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MY FIRST BOOKISH TAG! #booktag #mybookishfirsttimes
Original Tag created by Monica @ Moonie Reads youtu.be/pUcTfl1GC9I
I was tagged by Alan of Big Hard Books & Classics youtu.be/_i936sHMqwg
Questions:
1. What is the first FULL-LENGTH book that you remember reading on your own?
(not like picture books or anything)
2. What is the first series you remember finishing?
3. What is the first book to movie adaptation you remember watching KNOWING it was a book to movie adaptation?
4. Who was your first book crush?
5. Who was your first bookish friend?
6. What is the first adult book you remember reading NOT for school?
7. Who was your first character role-model?
8. Who was the first author you were truly inspired by?
9. What is the first book you remembering touching or moving you?
10. What was the first classic you read NOT for school?
11. What was the first Y.A. book you read?
12. What was the first e-book you read?
My other social media:
Twitter: twitter.com/mariahilldublin?lang=en
Instagram: instagram.com/miadublin
Goodreads (Please answer the question any way you like and I will Friend back): goodreads.com/user/show/46346297-maria-hill-aka-mh-books
Goodreads owned TBR list – I am not available for Buddy Reads until 26 May 2021 but open after then! goodreads.com/review/list/46346297-maria-hill-aka-mh-books?shelf=owned-tbr
MY FIRST BOOKISH TAG! #booktag #mybookishfirsttimes
Original Tag created by Monica @ Moonie Reads youtu.be/pUcTfl1GC9I
I was tagged by Alan of Big Hard Books & Classics youtu.be/_i936sHMqwg
Questions:
1. What is the first FULL-LENGTH book that you remember reading on your own?
(not like picture books or anything)
2. What is the first series you remember finishing?
3. What is the first book to movie adaptation you remember watching KNOWING it was a book to movie adaptation?
4. Who was your first book crush?
5. Who was your first bookish friend?
6. What is the first adult book you remember reading NOT for school?
7. Who was your first character role-model?
8. Who was the first author you were truly inspired by?
9. What is the first book you remembering touching or moving you?
10. What was the first classic you read NOT for school?
11. What was the first Y.A. book you read?
12. What was the first e-book you read?
My other social media:
Twitter: twitter.com/mariahilldublin?lang=en
Instagram: instagram.com/miadublin
Goodreads (Please answer the question any way you like and I will Friend back): goodreads.com/user/show/46346297-maria-hill-aka-mh-books
Goodreads owned TBR list – I am not available for Buddy Reads until 26 May 2021 but open after then! goodreads.com/review/list/46346297-maria-hill-aka-mh-books?shelf=owned-tbr




![Happy 51st Doris! The Read Doris Tag one year on!
#ReadDoris
The Read Doris Tag
Shaun Mooney of Shaun the Book Maniac’s Original Tag - You can find the questions there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ELnCKU3T78
The Video where Doris of a D Books reviewed the Dovekeepers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcLbiUdEW-8
Charles Heathcote’s channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCizWkND7vV5xRtybD8TNwqA
Books mentioned -hopefully in the correct order but I don’t guarantee it!
Indisputably Doris – by Charles Heathcote
Big Girl Small Town by Michelle Gallen
Milkman by Anna Burns
The Dovekepers by Alice Hoffman
The Stray Cats of Homs by Eva Nour – Bought at Booksupstairs.ie
The Orchid and the Wasp by Caolinn Hughes
How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus
I am trying to read 6/12 Jhalak longlisted books by 13th April – but which ones and can I do it?
The longlist can be found here - https://www.jhalakprize.com/.
And Mel’s discussion video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxa0775jBmA
Romalyn Ante - Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto & Windus)
Catherine Cho - Inferno (Bloomsbury Circus)
Afshan D’Souza-Lodhi - [re: desire] (Burning Eye Books)
Caleb Femi - Poor (Penguin)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave - The Mercies (Picador)
Tammye Huf - A More Perfect Union (Myriad Editions)
Rachel Long - My Darling From the Lions (Picador)
Deirdre Mask - The Address Book (Profile Books)
Katy Massey - Are We Home Yet (jacaranda)
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - The First Woman (Oneworld Publications)
Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk (Dialogue Books)
Stephanie Scott - What’s Left of Me Is Yours (W&N)
My other social media:
Goodreads (Please answer the question any way you like and I will Friend back): https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/46346297-maria-hill-aka-mh-books
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mariahilldublin?lang=en Happy 51st Doris! The Read Doris Tag one year on!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yT7L0zyua0w/mqdefault.jpg)

