++Suzanne's Expanded 2020 Challenge++

[Suzanne]

My goal this year is to complete all 52 prompts + multiple books for some of the prompts + some rejects. For me, reading is mostly, but not all, listening to audiobooks which helps me fit in a lot more reading into my life. This is just my second year doing the challenge but I am hooked. My favorite part of doing this challenge in 2019 was that it helped me push myself to read outside my comfort zone which has renewed my life-long passion for reading.

Goal: 52 basic challenge + 33 expanded + 20 rejects = 105.

I am intrigued by the Abe List of Best Female Authors of All Time and will try to incorporate 20+ of these into the challenge. So far I've read 40/100 of these.

[Suzanne]

✅ 1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

✅ 2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

✅ 3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia

In 2019, I read A Gentleman in Moscow. The main character lives in the Metropol Hotel under house arrest.

4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
✅ a. Place: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✅ b. Time: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

✅ 5. The first book in a series that you have not started
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.

[Suzanne]

✅ 6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China



7. A book set in the southern hemisphere

✅ a. South America
Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende

✅ b. Africa
We Are Not Such Things: The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation

✅ c. Australia and Oceania
The Family Next Door

✅ d. Antartica
Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle

✅ 8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
The Cactus

✅ 9. A book that can be read in a day
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

✅ 10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

[Suzanne]

✅ 11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens 2017

✅ 12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

✅ 13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge.
From 2016: An award-winning book.
Home Fire Winner of Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

✅ 14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

15. A book set in a global city
✅ a. London: Queenie
✅ b. Shanghai: Dreams of Joy
✅ c. Paris: The Great Believers
✅ d. Tokyo: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

[Suzanne]

✅ 16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

✅ 17. A book with a neurodiverse character
Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum

✅ 18. A book by an author you've only read once before
Someone by Alice McDermott
Read before: The Ninth Hour

✅ 19. A fantasy book
Cinder

✅20. The 20th book on my TBR shelf when sorted by date added
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation

[Suzanne]

✅ 21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719
The Moon: A History for the Future

✅ 22. A book with the major theme of survival
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

✅ 23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
In the Dream House

✅ 24. A book with an emotion in the title
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

25. A book related to the arts

✅ a. Visual Arts:
How to Be Both by Ali Smith

✅ b. Music:
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

✅ c. Performing Arts:
Swing Time by Zadie Smith

✅ d. Creative Writing:
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination

[Suzanne]

✅26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

27. A history or historical fiction
✅ a. History: Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote
✅ b. Historical fiction: Code Name Verity
✅ c. Alternate History: July's People by Nadine Gordimer

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
✅ a. Australian Bridge of Clay
✅ b. Canadian Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
✅ c. New Zealand The Bone People by Keri Hulme

✅ 29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
The Reef by Edith Wharton

✅ 30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
Fleishman Is in Trouble

[Suzanne]

✅ 31. A book inspired by a leading news story
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

✅ 32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
You Will Know Me

✅ 33. A book about a non-traditional family
Red at the Bone

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name

✅ S = Short Stories
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat

✅ U = Urban Fantasy
Magic for Liars

✅ Z = Zombie Novel
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

✅ A = Autobiography
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston

✅ N = Narrative Nonfiction
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

✅ N = Novella
The Hunters by Claire Messud

✅ E = Epistles
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

✅ T = True Crime
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

✅ O = Occupational (non) Fiction
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

✅ U = Up Lit
Irma Voth by Miriam Toews

✅ R = Romance
The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer

✅ V = Varsity Novel
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

✅ I = Irish Literature
Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien

✅ L = Literary Fiction
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

✅ L = Legal Thriller
The Last Trial

✅ E = Essay Collection
The Toni Morrison Book Club

✅ 35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
Recursion

[Suzanne]

✅ 36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Pair #1
✅ a. Classic: Frankenstien by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
✅ b. Modern: Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Pair #2
✅ a. Talking: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
✅ b. Not Talking: What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

