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 read
  • R: 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 sequel
  • T: Us Against You / Fredrik Backman
  • R: Republic of Dirt / Susan Juby
• New release you haven't read but want to
  • T: Sea of Tranquility / Emily St. John Mandel               
• Most anticipated release second half of the year
  • T: Witches of Moonshyne Manor / Bianca Marais
  • R: Is There Bacon I Heaven? / Ali Hassan         
• Biggest disappointment
  • R: Garlic and the Vampire / Bree Paulsen
  • T: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone / Diana Gabaldon
• Biggest surprise
  • T & R: I am Billy the Kid / Michael Blouin
• Favorite new author
  • T: Mary Lawson                              
• Newest (non) fictional crush
  • T & R: Wab Kinew                       
• Newest favorite character                                      
  • R: Washington Black / Esi Edugyan
  • T: Emmeline from The Spoon Stealer / Lesley Crewe 
• Book that made you cried
  • T: Scarborough / Catherine Hernandez
  • R: The Lantern House / Erin Napier
• Book that made you happy
  • R: The Vinyl Café Celebrates / Stuart McLean
  • T: The Spoon Stealer / Lesley Crewe
• Most beautiful book you bought or received
  • T: In the Unlikely Event / Judy Blume
  • R: Redwall (Firebird edition)
• What books do you need to read this year
  • R: 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