The Moody Book Tag

The Moody Book Tag

Books mentioned:

Questions:
1. Do you consider yourself a mood reader?
2. Do you set TBR lists and do you stick to them?
3. Do books affect you emotionally? Does the mood of a book rub off on you?
4. When you’re feeling sad, what do you read? (Or do you not read when sad?)
5. Most often, do you use reading to escape, to learn, or to critically reflect?
6. What is a book that made you laugh out loud?
7. What is a book that has made you cry? Or, if you don’t cry, one that really moved you?
8. What is a book that you didn’t even know how you felt about?
9. Are you more likely to read on a sunny day or a cloudy day?
10. Do you usually “set the mood” when you read? Music, lights, smells, etc?
11. Can you leap from book to book or do you need buffer time between them?

Tagging:

-anyone who wants to do the tag
Greg of Supposedly Fun
Steve Donoghue
Britta Bohler
Mel of Mel’s Bookland Adventures
Brian at Bookish
Dos at Scallydandling About the Books
Doris of All D Books
Kazen of Always Doing
Lucas of Bits of Lit
Kim of Middle of the Book March
Jere of Drawn to Stories
Edd of Gagging4Lit
Nelle and Scott of Gunpowder Fiction and Plot
Marc Nash
Hannah of Hannah’s Books
Heather of Soggy Expat Booknerd

I'm @shawnmooney on Litsy and on Twitter.
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[SupposedlyFun]

This tag is so perfectly suited to my reading vibe for 2021! Enjoyed your thoughts (as usual).

[myreadinglife]

Loved this tag! Had to laugh at the image of young Shawn being glad it was raining so he could stay inside and not work on the farm. #relatable

[BookishTexan]

This is a great tag. Thanks for tagging me.
I would share my thoughts, but I'm going the tag so . . .

[HannahsBooks]

Thanks so much for tagging me. What a great list of prompts! I am a bit behind on tags—there are so many great ones that have come out lately!—but this one fits right into my current mood...

[Amysdustybookshelf]

I gasped when you started talking about the nutcrackers with cat whiskers. That sounds like a scenario that could turn a person off lobster forever 😆

[books_and_ki]

Piano music - how intriguing! I intentionally don't use music as a tool to help me to read but I'm going to try it. Also doing the tag 😁

[AlwaysDoing]

I needed a tag to film today, your timing is perfect! 💕

[iuwsvhs]

I watched this days ago but had to think about it. I thought it would have been nice to ask does our mood affect what we get out of a book. This definitely affects my re-reading choices, feelings of giving a book the benefit of the doubt vs. dismissing the quietude or raucousness of a book when we are not in the state of mind to hear it. Often I wonder how many books I embraced or rejected because I was primed by my mood (and stage in life) to feel that way and in reading them now would be embarrassed by my naïveté in missing what they might have really been saying to me. I love that you are re-reading some childhood favorites. It’s ambitious and brave to tap back into that state in life. I think my childhood was too terrible and the books such precious buoys for me to revisit either.

[MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH]

I loved your answers. 😍😍😍 Thanks for the tag!

[seriela]

Wait, WHAT?! Now I need to reread A Fine Balance. I only remember that I LOVED it, Tammy. 😳

[GaggingLit]

Need to do this tag as well now. Thanks for the tag xoxo

I agree - reading and the emotional connection with the book is so important - everything else comes secondarily to that in my opinion.

Says he doesn't like emotionally manipulative books, yet loves Shuggie Bain and Normal

[alldbooks]

Great tag! Thanks for finding it and tagging me.

[GunpowderFictionPlot]

To comment or to save ones opinions for the tag video, that is the question.

A Fine Balance is an outstanding novel, but that's the type of sad book that makes me happy.

[MarilynMayaMendoza]

I can relate to not relating to being a mood reader. I had never heard the term before I joined booktube. I am also an emotional reader. Reading is such a big part of my life. I wouldn’t be me without books. Great Answers and great. Aloha

[kirsten]

Oh, A Fine Balance! I'm not a crier, but yeah, the end of that one got me.😭Great tag, I'll look forward to hearing what your tagees come up with!

[distant_sounds]

I laughed a lot when reading A Confederacy of Dunces, and quite a bit with Catch-22. This might seem strange but there was a moment in 'The Parcel' by Anosh Irani where I burst into laughter and it took me a few minutes to get back under control. In regards to tears, 'Sugar' by Bernice L. McFadden had me crying at the end, the day after, and week later when I was thinking about it.

Reading ambience: I can see you sitting there, book in hand, eyes poised on the page, and next door across the hall, the quiet metallic hum of the Bailery Bucket, singing it's melancholic aria to the unfinished.

[jamesholder]

I'm buried in tags, but I'm definitely going to do this tag tomorrow!

[CourtneyFerriter]

You neither laugh nor cry! This lack of emotion makes me sad 😭

[georgiam]

Great responses to an interesting tag! I agree with your Mapp and Lucia answer, for me a truly comic book would also be E.M. Delafield 's Diary of a provincial lady (and if we are talking children's literature, the Little Nicolas series by Goscinny & Sempe which is hilarious). Saddest most recently would be the ending of Antonia Fraser's memoir of her life with Harold Pinter, Must you go?, which is exquisite.

[RememberedReads]

Oh, interesting tag. I've never seen this one before. 👍