Hobnob Bingo

I am planning to try play a couple Bingo games here in this group, and hope that other people will join in with me.

Edited to display the 2020 cards instead of the 2019 cards.

I originally wrote up a big long complicated post explaining how to play the games (possibly self evident), and how to use my handy-dandy bingo cards (probably much less obvious) -- and the entire post ended up disappearing into the ether before I got it posted.

I don't think I have time to explain again right now, So I'm just going to post the cards, and I'll redo the rest later. (Probably tomorrow.)

<img src="http://www.lshelby.com/Utilities/Bingo/bingocardC.php?type=LTAuthor-D&color=yellow&markers=9-13-20-5-24-6">


<img src="http://www.lshelby.com/Utilities/Bingo/bingocardC.php?type=LTAuthor-C&color=fuchsia&markers=2-13-19-7-22-15">


<img src="http://www.lshelby.com/Utilities/Bingo/bingocardC.php?type=WRITER2020-A&color=blue&markers=5-8-17-15-21-1">


<img src="http://www.lshelby.com/Utilities/Bingo/bingocardC.php?type=WRITER2020-B&color=green&markers=9-13-20-5-24-6">


The color of the markers can be changed to any of the following:
aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, orange, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow

A detailed explanation of how these cards work can be found at:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/180134#4971850

So, my first game post will be for the LT Authors Bingo, and I'll explain as I go so that other people know how to do it if they want to join in.

1- The first book by an LT Author I read this year was Phantom Lock: The Lost, by A. Charles Ross
The book is a paranormal thriller, that I picked up even though it's got a bit more gore than I usually care for, because I met the author at a local writer's group and was curious about what he wrote.

I was not aware that he was an LT member until today, but, since he is, that means I can use him to check off Category 2: "I have met face to face." I'm a bit relieved, I thought that box would be a lot harder to fill. :)

I could have chosen to fill in "Fantasy or Folklore" instead, but I think that I'll be reading plenty of other authors who fit that category. If I change my mind, I can switch later. (He might match more categories than that, but if he does I don't know, because he hasn't filled in any of the CK on his author page. ...Maybe I should talk to him about that.)

So now I add my card to the post by copying the line above my favorite of the two LT Authors cards:
<img src="http://www.lshelby.com/Utilities/Bingo/bingocardC.php?type=LTAuthor-D&color=yellow&markers=9-13-20-5-24-6">
And altering it (being careful not to accidentally erase the final quote mark) so that that it says:
<img src="http://www.lshelby.com/Utilities/Bingo/bingocardC.php?type=LTAuthor-D&color=green&markers=13-2">
The numbers at the end, now 13 and 2, are the spaces I need marked off. It doesn't matter what order I put them, each one listed will get a marker. And it looks like:



And there we are, one LT Author down, 23 more to go. :)

(Normally the next time I posted this card, I would scroll up afterward and edit the card out of my previous post to cut down on the number of pictures in the thread. But since I'm using this one as an example I will leave it here.)

Is the idea to use books that we read this year?

Yes, for the LT Author's Bingo, as you read books throughout the year, adding them to LibraryThing (or even if you don't add them, I guess), check if the authors have the "LT Author badge." (or, for the purposes of this game, you can also use authors if they have a Legacy Library here.) If they do, hopefully you can check off one of the squares.

If you want some idea of which authors you read are LT Authors, under the Zeigeist tab there is a huge list that can be sorted in a number of ways, and filtered to only include authors that are already in your library. There is also a Legacy Library listing, with 128 libraries identified as belonging to authors.

So there are plenty of authors to choose from. :)

2- The second book by an LT Author I read this year was Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle.

Bewitching Season is a very charming fantasy historical romance set at the dawn of the Victorian era. I'm not sure what it is marketed as, but has a "YA"-ish feel to me. Which I like. I actually read more YA romances than I read romances for "grown ups". (Truthfully, I'm never entirely sure of how grown up I actually am.)

