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

Jill's 2019 PopSugar Challenge - Let's Do This!!!

2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge
1. A book becoming a movie in 2019 The Good Liar

2. A book that makes you nostalgic

3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction)

✔ 4. A book you think should be turned into a movie
The Tattooist of Auschwitz

5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads

✔ 6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover
Tyler Johnson Was Here

7. A reread of a favorite book
The Notebook

8. A book about a hobby

✔ 9. A book you meant to read in 2018
Uglies

10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title

✔ 11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover
The Indigo Girl

12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore
The Map of Salt and Stars
The Historian
Norse Mythology
The Golem and the Jinni

13. A book published posthumously
Northanger Abbey
A Confederacy of Dunces

14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie

15. A retelling of a classic
Eligible
Cinder
A Study in Charlotte series
After Alice

✔16. A book with a question in the title
Why Not Me?

17. A book set on college or university campus
The Secret History
The Dreamers
A Study in Charlotte series

✔ 18. A book about someone with a superpower
The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence

✔ 19. A book told from multiple POVs
Fight or Flight

✔ 20. A book set in space
Shades of Earth

✔ 21. A book by two female authors
America's First Daughter

22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Sweet Little Lies
Sweet Little Lies

✔ 23. A book set in Scandinavia
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

24. A book that takes place in a single day
The Dinner
Seize the Day

✔ 25. A debut novel
Allegedly

✔ 26. A book that's published in 2019
The Island of Sea Women

27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature

✔ 28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire
Reese Witherspoon: Daisy Jones & The Six

✔ 29. A book with LOVE in the title
Who Do You Love

30. A book featuring an amateur detective
A Study in Charlotte series

✔ 31. A book about a family
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora

32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America
Under the Udala Trees

✔ 33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title
The Zodiac Legacy: The Dragon's Return

✔ 34. A book that includes a wedding
The Wedding Date

✔ 35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter
A Window Opens by Elizabeth Egan

✔ 36. A ghost story
Leaving Time

✔ 37. A book with a two-word title
Golden Hill

✔ 38. A novel based on a true story
The Other Einstein

✔ 39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game
The Westing Game

40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge

41. A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book

42. A "choose-your-own-adventure" book

43. An "own voices" book

44. Read a book during the season it is set in

45. A LitRPG book

46. A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters

47. Two books that share the same title
The Best of Enemies

48. Two books that share the same title
The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South

49. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom

50. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent


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The Royal We
The Wife Between Us

Ellie wrote: "I've seen a few comments that Popsugar's printable list isn't printable. So here's a very basic, one sheet checklist:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J......"

THANK YOU!!! This is exactly what I like to use - spreadsheets are too much for me. I really don/t have time to remember to do one mroe thing. I just print these out and keep folded in my purse, then every few weeks or so I pop on to Goodreads adn update reading lists.

I'm reading The Princess Bride this week for another challenge and didn't realize that it takes place in the 1970s!! Yeah!!! Although....I was thinking of using this one for the read the book of a movie you've already seen. *sigh* maybe I'll read it for that and then Joy Luck Club for a book set in 1970s. So many books, so many challenges........

I came here with very little idea of what to read for the 1970s - there are so many books listed in just the first two pages that I could probably read a 1970s book for every prompt on the PopSugar challenge!!! Next year's extra challenge for myself?!? :)

Title: The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Is feminism a topic you will read again? Why or why not?
Yes, I would read about feminism again. I enjoy reading books with strong female characters. I’m interested in getting some more fiction or historical fiction books on feminism.

Would you recommend?
I would, but it wasn’t an earth shattering read for me. I’ve been trying to think why I wasn’t as impressed by the book as I thought I would be. I think it could be because I’ve read SOOO many similar books (dystopian, females who push for what is right). Although, I have a feeling this is probably the oldest one I’ve read with this theme. I’m looking forward to watching the series.

