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Sydney Sweeney | Rasario dress | Harper's Bazaar ICONS Party | 2019

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Dec 26, 2019 - POPSUGAR is a global lifestyle media brand with content encompassing entertainment, style, beauty, wellne...

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Regina King 2019 Oscars Acceptance Speech | POPSUGAR Entertainment

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🦇 Good evening, bookish bats! We FINALLY got our tree. To make today shine even brighter, the amazing Jo @radio.reader sent me A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum @etafrum. I had the great fortune of reading this book in 2019, but now that I have a physical copy, I can't wait to dive into this story again.

🇵🇸 Etaf Rum is by far my favorite Palestinian-American author, and as a Palestinian writer myself, I've never felt so inspired to get my own story of growing up as a Palestinian-American published. If you haven't already, you NEED to grab this book!

🌙 The New York Times bestseller and Read with Jenna TODAY SHOW Book Club pick tells the story of three generations of Palestinian-American women struggling to express their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture in the wake of shocking intimate violence in their community.

🌙 Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children—four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear.

🌙 Brooklyn, 2008. Eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra’s oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda’s insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. Deya can’t help but wonder if her options would have been different had her parents survived the car crash that killed them when Deya was only eight. But her grandmother is firm on the matter: the only way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through marriage to the right man.

🌙 But fate has a will of its own, and soon Deya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truths about her family—knowledge that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the past, and her own future.

🧿 A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Fiction and Best Debut 🧿 BookBrowse's Best Book of the Year 🧿 A Marie Claire Best Women's Fiction of the Year 🧿 A Real Simple Best Book of the Year 🧿 A PopSugar Best Book of the Year All Written By Females 🧿 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice 🧿 A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March 🧿 A Newsweek Best Book of the Summer 🧿 A USA Today Best Book of the Week 🧿 A Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel 🧿 A Refinery 29 Best Books of the Month 🧿 A Buzzfeed News 4 Books We Couldn't Put Down Last Month 🧿 A New Arab Best Books by Arab Authors 🧿 An Electric Lit 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019 🧿 A The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2019

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Here's What to Know Before Giving Your Kids Melatonin For Sleep

You know those nights when you would give up anything to have your kiddo just go to sleep, but it seems like nothing is working? You've tried all the go-to suggestions to help your little one get some much-needed shut-eye - from giving them a calming warm bath to turning on a white-noise machine - and still, they can't keep their eyes closed. That's when some families turn to alternatives, like melatonin supplements. But a March 2024 report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that from 2019-2022, about 11,000 children landed in the emergency room after ingesting melatonin unsupervised. So is melatonin actually safe for kids? Here's what dietitians like myself really think about the supplement, including whether or not melatonin is safe for kids, the potential side effects of melatonin, and how much melatonin to give your kids, if any. What Is Melatonin? Before digging into whether kids should take melatonin, it's important to understand what melatonin actually is. Melatonin is a hormone that your brain naturally produces in response to darkness, and it helps with the timing of your circadian rhythms (24-hour internal clock) and sleep. To get a little nerdy on you, melatonin is released from the pineal gland in the brain in the absence of light, promoting sleep and inhibiting wake-promoting signals (aka this hormone is key for falling asleep and staying asleep). For some, an extra melatonin boost in supplement form may be helpful in the sleep department, especially if their body doesn't produce enough. Even expert associations like the American Academy of Family Physicians recommend the synthetic supplemental version of the melatonin hormone for the treatment of insomnia for older adults. But when it comes to whether melatonin is OK for kids, it is a bit more murky. Is Melatonin Safe For Kids? There is some evidence showing that melatonin can shorten the time to fall asleep in certain pediatric populations. But Dallas-based pediatric dietitian Kacie Barnes, MCN, RDN, tells POPSUGAR, "There is a lack of substantial research on the effects of melatonin in kids, so we can't guarantee that it is safe." She adds, "Melatonin is sold over the counter and isn't FDA regulated," meaning claims of composition on a melatonin bottle might not be true. In fact, a recent research letter published in The Journal of the American Medical Association showed that a whopping 88 percent of the tested melatonin gummy supplements displayed differences between quantities of melatonin that were listed on the label versus what was actually in the supplement. One of the most startling details of these findings is that some of the tested melatonin gummies had more than three times the amount of melatonin listed on the label. For little bodies, getting three times the melatonin than what was planned has the potential to be problematic. A similar concern was raised by the March CDC report where researchers noted that the actual content of certain melatonin products is not always the same as the labeled ingredients or strength, and these discrepancies can pose a risk. What's more, melatonin products do not require child-resistant packaging. "It seems that most experts recommend proceeding with caution or avoiding melatonin for kids," Barnes says. "We can't be sure about the exact concentration of the hormone in these products, and we don't have enough data about long-term use." If melatonin supplements are being provided to kids, they should be taken under the guidance of a healthcare professional and likely, under the supervision of an adult. Melatonin should not be used as a long-term sleep solution, either - unless your healthcare provider tells you otherwise. Side Effects of Melatonin on Kids As is the case with any supplement, there are some "watch outs" to look for when giving your child melatonin. Melatonin is believed to be relatively nontoxic for adults when an… https://www.popsugar.com/family/melatonin-safe-for-kids-49278244?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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Who Is Jordy Chandler and Where Is He in 2019? | POPSUGAR Entertainment

