Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion
2017 Advanced challenge prompts
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A book with a family member term in the title


poshpenny wrote: "I might read The Sisters Brothers. I've had my eye on it for a while because I quite like the cover.
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I just looked that up and saw it compared to a Coen Brothers film - I'm in!
Or I might read The Madman’s Daughter, as I'd originally planned before I saw that.

I just looked that up and saw it compared to a Coen Brothers film - I'm in!
Or I might read The Madman’s Daughter, as I'd originally planned before I saw that.

Searching I just found some more that interest me
Dear Daughter
Not My Daughter
Sisters
The Sisters
Summer Sisters

I love the Aunt Dimity's series!
I like Juanita's list. I was also thinking The Brothers Karamazov. And add to her list Uncle Vanya by Chekhov

I'm really excited for this one, historical fiction is my favorite.

I like the cover for Americas Daughter.

The Paris Wife
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
Shakespeare's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife

Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Mothers
Flags of Our Fathers
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Brenna wrote: "A few I just got from searching for ones on my TBR list:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Mothers
Flags of Our Fathers
[book:The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got..."
Oh I LOVED Daughter of Smoke and Bone! It was my favorite book of the year that I read it (2013). It's a very "Romeo and Juliet" story, except with magic and aliens and alternate planes of existence and genocide and a battle between factions on a distant world ... and they don't kill themselves at the end, so it's got a better ending! I'm a sucker for an angsty love story :-)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Mothers
Flags of Our Fathers
[book:The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got..."
Oh I LOVED Daughter of Smoke and Bone! It was my favorite book of the year that I read it (2013). It's a very "Romeo and Juliet" story, except with magic and aliens and alternate planes of existence and genocide and a battle between factions on a distant world ... and they don't kill themselves at the end, so it's got a better ending! I'm a sucker for an angsty love story :-)

Definitely recommend! I really enjoyed this book.


The Night Sister - paranormal suspense
The Husband's Secret - contemporary women's fiction
The Ringmaster's Wife - historical/Christian
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister - fairy tale retelling

This is my pick as well.


I absolutely loved this book (read it a couple years ago).

Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Mothers
Flags of Our Fathers
[book:The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got..."
The Mothers is amazing, definitely recommended!


Another that comes to mind is The Gravedigger's Daughter. I was only able to get through a few pages of it, but lots of people love this book.

Panait Istrati was in fashion in France at several periods, quite notably during the 70s. I don't think he's very well known in the US; that novel at least doesn't seem to have been translated into English.
I started reading the book yesterday; looks pretty good.

I haven't read Wives and Daughters, but I did read North and South last year. Gaskell is pretty easy to read, maybe not quite like Austen, but I enjoyed it.

If you're looking for something short and fun for this one, An Ideal Husband is a winner.

For the challenge I read The Hidden Gallery (The full title is The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place Book 2: The Hidden Gallery.) This book is the second of a series- the first is The Mysterious Howling.
This series has interesting characters. I was not as captivated by this book as I was the first in the series, but I am still interested enough in where it is going that I have already requested the third in the series from my local library. One of my favorite aspects of these books is the highly quotable advice of Agatha Swanburne. It is charming and zany- I just wish the central plot would move a bit faster. After the cliff hanger ending of the first book, I thought the next book would have hit the ground running.
A couple of my favorite quotes:
"...with the instinctive knack every good governess has for turning something enjoyable into a lesson, and vice versa..." (This one is not a Swanburne quote-it is written in reference to the main character. I think I like it so much because it resounds with me as a mother and teacher.)
"When a big leap is required, a running start makes all the difference-so get moving!"
"To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions."
"The more one asks, the more one knows, and the more one knows, the more one asks."

I really like Elizabeth Gaskell - her Gothic Tales is very good. I would put her style somewhere between Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters.

For the challenge I read The Hidden Gallery...."
For which category?"
The full title is The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place Book 2: The Hidden Gallery.
For this category: A book with a family member term in the title.
I was considering "children" a family member term. As in, "I have a husband and two children."
Timbra wrote: "Nadine wrote: "Timbra wrote: "...
For the challenge I read The Hidden Gallery...."
For which category?"
The full title is The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place Book 2: The Hidden Gallery.
Fo..."
Thanks! I was confused! I see now that you spelled that out and I completely missed it, so I wasn't sure what it went with.
For the challenge I read The Hidden Gallery...."
For which category?"
The full title is The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place Book 2: The Hidden Gallery.
Fo..."
Thanks! I was confused! I see now that you spelled that out and I completely missed it, so I wasn't sure what it went with.



Interesting,philosophically-follows Trish through both lives of her answer to a proposal of marriage-what was the best choice and its effect on history?




Oh, good one! I might do that if what I've planned doesn't appeal.

I always end up switching which book belongs in which prompt. I was going to read America's First Daughter for a book about an interesting woman, but it would fit in this prompt too.
Books mentioned in this topic
The Husband's Secret (other topics)The Forgotten Daughter (other topics)
The Pilot's Wife (other topics)
Good Wives (other topics)
The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Daphne du Maurier (other topics)Stephanie Dray (other topics)
Ivy Compton-Burnett (other topics)
My Sister's Keeper
Summer Sisters
Sisters
The Brothers Karamazov
The Wright Brothers
Mother of Pearl
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Not My Father's Son
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry