hello friends welcome back to my channel
um today i have for you
my what month are we on
september tbr um
i know i - look, am i good at following my
tbrs? no but i like
i have plans i have
ambitions you know um but i did wanna i
have a couple of things
that i wanted to announce as well um
first and foremost of course we still
have our book club um chaos rising i'll
probably put a logo in
um but our book club pick this month is
an unkindness of ghosts by rivers solomon
um in all honesty i have no idea what
this book is about like truly nothing
i'm going in totally blind um which is
kind of how i prefer to go into books
like
these days i look up a little bit of a
blurb because i have to like talk about
books but
i haven't actually looked up the blurb
for this um
because i do i i just feel like
going into a book blind there's nothing
better than going into a book blind i
just i love it i love it
anyway i know very little about this
book um
hopefully sophia rue or katy one of
them gives
you a better explanation of what the
book is about the audiobook is actually
available on libby through
the toronto library if you are in the
toronto library system
um there's unlimited copies so hopefully
that helps
um more people be able to partake
in this month's book club the next thing
i wanted to announce
is that sophia from fantasy book addict
she has started a
poppy war read-along um in the lead-up
to the release of the burning god
i'm one of her co-hosts of course
shocker um but so we are going to be
starting
um the poppy war readalong this month
the first live show i will post all the
details down below
we have a discord channel so i will
leave the link down below if you want to
join the discord, chat poppy war um with
us um but yeah so this month we'll be
reading poppy war and i believe
the live show will be in like first
either the first or second week of
october
um something like that i also
wanted to add in a optional non-fiction
um i don't know how many people actually
want to read this um but
because you know obviously all the
trigger warnings for the poppy war still
apply again i will leave those down
below
in the description um but all the
trigger warnings obviously still apply
but
i did want to read the rape of nanking
by iris chang before i go back into the
poppy war personally
um so we are adding it as an optional um
book for the read along as well if you
wanted to join in
you wanted to get a little bit more
context on the historical background um
of the poppy war and the kind of like
events that occur
specifically chapter 21 is based off of
the rape of nanking specifically
um that being said from my understanding
the rape of nanking
is told kind of from three different
perspectives you have the japanese
perspective the chinese perspective and
then also the foreigners' perspective by
foreigners i mean white people
um i think either american or german
or british wow my
my history sucks but
it's bad because like i learned my
chinese history from my like
grandparents so literally they're just
like the white people that's how they
just like
they don't describe what country the
white people are from they just say the
white people
anyway i'm excited to read more and
learn actual history
um from this book um but i did um
want to read that before i kind of go
back into the poppy war
so those are the two books for that
read-along that i have this month
and again i will post the discord link
down below if you want to join us and
chat
um there's a few of us um who are also
co-hosting
i will leave all the all their links
down below the next book i have
is rosewater by tade thompson um this
was highly recommended by ben
he it's like i think it's like literally
his favorite book ever and i'm so
excited to read it because he raves
about it all the time
um but i am planning hopefully to buddy
read this with elena and kae
i will leave everyone's links down below
anyone i talk about i will leave their
links down below so
um please check out all their channels
um but yeah i'm hoping to buddy read
this with them
um i think we still have to work out
dates but as of right now as of when i'm
filming this
i'm really excited to have people to
buddy read this with because i've heard
it's like
a little weird and i'm obviously like
still new to sci-fi so
i think i will like having someone to
buddy read with
um so that they can keep me on track and
like keep my one brain cell
because they both have way more brain
cells than i do so like i feel like
i feel like this will be great for me
um this month i'm really trying to take
it easy this month i'm trying not to go
too crazy with my tbr and yet here i am
with all these books but anyway whatever
i have a couple of arcs i need to read
this month the first is the bone shard
daughter by andrea stewart this comes
out on september
8th so this will be the first book i
read in september
um do i know much about this book no
i think it's a nautical
fantasy maybe
yeah i'm doing really well like
describing what i'm gonna be reading
um i haven't given descriptions for any
books have i
i'm so sorry but i've heard really
really good things about this katy read
this recently we were supposed to buddy
read it
once she got an arc for it but then she
just went and read it without me so
katy this is a call out um but
i'm really really excited to read it um
