Quaint And Curious Volumes | The Most Pretentious Mid-year Freakout? @JamesRuchala | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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I do the Mid-year Freakout tag, because @davidnovakreadspoetry and @saintdonoghue said I had to. Now you have to as well. It is mandatory, buckaroo.

The Prompts:
1. Best book you've read so far in 2024
2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2024
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?

Books mentioned:
Bleak House - Dickens
Nuclear War: a Scenario - Annie Jacobsen
Within a Budding Grove - Proust
James - Percival Everett
Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams - Clifford R. Murphy
Carrie - Stephen King
Henrik Ibsen's plays
Dune - Frank Herbert
True Grit - Charles Portis
Blood done sign my name - Timothy Tyson
Levels of the Game - John McPhee
Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Bright Balkan Morning - multiple authors
Trilogy - Jon Fosse
Selected Short Stories - Anton Chekhov

Other channels mentioned:
@BookTimewithElvis
@brenboothjones