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Do I Know Moby Dick? | Pop Culture Osmosis ep. 3
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📚 Books mentioned📚
EVE, by Cat Bohannon
How to Say Babylon, by Safiya Sinclair
King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig
Master Slave Husband Wife, by Ilyon Woo
The Underworld, by Susan Casey
We Were Once a Family, by Roxanna Asgarian
🎥 Past Videos
Features We Were Once a Family:
youtube.com/watch?v=keJql3lokNc
Features The Underworld:
youtube.com/watch?v=be_GR-isTjQ
Features EVE, King, How to Say Babylon:
youtube.com/watch?v=KhO4LMOtIhc
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📚 Books mentioned📚
Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen,
Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Royal Assassin, by Robin Hobb
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
All Quiet of the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst, by Katie Lumsden
Moon of the Turning Leaves, by Waubgeshig Rice
John Dies at the End, by Jason Pargin
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🎥 recent Booktube Prize Reviews
youtube.com/watch?v=KhO4LMOtIhc
📚 Books mentioned📚
The Sleeping Car Porter, by Suzette Mayr
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
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📚 Books mentioned📚
Redshirts, by John Scalzi
Run Towards the Danger, by Sarah Polley
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
The Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams
The Electric State, by Simon Stalenhag
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life, by Anna Funder
We Were Once a Family, by Roxanne Asgarian
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🎥 Pop Culture Osmosis playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl88nhD4T09UBwQEhsbVpDKGj0ny-iuZy&si=fXqGb_38YIh1Bl0F
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What are you reading?
Jane Austen July hosts are:
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📚 Books mentioned📚
The Underworld by Susan Casey
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
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🎥 Results from this round:
youtu.be/jIWSv8AYiw4?si=_NuHaShrBXhUTptm
📚 Books mentioned📚
The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie
Flee North by Scott Shane
The Lumumba Plot by Stuart A. Reid
The Wager by David Grann
We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian
Wifedom by Anna Funder
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📚 Books mentioned📚
The Lumumba Plot by Stuart A. Reid
The Wager by David Grann
The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
They by Kay Dick
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For all the picture book lovers out there!
🎥 Hosts of Picture This Readathon 🎥
Shelly youtube.com/@Shellyish
Jack youtube.com @spreadbookjoy
📚 Books mentioned📚
Jillian Jiggs by Phoebe Gilman
Dress Like a Girl by Patricia Toht and Lorian Tu-Dean
If You Were Night by Muon Thi Van and Kelly Pousette
The Way Home in the Night by Akiko Miyakoshi
Blackout by John Rocco
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o and Vashti Harrison
Pigs by Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko
The Old Woman and the Eagle by Idries Shah
Finding Wild by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Abigail Halpin
Florette by Anna Walker
This Beautiful Day by Richard Jackson and Suzy Lee
Red: a Crayon's Story by Michael Hall
Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson and Sophie Blackall
The Dam by David Almond and Levi Pinfold
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So happy to get a few things off my TBR. Thanks to Katie for organizing the readathon!
🎥 Katie's channel🎥
youtube.com/@katiejlumsden
📚 Books mentioned📚
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Based on a True Story by Norm MacDonald
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
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🎵"Full Moon"
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🎥 March Mystery Madness Vlog 🎥
youtu.be/MfZkspbMrTA?si=SzQrnP7zSKDu_EdP
📚 Books mentioned📚
Six Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley
The Cutting Season by Attica Locke, narrated by Quincy Tyler Berstine
The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend, narrated by Gemma Whelan
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📚 Books mentioned📚
Six Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley
The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
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📚 Books mentioned📚
A Room With a View by EM Forster
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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🎥 Monica Kim's original video🎥
youtu.be/CtZEYrV0jPU?si=0WVKgEEhrar_e2bQ
📚 Books mentioned📚
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
The Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams
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📚 Books mentioned📚
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
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How many books are your physical (or digital) TBR?
