Emma’s Video (creator): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kod0Z... Hardback Hoarder (inspiration): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URKD3...
I really love the concept of this tag. I've been participating in the Popsugar reading challenge for the past 2 years because I found myself in a reading rut, always reading the same thing over and over. I found myself getting bored reading the same basic story time and again. When I found the challenge in 2017, I was able to still read books I wanted to read, but branch out and read things I never would have read before. It forces me to read out of my comfort zone and I really love it. There is a goodreads group and a Facebook group and the members are lovely and always have great discussions and give the best suggestions. I also love that the only rule to the challenge is that you read books, there aren't any rules and no one to police your challenge list. It is purely for fun. The 2019 list just came out and I'm really excited about it.
CREATE A RULE: Choose one genre/category of books that you frequently talk about in tags and don't use ANY books from that genre for answers. For my rule I'm staying away from YA Fantasy which is mostly what I tend to read.
- A book that is an exception when it comes to genres or elements in books that you don't typically like.
- I usually don't like non-fiction especially biographies, but Born a Crime was excellent. I think because Trevor Noah wrote with his sense of humor which I enjoy made it enjoyable.
- A book you enjoyed from a genre you previously held some stigma about.
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, as I said I don't read alot of non-fiction especially, feminist non-fiction. I didn't find this overwhelming or overbearing. I kind of expected a feminist book to tell me I wasn't being a good feminist because of this and that, it wasn't like that at all. This was a great little book and kind of broke down reality vs perception of feminism and how you can be a common sense feminist or an extreme feminist or somewhere in the middle. I really enjoyed it and learned a few things too.
- A book you didn't know was actually out of your comfort zone until you started reading it.
- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi was a tough read for me. I've really liked other books he's written and this involve a bunch of stuff I'm interested in, this just dragged on for me. I'm just not into bio-punk I guess.
- Pick a friend or BookTuber that motivates you to pick up books you might not normally be interested in. What is one book out of your norm that they convinced you to give a try?
- There are so many. Hardback Hoarder, Chelsea Dolling Reads, Peruse Project, Emma Books, Books and Lala, Pages and Pens, and Katie Loves to Read, there are more but lately they are my go to. They all read some genres that I like and some that I don't, so I'm always finding something interesting from them.
- I picked up Walk on Earth a Stranger which is a historical fiction with a twist, recommended by Regan at PeruseProject and loved it. I loved the whole series.
- A book that is out of your comfort zone that you would like to read.
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, clearly this is one of the greatest books ever but I've never read it. I don't love classics, but I do feel a bit of an obligation as a reader to read the great works of literature. I'm putting this on my TBR for 2019.
- A book or genre so out of what you normally read that you'll probably never give it a(nother) chance.
- Erotica, I'll read contemporary romances once in a while but it isn't my go to. I read one by an author I really like, and while the plot was good, I just didn't care for the construction. I much prefer her contemporary works.
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