Scallydandling about the books | The Mid Year Freak Out Book Tag #tagtuesday @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
A romp through the first half of my reading year.
Thank you Faye @fayesparallelstories for tagging me. And to Chic and Nile Rogers for the earworm from Le Freak youtu.be/aXgSHL7efKg
I'm not tagging as such but happy half year to:
Priscilla @EveningReader
Kit @kitthereader
Angelia @readandre-read
Melinda @awebofstories
Prompts:
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. (Debut or new to you)
8. Newest fictional crush.
9. Newest favourite character.
10. Book that made you cry (Saddest book you have read).
11. Book that made you happy.
12. Favourite book to film adaptation you saw this year.
13. Favourite review you've written this year. (Booktube version: Favorite video you have done so far in this year)
14. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)
15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
Books mentioned:
A Voyage In The Dark, Jean Rhys
Deadly Secrets, Britta Bolt (@brittabohlerthesecondshelf )
The House or Doors and The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
At Night All Blood is Black and The Door of No Return, David Diop
Twilight of Torment and Season of the Shadow, Leonora Miano (@shawnbreathesbooks )
Pod, Laline Paull
Cove, Cynan Jones (thanks Kiran @KDbooks )
Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield
The New Life, Tom Crewe
Trespasses, Louise Kennedy
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain, Victoria Mackenzie
Cuddy, Benjamin Myers
Indelicacy, Amina Cain
Greek Lessons, Han Kang
Boulder, Eva Baltasar
The Colony, Audrey Magee
Old God's Time, Sebastian Barry (I think I called this sometjing different in the video by accident)
Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshalese Daughter, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
Our Doris, Charles Heathcote @CharlesHeathcote
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall, Katie Lumsden @katiejlumsden
Death of an Author, Marc Nash @MarcNash
William Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Sonnetarium with @TootightLautrec
The Five, Hallie Rubenhold
Absalom Absalom, William Faulkner #faulknerinaugust
Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree (@lindysmagpiereads )
The Migrant Painter of Birds, Lidia Jorge
A Spare Life, Lidija Dimkovska
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
David Copperfield and Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
A romp through the first half of my reading year.
Thank you Faye @fayesparallelstories for tagging me. And to Chic and Nile Rogers for the earworm from Le Freak youtu.be/aXgSHL7efKg
I'm not tagging as such but happy half year to:
Priscilla @EveningReader
Kit @kitthereader
Angelia @readandre-read
Melinda @awebofstories
Prompts:
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. (Debut or new to you)
8. Newest fictional crush.
9. Newest favourite character.
10. Book that made you cry (Saddest book you have read).
11. Book that made you happy.
12. Favourite book to film adaptation you saw this year.
13. Favourite review you've written this year. (Booktube version: Favorite video you have done so far in this year)
14. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)
15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
Books mentioned:
A Voyage In The Dark, Jean Rhys
Deadly Secrets, Britta Bolt (@brittabohlerthesecondshelf )
The House or Doors and The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
At Night All Blood is Black and The Door of No Return, David Diop
Twilight of Torment and Season of the Shadow, Leonora Miano (@shawnbreathesbooks )
Pod, Laline Paull
Cove, Cynan Jones (thanks Kiran @KDbooks )
Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield
The New Life, Tom Crewe
Trespasses, Louise Kennedy
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain, Victoria Mackenzie
Cuddy, Benjamin Myers
Indelicacy, Amina Cain
Greek Lessons, Han Kang
Boulder, Eva Baltasar
The Colony, Audrey Magee
Old God's Time, Sebastian Barry (I think I called this sometjing different in the video by accident)
Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshalese Daughter, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
Our Doris, Charles Heathcote @CharlesHeathcote
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall, Katie Lumsden @katiejlumsden
Death of an Author, Marc Nash @MarcNash
William Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Sonnetarium with @TootightLautrec
The Five, Hallie Rubenhold
Absalom Absalom, William Faulkner #faulknerinaugust
Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree (@lindysmagpiereads )
The Migrant Painter of Birds, Lidia Jorge
A Spare Life, Lidija Dimkovska
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
David Copperfield and Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
