Closing My 2018 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

Final Results of My 2018 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

As the year closes out, one of the things that I reviewed was how well I did with my 2018 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge. And I did... okay? I sort of stopped keeping track of these books for the longest time and have just recently gone back through my books of 2018 to see if any of them match the challenge categories. Overall, here are the categories that I accomplished and the books they correspond with:

CHALLENGE--------------------BOOK

book made into a movie you've already seen	Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
next book in a series you started	Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi
book involving a heist	The Purloined Letter by Edgar A. Poe
novel based on a real person	#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
book set in a country that fascinates you	The Rain Watcher by Tatiana De Rosnay
book about death or grief	The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist	Lover at Last by J.R. Ward
book that is also a stage play or musical	Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
book by an author of a different ethnicity than you	The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift	The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
book by two authors	Zenith by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings
book about or involving a sport	An Unexpected Christmas by Shannon Richard
book by a local author	The Ligher Issue 65 Vol. 1+2
book with your favorite color in the title	The Color Purple by Alice Walker
book with alliteration in the title	Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
book with a weather element in the title	Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
book with an animal in the title	Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
book about or set on Halloween	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
book with characters who are twins	Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward
childhood classic you've never read	Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
book that's published in 2018	The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
past Goodread's Choice Awards winner	Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to	The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
cyberpunk book	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
book by an author with the same first or last name as you	A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas

So in total I completely 25 books from the 2018 Challenge. I don't think that's too horrible... but considering that I wanted to complete all of the challenges it's a bit of a failure. Then again, the fact that I even made a tag for this challenge and sort of kept up to date with it like this shows significant improvement over previous year's participation.

Also, I know some of those titles may be a bit of a stretch to fit the categories, but I figured it's okay because there were a couple of books that I left off the list because I was not completely positive that it would qualify or I couldn't remember the details of it. So it balances out. Sort of. :)

I hope everyone else's reading challenges went the ways they wanted them to go and I look forward to challenging myself again in 2019!

Thanks for reading!