I was so glad to see this video up. I love this game. As a retired teacher who taught for 38 years, I will tell you now that reading is hard when you are teaching.. I spent many years in fifth. That was great for my reading life. I challenged my students to read 40 books each.I felt obliged to do the same. I also read, usually middle grade, when they had silent reading time. I found that they would read if I read. If I didn’t read, they didn’t read. I also counted a book as 250 pages, so those children who read big books, which took them a long time would get more credit. Good luck, I enjoyed my years of teaching.
I love that idea of reading while they read so that I can lead by example! Thank you for sharing your experience Marta, it makes me excited to hear other people’s teaching ideas 🥰. And counting a book as 250 pages! I am going to write these ideas done.
Picks for Magda-If you haven’t read cemetery boys Magda, that’s amazing on audio! If you have theb I recommend any of Aiden Thomas books on audio. I’m reading lost in the never woods on audio right now and loving it!!! Another great audio is Night Swim by Megan Golding
Thank you for the recommendation! Amy gave me Cemetery Boys for another spin but I downloaded Lost in the Never Woods. Looking forward to reading it. It has been on my radar for a while!
So much fun!! The colours and board makes my brain very happy :D I hope you enjoy All the Birds in the Sky, I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it - it’s a dystopian I’ve been needing to read for ages!!
I’m really hoping that I can get to it soon. I have had a couple of Charlie Jane Anders books on my ‘want to read’ list in the past and never got around to reading them.
I'm so excited about this!! I just got your package and I am so thankful for it. I'll voxer you about it because I want some help/ideas for stuff!!! You're the best!!
I really have not been giving it any time 😞. I keep having new buddy reads/book club reads/challenge reads and this poor book keeps getting put on the back burner. Thank you for the info :)
I love ur tbr videos every month and I would participate if I could and this month is no different. For the middle grade prompt I chose a reread Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Love your videos can’t wait for august
For Magda, my suggestion is Vera Wong's Unsollicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Santano. It's a very funny murder mystery with found family and even a bit of romance. The audiobook is amazing!
Great that you could overlap so much! Viewer prompt: Haven't played my own game yet, but maybe Shadowghast. 🤔 Good luck! Magda: Viewer recommend: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, haven't finished it but the audiobook is good! Oh Magda, next round is going to be tuff!
For Magda, I hope these books are on audio, but I really enjoyed reading The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty and if you already read that then I encourage you to continue with the Kingdom of Copper or if you read that then the third book which is Empire of Gold. If you read the entire trilogy then her short stories River of Silver or her latest book set to be a trilogy which is The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. May I also suggest Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse and if you read the first book then Fevered Star as we await the third and final book Mirrored Heavens which is supposed to be out some time this year. Enjoy your books this month Amy and Magda. I am thinking of reading for the middle grade pick Eva Evergreen Semi-Magical Witch
Yay! Bookish game of life. Always love the chaoticness of this game. I don't know what I'll read for the middle grade. I think I'll try to get the second Skandar book or I have Keeper of the Lost Cities Flashback. It also took me like 10 minutes to find my copy of The Strange Case of the Alchemists Daughter, so hopefully I can get to that this month to join the chat.
I hope you can join us for Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter! I’m definitely going to have to start that during the second half of the month though lol
@@astarreads4214 me too, I'm reading 50 pages of the song rising now and then I'll do the same for the strange case so that way I can still get through my library books too.
Lol, I totally didn't catch the secret tbr thing until you pointed it out 🤣 You have a great mix of books this round. I am surprised that Magda only ended up with 2 bonus spins, but the prompts she got were all pretty nice.
Always love these videos! I will try to read the second book in the Warrior series by Erin Hunter. Hopefully I get to it before I go on my trip. If not, I'll have to find a MG audiobook :)
Oh man...The Great Alone was amazing. Kristin Hannah is one of my favorite authors. I love just about everything I read by her but The Great Alone is still my favorite.
