Popsugar - 2021

[Laureen]

Update to Message #71:
#38: A book about art or an artist: The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
29/50

[Winter, Group Reads]

Ashleigh wrote: "Update to #46

33. A book featuring 3 generations

The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees"

How many do you have completed now Ashleigh?

[Winter, Group Reads]

Updated :)

[AJ]

Update to 520

17/50

14. A book set in a restaurant: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly This classic by Anthony Bourdain is set in many restaurants. Took me a minute to read it, but I'm so glad I did.

27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts: Monstress The do-overs and fresh starts in this story collection weren't as fresh or new as folks may think, but that's where the heart of it really lied. Glad I read this book!

[Angie]

Updated Message 34. 3/10.

[Marleen]

Update to message 19: progress 12/20

✅50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) ➡️ Hex (This was a library book.)

[Lisa Marie]

Hello!! I would like to challenge myself to 40 prompts please!! I know I am late in joining as I am still fairly new to goodreads....I look forward to completing this challenge!! Thank you!!

[Maria]

Update message 30

23/30

[Meredith]

Update to post #527 4/12

1. Book Published in 2021 -

6. A book with a gem, rock etc -

14. A Book Set in a Restaurant -

29. A Book Set in Multiple Countries -

[Laureen]

Update to Message #71:
#39: A book everyone seems to have read but you. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (5/25/21)
30/50

[Winter, Group Reads]

ReadingWithLisaMarie wrote: "Hello!! I would like to challenge myself to 40 prompts please!! I know I am late in joining as I am still fairly new to goodreads....I look forward to completing this challenge!! Thank you!!"

Never too late to join! Welcome! ^^

[Meredith]

Laureen wrote: "Update to Message #71:
#39: A book everyone seems to have read but you. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (5/25/21)
30/50"

I absolutely loved this one. Did it live up to your expectations?

[Meredith]

Update to post #527

So I might have to increase my challenge because apparently I've read more than I realized. Update to 30

17/30

#7 A book where the main character works at your current or dream job/wedding photographer

#10. A Bestseller from the 1990's

#11. A Book about Forgetting

#19. A Book that discusses body positivity

#21 A Genre Hybrid

#23. A Book with something broken on the cover

#27 A book about do-overs or fresh starts

#30 A Book Set somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021

#33 A Book Featuring 3 Generations

#36 A Book in a Different format which is Ebook for me

#38 A Book about art or an artist

#40 Favorite previous Popsugar Prompt - A Book with a Pink Cover

#50 A Free Book (library)

[Allie]

Update to Message #94
Progress 32/50
Prompt 18. A book about a subject you are passionate about
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

[Christina L.]

Update Message #59
18/40

[Jennifer]

Updating message #23

20/50

Standard Prompts:

1. A book that published in 2021- Project Hail Mary DONE

5. A dark academia book- The Queen's Gambit DONE

11. A book about forgetting- Restart DONE

25. A book that was published anonymously- A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary DONE

27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts- A Man Called Ove DONE

[Megan]

Updated msg 15

Just completed prompt for bestseller in ‘90s - Vivid by Beverly Jenkins. This book was interesting, and as always with Beverly Jenkins, I learned a lot. I enjoyed the story overall. But I did have an issue with the main character being described as virginal repeatedly throughout the majority of the book. And not just as a fact but as an adjective to describe her and various facets of her. Little dated. Worth reading! 4 stars

36/50

[KSMary]

Updated Post #12 with 22 books.

[Alyana]

Update to message #13
Progress: 15/16

✔12. A book set in multiple countries ---> The Kite Runner - read on 05/24/21

[Gabriella]

Update message #60:

I think I'll stop at 41 books. The last prompts are really tricky for me and no book I'll read in the near future fits them, so declaring my goal completed as I've already raised it 5 times since my original post. Tasks I did complete listed below.

