2025 Book Bingo fills decided

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The other day I shared a book bingo card created by batmanisagatewaydrug. I finalized my list of fills and created a document where I can write down my reviews. Here's that list:

1. Literary Fiction: Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
   
2. Short story collection: After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
   
3. Sequel: The Girl in the Spider's Web – David Lagercrantz
   
4. Childhood Favorite: Saturday, the Twelfth of October – Norma Fox Mazer
   
5. 20th century speculative fiction: How Few Remain – Harry Turtledove
   
6. Fantasy: Beowulf: A New Translation – Maria Dahvana Headley
   
7. Published before 1950: The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
   
8. Independent publisher: Bury Your Gays – Chuck Tingle
   
9. Graphic novel: Brave New World: A Graphic Novel – Aldous Huxley with Fred Fordham
   
10. Animal on the cover: The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
    
11. Set in a country you have never visited: The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    
12. Science fiction: The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
    
13. 2025 Debut Author: Greenteeth – Molly O’Neill
    
14. Memoir: Escape – Carolyn Jessop
    
15. Read a zine, make a zine: helping your friends who sometimes wanna die maybe not die – Carly Boyce
    
16. Essay collection: All About Love – bell hooks
    
17. 2024 Award winner: I Am The Law – Michael Molcher
    
18. Nonfiction: The Poisoner's Handbook – Deborah Blum
    
19. Social justice and activism: Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? – Beverly Daniel Tatum
    
20. Romance novel: Trade Me – Courtney Milan
    
21. Read and make a recipe: something from Baking Yesteryear – B. Dylan Hollis
    
22. Horror: Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
    
23. Published in the aughts: Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
    
24. Historical fiction: The White Company – Arthur Conan Doyle
    
25. Bookseller or librarian recommendation: To Build A Fire – Jack London

I have a question for those of you who write reviews for books: what do you keep in mind when you're writing them, and how do you gauge what your rating should be? I want to start leaving reviews on Storygraph and Likewise for the books I read.

Comments

[breyzyyin]

Great list! :)

I don't normally tend to write book reviews, but when it comes to reviewing things in general...I usually focus on what I liked most about a story (whether it be characters, themes, the overall plot itself or side stories, the narrative style, etc.) while also taking a few seconds to ponder over what I didn't care for as much and give reasoning behind why for both. I generally try to sound more positive than not though as far as tone goes usually. XD