Choices/Suggestions-Prompt Options

[Chelsea]

Feel free to discuss your choices for the prompts on the 2018 reading challenge! If you need suggestions for the prompts or would like to provide recommendations for others, please discuss here. You can find the prompts and a printable checklist for yourself here:

https://www.popsugar.com/entertainmen...

[Kirsten]

A book about a villain... Scarpia by Piers Paul Read. Scarpia was the villain in the opera Tosca

[Kirsten]

Anyone have any childhood classics? I'm trying to think of one I didn't read...

[Chelsea]

I somehow managed to work the last four Harry Potter books into my challenge and I couldn't be more happy about it. Haha! I tried to keep my personal challenge limited to books I haven't read yet, but that's not a rule for the challenge.

[Chelsea]

Kirsten wrote: "Anyone have any childhood classics? I'm trying to think of one I didn't read..."

I had to use Goodreads List feature to find several options for my prompts. Have you tried searching their childhood classics and seeing if there's one that you spot on there?

[Kirsten]

A book set in the decade you were born... The Religious Body by Catherine Aird (1966)

[Kirsten]

A book about a problem facing society today ... Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge

[Kirsten]

Chelsea wrote: "Kirsten wrote: "Anyone have any childhood classics? I'm trying to think of one I didn't read..."

I had to use Goodreads List feature to find several options for my prompts. Have you tried searchin..."

No, not yet.

[TR]

I am doing this challenge on another page where we are doing it as a group. Each person picks a prompt that they want, then when they finish, they pick another one. So each participant winds up reading 3-4 books, instead of 40-50. But with as many members are as here, it would be kind of hard to do.

[Chelsea]

TR wrote: "I am doing this challenge on another page where we are doing it as a group. Each person picks a prompt that they want, then when they finish, they pick another one. So each participant winds up rea..."

Oh that is a fantastic idea!

[Jamie Rosenblit]

White Houses this will likely be my choice for a novel about a real person!

[Jamie Rosenblit]

A book about time travel: The Time Traveler's Wife - maybe this will be the year I finally read this! And it will also cover the "book made into a movie you have already seen" prompt, as well!

[Jamie Rosenblit]

Little Fires Everywhere for a prior Goodreads Choice Award Winner!

[Jamie Rosenblit]

Macbeth Nordic Noir!

[TR]

I'm starting off with, 17) A book that you borrowed or was given to you as a gift. Thanks Thelma! :)

[Chelsea]

I decided for the book set in the decade I was born to go with Jurassic Park; amazed I haven't read it and yet it's one of my favorite movies!

[Jessica]

So is the plan to find a book for each challenge correct? We can't combined two challenges in one book right?

[Chelsea]

Jessica wrote: "So is the plan to find a book for each challenge correct? We can't combined two challenges in one book right?"

That is correct, at least to be able to enter for the grand prize at the end of the challenge. Otherwise, I think everyone should be able to do it however they see fit! It's just supposed to be fun, so whichever you'd like to do is fine. :)

[Jessica]

A book you made into a movie you've already seen:

True Crime:

The next book in a series you started:

A book involving a heist:

A novel based on a real person:

This is what I have so far. Not sure about Nordic Noir

[Jamie Rosenblit]

My Sister's Keeper is on my all time favorite list and is a million times better than the movie, you will love it!

Jessica wrote: "A book you made into a movie you've already seen:

True Crime:

The next book in a serie..."

[Chelsea]

Jessica wrote: "A book you made into a movie you've already seen:

True Crime:

The next book in a serie..."

Six of Crows is amazing! I hope you love it! 🤗

[Jamie Rosenblit]

This will be my next book in a series, I really enjoyed the first one earlier this year! What You Want to See

[Chelsea]

Jamie wrote: "This will be my next book in a series, I really enjoyed the first one earlier this year! What You Want to See"


That’s funny; I chose that one for my book featuring an LGBT character! 😍🙌🏼

[Jamie Rosenblit]

Male pseudonym, I will finally read this!!! The Cuckoo's Calling

[Jamie Rosenblit]

Ooooh, good idea!

Chelsea wrote: "Jamie wrote: "This will be my next book in a series, I really enjoyed the first one earlier this year! What You Want to See"


That’s funny; I chose that one for my book featuring a..."

[Jessica]

It didn’t add all my books. I’ll have to try again

[Jamie Rosenblit]

Thanks, Chelsea, for helping me vet some books that take place in the decade I was born (80s)! I'm going to read The Secret History which has been on my list forever and a half and I'm thrilled to finally read it next year!

[Sam (Clues and Reviews)]

Jamie wrote: "A book about time travel: The Time Traveler's Wife - maybe this will be the year I finally read this! And it will also cover the "book made into a movie you have already seen" promp..."

