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Top Comments: Crowdsourcing My Reading Challenge [1]
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Date: 2025-05-07
As my fellow bibliophiles know, I’m obsessed with the Popsugar Reading Challenge: 50 books in a year, each in a random-ish category. Some categories are easy to fill (“a book published this year” is almost always on the list), and sometimes I stumble across the right book (a book featuring a food truck was already on my TBR list — what are the chances?). And then there are the others.
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Can anyone recommend a good book that…
..has a snake on the cover or in the title?
…is about a cult?
..is considered “healing fiction”? (I’m still not totally clear on what this means.)
..has a happily single woman protagonist?
..is set at a luxury resort?
..has a title starting with with “Y”?
..includes a nonverbal character?
..is made up of interrelated short stories?
..is about a nontraditional education?
..is about an immigrant or refugee? (Might go with The Good Immigrant , or Djinns , which was enthusiastically recommended by RickBoston.)
, or , which was enthusiastically recommended by RickBoston.) ...is dystopian, but with a happy ending?
There’s also a category for “a book about an item on your bucket list.” Unless there are any good novels about hang gliding, I’ll probably just go for something set in Spain or Australia. Or maybe a book about being a NYT bestselling author?
On to Top Comments!
From inkstainedwretch:
On slipperyone's diary about yet another leopard eating the faces of Leopards Eating People's Faces Party voters, Captain Frogbert sums it up pretty succinctly. Cap'n F's first three words were "With minimal effort". Too many of us have an arrogant laziness that refuses to make an effort. [Note from Tara: see also the response from cassidy3, highlighted by sweetthesound and NolongerRepub.]
From belinda ridgewood:
In today's Abbreviated Pundit Roundup by Greg Dworkin, the discussion turned to trade policy, and Ranglinlover2 walked us all the way from the nonsense coming from the White House to the seldom-heard reality.
Top mojo, courtesy of mik:
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