The Moody Book Tag @RememberedReads

Remembered Reads Original tag by Slanted Spines: youtube.com/watch?v=7mhq-AXn3A0
Tag seen via @shawnbreathesbooks

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:
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco
Sky Rider by Nancy Springer
I Hate Everyone, Except You by Clinton Kelly
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Ronald Wilks

#TagTuesday - and on time for once! ;)

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The Moody Book Tag

Remembered Reads 2021-04-20 | Original tag by Slanted Spines: youtube.com/watch?v=7mhq-AXn3A0
Tag seen via @shawnbreathesbooks

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:
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco
Sky Rider by Nancy Springer
I Hate Everyone, Except You by Clinton Kelly
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Ronald Wilks

#TagTuesday - and on time for once! ;)

Something went wrong with the timing on the captions, but I hope to have that fixed soon.

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Stocking the school library, 2024

Remembered Reads 2024-08-03 | The biannual event for Toronto public school library staff.

March Mystery Madness 2024 TBR

Remembered Reads 2024-02-25 | Welcome to the 9th Annual March Mystery Madness!

Find all of our social media links for #marchmysterymadness here:
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MarchMysteryMadness

Co-Creators
LizziefayeLovesBooks
youtube.com/@lizziefayelovesbooks
Troi Towel
youtube.com/@TowelTroi

Social Media Coordinators
Discord, Goodreads, & Twitter:
Di - youtube.com/@Disis19Hearts
Instagram
Jen (Me!) - Remembered Reads
youtube.com/@RememberedReads

All other Co-Hosts in Alphabetical Order by Channel Name
Courtny - youtube.com/@Courtagonist
Olly - youtube.com/@CriminOllyBlog
Marilyn - youtube.com/@MarilynMayaMendoza
Steve - youtube.com/@saintdonoghue
Beth - youtube.com/@ElizabethTyreeSoulStainedInk
Stormi - youtube.com/@StormReads
Tiffany - youtube.com/@theBeachbumbookworm
Scott & Becky - youtube.com/@thebookishbryants
Sarah - youtube.com/@thebookishknitter
Ro - youtube.com/@TheTBRTackle
Tim - youtube.com/@timsreadingroom

In memory of Janelle, a wonderful MMM host who passed away in 2023:
Check out her channel to find some great recommendations and read a book in her honour.
Janelle - youtube.com/@TooFondofBooksJH

March Mystery Madness Prompts for 2024
1. Dressed to the Nines (Formal dress on the cover)
2. 999 (British Mystery)
3. 9 Lives (Cat on the cover)
4. 911 (First Responder Story like Firefighter or EMT)
5. One for Janelle
6. Nine Patch (Quilt on the cover)
7. Nine in Title or on the Cover
8. 9th in series
9. Any other 9 (Any tie-in with 9 such as page count, year published, number of chapters, etc.)

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March Mystery Madness 2024: To the Nines! 🎩

Remembered Reads 2024-02-09 | Welcome to the 9th Annual March Mystery Madness!

Find all of our social media links for #marchmysterymadness here:
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MarchMysteryMadness

Co-Creators
LizziefayeLovesBooks
youtube.com/@lizziefayelovesbooks
Troi Towel
youtube.com/@TowelTroi

Social Media Coordinators
Discord, Goodreads, & Twitter:
Di - youtube.com/@Disis19Hearts
Instagram
Jen (Me!) - Remembered Reads
youtube.com/@RememberedReads

All other Co-Hosts in Alphabetical Order by Channel Name
Courtny - youtube.com/@Courtagonist
Olly - youtube.com/@CriminOllyBlog
Marilyn - youtube.com/@MarilynMayaMendoza
Steve - youtube.com/@saintdonoghue
Beth - youtube.com/@ElizabethTyreeSoulStainedInk
Stormi - youtube.com/@StormReads
Tiffany - youtube.com/@theBeachbumbookworm
Scott & Becky - youtube.com/@thebookishbryants
Sarah - youtube.com/@thebookishknitter
Ro - youtube.com/@TheTBRTackle
Tim - youtube.com/@timsreadingroom

In memory of Janelle, a wonderful MMM host who passed away in 2023:
Check out her channel to find some great recommendations and read a book in her honour.
Janelle - youtube.com/@TooFondofBooksJH

March Mystery Madness Prompts for 2024
1. Dressed to the Nines (Formal dress on the cover)
2. 999 (British Mystery)
3. 9 Lives (Cat on the cover)
4. 911 (First Responder Story like Firefighter or EMT)
5. One for Janelle
6. Nine Patch (Quilt on the cover)
7. Nine in Title or on the Cover
8. 9th in series
9. Any other 9 (Any tie-in with 9 such as page count, year published, number of chapters, etc.)

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Fun with Translation (Fiction & Nonfiction), the Politics & Humour of Television & a Play

Remembered Reads 2023-08-25 | Books discussed:
Dancing on Ropes by Anna Aslanyan
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Burn It Down : Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller

Channel mentioned: @AlwaysDoing

#FridayReads on an actual Friday for once!

