Great idea! Thanks! "Halloween Bingo" works fine for me!

Linda, I use PicMonkey. I download the card to my computer, and then open pic monkey "edit" and when it asks for the image, I upload it from my computer. Then I use whatever overlays seem appropriate (there are a lot of them - I have a premium membership, but there are plenty available for the free memberships as well) and size them to fit within the squares. Then I save the image back to my computer with the same name so I'm always working with the same image to add more overlays on top of the squares.

Does that make sense?

Makes perfect sense! I have Photoshop, so I can do it that way, no problem. I didn't know if there was some BookLikes gadget that I didn't know about. Whoo hoo! I'm good to go!

(As my late husband used to say, simple pleasures for simple minds. . . . )

On the iPad, I use Penultimate app to scratch out or highlight text and images like on BINGO cards. Mostly cause it was free, works, made sense to grab pen or highlighter to do that, also had paper background choices like my favorite quad ruled, and I was tired of sorting thru iPad apps.

Can always print out the card and physically "x" off squares (or use any Halloween stickers you have ha body) then snap a cellphone/tablet photo of now marked card to share on booklikes ... with your cats, dogs and TBR piles in the shot of course.

Thanks for the clarification.

Sure!

Single short story or entire anthology?

This is up to the player - whatever works for you!

Yippee! I think it is going to be so much fun!

Oh, yesssss....

I totally love it! And I'm not even a horror reader, as you know. I also thought the card looks epic (including the little splash of blood....). I really can't wait to get started.

Really? That is exciting! I hope you have tons of fun!

Mine, too!

I'm excited that we're getting so many new players!

Brilliant!

Yes! Any buddy read between two or more people will do.

Also, I loved The Monstrumologist, Grim. I hope you enjoy it!

Very good. I'll let her know.

And thank you. I hope I enjoy it, too :D I got it free as a digital book, but I managed to make most of mine paperback books. (Monstrumologist and Vision are the exceptions as I don't want to drag out all my old issues, and I got free digital issues, so... those will be read.)

I'm still searching for Pumpkin, but other than that? I'm pretty much all set.

I'm looking to see if I gave away Dark Harvest or not: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Harvest-Norman-Partridge-ebook/dp/B002MT2EQA/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1288930683&sr=1-1#nav-subnav

I may purchase it as a Kindle book if not because damn...

Yup. I thought it was a decent find for that spot!

Second this question. Because my BR is going to be a reread, and I've read the issues in the past year or so, but clearly some of the details were lost/forgotten. There's a big finish coming to my series, so I'm rereading a bunch of issues. *please, please be allowed...*

Oh, good! I've got two, at least, that I've been wanting to reread anyway, one of them specifically to review.

This works! I reviewed each issue of Vision separately and I can post a review of Volume 1, and I can post thoughts on the last issues - seven through ten and possibly eleven - when I reread those, although twelve is not out yet and won't be until October. I will post thoughts, but not count it as a review.

Okay that's what I was thinking, but wasn't 100% sure. Thanks! Just out of curiosity, since the two of you do this on your own time, and with prizes, do you take any contributions?

Thanks!

I've looked up a few categories now. I'll look forward to the suggestions for others! Now if I could just get my head around Magical Realism.

I was going with The Master and Margarita for Magical Realism but I also just noticed this may have a vampire element and there is a cat on the cover - so many potential squares this could cover....

My back-up option for magical realism will be Neil Gaiman.

Sarah Addison Allen & Alice Hoffman would both be great authors for the non-horror readers who are playing along!

I've also been considering Lukyanenko's Day Watch, the sequel to Night Watch.

Thanks for the nudge re Allen and Hoffman, I'll go and check them out, too.

Ooh, Neil Gaiman! Ocean at the End of the Lane was wonderful, is that magical realism?

I'd love to re-read that one anyway!

What if I've started it before then but finish and review after?

Okay, I'll be good. Just ironic that I've been reading two Horror books for Netgalley. I'll find others.

Great that you are joining us! :)

I have no idea what I'm doing either, so you are not alone!

My first bingo game too!! I'm glad to see I am not the only one.

Same here. I haven't a clue how these work but I'm going to give it a try.

I can't wait to see your post! It's been so cool to see everyone's emerging book stacks!

@Moonlight: Would it be ok if I cropped your BookLikes Halloween Bingo 2016 graphic to make a banner out of it that we could all use for pre-game posts? If you'd rather I didn't that's TOTALLY understandable. It just occurred to me that it might be a nice way to distinguish our Bingo stacks from our other hauls and stacks...

Go right ahead, MBD!

Thanks! :)

Awesome! Join! The more, the merrier!

Yay! Welcome!

No particular process, really. But MR and OB have set up a Discussion Group:
http://booklikes.com/groups/show/688/booklikes-bookish-bingo-club

It has lot's of info on the Bingo and some discussions and ideas of what people are looking to read.
There are also some buddy reads, and links.

Other than that, you'll probably see people posting the Bingo Card and their choices of books. It's been pretty awesome looking at what people have been picking so far.

Are you joining? Would be great to have you onboard. :)