I really liked The Time Traveller's Wife; that is the perfect book for that prompt!

[Jessica]

So question for a local author challenge would John Green count since he did go to school in Orlando, FL lol 😂

[Chelsea]

Jessica wrote: "So question for a local author challenge would John Green count since he did go to school in Orlando, FL lol 😂"

Absolutely!

[TR]

Clarification on the rules, if you read a book that covers 3 of the prompts, does it count as 3 or 1? Can you cross off everything it covers or do you have to pick which prompt it fills and use something else for the other two?

[Kirsten]

I think we all interpret the challege differently, TR. I remember this year of hearing of one person trying to read a graphic novel for each prompt (!!).

Me, I refuse to double up and I try to follow the prompts exactly. But every one is different. It's not like you're judged.

Basically I use it as a way to clean up my TBR.

[Chelsea]

TR wrote: "Clarification on the rules, if you read a book that covers 3 of the prompts, does it count as 3 or 1? Can you cross off everything it covers or do you have to pick which prompt it fills and use som..."

Hey there! You can use it however you want; however, to be eligible to be entered into the grand prize then you must do a separate books for each prompt.

[Jen]

Kirsten wrote: "Anyone have any childhood classics? I'm trying to think of one I didn't read..."

Ditto.....

[Jen]

Kirsten wrote: "A book about a problem facing society today ... Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge"

How to Clone the Perfect Blonde, Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
The End of the Line, Charles Clover

[Kirsten]

Jen wrote: "Kirsten wrote: "Anyone have any childhood classics? I'm trying to think of one I didn't read..."

Ditto....."

We could all suggest a children's book we loved for others.

One of my favorites was Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper, for even younger children it was Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss

[Jen]

Jessica wrote: "A book you made into a movie you've already seen:

True Crime:

The next book in a serie..."

The girl with series for Nordic Noir.....been meaning to read them for ages.

[Kirsten]

Jen wrote: "Jessica wrote: "A book you made into a movie you've already seen:

True Crime:

The next..."

These are great books. I loved #2 even more than #1. My advice for you is stick with it in the first 1/3 of book #1. It can drag a little with the prep. Once he gets on the island it picks up.

[Christine]

I'm reading Dark Places. Half the book takes place in the present, and half in the 80s. Do you guys think this book would count for "Read a book set in the decade you were born" prompt?

[Christine]

I'm doing Tuck Everlasting for a childhood classic, Stardust for a book that was made into a movie you've already seen, and The Good Widow for a book with two authors.

Anyone have any recommendations for me? I love YA, Fantasy, SciFi, and Historical Fiction (Read a book recommended by someone else taking the PopSugar Challenge).

[Kirsten]

Christine wrote: "I'm reading Dark Places. Half the book takes place in the present, and half in the 80s. Do you guys think this book would count for "Read a book set in the decade you were born" prompt?"

You were born in the 80s, d***, I feel old!

[Christine]

Kirsten wrote: "Christine wrote: "I'm reading Dark Places. Half the book takes place in the present, and half in the 80s. Do you guys think this book would count for "Read a book set in the decade y..."

I feel your pain. In a Facebook group I'm in that is about this challenge, a girl posted this morning about being born in 2000 and what good books were set in the 00s. I couldn't handle it hahaha.

[Chelsea]

Christine wrote: "I'm doing Tuck Everlasting for a childhood classic, Stardust for a book that was made into a movie you've already seen, and The Good Widow for a book with ..."

Oh yes!! Have you read Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson? If you’re in the mood for YA fantasy one of my favorites lately was Roar by Cora Carmack

[Melanie]

Question: Local Author prompt...Emma Donoghue is currently and has lived for quite a long time in my home city even though she was originally from Ireland...may I consider her local?

[Chelsea]

Absolutely Melanie! 🤗

[Kirsten]

I was wondering if local could apply to your state, even though they live 300 miles away?

[Jen]

Kirsten wrote: "I was wondering if local could apply to your state, even though they live 300 miles away?"
Good point! I don't know of anyone here who has published but 2 colleagues from my last school (in the same state) have given me copies of their books and I have been meaning to read them for the last 4 years...... My last school is 1300km away but that's a 1 day drive to us. Does it count as local?

[Chelsea]

Definitely guys! I would think within the state is still local. This is just fun so you can manipulate the answers a bit.

[Christine]

I just finished Goodnight June, by Sarah Jio. I used it for my "Time of Day" prompt, but it's also set in a bookstore, is based on a real person (Margaret Wise Brown), and I rated it 4 stars, so I'm recommending it to all of you. Maybe it'll help someone finish their prompt!

[Rebecca]

Has anyone found if either of our January group reads count towards a prompt?