Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion
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What do I do if I have a book that I'm reading that doesn't fit any of the prompts for this challenge?
Reed wrote: "What do I do if I have a book that I'm reading that doesn't fit any of the prompts for this challenge?"Finish it and then read something that does fit a prompt?
See how far you can bend the prompts to make the book fit? That's what I do!
Reed wrote: "What do I do if I have a book that I'm reading that doesn't fit any of the prompts for this challenge?"I also make a goal on the Goodreads reading challenge. So any book I read that doesn't work for the Popsugar challenge at least works for the Goodreads one.
Hi!!! I wanted to know if anyone would consider Malibu Rising as meeting the family tree criteria for the reading challenge?Thanks!
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Thanks!"
I don't remember seeing a family tree in that book. But I mostly listened to the audiobook so maybe I missed it.
Where do we suggest ideas for Question of the Week?
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Best way is to send me or Lynn a message. You can suggest it right in the weekly check-in post, too, but then you run the risk of it not being noticed.
Hi everyone, I'm waaaaaaay behind schedule so I'm going to cut some corners. Can anyone say if any books from this list can be used for these prompts?https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Does anyone know when the 2022 list will come out and also how are the prompts chosen?
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The Popsugar (magazine? blog? group?) creates the list themselves. We never quite know when it will be released. Last year it came out Dec 1st.
Luciana wrote: "Hi everyone, I'm waaaaaaay behind schedule so I'm going to cut some corners. Can anyone say if any books from this list can be used for these prompts?https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2......"
I know for sure that The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman features three generations.
Nadine wrote: "Duy wrote: "Does anyone know when the 2022 list will come out and also how are the prompts chosen?"The Popsugar (magazine? blog? group?) creates the list themselves. We never quite know when it ..."
Thanks! I wonder if they look at the ATY challenge at all as sometimes there are overlaps :)
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The Popsugar (magazine? blog? group?) creates the list themselves. We never quit..."
They might. They also pay attention to user submissions, and there is significant user overlap between the two groups, so that is the more likely reason why there is sometimes a category overlap.
Luciana wrote: "Hi everyone, I'm waaaaaaay behind schedule so I'm going to cut some corners. Can anyone say if any books from this list can be used for these prompts?https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2......"
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is also a song by Eric Church
There are a few Black and White covers on there (The Stranger, Tao Te Ching and others),
Sula by Toni Morrison could be a book about a social justice issue
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight appears to be authored by unknown which I think would also count as anonymous? Though I'm not sure. Beowulf is another that has an unknown author and is relatively short.
Does anyone know why my challenge stats don't match my shelf?I've added 42 books to my shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
But only 31 appear in my challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/user_challe...
Help!
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I've added 42 books to my shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
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All of the books that you've added today (11/16) show "not set" for Date Read. Fix that, and they should all show up as "read."
Nadine wrote: "All of the books that you've added today (11/16) show "not set" for Date Read. Fix that, and they should all show up as "read.""Thank you so much!
Does anyone know if popsugar is doing a 2022 book challenge? I can't find it on their site.
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Yes they are. The new list is not out yet.
I need an opinion. Every year I put Les Miserables on my list and I either substitute another book for it or I don't make my goal. That's because it's between 1600-2000 pages...that's 4-5 books for me. Right now I have 40/50 and some of them are in various stages of completion, but there is no way I can get in Les Mis. I propose that do 1/3 of it for the next three years. Instead of it being an albatross, it will be an accomplishment. Any ideas?
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Take it off your list. Someday, maybe next year, you'll WANT to read it, and you can break it up across three years, and WOW it will be an accomplishment!!! But don't force it.
I took Anna Karenina off my list this year. It was my longest book. It was there because I felt like I SHOULD read it, not because I actually wanted to read it. It was so freeing to just delete it!! And the book is still out there, it's not like I'm going to forget "Anna Karenina."
Anne Hawn wrote: "I need an opinion. Every year I put Les Miserables on my list and I either substitute another book for it or I don't make my goal. That's because it's between 1600-2000 pages...that's 4-5 books for..."I'm working my way through it this year - for the Longest Book prompt - but it's taken me this long to read about a quarter of it! I'm going to try to persevere, though.
I'm finishing Les Miz this week and I started it in January. I'd recommend the serial reader app to help break it up for you into daily segments. That's what I did.
Britany wrote: "I'm finishing Les Miz this week and I started it in January. I'd recommend the serial reader app to help break it up for you into daily segments. That's what I did."Cheers.
If I do get through it, it's going to be the longest book I've ever read.
I read The Winds of War for my longest. It took months but it was excellent.
I see that the 2022 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge is available. https://www.popsugar.com/entertainmen...What I can't seem to find is a Google Docs version, or any kind of typed list that I could copy and paste into Google Docs myself. The "printable" version is all one image, so I would need to print it out and then retype the entire thing to have it available online!
I don't want to reinvent the wheel if somebody else is already typing it up. And I'd be willing to do the typing (just not today) but I'm not entirely sure how to make it into a sharable Google doc. I do know how to type it up in a personal Google Doc and then copy and paste into the text of a Goodreads post, so that others could copy and paste it into whatever format works for them.
