Wrap-Up | June & July 2020 | A Bear and a Bee Books
Wrap-Up | June & July 2020
This Wrap-up video combines the month of Jun and the non-Jane Austen July reading from July!
Reads: Mary Poppins Comes Back | P.L. Travers The Queen’s Mistake: In the Court of Henry VIII | Diane Haeger Pivot Point | Kasie West Split Second | Kasie West Beach Read | Emily Henry All the Ugly and Wonderful Things | Bryn Greenwood The Last Flight: A Novel | Julie Clark The Littlest Angel | Charles Tazewell
TBR | May 2020
Reads:
May Poppins Comes Bank | P.L. Travers
Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt
The Odd Women | George Gissing
The Family Upstairs | Lisa Jewell
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things | Bryn Greenwood
The Guest List | Lucy Foley
The Girl with the Lauding Voice | Abi Daré
Mentions:
Katie Books and Things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqDjZO_BLB8
Marissa Blatantly Bookish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxGhKKxNvUo
100th Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4cuNBq3_oA&t=2s
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Haul | Christmas
a.k.a. my Christmas book borrow-a-thon
Reads:
The Christmas Box | Richard Paul Evans
Holiday in Your Heart | LeAnn Rimes
The Christmas Secret | Donna VanLiere
A Dog Named Christmas | Greg Kincaid
A Christmas Story | Jean Shepherd
Mentions:
The Last Promise | Richard Paul Evans
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FAIRYTALEATHON ANNOUNCEMENT
September 20-30 2020
Cohosts:
Becky: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaigD9kYqRBdR9Kf0ksPMiQ
Jordan: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoQvSiPEZJvU7yAl8utoDbw
twitter: https://twitter.com/afairytaleathon
Prompts:
Hero:
1. Read A Fairytale/Retelling Featuring Royalty
2. Read A Fairytale/Retelling With Green on the Cover
3. Read A Book With An Eerie or Spooky Setting
4. Read A Fairytale/Retelling With More Than One POV
5. Read the Group Book: Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar
Witch:
1 Read A Fairytale/Retelling With Black on the Cover
2 Read A Fairytale/Retelling With Nature on the Cover
3 Read A Book Featuring Witches/the Occult
4 Read A Fairytale/Retelling With An Animal on the Cover
5. Read the Group Book: Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar
Rogue:
1. Read A Book Featuring Outlaws
2. Read A Book You Stole From Someone Else's TBR
3. Read A Fairytale/Retelling With Gold on the Cover
4. Read A Short Book/A Book You Will Complete Quickly
5. Read the Group Book: Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar
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BOOK RECOMMENDATION | VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS
Reads:
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | Elizabeth Taylor
Sisters By a River | Barbara Comyns
High Rising | Angela Thirkell
One Fine Day | Mollie Panter-Downes
Mentions:
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
Christmas at High Rising | Angela Thirkell
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As You Wish! A Princess Bride Challenge
Activities:
Watch the movie
Reads:
The Princess Bride | William Goldman
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride | Cary Elwes
Prompts:
Buttercup: Read a book that’s a love story
North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell
Westley: Read a pirate book
Cinnamon and Gun Powder | Eli Brown
Inigo: Read a book featuring Revenge
And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie
Fezzik: Read a big book (over 500 pages)
The Priory | Dorothy Whipple
Vizzini: Read a literary fiction book
The Death of Vivek Oji | Akwaeke Emezi
Marriage: Read a book featuring Marriage
Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates
Success:
Four Fastest Ships: Complete 4 of the 8 selections
Mentions:
SavidgeReads: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWnfrLiYSQtfgRVhWxCQ8A
MercysBookishMusings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVptFL0H04tNBdJ6wW7vdYQ
Beyond the Pages: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgcg5MWOuNasHIzyErjRD5A
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TBR | 1900 to 1950 Readathon
Host:
Katie’s Announcement Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCu0QEvzt0k&t=0s
#1900to1950
Challenges:
1. Read a book published 1900–1950 from the country you’re from
2. Read a book published 1900–1950 from a different country
3. Read a genre classic, published 1900–1950 (such as classic crime, classic sci-fi, classic fantasy, historical fiction, etc)
4. Read something published 1900–1950 that isn’t a novel (such as non-fiction, plays, poetry, short stories, etc)
5. Read a work of literature published 1900–1950 set during or exploring WWI or WWII
Bonus challenge: Read a book from every decade of the period (1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s)
Reads:
Summer | Edith Wharton
The Enchanted April | Elizabeth Von Arnim
Kingdom Lost | Patricia Wentworth
The Essential Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
Mary Postgate | Rudyard Kipling
The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Orczy
The Blue Castle | L.M. Montgomery
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Winifred Watson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths | Barbara Comyns
Mentions:
Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton
Read Along for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Kate Howe and Marissa from Blatantly Bookish)
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Sisters by a River | Barbara Comyns
Virago Modern Classics Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYHmRdTCYIY&t=148s
Shelf Haul #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuvY9GHQQWc&t=16s
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Recommendations | Middlegrade Reads
Reads:
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Grace Lin
The Blue Shoe | Roderick Townley
The Incredible Journey | Sheila Burnford
The Lacemaker and the Princess | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Juniper Berry | M.P. Kozlowsky
A Journey to the River Sea | Eva Ibbotson
The Aviary | Kathleen O’Dell
Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson
Why Have the Birds Stopped Singing? | Koa Sherburne
Inkheart | Cornelia Funke
Mentions:
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993 film)
Inkheart (2008 film)
Ink Spell | Cornelia Funke
Ink Death | Cornelia Funke
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Collection | Word Cloud Classics
Black Beauty | Anna Sewell
Classic Horror Tales | Various
Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery
The Secret Garden | Francis Hodgson Burnett
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen
Mansfield Park | Jane Austen
Emma | Jane Austen
Persuasion | Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
Mentions:
Book Haul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_nbG-s2goo
Victober TBR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHw8mDEIAk4
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TBR | Jane Austen July
#JaneAustenJuly
Reads:
Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
Sanditon | Jane Austen, “Another Lady”
Jane Austen at Home | Lucy Worsley
For Darkness Shows the Stars | Diana Peterfeund
Cecilia | Frances Burney
Evalina | Frances Burney
Also this month:
The Last Flight | Julie Clark
Mentions:
Books and things: https://www.youtube.com/user/thesilverscribe
Blatantly Bookish: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcAERLPvMbWKftNDs8wf81w
Persuasion | Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen
Mansfield Park | Jane Austen
Lady Susan | Jane Austen
Classics Trinity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KI-tkIBSN8&t=2s
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë
Great Expectations | Charles Dickens
Longbourn | Jo Baker
Adeline Mowbray | Amelia Opie
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