Posting an update with my completed board on the very last day of the year!! 
I originally planned to use the book I’m reading now (越境者が読んだ近代日本文学―境界をつくるもの、こわすもの | L36??) for my last square, Found for Free, but I was unable to finish that so I did some rearranging and moved 不能共 | L29 into that spot since it was a library book. 
All the books and a few short words about my impressions of each:
Free Space: 一人称単数 | L34 Well, this certainly was a Murakami book. In the forward of the Penguin Collection of Short Stories, Murakami wrote that he dislikes i-novels, but then he went on to write a whole short story collection in i-novel form? Ok sir, this literary gal on the internet feels the need to cheekily call you out for that. 
Book I Added: 屑の結晶 | L30 A worthwhile mystery with well-developed characters.
Book Club: 月の裏側 | L33 Not the type of book I’d normally pick up myself, but I appreciated it for what it was (that did not mean that I loved it, though 
)
Bad Cover: ララピポ | L32 This was hilarious and life changing. I’m never getting over it as long as I live. Like, seriously. NEVER!
Debut Work: 火花 | L35 The ending of this made me tear up and I may or may not have written an overly enthusiastic review on it immediately after finishing. I still stand by it, though!
New Author: ぼぎわんが、来る | L35 Hmm, well this was from horror genre, but it didn’t exactly make me scared.
Award-winner: 同志少女よ、敵を撃て | L39 This was actually quite good and well done. No notes!
Randomly chosen from TBR: JR上野駅公園口 | L45 All I can say is ひたすら重い。
Non-human protagonist: 木になった亜沙 | L27 Wonderfully unhinged, especially the first and third stories. They are going in my 今村夏子 hall of fame!
Higher Level Than I’ve Read So Far: 春琴抄 | L46?? Stunning. The relationship dynamic was a little toxic, but I guess they didn’t have therapists back in the Edo period.
Longest in TBR: 夏の終り | L38 Would you believe me when I say I invented this whole bingo challenge and roped in dozens of you lovely forum citizens just so I could finally pressure myself into reading this?
Finish a Series: 先輩と僕 総務部社内公安課 FILE 2 | L28 If you like perfectly passable light novels set in corporate environments, this is a nice entry to the sub-genre with a little extra darkness in the first volume.
No Gradings: 1R1分34秒 | L33 I’m not even sure why I was so into this book, but I absolutely was. Now everytime I see anything related to boxing I’m like “hell yeah!” and feel like I kind of know what’s going on. (I don’t really.)
Non-fiction: 堕落論 | L45 坂口安号 drank too much and had a lot of hot takes and, spicy opinions that he wrote about at length, but it’s weirdly charming?
Found for Free: 不能共 | L29 This was chaotic and cursed, but I absolutely loved all of it. Disclaimer: If you read it based on my endorsement and happen to get traumatized, I will not accept responsibility.
Workplace Setting: 御不浄バトル | L33 It’s weird how often I think back to this book considering it is just full of scenes of the main character using the bathroom at work (described in excruciating detail). But I have to say, I definitely saw the author’s vision and love that this book exists.
All in all, it’s been a lot of fun completing my board this year and seeing everyone’s updates! The entire idea to set this up came to me when I was wishing I had a challenge or list of prompts to tackle that would force me to finally read the oldest book on my TBR - then I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to turn that into some kind of bingo thing so lots of us can learn and read together? It’s so awesome how everyone took that and ran with it, helping think up rules, prompts, modifiers and more. This truly is one of the best communities out there! 
I’ll see you all in the 2025 thread for another round! 
Thank you so much!
a title
