Summer Book Bingo

I’m a the Massachusetts Library Association Annual Conference and it seems like the perfect time to talk about reading. Okay, I always think it’s the perfect time to talk about reading, but today I have a specific reason. As in, readers get ready because Summer Book Bingo starts very very soon. As in, a book you are reading right now could actually count for a square on your card if you finish any time after this Friday.

Have you created and printed your card yet? Mary has it all set up for you, just go to Mary’s blog and look in the side bar for a link to create your card. I did mine this weekend and I’m pretty happy with it. Yes, I hit refresh several times but, as I always say, my bingo, my rules.

I have some ideas for those squares but I’m not sure about the unreliable narrator and also banned in a country outside the US. I’ll happily take suggestions for those. Frankly, I’ll happily take suggestions for any of those squares because I always look a good book recommendation.

I love summer for so many reasons but Summer Book Bingo is high on my list!

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  1. I would have used The Nix for the unreliable narrator but I just finished it. Lord but was that book awesome.

  2. For unreliable narrator, my first thought was Gone Girl, but you probably read it. Other possibilities are Girl on the Train, Rebecca, or Elizabeth is Missing. I have a cousin that teaches English in China and we just had a conversation about Winnie the Pooh being banned in China (mainly to decrease foreign influence). Looks like an interesting card!

  5. Interesting card. If you have not visited Norway, “Out Stealing Horses” by Per Petterson is wonderful (I think Kat will be reading that).

  7. Bonny’s suggestions are all great ones. I might suggest Donna Tartt’s “Secret History” or “The Goldfinch” for those squares if you’ve not read them. (She’s a master of the unreliable narrator!) I’m also looking for a book banned in another country, so maybe we can help each other out with that one? Enjoy your conference! XO

  8. Unreliable Narrator: What She Knew by Gilly McMillan or My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Bachman.
    I gave both books 2 stars on GoodReads but, hey, both had unreliable narrators!

    I keep refreshing my bingo board. I don’t want any political books. LOL

  9. Unreliable Narrator: What She Knew by Gilly McMillan or My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Bachman.
    I gave both books 2 stars on GoodReads but, hey, both had unreliable narrators!

    I keep refreshing my bingo board. I don’t want any political books. LOL

  10. Unreliable Narrator: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. I used to teach English Lit at a couple of Universities, and when I taught this book, I always spent some time talking about the layers of narrative– who is telling whose story to whom– and whether or not any or all of those involved were reliable at all, since they all had their own reasons to alter the story, or certainly to leave things out for their own interests sake.

  11. I’ve pulled a card and have started to fill it in with books I want to read. I’m in. Is any narrator reliable. There are always more sides than one to a story. I think you’ve a wide open category. Have fun!

  14. I have my card printed, but have yet to figure out what to read. Am sure I’ll be trolling the blogs for suggestions.

  15. I have some of the same squares as you but not unreliable narrator. I am looking for a story within a story ideas

  16. “Lolita” for unreliable narrator. This review even mentioned unreliable narrator.

    by Vladimir Nabokov

    Why should everyone read a book about a pedophile’s obsessive and frankly gross relationship with a little girl? Because if you are a reader — a lover of words, puns, witticisms, metaphors, and allusions — Lolita is a literary masterpiece that can’t be passed over in a fit of queasy morality. Humbert Humbert, the novel’s unreliable narrator, knows that he’s a despicable pervert and yet the reader can’t help enjoying him as he surveys post-war America and little Lolita with the droll, cynical eye of a European expat adrift in a tawdry nation, and stuck irrevocably — and irredeemably — in the memory of an adolescent love affair. Please, ignore the critics: Lolita isn’t a morality tale and it isn’t a love story. It’s an unabashed look at a deviant mind written in some of the most deft and beautiful English ever published. – Rhianna

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