L Y N N’s Comments (group member since Nov 10, 2018)

L Y N N’s comments from the Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge group.

Theresa wrote: "@Lynn - I agree about Speak No Evil! I read it a couple of years ago and it is still packing a wallop. That ending opened my mind, or rather broadened my mind to all that contributes to American racism! I definitely plan to readmore of his work. And interesting about his Harvard roommate!."
I know, right? Glad to know I'm not the only one impacted so strongly by this book! I admit I was ranting and raving out loud once I finished it. I really connected with his writing style and am so anxious to read more.

Heather wrote: "Happy Thanksgiving! Following the example of the Native American tribe whose land I live on, I will be celebrating family, food, and football (if I am so forced) today rather than Pilgrims and a sanitized history."
I like those three "Fs"! And the term "sanitized history" is so apt, IMO! I often think of it as "white man's version of history" or "Anglo-centric history," but sanitized kinda sums it up!

"I got a new computer this week since my old one took about two minutes to load any website and then crashed the tab multiple times. I hated to buy one right before Christmas, but I couldn’t wait any longer. No surprise that it’s been easier to keep up with this group. I’ve been devoting some time to my blog too, which I’ve had to neglect for months."
Yay for the new computer! I have let my own blog languish for so long. I keep telling myself I'll get back to it. All I lack is time! LOL

"I have 6 books to read for the challenge. I’m about halfway through 2 of those books, and I’ve started a third. After months of being behind, the challenge tracker tells me that I am on track to finish!"
That's great news! Congrats!

"Finished
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie (a book with something broken on the cover). This is a good Poirot mystery. I figured out the killer before Poirot spelled everything out, but there were some nice twists along the way. (The martini on the cover has spilled. I’ve decided a spilled drink is close enough to a broken thing to count for this prompt.)"
I would agree! These prompts are always open to our own interpretation. 😊

"Reading
Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon (the longest book on your TBR). I’m going to devote quite a bit of time to this book on my long holiday weekend. Maybe I can finally finish it this weekend!"
Here's hoping!

"One by One by Ruth Ware (a book you think your best friend would like)"
I've only read one of her books but intend to read more...

"QOTW
This is a heavy question in the time of COVID. It feels super dark to say I'm glad everyone in my family who had COVID survived it, but that is what I'm grateful for. Today could have been a much smaller gathering, and I'm thankful it's not."
Sorry. I didn't mean for it to be so heavy. I just think it is a good reminder to live in gratitude which works well for me... (When I do it! LOL) I think your point is well taken. I'm sure many families are smaller units this year due to the pandemic, and it is fortunate that yours is not one of those. I'm sure all of us offer our positive thoughts and/or prayers to those families left grieving...

Happy Native American Heritage Day in the US! I just can’t bring myself to consider this day as plain ol’ ‘Thanksgiving’ any more. A show on NPR yesterday had a Native American describing the 13 days of “thanksgiving” his tribe celebrates every single year, honoring different aspects of nature, etc. I can no longer overlook the mistreatment, abuse, kidnapping of children, and literal genocide the people who truly ‘settled’ this country have endured… I often wonder if those who managed to help those Britons who landed here through that first winter would do it again, with the knowledge of the outcome for their own people… I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t, if I was them. I can no longer buy into the myth of pilgrims and Indians sitting down together. That may have happened, but I believe the majority of us now no longer consider the mythological interpretation of this “holiday” (Indians and white men as forever friends…), and just use it as a chance to get together with family and/or rest and relax. I do the latter.

Thankfully, the new president of our University who happens to be the first female to hold that position, gave us all an extra day off for this holiday, creating a 5-day break. YAY! The administration also gave students this whole week off from classes. Very considerate, IMO!

Edited to add...
Admin Stuff:
Don’t forget that we are reading and discussing The Firekeeper's Daughter by Karola Renard this month. You can find that thread here. Almost finished! Loving it so far!

In addition to that, as usual, we have a discussion thread where you can post any other books you’ve read that would fulfill prompt #16 A book written by an indigenous author.

Edited to add more:
December's Monthly Group Read is Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Teri is the most gracious volunteer who will lead this discussion. Those postings will be opened and moved to the Current Monthly Group Read folder on Tuesday, November 30.

