Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

My favorite color is purple.. would this book work:
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave ?

Would grape be considered a variation on the color purple?

Crumb wrote: "My favorite color is purple.. would this book work:
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave ?

Would grape be considered a variation on the color purple?"

"grape" is a color (at least according to the Dharma Trading Co Procion fabric dye I have), but "grapes" is a noun. So, since it's plural, that makes it dicey. They aren't using it to mean the color, so you have to decide if it works for you or not. In 2017 for "month or day" a lot of people used titles that had "March" or "July" and so on in the title when those were being used to mean other things, so there is precedent for ignoring the title's meaning and just using the word in the title to fulfill the category.

Nadine wrote: "Crumb wrote: "My favorite color is purple.. would this book work:
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave ?

Would grape be considered a variation on the color purple?"

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Thanks, Nadine.. I am just having trouble finding a book that interests me.. at the same time, I don't want to cheat.

I think I found something that could work for purple:
The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams
UPDATE!!

Found something PERFECT!! I've been wanting to read this one for quite some time .. and it just clicked! My favorite color is purple.. I think for this challenge I am going to read:
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

Just noticed In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown, seems like it would be an interesting read.

Amber wrote: "Just noticed In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown, seems like it would be an interesting read."

Amber.. that would be a good one.. not only does it have the color green in the title.. but brown, too.

How do I choose this prompt if I don't actually have a favorite color? Any suggestions?

Rebecca wrote: "How do I choose this prompt if I don't actually have a favorite color? Any suggestions?"

It's up to you! You can either read any book with a color in the title that looks good, or you can choose a color of clothing that you tend to wear often and look for that.

I'll reread Eyes of a blue dog, by Gabriel García Márquez, but in the PT-BR version (Olhos de cão azul).

This was the first book I read from Gabo <3

Pink is truly my fave and teal/mint green as a second but hard to find those colors in books so I’m going with blue. Shades of Blue

Just wanted to throw out an option.. Hyacinth Girls by Lauren Frankel

I think Hyacinth can be in blue or purple.. so If anyone is wanting another option for those colors.. there ya go!

Hmmm...I'm not finding any books with pink in the title that appeal to me. I think I'm going to choose something with black instead.

Black Beauty
The Woman in Black
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Black Dogs
Black Water Lilies
The Black Tulip

Stephanie wrote: "fave colour is white so the original Snow White could work. any other suggestions?"

White is for Witching
The White Castle
The White Tiger

Chrissy wrote: "Sara wrote: "My favorite color is gray/grey. The first book I thought of is a HARD NO..."

What about Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde? I haven't read it yet, but it is on my list for..."

I enjoyed Shades of Grey, but it's definitely different than Fforde's other work and wasn't strongly received. So even though it was meant to be the start of a series, another book hasn't been written and doesn't look like it will be.

That said, I really found it an interesting world and made me a think, as the way color is used is definitely a metaphor.

Kirsten Gier have written
Ruby Red
Sapphire Blue
Emerald Green
I am trying to fit them in to several prompts so I can read all 3 this year. Got them recommended but have no idea if they are any good.

Gier's series is about time travel so you can use that for any, plus a book in a series you've started for another, and ... I do t know? Is one of those your favorite color?

Blue is mine. I have only a single book with blue in the title... so I guess that's what I'm reading! The Bluest Eye

Thanks, Nadine.. I am just having trouble finding a book that interests me.. at the same time, I don't want to cheat.

I'd say it's only cheating if your interpretation makes it so. Me? If pink were my favorite color, I'd be fine with a word like Pinkerton being in the title as fitting the prompt.

But I likely run rather rogue. :)

Nadine wrote: "Gier's series is about time travel so you can use that for any, plus a book in a series you've started for another, and ... I do t know? Is one of those your favorite color?"

My plan so far is:
favourite color = blue
Aliteration = Not sure if Ruby Red would work for this one.
Or use
Timetravel (just saw that one today)
next in a series or borrowed (overdrive) = Green

There is a lot of wild cards this year so might do favorite prompt from 2015, 2016, 2017 (doing all 3 so I reach 52 books)

It really is a puzzle sometimes. I have so many series I want to finish that I am trying to fit in the challenge...

Thanks for great suggestions :-)

The Crimson Cord: Rahab's Story

Lavender suggestion:

Check out this book on Goodreads: The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Stephanie wrote: "Any suggestions for Yellow? So far I'm thinking Half of a Yellow Sun"

This was the "yellow" book I decided to choose! I've been meaning to read more by her, I'm excited!

Nadine wrote: "Aha!! FINALLY I will read The Color Purple!!! Because purple is definitely my favorite color, and I've been meaning to read this book for a long time now."

