How reading bad romance saved my love of reading @themidnightreader

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Hi! My name is Rosika, welcome to The Midnight Reader! Today we talk about how a Try Wife's love of a terrible romance series saved me from giving up on enjoying reading again. And why it's okay to read books that aren't going to win literature awards.

If you are new like me, give me a shout!
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Books Mentioned:

The Earth's Children Series
by Jean M. Auel

The Clan of the Cave Bear #1
The Valley of Horses #2
The Mammoth Hunters #3
The Plains of Passage #4
The Shelters of Stone #5
The Land of Painted Caves #6

Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
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Podcast & Creators Mentioned:

You Can Sit With Us
Ariel Is Obsessed With Steamy Novels - You Can Sit With Us Ep. 12
youtube.com/watch?v=0O_qcA5tjRM&list=PLgh7cVtmTv1jEfqsXLfurPQ0SaCw3bB5L&index=11

Ariel Fulmer
http://www.Instagram.com/arielmfulmer
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How reading bad romance saved my love of reading

The Midnight Reader 2021-11-16 | ------------------------------------------------------------
Hi! My name is Rosika, welcome to The Midnight Reader! Today we talk about how a Try Wife's love of a terrible romance series saved me from giving up on enjoying reading again. And why it's okay to read books that aren't going to win literature awards.

If you are new like me, give me a shout!
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Books Mentioned:

The Earth's Children Series
by Jean M. Auel

The Clan of the Cave Bear #1
The Valley of Horses #2
The Mammoth Hunters #3
The Plains of Passage #4
The Shelters of Stone #5
The Land of Painted Caves #6

Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
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Podcast & Creators Mentioned:

You Can Sit With Us
Ariel Is Obsessed With Steamy Novels - You Can Sit With Us Ep. 12
youtube.com/watch?v=0O_qcA5tjRM&list=PLgh7cVtmTv1jEfqsXLfurPQ0SaCw3bB5L&index=11

Ariel Fulmer
http://www.Instagram.com/arielmfulmer
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The One About Kevin Wilson

The Midnight Reader 2024-09-21 | Happy Birthday Jay!! 🥳
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Summerweenie

The Midnight Reader 2024-07-28 | In which we read 3 lightly vaguely spooky and not really scary books since I am a big old weenie
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
03:19 Bunny
04:55 Shady Hollow
06:05 The Body in the Library
10:23 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
Bunny by Mona Awad
Shady Hollow by Juneau Black
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
Jay @my0.25lifecrisis
Kelly @kellyseeksbooks
Alice @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf

Alice's amazing trove of videos on all things Agatha Christie
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKNUj5ziXmt3wv05lV49e9xIqpbJ54UdF
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Reading Seven Days in June 🌻 in 7 days in June

The Midnight Reader 2024-06-30 | In which we do a reading challenge that literally no one asked for. We read the amazing romance Seven Days in June by Tia Williams. Featuring a mini book haul, packing, non aesthetic coffee making, and a brief sighting of the hubplot subplot's hand.
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
01:58 Day 1
02:52 Day 2
07:43 Day 3 & 4
15:15 Day 5
16:24 Day 6
16:43 Day 7
21:22 Outro
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
Fredrik Backman's 4 minutes of comedy gold
youtube.com/watch?v=NSuSyZ92Cjg&t=81s
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400 SUBS!!! // Channel Chat and Chill

The Midnight Reader 2024-05-26 | Just another brunette in glasses sitting in front of her bookshelf on Booktube. Y'know living my dreams over here. Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to like, subscribe, and comment along the way!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro and thank you to kind humans everywhere
01:45 400 Subscribers!! Channel & Life Updates
03:38 TBR shelf Progress & Unhaul
09:17 Current Reads
12:04 Future Channel Plans
14:57 Outro
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My dog died

The Midnight Reader 2024-05-12 | The story of a very good boy and a love letter to greyhounds. I love you Dublin, hope to see you again someday.

Tier Ranking Every Book I Read in 90 days

The Midnight Reader 2024-04-28 | I'm back and here is every book I read in the last 90 days! Rate them all on a scale of 5 stars to should have just played stardew valley instead!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
03:23 Cozy Books
07:35 Japanese Translated Books
12:05 Ruth Ware Books
16:10 Missing and Misunderstood Women
24:33 Emotional Devastation
28:53 Comfort Zone Books
34:26 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
Will do this... later... pending will power
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My Beautiful Books!! | Judging my books by their covers

The Midnight Reader 2024-03-17 | In which I participate in an ancient tag that literally no one asked for! This was originally The Aesthetically Pleasing Book Tag, and the original book tag video no longer exists. So I'm basically an archeologist, ... you're welcome.
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00:00 intro
01:00 best colors
02:24 best typography
03:46 best simple cover
05:18 best end pages
06:26 best map
07:23 best naked hardcover
08:52 best book back
09:33 best chapter headers
10:58 best illustrations
12:32 best spine
13:03 favorite covers
15:32 outro
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
All art from Brandon Sanderson's books borrowed from his lovely website, check out here
brandonsanderson.com/standalones-cosmere/#yumi
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Little Libraries, Tiny Haul, & Dragon Books for the Soul

The Midnight Reader 2024-03-10 | Get in losers I have chores to do! Themes.... few. Topics... many!! Vlogging around town for a week!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro Chores and To do List
01:45 Stalking little libraries and behaving incredibly normally
04:45 Barnes and Noble!
05:18 Shopping Book Haul
06:37 Check in
09:26 The Tea Dragon Society Reading Vlog
13:10 Outro & I Regret Nothing
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Bookish Annoyances

