Lindy’s Magpie Reads | A Mid-Year Reading Check-In, using the Mid-Year Freakout Tag #booktube @lindysmagpiereads | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Mid-Year Freakout Tag
1. Best sequel you’ve read so far this year.
2. A new release you haven’t read yet but want to.
3. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year.
4. Biggest disappointment?
5. Biggest surprise?
6. Favourite new author (debut or new to you)?
7. Newest favourite character?
8. The saddest book you’ve read so far this year?
9. A book that made you happy?
10. Favourite video you’ve created this year?
11. Most beautiful book you have acquired this year?
12. Book you’ve learned the most from?
13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
14. Best book you’ve read so far this year?
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Mentioned in this video:
Monstress Book One by Marjorie Liu and Sana Tanaka
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille Dungy
Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani, translated by Omid Tofighian and Alenka Ropret
Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns
Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong (also The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong)
Maybe: A Story About the Endless Potential in All of Us by Kobi Yamada and Gabriella Barouch
Victoria travel vlog: gardens; birds; knitting and books:
youtu.be/6J0c_Vn360I
Medicines to Help Us: Traditional Metis Plant Use by Christi Belcourt (see also my 2022 Mid-Year Freak Out Tag video: youtu.be/BWnphz9ju7A )
Clearing the Plains by James Dascher
The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
Reproduction by Ian Williams
Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell
Alberta Alone by Cora Sandel, translated from by Elizabeth Rokkan
People mentioned:
Shelly @Shellyish - here’s the link to her Superlative Sunday conversation with me about No Friend but the Mountains: youtu.be/KC63CZTuCb8
Doris @alldbooks9165
Marilyn Maya @MarilynMayaMendoza
Jolene @BookwormAdventureGirl
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Mid-Year Freakout Tag
1. Best sequel you’ve read so far this year.
2. A new release you haven’t read yet but want to.
3. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year.
4. Biggest disappointment?
5. Biggest surprise?
6. Favourite new author (debut or new to you)?
7. Newest favourite character?
8. The saddest book you’ve read so far this year?
9. A book that made you happy?
10. Favourite video you’ve created this year?
11. Most beautiful book you have acquired this year?
12. Book you’ve learned the most from?
13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
14. Best book you’ve read so far this year?
————————————
Mentioned in this video:
Monstress Book One by Marjorie Liu and Sana Tanaka
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille Dungy
Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani, translated by Omid Tofighian and Alenka Ropret
Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns
Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong (also The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong)
Maybe: A Story About the Endless Potential in All of Us by Kobi Yamada and Gabriella Barouch
Victoria travel vlog: gardens; birds; knitting and books:
youtu.be/6J0c_Vn360I
Medicines to Help Us: Traditional Metis Plant Use by Christi Belcourt (see also my 2022 Mid-Year Freak Out Tag video: youtu.be/BWnphz9ju7A )
Clearing the Plains by James Dascher
The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
Reproduction by Ian Williams
Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell
Alberta Alone by Cora Sandel, translated from by Elizabeth Rokkan
People mentioned:
Shelly @Shellyish - here’s the link to her Superlative Sunday conversation with me about No Friend but the Mountains: youtu.be/KC63CZTuCb8
Doris @alldbooks9165
Marilyn Maya @MarilynMayaMendoza
Jolene @BookwormAdventureGirl
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711