Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

Hi! I read Cold Comfort Farm and thoroughly enjoyed it. If anyone is still looking for a book for this prompt, I recommend it.

Meagan ✊🏼 Blacklivesmatter ✊🏼Blacktranslivesmatter wrote: "I am definitely reading A Desolation Called Peace for this prompt. I can't wait for it to come out in March!"

Oh. Good one.

I'll admit I'm struggling for this one, and the discussion hasn't really cleared up what I'm looking for! But that's probably just me. Still, I thought some of these might work...

I did just read A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking - not sure if Defensive Baking is an oxymoron, though.

Likewise I just read Axiom's End. If an axiom is "a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments." - would Axiom's End be an oxymoron?

What about The Long and Short of It or Sugar and Vice?

Is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi an oxymoron?

Ann wrote: "Is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi an oxymoron?"


I don't think so, it's a fairly common term, especially in the Black community, for funeral. Basically, your soul is going home.

But I can see your point. Home is here, going is away from here.

It's SUCH a good book, so I support you in stretching this category in any way you see fit to make it work here so you can read this book!!!

Ann wrote: "Is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi an oxymoron?"

Nah. It’s a funeral. Very intense book

Dana wrote: "Then I will go with The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future by Veronica Roth."

I have read The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket.

This is a difficult prompt. I referred to the list posted by the moderators and found something interesting. I'm reading How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell. Not a very popular choice, but I found the audiobook on Audible.

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
They're on my TBR list.

If anyone is looking for some last minute ideas for this:

- The Once and Future King by T.H. White
- The Once and Future Spy by Robert Littell
- No One Is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel (this is actually one of my favorite books)

Actually I also wonder if Maggie Stiefvater's "All the Crooked Saints" would count? Since crooked implies dishonesty/immorality and saints refers to purity and holiness?

I’m reading The Worst Best Friend for this right now. Only 5 prompts left for me so I’m trying to push through before the end of the year.

I read Dead Wake by Erik Larson. It is a non fiction book, which I usually do not prefer, but it was very good.

This year I read some which I think would fit - Having and Being Had The Good Thing About Mortar Shells: Choosing Love Over Fear or even Minor Detail

The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Completed: March 17, 2021