The Midnight Reader 2024-03-03 | I won't apologize for this. Petty Required. I also had to edit this twice so it was extra annoying.
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
00:45 Prompt 1
02:26 Prompt 2
03:30 Prompt 3
05:28 Prompt 4
06:17 Prompt 5
07:26 Prompt 6
09:14 Prompt 7
10:47 Prompt 8
12:30 Prompt 9
13:00 Prompt 10
13:29 TAG YOU'RE IT
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I'm so Annoyed Booktube Tag
Original tag created by @booksimnotreading

Prompts:
1. Do publishers ever do things that you find annoying? Share an example.
2. Have you ever been annoyed by a spoiler? Even something as simple as someone else telling you there's a great twist?
3. Have you ever been annoyed by what discovered in a Little Free Library, a book sale or used bookstore? Tell us what you found and why it was so annoying.
4. When it comes to short story collections, are you annoyed if there's a novella in the middle of the collection?
5. Deckled edges: beautiful or annoying?
6. Other people's annotations in a used book or library book: Annoying or are you OK with it?
7. If there's a series or a collection of certain kinds of books (like an imprint) and changes are made, are you annoyed or OK with it? If yes, give us an example.
8. Do the decisions of characters in a novel every annoy you? Share the book and what decisions you found annoying.
9. Are you ever annoyed by how someone organizes their books? What do you find annoying?
10. Share something bookish that you find annoying

I tag!!!
@amysrambles6748
@hasteyebooks
@my0.25lifecrisis
@beethebooknerd
@perksofbeingsam
@alexdominia
@readingwithmorgan
@dswalls
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
@novelideea
@WellTraveledBooks
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I’m Bored of Baby Board Books

The Midnight Reader 2024-02-25 | A look at unhinged motherhood 😂 Plus a few thoughts on what makes a baby book successful or suck! Shopping and can't be bothered? Skip to 13:07 for my quick top 5 recommendations!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
01:04 Bad Baby Books
05:04 Books Me and My Tiny Human Love
13:07 Top 5 Baby Board Books to Buy That Don't Suck
14:14 Detritus of motherhood, Regrets, and Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned & Shown 📙🐛
(In order of appearance, omg this was tedious)
Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton
Kellen's Colorful Day by KiwiCo
Kellen's Search for Shells by KiwiCo
Everything Is MAMA by Jimmy Fallon
Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA by Jimmy Fallon
My Mom Is Magical by Sabrina Moyle
On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman
Baby Loves Winter! by Karen Katz
Where Is Baby's Belly Button? by Karen Katz
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. Eric Carle (Illustrator)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings by Matthew Van Fleet
Good Night, Little Monsters by Kara LaReau, Brian Won (Illustrator)
I Love You Through and Through by Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak, Caroline Jayne Church (Illustrator)
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox, Judy Horacek (Illustrator)
123s of Thankfulness by Patricia Hegarty, Summer Macon (Illustrator)
ABCs of Kindness by Patricia Hegarty, Summer Macon (Illustrator)
Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey by Emily Winfield Martin
Day Dreamers by Emily Winfield Martin
Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes
Baby University Board Book Set: A Science for Toddlers by Chris Ferrie
This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
I'll Love You Till the Cows Come Home by Kathryn Cristaldi, Kristyna Litten (Illustrator)
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Goose On the Loose | Jan Wrap Up

The Midnight Reader 2024-02-11 | GET IN LOSERS WE'RE GOING WALKING!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
01:20 The Holiday Swap
4:17 Yearbook
5:39 Piranesi
10:16 The Eyre Affair
12:15 Heroes
16:07 Doggie Intermission
16:54 Autumn
20:24 A Little Something Different
23:45 Thoughts and Book Quotes
25:53 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox
Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochran
Yearbook by Seth Rogan
Piranesi by Susanna Clark
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Heroes by Jasper Fforde
Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde
Heroes by Stephen Fry
Mythos by Stephen Fry
Autumn by Ali Smith
Pure Color by Sheila Heti
A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
@ThisKiwi03
@AlexBlackReads
@amysrambles6748
@novelideea
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Every Book I Read in 2023 📚 & Top 5 out of 78

The Midnight Reader 2024-01-21 | Congratulations to ME on making this massively long video. May at least one of you watch it, it was, despite all intentions, ... SO MUCH EFFORT! There are more residual "um" noises in this video than usual and I care not, embrace the amateur level of video editing.

Check out my book reviews for braiding sweetgrass & into the wild here
studio.youtube.com/video/Ewif-PX_NI0/edit
studio.youtube.com/video/TZ_LNuYuA40/edit
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
02:28 The 78 books of 2023
34:01 Foreshadowing Payoff and haggard motherhood
34:52 Back to it
49:05 TOP 5 OF 2023
50:22 Much Regrets and Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
lol... NO
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
@my0.25lifecrisis
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New Years Book Tag 2024

The Midnight Reader 2024-01-07 | 🎬 The New Year's Book Tag was Created by @Bookables

New Year's Book Tag Questions
1. How many books are you planning to read in 2024?
2. Name 5 books that you didn’t get to this year but want to make a priority in 2024.
3. What genre do you want to read more of?
4. Name 3 non book related goals for 2024.
5. What’s a book you’ve had forever that you still need to read?
6. One word that your hoping 2024 will be:
7. Tag a friend!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
00:38 How Many Books
01:59 Name 5 priority books
06:00 Genre?
07:32 3 Non-Book Goals
11:13 Mashed Potato Book
12:12 One word to rule them all
13:04 Tag You're It!
13:46 Outro
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🎧 Creators Tagged 🎬
@my0.25lifecrisis
@AlexBlackReads
@novelideea
@WellTraveledBooks
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Mini book haul! 📚🎁

The Midnight Reader 2023-12-23 | Just a little low key book haul in time for the holidays!
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A month long reading vlog // BLOOMIN 2023

The Midnight Reader 2023-12-10 | In which I make an overly long vlog, break out of an audiobook reading slump, wax poetical on cough syrup flavors, and.... a surprise whale? Which we never speak of. No one mention the whale.

