MIDYEAR FREAK OUT TAG 2024 // Mostly awesome books and a terrible one star

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READING PROJECTS & BOOKTUBERS MENTIONED:
Historathon:
‪@revenantreads‬ 2024 Announcement: • HISTORATHON 2024 | Ann...
Buddy read friend: ‪@ellethinks‬
Guadalupe reinas: • Consignas #GuadalupeRe...
/ librosb4tipos
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MY CONQUEST VIDEOS:
Part 1: • THE SPANISH CONQUEST P...
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VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Disclaimers
1:41 - Best book
7:41 - Best sequel
9:47 - Release I haven’t read yet
13:13 - Most anticipated release
15:02 - Biggest surprise
17:02 - Biggest disappointment
23:26 - Newest favorite author
26:48 - Newest fictional crush
29:24 - Newest favorite character
31:01 - Book that made you cry
32:28 - Book that made you happy
33:16 - Most beautiful book
33:57 - Books you need to read by the end of the year
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TAG QUESTIONS:
1. Best book you've 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. 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/received this year
13. What books do you need to read before the end of the year?
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
You Dreamed of Empires, Álvaro Enrique
Penric and the Shaman, Louis McMaster Bujold
Hearts of Fire and Snow, David Bowels & Guadalupe García McCall
Evocation, S.T. Gibson
The Third Gilmore Girl, Kelly Bishop
Casas, María José Ferrada (illustrated by Pep Carrió)
Empire of Silence, Christopher Ruocchio
Baudolino, Umberto Eco
Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jaouad
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
*I also talked about Marie Brennan.
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My channel in Spanish: / @marianaylavida

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6 авг 2024

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@davidnovakreadspoetry Месяц назад

That cover with the tarot card reference is great! I’ve put _You Dreamed of Empires_ on hold - there’s a long queue ahead of me at the library - because the premise sounds interesting, and the historical research behind it awesome. (I’ll decide to read it or not after I’ve had the chance to give it a glance.)

@marianamasbooks Месяц назад

I do the same with books! I need to sample a bit of the writing before I decide if I want to read it.

@ellethinks Месяц назад

You Dreamed of Empires sounds so interesting! I've added it to my TBR!🤓 Also that was an elegant review of Empire of Silence. I have a feeling if/when I try to review it on my channel it's going to turn into a ran. 😅 And I love that you figured out a way to make two separate midyear freakout tags. 😂

@marianamasbooks Месяц назад

Haha I purposefully tried to review it without ranting (mostly because of filming time 😂), but I could have easily gone for just plain rant 😂 You Dreamed of Empires is so good!!! 🔥 I’m currently reading another of his books. (I’m excited to film the historathon edition 😂)

@mattkean1128 Месяц назад

Well I'm looking up Alvaro Enrigue!

@marianamasbooks Месяц назад

Yesssss!! So good! 🔥 I’m currently reading Sudden Death by him and it’s also so weird and fantastic and hilarious.

@justjuanreader 29 дней назад

I need that Kelly Bishop memoir so bad!!! Gilmore Girls is still the best TV show.

@marianamasbooks 23 дня назад

Yes! It’s a show like no other. There’s literally nothing that can reproduce the exact Gilmore Girls vibe 😅 When you’re in a GG mood, you’re in a GG mood.

@tasosalexiadis7748 Месяц назад

Where in Empire of Silence does Hadrian change his opinion for "cool things to happen"? Did we read the same book? It is purely character driven where Hadrian's decisions drive the plot and not the other way around.

@marianamasbooks Месяц назад

For example Hadrian’s dislike of violence. At the beginning of the book he despises violence so much that he actually leaves the coliseum in the middle of an ongoing fight, even if he knows it’ll get him in trouble. And then he actually ends up fighting in a coliseum. I just think it’s a strange choice from the author to have your character (who is supposed to despise violence on principle), end up fighting and training fighters. It goes against everything he supposedly believes in. He could have had Hadrian do whatever other low paying (less visible!) activity. The unregistered assistant in a clinic, a bartender, a trash collector, whatever. But myrmidon was, I guess, cooler than trash collector 😅 I don’t think a story being character-driven should be justification for inconsistency in the set parameters of the story.

@tasosalexiadis7748 Месяц назад

@@marianamasbooks Well people change especially teenage boys who are so full of themselves like Hadrian. And Hadrian chooses violence after he has been living in the streets in poverty for a couple of years, have his gf die to disease and join a gang where he watches his gangmembers getting sentenced so a case can be made here for character progression. Moreover he was never truly peaceful, he beat up Crispin before he left home.

@marianamasbooks Месяц назад

@@tasosalexiadis7748 It would have been interesting to see that explored. I know this was a debut so maybe in future books his pov writing is improved. Though as I said in my review, there were many problems for me with the book, it just wasn’t for me.

@tasosalexiadis7748 Месяц назад

@@marianamasbooks Fair enough. I only object that the main character changed his opinion artificially for the plot. I don't think that happened in Empire of Silence.