Tagged in Book bingo 2025
I was tagged by @thearcaneuniversity to do the 2025 book bingo by batmanisagatewaydrug. Thank you!
Okay, let's do this. I haven't read a whole lot during 2024, but indeed I have read more than the years prior, so I think it's a good start. I will, however, include the books I have yet to read, I'm afraid the list will be pitifully short if I don't...
Also, I'm giving myself permission to make this light-hearted, so I'll include atypical reads here. I read in spanish and in english, but the former is my native language, so unless stated, assume it's in spanish.
Literary fiction: do fanfics count? I think fanfics should count. Both in english and in spanish.
Short Story Collection: I've read part of a poetic anthology Poesías Escogidas (Chosen Poems), edited in 1972, with poems from Spanish folklore. Poetry has a time and a place and I don't like rushing it, so I read a random one whenever I feel like it.
A sequel: no sequels in 2024, but I'm planing for reading some in 2025.
Childhood favourite: hm, I may re-re-re?-read Verano en Vaqueros by Ann Brashares next year. God I loved this series as a teenager. And apparently it includes a 5th book? I have just learned this and I don't think it's in spanish but I need it!
20th Century Speculative Fiction: The Orb And The Wheel by Michel Jeury has been on my to read list for years, and still is. Fahrenheit 451 by Rad Bradbury has always peeked my interest too.
Fantasy: probably the only book in this list I have truly read and it isn't even true because I have yet to finish it. It's Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings.
Published before 1950: I own a copy in english of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre I'd like to read someday but I'm afraid my english won't be proficient enough.
Independent publisher: ah, that would be the poems by my good friend @mercuriopoetry which I haven't finished yet, like the chaotic person I am.
Graphic Novel/Comic Book/Manga: recently I was kindly gifted a copy in english of the first volume of Bungo Stray Dogs, written by Kafka Asagiri and drawn by Sango Harukawa.
Animal on the cover: interesting… My copy of Jane Austen's Pride and prejudicehas a peacock lined in golden in the cover and I was planning on reading it this year.
Set in a country you have never visited: Think of a Number, by John Verdon, is my to-go book when insomnia hits. It's been years and I'm a little more than halfway through but last year was the year I advanced more, that's for sure. Set in USA.
Science Fiction: most of the time, I despise the genre. Since Isaac Asimov is a famous representative and I have been wanting to get my nose into my copy of A Short History of Chemistry-An Introduction to the Ideas and Concepts of Chemistry, titled simply in spanish as Breve Historia de la Química (A Brief History of Chemistry), I'll use this one as my excuse, if you will, as a chemist. That book is not from this genre, of course.
2025 Debut Author: what do you mean you can know who is publishing their first book in the near future? Sorcery!
Memoir: ah… She hasn't passed away, but my friend made a poem book that can be considered somewhat her memoir. She's 30, and very much living so I don't know if it counts. It counts, right?
Read a zine, make a zine: years ago I got a copy of the Trans-cendent zine (Fire Emblem Three Houses characters reimagined as trangender) that I have yet to finish.
Essay Collection: ehm, I don't read essays, I watch them in YouTube. Sorry!
2024 Award Winner: having watched a teaser of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, it sparked something in me and I am willing to try that read, although I do not tend to read awarded stories, I think.
Nonfiction/Learn something new: maybe not new, but I'm filling this one with my notes for the upcoming exams.
Social Justice and Activism: I want to read something by Nikki Giovanni.
Romance Novel: Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen is another one I'd like to read this year.
Read and make a recipe: I'm afraid here I'll have to put The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A. Rosen. Maybe depression doesn't hit me this year (hopefully), but I think I will need it nonetheless.
Horror: nope.
Published in the Aughts: I'm pretty sure it will mess me up bad if I do, but I always wanted to read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.
Historical Fiction: does Träumerei qualify for this one, @aveynn?
Bookseller or librarian recommendations: oh, I'll have to ask in the new city I'm going to live in this year!
Extra: hehehe, not in the original bingo but I wanted to add my two cents because there's a book I was gifted recently that I want to read and it's a theatre play! Los Gestos by Pablo Messiez. I have no idea what it's about but it promises to be intriguing.
Thanks for the tag, @thearcaneuniversity, it took me a while, but I loved making this list all way through.
I tag, of course, @mercuriopoetry and @aveynn. @wordsofpink choices could be interesting too. Also, @viviresmasquerespirar, if you ever see this, consider yourself tagged hehe.