I love reading challenges and I came here thinking that maybe this year I would like the Pop Sugar Challenge, but nope!That sounds like a nightmare, way too many of them are annoying. I will likely participate in the Tea and Ink Classic Book Challenge, one or more of The Book Girls’ Guide challenges, and the Build Your Library reading challenge (which finally comes out tomorrow, hallelujah!). I found your reactions really fun though, so thanks!
Aww, thanks! I will have to look these up. I will decide on which challenges I'm doing once Read Harder (BookRiot) drops... 52 book club challenge is good this year! 💕
Just had a thought about the prompt regarding reading a book based on the last sentence. Get someone to choose a book from your own books, get them to read the last sentence of the book and then they choose a book for you to read from their own impressions of the last sentence. That way it doesn't spoil the book for you.
Non-traditional education could be any of the dark academia stuff? You have Babel right behind you, and I loved "A deadly education" series by Naomi Novik, and "The Betrayals" by Bridget Collins.
"Can we just leave the robots out of this?" haha I agree. The prompts are quite interesting for sure! Fun fact - I used to be weird and read the last sentence of the book first, but I stopped when I realized that some of them have spoilers in the last sentence. I don't think that is a good prompt! I loved hearing you complain about these prompts xD I have Floating Hotel on my tbr which I think will count for space tourism
@@readingwithrebeccanicole Oh man, first Ross reading books by reading the chapter summaries before each chapter... now you reading the last sentence first?!?! You guys are killing me 🤣🤣
There’s a non-fiction book called Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall, which is about ultramarathoners and I would absolutely read it for the Run Club prompt if I hadn’t already read it. 😅
I'm interpreting "oldest author" to mean the one oldest at the time they wrote the book. And I'm reducing the scope of "TBR" to mean the books I've chosen for the month. My unread physical TBR has thousands of books on it and I have thousands more digital books, so there's no way I'm sifting through all that for a prompt. Yet I am reasonably sure I have no running club, food truck, or soccer books. I did find a food truck murder mystery on Hoopla. And I'm told Fredrik Backman has a soccer book. But all of the running club books I can find sound absolutely painful.
All the food truck books are "how to start your food truck business!" I am not impressed, haha. Same with the physical TBR. Think I'm gonna go PD James "Death comes to Pemberley"... there's unlikely to be many more authors in their 90s/100s, right??
@@RaeLovesToRead yes ! I haven’t tought about those 😂 maybe because it’s not a wiling run 😄 ( sorry for my english it’s not my first language ) but it should really count. It’s my first Time doing the pop sugar challenge so i don’t know how close you have to be of the prompt title. But I will definitely choose the New King for my anticipated 2025 read 😍
@@liz-mc6bsYes, I was joking (sort of... might still work 😂), but it's such a difficult (and random) prompt that I might have to be a little creative!!!!
I love reading challenges and I came here thinking that maybe this year I would like the Pop Sugar Challenge, but nope!That sounds like a nightmare, way too many of them are annoying. I will likely participate in the Tea and Ink Classic Book Challenge, one or more of The Book Girls’ Guide challenges, and the Build Your Library reading challenge (which finally comes out tomorrow, hallelujah!). I found your reactions really fun though, so thanks!
Aww, thanks! I will have to look these up. I will decide on which challenges I'm doing once Read Harder (BookRiot) drops... 52 book club challenge is good this year! 💕
Just had a thought about the prompt regarding reading a book based on the last sentence. Get someone to choose a book from your own books, get them to read the last sentence of the book and then they choose a book for you to read from their own impressions of the last sentence. That way it doesn't spoil the book for you.
Good idea! 😊
Have you ever seen the beat the backlist as that one as a reading prompt challenge is also really good 😊
@@zosto102 ooh, I'll check it out! Got lots of choices for next year!
I actually have read a cozy mystery series about food trucks. So there are options out there.
@@ssfoster95 what's it called??
Non-traditional education could be any of the dark academia stuff? You have Babel right behind you, and I loved "A deadly education" series by Naomi Novik, and "The Betrayals" by Bridget Collins.
@nita_bee I have a lot of dark academia! Weird how I didn't think of that 😅😅 Now do I choose dark academia with witches or without? 🤔
Can I ask what camera you use the quality looks so good!!!
It's just the camera on my phone, which is a Note20 😊
"Can we just leave the robots out of this?" haha I agree. The prompts are quite interesting for sure!
Fun fact - I used to be weird and read the last sentence of the book first, but I stopped when I realized that some of them have spoilers in the last sentence. I don't think that is a good prompt!
I loved hearing you complain about these prompts xD
I have Floating Hotel on my tbr which I think will count for space tourism
@@readingwithrebeccanicole Oh man, first Ross reading books by reading the chapter summaries before each chapter... now you reading the last sentence first?!?! You guys are killing me 🤣🤣
@readingwithrebeccanicole I actually asked Pango for a book rec and it suggested The Night Circus... OK by me! 😁
@@readingwithrebeccanicole And I shall check out the floating hotel 😊
Great camera set up!
Thanks, Tim! 😊 I've got my books, my lamp, and my companion cube cookie jar... what more could one ask for!
@@RaeLovesToRead well...some pop sugar challenges that make sense!
I read 29 books for 2024's challenge before I gave up. Some are prompts I didn't like & others I didn't get to. 😂
I'm not even going to confess how many books I managed from this years challenge... it was my worst year yet! 😅
There’s a non-fiction book called Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
by Christopher McDougall, which is about ultramarathoners and I would absolutely read it for the Run Club prompt if I hadn’t already read it. 😅
Ooh... interesting! I'll check it out...
I'm interpreting "oldest author" to mean the one oldest at the time they wrote the book. And I'm reducing the scope of "TBR" to mean the books I've chosen for the month. My unread physical TBR has thousands of books on it and I have thousands more digital books, so there's no way I'm sifting through all that for a prompt.
Yet I am reasonably sure I have no running club, food truck, or soccer books. I did find a food truck murder mystery on Hoopla. And I'm told Fredrik Backman has a soccer book. But all of the running club books I can find sound absolutely painful.
All the food truck books are "how to start your food truck business!" I am not impressed, haha.
Same with the physical TBR. Think I'm gonna go PD James "Death comes to Pemberley"... there's unlikely to be many more authors in their 90s/100s, right??
Hi, where do you find this prompts??? 😅
www.popsugar.com/books/popsugar-reading-challenge-2025-49412160
There you go! ❤
@@RaeLovesToRead thank you so much
For the ones that have end or are mentioned in books we can help you. For sure the audience can give you names of books!
@bidingoverbooks Thank you! I'm trying to decide which challenges to do next year! When it gets to the tricky ones I will be asking for suggestions 😊
It’s not really a running club but in Elevation ( Stephen King) there is a race , does it count 😅?
Hehe... what about Stephen King's The Long Walk?? 😂 Or The Running Man?
@@RaeLovesToRead yes ! I haven’t tought about those 😂 maybe because it’s not a wiling run 😄 ( sorry for my english it’s not my first language ) but it should really count. It’s my first Time doing the pop sugar challenge so i don’t know how close you have to be of the prompt title.
But I will definitely choose the New King for my anticipated 2025 read 😍
@@liz-mc6bsYes, I was joking (sort of... might still work 😂), but it's such a difficult (and random) prompt that I might have to be a little creative!!!!