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2022 Challenge - General
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Excited chatter while we wait for the 2022 list to post!!!
I keep trying to figure out what prompt 2 is from the picture. At first I thought it was "a book set on a plane," but now I'm starting to think it says planet and not plane. I was hoping for plane haha.
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I got "set on a planet" stuck in my head, so I keep thinking of "plan" words, but I'm wondering if it's something completely different, like "set on a playground"
Nadine wrote: "Mary wrote: "I keep trying to figure out what prompt 2 is from the picture. At first I thought it was "a book set on a plane," but now I'm starting to think it says planet and not plane. I was hopi..."I am going to be out doing community service with teenagers all afternoon, so I'm going to have to wait until I get home to even really check out the list, so I'm feeling quite impatient this morning. Hopefully the day goes quickly.
I keep refreshing in anticipation! No posting yet. I am in Australia and it’s close to midnight. It will probably be tomorrow before I get my first look
It's just 6am here, 3 more hours to go before the list drops. I got up way too early just in case of sneaky peeks. Apparently this is my new Christmas morning.
Where are you finding any info? I see no mention of it whatsoever on Popsugar
Marlis wrote: "Where are you finding any info? I see no mention of it whatsoever on Popsugar"They mostly use their Facebook book club group for announcements:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/42747...
I wonder if the second prompt says “book set on a plane, train, or automobile”
I've still got a tenner on plane, train or ship.*sings* Luck be a lady tonight...
I feel like a kid on Christmas, eagerly awaiting this list.
Nicole wrote: "I feel like a kid on Christmas, eagerly awaiting this list."Same 😭
Rather than refreshing in the hope they've accidentally published it early, I listened to the last hour of my final book for ATY. So now I'm done with my challenges and extra ready for the list to drop!
The second prompt definitely looks like it's a book set on a plane.Less than 30 mins to go!!
I'm awake an hour early to make sure I don't miss it. I suspect the people I'm lunching with today will wish they'd picked another day. Not that I haven't talked to them about the challenge ad nauseam before.
i'm so excited! this is the first time i ever woke up early for a reading list challenge.
It's here!https://www.popsugar.com/entertainmen...
Awww she linked to our group again. Prepare for the influx! *waves at newbies*
poshpenny wrote: "I've still got a tenner on plane, train or ship.*sings* Luck be a lady tonight..."
OK I was not expecting it to be specifically a cruise ship!
I'm not loving some of these categories.
The twin towns one is specifically making me think of skipping the advanced questions. That seems super hard, or does America twin all its cities with other big places that lots of books are set in?
I did not scroll down far enough to find this thread, and I kept asking myself why no one was chatting in the weekly check-in LOLA lot of prompts surprised me, but I don't see any that made me cringe. I have no idea what I'm going to read for some of them, so I'm glad we have listopias now!
Ellie wrote: "The twin towns one is specifically making me think of skipping the advanced questions. That seems super hard, or does America twin all its cities with other big places that lots of books are set in?"I think they're pretty common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_o...
Ace is an entire spectrum unto itself? I feel like they're getting a little too specific on some of these!
Excited! I'm not doing many challenges in 2022 but Popsugar is one where I feel like the majority of what I read can get slotted in somewhere as I go, so it's less stressful. Some really fun categories, although I'm kicking myself for having read Chloe Gong's These Violent Delights duology this year bahahaha
Some first impressions:"A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society" HA! Good luck!
I do not use tick tock so ugh.
I'm so over witch books. Sigh.
TWO different award winners? People gonna be piiiiissed.
I don't have a "my favorite author" just a bunch I like a lot
Social horror? Like... going to a party that will have people I don't know?
Ummm... how is Own Voices fantasy even possible? It's flipping fantasy?
I see we've gone with a 2 theme for the advanced section
I'm not sure how easy it will be to find two books set in sister cities! Yikes!
There are a few on here where the hunt looks like it will be fun and a few where it looks difficult.
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https://www.popsugar.com/entertainmen...
Awww she linked to our group again. Prepare for the influx! *waves at newbies*"
oh good lord, did she? I thought they'd send everyone to their Facebook page this year!!!