✅ 39. A book by an author whose real name you're not quite sure how to pronounce
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

✅ 40. A book with a place name in the title
Florida by Lauren Groff

[Suzanne]

✅ 41. A mystery
Possession by A.S. Byatt

✅ 42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1985

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse

✅ a. Death
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

✅ b. Famine
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

✅ c. War
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald

✅ d. Plague
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

✅ 44. A book related to witches
The Witches of New York by Ami McKay

✅ 45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones

[Suzanne]

✅ 46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

✅ 47. A classic book you've always meant to read
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

✅ 48. A book published in 2020
Murder in an Irish Cottage

✅ 49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win:
A winner of a foreign literary prize: The Booker Prize 2013
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

✅ 50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

[Suzanne]

✅ 51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

✅ 52. A book related to time
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

[Suzanne]

Rejects #1

✅ 1. A book originally written in a language other than English
Convenience Store Woman

✅ 2. A book with china or porcelain on the cover
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error



✅ 3. A book about a natural disaster or where a natural disaster is central to the plot
Wave

✅ 4. A book that is a retelling of a fairy tale
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club

✅ 5. A book from a child's perspective
Room by Emma Donoghue

✅ 6. A book related to Earth Day.
The Widower's Tale

✅ 7. A western.
Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West

✅ 8. A book featuring magical realism
Nothing to See Here

✅ 9. A book by one of the National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' authors
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

✅ 10. A book on the longlist for the Women's Prize in Fiction for any year
Normal People from 2019

[Suzanne]

Rejects #2

✅ 11. A book related to birds.
H is for Hawk

✅ 12. A book related to floriography
The Language of Flowers

✅ 13. A popular author's first novel
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

✅ 14. A memoir, biography, or novelization of the life of an author
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

✅ 15. and a book by that author
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

✅ 16. A book with a bug on the cover.
Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

✅ 17. A book with a character that is involved in the medical field
Harvest

✅ 18. Any book by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro

✅ 19. A nonfiction book about something you see on a regular basis
Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

✅ 20. A book about/involving social media or technology
If I Never Met You

[Suzanne]

Tracking Authors on the Abe List of Best Female Authors of All Time

1. Ursula K. Le Guin ✅ No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
2. Virginia Woolf ✅
3. Louisa May Alcott ✅
4. Harper Lee ✅ To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Charlotte Brontë ✅
6. Emily Brontë ✅
7. Elizabeth Strout ✅ Olive, Again
8. Jane Austin ✅
9. Toni Morrison ✅ The Bluest Eye
10. Geraldine Brooks ✅ Year of Wonders
11. George Eliot ✅
12. Margaret Atwood ✅
13. Gertrude Stein ✅
14. Edith Wharton ✅ The Reef
15. Donna Tartt ✅ The Secret History
16. J.K. Rowling ✅ The Casual Vacancy
17. Joyce Carol Oates ✅
18. Anne Tyler ✅
19. Annie Proulx ✅ The Shipping News
20. Alice Munro✅ Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
21. Judy Blume ✅
22. Alice Walker ✅
23. Octavia E. Butler ✅
24. Harriet Beecher Stowe ✅ Uncle Tom's Cabin
25. Willa Cather ✅
26. Marilynne Robinson ✅ Gilead and Home
27. Georgette Heyer ✅ The Convenient Marriage
28. P.D. James ✅
29. Mary Shelley ✅ Frankenstien
30. Zadie Smith ✅ Swing Time
31. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ✅ Purple Hibiscus
32. Doris Lessing ✅ The Good Terrorist
33. Madeleine L'Engle ✅ Troubling a Star
34. Roxane Gay ✅ Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
35. Angela Carter ✅
36. Elena Ferrante ✅
37. Joan Didion ✅ The Year of Magical Thinking
38. Jeanette Winterson ✅ Frankissstein: A Love Story
39. Lucy Maud Montgomery ✅Anne of Green Gables
40. Hilary Mantel ✅ The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
41. Louise Erdrich ✅
42. Jhumpa Lahiri ✅
43. Connie Willis ✅
44. Isabel Allende ✅ Maya's Notebook
45. Elizabeth Gilbert ✅
46. Diana Gabaldon ✅
47. Sarah Waters ✅
48. Eleanor Catton ✅ The Luminaries
49. Nadine Gordimer ✅ July's People
50. Karen Russell ✅ Swamplandia!


