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WE DID IT JOE. I have completed Seattle Summer Book Bingo. 23 books. #booksky #reading #seattle #bookbingonw2025
Person holding a stack of 23 books and smiling Person holding a stack of books and looking like they are falling over underneath the books Seattle Book Bingo card. She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor, Time is a mother by ocean vuong, the year of magical thinking by Joan Didion, finding the mother tree by Suzanne simard, 1984 by George Orwell, our lives in their portfolios by Brett Christopher's, more than words by John Warner, Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück, The Joy Luck Club by Amy tan, Uzumaki by junji Ito, our missing hearts by Celeste Ng, demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, maus by Art Spiegelman, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, year of the Tiger: an Activist's life by Alice Wong, I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman, queer little nightmares, the common reader by Virginia Woolf, Cobalt red by Siddharth Kara, Middlemarch by George Eliott, klara and the Sun by Kazuo ishiguro, the left hand of Darkness by Ursula k. Le Guin, Last night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
September 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
harveydrone.bsky.social
Belatedly logging completion of The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R King for the Intergenerational Friendship square.

That gave me 19 books covering 21 squares with one lonely bingo, which I'm pretty sure is mathematically a record.

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Screenshot of the TheStoryGraph prompt, completed, including a thumbnail of the book cover, which looks like a honeycomb.
September 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
dreyslashthem.bsky.social
Found family for Demon Copperhead ❤️ #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle
dreyslashthem.bsky.social Au(drey) Wang Gosselin @dreyslashthem.bsky.social · Sep 2
What can I say? I love a down-on-his-luck teenage boy with a heart of gold. Demon Copperhead is my new darling, alongside Holden Caulfield. #booksky #reading
Book cover of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
September 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
harveydrone.bsky.social
Last audiobook for #BookBingoNW2025 is Who's Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler for the "Recommended by a library worker" square (via a @spl.org 's best of 2024 list)
The book cover, black block letters on white background, with yellow and purple strips on the sides, like the nonbinary pride flag.
September 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
susannafraser.bsky.social
I completed my #BookBingoNW2025 blackout with a day to spare with The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope for the Monsters square.
Completed book bingo card alongside paperback copy of The Monsters We Defy.
September 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
dreyslashthem.bsky.social
We are getting close to the end of Summer Book Bingo, so I grabbed two novellas from @spl.org! My choices for "book with a flower on the cover or in the title" and "book suggested by a library worker" #booksky #reading #library #seattle #BookBingoNW2025
Hand holding two books. The book on the left is titled Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück. The book on the right is titled She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor.
August 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
dreyslashthem.bsky.social
My Humor square: the one, the one, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice #booksky #seattle #BookBingoNW2025
Person sitting in an armchair with Pride & Prejudice in their lap and a Rainier beer in their hand
August 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
ringwrites.bsky.social
im missing just one very apt square from #BookBingoNW2025 and would love some recommendations for books about hope!! looking for fiction only and preferably scifi :)

(alt text has no authors/editors bc character limit but feel free to ask abt any of the books and im happy to give more info!)
Book bingo adult summer reading 2025 sheet with all squares filled in except "Hope". Other squares include stickers and writers/editors of the following: Suggested by a Library Worker is Hijab Butch Blues, SAL Speaker is H of H Playbook, Grief is Blood Sweat Glitter, PNW Nature is Nature Obscura, Censorship is The Memory Police, Author from Another Continent is The Sunforge, Suggested by an Independent Bookseller is A Physical Eduation, Flower on the Cover is Death in Yellowstone, Intergenerational Friendship is FutureDyke, New-to-You Format is Pinky & Pepper Forever (Special Edition), Dystopia is Wool, Found Family is The Brief History of the Dead, Resistance is A Country of Ghosts, Humor is How Could You, Disability is Skin Tooth and Bone, Great Escapes is The WIll of the Many, Monsters is The Hollow Places, Read in Public is Nigerians in Space, BIPOC Historical Fiction is Last Night at the Telegraph Club, One Big Book is The Sun and the Void, Gender Bender is The Sapling Cage, and Buddy Read is Psycho Nymph Exile
August 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
harveydrone.bsky.social
I finished The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey, by Kathleen Kaufman, read by Mhairi Morrison, suggested by the indie bookstore site indiebound.org

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Book cover: a black headstone shape with the title and author and various small shapes: bony hands, moths, flowers, crescent moons or little circles, maybe a snake and a mouse
August 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
dreyslashthem.bsky.social
My choice for BIPOC Historical Nonfiction #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle
dreyslashthem.bsky.social Au(drey) Wang Gosselin @dreyslashthem.bsky.social · Aug 21
Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara paints a damning picture of the horrific human rights abuses in the Congo where nearly all of the cobalt needed for rechargeable batteries is mined. The price of having a phone in your hand is paid for, literally, in the blood of children. #booksky #reading #nonfiction
Book cover of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara. The cover features people scrambling around an open pit Cobalt mine. Page from Cobalt Red with the quote highlighted: " The Titanic companies that sell products containing Congolese Cobalt are worth trillions, you're the people who dig their Cobalt out of the ground. Eke out a base existence characterized by extreme poverty and immense suffering. They exist at the edge of human life in an environment that is treated like a toxic dumping ground by foreign mining companies millions of trees have been clear-cut, dozens of villages raised, rivers and air polluted, and arable land destroyed. Our daily lives are powered by a human and environmental catastrophe in the Congo." Page from Cobalt Red with dialogue highlighted. Woman: "Why have you really come here?" Author: " If I can describe the conditions accurately, I hope it may inspire people to help improve things here." Woman: "Everyday people are dying because of the Cobalt. Describing this will not change anything."
August 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
wickedjaws.bsky.social
And today I finally finished filling out the actual #bookbingoNW2025 card 🤦
Too much to alt text on my phone but if you want to know what I read for a given square just ask! & I'll highlight a couple below.
August 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
harveydrone.bsky.social
Thanks to an anonymous @thestorygraph.com user, I read Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly for the Hope square of #BookBingoNW2025. Literally laughed out loud several times.

