Hi guys! It's olivia here from Olivia's
Catastrophe. Today I'm here to tell you
all of my reading plans for the month of
October. So the truth of the matter is
there is no way possible that I'm going
to be able to read all of these books but
I'm going to try my very best because
there are just so many things that are
exciting that are happening in October. And I've just been feeling a bit
motivated to read lately. So let's talk
about all of these books and all of
these events! So the first event I want
to tell you about is Library Loves and
this is going to be hosted by Jessikah
from Read by Jess. And she has a couple
of co-hosts. And these are all the
co-hosts that are joining and I will
link to all of them down below. But yes, I
am a co-host! So I will be reading a
bunch of books from my library this
month. I usually read from my library
while I'm here in Australia and if you
see an eBook version for one of these
books I'm going to talk about in this
video, it's probably because I'm going to
be borrowing the physical book from the
library and don't have it now. But I do
have a couple of library loans out. Exactly this many. You can take ten out
from the library and I'm going to show
you what books I have out for my library
loans. And those are Monstress volume
three which I'm very much looking
forward to reading because I have
enjoyed the previous two volumes so much.
I also plan to read Saga volume one. I've
heard so much about this series on
booktube and I cannot wait to get into
them. I also plan to read Umbrella
Academy Volume one. My sisters really love
the series and I just want to try the
graphic novels before I delve into the
TV show. Also paper girls vol 5. I have
been reading this series and I think
it's just okay? But for some reason I am
addicted and keep reading, so I will just
be getting along to the next one. In the
spirit of more graphic novels I also
have Nimona
and that is by Noelle Stevenson. And I've
heard that this one has to do with
anti-heroes and that is why I'm
intrigued to read it. I'm not going to be
giving proper synopses by the way. I'm
just going to fly through these books
because there's 27 of them! Moving on
to the other library. So we have two
libraries here that I can borrow books
from and I got This is What Gives Us
Time and this one is by Kevin Brophy. So
this is a poetry collection and as
you'll see in my September wrap-up I
have just been in the mood to read a lot
of poetry
lately. I've got a couple collections
and this is one I'm looking forward to
reading as well. The Women and The Mean by
Nikki Giovanni. I read another poetry
collection by Nikki Giovanni in August, at the end of August. And I really loved it so I
wanted to try more Nikki Giovanni's
works. And lastly we've got Spin A Soft
Black Song and this one is by Nikki
Giovanni and Martins. And it's actually
a children's picture book which I
thought was poetry but just like,
poetry and children's reading combined. So I'll probably fly through this one in
an hour or two. Those are all the library loans that I have out. And now I'm moving
on to the second event that's happening
and that is the disability readathon.
Now I don't I didn't want to join
readathons this month but I had to join
the disability read-a-thon and here's
the deal: I think that in booktube--not
booktube--books in general... I love seeing
that we're getting a lot more mental
health rep and that is absolutely
fantastic. I love to talking about mental
health illnesses. I love learning about
them and I don't think we have enough of
those books yet so we definitely need
more of them. But what I definitely,
definitely see even less is physical
challenges and physical disabilities
represented in books. And even less, less
wheelchair representation and
especially not as a main character. Ao I
struggled to find some that I have
access to but I'm going to do my very
best to have physical disabilities as
well as some mental illnesses in my
reading list. Not going to tell you which
prompts fit to what because we're
running on limited time here. But the
first book I have on my reading list is
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time. This is one that I've had on
my shelves for absolutely ages and I
want to very much finally get around to
reading it. I know that the main
character has autism and I don't really
know much else than that. But I'm very
much looking forward to it. Then I'm doubling up because I want to
survive reading this month. So Monstress
vol 3 is going to be one of my prompt
fillers. And that has a main character
who has only one arm so that is why she
fits for the disability read-a-thon. Then
for one of the prompts I'm gonna try and
read Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. I
have not read this before. I am so
excited to finally have this book in my
hands. I won this in a giveaway from
Jenniely on Twitter so I have a link to her
Twitter down below. And I've heard that
one of the main characters needs to walk
with a cane and I'm not sure what his
physical disability is but I will be
able to tell you more when I finish
reading this one. Then I've got History
is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera. I'm
going to be buddy reading this with
someone and it's also got to mental
illness representation I believe. And as
well as that the characters are going
through grief and grieving is something
that I feel is a state where our mental
health is not at its best. So I also
always count that. Last but not least I
have a reread of a middle grade and that
is Out of my Mind by Sharon M Draper. The
library doesn't have this and my copy is
at home so I don't know how I'm gonna
read this. Yeah, I might have to buy the e-book
but I cannot wait to reread this gem of a
book. We've got a main character who
has cerebral palsy.
It's very intense so she needs to be in
a wheelchair all the time. So we have a
main character who is a wheelchair user
and as well as that up until now she
hasn't been able to speak due to her
cerebral palsy. But there has been this
kind of technology invented which allows
her to speak and say things. And not
everybody is ready to hear her voice and
the words that she can say. It is such a
powerful book and I cannot wait to go
back to it and read it all over again.