My blooming readathon vlog from last year
youtube.com/watch?v=PSvknvi9sns&t=23s
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro / A bloomin good time
01:32 Station 11 & my trauma drama
03:45 montage good times
04:41 the plague years / station 11 review
06:56 I have no memory of saying this
07:17 moving right along
08:59 not much reading and The Moth Keeper
10:28 The Moth Keeper Review
12:53 Plan... we definitely have a plan
14:14 Whales
14:30 Not whales
15:12 Iron Flame Review
18:58 Pumpkinheads Review
20:14 The long way to a small angry planet Review
23:54 Crunch time reading
26:36 Festive
27:36 SURPRISE!
29:36 Medium Raw Review
31:59 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Review
37:17 Oh thank god we're done
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📕 Books Read 📙🐛
Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel
The Moth Keeper by K.O. Neil
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
#BLOOMINRAT
youtube.com/watch?v=0_vh5KDQHXI&t=111s
@allisonpaiges
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A Shockingly Cohesive October Wrap Up

The Midnight Reader 2023-11-12 | In which I rant at Brandon Sanderson, add potentially 3 books to my favorites shelf, bemoan characters who make dumb decisions, and break up with an author! Low stakes, high drama!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
00:37 Survive the Night
04:02 Sorcery of Thorns
06:09 Horrorstor
08:37 Jane Eyre
11:32 Tress of the Emerald Sea
15:14 The Collected Regrets of Clover
17:27 Into the Wild
18:35 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Sorcery if Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
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🎧 Creators Mentioned & Links 🎬
My review of 'Into the Wild'
youtube.com/watch?v=TZ_LNuYuA40&feature=youtu.be

@allisonpaiges join the Bloomin' Readathon!
youtube.com/watch?v=0_vh5KDQHXI

My Bloomin' Readathon video from last year
youtube.com/watch?v=PSvknvi9sns
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Into the Wild // Book Review

The Midnight Reader 2023-11-05 | In which we do a deep dive on Chris McCandless from a former Alaskan's perspective and use up some glorious Alaska B-roll!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
02:34 Book Review
10:22 Outro & November Readathon Plans
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
@MsReadsAlot
youtube.com/watch?v=V7ImmbqOmik&t=577s

@allisonpaiges join the Bloomin' Readathon!
youtube.com/watch?v=0_vh5KDQHXI

My Bloomin' Readathon video from last year
youtube.com/watch?v=PSvknvi9sns
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💛 My hat 💛
Since y'all all be loving on it, they are made by a woman owned small business called North Ferry Hats in Ithaca, New York. I bought it when I lived there, a lovely little business to purchase from. Not a sponsor 💛
northferryhats.com/collections/the-warmest-winter-hats
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2 Years on Booktube // Avoiding Perfect

The Midnight Reader 2023-10-29 | Welcome to a short little channel ramble! Stickers, colds, and the pursuit of perfection. A huge thank you to all the lovely folks who have been watching my videos anytime during the last two years. A gentle reminder to do what you love and let go of perfection. Good luck to all the participants in National Novel Writing Month #nanowrimo2023 heehee I am definitely a reader not a writer, but I've got some friends participating this year so have fun guys! Regularly scheduled bookish content coming soon!
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September Shorties Wrap Up // 11 Books!!

The Midnight Reader 2023-10-15 | Shorties Unite!!! So many short little reads, and I read all these books so now you don't have to! Because lets face it, you don't want to read The Crucible or historical details about Thomas Jefferson's search for a giant moose. I got you, your welcome!
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00:00 Intro
01:22 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
04:13 Perks of Being a Wallflower
07:09 Perks the Movie
08:00 The Outsiders
09:44 Outsiders the Movie
10:23 PET
11:57 Ariel
12:46 Diary of a Void
16:36 Jefferson and the Giant Moose
18:12 Great Inaugural Addresses
19:17 The Crucible
20:40 Clockwork
21:11 84, Charing Cross Road
23:04 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
PET by Akwaeke Emezi
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America by Lee Allen Dugatkin
Great Inaugural Addresses by James Daley
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Clockwork by Phillip Pullman
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
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Autumnal TBR // Peaking on Booktube, Victober, The Plague & Ohio?

The Midnight Reader 2023-10-08 | Special thank you and shoutout to @allisonpaiges for watching and being sweet about my witchy nonsense! Questions for the comment section: What is your favorite Riley Sager? What should I do with my Alaska B-roll? And what are you reading this October?