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Book cover: the title in large black letters, author's name in red. Image of a red mesh bag full of limes, just breaking open. Background is pink. Two blurbs, from NYT and Kirkus, too small for me to read.
August 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
dreyslashthem.bsky.social
My monster book 🥴 #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle
dreyslashthem.bsky.social Au(drey) Wang Gosselin @dreyslashthem.bsky.social · Aug 11
I've been hesitating to post about this book. I want to share what I'm reading, but honestly, I was not a fan of this one. But I figured, let's turn this into a conversation about taste and discernment. How do I judge "good" and "bad" writing?

#booksky #writersky #books #reading #lgbtq #writing
Book cover of Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry edited by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli. The book is purple featuring a green, scaly swamp monster hand with long pink fingernails.
August 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
harveydrone.bsky.social
Pacific Northwest Nature square:

Puget Sound Whales for Sale: The Fight to End Orca Hunting by Sandra Pollard

Gives a good idea of the scale of orca hunting (and what happened to them) from about 1965-75. Kind of sensationalist writing style but still touching.

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Book cover: black and white photo of an orca breaching
August 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
dreyslashthem.bsky.social
Oh btw, my censorship square is 1984 by George Orwell #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle #booksky #reading
dreyslashthem.bsky.social Au(drey) Wang Gosselin @dreyslashthem.bsky.social · Aug 10
Trying to catch up on the books that I never read in high school. Am I supposed to be laughing about how similar 1984 is to our current AI hell-hole technocracy?

A thread🧵 #booksky #AI #tech #US
Cover of 1984 by George Orwell. The cover is bright red with white text and has a large white and gray eye in the center
August 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
wickedjaws.bsky.social
Finished my #BookBingoNW2025 blackout this morning, even with reading many books that didn't count, even with reading four big books for the one big book square. I don't understand it either.
August 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
susannafraser.bsky.social
For the #BookBingoNW2025 Intergenerational Friendship category, I read Installment Immortality by Seanan McGuire.
Book Bingo Card and ebook cover of Installment Immortality
August 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
harveydrone.bsky.social
For the Grief square of #BookBingoNW2025:

Red Paint (The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk) by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

(Also fits the Washington Book Award square for the non-SPL/SAL version of the board.)

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Audiobook cover with author and title. Lower/background is black silhouettes of tall conifers against white. Above, close-up of the eyes of a young woman, as if applied in red paint.
August 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
bukephalas.bsky.social
Going for “longest period of time with no actual bingo” this year! Still need recos for PNW Nature, Humor, Found Family, and Disability 😬 #BookBingoNW2025
August 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
dreyslashthem.bsky.social
For my disability square, it's Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong, of course! #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle

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dreyslashthem.bsky.social Au(drey) Wang Gosselin @dreyslashthem.bsky.social · Aug 4
Very nearly one-shot Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ! Finished in about a 25-hour period. Couldn't put it down!

As a non-disabled person, Wong has me reevaluating what I consider to be truly living well.

#booksky #disability #reading #aapi #books
Book cover of Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong which is yellow and features a red tiger and red flowers Page from Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong which reads "Fuck You Pay Me" in bold black letters surrounded by moneybags
August 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
susannafraser.bsky.social
For the #BookBingoNW2025 Gender Bender category, I read The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang, which is a genderbent reimagining of a 14th-century Chinese novel.
Book Bingo Card and ebook cover of The Water Outlaws
August 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
dreyslashthem.bsky.social
For my dystopia square, although it feels like reality #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle

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dreyslashthem.bsky.social Au(drey) Wang Gosselin @dreyslashthem.bsky.social · Aug 3
Racism, anti-chinese sentiment, censorship, police violence. It's not a dystopia. It's the USA. Whatever happened to our missing hearts?

Our Missing Hearts by @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

#booksky #books #reading #aapi
Cover of Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng in front of the Seattle Historic Chinatown Gate Page from Our Missing Hearts. "There is a long history of children taken, the pretexts different, but the reasons the same. A most precious ransom, a cudgel over a parent's head."
August 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
dreyslashthem.bsky.social
Gender Benderrrr #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle

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dreyslashthem.bsky.social Au(drey) Wang Gosselin @dreyslashthem.bsky.social · Aug 3
I am not normally a science fiction fan, but Le Guin really got me.
#booksky #reading #books #sciencefiction #gender
Copy of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Page with the sentence underlined: "I supposed the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female."
August 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
garland.social.seattle.wa.us.ap.brid.gy
How's your summer reading going?
#bookbingonw2025 #reading #books #bookstodon
Seattle Public Library's Summer Book Bingo sheet, with 18 of 24 squares filled out with the tiny image of a book cover.
August 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
harveydrone.bsky.social
My Big Book for #BookBingoNW2025 is The Silmarillion, specifically the audiobook read by Andy Serkis.

This edition includes a new-to-me letter from Tolkien to a friend, outlining the story, mentioning the concept of "subcreators" like Feanor.

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Image of the book cover featuring a balrog with a giant fire whip, clinging to a rocky crag. An elf (I forget who, maybe Glorfindel) with blonde hair, a green cape, and a sword is climbing to face the balrog. Kind of stormy landscape in the background. JRR Tolkien's name is in a yellow script.
August 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM