#BookBingo 2020 – A Place I Dream of Visiting

Book Bingo Challenge Completed This is the final round of Book Bingo and I am checking off the very last square, A Place I Dream of Visiting with A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne. France and Italy are just two European countries I would love to visit one day although it …

#Book Bingo 2020 – Crime and Justice

Today is the next round of Book Bingo hosted by Theresa, Amanda and Ashleigh, and I am marking off the Crime and Justice category with Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, although perhaps crime and injustice might be more accurate. Great Expectations is set in nineteenth century England, a time of great poverty, misery, inequality and …

#Book Bingo – Politics and Power

This year I have been joining in with Book Bingo hosted by Theresa, Amanda and Ashleigh, and in this round I am completing the Politics and Power square with Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth. At first glance Castle Rackrent appears to be a simple tale of the last generations of the Rackrent family narrated by …

#BookBingo – Prize Winner

I missed Book Bingo in June. With the stress of assignments and exams I was otherwise occupied, but today I am checking off the Prizewinner square with Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (1920-2006). First published in 1958, it won the Carnegie Medal and is still credited as "one of the best-loved children's books ever …

#BookBingo – About the Environment

I have just finished reading Silent Spring by Rachel Carson which fits perfectly with the Environment theme on the Book Bingo card. First published in 1962, it is still just as timely as it was then. Carson exposed the devastating effect that the wide scale use of chemicals such as DDT was having on the …

#Book Bingo -Friendship, Family and Love

This year I am continuing to participate in Book Bingo hosted by Theresa, Ashleigh and Amanda. For the month of April I am checking off the Friendship, Family and Love box with When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald. Published just this year, the book stars a loyal and brave heroine, Zelda, who loves Vikings …

#BookBingo – Set in a Time of War

This year I am continuing to participate in Book Bingo hosted by Theresa, Ashleigh and Amanda. Some changes have been made to the Bingo Card, less boxes and a thematic approach, giving readers quite a bit of flexibility. This month I am marking off Set in a Time of War with Regeneration by Pat Barker. …

#BookBingo2020 – Coming of Age

Today is round two of Book Bingo 2020 hosted by Theresa, Amanda and Ashleigh, and I am crossing off the Coming of Age box with A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs. I have quite enjoyed reading this series and am now onto book five, The Conference of the Birds, published just this year. A Map of Days was also the …

#BookBingo2020 – A Classic I’ve Never Read

This year I am joining in once again with the Book Bingo Reading Challenge hosted by Theresa, Mrs B and Ashleigh (The Book Muse). It’s been simplified this year with just 12 squares, one for each month of the year, and a range of themes which could be easily applied to both fiction and non-fiction. …

Book Bingo 2019 – Challenge Completed!

A few days before Christmas I wrote that I had completed my Goodreads challenge for the year and was just four boxes short of completing my Book Bingo card. It was a big ask - 4 books in 10 days, with Christmas in between. But as of 3.25pm this afternoon, it has been achieved. And …