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Tone and KidLit: a ramble

Remembered Reads 2023-08-12 | A ramble inspired by the following books:
The Secret Summer Promise by Keah Brown
Wrong Side of the Court by HN Khan
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grown by Zoulfa Katouh

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Booktube Prize Semifinals: Nonfiction Group B

Remembered Reads 2023-08-01 | Check out @BookTubePrize for the annoucement of the finalists!
The Booktube Prize is the brainchild of Robert from Barter Hordes.

Books discussed:
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

I talk about An Immense World and His Name is George Floyd in more depth in my Quarterfinals video: youtube.com/watch?v=FsxNwK97iAw

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The Mid-Year Freak Out Tag 2023 | A booktube tradition

Remembered Reads 2023-07-02 | This tag was created by Chami (formerly of Read Like Wildfire) and Ely of @EarlGreyBooks

Questions:
1. Best book you’ve read so far.
2. Best sequel you've read so far.
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.
8. Newest fictional crush.
9. Newest favourite character.
10. Book that made you cry.
11. Book that made you happy.
12. Favourite book to film adaptation you saw this year.
13. Favourite video you have done so far this year.
14. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received).
15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?

Books mentioned:
From Nowhere to Nowhere by Bekim Sejranović, translated by Will Firth
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence by Jenny White & Ergün Gündüz
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Twists of Fate by Paco Roca, translated by Erica Mena

Album mentioned:
The World and All It Holds by Damir Imamović

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Historical Fiction vs History & Pop Culture: A rambling question

Remembered Reads 2023-06-25 | Do you read historical fiction and think about the history, about where it fits with other culture/media, or does it stand on its own? Or all of the above:

Apologies for the echo on this video. Looks like I need to experiment with my new microphone more!

The Classics & Company readalongs are hosted by @AnnNovella and @MicahCummins

Books mentioned:
Hadrian: Empire & Conflict by Thorsten Opper
Mémoires d'Hadrien/Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Grace Frick

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The Edge of Reading Tag, rambling about language and the brain

Remembered Reads 2023-06-13 | I repeatedly refer to posterior cortical atrophy as "post-cortical aphasia" in this video. Maybe I should start scripting instead of just babbling. Sorry about that!

This tag was created by @materiagrix and I was tagged by @BookishTexan
Tagging: @AnnNovella and @Rainierbooks

The prompts:
-Give me your own definition of reading or use this: "Reading is the act of interpretation of symbols that systematically put together in a certain sequence, allow the reader to extract meaning from them in an active form of creation that can develop into complex narratives."
-Given your chosen definition, are reading and interpretation the same thing? If not, In what do they differ?
-Are there any practices that you consider reading but that would fit that or other definitions of reading?
-Is there an ideal reading experience for you? What is it? Is there a book that represents it?
-If there is such thing as an ideal reading experience, it follows that there is a scale of value to reading. What is at the bottom?
-Is there a book on that bottom that you love or enjoyed as much as those on the top?
-Is reading as the art of associating symbols and creating meaning out of them, a predecessor of language, or does it come after as a consequence of those languages?
-Is everything that can be read/with meaning a language?
-Mention a few languages that defy the conventional conception of what a language is. Could a book be written in any of those languages?
-If you could boundlessly read/understand the meaning in one of those languages. Which one would it be? Why?

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The Booktube Prize Quarterfinals 2023: Nonfiction Group D

Remembered Reads 2023-06-01 | Check out @BookTubePrize for all of the prize details!

Books discussed & Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O'Brien
03:42 His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels
05:33 An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
08:06 Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg
10:27 How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future by Maria Ressa
12:39 We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole
16:00 Rankings
18:20 Outro

The Booktube Prize was created by @Robert.Sheard

Video mentioned:
Grace from @themusicsnob (Books and Cooks) on Dinners with Ruth: youtube.com/watch?v=G5uk4Hxmw-4

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Recent Reads: Poetry, Short Stories, Humour, Book Clubs & More

Remembered Reads 2023-05-26 | Books discussed & time stamps:
00:00 Classics & Company reads Memoirs of Hadrian
00:52 Milk & Mocha: Our Little Happiness by Melani Sie
02:12 How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You from Reductress
03:48 When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me by Ananda Devi, translated by Kazim Ali
05:33 Staying Right Here by Usman Hameedi
06:57 Knot Body by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
08:19 Their Haunted Nights by Allyson Jeleyne
10:23 A Walk in the Night and Other Stories by Alex la Guma
13:42 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
16:47 Outro

Memoirs of Hadrian readalong from #Classics&Company (hosted by @MicahCummins & @AnnNovella ) - Discord: discord.gg/xxpXRXawUQ

Usman Hameedi reciting one of the poems from Staying Right Here: youtube.com/watch?v=BQPDW_GHyMU

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Poetry on Exile, Comics on Depression, Autofiction on Dementia, Books-in-Books & Memoirs

Remembered Reads 2023-05-02 | Books discussed:
Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Jeffrey Sacks
The Applicant by Nazlı Koca
Dislocations by Sylvia Molloy, translated by Jennifer Croft
The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph by Oksana Masters
The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan by Christina Lamb

Also Mentioned:
Book Love, Quiet Girl in a Noisy World, Happily Ever After by Debbie Tung
In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Sinan Antoon
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali, translated by Alexander Dawe
Boys in Zinc/Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Sergio Rapetti

Readathon account:
For both #PeopleApril and the #DisabilityReadathon we have Everything is OK & The Hard Parts

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Recent Reads: Nobody Leaves, Brothers of the Gun, Messages from Ukraine, Hijab Butch Blues

Remembered Reads 2023-04-15 | Books discussed:
Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William R. Brand
Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham, illustrated by Molly Crabapple
Messages from Ukraine by Gregg Bucken-Knapp & Joonas Sildre
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H.

