Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

I'm logging in just after midnight on June 27 having stayed up past my usual bedtime to finish the amazing All the Light We Cannot See. Oh, this book, this wonderful book. Pulitzer Prize winner indeed.

I'm slotting it in "a book with more than 500 pages."

This week, I also finished China Rich Girlfriend for "a book published in 2015." As with most sequels, it wasn't nearly as good as the first book Crazy Rich Asians.

This puts me at 40/52 for the year. Also found a cool feature within the Goodreads annual challenge. You can look at your stats to see how many pages you've read. I've read 12,062 pages. Wowzers.

How did it go for you this week? Are you getting distracted by the summer weather (assuming you're having summer weather where you live)? Or are you just taking your book to the beach with you?

Can't wait to hear from everyone to read how your weeks are progressing.

This next week is our mid-way point: Week 26. Do you have any goals for mid year?

I finished a bunch of books this week! The Exile by Diana Gabaldon's is my graphic novel. Things That Matter by Charles Krauthammer for a nonfiction book. Looking for Alaska by John Green for a popular author's first book. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini for a banned book. And Tales of Beedle the Bard for a book with nonhuman characters. I don't have my exact total in front of me but I'm somewhere close to 40 books!

I finished Safekeeping (book set in a different country) and The Normal Heart (a play). I also started reading Annihilation (trilogy) which I am very close to finishing and I started Every Day, Every Hour (originally in a different language).

Around the first of the month I will be starting The Host (nonhuman characters) with a friend and it may take me a while to read. My mid year goal is to be caught up on my weeks or hopefully ahead, I have finished 23 prompts so far.

This week I finished Gentlemen and Players for a mystery/thriller. It feel into the mystery category and it was really good. :)

I'm still working on "Shogun". I should be on it for at least another week.

I had a so-so week. I read The Giver for the book from my childhood. I then decided to take it a step further and finish the quartet. I just have one left and then I'll be back to ticking more categories off the list.

Next on deck is Book originally written in another language because it'll be due back at the library soon! I really hope to have a good reading week this week.

Best to luck to everyone as we approach midyear.

I completed If I Stay (became a movie), which made me cry like a baby, which is quite a feat. I'm still a book short, but I'm making okay progress. Although, my family's in town this week for my graduation, so I've read nothing in days. We'll see if I can finish another by the end of the week.

It has been a slow week. I am currently reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. It is a great book. I think I might be distracted by summer activities though :)

This week I've read How to Be a Woman for the book by a female author - I thought the prompt was too easy and also I've seen that some people have been perhaps a little insulted that it should be a prompt at all. So I decided that I should read a book with 'woman' in the title, and/or on the subject of feminism. This book fit the bill. I do recommend it, but it also has its faults.
I've also read The Tempest Graphic Novel in the original text, as the Graphic novel prompt. I have read the tempest before but wanted to refresh my memory as I have tickets to see a production of it in July. This has confirmed my suspicion that whatever the book is I just don't like Graphic Novels, although this one is beautifully done.

Slow week for me last week. Read just The Rosie Project. Could be set someplace I've always wanted to visit. But I might shuffle some categories around. I'm having trouble finding a love triangle and I may swap this out for a triangle book in another category. It was funny. I enjoyed it.

5 books left. 2 in my trilogy. Book that scares me. Bottom of my to read list. And either set someplace I've always wanted to visit or love triangle.

Will finish just after the start of the second half of the year. Trying to decide on another challenge or maybe lapping this one and doing it twice.

Popping in to remind everyone of the other challenge we have going on which is the pages read challenge. If you update your reading progress on Goodreads, you can track your pages read that way.

Every Sunday, a thread is opened where you just drop in and post the number of pages you've read from the previous Monday through Sunday.

Our moderator Ann has promised a prize at the end of the year. My thought is: I'm reading anyway, might as well throw my hat in for the pages read!

Plus, we started this one just a few weeks back so you're not too far behind.

This week I finished:

✔️21) A book your Dad loves: Vicious Circle by Wilbur Smith

✔️31) A book with bad reviews: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

So now my tally is 46/52, getting very close now.

I'm at 30 and so so excited!!

Currently reading:

A book with a color in the title: The Devil in the White City

I just finished Shane by Jack Schaefer, for a book I didn't read in high school/middle school. I have no idea why I missed out on being assigned this book, when everyone I know has had to read that book, so I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. Although I am fairly new to enjoying Western novels, I am finding I really do like them after giving them a chance.

Last week I read Balanced on the Blade's Edge by Lindsay Buroker, a steampunk fantasy with a bit of magic thrown in. I'm using it for a book with magic. It was a fun read, as all of her books are!
I'm at 33/52.

I finished my book with magic (The Tales of Beedle the Bard) and am almost done with my one word title (Wicked). I am so behind schedule!!!