Perpetual Challenge: Victorian Bingo

Host: Becky's Book Reviews
Name: Perpetual Victorian Bingo (sign up)
Dates: for me--any book read from January 1, 2014 on
# of books: minimum 8, I'd love to get multiple bingos or even fill up the whole card!!!

My card for 2014.

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A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens. 1843. 96 pages. [Source: Bought] (review coming late November)
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Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte. 1847.  300 pages. [Source: Own] (review coming late December)
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A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens. 1854/2003. Bantam Classics. 382 pages. [Source: Bought]
North and South. Elizabeth Gaskell. 1854-1855. 452 pages. [Source: Bought]
Hard Times. Charles Dickens. 1854/1992. Everyman's Library. 336 pages.  [Source: Library
1855
The Warden. Anthony Trollope. 1855. Oxford World's Classics. 294 pages. [Source: Bought]
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A Rogue's Life. Wilkie Collins. 1856. 159 pages. [Source: Book I bought]
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The Semi-Detached House. Emily Eden. 1859. 172 pages. [Source: Bought] 
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No Name. Wilkie Collins. 1862/1998. Oxford University Press. 748 pages.
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Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope. 1863. 403 pages. [Source: Bought]
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The Belton Estate. Anthony Trollope. 1866/1993. Penguin. 432 pages. [Source: Bought]
Miss Marjoribanks. Margaret Oliphant. 1866. 512 pages. [Source: Bought]
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Stepping Heavenward. Mrs. Elizabeth Prentiss. 1869/1998. Barbour Books. 352 pages. [Source: Bought]   
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The Eustace Diamonds. Anthony Trollope. 1873. 794 pages. [Source: Book I Bought]
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Phineas Redux. Anthony Trollope. 1874. 768 pages. [Source: Book I bought]
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The Law and the Lady. Wilkie Collins. 1875. 430 pages. [Source: Book I Bought]
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The Prime Minister. Anthony Trollope. 1876. 864 pages. [Source: Book I Bought]   
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Black Beauty. Anna Sewell. 1877. 245 pages. [Source: Bought] 
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Is He Popenjoy? Anthony Trollope. 1878/1993. Penguin. 632 pages. [Source: Bought]
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The Duke's Children. Anthony Trollope. 1880. 560 pages. [Source: Book I Bought]
Jezebel's Daughter. Wilkie Collins. 1880. 304 pages. [Source: Bought]
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Ayala's Angel. Anthony Trollope. 1881. 631 pages. [Source: Bought]
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers. E. Nesbit. 1899. Puffin. 250 pages. [Source: Bought]
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Melisande. E. Nesbit. Illustrated by P.J. Lynch. 1901/1988/1999. Candlewick. 48 pages. [Source: Book I Bought]


© 2014 Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews

Library Loot: Fourth Trip in November

New Loot:

• A Medal for Murder by Frances Brody
• The Art of the English Murder by Lucy Worsley
• Goodbye, Piccadilly: War at Home, 1914 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
• Operation Bunny by Sally Gardner
• Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
• Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
• Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms by Katherine Rundell
• What If...? by Anthony Browne

Leftover Loot:

• Hero on a Bicycle by Shirley Hughes
• Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
• Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems by Marilyn Singer
• McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss
• Horton Hatches The Egg by Dr. Seuss
• And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss
• The King's Stilts by Dr. Seuss
• The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss
• Death at Buckingham Palace by C.C. Benison
• Keepers of the Covenant by Lynn Austin
• The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott
• Train by Judi Abbot
• Waiting is Not Easy by Mo Willems
• The Time Traveler's Almanac ed. by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
• Sleep in Peace Tonight by James MacManus
• The Princess Spy by Melanie Dickerson
• A Great and Glorious Adventure by Gordon Corrigan
• Murder at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah Dennison

    Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Linda from Silly Little Mischief that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries.  

