We are almost at the end!!!!
Administrative Stuff
Check your numbers! I caught a couple of bingo reviews that hadn’t been tagged correctly, so make sure I’ve got all of your reviews counted.
There are 37 Cannonballers playing, and you have posted 399 reviews.
This post is a place for you to ask questions, ask for recommendations for categories, and find a review buddy if you need one. You can always post your questions in our Facebook group – Cannonball Read Book Chat, or on Twitter @cannonballread.
The Players
All participants and their bingo review number as of 12 am EST October 5. If you have posted a review on or after October 5, it will not be reflected on this count until the Wrap-up post on November 1.
Congratulations to Octothorp for being the first to complete their card!
Congratulations to BlackRaven for being the first to bingo.
If your count is different from mine, please let me know in the comments. Also please make sure you have tagged your bingo reviews with cbr12bingo.
- Ale – 11 reviews, 1 bingo
- andtheIToldYouSos – 24 reviews, 11 bingo
- Aquillia – 8 reviews
- ardaigle – 8 reviews
- ASKReviews – 12 reviews
- BlackRaven – 25 reviews, Complete!
- blauracke – 16 reviews, 3 bingos
- Carriejay – 11 reviews
- Caesar’s Wife – 2 reviews
- chilejaime – 1 review
- CoffeeShopReader – 23 reviews, 10 bingos
- crystalclear – 5 reviews, 1 bingo
- DebCapsFan – 2 reviews
- Dome’Loki – 9 reviews, 1 bingo
- ElCicco – 21 reviews, 6 bingos
- Ellesfena – 13 reviews
- faintingviolet – 8 reviews
- ingres77 – 2 reviews
- Jake – 4 reviews
- Jen K – 11 reviews, 1 bingo
- KimMiE” – 18 reviews, 3 bingos
- LanierHgts – 4 reviews
- Leedock – 5 reviews
- LittlePlat – 7 reviews
- Malin – 24 reviews, 11 bingos
- Merryn – 5 reviews
- Mobius_Walker – 22 reviews, 6 bingos
- narfna – 16 reviews, 1 bingo
- octothorp – 25 reviews – Complete!
- randirock – 10 reviews
- scootsa1000 – 7 reviews
- Sophia – 4 reviews
- teresaelectro – 5 reviews, 1 bingo
- tillie – 1 review
- Tracy – 5 reviews
- vel veeter – 25 reviews, Complete!
- Wanderlustful – 21 reviews, 5 bingos
You are all choosing some great books and writing interesting reviews! You can see all the bingo reviews if you click on cbr12bingo.
The Prize Raffle
In this year’s raffle, we are offering your choice of classic Red Bubble t-shirt, any size tote bag, or the water bottle. Thanks to a generous anonymous donation, we are able to continue to offer a $25 gift certificate to the bookstore** of your choice, or an Amazon gift card.
By completing each bingo, you’ll receive one entry into our prize drawing to be held after October 31. Complete all 25 squares and receive 2 additional entries into our prize drawing raffle (for a total of 15 entries).
**Bookstore must sell online gift cards.
Would You Like to Play a Game?
The printable official game card and rules are on our kickoff post. Head over there if you need to make your reading plan. You can join in any time before October 31, 2020. There is still time!!!
I ended up finishing mine last week I think:
Red – Hunt for Red October
Gateway – Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Fresh Start – The Ghost Writer
Cannonballer Says – Lovecraft Country
Money – How Much of these Hills is Gold
How To – Lead from the Outside
Orange – Orange World
White Whale – Gravity’s Rainbow
Debut – Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
No Money – Bridge on the River Kwai
Uncannon – Jazz
Nostalgia – Men We Reaped
Yellow – The Yellow House
Happy – Ballet Shoes
Repeat (of Friendship) – Huck Finn
20s – A Single of Pebble
Pandemic – The Risk Pool
Friendship – Tom Sawyer
Green – Green HIlls of Earth
I Wish – Flygirl
Music – A Visit from the Goon Squad
Shelfie – Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Book Club – Billy Liar
Adaptation – Dreamcatcher
Violet – Prater Violet
Fixed! And congratulations!
I’m struggling on my current book that fits the Red square and it’s the last one I need to complete the color bingo. For the first time ever, I may be quitting a book and writing a review on why I just couldn’t.
That’s a legitimate review to write.
Done and posted! I’ve never written this sort of review before, so thanks for the support to just let the book go 🙂
Yay! Life is too short to waste on bad books. And there are so many good books out there.
Question on “The Roaring 20’s” square.
Winnie the Pooh was written in the 1920 so that would count. But would a book written about the real life bear that became the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh count? The story starts in 1914 and ends in 1926 with the publication of the book.
Yes, because it’s partly set in the 1920’s
So exciting. I’m one review away from completing the whole bingo card – just need to find the time to write it. It’s been so much fun to read everyone’s reviews and seeing how they’ve interpreted the squares.
You’re doing a great job keeping track of everything, Emmalita!
I should be at 16. I had missed tagging two reviews, The Great Train Robbery and The House in the Cerulean Sea, but I’ve got them tagged now.
fixed and congratulations on your first bingo
Thank you!
Yay! Thank you for doing this! I am, UNBELIEVABLY, being held up by my white whale- a book I have been trying to read for over a decade!!!!! I WILL GET THIS DONE
You can also write a review about giving up and letting go of your white whale. That is also a legitimate review.
NEVER!!!! lol if this challenge doesn’t force me to finally read this book, then I do not know what will. I need to back up my negative opinions of it with FACTS!
Aha! a hate read, a fine Cannonball Read tradition.
LOL one does what one must
I’m at 17 in my count, and I think I have tagged all of them correctly, so I am not sure which one is missing.
Squares not filled are: The Roaring 20s, Orange, Nostalgia, White Whale, Friendship, Green, Repeat, I Wish
Thanks! I missed your Oct. 3 review of The Idiot.
Emmalita ROCKS! I’m tired just reading/reviewing the books, how they keep up with ALL our books/reviews I’ll never know!
Thanks!
I have 23. I forgot to tag my review of Trick of Light on 9/6 for No Money. I fixed that.
Thanks! Fixed.
Thanks for all your hard work!! This post has spurred me to write a few more reviews… I’m determined to get at least a couple Bingos before the end. 🙂
Yay! A review for the Gateway square will get you one.