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Challenges
Across, Down or Diagonal

1. 4 Squares
2. 8 Squares
3. 12 Squares
4. 16 Squares
5. 5 random squares
6. 10 random squares

Link to Bookshelf:
/group/books...

Rafael's Bookshelf Bingo

Finished 11/3/24

Column 1
b1 - Canadian Classics A few ideas:
��Dance of the Happy Shades - Alice Munro (1968) 2/17/24

4a1 - Portuguese Classics
��Our Lady of the Pillar - Eça de Queirós 8/10/24

E - Greek, Roman, and Modern Greek Classics
��Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles

4b03 - Brazilian Classics
��"Looking for Some Dignity" - Clarice Lispector SHORT STORY

Column 2
8 - Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Classics
��The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck #4) - Maj Sjwoll, Per Wahloo 8/27/24

6 - Italian Classics Choices:
��The Dry Heart - Natalia Ginzburg

1 - French Classics
��Night Flight - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Unknown Female Author
��Crick Crack, Monkey - Merle Hodge

Column 3
Your Choice
��Miss Mackenzie - Anthony Trollope

Free
��Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

Z Frontier Western Classics
��The Blessing Way - Tony Hillerman

5 - Russian Classics Choices:
��The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov

Column 4
2b or 2c Irish Classics or Scottish Classics
��Miss Buncle's Book - D.E. Stevenson

2a English Classics
��The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley (1929) 1/3/24

Z YA
��The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

Unknown Male Author
��Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

I'm going to try for the first column and use all books I own. But, I might try 5 random and substitute 4a1 with 5 and 2c since I have lots of books on those shelves.

b1 - Canadian:
Fifth Business
Henderson the Rain King
The Blind Assassin

4a1 - Portuguese:
The Book of Disquiet

E - Greek, Roman, and Modern Greek :
The Iliad and the Odyssey
Zorba the Greek

��4b03 - Brazilian:
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado

Questions -
What are unknown authors male and female? If they are unknown, how do you now if they are male or female?
What is the difference between choice and free?

I take the unknown authors to mean authors you haven't read before. ?

Kathy wrote: "I take the unknown authors to mean authors you haven't read before. ?"

You are correct Kathy.

Your choice is choose any shelf.
Free space is whatever you want or they both mean the same thing! lol

Thanks Kathy and Lesle! I thought unknown might mean anonymous.

Hmmm, if it's anonymous how can we tell if it is female or male?

Also, Rafael- I noticed that 4 books appear in z-western, and 61 books appear in z-frontier-westerns. Was that intentional or should they be combined?

2024 Bookshelf Bingo Challenge

Row 1

Shelf b1 - Canadian Classics
🌠Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Shelf 8 - Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Classics
?Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

*Your Choice*
🌠The Analects of Confucius by Confucius

Shelf 2b or 2c - Irish & Scottish Classics
🌠The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

Row 2

Shelf 4a1 - Portuguese Classics

Shelf 6 - Italian Classics Choices
?... by Dante or Boccaccio

*Free*

Shelf 2a - English Classics

Row 3

Shelf e - Greek & Roman Classics
🌠Hardship and Happiness by Seneca

Shelf 1 - French Classics
🌠Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Shelf z - Frontier Western Classics
🌠The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

Shelf z - YA/young adult
🌠Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

Row 4

Shelf 4b03 - Brazilian Classics

*Unknown (new to me) Female Author*

Shelf 5 - Russian Classics
🌠The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

*Unknown (new to me) Male Author*

My Bingo Board:
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ForestGardenGal wrote: "Rafael- I noticed that 4 books appear in z-western, and 61 books appear in z-frontier-westerns. Was that intentional or shoul..."

Good question! I will make sure Rafael combines them. Thank you!

Sorry for the confusion!

My state of confusion is somewhat perpetual; I doubt I can get away with blaming you!

To defend Rafael this actually was not his fault or doing.
He inherited a mess and has been working on it diligently!

