Oh boy! It’s been a while (or forever) since the last time I updated this blog. I focused too much on fulfilling my Goodreads challenge (100 books!) and neglected reviewing the books here :(
And the bad news is I won’t be able to finish my Goodreads challenge anyway XD (I changed the number from 100 to 90 now). So next year I think I will not be too ambitious in number, but decided to join (again) the Popsugar Reading Challenge to spice up my game.
So here is the list of the challenge:
- A book that’s published in 2020: The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
- A book by a trans or nonbinary author: Nevada (Imogen Binnie)
- A book with a great first line : Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- A book about a book club: The Agatha Christie Book Club (CA Larmer)
- A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics : The Alice Network (London) (Kate Quinn)
- A bildungsroman: Anne of Green Gables (LM Montgomery)
- The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed: TBD
- A book with an upside-down image on the cover: Fleishman is in Trouble (Taffy Brodesser-Akner)
- A book with a map: Winnie the Pooh (AA Milne)
- A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club: The Snowman (Jo Nesbo)
- An anthology: Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption (Daniel Jones)
- A book that passes the Bechdel test: Beloved (Toni Morrison)
- A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it: Inside Out (Demi Moore)
- A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name: Crenshaw (Katherine Applegate)
- A book about or involving social media: So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (Jon Ronson)
- A book that has a book on the cover: Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonder (Julianna Baggott)
- A medical thriller: Unwind (Neal Shusterman)
- A book with a made-up language: TBD
- A book set in a country beginning with “C”: The Painted Veil (China) (W. Somerset Maugham)
- A book you picked because the title caught your attention: TBD
- A book published the month of your birthday: The Starless Sea (November 2019) (Erin Morgenstern)
- A book about or by a woman in STEM: The Signature of All Things (Elizabeth Gilbert)
- A book that won an award in 2019: The Overstory (Pulitzer Prize) (Richard Powers)
- A book on a subject you know nothing about: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Caitlin Doughty)
- A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics: Franny and Zooey (JD Salinger)
- A book with a pun in the title: Red, White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston)
- A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins: The Middlestein (Glutony) (Jamie Attenberg)
- A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character: TBD
- A book with a bird on the cover: The House of Birds (Morgan McCarthy)
- A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader: The President is Missing (Bill Clinton and James Patterson)
- A book with “gold,” “silver,” or “bronze” in the title: The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Alan Bradley)
- A book by a WOC: Children of Blood and Bone (Tomi Adeyemi)
- A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
- A book you meant to read in 2019: Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
- A book with a three-word title: The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Kate Morton)
- A book with a pink cover: Milkman (Anna Burns)
- A Western: Inland (Tea Obreht)
- A book by or about a journalist: She Said (Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
- Read a banned book during Banned Books Week: The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
- Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: White Chrysanthemum (a book with a plant in the title cover – 2019) (Mary Lynn Bracht)
Advanced, 2020 Edition
- A book written by an author in their 20s: The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton)
- A book with “20” or “twenty” in the title: Twenty-four Days Before Christmas (Madeline L’Engle)
- A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision): Because of Winn Dixie (Kate DiCamillo)
- A book set in the 1920s: The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
- A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics: Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata)
- A book by an author who has written more than 20 books: Enid Blyton (TBD)
- A book with more than 20 letters in its title: The Bookshop of Yesterdays (Amy Meyerson)
- A book published in the 20th century: Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
- A book from a series with more than 20 books: Hercule Poirot (TBD)
- A book with a main character in their 20s: The Story of a New Name (Elena Ferrante)
So– 50 books for the challenge doesn/t seem so bad, right? And hopefully I can read few other books as well so the final number wouldn’t be too disappointing 😀
I’ll make a separate page for this challenge and update the progress there.
Wish me luck for 2020!!!!
Idolakuh! Kapan aku bisa konsisten ikutan reading challenge gini sementara jumlah buku untuk GR tahun depan aja mau kubabat habis wkkk
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