mid-year book freakout tag || LIVE 

I genuinely believe I lucked out starting Wheel of Time back in 2008 and completed it by the end of 2013-14. I couldn’t imagine starting it now when the fantasy genre has grown immensely in taste and styles. The last three written by Sanderson were absolutely a breath of fresh air- it was as if Jordan punished you with meticulous details and conversations but Sanderson rewarded you with three lengthy books of action and redemption 😭

55:22 I was on a "cozy fantasy" kick after enjoying TK Klune's Under the Whispering Door. But MAN are the most touted cozy books just so... not it? Yes on colonizer aspect of Viv "introducing" coffee! Gave me mad vibes of those white people who go on sojourns to the "Exotic East". Then they come back and introduce some nonsense like $30 congee subscriptions 😭. Also, I love they added a singular gnome character to be like, "Wow, tastes just like home."

Lol, booktube almost got me to read Red Rising. Luckily you saved me from that. So close, though, pfew 😂❤

The nerd homework comment about Brandon Aanderson is IT exactly! He is so pedantic a d it removes all the magic. Also, so long.

It is so refreshing to see someone on booktube say that they don't want to support Sanderson! He tithes 10% of his income to the LDS church. Considering how much he earns he has given a substantial amount of money to support an institution (a cult) that has over the years opposed marriage equality, sex education, abortion rights, etc. etc. But that's okay I guess because he wrote a few background gay characters in some of his books.

I watched/listened to the first hour and a half of this while doing some boring work stuff, and it helped SO MUCH. Looking forward to finish it tomorrow during work.

I love hearing your thoughts on books! Also these backlit shelves are so gorgeous 😍

the best series i read was the knife of never letting go series completely based on your recommendation! i do pretend the last 20 pages of the last book don't exist tho lol

i remember trying to read red rising way back in like 2015/16 and dnf'ng it on the first page

Loved this live! Such a smart way to do a tag!

My fav this year has been “Kiss Her Once for Me”, so soft and cute ❤

Always a pleasure to hear your opinions. ❤

Watched/listened later and loved the video. Great format!

I ALSO missed the Hidden Legacies love!!! I should have watched the first half of this live 😭. Anyway, the Baylor family is so great, love them times 1000. And once again registering here that I've decided you should read Pern because I want to see your take on it. Just know going in there is dub/non con

Ooh I loved Yellowface and think it’s a little weird that it is getting such mixed reviews from what I am seeing. I would recommend going into it expecting a horror story and reading it in as few sittings as possible because the pacing is very fast. I am interested in hearing your thoughts

I can’t sit through a 2 hour movie but if you give me 2 1/2 hours of you discussing books I’m down.

Well, the Hugo nominees have been announced now, and Legends & Lattes is indeed on the list. I was very disappointed by this year's novel nominees, as all of the ones I have read I thought were very mediocre. I have a couple more to get to, so I am really hoping I like one of them enough to vote for it. It's so funny that I have watched several of these mid-year book freakout tag videos, and every single one of them either changes the category for "book boyfriend" or just leaves it out entirely!

Ah so sad I missed this one! Seemed like a lot of fun :)

My biggest complaint about the Daisy Jones adaptation is that they took the nuance out of all the characters... particularly the women. It is a messy story and I understand going 🤨 at the end because it is wild. Show!Karen and Book!Karen are not the same in so many ways for example and that frustrated me so much.

I feel. so vindicated by both mari and another person in the chat disliking the Atlas Six/Paradox. i don't typically dnf it but i LOATHED the reading experience

My most (and so far only) disappointing book of the year was Happy Place by Emily Henry. I couldn't tell if the book was to blame or if I was. I thought the main romance (which wasn't written in a particularly compelling way anyway) was largely overshadowed by the friends growing up/growing apart aspects of it. It read more like a coming of age story for 30 years olds than a romance novel. I've seen some people who didn't like Beach Read say it was because they found it to be kind of sad but I thought Beach Read was well balanced. It had serious themes but there was also a pull between the main characters that made it exciting and worth the investment and was still the focus of the story. But if the bumming out feeling I got while reading Happy Place is what some people experienced while reading Beach Read, then I kind of get the criticism lol Oh and my favourite book of the year so far is the Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno Garcia. I of course read it because it was in your list of favourite books of last year. Absolutely adored it.

I saw Gideon and immediate clicked

'Just try harder' in Fourth Wing sounds like awful disability rep. I was thinking about reading it for the lolz, but the book sounds infuriating.

Hello Merines, I'm a year old reader. Before that, I belonged to a toxic fandom of an online romance fantasy. One of the things I noticed from that "era" is that most of the readers were minors. The fb fandom group made a survey. The median age was 17. However, the youngest reader was 13. Because a lot of them are so young, they also watch a lot of anime. So, they take a lot of their cues of what it means to be a fan from Japanese manga. The writer we followed was so awful to their fans. Always making them feel like they were never suporting them enough. I'm so sorry any fandom went after you. However, I wonder how much of it is marketing manipulating misguided children.

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why is brandon sanderson controversial? if you ever want to read something by him again, i recommend The Rithmatist. I also didnt enjoy mistborn