Question of the Week:
Name that for which you are most grateful…
I realized yesterday that I have been rather lax in starting each day with a ‘gratitude litany’ lately. My days certainly start out with a much better attitude when I prompt myself upon awakening, while still lying in bed, to remember all those people and things for which I am grateful. I am using this holiday to get myself back into that habit.

In many ways, I am grateful to still be employed full-time with good health insurance coverage. Having financial security during COVID is such a blessing! Though I am hoping to obtain a full-time remote position, until then this job provides what I need in many ways. Hopefully, an opportunity to work from home with similar pay and insurance coverage will present itself to me…soon! 😉

My husband and I are healthy (especially given our ages). My children, grandchildren, and one new great-grandchild are healthy and well. Though some of my friends are battling health challenges (a-fib, recovering from a stroke, etc.) they are doing well overall.

And, I must admit that my interactions with Goodreads members has provided much continuity for me with my reading. Especially during COVID. Although in-person book club meetings are beginning again, Goodreads members continue to be an immensely satisfying group of people with similar reading habits. And while I’m grateful for Goodreads, I am hopeful that Amazon will maintain and upgrade the system as needed in the future to keep it working well. (And, ironically, as I clicked to post this, it simply disappeared saying Goodreads couldn't locate the link! Fortunately, I always compose in a Word document so I always have it to use...)

How about you?

Popsugar: 46/50
ATY: 50/52
RHC: 18/24
Reading Women: 15/28

FINISHED:
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Seriously, if you are at all interested, I would highly advise reading this one. This book hit all the feels for me. For example: racism has no place in our world/a ‘democracy’! It definitely prompts discussion, as it should. Iweala surprised me with the plot taking unexpected twists and turns. I definitely want to read more of his writing! And my favorite used bookstore should now have a used copy of Beasts of No Nation reserved for me! Fun fact: Iweala’s Harvard roommate was Pete Buttigieg! Small world…
POPSUGAR: #18-Unjustifiable murder of an unarmed citizen by police!, #20, #21-Africa (Nigeria), Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Prejudice/Discrimination, Social Justice, #27-If only there could be a “do-over”!, #34- Unjustifiable murder of an unarmed citizen by police!, #37
ATY: #6-Meredith did love Niru so…, #19-Unfortunately, present events can leave a person with NO future!, #23-Africa (Nigeria), Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Prejudice/Discrimination, Social Justice, #24, #27-Death, Temperance, Judgement, The World, #39, #41, #44, #52-In the end, Niru’s father would have probably preferred his son be known as a homosexual!
RHC: #5

CONTINUING:
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley has me totally enthralled. I was trying to finish it in time to be included here, but didn’t quite make it. I feel as if this will be another great read for me this year!
And…I am almost done with these three:
We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation by Leighton Brown and Matthew L. Riemer
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

PLANNED:
Roses Are Red (Alex Cross #6) by James Patterson
For Literary Wives December 6:
The Summer Wives: A Novel by Beatriz Williams
I'm sure I'll sneak in the 28th installment in the Stephanie Plum series as well: Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight by Janet Evanovich
This series is pure escapism for me! And when I saw this at 40% off, I couldn't resist!
And the others that are waiting patiently...
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende to fulfill the 2020 Reading Women prompt #26 A book written by Isabel Allende.
Paradise by Toni Morrison to fulfill the 2020 Reading Women prompt #25 A book written by Toni Morrison.
In the future sometime, G.Willow Wilson's books I want to read:
The Bird King
Alif the Unseen

Okay. At page 195 I admit that (view spoiler)[Coach Bobby is a #1 suspect for me..." (hide spoiler)]

Kenya wrote: "Happy Thursday, y’all.

Still getting settled into my new place. It's quite different here, but so far it's been a change for the better in my book. Also this is the first year in a long time that I'm actually looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas -- both holidays used to be incredibly stress-filled for me, but I'm hoping now that I'm in a different place they'll be better."
Fingers crossed that this year proves to be better! 👍🤗

"Books read this week:
The Last Policeman -- interesting take on both the detective genre and the apocalyptic fiction genre. Rather melancholy throughout but I think that works in the book’s favor."
That's an interesting comment... It was already on my TBR listing.