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March Mystery Madness 2023: Christie, Romance, Time Travel & Humour

Remembered Reads 2023-04-02 | Books discussed:
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie, narrated by Charles Armstrong
Confessions of an Italian Marriage by Dani Collins
RetroActive by Ibrahim Moustafa
DreadfulWater by Thomas King

This year's #MarchMysteryMadness theme was Spring Cleaning.

Creators:
@lizziefayelovesbooks
@TowelTroi
Forum (Goodreads & Discord) host:
@Disis19Hearts
(find the forums via: https://linktr.ee/MarchMysteryMadness)
Instagram host (that's me!)
@RememberedReads
(follow: instagram.com/marchmysterymadness_allyear)

Co-hosts:
@Courtagonist
@katehowereads
@MarilynMayaMendoza
@saintdonoghue
@SoulStainedInk
@StormReads
@theBeachbumbookworm
@thebookishknitter
@timsreadingroom
@TooFondofBooksJH

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Recent Reads: Pet Nation, Lose Your Mother, The Ugly Laws

Remembered Reads 2023-03-13 | Books discussed & timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:15 Pet Nation: The Inside Story of How Companion Animals Are Transforming Our Homes, Culture, and Economy by Mark Cushing
05:21 Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
10:32 The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public by Susan Schweik
13:53 Outro

Book mentioned in passing:
Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From by Kamal Al-Solaylee

#FridayReads on Monday!

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March Mystery Madness 2023: Agatha Christie, Crime Comics & Police Procedurals

Remembered Reads 2023-03-08 | Books discussed:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, BBC Full Cast Recording
Reckless: Follow Me Down by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan

This year's #MarchMysteryMadness theme is Spring Cleaning.
The prompts are:
Lather (ex: Read about a detective who is "cleaning up")
Rinse (ex: Read something on the cozier side of things or read a classic mystery)
Repeat (ex: Reread a book or read a book by an author you've read before)

But as always, no pressure to read on the theme or across the prompts. If it's a mystery, it counts! :)

Creators:
@lizziefayelovesbooks4325
@TowelTroi
Forum (Goodreads & Discord) host:
@Disis19Hearts (find the forums via: https://linktr.ee/MarchMysteryMadness)
Instagram host (that's me!)
@RememberedReads (follow: instagram.com/marchmysterymadness_allyear)

Co-hosts:
@Courtagonist
@katehowe8121
@MarilynMayaMendoza
@saintdonoghue
@ElizabethTyreeSoulStainedInk
@StormReads
@theBeachbumbookworm
@thebookishknitter
@timsreadingroom
@TooFondofBooksJH

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The Evolution of a Reader Tag

Remembered Reads 2023-03-04 | Tag created by @spreadbookjoy
I was tagged by @BookishTexan

Questions:
Prompts:
1) What you read: how has your taste in books evolved?
2) How you read: has the format of your reading changed much?
3) How much you read: do you read more/less than previously? When do you read? Has how often you read changed?
4) How has Booktube changed you as a reader?
5) Tag some people!

Tagging: @Tutankhamun18Reads and @bookwhimsy

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March Mystery Madness 2023: TBR (Voiceover edition)

Remembered Reads 2023-02-26 | The lesson here is to always check that your mic is working! 😅

Books mentioned:
Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanet Khan
Reckless: Follow Me Down by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
Dreadfulwater by Thomas King
A World of Curiosities: A Novel by Louise Penny
The Last Taxi Ride by AX Ahmad
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie, narrated by David Suchet

This year's #MarchMysteryMadness theme is Spring Cleaning.
The prompts are:
Lather (ex: Read about a detective who is "cleaning up")
Rinse (ex: Read something on the cozier side of things or read a classic mystery)
Repeat (ex: Reread a book or read a book by an author you've read before)

But as always, no pressure to read on the theme or across the prompts. If it's a mystery, it counts! :)

Creators:
@lizziefayelovesbooks
@TowelTroi
Forum (Goodreads & Discord) host:
@Disis19Hearts (find the forums via: https://linktr.ee/MarchMysteryMadness)
Instagram host (that's me!)
@RememberedReads (follow: instagram.com/marchmysterymadness_allyear)

Co-hosts:
@Courtagonist
@katehowereads
@MarilynMayaMendoza
@saintdonoghue
@SoulStainedInk
@StormReads
@theBeachbumbookworm
@thebookishknitter
@timsreadingroom
@TooFondofBooksJH

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Failing at the Literary Adventures Tag

Remembered Reads 2023-02-22 | This tag was created by @RovingReader so long ago (and I filmed it so long ago) that it was before she changed her channel name!
The original video: youtube.com/watch?v=jWouJTdVSkg&t=0s

The question:
What are some awesome literary places you have traveled to?

