Thanks to the Orilium Discord, today I learned about Lianne of LiteraryDiversions’ Bookish Bingo Board from Hell 2024. I decided to make my own bingo board from Hell, so now I have a ninth goal for 2024: to get blackout! Here’s my board, which you are free to use:
Honeycomb’s Bookish Bingo Board from Hell 2024
And here are the rules I’ll be playing by:
1. A book only counts for the top left square if I already owned it or it was purchased with my monthly Audible credit, a gift credit, or a reward credit earned by completing a bingo.
2. BIPOC or LGBTQ+ (the left-hand square in the second row) means either the author or characters are BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+.
3. For each bingo and for blackout I will earn a bundle of Audible credits that do not count towards my total money spent on books this year. Books bought with these credits will count as books I already owned.
Join in the fun! Watch Lianne’s video. You’ll find a Google Drive link in the description with all the information and materials you need to participate!
LiteraryDiversions’ Bookish Bingo from Hell 2024 YouTube video
I’ll be tracking my progress towards this goal on StoryGraph.
2. Complete Year in Aeldia 2024
The Year in Aeldia 2023 challenge map
In 2023, G of Book Roast made a year-long choose your own adventure style reading quest for Magical Readathon: Orilium participants called A Year in Aeldia. It was easy to complete as you chose only one prompt per month. It was good fun and helped fill the void between readathons. If G makes one for 2024, I will complete it.
3. Read all the prompts for both Orilium semesters
The Orilium Craftsmage badge. I am currently a Craftsmage apprentice.
If you haven’t heard of it yet, G of Book Roast has created the Magical Readathon: Orilium. In this readathon you pretend to study at a magical university named Orilium. This will be my third year participating and I’m looking forward to it! I will aim to complete the prompts required for my calling, Craftsmage, during the readathon months, but will also complete the rest of the prompts, no matter how long it takes.
4. Read Les Miserables in one year
Cover of the Penguin Classics audiobook edition of Les Miserables
I joined a group from the Orilium Discord whose goal is to read the entire, unabridged Les Miserables in 2024. I’m looking forward to this challenge and am already enjoying discussions with the group. I have chosen the Penguin Classics edition translated by Christine Donougher, performed by an ensemble cast including Adeel Akhtar, Adrian Scarborough, Natalie Simpson, Emma Fielding, and John Owen-Jones. I chose this edition because it is noted for the excellence of Donougher’s translation and reviews indicate the narration is faithful to the text and includes footnotes. The audiobook is also divided into chapters which will make it easy for me to read one chapter a day.
5. Do more buddy reads
I recently did my first buddy read outside of a book club. I quite enjoyed it and made a new friend! (Hi, Justé!) I think it’ll be good for my mental health to participate in more buddy reads and meet more bookworms this way. I’ve already signed up to buddy read the Daevabad trilogy and the Throne of Glass series in the new year!
6. Revive my blog and review what I read
And I’m making a good faith start on this goal now by overhauling the blog URL and design and writing this post!
7. Spend less on books
I want to read more of the books I already own and try to get as many other titles as I can through the library or BARD. (BARD is a service provided by the National Library Service. It provides free access to audiobooks to blind and disabled patrons.)
8. Have fun!
The most important goal on this list! If I am not having fun, I will change or even abandon these goals. The goal is not to stress myself out but to add more enjoyment to my life.
What are your reading goals for 2024? Share them in the comments!
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