Annmarie’s Comments (group member since Jan 03, 2018)

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

Skipped 2022 - Looking forward to getting back into reading in 2023

3/50
✅ - Read

Regular:

1 A book you meant to read in 2022
2 A book you bought from an independent bookstore
3 A book about a vacation - The Guilt Trip
4 A book by a first-time author
5 A book with mythical creatures
6 A book about a forbidden romance
7 A book with "Girl" in the title
8 A celebrity memoir
9 A book with a color in the title
10 A romance with a fat lead
11 A book about or set in Hollywood
12 A book published in spring 2023
13 A book published the year you were born
14 A modern retelling of a classic
15 A book with a song lyric as its title
✅ 16 A book where the main character's name is in the title - Get a Life, Chloe Brown
17 A book with a love triangle
18 A book that's been banned or challenged in any state in 2022
19 A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge
20 A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023
21 A book set in the decade you were born
22 A book with a queer lead
23 A book with a map
24 A book with a rabbit on the cover
25 A book with just text on the cover
26 The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
27 A #BookTok recommendation
28 A book you bought secondhand
29 A book your friend recommended
✅ 30 A book that's on a celebrity book-club list - The Last Thing He Told Me
31 A book about a family
32 A book that comes out in the second half of 2023
33 A book about an athlete/sport
34 A historical-fiction book
35 A book about divorce
36 A book you think your best friend would like
37 A book you should have read in high school
38 A book you read more than 10 years ago
39 A book you wish you could read for the first time again
40 A book by an author with the same initials as you

Advanced:

41 A book written during NaNoWriMo
42 A book based on a popular movie
43 A book that takes place entirely in one day
44 A book that was self-published
45 A book that started out as fan fiction
46 A book with a pet character
47 A book about a holiday that's not Christmas
✅ 48 A book that features two languages - The Paris Apartment
49 The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
50 A book with alliteration in the title

Came close to finishing all 50 in 2020. My goal is to get through this list without doubling up.

I have fallen behind already, having some trouble focusing and wanting to read. Need to find my reading mojo again.

15/50

REGULAR
📘 1. A book that published in 2021 - Pandemic Poems: First Wave
2. An Afrofuturist book - Dawn
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover
4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign
📘 5. A dark academia book - Catherine House
6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job
8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction
9. A book with a family tree
10. A bestseller from the 1990s
📘 11. A book about forgetting - The Sudden Appearance of Hope
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.)
📘 13. A locked-room mystery - Anxious People
14. A book set in a restaurant
📘 15. A book with a black-and-white cover - Frankenstein
16. A book by an indigenous author
17. A book that has the same title as a song
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about
📘 19. A book that discusses body positivity - Big Summer
20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list
21. A genre hybrid
22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors
23. A book with something broken on the cover
24. A book by a Muslim American author
25. A book that was published anonymously
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title
📘 27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts - The House in the Cerulean Sea
📘 28. A magical realism book - The Water Dancer
29. A book set in multiple countries
30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021
📘 31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”
33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
34. A book about a social justice issue
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
📘 36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads -Harley in the Sky
📘 37. A book you think your best friend would like - The One
38. A book about art or an artist
39. A book everyone seems to have read but you
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

ADVANCED
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
📘 42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list - Mirrored Hearts
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
📘 46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t - The Wedding Date
47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
📘 48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random - Another Fine Myth
📘 49. A DNF book from your TBR list - Red Sister
50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)

This will be my 3rd year doing this challenge. Last two years were rough with school taking over my life so I did not get as far as I would have liked, this year my classes are not as heavy on the reading so hopefully I will have more time. I also joined the ATY challenge this year for the first time to really push myself to read more.

42/50

2020 Challenge - Regular prompts

📘 1. A book that's published in 2020 - In the Shadow of the Sun
📘 2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author - Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
📘 3. A book with a great first line - Inheritance
4. A book about a book club - Crimes Against a Book Club
📘 5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics - The Lost Girls of Paris
📘 6. A bildungsroman - Anne of Green Gables
📘 7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed - The Kiss Quotient
📘 8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
📘 9. A book with a map - Eragon
📘 10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club - The Guest List
📘 11. An anthology - Short Stories: The Thoroughly Modern Collection
📘 12. A book that passes the Bechdel test - Cress
📘 13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it - The Nightingale
📘 14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name - The Proposal
📘 15. A book about or involving social media - Tweet Cute
📘 16. A book that has a book on the cover - The Bookshop of Yesterdays
17. A medical thriller
📘 18. A book with a made-up language - Eldest
📘 19. A book set in a country beginning with "C" - China Rich Girlfriend
📘 20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention - Less
📘 21. A book published the month of your birthday - All We Ever Wanted
📘 22. A book about or by a woman in STEM - Where the Crawdads Sing
23. A book that won an award in 2019
📘 24. A book on a subject you know nothing about - Rich People Problems
📘 25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics - Daddy
26. A book with a pun in the title
📘 27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins - Winter
📘 28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character - Scarlet
📘 29. A book with a bird on the cover - The Dutch House
📘 30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader - Cinder
📘 31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title - Spinning Silver
📘 32. A book by a WOC - Boonoonoonous Hair
📘 33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads - Wildland
📘 34. A book you meant to read in 2019 - Dangerous Minds
📘 35. A book with a three-word title - Julie and Romeo
📘 36. A book with a pink cover - Bras & Broomsticks
📘 37. A Western - Texas Standoff
38. A book by or about a journalist
📘 39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week - Beartown
📘 40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - 2016 Blue Cover - The Big Kahuna

