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

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

I am reading February Flowers for this one

Some other suggestions that I have read are:
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Friday Night Knitting Club
4th of July

I am reading The Winter Rose

Others I have read are:
The Winter Sea
Prodigal Summer
Summer Sisters
New Spring

I also really enjoyed In the Fall

Nadine wrote: "What are some ideas for "spans a lifetime"? I usually avoid longer books, and thus I rarely read the long, sweeping family saga types that would possibly fulfill this category."

My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult is another book that spans a character's lifespan.

Here is my list after raiding my TBR pile.

A book recommended by an author you love - False Profits by Patricia Smiley (Recommended by Janet Evanovich)
A bestseller from 2016 - Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
A book with a family-member term in the title - The Stepmother by Simon Tolkien
A book that takes place over a character's life span - Life After Life by Kate Aitkenson
A book about an immigrant or refugee - A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
A book from a genre/subgenre that you've never heard of - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Dieselpunk which I discovered was a genre while looking for Steampunk novels)
A book with an eccentric character - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson
A book that's more than 800 pages - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
A book you got from a used book sale - For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
A book that has been mentioned in another book - Emma by Jane Austen (mentioned in the Jane Austen book club amongst others)
A book about a difficult topic - The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
A book based on mythology - The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley

I put a lot of thought into this and after scanning my bookshelf - here goes:

A book recommended by a librarian - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (recommended by Jessica in the forum)
A book that has been on your TBR list for a while - Ride the Lightning by John Lutz
A book of letters - The Spy by Paulo Coelho
An audiobook - White Gardenia by Belinda Alexandra
A book by a person of colour - Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
A book with one of the four seasons in the title - The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
A book that is a story within a story - Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
A book with multiple authors - People of the Moon by Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
An espionage thriller - Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
A book with a cat on the cover - Leap by Myfanwy Jones (Tiger on the Cover)
A book by an author who uses a pseudonym - Mina by Marie Kiraly
A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
A book by or about a person who has a disability - Like Colour to the Blind: Soul Searching and Soul Finding by Donna Williams
A book involving travel - Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah McDonald
A book with a subtitle - To Love, Honour And Betray by Kathy Lette
A book that's published in 2017 - The Mermaids Scream by Kate Ellis
A book involving a mythical creature - The Mermaid's Daughter by Ann Claycomb
A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A book about food - The 10-Day Gi Diet: Lose up to an inch off your waist by Azmina Govindji and Nina Puddefoot
A book with career advice - See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work by Dr Lois Frankel
A book from a non-human perspective - The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie
A steampunk novel - Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
A book with a read spine - The People's Train by Tom Keneally
A book set in the wilderness - The Silent Country by Di Morrissey
A book you loved as a child - The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
A book by an author from a country you've never visited - The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes
A book with a title that's a character's name - Valentina by Fern Michaels
A novel set during wartime - The Scarlatti Inheritance by Robert Ludlum
A book with an unreliable narrator - Room by Emma Donoghue
A book with pictures - The Coma by Alex Garland
A book where the main character is a different ethnicity to you - The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
A book about an interesting woman - Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
A book set in two different time periods - The Midsummer Garden by Kirsty Manning
A book with a month or day of the week in the title - February Flowers by Fan Wu
A book set in a hotel - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach
A book that is becoming a movie in 2017 - The Shack by William Paul Young
A book set around a holiday other than Christmas - A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (Set on New Years)
The first book in a series you haven't read before - The Industry by Rose Foster
A book you bought on a trip - People of the Raven by Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear

If anyone is looking for a book that takes place over a holiday other than Christmas I can recommend The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty.

It takes place over Easter.

Nadine wrote: "What are some ideas for "spans a lifetime"? I usually avoid longer books, and thus I rarely read the long, sweeping family saga types that would possibly fulfill this category."

What about the "Curious Case of Benjamin Button"? It is not very long