Books listed were read during this challenge year.

[Suzanne]

51. Ruth Ozeki ✅ A Tale for the Time Being
52. Edna O'Brien ✅ Saints and Sinners
53. Miriam Toews ✅ Irma Voth
54. Kate Atkinson ✅ When Will There Be Good News?
55. Ann Patchett ✅ State of Wonder
56. Emma Donoghue ✅ Room
57. Barbara Kingsolver ✅
58. Agatha Christie ✅ The A.B.C. Murders
59. Sue Monk Kidd ✅
60. Penelope Lively ✅
61. Jennifer Egan ✅ A Visit from the Goon Squad
62. Arundhati Roy ✅ The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
63. A.S. Byatt ✅ Possession
64. Kiran Desai ✅ The Inheritance of Loss
65. Keri Hulme ✅The Bone People
66. Penelope Fitzgerald ✅ Human Voices
67. Iris Murdoch ✅ The Italian Girl
68. Emma Straub ✅ Modern Lovers
69. Yaa Gyasi ✅ Homegoing
70. Emily St. John Mandel ✅
71. Sylvia Plath ✅
72. Zora Neale Hurston ✅ Dust Tracks on a Road
73. Lauren Groff ✅ Florida
74. Maria Semple ✅
75. Ami McKay ✅ The Witches of New York
76. Ali Smith ✅How to Be Both
77. Meg Wolitzer ✅
78. Miranda July ✅ No One Belongs Here More Than You
79. Tayari Jones ✅ Silver Sparrow
80. Helen Oyeyemi ✅ Mr. Fox
81. Daphne du Maurier ✅ Rebecca
82. NoViolet Bulawayo ✅ We Need New Names
83. Jesmyn Ward ✅ Sing, Unburied, Sing and Men We Reaped
84. Julia Glass ✅The Widower's Tale
85. Susan Sontag ✅ Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
86. Alice McDermott ✅ Someone
87. Flannery O'Connor ✅
88. Evie Wyld ✅ All the Birds, Singing
89. Anna Funder ✅ Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
90. Ann-Marie MacDonald ✅ Fall on Your Knees
91. Cynthia Bond ✅ Ruby
92. Carol Shields ✅
93. Jane Smiley ✅ A Thousand Acres
94. Alison Lurie ✅ Foreign Affairs
95. Edwidge Danticat ✅ Everything Inside
96. Rachel Kushner ✅ Telex from Cuba
97. Claire Messud ✅ The Hunters
98. Amy Tan ✅
99. Celeste Ng ✅
100.Elizabeth Poliner ✅




Books listed were read during this challenge year.

[Suzanne]

2020 PopSugarChallenge - Regular prompts

✅ 1. A book that's published in 2020 ATY #48

✅ 2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author ATY #11

✅ 3.* A book with a great first line
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

What's surprised me most about seeing my sister dead is the lingering smirk on her face.

✅ 4*. A book about a book club
The End of Your Life Book Club

✅ 5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics
Queenie is set in London.