2020 Challenge - Advanced prompts

📘 1. A book written by an author in their 20s - Brisingr
2. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title
📘 3. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision) - During the Dance
4. A book set in the 1920s
📘 5. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics - A Tale for the Time Being
📘 6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books - Love in a Nutshell
📘 7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title -My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
📘 8. A book published in the 20th century - Peter Pan
9. A book from a series with more than 20 books
📘 10. A book with a main character in their 20s - The Starless Sea

I don't like ghost stories, so I am going in a very different direction and reading Ghost, a book about a young boy who's nickname is Ghost. Works for me :)

2019 - Here we go

✅ 28/50

✅ 1. book becoming a movie in 2019 - Five Feet Apart
2. A book that makes you nostalgic
3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction)
4. A book you think should be turned into a movie
5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads
✅ 6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover - The Reckless Oath We Made
7. A reread of a favorite book
8. A book about a hobby
✅ 9. A book you meant to read in 2018 - Artemis
✅ 10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title - Visions of Sugar Plums
11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover - Lift and Separate
✅ 12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore - The Scorpio Races
13. A book published posthumously
14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie
✅ 15. A retelling of a classic - As Old As Time
✅ 16. A book with a question in the title - What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
17. A book set on college or university campus
✅ 18. A book about someone with a superpower - King's Cage
✅ 19. A book told from multiple POVs - The Sun Is Also a Star
✅ 20. A book set in space - Across the Universe
✅ 21. A book by two female authors - Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
✅ 22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
✅ 23. A book set in Scandinavia - A Man Called Ove
✅ 24. A book that takes place in a single day - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
25. A debut novel
✅ 26. A book that's published in 2019 - The Mister
27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature
✅ 28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire - Something in the Water
✅ 29. A book with LOVE in the title - Love the One You're With
✅ 30. A book featuring an amateur detective - Curious Minds
✅ 31. A book about a family - Death of a Salesman
✅ 32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
✅ 33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title - Once in a Blue Moon
✅ 34. A book that includes a wedding - Wedding Night
✅ 35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter - A Life on Ice
✅ 36. A ghost story - Ghost
✅ 37. A book with a two-word title - Alaskan Holiday
✅ 38. A novel based on a true story - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
✅ 39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game - Caraval
✅ 40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge -2016-Book w/Blue Cover The Total Package

Advanced Challenge:

41. A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book
42. A "choose-your-own-adventure" book
43. An "own voices" book
44. Read a book during the season it is set in
45. A LitRPG book
46. A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters
47. Two books that share the same title - One Day in December
48. Two books that share the same title - One Day in December
49. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom
50. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent

I just picked up The Wedding Date, though I really didn’t need a new book :). Now I have a prompt to fit it in... Thanks

The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand

I am an extremely slow reader, but looking to push myself to read more this year, which is why I decided to try this challenge. Audio books are my saving grace :) Love seeing what everyone else is reading, this has given me lots of books to add to my own list.

2018 Popsugar Reading Challenge

√ 1. A book made into a movie you've already seen - I Am Legend and Other Stories
√ 2. True Crime - Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
√ 3. The next book in a series you started - The Fix
√ 4. A book involving a heist - Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
√ 5. Nordic noir - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
√ 6. A novel based on a real person - The Taming of the Queen
√ 7. A book set in a country that fascinates you - Crazy Rich Asians
√ 8. A book with a time of day in the title Midnight Jewel
√ 9. A book about a villain or antihero - Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen
√ 10. A book about death or grief - Everything I Never Told You
√ 11. A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym - The Cuckoo's Calling
√ 12. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
√ 13. A book that is also a stage play or musical Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2
√ 14. A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you - We Should All Be Feminists
√ 15. A book about feminism - We Should All Be Feminists
√ 16. A book about mental health Turtles All the Way Down
√ 17. A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift - She's Not There
√ 18. A book by two authors - The Store
√ 19. A book about or involving a sport - Stupid Fast
√ 20. A book by a local author - Who Is Alpha?
√ 21. A book with your favorite color in the title - Ollie the Purple Elephant
√ 22. A book with alliteration in the title - The Liar in the Library
√ 23. A book about time travel - Timebound
√ 24. A book with a weather element in the title - The Elegant Gathering of White Snows
√ 25. A book set at sea - The Siren - While some of the book is set at sea, the ocean itself is an actually character in this novel so I think it works here.
√ 26. A book with an animal in the title - The Bear and the Nightingale
27. A book set on a different planet
√ 28. A book with song lyrics in the title - All By Myself, Alone
√ 29. A book about or set on Halloween - It's Halloween, I'm Turning Green
√ 30. A book with characters who are twins - The Identicals
√ 31. A book mentioned in another book - Little Women
√ 32. A book from a celebrity book club - Next Year in Havana
√ 33. A childhood classic you've never read - Little Women
√ 34. A book that's published in 2018 - Next Year in Havana
√ 35. A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner - Red Queen - 2015 winner
√ 36. A book set in the decade you were born - The Joy Luck Club
√ 37. A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to Glass Sword
√ 38. A book with an ugly cover - The House of Tomorrow so ugly!
√ 39. A book that involves a bookstore or library - The Liar in the Library
√ *40. Your favorite prompt from the √2015, √2016, or √2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges:
√ 2015 - Book set in a different country - Paris for One and Other Stories
√ 2016 - Book published in 2016 - The Glittering Court
√ 2017 - First in a series you have not read - Wake

2018 Popsugar Advanced Reading Challenge

1. A bestseller from the year you graduated high school
√ 2. A cyberpunk book - Ready Player One - Loved this book. So many memories of the 80's.
3. A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place
4. A book tied to your ancestry
√ 5. A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title - Raspberry Danish Murder
√ 6. An allegory - The Birds
7. A book by an author with the same first or last name as you
8. A microhistory
9. A book about a problem facing society today
√ 10. A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - Ready Player One