MoonyReadsByStarlightI am Bek (they/them) and I am here to talk about the RENT Readathon which I am co-hosting with @KathyTrithardt Be sure to check out her announcement video as well as both of our Instagrams!
RENT Readathon || September 2023 [CC]MoonyReadsByStarlight2023-08-16 | I am Bek (they/them) and I am here to talk about the RENT Readathon which I am co-hosting with @KathyTrithardt Be sure to check out her announcement video as well as both of our Instagrams!
Last Question, people I've been watching lately: @pucksandpaperbacks @perpetualpages @ChroniclesofNoria @booksaremysociallife but honestly, I've spent more time watching dinosaur and evolution videos and Drag Race content than booktube. There are so many more lovely folks that I really would like to catch up on.
Timestamps: Tag 03:52 How is your reading going? 04:27 Best book you’ve read so far this year 05:27 Best sequel you've read so far this year 09:12 Favorite re-read. 09:52 Genre you've been loving/reading the most. 10:37 New release you haven't read yet, but want to. 11:37 Most anticipated release for the second half of the year. 13:42 Biggest disappointment. 14:44 Biggest surprise. 18:17 Favorite new author. (Debut or new to you) 21:45 Newest favorite character. 22:17 -Relatable Characters 23:19 Book that made you cry. 24:18 Book that made you happy. 26:58 Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received) 28:20 What books do you need to read by the end of the year? [I skipped this question -- oops] Favorite video or post you've done so far this year. 30:31 Favorite book community members. 31:03
Time Stamps: 00:15 Restart After Growing Hungry by Cocomi 01:18 Breathe: Journey to Healthy Binding by Maia Kobabe and Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier 04:24 Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman 06:57 Don't Be a Drag by Sky Quinlan 11:25 Even Though I Knew the End by CL Polk 12:56 The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag 16:11 Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes by Lily Fulop 20:35 The Z-Word by Lindsay King-Miller 22:11 Books started/partly finished
Time Stamps: 01:45 Basil and Oregano by Melissa Caprigione 03:08 This is What Lesbian Looks Like edited by Kris Kleindiest 07:29 The Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown 11:56 Love is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar 14:30 Queer Voices from the Fight for Palestinian Liberation by Pleasure Pie 17:17 The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang 20:00 Brooms by Jasmin Walls and Teo DuVall 22:19 Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa 25:02 Girl Haven by Lilah Sturges and Meaghan Carter 28:19 Deprog by Tina Horn, Lisa Serle, et al. (to be published Sep 20204) 29:30 How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones 30:45 Things You May Find Hidden In Your Ear by Mosab Abu Toha 32:18 It Did Happen Here: Antifascist People's History by Moe Bowstern, et al. 35:04 Restart After Coming Back Home by Cocomi 35:47 Books I Started
References for the zodiac sign descriptions: - Astrology for Real Life by Theresa Reed - The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need by Joanna Martine Woodfolk - Signs and Skymates by Dossé-Via Treno
Time Stamps 00:51 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams Description 03:13 Cat cuddly B-roll 03:31 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Reaction 07:48 Intro to Aries discussion 08:45 About Aries Venus 14:17 About Intercepted Aries/Libra 21:05 Tennessee Williams Birth Chart 24:24 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Discussion (Spoiler-y) 29:52 Short non-spoiler wrap-up of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Astro 31:09 Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Description 33:09 Crocheting and Reading B-roll and craft discussion 36:35 Black Cake Reaction 39:06 About Cancer Rising 40:35 Black Cake Astro Discussion
References for the zodiac sign descriptions: - Astrology for Real Life by Theresa Reed - The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need by Joanna Martine Woodfolk - Signs and Skymates by Dossé-Via Treno
