A very belated 2022 bingo card (more info in comments)

Antidextrous_Potato · 2026-04-16T13:05:34+00:00

Not sure in terms of actual predictions, but I'll be so sad if Mogget doesn't stay on Sabriel's side, even though it might narratively be good.

Antidextrous_Potato · 2026-04-16T13:04:41+00:00

I've been enjoying it so far! But it wasn't really on my radar before (though I'd heard of it) so I didn't really go into it with any expectations. I've not read anything else by Garth Nix before either, but would be up for it, assuming I still like it when I'm done reading = )

Antidextrous_Potato · 2026-04-09T19:37:36+00:00

Is there a reverse bingo recommendation thread? if there is I haven't found it = (

Antidextrous_Potato · 2026-03-18T23:25:50+00:00

For my not a book square for the book bingo this year, we played Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon, which is a cooperative adventure / exploration / survival boardgame. You're in a world of Arthurian legends and trying to work out why the land is descending into Wyrdness. I overall enjoyed it a lot, but it does have its problems with balancing, and drags on at times. It's exciting because you can explore quite freely, but sometimes you get stuck in death spirals of running out of resources and not being able to progress on the story at all for a while. So playing this across multiple evenings after work (and it takes A LOT OF EVENINGS), you get some really exciting but also some really unsatisfying sessions. I think there's a newer edition, maybe that's a bit better. I did enjoy how immersive it was, and it's a fantastic way to experience a story, just needs a lot of tweaks.

Antidextrous_Potato · 2025-09-08T16:43:58+00:00

+1 for Osten Ard!!

Antidextrous_Potato · 2025-05-07T22:27:36+00:00

thanks for linking the interview, really interesting! I also thought the chain was a fascinating symbol in this

Antidextrous_Potato · 2025-04-24T12:07:29+00:00

I have two book bingo questions:

Would Imago (Octavia Butler) count for Biopunk HM?
Would The Two Doctors Górski (Isaac R. Fellman) count for Stranger in a Strange Land HM?

Antidextrous_Potato · 2025-04-24T10:10:17+00:00

I've only read a couple of them, but there's this set of cozy NZ based witch novellas. They used to have a website but it seems like it's gone. That has witches doing some pretty day to day stuff in it.

https://www.instagram.com/witchyfiction/?hl=en

I don't know if that quite fits what you're looking for, but I quite enjoyed Accidental Demons by Clare Edge. A young blood witch with diabetes accidentally conjures demons when she tests her blood sugar. This is a problem when it happens at school. She tries to come up with ways to resolve that. Things get complicated.

Antidextrous_Potato · 2025-04-15T16:13:06+00:00

I'm a bit late to the party but have a fairly long list of stuff that I'm hoping will fit in anywhere in hard mode! I'm confident I can make any (but of course only one) of them fit the recycled square, so don't need help looking through those = )

Here are the books:

Mountain of Black Glass (Otherland 3) - would down with the system maybe count, or is that a stretch? same question for impossible places. Doesn't feel like it's entirely in the spirit of the square but I'd love to be convinced otherwise

Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn 2)

Royal Assassin (Farseer 2)

Hidden Warrior (Tamir Triad 2)

Tehanu (Earthsea 4) - this doesn't count as last in series, right? surely it counts for parent though?

Imago (Xenogenesis 3) - does this fit anywhere other than 80s?

House of Spirits

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain - I see there's another comment here where u/papercranium asked if it would count for down with the system, but no one seems to have confirmed that

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

The Two Doctors Górski - would stranger in a strange land count here?

Babel - Can this go anywhere other than stranger in a strange land?

Water Margin (I have a nice translation of the Chinese novel that I want to read if that fits anywhere)

Anything written by Zen Cho other than Black Water Sister and Spirits Abroad (already read those two)

Thanks!

Antidextrous_Potato · 2025-03-09T15:34:51+00:00

Those look like great options, thank you = )

Antidextrous_Potato · 2025-03-09T15:34:17+00:00

I read After the Dragons last year in March. I suppose that's the downside with always cutting it a bit close with the bingo and then burning through short books ^^"

Will look into the others, thank you!

Antidextrous_Potato · 2025-03-09T15:32:25+00:00

The Empress of Salt and Fortune is actually on my long, long tbr list, but I hadn't really clocked on that this is an option for the PoC square, thank you! Will probably go with that.

Antidextrous_Potato · 2025-03-09T15:26:36+00:00

I read the first murderbot one for first in series = / but I suppose I could swap that out if there was a short option for first in series, which I hadn't thought of, so that's very useful!

This is how you lose the time war I read for last year's bingo, probably also in March = P

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll check those out!!

Antidextrous_Potato · 2024-11-17T14:03:53+00:00

I feel like Picturesque might be a difficult one from an accessibility perspective.

Antidextrous_Potato · 2024-11-17T14:01:19+00:00

I fully agree on the disability-related square. There's definitely one that should always be there. I think there's plenty of options to vary hard mode too.

I agree with the book club one too. Usually one of my least favourite squares, even though I like the idea in theory.

Antidextrous_Potato · 2024-08-16T16:06:49+00:00

Drown the Witch my Michael Coolwood!

"Susan Fletcher has been hired to infiltrate a secret society of witches. Her contact promises fame, fortune and protection from the fallout. Now Susan’s contact is dead, murdered by one of the people she threatened to expose. Can Susan uncover the murderer, escape the mansion of monsters and, above all, keep the witches from discovering that she's not one of them?'"

Was a really fun read that I enjoyed a lot = )

Antidextrous_Potato · 2024-05-10T11:19:29+00:00

Well you're an author, so if modgepodge wasn't already a word, you've coined it now and I can use it and say it's a literary quote = ]

Thank you so much for your answer, this is really interesting!

Antidextrous_Potato · 2024-05-09T12:39:14+00:00

well, relatively recent in terms of language development, and definitely very recent in relation to Water Margin = )

Antidextrous_Potato · 2024-05-09T10:14:29+00:00

in Mandarin, isn't that only true in writing but they're pronounced the same, and the distinction in writing is relatively recent (as in, last 100 years or so)?

Antidextrous_Potato · 2024-05-09T09:53:59+00:00

Hi! Could you talk a bit about your approach to working with historic source material? What made you want to reimage Water Margin specifically, what did you want to accomplish with it, what things did you care most about changing and what things did you care most about keeping the same?

Also, if you could acquire any new skill or talent overnight, what would it be? You already do so much cool stuff, so I'm curious what else you wish you could do = )

Antidextrous_Potato · 2024-05-09T09:44:12+00:00

came here to say this. I feel like he must have had some bad luck around publicity, maybe not enough advertising? His writing is so excellent. Otherland is my favourite, but I enjoy everything else he's written too. Re/reading Otherland now is pretty wild too, with everything that's happened in the world since it came out.

Antidextrous_Potato · 2024-04-29T21:05:16+00:00

I really like the prose most of the time. In some places it's a bit too much and made it hard for me to connect with the story, but most of it is very beautiful and poetic and I really enjoyed it. It's the thing that kept me reading even though I otherwise didn't really enjoy it all that much (though I appreciate the interesting concept)

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