Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

This is the first year I’ve tried the Popsugar Reading Challenge because it just seemed so interesting fun, Thus far this year, I have finished only two books: The Cuckoo’s Calling and A Farewell to Arms. I put Cuckoo down as the amateur detective book for the list and had Farewell as my book I meant to read in 2018.

Currently, one book I’m reading right now is David Benioff’s City of Thieves and I can’t decide what I should count it under. Should it be my book that includes a wedding (it being kind of a plot point) or should I choose a different spot for it?

Personally, I rearrange my books all the time if I find that a book I just read only fits in a category I've already filled. So I'd probably just put it anywhere it fits and move it later if that works better.

I don't know the book you are currently reading, so I can't tell you where to fit it in.
What I do is write down the books I've finished in every category they fit and then replace them one by one as I read other books, that fit the same promt.
I do a lot of rearranging too and hopefully in the end I'll have one book per promt.

I second Raquel with regard to shifting books around as needed. Last year was my first time doing the challenge and one thing I learned was that even though I had planned out the books I wanted to read for each prompt as well as backups, there were times where the books I had picked were either not available or didn't keep my interest enough to read, so shifting things around became a must. This year, I'm writing each book down under all the prompts it fits. Then, towards the end of the year I can narrow down which prompts truly don't have a match.

Welcome to the challenge, happy reading! :)

Personally I slot it into whichever prompt I think it fits and which may also be harder to fulfill. However, I do move things around if I read something else later in the year that I want reflected as being read for Pop Sugar and it only fits that prompt. Then I move the other book to whatever other prompt it fits. I find many books will fill multiple prompts so it becomes a game of which prompts will I find harder to fill and which easier, slotting books into the harder ones.

For example, this year, Cli-Fi is definitely going to be a challenge for me to find something to read. When I do find something that will fit, I will slot it into Cli-Fi rather than any other prompt that it might also fit. However, if at the end of the year another book fits Cli Fi and only Cli Fi, I'll move the first book I slotted there to another open prompt it fits.

A bit off topic, or maybe a small tangent, but I have two good titles for Cli-Fi (if environmental issues are appropriate, and not a narrow definition of climate).

A Friend of the Earth, by T.C. Boyle.

From the book's blurb: In the tradition of The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the universal questions of human love and the survival of the species. In the year 2025 global warming is a reality, the biosphere has collapsed, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a living as care-taker of a pop star's private zoo when his second ex-wife re-enters his life.

Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver (I've read this one, but my husband might read it for his PopSugar challenge. Ironically, he's read A Friend of the Earth, and I haven't). This one could be also be read in summer, the season the book is set in.

Did you just start the challenge recently or have you only read two books since January? Do you anticipate being able to read books faster as the year progresses?

If you're too busy to read a lot of books, it might be wise to check off more than one category per book so you actually have time to complete it.

Currently starting Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen and unsure where to put it in the 2020 challenge.