Erica’s Comments (group member since Apr 05, 2019)

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

I read Bird Box and Ring Shout this year so I guess I could read the sequels for this prompt.

poshpenny wrote: "I see PopSugar posted about this, here's what they say: (bolding mine)

"Are you a fan of movies like Get Out, Parasite, or Rosemary's Baby and looking for something like that in book form? Let me ..."

Thank you, this post was very helpful.

Happy check-in!

I'm feeling stressed about the holidays and finishing this reading challenge. I did start gift shopping but figuring out baking and meals is unclear right now. All I know right now is I have to make a cheesecake. I'm not sure whether I like the 2022 list yet. Playing in the threads and listopia's is not helping me finish books. :)

Finished Reading:

Feel Your Way Through ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Randomly found this in overdrive. Kelsea Ballerini wrote a collection of poems, published in Nov. 2021, about her life and experience as a woman. It definitely felt like she created these originally as a part of therapy. There were some powerful poems and I really enjoyed this. TWs are addressed in the author's note at the beginning.

Crush ⭐⭐⭐
This is an updated Twilight series. Why am I addicted and why are these books so long?

Well Matched ⭐⭐⭐
I finished book two in this series and the first chapter of this one was included. I had high hopes but it was just good. I find it difficult to put the books in this series down, even though the sequels haven't been as good as the first.

PS 2021 49/50
PS 2017 49/52
Goodreads 257/250

Currently Reading:
Covet so long
Shifting Shadows this will finish PS 2021

To Read In December
Malibu Rising BOTM
Beartown PS 2017 best seller in 2016
The Graveyard Book PS 2017 about a holiday not XMAS
Not sure what to read for PS 2017 month or day of the week in the title. Anyone got a short book recommendation?

QOTW:
First look so many. Group members have definitely pointed out some good options but I still have a lot of tbr to look through.
I will need help with:
social-horror (I still don't understand what this is)
twin cities (really don't like this)
palindrome
onomatopoeia
featuring a man-made disaster

Just a mention for those that care, you can vote for this book to win the historical fiction category of the 2021 goodreads choice awards.

This might be my favourite prompt and I’ll probably use it to read Fahrenheit 451.

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type is cute and it has sequels that will work like Giggle, Giggle, Quack

I'll probably slot in a graphic novel or a poetry collection.

This is on my tbr 2022 list The Deepest of Secrets. It's book 7 of a mystery series from one of my favourite authors that is being published in 2022.

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

This is basically historical fiction with a little bit of magic thrown in. This very much deals with gender identity, while being a really great story.

Mastermind
Cranium
Speak Out (This is the disturbing game where you have a plastic thing in your mouth stretching your lips and then you have say words and it's supposed to be funny)
Trivial Pursuit
Cribbage
Plague Inc.
Kerplop
Operation
Frustration
Hitchhiker
Taboo
Rummy-O
Phase 10
Careers
Scatagories
Guess Who
Snakes & Ladders
Cards Against Humanity
Elephants Never Forget
Hangman (it has a little skeleton you build/hang)
Steeplechase
Balderdash
Outburst
Tribond
Pictionary
Apples to Apples
I don't play board games at all. ;)

The Six of Crows duology will fit this prompt for those that like to double up.

So not a horror set at a social event like The Guest List?

Fingers crossed we get a new Murderbot in 2022.

Alex wrote: "I feel like A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking should have at least one recipe in it?? Either way I'm planning to read it so I guess I'll find out, haha."

Ooh I want to read this too.

Nadine wrote: "Erica wrote: "Read this last spring, Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron. Fake engagement trope where the couple enter a cooking competition only for couples. Two ..."

Hope you like like I did. I intend to read more by this Canadian author. It's set in Toronto.

I want to read something by Elizabeth Acevedo so probably Clap When You Land.

The newest Sophie Kinsella was good.
The Party Crasher

You could just use the last book you read for 2021's challenge if you need to a have a plan.

Thanks @Rachel I feel the need to read that now. :)

So if an author won a lifetime achievement award, would their works be fair game?