Cassandrah’s Comments (group member since Jan 02, 2019)

Cassandrah’s comments from the Popsugar Reading Challenge 2019 group.

Our other moderator here, Christi, created a Popsugar Reading Challenge 2020 to work on this year's reading challenge! Hope to see everyone over there!

Sonya wrote: "I know this is really late but I did finish the challenge about a week before the end of the year. I might have thrown in a kid's book or two but at least I finished! I think this is my first year ..."

Congratulations!!! That's awesome!

I read The Dragonet Prophecy and The Lost Heir by Tui T. Sutherland graphic novels, which were really good! The images are amazing, and the story is very good too.

I also read/listened to Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare, which continues from The Mortal Instruments into another trilogy following Emma and Julian 5 years later. Her writing keeps improving with time, which someone else had told me too.

I read furiously and read a bunch, but not enough to finish my challenge :(

This week I read a lot of graphic novels to get my challenge in!

The Hidden Kingdom by Tui T. Sutherland graphic version. I loved this book, the pictures are gorgeous and I really got sucked into the story! My students have loved Wings of Fire so I thought I'd give it a try and I really recommend if you love dragons.

Amulet Series #1-#3
The Stonekeeper, The Stonekeeper's Curse, and The Cloud Searchers by Kazu Kibuishi.
This is also a series loved by my students and I also enjoyed it a lot! It had somewhat dystopian vibes for me, which is one of my all time favorite genres, so I really enjoyed as well. It also has very strong familial ties.

So, unfortunately I did not finish my challenge, cue the sad tears! First year I haven't and I'm really upset BUT I have to remember that having a newborn really changes things, and there was a couple months I don't think I even picked up a book.

I was furiously going through books I read and put them in categories, but I still had categories I couldn't fill in. Mostly the advanced, but still. I'm missing about 15 books.

I did enjoy all of the books I read for the challenge, and one of the reasons I do like challenges is it gets me out of my comfort zone with books and I find others I really enjoy.

How did everyone else do??

Did you finish the challenge? If so, did you like all the books you read for the program? If not, how many books were you short?

For Dec. 22-31.

For the week of Dec. 15-21.

For the week of Dec. 8-14.

For the week of Dec. 1-7.

For the Week of Nov. 24-30.

I read 2 books this week!

I read 'Ravenous' by Helen Hardt (#11 Steel Brothers Saga) and it was AMAZING! I love this series and can't wait for the next 4 which publish next year!

I also finished 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' by Steig Larsson, which was my pop sugar challenge for a book set in Scandinavia.

I’m at 30/50 (as I’m also doing the advanced) and some of them I did the same and after reading was like hey that works there! I’ll be working up til the end, but hopefully finish!

For the Week of Nov. 17-23.

Not as great this week, but still trying to chug along.
I read 'Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All (#5), which I liked.

And I read 'Breathless' by Helen Hardt, which is book 10 in the saga of the Steel Brothers and IT WAS AMAZING! If you haven't read this series yet I highly recommend!!

For the week of Nov. 10-16.

Another decent week!

I read 'Unraveled' by Helen Hardt (Steel Brothers (#9), which has a great ending to the saga!

I also read 'Just Jamie' by Terri Libenson, which is a graphic novel in a series she's doing with various characters at a middle school. I have them in my classroom and a lot of students like the books as well.

Lastly I read 'Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess' by Rachel Renee Russell (#4) and am really enjoying the series. I can see why so many of my students read them!

For the week of Nov. 3-9.

I am so proud of this past week! (Even if I did have to read books that my students read lol).

First, I read 'When Will This Cruel War be Over?' by Barry Denenberg to fulfill my book with a question in the title. It is a Dear America book about the Civil War. It was a pretty quick read, and also was pretty good, I used to read these all the time in middle school so it was fun to revisit.

I then read 'Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life' (Dork Diaries #1), 'Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl' (Dork Diaries #2), and 'Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star' (Dork Diaries #3) by Rachel Renee Russell. I needed to read #3 for my book with 'pop', 'sugar', or 'challenge' in the title, and of course I wanted to start from the beginning of the series! The positive thing about reading these is it's a quick read for me, and I'm reading books my students have read and can bond with them over this book. The series is pretty good as well, it gives an insight into Nikki Maxwell's diary about her middle school experiences.

I also read 'Twisted' by Helen Hardt (Steel Brothers #8). I love this series so much, and highly recommend to everyone! (Warning: this series is erotica and mentions child abuse).

And lastly, I read 'Boy-Crazy Stacey' by Gale Galligan, adapted from the original Baby Sitter's Club. My students love these graphic novels, so I started them last year and love them as well!

I hope next week is just as well so I can finally get above 20 books behind!

I read Dork Diaries #3 'Tales from a NOT-SO-Talented Pop Star' by Rachel Renee Russell.