"Comfort Me With Apples -- boy howdy, what a weird but strangely addictive little novella! Think Bluebeard meets The Girl on the Train meets the Book of Genesis -- yes, it’s that weird…"
Sounds a bit too weird for me... LOL

"QOTW:
"Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction" and "anonymous author" both just felt like such narrow categories, and I didn't particularly like my options for either one. And in both cases the books I picked for the prompts (Hamnet and The Epic of Gilgamesh) turned out to be fairly dull, though in the case of the last one I might have been better served picking up an adaptation instead of a literal translation..."
What a tough job translating would be! I do not envy them...

Ashley Marie wrote: "Happy Thursday from rainy northeast Ohio!

I don't feel like I got much read this week, although I did finish Fullmetal Alchemist (finally, after having started reading the manga in 2014) so that's something!"
That is definitely an achievement to honor! 👍

"Audio-wise, I've hit a full reading slump... although I might blame that on drowning in amazing new music releases, between Taylor Swift and Silk Sonic and Adele and and and. I have a stack of audiobooks (can you have a stack, since they're not physical books?) but my brain wanted a break and has not been interested in any of them all week."
I believe we all need a reading break every now and then!

"I also spent yesterday educating myself about the "feud" between Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon - one of my favorite ongoing comedy bits (it's been going on for over a decade, probably closer to 15yrs at this point). Time well spent, lemme tell you."
You made me laugh! 😂

"Finished:
The Night Watchman - 3 stars. Maybe not the best Louise Erdrich starter book; the narrative was disjointed and broken up by a lot of small tangents and wasn't quite my thing. Unfortunate, but you can't love everything!"
Sorry this didn't work super-well for you! 😳

"Currently:
Sandman #6 - Fables & Reflections - This one lost me for a short while after/during the Roman segment and I set it aside but then Marco Polo showed up and now we're into the Orpheus myth and I'm all HADESTOWNNNNN"
More laughter from me! LOL

"Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means - Barely at the 100-page mark in a 500+ page book. Oof."
I hope you're enjoying it. I have added it to my TBR listing and my favorite used bookstore has a used copy really cheap!

"PS 49/50"
So. Close. 😊

"What has been your least favorite Popsugar prompt for the 2021 Reading Challenge?
#7, where the MC works at your current/dream job - characters never work at my day job (I work in e-commerce) and I feel like too many books are about writers, so I got creative and tossed it over to my passion project in theatre. I loved Amberlough though and didn't expect it to work for any prompts, so that was fun.
#8, Women's Prize in Fiction - there are just so few books that have won this award, which makes it very restricting. Again, thankfully I loved Hamnet, but I definitely wouldn't keep this as a future prompt.
#13, Locked room mystery - A lot of the suggestion books were Agatha Christies, and I can't stand her LOL
#24, Muslim American author - again, unnecessarily restricting and I know a lot of us bent the rules because, why specifically American??
#30, Somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021 - Seeing as we're still (now coming up on 2022) pretty deep in a pandemic, this is nice for wishful thinking but it could've just been "somewhere you'd like to visit" and not have the year attached. (This probably shouldn't count as a "least favorite", I'm just griping now)"
You made me laugh! LOL

"#31, Book by a blogger/vlogger/etc - I don't keep up with bloggers, and self-help books are one of my most-loathed "genres". No thanks.
Advanced - prettiest/ugliest covers - these are so subjective, which = frustratingggg lol

...wow, that's a bunch. Bahahahaha!"
Hopefully that was a good cathartic release of frustration!! 😋

Tania wrote: "Good morning! We have been having cooler weather and it has been very pleasant. I spoke to my nephew (10) on the phone last night and he informed me that they had finished decorating the outside of the farmhouse for Christmas - They have a snowman that is taller than the roof of their front porch; I love it! My sister sent me a picture and it looks fantastic, although she has a few more surprises up her sleeve for them (she says there is a giant Santa on the way lol)."
I bet the children love that! It sounds fun!

"Good reading week this week, and good challenge week as well. I'm at 42/50 for the challenge."
Great!

"The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht - did not love, too fantastical for magical realism, I used this as a book that won the women's prize for fiction"
I read this last year and while I really loved the writing, this particular book was not a favorite for me...

