Mid Year Book Freakout Tag | 2024

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In which I discuss my reading so far this year...
Questions
1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2023
2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2023
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. Favorite new author. (Debut or new to you)
8. Newest fictional crush.
9. Newest favorite character.
10. Book that made you cry.
11. Book that made you happy.
12. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)
13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
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8 июл 2024

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@samki44 22 дня назад

A lot of booktubers have come and gone throughout the years, they have changed their content or their style, but I always come to this channel when I want a recommendation or just feel nostalgic to what the community uses to be, because you have been incredibly consistent since the beginning. Love you Sam and thanks for adding more books to my TBR.

@ThoughtsOnTomes 22 дня назад

omg that is so sweet thank you :))))

@ambrineo8613 22 дня назад

Oof I resonate so much with what you said about today’s romances! I have so few ships and crushes nowadays because they are all SO FAST! Where is the longing? The pining? The Angst?! They are all in love midway through the first books now…

@ThoughtsOnTomes 22 дня назад

and I get so boooooored when they get together because from that point it's just a countdown to where they are going to have some dumb miscommunication so that we can add drama when we could have just had all the drama and pining before and not done that dumb shit!!!

@ambrineo8613 22 дня назад

@@ThoughtsOnTomes Exactly! Today’s “enemies to lovers” (they aren’t but that’s a whole other issue) fall in love right away, have everything happening by book 1 and then the miscommunication trope kicks in and they are “enemies” by book 2 or more like they are mad at each other… One of the few super slow burn/pinning for DAYS book series that has been killing me recently is Tahareh Mafi’s “This Woven Kingdom series” but you have to wait until book 2 to get it ! But boy… do I miss the old romance days!

@KayBethBookish 23 дня назад

This video reminded me of why I love booktube so much. I have never heard of the weaver and the witch queen before but hearing you talking about it ended up giving me a huge breakthrough for a viking set novel I've been stuck on the backburner with for THREE YEARS! I also ended up putting A study in drowning and Where Peace is Lost on my TBR!

@ThoughtsOnTomes 23 дня назад

amazing! I love that!

@ramidib7322 17 дней назад

Had a massive reading slump for a couple of years, but I used to love your content. Finally read the winternight trilogy remembering you recommended it alot, and now I'm back to adding all your recommendations agains. Thank you for your amazing taste in books and content!

@wallacejames221 23 дня назад

To Shape a Dragon's Breath is also my favourite dragon book!!! I was stunned by it.

@ThoughtsOnTomes 23 дня назад

its so good! it needs all the praise!

@Ms.SpookyNerd 18 дней назад

Its my 2nd year doing this tag on my channel so fun. 🥤📚

@TheFancyHatLadyReads 18 дней назад

Some of my most anticipated releases of the second half of the year are A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher (dark goose girl retelling), The City in Glass by Nhgi Vo (new standalone), and Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan (I gather this needs a content warning for cancer; the author is a cancer survivor, so it's written from personal experience, but I don't know if it's something you'd want to read or avoid).

@cakes_lollies9948 22 дня назад

omg you finished words of radiance!!!! that is huge!!

@ThoughtsOnTomes 22 дня назад

right?! it's been so long lol

@sophilozophy 19 дней назад

My favourite books this year so far were The Dagger and the Forbidden Heir by Emilia Jae (indie author)-which looks like it will have wyverns in the rest of the series and The Crimson Moth by Kristen Ciccarelli-such a great witch vs witch hunter (enemies to lovers and then gets even more complicated). I would recommend them to anyone who enjoys fantasy with romance, but with a bigger plot and just about romance. Happy reading!

@bentheoverlord 22 дня назад

I loved To Shape A Dragon's Breath, such a fun and fantastic book. I too love Ava Reids stuff but A Study In Drowning and Lady Macbeth really let me down. Got an arc of it recently and sadly all the negative reviews Id read were right, the way she handles Lady Macbeths character is not great, and theres a weird amount of antiscottish sentiment in it. Cannot wait for The Lotus Empire, its my most anticipated release even more so than Stormlight 5. I too really like the Final Strife books ( 3rd is September I think) but was really let down by Faebound, I found the romances were very very rushed.

@Snippit138 23 дня назад

I definitely know what you mean on the quality of romances in books lately. So many books I've read recently have had the main love interests get together partway through the first book, and more often than not the relationship feels purely built on lust. I really miss drawn out slow burns built on real emotional connection. Like, I don't mind reading smut, but if it's just smut for smut's sake it feels kinda boring and gratuitous to me. I need that built up emotional connection first, not just the lust.

@ThoughtsOnTomes 23 дня назад

I'm going to be a slow burn girlie until I die. Characters getting together halfway through the book is just not compelling to me. I get bored :(

@benjaminbrelje2289 14 дней назад

I was thinking about I forgot the name already I'm horrible with that once the title's gone it's just out of my head but it was the one that you said had like flu vibes and I just I can't deal with another pandemic book I don't know I got really paranoid about COVID

@cakes_lollies9948 22 дня назад

im going to be a typical consumerist first and say, you're shelves slap. the look, the aesthetic, and most importantly, the books. go off. woo.

@ThoughtsOnTomes 22 дня назад

thank you :)

@drewsambitiousreading2752 23 дня назад

Love this tag Sam! I don’t remember how u felt or if u finished the first 2 but the finale to the jasmine throne is coming in November!😃❤️🫶

@ThoughtsOnTomes 23 дня назад

I mention that book in this video :)

@drewsambitiousreading2752 23 дня назад

@@ThoughtsOnTomesoops my bad. Must’ve missed it or not paying attention cause I was making lunch lol 😊

@Hazel-C 23 дня назад

Best books I read this year so far were Babel, A Dowry of Blood, and The Hero of Ages. I also read the wheel of time which I think is a series greater than the sum of its parts. I gave each individual book 3-4 stars but I think the series as a whole reaches 4-4.5 stars

@ThoughtsOnTomes 23 дня назад

I can appreciate when a series does that. I don't think I'll ever give WoT a go for myself but there's other series I feel that way about.