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Jeremy Allen White and Addison Timlin Are Divorcing After Over 3 Years of Marriage

Jeremy Allen White and his wife, Addison Timlin, are divorcing, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles and obtained by POPSUGAR. The divorce filing was made on May 11 by Timlin, 31. Reps for White did not immediately respond to POPSUGAR’s request for comment. Timlin and “The Bear” actor, 32, wed in 2019, but were together for many years after first meeting in high school in New York…

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February 2023 Reading Wrap-Up

Total books read: 7 

Total pages read: 2,404 

Days read: 24/28 

Average star rating: 4.25 

Challenge Prompts Filled: 13 in February; 19 total. Popsugar: 3(5)/40. Romanceopoly: 3(5)/36. CRAD: 1(2)/12. BTBL: 6(7)/52 

Read on for the mini-reviews!

How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days by K.M. Jackson 

⭐⭐⭐⭐(¼) 

This book was laugh out LOUD funny! I read it over three or four overnight shifts at work, and when my trainee was in the office, I kept having to shove a hand over my mouth to muffle my giggles. I love a good road trip romance, and friends to lovers is always a favorite; this book had them BOTH. Also loved how True fell first; what a refreshing change of pace. This has been on my TBR for a while, but I’m so glad I finally made the time for it!  

Challenge Prompts: BTBL (bought it and forgot it) 

If I Can Give You That by Michael Grey Bulla 

⭐⭐⭐⭐(¾) 

This is an ARC I read; the book comes out on 28 Feb. I had applied for it on NetGalley, but didn’t think about it again until I was hiding out in the laundry room at work (giving the aforementioned trainee some time to work the desk by herself). I left my Kindle in the office by mistake, so I was scrolling through Facebook where I found a preview of the first two chapters. By the end of Chapter One, I was hooked, trying to figure out where I was fitting another hardback book on my shelves when it came out. Then I remembered that I’d been approved for the ARC, so I started it the next shift. On the calendar, it took three “days,” but it was a shift and … not quite a quarter? Really, I read it in two sittings. It’s funny and touching and heartwarming and emotional and everything else. I love reading OwnVoices, and this was an excellent example of how much better representation can be when it’s written by someone who’s lived in the stories they’re telling. It’s a good reminder of why YA books can land for adults too: kids and teens are dealing with a lot more than the world gives them credit for, and those themes can resonate for adults too. 

Challenge Prompts: Popsugar – first-time author 

A Brush with Love by Mazey Eddings 

⭐⭐⭐⭐(½) 

I bought this on my Denver vacation back in September pretty much because I thought it was a little bit absurd, in the best way possible. The cover caught my eye at The Tattered Cover (seriously, look it up; both the book cover and the shop), so I flipped it over. I’ve never read a dental-themed romance novel before (like I said, a little bit absurd, affectionately), so I was pretty immediately curious to see how the author would marry the two concepts. The first third was a little bit of a slow start, but I’ve been super tired this week so that might be why. I read the last 220-ish pages in one night at work though, mostly while I hid in the laundry room (my favorite secret corner of the hotel; see the last review for the reasoning). Once it picked up, I was INVESTED. I think I tried to stop reading and do other things three or four times, but always talked myself into “one more chapter” (it’s never just one more chapter). As for the story itself, I laughed, I cried, I found parts of myself on the pages; it’s pretty much everything I look for in a romance novel. Half a star off, only because the ending made me cry at work, and then laugh into my own tears, and I could have done with a smidge more Alex at the very end. All that said, def recommend, def keeping this one. I love Judy, so I’m using this for both pet prompts, and Harper makes an excellent case about dental surgery, so I’m letting her argue the point for emergency services. 

