CBL's Bingo Card

1. Less than 200 pages - The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember by Fred Rogers
2. Senior citizen as the protagonist - Old Filth by Jane Gardam
3. Survival story - Hell Is Empty by Craig Johnson
4. About an airplane flight - Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
5. About a writer - Elsewhere: A Memoir by Richard Russo
6. About the environment - Pollution and the Death of Man by Francis A. Schaeffer
7. Author born in 1916 - James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
8. Autobiography or memoir - The Upstairs Wife by Rafia Zakaria
9. Adventure - Spirit of Steamboat by Craig Johnson
10. One word title - Ru by Kim Thuy
11. Title has a musical reference - Work Song by Ivan Doig
12. Title uses wordplay - Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing by Megan Smolenyak
13. Read a CAT - Willoughbyland by Matthew Parker
14. A body of water in the title - The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys
15. About/by an indigenous person - The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
16. Food is important - When Hoopoes Go to Heaven by Gaile Parkin
17. Published before you were born - Crooked House by Agatha Christie
18. Features a theater - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
19. Debut book - Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
20. In translation - Oedipus the King by Sophocles
21. Focus on art - How to Be Both by Ali Smith
22. Coming of age story - Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
23. Graphic novel - Boxers by Gene Luen Yang
24. Self-published - Trespassers in Time by Anne Patterson Rodda
25. I want the protagonist's job or hobby - The Hooded Hawke by Karen Harper (Queen)

I filled in my first Bingo square (I want the protagonist's job or hobby) with The Hooded Hawke by Karen Harper. Who wouldn't want to be queen - at least for a day?!

Ru by Kim Thuy fills my one-word title square. It's an autobiographical novel about a Vietnamese refugee in Canada. It would also fit the translated work square.

The Upstairs Wife by Rafia Zakaria fills my Autobiography or memoir square. The story of the author's family is used to illustrate Pakistan's history. She focuses in particular on her Aunt Amina, whose husband legally took a second wife when they remained childless after several years of marriage.

My book for the Read a CAT square, Willoughbyland by Matthew Parker, actually fits two CATS. It's my South America book (Suriname), and it also fits January's RandomCAT since I currently share it with just one other LT member.

>3 cbl_tn: I agree, I'd love to be queen. But yeah, maybe just for a day or two. :)

>7 LauraBrook: Maybe we can take it in turns!

I noticed that we both picked out the same Bingo card/marker color combo! You obviously have great taste. ;)

>9 christina_reads: :-)

>8 cbl_tn:: Absolutely! We can work out a schedule later. ;)

I'm counting Hell Is Empty by Craig Johnson as my Survival story. Sheriff Walt Longmire pursues escaped federal prisoners up the tallest peak in the Bighorn Mountains during a late season snow storm. He has several narrow escapes from death along the way. I'd call that a survival story!

>12 cbl_tn: Carrie, I just finished Junkyard Dogs and honestly, I don't know how Walt survives from one week to the next! His whole live is a survival story.

>13 DeltaQueen50: Too true!

The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys has a Body of water in the title. I wasn't expecting the small size or the beautiful color reproductions. I borrowed this from the library, but I'm adding it to my wishlist for my permanent collection.

Elsewhere: A Memoir is about novelist Richard Russo's relationship with his troubled mother. He talks a bit about his writing. I'm counting it as a book about a writer.

Boxers by Gene Luen Yang is a graphic novel about China's Boxer Rebellion. I'll also be reading the companion GN, Saints.

Crooked House by Agatha Christie was published before I was born, in 1949 (which was years before I was born).

Book less than 200 pages: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember by Fred Rogers

Book by an author born in 1916: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

How to Be Both by Ali Smith is a book with a focus on art.

Pollution and the Death of Man by Francis A. Schaeffer is about the environment.

I'm counting Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein as a book about an airplane flight. The main character is a female pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary during WWII, and there are several important flights in the course of the novel.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel features a theater. It also gives me a BINGO in the middle column!

Work Song by Ivan Doig has a musical reference in the title.

Oedipus the King by Sophocles was translated from Greek.

Old Filth by Jane Gardam has a senior citizen as the protagonist.

That gives you your second Bingo. Congratulations. I really think that these Bingo challenges are fun, especially since we can read books whenever we want.

>27 sallylou61: Thanks! I love the Bingo challenges. Like you say, we can read the books any time during the year. That's nice!

Spirit of Steamboat by Craig Johnson is an adventure about a risky flight on a vintage airplane through a Christmas Eve storm to get a dying girl to a hospital with the equipment needed to save her life.

The Orenda by Joseph Boyden is about/by an indigenous person. It's a historical novel about the clash of civilizations between two Native American peoples (Wendat/Huron and Haudenosaunee/Iroquois) and French Jesuit missionaries in the Great Lakes region of Canada in the 17th century. It's one of the best books I've read this year.

Trespassers in Time: Genealogists and Microhistorians by Anne Patterson Rodda was self-published.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery fills the coming of age story square.

Food is important in When Hoopoes Go to Heaven by Gaile Parkin. One of the primary characters has a home business baking cakes.

Behind the Scenes at the Museum was Kate Atkinson's debut book.

Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing is a title that uses wordplay.

And this completes my 2016 Bingo card!

Congratulations, Carrie!

Congratulations on completing your Bingo card, Carrie!

>36 DeltaQueen50: >37 VivienneR: Thanks, Judy & Vivienne! I'm looking forward to starting next year's Bingo card in January!

Congratulations on finishing your card, Carrie. It looks wonderful to see all the squares filled in.

I'm trying to decide what to read for the indigenous square, the only one I have left.

>39 sallylou61: Thanks! We have a Cherokee novel in our library that I keep meaning to read - The Singing Bird: A Cherokee Novel. I ended up reading The Orenda and it's among my top 5 reads for the year.

>40 cbl_tn: Thanks for the suggestion. I see that the UVA Library has a copy of The Singing Bird; I think that I will borrow it.
I have begun reading Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids by Deborah Ellis. She interviewed a number of young Native Americans (mostly teenagers) in Canada and the U.S., and wrote brief accounts of 45 of them. In my opinion, this is too large a number; she devotes only about 5 pages to each one.