00:28 About Pisces Mercury 04:14 Short Description of Mercury in Pisces 04:32 Elliot Page's Astrology Chart 10:02 Pageboy by Elliot Page Reaction 13:11 Misc Book Check-in 14:36 Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton Description 15:52 About Cancer Mars -- (A note that I missed in this description. Mars is ruled by Aries, which would mean that it is in its detriment in Libra. It is exalted in Capricorn, which is why it's in its fall in Cancer. I also may have misspoken a little in this section. The point stands that both Pisces Mercury and Cancer Mars can be difficult placements, which was the point in mentioning this.] 21:09 Lucille Clifton's Astrology Chart 24:00 Book Shopping and More Cute B-Roll 25:01 Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton Reaction -- CW violence from 30:37-35:25
References for the zodiac sign descriptions: - Astrology for Real Life by Theresa Reed - The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need by Joanna Martine Woodfolk - Signs and Skymates by Dossé-Via Treno
Time Stamps: 02:43 About Aquarius Moon 07:07 Aquarius Moon Short Description 07:31 Imagination: A Manifesto Description 10:32 Reading Check-in 13:13 The Honeys by Ryan La Sala Reaction 17:53 Ryan La Sala's Birth Chart 23:20 About Pisces Sun 27:00 Imagination Check-In 29:39 Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin Reaction 38:22 Reading Plans 38:52 Outro
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Time Stamps: 00:19 The Tea Dragon Society by K O'Neill 01:57 TBR and Who I am Supporting 04:01 Check in 06:53 Reading and Baking 07:40 The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo 10:33 Cat and Reading 11:12 What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher [I didn't mention this in the video, but the MC usus neopronouns ka/kan. Including the bits about culture and gender in their society was super cool] 14:00 Mini Book Haul 15:10 Falling Back in Love With Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom 20:20 A Touch of Ruckus by Ash Van Otterloo 24:43 Until I Love Myself by Poppy Pesuyama 28:07 Wrap-up
Educate yourself, contact your representatives, and support Palestinians where you can: decolonizepalestine.com
Music: bensound.com/free-music-for-videos License code: 5CDZVS5NBKSZPK5NFebruary Wrap-Up || Blackathon, #ReadQueerAllYear lots of nonfiction [CC]MoonyReadsByStarlight2024-03-10 | I am Bek (they/them) and here is what I read in February! A lot of these were nonfiction (a lot of memoir) but one of them was a YA horror and another was a YA graphic novel.
Time Stamps: 00:48 The Honeys by Ryan La Sala 02:08 Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin 03:10 An Unexpected Turn by Meka James 05:02 Pageboy by Elliot Page 06:48 Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton 07:23 Plantains and Our Becoming by Melania Luisa Marte 11:49 What Are Your Pronouns?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron 13:40 I am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina et al 15:52 Started/Currently Reading
Educate yourself, contact your representatives, and support Palestinians where you can: decolonizepalestine.com
Mentioned: - Readers for Accountability (SMP Media Boycott): instagram.com/readersforaccountability - Queerthology Book Club: instagram.com/queerthology - Adri (this wrap-up has Ten Bridges I've Burnt and You Dreamed of Empires): youtube.com/watch?v=RPJPKe_ucDk - I mentioned Schizophrenic Reads as the person who mentioned Sex With a Brain Injury. But I can't find the post about that (and didn't look until I totally edited and captioned this), so it may be someone else... I definitely have seen it more than once from some of the nonfiction IGs I follow. Maybe I will put the post up when I find it
Educate yourself, contact your representatives, and support Palestinians where you can: decolonizepalestine.com
Questions: 1. How many years on booktube are you celebrating? 2. What has kept you motivated to continue making videos? 3. What are three of your favorite videos you’ve made in the past year and why? 4. What have you struggled with on booktube in the past year and how did you overcome that struggle? 5. Choose one moment from the past year on booktube that you would love to re-live. 6. Shout out a huge supporter of your channel. 7. What’s the best book you’ve read in this past year? 8. Where do you see your channel in a year’s time and what do you hope to have achieved? 9. Tag someone whose anniversary is coming up!