Challenge Prompts: Popsugar – Book with a pet character; Beat the Backlist – Protagonist has a pet, Romanceopoly: Emergency services/ one of the main characters is part of the emergency services (medical field/dental) 

It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini 

⭐⭐⭐(½) 

You know those books that sit around for years before you finally read them? Well I bought this in … 2019, I think, or early 2020. Tried to start it a couple times, but it never stuck. It’s hefty, and it’s heavy (this is where I drop the TWs: depression, suicidal ideation, drugs, inpatient psychiatric care). But it’s also the basis for one of my favorite concept musicals, so I really did want to read the whole thing. As if that alone weren’t enough motivation, I was talking to one of the students I coach the other week in the high school library, where a class set’s worth of this book sparked a conversation about it/mental illness/not being as alone as we feel, so I wanted to be able to follow up with them about it. It only took four days, but this one felt like it dragged on a little bit. Like, without knowing when I started it, I’d have guessed a week or so. I did like how the structure was broken down into days, and the premise (a teen staying on an adult psychiatric ward for his inpatient treatment) was fascinating. Once I got to Craig’s time on Six North, the story picked up a lot, but the process of getting him there felt a little stretched out. Aside from the first line, which I maintain is the most compelling first line I’ve seen in any YA book ever (“It’s hard to talk when you want to kill yourself.”) The last page is a tiny insight into Vizzini’s life right before he started writing the book, and it makes me wonder how his experiences informed some of the details of his story. All in all, not a bad read, but I don’t think I’ll be compelled to read it again (unlike the musical, which I’ve started listening to nonstop again this week). 

Challenge Prompts: Chantal Reads All Day: Complimentary color to my January book; Beat the Backlist: Here there be monsters 

A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey 

⭐⭐⭐⭐(½) 

Sometimes, a good YA novel is just the thing to soothe the soul. This one absolutely fit the bill. I loved reading about Lila finding her way in England, going from resigned to her fate to loving the people and life she was building there, if only for the summer. Anyone who knows me knows that I love found family tropes, and this book had a healthy dose of ride or die friends and ruthless, loving support of one another. Sure, there’s a romance that I was rooting for from page one, but I had almost as much fun watching Lila take Flora under her wing and impart some of her hard-won wisdom. The heartbreak that creates the whole plot, the unavoidable loss and change of family and relationships, feels like something everyone will be able to relate to in their own way; relationships and goals and people change as they move between stages of their lives. It hurts, but the author captured it so wonderfully, and showed how there’s always room to let new people in, even as Lila was still greiving those initial losses. The overarching theme of blending Cuban and British foods, traditions and lifestyles really stuck out to me – it's not something I’ve read before, but I was so fascinated by Lila’s fusion cooking and the knowledge that Abuelita would be proud to see her putting her own spin on things. The only thing it’s missing is a recipe book at the back for some of the mouthwatering pastries that take center stage in Lila’s summer.  

Challenge Prompts: Popsugar: A book with ‘girl’ in the title; Beat the Backlist: Set on a continent you don’t live on; Romanceopoly: Burget joint/MC is in the food industry 

In Five Years by Rebecca Serle 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

