The Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag 2023

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Жыл бұрын

If it’s June, it’s time for the mid-year book freakout tag! I love this tag as a way of checking in on the reading year so far, so let’s get into it. Expand for more information. 👇
Further Viewing 🎥
My Pulitzer Prize Reaction: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hceSlqmVzd_WaX0.html
My Most Anticipated Books of 2023: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5eleM52q6ebm6c.html
My Deep Dive on Less Winning a Pulitzer: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i5Oif5qW3Mmyp3U.html
My Deep Dive on Now in November: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qN5nfMh71Jm2nHU.html
2022 Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNxyd6mBtribZnk.html
2021 Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ocuboJOm2MzKn30.html
2020 Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d759rNmj19PIp40.html
2019 Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m76GatSfv9rLoGg.html
The tag originator, IsThatChami, is no longer on KZfaq.
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) 📚
Day, Michael Cunningham
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Fanny Herself, Edna Ferber
A Room With a View, E.M. Forster
Alice Austen Lived Here, Alex Gino
The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff
Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fannone Jeffers
The Inland Island, Josephine Johnson
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Roman Stories, Jhumpa Lahiri
Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out, Ryan Love
Disruptions: Stories, Steven Millhauser
Martin Dressler, Steven Millhauser
Pageboy: A Memoir, Elliot Page
The Guncle, Steven Rowley
The Furrows, Namwali Serpell
Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Let Us Descend, Jesmyn Ward
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@Bessie-On-Wheels Жыл бұрын

I am so glad the Pulitzer Prize was your favourite video because it was mine as well. It was joyous to watch!

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

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@user-zz7mq6te8v 11 ай бұрын

I appreciate someone else admitting they don’t get “book crushes” or cry often from books. I feel heartless at times because I don’t get those type of feelings from books or even characters I really enjoyed

@SupposedlyFun 11 ай бұрын

It's a tough question on this tag every year.

@timetoread1795 11 ай бұрын

Lol, Adam and I did this tag together and he fixed up the questions a little and removed the fictional crush. Cause ya...no. Lol. Fun to see you! Hope you are having a good summer!

@SupposedlyFun 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Hope you are enjoying the summer as well.

@bobbykeniston7240 Жыл бұрын

I think Alex Gino is a brilliant, important writer! Their work should be celebrated (not challenged or banned), and it always makes me happy, too. I think middle grade and young adult fiction is super important, and more readers (and critics) should take it seriously. Every year, I try to read at least a dozen or so books written for kids and teenagers, and I am often blown away by the writing and the themes. Sure, the fact that I'm a playwright with most of my published work in the youth and teen markets is part of the reason I like to keep up to date with these books, but I also feel they enrich my reading life in general. More parents should be reading these books--- especially before trying to get them removed from school libraries.

@bobbykeniston7240 Жыл бұрын

Oh, and also--- I am very excited for the new Jesmyn Ward. I share your enthusiasm for her work, and she may be my absolute favorite contemporary American writer. I read her powerful nonfiction "Men We Reaped" a few months ago and loved it.

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree about both Alex Gino and Jesmyn Ward. Just huge talents doing great work and worthy of all the praise out there.

@lorimiller854 Жыл бұрын

Can’t believe we’re at mid-year! Love your Pulitzer Prize deep dives! The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois is on my list for this year and your enthusiasm is motivating. I also love how you show us all the details of your books. As a lover of physical books, I’m always interested.

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

I love the details! And I can’t believe we’re at mid year either.

@paulablazer5244 Жыл бұрын

😂 immediately knew your favorite post was the 2023 Pulitzer reveal. The joy on your face makes me smile!

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

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@piccadillypie Жыл бұрын

Definitely your Pulitzer Prize reaction video!

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

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@jacquelinemcmenamin8204 Жыл бұрын

1. Deluge by Stephen Markley 2. No sequels so far 3. The next in series from Ambrose Parry ( just released) 4. Not sure what new releases are coming yet 5. Lock & West ( in my #lgbtqi reading) 6. Fellowship Point 🥰 7. Mary Lawson 8. ???? 9. All the characters in Deluge Birnam Wood Crow Lake ( snap- we have thunder here too) 10. Fellowship Point 11. The Secret Lives of Country Gentleman 12. The Quiet Girl - an adaptation of Foster by Claire Keegan 13. My favourite of your videos are the wrap ups with Joel 14. Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland ( present from a friend) 15. Too many to name ☘️👋🍀📖☕️📚📕💐🇮🇪

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

I'm still waiting for The Quiet Girl to be available where I live. Someday! Thanks for sharing your answers.

@athertonca Жыл бұрын

1. Best Book (any publication date): The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2004 Pulitzer Prize Fiction winner). Best Book (2023 publication): Small Mercies by Dennis LeHane and Be Mine by Richard Ford 4. Most Anticipated Release: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett 10. Saddest: Be Mine by Richard Ford 13. Favorite Booktube video: Your Pulitzer Prize reaction 14. Beautiful Book: Easton edition of Moby Dick 15. Books I Need to Read: Three Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners that I think I am going to dislike: Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest by John Updike; A Fable by William Faulkner.

