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Book Trope Bingo

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I just saw this, I know I am very late into the game but oh well. The creator of the Bingo Board I am using is Jesse from Jessethereader. You can find the video here . BOOK TROPE BINGO SHEET (if you want to play!) https://ibb.co/hgLPbjj So here it is the board. So we will use a very homemade bingo paper slips and see how much I know my book and how long it takes me to get to Bingo. Let's begin: N3. Free space, that lucky. I will pick one of my favorite mystery/ thrillers. This is the story of an old man who in the last remnants of his life decides to confess to a crime a young man was convicted to and now will serve a death sentence for. Time is running out but not everything is as easy as he imagined when no one is willing to listen or take seriously his confession. A lawyer, a criminal and the family of the man wrongly convicted race against time to stop an unjust sentence to be carried out.  B1. The golde Trio I will not use the typical and first one that comes...

Los de Abajo

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Author: Mariano Azuela  Genre: Historical Fiction Original publication date: 1916 Book description: It tells the story of how people who were caught up in the struggle be it thrown into joining due to a previous issue with the law or showing those who joined due to true belief on the cause. Thoughts: The idea is interesting. We see how people were so very unfortunate living in scraps, among poor excuses for housing and work. Overworked and underpaid, treated badly, insulted and deprived of the opportunity we see as basic such as education where most people were treated awfully for being ignorant and dirty.  Demetrio is a man who has courage and drive for fighting but he is definitely not a man I personally would say is a hero or a good person. He fits among his compatriots of the time. He was a man who thought nothing mattered more than honor, fighting, drinking and who saw women as nothing but a means of release and who went around using as he saw fit for his enj...

Best Books of 2019

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This year has been eventful and I have enjoyed a lot of them. So here are the best ones I found this year. Rereads do not count.  I find it very difficult to place them in a particular order. But here we go. #10 Charlotte's Web, E.B. White A lovely story of a little pig, a spider who is smarter than most animals in the same farm, a human girl and so many little things that seem much grander.  It is interesting how you can go through life without seeing this story be it in the actual book or even the movie. The book was very heartwarming and now I want to watch the movie.  #9 The exorcist, William Peter Blatty. The story tells the novelization of a true story of a child being possessed.  The mother, a divorced actress who is struggling to make it as a director in an era where women are openly put down by the male in the same industry. It is hard to describe but I can see why it has withstood the test of time.  #8 My sister's keeper, Jodi Picoult....

Year One

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Author: Nora Roberts Series: The Chronicles of The One #1 Genre: Fantasy Original publication date: December 2017 Book description:  It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river--or in the ones you know and love the most. As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count o...

Graphic novels/Manga 2019

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This year I intended to get into manga, but then again it took me a while to get into. I did not make up my mind on what to start or where to begin, also I was trying to get into more graphic novels or comic because this year was supposed to be about branching out and getting to know what I liked and what doesn't work for me. Interesting and blessings for me, I find that I can enjoy reading a graphic novel as much as a traditional book. Because I love lists and need to feel accomplishment in something here I will leave a list of the ones I managed to get to this year.  Manga: *Blue Exorcist by Kazue Kato. This is the story of teenagers that are training to become exorcists, everyone has been touched in a way by the forces of evil that make this fight overly personal. e follow Rin and his twin brother as they are cruising through high school and death threatening situations.  I am going at a semi steady pace, especially considering that I started this series in t...

The mysterious stranger

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Author: Mak Twain  Genre: Classic Original publication date: January 1916 Book description: In this anti-religious tale, Twain denies the existence of a benign Providence, a soul, an after-life, and even reality itself. As the Stranger in the story asserts, "nothing exists; all is a dream. Thoughts: This book was like other classics interesting and yet hard o get through.  I picked it from Scribd because well it was right there and I wanted something short to get by quickly. The bad thing it turned to be a book that was not compelling me to begin reading. It starts interesting as a group of boys get to meet a stranger who starts to give the life lessons, who sees everything so very different from their own and also has very interesting ideas. It is a very good way to express the belief that there is really no divine power or holy hand who is in charge of our existence.  This book helped me get my semi-formal goal of reading a Classic even if it meant spendin...

The Two princess of Bamarre

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Author: Gail Carson Levine Genre: Fantasy Series: The two princesses of Bamarre #1 Original publication date: March 2001 Book description:  Twelve-year-old Addie admires her older sister Meryl, who aspires to rid the kingdom of Bamarre of gryphons, specters, and ogres. Addie, on the other hand, is fearful even of spiders and depends on Meryl for courage and protection. Waving her sword Bloodbiter, the older girl declaims in the garden from the heroic epic of Drualt to a thrilled audience of Addie, their governess, and the young sorcerer Rhys. But when Meryl falls ill with the dreaded Gray Death, Addie must gather her courage and set off alone on a quest to find the cure and save her beloved sister. Addie takes the seven-league boots and magic spyglass left to her by her mother and the enchanted tablecloth and cloak given to her by Rhys - along with a shy declaration of his love. She prevails in encounters with tricky specters (spiders too) and outwits a wickedly personable dr...