paperbackstacks | how's my reading been going so far this year? let's chat! // mid-year freakout tag 2024 @paperbackstacksss | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
hello all and welcome or welcome back!! today's video is going to be one where I'm talking about how my reading year has been going so far and answering some questions on the ones that stood out to me (for good/bad reasons).

If you're interested in following me on Storygraph, the link will be further down in the description :)

tell me about a book/books that have stood out to you so far this year? or better yet, go ahead and answer some of the tag questions yourself in the comments if you so choose!

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[Books Mentioned]

-Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Drew Gilpin Faust
- Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
- The Perfect Crimes of Marion. Hayes / The Queer Principles of Kitt Webb by Cat Sebastion
- Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
- Body Phobia: The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference by Dianna E. Anderson
- Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
- Fireworks: Nine Profane Tales by Angela Carter
- Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano
- Julia Hungry by Hannah Louise Poston (@HannahLouisePoston)
- Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook by Susan Ruben Suleman
- Lote by Sheila von Reinhold
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- Blackouts by Justin Torres
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- The Plauge by Albert Camus
- The Employees by Olga Ravn
- Embers by Sandor Marai
- Dreaming in French by Alice Kaufman
- Speak, Memory by Vladamire Nabakov

[Tag Questions]

- Best book you've read so far this year?
- Best sequel you've read so far this year?
- New releases you haven't read yet but want to?
- Most anticipated release for the second half of the year?
- Biggest disappointment?
- Biggest surprise?
- New favorite author (debut or new to you)?
- Newest fictional crush?
- New favorite character?
- Book that made you cry?
- Book that made you happy?
- Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year?
- What books do you want to read by the end of the year?

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