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🎥 Channels mentioned 🎥
youtube.com/@leenanorms
📚 Books mentioned📚
Peyakow by Darrel J. McLeod, narrated by William C. Wanzi
Saga Vol. 5 & 6 by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Last Christmas at Ballyclare by Emily Bell, narrated by Breffni Holahan
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Sandman Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Sam Kieth
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The books and where I've discussed them:
My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden
Reviewed for the Booktube Prize Semifinals:
youtube.com/watch?v=rm7lGeI_cJI
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
Reviewed for the Booktube Prize Octofinals:
youtube.com/watch?v=Np6oRKW5yW8
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford &
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Both reviewed in my November wrap-up:
youtube.com/watch?v=xxpD4wC33Ng
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Séamas O'Reilly
Reviewed in my September wrap-up:
youtube.com/watch?v=L_4mTX2WnF0
Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller
Reviewed in my May wrap-up:
youtube.com/watch?v=QYq0dJBYjis
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Reviewed in my January wrap-up:
youtube.com/watch?v=jy6_nj4E7wE
An Immense World by Ed Yong
Reviewed in my June wrap-up:
youtube.com/watch?v=z9J_At1dWEQ
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Reviewed in my April wrap-up:
youtube.com/watch?v=F4gTWri9bbE
Greenwood by Michael Christie
Stand-alone review:
youtube.com/watch?v=l7_wb-uT1T8
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🎥 Channels mentioned 🎥
Jolene's channel:
youtube.com/@BookwormAdventureGirl
📚 Books mentioned📚
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
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1) Death on Earth
2) Wild Swans
3) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
4) Against the Web
5) Soonish
6) Made to Order
7) Contact
8) The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
9) Redshirts
10) Axiom's End
11) Unfinished Tales
12) Graveyard Book
13) Hunted
14) Wyrd Sisters
15) The Fifth Season
16) Anatomy of a Murder
17) The Bobcat
18) Hollow Kingdom
19) The Strongman and the Mermaid
20) D: A Tale of Two Worlds
Rick's channel: youtube.com/@UCLNaTaVTDsNSBqi2X2M5nSw
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📚 Books mentioned📚
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Year of the Floor by Margaret Atwood
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford, narrated by the author
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
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I tag @MargaretPinard & @RosieCockshutt
Prompts:
1. What was your first experience reading nonfiction?
2. Has the reading of a work of nonfiction ever brought you to tears?
3. Are there any people who have played a significant role in your nonfiction journey?
4. Do you enjoy documentaries? Do you have a favorite? Is there a subject you’d like to see discussed on film? (That is, what should Ken Burns film next?)
5. Have you read a biography about (or memoir of) a person with whom you identify?
6. Read aloud a short passage you love from a work of nonfiction.
7. Do any works of nonfiction intimidate you? Which ones and why?
8. What tips would you give to people hesitant to read nonfiction?
9. What are your favorite works of nonfiction?
10. Tag other Booktubers.
📚 Books mentioned📚
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, narrated by Adepero Oduye
Endless Night by Agatha Christie, narrated by Hugh Fraser
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📚 Books mentioned📚
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Foster by Claire Keegan, narrated by Aoife McMahon
Working Stiff by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby, narrated by the author
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Séamas O'Reilly, narrated by the author
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#strayaseptember
#shortyseptember
📚 Books mentioned📚
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph, narrated by the author
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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[CC available by August 9th; sorry I can't get to them sooner!]
📚 Books ranked📚
1. My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden, narrated by Aoife McMahon
2. Half American by Matthew F. Delmont, narrated by William DeMeritt
3. Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino
4. The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
5. Paradise Falls by Keith O'Brien, narrated by Eileen Stevens
6. The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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📚 Books 📚
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
An Immense World by Ed Yong, audiobook narrated by the author
You Died, edited by Kel McDonald
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Questions:
1. Best book you’ve read so far.
2. Best sequel you've read so far.
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. Favourite book to film adaptation you saw this year.
13. Favourite video you have done so far this year.
14. Most beautiful book you've bought (or received) so far this year.
15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
🎥 Channels mentioned 🎥
Books and Things: @katiejlumsden
📚 Books mentioned📚
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
You Died, ed. by Andrea Purcell and Kel McDonald
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Greenwood by Michael Christie
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
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[The subject of Why Fish Don't Exist is David Starr Jordan.]
