The Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag for 2024
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- If it’s June, it’s time for the mid-year book freakout tag! Let’s see how my reading year is going so far in 2024. Expand for more information. 👇
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The tag originator, IsThatChami, is no longer on UA-cam.
The Questions 🧐🤔
1. Best book you’ve read so far
2. Best sequel you've read so far
3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to.
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year.
5. Biggest disappointment.
6. Biggest surprise.
7. Favorite new author. (Debut or new to you)
8. Newest fictional crush.
9. Newest favorite character.
10. Book that made you cry (Saddest book you have read).
11. Book that made you happy.
12. Favorite book to film adaptation you saw this year.
13. Favorite review you've written this year. (Booktube version: Favorite video you have done so far in this year)
14. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)
15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
Titles Mentioned (alphabetically by author’s name) 📚
Room At the Top, John Braine: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819391...
Here We Go Again, Alison Cochrun: bookshop.org/a/99775/97816680...
Erasure, Percival Everett: bookshop.org/a/99775/97815559...
Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame, Olivia Ford: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805936...
Float Up, Sing Down, Laird Hunt: bookshop.org/a/99775/97816397...
Zorrie, Laird Hunt: bookshop.org/a/99775/97816355...
Laughing Boy, Oliver La Farge: bookshop.org/a/99775/97806184...
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt: bookshop.org/a/99775/97806848...
Amongst Women, John McGahern
Small Joys, Elvin James Mensah: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805934...
House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday: bookshop.org/a/99775/97800629...
Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805932...
Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805933...
Greta & Valdin, Rebecca K. Reilly: bookshop.org/a/99775/97816680...
Hombrecito, Santiago Jose Sanchez: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805935...
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley: bookshop.org/a/99775/97801431...
Holiday Heart Strings, N.R. Walker: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819230...
To the Moon and Back, N.R. Walker: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819258...
Tin Man, Sarah Winman: bookshop.org/a/99775/97807352...
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I have been dealing with grief after the passing of several family members this year, and was so happy to read Mrs. Quinn’s on your recommendation. It was the perfect book at the perfect time, so thank you.
My favorite video of the year is probably when Joel made those amazing looking cinnamon buns.
Wouldn’t The Guncle Abroad count as a sequel?
That's a good choice for video! Guncle Abroad would probably claim the title but I still have a little over two hours in the audio at the moment.
You have great taste, Mr. Anderson. Guncle Abroad was not what I expected; it almost disappointed me.
I loved Angela’s ashes when I read it so many years ago, but I would love to hear Frank McCourt read it on audio even though I don’t usually read audiobooks. Teacher man Was good and in the beginning, there’s a part that made me laugh so hard. Aloha.
I loved Angela’s ashes when I read it so many years ago, but I would love to hear Frank McCourt read it on audio even though I don’t usually read audiobooks. Aloha.
My favorite videos are the monthly wrap-ups with Joel and Teddy.
I love filming those!
I think I first learned about the best book I’ve read this year from you, Greg, quite awhile ago: Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt! Thanks! I think the one that made me cry the most was Brotherless Night. I always look forward to books by Louise Erdrich, so I’m looking forward to The Mighty Red, coming this Fall. You’ve really made me want to read Small Joys and Mrs Quinn!
I’m so glad you liked Loved and Missed! I thought it was so good. I forgot Erdrich has a new one coming out-so thank you!
Thanks for recommending Amongst Women. I never heard of him or the book. I got it from my library. So enjoyable.
I'm so glad you liked it!
I don’t have a fave Supposedly Fun video in particular from 2024 but I love it when you and Joel and Teddy are all together in a video.😃
p.s. Nice Guinness shirt.🍺
Thank you! And I love when Joel and Teddy join.
I just got into reading last year so first year I can do this. Here is my Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag for 2024:
1. Best book you’ve read so far - When We Cease To Understand The World
3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to - Parade & All Fours
5. Biggest disappointment - The Secret History
6. Biggest surprise - Fishing For Little Pike
7. Favorite new author - Rónán Hession
10. Book that made you cry (Saddest book you have read) - Minor Detail
11. Book that made you happy - The Foxhole Court series
14. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received) - I Who Have Never Known Men (Vintage Edition)
15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year - Martyr
13. Favorite video you have done so far in this year - Bracing for Emotional Devastation & Do I Still Want to Read These Books? In general, I have really appreciated you talking about how your expectations didn’t match the reading experience by telling us about some aspect of the book that’s not normally discussed in reviews (e.g., Biography of X, Milkman, North Woods). It’s just very interesting to hear about this from someone who knows their own reading tastes very well. I have also loved seeing Joel & Teddy.
Ha! Loved that you talked about the young “baby” author. This year I’ve been dealing with a lot of time in hospitals with my parents and I keep thinking… wow… all the nurses/doctors are very attractive (this is at two different hospitals)… I realized just today…nope! They are just YOUNG!!! Ha!!!😊
I live in NJ and my local library has a copy of Amongst Women. Excited to read it!!
I hope you enjoy it!
Oh my word! I read Angela’s ashes and ‘Tis but Teacher Man was my absolute favorite!!! I may be biased tho because I read in my second year of teaching 3rd grade 10 years ago!!! He is such a great storyteller!!!!!
I can't wait to read the other books!
Best book so far ? Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
Biggest Suprise? Fayne by AnnMarie McDonald
Most looking forward to ? The God in the Woods by Liz Moore
Favourite new author? Chloe Michelle Haworth debut author of Sunburn ( LGBTQI)
Saddest book? I agree about Hello Beautiful 😍
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
Happy?
The Mars House by Natasha Pulley .
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Film /TV? American Fiction 🥰
Ripley ( Andrew Scott is fabulous)
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That's a great list! A lot I need to catch up to.