Looking forward to another Try a Chapter and a Coffee! Nice big spin to start things off LOL Glad the game worked in your favor this month! I hope you have an amazing reading month 💙 I'm very interested to see what you think of your Secret TBR book ^-^ I have read that one, if it is what I think it is.
I just don’t know when I am going to find the time hahaha. Life has been wild lately! I have a feeling I’m going to enjoy it, but I know that author is hit or miss for a lot of people.
Love your choice for Genreathon. I also haven't read any Kristin Hannah, but have hauled a few from the thriftstore. One of which is The Great Alone, which is probably the one I am mosted interested in. For the viewer prompt I am going to try to add in The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate to my TBR. I loved Ivan's book and have wanted to pick up the next one.
For the viewer prompt I’m gonna read Camp Sylvania by Julie Murphy. 😂 I started it last night and it’s giving middle grade “horror” gender bent heavyweights (the movie) 😂😂😂
The best Audiobook I have read lately was “The Princess and the Scoundrel”by Beth Rivas. It’s a Han Solo and Princess Leia romance/adventure. It has wonderful narrators and has great sound effects that add to the experience.
Good luck with your new TBR, I love the game of life and your spin on it is very fun. 🎉 I have a small correction to your language. Transgendered is not a proper term, it is just transgender. I hope I didn't mishear you, I rewound to listen again and it sounded like it to me. Thank you from reading trans authors and supporting us.
Thank you so much for letting me know I used the wrong terminology and I apologize for this mistake. I will make sure to use the correct language in the future.
@@astarreads4214 Thank you so much for your kind response. I sometimes worry about correcting people but I love your videos and seem like such a wonderful kind person. Your students are lucky
@@PumpkinFinch I attempted a video clip correction on UA-cam and it will take a few hours to show up, but hopefully I will have fixed this part of the video.
I was so glad to see this video up. I love this game. As a retired teacher who taught for 38 years, I will tell you now that reading is hard when you are teaching.. I spent many years in fifth. That was great for my reading life. I challenged my students to read 40 books each.I felt obliged to do the same. I also read, usually middle grade, when they had silent reading time. I found that they would read if I read. If I didn’t read, they didn’t read. I also counted a book as 250 pages, so those children who read big books, which took them a long time would get more credit. Good luck, I enjoyed my years of teaching.
I love that idea of reading while they read so that I can lead by example! Thank you for sharing your experience Marta, it makes me excited to hear other people’s teaching ideas 🥰. And counting a book as 250 pages! I am going to write these ideas done.
Picks for Magda-If you haven’t read cemetery boys Magda, that’s amazing on audio! If you have theb I recommend any of Aiden Thomas books on audio. I’m reading lost in the never woods on audio right now and loving it!!!
Another great audio is Night Swim by Megan Golding
Thank you for the recommendation!
Amy gave me Cemetery Boys for another spin but I downloaded Lost in the Never Woods. Looking forward to reading it. It has been on my radar for a while!
I really enjoyed Night Swim too Aimee! Great choices 🥰
aaahhh... A Curious Beginning is soooo good!!!
I really wish there was more time in the month!
So much fun!! The colours and board makes my brain very happy :D I hope you enjoy All the Birds in the Sky, I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it - it’s a dystopian I’ve been needing to read for ages!!
I’m really hoping that I can get to it soon. I have had a couple of Charlie Jane Anders books on my ‘want to read’ list in the past and never got around to reading them.
I'm so excited about this!! I just got your package and I am so thankful for it. I'll voxer you about it because I want some help/ideas for stuff!!! You're the best!!
Oh yes! I need to be brain storming ideas for those advent boxes!
The Great Alone is my favorite Kristin Hannah novel. The book that most piqued my interest was the food names book. Fun, fun game.
I’m curious if the food names book will help me with my trivia game hahaha. Thank you for watching :)
I enjoyed Grapes of Wrath! The audiobook + eyeball reading experience really helped me!
I really have not been giving it any time 😞. I keep having new buddy reads/book club reads/challenge reads and this poor book keeps getting put on the back burner. Thank you for the info :)
@@astarreads4214 You need a buddy read BREAK lol
The Great Alone is so good!!!
