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  About Amy Hello, I'm Amy, an aspiring motorsports writer and former blogger.  If you dig deeper enough, you find some very old blog posts, as this started as a book blog, but that's really where I got my start in writing: book reviews, hot book topics and as well as the odd personal essay.  After leaving university, I left the book blog behind, but continued writing and going in the world of social media, writing film reviews and promoting queer cinema, but after a tragic event in my personal life, I quickly discovered Motorsports.  What started as a love for Formula 1, while finally watching the Formula 1 film, Rush, and discovering Formula 1 TikTok, this love soon expanded to everything Formula E, IndyCar, Formula 2, Formula 3, as well as F1 Academy.  I soon found the itch to write come back, with the fast-moving news of motorsport, to the drama, the competition, and the journey of drivers trying to find a race seat. I found that it was the people and storie...

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2018 Wrap Up

For the last few years, I have been doing the Popsugar Reading Challenge which aims to diversify your reading but this year I decided to keep it on the down low and see if I can complete it while just reading whatever. I already know the result but shall we see how I did. Let's get started... 


1. A book made into a movie you’ve already seen: The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
2. True crime
3. The next book in a series you started: No Mercy Volume 2 by Alex de Campi
4. A book involving a heist
5. Nordic noir
6. A novel based on a real person: The Best That We Can Do by Thi Bui
7. A book set in a country that fascinates you: Black Water by Cormac O'Keefe
8. A book with a time of day in the title: Giant Days by Non Pratt
9. A book about a villain or antihero: As I Descended by Robin Talley
10. A book about death or grief: Scythe by Neal Shusterman 
11. A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym
12. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist: Leah On The Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
13. A book that is also a stage play or musical: Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich 
14. A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you: The Belles by Dhionelle Clayton 
15. A book about feminism: Bygone, Badass Broads by Mackenzie Lee
16. A book about mental health: Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman
17. A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift
18. A book by two authors: Obisido by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
19. A book about or involving a sport: Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
20. A book by a local author: Travel & Change by Multiple Authors
21. A book with your favourite colour in the title: Purple Hearts by Michael Grant
22. A book with alliteration in the title: Dark Days by James Baldwin
23. A book about time travel: Paper Girls Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan 
24. A book with a weather element in the title: A Shiver of Snow and Sky by Lisa Lueddecke 
25. A book set at sea: Gentleman Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee 
26. A book with an animal in the title: Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
27. A book set on a different planet: The Planetsider by G. J. Odgen 
28. A book with song lyrics in the title: Nowhere Else But Here by Rachel Cotton
29. A book about or set on Halloween: The Price Guide of the Occult by Leslye Walton 
30. A book with characters who are twins
31. A book mentioned in another book: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
32. A book from a celebrity book club: Why I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Remi Eddo-Lodge
33. A childhood classic you’ve never read
34. A book that’s published in 2018: Final Draft by Riley Redgate
35. A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner: The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One by Amanda Lovelace
36. A book set in the decade you were born
37. A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to: The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
38. A book with an ugly cover: Morning Glories Volume 1 by Nick Spencer
39. A book that involves a bookstore or library
40. Your favourite prompt from 2015 2016, or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges: A book by or about a person with a disability: Truly, Wildly, Deeply by Jenny Mclachlan 
End Of The Year Total: 30/40

So that's really not that bad considering I didn't try. I do think that next year is going to be tougher and I am going to have to try harder so we will shall see how it goes.

See you soon, 

Amy

Have you taken part in the Popsugar Reading Challenge? Do you want to? Let me know in the comments!

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