megan’s Comments (group member since Dec 18, 2014)

megan’s comments from the The Reading Challenge Group group.

[x] Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - Becoming (book about an interesting woman, 2017)

N4: Science Fiction - Elevation

[x] A book recommended by a celebrity you admire - The Alice Network
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Winter Bingo

B1: Award Winner - Elevation
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series - The Chase
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic - The Importance of Being Earnest
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year - The Ragged Edge of Night
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

18. A book by two authors - Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

G5: Supernatural Character - The Plastic Magician

I met and exceeded my goal for the year.
I don't know if we offically did the Popsugar Challenge fro 2018, but I have 2019s if we'd like to do it. I will be doing it.

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Fall Bingo

FALL BINGO

B1: Multiple Awards - The Testaments
B2: Never Finished - Last Summer
B3: Courtroom or Crime - In a Dark, Dark Wood
B4: Orange Cover - The Beekeeper of Aleppo
B5: Politics - Red, White & Royal Blue

I1- Finish a Series - War Storm
I2- Beloved Children's
I3- Adventure
I4- Dysfunctional Family - The Woman in the Window
I5- Sweater on Cover - The Infinite Noise

N1: GR Award Nominated - The Silent Patient
N2: Challenges Social Norms - Holding Up the Universe
N3: FREE - The Winemaker's Wife
N4: Senior Romance -The Empty Nesters
N5: Hometown Setting - The Wright Brothers

G1- First Person POV - Wilder Girls
G2- Red Cover - An Anonymous Girl
G3- Unfamiliar Territory - Ninth House
G4- Highly Recommended - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
G5- Supernatural Character - The Cruel Prince

O1- Foreign Setting - Little Bee
O2- Time Travel - Recursion
O3- Illustrated
O4- Religion - A Woman Is No Man
O5- Brown Cover

Summer Bingo

B1: Exploration - Gretchen
B2: Congratulations! - What Remains
B3: Participation - Daisy Jones & The Six
B4: Information - In Cold Blood
B5: Collaboration - The Body Keeper

I1: Listed it - Devil's Cut
I2: Bought it - Blood & Beauty: The Borgias
I3: Eyed it - The Faithful
I4: Downloaded it - The Bourbon Kings
I5: Scored it! - These Broken Stars

N1: Oldie but goodie - The Old Man and the Sea
N2: New kid on the block - The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
N3: FREE - A Merciful Promise
N4: Yesterday's news - The Upside of Falling Down
N5: Everybody's talking - Salt to the Sea

G1: Nice to meet you - Exhume
G2: You seem familiar - Contact
G3: One of the girls - Next Girl to Die
G4: One of the guys - The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury
G5: Old friends - Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet

O1: Take a stand - Valencia and Valentine
O2: Take a friend - Iniquitous
O3: Take a trip - Chasing Mona Lisa
O4: Take a look - The Angels' Share
O5: Take a break - Invidious

Spring Bingo

B1: Award Nominated
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress - The Perfect Dress


I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel
I3: Horror or Suspense - The Eighth Sister
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae - A Court of Thorns and Roses

N1: Published This Year - The Victory Garden
N2: Yellow Cover - The Virgin Suicides

N3: FREE - Plague Pits & River Bones
N4: Romance -Her Lifeline
N5: Male POV - Death Rounds

G1: Tear-Jerker - Darken the Stars
G2: In Translation - Siddhartha
G3: Minority Studies - On the Come Up
G4: Young Adult - Inception
G5: Magical Powers - The Bear and the Nightingale

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF)
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover - All the Good Parts

Winter Bingo

B1: Award Winner - Elevation
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering
B4: Mystery or Thriller
B5: Current Event Related

I1: Start a Series - The Chase
I2: Middle Grade
I3: Blue Cover
I4: > 400 pages
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic - The Importance of Being Earnest
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE
N4: Science Fiction
N5: Humor

G1: Magical Realism - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
G2: LGBTQ+
G3: White Cover
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year - The Ragged Edge of Night
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering
O4: Based on Mythology
O5: Math/Science

TBR Challenge
When Added:

