Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A book your friend recommended

This happens a lot in the Weekly Check-In discussions! Also, any book recommended for a book club read, either IRL or online. I would also count Buddy Reads.

As Nadine noted, a listing of this group's favorite reads is created each year. These could serve as a great resource for this prompt! (She's so smart!) :)
2018: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
2019: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
2020: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
2021: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
2022: To be created at the end of December!

And this listopia is HERE

I'm gonna count an online friend recommendation. Real life people never recommend me good books!

Ellie wrote: "I'm gonna count an online friend recommendation. Real life people never recommend me good books!"

Same here. That and I only have a couple of friends, both of whom don't read. One only reads Manga so that's not my thing.

Definitely sticking to friends or buddy reads.

I will go with online book group people. It is the source of most of my book recommendations anyway.

Easy one for me as I have two friends who recommend excellent books. It's BookTok that is the difficult one.

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States is one I'll be reading since someone recommended this as a buddy read.

LOL this was a prompt I didn't like the first time I saw it, so you can just imagine my disappointment at seeing it again! Last time I ended up using a book recommended by my daughter, and I think I will do that again. She's not my "friend" but she's closer than a friend and - more importantly! - we share the same reading taste. (And without a doubt, her recommendation would be: "would you hurry up and read Sally Rooney's books already so we can talk about them!?!")

My other option would be asking one of you!!

You know how we make a Listopia of our favorite reads each year? THAT could be a good resource for this category.
2018: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
2019: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
2020: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
2021: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
2022: we'll make one at the end of December!

Nadine in NY wrote: "LOL this was a prompt I didn't like the first time I saw it, so you can just imagine my disappointment at seeing it again! Last time I ended up using a book recommended by my daughter, and I think ..."
Ha! For once I was taking this prompt a bit too seriously. I was only considering IRL friends! What?!? I'll create a Listopia for this year's prompt and include these links in the initial posting! Thanks, Nadine!!

Im going to be reading Choke

My best friend gives me books she has finished, so this will be easy yet again since she only gives me ones she likes.

HaHa! Last night I was over at a friend's house, when she spontaneously got up and picked up a book. She handed it to me, recommending it. Turns out to be about a house in Aiken SC (minutes from my house). It is a history of the house and its current usage. On a Street Called Easy, in a Cottage Called Joye by Gregory White Smith. So...this prompt now planned.

My friend recommended My Dark Vanessa

A friend recommended "God Spare the Girls" and I tore through it this weekend.

I read Charmed & Deadly as my friend recommended the whole trilogy to me.

I read All Eyes on Me.

Finished A Nearly Normal Family by M. T. Edvardsson

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I listened to Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. My son recommended it to me. I listened to an audio book. There are a lot of names & companies in the book. There is a lot to keep up with so reading it may be easier. I did enjoy it.

My first read of the year was a book one of my best friends recommended. She makes great suggestions: when she says, You've got to read this!", I put aside any challenge an I do.

A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight didn't disappoint. It's a legal thriller with unreliable characters and loads of twists and turns. Love it!

Normal People by Irish author Sally Rooney is a contemporary romance novel which deals with the on and off romance between students Connell and Marianne. The book was longlisted for the Man Booker award. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review

Recommended by Louise:

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce.

A good recommendation. Quirky, like all this author's books, but sweet and moving. A lovely description of a poor city. Its mostly set in 1988 if that fits your birth year/decade.

Comes with its own online playlist as well.

One of my book club friends recommended we read The Messy Lives of Book People. I had a few issues with it, but overall it was an entertaining read.

The Notebook by Nicolas Sparks and The Way Of The Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman back in 2005. I had never read fiction before that and havent stopped since.

I am reading Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. My friend suggested this as I have read We Should All Be Feminists.

I read The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean

I read The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah