Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

So I know Sara you have a lot going on today lol but I wanted to ask, are we still planning on planning the monthly reads in advance? (Assuming that we are doing them again). I just received the October book today which is the third time that I was unable to secure the monthly read until the first of the next month. For those of us using the library it would be great to choose them with more time!

I'll start with a list of nominations. If I don't have a reason next to the prompt, I just threw it in because I couldn't find any inspiration for that month.

There were 28 prompts available in the Main Challenge that aren't subjective. A lot of the celebratory months are admittedly American-influenced.

January-A Book With a Weather Element in the Title
February- A Book About or Involving Sport (Winter Olympics)
March-A Book About Feminism (Women's History Month)
April-A Book that Involves a Bookstore or Library (National Library Month)
May-A Book About Mental Health (Mental Health Awareness Month)
June-A Book with an LGBTQ+ Protagonist (2018 Pride Month)
July-A Book Set at Sea
August-A Book with Characters who are Twins (National Twins Day is August 3rd)
September-A Book that is also a Stage Play or Musical
October-A Book About or Set on Halloween (Halloween is October 31st)
November-A Book About Death or Grief (All Souls Day is November 2nd)
December-A Book that's Published in 2018 (seems to be a tradition to put this one in December. Allows for the maximum number of new releases to actually be released)

Tara, yes! I am planning to set them up quarterly. If that doesn't provide enough time we can increase it.

Mike, thanks for the suggestions! Those look great to me. I will nudge the group to give some feedback before we finalize.

This also reminded me I need to open November's group discussion :)

OMG there is too much going on and I can NOT keep up with you guys!!! I love Mike's ideas. I vote that we discuss categories this week, then quickly move forward to proposing book selections for the Q1 categories next week, and vote on particular books the following week, and then we will know what January's book is by Thanksgiving.

I vote for Mike's categories (because I can't come up with anything better, but that doesn't mean someone else can't ...)

Mike - do you have the full list of 28 prompts? If I open a discussion thread, could you post the list? It would save me having to go through and identify all of them myself.

I am tempted to just adopt Mike's list, but I guess we should let the group have a say ;)

I have created a new thread for discussion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Thank you!! Mikes suggestions sound good to me!