Frogli’s Comments (group member since Dec 27, 2017)

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

Honestly first reaction is there are way to many prompts that I either outright dislike or am not interested in. I'll have a closer look lately but suspect I'll be swapping out a wholw bunch from somewhere else although not sure where yet.

So I finally picked up The Odyssey (Emily Wilson newish translation) and The Yellow Wall-Paper got a mention in the introduction

My current plan at least is to finally read Gilgamesh, I have a copy of either the epic itself or possibly Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others I can't remember which edition.

I'm sure it's mentioned in many books but specifically in There Are Rivers in the Sky which I read earlier this year.

Hmmm, I'm thinking Six Crimson Cranes might fit here?

If not maybe under magical creatures? Either way I'm reading it as determined to get through at least some of my physical tbr lol

I don't know that I've always avoided it but also have never got round to it so I guess it's finally time for

The Silmarillion

I will probably read The Blue Between Sky and Water, it's been sitting on my tbr for years maybe this time I will actually get round to it

So many options. I think for this I will read either Human Acts which I've been meaning to read for years of maybe Voyager: Constellations of Memory

Others I have enjoyed that would count are:

Orbital
Every Heart a Doorway (and probably the rest of the series too as they are all novellas I believe)
What Moves the Dead (& sequel)
The Wood at Midwinter
Ring Shout
The Brides of High Hill (& all of Nghi Vo's Singing Hills cycle)
Silver in the Wood (& sequel)
Carmilla

Ron wrote: "This one is kind of tricky.

I'm looking for nonfiction books related to this topic but I'm stuck."

I'm currently reading How to Survive a Plague which counts and is very good so far.

Conveniently enough for me I've noticed that new LJ Ross book/short story? (Can't see a page number) Belsay released on 31st Dec and so far as of today seems to have no reviews and so an average rating of 0 lol, good enough for me!

It will probably have crept up by the time I get round to it but unless an other option appeals I will use this.

Jennifer W wrote: "From the NYT (they were talking about the "Coffee gets Cold" series in particular):

a booming genre called “healing fiction” — cozy, feel-good novels that have long been popular in Japan and Korea..."

Oh well, I read those anyway (although annoyingly caught up on that series lol), but my library seems to pick them fairly regularly so I'm sure I will find something...

First reaction? better than 2024, maybe.

I don't have any interest in a book about a run club, or 'soccer' for that matter and there's a few others (wtf is 'healing fiction'?) but I think I will just do my usual, read what I want and then try to fit them in somewhere.

Not doing the chatbot thing, will go with the sequel suggestion.

I had decided to just go with an authour that wears glasses and call it a day but currently reading The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon and the authour David Grann mentions he has a degenerative eye condition.

I just recently saw a article on Nemonte Nenquimo so I think I will pick up her book for this prompt We Will Not Be Saved: A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest

I'm reading The Glass Hotel and at least in this part of the book one of the main characters is 24 which is good enough for me

I was going to read Song of the Huntress for recommended by a Librarian but when they are not riding the wild hunt sleep under the Tor (for approx a month at a time I think) anyway, I'm counting it!

This is when accidentally falling down the BTS rabbit hole comes in handy, I'll be reading Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

Fran wrote: "I'm a librarian as well! Feel free to check out my 5 stars - I read mostly YA and queer romance. Also, I recommend that you read down your TBR pile this year, so consider everything on it librarian..."

Thank you for this, I think it's about time I finally get to Babel (at some point this yr)

Nadine in NY wrote: "Frogli wrote: "I accidentally read a Booker Winner, I don't know who I am anymore! "

LOL I'm not sure if I've ever liked a Booker winner! I've started to actually avoid them now, and when Seven ..."

Pretty much same, I sort of go, oh Booker winner that's nice and go read the latest fantasy I'm interested in or whatever but actually I seem to have read and enjoyed more than I thought. Mainly Hilary Mantel's fault but I also enjoyed Seven Moons and if you count the international booker, The Vegetarian as well.

The Testaments though was just unnecessary, I had forgotten it won.

✔️ read 49/50
📖 currently reading

✔️1 A book with the word "leap" in the title The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher
✔️ 2 A bildungsroman book: The Wolf Road
✔️3 A book about a 24-year-old: The Glass Hotel
✔️4 A book about a writer The Cemetery of Untold Stories
✔️5 A book about K-pop Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
✔️6 A book about pirates: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
✔️7 A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete Believe
✔️8 A book by a blind or visually impaired author The Brides of High Hill
✔️9 A book by a Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing author: Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
✔️10 A book by a self-published author Holy Island
✔️11 A book from a genre you typically avoid Jane Eyre
✔️12 A book from an animal's POV: Open Throat
✔️13 A book originally published under a pen name When Blood Lies
✔️14 A book recommended by a bookseller: Song of the HuntressThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
✔️15 A book recommended by a librarian Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
✔️16 A book set 24 years before you were born The Little Sparrow Murders
✔️ 17 A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list: Sun of Blood and Ruin
✔️18 A book set in space Orbital
✔️19 A book set in the future: How High We Go in the Dark
✔️20 A book set in the snow: The Nesting
✔️21 A book that came out in a year that ends with "24" Sunbringer
✔️22 A book that centers on video games Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
✔️23 A book that features dragons Dragonfruit
✔️24 A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours Summerwater
✔️25 A book that was published 24 years ago (2000) After the Quake
✔️26 A book that was turned into a musical: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
✔️27 A book where someone dies in the first chapter: Godkiller
✔️28 A book with a main character who's 42 years old: Rebecca
✔️ 29 A book with a neurodivergent main character: The Framed Women of Ardemore House
✔️30 A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary Hagstone
✔️31 A book with a title that is a complete sentence: Before We Say Goodbye
✔️32 A book with an enemies to lovers plot: Book Lovers
✔️ 33 A book with an unreliable narrator The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
✔️ 34 A book with at least 3 POVs: Fevered Star
✔️ 35 A book with magical realism: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
✔️ 36 A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person: The Alchemist
📖37 A book written during NaNoWriMo The Hacienda
✔️38 A cozy fantasy book: Somewhere Beyond the Sea
✔️39 A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author An Unkindness of Ghosts
✔️40 A horror book by a BIPOC author Ring Shout
✔️ 41 A memoir that explores queerness: In the Dream House
✔️42 A nonfiction book about Indigenous people We Will Not Be Saved: A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest
✔️43 A second-chance romance The Island of Missing Trees
✔️44 An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll: My Love Story
✔️45 An LGBTQ+ romance novel: A Power Unbound
✔️46 A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours Song of the Huntress
✔️47 A book with 24 letters in the title: The Fragile Threads of Power
✔️48 A collection of at least 24 poems: The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
✔️49 The 24th book of an author Bamburgh
✔️ 50 A book that starts with the letter "X" X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries

Laura wrote: "Laura wrote: "I'll read a random western here LOL"

I just finished The Tall Stranger by Louis L'Amour. A mere 160 pages in large type and I STRUGGLED. It's a western that was first p..."

Ha! I tend to find the shortest western I can find whenever these categories come up but this year I just can't subject myself to it lol