Books mentioned:
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Henry V by WIllian Shakespeare

#TagTuesday on a Wednesday, anyone?

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Graphic Memoirs, Essays & Historical Fiction: 3 Brilliant, 2 Disappointing

Remembered Reads 2023-02-18 | Books discussed & timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:12 I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays by Michael Arceneaux
03:03 Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence by Jenny White & Ergün Gündüz
06:10 What is Home, Mum? by Sabba Khan
08:34 Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
12:35 The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon

Books mentioned:
I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé by Michael Arceneaux
Taksi Hikayeleri by Ergün Gündüz (Taxi Tales in English, not Taxi Stories as I say in the video)
My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You by Aleksandar Hemon
The Wars by Timothy Finley

Video mentioned:
@perpetualpages on The World and All That It Holds: youtube.com/watch?v=eLCnDG_npAI

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Ancient Poetry 🇬🇷, War Memoirs 🇸🇾, Social Issues 🇲🇦, KidLit 🇺🇸, LitFic 🇧🇦

Remembered Reads 2023-02-12 | Fear not, the hibiscus in the background isn't dead, it's just gone dormant for the winter.

Books discussed & timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:15 Works and Days by Hesiod, translation & introduction by A.E. Stallings
02:23 The Pianist from Syria: A Memoir by Aeham Ahmad (and others), translated by Emanuel Bergmann
05:11 Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World by Leïla Slimani, translated by Sophie Lewis
07:53 Forged by the Fire by Sharon M Draper
10:04 From Nowhere to Nowhere by Bekim Sejranović, translated by Will Firth
13:44 Closing thoughts

Book mentioned in passing:
Crossing by Pajtim Statovci, translated by David Hackston
Ton fils Huckleberry Finn by Bekim Sejranović, translated by Chloé Billon

Readathon mentioned: #Historathon

It's #FridayReads on Sunday! ;)

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March Mystery Madness 2023: Announcement 🕵🏻‍♀️

Remembered Reads 2023-02-10 | That's right, friends! #MarchMysteryMadness is nearly upon us!

This year's theme is Spring Cleaning.
The prompts are:
Lather (ex: Read about a detective who is "cleaning up")
Rinse (ex: Read something on the cozier side of things or read a classic mystery)
Repeat (ex: Reread a book or read a book by an author you've read before)

But as always, no pressure to read on the theme or across the prompts. If it's a mystery, it counts! :)

Creators:
@lizziefayelovesbooks
@TowelTroi
Forum (Goodreads & Discord) host:
@Disis19Hearts (find the forums via: https://linktr.ee/MarchMysteryMadness)
Instagram host (that's me!)
@RememberedReads (follow: instagram.com/marchmysterymadness_allyear)

Co-hosts:
@Courtagonist
@katehowereads
@MarilynMayaMendoza
@saintdonoghue
@SoulStainedInk
@StormReads
@theBeachbumbookworm
@thebookishknitter
@timsreadingroom
@TooFondofBooksJH

Books mentioned:
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene
Dreadfulwater by Thomas King
Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanet Khan
Reckless: Follow Me Down by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips

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2022 Reading Statistics 📊 Page counts! Languages! Formats! And Agatha Christie percentages!

Remembered Reads 2023-01-30 | Apologies for some odd lighting and two awkward edits in this one.

Stats discussed & timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:29 Goodreads defaults
02:05 Storygraph defaults
05:55 What non-reading media did I consume in 2022?
08:33 Country & original language & gender
14:59 Agatha Christie, the most important stat
16:10 Slideshow of books read

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Time is a Mother, They Would Never Hurt a Fly, Year of the Tiger & Keorapetse Kgositsile 🇭🇷🇿🇦🇺🇸

Remembered Reads 2023-01-21 | Books discussed & timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:10 Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong, narrated by the author
01:43 Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018 by Keorapetse Kgositsile, edited by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers & Uhuru Phalafala
04:12 They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague by Slavenka Drakulić
08:50 Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
12:31 Outro

Other books mentioned:
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Endgame: The Betrayal And Fall Of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II by David Rohde
The Last Refuge: A True Story of War, Survival and Life Under Siege in Srebrenica by Hasan Nuhanović
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century, edited by Alice Wong

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Recent Reads: Heavy-Handed Messages & Unpopular Opinions 🇷🇼🇫🇷 🇲🇦🇪🇬🇦🇷

Remembered Reads 2023-01-16 | Feel free to tell me I'm wrong in the comments below! ;)

Books Discussed & timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:18 Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti
03:59 Un pays pour mourir by Abdellah Taïa/ A Country for Dying translated by Emma Ramadan
06:25 If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga, narrated by the author & Amin El Gamal
10:54 Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses

Books mentioned:
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga
Spring by Leila Rafei
Washes, Prays by Noor Naga
Shakespeare's Othello & The Taming of the Shrew
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

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The “What is Your Poetry?” Tag

Remembered Reads 2023-01-10 | It's #TagTuesday for the first time in months! ;)

Tag created by @MattWall Original: youtube.com/watch?v=POewK6HROYA

1. Do you prefer metaphor or simile
2. What is the most important element in a poem for you? Form / structure, meaning / feeing, sound / alliteration, assonance, consonance etc. you can’t say all! Lol
3. What is your favorite school / movement in poetry?
4. Since we see the world through a poets eyes, Does a poet have to live an interesting life for you to like their poetry
5. How does geography play into the poets you like, or does it at all?
6. Whitman said, “To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Bukowski said, “to have great audiences, you need great poets.”
I said, “unless you have great places for these two to meet it doesn’t matter.” what’s your take?
7. Who do you think has advanced poetry the most
8. since the rise of the moderns and free from verse over the last 50 years and more currently the rise of instapoetry, what movements of poetry do you think the future holds?

