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Book 29 My Not So Perfect Life & Bared to You

My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella and Bared to You by Sylvia Day fulfilled the category “Two Books Set in Sister Cities” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. I’m supposed to create one post for each book. But… Sigh. I’ve read four titles for the two prompts. I didn’t like two of them. …

Book 28 Buzz Off

Buzz Off by Hannah Reed fulfills the category “Book with an Onomatopoeia in the Title” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. Here’s how this novel ended up on the blog. I started with a few choices. (Check out my List Challenge for this year’s reading blog.) I love Terry Pratchett and am trying to read …

Book 27 The Spy Who Loved My Russian Tea Cakes

  The Spy Who Loved My Russian Tea Cakes by Marilyn Barr fulfilled the category “Book Set During a Holiday” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. The holiday in the book is Christmas, with cookie exchanges, family issues, and ugly sweaters galore. Happy Christmas in July! Our story starts with Cassie Morgan trying to live …

Book 26 Root Brew Float

  Root Brew Float by Sydney Winward fulfilled the category “Book with a Protagonist Who Uses a Mobility Aid” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. In this novella, the hero Clarence Watts walks with a cane after a terrible car accident. I grabbed this title, looking for a little fun in the sun. It’s part …

Book 25 Dead Eye

 Dead Eye by Alyssa Day fulfilled the category “Book with a Tiger on the Cover or in the Title” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. The novel features a weretiger. Let me just ask: Where were these books when I finished the Sookie Stackhouse books? I read all the Sookie books, though I might have …

Book 24 If This Gets Out

  If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich fulfilled the category “Book About a Band or a Musical Group” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. I wanted to include this book during Pride month. I have a few LGBTQ romances on my list this year. This title, for me at least, represents …

Book 23 Denton Little’s Deathdate

  Denton Little’s Deathdate and Denton Little’s Still Not Dead by Lance Rubin fulfilled the category “A Duology” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. Yes, again, I read two different duologies. I wanted to save you some zombie posts. This title was a surprise find. I grabbed it for the “Book about the Afterlife” category. …

Book 22 Dread Nation

  Dread Nation and Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland fulfill the category “A Duology” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. A duology is two books in the same storyline. Just two, no more. They use the same main characters. Young adult fiction is rife with these novels. The challenge gave two slots for the duology …

Book 21 Rock Paper Scissors

  Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney fulfilled the category “Book with the Name of a Board Game in the Title” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. Okay, so it’s not a board game. It’s still a game. I read plenty of other books with “game” titles. For example, I read A Crafter Knits a …

Book 20 Rock House Grill

  Rock House Grill by D.V. Stone fulfilled the category “Book whose Title Begins with the Last Letter of Your Previous Read.” The last title on the blog was A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. So that’s R for the start of Rock House Grill. It’s hard to believe with all the audiobooks I listen …