Popsugar - 2021

[Heather]

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40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - Hamnet

(2018 - novel based on a real person)

[Amy (Other Amy)]

Heaven help me, I'm doing this. I'll go for 40.

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Finished Prompts
15. A book with a black-and-white cover - xkcd: Time
29. A book set in multiple countries - Down Among the Sticks and Bones

[Amy]

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[JennyGirlReads]

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✔️15. A book with a black-and-white cover Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

✔️47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing The Four Winds

[Laureen]

Update to Message #71
Prompt #24: A book by a Muslim author: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
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[Alison]

update to message #66

24/50 books read :)

[Winter, Group Reads]

Amy (Other Amy) wrote: "Heaven help me, I'm doing this. I'll go for 40.

2/40

Finished Prompts
15. A book with a black-and-white cover - xkcd: Time
29. A book set in multiple countries - [book:Down Among ..."

Welcome Amy! Are you going to use the name Amy (Other Amy) all year? If you are that's perfectly fine, but I differentiate you from your original message. So in your case if you update with:

Original message 404: 2/40

That would let me know which Amy you are. I'm asking because I have had a few changing name lately and then I don't know of they are participating in the challenge :) It's completely up to you, let me know what you prefer. For now I put you down on your current name. Welcome!

[Winter, Group Reads]

Updated! Hope you all have a good week!

[Heather]

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46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t - The Song of Achilles

[Ashleigh]

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8/?

13. A locked room mystery

The Guest List

[Megan]

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Just completed genre hybrid prompt - A ​Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas. One of my favorite in this series. It felt infinitely more personal, and in reading the author’s acknowledgments, that explained a lot. The sisterhood, the overcoming of trauma, acceptance of self, all resonated so deeply. “Perhaps in voicing those truths, they’d given them wings. And sent them soaring into the open sky above.” Definitely worth reading! 5 stars

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[Sally]

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[Tania]

update message 28, 12/50

✓34. A book about a social justice issue: Know My Name by Chanel Miller (finished 3/14)

[Allie]

Update Message #94
Progress 22/50
Prompt 41 The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list Winter of the World

[Gretchen]

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Read 4/10

[Heather]

Updated message 126
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29. A book set in multiple countries - Salt Houses

[Mirel]

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Missed updating last week, so had 7 books to add this week.
5. A Deadly Education
20. Say Her Name
28. Conjure Women
29. The Liar's Girl
33. The Things We Cannot Say (This would also work for multiple countries)
37. Once We Were Brothers
42. Temper the Wind This was listed as the shortest book on my TBR list, but it appears that I have shorter books on the list, only their page numbers aren't listed...

[Amy]

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Book by a blogger-- Themself: Confessions of an Open University Creative Writing Student (www.themself.org)

[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 5/15
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. A book with a black-and-white cover - For Whom the Bell Tolls

[Amy]

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A book with a title that starts with a "Z"-- Zikora: A Short Story

A different format-- Ship Shape (A Choose Your Own Adventure book)

[Megan]

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Just completed prompt for broken on cover - Perfectly Famous by Emily Liebert. Not really so perfect. The writing was simplistic. The mystery was convoluted and didn’t really fit with the plot. And the characters felt like half-formed stereotypes. I received this book as a free giveaway in exchange for my honest review. Not worth reading. 2 stars

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[Kendra]

Update to post #78:

I'm in, working on both sets of prompts.

Progress: 22/50 completed

[Ashleigh]

Update to #46

9/?

40. A prompt from another year - I used the journalist one from 2020

Silver

[Laureen]

Update to Message #71:
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list: The Priory of the Orange Tree (825 pages) by Samantha Shannon (3/21/21)
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[Megan]

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Just completed #2 (afrofuturist) - Rosewater by Tade Thompson. I appreciate the creativity and intelligence that goes into imagining a near-future dystopia. However, I did not enjoy this book. I found the characters to be unlikeable, to the point where I did not care what happened to them. The plot had gaping holes, by design, which left me confused, but as I didn’t feel connected, I didn’t care to fill in the gaps. Interesting concept but ultimately not for me. 2.5 stars

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[JennyGirlReads]

Updated msg 170

Progress: 22/50
✔️ = Finished

✔️3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover The Lost Apothecary
✔️8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction Property

[Alyana]

Update to message #13
Progress: 12/16

✔1. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign
---> The Midnight Library - read on 02/04/21

✔6. A book that has the same title as a song
---> Fangirl - read on 02/1/21

✔10. A book about do-overs or fresh starts
---> What If It's Us - read on 03/01/21

✔14. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
---> Si - read on 03/04/21

✔16. A book everyone seems to have read but you
---> Becoming - read on 03/02/21

[Heather]

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11. A book about forgetting - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 49. (originally message 50)

Progress: 4/7

[Marleen]

Update to message 19: progress 6/10

✅ 28. A magical realism book ➡️ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

[Winter, Group Reads]

Updated! Happy Easter everyone! I'm going to take a week off, but I will be back to updating after Easter :) Hope you all have a lovely week whether you celebrate or not.

[Megan]

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Just completed #17 (same as song title) - The Shadows by Alex North. This book was creepy and had a good mystery. Things unfolded well throughout, and the writing was good. It lost a bit of steam in the last quarter, but overall entertaining read! Worth reading! 4 stars

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[Rona]

Updated Msg 47

I know I am slow, but after having a bad reading slump for so long..its a pretty good result for me! lol

6/30 completed

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 49. Progress 5/7

[Tania]

Update message 28, 15/50

#&x2713;33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child): Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich (finished 3/27)

[Amy]

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[Marleen]

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✅33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) ➡️ Spoonbenders

[Marleen]

Update to message 19: progress 8/10

✅35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels) ➡️ The Time Machine (read as an audiobook)

[Heather]

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16. A book by an indigenous author - The Removed

[Amy]

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A book set in multiple countries: Run Away-- set in Istanbul, Turkey and Bali

[Ashleigh]

Update to #46

10/?

48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random 84, Charing Cross Road

[Allie]

Update Message #94
Progress 23/50
Prompt 45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
The Devil and the Dark Water


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[Ashley]

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[Kathleen]

Update to message #136
Progress 2/10
Completed prompts 9 & 37

[AJ]

Update to 378

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5. A dark academia book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein's book details the ways individuals, corporations, and governments (sometimes all together) seek to use shock therapy as a principle worldwide in search of an unattainable "fresh start" and ultimately profit from destruction and disaster.

[Darinda]

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[Amy (Other Amy)]

Winter wrote: "Welcome Amy! Are you going to use the name Amy (Other Amy) all year? If you are that's perfectly fine, but I differentiate you from your original message. So in your case if you update with:

Original message 404: 2/40

That would let me know which Amy you are. I'm asking because I have had a few changing name lately and then I don't know of they are participating in the challenge :) It's completely up to you, let me know what you prefer. For now I put you down on your current name. Welcome!"

Sorry just now seeing this, Winter. Yes, 'Amy (Other Amy)' is my permanent Goodreads name since 2014. It would be too weird to change now ;-) But I will definitely include my message number in my updates to make it as easy as possible for you. (I was going to do an update nowish, but I think I will hold off until after our 25K read-a-thon ends because I think I'm going to be moving some of my books around on Pop Sugar prompts.) Let me know if you need anything else from me. Thanks for leading this challenge. Pop Sugar is a big undertaking for a challenge leader!

[JennyGirlReads]

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✔️10. A bestseller from the 1990s Cold Mountain

✔️25. A book that was published anonymously The Bride Stripped Bare

✔️27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts To Sir Phillip, With Love

✔️36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads The Great Witches Baking Show

[Ashleigh]

11/?

27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Update to #46

[Gretchen]

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Read 5/10