Thread by @lelaballerina, Because I am every inch the nerd my friends know me to [...]

Because I am every inch the nerd my friends know me to be, I'm participating in not 1 but 2 summer-reading book-bingo programs this year, one through
@BPLBoston & the other via @TheRippedBodice. To make it extra challenging, I'm aiming to fill out both cards 100% and -

I want to complete the #BostonPublicLibraryBookBingo and the #RippedBodiceBingo with wholly unique books - aka no listing books on both cards! It's nice to have goals, right? If you want to follow along with either bingo reading, I'm going to split this into 2 threads & hashtag

Here’s the @BPLBoston Adult Summer Reading book bingo card! I count across, left to right, rather than up and down.

Square 1, I read for 3 hours in bed last night #BplBookBingo

Square 2, Author of Color: Girl Gone Viral by @AlishaRai #BPLBookBingo

Square 3, Read Outside:

I have a back deck now! I’ve spent most of every weekend either harness training my cat & reading the October Daye series by @seananmcguire or listening to How Long ‘til Black Future Month by @nkjemisin & embroidering. Enjoy this video or frolicking

Space 4, #ShareYourStory. I shared my story of a positive interaction or experience at @BPLBoston this afternoon, 06/27. In honor of how much time I’ve spent at BPL Central, here are pictures of my favorite state there, from my 1st winter in Boston.

Square 7, Log In To Your BPL account.

I do this literally everyday. Every. Day. I always have the maximum number of holds & an obsessive need to check on them!

Square 10, Recommend A Book to Someone: I positively bombarded @Blackamazon w/romance recs a few& @anniejhawk w/recs for YA by Black authors recently! My girlfriends are my bingo squares, which is some kind of metaphor. Here’s a pic of Baby Annie & Baby Lei being annoyed by boys.

Square 14, Woman Author. As mentioned in my Square 3 tweet, over the course of June I’ve read all of the currently available October Daye series by @seananmcguire this month. Here’s my favorite cover in the series, by Christian McGrath. I love the lighting!

Square 22, Award Winning: There, There by Tommy Orange, winner of the John Leonard Prize by the National Book Critics Circle & the PEN/Hemingway Award.

#BPLBingo #BPLBookBingo

Square 15, Explore http://BPL.org : I disocoverd AtoZ Food World, a resource that includes history of food & drink as well as recipes from around the world. As an aspiring foodie tier home cook, this is *heaven* & I never knew it was at my fingertips!

Square 22, LGBTQ+ Author: wow, no thank you by @wordscience

^that should actually be Square 21, sorry my dyscalculia has been helping me along this thread.

Square 20, Book From Your To-Be-Read Pile: The City of Brass by @SAChakrabooks

Square 25, Tell Someone About Book Bingo. Ok, well, I told uh Twitter but I’m not sure if that counts. @MKPinDC RT’d my first post with the #BPLbookbingo card though so I’m going to narrow it down & say I told them! In celebration, here’s the cover of their excellent book:

Square 24, Book You Saw On Display: Soulless by @gailcarriger

@BPLBoston has a digital display called “Just Glue Some Gears On It,” & this was the 1st book listed. I loved it! A new series to binge, yay me! #bplbookbingo

Alright ya’ll, update time!

Square 20, Learn Something New. I took the 3 part Financial Literacy Series hosted by @babson & @BPLBoston in July. The course covered credit, savings, & investing. The 3rd class, on the basics of investing, had the most new info for me!

evidence

Alright ya’ll, update time! Square 20, Learn Something New. I took the 3 part Financial Literacy Series hosted by @babson & @BPLBoston in July. The course covered credit, savings, & investing. The 3rd class, on the basics of investing, had the most new info for me! evidence

Annnnnddd Square 5, Book With a One-Word Title: Assata, by Assata Shakur.

It was my first time reading her autobiography, & tbh I’m doing a lot of processing off here, with folks I can continue to do my intro-to-the-basics-of-the-fight work with w/out taking up space weirdly.

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