Stephanie’s Comments (group member since Jan 05, 2015)

Stephanie’s comments from the Pop Sugar's Annual Ultimate Reading Challenge group.

i've been pretty lax in rules, so i can use one book for three different categories. any format counts unless it's something like poetry (...i considered using The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot and had to come up with that rule).

i'm trying not to re-read unless it was something from 10+ years ago or the first book in a trilogy. but yeah, i try to be mindful of stretching myself into different genres and it's really haarddd haha.

Sheally wrote: "Alright I finished Cress, so now do I have to read Winter for it to count as the trilogy? I mean I am, or I will, just making sure."

you don't HAVE to read Winter, but why wouldn't you? ;)

i just added Under Different Stars to my to-read BASICALLY bc of the cover, in case anybody wanted more suggestions

yeah, this is a toughie. would you rather read like...a more mature YA or something like that instead? what are you looking for?

a goodreads list suggested The Time Traveler's Wife. that doesn't seem YA

just throwing this out there since we have more members now, does anyone have suggestions for SA? it seems like a hard one :/

Sheally wrote: "I have an Ember in the Ashes on my list to read as author with same initials."

lucky :P i'm going to have to pull a random book i've never heard of for SA :/

i'd say the ones i enjoyed/had fun with the most were

I Am Princess X
Hyperbole and a Half

but

In The Heart of the Sea
An Ember in the Ashes
were both books i'd recommend highly

but honestly, listopia has helped me a lot this challenge, so maybe look up "covers" and a lot of things will come up.

Red Queen
These Broken Stars
The Winner's Curse
A Thousand Nights not yet released
The Wrath and The Dawn
The Night Circus
Tsarina
This Song Will Save Your Life
The Martian


i found all of those appealing and added them for the cover mostly. if i didn't know what the martian was about, i would go pick it up lol. i left out some spooky looking ones bc i don't think that's your style?

i had a hard time with this too. i'm currently reading In The Heart of the Sea for this (but it reads more like non-fiction so i might categorize it as that instead).

before i found it though, i was thinking of delving into something based on true crime, like the Black Dahlia. but - now that i think about it - even something based on Jack the Ripper or the Titanic or something large like that could work.

no, thank goodness, that would make things so complicated! :) from what i've seen, we are sticking with first and last name.

hmm i found it under the "list brainstorming" topics. did you look there?

if not, here is the link again:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

you could read Avalon High for something light and fluffy? lol

Sheally wrote: "It's a book I had to read for the Arkansas Teen Book Award Committee called Glory O' Brien's History of the Future. "

i looked it up and, while i am not the ruler or all time voice on this, i would personally say no because she's already done with high school. i think the spirit of the category is that the main characters should be in a modern high school realm for most of the book.

uhhh i think i know what difference you're talking about, but i think it just has to be a high school...set up.

so i picked Eleanor and Park for this even though most of the story isn't necessarily at the high school itself. but they spend time around their school (on the bus before and after school) and classes, assignments, and teachers are mentioned enough. so it's still a factor in the book if not the main focal point.

what were you considering?

I've got

- The Unspoken trilogy
- The Everneath trilogy (well, i only read the first two)
- The Infernal Devices trilogy
- The Madman's Daughter
- Throne of Glass

i happened to run into a bad review book on my TBR Girl In The Arena. it has a 2.99 rating. it actually wasn't that bad, but it was pretty slow in tone and didn't promise action like the blurb sells it as. have you checked your TBR? it might have some surprises like that. otherwise, i think anything less than 3.5 is acceptable personally.

yeah, i think what Crystal ^ says is also a pretty adventurous way of picking a book for this challenge. i'll probably just go do that myself!

sorry, can't easily find any for HC or HS :/