⭐️ MID YEAR BOOK FREAK OUT TAG 2021 ⭐️

well hello everyone it is april and today i'm doing the mid-year book freak out tag i cannot believe we're already halfway through the year let's dive into it before we move forward couple things to address uh nora is home she is downstairs making a lot of noise so you might hear a little screaming a little i don't know she's playing so you'll probably hear nora in the background also we need to address my mouth i got invisalign last week and my mouth is adjusting i'm learning how to speak again it feels like you can't really see it but you can kind of see it these little nubs all over my teeth and it does feel like you have something in your mouth so yeah i i'm just i'm gonna speak a little strangely today so i hope you don't mind getting used to it let's dive into the tag the first question is what is the best book that you've read so far in 2021 interestingly enough there have not been that many five star reads i imagine that there was going to be more five star reads however i think i'd probably have to go with the pull of the stars by emma donohue i really thought this book was beautiful this is a pandemic book this is about the great flu of 1918 and we follow a nurse in dublin and she is there taking care of these women who are about to go into uh labor they're on the maternity ward she is taking care of them and we follow her and the patients over the span of three days now there is not a lot of help at this time the men are at war for the most part uh world war one is very much going on in this time and she is kind of on her own taking care of these women luckily she does receive some help someone has volunteered and so it's these two women trying to take care of these of these women who are about to give birth i will say it doesn't shy away from hard things so not all the women are doing okay not all of the babies are doing okay so if that is going to upset you uh this is something that you should probably shy away from for now until you feel like you want to read it but i thought the character development was incredible it was so well researched emma donahue did her research when it comes to the medical practices of the time like you i really felt like i was watching a nurse in 1918 doing her thing i could see her you know disinfecting the the um materials that she's using the instruments like i could i could see everything it was incredible it also showed her trying to be professional but also trying to be caring for these women i just thought this was one of the best books i've ever read by the end of it i was very emotional because as i said not everybody's doing okay uh and it was heartwarming at times as well that was something that i actually didn't see coming was how much how heartwarming it could actually be so i loved the pull of the stars i would definitely say that's the best book i've read so far the second question is what is the best sequel that you've read in 2021 and for me this is the whispering skull in the lockwood and co series the lockwood and co series thanks to leanne from literature versions who totally got me on to this whole series uh really was incredible and such a wonderful pleasant surprise the whole series follows this group of kids and they live in a world in which ghosts are kind of taken over everything gets kind of ground to a halt in the world and the adults can't see the ghosts because they're like too distant from it i don't know what it is but adults can't see ghosts but kids and young teenagers can and so we've got lockwood and co lockwood is at the helm he owns the company and he has a group of people who work for him who essentially go off to fight ghosts and it's so much fun and the dynamics between them all is very fun and funny they're incredibly witty there are some scary bits in here which i didn't expect really well i guess i should have expected that because it's a ghost story but it's y a so i didn't really expect to be you know creeped out sometimes and i was pleasantly surprised oh my goodness question number three is a new release that you have not read yet but wants to read and i'm happy to say this is the july book club pick for uh getting hooker with it over on patreon we're gonna read survive the night by riley sagar together i am so excited to read this book so this takes place in 1991 so it's a bit of a throwback a bit of nostalgia which i love and i'm here for we follow a woman who is in college and she's on the way home driving home for thanksgiving or something like that and she's signed up for this like ride uh ride group or ride share something along those lines where like you you go to a board and you say okay i need a ride home at this time i'm going this direction and then you're matched with someone on campus so she's matched with this guy named josh and he's behind the wheel they're kind of making small talk and over the course of the drive she starts to think i think this guy might have something strange with him and she has very good reason to worry there is a killer on campus uh it's a serial killer i think he's killed three or four girls so far and her best friend was one of those victims as she goes along the ride of her life uh she really suspects that he is the killer and she just has to survive the night yes i just absolutely i will read this i desperately want to read this uh so i'll be doing that in july question number four is what is your most anticipated release for the second