Halloween Bingo 2017 | Update #1 - First book read!

So I didn't get as much reading as I would have preferred over the Labor Day Weekend. Being out of town was a fifty-fifty chance of getting some reading done, or getting no reading done, and at least I've made some progress.

I may or may not share some pictures of our family weekend in Dallas, Texas, visiting with my eldest brother and his friends. Let's just say, there was a lot of food involved... and three puppies... well, really, only one of the dogs was a puppy, the other two just acted like puppies!

Meanwhile, here's a very quick update of my Halloween Bingo progress. Although, be forewarned: I've been lazy lately, so I will probably not be making very frequent updates--I might just limit myself to once a week, or once every two weeks... or wait until I get a Bingo or... I don't know.

Anyway, I've already talked about what markers I will be using, and decided to do a combination of some Peek-a-Boo Penni Penguin close-ups, and maybe one of Baby with his glowing gold eyes as my markers, for books that have been read. Taking a page from Tannat, I will be using a simple colored border for squares that have been called.

A completed square will have a combination of colored border and Penni marker.

So as we can see below, I've managed to finish reading one book already, though to be honest, I hadn't really intended to use Canyons of Night for Bingo at all until I gave it some thought after finishing it over the weekend. I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask to see if it would fit the 'Alien' square, and since it does, I'm super happy! Now just to kick back and wait for the square to be called for a completion! =D

Here is also my nifty spreadsheet, which I spent WAY too much time trying to figure out how to make presentable in a blog. Since I use Google Sheets instead of Excel, the formatting and transfer of the spreadsheet to the blog has been giving me grief. Formatting is limited in Google Sheets, but I'm much too cheap to buy Excel right now, and I've been using Google Sheets as my main book-tracking spreadsheets since at least 2014.

✔	Bingo Square	Called (date)	Title	Author	Read (Date)	How it Fits

	Magical realism		Saving Fish From Drowning	Tan, Amy		tagged 'magical realism' on GR
	Classic noir		The Thin Man	Hammett, Dashiel		hard-boiled, classic noir mystery
	Ghost	9/1	Blue Dahlia	Roberts, Nora		ghostly Harper Bride
	Supernatural		The Nightmare Charade	Arnett, Mindee		supernatural school for magic creatures
	Diverse voices		The Lotus Palace	Lin, Jeannie		author is Chinese

	Cozy mystery	9/3	The Camelot Caper	Peters, Elizabeth		tagged 'cozy mystery' on GR
	Witches
	Vampires		The Dead Travel Fast	Raybourn, Deanna		Transylvania and vampires
	Country house mystery		The Decagon House Murders	Ayatsuji, Yukito		closed circle of suspects
	Haunted houses		Black Rose	Roberts, Nora		ghostly Harper Bride haunts mansion

	Aliens		Canyons of Night	Castle, Jayne	9/3	dust bunnies!!
	Genre: horror		Smoke and Mirrors	Gaiman, Neil		tagged 'horror' on GR
	Free Space	N/A	Red Lily	Roberts, Nora		ghostly Harper Bride
	Monsters		Her Fierce Warrior	Tyler, Paige		female MC is an animal shifter
	In the dark, dark woods		On the Night of the Seventh Moon	Holt, Victoria		woods are significant

	Amateur sleuth		Just Past Midnight	Stevens, Amanda		female MC is a psychologist
	Werewolves		Jaxson	Woods, Alisa		book about wolf shifters
	Gothic		The Splendour Falls	Kearsley, Susanna		tagged 'gothic' on GR
	Romantic suspense		Hit and Run	Brennan, Allison		romance + suspense + mystery present
	Darkest London		Garden of Lies	Quick, Amanda		setting = Victorian London

	Murder most foul		Every Secret Thing	Cole, Emma		there is a murder and a mystery
	Serial/spree killer		Dear Maggie	Novak, Brenda		summary mentions serial killer
	Classic horror
	Terrifying women		Nine Coaches Waiting	Stewart, Mary		horror/gothic written by a woman
	Locked room mystery		The Tokyo Zodiac Murders	Shimada, Soji		death/murder in a locked room