Britney Spears The Woman in Me | Single Book ReviewToweringTBR2023-11-09 | I read Britney Spears' memoir and tell you if I think it is worth picking it up.
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comSeptember Reading Wrap up | 2024ToweringTBR2024-10-12 | I read 13 books in September. 0:00 Intro 0:38 Illustrated Stuff: 0:41 Traces of Madness by Fernando Balius 1:38 Lightfall by Tim Probert 3:02 Fiction 3:09 Replay by Ken Grimwood 4:29 All Systems Red by Martha Wells 5:49 Amari and the Despicable Wonders 6:47 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 7:56 Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 8:46 The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei 10:30 Seven Days in June by Tia Williams 13:09 Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune 14:29 Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell 16:52 Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton 19:08 Not Till We Are Lost by Dennis E. Taylor #booktube #sciencefiction #bobiversum #fantasy #closedcaptions
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00:00 - Start 00:28 - Last month's Prompts 02:18 - Marbles Explanation 03:00 - Marble Game 04:54 - What's on my TBR
Booktubers Mentioned: Emily @BookswithEmilyFox Chattie @ChattieTheMadChatter Jennifer @jenniferlovesbooks
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My goodreads profile: goodreads.com/user/show/69942602-tiffany Threads: threads.net/@toweringtbr Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comThe Evening Hour by Carter SickelsToweringTBR2024-09-07 | ...FN Pairs (Fiction/Nonfiction) | Opioid Crisis SPOILER FREEToweringTBR2024-09-01 | This is the start of a new series on my channel, Fiction/Nonfiction Pairs in which both books cover the same topic. This one focuses on the Opioid Epidemic.
Books Discussed: The Evening Hour by Carter Sickels Dopesick by Beth Macy
#fiction #nonfiction #opioidcrisis
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My goodreads profile: goodreads.com/user/show/69942602-tiffany Threads: threads.net/@toweringtbr Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comShorty September TBR Game | 2024ToweringTBR2024-08-26 | I go over last month's reading and finish up my bingo game to decide what I'm reading in September. 00:00 - Start 00:28 - Last Month's Picks 02:27 - Shorty September Possibilities 03:48 - Roll 1 05:27 - Roll 2 07:26 - Last Roll
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My goodreads profile: goodreads.com/user/show/69942602-tiffany Threads: threads.net/@toweringtbr Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comShort Book Recommendations | 2024ToweringTBR2024-08-14 | I recommend my favorite short books in time for Shorty September. Whether or not you're participating or just want a quick read, there are lots of great suggestions.
Books Mentioned: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price All This and More by Peng Shepherd Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend Hollowpox by Jessica Townsend Obelisk's Gate by N.K. Jemisen Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson The Moon Turns You Back by Hala Alyan In the Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace Exile and Pride by Eli Clare A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
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My goodreads profile: goodreads.com/user/show/69942602-tiffany Threads: threads.net/@toweringtbr Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comAugust TBR Game | 2024ToweringTBR2024-07-25 | I play my TBR game to help me choose what to read in August. 00:00 - Start 00:39 - Bingo Check-In 01:36 - Already on the TBR 02:37 - Roll 1 03:54 - Roll 2 05:22 - Roll 3 06:54 - Roll 4
02:07 - 1. Favorite Book So Far 03:53 - 2. Best sequel 04:25 - 3. New Release you've not read yet 05:01 - 4. Most anticipated Release of second half 06:00 - 5. Biggest Disappointment 06:42 - 6. Biggest Surprise 07:32 - 7. Favorite new author 08:01 - 8. Newest Fictional Crush 08:30 - 9. Favorite new character 09:13 - 10. Book that made you cry 10:56 - 11. A book that made you happy 12:14 - 12. Most beautiful book 13:14 - 13. Books you want to read before end of year 14:10 - 14. Favorite videos you made
Books Mentioned: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat Can't Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Thorne Other Ever Afters by Melanie Gillman Be Gay, Do Comics by assorted Taproot by Keezy Young The Secrets of Stormforest by L.D. Lapinski
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My goodreads profile: goodreads.com/user/show/69942602-tiffany Threads: threads.net/@toweringtbr Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comThe Amazing Readathon Vlog | Week 3ToweringTBR2024-06-28 | This is week 3 of vlogging my Amazing Readathon participation. 00:00 - Start 04:19 - Day 20 10:39 - Day 22 15:31 - Day 23 I vlog the third week of the readathon.
