April 2023 Bookish Bingo 🐰

[bookishfirst_team]

Work on your reading goals this month with a new round of Bookish Bingo!

Follow BookishFirst on Twitter and check off a square on your board before you even start reading.

If you share a completed bingo in the comments below before May 1, you’ll receive 20 bonus points!

Click here to read the rules and download your Bookish bingo card below. Make sure you share your progress with us by using #BookishBingo on social media. Let us know what books you’re reading for each prompt below! When you get a bingo, shout it out here.

Have an idea for a future board? Share it here.

April Bookish Bingo prompts: Follow BookishFirst on Twitter, Musical retelling, Your favorite author, Title includes ‘and’, Includes a prologue, An ebook, Title begins with A, Single parent, Published in April, Made you laugh out loud, Character starts a new job, Yellow cover, free space, Autistic protagonist, Author’s name begins with A, Title includes a number, Protagonist is famous, Cover set outdoors, Fourth in a series, Garden in the title, Pastel cover, Four word title, Finish a series, Poetry or verse novel, car on the cover

[lashyashy84]

How are you defining a “musical retelling”? My mind went to Wicked which is a musical retelling of the book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. However, I’m not sure if that’s what you mean. Any guidance helps. Thanks!

[gingerbreadd]

I was wondering the same thing. I’ve planned my entire month except for this one. Books that have inspired musicals???

[l11]

BookishFirst leaves prompts open to interpretation, so if you think it fits, it counts! My first thought was Wintersong, by S. Jae-Jones, which is a retelling of the movie Labyrinth, featuring a musician heroine.

[buzzybea]

I was planning to read midnight in everwood which is a retelling of the nutcracker I believe.

[lashyashy84]

These are all great suggestions. Im going to do These Violent Delights which is givng me West Side Story vibes.

[seast]

Sing Me Forgotten is a retelling of Phantom of the Opera but with a female phantom.

[bookreader09]

includes a prologue: Good as Gone by Amy Gentry
published in April: The Life Council by Laura Tremaine
free space
protagonist is famous: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
pastel cover: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

[lanaquin]

Bingo!

[kdowli01]

An ebook: All the Dark Places
Title begins with A: All the Broken Places
Single Parent: With My Little Eye
Published in April: If We’re Being Honest
Made you laugh out loud: Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead

[bll1010]

Bingo!

[lashyashy84]

[kozo89]

Pastel cover: A Flicker of a Doubt by Daryl Wood Gerber

Famous protagonist: Killer on the Court by Terrie Farley Moran

Free: Those Empty Eyes by Charlie Donlea

Published in April: Fiddling With Fate by Diane Kelly

Includes prologue: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

[author_sacrow]

This month was a bit harder for me to get a bingo. But I loved The Poppy War and Legends & Lattes.

[bookish.heidi]

This month was a tough one to fill… Glad I managed a bingo

[bonnie_jean]

April 2023 BINGO!
Diagonal going up from the bottom.
Business Minded - Pastel Cover
The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder - Protagonist is Famous
Lie, Lipstick & Deadly Goodbyes - Free Space
Bitter Roots - Published in April 2017
Run Rose Run - Includes a Prologue

[gelm]

Pastel cover - Green Lantern: Alliance by Minh Le
Four word title - Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken
Finish a series - Giant Days Vol. 14
Poetry or verse novel - Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Car on the cover - Giant Days Vol. 12

[ladyace74]

This was a slow month for me. Hopefully, I manage to tick off my squares in May.

[claudiu]

Pastel cover - Insanely Awesome Mad Deluxe Ed.
Title includes a number - Mars vol.3 by Fuyumi Soryo
Character starts a new job - Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
An ebook - Mars vol.2 by Fuyumi Soryo
Follow BookishFirst on Twitter - done a long time ago
Protagonist is famous - The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
Published in April - Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Includes a prologue - A Blade So Black by L.L.McKinney

[motthepaladin]