Tricia’s Comments (group member since Nov 21, 2016)

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

Reenah wrote: "I guess this prompt is very American. Americans tend to have ancestors from different places. My family has lived in the same country for at least 250 years. Most of them were farmers, nothing else..."

Mine was incredibly specific. I live in Australia but it told me the different areas of Europe my DNA came from and told me I was 1% Indian Subcontinent (that was a huge surprise!) It even pointed on the specific genealogical area in Scotland that the bulk of my DNA came from. I have had other friends that have done it with equally surprising results. It is very interesting.

Stephanie wrote: "any ideas for fiction books set in Japan? I can only think of memoirs of a geisha but would prefer something set in the modern pop culture of japan"

I enjoyed The Devotion of Suspect X for a prompt 2 years ago. I bought it on a trip to Japan.

Like others I also liked The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

The Alchemyst series fits these categories.

Heather wrote: "Michelle wrote: "I Know This Much Is True - by Wally Lamb is an incredible story!! One of my all time favorites."

I was also going to suggest that and it also deals with mental illness."

And it fits the lyrics category! It appears to cover off quite a few categories and it is an awesome book.

Natalie wrote: "The Last Mrs. Parrish-
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Liv Constantine is the pen name of sisters Lynne Constantine and Valerie Constantine"

I read that book this year and really enjoyed it.

Wendy wrote: "Don't forget Dune!
Also the Vorkosigan Saga books by Lois McMaster Bujold"

I completely agree about the Vorkosigan Saga. Fantastic series of books that are a lot of fun to read.

Јована wrote: "if there's anyone with good suggestions for the colour white I'd gladly accept them"

Nights In White Satin

There are a whole heap of books with the same title

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

I recently discovered E. Nesbit who was a children's author I had never heard of. I read one of hers for a previous challenge so going to try to read one for this one.

I have had The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts on my TBR pile for ages. Glad I am finally getting to it. It looks really interesting.

Contest by Matthew Reilly.

I am reading The Hour I First Believed - it is a line from Amazing Grace

The same author Wally Lamb wrote:
I Know This Much Is True (a line from True by Spandau Ballet) ; and
She's Come Undone (the title of a song by The Guess Who)

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying. It has been nominated for Goodreads book awards

Kristina wrote: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? probably fits here"

That is my choice for this prompt

Anna wrote: "Also, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic"

I read that for a graphic novel prompt a few years ago. It was great!

They made Valley of the Dolls into a play

I am going to try to read this challenge twice so you will see two books against each category
1. A book made into a movie you've already seen - Gone with the Wind and I Am Legend
2. True Crime - Noose True stories of Australians who died at the gallows and Infiltration: The True Story of the Man Who Cracked the Mafia
3. The next book in a series you started - The Dazzling Heights and Ender in Exile
4. A book involving a heist - The Great Train Robbery and Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
5. Nordic noir - Punishment and The Snowman
6. A novel based on a real person - The Zookeeper's Wife and The Tattooist of Auschwitz
7. A book set in a country that fascinates you - Edge of the Rain (set in Botswana in the Kalahari desert) and The Cambodian Book of the Dead (set in Cambodia)
8. A book with a time of day in the title - The Midnight Club and Night's Daughter
9. A book about a villain or antihero - True History of the Kelly Gang and Graceling
10. A book about death or grief - The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying and The Household Guide To Dying
11. A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym - Dark Side of the Moon and Birdman
12. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist - White Tulips & Wedding Cake and The Ghost Of Ludwig Gertsch
13. A book that is also a stage play or musical - Valley of the Dolls and The Graduate
14. A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you - Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms and Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
15. A book about feminism - Fight Like A Girl and The Good Girl Stripped Bare
16. A book about mental health - First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety and TELLING
17. A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift - The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People and Where the Heart Is
18. A book by two authors - Scar Tissue and Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
19. A book about or involving a sport - Concussion and Life As I Know It
20. A book by a local author - All Fall Down and The Forgotten Garden
21. A book with your favorite color in the title - Purple Hibiscus and Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
22. A book with alliteration in the title -Rubies and Runaways and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
23. A book about time travel - Kindred and A Stitch in Time
24. A book with a weather element in the title - The Eye of the Storm and The Wind And The Monkey
25. A book set at sea - The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts and Pirates!
27. A book set on a different planet - Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen and Perelandra
29. A book about or set on Halloween - Hallowe'en Party and Something Wicked This Way Comes
30. A book with characters who are twins - Her Fearful Symmetry and Seven Ancient Wonders
31. A book mentioned in another book - Great Expectations (mentioned in Mister Pip) and A Tale of Two Cities
32. A book from a celebrity book club - Love in the Time of Cholera (From Oprah's bookclub) and The Dry from Reese Witherspoon's book club
33. A childhood classic you've never read - The Railway Children and What Katy Did
34. A book that's published in 2018 - Hounds and Hauntings: Book 3 and The Rules of Backyard Croquet
35. A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner - Inferno and Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
36. A book set in the decade you were born - The Bourne Identity and Jacks and Jokers
37. A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to - The Museum of Modern Love and The Miniaturist
38. A book with an ugly cover - Whistling For The Elephants and Hannoki's Will
39. A book that involves a bookstore or library - Contest and Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
40. Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges:
- 2015 Challenge - That Hideous Strength (book on my bookshelf that I have not read ) and Out of the Silent Planet (first book in a series I have not read)
- 2016 Challenge - The Hallowed Ones (a book from the library) and The Outside (a dystopian novel)
- 2017 Challenge - A Dog's Way Home (a book from a non-human perspective) and Dragonkeeper ( a book with a mythical creature)

2018 Popsugar Advanced Reading Challenge

1. A bestseller from the year you graduated high school - The Client and Mr. Murder
2. A cyberpunk book - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ready Player One
3. A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place - The Good People (read by a woman at the Woodford folk festival) and Fromelles and Pozières: In The Trenches Of Hell (read by a stranger on the bus)
4. A book tied to your ancestry - The Girl from Botany Bay and My Brother Jack
5. A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title - Apple Tree Yard and Plum Spooky
6. An allegory - Watership Down and Moby-Dick or, The Whale
7. A book by an author with the same first or last name as you - Cruel & Unusual and Point of Origin both by Patricia Cornwell
8. A microhistory - Lighthouse Of Tragedy: The Story Of Bustard Head Lighthouse, Queensland's First Coast Light and Australian Tragic
9. A book about a problem facing society today - Dead Man Running (about outlaw motorcycle gangs) and And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
10. A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - The Transmigration of Bodies and Signs Preceding the End of the World (recommended by my aunt) and The Golem and the Jinni (recommended by someone in the forums)

The Great Train Robbery

Apple Tree Yard

I have always wanted to read Watership Down so choosing that for this prompt.