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Recent Reads: 🇨🇦 Poetry & YA, 🇫🇷🇩🇿 Historical Fiction, 🇩🇪🇧🇦 Autofiction & translation talk

Remembered Reads 2022-12-21 | Books Discussed & timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:18 You Still Look the Same by Farzana Doctor (narrated by the author)
02:17 Wrong Side of the Court by H.N. Khan
06:26 Nos richesses by Kaouther Adimi (Our Riches, translated by Chris Andrews)
09:43 Herkunft by Saša Stanišić (Where You Come From, translated by Damion Searls)
11:29 Translation discussion
15:45 Final thoughts

Also mentioned:
Six Metres of Pavement, All Inclusive & Seven by Farzana Doctor
Running Through Beijing by Xu Zechen, translated by Eric Abrahamsen
Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn
Ayiti by Roxanne Gay (French translation by Stanley Péan)

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Recent Nonfiction Reads: Translation, Disability, Gardens, Memoirs & More

Remembered Reads 2022-11-12 | Books discussed:
People Change by Vivek Shraya
Umbilical Cord by Hasan Namir
All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew & Square Foot Gardening Foundation
Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Also mentioned:
I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
God in Pink by Hasan Namir
War/Torn by Hasan Namir
Resistance by Julián Fuks, translated by Daniel Hahn
Jamás el fuego nunca/Never Did the Fire by Diamela Eltit, translated by Daniel Hahn
Herkunft/Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić, translated by Damion Searls
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#FridayReads on Saturday for #nonfictionnovember

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Nonfiction November 2022 TBR: History, Sports, Dogs, Plants, Translation & more

Remembered Reads 2022-10-26 | #NonfictionNovember is the brainchild of @abookolive - Check out her announcement video for the challenge prompts!

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:44 The Ugly Laws/Disability History
01:57 City of Lies/Life in Tehran
02:36 Football/Soccer Books
04:20 Balkan History Books
06:26 Peace and Its Discontents/the '90s Peace Process in Palestine
06:56 Salt Water/ Wandering Catalonia
07:39 Praying to the West/Islam in the Americas
08:38 Dog Books
11:10 Gardening Books
13:12 Catching Fire/The Process of Translation
14:33 The Future is Disabled
15:46 Ending thoughts

Publisher mentioned:
Charco Press

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Booktube Prize Final Round: Nonfiction 2022

Remembered Reads 2022-10-08 | The @BookTubePrize is a project of @Robert.Sheard

Books discussed & timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:32 Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II by Daniel James Brown
03:16 Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
05:24 Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
09:40 How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
16:11 A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
19:19 Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, with a foreword by Bryan Stevenson by Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly
22:39 Rankings

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Recent Reads: The Art of Peace 🇯🇵 Marathon 🇫🇷 Rain in Tangier 🇲🇦Running Through Beijing 🇨🇳

Remembered Reads 2022-09-24 | Books discussed:
The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba, translated and edited by John Stevens
Marathon by Nicolas Debon, translated by
Tangier in the Rain by Fabien Grolleau & Abdel de Bruxelles , translated by Dan Christensen
Running Through Beijing by Xu Zechen, translated by Eric Abrahamsen

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Short stories 🇪🇬 🇲🇰, poetic essays 🇵🇸, romance 🇺🇸 & a picture book 🇫🇷

Remembered Reads 2022-09-12 | Books discussed:
Blaze and the Castle Cake for Bertha Daye by Claude Ponti, translated by Alyson Waters & Margot Kerlidou
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
My Husband by Rumena Bužarovska, translated by Paul Filev
The Cheapest Nights by Yusuf Idris, translated by Wadida Wassef
Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Ibrahim Muhawi

Publisher mentioned: archipelagobooks.org

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Recent Reads: Poetic Ecology, Bosnian Autofiction, an Audiobook & a tiny GarbAugust Haul

Remembered Reads 2022-08-29 | Books discussed:
Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi, narrated by the author
All Art is Ecological by Timothy Morton
Call Me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujić, translated by Jennifer Zoble

Books Hauled:
Sharpe's Assassin (Sharpe #21) by Bernard Cornwell
Wild Rain (Women Who Dare #2) by Beverly Jenkins

New Yorker article mentioned:
Timothy Morton's Hyper Pandemic (newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/timothy-mortons-hyper-pandemic)

Channel mentioned:
@myreadinglife8816

Readathon Checklist:
#WomenInTranslation
#ExYuLit
#garbaugust

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“Fun trash” is a love song, not an insult. A GarbAugust Ramble

Remembered Reads 2022-08-14 | A rambling chat about how I define trash, in honour of #GarbAugust

Covering everything from media tie-ins, romance, spy thrillers, military historical fiction & mysteries, with an aside about the joy of trashy covers on serious books.

