Society & Culture
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
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