So it is the end of the month and I have TWO winners! That is right! Not ONE but TWO!!!! Which is just fab because Birthday Month deserves two winners! A huge shout out to Willaful and Kaetrin for dual wins! Woooot! Wooooot!
As for my Bingo! It will all be based on Bridget Jones’s Baby which I watched TWICE because I enjoyed it so much! Be warned though, there are SPOILERS ahead:
The September card is here and it has (not so subtle) subtext *cough*!
Any reading goes – novels, letters, lyrics, news, captions, blogs – the lot! And remember that I encourage cheating and that we all love the most ludicrous reading-to-bingo-square justifications best. Play Bingo with one text or have a text per square.
Join in and play!
It’s the end of August and for the THIRD time this year, Willaful from A Willful Woman has won the Bingo call! Woooooot! There was some fierce competition this month so a big congrats to all who have played and to a whole lot of new players this month too! Yay to more Bingo players! For a few tasters Valancy and Keira Soleore already have awesome reading wrap ups for this month.
As for my own Bingo! reading this month…..
The August card is here!
Any reading goes – novels, letters, lyrics, news, captions, blogs – the lot! And remember that I encourage cheating. Play Bingo with one book or have a book per square. Whatever rocks your world.
Join in and play!
The July card is here!
My Bingo game has been going for 6 months and I want to add a new category. I have been giving a shout out to the fastest bingo caller. Several people who would like to play have said that the game is too fast/too many boxes for them so I’m going to now give a second prize!
A shout out to the best match up between a bingo square and your chosen material. It doesn’t matter if you have read 25 items or only 1 item, I will choose my favourite entry depending on how amusing I find it. It is a very objective measure, scientifically proven.
Meanwhile, as her prize for winning, two of the boxes have been contributed to July by BookThingo who won last month’s game. Can anyone guess which ones are hers?
Remember that any reading goes – novels, letters, lyrics, news, captions, blogs – the lot!
Join in and play!
It’s the end of June and there was some fierce competition with Bookthingo’s Kat Mayo winning this month’s Bingo in the spirit of a ShallowReader multi-media cross-platform effort. Let’s hear it for Kat!
As for my Bingo efforts, read on: Continue reading
It’s the end of April, Easter is upon us (Orthodox folks) and Valancy has won this month’s ShallowreaderBingo!!!! Hurrah! Hurrah! May there be rejoicing!
Meanwhile, I continue to lose at my own game. But read, I did. Here are the squares I scored:
Lady Bridget’s Diary
by Maya Rodale
Bingo Square: Dear Diary
This is the first of Rodale’s new Keeping Up with the Cavendishes series. The Cavendish family is from America. The brother has inherited some duke-ish title so the whole family has packed their bags and moved to the United Kingdom where they struggle to fit in. The duke’s sister Lady Bridget keeps a diary where she reveals all her feels for the Ton and especially horrible Lord Darcy who ends up being her lurve but not before her diary is stolen and a big, dark secret is at risk of being revealed. There are aspects of this book that I loved (one day I even found myself kissing the pages I had just read!) yet the overt Pride and Prejudice parallels annoyed me and the who Team USA brought love to the UK sentiment grated. It is hard being torn in two directions with the one read.
I borrowed this book from a public library in New South Wales.
Continue reading
The April card is here!
As her prize for winning, two of the boxes have been contributed by Willaful who won last month’s game. Can anyone guess which ones are hers?
Remember that any reading goes – novels, letters, lyrics, news, captions, blogs – the lot!
Join in and play!
Here is the March card for Shallowreader Bingo! As her prize for winning, two of the boxes have been contributed by Sandra Antonelli. Can anyone guess which ones are hers? Thanks also go to my Huzbah John and my PhD buddy Chrisanthi Giotis who both helped me name some of the squares.
Remember that any reading goes – novels, letters, lyrics, news, captions, blogs – the lot!
And there is a BONUS shout out to anyone who scores on the Hatchback Hero!
Join in and play!
Congratulations to the ShallowreaderBingo! February winner – Sandra Antonelli. Read about Sandra’s winning reads here: ShallowreaderBINGO–It’s Better Than Winning a Meat Tray!
As for my own Bingo card – here is how I fared:
Jane the Virgin
Bingo Square: Netflix and Chill
I absolutely adore Jane the Virgin. It is currently my favourite show ever. It is like a mash up between Days of Our Lives, Harlequin Presents/Sexy Mills & Boon and Arrested Development. What has this got to do with reading, I hear you ask? Well, my sons are also obsessed with the show and my sons watch everything on TV with closed captions turned on. Everything! It drives me batty! But it does mean I read all my viewing. I have also become somewhat obsessed with every news article and interview I can find on Jane the Virgin’s writer Jennie Snyder Urman. I find it unbelievable that she did not grow up watching soaps and telenovelas as she has hit every single bell that as a watcher I enjoy. I am totally in love with Rafael in the show. He is the ultimate Harlequin Presents Lynne Graham gazillionaire. He’s hot, he’s suave and he wears faded salmon oh-so-well. Swoon with me people! Swoon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw8MygoGtuk
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