Educate yourself, contact your representatives, and support Palestinians where you can: decolonizepalestine.com
Time Stamps: 00:51 Palestinian Artists and this is from the Gliese Art Collective 01:50 Prisoner' Books at the Nablus Public Library by Maggie Schreiner 02:57 Overdue Books: Returning Palestine's "Abandoned Property" of 1948 by Hannah Mermelstein 06:50 Heartstopper Vol 5 by Alice Oseman 07:53 Unfamiliar Vol 2 by Hayley Newsome 10:25 Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfagee 13:20 Palestinian Walks: Foray into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehade 17:39 Books started or read part of
Educate yourself, contact your representatives, and support Palestinians where you can: decolonizepalestine.com
Time Stamps: 01:08 Top Poetry Intro 01:53 For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide: When the Rainbow is Enuf by Nntozake Sange 03:12 The Man with the Night Sweats by Thom Gunn 04:07 These God-Forsaken Notes: An Irreverent Poet's Memory Loss Memoir by Hil Hoover 05:53 Bonus book: Don't Call It a Cult by Sarah Berman 07:49 Literally Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English by Valerie Fridland 09:52 Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson 11:58 When I Was Me: Moments of Gender Euphoria AND The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics 13:17 My Body is Distant by Paige Maylott 15:18 Palestine by Joe Sacco 17:13 The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney 18:33 Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 317 by CK Czerwiec 22:20 A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid 23:38 Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek 25:33 Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg AND The Big Reveal by Sasha Velour
Educate yourself, contact your representatives, and support Palestinians where you can: decolonizepalestine.com
Time Stamps: 00:49 Meet Behind Mars by Renee Sims 03:26 For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss a Mother Fucker Out When Snatching an Edge Ain't Enough by Dane Figueroa Edidi 05:34 Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gilman 06:37 Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff 09:33 Reading goals and Readathons 11:32 Currently Reading 14:57 Kitty
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Time Stamps: 01:35 Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen 02:52 Twistwood Tales by AC Macdonald 04:03 When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole 05:37 The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun 07:18 Little Fish by Casey Plett 08:28 Feed them Silence by Lee Mandelo 11:12 Bitch Planet 12:13 The Moth Keeper by K O'Neill 14:18 A Minor Chorus by Bily-Ray Belcourt 15:56 The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu 18:05 Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigequeer Speculative Fiction ed by Joshua Whitehead 19:55 Dear Mothman by Robin Gow 22:04 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher
Educate yourself, contact your representatives, and support Palestinians where you can: decolonizepalestine.com
Mentioned: MIT Open-source Classes: https://ocw.mit.edu/ MIT Open-source Classes Youtube (which I explored more after filming this. Not every class, but a TON. Some of the linguistics lectures were a neat way to start off my year!): youtube.com/@mitocw Black Matters Class: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-912-black-matters-introduction-to-black-studies-spring-2017/ Memory, Culture, and Forgetting Class: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/21a-104-memory-culture-forgetting-spring-2016/
Time Stamps: 01:54 My Background 03:07 Putting these classes together 06:02 Why classes but not for school? 07:15 Classes 07:33 Black Studies Class 13:32 Memory Studies Class 18:27 Queer Global Studies Class
Books Mentioned: - Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois - Benito Cereno by Herman Melville - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Dandicat - The Black Jacobins by CLR James - Tales of Neveryon by Samuel R Delany - Literacy: Reading the Word and the World by Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo - The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G Woodson - Of Solids and Surds by Samuel R Delany - Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness edited by David Austin - The Common Wind: Afro-American Current in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S Scott - Rasta and Resistance from Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney by Horace Campbell - Model-Minority Imperialism by Victor Bascara - Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism by Frank Chapman - Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito - On Collective Memory by Maurice Halbwachs - How Societies Remember by Paul Connerton - Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil - Tangled Memory: The Vietnam War, The AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering by Marita Sturken - After Silence: A History of AIDS through Its Images by Avram Finkelstein - Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba - Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the afterlife of Colonialism edited by Arnaldo Cruz-Malave and Martin F Manalansan IV - Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology edited by E Patrick Johnson and Mae G Henderson - As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality edited by Anna Livia and Kira Hall - Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language edited by William Leap and Tom Boellstorff - The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser - Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam - Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left by Emily Hobson - Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw - Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen - Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, and Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D Smithers
Educate yourself, contact your representatives, and support Palestinians where you can: decolonizepalestine.com
Mentioned: @shawnbreathesbooks (will post the video when I have the link!) @FundieFridays
Time Stamps: 00:16 Palestine by Joe Sacco 07:30 Woman in Me by Britney Spears (also musings about potential overlap with Jill Duggar's book) 14:29 Booktube watching and crochet b-roll (ft. PerpetualPages and PaSTORY Time) 14:55 reading update ft. Counting the Cost and A Minor Chorus 20:12 Minor holiday redecorating 21:26 Kitten cuddles 21:37 Unfamiliars by Haley Newsome and starting Dinosaur Sanctuary Vol 1 25:10 CAT 25:18 Reading update 25:28 Dinosaur Sanctuary Vol 1 by Itaru Kinoshita 26:52 A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt 29:25 update/question The Martyrdom of Collins Catch The Bear by Gerry Spence 33:36 Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar 35:01 Earth Keeper by N Scot Momaday 36:32: starting The Skin and Its Girl 38:10 Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
Educate yourself, contact your representatives, and support Palestinians where you can: decolonizepalestine.com
Time Stamps: 08:26 Crotchet intermission 08:49 A DNF and a book haul 12:50 Momfluenced by Sarah Petersen 25:15 A signed book and comfy cat 25:35 The Groundings With My Brothers by Walter Rodney 29:00 Britney Spears check-in and library haul 34:46 Tarot and cat b-roll 35:24 Last check-in
Educate yourself, contact your representatives, and support Palestinians where you can: decolonizepalestine.com
Time Stamps: 00:32 Bitch Planet Vol 1 and 2 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro 02:11 Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman 03:48 The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu 06:23 Don't Call It a Cult by Sarah Berman 11:23 My Body is Distant by Paige Maylott 14:14 The Moth Keeper by K O'Neill 15:54 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Kim Cooper 18:39 Kurt Cobain's Journals 24:27 The Case of the Bleeding Wall 26:02 When I Was Me 27:24 Stars in Their Eyes 29:43 The Girl from the Other Side vol 12 by Nagabe 31:34 Books started
Note that this was filmed before the recent events in Palestine. Definitely educate yourself, contact your representatives, and support Palestinians where you can. Thank you to Adri from Perpetual Pages for sharing this link that has a breakdown of a lot of history and issues as well as tons of sources and reading material. It looks like a great start to learn more decolonizepalestine.com
Time Stamps: 00:22 Stats 04:09 Mid-Year Freakout Tag 04:13 Best book you've read so far Best sequel you've read so far New releases you haven't' read yet but want to Most anticipated release in the second half of the year Biggest dissapointment so far Biggest surprise so far New favorite author New fictional crush New favorite character A book that made you cry Book that made you happy#RentReadathon TBR || September Pile of Possibilities [CC]MoonyReadsByStarlight2023-08-30 | I am Bek (they/them) and these are some of my reading plans for September's RENT Readathon!