It’s hard to give a book five stars while I’m still shaking and crying from the ending, but it feels like anything less would be a disservice, given that it made me shake and cry. I picked this one up at the bookstore with my brother and one of our friends, even though I’d told myself I wasn’t going to buy any books that day. The cover caught my eye, with the blue and the smooth, creamy off-white, all perfectly offset by the metallic stars and bridge. Seriously, I could write pages just about the cover design. This book is beautiful, inside and out. I kept circling back to it on the display tables, and eventually decided that it meant something, just that I kept coming back to look at it again. The cover calls it a “read-in-one-sitting novel,” but it took me two – I totally could have finished it in one go, if I hadn’t been reading at work, and I did spend an incredible amount of my free time thinking about what might happen next. The premise fascinated me – they spoiled what I thought would be the plot twist on the back cover, and again in the first few chapters. Dannie wakes up five years in the future, in a life totally different than the one she’s living. She spends an hour there, then it’s back to the world she knows, and we pick up again just in time to watch the two lives collide. It’s not quite a romance, but something a little bit more than women’s lit. However you categorize it, it’s unlike anything I’ve read before, but I found bits and pieces of myself and my own best friend on the pages, in the sort of way that makes me want to find a flight to Texas just to give her a big hug. I laughed, I cried, I sobbed really hard at the end, and even though I already knew where the story was meant to end up, the getting there took me by surprise almost as much as the ending itself did. I don’t know that I’ll be able to bring myself to read it again – this first read, a smidge over 24 hours start to finish, feels like a sacred sort of experience I might ruin by trying to replicate, but I have a feeling it’ll stay on my shelf forever.  

Challenge Prompts: Romanceopoly: City Lane/Fantasy that doesn’t involve magic; Beat the Backlist: Character is keeping a big secret 

Secrets and Scones by Laurel Remington 

⭐⭐⭐(½) 

I don’t usually read a lot of middle-grade, because it’s less relatable for me the older I get, but this one was at the dollar store so a low-risk investment when the cover caught my eye. It was cute and easy in the way middle-grade usually is, where the biggest problems are school and parents and friend drama, but things work out nicely in the end. That’s not to say that there wasn’t conflict, just that the bow at the end was nice and neat and everything resolved itself relatively easily. Sometimes, that’s just the mood I’m after – especially after how gut-wrenching the last book I read was; I was specifically looking for something lighthearted and friendly. Overall, very cute, and if I remember next time I’m at the library, I might go grab the next couple in the series. The stars were primarily docked because for a book that features a recipe blog, and centers around sharing food with friends, they sure only gave me one recipe, and I’d have liked to see a few more of those, maybe tucked at the back or something even if they weren’t part of the main story text. 

Challenge Prompts: Beat the Backlist: POV character is under 18 

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Remember when the story included a nice retail example that didn’t match her ring?

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Book Haul 📚😍

A mixture of old favorites and new reads to add to my growing shelf

I’ve been in a little bit of a reading slump lately, mainly due to a lack of free time, but hopefully knowing these are on the sidelines waiting for me will get me going again! 

The Book Thief | Mark Zusak When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.  Goodreads

The Astonishing Color of After | Emily X.R. Pan Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird.

Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life.

Alternating between reality and magic, past and present, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a novel about finding oneself through family history, art, bravery, and love. Goodreads

With the Fire on High | Elizabeth Acevedo Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions—doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.

Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free. Goodreads

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls | Anissa Gray The Butler family has had their share of trials—as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest—but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest sister and substitute matriarch, is a force to be reckoned with and her younger sisters have alternately appreciated and chafed at her strong will. They are as stunned as the rest of the small community when she and her husband, Proctor, are arrested, and in a heartbeat the family goes from one of the most respected in town to utter disgrace. The worst part is, not even her sisters are sure exactly what happened. As Althea awaits her fate, Lillian and Viola must come together in the house they grew up in to care for their sister’s teenage daughters. What unfolds is a stunning portrait of the heart and core of an American family in a story that is as page-turning as it is important. Goodreads

A Blade So Black | L.L. McKinney The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew.

Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a full-time job. But when Alice's handsome and mysterious mentor is poisoned, she has to find the antidote by venturing deeper into Wonderland than she’s ever gone before. And she'll need to use everything she's learned in both worlds to keep from losing her head . . . literally. Goodreads Opposite of Always | Justin A. Reynolds When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he’s falling—hard. Soon she’s meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack.

But then Kate dies. And their story should end there.

Yet Kate’s death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate’s there again. Healthy, happy, and charming as ever. Jack isn’t sure if he’s losing his mind.

