BookTube’s Most Miserable Readathon Is Back - Misery May 2024

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Misery May is back for 2024! The readathon that I run with the fabulous Scott ‪@GunpowderFictionPlot‬
#booktube #tbr #readathon #miserymay #sadbooks
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The Prompts:
Animal
Host Pick
Illness
Translated
Group Read
War
Immigrants
Feminist
Classic
The group book this year is - Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
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7 сен 2024

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@lorimiller854 5 месяцев назад

The Bingo card is perfect. ☔ I'm in for Bodies of Light. I love reading misery. Looking forward to hearing your miserable recommendations.

@GemofBooks 4 месяца назад

Woohoo!! Thanks Lori! Do you want me to add you to the Voxer group?

@lorimiller854 4 месяца назад

@@GemofBooks That sounds good! Do you need anything from me (I know, a million dollars, but other than that?)

@GemofBooks 4 месяца назад

@lorimiller854 I just need your Voxer handle. Or drop me a Voxer message (gemofbooks) and I can add you from there ☺️

@ariannefowler455 5 месяцев назад

Count me in for the group read. I love Misery May!

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

Excellent!! I haven’t set the group up yet, will probably do it over the weekend and then I’ll add you in. Delighted to have you matey 🧡

@ameliareads589 5 месяцев назад

Yeah! I'm definitely in! Could you also create a reading challenge on StoryGraph for it, please? And if you do so, please make the group read a bonus prompt, because I have already read it. 😜 If you don't have the time to do it, I would volunteer to help out. Thank you both! I love that readathon!

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

Woohoo!! So glad you’re joining us again this year! Great thinking on the StoryGraph challenge! I’ve just set it up and shared on my community tab 🧡

@ameliareads589 5 месяцев назад

@@GemofBooks 🧡 Thank you! 🧡 You should probably also join yourself. 😜😂 And you maybe could put your and Scott's announcement videos into the description of the challenge, so that people who stumble across the readathon on StoryGraph will find your marvellous channels.

@CharlieBrookReads 5 месяцев назад

Bodies of Light is available on Everand for those people interested ❤(audiobook) The thumbnail 😂😂😂Love it!! Maaaaaaybe I can try and get to Hardy FINALLY😝

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

Is it?! I will have to mention that on my next MM video!!

@novellenovels 5 месяцев назад

I’m definitely in and i can add the latest heather Morris book as well as a couple of Hardys. May not do all of the prompts but some of them 😊

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

I doubt I’ll do all of them either 😂

@bouquinsbooks 5 месяцев назад

Why did I smile when I saw the thumbnail in my feed? The theme might be misery, but the readathon is not miserable. It’s brilliant! 😁 I will not join in the group read this year, but I shall try to find some miserable book on my shelves. A Greek tragedy will probably do the trick: plots, murders, executions, incest, betrayals, angry gods… It’s hard to beat a Greek tragedy when it comes to misery.

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

I’m so glad you’re joining Elisabeth 🤩 (and that the thumbnail hit the mark 😆). Greek tragedy will defo do the trick!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 5 месяцев назад

I'm all in for miserable books as you know. Delighted this is back.

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

Yes Ros!! Can’t wait to see which miserable reads you pick for May 🤩

@stalkingkafka 5 месяцев назад

GIVE IT TO ME BABY!

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

Get the tissues ready mate!! 😂😭

@zachreads 5 месяцев назад

I know a few goosey books -the Mystery of the Blue Carbunkle by Arthur Conan Doyle -the Goose Girl fairy tale -The Golden Goose fairytale -A Christmas Carol technically has a goose

@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf 5 месяцев назад

The goose in A Christmas Carol is most definitely already dead. 😂 Ditto The Blue Carbuncle (excellent Holmes story though).

@zachreads 5 месяцев назад

Pretty sure live geese make an appearance in Blue Carbunkle (although "the goose" is very dead) @@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf

@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf 5 месяцев назад

True! @@zachreads

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

See I knew there would be some 😂😂

@glendaw5221 5 месяцев назад

Ok I’m going to read the group read if I can get it ONLY for the joy of hearing you on Voxer! And for the rest of the books I’m going to read “mild” misery. Someone dies. Someone is heartbroken. Someone is orphaned. Someone gets two fingers blown off in WWII (ok ok he was a piano player destined for greatness) and so on.

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

Mild misery totally works 😂 Yay for joining the group read! Can you remind me of your Voxer handle and I’ll add you to the group when I set it up 🤩

@EntertheBook 5 месяцев назад

Oh I have already decided to read Desperate Remedies and a biography of Hardy sooooo not technically now following anything official but hey it’s in the spirit of Miserable May! 😂

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

I’m sure both will be suitably miserable, so you are definitely in 😂

@loriwald9532 5 месяцев назад

Scott sent me! 😊

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

Welcome!! 🧡

@spreadbookjoy 4 месяца назад

Sure I have some miserable books to dig out - no geese though!😢😅

@GemofBooks 4 месяца назад

What?! No miserable geese books?! Shocking 😂🪿

@spreadbookjoy 4 месяца назад

@@GemofBooks 😂

@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf 5 месяцев назад

How much will it wind you up if I pick Dickens for the classic? 😂 Just kidding because I don’t think he’s that miserable but 😈. Now wondering if I can find 8 prompts worth of miserable on my bookshelf. 😂 Off the top of my head I think Black Beauty will be perfect for animal. 💔 My top recommendation for everyone else for that prompt would have to be The Art of Racing in the Rain. If you don’t cry at that there’s no hope of you crying at a book 😭 😭😭🐕

@zachreads 5 месяцев назад

My vote for most miserable animal book is White Fang by Jack London 5☆ but traumatizing.

@sandrahollins3520 5 месяцев назад

I think Oliver Twist would be a candidate for the classic.

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

It’s ‘misery’ may, not ‘morbidly dull’ may, so I don’t think Dickens would work 😂🥱 I have Black Beauty on my shelf! Defo a possibility!! Racing in the rain is on my list to recommend to Scott - so so sad 😭

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

I’ve been meaning to read that and Call of the Wild for so long!!

@GemofBooks 5 месяцев назад

That’s certainly a miserable story - Dickens is my arch enemy though, so won’t be going on my TBR 😂