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If there’s one you are excited to read, you can always request it. I’ve had very good luck with that at my library!
If anyone is interested in picking up free ebooks for the Seanan McGuire Wayward Children series, Tor are offering them this week on their book club:https://ebookclub.tor.com/
Today (30th Nov) is Every Heart a Doorway with a different book each day until 4th Dec. I think it's to promote the new one being released in Jan.
Also I was just looking to pick a book for the best Nov reads thread and have realised I haven't read any 5* books this month so that's a bit sad :(I have 5 books left for the challenge this year and am determined to focus on finishing those without being distracted by too many other things in the meantime.
I finished ATY last night! Now to finish up some books for a couple of other goals, but mostly free-read for the month.
For those that haven’t seen, the 2021 PopSugar list is out. I feel like there is a lot of overlap between the two....sooo mysterious!
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Alicia wrote: "For those that haven’t seen, the 2021 PopSugar list is out. I feel like there is a lot of overlap between the two....sooo mysterious!
I was struck by how much of the Popsugar list wouldn’t have made it through the ATY voting process. I’m thinking of the whole advanced section that requires you to scrutinise your TBR, the ableist ‘read a book in a different format’ prompt and the ultra-specific prompts such as Afrofuturist.
I’m a big planner but was struggling to fit books to the Popsugar list despite the overlaps. I think I’ll have more blanks to be filled as I go along this time which makes me wonder if, for the first time, I won’t finish it.
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This is a tough list, and I completely agree, Joyce... most of these would have never made it out of our polls.
I was really looking forward to the PopSugar list, but now I’m just a little relieved, because I have one less challenge I’m going to participate in next year. I had plans to so lots of challenges next year, with liberty to use one book to fill various prompts among them all, but even that can be hard to accomplish. Marking PopSugar off my list will be a little easier. It’s not that I hate their list or anything. It’s just that the few I really liked were mostly duplicates from our list, could fit in with one from our list, or are on our rejects list and I was planning on trying to fill them anyway. 🤷♀️
I was really glad after seeing the 2021 PopSugar list to have the ATY one to do instead. I have not done the PopSugar list now for three years though. Recently I was bored and plugged the books I have already read into the PopSugar list just to see what I could cover. I was able to mark off most of the prompts. I don't read from my TBR list so the 2021 PopSugar list is out for me but it looks like it is great for those who do like reading from there TBR list. Though, I don't get the DNF on TRB list. If I count a book as DNF, I have no plans to go back to it. If I start a book and it is not the right timing, I just put it back on my TBR list but don't count it as DNF.
Emily wrote: "I've never done Popsugar but every year the prompts surprise me and make me wonder why you'd want to do it anyway lol. What is Afrofuturist? Dark academia? Then there's the fewer than 1,000 GR revi..."I did not know of the subgenre either but I did read a book during the read-a-thon that would count, An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon.
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The Advanced would definitely never get in. I prefer the more specific genre prompts. I also have no idea what afrofuturist or dark academia is, but I like the idea of possibly finding a new genre I like. Maybe because I read all genres, I find the "mystery/thriller" prompt to be such a freebie, because I'm going to read many of those regardless. Then I thought the rest of the list was pretty interesting or the same as we discussed here.
- suit of cards on the cover ---> discussed multiple times but ultimately decided on book related to character in cards
- gem, mineral, rock ---> suggested here
- Women's Prize for Fiction ---> suggested, right?
- family tree ----> suggested
- genre hybrid --> on our list
- Muslim American --> more restrictive, but also on our list
- mostly or entirely outdoors --> suggested multiple ways
- book about do-overs or fresh starts --> suggested multiple times, with different phrasing but this reminds me of second chances
- book about a social justice issue --> very similar to our race/race relations
- book with a black and white cover ----> like our monochromatic cover
- body positivity --> suggested as fat positive book
- book about art or artist --> makes me think of the music, Royal Albert Hall, etc prompts that were suggested
I would be surprised if some of our rejects weren't on their list! I like the narrow genre prompts that never make it over here. I actually read a fair amount of afrofuturist and dark academia, I just don't really use the terms.
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I thought, I'd post here since the sale is so short and other's maybe are also having a hard time finding books for this prompt. My library only has two books for this prompt though this happens to be one of the books.