Please note that I will be spoiling the endings of Rogue One and The English Patient in this.

Channels mentioned:
@CriminOllyBlog
@Shellyish
@BookishTexan
@SpringboardThought
@GunpowderFictionPlot

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Recent Reads: NYC Comics, Poetry, Short Stories, Chefs of Dictators & Algerian Writers in Wartime

Remembered Reads 2022-08-07 | Books discussed & time stamps:
00:00 intro
00:16 Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast
01:43 The Tradition by Jericho Brown, narrated by J.D. Jackson
03:30 Daylight by Roya Marsh, narrated by the author
04:38 Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories by Norma Dunning
06:29 How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks by Witold Szabłowski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
09:43 Algerian White by Assia Djebar, translated by David Kelley & Marjolijn De Jager

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Booktube Prize: Translated Fiction Semifinal Group B - and a Rant

Remembered Reads 2022-08-01 | Get ready for a rant.

And check out the official @BookTubePrize channel for the finalists. And shout-out to @Robert.Sheard for coming up with it all. #booktubeprize

Books discussed & Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:25 My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović, translated by Celia Hawkesworth
02:52 Brickmakers by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
04:47 The Survivors by Alex Schulman, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
07:04 The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina, translated by Lucy Rand
09:34 Heaven by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd
11:46 Disquiet by Zülfü Livaneli, translated (and more, apparently) by Brendan Freely
13:45 Rant begins
18:07 Rankings

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The Booktube Numbers Tag

Remembered Reads 2022-07-26 | I was tagged by @bouquinsbooks and the tag was created by @jimsbooksreadingandstuff

The prompts & timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:22 1. What was your first Booktube video?
01:02 2. How many books are you currently reading?
01:28 3. What were the Top 3 books you read last year?
02:45 4. How many books did you read last year?
03:01 5. How many books have you rated as 5 stars this year?
04:43 6. Do you have a reading target for this year?
05:00 Are you on track?
05:10 7. How many pages long is the book you are reading now?
06:05 Do you have a favourite number?
06:31 Last Question: Do you have a book on your shelves with a number in the title or on the cover?

Books mentioned:
Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov, translated by James Riordan
In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Sinan Antoon
Quiet Flows the Una by Faruk Šehić, translated by Will Firth
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, translated by Barbara Vedder & Michael Kandel
Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985 by James Baldwin
Occupation by Julián Fuks, translated by Daniel Hahn
Twists of Fate by Paco Roca, traslated by Erica Mena
Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić, translated by Damion Searls
Nine Alexandrias by Semezdin Mehmedinović, translated by Ammiel Alcalay

#TagTuesday time! ;)

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The Atwood Adventures Tag (by a grumpy non-fan 😂)

Remembered Reads 2022-07-20 | Tag created by @BookwormAdventureGirl
Tagged by @BernasBookishAdventures and @booksimnotreading

While creating the timestamps I realized that I forgot to do questions 5 and 9. Sorry!

00:00 Introduction
The Prompts:
01:07 1. Before publishing her first collection of poetry in the early 60’s Margaret Atwood had several other jobs including working at summer camps. What was your first job?
01:43 2. While growing up, Margaret Atwood’s family spent several months each year living in the bush in northern Ontario. What is a survival skill that you have that would help you survive living off the grid?
02.44 3. Margaret Atwood grew up reading comic books. Do you have a favourite comic book or comic book character?
04:05 4. Margaret Atwood is not only a poet and author, she has also illustrated books and shown her creativity in so many other ways. What are some ways that you are creative?
5. Some of Margaret Atwood’s writing is inspired by myths, folktales and fairy tales. What is your favourite myth, folktale or fairy tale and why?
05:29 6. Margaret Atwood’s most well known novel is The Handmaid’s Tale. What is a task or chore you wish you had a maid or servant for?
06:01 7. The themes Margaret Atwood writes about have stayed consistent in all her writing for over 6 decades. She writes about the role of men and women in society, relationships, religion, marriage, and identity to name a few. If Atwood were to write a novel about you, what are some themes she would need to include?
06:598. Margaret Atwood has created words for her novels. She has talked about how this makes it difficult for translators of her work. Do you have a favourite word? Why is it your favourite?
9. Margaret Atwood was born in Canada and lives in Canada now, but she has also lived in other countries like the United States, England, France, Germany and Scotland. What countries have you lived in and/or what is another country you would like to live in?
07:32 10. Margaret Atwood is an advocate for caring for the earth; What is something you do to help take care of our planet?
08:02 11. Margaret Atwood is passionate about animal rights and some of her writing has included animals and reflections on animals. What is a topic that you are passionate about?
08:53 12. Margaret Atwood is supportive of new authors in a variety of ways. Who is a newer author and/or what debut novel do you wish more people knew about?
09:52 13. Tag some of your favourite booktubers.