00:34 Bookstore footage 02:03 Book Haul 05:27 Reading and stinky kitten footage 06:08 Reading check-in (Real Life by Brandon Taylor) 07:52 Check-in (Bi by Julia Shaw) and Crochet 09:34 Crochet and reading (Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger and Queercore) check-in 19:14 Book Haul 2 26:13 The Man With the Night Sweats by Thomm Gunn 30:57 Check-in pre-library 32:21 Discussion of hard stuff (grif, pet death, etc) 36:17 Back to book stuff (CW over) 37:44 Library Haul 42:44 Ending
Time Stamps: 01:35 TBR 05:41 Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon vol 4 Wrap-Up 08:40 Check-in 09:26 Reading and Cat Bath 10:42 I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom 15:02 Update on Queercore 17:10 Shopping/check in 20:11 Taking Turns by CK Czerwiec 31:28 Cat and Bubbles 33:45 Final Check-in
Time Stamps: 00:00 Intro 02:01 Transgender Warriors by Leslie Fienberg wrap-up 06:15 Little Fish by Casey Plett wrap-up 09:52 Check-in Feed them Silence by Lee Mandelo 13:09 Feed them Silence by Lee Mandelo wrap-up 19:47 Magical Boy by The Kao wrap-up 20:42 Check-in The Big Reveal by Sasha Velour 21:47 Rick by Alex Gino wrap-up 27:42 Wrap-up
Other orgs to support: Oasis Center (Nashville queer youth, including temporary housing): oasiscenter.org Nashville CARES (LGBTQ+ health, primarly focused on HIV-prevention but also helps with other things like gender-affirming care for adults): nashvillecares.org Black Trans Travel Fund: blacktranstravelfund.com
Time Stamps: 00:34 Cultish by Amanda Montel 01:59 How We Get Free edited by Keeyanga-Yamahtta Taylor 03:30 Philisophical Trends in the Feminist Movement by Anuradha Ghandy 05:13 X/Ex/Exis by Raquel Salas Rivera 07:08 Black Skin, White Mask by Frantz Fanon 09:36 Black Against Empire by Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin Jr 10:52 Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks 12:06 Wake by Rebecca Hall (note: the point I was going "back to" at 13:58 was a rant I edited out of my Black Skin White Masks discussion -- oops!) 14:19 What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte 15:54 We Do This Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba 17:43 Unmasking Autism by Devon Price
Time Stamps: 00:43 My Name's Yours What's Alaska? by Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 02:17 Harold Loves His Wooly Hat by Vern Kousky 02:32 Moonology by Yasmin Boland 03:54 Cultish by Amanda Montel 04:30 Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice 2022 Reflection 2023 Plans
Time Stamps: 00:48 - Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating 02:51 - Last Night at the Telegraph Club 04:19 - Meet Cute Diary [Note: this is not fully reviewed because of the ongoing HarperCollins strike, but you can buy it through the union's Bookshop if you check out their IG!] 04:48 - Legends and Lattes 05:45 - A Lady for a Duke 07:37 - She Who Became the Sun (looking back, this is a very chaotic overview/review, so for something more coheasive here were my thoughts right after I read it: youtu.be/xiPX1kMam9k?t=1263) 11:19 - If Beale Street Could Talk 12:40 - Across a Field of Starlight 15:18 - A Million Quiet Revolutions 17:30 - A Psalm for the Wild-Built 20:14 - Summer Sons
Books Mentioned: How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The Principals of Comunism by Fredrich Engles A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow Noodle and the No Bones Day by Jonathan Graziano Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price The Heartbreak Bakery by AR Capetta Crystal Zodiac by Katie Huang
1) I love this genre but I didn't like this book 2) I rarely read this genre but I loved this book 3) I love this trope but I didn't like this book 4) I hate this trope but I loved this book 5) I love this author but I didn't like this book 6) I previously disliked a book by this author but I loved this book 7) I love this cover but I didn't like this book 8) I don't like this cover but I loved this book 9) Tag someone!