If you wanna see my silly summoning check it out here 🪄🧙‍♀️
youtube.com/watch?v=nd1201OlMds&feature=youtu.be
To see @allisonpaiges in the wild, check out her recent autumnal TBR video here
youtube.com/watch?v=3ZFqHvHaI_Y
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00:00 Intro & Excuses
01:37 Peaking as a Channel
04:08 Victober
06:52 Seasonal Spooky Reads
10:07 Moody Maybes
12:59 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson (the author is also from OHIO, sweet Jesus)
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mendel
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
@allisonpaiges
@my0.25lifecrisis
@CestKevvie
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Victober is hosted by a bunch of lovely Booktubers and there are also prompts every year is you are more participatory than myself! youtube.com/watch?v=xJ8xftaK7rA

The Victober 2023 Prompts:
Katie: Read a piece of Victorian "New Woman" fiction.
Kate: Read a Victorian work with a stranger/outsider.
Marissa: Read a Victorian work by a new-to-you author.
Petra: Read a Victorian first person narrative.
Ros: Read a Victorian work where class features strongly.
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August Wrap Up | Dragon Spice Latte Flavored Rant

The Midnight Reader 2023-09-10 | In which we realize I had a themed reading month that seems to be dragon adjacent smut. Rants were yelled, breaking up with my phone was initiated, also I read a hyped Japanese translated book if thats more your thing, time stamps below!
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00:00 Intro
00:57 Fairest
02:28 How To Break Up with Your Phone
08:14 Strong Female Character
09:18 It Happened One Summer
10:50 Priory of the Orange Tree
12:17 Fourth Wing
14:58 Heidi
16:30 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
19:45 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
Fairest by Gail Carson Lavine
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Lavine
How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
Follow Jay @my0.25lifecrisis
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A September Shortie TBR

The Midnight Reader 2023-09-03 | In which saying 'shortie' this much makes be feel like I'm in a early 2000's music video, which I then googled to make sure that was accurate to my lived experience, and now I feel old. Shout out to the fun potatoes out there who still read video descriptions! 🥔🥔🥔
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
01:23 Pedro Pascal Shorts
02:17 Dolphin Shorts
02:52 Shorty Shorts
03:29 Half n' Half Shorts
04:06 Spanx
04:43 Hoochie Daddy Shorts
05:26 Lodge Shorts
05:42 Denim Shorts
06:01 Mom Shorts
06:52 Ripped Shorts
08:00 Elizabethan Shorts
08:13 Lederhosen
09:04 Outro and Awkward Turtle
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
@pastorytime2683
youtube.com/watch?v=y-tOINKwgDM
@TooManyHeathers
youtube.com/watch?v=CXLft9P8Tj0&t=0s
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📎 Shortie September Prompts
1. Pedro Pascal Shorts: An Unexpected Purchase
2. Dolphin Shorts: A Book with Water on the Cover
3. Shorty Shorts: A book from the 70s or 80s
4. Half n' Half Shorts: Read a book then watch the movie
5. Spanx: A Book with Magic or Witchcraft
6. Hoochie Daddy Shorts: A Spicy Read or a Revealing, Gossipy Biography
7. Lodge Shorts: A Book you bought because you were trying to cool.
8. Denim Shorts: A Modern Classic
9. Mom Shorts: Read a Comfort Read
10. Ripped Shorts: Read a Mystery or Slasher
11. Elizabethan Shorts: An Historical Read
12. Lederhosen: A Translated Book
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A Very Overdue Shelf Tour

The Midnight Reader 2023-08-27 | In which I have to pay library fines because this video is so overdue. I didn't really pay, I'm a criminal. Come after me librarians. Also at one point I will call two dramatically different colors the same color. I care not for your trifling details.
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
00:38 Talking About MyShelf
11:21 Two Additions to the Collection
13:04 Outro
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
@alldbooks9165
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ANOTHER Library Sale? // Tiny Haul!

The Midnight Reader 2023-08-20 | In which library sales continue to put books guilt free on my TBR shelf!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
00:34 Thank you to @alldbooks9165 ❤️
00:53 In which I go on about my book buying...
03:32 My book haul
08:28 Outro
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Socials
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A Delayed Freak Out

The Midnight Reader 2023-08-13 | In which we have a little freakout, some fun, and chat about the books I read this year! Thanks to @ChloeFrizzle for tagging me!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
01:34 Question 1
02:42 Question 2
03:23 Question 3
03:49 Question 4
04:15 Question 5
05:57 Question 6
07:20 Question 7
08:00 Question 8
08:44 Question 9a
09:06 Question 9b
09:53 Question 10
10:46 Question 11
11:32 Question 12
12:14 Question 13
12:55 Question 14
14:12 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
The Last Word by Taylor Adams
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin
Momfluenced by Sara Petersen
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Heroes by Stephen Fry
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
@chiara.kikisbookishservice
@my0.25lifecrisis
@AlexBlackReads
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The Midyear Freakout Tag was created by @EarlGreyBooks
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Reading 9 Books in July // Wrap Up

The Midnight Reader 2023-08-06 | July was finally an exceptionally good reading month for me! I found some real winners and had some twist disappointments. What was your favorite book you read in July? Comment below! I'd love to find out!