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Christine wrote: "Ace is an entire spectrum unto itself? I feel like they're getting a little too specific on some of these!"As a person on the ace spectrum: yes, it very much is. It might do you good to add Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex to your 2022 reading list.
poshpenny wrote: "TWO different award winners? People gonna be piiiiissed."😆 I'm happy to see the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award has quite an array to choose from *gives side-eye to Women's Book Award*
I had no idea what twin towns were, had to google that. I had the impression that would be a very American thing but turns out even my town has twin towns Regarding a book set in a non patriarchal society: The House of Night books (starting with Marked) are set in a matriarchal society.
Heather wrote: "Ellie wrote: "The twin towns one is specifically making me think of skipping the advanced questions. That seems super hard, or does America twin all its cities with other big places that lots of bo..."Sorry didn't mean to say twin towns aren't common, the ones I know about just always seem to be small places that would be hard to find books in. But I see London is just paired with other global cities, so if I do it I guess I'll just do those.
Christine wrote: "Ace is an entire spectrum unto itself? I feel like they're getting a little too specific on some of these!" I think things like Aromantic and demi considered Ace spectrum?
Nadine wrote: "poshpenny wrote: "Awww she linked to our group again. Prepare for the influx! *waves at newbies*"I thought they'd send everyone to their Facebook page this year!!!"
She did both, and also their Twitter
How are you supposed to figure out this one: "A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page"?
I feel a little overwhelmed by how many of the prompts I did not even understand without googling, but I know listopia will be my friend. I don't prefer the sci-fi/fantasy genre, so there are several prompts that I'm a little frustrated with, and some seem very specific, but I think there will be a lot of learning this challenge.
Their single suggestion for a Pacific Islander author is equivalent to suggesting Barack Obama. Could they not think of a single other person or did they not bother to check?
I'm glad both the award winner categories seem to have way more options than this past year; I did frown a little when I saw there were two at first, haha. I'm excited for a lot of these! And now wishing I'd waited a year to read When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, whomp whomp.
So, 2 romances, 2 sci-fi/fantasy and 2 award winners. Looks like the advanced list isn't the only place where there is a theme of 2 going on.I'm so lucky that I don't like romance or sci-fi.
According to the Wikipedia site, twin cities for New York include: Beijing, Budapest, Cairo, Brasilia, Jerusalem, Baku, Johannesburg, London, Madrid, Rome, Santo Domingo, Tokyo. That should be easy enough. Although I do realize people may be sick of reading books set in New York.
It's a little frustrating that the list does not show on either the PopSugar front page or the Bookmarked page on their website. Thanks for providing the links!Doni, besides crowdsourcing in the thread for that prompt, I might search "Books recommended by XYZ" or browse a library bookshelf in genres I like.
Out of the 50 prompts, there are 11 that I like on their own merits, a couple I do not, and a handful that are going to be harder to search for.
I tend not to go for books with the title form XYZ: A Novel on the cover, as I think it should be plain from the title and cover art in most cases that it will be fictional. Obviously, the PopSugar team feels differently than me on that count, given the number of times the construction appears in the recommended list.
I do wish that there were more recommendations per prompt. I understand that it involves more work, but going from 5 per prompt to 1 in the course of a year is a major shift. Having the extra recommendations also helps clarify things when the prompt is a bit ambiguous.
I will chime in with more thoughts here or in the prompt threads themselves. Happy list making, everyone!
This might help for finding quotes by your favorite author: fivebooks.com
A book with a palindromic title*weeps softly*
Christine wrote: "A book with a palindromic title*weeps softly*"
I've already decided I'm going with *a word* in the title that is a palindrome!
That's my first protest, others may show up as I have a chance to think.
Alex wrote: "Christine wrote: "Ace is an entire spectrum unto itself? I feel like they're getting a little too specific on some of these!"As a person on the ace spectrum: yes, it very much is. It might do you..."
Same - I'm grateful to see this prompt! :)
poshpenny wrote: "Ummm... how is Own Voices fantasy even possible? It's flipping fantasy?"Books like The Gilded Ones would be an Own Voices fantasy, Cemetery Boys also fits. You actually have one on your favorites, The House In The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune would fit into Own Voices! So many options out there.
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