Books mentioned:
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Lunch With by Jan Wong
Preacher by Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
Wrong Side of the by Court HN Khan

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Recent Reads: On Writing, Manga, Brazilian Autofiction, & Syrian Stories

Remembered Reads 2022-07-17 | Books discussed & time stamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:13 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
02:07 Our Colors by Gengoroh Tagame, translated from the Japanese by Anne Ishii
05:14 Occupation by Julián Fuks, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
08:51 Hakim's Odyssey: Book 1: From Syria to Turkey by Fabien Toulmé, translated from the French by Hannah Chute
11:55 Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price

Also mentioned:
My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame, translated by Anne Ishii
L'Odyssée d'Hakim: De la Turquie à la Grèce by Fabien Toulmé
Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais by Fabien Toulmé

Channel mentioned: @browngirlreading

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The Mid-Year Freak Out Tag 2022 | A Booktube Tradition

Remembered Reads 2022-07-04 | This tag was created by Chami (formerly of Read Like Wildfire) and Ely of @EarlGreyBooks

Questions:
1. Best book you’ve read so far.
2. Best sequel you've read so far.
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.
8. Newest fictional crush.
9. Newest favourite character.
10. Book that made you cry.
11. Book that made you happy.
12. Favourite book to film adaptation you saw this year.
13. Favourite video you have done so far this year.
14. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received).
15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?

Books mentioned:
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
Twists of Fate by Paco Roca
Some Other War by Linda Newberry
The Good Girls by Sonia Faleiro
Reckless: The Ghost in You by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg by Emily Rapp Black
Zayd Saleem: Chasing the Dream by Hena Khan
Parade's End by Ford Maddox Ford

It's a #Booktube tradition - and we're doing #TagTuesday on a Monday. ;)

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The #StandWithTransKids Book Tag

Remembered Reads 2022-06-28 | I had some microphone issues that made my responses to the music and charity questions unusable, so there's concert footage and a screenshot replacing those bits. Sorry! Still, it's my first #TagTuesday in what feels like ages!

Tag created by @pdxleo
I was tagged by @SpringboardThought and @FullyBookedMelissa
Charity mentioned: rainbowrailroad.org

Questions & timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:31 1. Tag some fabulous friends who also may want to do this tag and #standwithtranskids
00:41 2. Tell us about some books on your tbr pile featuring a trans/non-binary character or nonfiction about trans/non-binary stuff
01:33 3. Recommend a favorite book/show/movie featuring a trans/non-binary character
01:59 4. Everyone has their own journey and no one demographic is a monolith. Recommend a book with a journey (however you define that)
03:07 5. None of us knows everything – even about our own identities – especially since we’re not a monolith and each have our own journey – what is a book that taught you something either about yourself or the world around you?
04:25 6. When things are hard in the world or in our lives, sometimes we there are things we can do to help center and refocus ourselves, to bring joy, to keep us going, to keep living, resisting, being our authentically amazing selves. What are things you do to center yourself or find joy?
05:26 7. What’s your walk-on music – or your feel at home in your body music?
05:32 Musical interlude
06:21 8. Finding mentors, people of wisdom, or heroes can be another way to help us navigate life. Who are some of your mentors? Can you share something they taught you or inspired you to learn more about?
07:07 9. Who are some out trans/non-binary booktubers, instagrammers, authors, actors, etc who you’d like to shoutout?
08:58 10. What are some organizations you’d like to shout out for supporting trans kids/trans folks?

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Recent Reads: Memoirs, Kid Lit, Crime & Dystopian Comics & more

Remembered Reads 2022-06-22 | I repeatedly refer to "Solid Ivory" as "Pure Ivory" in here; Apologies for that!

Books discussed/timestamps:
00:00 Into & Booktube Prize chat
00:29 Reckless: The Ghost in You by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
01:57 Letter to Survivors by Gébé, translated by Edward Gauvin
04:04 Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream by Hena Khan with illustrations by Sally Wern Comport
07:25 Dogs by Mark Alizart, translated by Robin McKay
08:57 The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing
10:40 Solid Ivory: Memories by James Ivory, narrated by the author

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Recent Reads: Essays, Memory, Genocide Memoirs & Nature Writing

Remembered Reads 2022-06-08 | Books mentioned:
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985 by James Baldwin
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova, narrated by the author
The Democracy of Species by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Night by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel
Survivor: The triumph of an ordinary man in the Khmer Rouge genocide by Chum Mey, translated by Sim Sorya & Kimsroy Sokvisal
Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh

#FirdayReads on Wednesday? ;)

The Price of the Ticket reading group:
@AlwaysDoing
@BookishTexan
@bookwhimsy
@seriela
@radreads3269
@nashwas5761

Readathon Checklist:
#Springathon - The Democracy of Species, Palestinian Walks
#Asianreadathon - Survivor, Palestinian Walks

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Recent Reads: Novels, Stories & Nonfiction in Translation from the Spanish (🇦🇷 🇬🇹 🇨🇺 🇪🇸)

Remembered Reads 2022-06-01 | Books mentioned:
Fate by Jorge Consiglio, translated by Carolina Orloff & Fionn Petch
Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes, translated by Ellen C. Jones
Feebleminded by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Carolina Orloff & Annie McDermott
Before Night Falls: A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Dolores M Koch
Frank: The Story of a Forgotten Dictatorship by Ximo Abadía, translated by Esther Villardon Grande

Channels mentioned:
@JentheLibrarianreads
@SupposedlyFun

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Stocking the School Library 2022

Remembered Reads 2022-05-13 | Join me on a trip to the Toronto School Resource Fair, the book sale for school librarians (thanks to my school librarian sister-in-law for letting me come along - Cheers, Tash!).

