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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...

For any new readers, I'm participating in the Pop Sugar Reading Challenge this year which, through their prompts and groups on Goodreads, has been giving me a lot of new ideas for books to read that I may not have known or decided to read otherwise. Because of this, I've decided to blog about my reading choices. For more information on the challenge, check out my Overview post, or visit the Pop Sugar website. Book 29:  Circe  by Madeline Miller I gave this book 4/5 stars on Goodreads. The prompt I chose for this was "A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore ." This book is a retelling of different Greek myths and legends that include the goddess Circe from her perspective. It covers from when she was a child, through discovering what makes her unique, through being banished to a deserted island, to meeting Daedalus and Odysseus and more. Circe learns to stand up for herself, and fight for what she believes in while both the realm of men a...

I'm participating in the Pop Sugar Reading Challenge this year, and I love it. For more information on the challenge, check out my Overview post, or visit the Pop Sugar website. Book 27:  The Night Tiger  by Yangsze Choo I gave this book 4/5 stars on Goodreads, but it would have been 4.5 if there were half stars available. The prompt I chose for this was "A book told from multiple points of view." The Night Tiger  takes place in 1930's Malaysia, and follows a young servant named Ren and a girl named Ji Lin who although start on very different paths find their lives intertwined. Ren's master's dying wish is for Ren to find his master's missing finger and return it to the grave before 49 days have passed. Ren believes that this is the only way his master will be able to rest in peace. Ji Lin is an apprentice dress-maker who dreams of being a doctor in a time when only men can be doctors. To help pay for her mother's debts...

For any new Sorority Blogger readers, I'm participating in the Pop Sugar Reading Challenge this year, and I love it. For more information on the challenge, check out my Overview post, or visit the Pop Sugar website. Book 25:  A Woman is No Man  by Etaf Rum I gave this book 5/5 stars on Goodreads. The prompt I chose for this was "A book about a family." I got this book as my book of the month, and finished it in a day. It's that good. I was an Anthropology major in college, and I love learning about all cultures and their customs. So far this year, I've been lucky enough to read some books with cultural elements by authors who are members of the cultures they write about. This book follows multiple generations of women from before they immigrated to America up to the current generation who was born in America, but still follow many of the cultural practices of their heritage. A Woman is No Man  particularly touches on the proposal proc...