Beating around the Books | The Moody Book Tag & a Mini Indie Book Haul @beatingaroundthebooks | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
In which I do The Moody Book Tag and show you an anxiously awaited mail haul of translated Asian fiction.

The tag was originally created by Slanted Spines: youtu.be/7mhq-AXn3A0
I was kindly tagged by Ros @ Scallydandling about the books: youtube.com/watch?v=2iXUm3WUrno&t=1s

I tag:
Misa @ Books and Sushi: youtube.com/channel/UCiiOjFLJvvVBNI6zmgsP1yw

***Questions***
1. Do you consider yourself a mood reader?
2. Do you set TBR lists and do you stick to them?
3. Do books affect you emotionally? Does the mood of a book rub off on you?
4. When you’re feeling sad, what do you read? (Or do you not read when sad?)
5. Most often, do you use reading to escape, to learn, or to critically reflect?
6. What is a book that made you laugh out loud?
7. What is a book that has made you cry? Or, if you don’t cry, one that really moved you?
8. What is a book that you didn’t even know how you felt about?
9. Are you more likely to read on a sunny day or a cloudy day?
10. Do you usually “set the mood” when you read? Music, lights, smells, etc?
11. Can you leap from book to book or do you need buffer time between them?

~~~Books Mentioned~~~
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Untenrum frei by Margarete Stokowski
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
To the Warm Horizon by Choi Jin-Young (transl. by Soje)
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung (transl. by Anton Hur)
Severance by Ling Ma

The Indie press mentioned here is: honfordstar.com
Blog post about their cover art: booksandbao.com/asian-cover-artists-honford-star
Thanks to Mel @ Mel's Bookland Adventures for bringing them to my attention youtube.com/watch?v=A9KLYAj4H6I&t=742s


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