© 2014 Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews

2015 Challenges: Alphabet Soup

Host: Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book
Name: Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge (sign-up)
Dates: January - December 2015
# of books: 26

Second Bowl of Soup Started April 2, 2015

A Across Five Aprils. Irene Hunt. 1964. 224 pages. [Source: Bought]
B The Bears on Hemlock Mountain. Alice Dalgliesh. Illustrated by Helen Sewell. 1952. 64 pages. [Source: Bought]
C Christy. Catherine Marshall. 1967. 512 pages. [Source: Bought]
D Dragon Slippers. Jessica Day George. 2007. Bloomsbury USA. 324 pages. [Source: Library]
E The Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder. 1967/2009. Simon & Schuster. 215 pages. [Source: Review copy]
F The Family Under the Bridge. Natalie Savage Carlson. Illustrated by Garth Williams. 1958/1989. HarperCollins. 123 pages.
G A Girl from Yamhill. Beverly Cleary. 1988/1996. HarperCollins. 352 pages. [Source: Library]
H Henry and Beezus. Beverly Cleary. 1952. HarperCollins. 224 pages. [Source: Library]
I Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison. Lois Lenski. 1941. HarperCollins. 298 pages. [Source: Bought]
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M Miss Marjoribanks. Margaret Oliphant. 1866. 512 pages. [Source: Bought]
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R Ramona the Pest. Beverly Cleary. 1968. HarperCollins. 208 pages. [Source: Library]
S Seraphina. Rachel Hartman. 2012. Random House. 499 pages. [Source: Library]
T The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales. Franz Xaver Von Schonwerth. Translated by Maria Tatar. 2015. Penguin. 288 pages. [Source: Review copy]
U Up A Road Slowly. Irene Hunt. 1966. 208 pages. [Source: Bought]
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W Wild Boy. Rob Lloyd-Jones. 2013. Candlewick Press. 295 pages. [Source: Review copy]
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Y Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. Dr. Seuss. 1958/2008. Random House. 96 pages. [Source: Review copy]
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Completed First Bowl of Soup! April 1, 2015!

Titles
A Audacity. Melanie Crowder. 2015. Penguin. 400 pages. [Source: Review copy]
B Brave New World. Aldous Huxley. 1932. 268 pages. [Source: Bought]
C The Castle Behind Thorns. Merrie Haskell. 2014. HarperCollins. 336 pages. [Source: Library]
D Debby. Siddie Joe Johnson. Illustrated by Ninon MacKnight. 1940.  Longmans, Green and Co. 214 pages. [Source: Bought]
E Emil and Karl. Yankev Glatshteyn. Translated from the Yiddish by Jeffrey Shandler. 1940/2006. Roaring Book Press. 208 pages. [Source: Review copy]
F Farewell to the East End. (Call of the Midwife #3) Jennifer Worth. 2009/2013. HarperCollins. 336 pages. [Source: Library]
G The Girl With The White Flag. Tomiko Higa. Translated by Dorothy Britton. 1989. 130 pages. [Source: Bought]
H Hard Times. Charles Dickens. 1854/1992. Everyman's Library. 336 pages.  [Source: Library]
I Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women. Cornelia Meigs. 1933/1995. Little, Brown. 256 pages. [Source: Library]
J  Jezebel's Daughter. Wilkie Collins. 1880. 304 pages. [Source: Bought]
K The Killings At Badger's Drift. (Inspector Barnaby #1) Caroline Graham. 1987/2005. Felony & Mayhem. 272 pages. [Source: Library]
L The Lilies of the Field. William Edmund Barrett. 1962/1988. Grand Central Publishing. 128 pages. [Source: Gift]
M Medal for Murder. (Kate Shackleton #2) Frances Brody. 2010/2013. Minotaur Books. 432 pages. [Source: Library]
N Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
O On the Banks of Plum Creek. Laura Ingalls Wilder. 1937. 340 pages. [Source: Library]
P The Paper Cowboy. Kristin Levine. 2014. Penguin. 352 pages. [Source: Library]
Q The Question of Miracles. Elana K. Arnold. 2015. HMH. 240 pages. [Source: Review copy]
R Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope. 1863. 403 pages. [Source: Bought]
S Station Eleven. Emily St. John Mandel. 2014. Knopf Doubleday. 352 pages. [Source: Library]
T Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston. 1937. Harper Perennial Modern Classics. 256 pages. [Source: Bought]
U The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Rachel Joyce. 2012. Random House. 320 pages. [Source: Library]
V The Case of the Velvet Claws. (Perry Mason #1) Erle Stanley Gardner. 1933. Random House. 215 pages. [Source: Bought]
W  The Worthing Saga. Orson Scott Card. 1990. Tor. 465 pages. [Source: Bought]
X Xander's Panda Party. Linda Sue Park. Illustrated by Matt Phelan. 2013. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 40 pages. [Source: Library]
Y Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze. Elizabeth Foreman Lewis. illustrated by William Low. 1932/2008. Square Fish. 302 pages. [Source: Review copy]
Z The Zoo At the Edge of the World by Eric Kahn Gale