"An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo - beautiful book of poetry, used for book by an indigenous author"
Though I am not a huge poetry fan, this looks interesting!

"The Dinner by Herman Koch - this should really be in the horror category, IMHO. Yikes! Used for a book set in a restaurant, as the story took place over a dinner."
I don't think I would enjoy this. Especially if you feel it should be classified as "horror," since I don't do horror well at all!

"The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin - inspiring, truthful, very powerful and still very relevant all these years later. Used as a book on a Black Lives Matter reading list"
I read this two years ago and had the same reaction. I now own Jesmyn Ward's The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, but want to reread this before reading that one. Perhaps I'll put that on my 2022 "must-read" list!

"What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - such a fun and informative children's book. Used as a book by a Muslim American author"
This looks great! 👍

"QOTW: I'm glad I'm not the only one who disliked several categories. There were some that just took too much work to fill, and as you say I was still unsure after all that whether the book truly fit. Also I was trying to use books from my TBR or the library (Libby), and again just such a difficult task once I'd actually found a book that worked to find it in either of those places.

Oxymoron and Locked Room Mystery were on the list of difficult to find a match. My locked room mystery was billed as a locked room mystery on several lists and on the cover, but the window was open so I call nonsense. Afrofuturist had such a controversial list - this is, this isn't, this is, this isn't - I just finally picked something that had the least controversy. Longest book, prettiest book, and ugliest book were on the list of difficult to choose - prettiest and ugliest just ended up being pretty and not pretty because I don't even like that kind of judgement. Also I'm running out of formats that I don't read, so I need that category to stop. And I was very unhappy to have another category where I had to look at someone else's books - this time a bookshelf, and by the way even though there are lots of those shown on TV, it's usually to blurry to properly see what's up there (and find something either already on my bookshelf or in Libby). And imagine my horror to learn that in 2022, a challenge I was planning to do again has another category where I have to look at someone else's books."
I hope you at least had some enjoyable reads out of all these prompts! I think I'm just willing to go with my own interpretation and not worry about fulfilling most prompts absolutely verbatim! 😁

"So that's my laundry list of complaints. 8 more books to go in the challenge, and one of those the longest book, so fingers crossed."
Definitely! We have faith in you! 🤗

Nadine wrote: "Happy Thursday! Now the leaves are off both my maple and my birch tree (which means I can see into my neighbor's yard, which is always startling because I'm not used to it); we had our first snow, but it wasn't much. It's a reminder that I need to clean off my deck before the serious snow arrives."
We have likewise had a snowfall. Just enough to almost cover the ground, but not quite, and it was gone the next day!

"The Goodreads Choice Awards are open! And they are deeply disappointing this year! They took away all my favorites: the write-ins, the picture book category, and the science category. I'm not voting, there's just not enough there to justify it for me, I've read very few of the books they've chosen."
Wow. No write-ins? That seems unjust. I have skimmed through the nominations and added some to my TBR. I am torn in some of the categories...

"Admin stuff:
Our November group read of Firekeeper's Daughter is on-going - join the discussion here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
OMG! I started reading this yesterday when I arrived home from book club and stayed up later than I should have. I am just halfway through but loving this one so far. I guess she lives in Indiana a rather short distance from my favorite used bookstore and the owner is considering asking her to do an author event at the store. There is no way I'll be able to stay up once I get home 9:30-10PM tonight to finish this, but imagine I will do so on Tuesday evening! Wow. I am blown away so far! And for a debut!

"Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley- I enjoyed this "mystery" (is it a mystery? general fiction? I don't know what genre to put this in) a lot, it's a GREAT debut, but it could have been tightened up a bit more. I look forward to the next book she writes!"
I think this is definitely one that combines several different genres!

"A Pho Love Story by Loan Le- a very sweet & charming romance, I also enjoyed this debut A LOT, but it could have been tightened up a bit more. And I look forward to the next book she writes! This would fit "set in a restaurant" if anyone still needs a book for that category."
Good to know about the restaurant setting!

"Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - I was mostly disappointed in this book, but I enjoyed some parts enough that I gave it 3 stars. But mostly I was disappointed."
Pretty sure I wouldn't enjoy this or Mexican Gothic, but I might read Gods of Jade and Shadow. Someday... 😁

"I'm still plugging away at my longest book, A History of the World in 100 Objects; "only" 36 chapters left! yeah, I'm never going to finish this book. I've also started two more Challenge books, so I'm almost at the end!"
Sure you will! I have faith in you!

"Question of the Week
What has been your least favorite Popsugar prompt for the 2021 Reading Challenge?"
Oh, boy! That opened the floodgates! LOL I admit I am so anxious to see the 2022 prompts! But I'm patiently sitting on my hands and waiting... 😊

"Maybe I should have waited for Festivus to post this question, because I've got a lot of grievances with the Challenge this year!! There were A LOT of categories I didn't like, but these five top my list. (Interestingly, and conversely, I've had a good reading year with the Challenge and enjoyed most of the books I've read. So maybe they WERE good categories after all ...)"
That's cool! Although you weren't particularly thrilled with the prompts, you still managed to find books you truly enjoyed! I think that's a win! 😉

Yesterday and today went well at work. The big project is done! Tomorrow is another big day, but then the weekend. And I only have to work next Monday and Tuesday, then a ‘5-day weekend’!! 😊 I cannot wait! It is 8:30PM on Thursday evening here as I post this and I’m going to feed the feline herd and then go to bed!! I am exhausted. I’m way too old for this workin’ full time!! LOL

One-third to one-half of our leaves are still on the trees, but I assume by next week there won't be many left...

Admin Stuff:
Don’t forget that we are reading and discussing The Firekeeper's Daughter by Karola Renard this month. You can find that thread here. Picked up my copy last weekend! Ready for this weekend's reading!

In addition to that, as usual, we have a discussion thread where you can post any other books you’ve read that would fulfill prompt #16 A book written by an indigenous author.

Question of the Week:
What has been your least favorite POPSUGAR prompt for the 2021 Reading Challenge?
In answering this question I realized that if not for the Listopias and all of us contributing to those as well as listing and commenting on the books we read and plan to read in the Weekly Check-In posts and in threads for each prompt, I would have been hard pressed to fulfill so many of the 2021 prompts! It is our willingness to share our reading experiences and plans with each other that helps me most in fulfilling prompts! That is soooooo cool!! YAY US!

A book with something broken on the cover
Fortunately, I had a perfect book for that in Waldman’s mystery series! But if I hadn’t immediately thought of that one, I might have been stumped!
Nursery Crimes (A Mommy-Track Mystery #1) by Ayelet Waldman

A book with an oxymoron in the title
Again, fortunately, I had a favorite series that perfectly fit this category (a “kid” could never truly work as a “lawyer,” right?!?) But if not, this might have been much more difficult to fulfill…
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (Theodore Boone #1) by John Grisham
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth
Though you might think it impossible, Stallworth pulled this off quite long ago, way before the internet, etc. Still fun to read about how he fooled those “haters” in the KKK!
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
I didn’t really feel this fit the prompt well, but it’s close, IMO! (Unlike you, Nadine, I do not view that as “cheating”! LOL A prompt is there to be stretched, IMO!) 😉

A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”
This was tough! Luckily, I was reading Ender’s Saga series!
Xenocide (Ender's Saga #3) by Orson Scott Card

A book with a family tree
This would have been impossible for me if not for the listopia, etc.! Though these two books were already “scheduled” for this year. 😊 Hopefully, I’ll get to Love Medicine next year!
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Game #2) by Orson Scott Card
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill (The Bookish Life of Nina Hill #1) by Abbi Waxman
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Popsugar: 46/50
ATY: 50/52
RHC: 18/24
Reading Women: 15/28
I finished only one book this week! 🙁 That reflects the time, energy, and stress of this major project at work… But I did manage to make some progress in three other books as well!

