Amanda’s Comments (group member since Nov 18, 2018)

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

Chrissy wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Is there a way to determine book length just by your TBR list on Goodreads? I don't have a book that immediately sticks out as "longest" or "shortest"..."

Yes, you can sort by numbe..."
I DIDN'T KNOW THIS --- THANK YOU!!!!

Is there a way to determine book length just by your TBR list on Goodreads? I don't have a book that immediately sticks out as "longest" or "shortest"...

Leah wrote: "Mine is probably 11/22/63 at like 850. Not *horrible* I suppose..."

AMAZING book! You won't be disappointed!

Looking to hopefully fit one of these into the Bechdel test prompt - anyone know if any of these fit??

Pretty Girls Dancing
A Beautiful Work In Progress
Silent Victim
The Thinnest Air
Lies That Bind Us
The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores
The King Tides
Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
The Forgotten Hours

Heather wrote: "How are you getting the book picture and link to copy in your comment?"

Click "add book/author" then click the "cover" button before searching :)

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Chrissi wrote: "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women - on my Kindle to read.

I haven't read it yet, but I have [book:Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men|4..."

Radium Girls was AMAZING on audio!!

Any mystery/thriller/suspense fans:


Might have been a Kindle First Read a couple of years ago. Still on my TBR

2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge


⍟ = currently reading
✔ = completed

Regular (35/44)
✔ 1. A book that’s published in 2020 - Great and Precious Things
✔ 2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author – The Future of Another Timeline
✔ 3. A book with a great first line - Little Fires Everywhere
✔ 4. A book about a book club – Crimes Against a Book Club
✔ 5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics - Supernova Era
✔ 6. A bildungsroman – The Secret Life of Bees
- 7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed -
✔ 8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover - I'm Fine and Neither Are You
⍟ 9. A book with a map - The Alchemist
✔ 10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club - Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
- 11. An anthology - The Tales of Beedle the Bard (borrow, print)
✔ 12. A book that passes the Bechdel test - City of Girls
✔ 13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it - Inside Out
- 14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name - The Girl on the Train
✔ 15. A book published the month of your birthday - The Wife Between Us
✔ 16. A book about or by a woman in STEM – Where the Crawdads Sing
✔ 17. A book that won an award in 2019 - Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
✔ 18. A book on a subject you know nothing about - The Sky Below
✔ 19. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics - The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001
✔ 20. A book with a pun in the title - A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
✔ 21. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins - The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator
✔ 22. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character – Cinder
- 23. A book with a bird on the cover - The Unhoneymooners
✔ 24. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader – The President Is Missing
✔ 25. A book with “gold”, “silver”, or “bronze” in the title – The Goldfinch
✔ 26. A book by a WOC – Remembrance
✔ 27. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads - Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
✔ 28. A book you meant to read in 2019 - Sparrow
- 29. A book about or involving social media – Followers
✔ 30. A book that has a book on the cover - The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
- 31. A medical thriller – Saving Meghan
✔ 32. A book with a made-up language - 1984
✔ 33. A book set in a country beginning with “C” – Anne of Green Gables
✔ 34. A book you picked because the title caught your attention - Torture Mom: A Chilling True Story of Confinement, Mutilation and Murder
✔ 35. A book with a three-word title - The Safe Place
✔ 36. A book with a pink cover - Tourist Season
✔ 37. A Western - The Sisters Brothers
✔ 38. A book by or about a journalist - Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
✔ 39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week – Lord of the Flies
- 40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge
✔ a) 2015: a memoir - Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
- b) 2016: a book written by a celebrity - Yes Please (own, print)
- c) 2017: a book you bought on a trip - Alcatraz from Inside (own, print)
✔ d) 2018: the next book in a series you started - And the Mountains Echoed
✔ e) 2019: a book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads - Insurgent

Might possibly try my hand at the advanced prompts this year!

Advanced (9/10)
✔ 1. A book written by an author in their 20s - Normal People
✔ 2. A book with “20” or “twenty” in the title - Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
✔ 3. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement – All the Light We Cannot See
✔ 4. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
✔ 5. A book set in the 1920s – Memoirs of a Geisha
✔ 6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books – The Outsider
✔ 7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title – Witchnapped in Westerham
✔ 8. A book published in the 20th century – Jurassic Park
- 9. A book from a series with more than 20 books – Invisible Prey
✔ 10. A book with a main character in their 20s - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

TOTAL: (44/54)

Nancy wrote: "I've been eyeing The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson."

me too! Excuse found to finally read it!