Books Mentioned: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Roses in the Mouth of the Lion by Bushra Rehman Soulless by Gail Carriger Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey Fire on Headless Mountain by Iain Lawerence Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comThe Amazing Readathon Vlog | Week 2ToweringTBR2024-06-18 | I vlog the second week of the readathon, including Faceoff Weekend.
Books Mentioned: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Southernmost by Silas House Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson Moonflower by Kacen Callender Roses in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys My Brother's Husband Vol 1 and 2 by Gengorah Tagame Lie with Me by Philippe Besson I am my Own Wife by Doug Wright Over the Garden Wall Homebody by Theo Parish
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My goodreads profile: goodreads.com/user/show/69942602-tiffany Threads: threads.net/@toweringtbr Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comDisability Intimacy edited by Alice Wong | Single Book ReviewToweringTBR2024-06-14 | I talk in depth about this collection of essays written by disabled creators. There is poetry, photo essays and personal narrative. Several serious topics are discussed.
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My goodreads profile: goodreads.com/user/show/69942602-tiffany Threads: threads.net/@toweringtbr Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comThe Amazing Readathon Vlog | Week 1ToweringTBR2024-06-09 | I vlog the first week of The Amazing Readathon. Loved some, hated others. 00:00 - Start 00:22 - Day 1 02:33 - Day 2 07:45 - Day 4 09:33 - Day 7 14:05 - Day 9
Books mentioned: Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett You Will be Safe Here by Damien Barr The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings Evocation by S.T. Gibbons
00:40 - DNFS 00:41- Moby Dick by Herman Melville 01:19 - Fiction 01:27 - The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton 02:44 - The Night Watch by Sarah Waters 04:20 - Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson 05:25 - Strangeworlds Travel Agency Book 2 by L.D. Lapinski 06:25 - Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 07:47 - The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amerezzvani 08:53 - Keedie by Elle McNicoll
10:02 - Nonfiction 10:08 - Disability Intimacy edited by Alice Wong
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comJune TBR featuring The Amazing ReadathonToweringTBR2024-05-26 | I discuss my reading plans for June while participating in The Amazing Readathon! I am also reading queer centered books for Pride Month.
00:00 - Start 00:24 - Bingo Check-in 03:32 - Roll 1 03:50 - Roll 2 04:21 - Roll 3 05:18 - Roll 4
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comApril Wrap Up | 2024ToweringTBR2024-05-20 | I talk about the books I read or DNFed in April. So much sci-fi! 00:00 - Start 00:39 - DNFs 00:42 - Shutter by Ramona Emerson 01:21 - The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell 02:08 - Ocean's Godori by Elaine U. Cho 02:49 - Fiction 03:08 - Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey 03:40 - Auberon 03:50 - Leviathan Falls 04:21 - The Sins of the Fathers 04:46 - The Choice by Gillian McAllister 06:29 - Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez 07:59 - Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut 11:05 - You'd Look Better As A Ghost by Joanna Wallace 12:04 - Nonfiction 12:09 - American Girls by Jessica Roy
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comMarch Wrap Up | 2024ToweringTBR2024-04-30 | I wrap up the books I read in March. 00:00 - Start 01:14 - Fiction 01:21 - Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead 02:31 - Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas 04:28 - The Day Tripper by James Goodhand 04:56 - Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll 05:39 - Strangesworlds Travel Agency L.D. Lapinski 06:17 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett 08:14 - Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton 09:56 - Nonfiction 10:01 - How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comMay TBR Game featuring Spoonie ReadathonToweringTBR2024-04-24 | I play my TBR game to choose what I will read in May. 00:00 - Start 00:28 - Last month Check-In 01:27 - Spoonie's Readathon 03:33 - Roll 1 04:14 - Roll 2 05:46 - Roll 3 06:52 - Roll 4 08:59 - Possible Spoonie Readathon Picks
Booktubers Mentioned: Emily @novellenovels Cat @BrewsandReviews Chattie @ChattieTheMadChatter Jennifer @jenniferlovesbooks Scott @GunpowderFictionPlot Ally @allisonpaiges
Spoonie Possible TBR: Keedie by Elle McNicoll Disability Intimacy edited by Alice Wong I Live a Life Like Yours by Jan Grue A Face for Picasso by Ariel Henley The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang A Still Life by Josie George It's Just Nerves by Kelly Davio Invisible by Michelle Lent Hirsch
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Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comHow to Say Babylon | Single Book ReviewToweringTBR2024-04-15 | I review How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair. This was a striking memoir about growing up in the Rastafari cult. It is shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction in 2024.
