Hi guys! It's Olivia here from Olivia's
Catastrophe and I'm so excited to give
you my June TBR because this has been a
lot of fun to put together. My June TBR
is bookstagram chooses my TBR. I put
a photo of my TBR wardrobe up on bookstagram
and you got to choose books
that you thought I should read. And you
guys you must like some really thick
young adult fantasy books because that
is the majority of what you picked for
me. And I don't like to read many fantasy
books back-to-back, and many big books
back-to-back but I'm gonna try my very
best to complete the TBR you chose. I'm
also going to be doing feelgoodathon
which I saw first on Rachael Marie's
Book Journey. But I believe there are
other cohosts as well. And I'm gonna be
joining in with M.ake Your Myth Taker
which is being hosted by Ashleigh fromA Frolic Through Fiction. All of the books that
you guys chose for me fit those prompts
and I do have a couple of other books
here as well. No way I'm gonna finish all
of these books but we're just gonna be
optimistic. So the first books you guys
picked me on bookstagram were Crooked
Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo and King of
Scars by Leigh bardugo. You wanted me to
finish my journey in the Grishaverse
and I'm here for it. I actually started
Crooked Kingdom last month but I did not
finish it. I only got about 100 pages in
and then my mood was like: nahhh. So I will
continue on Crooked Kingdom and probably
definitely finish it. And then we've got
King of Scars which I believe is the
story that follows Nikolai. Will I finish
this one? Will I get round to it? We shall
see. But it's beautiful and I did
enjoy Six of Crows so you never know
where we're gonna end up going. When I
said thick books I was not kidding
because you guys chose Priory of the
Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. And this
is a brick of a book. However, I do have
some buddy readers and we are going to be
planning to buddy read,  three
chapters a day and hopefully I'll be
able to start and definitely finish this
one in the month of June. I'm really
excited to read it because I've heard
it's a very female centric high fantasy
and as you can see from the cover there
are dragons involved. And I am always
here for dragons involved. Then you chose
two books I'm a bit apprehensive to read
and that is Clockwork Prince and
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare. I
loved The Mortal Instruments series when
I was a teenager. I don't know how I feel
about them now. So I guess we'll have to
see. I did get halfway
through Clockwork Prince three years ago
and then decided to put it on pause. But
I'll start from the beginning and see if
I can get into it again and get into it
more and like it more. But everybody
says the ending is absolutely fantastic.
We have the City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty.
And I have seen recently that this one
is getting a film adaption so everybody
is rushing to read it. And I'm looking
forward to reading the first one in the
series. I actually know absolutely
nothing about this except that all my
fantasy friends say I am actually gonna
really love this one judging from what I
do enjoy my fantasy. So I'm looking
forward to giving it a go and seeing
what I'll make of it myself. Then we have
Slay by Brittney Morris. I have been
recommended this one by lots of people
who really love it. I love when video
games are involved in books. I love when
we have a black female main character
who makes their own video game. Okay,
that's just this book. But I do love when
that happens. I love that it's gonna be
tackling and talking about a lot of
black themes. And I've just heard it's
such a good book. So this is actually one
of the ones I am most excited to read.
Thank you so much bookstagram for choosing this one. You also chose another Samantha
Shannon book which is The Bone Season
and I've actually had this one on my TBR
for quite a long time. Can I remember what it's about? No. I did
know what it was about when I bought it. It's just been quite a while. But I think
I'm gonna prioritize Priory of the
Orange Tree and then maybe if I'm in the
mood to continue on with reading more
books by Samantha Shannon I could get to
this one
after that. You also chose for me Girl,
Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo. And
this was actually the most chosen one
along with Priory of the Orange Tree. So Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize last
year and it follows various black women,
I believe, in the UK. I could be lying to
you but I believe that's what it's about. Again, I'm really excited to read more
black works you guys have just chosen
for me to pick out. And I've heard it's
so so so good by lots of people who have
the same reading taste as me so I'm
excited. I'm definitely gonna be getting
to this one. You guys also chose Gone
Girl by Gillian Flynn. And that's a good
thing because I have been trying to get
into thrillers more. I have heard that
this one is a bit to do with a stalker
and some really weird stuff. I don't know...
