Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

You could go animal with The Art of Racing in the Rain. Or alien with The Left Hand of Darkness. How about the new cyborg Cinder.

How shall you interpret?

My mind immediately jumped to animal (though Cinder is great!

The Green Ember is a kindle deal today. I think I picked up the kindle book and the audio narration for a grand total of $5 or 6.

Watership Down

How about The Bees by Laline Paull. The narrator is a bee

One of my very favorite books is The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. It's told from the perspective of a china rabbit.

I haven't read Snot Stew since I was in elementary, and I held onto my precious since then. It might be time to enjoy it again. I did love Black Beauty too, which now presents me with an inner debate that will plague me for the next six weeks.

I may finally knock Watership Down off my TBR list.

I can't decide if I'm going animal or robot or alien!!!

If I choose "animal" I'll read The Tale of Despereaux.

But I think I want to go with "alien" for this one. I'll choose some old sci-fi book that I've never heard of. Maybe an old Andre Norton will fit the bill.

These lists might help:
http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/xe...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

I'm definitely going for Watership Down for this one.

Anna wrote: "I may finally knock Watership Down off my TBR list."

My sentiments exactly. Also, I'll add Animal Farm

Watership Down readers: Want to be accountability partners? We can pick a time to read it together!

I want to read some more Isaac Asimov so I will probably read The Caves of Steel for a robot POV, or one of my TBR alien-perspective novels. Although Watership down is intriguing too.....oh choices!

After some extensive googling I'm thinking of reading Gods Behaving Badly for this one. It also fits nicely into the mythology categories too!

The One and Only Ivan has been on my list for awhile, so I think I'll do this one.

Juanita wrote: "You could go animal with The Art of Racing in the Rain. Or alien with The Left Hand of Darkness. How about the new cyborg Cinder.

How shall you interpret?"

I'm going with The Art of Racing in the Rain for this!

Would Neil Gaiman's American Gods work for this??

Donna wrote: "Would Neil Gaiman's American Gods work for this??"

I don't think so. The story is told from Shadow's POV, and I wouldn't say he's "non-human." But you could use American Gods for based on mythology, or mythological figure!

I think Shadow's perspective is human

I believe Thy Servant a Dog fits perfectly. Read it to my daughter last year, it is told from the perspective of Boots, the Black Aberdeen Terrier.

I'm currently reading a book of essays (Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction) for this year's BookRiot challenge, and I came upon his introduction to Diana Wynne Jones's book, Dogsbody, and it sounds perfect. This is now my top choice for this category.

I'd never heard of Diana Wynne Jones until a few years back, when somehow I discovered that Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle was actually based on a book. Truly, my public library failed me in my youth! I was reading the entire Three Investigators series, and I could have been reading Dogsbody & Chrestomanci instead!! (I take comfort in the memory of having at least discovered Andre Norton and Madeleine L'Engle back then.) I finally read the book early this year, and it was great, and quite different from the movie but equally wonderful. I want to read more! And "Dogsbody" sounds like it may have at least partly inspired Stardust (which I still haven't read yet, so what do I know).

"Dogsbody" is about Sirius, the dogstar, who - for one reason or another - is consigned to be sent to earth and reborn as an actual dog, a puppy. He lives his life as a pet named Leo, while at the same time grappling with Dark Forces that lead to his fall to earth in the first place. Normally I can't handle books about Bad Things happening to dogs, but I think I'll be okay with this one, since he's actually a star.

Mrs. Murphy books by Rita Mae Brown are fun, cozy mysteries told by the animals, mostly a cat and dog.

Anna wrote: "Watership Down readers: Want to be accountability partners? We can pick a time to read it together!"

Pick a date and I'm in!

Hi everyone!

I'm Lucía and I'm from spain, so excuse my English if I put something wrong :)

Maybe someone mentioned it but books from jack london, for example white fang?

Nadine wrote: "I'm currently reading a book of essays (Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction) for this year's BookRiot challenge, and I came upon his introduction to Dia..."

I stumbled on Dogsbody when searching for books for this challenge too! I am quite excited to try it out.

I'm a but stumped on this one but it will likely end up being one I read by chance and fit it in. I hated the art of racing in the rain lol but maybe watership down!

I'm considering Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch for this. I've attempted to read it a few times and now might be the one! Told from devil & angel's perspective.

I chose Watership Down for another prompt (book on my TBR list for too long - seriously, my uncle told me to read it probably 20 years ago, and I'm 31).