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My goodreads profile: goodreads.com/user/show/69942602-tiffany Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comBooktube Prize Judging Vlog | Fiction Group B 2024ToweringTBR2024-04-03 | This is my reading vlog judging 6 books in the Octofinals round with Fiction group B. 00:00 - Start 00:13 - Booktube Prize- How It Works 00:54 - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang 03:44 - Family Meal by Bryan Washington 08:07 - The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut 14:59 - Absolution by Alice McDermott 22:48 - North Woods by Daniel Mason 26:23 - Orbital by Samantha Harvey 29:11 - The Rankings
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My goodreads profile: goodreads.com/user/show/69942602-tiffany Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comApril TBR Game | 2024ToweringTBR2024-03-26 | I play my TBR game to help me choose what I will be reading in May. 00:00 - Start 00:24 - Last month's Results 01:28 - Roll 1 01:28 - Roll 1 02:18 - Roll 2 03:16 - Roll 3 03:36 - Roll 4
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comA Guide to Becky Chambers BooksToweringTBR2024-03-21 | I discuss the three best starting places if you are new to Becky Chambers. I also talk about her lesser known works as well.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy The Vela To Be Taught, If Fortunate The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet A Closed and Common Orbit Record of a Spaceborn Few The Galaxy and the Ground, Within 'A Good Heretic' short story
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comThe Day Tripper | Single Book ReviewToweringTBR2024-03-18 | I received an ALC (advanced listening copy) of The Day Tripper by James Goodhand and reviewed it.
#booktube #timetravel #anticipatedreleases
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Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comPHENOMENAL February Wrap Up | 2024ToweringTBR2024-03-09 | I read 9 books in the month of February.
00:00 - Start 00:27 - Illustrated Stuff 00:31 - Maus 1-2 01:59 - Best Wishes, Warmest Regards 03:32 - Fiction 03:41 - Like a Charm 04:31 - Disoriental 05:36 - Hard by a Great Forest 07:12 - The Warm Hands of Ghosts 08:47 - Boy Swallows Universe 10:26 - A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comMarch TBR Game | 2024ToweringTBR2024-02-23 | I play my TBR game and finished off the old board. I draw four new prompts from the new board!
00:00 - Start 00:14 - Bingo Update 00:42 - Bingo Reward 01:44 - New Board 02:42 - Roll 1 03:27 - Roll 2 04:43 - Roll 3 05:15 - Roll 4
Booktubers Mentioned: Audrey @audreyapproved
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My goodreads profile: goodreads.com/user/show/69942602-tiffany Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comJanuary Wrap Up | 2024ToweringTBR2024-02-11 | 00:00 - Start I talk about the eight books I read in the month of January. Off to a pretty good start! 00:38 - Fiction 00:46 - Seveneves 05:04 - Tress 07:57 - Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries 10:10 - Emily Wilde's Map to the Otherlands 11:11 - Sea of Tranquility
12:27 - Nonfiction 12:36 - The Nineties 14:12 - The Icepick Surgeon 16:00 - Against Techonoableism
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Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comDecember Wrap Up | 2023ToweringTBR2024-01-15 | I wrap up all the books I read and DNFed in the month of December. 00:00 - Start 00:42 - DNFs 05:40 - Written in the Stars (WITH SPOILERS) 11:04 - Written in the Stars (END SPOILER) 11:13 - Rant Over 11:19 - Emergency Skin 12:36 - Everyone in this room will someday be Dead 14:14 - Part of Your World 16:29 - To be Taught, If Fortunate 17:46 - Project Hail Mary 18:38 - The Kaiju Preservation Society
#booktube #closedcaptions #favorites #topten Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comFavorite Nonfiction Reads of 2023ToweringTBR2023-12-31 | I talk about the five best nonfiction books I read in 2023. 00:00 - Start 00:26 - #5 01:23 - #4 02:39 - #3 03:53 - #2 05:01 - #1
#closedcaptions #nonfiction #favorites
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.com2023/2024 Reading GoalsToweringTBR2023-12-26 | I talk about my 2023 Bookish goals and how I did. I also make more goals for 2024.