I've just had really weird stuff about
Gone Girl so I don't know how I'm gonna
feel about it. I hope it's not gonna be
like The Girl on the Train where it was just a bit too
weird and out there for me. So I'm just
gonna reserve my opinion and see what
will come of it. You also have Memoirs of a Geisha by
Arthur Golden. And I know that this work
has got some lots of controversial
things about it. Apparently one of the
characters who are featured in this book
a lot or who was this book was based on
actually wrote their own book on what
it's really like and revealing
everything and kind of saying that
Arthur Golden got things quite wrong. Or
was embellishing it or
sensationalizing it. So I'm gonna read
this one and I'm gonna bear all of those
reviews and the other book in mind. And
then hopefully I can get my hands on the
other book which looks like this, and
read it and compare and contrast the two.
Because I'll be very curious to see what
the difference is and how these stories
are told. You also chose Bear Town by
Frederik Backman. Tes, this is a horrible
secondhand copy that I literally got for
free. If I do like it I'll probably buy a
nicer not waterlogged copy with a huge
sticker on it. But either which way I did
read and love My Grandmother Asked Me to
Tell You She's Not Sorry by Frederik
Backman. And I'm so excited to read
something else by him. However, I have
heard that this one is emotional and
will dig deep into those emotions. I
haven't been feeling heavy emotional
books lately. I'm much more into the
escapism mood
judging from everything that's still
going on. And how I have a lot of
emotions about that. I don't need more
emotions. I don't like feeling this
emotional all the time. But maybe I will
pick this one up after all just because
it's Frederik Backman and I want to a book
by Fredrik Backman. We've got three more
books you guys chose. You guys chose a
lot. I didn't expect to get that many
replies. So I've got the 15 Lives of
Harry August by Claire North. And this
one was actually chosen by Shoi from
Starlit Reader. And I believe this has
have something to do with Harry August
who every time he dies he just reappears
as a child. And that cycle just keeps
going on and on but then in one of his
lives something different happens and
we're gonna be following him in that
case. Science fiction - I am here for it.
I really like science fiction. I
started off this year reading quite a
lot of science fiction then my mood
switched. But I kind of want to go back
on that train and it might be a good
break from all the fantasy you guys
selected for me. We have anything by
Isabel Allende
which was the response. And the only one
that I've got in English is Paula and
I'm not ready to read an Isabel Allende
book in Spanish quite yet. This was
on my TBR for mentalhealthathon. I absolutely
failed mentalhealthathon but I'm gonna
explain why I failed mentalhealthathon
in my wrap-up. So meanwhile you
get to see Paula. It's gonna be on the
TBR and I'm gonna try and definitely get
to this one seeing as I've shown it
twice in a TBR video. And then last but
not least we've got Stormzy's book
called Rise Up and it's not just written
by Stormzy. It's also written by the
people that work with him on his
various projects and his music. This one
I got when I went to see Stormzy do a
talk about his music and also about this
publishing company and writing deals
thing he's setting up with Penguin. And I
don't know if I'm gonna like this. I know
my sisters tried to read it and weren't
the biggest fan. But I'm just gonna give
it a go and see what I think of it. Chosen for me by my friend who also likes
Stormzy.
I'm a huge Stormzy fan. I'm a huge rap
music fan in general. So we'll see. Then
we're moving on to some books that you
guys didn't choose for me from Instagram
but I have chosen because I want to
complete my A-Z challenge that was challenged to me by Sydney from
Sydney Stories. She challenged me at the
beginning of the year to read a book
that follows every letter of the
alphabet. And I've actually done it all
except for four letters and those are
the tricky letters. And I don't want to
have it hanging over my head for the
rest of the year so I kind of just want
to breeze through these four books. One
of the first letters is Q and for that
I'm thinking of reading Queen of Shadows
by Sarah J Maas. I've been reading
through the Throne of Glass series and
I've felt pretty mediocre about every
single book. I like the drama. There's things I don't like. So we'll
just see how I go with this fourth one. I
hope it'll be better than the third one
because the third one was really dry and
boring in my opinion. But this is
supposed to be a game changer in the
series. It looks small. It's not small.
