Hello Readers! I’ve decided to join in on the Trope-ical Readathon, which runs throughout August. It will be my fourth time to participate, and I always manage to read more thanks to the challenges. It’s a great way to cross off some ARCs and/or backlist books. Hopefully it will help me to continue with the pace of reading I started last month during my blogging hiatus. This will be my tentative TBR, but we are allowed to change books throughout the readathon. Sign-ups are open through August 6th!

Let’s see what I’m hoping to read!

All the rules and information for this challenge can be found @ JenJenReviews. There are a lot of details but they also have an announcement YouTube video that explains 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. For my challenges, I’ll be using a few ARCs, books from my #20BooksOfSummer23 Challenge, backlist books from My Project Backlist Challenge, and books from My Popsugar Challenge. So many challenges! 😆

• A Book With More Than One Author – Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren via Libby (alternate – Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren)
• Hand-Picked Crew – The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (This is my current read, which I’ve paused until August 1. Current reads are allowed if you’ve read under 50%.)
• A Genre You Don’t Usually Read – You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

• A Book You Previously DNFed – Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
• Love Triangle – Pretty in Pink by H.B. Gilmour
• A Recent (2023) Release – Tilly in Technicolor by Mazey Eddings (ARC, 8/15/23)
• An Audiobook or Ebook – My Billionaire Grump by Camilla Isley
• A Comfort Read – Somewhere Close to Happy by Lia Louis

• A Book in a Series – The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3) by Helen Hoang
• Devour a Book in 24 Hours – Love or Hate by Camilla Isley
• A Banned Book – Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (alternate – All American Boys by Jason Reynolds)
• Bookish Themes – Beach Read by Emily Henry (re-read)
• A Book with a TV or Movie Adaptation – The Lost Husband by Katherine Center

Team Challenge

I’ve chosen Team Contemporary/Literary/Historical Fiction simply because it was the only team that had a book I haven’t read AND one that I already own, which is Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy.

Team Challenges

1. Read a Book with the “Heroes with Titles” Trope – Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
2. Read a Book with the “Reunion” Trope – The Reunion by Kit Frick (ARC, 8/29/23)

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

Happy Wandering!