Cariola's 2016 Category Challenge
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1Cariola
Hello, everyone. This is a new venture for me as I tend to enjoy picking my books randomly, depending on my current mood or interests, but I am going to give the Woman Author Bingo a casual try. I admire those of you who make reading lists and stick with them, but that's just not for me. However, I'll be interested in seeing what is on your lists!
2Cariola
Well, I did something right, but that's not the right card. Will need to go back later and find the right code.
All fixed now!
All fixed now!
3sallylou61
The Woman BingoPUP cards are at
http://www.librarything.com/topic/201420#5340675
As you can see, there are 2 of them; both have the same categories but in different orders.
http://www.librarything.com/topic/201420#5340675
As you can see, there are 2 of them; both have the same categories but in different orders.
5mamzel
I'm one who can't commit to books in the future as well. I'm much more of an impulse reader. I participated in CATs this past year which focused my choice but it was still spur-of-the-moment choices that ended up being read.
I think you'll find many of us are the same way so you are in good company.
Welcome and best of luck with your Bingo card.
I think you'll find many of us are the same way so you are in good company.
Welcome and best of luck with your Bingo card.
6LittleTaiko
Good luck! Should be fun to see what we all end up reading for this card.
7rabbitprincess
Welcome aboard and have fun with the BingoPUP! Looking forward to seeing what you read to fill it up.
8MissWatson
Welcome and enjoy the reading!
9Tess_W
I'm with you Cariola, don't want to be tied down to reading a list! (I made a small 10 book one). Happy reading!
10kac522
I have tried for the last few years to do challenge lists, and always fail miserably. But I decided to do the BingoPUP for 2016, too. I just checked the books I read in 2015 against the card and I had 15 squares, so this bodes well for 2016. I hope.
11RidgewayGirl
It's fun seeing you here! I read impulsively, but I also like lists, so what's better than making lists and then reading other books?
12kac522
>11 RidgewayGirl: LOL! My life story....making lists and then doing exactly what I want...whether or not it's on the list...
14cushlareads
Hi Deborah - I love your bingo card! I'm tempted...
16Chrischi_HH
Welcome to the challenge! I read impulsively as well, but managed to make room for that in my challenge by chosing categories that I am likely to read anyway and then just adding some that are a bit more challenging. Enjoy your reading!
17thornton37814
I made my categories pretty vague to support my impulse reading this year.
18Cariola
OK, now that I've finished my first book of 2016, I need to figure out how to daub the squares!
19Cariola
First square of the year. Boy, did this character have a non-traditional role! Cross-dressed as a sailor on a 17th century merchant ship.
20LittleTaiko
So, what book did you read?
21Cariola
>20 LittleTaiko: Yes, it would have been nice for me to include this!
Woman in a Non-Traditional Role
Woman in a Non-Traditional Role
22MissWatson
>21 Cariola: What an amazing cover!
25cammykitty
You're on a roll now.
29LauraBrook
Wow, you are sprinting along!!!! And everything you've read so far looks really good, too!
31thornton37814
>30 Cariola: That one has a nice cover!
32Cariola
>31 thornton37814: I think so, too, but I really like the cover of She Rises.
33Nickelini
Nice to see you here, Deborah. Like you, I don't plan my reading, so my categories are flexible. This year I've done a Colin Firth theme, so come visit me when you have time.
34Cariola
>33 Nickelini: That sounds fun!
40Cariola
Different Genre by Same Author. I have read several novels by Tracy Chevalier, but never a short story, and never an anthology she has edited. The stories here could have fit several of the remaining categories (set in Africa, male pseudonym, set in South America, etc.).
42Cariola
I noticed that a few other members tweaking categories, and that is what I'm doing here. I'm claiming this one as Detective Fiction, even though it isn't set in the 1920s-30s, mainly because I do not and probably never will read that genre. I didn't especially care for Jane Steele, which is loosely based on touch points in Jane Eyre. It seemed to me more of a crime/mystery novel--hence the category square I'm taking for it.
45Cariola
Reading one about a critter, but unfortunately it's a male critter. :( Maybe he will meet a she and I can count the square.
47Cariola
Male Pseudonym. I'm fudging a bit on this one, because I think the author's parents just gave her a male first name instead of her choosing to use a male pseudonym. But I don't see myself reading any George Eliot or Georges Sand this year.
Edited to add: I looked it up. Curtis is her middle name; her first name is Elizabeth. I still don't know if she has always gone by Curtis or if she decided to use the male name for publication. I wouldn't think she'd need to do that in the 21st century.
Edited to add: I looked it up. Curtis is her middle name; her first name is Elizabeth. I still don't know if she has always gone by Curtis or if she decided to use the male name for publication. I wouldn't think she'd need to do that in the 21st century.
50-Eva-
>49 Cariola:
Such a great cover for a book with that title! :)
Such a great cover for a book with that title! :)
54rabbitprincess
>53 Cariola: That works! :)
55Cariola
I'll be finishing a book by an African woman in the next few days. So near and yet so far! I'm tempted to count Barkskins for Woman in Science, even if it is a stretch. There's a female ecologist/botanist in the last section. That leaves just one category: African-American. I must have something on my shelves.
56lkernagh
Taking the morning afternoon playing catch-up on all the threads in the group and have enjoyed getting caught up with all of the covers of your reading.
57Cariola
>56 lkernagh: Thank you--enjoy! I've read some wonderful books this year. I have a longer thread on the 75 Books Challenge group that lists them all. I should see if this group has a "best of 2016" thread going.