✅ 6. A bildungsroman
Frankenstien

✅ 7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed ATY #32

✅ 8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover ATY #30



✅ 9. A book with a map ATY #36

✅ 10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club ATY #5

✅ 11. An anthology ATY #34-E

✅ 12. A book that passes the Bechdel test ATY #10

✅ 13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it
The Family Next Door same as a 1939 movie starring Hugh Herbert and Joy Hodges

✅ 14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name ATY R-9
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

✅ 15. A book about or involving social media
If I Never Met You

✅ 16. A book that has a book on the cover
The Secret History



✅ 17. A medical thriller
Harvest

*✅18. A book with a made-up language
Dance Dance Revolution

✅19. A book set in a country beginning with "C" ATY #6

✅ 20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention
The Good Terrorist

✅ 21. A book published the month of your birthday
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

✅ 22. A book about or by a woman in STEM
Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, ecologist

✅ 23. A book that won an award in 2019: ATY #15c won Carnegie Medal

✅ 24. A book on a subject you know nothing about
Wave about a tsunami in Sri Lanka.

✅ 25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics. ATY #31



✅ 26. A book with a pun in the title
Wishful Drinking

✅ 27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins
Greed: The Gifted School

✅ 28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character ATY #19

✅ 29. A book with a bird on the cover
H is for Hawk

✅ 30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader
China in Ten Words

✅ 31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title
Silver Sparrow

✅ 32. A book by a WOC ATY #33

✅ 33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads ATY #4a

✅ 34. A book you meant to read in 2019 ATY #13

✅ 35. A book with a three-word title ATY #28a
Bridge of Clay

✅ 36. A book with a pink cover ATY R-1



✅ 37. A Western ATY R-7

✅ 38. A book by or about a journalist
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

✅ 39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week . ATY #2

✅ 40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge ATY #34-A
2016: An Autobiography

[Suzanne]

2020 PopSugar Challenge - Advanced prompts

✅ 1. A book written by an author in their 20s ATY R-10

✅ 2. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch -- Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods

✅ 3. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement.
On Eden Street

✅ 4. A book set in the 1920s
The Red House Mystery

✅ 5. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics ATY #15d

✅ 6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books ATY #28b

✅ 7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title ATY #3

✅ 8. A book published in the 20th century ATY #7d

✅ 9. A book from a series with more than 20 books
The Night Fire

✅ 10. A book with a main character in their 20s
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

[Lin]

Suzanne,
I'm also doing a separate challenge for the ABE Authors. I like how you have them listed.
Happy Reading in 2020

[Suzanne]

Thanks. I'm having too much fun with the planning!

[Suzanne]

Monday May 25- Sunday May 31, 2020


Currently Reading



Books Finished



Thoughts

1. I have been inspired to participate more in this group. This group has been such a support to me over the last year and I have decided that I should contribute more to the discussion. I read the discussion all the time but I haven't participated much.

2. I absolutely loved the biography of Dr. Suess so much. When my library opens up again, I am going to go reread several of his books.

3. The Nadine Gordimer book was just okay. I was reading it to check her off from the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers. I was planning to use it for the prompt #27 History or Historical Fiction, but it turns out it is an alternate history. However, I found this fantastic quote that sums up my feelings recently about reading fiction.

“But the transport of a novel, the false awareness of being within another time, place and life that was the pleasure of reading, for her, was not possible. She was in another time, place, consciousness; it pressed in upon her and filled her as someone’s breath fills a balloon’s shape. She was already not what she was. No fiction could compete with what she was finding she did not know, could not have imagined or discovered through imagination.”
― Nadine Gordimer, July's People

4. I was trying to find a book to read for the Pop Sugar prompt #4 Book about a book club and two holds came in at the same time. I ended up reading and enjoying both and dwelling on the contrast between a very privileged white mother and son and the members of the Toni Morrison Book Club.

5. I'm trying to read in order, but my hold for the audio version of A Visit from the Goon Squad is estimated to take another six weeks. Since I am incredibly cheap, I have not gotten it yet from Audible. I should get the physical copy from the library this week via curbside delivery. As I'm writing this, I'm thinking about whether I can do a free trial of another audiobook service....

[Suzanne]

Monday June 1-Sunday June 7, 2020

Currently Reading



Books Finished



Thoughts

I've now finished 70/100 of the authors on the Abe List of Essential Female Writers. Some books have been extremely disappointing, like The Italian Girl, while some have been simply amazing, like Possession. Overall, I'm glad to have taken on this challenge.

