Book at the Bottom of your To Read List

[Elizabeth]

Hello! This is one of the pages for the 2015 PopSugar reading challenge, especially for the pick, 'Book at the Bottom of your To Read List'. Post what you're reading for this one down below, and discuss with others, share your thoughts on your pick, give suggestions for others, etc.

[Lydia]

I am reading The Book Thief for this. I bought the book when it first came out, but never ended up reading it.

[Nerdish]

@Lydia a lot of people I know didn't like The Book Thief, but I loved it :)

I'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini for this

[Lydia]

@Nerdish I'm always pretty hesitant with holocaust lit due to having family in the holocaust. So, I'm interested to see what I think of this.

[Nerdish]

@Lydia I see, I hope I didn't come across as disrespectful. When I say I loved it, I thought it was well written and I cried for at least half the book. I haven't read much holocaust literature, mainly just this and The Diary of Anne Frank

[Lydia]

Nerdish wrote: "@Lydia I see, I hope I didn't come across as disrespectful. When I say I loved it, I thought it was well written and I cried for at least half the book. I haven't read much holocaust literature, ma..."

Nope, you didn't! :)

[Rachel]

I'm having trouble with this one. My "To Read List" doesn't really have a bottom. It's in an alphabetized spreadsheet and the books are in their proper places on the shelves in my library...

[Jennifer]

Could you randomly number them in the spreadsheet and then choose the last number?

[Rachel]

That could be fun. Probably wouldn't even have to randomly assign the numbers, but could use the excel row # and a random number generator to pick.

[Jennifer]

That's what I thought. I can't remember how to do it off the topic of my head though.

[Jennifer]

Topic? Top XD

[Jodez]

I checked my goodreads to-read list and The Color of Magic was the first book I added, so it's my choice for this one.

[Christa]

Read Annihilation for this category. I didn't think I'd like it, but I was pleasantly surprised.

[Fay]

@christa - if you read the rest of the trilogy I'd love to know what you think. I wasn't a huge fan so I'd love to get someone else's perspective on it.

[Fay]

I read Riddley Walker for this. I was expecting something along the lines of Station Eleven or the Pure Trilogy which this definitely wasn't - it was hard guys! It's written in it's own language with underlying metaphors and messages and I'm sure I've missed half of them. I feel like getting the Cliff Notes in case I've missed anything important. Frightfully clever and I'm in awe at how the author put everything together but not for the faint hearted and definitely not a beach read.........