It's really long, it's just a miniature
version. So again, I don't know. More YA
fantasy. We'll see. The next letter that I
need to finish is U and I've got Us by
David Nichols. I believe this one is about
a family who are falling apart and the
mum believes that she wants to divorce
and move out. So the dad in the family
decides let's have one last family
holiday where we're all together.
What can possibly go wrong? I think a lot
of things are probably going to go wrong.
Then we've got my Kindle and my Kindle
is representing all of the ebooks that I
would have to read to finish this
challenge. So first of all X. I really
couldn't find anything with the letter X
and for that I had to go on to Kindle
freebies and just type in X and see what
came up. And this whole comic series came
up which starts as a letter X. I'll
definitely read the first one in the
series because they're so short and it
fits the prompt. But all the rest of them
are free on my Kindle so if I do enjoy
the first one I can totally see myself
just ending up binge reading the whole
series. And then we also have Z and
that's for Zenith. I just know that I
have a book called Zenith on my Kindle. I
don't know who it's by. I don't know what
the cover looks like. I don't know what
it's about. But I'll let you know that
the cover looks like this and then we'll
see what it's like because I'm literally
just reading it for the challenge. But my
Kindle TBR is a mess, so yeah, it's good
that I'm reading it for the challenge.
And then last but not least I want to
mention an e-book that I was sent for
review and this is Betty by Tiffany
McDaniel. I'm probably going to read this
next month. I don't have to read it
next month because it's a while before
it comes out. But I don't think I'm gonna
be able to stop myself because Tiffany
McDaniel is the author of The Summer
That Melted Everything which is a book
that I don't talk about enough because
it's one of my favourite books of all
time. That book is fantastic. And she has
written Betty which is a book that's
close to her heart. It's inspired by her
mother. It's set in the same location as
The Summer That Melted Everything but I
believe it's somewhere else on the
timeline. So we're not going to see the
same characters interact and that's all
I know and that's all I need to know.
Tiffany McDaniel writes it, I am going to
read it. Okay, now on to our last books. So
first of all I've got a buddy read
that's gonna be happening with Gaia
Athena and that is going to be for
Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code by Owen
Colfer. This is the third book in the
Artemis Fowl series. I read the last two
last month and you'll hear about that in
my wrap-up. But it was literally
something that carried me through the
month. So I'm excited to get to book
three and see what drama these
characters get into next. It by Stephen
King. I am struggling with this book now.
I'm like in the middle.
I'm in the thick of it and it's just not
making me want to pick it up. But I want
to finish It. I really really do. I don't
want to DNF it. So, I'm showing
it to you and we'll just we'll just put
it down now. The collected works of
Shakespeare. It's gonna happen at some
point. I'm gonna read one or two of his
plays next month so I just have to show
it to you because it definitely will
happen. I've been in such a Shakespeare
mood. I just want to read Shakespeare. I
want to absorb Shakespeare. I want to be
Shakespeare and that is that. And last
but not least the Twilight Saga by
Stephenie Meyer. No, I'm not going to read
the entire Twilight Saga. And I'm not
even going to tell you which to of this
collection I plan to read because you
need to stay tuned because I have a very
exciting announcement coming for
something kind had in the works for
quite a while. And it starts with
Twilight. But it doesn't ever Twilight
and you'll hear more about that soon. But
there you have it. Those all the books I
plan to pick and mix choose to read in
June. Please let me know in the comment
section down below: have you read any of
these? Which are some that I definitely
definitely need to read? And if you want
me to do a booktube chooses my TBR also
let me know in the comment section down
below. And tell me what you plan to read
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