I confess... I alter these annoyingly specific prompts into something that might actually apply to a book I would possibly read. 'A book about a running club' becomes 'a book where the MC is a runner'. 'A book about soccer' becomes 'a book which includes a sporting event'. I came across one recently, though, on another list that was 'a sports-related romance' and I will not be reading anything like that.
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.
Lots of cozy mysteries have adults changing careers and I believe there is a series about food trucks as well 😂 - for books mentioned in books, read books set in libraries or book shops (also a lot of mysteries) - Legends and Lattes would be a good one for adult changing careers if you haven’t read it!
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! 💕
I've been doing the Popsugar challenges for years and only one year in the last 4 have I completed the challenge. I looked at the prompts this year and just went, I think I may skip it this year. I've joined other challenges and truthfully the popsugar prompts have been getting stranger and stranger each year. Can't wait to see how you go with it, but I'm probably skipping this one. :)
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 🤣🤣
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??
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 don't know about you but my TBR pile is OUTRAGEOUS.... why would I want to just add more shit to my pile to meet some random challenge of things I dont even know if I have an interest in. Yeah, I guess the list is really just for fun... but hearing this now, I have zero interest of trying to even dip my toe in the pond of this bizarre list..... food truck? Soccer? left-handed character? WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHY? LOL This is at least entertaining --- you're definitely better than the list and your reaction is awesome
@@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!!!!
@RaeLovesToRead also for last sentence. I just Google "books to read based on last sentence Goodreads" and picked one. Middlemarch was the first one that showed unread for me, so I picked it. I have no idea what the last sentence is.
I confess... I alter these annoyingly specific prompts into something that might actually apply to a book I would possibly read. 'A book about a running club' becomes 'a book where the MC is a runner'. 'A book about soccer' becomes 'a book which includes a sporting event'. I came across one recently, though, on another list that was 'a sports-related romance' and I will not be reading anything like that.
@@jennamakesbugs Yeah, I doubt I'd enjoy a sports romance... unless it was like... chess? 🤣🤣
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! 😊
I am going with the oldest living on my TBR, for me, that is Jeanette Oke. Love Comes Softly.
Lots of cozy mysteries have adults changing careers and I believe there is a series about food trucks as well 😂 - for books mentioned in books, read books set in libraries or book shops (also a lot of mysteries) - Legends and Lattes would be a good one for adult changing careers if you haven’t read it!
@slideshell Oh yes, that would fit brilliantly! I've already read it though 😄
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! 💕
THIS... lol thank you!
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 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! 😅
I actually have read a cozy mystery series about food trucks. So there are options out there.
@@ssfoster95 what's it called??
@ it is the Street Food Cozies series by Gretchen Allen
I've been doing the Popsugar challenges for years and only one year in the last 4 have I completed the challenge. I looked at the prompts this year and just went, I think I may skip it this year. I've joined other challenges and truthfully the popsugar prompts have been getting stranger and stranger each year. Can't wait to see how you go with it, but I'm probably skipping this one. :)
I'm still not 100% decided if I'll do it... I probably will make an effort, but I was way more excited about the Read Harder prompts this year! 😊
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 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 😊
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??
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...
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!
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 😊
Can I ask what camera you use the quality looks so good!!!
It's just the camera on my phone, which is a Note20 😊
I don't know about you but my TBR pile is OUTRAGEOUS.... why would I want to just add more shit to my pile to meet some random challenge of things I dont even know if I have an interest in. Yeah, I guess the list is really just for fun... but hearing this now, I have zero interest of trying to even dip my toe in the pond of this bizarre list..... food truck? Soccer? left-handed character? WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHY? LOL This is at least entertaining --- you're definitely better than the list and your reaction is awesome
@Mamadriggs Hahaha thanks 😂 I may still give it a go, but I think I'm going to prioritise other things this year!
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!!!!
Fever Pitch is an excellent book about football, and that's from very much a non-fan of football!
Cams don't make me read more Nick Hornby 🤣🤣
Educated by Tara Westover is untraditional
This might be a good shout!
@RaeLovesToRead also for last sentence. I just Google "books to read based on last sentence Goodreads" and picked one. Middlemarch was the first one that showed unread for me, so I picked it. I have no idea what the last sentence is.
Healing fiction? What even is that? How do you even know, before reading?
@saschabittner8155 It's not a term I've heard before! 😅 I've got some books that have quite adorable covers though... maybe one of those?! 🤔