The second read-a-thon that I didn't want to
join but I'm joining anyway is the
Gilmore Girls read-a-thon. And that's
because I've just seen it all over to
Twitter and everybody seems so excited. And
when the community as a whole is excited
for a read-a-thon that makes me just
want to join in and connect with all of
you guys all the more. So I'm going to be
doing this one. I'm going to be doubling
up quite a bit. So for one of the prompts I'm
going to be reading Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling. I don't
know if you remember but back in April
when I finished reading the series I
said: that's it never reading Harry
Potter again! I'm done. And I'm gonna
reread it because I need it for my
children's literature course for uni. And
I don't remember what happened in the first
one because I blanked it out! Because I
didn't like it but I'll I'll make my way
through it. Not sure how but it's gonna
happen. Then for that readathon I'm also
gonna try and read If on a Winter's
Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. I
think I had this on my TBR for newts and
I just didn't get around to it. So if I
just keep putting it on TBR's
maybe I'll read it. Then I'm doubling up
with Monstress for one of the prompts and
I'm doubling up
with History is All You Left Me for
another prompt. You guys see what
I'm doing here ;) And then for the last prompt I'm gonna be
reading When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. This is for the
mother/daughter relationship and also
doubling up for food on the cover
because she's holding a drink. This is
one that I had on my shelves for a while
and people say it's really cute but also
really meaningful and impactful. So I'm
looking forward to reading it. So after
all of that there are three books that I
also need to read for uni and I already
talked about one of them which is Harry
Potter book 1. But the other one that I'm
going to be rereading for uni is The
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. So it's
been a very very very long time since
I've read The Hunger Games. People seem
to love this series. I thought it was okay.
I loved it the second book but the third
book was not for me and the first book I
thought was just okay. But I'm interested
to see after watching the movies if I
go back to the first book and find it
more enjoyable. So I'm going to give
it a go and see what I think of it. And
lastly for uni I need to read Tales
from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan which
is an Australian author who's writing
this one. I don't know much about it but
I'm always down to read more books by
Australian authors while I'm here and
like, in my future as well. Then it would
be very nice if I could finish some of
my current reads because at the end of
September I just decided to start a
bunch of books and not finish them. So
let's talk about my current reads. I'm
currently listening to Sadie by Courtney
Summers on my... in audible and I am
enjoying it so far. I was buddy reading
this one but my buddy reader DNFed so I'll just be reading it by myself
when I'm walking to and from uni. I'm
also reading How to Belong With a
Billionaire by Alexis Hall and this is
the third and final book in the How to
Bang a Billionaire series. I was really
enjoying this series. I loved the first
two. I have to admit this third one is
just not off to a great start. So that's
great. This was also one of my 5 star
predictions so hopefully it'll pick up
soon and I'll be back to loving it. Then I'm also stuck into the middle of
two buddy reads and those are The Poppy
War by RF Kuang and I am
enjoying it so far. Like, I feel like it's
going the way that every single fantasy
read goes so far in the beginning. And I
could predict like little things but
this is a big boy
and we've got a while to go. So hopefully
it'll pick up soon and become a bit
more unpredictable, and I'll be able to
fall in love with it. And then I'm also
in the middle of buddy reading The
Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon. The
beginning of it didn't really tickle my
fancy. It's getting a bit better now and
hopefully we'll just continue to get
better as we go along and the romance
kicks in. And I'm also planning to buddy
read a bunch of stuff with a bunch of
different people. So I asked for buddy
reads on Twitter and a lot of people
got back to me. And I'm very good at
multitasking buddy reads so I don't
really mind doing this but there's quite
a lot of them. So let's just run through
it. So the first one is My Sister the
Serial Killer. And this is one I've been
meaning to read for a while. I like
thrillers and I'm just very curious
because this was on a lot of book prizes
long lists or short lists so that's
gonna be an interesting one. And it's
pretty short. I've also got It by Stephen
King. I really want to watch the movie
and I've owned this one again for a
while so I very much looking forward to getting through
i. It is a chunker though. It is a
chunker. And hopefully it'll be good also.
I'm also going to be buddy reading Throne of
Glass with The Word Nerd. Margaret from the
The Word Nerd. And I am a bit nervous... And I
don't think I'm gonna like it but I have
the first two books so I think I should
give them a try. I've had this one
again, for a while. I think it's some of
the oldest books that I own that I
haven't read so... And History Is All You Left Me is a buddy read. I'm also going to be
reading On Beauty by Zadie Smith. I
really don't know that much about this
book but Zadie Smith is a renowned author
and I'm looking forward to trying
something by her. And we've also got
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman. Again,
Alice Oseman is so hyped and Radio
Silence, especially, is one that people
seem to love. So I'm hoping that I'm
gonna love it too. And then lastly for
buddy reads I have The Island by MA
Bennett. so I did a Malta vlog and
then that whole footage got lost. RIP
to my Malta vlog. But in Malta I read
239 pages of a 365 book. I literally got
to the end and then I was like: lol,
jokes, pause. So I was a bit struggling my
way through this one and it's actually
an ARC but it's out
now so I should have read this already.
But we're going to be buddy reading it
so I'm going to start with the beginning
again
and hopefully with the buddy reader along
I can get through this all the way, and
finally write that review. And then last
but not least the last book I'm planning
to read is Some Places More Than Others
by Renee Watson and I'll definitely be
getting to this one . This is a
middle grade that is diverse and it
follows this young girl who's trying to
learn more about her heritage and where
she fits in. So she goes to visit her
father's family in New York, but she
finds out that it's not as easy as she
planned it is to fit in and figure out
her own identity.
I'm loving some black main characters. I
love black female main characters I'm
starting to get into reading middle grade
more. And this is so colourful and it
looks really happy. I'll be reviewing
this over on my blog so do look out for
that if you follow my blog. Link down
below as well. Whoa, that is a big stack of
books. So those are the books I'm hoping
to finish and read. I don't think I can
do it because in total that is 27 books
and let's be real, I pushed hard to fit
17 in. I have read 30 books in a month
before but you know, that was old me. This
is the new me. Anyway, thank you so much for
watching this video.
Please let me know in the comment
section down below what are your reading
plans for October and what book are you
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