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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
01:22 Pure Color
2:10 The Little Prince
02:56 Ms Ice Sandwich
03:40 The Bandit Queens
04:24 Happy Place
06:16 Dial A for Aunties
07:25 The Last Word
09:03 The Song of Achilles
11:38 The Hotel Nantucket
12:20 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
Pure Color by Sheila Heti
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami
The Bandit Queens by Parini Schroff
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
The Last Word by Taylor Adams
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
@allisonpaiges
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Summoning A Booktuber // allisonpaiges

The Midnight Reader 2023-07-23 | Today we are getting a little Summerween witchy summoning thing happening. I summon the spirit of my favorite Booktuber @allisonpaiges (this definitely happens) and I read some books from her favorites lists!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
02:38 Witchy Bullshit
06:33 Ali's Recommendations
08:16 Vlog Books 1 & 2
11:43 Vlog Book 3
15:55 Bonus Book 4
19:24 Book Quotes
21:50 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Final Girl by Riles Sager
One by One by Ruth Ware
Circe by Madeline Miller
Convenience Store Woman by Sayuka Murata
The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O'Neill
Pure Color by Sheila Heti
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Ms. Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami
The Bandit Queens by Parina Shroff
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
@allisonpaiges
GO TO HER CHANNEL - LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE. YOU'RE WELCOME
Check out her awesome video a sampled below!
youtube.com/watch?v=OTo76_JEpf0&t=42s
@ArielBissett
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May & June Wrap Up

The Midnight Reader 2023-07-16 | Welcome to a much late wrap up for May and June! Thank you to everyone for helping me get to 300 subscribers, this feels wild!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
02:15 Vera Wong
04:01 Pandora's Jar
04:56 The Golden Spoon
06:21 A Conjuring of Light
09:29 Momfluenced
10:57 Rapid Fire
11:49 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture by Sara Petersen
The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons
The Book of Eels by Patrick Svensson
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
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The Learn a Language Tag!

The Midnight Reader 2023-07-02 | Come along as we reap the rewards of peer pressuring a friend into making more videos! Kidding, but I am so crazy stoked to see my friend Jay back on Booktube! Check out her channel to see all her other great videos! @my0.25lifecrisis Also because I really do love her I tried way harder than I usually do to edit this video... don't get used to the quality. If you wanna do this awesome tag I HEREBY TAG YOU!
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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇩🇪 Learn a Language Book Tag 🇨🇳🇮🇳🇨🇴
Created by Jay @my0.25lifecrisis
youtube.com/watch?v=hupQwNj_-88&t=607s

❓THE QUESTIONS❓
How the tag works:
Translate the questions into the language of your choice, then answer the corresponding prompt.

1. A book in the language you're learning -- Pick a book that is translated from the language you are currently learning
2. What is your name? -- Pick a book with a name in the title
3. I'm sorry, I don't understand. -- Pick a book w/ a miscommunication
4. How much does it cost? -- Pick a book about money.
5. Where is ...? -- Pick a book about a place.
6. How are you? -- Pick a book about emotions, or a book that made you feel emotions lol
7. Pick a random word in the language you're learning -- Pick a book w/ that word in the title
8. Please and Thank you! -- Tag your friends!! & Thank the ppl for watching :D
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
01:40 Nummer Eins, ein Buch auf Deutsch
03:31 Numner Zwei: Wie heisst du?
05:06 Nummer Drei: Entschuldigung, Ich verstehe dich nicht.
06:06 Nummer Vier: Wie viel kostet das?
08:03 Nummer Fünf: Wo Ist….?:
08:36 Nummer Sechs: Wie geht’s?
09:25 Nummer Sieben: Kartoffel
11:00 Nummer Acht: Bitte und Danke
11:27 Flee
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💜 Check out these awesome videos Jay and I have made together!
youtube.com/watch?v=ExEebIYxayk&t=913s
youtube.com/watch?v=N6OzwTyCWLs&t=1238s
youtube.com/watch?v=lWL2wpYotGw&t=25s
youtube.com/watch?v=TKJgG1N9r84&t=104s
youtube.com/watch?v=If7zuYK7KA4
youtube.com/watch?v=o5NmfJOkiRw&t=0s
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
The Complete Grimm's Fairytales by Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm
Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes
The Flat Share by Beth O'Leary
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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🎧 Booktubers Tagged 🎬
@AlexBlackReads
@WellTraveledBooks
@novelideea
@chiara.kikisbookishservice
AND YOU! like if you wanna 😂
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Reading Books My Family Recommended

The Midnight Reader 2023-06-25 | What happens when I ask my family to recommend some books to me? Mom vs Dad vs Hubplot! Just kidding, there is no tier ranking, just three books and good times!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
03:13 Hubplot's Recommendation
09:50 Dad's Recommendation
14:55 Mom's Recommendation
18:04 Outro
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📕 Books Mentioned
The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy by Bill Simmons
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural
World by Patrik Svensson & Agnes Broomé (Translator)
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
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Socials
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Library Sale!

The Midnight Reader 2023-06-11 | In which we do (gasp) a haul video! My minimalist shelf goals remain intact I swear 😂
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
01:43 Favorites being added to the permanent collection
05:02 New TBR finds
07:52 Hubplot's Haul
10:18 Children's Book Haul for the tiny human
13:02 Bonus movies
13:23 Outro
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I don’t want Belle’s library anymore..

