Alicia’s Comments (group member since Dec 25, 2019)

Alicia’s comments from the Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge group.

White a horse can go under afterlife or own voices

Sorry also have read Upright Women Wanted. You can fit that in sapphic novel, gender identity and a parallel reality

Jenny, I’ve only read Matilda but I think you can fit it in with found family (Miss Honey at the end), set in the 80s (stretch but it was published I’m the 80s so I’d say it happened then too), and a book about a secret (her power or Mrs. trunchbulls cruelty or her Dad’s cons)

Heather, I think you’re referring to the Goodreads ATY challenge not Popsugar.

But I agree Laura, this year for Popsugar is wayyyy too specific for me. I’m just doing my other challenges and hoping I can slot a Popsugar prompt here and there. Hopefully next year there will be more options

Kingdom of the Wicked could fit under afterlife, witches or parallel reality.

Great book, but hard to place. I’d say BookTok recommendation or I’m sure their are past prompts that would fit. In 2020, it would fit prompt involving social or prompt with a title that caught your attention. Or 2021, book published in 2021

A Handmaids stale is definitely a social horror

Also the first book in outlander you could use for witches.

Mandy, does the book talk about them being gender-less?

I would say if they refer to the characters as he/she Amd don’t discuss the gender of the angels and demons outright, then it wouldn’t fit.

Also not trying to be argumentative. I just really don’t understand this prompt and how come work and others don’t.

But grunt, gulp, and fuzz aren’t pronounced like the sounds either. Or looking at the listopia I see whispering, murmur, sizzling, pachinko, flicker, breaking and more.

I guess I don’t understand how those sound like the sound when said. Beat would be in line with those, right?

Wouldn’t the “beat” part of heartbeat count as a sound. It is the pulsating sound and if you heard it you would call it “beating”.

It’s like saying “boom”. A boom is what we use to describe that specific sound. Same with the other examples given like grunt or gulp.

You could do the Heartbeat of Wounded knee for omnopaetia

Then it’s out of the date range, but I used Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain which is an EXCELLENT book

Little Women can be set in Victorian times and The Hate U Give could be social horror

Little Fires Everywhere you can do a secret

If I Had Your Face also has multiple POVs. It's an excellent book!

Lovely Bones = afterlife

Bridgerton books = did you read any last year? If so, different book by author you read last year. Both could count as secrets, Michael hides his love from Francesca starting in the first chapter and Eloise hides her letter writing from her family.

Inheritance Games = knife on the cover which could count as cutlery

Family Upstairs = some may disagree, but I think it’s perfect for “found family” since she literally finds family.

I think it would fit best under social horror. Man made disaster if there was something done by humans that made the disease spread faster. But a virus on its own, unless created in a lab, isn’t something I would consider man made.

Laura, you could probably do featuring a party, since that is where they go dancing.

Kathryn, could it fit for man-made disaster? Maybe something people/government could have stopped it but didn’t?

Abi, I just saw the show (couldn’t make it through the book) but I think you could do secret (Joe is hiding that he’s a stalker that is killing people). Also, not sure if this is in the book, but I think both Joe and Beck have a “found family”. Joe has Mr. Mooney and Beck with her brown friends. Double life may be a bit of a stretch