It still seems weird to me that nobody over at POPSUGAR is making this list available in a more accessible format. Clearly somebody has already done the typing!
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What I can't seem to find is a Google Docs version, or any kind ..."
Click "View all on one page" and scroll down a bit, just below the printable, you'll see a text list you can copy.
Or you can just copy the list from our group :-)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nadine in NY wrote: "Ruth wrote: "I see that the 2022 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge is available. https://www.popsugar.com/entertainmen...What I can't seem to find is a Google Docs version,..." Thanks!
Nadine in NY wrote: "Anne Hawn wrote: "I need an opinion. Every year I put Les Miserables on my list and I either substitute another book for it or I don't make my goal. That's because it's between 1600-2000 pages...th..."I've settled on reading it in thirds...3 years for the whole book. I really love it and don't want to feel rushed. Someone reminded me that the lists are here for us. There are no Popsugar police. Dividing it into thirds, is still a long book for each year.
I'm not registering as having read any books and I've read five so far. My name and photo come up when I log in...but just my first name. How do I create the shelf. I'm currently 131 in the lists of people who are doing the challenge. I'd like to be able to enter my own "shelf" so I can get right to i. Thanks for help.
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I'm not sure what your question is.
If Goodreads is not showing your books as "read" for this year, then you probably just need to enter a finished date for them. Right now, your "Read" shelf shows that you've read 3 books this year, all of them finished on Jan 6. To correct or add a finished date, go to the book page, edit your review, and enter the correct date you finished the book. In browser, this is at the bottom of your review; in the app, this is at the top of your review.
You've got a lot of shelves, so I know you know all about creating shelves! If you want to use the widget on this group's home page to track your progress in this challenge, just create a new shelf for your challenge reads - name it anything you want - then put that exact shelf name in where it says "enter a shelf name for this challenge." Again, make sure your finished date for each book is in 2022, and the widget will track completed books automatically. You can add and remove books you want to read to this shelf as often as you like, it won't affect your count - the widget will only track finished books.
I'm trying to add them to my PopSugar challenge. I have my profile, but clearly none of the books I've checked on the PopSugar list are registering. I'll do what you suggest so that they register for my regular yearly challenge. Thanks.
Nadine, I think she’s talking about the challenge tracker posted at top of the group home page. It asks you to post the number of books you plan to read for the challenge and for a shelf name.
Jane wrote: "I'm trying to add them to my PopSugar challenge. I have my profile, but clearly none of the books I've checked on the PopSugar list are registering. I'll do what you suggest so that they register f..."I was having the same problem until I created a shelf specifically named 2022 Popsugar reading challenge and shelved my books there.
If I finished a book in a day, but broke it up for errands that needed to be done, does that still count as "in one sitting?" Too much of a stretch??
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I'd count it. You COULD have read it in one sitting if real life didn't get in the way. And the prompt is "a book you can read in one sitting" not "a book you did read in one sitting."
Kirsten wrote: "I'd say so. Yes. You can't use 1 book in more than 1 category."
I haven't got time this year to read one book for each prompt,
as I am doing other reading challenges at the same time and have had a busy year, so I am doubling and tripling up, doing it this way I can read more books over the year and hit more prompts at the same time.
Rachel wrote: "I haven't got time this year to read one book for each prompt,as I am doing other reading challenges at the same time and have had a busy year, so I am doubling and tripling up, doing it this way I can read more books over the year and hit more prompts at the same time."
I did that the first couple of years of Popsugar Challenges. It's kind of fun to find books that fit two or more prompts.
I recently found this challenge. If I begin on July 1 will I be able to use books previously read beginning with 1/1/22?
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Yes, absolutely!!! (And I would do that without hesitation if it were me.) There are no strict rules, this is YOUR challenge, so anything you decide is what works. You can shift the time span for your challenge, you can count books you read earlier this year, you can double up and check off more than one category with one book, you can read all picture books, you can decide to just finish 20 categories instead of all 50. You get the idea! Your challenge, your rules.
I’m guessing it’s been asked elsewhere but will there be a 2023 challenge?
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Yes there will be! We don't know when the list will be released or anything else about it.
Nadine in NY wrote: "Rachel wrote: "I’m guessing it’s been asked elsewhere but will there be a 2023 challenge?"Yes there will be! We don't know when the list will be released or anything else about it."
That was on my mind today.
Jane wrote: "I'm not registering as having read any books and I've read five so far. My name and photo come up when I log in...but just my first name. How do I create the shelf. I'm currently 131 in the lists o..."Have you been marking finished date on the books? Read shelf is automatically a shelf.
To make a new shelf on the new book pages you have to make a tag. It makes a new shelf. Or open a shelf like want to read and add the shelf button is at the bottom.
Will there even be a 2023 challenge, the person who created the list has left, and their website hasn't been updated in ages...
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There is no length requirement. This is just for fun, so there are no rules. If you think the book fits, it fits.
If you want to track your books, you can post your list here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Bookmark your list for yourself so it's easy to find so you can go back and edit it as you read: if you're on a computer browser, you can click on the date of your comment after you post it (upper right of your comment), and then bookmark that page.