What I Read in June [CC]Fully Booked2023-07-05 | A definite high and low this month. Read any of these?
π Books π Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones An Immense World by Ed Yong, audiobook narrated by the author You Died, edited by Kel McDonald
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π Books mentionedπ EVE, by Cat Bohannon How to Say Babylon, by Safiya Sinclair King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig Master Slave Husband Wife, by Ilyon Woo The Underworld, by Susan Casey We Were Once a Family, by Roxanna Asgarian
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π Books mentionedπ Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen, Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro Royal Assassin, by Robin Hobb The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain All Quiet of the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst, by Katie Lumsden Moon of the Turning Leaves, by Waubgeshig Rice John Dies at the End, by Jason Pargin
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π Books mentionedπ The Sleeping Car Porter, by Suzette Mayr The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
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Books MenBooktube Prize Semifinals: Nonfiction Group AFully Booked2024-08-01 | I had a fabulous group of books this round. Did you judge this round? What did you read?
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π Books mentionedπ Redshirts, by John Scalzi Run Towards the Danger, by Sarah Polley The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin The Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams The Electric State, by Simon Stalenhag Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life, by Anna Funder We Were Once a Family, by Roxanne Asgarian
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The Socials: π· Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa π Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton π The Story Graph: melissafultonJane Austen July TBR [CC]Fully Booked2024-06-27 | My reading and watching plans for #janeaustenjuly What are you reading?
The Socials: π· Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa π Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton π The Story Graph: melissafulton(the rest of) What I Read in May [CC]Fully Booked2024-06-11 | sneaking in two final books
π Books mentionedπ The Underworld by Susan Casey The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
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π Books mentionedπ The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie Flee North by Scott Shane The Lumumba Plot by Stuart A. Reid The Wager by David Grann We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian Wifedom by Anna Funder
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π Books mentionedπ The Lumumba Plot by Stuart A. Reid The Wager by David Grann The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam The Electric State by Simon StΓ₯lenhag Birds Without Wings by Louis de BerniΓ¨res Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle They by Kay Dick
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π Books mentionedπ Jillian Jiggs by Phoebe Gilman Dress Like a Girl by Patricia Toht and Lorian Tu-Dean If You Were Night by Muon Thi Van and Kelly Pousette The Way Home in the Night by Akiko Miyakoshi Blackout by John Rocco Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o and Vashti Harrison Pigs by Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko The Old Woman and the Eagle by Idries Shah Finding Wild by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Abigail Halpin Florette by Anna Walker This Beautiful Day by Richard Jackson and Suzy Lee Red: a Crayon's Story by Michael Hall Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson and Sophie Blackall The Dam by David Almond and Levi Pinfold
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The Socials: π· Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa π Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton π The Story Graph: melissafultonA TBR Clear Out Reading Vlog [CC]Fully Booked2024-04-25 | #TBRClearOut So happy to get a few things off my TBR. Thanks to Katie for organizing the readathon!
π Books mentionedπ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle Based on a True Story by Norm MacDonald Birds Without Wings by Louis de BerniΓ¨res The Electric State by Simon StΓ₯lenhag Stardust by Neil Gaiman Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
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π΅"Full Moon" Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): uppbeat.io/t/wisanga/full-moon License code: JDJNHO6HQQPDDGULA very mid reading month | What I Read in March [CC]Fully Booked2024-04-04 | Basically, a bunch of 3-star books.
π Books mentionedπ Six Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley The Cutting Season by Attica Locke, narrated by Quincy Tyler Berstine The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams Heidi by Johanna Spyri Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend, narrated by Gemma Whelan
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π Books mentionedπ Six Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley The Cutting Season by Attica Locke The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
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#marchmysterymadnessWhat I Read in February [CC]Fully Booked2024-03-11 | What was your favourite book you read this month?
