2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Looking forward to 2020 and a year filled with reading.

My first goal is to read 76 books (my favorite number).
76 Book Challenge

Every Year Challenge - 2018 & 2019 & 2020

Continuing the Every Year Challenge....over three years. I think I'll be able to finally finish.

Progress: 23/24

1996 - The Green Mile - 7/25/2020
1997 - Memoirs of a Geisha - 5/31/18
1998 - Parable of the Talents - 8/3/18
1999 - Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems - 2/1/18
2000 - The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography - 12/7/20
2001 - American Gods* (July)
2002 - Caramelo - 12/1/2019
2003 - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - 10/20/18
2004 - Little Children - 9/15/18
2005 - Elantris - 10/9/2018
2006 - Sharp Objects - 9/13/2020
2007 - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - 7/21/18
2008 - Letter to My Daughter - 6/18/18
2009 - Shanghai Girls - 10/23/2019
2010 - Let's Take the Long Way Home - 8/15/2020
2011 - The Hypnotist's Love Story - 8/18/2019
2012 - This Is How You Lose Her - 4/3/18
2013 - Boxers & Saints - 7/18/18
2014 - Big Little Lies - 6/2/19
2015 - More Happy Than Not - 7/27/18
2016 - Cannibal - 5/05/18
2017 - Pachinko -1/14/18
2018 - If You See Me, Don't Say Hi - 9/19/18
2019 - Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets - 12/28/19
2020- Darling Rose Gold - 8/25/20

Popsugar Reading Challenge

Update Date: 12/20/2020
Progress: 37/50
Post Number: 1412
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1. A book that's published in 2020
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author: Take Me with You. In the words of Andrea Gibson, " I explain my gender by saying I am happiest on the road when I'm not here or there, but in between, that yellow line coming down the center of it all like a goddamn sunbeam."
3. A book with a great first line: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Nothing is hard to do than nothing. An apt for first line for a book all about nothing.
4. A book about a book club
5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics: Silver Sparrow This book is set in Atlanta, Georgia and the 1996 Olympics are mentioned toward the end. It's a great book and a great reminder the Olympics occurred on the East Coast.
6. A bildungsroman : Ordinary Girls A memoir that is probably one of the best I've read.
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover
9. A book with a map
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club: Startup My Favorite Murder's Georgia Hardstark recommended this book in a 2017 episode (working my way through) and though I'm a fan of hers, this book was lacking a bit to me.
11. An anthology: Fresh Ink: An Anthology A nice collection of YA stories focused on characters of color. I generally liked it.
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test: Her Body and Other Parties This collection of short stories passes this test with flying colors, though it centers on feminism and how women's bodies are not always their own.
13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it: Educated : Found an some films with the same name. I won't be surprised if this becomes a movie itself though.
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex An interesting read!
15. A book about or involving social media: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Damon Young runs Very Smart Brothas and discusses his social media triumphs and mistakes in this set of memoir essays.
16. A book that has a book on the cover
17. A medical thriller : Smaller and Smaller Circles A novel that focuses on the work of two priests, a forensic anthropologist and a psychologist chasing a serial killer in the Philippines. Enjoyable read.
18. A book with a made-up language
19. A book set in a country beginning with "C"
20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays It would always interest me, but it felt especially timely during the summer of COVID-19 and racial injustice.
21. A book published the month of your birthday
22. A book about or by a woman in STEM: Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout A really enjoyable, unconventional visit of Marie Curie's life alongside her husband Pierre. It also includes much more than that!
23. A book that won an award in 2019: Know My Name An absolutely incredible book that won the National Book Critics Circle Award last year. I can't recommend it more highly,
24. A book on a subject you know nothing about: Sharp Objects This book mentions the pig raising industry more than any other I've read before, and it's an interesting and not-so-subtle undercurrent to the story.
25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative Like most of the book pages, the cover is written in Austin Kleon's handwriting.
26. A book with a pun in the title: All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages "All out" is a play on folks being out with their gender and/or sexual identities. It was a nice read!
27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins: Shutter Island Wrath was all up, down, and around this book. Violence was mentioned often, and I think Lehane begins to show it's nuances. I also think lust and pride made appearances.
28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
29. A book with a bird on the cover
Birds also feature prominently in this story, so this was a perfect fit.
30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader: The Autobiography of Malcolm X I was unaware of Malcolm X's reach beyond the United States during his lifetime, but knew that he's made an impact since his first speech.
31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title: Darling Rose Gold I think Rose Gold took the gold for manipulation as well. .
32. A book by a WOC: She Would Be King : Liberian-American author Wayétu Moore wrote an enjoyable historical fiction novel about the founding of the nation.
33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads
34. A book you meant to read in 2019: The Sun Is Also a Star : The goal was to read this before watching the movie last year. Glad to re-experience the romance feels.
35. A book with a three-word title - The Far Field: The ending of this book was as an astute reviewer put it, "hollow". Took a while to get into, but once I did...wow.
36. A book with a pink cover: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy This book has lovely pink flowers and thought-provoking ideas.
37. A Western
38. A book by or about a journalist: Negroland : Margo Jefferson's memoir didn't fit the conventions of others memoirs I've read. Still, I appreciate its existence and was struck by her discussion of Black women lacking the right to be depressed.
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week - Sept 22-28: Their Eyes Were Watching God I didn't read it during Banned Books Week, but it's a book that's definitely been criticized on a number of dimensions. Highly recommend.
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge (2017 #29- unreliable narrator): Leaving Time : Jenna, Virgil, Serenity, and Alice are unreliable narrators in ways I didn't expect and moved me while reading.

