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Way to go! I'd be interested to see your full card if you'd be willing to share. Did you have any books that really stood out good or bad? Did you have a favorite or least favorite square? Any suggestions for the future?

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[–] JaymesRS 3 points 1 week ago

I didn't enjoy Lud-in-the-Mist, but I think that more has to do with my current level of focus. It was too slow. It was written well.

Butcher was right up my alley.

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[–] JaymesRS 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wizard of Earthsea was the first real "Fantasy" book I read and we did it in 6th grade for class. It arguably is a big part of why I enjoyed fantasy so much.

John Le Carré is on my list, but I haven't read him yet. What did you think?

Stranger Tides was a ton of fun, I thought it was nice to read a magic-fantasy book that wasn't stereotypically western magic.

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[–] JaymesRS 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Here was my list:

1A: Older Than You Are - Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees 1B: Water, Water Everywhere - The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton 1C: What’s Yours is Mine - The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids by Michael McClung 1D: Family Drama - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 1E: It Takes Two - Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson, Keven Hearne 2A: New Release - The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed 2B: Plays With Words - Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn 2C: Independent Author - Swordheart by T. Kingfisher 2D: Bookception - The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard 2E: Disability Representation - Hawkeye Omnibus by Matt Fraction & David Aja 3A: Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie - Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman 3B: Stranger in a Strange Land - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers 3C: FREE SPACE: One Less - The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 3D: There is Another… - The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik 3E: LGBTQIA+ Lead - Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 4A: Now a Major Motion Picture - Big Fish by Daniel Wallace 4B: It’s About Time - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald 4C: Award Winner - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 4D: Mashup - Manga Classics: Macbeth by Julien Choy, Crystal S. Chan, William Shakespeare 4E: Local to You - The Unlicensed Magician by Kelly Barnhill 5A: Debut Work - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar - A Change in Perspective 5B: It’s a Holiday - The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote 5C: Institutional - They Called Us Enemy by Steven Scott, George Takei, Justin Eisinger 5D: Minority Author - The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor 5E: Among the Stars - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

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Official Turn In Post for Bingo 2024! (self.books)

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Congratulations, and thank you for participating in the inaugural Book Bingo for c/Books@Lemmy.World!

If the existence of this bingo is a surprise to you, or you want to revisit the guide, see this link.

If you would like to join us for 2025 bingo, we'll be posting information on the morning of May 1^st^, US Central Time (UTC -5)!

There are 2 official ways to submit your card and be recognized:

Fill out the web form we made using Tally, which will organize the data for us. Completing the form will also give you a Markdown-friendly list to copy and post in this thread if you would like.
Or, if you would prefer, comment in this thread with your list of completed squares, including the titles/authors you read. Here is a list of squares for reference/copypaste:

2024 Bingo Squares (click to expand)

1A: Older Than You Are - 1B: Water, Water Everywhere - 1C: What’s Yours is Mine - 1D: Family Drama - 1E: It Takes Two - 2A: New Release - 2B: Plays With Words - 2C: Independent Author - 2D: Bookception - 2E: Disability Representation - 3A: Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie - 3B: Stranger in a Strange Land - 3C: One Less - 3D: There is Another… - 3E: LGBTQIA+ Lead - 4A: Now a Major Motion Picture - 4B: It’s About Time - 4C: Award Winner - 4D: Mashup - 4E: Local to You - 5A: Debut Work - 5B: It’s a Holiday - 5C: Institutional - 5D: Minority Author - 5E: Among the Stars -

Alt. Same Author, New Work - She Blinded Me With Science - Pseudonymous Work - Translated - A Change in Perspective -

ADDITIONAL POINTS TO READ BEFORE TURNING IN YOUR CARDS!

Questions? Please ask!

Turn-in Guidance

Please make an effort to spell titles and author names correctly! For titles with more than one author, please separate author names with a comma. This will help with data compilation for a bingo stats thread coming later!
If you didn't do a square, don't list it. Please leave incomplete squares completely blank on the Tally form.
You can substitute any square, but please remember: only one substitution per card. On the form, there's a substitution dropdown for each square. If you accidentally choose a substitution for the wrong square, please de-select the substitution to clear it.
Please make a note if you did a square on hard mode. On the form, there is a hard mode checkbox for each square.
Only turn in your card(s) once you have finished with bingo; do not submit a card still in progress. If you're using the Tally form, there is a review page before submission; please make sure that you click submit after double-checking your entries! You cannot edit your card once submitted, so if you realize you've made a mistake, please post in this thread to notify us.