The Midnight Reader 2023-06-04 | In which i describe my perfect shelves and my plans to get there! Tell me about your dream library in the comments!
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Finding the perfect beach read 🌊☀️⛱️ with help from A.I. 🤖

The Midnight Reader 2023-05-27 | In which we consult artificial intelligence, make an awesome summer TBR, and talk about metaphorical balls. 😂 Also I swear Chat GPT did say "atmospheric", but I edited that out and then was too lazy to fix it sooooooo..... I guess I have to give this channel to Chat GPT now since it's more qualified than my brain 🧠
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro and A.I. Channel Takeover
03:18 Romances
07:20 Thrillers & Mysteries
09:34 The Greeks
12:23 Kick Ass Women
13:17 Outro
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
@allisonpaiges
@my0.25lifecrisis
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
The Beach House by Jane Green
The Last Word by Taylor Adams
No Exit by Taylor Adams
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto
Heroes by Stephen Fry
Mythos by Stephen Fry
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Circe by Madeline Miller
Pandora's Jar by Natalie Hayes
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
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The Books I Read on Maternity Leave // A Wrap Up!

The Midnight Reader 2023-05-20 | In which I manage to rub two brain cells together and wrap up the 20(ish) books I read on maternity leave! I also get many details wrong including forgetting the word "memoir" and using autobiography INCESSANTLY! Perils of sleep deprivation.
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
02:20 The books!
18:11 Wrap it Up!
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
Jay @my0.25lifecrisis
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📕 Books Mentioned 📙🐛
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Counterfeit by Kirsten Chen
The Beach House by Jane Green
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fford
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fford
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Outlawed by Anna North
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Under One Roof by Ali Hazelwood
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
The Bird Tribunal by Agnes Ravatn
Stay True by Hua Hsu
Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
Feel the Bern: A Bernie Sanders Mystery by Andrew Shaffer
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam Joo
Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons
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Reading books from my tiny library // reading vlog, science, & midnight rambles

The Midnight Reader 2023-05-14 | In which I read and review three popular books I found at my apartment's tiny library, do some spectacular diaper science, go on a whisky rant, and truly become "the midnight reader" again courtesy of a fussy newborn.
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🐌 Time Stamps 🌻
00:00 Intro
03:40 Kiss Her Once for Me
11:42 Lessons in Chemistry
20:49 Part of Your World
23:40 Wrap it up
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🎧 Creators Mentioned 🎬
Camila @hasteyebooks
Camila's spot on review of Lessons in Chemistry
youtube.com/watch?v=5BZrLy52Z2g
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📕 Books Mentioned
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
A Million Junes by Emily Henry
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Socials
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Braiding Sweetgrass & Becoming Someones Mom

The Midnight Reader 2023-05-07 | In which I do my best Vlogbrothers impression, review my favorite read in the last few months, and make my way back to Booktube after having a kiddo!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Intro & Life Updates
00:58 Braiding Sweetgrass
03:55 Outro
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📗 Books Mentioned 📕
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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My Top 10 Books of 2022!

The Midnight Reader 2023-02-05 | It's time for the slightly delayed 2022 book awards ceremony! What is time? I'm growing a whole ass human and its hard okay? Also some of my picks this year are re-reads. There's no rules here, don't come for me.
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Intro
01:04 Books 10 & 9
03:54 Book 8
04:49 Book 7
06:06 Book 6
07:19 Books 5 & 4
08:55 Book 3
10:37 Book 2
12:32 Book 1
1535 Outro
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The 63 Books I Read in 2022 + Stats & Goals

The Midnight Reader 2023-01-21 | It's time for the yearly mammoth! And I don't mean me, despite how being a very preggo lady feels.. We got books! We got graphs! We got reading goals! We got through the editing of this monstrosity in record time! Let's not do this again until next year okay?
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Intro
01:45 The 63 books I read in 2022
10:29 2022 Stats & Charts
14:47 2023 Goals
16:11 Outro
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🎧 Creators Mentioned
Ruby Granger - check out her yearly wrap up for 2023 here!
youtube.com/watch?v=buuBBmd8MKk&t=1248s
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⚔️ Trigger Warnings? 🚩
Check out these great resources to check the content of books before reading!
booktriggerwarnings.com/Welcome
triggerwarningdatabase.com
Storygraph also has some excellent resources to precheck books before reading them
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📗 Books Mentioned 📘
lololololol
No.
Just watch the video, the editing already gave me carpal tunnel
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New Years Book Tag 2023

The Midnight Reader 2023-01-10 | In unsurprising news my upload schedule becomes more erratic and unpredictable mirroring life as a very pregnant lady. However I interrupt my regularly scheduled non uploads with this New Year's Book Tag! Video! Happy Tag Tuesday every one!

🎬 The New Year's Book Tag was Created by @Bookables

New Year's Book Tag Questions
1. How many books are you planning to read in 2023?
2. Name 5 books that you didn’t get to this year but want to make a priority in 2023.
3. What genre do you want to read more of?
4. Name 3 non book related goals for 2023.
5. What’s a book you’ve had forever that you still need to read?
6. One word that your hoping 2023 will be:
7. Tag a friend!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Intro
01:03 Question 1
02:03 Question 2
05:25 Question 3
06:06 Question 4
08:49 Question 5
10:12 Question 6
10:46 Question 7
11:01 Wrap Up
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Bloomin Readathon // A November Reading Vlog

The Midnight Reader 2022-12-04 | In which we make a month long reading vlog and participate in the Bloomin' Readathon created by my favorite Booktuber of all time @allisonpaiges #BLOOMINRAT
10000 hours of editing later this is as good as it's gonna get folks, hope you enjoy.
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Secret Identity Revealed?

The Midnight Reader 2022-11-26 | In which I made a clickbait title, secrets are revealed, my double life if exposed and I complain A LOT 😂 Also starring secret books I have been reading (but not sharing), secret book hauls, and foreshadowing international adventures.
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Intro and Overly Dramatic Reveals
01:00 Just Straight Complaining 🙈
03:20 Becoming Carmen Sandiago
03:54 Secret Book TBR and Reviews
07:53 Secret NYC book haul & saying "cute" a lot
10:54 Outro
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Booktube Birthday Tag!