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

I am really not looking forward to the Updike books as part of my Pulitzer Project, so I understand. But I'm really looking forward to The Known World. I've only read one book by Ann Patchett and hated it (Run), but I want to try another. I love her social media updates from her bookstore.

@shyathena34 Жыл бұрын

So my favorite new authors are Sara Novic who wrote True Biz which I throughly enjoyed, Sunyi Dean who wrote The Book Eaters an amazing debut novel and Josephine Johnson who wrote Now in November who I recently discovered thanks to to you. My favorite adaptation of a book that i watched this year is not a movie but a tv series; Pachinko based on the book by Min Jin Lee. I absolutely loved the book and have been wanting to see the series but I d0n’t have appletv, Luckily In was house and dog sitting for a friend who does have have Apple TV and was able to watch it. It was amazing. The cinematography, the music, the acting. It was beautiful and it was a crime it got no love from the Emmy’s. A Room With A View was another great movie adaptation, I’m glad you liked it!

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

Those seem like solid responses. I'm so glad you liked Now in November! I really want to get to True Biz this year.

@readandre-read Жыл бұрын

Great answers! So many good books. I've been looking for a nice copy of Fanny Herself since the first time you discussed it. Some day I'll get lucky. Your Pulitzer reaction video was the best! I filmed my midyear freakout this morning to post tomorrow.

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

I look forward to seeing yours! I've been looking for a copy of Fanny Herself for months now and haven't had luck. Someday!

@davidnovakreadspoetry Жыл бұрын

I saw that one book you talked about - now I forget the title, but it used censorship or word redaction to make a point about the story/topic - and thought it looked like great fun. But I was at an airport and didn’t want to spend $18 on a book I know I’d never look at twice. You were less than smitten with it; but I found the word redaction an incredibly effective gimmick. When you don’t know the actual word, your mind races all over the place and makes a bigger deal out of something perhaps mundane (the use of the f word), almost as a kind of metaphor about how people outside of a culture exaggerate and make fanciful assumptions about things they may not understand. (If I see it used I’ll pick it up, or if my library gets it, but as of now it doesn’t have it.)

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

My library had a copy of it, so hopefully yours will as well. I'm glad the device worked better for you, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the book!

@myreadinglife8816 Жыл бұрын

Love your beautiful book choices. I love maps in books as well.

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

It's always such a delight to open a book and find a map.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Жыл бұрын

A map on the inside flap? Yes yes yes 😊

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

It's so good!

@AvAlanchian Жыл бұрын

I do agree! Your Pulitzer Prize reveal video was epic. I just finished Shehan Karunatilaka’s first novel Chinaman and that would be my favourite for the year. Probably helps that it’s about cricket and I love cricket! Now reading Exit West by Mohsin Hamid.

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

Have you read Netherland by Joseph O'Neill? That book has very interesting use of cricket as a metaphor for immigration.

@ameliabarlowbooks Жыл бұрын

I had no idea that Goodbye to Berlin has links to Cabaret!

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

It introduces the character of Sally Bowles and the basic set-up of the musical Cabaret. It's not necessarily direct inspiration, but you can see how it created the story.

@loriroemer1122 Жыл бұрын

You have finally convinced me to pick up the Ferber!

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoy her as much as I have!

@hayleystenger2799 Жыл бұрын

I listened to Pageboy on audio and he does narrate it. It wasn't my favorite memoir, but it is worthwhile.

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback on it.

@alldbooks9165 Жыл бұрын

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@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

❤️ ❤️

@TheLeniverse Жыл бұрын

I think The Duchess of Bloomsbury street definitely counts as a sequel. My edition of it is in a double feature with 84, Charing Cross Road and it doesn't make sense to read the Duchess without reading 84 CCR first. I definitely need to get to The Love Songs of W.E.D du Bois, it's been sitting on my Kindle for a while now (out of sight, sadly out of mind). I hate having to pick favourites, so I'm not going to answer the prompts, but most beautiful book I have to give a shout out to the dust jacket of Fire Rush. I think that cover design is just brilliant and I really want a poster sized version to frame and hang on the wall. lol Unfortunately the cover under the jacket is rather boring.

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

I agree that Duchess of Bloomsbury Street isn't nearly the experience it is for a reader who hasn't already read 84, Charing Cross Road. If you do get to Love Songs, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. And Fire Rush does have a striking cover!

@TheLeniverse Жыл бұрын

@@SupposedlyFun I forgot to specify that I was talking about the UK cover of Fire Rush. The US one is alright, but the UK cover is perfection!

@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын

@@TheLeniverse All good--I had a feeling that was the one you were referring to!