stand then you can substitute.

We don't have to do media tie-in, but like smallhobbit said, you can always use a substitution for that square.

Maybe a square that says 'recommended' and that can be recommended to you by a person (online or in real life) or recommended to you by Amazon or Goodreads or whatever. Just an idea for something different.

That's a great idea! And collection/anthology too.

Oh, I do like the idea of a "recommended" square.

I just had a thought about the "media tie-in" square, maybe we could call it "set in the same universe" instead, that is pretty broad, and there are lots of books/series that share a universe.

'Published this year' is another possibility but I'd rather not do 'number of pages' small or large.

I like published in 2021, and I agree about the number of pages, I had a surprisingly hard time finding a book under 100 pages this past year.

That's a good idea - I'm sure there'll be a suitable audiobook for published in 2021.

I was fortunate in having been gifted a short book, otherwise I would have had problems.

I started a list on the post to keep track.

I went back to last year's and looked and there was a 'Movie/TV tie-in' square. I had interpreted that as 'book which has been made into a film' in which case there are plenty! So, you know, that's okay. I was trying to think of it going the other way (a book written about a TV series after the fact, like your Supernatural and Star Trek ones, and I was drawing a blank, but the other way around is no problem at all!

FYI, some other squares from last year. I have no strong feelings for or against:

Romance
Award Winning Book
Food/Cooking (or maybe something more general like Hobbies or Arts & Crafts)
Children/YA
Book Mentioned in Another Book

Another one I thought of was Work in Translation. But like I said, I have no feelings one way or the other. Just brainstorming to hit your 24 total.

So do you want to do 'Movie/TV tie-in' instead of "Shared Universe"?

All the other categories sound good to me. I like Hobbies/Crafts, it is a boarder category than Food/Cooking, and also opens up more opportunities. I also like the sound of "translated works".

Yeah, I think Movie/TV tie-in works. Cool.

Just my opinon but the term 'Classic' is subjective and I would vote against using it. But, just one opinion, your call.

I understand about "Classic" as a category, but I do like the idea of reading older books. Maybe instead of classic we could call it something like books published before 1985 (I don't know why I picked 1985, it is just the first year that popped into my head).

Yes, I would prefer 'published before XXXX' It's much more objective. I don't really have an opinion about the date itself.

Some others want Classic, so maybe we can combine it "Classic/Published before 1985" and people can choose what works best for them

I'd be interested in joining 2021 book bingo, whatever ends up in the card.

Awesome! Once we've figured out all the squares I will make a new post with the bingo card.

I'd be interested to join in

Young Adult book
Science book
Classic

And can we expand audiobook/ebook to include podcasts like LeVar Burton Reads, or a literary vlogger reading a book?

Edited 2020-12-28 18:44 (UTC)

That sounds awesome. I think it's fine that a book podcast like LeVar Burton Reads is included with the audiobook/ebooks.

Would you want the science book to be separate from non-fiction? Because I don't know if that would work for everyone. I have to admit can't remember the last time a read a non-fiction science book, it has been a few years at least.

Yeah, I guess that would be a problem...

I do want to keep YA and Classic though!
And I'm firm about Classic and not published before xxxx. That makes me think far too much like my English classes at University (I have a degree in English) and would make me not use it. Classic offers many more opportunities to people, and I think we should have some that are more subjective and open to interpretation for people?

Also, NYT (or your country's equivilant!) bestseller?

Edited 2020-12-28 20:20 (UTC)

Definitely keep YA.

I was thinking as a compromise we could do "Classic/Published before 1985" and everyone can pick what works best for them.

I know the NYT Bestsellers list is a a little suspect on how books get on the list, like people buying 1000s of their own books so they end up on there. However, we could maybe do something similar, maybe award winning?

Ooh, I love that compromise!!

Oh, I know all about that! I read the book because of that controversy and researched it.
That happened for the book Handbook for Mortals. The author called bookstores connected with the list and bought all the copies. The New York Times did not know this, and when they found out, they pulled her book.
So in actuality, it was a one-time event that they quickly corrected, and the book that deserved that don't one.

But if you are uncomfortable with it, then yeah, award-winning is a good compromise!

And speaking of, how about a banned book? Do other countries do that? Like, here in the US schools ban books for stupid reasons. There is a banned book week, and libraries give out lists of famously banned books.
I don't mean legally banned, of course! But like, banned in schools. Or maybe a banned book/controversial book?

I like award winning, but again we could compromise with "bestseller/award winning".

We did banned book last year, so I'm open to doing it again. I am also thinking of doing Woman author, or female author, I'm not of he right terminology.

Female identifying author?

That's an idea

Book by a disabled author?
Book by an LGBTQ+ author?

Oh, I like the idea of an LGBTQ+ author, the disabled author is a good idea too, the only problem is that some authors are not so forth coming with info about themselves so it may be difficult to discover if an author fits in a category.

Like female author and POC author is easy enough to find out if the author has a picture on their Goodreads, but some authors provide very little information on their bios and don't post personal stuff on twitter.

I may be able to help with that?
I know someone who is deep in the disabled writers community on Twitter. I know through him they really want to get their work out there and are often overlooked. If you want to do this category, I can ask him to recommend some disabled authors, or how to find disabled authors, and you can possibly share it?

That sounds good

If we do award-winning it makes it easier to borrow from the library, because it doesn't need to be a this year's award. There can be a very long wait for anything which is very popular.

It doesn't have to be a recent award winning book, last year a read a book that had won the LA Times book prize back in the early 1990s.

How about biography/autobiography?

That's a possibility

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