Sally Lou's reading in 2018

Introduction -- This is a very brief outline of how I see my reading going for 2018. It is aimed at flexibility; I am not planning to have any goal of the amount to read. There probably will be overlap among categories. I am planning to read many items from my TBR shelves, especially for the Bingo cards and CATs whenever possible.

Category 1. BingoDOG -- I have always enjoyed the BingoDOGs and BingoPUPs. I personally prefer to choose what to read when I want to read it instead of needing to do a particular kind of reading during a specified month (as with the CATs). The CATs often provide me with readings for some of the BingoDOG squares.

This is where I will put the BingoDOG card after it is created.

BingoDOG -- books read -- I list in a separate message from the card itself.

Possible reads from my TBR books:

1. Title contains a person’s rank, real or fictional
2. Story involves travel --- A Little House Traveler: Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Journeys across America
3. A long-time TBR/TBR the longest -- Haworth Harvest by N. Brysson Morrison -- gift from my father, July 21, 1969.
4. Poetry or plays
5. New-to-you author -- Jan Karon: I have Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good or Adriana Trigiani: I have The Shoemaker's Wife
6. Autobiography/memoir -- possibly Sister of Silence by Daleen Berry (read lot of books in this category in 2017; this one is still left 10/21/17)
7. Book with a beautiful cover (in your opinion) -- The Plantation Mistress by Catherine Clinton
8. Book that fits at least 2 KIT’s/CAT’s
9. Related to the Pacific Ocean
10. Title contains something you would see in the sky -- The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
11. Book bought in 2017 that hasn’t been read yet
12. Number in the title -- 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived by Dan Karlan or The Class of '65: a Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness by Jim Auchmutey
13. Book that is humorous -- Quakers Are Funny by Chuck Fager
14. Book on the 1001 list -- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath or Little Women by Louisa May Alcott or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
15. LGBT central character
16. Book set during a holiday
17. Fat book - 500 plus pages -- Villette by Charlotte Bronte (555 pages of text plus introduction, footnotes, etc. or The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed (if do not read in 2017) or Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
18. X somewhere in the title -- Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir or Presidential Sex by Wesley O. Hagood.
19. Money in the title - any form of currency, type of payment, etc...
20. Book published in 2018
21. Relative name in the title (aunt, niece, etc...) -- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
22. Originally in a different language -- Giants in the Earth by O. E. Rolvaag (or could be used for book with over 500 pages since has 531 p.)
23. Published more than 100 years ago
24. Title contains name of a famous person, real or fictional -- Congressman Lincolnby Chris DeRose, or Clover Adams by Natalie Dykstra or Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands by Roger L. Di Silvestro or Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn or The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes
25. Read a CAT (middle square)

Category 2. Books by/about male authors -- I have tended to read female authors whenever possible. I would like to read at least 16 books by or about men -- all from my TBR collection. My proposed categories:

I am hoping to create a mini-BingoPUP for myself if I can figure out how to do it (16 squares, 4 rows of 4). I see one free online bingo but one must keep the bingo card on its website; one is not allowed to copy it to another site such as this. Even if I do not create a card, I will track the following reads here.

(1) Novels
(2) Mysteries -- might be covered by Mystery CAT
(3) Virginia History
(4) Historians -- such as Henry Adams
(5) Presidents before Nixon -- such as Congressman Lincoln by Chris DeRose or Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands by Roger L. Di Silvestro . -- if I use either of these, I would not use them in the official BingoDOG.
(6) University of Virginia or Penn State University -- worked at UVA for over 20 years, and graduated from Penn State, worked there for 11 years, met husband there where he worked for 9 years, father taught there 20 years, both my siblings and their spouses from there
(7) artists -- (such as Norman Rockwell, Edward Hicks, N.C. Wyeth)
(8) photography such as Holsinger's Charlottesville or Still Philadelphia
(9) sports (especially baseball players such as Clemente by David Maraniss or Lefty Grove by Jim Kaplan
(10) memoirs
(11) short story collections
(12) Poetry collections
(13) Literary award winners
(14) Air travel -- history and pilots such as The Wright Brothers by David McCullough, Birdmen: the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies by Lawrence Goldstone
(15) Racial injustice
(16) Nonfiction not covered by other topics

Category 3. CATs and KITs -- I will probably read something from at least one CAT or KIT each month although I am not excited about any of the winners. If the Random CAT topic interests me or I will probably do it. I'm planning to fit my TBR reading into a CAT or AlphaKIT as much as possible.

Category 4. Mysteries -- I have a backlog of mysteries, but expect that most of them are cozy mysteries. If I find that any of my are in other categories, I will probably read them during the MysteryCAT month.

Category 5. "Assigned" readings -- book clubs, classes, committee work, etc. I am in at least one book club, and may join others. Recently, OLLI (the Osher Life-Long Learning Institute, University of Virginia branch) has not offered as many literature classes as in the past, and many of the readings have been relatively short so that I am not listing the classes in a separate category as I have sometime in the past.

Category 6. Short stories, essays, poetry, plays -- I really enjoy reading short stories, and read some collections of poetry. If my OLLI classes involve reading short stories, essays, plays, etc., I will probably list them here instead of in category 4.

Category 7. Virginia Book Festival. My favorite annual local event is the Virginia Festival of the Book which is held in Charlottesville each March. This category will be for reading any books from the 2018 festival (either owned or borrowed) plus books for past festivals, which I purchased but still have not read. In 2018 I'm not going to hold interesting books from the festival until they become ROOTs.

Category 8. Classics -- in 2017 I did not read as many classics as I hoped to. Therefore, I will try to read more classics -- a few of these will probably overlap with my BingoDOG reads.

Currently (October 2017) this is a miscellaneous box. I may set up another category, or use it for readings not listed elsewhere, of track something of interest such as new books or local/regional authors, etc.

Another early thread! I'm looking forward to seeing how you flesh out your categories.

Hello sallylou. I am excited to see how your reading choices for your categories play out. It looks like a great reading year for you in 2018. Enjoy.

Congrats. on getting your thread up early. Looking forward to following along in 2018.

Good luck with your planning! And enjoy the reads.

Love the setup. Like you, I am going for flexibility in my 2018 reading. ;-)

I have updated my thread. The new feature is category 2 which is to read more by/about men since I have tended to read as many female authors as possible the past few years. Mostly, the other categories were pushed down a notch. After the bingos, the categories are not in priority order.

I like your focus on the Bingo to have more flexibility throughout the year. Happy reading!

Best of luck with your 2018 challenge! Have fun with your BingoDogs and Pups!

>18 Chrischi_HH:, >19 mamzel: Thanks. I do enjoy the flexibility of the Bingos. My biggest problem with them is trying to fill more than one card of each bingo each year. In 2018 I plan once again to fill each card once. The all male bingoPUP will be all male authors; the regular bingoDOG will probably be both female and male authors considering how challenging some of the squares are. This year (2017) in addition to the regular bingo card of male and female authors, I'm doing one of all female authors with different books than the male/female card.

REPLACED WITH SALLY LOU'S UPDATED READING CHALLENGE FOR 2018