More than one card?

If you did more than one card, and are submitting via Tally, please differentiate your username for each additional card. For example, I would list my first card under "JaymesRS@literature.cafe" and my second under "JaymesRS@literature.cafe - 2".

Timeline

Submit your finished card(s) by May 1st, 2025! This thread and the Tally submission form will remain open until 12 noon, US Central Time (UTC -5) on May 1^st^ as a courtesy, so please make sure your cards are turned in by then, so they can be counted.

Reward

Any five in a row is considered a win! Your only reward this year (as of the time of posting) is the warm glow of satisfaction and bragging rights. However, our ultimate plan is to recognize bingo participation with a flair-like system when supported by Lemmy in the future, so we plan to calculate completion retroactively whenever that's available.

In Closing

Again... HERE IS THE LINK TO THE TALLY FORM TO TURN IN YOUR CARD (or you can comment in this thread). The form goes live on April 17^th^, 2025, and both it and this thread close around noon on May 1^st^, US Central Time (UTC -5). Be sure to get your card(s) in before then!

Thanks to everyone that participated this year! This was a fun challenge to put together for us. If you are interested in helping to coordinate the bingo challenge or related resources, please reach out to the moderators of !books@lemmy.world and let us know!

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[–] JaymesRS 4 points 1 week ago

Wow, two N's, and one Y, but it was not where I thought it would be.

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Is this just a Honey Pot for Vampires? (self.blood_donors)

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Murderbot Trailer has dropped (www.apple.com)

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cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/18733888

Seems to have the right tone, you also get a clip of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.

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Murderbot Trailer has dropped (www.apple.com)

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Seems to have the right tone, you also get a clip of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.

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It’s where we get BRAWNDO from (literature.cafe)

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Need YA-accessible Sci-Fi suggestions. (self.books)

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The local high school is considering redoing their selections for their 9th grade Sci Fi unit and I’m privileged enough to be able to provide suggestions. Currently they have a choice of Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E Pearson, Scythe by Neil Shusterman, and Unwound also by Shusterman.

It doesn’t have to be explicitly YA, but definitely YA accessible, and preferably something that will keep a 9th grader interested and isn’t just a fluffy book but challenges thinking/perceptions like good Sci Fi can. My goal is something near 300-ish pages but if it’s a faster read more is ok.

TiA

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The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification (www.techdirt.com)

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There’s been some debate over the last year or so regarding Bluesky and how decentralized it really is. There has also been a growing fear that “enshittification is inevitable.” Or, worse, that an “evil billionaire” might take it over and ruin it the way other platforms have been ruined.

But I think it’s important to understand that Bluesky has, effectively, created a technological poison pill: by building on an open protocol, ATprotocol, the system itself can be rebuilt outside of Bluesky, but in a way where everyone can continue to communicate, and that creates incredible incentives that undermine any evil billionaires, and would actually punish Bluesky (or anyone else!) should they try to enshittify.

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Starting to think about the 2025 Books Bingo + Questions (self.books)

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It’s that time that @misericordiae@literature.cafe, @dresden@discuss.online, and I are starting to plan out Bingo for when it relaunches later this year. And we thought that we would reach out to see if we met some of our goals and ask if you had any feedback or suggestions.

While this was initially inspired by the Book Bingo on r/Fantasy, since we are smaller we wanted it to be less genre specific, while still encompassing recreational reading. For those who participated or considered participating, how did we do? Is there a way to improve?

We already have quite a few ideas for squares, but if you have one that you’d be willing to share, please feel free.

We started with the posts that are linked in the weekly book thread and a Storygraph challenge, are there any other resources or opportunities that we missed to make it more accessible?

Any other thoughts are welcome too. Thank you.

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It’s Friday, Black Friday, Everybody Go Shop on Friday (literature.cafe)

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ALT: a BlueSky post by Ryan Marino, MD (@ryanmarino.bsky.social); it says “Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.”

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The same goes for third parties in First Past the Post systems. (literature.cafe)

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May he ride off into the Cancun sunset never to be seen again. (literature.cafe)

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