Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
The 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?
📚 the books! (links are bookshop affiliate links) 📚
The Address Book, by Deirdre Mask - bookshop.org/a/6319/9781250134769
The Girl and the Ghost, by Hanna Alkaf - bookshop.org/a/6319/9780062940957
Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby - bookshop.org/a/6319/9781573226882
A Promised Land, by Barack Obama - bookshop.org/a/6319/9781524763169
✨ other stuff mentioned ✨
original tag video from Slanted Spines - youtu.be/7mhq-AXn3A0
yogiwithabook's tag video - youtu.be/K_BQnk1vTCA
remembered reads' tag video - youtu.be/Zut8WhAHIMw
thenovelsanctuary - youtu.be/ULWp43y4PXs
my booktube prize round-up - youtu.be/_PXulr4nqv4
the girl and the ghost/cemetery boys review - youtu.be/mPqRIloIZyg
🤓 Nonfiction Book Club 🤓
The Stonewall Reader - penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576364/the-stonewall-reader-by-edited-by-the-new-york-public-library-foreword-by-edmund-white-edited-with-an-introduction-by-jason-baumann
July 10th, 2021 at 5 pm ET (note: this been changed from our original schedule)
For updates: nonfictionbookclub.substack.com
[Other Places to Find Me/My Work]
Twitter: twitter.com/okidoki_boki
Instagram: instagram.com/okidokiboki
Newsletter: okidokiboki.substack.com
host - Crash Course Organic Chemistry: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtONguuhLdVmq0HTKS0jksS4
writer - Journey to the Microcosmos: youtube.com/microcosmos
For business inquiries: deboki.reads@gmail.com
The 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?
📚 the books! (links are bookshop affiliate links) 📚
The Address Book, by Deirdre Mask - bookshop.org/a/6319/9781250134769
The Girl and the Ghost, by Hanna Alkaf - bookshop.org/a/6319/9780062940957
Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby - bookshop.org/a/6319/9781573226882
A Promised Land, by Barack Obama - bookshop.org/a/6319/9781524763169
✨ other stuff mentioned ✨
original tag video from Slanted Spines - youtu.be/7mhq-AXn3A0
yogiwithabook's tag video - youtu.be/K_BQnk1vTCA
remembered reads' tag video - youtu.be/Zut8WhAHIMw
thenovelsanctuary - youtu.be/ULWp43y4PXs
my booktube prize round-up - youtu.be/_PXulr4nqv4
the girl and the ghost/cemetery boys review - youtu.be/mPqRIloIZyg
🤓 Nonfiction Book Club 🤓
The Stonewall Reader - penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576364/the-stonewall-reader-by-edited-by-the-new-york-public-library-foreword-by-edmund-white-edited-with-an-introduction-by-jason-baumann
July 10th, 2021 at 5 pm ET (note: this been changed from our original schedule)
For updates: nonfictionbookclub.substack.com
[Other Places to Find Me/My Work]
Twitter: twitter.com/okidoki_boki
Instagram: instagram.com/okidokiboki
Newsletter: okidokiboki.substack.com
host - Crash Course Organic Chemistry: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtONguuhLdVmq0HTKS0jksS4
writer - Journey to the Microcosmos: youtube.com/microcosmos
For business inquiries: deboki.reads@gmail.com
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[Booktubers Mentioned]
Mina Reads - https://www.youtube.com/c/minareads
[Other Places to Find Me]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/okidoki_boki
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/okidokiboki/
Newsletter: https://okidokiboki.substack.com/
For business inquiries: deboki.reads@gmail.com
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📚 the articles! 📚
“The Vaccine News That Really Matters.” - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/10/what-successful-vaccine-trial-looks-like/616775/
“Moderna’s Vaccine Efficacy Readout” - https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/11/16/modernas-vaccine-efficacy-readout
“We finally know What a Dinosaur’s Butthole Looks like.” - https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/dinosaur-butt-fossil-discovery-cloaca.html
All Together Now: Science is Political - https://neverjustscience.substack.com/p/all-together-now-science-is-political
UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after bioethicist and other faculty call it out - https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-26/uc-berkeley-disavows-eugenics-research-fund
🤓 Nonfiction Book Club 🤓
The Managed Heart, by Arlie Russell Hochschild
https://bookshop.org/a/6319/9780520272941
12/5/20 5 pm ET at https://www.youtube.com/user/SweeneySays
[Other Places to Find Me/My Work]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/okidoki_boki
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/okidokiboki/
Newsletter: https://okidokiboki.substack.com/
host - Crash Course Organic Chemistry: https://www.youtube.com/crashcourse
writer - Journey to the Microcosmos: https://www.youtube.com/microcosmos
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Top 5 Wednesday Goodreads Group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/118368-top-5-wednesday
[Works Mentioned]
Kushiels Dart, by Jacqueline Carey
The Grisha Trilogy, by Leigh Bardugo
Paradise Lost, by Milton
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
Sherlock Holmes (A Scandal in Bohemia), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[Other places to find me]
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Link to all the challenges over at BookRiot:
https://bookriot.com/2017/12/15/book-riots-2018-read-harder-challenge/
[Challenges/Books Mentioned]
A book set in or about one of the 5 BRICS countries
-The New Tsar, by Steven Lee Meyers
A book about nature
-The Dragon Behind the Glass, by Emily Voigt
A book of colonial or postcolonial literature
-It Does Not Die, by Maitreyi Devi
A romance novel by or about a person of color
-Hurts to Love You, by Alisha Rai
The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series
-Illuminae, by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
An assigned book you hated (or never finished)
-Possession, by A.S. Byatt
[Other Places to Find Me]
www.debokic.com
Twitter: okidoki_boki
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