Yes, Andrew Scott is fabulous in Ripley! The entire production is brilliant and I plan to watch it again.
Enter Ghost is such a good book. I recommend it to everyone lately
I always love this tag. It's so fun!
-I pick and choose the questions that I answer and added a few of my own over the years. It's been around long enough it's in the public domain and we can adapt as need be 😂
I love the idea that it's in the public domain now! Thanks.
2 fav videos: Pulitzer prediction since its a wonderful recap of a lot of the heavy hitter books of the past year and the other one definitely your vacation talk. Such a cosy video.
And i really would recommend Frankenstein. It is such a wonderful book with themes relevant even today. I’m part of a feminist book club and we recently had an entire meeting dedicated to motherhood and themes of that in books and we then talked about Frankenstein since it talks about sort of parenthood and what it means to have created something in a very unique and special way
I’m glad you didn’t skip this. Looking forward now to the tandem video.
Also just read “Tin Man”and completely agree…loved it AND just pick up “Here We Go Again”. Can’t wait to get started on it🙂
I read Greta & Valdin via audio. Love the New Zealand, Russian, Māori and Spanish accents. The book is on Waterstones Debut novel long list award.
I saw that after I had filmed this video yesterday! What timing.
Good to know that you liked the audiobook because that's the format in which I plan to read Greta & Valdin.
Angela's Ashes is also for me the best book read this year. and the sequel, Tis. A memoir, I liked it just as much!
That's good to know! I really want to read 'Tis and Teacher Man soon.
You may also like The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls and Educated - Tara Westover. They are also emotional life stories and the writing is great.
I loved Educated--that one was very good. I need to get to Glass Castle--thanks for the recommendation.
I love a lot of books on your list and I also need to get to Wandering Stars. I need to add Mrs. Quinn to my TBR because I need a gentle and charming book in my repertoire and I'm pining for the Baking Show to return. I will probably do this tag but I think James still holds the top spot.
Oh Greg, You make a great interview subject! With Teddy of course! (I once wrote interview scripts.)
I've been waiting for the Alison Cochran book for weeks. Just finished Tin Man, took me back to that time.
Greta & Valdin is LOVELY! I can see how some readers would find it just weird though, so I hope it works for you. The author said she wrote it for "hot autistic people, people from the city, people who have been mistaken for a different ethnicity, queer and trans people who are tired of being strong and just want to do jokes, tall girls, and haters.”
I found it both absurd and poignant and just an all-round wonderful read.
Both Tin Man and Hello Beautiful also made me cry. If a book or movie makes me cry i consider it a better book…it has to be believable in order to touch me that deeply. I read Angela’s Ashes many years ago and loved it then. I will listen to it on audio very soon.
PS are you somebody was one of my favorite books of the year year I read it
Sometime you may want to give Indiana by Laird Hurt a shot no it’s not as good as Zorrie and has some of the vibes of what you described but it grew on me and stuck with me. Not exactly a ringing endorsement but maybe your library has it at least I don’t think you’ll throw it
Favorite vid of yours was probably the Pulitzer prediction video.
Yay! I was super happy when you read Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, and I'm reading Hello Beautiful right now! I'm pretty sure it was on your recommendation. What goes around.... 💚
I hope you like Hello Beautiful as much as I did!
@SupposedlyFun I'm loving it, but going slowly. I know there are bad times ahead, and I want to savor these good-ish times right now. 💚 Loving the storytelling and the writing. Thanks for the rec!
@@onourpath I'm so glad you're liking it. Probably smart to take it a bit slow.
@@SupposedlyFun 💚💚💚😭😭😭
My favorite video was the one about the Pulitzer winner 2024. If a person doesn't like a book say so. I have read several of the winners over the years, and would hate to waste my time and money on a book that several people didn't like.
I loved Greta and Valdin and thought it was quite witty but I’ve recommended it to almost no one. The plot is very thin/almost non existent until the end of the book which makes me think the people who didn’t find it funny may have been bored, and it’s why I hesitate to recommend it to people. I think plot driven readers would probably appreciate it (the writing is perfect and she pulls off the comedy effortlessly) but struggle to stick with it
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, Saltwater by Jessica Andrews, Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine (certain parts made me cry) and The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring (favorite new author) are some of my favorites so far. The Video review I would choose was The Burden of High Expectations. My absolute favorite video's are the wrap up video's with Joel and a side of Teddy. I am looking forward to your thoughts on Greta and Valdin. My daughter thinks maybe some of the cultural or regional humor and some LGBTQ references may have have alluded me as she reminds me I am old as dirt. LOL I would like to read Enter Ghost, Brotherless Night and This Family by Kate Sawyer by the end of the year. Although I read Angela's Ashes when it first came out you just may have convinced me to listen to it on audio. Great video. Be well. 😵💫📖☺📚🌄
Good choices! I love doing the wrap-ups with Joel and Teddy (when we can get him). I decided last night that I'm adding Catherine Newman's new book, Sandwich, to my TBR once Pride month is over. I've heard so many good things.
@@SupposedlyFun ahh Catherine Newman. I have not heard of her until now but a nice Cape Cod setting for a family story sounds right up my alley !
@@marciajohansson769 And perfectly timed for this time of year!
Can you please check your mail Greg? There's a recommendation lying in there for you😊
I too don't understand the question " fictional crush?"Don't have any....
I expected to have "The Guncle Abroad" show up as your favorite sequel to "The Guncle". Maybe it doesn't count as a sequel?
Absolutely.
My favorite fiction book is James by Percival Everett. My favorite nonfiction book is Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney.
It was hard to pick the fiction one. I thought A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci was also very good. It's a real toss up.
It can be very difficult to pick a favorite!
Tis and Teacher Man are good, but pale in comparison.