I think I am going to go with Dogsbody. It seems really interesting!

Tanelle wrote: "How about The Bees by Laline Paull. The narrator is a bee"

I loved that book!!!

I've decided I'm going to read Chanur's Venture. It is sci-fi and is told from the perspective of an extra-terrestrial feline species.

Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire! is listed as written by Mrs. Bunny and "Translated from the Rabbit by Newbery Honor-winning author Polly Horvath"

"About the author (2012)

MRS. BUNNY lives in Rabbitville in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. She is married to Mr. Bunny and has twelve children. This is her first book."

I'm going to go with this being from a non-human perspective, mostly because I want to read a book about bunny detectives in fedoras.

poshpenny wrote: "
Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire! is listed as written by Mrs. Bunny and "Translated from the Rabbit ..."

LOL! If you like that one, also consider the High Rise Private Eyes series by Cynthia Rylant. "Because no mystery is too mysterious, no puzzle to puzzling, no crime too criminal, no trouble too troubling for ace detectives and very best friends Bunny Brown and Jack Jones." (the detectives are a bunny and a raccoon, respectively) This was a great series when my kids were beginning readers, because the words were simple enough for them to read, and the stories had wry little jokes in them that made me laugh.

I just finished reading The Golem and the Jinnin by Helene Wecker for the 2016 "book set in your home state" and would recommend this book for this category.

I thought I had recommended The Silent Sky: The Incredible Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon on this thread, but it must have been on another one.

Told from the perspective of the last wild Passenger Pigeon.

Mike you did recommend it somewhere, because I remember seeing it! Maybe it was in the general discussion thread.

-- #3 in a series told by a super computer

Nadine wrote: "LOL! If you like that one, also consider the High Rise Private Eyes series by Cynthia Rylant. "Because no mystery is too mysterious, no puzzle to puzzling, no crime too criminal, no trouble too troubling for ace detectives and very best friends Bunny Brown and Jack Jones.""

Those sound cute! I still have a stupid amount of love for children's books. They are just so much fun.

Ellen wrote: " -- #3 in a series told by a super computer"

I am in deep with her Meg Langslow series and love it. Can't wait to start this series! Hopefully I can wait until 2017 to start...

poshpenny wrote: "...mostly because I want to read a book about bunny detectives in fedoras."

Seriously the best line I've read all day.

The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells is from a non-human perspective. And the start of a very good series! :)

Donna wrote: "Would Neil Gaiman's American Gods work for this??"

No, but Anansi Boys would!

How about A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron?

AF wrote: "How about A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron?"

A Dog's Purpose would be perfect for this prompt.

AF wrote: "How about A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron?"

Definitely! But only if you are in the mood for a good cry.... also the movie is coming out in 2017

Junita - thank you for mentioning The Art of Racing in the Rain! I was trying to remember the name of that book!!!

Firmin by Sam Savage, which is written from the perspective of a rather intelligent rat, would definitely qualify.

Don't forget about the Redwall series by Brian Jacques! All written from animal perspectives and such cute stories. They don't necessarily have to be read in any order and if you're interested in reading multiple from the series, there's Martin the Warrior, which is a character's name as the title and I think at least one or two of them have red spines.

If you're looking for something quirky (or don't want to do sci-fi or animal protagonists) I would suggest reading Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott Abbott

The 2015 challenge had a prompt to read a book with non-human characters, and I landed by chance upon this book. I prefer not to reread a book for this challenge (since diversifying is my goal), but if I can't find anything else I like (probably sci-fi), I'll re-read this.

The narrator (and protagonist) is 'A Square' - yes, the geometrical shape. It can be viewed as a commentary on early 20th century society, but I really liked how it explains concepts of dimensions! Kept me wondering what a 4D 'sphere' 'looks' like!

Donna Andrews wrote a delightful mystery series where POV and protagonist is Turing Hopper, Artificial Intelligence Program on a computer. Highly original, very entertaining, fast reads. First in series is You've Got Murder.

On further research and after looking through my shelves again, I think I'll be reading I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume for this one.

What do you think of The Elephant Whisperer. Would this meet the prompt?

Sheila wrote: "What do you think of The Elephant Whisperer. Would this meet the prompt?"

No, it looks like that is from the man's perspective, not the elephants'. It looks good, though! You could use it for "a country I've never visited" (if you've never been to South Africa).