@mglarson5936 22 дня назад

I got an arc of Lady Macbeth and it was just ok. I think I gave it 3 stars. I really sad because A Study in Drowning is my favorite book of last year and I love her first two books too.

@ThoughtsOnTomes 22 дня назад

that kills me tbh

@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm 22 дня назад

To shape a dragons breath sounds amazing 👀

@ThoughtsOnTomes 22 дня назад

it is :)

@benjaminbrelje2289 14 дней назад

Not that it matters but I'm really excited to have some really good books coming out around my birthday and I'll be 33 in November so yay

@ThoughtsOnTomes 10 дней назад

oooh that is exciting!

@benjaminbrelje2289 9 дней назад

@@ThoughtsOnTomes anyway I just appreciate all the videos you do I feel like listening and watching his some of the stuff you post I almost feel like I can literally be myself now and I feel like I'm not judged not that you know me at all but I just feel like maybe there's not a lot of rep for my own life as it is right now but some of the stuff that I hear you say makes me feel a little better about my own I'm going to say this casually but my own and gimpyness I have cerebral palsy and people constantly think I'm drunk it's just something that I've had to live with constantly fighting the cops in my own town they always think I'm drunk and they just never give me a break it's tough for me but I don't know I know it doesn't pertain to any of that but sometimes watching your videos makes me just kind of regret for a while and it gives me a happier time again I'm ben honestly I I'm not surprised if you never do this not trying to be weird but if you ever had of any kind of meetups in any way it would be cool to meet you someday you make me feel better about my life and sometimes it's just really hard and I appreciate it

@theresareads 23 дня назад

A Study in Drowning is also my best book of the year so far too!! I thought Lady Macbeth was solid but definitely not as strong as ASiD.

@ThoughtsOnTomes 23 дня назад

ok good because I've definitely been hearing mostly bad things about lady Macbeth :(

@theresareads 23 дня назад

@@ThoughtsOnTomes the bad things I’ve seen about it surround the fact that it isn’t super true to the play or the accepted characterization of Lady Macbeth from it. Which I think is a fair appraisal. But I encourage reading it with the question “What’s in a name?” if you do pick it up!

@kai_winchester_66 23 дня назад

Hi ❤

@ThoughtsOnTomes 23 дня назад

Oh hi :)

@asdfghjklasdfghjkl321 22 дня назад

I don’t understand, if you're not gonna talk about a book, then why bring it up but only say you're not gonna talk about it? Just don't talk about it then??? This just feels really weird to me 🤨

@ThoughtsOnTomes 22 дня назад

it's part of the marketing boycott to put pressure on the publisher and increase awareness for the audience. the publisher won't know how much marketing they are missing out on if we don't mention when there are books we would be talking about and providing free labor for if we don't mention it.

@asdfghjklasdfghjkl321 22 дня назад

@ThoughtsOnTomes That still doesn't make any sense to me. I mean, won't they though? If it's being purposely being done, then won't they feel it, regardless if you meantion it or not as long as you're doing it? As to my pervious point as it's bizarre to me to bring something up only to say that you're not gonna talk about it? And then how on earth is doing a hobby considered labor unless said labor is a job? Of course an ideal situation would be to do something you enjoy doing but I do admit this is something not many people can do. But if you feel like talking about books and reading books is labor to you, maybe get another hobby then??? And in terms of spreading awareness to the audience just feels like virtue signaling to me 🤷🏽‍♀️

@ThoughtsOnTomes 20 дней назад

@@asdfghjklasdfghjkl321it’s not virtue signaling to spread awareness about a boycott - that’s literally how boycotts work. And publishers do rely on people doing this hobby for free labor. It helps publishers and they expect us to shut up and be quiet when we have legitimate concerns. Tbh all your arguments against a boycott are in bad faith. I recommend you check the resources that I listed when discussing the boycott (which again is a reason for discussing the boycott along with expressing solidarity for those harmed). Readers for Accountability has those resources for you to educate yourself more about the boycott and the reasons for it.

@asdfghjklasdfghjkl321 19 дней назад

@ThoughtsOnTomes "Educate yourself more" yup, I knew it. People who say things like this are the issue. It's hard to quantify what I want to say properly, but considering on top of that you're clearly trying to position yourself as hollier as thou, and to not even explain yourself other than you're not even gonna talk about something you brought up in the first place that you didn't have to, yup, no thanks. Edit: Spelling

@somethingbookishthiswaycomes 23 дня назад

My channel name is literally a Macbeth reference, I'm so bummed that people aren't enjoying Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid. A bunch of people in a discord I'm in read the arc and didn't like it. It was one of my most anticipated releases of the year, but now I'm nervous 😬🥲

@ThoughtsOnTomes 22 дня назад

right?! I have yet to hear a good thing. at best, people are giving mediocre ratings.

@enuna1 23 дня назад

Totally agree re: hackneyed romance plots/insta-love/a sudden abundance of smut. I kind of resent the rise of the romantasy subgenre-I feel like a lot of sff authors may feel pressured to include romance in their books in order to reach more readers and ride this wave. Or maybe I’m just cynical lmao. Anyway my favorite books this year have been the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb and Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Both authors blew me away with their talent. 🤌🏼

@ThoughtsOnTomes 23 дня назад

Truly so bitter about romantasy. Those are two of my favorite genres and I have yet to find a title within that subgenre that I feel is actually good.