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Welcome new readers and welcome back continuing readers! This year, I've been participating in the Pop Sugar Reading Challenge; you can find out more info in my Overview post or on the Pop Sugar Website. Here are my book reviews for my 42nd and 43rd book of 2019: Book 42:  The $1,000 Challenge  by Brian J. O'Connor I gave this book 3/5 stars on Goodreads, but may have given it 2.5 if half stars were available. The prompt I chose for this was "A book with pop, sugar, or challenge in the title." The author of this book was at the time of writing a personal finance columnist that decided to try a challenge for himself and his family in a time of financial strain where he lived. His goal: over 10 weeks, cut $100 a month from 10 different categories to total $1000 a month in savings. The author was funny at times, and the writing style was easy enough to get through. However, some of the items that he brings up as savings either don'...

Welcome new readers and welcome back continuing readers! This year, I've been participating in the Pop Sugar Reading Challenge; you can find out more info in my Overview post or on the Pop Sugar Website. Here are my book reviews for my 40th and 41st book of 2019: Book 40: Babe: The Gallant Pig  by Dick King-Smith I gave this book 3/5 stars on Goodreads.  The prompt I chose for this was "A book you see someone reading on tv or in a movie." (This was on the Rory Gilmore reading list). Farmer Hogget wins Babe the piglet at a fair, and takes him home planning to one day have him for dinner. However, Babe gets adopted by a sheepdog named Fly and learns to herd sheep as well. Over the course of the book, Babe teaches readers and Fly alike not to judge a book by its cover, and that sometimes being polite gets you a lot farther than trying to force people to listen to you. I thought this was a cute, easy read, and could be fun to read with kids ...

Apologies that this went up a day late. Yesterday was the anniversary of a day that frankly words cannot describe. To all of the first responders and people who helped each other 18 years ago, thank you. To all those lost, rest in peace. There truly are no words, and so the blog will be taking a brief hiatus this week as a version of a moment of silence. Never forget.

If this is your first time visiting Sorority Blogger: Hello! I'm glad you're here. This year, I've been participating in the Pop Sugar Reading Challenge; you can find out more info in my Overview post or on the Pop Sugar Website. Here are my book reviews for my 38th and 39th book of 2019: Book 38:  How Not to Die Alone  by Richard Roper I gave this book 3/5 stars on Goodreads.  The prompt I chose for this was "A book that's published in 2019." Andrew works at a government job where he visits the homes of the recently deceased to try and find out if they have any living relations that need to be contacted. If they don't, he helps with the necessary planning for the deceased. No matter what he thinks, feels, and experiences at work, he still gets to come home to his wife and children and put it all behind him for a few hours (at least that's what he's told his coworkers). The truth, is a bit more complicated than tha...

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 ...