Hey, hi, hello welcome or welcome back to my channel. My name is Jess and I'm going
to talk about the books that I plan to
read in September.
So uh, per usual my video is not up on
the first of September. I doubt if it'll
ever be up on the first of any month but
it's here.
So first I want to say that I apologize
if the lighting
changes. The weather all week is just on
and off kind of cloudy and rainy, so I
just have to make do.
So I apologize if the lighting isn't
great or if it changes.
Anywho, I don't always make a TBR. I
didn't last month but this month I am
following along with a
readathon on Instagram called "Sequels
in September"
and I think it was created-oh my gosh- I
think it was created by
Morgan, i'll leave her information in the
description box
and all the promps but essentially I have
a ton of books on my
shelves that are sequels. I'm trying to
finish some series this year, so it was
perfect for me. So I did write down all the
prompts, I think. I'll read over them really quickly, they
have points but really the main
point is to read sequels and it lasts
all September. The prompts we have are:
Again, I will it all in the description
but really the point is to read sequels. So I
chose a few of those. So for 'unread
sequel that's been on your TBR the
longest' I chose a behemoth: Words of Radiance by
Brandon Sanderson. This is about 1,100
pages.
I've owned this book, the first three in
The Stormlight Archive-
i'm gonna put this book down- I've owned
this book
uh the first three books in The
Stormlight Archive for a few years so
it's definitely been on my TBR the
longest.
I read The Way of Kings last month and I
really did love it
and so I need to keep it pushing because
I need to keep everything fresh in my
mind. So I'm planning,  I'm definitely,
this is my definitely gonna get to this
month. I definitely have some that are
like
"i'm definitely gonna read this this
month" and then a couple others that I
hope to read this month.
So that's the first one. "Read the
previous one in 2020" and for that I
chose..I read The Fifth Season
in June? When did I read The Fifth Season? I read The Fifth Season in July so i'm
going to read The Obelisk Gate
by N. K. Jemisin and how long is this?
Oh yes, it's right under 400 pages and
I also hope to finish this series this
year, a trilogy but The Fifth Season was amazing so i'm
definitely going to read this one.
Then I chose a book that's more than 400
pages and for that I have Royal Assassin by
Robin Hobb, oh dear dear dear. So I read The
Assassins Apprentice in..
or Assassin's Apprentice, I keep adding
'the' and I think it's just Assassin's
Apprentice. I think I read that in June
and I meant to read this in July and
then I meant to read it in August
and so i'm reading this in September. I
have to read this in September,
I have to read this in September. This is
definitely over 400 pages, it's like
almost 600 so
definitely gonna get to those, that one.
So those are my three
fo sho I must read in September and
whatever else I read is a bonus.
So the other three books that I have
picked out in addition to that
um are not fantasies. I always read a lot of fantasy and in
August reading The Way of Kings
and reading Wrath that was 1,000 pages
and then almost 700 pages, my mind was
just like
burnt out on fantasy. So towards the end
of the month I tried to read
some shorter books, some novellas sci-fi
I was like I need to read some romance.
Something that's not fantasy so
I definitely, this month i'm gonna read
Take A Hint, Dani Brown. I just said definitely,
yeah Take A Hint, Dani Brown, adult
contemporary romance. This is technically
the sequel after Get A Life, Chloe Brown
but
you don't have to read that one first.
They're more like companions because
this is about a different sister.
So i'm definitely going to get- I need to
stop saying that -i'm going to try to
read this one as a palette cleanser.
Also I made a list of books that I
wanted to read in 2020, 20 books
and I read The Way of Kings last month
that was on my list, so I need to
read at least one this month. So i'm
going to continue with Winter Garden by
Kristin Hannah. I'm already
90 pages into it and I just need to keep
going. It's all wonky from my move.
So I hope that I can read this. I don't
know what this is classified as.
I don't know if this is just like
literary fiction or contemporary..
see this might be historical fiction
because it says it goes back to 1941 so
we're going to call it that
but it's not fantasy so I want to finish
this.
I also want to read Lovely War by Julie
Berry, I believe. I think I put this on my
July TBR but when it came in from the library, I
just hit delay a few weeks or months so now it's back
but I put it on my kindle this time so
i'm like I need to get to it.
I have like 18, um, 15..
maybe two weeks left on the hold, oh I
need to check.
So I need to get to that one because the
premise or what i've heard of it sounds
really good and again I need a palette
cleanser. So i'm hoping to read those
before I get into the fantasy but who
knows. I might
read Take A Hint, Dani Brown and be
"cleansed" and then start
on Words of Radiance, very intimidating.
But those are my books, that's
kind of it. That doesn't seem like a lot
of books but I mean words of radiance is
1,100 pages. Royal Assassin is almost 600 pages, so I
just need to be more kind to myself.
The beginning of the year I was reading
a lot more books per month but now i've
got
classes, i've just got other things going
on, so if I get six books in a month
and one of those books is over 1,000 pages, I think i'm doing pretty
good. So i'm pretty excited about that um
I did complete one series last month,
which I need to fill my wrap up,
oh my gosh but i'm working on getting
those series finished
and this is going to help me. Although
Words of Radiance is the second
and that series isn't finished but the
fourth one comes out in November which
i'm trying to stay on top of so I can read that one
when it comes out. The Broken Earth trilogy is finished and I
do have the third book, so hopefully I love The Obelisk Gate and
I can go into The Stone Sky
soon after that and then Royal Assassin.
I do not have the third book and that's
the first trilogy in
Robin Hobb's world, the world of the
Elderlings? Is that's what it's called?
And I need to order that book so that I
can finish it this year
So, I probably should go order that
pretty soon because it'll probably take
a month to get here but yeah those are
the books
that I am planning to read in September
and I know the library will betray me
and about eight books will come in all
in one day.
Actually, it's me playing- it's partially
the library playing me and me playing
myself because I'm like, oh delay seven days and
then it comes back and i'm like
what why is this back? Like I didn't
choose when it was coming back to me. So it's really just a mess
and I try to keep up, I try to keep up
with library books but when I know i'm
not going to get to it, i'm like I need
to delay that so
i'm sure i'll be getting some of those
in as well.
And then i'm already thinking about some
spooky reads for October.
If you've made it this far, do you have
any bookish goals to complete
before the end of the year? Like any book
that you must read or any series you
want to finish? I have a whole bunch and I have some
videos on those but
really i'm just trying to, as long as I
just keep reading and enjoying what i'm reading then i'm
winning. I hope you're taking care of
yourself and wearing your mask
and washing your mask and moisturizing
and wearing sunscreen, drinking water
all those great things, finding something
that brings you joy
in this chaotic existence that we are in
right now.
And thank you for watching, I hope you
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full of stuff, so just go look there, okay? Thanks for watching! BYE!
So I gotta make do
oh my gosh
actually short