2014
6. The English Patient - 19 November
7. Escape - 4 December

2015
12. Sea of Stars - 1 January
2. To Marry an English Lord: Or How Anglomania Really Got Started - 18 January
25. Little Bee - 27 January
19. The Bourbon Kings - 10 February
15. Chasing Mona Lisa - 12 May
30. Sense and Sensibility - 17 July
9. Where'd You Go, Bernadette - 21 July
24. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - 5 August
23. Love May Fail - 21 August
27. Mrs. Dalloway - 25 August
11. All My Friends Are Superheroes - 21 September
16. The Faithful - 16 October
20. The Wrath and the Dawn - 18 October
8. The Man in the High Castle - 14 November


2016
28. The Wright Brothers - 7 January
4. The Importance of Being Earnest - 22 April
22. The Shadow of the Wind - 19 May
5. 1776 - 8 June
18. The Last Star - 16 June
3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane - 25 June
17. Blood & Beauty: The Borgias - 14 July
21. Salt to the Sea - 6 December

2017
1. The Alice Network - 11 December
14. The Bear and the Nightingale - 2 November
26. Artemis - 5 November

2018
10. Siddhartha - 7 February

POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2019

[x] A book becoming a movie in 2019 - The Sun Is Also a Star
[x] A book that makes you nostalgic - The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
[x] A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction) - Beastie Boys Book
[x] A book you think should be turned into a movie - This is How It Always Is
[x] A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads - Life Of Pi
[x] A book with a plant in the title or on the cover - Things You Save in a Fire
[] A reread of a favorite book
[x] A book about a hobby - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
[x] A book you meant to read in 2018 - The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
[x] A book with “pop,” “sugar,” or “challenge” in the title - The Sugar Pavilion
[x] A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover - The Vanishing Season
[x] A book inspired by mythology, legend, or folklore - The Song of Achilles
[x] A book published posthumously - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
[x] A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie - Sense and Sensibility
[x] A retelling of a classic - The Wrath and the Dawn
[x] A book with a question in the title - Where'd You Go, Bernadette
[x] A book set on a college or university campus - The Risk
[x] A book about someone with a super power - All My Friends Are Superheroes
[x] A book told from multiple character POVs - The Last of the Stanfields
[x] A book set in space - Artemis
[x] A book by two female authors - To Marry an English Lord
[x] A book with a title that contains “salty,” “sweet,” “bitter,” or “spicy” - Sweet Girl
[x] A book set in Scandinavia - Us Against You
[x] A book that takes place in a single day - Mrs. Dalloway
[x] A debut novel - Where the Forest Meets the Stars
[x] A book that’s published in 2019 - A Merciful Fate
[x] A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature - Sea of Stars
[x] A book recommended by a celebrity you admire - The Alice Network
[x] A book with ‘love” in the title - Love May Fail
[x] A book featuring an amateur detective - Wolfhunter River
[x] A book about a family - Escape
[x] A book written by an author from Asia, Africa, or South America - Exit West
[x] A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in the title - The Last Star
[x] A book that includes a wedding - The Wedding Date
[x] A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter - Spinning Silver
[x] A ghost story - The Haunting of Beacon Hill
[x] A book with a two-word title - Alexander Hamilton
[x] A novel based on a true story - The Sculthorpe Murder
[x] A book revolving around a puzzle or game - The Shark
[x] Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - Becoming (book about an interesting woman, 2017)

Advanced
[x] A cli-fi (climate fiction) book - Dry
[] A “choose-your-own-adventure” book
[x] An “own voices” book - What If It's Us
[x] Read a book during the season it is set in - Two Can Keep a Secret
[x] A LitRPG book - Armada
[x] A book with no chapters, unusual chapter headings, or unconventionally numbered chapters - The Cuckoo's Calling
[x] Two books that share the same title (1) - Never Never
[x] Two books that share the same title (2) - Never Never
[x] A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom (e.g., Big Brother from 1984) - The Merchant of Venice
[x] A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent - The Murder at the Vicarage

Goal: 100 books

POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
Winter Bingo
Spring Bingo
Summer Bingo
Fall Bingo
TBR Challenge

N4: Senior Romance - The Ladies' Room

G2: Red Cover - Pretty Dead

B4: Orange Cover - A Curve in the Road