Column 1
b1 - Canadian Classics
4a1 - Portuguese Classics
E - Greek, Roman, and Modern Greek Classics
4b03 - Brazilian Classics

Column 2
8 - Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Classics
6 - Italian Classics
1 - French Classics - Le Silence de la mer - 24 Feb
Unknown Female Author

Column 3
Your Choice
Free
Z Frontier Western Classics
5 - Russian Classics - A Gentle Creature - 21 Feb

Column 4
2b or 2c Irish Classics or Scottish Classics
2a English Classics - The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Feb 17
Z YA
Unknown Male Author

Armin glad to have you try this one again this year!

Best wishes in your reading challenge.

Bingo! 🎉
4 squares across- see post#8.
I'm going to keep going, of course!

Lesle wrote: "Armin glad to have you try this one again this year!

Best wishes in your reading challenge."

Thanks Lesle :)

ForestGardenGal wrote: "Bingo! 🎉
4 squares across- see post#8.
I'm going to keep going, of course!"

Great job with your first "Bingo!!"

Hoping for another soon!

I'm going to post anything I read that fits and then see if I have enough to read something else, but am going for 5 random shelves since there is a free space and two for unknown authors so I have 3 already.

Free space
Your Choice: The Greengage Summer

Unknown female author Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945 by Joyce Dennys

Shelf Z-ya My Side of the Mountain

Challenges
Across, Down or Diagonal

1. 4 Squares
2. 8 Squares
3. 12 Squares
4. 16 Squares
5. 5 random squares
6. 10 random squares

Column 1
b1 - Canadian Classics - Anne of Green Gables
4a1 - Portuguese Classics
E - Greek, Roman, and Modern Greek Classics
4b03 - Brazilian Classics

Column 2
8 - Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Classics
6 - Italian Classics
1 - French Classics Around the World in Eighty Days
Unknown Female Author Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945 by Joyce Dennys

Column 3
Your Choice The Greengage Summer
Free The Greengage Summer
Z Frontier Western Classics
5 - Russian Classics -

Column 4
2b or 2c Irish Classics or Scottish Classics 2b Mystery in the Channel by Freeman Wills Crofts
2a English Classics The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
Z YA Shelf Z-ya My Side of the Mountain
Unknown Male Author Silence by Shūsaku Endō

Great start already Karin!!

Lesle wrote: "Great start already Karin!!"

Thanks, but the odds are stacked against me since I don't read Russian novels and certain other things, but we'll see how it goes! It's possible I'll get 5 random squares with the free space, because with that I have 4 now.

Karin wrote: "Thanks, but the odds are stacked against me since I don't read Russian novels and certain other things, but we'll see how it goes! It's possible I'll get..."

You could always try a short story by a Russian author.

Lesle wrote: "Karin wrote: "Thanks, but the odds are stacked against me since I don't read Russian novels and certain other things, but we'll see how it goes! It's possible I'll get..."

You could always try a s..."

Yes, of course--I am so used to being in a group (the first one I ever joined on Shelfari because I learned about it from a FB friend) where 150 pages is the minimum that I often forget that we don't have to do that here!

Glad to help remind that most of our challenges and reading do not have to follow a page count.

If 6 pages fit it is good to go!!

Best of luck Montse with your first line!

I'll keep trying to see if I have more, but I do now have 5 random squares, so have one of the categories done :)

Karin wrote: "I'll keep trying to see if I have more, but I do now have 5 random squares, so have one of the categories done :)"

Great job Karin!! Keep plugging

I went for the 5 random squares, but now that I have 7 squares I also have completed column 4.

I finished this challenge. See message 2.

Congratulations, Kathy! 🍾🥂🏆

Thank you, Rosemarie!

Karin wrote: "I went for the 5 random squares, but now that I have 7 squares I also have completed column 4."

Nice job Karin!!

Kathy wrote: "I finished this challenge. See message 2."

Congratulations Kathy!!

Thanks, Lesle!

Congratulations, Karin, on finishing!

Karin wrote: "I went for the 5 random squares, but now that I have 7 squares I also have completed column 4."

Nice!