Hello Readers! I have a ton of books I need to read for August, and when I saw the Trope-ical Readathon was going on this month, I decided to join in. I enjoyed participating in 2021, and Readathons are usually the best way for me to be motivated to read a lot of books more quickly. Fingers crossed it works again!

All the rules and information for this challenge can be found @ JenJenReviews. There are a lot of details but they also have a YouTube video that helped me understand how each challenge works. Basically, you choose your team and each team gets points for challenges completed. But you don’t have to stick to the challenges, you can also get points just for pages read on any book you choose.

Point System

• Common Challenges: 50 POINTS EACH
• Team Challenges: 100 POINTS EACH
• Team Books: 150 POINTS EACH
• Pages Read: 1 POINT PER PAGE

Common Challenges

There are two options for the Common Challenges: read a book with the given trope OR one that satisfies the alternate prompt. There’s no way that I’ll get to all of these, but the options will give me plenty of room for mood reading. First I’ll be reading my ARCs for the month, then I’ll choose books from my #20BooksOfSummer Challenge and my Popsugar Reading Challenge.

• Absent/Dead Parent(s) – Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• Love Triangle – A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
• A Genre You Don’t Usually Read – Stay Awake by Megan Goldin (ARC, 8/9/22)

• A Borrowed Book – Well Played by Jen DeLuca
• Takes Place in Another Country – With Love From Wish & Co. by Minnie Drake (ARC, 8/16/22)
• A Book Published Before 2000 – Dune by Frank Herbert
• An Audiobook or Ebook – Bend Toward the Sun by Jen Devon (ARC, 8/9/22)
• A Comfort Read – Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

• Found Family – The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• Celebrity – Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (ARC, 8/30/22)
• Multiple POC Characters – Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Bookish Themes – The Make-Up Test by Jenny L. Howe (ARC 9/13/22)
• Retelling – Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

Team Challenge

I’ve chosen Team Romance since that’s typically the genre I read the most from at the moment. However, I do not own or have on my TBR any of the Team Books listed for ANY of the categories, including Romance. Oops. With all my ARCs and other challenges to fulfill, it doesn’t make sense for me to purchase a new book right now. So, unless I happen to come across a great deal for one of these books, I won’t be reading a Team Book.

Team Challenges

1. Read a book with the “friends to lovers” trope – Luck and Last Resorts by Sarah Grunder Ritz (ARC, 8/9/22)
2. Read a book with the “bodyguard” trope – Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (This one might be a stretch, but a guard is mentioned in the synopsis??)

Will you be participating in the Trope-ical Readathon? Let me know in the comments!

Happy Wandering!