2022 Mid-Year Reading Review

Even though Rebecca and Tara post only their podcast audio to YouTube, they decided to use YouTube's #midyearbookfreakouttag questions to review their reading for the first half of 2022.

Best book you've readR: What Strange Paradise / Omar El Akkad; Blue Sky Kingdom / Bruce Kirkby
T: The Undertaking of Billy Buffone / David Giuliano; On Account of Darkness / Ian Kennedy

Best sequelT: Us Against You / Fredrik Backman
R: Republic of Dirt / Susan Juby

New release you haven't read but want toT: Sea of Tranquility / Emily St. John Mandel               

Most anticipated release second half of the yearT: Witches of Moonshyne Manor / Bianca Marais
R: Is There Bacon I Heaven? / Ali Hassan         

Biggest disappointmentR: Garlic and the Vampire / Bree Paulsen
T: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone / Diana Gabaldon

Biggest surpriseT & R: I am Billy the Kid / Michael Blouin

Favorite new authorT: Mary Lawson                              

Newest (non) fictional crushT & R: Wab Kinew                       

Newest favorite character                                      R: Washington Black / Esi Edugyan
T: Emmeline from The Spoon Stealer / Lesley Crewe 

Book that made you criedT: Scarborough / Catherine Hernandez
R: The Lantern House / Erin Napier

Book that made you happyR: The Vinyl Café Celebrates / Stuart McLean
T: The Spoon Stealer / Lesley Crewe

Most beautiful book you bought or receivedT: In the Unlikely Event / Judy Blume
R: Redwall (Firebird edition)

What books do you need to read this yearR: Starlight tour: the last lonely night of Neil Stonechild / Susanne Reber; History of Canada in Ten Maps / Adam Shoalts
Swimming Back to Trout River / Linda Rui Feng; The Listeners / Jordan Tannahill; Fight Night / Miriam Toews; We, Jane / Aimee Wall