Advanced (9/10)

41. A book written by an author in their 20s: Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur published this collection of poems at 21. She wrote these poems and she wrote them well.
42. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title: Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me Janet Mock reflects on her twenties and her long-time first love.
43. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision)
44. A book set in the 1920s: The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters While the Mitfords hit their stride in the 30s and 40s, this books covers their childhoods during the 1920s.
45. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics: Confessions This was a straightforwardly worded book, but the twists and turns kept coming. I need to get my hands on the movie.
46. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books: The Whistler John Grisham is a prolific law thriller writer. Not my favorite, but I'm a long-time fan.
47. A book with more than 20 letters in its title: Everyone Knows You Go Home 22 word long title that I'm not quite sure I grasped fully
48. A book published in the 20th century: The Green Mile Published in 1996.
49. A book from a series with more than 20 books: 1st to Die The first book featuring Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club.
50. A book with a main character in their 20s: American Dervish Though the majority of the novel is Hayat's flashback to being 12 (!!!), he begins and ends the book as a 20-something college student.

Color Challenge DONE
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Update Date: 11/19/2020
Progress: 18/18
Post Number: 628

This challenge requires you find books that have certain colors in their covers or in the title.

1. Read a book with "White" or any shade of white in the cover (ivory, cream, bone, etc...).


2. Read a book with "Pink" or any shade of pink in the cover (rose, magenta, salmon, etc...).


3. Read a book with "Red" or any shade of red in the cover (maroon, brick, scarlet, etc...).

4. Read a book with "Orange" or any shade of orange in the cover (apricot, ginger, carrot, etc...).

5. Read a book with "Yellow" or any shade o]f yellow in the cover (blond, chartreuse, canary, etc...).

6. Read a book with "Green" or any shade of green in the cover (sage, lime, jade, etc...).

7. Read a book with "Light Blue" or any shade of light blue in the cover (teal, sky, cerulean, etc...).

8. Read a book with "Dark Blue" or any shade of dark blue in the cover (indigo, denim, navy, etc...). :

9. Read a book with "Purple" or any shade of purple in the cover (lavender, plum, orchid, etc...).

10. Read a book with "Brown" or any shade of brown in the cover (tan, mahogany, coffee, etc...).

11. Read a book with "Black" or any shade of black in the cover (grey, slate, coal, etc...).

12. Read a book with a Metallic color in the cover (gold, silver, bronze, etc...).

13. Read a book with at least 5 colors on the cover.

14. Read a book with a geometric pattern on the cover (rainbows, stripes, polka dots, floral pattern, mosiac, etc...).

15. Read a book with an ugly (to you) cover.
- The most popular cover is lovely, why this with the lobster????
16. Read a book with two or more color words in the title (yellow gold, black & white, etc...)

17. Read a book with the word “Color” in the title.

18. Read a book with a word describing color in the title (rainbow, stripes, polka dots, shiny, mosiac, etc...)