I decided that a questionable ‘learn about databases’ book would be my bad cover. I read this in 2 days because it’s quite short and also very easy, but take my comment with a grain of salt because I already have technical vocab and I did notice a decent amount of advanced grammar that I’m just very used to by this point
I actually can’t add this to Natively because it’s not on Amazon(!), but it’s currently free on Bookwalker incase you too want to learn about Oracle databases by self-inserting as a Cool Third Year Programmer who learns about database recovery by being scolded by a Hot Coworker
The book itself is G rated, there is nothing saucy in it.
I rolled a random number to select from my TBR pile for that square, and got 7, which was ハロー・グッドバイ 東京バンドワゴン | L29 . There were definitely a few books I would have been tempted to take a reroll to avoid, but luckily I didn’t have to…
It’s not technically a higher level; the highest level I’ve read is the first book in that series, haha. I’m extremely unlikely to read a higher one this year, though, and it’s been about two years since reading the first book, so it’s close enough.
Me deciding to only count the backlog books I finish as part of the bingo was a real choice on past eefara’s part. Let’s see if I can get one bingo this year, haha.
Once I finish 京都寺町三条のホームズ | L29, I will now get 2 bingos at once. I could try to rush 源氏物語 (which easily wins the “published earliest” contest, making it the bottom left spot) to get 3 at once… but I don’t wanna
Sounds highly situational, so I couldn’t say. Do keep in mind though that any rules are pretty flexible; if it makes sense to you, count it! The goal is to read more, after all.
Count which as the debut work? The anthology one? I would. If they have a separate, full-length debut novel, there’s also reasonable grounds to count that. Like I said, flexibility.
I used my free space to replace “Non-fiction” with “Reread a book”. Rereading seems valuable, but I never do it. Not even in my native language.
Reading a light novel and getting into fan fiction are two other goals I want to meet through this. The light novel will almost certainly take the high level book space and the fic will take the read for free slot.
Woops, I totally forgot about this for like… 6 months. Maybe it’s an excuse to make a better formatted bingo card and fill in what I’ve done this year so far.
I don’t have anything in my TBR that would fit either of those, so this is probably the final state of the board unless I run down the TBR pile enough to justify another cdjaoan order this year…
And with that, we are almost done with the easy ones. I guess published in 2007 is gonna be okay (I am reading one right now).
I have one book that I think is historical fiction.
Written before 1940 and TBR simplest cover should be easy enough.
On the slightly more annoying, I have 赤毛のアン on hand for “nostalgic”… but I don’t really feel like reading it at this time.
Oldest bought is also right there… where it has been for like 8 years (soon 9). I think there’s a reason that it’s been left unread for so long
On the grunt inducing side TBR hardest, longest in TBR, TBR longest book, and TBR published earliest are all way over 500 pages and I (still) don’t wanna.
I have “only” 200 pages left on ドグラ・マグラ | L50?? but I just went through a section in Classical Japanese and boy was that draining. Even the normal sections are all ~べし and ~候 now. I’ve been reading that book on and off since March, though. I will finish it.
Oh gosh, I just realized that I haven’t updated my bingo card here since August. I spent most of August and September leisurely reading through some non-bingo manga (cough four volumes of naruto) but I knocked out a few useful manga during the Fall 24-hour Readathon at the end of Sept.
Not yet translated into English: ホテル・メッツァペウラへようこそ 1 (L22)
I took メッツァペウラ as the final sign that I don’t really enjoy slice-of-life manga at all… the last three that I read, I finished them feeling so bored. I feel guilty for rating it kinda poorly but I just found my mind wandering the entire time. For the “random item” category, I swear I wanted to choose a truly random first-volume story, but I’ve been too hooked on Atelier lately And I was sooo glad that I got to be the first rating for 彼に依頼 – I was afraid someone would rate or review it before I finished and it wouldn’t count for the category haha!
I have been carefully avoiding completing any rows because I wanted to get total card blackout all at once. Right now I’m working on the final five manga concurrently, though I see my picks for “in TBR the longest” and “author I’ve never read” closing in on 100% quite fast due to both being lower level and high interest. Hopefully the next time I post my card, every category will be finished! ^^
Added in 六番目の小夜子 | L30 from the summer horror book club ギョ 1 | L26 as the shortest title (I didn’t have any single kanji books but ギョ seems pretty close)
And ひとり日和 | L30 as my longest TBR book.
The end of the year is drawing near! Are we all getting close to completing our bingo cards??
A new year also means a potentially new bingo card, so I wanted to check in to see if people would be interested?
A few questions:
Do you want to do bingo in 2025 again?
Yes
Meh
0voters
Should we organize it the same way by gathering prompts and voting on them?
Yes
No, I have another idea (please leave a comment)
0voters
Do you want to do 4x4 again, 5x5, or we vote on prompts and you make your own based on what you’d like to do?
Let’s do 4x4 BING
Let’s do 5x5 BINGO
I’d like to choose on my own
0voters
Should we gather prompts in this thread or start a new thread for 2025
Let’s have one thread so all things bingo related live together
I’m still posting my 2024 updates here and want a fresh thread to keep things organized
0voters
If anyone has additional ideas or feedback for 2025, feel free to share! If anyone is interested in helping coordinate or ensuring post formatting stays nice and tidy (I’ve said it here before but I only ever use the forums on my phone, so my post formatting isn’t as pretty as it could be ), I’d love to work together. Just let me know!
who learns about database recovery by being scolded by a Hot Coworker 
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Let’s see if I can get one bingo this year, haha.
), I’d love to work together. Just let me know!
