This year I am once again taking part in The Bookforager’s Picture Prompt Bingo.  I took part in this wonderful event last year and loved it.  It really makes you sit down and think about the books you’ve read and, well, come up with creative ways to ensure that you have all the prompts covered.

Below is the bingo card with the written outline.  The whole ethos surrounding this is to have fun.  There is no pressure, no timelines (okay, it’s a yearly event so of course you need to complete by the end of the year if you can) but you come up with the books whenever best suits you, you post when you want, and, as mentioned above, you might use some creative thinking to cover the whole card.  Anyway, if you can’t complete the card what’s the worst that can happen!  (You go to book bingo prison and have to hang your head in abject shame but it’s no big deal – only kidding)

So, without further ado, here’s the link to the Bookforager’s fantastic blog – I highly suggest you check it out and give them a follow – and below is the bingo card.  And, at the end of the post my update on the books I’m using so far.

Plain text version can be found below:

PICTURE PROMPT BOOK BINGO 2025 (TEXT VERSION)

And, sometimes being late is occasionally useful – and as I’m pretty much always late that’s the best silver lining I can come up with – in this case I have two month’s worth of reading to choose from already.

I’ve checked the books read during January and February and I think I’m able to cross off four of the books from the prompt.

No.8 the ruins of a temple like structure.

I’ve interpreted this as a Greek temple and so I’m using Daughter of Chaos by A S Webb.  This is a story crammed to the rafters with Greek mythology and lots of adventuring:

No.11 an old mechanical typewriter.  I’m using Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney.  This story centres around an author and his struggles to get on with life after his wife mysteriously disappears.  He eventually travels to a remote Scottish Island and falls into writing a novel.  I actually can’t recall if he was using an old typewriter if I’m going to be completely honest (it’s more likely that he was using a laptop) – but, either way, a keyboard is involved.  That’s my flimflam excuse and I’m sticking with it:

No.12 a cluster of four mushrooms.  Well, I’m massively into my fae books at the moment and in fact just completed Heather Fawcett’s final in series – Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales – and as we all know, mushroom rings are a traditional means to step into the land of the fae are they not, also there are little mushrooms (or perhaps toadstools) on the cover, so I’ve definitely cracked this one:

No.14 a chemistry set up of bottles and tubes.  For this prompt I’ve chosen Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis.  This is an absolutely delicious romantasy in which one of the central characters (in fact the titular Witch Queen) has her very own laboratory – although to be fair we do spend more time in the library which is not something that you’ll hear me complaining about:

That’s my progress so far.  Four prompts down – 12 still to go.

I hope you all take part – I’d love to see what books you all come up with.