Progress: 41/41

✔12/12 - 03/01/2021
✔20/20 - 13/01/2021
✔25/25 - 17/01/2021
✔30/30 - 30/01/2021
✔35/35 - 08/02/2021
✔40/40 - 16/04/2021

Standard Prompts:

1. The Tea Dragon Tapestry
3. Dragonhearts
4. Mummy Fairy and Me
7. The Tea Dragon Society
8. The Song of Achilles
9. Ghoulia and the Ghost with No Name
10. The Adventures of Captain Underpants
11. The Falling in Love Montage
12. The Darkening
14. Who Could That Be at This Hour?
15. The Princess Saves Herself in This One
16. The Summoning
17. Habibi
18. When the Stars Wrote Back
19. Big Mushy Happy Lump
22. The Turn of the Screw
23. File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents
25. Kissing the Coronavirus
26. The Wild Robot
27. Princess Princess Ever After
29. A Dowry of Blood
30. Heartstopper: Volume Three
31. Adulthood Is a Myth
32. Quando Você A Viu Pela Última Vez?
33. Mummy Fairy and Me: Fairy-in-Waiting
34. The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One
35. BEASTARS 10
36. Ghoulia and the Mysterious Visitor
37. Herding Cats
38. The Composer is Dead
39. Heartstopper: Volume One
40. The Wild Robot Escapes - 2020: 28 - A book with a robot, cyborg or AI character

Advanced Prompts
42. Amoras
43. Orion and the Dark
44. The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One
45. Dracula
46. BEASTARS 11
47. Aphrodite Made Me Do It
48. Break Your Glass Slippers
49. Contos Maravilhosos Infantis e Domésticos, Tomo #2
50. The Tea Dragon Festival

[Winter, Group Reads]

Gabriella wrote: "Update message #60:

I think I'll stop at 41 books. The last prompts are really tricky for me and no book I'll read in the near future fits them, so declaring my goal completed as I've already rais..."

Congrats Gabriella! Well done!!!

[Veena]

updated message #109

31/50

[Laureen]

Update to Message #71:
18 A book about a subject you are passionate about. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (5/31/21)
31/50

[Meredith]

Update Message #527

18/30

#26 A Book with an Oxymoron in the title

[Joey]

Update message 53

Completed book 8/10
Prompt 13: Locked Room Mystery
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I think this is locked room mystery adjacent enough to count. I gave it a three and wished I liked it more. I think it's well written.

[Ella]

Update message #509:
6/50

#15: A book with a black and white cover - Speak: The Graphic Novel
#19: A book that discusses body positivity - Dumplin'
#37: A book you think your best friend would like - A Curse So Dark and Lonely
#49: A DNF from your TBR list - Hogfather

[Megan BG]

message 36

15/20

28. A magical realism book: The Snow Child

[Megan BG]

16/20

message 36

33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child): Gerta

[Amanda]

update 529:

49/50

So close!

[Shelly]

I’m going to start with 20 and see how this goes since it’s already June.

✅20/20✅
THAT’S IT, I’M DONE
Not as much fun as it should have been!

POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2021
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

Back for another year, it’s the 7th annual PopSugar Reading Challenge!
Similar to previous years, this year’s challenge consists of a 40-prompt standard challenge plus a 10-prompte advanced challenge.
We invite you to choose as many as you would like to complete.


Standard Prompts:

🌞1. A book that published in 2021 - Death on the Night of Lost Lizards - Julia Buckley

2. An Afrofuturist book
🏖3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover - Death by Darjeeling - Laura Childs diamonds pattern on the chair back

🩱4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign - Farm to Trouble - Amanda Flower Aquarius

5. A dark academia book
6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
🌞7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job. In the Market for Murder - T.E. Kinsey My dream job…being independently wealthy, not so much the widow.

8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction
9. A book with a family tree
10. A bestseller from the 1990s
11. A book about forgetting
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.)
13. A locked-room mystery
🏖14. A book set in a restaurant. - Chaos in Little Leaf Creek -Cindy Bell MC is a waitress

15. A book with a black-and-white cover
16. A book by an indigenous author
17. A book that has the same title as a song
🏖18. A book about a subject you are passionate about - Fatal Brushstroke - Sybil Johnson Many of the characters are involved in tole painting/decorative art!

🏖19. A book that discusses body positivity - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith

20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list
🌞21. A genre hybrid The Spook in the Stacks - Eva Gates Cozy Mystery/Paranormal

🌞22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors: Cherry Pies & Deadly Lies - Darci Hannah

🌞23. A book with something broken on the cover: If Walls Could Talk - Juliet Blackwell

24. A book by a Muslim American author
25. A book that was published anonymously
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title
🌞27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts All Fudged Up - Nancy CoCo

🏖28. A magical realism book - Clairvoyant and Present Danger - Lena Gregory

🏖29. A book set in multiple countries USA and France - The Paris Key - Juliet Blackwell

🏖30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021 MAINE, USA - Boiled Over - Barbara Ross

31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality
🌞32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”A Quiet Life in the Country - T.E. Kinsey