[Suzanne]

Monday June 8-Sunday June 14, 2020

Currently Reading


Books Finished



Thoughts

I've gotten several books from my library now that it has opened back up and I need to finish them in the next two weeks. If all goes well, in two weeks, I will be departing for my summer home in Greece to stay until August.

[Suzanne]

Monday June 15-Sunday June 21, 2020

Currently Reading


Books Finished

[Suzanne]

Monday June 22-Sunday June 28, 2020

Currently Reading

Books Finished

Thoughts
I don't really like short stories.

[Suzanne]

Monday June 29-Sunday July 5, 2020

Currently Reading


Books Finished

Thoughts
I'm still glad that I decided to do a side challenge of the Abe List of 100 Essential Women Writers; however, I really like nonfiction, mystery, and romance. I am a little tired of so much literary fiction.

[Suzanne]

Monday July 6-Sunday July 12, 2020

Currently Reading


Books Finished


Thoughts

I took a bit of a break this week. I'm having a hard time finding something that I want to read. I decided to abandon Searching for Sylvie Lee which is very unusual for me. I did not like the narrators on the audiobook and could not get into the story after over 5 hours.

[Suzanne]

Monday July 13-Sunday July 19, 2020

Currently Reading


Books Finished


Thoughts
I really enjoyed If I Never Met You. It was just the light romcom that I needed. It's probably the book I most enjoyed this month so far.

[Suzanne]

Monday July 20-Sunday July 26, 2020

Currently Reading


Books Finished


Thoughts
Reading for Read-a-thon! I've decided to read up on the murders cited in Eight Perfect Murders as it contains spoilers.

[Suzanne]

Decided to post an update today. I have 10 more books to read on my expanded ATY challenge. Once those are read, I will have just 3 more authors from the ABE list left to read. I have 2 books left on my Pop Sugar challenge. That's a grand total of 15 books to go!

[Suzanne]

It's time for another random update. I have 5 books left on the expanded ATY challenge. Once I complete ATY, I will have just 1 more book left for Pop Sugar and 3 more ABE authors. In total: 9 books to go. I can't wait to start planning for next year. I am considering the NATO alphabet for a side challenge next year.

[Suzanne]

I am about halfway through the last book for ATY proper. I have two rejects left for ATY. Once I finish these, I have a short book for Pop Sugar that is also for my Fall Reading Challenge. I have 2 more ABE authors to read. Total: 6 books to go.

I think I am going to go with the flow in 2021 and not try to create a detailed plan. I am glad to have tried so many new things this year, but too many of them were not things I really enjoyed reading. I was glad to have a plan and I think it helped me keep moving forward despite the 2020 stress.

[Suzanne]

Finished ATY. Now working on ATY rejects. 5 books to go.

[Suzanne]

FOUR BOOKS TO GO:
1 ATY reject: floriography; on hold at library.
1 PopSugar: made up language; sitting on my bedside table.
2 more ABE: Kiran Desai and Jane Smiley.

[Suzanne]

I've now finished ATY including rejects.
1 more book to complete PopSugar (and also Fall Reading Challenge).
2 more ABE. I'm currently reading for Jane Smiley.

I'm so thankful for this group!

[Suzanne]

One more book to go: The God of Small Things but it won't be this weekend. I'm working on The Hating Game for Read-a-thon Bingo.

[Suzanne]

About two chapters in to The God of Small Things, I realized that the book I was supposed to be reading was The Inheritance of Loss. I have now located that book and it is the final one for my 2020 challenges. I almost got bingo in the Read-a-thon but I did not like The Hating Game.

[Suzanne]

I finished! I hope to post an update to the completed challenge thread at some point soon.

[Kathy]

Congratulations on finishing the challenge, Suzanne!

[Suzanne]

Kathy wrote: "Congratulations on finishing the challenge, Suzanne!"

Thank you!