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Got a new book today. Even though I've already done the music prompt for the PS Challenge, it's still a book I'm excited for regardless.

I've heard a lot of positive things about this one. I listen to so many hours of Spotify so I was genuinely curious about it.


Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

I finished one book this week. Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson for the book that start with letter Y prompt. It was very good. I didn't know there were slave prisons- which is why I love historical fiction.

And for those of you still looking for a good book to read for prompt #11 A book mentioned in another book:
Oliver Twist, Emma and Jane Eyre are all mentioned in Yellow Wife.

QotW:
Does it bother you if the book's title doesn't seem connected to the plot?
I do pay attention to the title and look for the connection within the text. It bothers me me when I can't find it. I've even been known to Google search the connection if I can't find it. :)

Do you all ever look at your Currently Reading and find patterns. Like right now on my home page, my top three Currently Reading are all BLUE! I'm having a blue theme!

Something dawned on me yesterday related to the QOTW. I've been listening to The Fox Wife for a while now (I keep losing my audiobook to other people who think they ought to read it, too- what gives?? lol). Yesterday, I was trying to think of what prompt it would fit. Maybe magical creatures who aren't dragons. Then I got to thinking that she's kind of happily single (I mean, she's *not* happy, but that's not because she's not in a relationship). But then, the title got to me- if she's the fox *wife*, who the heck is she married to?? I'm 60% in, and it hasn't yet come up.... So maybe she's married but isn't living with her husband? Or maybe it refers to someone else? Now it's going to bug me until I get it figured out (please don't spoil it for me!). I had been blissfully reading along not at all noticing that the title doesn't match the plot (thus far) until Nadine ruined my contentment with the QOTW! ;)

hello - does anyone know if you can check off the books you've read for the challenge within the good reads app? or are you tracking your progress against the categories elsewhere? thanks so much in advance!

Eggbert wrote: "hello - does anyone know if you can check off the books you've read for the challenge within the good reads app? or are you tracking your progress against the categories elsewhere? thanks so much i..."

The GR app sucks. Use the desktop version if you can - you can make a post with your list and then edit the post to check off the prompts you've completed. The app doesn't let you edit. Or add links to the books you've read.

No idea where the time is going, felt lucky to have today off work to just relax and veg for a bit, temps are dropping here again the next few days.

2/75 GoodReads Challenge
2/50 PopSugar Challenge

Finished:
1.) The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (#6-2015 Prompt - female author) ⭐⭐⭐⭐�� - First book and first 5 star read of the year. I absolutely savored the writing in this slow burn character study. I loved every single moment of this one.

2. Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister (#10 - Free) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - I enjoyed this one slightly less than her first, but still found myself enthralled with the mystery.



Currently Reading:
1.) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
2.) James



QoTW: Does it bother you if the book's title doesn't seem connected to the plot?

Low key YES - this does bother me, but there are certainly bigger bookish pet peeves that I have.

Eggbert wrote: "hello - does anyone know if you can check off the books you've read for the challenge within the good reads app? or are you tracking your progress against the categories elsewhere? thanks so much i..."

I use Kendra's method, but I'm also tracking this challenge on an app called StoryGraph. When you join a challenge there, it gives you a list of all the prompts and lets you add a book to each one. When you mark one of those books completed, it will automatically get checked off and highlighted in green on the list. I really like the look and feel of it, but unfortunately it doesn't have discussion forums for the challenges, which is the main reason I keep using GR in parallel.

I use a Word document that I setup for each challenge every year: Popsugar, AtY, 52 Book Club, Read Harder, Diverse Baseline, African Bingo... Then I list them on the ŷ������ posting.

Although I am not impressed with StoryGraph overall and am choosing not to use it, it sounds as if it might be useful for challenges... I stick with ŷ������ for the community, certainly NOT because it works well overall from a technical viewpoint!

L Y N N wrote: "Although I am not impressed with StoryGraph overall and am choosing not to use it, it sounds as if it might be useful for challenges..."

It is genuinely the only reason I use StoryGraph! It's brilliant for challenges and buddy reads.