Beating around the Books | Midyear Freakout Tag @beatingaroundthebooks | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Tag Questions:
1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2021?
2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2021?
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. Favourite new author?
8. Newest fictional crush?
9. Newest favourite character?
10. Book that made you cry?
11. Book that made you happy?
12. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)?
13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?

***Videos & People Mentioned***

Marc Nash's reading from Stories We Tell Our Children: youtube.com/watch?v=MwB8YDGXWoU
His discussions on different themes in the novel:
White Lies youtube.com/watch?v=PGmtAQdMEFQ
Children's Imaginations youtube.com/watch?v=NJhPak_2Qbo

Hamnet Reading Vlog: youtube.com/watch?v=3Qqom9WjaTk&t=1s
Thoughts on Piranesi: youtube.com/watch?v=YUdMer7-78k&t=990s
Mini Review of Shapton's Important Artifacts.... (around the 14 min mark): youtube.com/watch?v=ab3PJVP0TCo&t=585s

Mariam anotherbookthought: youtube.com/channel/UCrnFZKBlAJoo5xE4uddn37A
her IG: instagram.com/anotherbookthought
bookepiphanies on IG: instagram.com/bookepiphanies
Ros @ Scallydandling about the books: youtube.com/channel/UCE-lxdtxTUTWEs0xJn-dH0g
Bert @ PaSTORY Time: youtube.com/channel/UCfL19Zqjv6R0N94XcrhxgLg
Courtney Ferriter: youtube.com/channel/UC6f2IQ2BSjJT0xXiVfba2Yg
Brian @ Bookish: youtube.com/channel/UCrrFo3tDRDVbX7PZjWx1qYA
Pae @ Attention!: youtube.com/channel/UC_7IPEXaZuRlPeE90dFSDbw

~~~Books, Authors, Publishers Mentioned~~~

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
A Still Life by Josie George
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Little Scratch by Rebecca Watson
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles
Stories We Tell Our Children by Marc Nash
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
Raven Leilani
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Roya Marsh
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About by Michele Filgate
Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen
Honford Star Press
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
Nervous System by Lina Meruane, transl. by Megan McDowell
M Train by Patti Smith
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
Three Dreams in the Key of G by Marc Nash
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee

I Tag:

Mark @ Book Time with Elvis: youtube.com/channel/UC4qlW3ek-Bat1MEljG5eTDQ
Laura @ The Reading Mushroom: youtube.com/channel/UCsB7NmmHKaVQjK3KaRgTg5Q
Misa @ Books and Sushi: youtube.com/channel/UCiiOjFLJvvVBNI6zmgsP1yw


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