Sooo....I am fascinated by the Galapagos Islands and Peru (specifically Machu Picchu). While Peru is a country, Galapagos Islands are a part of Ecuador. I'd LOVE to read a book (novel, historical fiction, or well done non-fiction) about either or both. I ran across Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut, but not sure about books on Peru/Machu Picchu. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

1. In what format are you reading "The Handmaid's Tale"? I am reading/listening to a kindle e-book with audiobook option. I’m glad I have the e-book, too, because I didn’t realize there were no quotation marks. Also, the narrator has a great voice and delivery.

2. Have you watched the Hulu series "The Handmaid's Tale" before reading the book? If not, do you think you'll watch the series after reading this book? Nope! But I wanted to read it before I started watching it.

3. What made you choose "The Handmaid's Tale" for this prompt? If you've read it before for something other than this challenge (or a different challenge), what prompted you to read it then? It’s been on my To Read list for awhile. I’m also doing the Around the Year challenge and this week’s prompt was a book with a body part in the title, so it fit! Otherwise I would have read it for the Literary Fiction prompt.

2018 Popsugar Reading Challenge

1. A book made into a movie you've already seen The Martian, Call Me by Your Name, Gone with the Wind, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
✔️ 2. True Crime In Cold Blood
✔️ 3. The next book in a series you started What to Do with a Bad Boy
✔️4. A book involving a heist Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
✔️ 5. Nordic noir The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
✔️ 6. A novel based on a real person. Jefferson's Sons
7. A book set in a country that fascinates you Galápagos, Island: A Story of the Galápagos, Galápagos Regained, Galapagos George, The Galapagos Islands, Poor Man's Galapagos, The Galapagos Incident, The Galapagos Affair
✔️ 8. A book with a time of day in the title You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
✔️ 9. A book about a villain or antihero Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy
10. A book about death or grief H is for Hawk, The End of Your Life Book Club
11. A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym Middlemarch, Out of Africa, The Cuckoo's Calling
✔️ 12. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
13. A book that is also a stage play or musical The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Hamilton: The Revolution
✔️ 14. A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you To All the Boys I've Loved Before
✔️ 15. A book about feminism The Awakening
✔️ 16. A book about mental health All the Bright Places
17. A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift
✔️ 18. A book by two authors [book:The Long Earth
✔️ 19. A book about or involving a sport Beartown
✔️ 20. A book by a local author Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler (bonus pointing for knowing him?)
21. A book with your favorite color in the title The Color Purple
✔️ 22. A book with alliteration in the title Year of Yes
✔️ 23. A book about time travel 11/22/63
24. A book with a weather element in the title
25. A book set at sea Life of Pi
✔️ 26. A book with an animal in the title The Bear and the Nightingale
✔️ 27. A book set on a different planet The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
28. A book with song lyrics in the title
29. A book about or set on Halloween
✔️ 30. A book with characters who are twins Fangirl
✔️ 31. A book mentioned in another book The Age of Innocence
✔️ 32. A book from a celebrity book club The Last Mrs. Parrish
✔️ 33. A childhood classic you've never read The Phantom Tollbooth
✔️ 34. A book that's published in 2018 All We Knew
✔️ 35. A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner Reconstructing Amelia
✔️ 36. A book set in the decade you were born Tales of the City
✔️ 37. A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to The Marriage Plot
38. A book with an ugly cover The Perks of Being a Wallflower
✔️ 39. A book that involves a bookstore or library Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
✔️ 40. Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges: 2017 - an audiobook!! The Glass Town Game

2018 Popsugar Advanced Reading Challenge
1. A bestseller from the year you graduated high school https://www.goodreads.com/list/best_o... The Raphael Affair
✔️ 2. A cyberpunk book Armada
3. A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place
✔️ 4. A book tied to your ancestry Lilac Girls (I'm Jewish with relatives from France, Germany, and Poland)
5. A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title
6. An allegory
✔️ 7. A book by an author with the same first or last name as you The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
8. A microhistory
✔️ 9. A book about a problem facing society today Dumplin'
10. A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
|18460392]My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward, The Goldfish Boy, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, Challenger Deep, The Shock of the Fall

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