2018 Popsugar Reading Challenge Discussion Thread

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

To share ideas and help on the new challenge.

[Narilka]

I have no idea what "Nordic Noir" even is :) That will take some googling.

[Jay]

Narilka wrote: "I have no idea what "Nordic Noir" even is :) That will take some googling."

I think it's stuff like Jo Nesbø's The Snowman (on my TBR, yay!) or Stieg Larsson's Milennium series (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc.).
Hope that helps.

[Narilka]

Ahh. Yep, Scandinavian crime fiction. Ok, that makes it much easier to find something.

[Sandy]

I am up for this challenge - sounds like fun.

[Sandy]

What is a celebrity book club?

[Jay]

Sandy wrote: "What is a celebrity book club?"

Like the "Oprah" book club.

[Elle]

Sandy wrote: "What is a celebrity book club?"

Something like the Oprah Book Club.

[Sandy]

Anyone have any titles for an allegory?

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Narilka wrote: "I have no idea what "Nordic Noir" even is :) That will take some googling."

Me, neither, but I found some on Listopia.

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Sandy wrote: "Anyone have any titles for an allegory?"

Animal Farm, Watership Down, Flatland; The Pilgrim's Regress, which is more religious

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Does anyone besides Oprah have a book club? (I'm kind of suspicious of anyone in TV running a book club.)

[Elle]

Audrey wrote: "Does anyone besides Oprah have a book club? (I'm kind of suspicious of anyone in TV running a book club.)"

Emma Watson - Our Shared Shelf
Lena Dunham - Lenny Letter
Reese Witherspoon - #RWBookClub

Found them here: https://www.brit.co/online-celebrity-...

[Jay]

Audrey wrote: "Does anyone besides Oprah have a book club? (I'm kind of suspicious of anyone in TV running a book club.)"

I understand your suspicions, but Oprah has some surprisingly good picks, such as The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (which also won the Pulitzer and is awesome, in a magical realism way), The Road by Cormac McCarthy (another Pulitzer winner), and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (also magical realism; won the Nobel, not the Pulitzer), which is on my TBR and will be my choice.

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Oprah doesn't pick enough sci fi/fantasy for me, lol.

[Jay]

Yeah, those three were the closest I found. Still, I would and will recommend The Underground Railroad to anyone, and it has some awesome time-travel and/or alternate reality stuff going on.

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

At a suggestion, #10 under advanced is a book recommended by someone else taking the challenge. Should we start suggesting those to each other? Although James did that with The Underground Railroad certainly.

[Jay]

Holy crud, I did! That was not intentional.

[Sandy]

I am good for suggestions - I just listened to The Road - unfortunately this was abridged and very depressing but the prose was exceptional.

[Shawnie]

Audrey wrote: "Does anyone besides Oprah have a book club? (I'm kind of suspicious of anyone in TV running a book club.)"

Felicia Day has a GR bookclub. Vaginal Fantasy. I belong to a RL meetup for this group.

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

Felicia Day is pretty damn cool. I had no idea she had a club on here. I may have to look for that.

[Shawnie]

Wayland wrote: "Felicia Day is pretty damn cool. I had no idea she had a club on here. I may have to look for that."

Yeah, check it out. It's pretty fun.

[Sandy]

Shawnie wrote: "Audrey wrote: "Does anyone besides Oprah have a book club? (I'm kind of suspicious of anyone in TV running a book club.)"

Felicia Day has a GR bookclub. Vaginal Fantasy. I belong to a RL meetup fo..."
How does one find this bookclub?

[Jay]

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

[C.E.C.]

For #24, the Sun does count as a weather element, right? :s

[C.E.C.]

Also, hum, do I have to start the books in 2018? Because I really want to start one of the books now, and it's a long-ish book so at least half of it I'll be reading in 2018?

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

I'd argue sunny weather or whatever would count, sure. If it's the sun as in space, no, not quite.

Yes, all books must be started and finished in 2018.

[Jay]

Is there no widget this time around?