Time stamps: 01:28 Kid's books 02:18 Boys Run the Riot Vol 4 03:21 A Lady for a Duke 05:05 Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon Vol 3 06:56 If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho 08:14 Partly read books 08:46 August reading possibilities
Time Stamps: 04:20 Reading/bookstore clips 05:06 Boys Run the Riot Vol 4 07:20 Travel discussion/packing books 11:28 A Lady for a Duke 15:19 Update and book haul
Time Stamps: 00:47 Melt with You by Jennifer Dugan 03:59 Kid's Books (Knight Owl and Stella Brings the Family 04:58 The Sprite and the Gardener 06:10 I am Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya 08:01 Summer Sons 11:23 Perks of Being a Wallflower 14:25 Cursed fanfic 18:23 Partly read books
In here, I discuss themes in The Great Gatsby (primarily themes of the American Dream and critique of the American Dream), racism and antisemetism in the book, and some thoughts on the characters of Nick and Gatsby (talking at length about why I think reading Nick as gay just makes sense). Then I discuss The Chosen and the Beautiful as how it responds to the themes and writing of the original text and some of the queer representation and insight on relationships (though I think it's worth noting that what I say in here about particular identities is specific to the characters. I don't want my words to be taken as a commentary on any sexuality -- it's just the situation in this particular book with these characters).
01:04 The Great Gatsby 16:40 Textual evidence that Nick Carraway is gay (I will not be taking criticism at this time) 26:23 The Chosen and the Beautiful
01:31 Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve 03:48 I Think I Might Be Autistic by Cynthia Kim 05:16 Kid's books (Mommy, Momma, and Me in the Middle and Perfectly Pegasus) 06:27 Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon 10:12 The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam 19:32 Network Effect by Martha Wells 20:27 The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk 27:20 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 30:23 The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo 34:51 Heartstopper reread + the novellas 39:09 Books I worked on or started this month.
Time stamps: 02:13 Murderbot Diaries (Exit Strategy by Martha Wells) 05:03 Check-in featuring tech issues and trying to avoid a crisis 08:58 Reading A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers + a half-way check-in 14:52 A Psalm for the Wild Built wrap-up 19:47 Check-in 21:48 Plans and kitten 23:41 Wake by Rebecca Hall 31:54 Cats 32:39 Philisophical Trends in the Feminist Movement by Anuradha Ghandy 38:14 Queer Lit Weekend intro 41:33 Reading X/Ex/Exis by Raquel Salas Rivera + wrap up/discussion 45:42 Check-in Day 2 of Queer Weekend 47:11 Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Time stamps: 00:06 Kase-San and Yamada vol 2 00:56 Murderbot Diaries 2-4 02:18 Legends and Lattes 04:04 Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plinick 9:21 If Beale Street Could Talk 10:18 Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts 12:12 A Psalm for the Wild-Built 14:27 Theoretical Trends in the Feminist Movement 16:13 X/Ex/Exis Poemas para la Nación/Poems for the Nation 18:46 Last Night at the Telegraph Club (NOTE: I don't think what I said was really spoiler-ey but I do talk about more details in this book than some of the others, so if you really prefer to have little details, it might be best to skip this one) 26:17 Partly-read books
Time Stamps: 3:44 First word/book 12:10 Fist book wrap-up 15:55 Second word/book 17:14 Second Wrap-up 22:36 Third word 27:03 Third book 29:01 Buddy read update 31:04 More on third book 32:19 Library Trip 38:47 Third Wrap-up 42:58 Movie
Books Read/Discussed: Legends & Lattes by Travis Bladree Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon You Will Get Through This Night by Dan Howell Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Music from Pixabay: -Mellow Flute Lullaby by JuliusH -Chill Abstract (Inatention) by Coma-Media -Soft Daydream by EvgenyBardyuzha
Questions: 1. How many years on BookTube are you celebrating? 2. What has kept you motivated to continue making videos? 3. What are three of your favourite videos you’ve made in the past year and why? 4. What have you struggled with on BookTube in the past year and how did you overcome that struggle? 5. Choose one moment from the past year on BookTube that you would love to re-live. 6. Shout out a huge supporter of your channel. 7. What’s the best book you’ve read in this past year? 8. Where do you see your channel in a year’s time and what do you hope to have achieved? 9. Tag someone whose anniversary is coming up!