Bob The Bookerer | The Mid-Year Freakout Tag! @BobTheBookerer | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 18 minutes ago.
Hello, I'm Bob, and it was fun to reflect on my reading so far this year with this fun tag!
Enjoy, and consider doing it yourself if you would like, and haven't already been tagged 47 times!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 The best book you have read this year so far / a new (to you) favourite author
02:35 The best book you have read as part of a series/sequel
03:38 A new release you are looking forward to reading
05:46 A book coming out this year that you are excited about reading
07:20 Biggest disappointment and surprise
08:56 Newest fictional crush / favourite character
11:05 A book that made you cry
14:02 A book that made you happy
15:31 The most beautiful book you acquired this year
16:29 Books you need to read this year
(Full list of prompts further below)
BookTubers mentioned:
@AnnNovella
@MicahCummins
@benreadsgood
Books Mentioned (in alphabetical order by author):
Peter Apps- Show Me The Bodies
Paul Baker- Camp!
Eva Baltasar- Boulder and Permafrost (tr. Julia Sanches)
Gwendoline Brooks- Horse
Eleanor Catton- The Luminaries and Birnam Wood
Maryse Condé- The Gospel According to the New World (tr. Richard Philcox)
Tom Crewe- The New Life
Berta Dávila- The Dear Ones (tr. Jacob Rogers)
DVIJKA Collective- Queer Ukraine: An Anthology of LGBTQI+ Ukrainian Voices During Wartime
Linda Grant- The Story of the Forest
Mark Hyatt- Love, Leda
Selma Lagerlöf- Gösta Berling's Saga (tr. Lillie Tudeer and Pauline Klaiber-Gottschau)
Martin Macinnes- In Ascension
Richard Milward- Man-Eating Typewriter
Guadalupe Nettel- Still Born (tr. Rosalind Harvey)
Dolen Perkins-Valdez- Take My Hand
Zadie Smith- The Fraud
Marguerite Yourcenar- Memoirs of Hadrian (tr. Grace Frick)
Prompts:
The Questions:
1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2023.
2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2023.
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.
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?
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Thank you for watching! You can also support my channel by buying your books through the following links (please note, these are affiliate links, so I will get a small percentage of the cost, but it will not affect the price of the book!)
Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/shop/bobthebookerer
Blackwells: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=BobTheBookerer
Waterstones: awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=916997
Scribd: scribd.com/g/9u6hrz
Amazon (UK/US/CA): amzn.to/3Ds5b2z
Kindle: amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/hz/subscribe/ku?tag=bobthebookere-21
Audible: amazon.co.uk/hz/audible/mlp?ie=UTF8&actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=bobthebookere-21
You can also find me on Twitter at @wordbib and on the below:
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/bobthebookerer
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/94796885-bob-hughes
Email: bobthebookerer@gmail.com
Hello, I'm Bob, and it was fun to reflect on my reading so far this year with this fun tag!
Enjoy, and consider doing it yourself if you would like, and haven't already been tagged 47 times!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 The best book you have read this year so far / a new (to you) favourite author
02:35 The best book you have read as part of a series/sequel
03:38 A new release you are looking forward to reading
05:46 A book coming out this year that you are excited about reading
07:20 Biggest disappointment and surprise
08:56 Newest fictional crush / favourite character
11:05 A book that made you cry
14:02 A book that made you happy
15:31 The most beautiful book you acquired this year
16:29 Books you need to read this year
(Full list of prompts further below)
BookTubers mentioned:
@AnnNovella
@MicahCummins
@benreadsgood
Books Mentioned (in alphabetical order by author):
Peter Apps- Show Me The Bodies
Paul Baker- Camp!
Eva Baltasar- Boulder and Permafrost (tr. Julia Sanches)
Gwendoline Brooks- Horse
Eleanor Catton- The Luminaries and Birnam Wood
Maryse Condé- The Gospel According to the New World (tr. Richard Philcox)
Tom Crewe- The New Life
Berta Dávila- The Dear Ones (tr. Jacob Rogers)
DVIJKA Collective- Queer Ukraine: An Anthology of LGBTQI+ Ukrainian Voices During Wartime
Linda Grant- The Story of the Forest
Mark Hyatt- Love, Leda
Selma Lagerlöf- Gösta Berling's Saga (tr. Lillie Tudeer and Pauline Klaiber-Gottschau)
Martin Macinnes- In Ascension
Richard Milward- Man-Eating Typewriter
Guadalupe Nettel- Still Born (tr. Rosalind Harvey)
Dolen Perkins-Valdez- Take My Hand
Zadie Smith- The Fraud
Marguerite Yourcenar- Memoirs of Hadrian (tr. Grace Frick)
Prompts:
The Questions:
1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2023.
2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2023.
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.
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?
--
Thank you for watching! You can also support my channel by buying your books through the following links (please note, these are affiliate links, so I will get a small percentage of the cost, but it will not affect the price of the book!)
Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/shop/bobthebookerer
Blackwells: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=BobTheBookerer
Waterstones: awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=3787&awinaffid=916997
Scribd: scribd.com/g/9u6hrz
Amazon (UK/US/CA): amzn.to/3Ds5b2z
Kindle: amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/hz/subscribe/ku?tag=bobthebookere-21
Audible: amazon.co.uk/hz/audible/mlp?ie=UTF8&actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=bobthebookere-21
You can also find me on Twitter at @wordbib and on the below:
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/bobthebookerer
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/94796885-bob-hughes
Email: bobthebookerer@gmail.com
