Just since you’re doing the 2024 Read Harder Challenge doesn’t imply you’ll be able to’t join different studying challenges! In reality, in my expertise, the varieties of people that do the Read Harder Challenge are additionally the ones who’ve a number of extra studying problem trackers of their devoted studying journals. You all are devoted and bold booklovers!
That’s why each different week in the Read Harder Newsletter, I’ll be sharing suggestions for different studying challenges from throughout the web, plus readathons and different bookish actions you need to learn about.
Today, I need to speak about the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge, which is at all times a buzzy one. I’m going to give a advice for every of the high six (of fifty) prompts, however let me know in case you’d like to see extra, and I can do some follow-ups in future newsletters.
1. A e-book with the phrase “leap” in the title
Lucky Leap Day by Ann Marie Walker
2024 is a bissextile year, so why not use that additional time to curl up with a leap day romance? Cara learns whereas visiting Ireland that it’s a convention there for girls to suggest on a leap day…and the subsequent morning, the day of her flight residence, she wakes up carrying a tinfoil ring with a man she doesn’t acknowledge in her mattress. Whoops. Finn (and his canine) tag alongside along with her to LA, attempting to persuade Cara to give this marriage an opportunity.
Alternate choices: Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales by Gregory Maguire, The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher by Ahn Do-hyun, and The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List by Sue Campbell.
2. A bildungsroman
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
A bildungsroman is a coming of age story a few novel about the “moral and psychological growth of the main character.” This a typical theme for YA books, however it’s not remoted to that age class. Wallace is a queer Black man from Alabama attending college in the Midwest, struggling to discover a place to belong even amongst his pals. Brandon Taylor is an acclaimed writer with a poetic writing type that may draw you in.
Alternate choices: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. For much more, try this Book Riot record of 24 of the Best Coming of Age Novels!
Those are my suggestions for the first six prompts of the 2024 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge. Let me know in the feedback: are you attempting to full the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge? Are there some other studying challenges you’re doing this 12 months? And would you want extra POPSUGAR Reading Challenge advice lists in the future? Let’s chat about it!
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