Bill’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2016)

Bill’s comments from the Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge group.

I just finished At Risk (Liz Carlyle #1) by Stella Rimington, the first female Director General of United Kingdom's MI5. It was pretty good, so I would recommend for people looking for an idea.

I'm going classic on this one. Currently reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

It also fits the prompt for my other reading challenge (Read Harder 2017: Read a Book Published between 1900 and 1950).

2017 Popsugar Ultimate Reading Challenge

1. A book recommended by a librarian
2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long - The Bad Popes by E.R. Chamberlin
3. A book of letters - Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior by Judith Martin
4. An audiobook - Take Me Out to the Ballgame: A History of Baseball in America by Timothy B. Shutt
5. A book by a person of color - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title - One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
7. A book that is a story within a story - Metamorphoses by Ovid
8. A book with multiple authors - The Will of the Wanderer (Rose of the Prophet #1) by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
9. An espionage thriller - Caught by Harlan Coben
10. A book with a cat on the cover - Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym - Roadwork by Richard Bachman/Stephen King
12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability - Most Un Likely to Succeed: The Trials, Travels and Ultimate Triumphs of a Throwaway Kid by Nelson Lauver
14. A book involving travel
15. A book with a subtitle - The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Trevor Corson
16. A book that's published in 2017 -
17. A book involving a mythical creature - Once Upon a Crime (The Sisters Grimm #4) by Michael Buckley
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile
19. A book about food - The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky
20. A book with career advice - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective
22. A steampunk novel - Prudence (The Custard Protocol #1) by Gail Carriger
23. A book with a red spine
24. A book set in the wilderness - Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
25. A book you loved as a child - Something by Mark Twain
26. A book by an author from a country you've] never visited - My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende
27. A book with a title that's a character's name - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
28. A novel set during wartime - Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns
29. A book with an unreliable narrator - The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
30. A book with pictures - Magic and Other Misdemeanors by Michael Buckley
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you
32. A book about an interesting woman
33. A book set in two different time periods - Kindred by Octavia Butler
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title
35. A book set in a hotel - A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
36. A book written by someone you admire
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
39. The first book in a series you haven't read before - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
40. A book you bought on a trip

1. A book recommended by an author you love - The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
2. A bestseller from 2016
3. A book with a family-member term in the title
4. A book that takes place over a character's life span - Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America by Walter Borneman
5. A book about an immigrant or refugee - The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Thi Diem Thúy Lê
6. A book from a genre/subgenre that you've never heard of
7. A book with an eccentric character -
8. A book that's more than 800 pages - The Stand by Stephen King
9. A book you got from a used book sale - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
10. A book that's been mentioned in another book - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglas
11. A book about a difficult topic - The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segrè
12. A book based on mythology -

Would a book that's been translated count?

I'm looking at either Dracula or Miss Manners Guide to Excrutiatingly Polite Behavior, which is a book that is majority responses to letters Judith Martin received.

Depends if I need a fiction or non-fiction.

The one that came to mind immediately was "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury. It focuses on Halloween and All Saints Day.

Halloween and Valentine's Day are pretty common in books. Or look at non-Christian books about Ramadan, Diwali, Passover or Winter Solstice (pagan).

For me, I'm looking for books set around Flag Day, Groundhog Day or April Fool's Day. That's a real challenge!

I'm planning on reading some H.P. Lovecraft. His narrators always begin by saying they are crazy.

Lean In by Sandbug

Anything by Malcolm Gladwell

Multipliers by Liz Wiseman

Wait, just thought of one on TBR list. Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick.

What kind of books are told by a nonhuman perspective?