SF_fan_mae tries a BingoDog for 2025

Just joined the group. I'm going to try the Bingo challenge for 2025. It will probably take me the month of December just to figure out the oldest book on my TBR! As I find books in my TBR pile that match categories, I'll add them here, but I won't mark them on the BINGO card until I've read them.



1 - features winged creatures
2 - features fire
3 - travel - Passenger to Frankfort
4 - newly in public domain
5 - child main character
6 - long title - The Curse of the Giant Hogweed
7 - non-traditional family
8 - totally random (I'll use "random book from your books" to pick this)
9 - author has your first/last name - Window at the White Cat
10 - holiday in title - Death of a Valentine
11 - nonhuman narrator
12 - published in language not your own
13 - read a CAT - ColorCAT
14 - furniture on the cover - Murder in the Paperback Parlor
15 - medical topic
16 - features a birth
17 - Hollywood
18 - place you've never been - one of the Judge Dee Chinese mysteries
19 - profession in title - Death of a Chimney Sweep
20 - sun on cover/in title
21 - oldest book on your TBR - going with a book I bought new but haven't read yet, rather than one of the older used books that have only been on my TBR a few months/years - Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark, 1992
22 - recommended by a friend
23 - "Library" or "Thing" in title
24 - writing about writers

Actually, maybe that's a question, is the oldest book the one with the farthest back publication date or the one that's been on the TBR pile the longest? I have some books from the 1960s that I've just picked up over the summer from the used book store.

>2 SF_fan_mae: Welcome to the Category Challenge! I hope you have fun with the BingoDOG!

We were just talking about the question of “oldest book on your TBR” over in the planning thread here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/365342#8682264. The bottom line is you can interpret it however you like! I’m going for oldest in terms of publication date, but others are going with longest on the TBR pile, so either is fine.

Welcome to the group! BingoDOG is one of my favourites so a great starting point.
I am just going to choose a book that I have been meaning to read for ages - I have quite a few that have been on my TBR for a very long time. Wolf Hall, I am looking at you!

Welcome and have fun bingo reading in 2025!

Welcome. Enjoy your reading in 2025!

Welcome! Hope you enjoy the challenge. Happy reading!

>1 SF_fan_mae: I'm in the same boat as you! We can hold hands and make our way through this year together :D Happy reading!

Welcome and enjoy your Bingo!

Thanks all for the welcome! I've decided to also try the ColorCAT, for my bingo square 13.

January – Green - Anything Goes
February – Gold - The Concubine's Tattoo
March – Pink
April – Brown
May – Red - Lady Crymsyn
June – Yellow
July – White
August – Grey
September – Silver
October – Black
November – Blue
December - Purple - Someone to watch over me

>10 SF_fan_mae: - Most of us just read one book for one of the Cats. Your plan is more ambitious than most of us.

Good reading in 2025.

>1 SF_fan_mae: I am selecting the oldest book on my Kindle since that is the only one I can properly date. Have fun and hope you B-I-N-G-O

I'm also in an Agatha Christie reading group on another site, we read and discuss a Christie each month. Back in 2020 we started reading all the novels in publication order. We have less than a year's worth left, so I hope some of them happen to fit my cover colors or bingo squares!

Have a happy reading year with many Bingos!