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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 2022

Every year since 2015, I have completed the Popsugar Reading Challenge to diversify my reading. Over the course of the last year, I would like to think that I have done this but I do like the prompts and it would still push me out of my reading taste.  I have put books that I want to read but I will fill it out over the year so stay tuned to find out what I want to read!  So let's see what I want to read this year and what the prompts are...

A book published in 2022
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A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship
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A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society
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A book with a tiger on the cover or "tiger" in the title 
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A sapphic book
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A book by a Latinx author
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A book with onomatopoeia in its title
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A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid
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A book about a "found family"
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An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner
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A #BookTok recommendation
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A book about the afterlife
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A book set in the 1980s
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A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title
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A book by a Pacific Islander author
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A book about witches
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A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022
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A romance novel by a BIPOC author
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A book that takes place during your favourite season
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A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read
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A book about a band or musical group
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A book with a character on the ace spectrum
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A book with a recipe in it
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A book you can read in one sitting
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A book about a secret
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A book with a misleading title
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A Hugo Award winner
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A book set during a holiday
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A different book by an author you read in 2021
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A book with the name of a board game in the title 
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A book featuring a man-made disaster
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A book with a quote from your favourite author on the cover or Amazon page
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A social-horror book
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A book set in Victorian times
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A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title
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A book you know nothing about
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A book about gender identity
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A book featuring a party
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An #OwnVoices SFF (science fiction and fantasy) book
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A
 book that fulfils your favourite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge.
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Advanced

A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title
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A book that features two languages
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A book with a palindromic title
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A duology (1)
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A duology (2)
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A book about someone leading a double life
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A book featuring a parallel reality
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A book with two POVs
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Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (1)
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Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (2)

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What are your reading challenges like this year? Let me know in the comments.

See you soon, 

Amy

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About

  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...