The Midnight Reader 2022-11-15 | In which I am both one year older and have been making Booktube videos for 1 year! Achievement Unlocked! The most sincere thank you for all the likes, comments, and subscribes you lovely folks have left on my channel over the past year. Thank you for watching me dork around on the internet!

🎬 Creators Mentioned in this Video
@averagejoereads7271
@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf
@GloriaZThompson
@BookishTexan
@my0.25lifecrisis

Tag Questions/ Prompts:
1. How many years on BookTube are you celebrating?
2. How have you changed from your first video to now?
3. What are three of your favorite videos you’ve made in the past year and why? / What video are you most proud of and why?
4. What's your most popular video?
5. What have you struggled with on BookTube in the past year and how did you overcome that struggle? / What's the hardest thing about creating videos for youtube?
6. Have you had to deal with negative feedback or comments? How did you handle it?
7. Shout out a huge supporter of your channel.
8. What’s the best book you’ve read in this past year?
9. Where do you see your channel in a year’s time and what do you hope to have achieved?
10. What was an unexpected surprise of being on Youtube?
11. Thoughts on equipment? What has been the most useful piece of equipment you've bought?
12. What advice would you give to someone thinking of starting Youtube?
13. Tag someone whose anniversary is coming up!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Intro
01:12 Prompt 1
01:36 Prompt 2
02:16 Prompt 3
04:48 Prompt 4
05:24 Prompt 5
06:05 Prompt 6
06:59 Prompt 7
08:15 Prompt 8
08:29 Prompt 9
09:21 Prompt 10
09:50 Prompt 11
10:12 Prompt 12
11:07 Prompt 13
11:22 Ending
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🍿 Videos Mentioned
Reviewing the Love Hypothesis with my PhD husband
youtube.com/watch?v=hcqSbanEwpw&t=385s
The Book Snack Tag
youtube.com/watch?v=IFbEZ4jpOdo&t=36s
Vlogging Around the Christmas Tree
youtube.com/watch?v=unU8m4fCTVY&t=191s
Summoning Ariel Bissett
youtube.com/watch?v=4Lxrl5ToSFU&t=91s
Read Banned Books Tag
youtube.com/watch?v=2JnYySYDPcI
Little Library Tour Part II
youtube.com/watch?v=nHMlL9je0jI&t=567s
Meeting a Booktuber in Real Life
youtube.com/watch?v=If7zuYK7KA4&t=343s
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📗 Books Mentioned 📕
The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
A Psalm For the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
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October Wrap Up and Readathon Dreams?

The Midnight Reader 2022-11-06 | In which we review everything I read in October, rant about victorian adventurers, continuously reference 90's pop culture, and smell some plants!

🎬 Creators Mentioned in this Video
@amysrambles6748
@allisonpaiges

Please check out the Bloomin' Readathon hosted by Allison Paiges here!
youtube.com/watch?v=Cg8xP0w3_H8&t=39s
instagram.com/bloominreadathon
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Intro
01:02 October Book 1
05:00 October Book 2
07:03 October Book 3
11:54 October Book 4
13:46 Bloomin' Readathon Plans
15:30 Outro

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📗 Books Mentioned 📕
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Mr. Penumbra's 24 Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Wintering The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
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Faces of Horror Tag 🎃

The Midnight Reader 2022-10-25 | Welcome to my attempt at fighting seasonal depression with a festive tag. This is my whack at the Faces of Horror Tag, without being a horror reader 😂 I was tagged in this eons ago by @BookwormAdventureGirl check out her channel here! And I am tagging a lover of horror in this, the amazeballs @ginaslibrary

Also I yell at @my0.25lifecrisis in this, check out her channel to help me bother her into making more videos 🤣
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Intro
01:44 Prompt 1
02:51 Prompt 2
04:40 Prompt 3
06:05 Prompt 4
08:09 Prompt 5
09:47 Prompt 6
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The Faces of Horror Tag
Created by @PlaguedbyVisions
The prompts:
1. A horror story that scared or disturbed you.
2. A horror story that depressed you or made you cry.
3. A horror story that made you laugh.
4. A horror story that made you angry.
5. A horror story that is important to you.
6. A non-horror story that you consider horror.
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📗 Books Mentioned 📕
Sadie by Courtney Summers
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Hendrix by Grady Hendrix
In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
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A Mushroom Filled September Wrap Up

The Midnight Reader 2022-10-16 | In which I miss the opportunity to make the joke "Eat, Pray, Mushroom" which were the main themes of the three books I read in September! Cheers to soft re-entry from reading slumps! Hope you enjoy! 🍄

Check out my Original Tag- 🍪 The Book Snack Tag 🍿🍎 here:
youtube.com/watch?v=IFbEZ4jpOdo
And all the cool folks making the tag are featured in the playlist below!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6pmraS3g8bd6DXgx7mCA8PVHwkT69Qp7
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Intro
01:02 Tag participation thank you!
02:12 A Prayer for the Crown Shy
05:46 Kitchens of the Great Midwest
09:04 Entangled Life
12:54 Outro
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📗 Books Mentioned 📕
A Prayer for the Crown Shy by Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild Built by becky Chambers
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota - Edited by Sun Yung Shin
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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📸 Photography of Crown Shy trees
These do not belong to me and are individually credited to the following creators:
ThatsJustYourOpinionMan
imgur.com/kF06WfN
Tom Cowey
500px.com/photo/144716675/crown-shyness-by-tom-cowey
Dag Peak
flickr.com/photos/72926532@N00/13438818
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🎧 Music
♪ Together (Prod. by Lukrembo)
Link : youtu.be/HdVU6LI-3VY
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Socials
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The Book Snack Tag | Original Tag!