New book coming out January 9... sounds interesting - Followers

⍟ = currently reading
✔ = completed

!!COMPLETED DEC 21!!
Regular (40/43)
✔ 1. A book becoming a movie in 2019 - The Woman in the Window
✔ 2. A book that makes you nostalgic - Slimed!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age
✔ 3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction) - Pet Sematary
✔ 4. A book you think should be turned into a movie - A Man Called Ove
✔ 5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads - A Thousand Splendid Suns
✔ 6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover - The Girl In Between
✔ 7. A reread of a favorite book - The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
✔ 8. A book about a hobby - Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together
✔ 9. A book you meant to read in 2018 - The Temporary Agent
✔ 10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title - Sugar Cookie Murder
✔ 11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover - American Homemaker
✔ 12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
✔ 13. A book published posthumously - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
✔ 14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie - A Wrinkle in Time
✔ 15. A retelling of a classic - Bellamy and The Brute
✔ 16. A book with a question in the title - What Have You Done
✔ 17. A book set on college or university campus - A Discovery of Witches
✔ 18. A book about someone with a superpower - Library of Souls
✔ 19. A book told from multiple POVs - Wilder Girls
✔ 20. A book set in space - Gravity
✔ 21. A book by two female authors - An Anonymous Girl
✔ 22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title - Sweet Addiction
✔ 23. A book set in Scandinavia - The Snowman
✔ 24. A book that takes place in a single day - Digital Fortress
✔ 25. A debut novel - The Infinite Noise
✔ 26. A book that's published in 2019 - Daisy Jones & The Six
✔ 27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature - Eclipse
✔ 28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire - The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
✔ 29. A book with LOVE in the title - Locked Up Love
✔ 30. A book featuring an amateur detective - Murder at the Vicarage
✔ 31. A book about a family - Whisper Me This
✔ 32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
✔ 33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title - Light from Distant Stars
✔ 34. A book that includes a wedding - Breaking Dawn
✔ 35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter - Number the Stars
✔ 36. A ghost story - Rules For Vanishing
✔ 37. A book with a two-word title - Finding Rebecca
✔ 38. A novel based on a true story - Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
✔ 39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
✔ 40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge
✔ a) 2015: a book you own but have never read - The House of Silk;
✔ b) 2018: a self-improvement book - 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life: BS-Free Wisdom to Ignite Your Inner Badass and Live the Life You Deserve;
✔ c) 2017: a book with multiple authors - The Warner Boys: Our Family’s Story of Autism and Hope; and
✔ d) 2016: a book that takes place during Summer - The Things We Wish Were True

Raquel wrote: "I'm going with A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea, since that's what I chose for the similar prompt from ATY.

I can also recommend Food Wars!, Vol. 1!!

I think I'm going to go with Whisper Me This. I got it as one of my free Kindle books a few months back and I love me a thriller!

Abbie wrote: "There are a lot of readers on Orange is the New Black. Here's a list from the most recent season, and it has a link to their list for the previous season at the bottom of the page: https://bookriot..."

HUGE fan of the show, but haven't watched this season yet... Just went through the list and I read Strip Tease YEARS ago... may be time for a re-read!

Kelsey wrote: "Yay Rory Gilmore! Theres a list that says she read The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America and I've been eyeing that book for a while now!"

That book is amazing! I read it a few years ago!

Has anyone read The Gracekeepers?? Would that fit the prompt??

Raquel wrote: "These are ones I've read and can recommend:

Video games:
(nonfiction)
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

SuperBette..."</i>

I second [book:The Paper Magician and the entire series by Charlie N. Holmberg!!

This'll be my excuse to re-read something so I can finally get rid of it!

Currently working on the Twilight series so I can get rid of them, so I'm sure it'll be one of them... but I do (not so secretly anymore) like them as quick reads! :)

Initially thought I'd go the easy route on this one and re-read because sooooo many books I've read would make GREAT movies, but I'll take others advice on this one!

I read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini but I definitely have A Thousand Splendid Suns and And the Mountains Echoed on my list... definitely options!

My advice to anyone looking for a book.... The Butterfly Garden is INCREDIBLE and so is Beautiful Disaster! I hope BOTH of these are made into movies!!!