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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

WE DID IT JOE. I have completed Seattle Summer Book Bingo. 23 books. #booksky #reading #seattle #bookbingonw2025

Screenshot of the TheStoryGraph prompt, completed, including a thumbnail of the book cover, which looks like a honeycomb.

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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Found family for Demon Copperhead ❤️ #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle

The book cover, black block letters on white background, with yellow and purple strips on the sides, like the nonbinary pride flag.

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)

Completed book bingo card alongside paperback copy of The Monsters We Defy.

I completed my #BookBingoNW2025 blackout with a day to spare with The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope for the Monsters square.

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.

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

Person sitting in an armchair with Pride & Prejudice in their lap and a Rainier beer in their hand

My Humor square: the one, the one, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice #booksky #seattle #BookBingoNW2025

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

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 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

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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My choice for BIPOC Historical Nonfiction #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle

And today I finally finished filling out the actual #bookbingoNW2025 card 🤦

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.

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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My monster book 🥴 #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle

Book cover: black and white photo of an orca breaching

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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Oh btw, my censorship square is 1984 by George Orwell #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle #booksky #reading

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.

Book Bingo Card and ebook cover of Installment Immortality

For the #BookBingoNW2025 Intergenerational Friendship category, I read Installment Immortality by Seanan McGuire.

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.

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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Going for “longest period of time with no actual bingo” this year! Still need recos for PNW Nature, Humor, Found Family, and Disability 😬 #BookBingoNW2025

For my disability square, it's Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong, of course! #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle

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Book Bingo Card and ebook cover of The Water Outlaws

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.

For my dystopia square, although it feels like reality #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle

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Gender Benderrrr #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle

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Seattle Public Library's Summer Book Bingo sheet, with 18 of 24 squares filled out with the tiny image of a book cover.

How's your summer reading going?
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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.

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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I saw an abridged production of The Taming of the Shrew, so figured I'd read the whole thing, and technically it counts for the Humor #BookBingoNW2025 square. It might be satirical? Hard to tell. Moving on.

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Book Bingo Card and ebook cover of The Future of Another Timeline

Entering the #BookBingoNW2025 homestretch, I read The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz for the Censorship category.

My square on Grief #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle

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I'm basically done with my #BookBingoNW2025 blackout, genuinely wild, except I decided my One Big Book would be all four volumes of Scum Villian - arguably Four Big Books - & I still have to finish the fourth one.

One must read a Karen Russell for annual #BookBingoNW2025 and this year’s choice was Vampires in the Lemon Grove, in the Monsters category. 💜