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The Paris Book Tag

Remembered Reads 2022-05-07 | I was tagged by Ann Novella: youtube.com/watch?v=bZpb6m3q0KE
This tag was created by @jimsbooksreadingandstuff
I'm tagging @bookwhimsy

Apologies for any sound issues today, I positioned the microphone poorly. :(

The prompts
1. What was the last book you read set in Paris?
2. What words can't be translated into English?
3. Do you have a favorite book in translation?
4. Have you read books in other languages?
5. Jules Verne studied at law school in Paris. Do you have a favorite book by Jules Verne?
6. Do you have a favorite movie set in Paris?
7. Do you have a favorite French car?
8. Have you been to Paris? When was the last time you visited Paris?
9. Do you have a favorite French Painter or a painting set in Paris?
10. Do you have a favorite French writer?

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Recent Reads: Brazilian Modernism, Soviet-Kyrgyz Theatre, Emperors & Concentration Camps

Remembered Reads 2022-05-01 | Books mentioned:
A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar, translated by Stefan Tobler
The Ascent of Mount Fuji: A Play by Chingiz Aitmatov & Kaltai Mukhamedzhanov, translated by Nicholas Bethell
Conversations With Stalin by Milovan Đilas, translated by Michael Petrovich
The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William R. Brand & Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, translated by Barbara Vedder

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Recent Reads: Bengali Poetry, Senegal 1980, Belgium 1914, Japan 1955, Bosnia 1992

Remembered Reads 2022-04-23 | Books mentioned:
Acrobat by Nabaneeta Dev Sen, translated by Nandana Dev Sen
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas
A Woman's Experiences In The Great War by Louise Mack
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno, translated by
The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia by Rezak Hukanović, translated by Ammiel Alcalay & Midhat Ridjanović

I neglected to film any pages from Town of Evening Calm, but if you're curious, @LiterallyGraphic did a full flip through here: youtube.com/watch?v=TCggISRAGQg

Only one day late with the #FridayReads this week! ;)

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The Fab Four Book Tag

Remembered Reads 2022-04-17 | I was tagged by @TheCodeXCantina
Tag created by @tomlabooks3263

1.“I just fell out of bed, found out what key I had dreamed it in… and I played it”, Paul McCartney (about “Yesterday”).
A book that you dreamed about or that inspired one of your dreams.
2.“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, John Lennon
A book that talks about drugs or that was written under the influence of drugs.
3.“We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool”, Ringo Starr.
A book about someone who had far more success than what they expected, or a book that was much more successful than what the author expected.
4.“Sitting on a cornflake / waiting for the van to come”, John Lennon.
A surreal book (or a book with some surreal elements) that you enjoyed.
5. The White Album.
A book you loved that: a. has a minimalist cover, or b. is written in a minimalist style.
6. "Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter / Here comes the sun”, George Harrison.
A book of poetry that you found uplifting.
7. A day in the life.
An experimental book that’s very uncommon for its content or format, and yet it works well.
8. "Over half of Americans who are 45 and older attribute the Beatles’ split to Yoko Ono".
A book about a woman (or, if you can’t think of one, a man) who is unjustly blamed or accused of something.
9.“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns / And calls me on and on across the universe “, John Lennon.
A book that opened your mind and made you think of the universe in a new way, either physically or spiritually.
10. “Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be”, Paul McCartney.
A book that you found very powerful and moving despite its apparent simplicity.

Video mentioned:
The Beetles "Letter B" - youtube.com/watch?v=WmVd9F1fW00

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Recent Reads for March Mystery Madness 2022

Remembered Reads 2022-04-08 | Books mentioned::

Miss Marple's Last Cases: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
The Pale Horse: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
The £199 Adventure by Agatha Christie, adapted by Mike Stott, acted by Richard Griffiths, Chris Langham & Rebecca Front
Yellow Iris: A Short Story by Agatha Christie, narrated by Hugh Fraser
The Flower Master by Sujata Massey
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
Jessica Blandy - Volume 1: Remember Enola Gay by Dufaux & Renaud, translated by
Blood Tally (Valkyrie Collections #2) by Brian McClellan

#FridayReads on Friday for once! ;)

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Check out the full lists of founders and co-hosts of #MarchMysteryMadness below!

MMM Social media list: https://linktr.ee/MarchMysteryMadness

MMM Co-Creators:
@LizziefayeLovesBooks
@Troi Towel

Co-hosts:
Angie Rose, Nomad
@Courtagonist
Disis19 Hearts
Elizabeth Tyree (Soul Stained Ink)
@Latin Lector
@Pretty Brown Eye Reader
Remembered Reads (me!)
@Steve Donoghue
Storm Reads
The Beachbumbookworm
@The Bookish Bryants
@The Bookish Knitter
@Too Fond of Books
World of Sleuths