I’ve been inspired by Christy Collins’ success to check out how I’ve gone with AWW’s Bingo challenge. (You can read Christy’s wrap-up here.)

For those of you who don’t know, Kelly from Orange Pekoe Reviews created two AWW Bingo cards earlier this year and posted them on the AWW Challenge blog. They are:

So, how have I done so far?

The answer is…okay, if I combine Update: BINGO! I’ve finished the two cards. I have:
Card #1

• Mystery: Running Against the Tide by Amanda Ortlepp.
• Someone under 30: I don’t know! Maybe not. Update: In the Quiet by Eliza Henry-Jones (not yet reviewed).
• Published more than 10 years ago: Our Eva by Anna Jacobs.
• Indigenous author: Nothing. Shame on me! Update: Heat and Light by Ellen Van Neerven (not yet reviewed).
• My choice: Light on the Water by Olga Lorenzo.
• A best seller: Out of the Ice by Ann Turner. If this book isn’t yet a best seller, it deserves to be. I’m sure it is. It has been widely reviewed for the AWW challenge, so it’s a best seller by our standards.
• Set in Outback: Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar (snap with Christy). I’ve read this but haven’t yet reviewed it.
• Short stories: Wild Chicory by Kim Kelly.
• Published this year: A Loving Faithful Animal by Josephine Rowe.

Card #2

• Set in my favourite city (Sydney, of course!): Ghost Girls by Cath Ferla.
• A Forgotten Classic: I is for Isobel by Amy Witing.
• A book heard about online: Dying in the First Person by Nike Sulway.
• A funny book: Hired by the Brooding Billionaire by Kandy Shepherd. This is more of a “fun” book than a funny book, so I could be cheating here. (I make inquire into my reading preferences – so serious!)
• My choice: That Devil’s Madness by Dominique Wilson.
• Author of different ethnicity: The Time of the Peacock by Mina Abdullah and Ray Mathew (currently reading). Update: finished, but not yet reviewed.
• First book by a favourite author: nothing. (I don’t even know if I have a favourite author or that I’d want to say.) Update: The Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce, a childhood favourite (not yet reviewed).
• A book with poems: nada. For a person with a PhD in Australian poetry, I’ll admit this is a disgrace. Update: Reluctantly Charmed by Ellie O’Neill. Not yet reviewed.
• A book of nonfiction: Rebellious Daughters eds. Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman.

By My count, that makes four squares to go for completing both cards – or 2 to complete either card. With the challenge ending on October 31, I’m not sure I’ll make it.

Update: I made it! With two hours to spare before midnight on October 31.

Have you been participating in the AWW Bingo challenge? How did you go?

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