The Midnight Reader 2022-10-08 | Hi I'm Rosika and this is The Midnight Reader. Today I did a thing and made an original tag! Introducing - The Book Snack Tag! I am forever hungry for snacks to eat and books to read, so I figured this combined the best of both worlds. Happy reading and snacking 📚🍿

Check out all the cool folks who have done the tag in the playlist below!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6pmraS3g8bd6DXgx7mCA8PVHwkT69Qp7

🫵 I choose you Pikachu⚡️! I am tagging the following channels 🔖:
@teacupthestoryteller
@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf
@MsReadsAlot
@hasteyebooks
@BookishTexan
@M-J
@novelideea
@ginaslibrary
@BOOKSBYBARTHE
@TheSassyLibraryFox

Please consider yourself tagged if you would like to do the tag, there are too many great people on little Booktube to tag you all! Please tag your videos with the hashtag #TheBookSnackTag so I can make a playlist of all your lovely videos
#booktube #booktuber
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The Book Snack Tag Prompts
Prompt 1: Sweet 🍪: The chocolate chip cookie of books. Pick a book that is warmhearted, uplifting, and makes you less cynical about the world.

Prompt 2: Salty 🥨 - Inherently craveable. Pick a book or series that you couldn't stop reading or reaching for.

Prompt 3: Cheesy 🧀 - Like Cheeto dust you can't escape the cheese. Pick a book that you love because of or in spite of its cheesiness.

Prompt 4: Deep Fried 🍗 - You bit too soon into the hot batter and got burned. Pick a book that hurt to read.

Prompt 5: Ice Cold 🍦: Sometimes the snack you want can only come from the deep freezer. Pick a book that transports you to a cold place.

Prompt 6: Sour 🍋 - Some things are too sour to keep a straight face. Pick a book that made you make faces while you were reading.

Prompt 7: The Healthy Snack 🥕 - You picked this up because it was "good for you". Pick a book that you read to improve yourself in some way.

Prompt 8: Juicy 🍉 - Like an orange or a watermelon, some snacks have plenty of pieces to share. Pick a book that is profoundly sharable. A book you want others to read.

Prompt 9: The Snack Pack 🫐🍫🍟- Everyone wins when you swap and share your snacks. Tag some friends to do the tag!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Introducing an original tag
01:00 Sweet
01:55 Salty
02:45 Cheesy
03:45 Deep Fried
04:29 Ice Cold
05:07 Sour
05:47 The Healthy Snack
06:33 Juicy
07:23 The Snack Pack - Tag Some Friends
08:20 Outro
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📗 Books Mentioned // Alphabetical by Title 📕
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R.R. Tolkien
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Matilda by Roald Dahl
One By One by Ruth Ware
Sadie by Courtney Summers
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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How to Get Out of a Reading Slump!

The Midnight Reader 2022-10-02 | In which we have a talk about reading slumps, what they are, why they happen, and how to get out of them. Get in loser, we're digging ourselves out of this slump. #Booktube #readingslump
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Intro
00:22 Tips to Get Back into Reading
08:00 Outro
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Socials
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Summer Wrap Up!

The Midnight Reader 2022-09-26 | In which we bring Sick Girl Summer to a close and review everything I read in June, July and August!

🎬 Creators Mentioned in this Video
@novelideea
@ginaslibrary
@my0.25lifecrisis
Special Shoutout to Rebecca Steinhardt for being my book buddy all the way from Australia and finishing a thick ass classic!
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🐌 Time Stamps 🍁
00:00 Intro
00:59 Kim Jiyoung Born 1982
02:58 The Henna Wars
03:32 When Dimple Met Rishi
04:31 Snapdragon
05:09 The Night Circus
06:49 Homicide and Halo-Halo
08:21 Persuasion
09:54 The Switch
11:18 DNF? To be Continued?
13:00 The IT Girl
14:41 Outro
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📗 Books Mentioned 📕
Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Switch by Beth O'Leary
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
Emma by Jane Austen
The IT Girl by Ruth Ware
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Burros, Houseplants, and Books

The Midnight Reader 2022-09-19 | In which we embrace the chaos....
Running races in amish country, revisiting books on life and donkeys, and the houseplant vlog literally no one asked for.

If you are interested in the race and the great folks it supports in Bird-in-Hand
🏃🏻‍♀️ Check out the Bird-In-Hand Half Marathon/ 5k at
bihhalfmarathon.com
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🐌 Time Stamps

00:00 Intro
00:42 Running With Sherman
03:04 Vlogging while Jogging
04:36 Post race thoughts on burros and bodies
06:00 Houseplant Mania
14:22 Outro
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📗 Books Mentioned 📕
Running With Sherman by Christopher McDougall
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
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When Life Doesnt Care About Your Plans

The Midnight Reader 2022-09-05 | In which I return to the Booktube and talk to a camera for a bit. Just in case you were wondering where the hell I went, this is what I got. Hopefully back to regularly scheduled programming around here. Fingers crossed.

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