Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A book under 250 pages.


Hooray!! I love short books!!! I am giddy with all the choices I have for this one!! Maybe I'll finally read Galatea, or The Hole, or Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (which my mother keeps recommending to me).


Listopia list is Here: A Book under 250 Pages

I feel like novellas are really having a moment over the past few years. I've added a bunch in different genres to the list!

Roald Dahl books should fill this prompt. Someone in another comment mentioned Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix. I'm going to read that for this prompt.

Graveyard Shift by the same author of If We Were Villains
The Screwtape Letters
Mere Christianity
Ethan Frome
The Death of Ivan Ilych
84, Charing Cross Road
The House on Mango Street
Thornhedge
The Turn of the Screw
Shopgirl
The Woman in Black
Drive
Last Night at the Lobster
What Moves the Dead
The Ocean at the End of the Lane

200-250 pages is my favorite book length, so I have lots of choices, considering:
Horse Racing's Holy Grail: The Epic Quest for the Kentucky Derby
Girl, Interrupted
The Stone Pony
Down the Long Hills
Where is Home: How a Childhood in East Germany during World War II Shaped My Adult Life
Mongolian Interior: An Expatriate Experience

Books I've read and recommend:

The Book of Names
A Day with a Perfect Stranger
Plum Lucky
The Monday Horses
My Side of the Mountain
Inexcusable
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
Saving Zasha
Dicey's Song
Batman: Year One
They Called Us Enemy
Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
We Were Liars
Speak

Nadine in NY wrote: "A book under 250 pages.


Hooray!! I love short books!!! I am giddy with all the choices I have for this one!! Maybe I'll finally read Galatea, or The Hole, or [book..."

I highly recommend [book:Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life|50887097], I gave it 5 stars. Surprisingly good.

I had a look through my list and I'm going to go with How to Keep House While Drowning. I was also tempted by The Cybernetic Tea Shop, but the first one is available at my local library and the other one is not.

I will add titles as I come across them during the year. My current read, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is 244 pages in the library's trade paperback edition.

Brandon wrote: "I will add titles as I come across them during the year. My current read, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is 244 pages in the library's trade paperback edition."




I'm surprised it's even that long! Are some of those pages an afterword from someone else?

Nadine in NY wrote: "Brandon wrote: "I will add titles as I come across them during the year. My current read, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is 244 pages in the library's trade paperback edition..."

It has an introduction by Roger Zelazny, but that is in the Roman numeral numbered pages. The book itself runs from pages 2-244. The publisher of this one is Del Rey from 1996.

I would like to read Passing by Nella Larsen

Going with historical fiction for this one: The Underdogs

It's 176 pages and it's been on my TBR list for a year.

Denise wrote: "I would like to read Passing by Nella Larsen"

That's a wonderful choice, I hope you'll enjoy it!
I'm going for a classic myself with a reread of Austen's Lady Susan

I'm going for a cozy mystery. Bed, Breakfast & Bones - 231p.

This seems like a good place to put a poetry book. I'm going to go with On the Horizon.

I have so many books on my TBR bookshelf that fit this prompt...so I went with the book that has been on my TBR bookshelf the longest!!
I will be reading While My Pretty One Knits by Anne Canadeo with 249 pages


HAPPY READING!!

I can add this one to my list. Only 118 pages.

Myths and Legends of the Sioux

I read The Wood at Midwinter.

The book I'm reading for prompt #27 Rental House fits here as well (213 pages long).

The newest title by Sophie Kinsella What Does It Feel Like? is 120 pages long.

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

I was given Killing Time for Christmas. It has 105 pages, so I'm fitting it in here.

I usually enjoy Alan Bennett's writing, but I was a bit disappointed in this book, set in an old people's home around the early days of the Covid pandemic. The setting just felt too whimsical for either the pathos or the touches of humour to work. There was a snippet at the end of the book about the past history of one of the residents, and I thought that story would have been an excellent play or book by this author. A missed chance.

I read Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. It was cozy.
It's 150 pages. There is a sequel.

I just finished reading Girls Against God and its under 250 pages so it works for this prompt. The book has a lot of depictions of bodily functions in it, so it isn't for the faint of heart. 3/5, would recommend for those that have a strong stomach and like weird books.

I read Bibliolepsy Gina Apostol

201 pages

Finished Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Not counting the appendix or notes sections puts this one at 247, still way too long imho.

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

I read As Wide As the Sky by Jessica Pack. It was 239 pages.

I'm reading Heaven by Mieko Kawakami. It's 167 pages, I found this in the library and thought the blurb was interesting.

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill was only 180 pages. I read it for something else, and I don't think I could have finished it if it were any longer.

I read Passing, it does have a 20 page introduction and explanatory notes at the end but it's about 150 pages in all. I knew what "passing" meant before I read it, but found out that not everyone does.

I went with How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith, by Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop who drew the Trump White Houses's anger for admonishing them about compassion.

http://www.lauraruthloomis.com/whats-...

I love reading short books. They are how I get through my semi-regular bouts of insomnia, so I have many options.

But for this prompt, I'm using By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words by Cheslie Kryst and April Simpkins. I actually listened to it. It's a whole other experience listening to someone's final thoughts and then their mother coming to terms.

I read Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin for less than 250 pages. It has 196 pages. It's also a great book for a queer Halloween!!