half of the year this is a little bit hard for me because colson whitehead is coming out with a book i think in september or october uh but i went with the new grady hendrix book coming out in july this is the final girl support group and i i just absolutely adore grady hendrix in this book we follow a group of women who have in the past survived some sort of massacre in which they were the only survivors that's why they're called final girls and i think in the course of the last 20 years they've really bonded together they've really held each other up um and over the course of the book you find out that someone is seeking them out one by one and wants to i think bring them all down i'm assuming someone's gonna try and kill them all it sounds like so much fun it is again i think also a bit nostalgic i think it takes place in the 90s i could be wrong about that but i think it's going to be wonderful it's grady hendrix so i i trust him question number five what was the biggest disappointment that you've read i'm sorry to say it was mexican gothic i really wanted to love this book like genuinely this has been sitting on my shelves for so long for too long and i just thought it was gonna be a five star read for me did i even i think i might have had this on my five star predictions i didn't give it five stars i think i gave it two so mexican gothic i'll tell you what it's about it's a gothic story where you follow a woman who receives a letter from her cousin who's recently married has gone away to this man's home which is like huge and he's very rich it seems and um she received this letter and it's like come and get me everything is bad everything is bad come and get me i need out of here so she basically goes to her rescue and for me the feeling of this for myself was the atmosphere and the tension it felt like both were lacking for me i wanted more atmosphere there was a tiny bit of it at the beginning um but it kind of vanished for me and i just didn't feel like i knew this house i didn't feel like i was walking through this grand home or the grounds you know i i'm used to daphne du maurier so i know the like the expectations are very high however it just wasn't working for me and i i also didn't feel like i was really attached to any characters uh the tension as i said before was really not there for me i felt like i don't know i felt like there was no lead up to a dramatic scene it was just like here it is deal with it and i i want the tension i want the lead up to the drama and to the scary to the scary scenes i just i wanted more and it didn't do it for me very sad times question number six what was your biggest surprise of the year and for me this was leave the world behind by ruman alam this is a post-apocalyptic like in the midst of an apocalyptic story where you follow a family who have gone to a cottage they have rented a cottage they go and strange things start happening i think there's like a very loud noise and people just don't know what it is and it's very clear that something huge has happened in the world like something like bombs being dropped like catastrophic things are happening in the world but they just don't know what it is a couple do arrive at their doorstep in the midst of this in the middle of the night they say this is actually our cottage we heard this thing we decided to stay away from the city and come to our house can you let us in and so it's this uh kind of awkward dynamic between the two families and trying to figure out what's going on and the thing that i loved about it is that not knowing if there's someone who needs to know this is not the book for you because you never know like there's no bow at the end you know you have no idea what's going on the whole time but i could not stop thinking about this book i needed to know and even though i didn't find out i was pleasantly surprised by this book question number seven is favorite new author that you discovered this year and for me this was absolutely uh darcy coates i read the haunting of ashburn house i'm currently reading her book that is coming out in september i've got an arc of it and she writes uh haunted house stories essentially she writes ghosty stories they're incredibly eerie incredibly creepy now i'm not saying that this is the best writing i've ever read absolutely not however i am scared while reading these books which is not always easy to do for me i find it comforting so i know i have a whole lot of book like she has a huge backlist i know that i can go to those books and enjoy a little scary haunted house story so she's been a wonderful author to discover this year and so i have to say darcy goats question number eight what is your newest fictional crush i i just every year i say the same thing i just don't do that i am a 40 year old woman and and for some reason i just don't get crushy about characters and books i i wish i did i wish i did because i think that would bring me a little joy in my reading experience i just couldn't think of anything also i read uh mostly kind of nasty books where people are not always likable you know what i mean like if i was crushing on some of these uh characters i think there might be something wrong with me so yeah no nothing nothing question number nine who is your newest favorite character and i had to say george from lockwood and co he is lockwood's kind of right-hand man works with lockwood and i just loved him he's very bright and he's quite funny and you know he's