Reading Bingo 2025

Jan 03, 2025 16:30

It's that time of year again: a new Reading Bingo card ( Read more... )

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frank January 3 2025, 16:51:05 UTC
LiveJournal is celebrating New Year!
Time to recall this year's moments in the holiday photochallenge. Get 5 random photos uploaded to the blog in 2024 and share them with the audience!
Have an awesome Christmas and a happy New Year! Let 2025 be filled with joy and inspiration!

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meathiel January 3 2025, 16:51:05 UTC

Aaaaah ... great. Thank you!

Damn - I've just read a book featuring a train 2 weeks ago. *lol* Now I'll have to find another one!!!

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ganimede January 3 2025, 18:57:15 UTC
Were you waiting for it, by any chance?

I think there's probably a few books set on trains.  I happen to know there's a whole series called The Railway Detective by Edward Marston which might be of interest to you...  

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meathiel January 3 2025, 19:18:36 UTC
Haha yes, I already thought about the Marston books.

It will be more difficult to find a book set in Mannheim, let alone Heddesheim. I've not lived in enough places! 😁😁😁

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ganimede January 17 2025, 19:06:13 UTC
It doesn't necessarily have to be so specific. Rather than finding one for the actual town, you could get one that's in the same area, or Bundesländer, or just in Germany!

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ragnarok_08 January 3 2025, 18:55:03 UTC
That looks neat!

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ganimede January 3 2025, 18:59:47 UTC
Thank you!  The background is actually an old map of Lancashire from 1611 :)  

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leesa_perrie January 3 2025, 22:37:50 UTC

Is a 'portal world' like a world set in as alternative universe? I have a feeling the term may have changed in the years since I read a lot of sci-if!! Thanks!

I think I've got it. Is it like The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, where they enter another world via a portal, in this case a wardrobe? If so, I can work with that! :D

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ganimede January 4 2025, 14:08:01 UTC
Yes, that's exactly it! So like in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Alice in Wonderland, or Alice Through The Looking Glass. There's a long list of books with portal worlds here on Goodreads :)

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leesa_perrie January 4 2025, 15:24:41 UTC

Thanks! I think I've found one by Adrian Tchaikovsky, an author I discovered last year that I want to read more of, so that works well for me! It certainly seems to be portal, and unlike a lot of his books, it's actually quite short!

I'm not sure what constitutes a 'beach read' as I'm not a lounge on the beach reading type, lol!

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ganimede January 4 2025, 18:28:03 UTC
Oh, that's great! Hmm, that author sounds familiar but I think I might be confusing him with someone else. Which book of his is it?

I'm so not a lounging on the beach type either! It's basically that when it starts to get to summer, various websites come up with lists of books that they class as 'beach reads', something like this, this, or this.

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