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Wrapping up Popsugar
Hi folks!I was going to set up a spread-sheet, but since we've such a few number of books left to finish, I think Kristie's set-up will work just fine. Thanks to Kristie and her hard work!
2015
[✓] A book based on a true story - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Amanda
[✓] A book your mom loves - Rosa Candida - Esther
[✓] A book you were supposed to read in school but didn’t - The Catcher in the Rye - Lilisa
[✓] A book with a color in the title - Gold Train - Jannene
[✓] A book you own but have never read - Trouble in Mudbug - Lori Z
2016
[✓] A romance set in the future - Steampunk Darcy - Casceil
[✓] A book recommended by someone you just met - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Margo
[✓] A book written by a celebrity - How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life - Laura
[✓] A political memoir - Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - Jannene
[✓] A book from Oprah’s Book Club - Icy Sparks - Almeta
[✓] The first book you see in a bookstore - Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Almeta
[✓] An autobiography - The Rules Do Not Apply - Roz
[✓] A book about a culture you’re unfamiliar with - The Ghosts of Smyrna - Lilisa
[✓] A satirical book - Feed - Almeta
2017
[✓] A book recommended by a librarian - As Bright as Heaven - Roz
[✓] A book of letters - Dear Aaron - Lanelle
[✓] A book by a person of color - Who Fears Death - Debra
[✓] A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read - Red Dragon - Jannene
[✓] A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile - Playing James - Lanelle
[✓] A book with career advice - Confessions of a Public Speaker - Lilisa
[✓] A book with a title that’s a character’s name - Charlotte Collins: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice - Lanelle
[✓] A book with an unreliable narrator - Tangerine - Casceil
[✓] A book set in two different time periods - Drums of Autumn -Claire
[✓] A book with a month or day of the week in the title - Waiting for Wednesday - Saar
[✓] A book written by someone you admire - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Fiona
[✓] A book set around a holiday other than Christmas - Casceil
Bonus level:
[✓] A book that takes place over a character’s life span - The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Lilisa
[✓] A book from a genre/subgenre that you’ve never heard of (Speculative Fiction) - The City & the City - Debra
[✓] A book about a difficult topic - A Three Dog Life - Almeta
2018
[✓] True crime - The Monster of Florence - Lilisa
[✓] A novel based on a real person - The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Lilisa
[✓] A book about a villain or antihero - Artemis Fowl - Lanelle
[✓] A book about death or grief - Absent Friends - Almeta
[✓] A book about feminism - Hunting Prince Dracula - Jannene
[✓] A book about mental health - Almost - Lanelle
[✓] A book about or involving a sport - Soar - Lanelle
[✓] A book mentioned in another book - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Lanelle
[✓] A book from a celebrity book club - The Hate U Give - Almeta
[✓] A book set in the decade you were born - My Brother Michael - Casceil
[✓] Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 Popsugar Reading Challenges - City of Thieves - Kristie
Advanced:
[✓] A bestseller from the year you graduated high school - Gone Girl - Jessica
[✓] A cyberpunk book - Broken Angels - Almeta
[✓] A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place - A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership - Laura
Wrapping Up Popsugar Reporting Thread
Hi all!We'll fill the remaining tasks first with ONE task you were already assigned, and have leftover from the Toppler. Then we'll give the remaining members time to select a task, before opening it up for everyone.
So, the gist is, please limit your task requests to one per person, at first. This way everyone will get a chance to read one with us. Thanks!
The same rules apply to page length, etc., which were outlined by Kristie for the Toppler.
I've created a Reporting Thread for us, to help me keep track of completed tasks/books. When you complete a book, (and if you've already completed one) please go here to report it: Wrapping Up Popsugar Reporting Thread
NOVEMBER 30TH IS THE DEADLINE!
Here are our participants:Debra
Kristie
Jannene
Lanelle
Fiona
Claire
Carol
Kristie
Roz
Lori Z
Lilisa
Saar
Almeta
Valerie
Esther
Amanda
Laura
Casceil
Jessica
Margo
Let me know if I missed someone!
