Summer Book Bingo

My main interests in life are hiking, photography, traveling, eating, and reading. With my love for leisure reading, my second home in Seattle is the Central Public Library. Every month at this library location, they come out with books that they recommend members to read; however, for the summer, they have a new reading adventure for Seattle Public Library members. They have a Summer Book Bingo challenge. Always up for a reading challenge, I am definitely participating in this fun competition, and wanted to share it with others in Seattle, and also allow others to participate with it in other cities. Another reading challenge that I am doing this year is from Goodreads.com.

The fine print on playing Summer Book Bingo: You are on your honor to read books before adding them to your Summer Book Bingo card. Cheating, skimming, or reading Cliffnotes will invoke bad summer karma, which may include sunburn, ants at your picnics, or marauding mosquitoes.  Also, book titles may only be used once per card. The competition started on June 11^th, so you can only count books that you started and finished during that time. The competition ends on Labor Day. you complete the challenge when you have a Blackout Card. This is when you complete all 25 squares of the bingo card.

The bingo squares consists of the following reading challenges:

• Checked out from the library
• From an independent bookstore
• Set in the NW
• #WeNeedDiverseBooks
• Translated from another language
• Collection of short stories
• Out of your comfort zone
• Set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
• You own, but had never read
• Prizewinner
• Banned
• Local author
• Passionately recommend a book to a friend (FREE SPACE)
• Author under 30
• Turned into a movie
• Graphic novel
• Collection of poetry
• Young Adult Book
• Memoir
• Published the year you were born
• Re-read
• Recommended by a friend
• You've been meaning to read...
• From your childhood
• You finish reading in a day

The first book I am reading for this fabulous summer reading competition is Stay Awake by Dan Chaon. This book is going to be my “Collection of short stories” bingo square. Happy reading and share any worthy books!