i've heard nothing but good things i'm
going to be diving into that very
probably in a few days once i finish my
current read i'll start that one
um and then the second arc i want to
read this month
is i have the fallen hero by katie zhao
i
loved the dragon warrior by katie zhao
this is the second book in that series
it's a very typical kind of like middle
grade chosen one
trope um and you follow kind of like the
hero's journey
um in that sense but it's
it's all about chinese mythology and i
just love it so much it was really
really cute it was really sweet
um yeah i really really enjoyed it
um and the ending of the first book
i'm hurt you know i was like i signed up
for
a cute middle grade and now i'm hurt
like why
why would you do this to me so now like
i'm very very grateful that i have the
second book because
i need to know what happens i need to
know what happens i actually don't know
how many books are slated
for this series so hopefully we don't
end the second book on a massive
cliffhanger too
because i think i might cry
anyway that's for future tammie to worry
about whatever
um but this one comes out in october i
believe towards the end of october so
i'm excited to read it in september so
that i can like
tell you all about it and get you guys
to pre-order it
and also read dragon warrior so those
are my two arcs that i have to read um i
also have
rent a boyfriend by gloria chao which i
really want to read so like if i
need a break from all the fantasy i
probably will end up reading that
um but it's basically like a fake dating
ya romance
anyway this month although
i also really want to put effort into
finishing books
that i haven't finished yet my currently
reading i think right now is like
six books and it's just it's gotten out
of hand so i really want to focus on
finishing books
so the first book is oathbringer
i've been reading this forever it's a
huge book so like
i'm not you know that mad about it but i
am at
page 850 out of
1300 odd pages so i'm about like 65%
of the way through i think i believe
in all honesty so far i'm not loving it
everyone keeps saying it gets better it
gets better but i'm like
it's so far like it's just compared to
the first two
this is truly just like the pacing is
off um
the characters are not interacting with
each other in
in a way where i feel like it's
satisfying um
so i haven't been loving this that being
said brandon sanderson
is someone i always go to if i need a
brainless
read like a mindless entertainment kind
of situation
uh i come back to this and i like read a
little bit
so hopefully i will finish this um i
only have like
i have about 500 pages left
only so we'll see um the next book i
have to finish
is the rage of dragons by evan winter um
i was supposed to read this for
readehthon and i was supposed to buddy
read it with a bunch of people
they've all finished it i have not i am
halfway through
um i took a break from this to be honest
because
i was if you watch my vlog where my
readehthon vlog i wasn't
i was really disappointed by this book
it's not that i don't like it it's that
i think my expectations for it were too
high and then there were certain things
in it that i really didn't like
mainly the lack of women
i'm just not loving it the way that i
thought i would and i think that's why
it's been super disappointing so i kind
of put it down for a bit
um but i think once i have some time
away from it
i will be able to pick it back
up and enjoy it a little bit more um
so anyway so i still have half the book
to go and then what's been on my tbr for
the longest time is
obelisk gate by n.k jemisin you know
it's just i don't i've said this before
but this is a book that actually so like
this is mindless entertainment
i can read this without using my brain i
actually have to use my brain when i
read this and like i just don't have
brain capacity right now my brain
doesn't work
but hopefully hopefully in september my
brain will decide to work again
and then i can read this and like fully
enjoy it i think also because like
the first half of the second book so far
has been quite
a little more info dumpy than i think in
the first book
i think in the first book the world
building was done in a very like gradual
way
but i think in the second book um
there's so much
more to the world and then um nk jemisin
like really expanded
certain aspects of the world um so
there's just a lot to remember
and like my brain just was like
brain.exe that is not is
is not responding like i just was not
retaining any of the new information
that i was getting from
this book but hopefully my brain will
start working again and then i can
jump into this and then finally into the
stone sky which i've heard is the best
book
so i'm super duper excited um i do think
out of these three my priority is gonna
be finishing
obelisk gate because i really want to do
that um
and also oathbringer i mean i have till
november to finish oathbring i'm not i'm
not that worried
um but my priority is definitely
finishing obelisk gate just because it's been
on my tbr it's been
it's it's been on my currently reading
for so long um and i do
really love this series so
hope brain please work
you know do you ever get frustrated with
yourself because you're like i want to
be smart and i want to be
intellectual but i'm just not you know