Brilliant book! Can't reco it enough

I'm sure some of these are repeats, but here's for the other red lovers :)
Red Rising
The Red Tent
Where the Red Fern Grows (Also childhood classic)
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter #1)
Red Badge of Courage (Also Childhood Classic)
The Red Pony
Written in Red
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
The Red Garden by Alce Hoffman
Peter Pan in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet
Scarlet in Snow
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Scarlet By A.C. Gaughen (This might be my pick)
Scarlet By Marissa Meyer (Also a series)
The Scarlet Letter Society
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

Only thing I can think of for orange is Clockwork Orange. I tried. I did. The speech patterns make my head hurt. Suggestions?

Tina wrote: "Only thing I can think of for orange is Clockwork Orange. I tried. I did. The speech patterns make my head hurt. Suggestions?"

Mayyyyyyyybe you can try A Thousand Orange Trees ?

The Emerald Circus looks good, and Jane Yolen has always been a favorite of mine.

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

Tina wrote: "Only thing I can think of for orange is Clockwork Orange. I tried. I did. The speech patterns make my head hurt. Suggestions?"

A lot of people seem to feel that way about that book! it's one of those books that I know I'm eventually going to try to read someday, but ... not this year!

If you search for "orange" in the Search Books field, a lot of books pop up. I haven't read any of them so I can't exactly recommend one, but I'm sure you can find an interesting book that way!

How do you complete this prompt if you don't have a favorite color?? My husband thinks I am so weird but I do not have one....

Rebecca wrote: "How do you complete this prompt if you don't have a favorite color?? My husband thinks I am so weird but I do not have one...."

You are one of the lucky few who gets to read any book with a color (any color) in the title!

Rebecca wrote: "How do you complete this prompt if you don't have a favorite color?? My husband thinks I am so weird but I do not have one...."

I don't have a favorite color either... some colors I hate... like orange, some colors I am so so about... but nothing that is a favorite.

Green:

Anne of Green Gables. I JUST finished this before 2018, so I am kind of bummed that I can't use it. (It was excellent, btw!)
Anne of Green Gables

I wouldn't say I have a favourite colour, so I'm using this as an excuse to get another book off my TBR shelves. I have White Oleander, but I'm going to go with Aquamarine as it's shorter (and god knows I need all the help I can get at reading 40+ books in a year!). I like the colour too.

Tina wrote: "Only thing I can think of for orange is Clockwork Orange. I tried. I did. The speech patterns make my head hurt. Suggestions?"

Yeah, I hear you. I got through it but...meh. What about Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit? Or I think there is an Orange is the New Black book?

Just finished Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1. Yes, my favorite color is orange. :)

Tina wrote: "Only thing I can think of for orange is Clockwork Orange. I tried. I did. The speech patterns make my head hurt. Suggestions?"

If you are interested in manga, Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 was my choice - super fast read.

Happy to find another orange lover!

If anyone is in the same situation as me of wanting to do grey/gray but not read fifty shades, I just read Agnes Grey by Ann Bronte and it was a really rewarding read, literary but short :)

If anyone likes fantasy I´d like to recommend John Stephens´ series Books of the Beginning. They´re described as children´s fantasy but I really enjoyed them (I´m 42...)
The Emerald Atlas
The Fire Chronicle (fire red?)
The Black Reckoning

Also I´m one of the people who don´t have a favourite colour... All the choices!!

Purple Hibiscus
The Color Purple

I just read black chalk by Christopher gates I don’t think I would have chosen this book on my own, but I found it interesting.

Darlene wrote: "Riders of the Purple Sage has been languishing on my iPod. I think I'll use it for this one."

Hmmm. I'm pretty sure one of my challenges includes "read a Western."

I don't have a fave colour, so I'm doing Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein! I've been reading through her back catalogue and she does some fab coming-of-age historical fiction. :)

willaful wrote: "Darlene wrote: "Riders of the Purple Sage has been languishing on my iPod. I think I'll use it for this one."

Hmmm. I'm pretty sure one of my challenges includes "read a Western.""

If you have to read a Western, I can recommend News of the World.

Agreed! I rarely read Westerns, didn't ever think it was a genre I would enjoy, and I LOVED News of the World!

Nadine wrote: "Tina wrote: "Only thing I can think of for orange is Clockwork Orange. I tried. I did. The speech patterns make my head hurt. Suggestions?"

A lot of people seem to feel that way about that book! i..."

Thanks!

Pink Smog by Francesca Lia Block

Just a suggestion for those looking for pink! An easy YA read by my favorite author!

My favorite color is purple, so I'm going with.....Purple! lol

Just finished The Color Purple for this one and I loved it!

I'm going to try Five Quarters of the Orange! :)