I had one task reserved for the Toppler and didn't complete it, so I'll be adding my book to the list above. Anyone else have leftover tasks they want to complete? Let me know your books, if so. Thanks!
I had this one that I almost have finished. 2017 A bestseller from a genre (horror) you don’t normally read and am reading Red Dragon
Debra, thank you for taking on this assignment. I look forward to completing the Popsugar challenges.I finished all the tasks that I had asked for during the Toppler.
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I’d like to take my leftover tasks 2017 a book from someone you admire - The girl who loved Tom Gordon
And
2018 true Crime - Zerschunden :)
I also want to reiterate what Lanelle said and thank you. Let us know when we can sign up for new tasks.
I’d like to read for 2017 a book set in 2 time periods
I'd like to finish a task I started, 2017, a book written by a person of color. My book is In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne.I'd also love to have the task, 2015, a book you own but have never read. I will read Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym.
Thanks for keeping track of this, Debra!I'm still reading My Real Name Is Hanna and it fits better in 2017 A book with a title that’s a character’s name than where it was originally.
If you're taking new tasks, I'll take the 2018 Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 Popsugar Reading Challenges for audiobook, as I just started City of Thieves, unless you think it fits somewhere else.
Debra, I'm going to delete the tasks from my first post, now that you've added them, so they don't cause any confusion with someone looking at the wrong list.
I put down myself for 2016: an autobiography. I'm going upstairs to iron and finish listening to it.
I finished the book Trouble in Mudbug today, that I started during the toppler for 2015, a book you own but never read.
I could kill off two if they're not leftover tasks for others. 2018 - true crime - I'm listening to The Monster of Florence and 2018 - a novel based on a real person - just finished The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Also 2017 - A book with a month or day of the week in the title as I'm planning to read The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August for the zodiac challenge.
If no one is reading 2015 a book with a color in the title, I started reading White Rose, Black Forest.
Lanelle wrote: "Debra, thank you for taking on this assignment. I look forward to completing the Popsugar challenges.I finished all the tasks that I had asked for during the Toppler.
2015
A book based on a tr..."
I'm editing my last message.
Lanelle, are you offering to complete all those tasks, Lanelle? I'd like to limit things until everyone has had an opportunity to ask for one task. Please let me know which one task you'd like to request.
Thanks, you amazing Amazon Woman Reader!
Hi all!We'll fill the remaining tasks first with ONE task you were already assigned, and have leftover from the Toppler. Then we'll give the remaining members time to select a task, before opening it up for everyone.
So, the gist is, please limit your task requests to one per person, at first. This way everyone will get a chance to read one with us. Thanks!
Jannene wrote: "I also want to reiterate what Lanelle said and thank you. Let us know when we can sign up for new tasks."No problem! Thanks!
Kristie wrote: "Debra, I'm going to delete the tasks from my first post, now that you've added them, so they don't cause any confusion with someone looking at the wrong list."Thanks a bunch, Kristie!
Fiona wrote: "I’d like to take my leftover tasks 2017 a book from someone you admire - The girl who loved Tom Gordon
And
2018 true Crime - Zerschunden :)"
Fiona, could you pick one task for now? If no one takes your second one, we can add it later. I'd like to give everyone an opportunity to select one task, and we only have a few to fill. Thanks!
Claire wrote: "I’d like to read for 2017 a book set in 2 time periods"Great! Which book will you be reading?
Carol wrote: "I'd like to finish a task I started, 2017, a book written by a person of color. My book is In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne.I'd also love to have the ..."
I'll put you down for your first request: 2017, a book written by a person of color - In Our Mad and Furious City.
Please hold your second until I let you all know. I'm trying to leave things open for other folks to request tasks, too.
