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For continuing readers, thank you! New readers, welcome! This year, I decided to take the Pop Sugar Reading Challenge. For more information, check out my Overview post or visit the Pop Sugar website. Now for the book reviews:  Book 36:  Where'd You Go, Bernadette  by Maria Semple I gave this book 4/5 stars on Goodreads. I was torn between 3.5 and 4 but chose to round up. The prompt I chose for this was "A Book with a Question in the Title." Bernadette Fox is a stressed out mom trying to make life work for her and her family in Seattle, but she's reached a breaking point. When things start to fall apart around her and somewhat because of her, she disappears. Her daughter, Bee, begins trying to track down her mom and learn about why her mom disappeared by combing through emails, texts, news paper articles, etc (basically anything she can get her hands on). Bernadette's husband tries to deal with the fact that his wife has vanished,...

Thank you Flat Iron Books for giving me an advanced copy of this book to review. (Image courtesy of Goodreads.com) Orpen is a teenage girl who was raised on a secluded island off the coast of Ireland in a post-apocalyptic world. With only her mother and her mother's partner Maeve to guide her, Orpen trains and learns to fight and survive in a world threatened by skrake, a zombie-like menace that has wiped out most of human life on the planet. When disaster strikes, Orpen ends up carrying an unconscious Maeve in a wheel barrow across destroyed Ireland, looking for other survivors and a city where she hopes she can make a new life, but is she really prepared to survive life and other humans off the island? There were a lot of things that I loved about this book. First, I love that it flips back and forth a bit between the present and the past. I feel like that transition helps you better learn to understand Orpen as you continue reading. I'll admit, I'm normally...

For continuing readers, thank you! This next bit will be a little background for new readers. If you want to skip down to the book reviews, I won't take offense. New readers, welcome! Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy Sorority Blogger! This year, I decided to take the Pop Sugar Reading Challenge, which gives you prompts of different types of books to read throughout the year. It's been broadening my reading horizons, and I think that's an awesome thing. For more information, check out my Overview post or visit the Pop Sugar website. Now for the book reviews:  Book 34:  Limelight  by Amy Poeppel I gave this book 4/5 stars on Goodreads. I was torn between 4 and 4.5 stars for this, but since there's no half stars, Goodreads made my decision for me. The prompt I chose for both this and book 35 was "Two books that share the same title." Allison, a mom of 3, jumps at the idea of moving her whole family from TX to NYC when ...

For new readers, welcome! This year, I'm participating in the Pop Sugar Reading Challenge and finding it really useful towards my reading goals. Find out more in my Overview post or on the Pop Sugar website. For those who have been keeping up regularly, thank you! You may notice that my reading challenge review posts have skipped book number 31. This is because book number 31 was an ARC (Advanced Review Copy) given to me by the publisher as an eBook via NetGalley that I have already discussed in it's own post. I did not read it as part of the Pop Sugar Challenge, so for tracking purposes I'm labeling it as "I've read more" on my challenge tracker. See my post on Magic Diary by Pat LaMarche for my review on book 31. Book 32: There's Something About Sweetie  by Sandhya Menon I gave this book 4/5 stars on Goodreads, but it could easily have gotten 4.5. The prompt I chose for this was "A book with Salty, Sweet, Bitter, or Spicy in t...