I am really looking forward to it and so many people are saying it was their favorite Kristin Hannah book.
I love ur tbr videos every month and I would participate if I could and this month is no different. For the middle grade prompt I chose a reread Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Love your videos can’t wait for august
Pick for Magda - the strange case of the alchemist daughter 😂😂😂
Already downloaded! Was just trying to figure out how to add it to my TBR. Thanks Paige!!! 😂😘
Great choice!!
Magda: I recommend The Love Experiment. I listened to it from my libby app and I LOVED it!!
Is this the book by Kitty Wilson?
Bone Shard Daughter is so good... I liked book two even more than the first one!!
That’s great to hear!
Good luck with your July TBR! I hope we can get back to our buddy read discussions this month! 😅
my pick for Magda: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Thank you for the recommendation. I have placed it on hold at my library
We will! I am determined :)
For Magda, my suggestion is Vera Wong's Unsollicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Santano. It's a very funny murder mystery with found family and even a bit of romance. The audiobook is amazing!
I placed a hold on it. Approx. 8 weeks, though I'm sure it will be sooner.
Thank you for the recommendation!
I’ve heard that’s a great audiobook. Might have to put it one my list of audiobooks I want to read :)
Great that you could overlap so much!
Viewer prompt: Haven't played my own game yet, but maybe Shadowghast. 🤔
Good luck!
Magda:
Viewer recommend: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, haven't finished it but the audiobook is good!
Oh Magda, next round is going to be tuff!
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi sounds amazing! I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying it :)
For Magda, I hope these books are on audio, but I really enjoyed reading The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty and if you already read that then I encourage you to continue with the Kingdom of Copper or if you read that then the third book which is Empire of Gold. If you read the entire trilogy then her short stories River of Silver or her latest book set to be a trilogy which is The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi.
May I also suggest Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse and if you read the first book then Fevered Star as we await the third and final book Mirrored Heavens which is supposed to be out some time this year.
Enjoy your books this month Amy and Magda. I am thinking of reading for the middle grade pick Eva Evergreen Semi-Magical Witch
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi looks fantastic and I loved Black Sun :). Eva Evergreen looks so darn cute!!
Yay! Bookish game of life. Always love the chaoticness of this game. I don't know what I'll read for the middle grade. I think I'll try to get the second Skandar book or I have Keeper of the Lost Cities Flashback. It also took me like 10 minutes to find my copy of The Strange Case of the Alchemists Daughter, so hopefully I can get to that this month to join the chat.
I hope you can join us for Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter! I’m definitely going to have to start that during the second half of the month though lol
@@astarreads4214 me too, I'm reading 50 pages of the song rising now and then I'll do the same for the strange case so that way I can still get through my library books too.
Audiobook for Magda: Remarkably Bright Creatures or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
I loved Remarkably Bright Creatures! Great suggestion :)
I hope your mom is feeling great and her knee is not giving her any trouble!!
She is doing so so well! Not using the cane anymore.
The Great Alone looks big, but when I read it I read 75% of it in one sitting. 😂😂
Oh good! That’s great news, because I’m currently in the middle of so many books that I don’t know when I’ll actually get to that one.
All the Birds in the Sky sounds intriguing -I'm interested to hear your thoughts! :)
I am not exactly sure what to expect, but I think it will be an interesting read.
Lol, I totally didn't catch the secret tbr thing until you pointed it out 🤣 You have a great mix of books this round. I am surprised that Magda only ended up with 2 bonus spins, but the prompts she got were all pretty nice.
She got lucky this time around! We’ll see if she gets so lucky next time bahahaha! 😈
Happy July reading!
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Thank you Amy! I hope you have a great July as well :D
Always love these videos! I will try to read the second book in the Warrior series by Erin Hunter. Hopefully I get to it before I go on my trip. If not, I'll have to find a MG audiobook :)
I hope you have an amazing trip Natalie!! I have heard of that series from some of my students, but I wasn’t sure how interested I was in reading it.
@@astarreads4214 I'm enjoying it, but it helps that I'm a crazy cat lady lol
@@natcatsbookishcafe3799 hahaha!! The best kind of lady :)
Yes! I also binge watch TBR Game videos 🤩
They are so much fun 🤩
Ahhhh! We should buddy read the Lost Apothecary!
Haha I’m not positive I’ll be able to get to it. But can we revisit this idea on the 17th?
@@astarreads4214 sounds good to me. I’m starting with The Song Rising anyway ❤️
I want to read The Strange Case of the Alchemist Daughter but I'm so intimidated lol
I think u and mom will like Kristen Hannah I love what I have heard from her on audiobook.
Thank you for sharing Amber :)
Oh man...The Great Alone was amazing. Kristin Hannah is one of my favorite authors. I love just about everything I read by her but The Great Alone is still my favorite.
I’m ready to jump into the world of Kristin Hannah! Looking forward to finding out if she’s an author for me :)
Looking forward to another Try a Chapter and a Coffee!
Nice big spin to start things off LOL Glad the game worked in your favor this month!
I hope you have an amazing reading month 💙
I'm very interested to see what you think of your Secret TBR book ^-^ I have read that one, if it is what I think it is.
I just don’t know when I am going to find the time hahaha. Life has been wild lately! I have a feeling I’m going to enjoy it, but I know that author is hit or miss for a lot of people.
Woohoo! A new bookish game of life!
Exciting stuff!!!!
I have read all of the New Kids graphic novels and the third one is on my TBR for August. They are wonderful!
I’m so excited to continue the series! Glad to hear you liked all of it :)
Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks is a great audio book for Magda
Great recommendation! I want to read that one as well.
For viewer prompt I am going to read Might heart of sunny st james bt Ashley herring blake
Oh, I really need to try out some of her books, I know quite a few people who love this author.
Love your choice for Genreathon. I also haven't read any Kristin Hannah, but have hauled a few from the thriftstore. One of which is The Great Alone, which is probably the one I am mosted interested in. For the viewer prompt I am going to try to add in The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate to my TBR. I loved Ivan's book and have wanted to pick up the next one.
I have heard such great things about that middle grade series! I need to get on it!
For the viewer prompt I’m gonna read Camp Sylvania by Julie Murphy. 😂 I started it last night and it’s giving middle grade “horror” gender bent heavyweights (the movie) 😂😂😂
You know..I don’t know if I ever watched Heavyweights, which is wild because I loved 90’s movies!
HOORAY for Kristin Hannah!! I love The Great Alone and I hope you do too 😊
I was definitely inspired by your Kristin Hannah project to finally get around to reading one of her novels.
@@astarreads4214 I can't wait to hear what you think of it!
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Weeeee 🤩
I really want to get to Howls Moving Castle! I've heard such great things about it. And I absolutely LOVE Theodora Goss, I rated it 5 stars.
I have only ever seen the Studio Ghibli film of Howl’s, I wonder how different the book is and I hope you enjoy your read of it :)
The best Audiobook I have read lately was “The Princess and the Scoundrel”by Beth Rivas. It’s a Han Solo and Princess Leia romance/adventure. It has wonderful narrators and has great sound effects that add to the experience.
That sounds cute!
Good luck with your new TBR, I love the game of life and your spin on it is very fun. 🎉
I have a small correction to your language. Transgendered is not a proper term, it is just transgender. I hope I didn't mishear you, I rewound to listen again and it sounded like it to me. Thank you from reading trans authors and supporting us.
Thank you so much for letting me know I used the wrong terminology and I apologize for this mistake. I will make sure to use the correct language in the future.
@@astarreads4214 Thank you so much for your kind response. I sometimes worry about correcting people but I love your videos and seem like such a wonderful kind person. Your students are lucky
I’m so happy you let me know. And thank you so much for all the kind words :)
@@PumpkinFinch I attempted a video clip correction on UA-cam and it will take a few hours to show up, but hopefully I will have fixed this part of the video.