The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Hi! I just joined the group and was wondering if I join the June 2020 monthly challenge, can I include the 2 books I've finished in June already, or can I only include books read after I've joined the group?

Hi, Sandye! Welcome to the group! If you read the book in June you can count it, even if it was before you joined the group.

Question. Wheres the topics (list of what to read) for Popsugar Reading Challenge?

Hi Kay -

All of the challenges can be found in the challenge folder.

The Popsugar challenge can be found here.

And when i read things? I put them in the challenge discussions or...?

Kay wrote: "And when i read things? I put them in the challenge discussions or...?"

You can edit your original post to keep track, but feel free to comment which books you've read in that thread as well.

For Popsugar, can a book count towards two categories?

Kay wrote: "For Popsugar, can a book count towards two categories?"

Nope. Each book can only be used for one task.

Another question. Is the Bingo challenge going to happen again?

That’s an ongoing challenge, Kay. You can join it at any time. You can either play individually or request other people to play with you. We did not assign teams.

Some questions

1) Does a retelling on wattpad count?

2) Is Twilight counted as a magical realism?

3) For task 24 of Popsugar, does the pet have to live through a seriez?

1) Sure, as long as you know it is a retelling.

2) I don't think so. Magical realism is usually more realistic with a hint of magic. Vampires are more paranormal. If you look at the main page of books her on Goodreads, some of them are tagged magical realism. Goodreads has a few lists that might help here: https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...

3) I'm not sure what you are referring to here. None of the tasks require pets.

Alright. Must be another challenge. Sorry about that.

And thanks for the other answers

Last year or in 2019 was there a challenge here (in this group) to read as many books as possible in 24 hours? If so, will that happen again?

Kay wrote: "Last year or in 2019 was there a challenge here (in this group) to read as many books as possible in 24 hours? If so, will that happen again?"

I'm not sure if that was in this group. We could definitely add a read-a-thon though. I always like those. Let me work it out.

Hi, I joined the PopSugar and A-Z challenge on 1st Feb. Can I use the books read in January to update the list?

Sure. As long as they were read in 2021, you're good to go.

For the 2024 Zodiac challenge, is it okay if I post the challenge on my instagram story with the rules, to keep track of my progress? and if other people want to join even if there not a part of the group on here?

Are there any limits or requirements on the books (page #, re-reads, formats, books not eligible - e.g. cookery or graphic novels) in this group?

If there are requirements or limitations, they are listed under the challenges. For the chain game, there aren't any. :)

@Haylie,

apologies, I missed your earlier post with the question.

Sure, you can share the challenge on Instagram, if you still want to. :)

For the UNO challenge, do we use the most rated book's page count or the edition we're reading?

Alway the edition you are reading. :)

Thank you, Melindam. :)

I'd love to get a list with suggestions of books with the word Zodiac in the text. The few I've found that interests me with Zodiac in the title is not to be found translated to my language and the English versions are more expensive. There is only one with the word in the title that I can get to a good prize and that seems interesting so I'd love a compilation of titles with the word somewhere in the text.

I've searched through the other participants' lists and I've found one which might interest me but I'd love more suggestions. I haven't found a GR list. Is there any such list hidden away somewhere? Thank you 🙂🙏

Nike - The first thing I thought of was that I knew there was a book about the zodiac killer. I don't know if you're interested in true crime or if any of these would be available in your language, but apparently there are several zodiac killer books and GR has made a list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Not sure if any of these fit, but here is the zodiac list as well: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Kristie wrote: "Nike - The first thing I thought of was that I knew there was a book about the zodiac killer. I don't know if you're interested in true crime or if any of these would be available in your language,..."

Thank you so much but I've seen movies and TV-series about the Zodiac Killer so I'm not that interested in reading about it also. One of the two books I might consider reading is a Japanese crime classic about a zodiac killer in Tokyo, that one I can get in English. Apart from that I could of course choose a book in astrology but I'm more interested in finding another fiction novel about something completely different which happens to just mention the word in a chapter or so.

Like with the word Horoscope. I just read an Indian crime novel, and since astrology is so important in India one chapter was suddenly about investigating a potential husband that a family had found for their daughter after consulting a professional astrologer who made the most detailed horoscopes. The word was mentioned a few times so I used it for the prompt here.

(I'm not that interested in reading the phantasy book mentioned not because it's phantasy but because they seem to contain to much teenage romance for my taste. I really don't like romance so therefore I don't like those romantic phantasy books for NA.)

But I might just look for a book in astrology in Swedish. 🙂

Thank you for your kind approach Kristie, I appreciate your kindness ⊂⁠(⁠◉⁠‿⁠◉⁠)⁠つ

Ah, found this thread.

In the World Book Challenge is it possible to create a link to individual’s post to make it easier to find one’s list as I presume the thread will be quite long throughout the year. Most challenges seem to be quite a few pages and has an html link of individuals at the top of the thread of those participating as an ease of use.

Christine wrote: "Ah, found this thread.

In the World Book Challenge is it possible to create a link to individual’s post to make it easier to find one’s list as I presume the thread will be quite long throughout ..."

Hi Christine,

If it helps, I can create a thread called Perks challenge monitoring or sth like that, where under you can create your own folder and collect the links to your challenges.

Update:

I have created a thread and you should be able to create your own folder underneath for tracking challenges. Please let me know if it doesn't work.

Perks Challenges Tracker