My review of Greenwood: youtube.com/watch?v=l7_wb-uT1T8
🎥 Channels mentioned 🎥
Margaret Pinard: youtube.com/@MargaretPinard
📚 Books mentioned📚
Greenwood by David Christie
Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller, narrated by the author
All Systems Red by Martha Wells, narrated by Kevin R. Free
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Passing by Nella Larsen
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🎥 Check out Daniel's original:
youtube.com/watch?v=JCTKbFKo4zA
📚 Books mentioned📚
Beloved by Toni Morrison
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Illiad / The Odyssey by Homer
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
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🎧 Books mentioned🎧
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan, narrated by Mark Bramhall, David de Vries, Andrews MacLeod, Rebecca Soler
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese, narrated by Tom Stechschulte
Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, narrated by Tantoo Cardinal
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith, read by the author
I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya, read by the author
Know My Name by Chanel Miller, read by the author
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🎥 Channels mentioned 🎥
youtube.com/c/cestkevvie
youtube.com/c/booksandbao
youtube.com/@katiejlumsden
📚 Books mentioned📚
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (narrated by Avi Roque)
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan (narrated by Rebecca Soler, Mark Bramhall, David de Vries, and MacLeod Andrews)
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
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🎥 Videos mentioned 🎥
Booktube Prize reviews: youtube.com/watch?v=Np6oRKW5yW8
Burial Rites review: youtube.com/watch?v=QAFybY_RQO4
Middle Grade March vlog: youtube.com/watch?v=cA-82kJORtE
📚 Books mentioned📚
Blood and Ruins by Richard Overy
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
Also a Poet by Ada Calhoun
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller
His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Read Dangerously by Azar Nafasi
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne Duprau
The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson
A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:12 Also a Poet
5:40 The Escape Artist
11:10 Blood and Ruins
15:12 Keats
17:24 His Name is George Floyd
20:42 Read Dangerously
27:03 Ranking the books
📚 Books mentioned📚
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me - Ada Calhoun
The Escape Artist - Jonathan Freedland (narrated by the author)
Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 - Richard Overy
Keats: a Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph - Lucasta Miller (narrated by Sally Scott)
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice - Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
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📚 Books mentioned📚
The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau (narrated by Becky Ann Baker)
The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson (narrated by Brefny Caribou)
A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
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Please share your opinion if you've read the book!
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Original tag by Mason in the Dark:
youtube.com/watch?v=NbG05x3DA9M
I tag:
@MargaretPinard
@jimsbooksreadingandstuff
@PageTurnersWithKatja
Questions:
WHO: Who just gets you? (Author, character, booktuber, etc.)
WHAT: What about your favourite genre interests you the most / makes it your favourite genre?
WHERE: Where in time and space is your favourite setting?
WHEN: When a part gets intense, hilarious, or emotional, do you have a strong reaction? (If you’ve got a funny/embarrassing story to go along with that answer, that would be great.)
WHY: Why do you read?
HOW: Do you bother trying to predict where the plot is going and guess the plot twists? If so, how good are you at doing so?
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Forgot to mention that I buddy read The Sentimentalists with Lindy and Sarah and it really enriched the reading experience. Would recommend reading it for book club or as a buddy read - it's the type of novel that generates great discussion.
Lindy's channel: youtube.com/@lindysmagpiereads
📚 Books mentioned📚
There but for the by Ali Smith
The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud (narrated by Celeste Ciulla)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (narrated by the author)
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (narrated by Robin Miles)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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📷 Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa
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I was tagged by Berna's Bookish Adventures
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@RosieCockshutt
@CestKevvie
Tag Questions:
Q1. You have 20,000 books on your TBR. How in the world do you decide what to read next?
Q2. You’re halfway through a book and you’re just not loving it. Do you quit or are you committed?
Q3. The end of the year is coming and you’re so close, but so far away on your Goodreads reading challenge. Do you try to catch up and how?
Q4. The covers of a series you love do. not. match. How do you cope?
Q5. Every one and their mother loves a book you really don’t like. Who do you bond with over shared feelings?
Q6. You’re reading a book and you are about to start crying in public. How do you deal?
Q7. A sequel of a book you loved just came out, but you’ve forgotten a lot from the prior novel. Will you re-read the book? Skip the sequel? Try to find a synopsis on Goodreads? Cry in frustration?!?!?!?
Q8. You do not want anyone. ANYONE. borrowing your books. How do you politely tell people nope when they ask?
Q9. Reading ADD. You’ve picked up and put down 5 books in the last month. How do you get over your reading slump?
Q10. There are so many new books coming out that you’re dying to read! How many do you actually buy?
Q11. After you’ve bought the new books you can’t wait to get to, how long do they sit on your shelf before you get to them?
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📷 Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa
📖 Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton
📚 The Story Graph: melissafulton
Thank you to everyone to submitted a question and said so many nice things. You guys are swell!
📚 Books mentioned📚
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Fabled Passages by Margaret Pinard
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
🎥 Channels mentioned 🎥
Margaret Pinard: youtube.com/@MargaretPinard
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I’m on the World Wide Web 😎
📷 Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa
📖 Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton
📚 The Story Graph: melissafulton
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I’m on the World Wide Web 😎
📷 Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa
📖 Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton
📚 The Story Graph: melissafulton
📚 Books mentioned📚
There but for the by Ali Smith
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Michael Haddon
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Greenwood by Michael Christie
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
The Remains of the Day of Kazuo Ishiguro
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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I’m on the World Wide Web 😎
📷 Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa
📖 Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton
📚 The Story Graph: melissafulton
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I’m on the World Wide Web 😎
📷 Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa
📖 Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton
📚 The Story Graph: melissafulton