Marissa Doyle is not only a LT Author, she is also a participant in the Hobnob group. Plus she shares a whopping 118 books with me. (Clearly an author with excellent taste.) :) I can use her on squares 11, 3, 12, and 16.

And, for Writer's Bingo...

I wrote 2600+ words today. Woot!

In these 2600 words, my heroine -- hopefully in hot pursuit of the assassin who tried (most inexplicably) to stab her chaperone in the middle of the night -- arrived at the town where she hoped the assassin was heading. She wasn't sure because her hounds had lost the scent trail at the river. But, alas, the assassin did not appear to be there, and she and her scouting party had to reverse directions and head to the town that was upriver, rather than the one that was downriver.

Fiction is not exempt from these little disappointments. ;)

That's a fun scene! No wonder you blasted through it.

I was hoping to earn the first spot this weekend. Today didn't work out well for writing at all, and tomorrow is looking worse. Perhaps next weekend? Life is, unfortunately, not exempt from big disappointments.

Yay, I finally got around to doing my own bingo!

So after deciding that I needed to rewrite 70 pages of my book, I got to write the introduction to my 200 year old vampire again, though this time he's accompanied by a vampire ice dragon so that's fun. And for my creative writing class, I was suppose to write a scene of someone who wants something, has a reason for wanting it, and has obstacles to getting it. My character was a seven year old who really wanted the fresh baked cookies because she was hungry. Seven is younger than eight, so... tadah!

A vampire ice dragon does sound very fun! :)

This week my heroine reached her destination, but her quarry had once again evaded her, leaving behind an empty sod hut and an extraordinarily unpleasant smell.

So the pursuit party headed into the closest town to see if anyone there knows anything. But the locals are so taciturn that it takes three people to drag any information out of even the most gossipy of them: one to intimidate the poor fellow into talking, one to provide enough empathy to keep him talking, and one to interpret his abbreviated utterances. :)

In my creative writing class we went over creative non-fiction. After the class I decided to try and give it a go, writing about a good chunk of my teenage years. So... a passage of time! Yay!

I find smells really hard to describe. This is probably because my sense of smell isn't the greatest.

Actually the reason that square ended up on there is because I heard somewhere our language has less descriptive terminology for smells than any of the other senses. For that reason, even people with a very good sense of smell would probably find describing smells challenging.

I'm not sure how GOOD my own smell description was. But at least I made the attempt. :)

For the LT Author Bingo, I'm just going to pick up where I left off. Last year, while offline, I actually read one more book by an LT Author, Assaulted Caramel by Amanda Flower. Its been a long time but I seem to recall it as an Amish Sweet-making murder mystery. I may look up some sequels, if any.

I've also read two more books by Marissa Doyle in the meantime. :)

My next book by an LT Author is Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren. (Authors with Legacy Libraries count!) This is a fun little children's story by the author of Pippi Longstocking. Unlike Pippi, Ronia has no special powers, but she's brave and bold and very charming. :)

For Writer's Bingo, I have been working on another set of my uber-glossaries, and so I just explained what happened when the planet Dharuz attempted to give away one of its colony worlds, and described an alien fish.

(The new Writer's Bingo cards for this year, posted in the first post, are my first attempt to make Bingo card art on my ipad, so if you don't like the styles, let me know and I'll try again, I can use the practice.)

So I've fallen behind on marking these. I've got a writer of humourous and/or insightful verse, some adventure fiction and fantasy... some of these names might look familiar.


A. Charles Ross: 2, 14, 16
Marissa Doyle: 3, 6, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17
Amanda Flower: 14
Astrid Lindgren: 6, 9, 10, 12, 16, 18, 19, 21, 25
Leon Stevens: 1, 11, 15, 23
M. H. Thaung: 6, 11, 15, 16, 21, 22
Jeff Schanz: 1, 10, 15, 16
R. R. Adams: 10

For Writer's Bingo, the last bit I wrote was my heroine fixing a broken spinning wheel, I'm going to call this an important change rather than a mcguffin. The spinning wheel is only important because without it my heroine can't contribute to the war effort.