2024 Bingo Reading Challenge ☑️

We only have 42 prompts.

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I’m picturing an open cube, with the same prompts (but shuffled) on the x, y, and z axis. So depending on coordinates, to fill a spot a book might need to be eg a debut, free, and have a non-human protagonist at the same time. Easy. :joy:
(you’re basically doing something like this already)

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Soo I’m doing the bingo with a :fire: (only kindle books I already own/available for free or unlimited, written text only), which means I need a different bingo for manga. Of course. :eyes:

Since I also want to reduce the backlog I have, I went through my order history of 2019 and catalogued the manga I still haven’t read. All stuff I got for free, and most of them (thankfully) weren’t even free to keep so it’s not as many as I’d feared. I should be able to fill my somewhat adapted manga bingo card with these. The others I’ll try to fill with either other 積読’d manga or otherwise free to read manga.

I intend to not spend further money for bingo purposes! XD (as of right now, at least)

Anyway, here it is:

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Who is up for a 3d challenge? :rofl:

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Now I can do the challenge in Japanese, Korean, and German - all in one bingo cube! :rofl:

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Book club - non fiction- higher Natively level

Now that sounds like an easy spot. :rofl:

(that exact combination appears 3 times too! Increasingly difficult non fiction book club!)

Only twice. One was “bad cover” instead of higher level. There’s non fiction- book club - book club though.

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Also, discovering 12 debut works (and with the various modifiers!) for this cube sounds like an interesting challenge in itself…

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:thinking: Indeed…

But I guess you could liberally fill up the remaining spots with modifiers from #4 “Read a book chosen randomly by lucky draw or with a qualifier from the qualifier list from your 積読/TBR pile” :sunglasses:

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The “chosen randomly” are hell as well. Do you just keep rolling/ reduce your pool to things that fit? :melting_face:

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Using all of them (plus one unqualified random draw) makes us reach exactly 64! It was meant to be.

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True :rofl: That’s next-level randomness then I guess

See? I knew this all along. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Ah, but no, you’re thinking of three regular bingos in one. I’m thinking something like this:

This would be the spot filled if I was playing 3d bingo back when I read おいしいごはんが食べられますように | L31 (learnnatively.com) (Akutagawa Prize, workplace, new author to me).

By the way, it’s next to impossible to find books for some combinations. At least some prompts can be used in two out of three dimensions, making things a little easier.

Truly a bingo to drive you crazy :crazy_face:

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Like e.g. non-fiction with a non-human protagonist :crazy_face:
if we even know what that means…

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Non-fiction about animals could work. They would be, in a sense, the protagonists.

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You could also get creative with it; reading a book about a serial killer or something.

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Oh! :exploding_head: Or maybe 太宰治’s biography :thinking:

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That would be a good one as well!

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Your discussion made me think of the watermelon meme… :rofl:

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Five squares with one manga, ふくふくふにゃ~ん をの巻 | L10! :rofl:

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