🌞33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) Cherry Scones & Broken Bones - Darci Hannah

🩱34. A book about a social justice issue - Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters Set in the 1880’s dealing with Women’s Rights

35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
🏖36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads Death on the Danube: A New Year's Murder in Budapest - Jennifer S. Alderson
368 reviews
🌞37. A book you think your best friend would like Out of Circulation - Miranda James

🏖38. A book about art or an artist Guaranteed to Bleed - Julie Mulhern

39. A book everyone seems to have read but you
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

Advanced Prompts
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t
47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random
49. A DNF book from your TBR list
50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)

[Shelly]

IGNORE DUPLICATE


I’m going to start with 20 prompts since it’s already June.
/20

POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2021
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

[Flora]

I know I'm late to the party, but better late than never. I'd like to do all of them but I'll see how many I can do. Here are the one's that work for this year:

Book published in 2021: Project Hail Mary
Dark Acadamia: Truly Devious
Book with a gem, mineral, or rock: Of Goblins and Gold
Book with a family tree: The Silmarillion
Set outdoors: Lumberjack Werebear
Oxymoron: After the End
Starts with Q: Queen Takes Knights
Same title as a song: Blue Moon
Fewer than 1000 reviews: The Three Kolumns

Sorry, missed one:
Shortest book: Taken by the Horny Platypus

and:

Magical realism The Alchemist's Illusion

[Darinda]

updated message 80

completed 29/50

[Winter, Group Reads]

Updated!

Welcome Shelly and Flora! ^^

Happy Weekend everyone!

[Marleen]

Update to message 19: progress 13/20

✅37. A book you think your best friend would like ➡️The Thursday Murder Club

[Megan]

Updated msg 15

Just completed #42 (shortest book) - The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole. Well, that was delightfully unexpected! I anticipated a quirky, soft Sci fi romance, but there were deep layers in this one that turned the story in interesting ways. Cannot wait for the next one! Definitely worth reading! 4.5 stars

37/50

[Heather]

Updated message 126

45/50 complete
9. A book with a family tree - One of the Good Ones read 6/5/2021

[Meredith]

Update Message #527

20/30

#3 Book with a heart, diamond etc on the cover -

#24 Book by a Muslim American Author -

[Ashley]

update message #51 (thought it was 52, maybe one deleted)
22/50

[Sheila]

Update msg 32

12/20

[Amy]

Updated message 40-- 23/50

47. associate with a favorite person, place, or thing-- The Wife in the Attic (associated with a favorite book)

[Maria]

Update message 30

24/30

22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors-Around the World in Eighty Days 6-7

[Emma]

hi I'd like to try see how many I could read

[Emma]

Standard Prompts:

1. A book that published in 2021
2. An Afrofuturist book
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover
4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign
5. A dark academia book
6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job
8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction
9. A book with a family tree
10. A bestseller from the 1990s
11. A book about forgetting
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.)
13. A locked-room mystery
14. A book set in a restaurant
15. A book with a black-and-white cover
16. A book by an indigenous author
17. A book that has the same title as a song
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about
19. A book that discusses body positivity
20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list
21. A genre hybrid
22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors
23. A book with something broken on the cover
24. A book by a Muslim American author
25. A book that was published anonymously
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title
27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts
28. A magical realism book
29. A book set in multiple countries
30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021
31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”
33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
34. A book about a social justice issue
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads
37. A book you think your best friend would like
38. A book about art or an artist
39. A book everyone seems to have read but you
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

Advanced Prompts
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t
47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random
49. A DNF book from your TBR list
50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)

[Emma]

1. A book published in 2021 - House of bells by jt croft
18. A book about a subject you are passio- Rachel joycenate about - miss be sons beetle
22. A book set almost entirely outside - coastlines by Joanne harris
27. A book about fresh starts- the choice embrace the possible by Edith edgar
29. A book set in multiple countries - beekeeper of allepo by christy lefteri
33. A book featuring 3 generations - Island of secrets by Patricia wilson
36. A bookwith fewer than 1000 reviews - raising wrecker

I'll go for 20

[Laureen]

Update to Message #71
7. A book from your TBR List you associate with a favorite person, place or thing A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (6/7/21)
32/50

[Megan BG]

17/20

message 36

36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads: Have We Met?

[Nedge]

Update message #116 = 40/50

[Shelly]

Update message #582

3/20

[Megan BG]

message 36

18/20

34. A book about a social justice issue: The Divines

(It's about bullying)