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comJanuary TBR GameToweringTBR2023-12-22 | I play my Bingo TBR game to help me choose what to read in January. 00:00 - Start 00:30 - Bingo Check In 01:50 - Roll 1 03:18 - Roll 2 04:47 - Roll 3
Booktuber Mentioned: Audrey from @audreyapproved
#closedcaptions #tbrgame #reading #sciencefiction
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.com24 Anticipated Releases of 2024ToweringTBR2023-12-12 | I talk about 24 book releases scheduled to come out in 2024. 00:00 - Start 00:28 - January 02:34 - February 05:28 - March 08:04 - April 10:32 - May 11:21 - June 12:23 - August 13:09 - September 14:45 - Speculations
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comNovember Wrap UpToweringTBR2023-12-05 | I talk about the twelve books I read in the month of November including 5 nonfiction books for Nonfiction November. 00:00 - Intro 00:43 - Illustrated Stuff 01:49 - Fiction 13:23 - Nonfiction
Books Mentioned (in no particular order): A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll Kala by Colin Walsh Jonathan Abernathy You are Kind by Molly McGhee The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree Seance Tea Party by Reimena Yee The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino Cultish by Amanda Montell Kim Jiyoung born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo The Woman in Me by Britney Spears Too Much is Not Enough by Andrew Rannells
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comOctober Reading Wrap Up | 2023ToweringTBR2023-11-14 | I talk about the 11 books I read and the 2 I did not finish. 00:00 - Start 00:41 - DNFs 01:49 - Illustrated Stuff 5:18 - Fiction
Booktubers Mentioned: Jennifer @jenniferlovesbooks
Books Mentioned (in no particular order): Triangle by David von Drehle Nothing is Wrong and Here is Why by Alexandria Petri Garlic and the Witch by Bree Paulsen Rain by Joe Hill Everything is an Emergency by Jason Adam Kazenstein The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler The Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham Starter Villain by John Scalzi Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Weyward by Emilia Hart Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake
#closedcaptions #booktube #spookybooks
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comEnd of Year Book Tag | 2023ToweringTBR2023-10-31 | This is a tag focused on what I plan on reading for the end of the year. This was originally created by Ariel Bissett: youtu.be/hHf0O4e2Z6A?si=zGqM8E45igudvwyi
Questions: 1. Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish? 2. Do you have an autumnal book to transition into the end of the year? 3. Is there a new release you're still waiting for? 4. What are three books you want to read before the end of the year? 5. Is there a book you think could still shock you and become your favorite book of the year? 6. Have you already started making reading plans for 2024? 7. Tag some people!
Booktubers Mentioned: Jennifer @jenniferlovesbooks Becca @ReadBecca Matt @baskinthestory
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comNovember TBR GameToweringTBR2023-10-24 | I play my TBR game to prioritize what I'll be reading in November. Additionally, I'm participating in Nonfiction November and have a pile of possibilities. 00:00 - Start 00:24 - How'd I do? 03:08 - Roll 1 04:17 - Roll 2 04:46 - Roll 3 05:39 - Roll 4 07:48 - Pile of Possibilities for Nonfiction November
Contact Me: toweringtbr2@gmail.comTop 5: Underhyped BooksToweringTBR2023-10-21 | In this episode of Top 5, I talk about five fiction books I think are underhyped! Check out the playlist for all of my top 5 videos. 00:00 - Start 00:22 - #5 01:36 - #4 02:46 - #3 03:40 - #2 04:46 - #1
Books Mentioned : Prophet by Sin Blache and Helen Mcdonald Camouflage by Sarah Bargiela Mamo by Sas Milledge A Witches guide to fake dating a demon by Sarah Hawley Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue Strange Dogs by James S. A. Corey Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Let Guin Darkness Visible by William Styron Unmasking Autism by Devon Price