he's thought of to be kind of um a little bit overweight uh doesn't really care about like grooming himself he's not like you know hot perfectly dressed or anything like that i just really like him as a character so george for me question number 10 a book that made you cry oh my goodness at the end of reading the benching half by brit bennett i was in tears oh my goodness such a beautiful book about sisters this follows two twin sisters who run away from home they are living in a town as they grow up that's light-skinned black people only basically and they know that there's more out there in the world in the world for them and so they run away but when they run away they they end up splitting up and they don't see each other for a very long time um one of them marries a white man and passes as white and has children and you know moves on with her life that way uh the other uh falls in love with a black man who is darker skin black and has a darker skinned black child and it's about how they move through the world why they make the decisions that they make and it's about them coming together in a kind of roundabout way through their children and i i thought it was beautiful and the end just ah i was just a sobbing mess on the floor basically so good question number eleven a book that made you happy and for me this was mr lover man oh my goodness this was so much fun but also deep this is about uh a an older man who is gay he is married to a woman however his entire life he's known that he was gay and actually has the love of his life in his life and it is about him essentially making the decision to leave his wife and live his truth and be with the love of his life however he has a lot of misconceptions about what it is to be gay and he can be homophobic himself and struggle with things he can be very misogynistic there like he is a flawed character in so many ways however there is something about him that is endearing because you can tell there is a willingness to learn there and to break open and you know he he is stopping himself from having this happiness that he wants i just really loved this book i found myself laughing through it i absolutely loved the main character and yeah also really good on audio i will say that question number 12 is the most beautiful book that you bought this year or received and i have two um this one i got at a charity shop i got it at value village and i just think the library of legends is stunning i will say i wish there was a little gold leaf on here a little gold metallic number on here but it's still really beautiful the purples and blues it's just stunning this is about a group of um chinese kids who in 1937 when the japanese i guess bombs are being dropped they decide to pack up these very old uh books to save the books and get out of danger and it's about their story so that looks good in many ways the other one is a book that i got from lisa it's horror store i just think it's really like maybe beautiful isn't the right word it's a horror story um written by grady hendrix i mean yes and it's based at an ikea basically so the whole thing looks like an ikea catalog but you can tell it's also a zombie story like that is so well designed i cannot wait to read that i i want to read both of them but that one looks ah wonderful and number 13 is what books do you need to read by the end of the year so i did mention some of my anticipated ones so i won't mention those again but absolutely both of those um i also really want to read these two books this is yours cheerfully by aj pierce this is the sequel to dear mrs byrd and we follow the continuation of the story of emma lyon lake who worked at a women's magazine uh there's a column and she started writing on behalf of mrs byrd who wasn't giving the best advice to the people who were writing in so she kind of took over and she's still working there and uh it's about their story and her story during world war ii um the the war is still ongoing and i can't wait to read the continuation of her story i just really really liked her character i want to know what she's up to now a book that i was really excited to read as well this is hairpin bridge by taylor adams this book follows lena who's trying to discover what happened to her sister her sister was found dead uh basically the police think it was a suicide it seems that she uh jumped off of a bridge however lena knows that that didn't happen the more that she digs up the final hours of her sister's life the more she thinks that she very much didn't kill herself there are these repeated calls that she tried to make to 9-1-1 and and they didn't go through there is a cop that she did see at the end of her life and i think she ended up um sending a text to her sister or something and saying like please forgive me um but explain i think that the policeman had something to do with her ending her life i don't even know but i know it's taylor adams and i know that's going to be good so i'd love to read that too that's everything for this little tag let me know is this driving you nuts it's driving me nuts i have to wear it for like 22 hours a day but i am committed to nice teeth so hope you don't mind too much uh let me know in the comments below if you want to answer any of these questions i'd love to hear your answers in the comments below and i'll talk about it and i will talk to you very soon bye guys

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Published: Tue Jun 22 2021