Popsugar - 2021

[Bücherhörnchen]

Updated Message 77
9/21

[Sally]

Update message 42
21/50

[Amy]

Updated message 40-- 24/50

[AJ]

Update message 558

18/50
21. A genre hybrid:
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals This is labeled as "biography" but it is much more than that. It's a historical analysis, an examination of queerness, and a way to show a pattern of the resistance to state violence.

[Heather]

Updated message 126
46/50 complete

18. A book about a subject you are passionate about - How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

[Amy]

Updated message 40-- 25/50
A bestseller from the 90's-- Bridget Jones's Diary

[JennyGirlReads]

Update to msg 170

Progress: 38/50

✔️23. A book with something broken on the cover The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

✔️32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z” Queenie

[Flora]

Update to 584. Finished for ugliest cover

[Amy]

Updated message 40-- 26/50
A book with a family tree (it is also by an indigenous author)-- The Break-- This book gets all the stars

[Ashleigh]

Update to #46

18/?

43. Book with prettiest cover: The Ten Thousand Doors of January

[Marissa]

Update to Message #8

Progress: 18/50

[Flora]

Update to 584. Just finished A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie for an author who shares my zodiac sign.

[Flora]

Update to 584: just finished for the prompt of anonymous author

[AJ]

Update to 606
19/50

16. A book by an indigenous author - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Highly recommend this book. Well worth being overdue at the library.

[Winter, Group Reads]

Flora wrote: "Update to 584: just finished for the prompt of anonymous author"

I Flora :) Would you mind putting your total amount of books read in your update posts? I can't find how many you have read, but I have put down three for the update posts. Let me know if it's not correct :)

[AJ]

Update to 616

20/50

48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random: One of Us Is Next I was so hype to read this after reading the first earlier this year, and it happened to be available on a random day.

[Veena]

update #109

Read: 34/50

[Meredith]

Update Message #527

22/30

#12 A Book You Saw on Someone's Shelf


#45 The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time

[Flora]

Update to 584 for by a vlogger, blogger, YouTube creator or online personality.

This is 21 total for Popsugar.

[Amy]

Updated message 40-- 27/50

[AJ]

Update to 618

21/50

11. A book about forgetting: Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil This book is about actively forgetting and actively remembering the horrors of the Holocaust and slavery and those in between.

[Marleen]

Update to message 19: progress 14/20

✅30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021➡️The Midnight Library
I would like to visit a library again this year.

[Flora]

Flora wrote: "Update to 584 for by a vlogger, blogger, YouTube creator or online personality.

This is 21 total for Popsugar."

Update to 584:
The Underground Railroad for Black Lives Matter

22 total

[Anastasia]

Joining halfway through, but put me down for 47!

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

Standard Prompts:

1. A book that published in 2021: Across the Green Grass Fields
2. An Afrofuturist book: Children of Virtue and Vengeance
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover: Freshmen
4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign: Slade House (Capricorn)
5. A dark academia book: Ninth House
✅ 6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title: The Empress of Salt and Fortune
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
9. A book with a family tree: In the Ravenous Dark
10. A bestseller from the 1990s: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
11. A book about forgetting: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.): Everything I Never Told You
13. A locked-room mystery: And Then There Were None
15. A book with a black-and-white cover: What Happens in the Forest
16. A book by an indigenous author: Trail of Lightning
17. A book that has the same title as a song: The Phantom of the Opera
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
21. A genre hybrid: The Housekeeper and the Professor
22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors: Holes
23. A book with something broken on the cover: The Goldfinch
24. A book by a Muslim American author: Court of Lions
25. A book that was published anonymously: Pride and Prejudice
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title: All the Light We Cannot See
27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts: Educated
28. A magical realism book: The Starless Sea
29. A book set in multiple countries: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021: Gods of Jade and Shadow
31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”: Zen in the Art of Writing
33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child): Little Women
34. A book about a social justice issue: Know My Name
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels): Crownchasers
✅ 36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads: Theopoetica: Poems And Essays
37. A book you think your best friend would like: The Mysterious Benedict Society
38. A book about art or an artist: On Becoming a Novelist
39. A book everyone seems to have read but you: A Man Called Ove
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: Parable of Hide and Seek (2017, prompt 36: written by someone I admire)