Kristie wrote: "Thanks for keeping track of this, Debra!I'm still reading My Real Name Is Hanna and it fits better in 2017 A book with a title that’s a character’s name than where it was original..."
I put you down for My Real Name Is Hanna. I'd appreciate if you'd give us a little bit of time to see what tasks other people want before requesting more, so everyone gets a chance to pick one task. Thanks!
Kristie wrote: "Debra, I'm going to delete the tasks from my first post, now that you've added them, so they don't cause any confusion with someone looking at the wrong list."Thanks.. you were reading my mind!
Jannene wrote: "I finished the book Red Dragon. It was a good book but creepy and sad."BTW, you are the first one to report a finished book here, Jannene!
Roz,Lori Z and Lilisa were a close second!
Congrats, ladies!
Lilisa wrote: "I could kill off two if they're not leftover tasks for others. I put you down for The Tattooist of Auschwitz, since you've finished that one. Congrats!
Please hold your others until we've given everyone else a chance to request one book.
Roz wrote: "If no one is reading 2015 a book with a color in the title, I started reading White Rose, Black Forest."I'm guessing this won't be a problem. I'd just like to wait a few to see if anyone else chimes in, so they have a chance to select at least one task.
I believe I've updated ONE task per person, and/or replied to each person's messages, to here. I'm just waiting to hear back and which ONE task each person wants. Let's wait until noon EST on Tuesday, the 16th, for others to find there way here and make their requests.
*** Do we want to set an end date for this? What's everyone's thoughts on that?
I've created a Reporting Thread for us, to help me keep track of completed tasks/books. When you complete a book, (and if you've already completed one) please go here to report it: Wrapping Up Reporting Thread
I have this one left: 2017: A book with a month or day of the week in the title.I'm reading: Waiting for Wednesday
Saar The Book owl wrote: "I have this one left: 2017: A book with a month or day of the week in the title.I'm reading: Waiting for Wednesday"
You got it! Thanks, Saar.
Check my messages 3 and 4 for updated information.
I pick the 2017 one: a book from someone you admire and read The girl who loved Tom Gordon :)
I'll start with Absent Friends for 2018 A book about death or grief (set during the aftermath of 9/11 NYC).
Debra wrote: "Lilisa wrote: "I could kill off two if they're not leftover tasks for others. I put you down for The Tattooist of Auschwitz, since you've finished that one. Congrats!
Please hold..."
No worries, thanks Debra!
Debra wrote: "Lilisa wrote: "I could kill off two if they're not leftover tasks for others. I put you down for The Tattooist of Auschwitz, since you've finished that one. Congrats!
Please hold..."
Great - thx!
Debra wrote: "I believe I've updated ONE task per person, and/or replied to each person's messages, to here. I'm just waiting to hear back and which ONE task each person wants. Let's wait until noon EST on Tue..."
How about December 15 - that's two months or if folks like reading over the holidays - December 31? I prefer December 15 as we'll probably be madly figuring out the 2019 yearly challenge that Janice will unveil for us.
Debra wrote: "...are you offering to complete all those tasks, Lanelle?"No, that's just my gophering. Can I have 2018 - a book about a villain or antihero? I'll read Artemis Fowl.
As for an end date, how about December 31st?
I can finish my political memoir I was going to read last week for 2016. It's called The Audacity of Hope, I'll post a link later if needed but I'm on my phone right now.
I will suggest November 30th the latest as an end date. We have a new toppler starting in December and these threads may get confusing having a toppler running at the same time.
I've updated the list up to here. Please check to make sure the link I used is for the correct for your book, each of you. Thanks!Everyone: Let's go with November 30th, as Kristie wisely suggested!
if i am allowed to finished the one I started for the toppler.... I had "a book you mom loved"
Jannene wrote: "I would like to sign up for 2015 A book with a color in the title and read Gold Train."You got it!
You'll love this one...!! A book club & more
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Debra, please go ahead and reserve a couple of spots for whatever you need for organizing and keeping track.