Still, if he has a chance to prevent Kate’s death, he’ll take it. Even if that means believing in time travel. However, Jack will learn that his actions are not without consequences. And when one choice turns deadly for someone else close to him, he has to figure out what he’s willing to do to save the people he loves. Goodreads The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance. Goodreads

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Books I Read in 2019

#134 - The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn

Mount TBR (86/100)

PopSugar Reading Challenge -- A novel based on a true story

Rating: 4/5 stars

I was surprised by how readable this was for historical fiction--I got through its 500+ pages in just over two days. What? Really? But it occurred to me, as I was nearing the end, that in some ways this is historical-lite; not that it doesn't concern actual places, times, and events, but that it isn't bogged down by them or by excessive detail, instead choosing to focus on the characters and their emotional journeys. In that way, its style reminded me far more of good romance than historical fiction, and there is a romantic subplot to help move Charlie's chapters along. Here's the thing, though. Charlie's half of the story is far weaker than Eve's, especially when it becomes clear that most of what Charlie is suffering now (uncertainty, lack of direction, loss, grief, and unintended pregnancy) Eve suffered herself, and generally far worse. Charlie takes pains to point out to Eve a few times that she knows her personal trials don't compare, and it's true, and good of her to acknowledge. But that doesn't make Charlie more interesting, it just makes her slightly less of a brat. Her romance with Finn (who is charming and I adore him because, even as thinly fleshed out as he is, I am a complete sucker for stoic but considerate men) fills the space in her half of the narrative where Eve would be doing spy things, and much as I love romance, in this case, spy things are simply more interesting. The other minor failing of the dual alternating plot lines is how blatantly obvious each small mystery becomes. Rarely do we have to wait more than a single chapter to have a question answered, and many chapter-pairs are tied together by glaringly obvious repeated lines, be they lines of poetry, or nuggets of wisdom Eve tells Charlie which we hear again a chapter later being told to Eve herself, years before. It's a small thing, but it was like a repeated tiny slap in the face every time it happened, saying "Look how clever this narrative structure is! Look! Look!" For all that, this novel does tell a story worth reading, and despite its accessible style, doesn't do anything to gloss over the horrors of war, especially those inflicted on women.        

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There are few red carpet looks that really make us feel things — and at the Met Gala 2019 tonight, Darren Criss did just this. Channeling the Harlequin character of Commedia dell'Arte, Criss not only stunned in his multicolored checkered blazer, he carried a campy makeup look that seriously made us stop and stare.

His cobalt blue bottom lash eyeliner extends from under his eyes to a winged-out triangle on each temple — accentuating the angular lines of his face and making his brown eyes really pop. Better yet, the blue liner is blended out to create a cool, gradient wing on each side and is balanced out by a single burgundy line on his lower lip. This nod to the Italian character is of course nostalgic to theater, trickery, and the jester in us all — pretty apropos to the Camp theme. See the full makeup look up close, ahead.

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Reading Challenge 2020

I’m currently 42/50 books through the Popsugar 2019 Reading Challenge, and still enjoying it immensely. I love book challenges, they make me seek out things I might not otherwise have read - and it just got me reading again, which was good given my lack of fandom involvement this year. 

I particularly like the Popsugar lists - they’re a good combination of specific and and challenging (two books that share the same title... a book with a question in the title... a book that takes place in a single day...), and yet general enough that I don’t feel cornered into reading stuff that doesn’t interest me (aside from the “litRPG” prompt, but I just re-read Only You Can Save Mankind and called it good). Plus there’s a very good-natured GoodReads group for finding inspiration and bragging posting about your progress.

Anyhow, they’ve just released the prompts for the 2020 challenge, for anyone who might be interested in playing next year. I didn’t know about the 2019 one until the very end of 2018, so this time around I was keeping an ear to the ground, so I could get some planning in. 

So, if anyone else is interested, the prompt list is here: Popsugar Reading Challenge 2020. And lmk if you’re doing it! I’m curious/nosy about what other people pick for the prompts. :) If anyone wants to find me on GoodReads, I’m Pepper, ofc.

I’m going to do a summary of my 2019 challenge books sometime at the end of December - whenever I finish, basically - with some recs and opinions, so, idk, get pumped for that, or whatever. ;)