© 2014 Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews

2015 Challenges: Victorian Bingo

Host: Becky's Book Reviews
Name: Victorian Bingo (Sign-Up)
Dates: January - December 2015 (you can start reading now)
# of books: minimum of 5, I'm going to try to read 10 books

First Bingo

Category: Male Author
Title: Hard Times. Charles Dickens. 1854/1992. Everyman's Library. 336 pages.  [Source: Library]
Category: Book Published in the 1850s
Title:  The Semi-Detached House. Emily Eden. 1859. 172 pages. [Source: Bought]  
Category: Book That You Wish Had Been Adapted Into A Movie
Title: Ayala's Angel. Anthony Trollope. 1881. 631 pages. [Source: Bought]
Category: Mystery, Suspense, Sensation
Title:  Jezebel's Daughter. Wilkie Collins. 1880. 304 pages. [Source: Bought]
Category: Book That Has Been Adapted Into A Movie
Title: The Warden. Anthony Trollope. 1855. Oxford World's Classics. 294 pages. [Source: Bought]

Second Bingo

Category:Book with A Name in the Title
Title: Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope. 1863. 403 pages. [Source: Bought]
Category: Book of Your Choice
Title: Miss Marjoribanks. Margaret Oliphant. 1866. 512 pages. [Source: Bought]
Category: Reread of Your Choice
Title:  Heidi. Johanna Spyri. 1880/2009. Puffin Classics/Penguin.  320 pages. [Source: Bough
Category: Book Published in the 1870s
Title:  At The Back of the North Wind. George MacDonald. 1871. 346 pages. [Source: Bought]
Category: Collection, Fairy Tales
Title:  The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales. Franz Xaver Von Schonwerth. Translated by Maria Tatar. 2015. Penguin. 288 pages. [Source: Review copy]

What I've read:

• Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope. 1863. 403 pages. [Source: Bought]
• The Warden. Anthony Trollope. 1855. Oxford World's Classics. 294 pages. [Source: Bought]
• Hard Times. Charles Dickens. 1854/1992. Everyman's Library. 336 pages.  [Source: Library]
• Ayala's Angel. Anthony Trollope. 1881. 631 pages. [Source: Bought]
• Jezebel's Daughter. Wilkie Collins. 1880. 304 pages. [Source: Bought]
• Miss Marjoribanks. Margaret Oliphant. 1866. 512 pages. [Source: Bought] 
• The Semi-Detached House. Emily Eden. 1859. 172 pages. [Source: Bought]   
• The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales. Franz Xaver Von Schonwerth. Translated by Maria Tatar. 2015. Penguin. 288 pages. [Source: Review copy]
• Heidi. Johanna Spyri. 1880/2009. Puffin Classics/Penguin.  320 pages. [Source: Bought]
• Notting Hill Mystery. Charles Warren Adams. 1862/2015. Poisoned Pen Press. 284 pages. [Source: Review copy]
• Nutcracker of Nuremberg. Alexandre Dumas. Illustrated by Else Hasselris. Translated by Grace Gingras. 1844/1930/2013. Pook Press. 172 pages. [Source: Bought] 
• At The Back of the North Wind. George MacDonald. 1871. 346 pages. [Source: Bought]Category: Collection, Fairy Tales 
• The Life of Charlotte Bronte. Elizabeth Gaskell. 1857/1975. Penguin Classics. 623 pages. [Source: Bought]
   

© 2014 Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews

2015 Challenges: Vintage Mystery Bingo

Host: My Reader's Block
Name: Vintage Mystery Bingo 2015 (sign up)
Dates: January - December 2015
# of Books: at least 6, preferably 12

I'll be going for the gold edition which is mystery books published before 1960.

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