π Books mentionedπ A Room With a View by EM Forster Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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π Books mentionedπ Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg Kindred by Octavia E. Butler The Book of Night Women by Marlon James The Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams
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π Books mentionedπ Redshirts by John Scalzi Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
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π Books mentionedπ Peyakow by Darrel J. McLeod, narrated by William C. Wanzi Saga Vol. 5 & 6 by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy Last Christmas at Ballyclare by Emily Bell, narrated by Breffni Holahan Wicked by Gregory Maguire Sandman Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Sam Kieth
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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford & The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Both reviewed in my November wrap-up: youtube.com/watch?v=xxpD4wC33Ng
The Socials: π· Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa π Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton π The Story Graph: melissafultonReflecting on my Reading Year 2023 | My Thoughts, Stats & Goals Update [CC]Fully Booked2023-12-31 | See you next year! π₯
π Books mentionedπ Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
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The Socials: π· Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa π Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton π The Story Graph: melissafultonThe Booktube Spin #8 [CC]Fully Booked2023-12-08 | Booktube Spin is back!!! I've got a stack on 20 books I should have read by now:
1) Death on Earth 2) Wild Swans 3) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4) Against the Web 5) Soonish 6) Made to Order 7) Contact 8) The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul 9) Redshirts 10) Axiom's End 11) Unfinished Tales 12) Graveyard Book 13) Hunted 14) Wyrd Sisters 15) The Fifth Season 16) Anatomy of a Murder 17) The Bobcat 18) Hollow Kingdom 19) The Strongman and the Mermaid 20) D: A Tale of Two Worlds
The Socials: π· Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa π Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton π The Story Graph: melissafultonWhat I Read in November [CC]Fully Booked2023-12-05 | Solid reading month, if not a little slow. What's the best book you read in November?
π Books mentionedπ Gilead by Marilynne Robinson The Year of the Floor by Margaret Atwood Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford, narrated by the author Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Prompts: 1. What was your first experience reading nonfiction? 2. Has the reading of a work of nonfiction ever brought you to tears? 3. Are there any people who have played a significant role in your nonfiction journey? 4. Do you enjoy documentaries? Do you have a favorite? Is there a subject youβd like to see discussed on film? (That is, what should Ken Burns film next?) 5. Have you read a biography about (or memoir of) a person with whom you identify? 6. Read aloud a short passage you love from a work of nonfiction. 7. Do any works of nonfiction intimidate you? Which ones and why? 8. What tips would you give to people hesitant to read nonfiction? 9. What are your favorite works of nonfiction? 10. Tag other Booktubers.What I Read in October [CC]Fully Booked2023-11-07 | No recommendations this month, folks.
π Books mentionedπ Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, narrated by Adepero Oduye Endless Night by Agatha Christie, narrated by Hugh Fraser
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#strayaseptember #shortyseptember4 Plotless Novels? | What I Read in August [CC]Fully Booked2023-09-10 | I haven't been on Booktube much these last few months, but I am still reading!
π Books mentionedπ The Red Pony by John Steinbeck Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph, narrated by the author Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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[CC available by August 9th; sorry I can't get to them sooner!]
π Books rankedπ 1. My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden, narrated by Aoife McMahon 2. Half American by Matthew F. Delmont, narrated by William DeMeritt 3. Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino 4. The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris 5. Paradise Falls by Keith O'Brien, narrated by Eileen Stevens 6. The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Questions: 1. Best book youβve 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 (or received) so far this year. 15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
π₯ Channels mentioned π₯ Books and Things: @katiejlumsden
π Books mentionedπ Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Sourcery by Terry Pratchett The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice You Died, ed. by Andrea Purcell and Kel McDonald Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas Greenwood by Michael Christie The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
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[The subject of Why Fish Don't Exist is David Starr Jordan.]
π Books mentionedπ Greenwood by David Christie Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller, narrated by the author All Systems Red by Martha Wells, narrated by Kevin R. Free Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Passing by Nella Larsen
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π Books mentionedπ Beloved by Toni Morrison War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Illiad / The Odyssey by Homer I, Claudius by Robert Graves
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π§ Books mentionedπ§ Echo by Pam MuΓ±oz Ryan, narrated by Mark Bramhall, David de Vries, Andrews MacLeod, Rebecca Soler Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese, narrated by Tom Stechschulte Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, narrated by Tantoo Cardinal Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith, read by the author I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya, read by the author Know My Name by Chanel Miller, read by the author
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π Books mentionedπ Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (narrated by Avi Roque) Echo by Pam MuΓ±oz Ryan (narrated by Rebecca Soler, Mark Bramhall, David de Vries, and MacLeod Andrews) The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
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π Books mentionedπ Blood and Ruins by Richard Overy The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland Also a Poet by Ada Calhoun Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa Read Dangerously by Azar Nafasi Burial Rites by Hannah Kent The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne Duprau The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
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Let's be pals: π· Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa π Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton π The Story Graph: melissafultonBooktube Prize Wrap-up: Octofinals Nonfiction Group H [CC]Fully Booked2023-04-01 | My thoughts on the booktube prize books for nonfiction group H.
