Back in mid January last year I decided to join some friends in the Pop Sugar reading challenge 2017. Now, I didn’t quite tick off all of the categories – but I’m quite pleased with what I managed, and you can look at all of my reviews in the ‘2017 Reading Challenge’ category on this blog.
| 2017 Reading Challenge | |
| A book recommended by a librarian | The Unpredictable Consequences of Love by Jill Mansell |
| A book that’s been on your TBR list for way too long | The Cows by Dawn O’Porter |
| A book of letters | The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan |
| An audiobook | Crackanory – too cracked for TV |
| A book by a person of colour | … |
| A book with one of the four seasons in the title | One Endless Summer by Laurie Ellingham |
| A book that is a story within a story | The Forever House by Veronica Henry |
| A book with multiple authors | Scummy Mummies by Helen Thorn and Ellie Gibson |
| An espionage thriller | … |
| A book with a cat on the cover | Family Ghouls by Alex A King |
| A book by an author who uses a pseudonym | The Summer House By The Sea by Jenny Oliver |
| A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read | … |
| A book by or about a person who has a disability | Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon |
| A book involving travel | The Break by Marian Keyes |
| A book with a subtitle | The Love of the Game: Parenthood, Sport and Me by Mark Chapman |
| A book that’s published in 2017 | After You by Mhairi McFarlane |
| A book involving a mythical creature | The Nothing Girl by Jodi Taylor |
| A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile | … |
| A book about food | The Wonder by Emma Donohue |
| A book with career advice | Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg |
| A book from a nonhuman perspective | The Bees by Laline Paull |
| A steampunk novel | Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld |
| A book with a red spine | Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough |
| A book set in the wilderness | … |
| A book you loved as a child | … |
| A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited | … |
| A book with a title that’s a character’s name | The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessey by Rachel Joyce |
| A novel set during wartime | To My Daughter In France by Barbara and Stephanie Keating |
| A book with an unreliable narrator | The Woman Who Ran by Sam Baker |
| A book with pictures | Strong Woman: The Truth About Getting To The Top by Karren Brady |
| A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you | Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal |
| A book about an interesting woman | Running Like A Girl by Alexandra Heminsley |
| A book set in two different time periods | The Party by Elizabeth Day |
| A book with a month or a day of the week in the title | … |
| A book set in a hotel | The Girl from the Savoy by Hazel Gaynor |
| A book written by someone you admire | There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell |
| A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 | … |
| A book set around a holiday other than Christmas | A Catered Fourth of July by Isis Crawford |
| The first book in a series you haven’t read before | Watermelon by Marian Keyes |
| A book you bought on a trip | The Postcard by Fern Britton |
A friend in the Facebook group we’ve set up to share book reviews and ideas said she’d downloaded the 2018 challenge – and of course, I couldn’t say no – so I’ve had to join in too! I don’t think I’m going to beat myself up about it so much this year – and will read off piste if I want to. Equally, this year if I’m not enjoying a book I’m not going to persevere! Life’s too short and all that.
You can read more about the challenge itself here – but here’s the summary of topics:
And in a paraphrase of Strictly Come Dancing – keeeeeeeep reading!
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