I'll be posting a few of my challenge wrap-ups over the next two days! Starting with #popsugar2019, the RC I have been doing the longest. Completed all 50 prompts again this year!
Favorite prompts:
✨Inspired common phrase or idiom
✨Inspired by myth/legend/folklore
✨Makes you nostalgic
Favorite books:
📖Becoming
📖Little Fires Everywhere
📖Far From the Tree
📖She Said
📖On the Come Up
📖Hey, Kiddo
#pop19
pickOne of the best books I've ever read. I cannot understand why it wasn't appreciated more when first published, but I'm thankful #NYRB gave it a second life! A melancholy novel about life, work, disappointment, & the love of literature, this novel was so real & incited every range of emotion in me. 5⭐️s! So so sorry for the delay, this will reach its destination in a couple of days! #LMPBC #Round7 #GroupC #WinterGames #TBRRead #TMSkellington
pickI enjoyed the different lives of the four sisters. It has been a long time since I read the Thorn Birds. Maybe I should read it in 2020.
With this book, I have completed #PopSugar2019 (title with bitter and sweet). I completed Booked2019, ReadHarder2019, and AtoZLitsy2019. I still have 16 to read for AroundtheWorld2019. I won't worry; it has been great fun and I'll read them in 2020.
pickAudio loan didn't come back until yesterday, which was perfect because I was able to finish this & have it count towards the #WinterGames! Glad I finally read it. Obscene, creepy, & will make you think of Christmas in a different light lol. Filled with kids & adults doing horrific things & showcases a frightening innocence that does not discern evil from fun. Kate Mulgrew's narration really brought this to life. #HolidayRead #TMSkellington 4⭐️s
pickMissed the post office yesterday before leaving town, so this will be sent to @rachelm first thing in the morning!
Wholly different from what I was expecting, this short novel proved to be an important work in its own right. Its strength was the use of surrealism to convey the truths & nuances of present-day issues on the topic of immigration; bridging cultures & languages. The translator's note was very informative! 4⭐️s #LMPBC #Round7 #GroupI
so-soWell, this was an interesting concept, but not the greatest execution. The MC, Simon, really got on my nerves, I actually wish the book had been written from Kat‘s POV. I don‘t think I will be reading the other books in the series.
It is my FINAL ✔️ for #popsugar2019! 🎉🎉 This fills the #LitRPG prompt. Also #BBRC #TeenAngst : not appropriate for MG (violence)
#MountTBR #pop19
pickA pretty insightful history of how the last shipment of slaves landed in the U.S. #TIL when these slaves were freed and denied the option to go back to Africa, they banded together, worked hard and saved their money to be able to purchase land from their previous slave owner, who wouldn't even give them a discount. 4⭐️s #NFNov #PopSugarReadingChallenge #PopSugar2019 #Pop19 #PublishedPosthumously
pickLoved! 4.25⭐️s! Continuing my mini-reviews of each story below & in comments.
Smack: Armfield's strength at writing gross, yet captivating descriptions with a sense of foreboding is on full display here. A woman going through a divorce barricades herself inside the beach house where a smack of jellyfish continuously invade the shore, bursting open.
Cassandra After: A woman is visited by her dead girlfriend in this sad tale of shame & regret.👇🏽
I think this is what I will read next. It‘s been on my #botm backlist, plus it fills the #twofemaleauthors prompt for #pop19, #anothercountry for #nonfiction2019 and works for #NFNov.
What say you, Littens?
I‘m in a race to finish #popsugar2019 before the #pop20 list comes out. 😂
pickHilarious! I am kicking myself for not getting this #BOTM pick, but now I'll get it as my bday freebie. I loved the MC, Lillian. Her humor was just what I needed! Bittersweet at times, this quirky novel showcases a wide variety of bad parenting lol, but ends on a hopeful note. I never knew combustible kids could be so fun! If you like quirky humor with a side of absurdity, I don't think you'll be disappointed. The #audio is fantastic! 4.5⭐️s!
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