Advanced Prompts
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list: War and Peace (Keep me in your thoughts and prayers lol)
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list: The Strangest
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover: Star Daughter
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover: The Sun Also Rises
45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time: Never Let Me Go
46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t: Warm Bodies
47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random: Tithe
49. A DNF book from your TBR list: The Raven Boys
50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library): I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories

[Maria]

Update message 30

25/30

24. A book by a Muslim American author - Echoes by Jamilah Kolocotronis 6-25

[Meredith]

Update Message #527

24/30
Both 4/5 stars

#15 A book with a black-and-white cover


#48 A book from your TBR list chosen at random

[Marleen]

Update to message 19: progress 15/20

✅36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads ➡️ The Stolen Kingdom (240 reviews)

[Ashley]

Update message #51
23/50

[Darinda]

updated message 80

completed 37/50

[Meredith]

Update Message #527

25/30 completed

#36 A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads



Just don't bother. This was awful. The editing, the grammar, the characters, the plot. Everything about it was awful. The only reason I finished it was because it was super short but I wish I could get that reading time back.

[Sally]

Update msg 42
26/50

[Meredith]

update message #527

26/30 ( i had a really good challenge weekend )

#37 A book you think your best friend would like



I loved this one; it had a little bit of everything mixed in for me.

[Amy]

Update message 40-- 28/50
A book set mostly/entirely outdoors: Cold Fear

[Megan BG]

19/20

message 36

19. A book that discusses body positivity: Big Summer

[Meredith]

Marleen wrote: "Update to message 19: progress 15/20

✅36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads ➡️ The Stolen Kingdom (240 reviews)"

Was it a good one for you?

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 49 (originally message 50) Progress: 7/7

[Amanda]

message 529 updated!

50/50!!! DONE!!!

[Ashleigh]

Update to #46

19/?

41. Longest book on tbr

I read The First Man in Rome for this as at the time of selecting, it was the longest book!

[Marleen]

Meredith wrote: "Was it a good one for you?"

It was! It’s a very ‘easy’ read, not too much depth or character development but a lot of fun to read.

[Flora]

Update to 584:

Just finished for Fresh starts

23 Total reads for Popsugar

[Flora]

Update to 584

I just realized that actually fits the social justice issue prompt. While it is set in a dystopian fantasy society it is told from the POV of a hybrid YA. Hybrids are discriminated against and have to hide who they really are to stay safe.

This makes a total of 24 for Popsugar

[Alta]

Updated message # 67

Progress: 38/40

[Laureen]

Update to Message #71:
Advanced #8: A book from your TBR list chosen at random. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (6/30/21)

33/50

[Allie]

Update to Message #94
Progress 35/50
Prompts
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z” X
38. A book about art or an artist If Beale Street Could Talk

[Flora]

Update to 584.

Just finished for indigenous author. I really enjoyed it and look forward to continuing the series.

25/50

[Sally]

Update msg 42
27/50

[Jennifer]

Updating message #23

25/50

16. A book by an indigenous author- There There DONE

26. A book with an oxymoron in the title- Solutions and Other Problems DONE

41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list- The Count of Monte Cristo DONE

43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover- Sea Prayer DONE

47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World DONE

[Ranmali]

Ranmali wrote: "I will sign up for 15 books

1. A bestseller from the 1990s - As the Crow Flies
2. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover - All The Single Ladies
..."

Completed 7/15
1. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z” - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
2. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels) - The Art of War
3. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads - Colpetty People
4. A book everyone seems to have read but you - American Gods
5. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list - Atlas Shrugged
6. A book with a black-and-white cover - For Whom the Bell Tolls
7. A book about a subject you are passionate about - Photography Visionaries

[Megan]

Updated msg 15

Just completed #16 (by indigenous author) - Carpentaria by Alexis Wright. There were some nuggets of truth in this book, but they were hidden underneath a winding, circuitous narrative. I was confused for most of the book. There were moments when the prose would clear and there was a straightforward plot again. But it wouldn’t last long. “Anyone had to be plain stupid to call his life lonely just because he did not have a white life.” Not for me. 2 stars

38/50

[Ashleigh]

Update to #46

20/?

47. A book that reminds you of your favourite person, place or thing

I read Daughter of the Pirate King which reminds me of my favourite movie series, Pirates of the Caribbean