FINISHED:
The Laws by Connie Palmen ⭐️⭐️ was not an enjoyable experience for me. I was rather reminded of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook in that I had to literally force myself to keep reading to the end. I kept thinking, “Surely this will improve…” I could relate to the references to phenomenology and the fact that without language there is no “reality” or “understanding” of the world. It is through shared meaning of words that we construct our reality as a society/culture. Other than that, I found Marie’s character to be scary in her persistence to define herself and the meaning of her life through the men or man in her life at that moment. I guess that was the point, but I did not particularly enjoy the story arc or the writing style.
POPSUGAR: #30-Amsterdam/Netherlands, #36-163 reviews on Goodreads, #44
ATY: #8-Amsterdam/Netherlands, NEW #12, #20-Unfortunately, I don’t even care about Marie’s future…, #26, #31, #37, #52-In the end, I was just glad to have finished reading it so I could move on!
RHC: #1-Just had a feeling it might not be a favorite read…, #13

CONTINUING:
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation by Leighton Brown and Matthew L. Riemer
I am finding this to be fascinating, especially as many of the photographs are from the 60s and 70s. Since I’m old that makes it even more interesting to me.
For my favorite used bookstore book club this coming Sunday:
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
I’ve read the first 20 pages and I think I will enjoy this one! It should definitely prompt discussion.

PLANNED:
My one November Buddy Read:
Roses Are Red (Alex Cross #6) by James Patterson
For the POSUGAR Monthly Group read in November:
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
For Literary Wives December 6:
The Summer Wives: A Novel by Beatriz Williams
And the others that are waiting patiently...
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende to fulfill the 2020 Reading Women prompt #26 A book written by Isabel Allende.
Paradise by Toni Morrison to fulfill the 2020 Reading Women prompt #25 A book written by Toni Morrison.
In the future sometime, G.Willow Wilson's books I want to read:
The Bird King
Alif the Unseen

I am totally drawing a blank on this one! I'm sure there are books out there, but none are coming to mind...

The one Popsugar has listed is Five Little Indians by Michelle Good, so I added it to the Listopia.

Listopia is here

I am totally drawing a blank on this one! I'm sure there are books out there, but none are coming to mind...

The one Popsugar has listed is Five Little Indians by Michelle Good, so I added it to the Listopia.

Listopia is here

The first one that came to my mind was Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff. Definitely not a favorite read for me, but it is a true match for this prompt. What else?

Listopia is here

My first reaction: "Say what?!?" LOL

Popsugar is listing One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston. Actually, I think Fates and Furies would also work for this prompt as well as prompt #48 A book with two POVs, but I could be wrong...

What others?

Listopia is here

Popsugar is listing American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson. As I recall, Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross #2) by James Patterson would work here. (Goodreads wouldn't pull the link...)

What others?

Listopia is here

I drew a total blank right now, but Popsugar has listed The Wrath and the Dawn and The Rose & the Dagger by Renée Ahdieh

H-h-e-e-l-l-p-p!! 😲

Listopia is here

Oh, boy. Again, I'm useless. Popsugar has listed MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood.

What others?

Listopia is here

Patricia wrote: "Hi! My week isn't stressful at all."
Enjoy! I am jealous! LOL

"Question of the Week:
Do you have any specific books you would recommend to fulfill multiple prompts from the 2021 Popsugar reading challenge? What is that book and what prompts could it fulfill?

I think The Night Circus for a book about Magical realism and set in multiple countries."
Thanks!

Nadine wrote: "Lindsey wrote: "Nadine wrote: "I'm about 20% into the book now. The author interview and the GR blurb both give away info that you don't learn right away. I can't decide how I feel about that. Did ..."
Huh. Well, after reading these comments I'm going to ignore everything until I have read the book. I'd rather not be clued in beforehand...

Nadine wrote:
"5. Hockey is a huge part of this book. Do you watch hockey? Who is your favorite team?"

Nope. All sports are boring to me. I really could not care less about any of them. But I'm from NJ, so my favorite team is the Devils. I went to Cornell for undergrad, and Cornell sucks at almost all major college sports, but they are usually pretty good at ice hockey, so they are my favorite college team :-)"
I didn't realize we had this "I could not care less about sports" attitude in common! Cool! (I believe we are definitely in the minority, but that's okay with me!) LOL

Lindsey wrote: "🗳 Let's Take a Vote! 🗳

If you were approached by the FBI to go undercover, would you?

1 - Yes - time to figure it out!!

2 - No - I might blow my cover!!

How did you vote??"
Not at my age. I probably would have if I was still in my 20s or 30s.