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:12 Also a Poet 5:40 The Escape Artist 11:10 Blood and Ruins 15:12 Keats 17:24 His Name is George Floyd 20:42 Read Dangerously 27:03 Ranking the books
π Books mentionedπ Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me - Ada Calhoun The Escape Artist - Jonathan Freedland (narrated by the author) Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 - Richard Overy Keats: a Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph - Lucasta Miller (narrated by Sally Scott) His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice - Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
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π Books mentionedπ The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau (narrated by Becky Ann Baker) The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson (narrated by Brefny Caribou) A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
Let's be pals: π· Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa π Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton π The Story Graph: melissafultonBurial Rites by Hannah Kent | Spoiler-free book review [CC]Fully Booked2023-03-19 | Just a few of my thoughts on Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. Please share your opinion if you've read the book!
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I tag: @MargaretPinard @jimsbooksreadingandstuff @PageTurnersWithKatja
Questions: WHO: Who just gets you? (Author, character, booktuber, etc.) WHAT: What about your favourite genre interests you the most / makes it your favourite genre? WHERE: Where in time and space is your favourite setting? WHEN: When a part gets intense, hilarious, or emotional, do you have a strong reaction? (If youβve got a funny/embarrassing story to go along with that answer, that would be great.) WHY: Why do you read? HOW: Do you bother trying to predict where the plot is going and guess the plot twists? If so, how good are you at doing so?
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Forgot to mention that I buddy read The Sentimentalists with Lindy and Sarah and it really enriched the reading experience. Would recommend reading it for book club or as a buddy read - it's the type of novel that generates great discussion.
π Books mentionedπ There but for the by Ali Smith The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud (narrated by Celeste Ciulla) Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (narrated by the author) Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (narrated by Robin Miles) The Arrival by Shaun Tan Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Tag Questions: Q1. You have 20,000 books on your TBR. How in the world do you decide what to read next? Q2. Youβre halfway through a book and youβre just not loving it. Do you quit or are you committed? Q3. The end of the year is coming and youβre so close, but so far away on your Goodreads reading challenge. Do you try to catch up and how? Q4. The covers of a series you love do. not. match. How do you cope? Q5. Every one and their mother loves a book you really donβt like. Who do you bond with over shared feelings? Q6. Youβre reading a book and you are about to start crying in public. How do you deal? Q7. A sequel of a book you loved just came out, but youβve forgotten a lot from the prior novel. Will you re-read the book? Skip the sequel? Try to find a synopsis on Goodreads? Cry in frustration?!?!?!? Q8. You do not want anyone. ANYONE. borrowing your books. How do you politely tell people nope when they ask? Q9. Reading ADD. Youβve picked up and put down 5 books in the last month. How do you get over your reading slump? Q10. There are so many new books coming out that youβre dying to read! How many do you actually buy? Q11. After youβve bought the new books you canβt wait to get to, how long do they sit on your shelf before you get to them?
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Iβm on the World Wide Web π π· Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa π Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton π The Story Graph: melissafultonLive Q & A for my Booktube Birthday!Fully Booked2023-02-20 | Please join me live as I celebrate my 3rd year on booktube.
Thank you to everyone to submitted a question and said so many nice things. You guys are swell!Fully Booked Live StreamFully Booked2023-02-13 | ...Reflections on 3 Years of Booktube + Q & A announcement! [CC]Fully Booked2023-02-12 | I'm usually not the begging type, but I am begging you to post questions and to come to the livestream if you can, as it would really cheer me up... On my actually birthday (which happened after I recorded this video), I was rejected for a job that was tailor-made for my skillset/experience, that I desperately wanted, and honestly... that I desperately needed. Suffice it to say, it ruined my birthday for me. So, to move on from my crappy real birthday, I'd love to celebrate my booktube birthday with as many booktube buddies as possible. β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈWhat I Read in January [CC]Fully Booked2023-02-05 | Best book you read in January?
π Books mentionedπ Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb Fabled Passages by Margaret Pinard Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Iβm on the World Wide Web π π· Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa π Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton π The Story Graph: melissafulton5 thoughts on Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Non-spoiler discussion [CC]Fully Booked2023-02-01 | Please share any thoughts you had if you've read this book!
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Iβm on the World Wide Web π π· Instagram: @fully.booked.melissa π Goodreads: goodreads.com/melissafulton π The Story Graph: melissafultonReading and Channel Goals for 2023 [CC]Fully Booked2023-01-15 | Here's to a great reading year!
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