Wanderlust Bingo: I Guess I Get a C

I didn’t actually participate in the Wanderlust Bingo Card challenge. In fact, I haven’t really gotten the point of the bingo card challenges. However, FictionFan put her card up last week showing how she had filled it out pretty well without attempting the challenge. Actually, she got all of them. So, I decided to try it myself. Unfortunately, I found that although I had many choices for some of the entries and several for others, as far as I can remember the settings of all the books I read, this year I had none for several locations.

Here’s how my card came out:

Here are my books:

• North America: North Woods by Daniel Mason
• Nordic: The White Bear by Henrik Pontoppidan
• City: Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska
• Western Europe: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
• Far East: The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
• Village: Village Story by Celia Buckmaster
• Australia: The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett
• Island: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
• U. K. (except Scotland): Catherine the Ghost by Kathe Koja
• Mountain: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Scotland: The Edinburgh Murders by Catriona McPherson
• Africa: A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
• Small Town: Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
• Beach: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
• Southeast Asia: The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• River: James by Percival Everett
• Southern Europe: Lies and Sorcery by Lisa Morante
• South America: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• Eastern Europe: A Place to Stand by Ann Bridge
• Sea: Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd
• Middle East: Alligator & Other Stories by Dima Alzayat
• Polynesia: Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky

As you can see, the spaces that are missing are

• Subcontinent
• Central America
• Caribbean

Maybe I’ll do better next year.