i'm just
a little dumb sometimes but then
sometimes i have like moments where i'm
like a little
smarter and anyway why am i like this
why am i why am i rambling on about how
stupid i am i don't know anyway
other books i want to try to get to i've
been in such a bad slump this month
honestly
um i've been reading a lot of like adult
fantasy and i just feel like
i need a break from it so i put a few
books that i
actually want to read to give myself a
little bit of a break
um and i have a couple of middle grades
so i have um
wundersmith which is the second book in
the um
nevermoor series and the first book
ended with her finishing her like four
trials to try and get into the wundrous
society i don't actually know what the
premise of the second book is i
i can't remember if the first book ended
on the cliffhanger or not i don't think
it did
um so i don't actually know what where
what's in store for us in book two but
um i've heard it's really really good
katy says that it is better than the
first book so
um i'm really excited the second middle
grade book i want to get to
is frostheart by jamie littler um
i've heard really good things about this
i think gavin um
from how to train your gavin he really
really likes this book
katy really likes this book um
basically all the like middle grade
booktubers really like frostheart so i'm
really excited
um i wasn't planning on picking this up
physically i was just gonna like listen
to it on audiobook or something
but i saw this in store and the
illustrations are so cute and i feel
like i don't know i just feel like
any book that has like these kinds of
illustrations like
like they're they're everywhere like
every other page has an illustration and
i just feel like
it adds so much to the story that i
needed to pick it up
and then the last book i want to read is
zero sum game by s.l huang this is a
sci-fi thriller
i haven't read a thriller in a really
long time and i've been craving a
thriller that isn't a domestic thriller
i feel like whenever i look up like
thriller recommendations i always get
these domestic thrillers or like
scary thrillers and my favorite kind of
filler is like a political thriller or a
sci-fi filler so i'm really excited for
this this is about a character called
cas
cas? yes cas and i don't really know
too much about it i just know that she's
very like good at math uh but s.l. huang
is actually a mathematician so i feel
like
that's a really interesting like thing
for her to bring in
um but basically she's like a math
genius and because of that she
is i don't know she's some sort of like
an operative and she's able to use her
math skills
um but basically in in this story i
believe someone
some like bad guy um can control minds
so she no longer like has control
of her mind
or something like that i don't i'm
really bad at summarizing because i
don't really read blurbs i just read
like
i just skimmed through it before this
video but
um yeah i'm really excited to read this
and see if it's any good because
if it's good i'm pretty sure this is a
series so i have more thrillers to look
forward too
so um i'm really excited and also this
is a pretty short one it's only like
350 odd pages um and thrillers tend to
read pretty fast so i could probably
read this in like one or two sittings
in terms of non-fiction this month i'm
currently in the middle of
why are all the black kids sitting
together by beverly daniel tatum
um and it's really really interesting
it's a lot longer than i thought it was
the audiobook's like 17 hours long
so it's a lot longer than i thought it
was gonna be i am officially behind on
my nonfiction tbr
um i'm gonna try to catch up as much as
i can and i'm gonna try to keep up with
like at least one book a month
um i might end up having to roll over a
couple of books also i realized that a
couple of the books that i put on my
nonfiction tbr
are not that accessible here like i
don't i can't get them from the library
so i have to find some other way
i don't know maybe i'll start getting
like audible so that i can get all these
nonfictions on audiobook or something i
don't know
um so that's my nonfiction stuff um i
haven't read any manga last month so i'm
gonna be trying to
read manga this month um uh
obviously i need to finish bleach or not
finish bleach but i need to continue on
with bleach and i'm also continuing on
with my reread of d.gray-man
um those are kind of like the two main
ones that i want to read this month
those are all the books that i am
reading in september or hoping to read
in september as we all know will i
actually get to all of these probably
not
um but i'm gonna try i'm gonna i'm gonna
try
um i'm sorry this was like a terrible
tbr i feel like i didn't really talk
about what any of these books are about
i just kind of like
listed them off i'm so sorry i'm not
very good at this
let me know if you actually enjoy these
tbr videos because
i i enjoy making them but i also feel
kind of bad because i never stick to
them so then i'm like
do people actually enjoy watching this
so let me know in the comments down
below if you actually
do enjoy watching these um and also let
me know if you're
reading any of these books as well or if
you've read any of these books let me
know
if you like them or not so um that is it
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