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Hello and welcome, my name is Starlah and
today's video is going to be a pretty
quick April TBR. Now, about a week ago I
did upload a chatty, like, update video
and in that video I did talk about like
some books that I plan on reading in the
near future. Mainly books I thought would
be good for me in my kind of current
mental and emotional state, in result of
everything that's going on in the world.
In that video, I said that my reading
didn't really feel halted like I-I
wasn't feeling like I was in a reading
slump .. but I am. I-I was in denial. I am
totally in a reading slump like in all
honesty I'm really not feeling great. And
it's really unfortunate 'cause like I had
huge reading plans for April. The OWLs
Magical Read-a-thon is in April, it's one
of my favorite readathons to participate
in. But I honestly just how I'm feeling,
my energy levels, I just know that I
don't have the energy to commit to
something that big. As much as I love it,
as much as like it saddens me to not
participate in it, I just know that it
would, it would stress me out even more,
it would drain what little energy that I
have. But I do still plan on keeping up
with it, cheering everybody else on. It's
just not a commitment that I can-I can
make right now. So, what am I reading in
April? I don't know, honestly. I really
failed my March TBR like ... abysmal. I
didn't finish any of my TBR jar picks. My
Neil Gaiman pick for last month, I had - I
got the notification it said it was
ready for pickup from my local library
the day before all of my librarys
closed. So I wasn't able to get that. Just
like honestly all in all .. failed. I failed my March TBR. What am I gonna do? Pretend
it didn't happen.
March didn't happen. The world shut down
in March like it's not my fault. I'm
gonna give myself a do-over 'cause ...
[deep sigh] god I'm stressed. So in April I think I'm going to
try to continue with some of the books I
have started. I do think I'll continue
with The Kiss of
Deception. It's kind of a light fantasy
romance-y kind of story that I think
will be easy to escape to during this
time. I did also recently start The
Ladies Guide to Celestial Mechanics by
Olivia Waite, this is a female/female
historical romance with like science
thrown in there. On one hand, a few things
and I really don't love and on the other
hand, a few things that I really do love
so, I started this I think I got about 40
pages into it. It's just okay so far but I do
think maybe a kind of romance-y story
might be good at this time. I also plan
on continuing with The City We Became by
NK Jemisin which is one of my most
anticipated releases of the entire year.
Came out in March, I got it, I started it
and I do plan on continuing with this.
Actually, another one of my most
anticipated releases is the third and
final book in the Shadow of the Fox
trilogy by Julie Kagawa comes out I
think it comes out March 31st which
isn't technically April but it's the
very last day of March and it's called
Night of the .. Night of the Dragon, it's
the third book in this trilogy, a trilogy
that I absolutely adore. Was one of my
favorites of last year. I do think I'll
read that in April at least I'll try to
it's something that I really really
enjoyed something that was from the
first two books I know was so easy for
me to fall into and get absorbed in and
really immerse in. So I do think that'll
be good at this time. There are some
other April releases that I'm interested
in but this is the one that I need and
therefore will buy outright instead of
how I usually try to do it which is get
it from my library first, which is
currently closed. I will also probably do
some re-reading this month, I talked
a bit about that in that other update
video. Check out that video to see a
couple that I was kind of thinking of
rereading, there's some of my
like all-time faves. I actually might
just reread that Julie Kagawa trilogy
completely. Iit is one that like I've
really enjoyed I have very fun- I still
remember it really really well, but I
might just reread it just because. Uh ..
what else do I do? Um ..
Neil Gaiman. I don't really know what
Neil Gaiman I'm going to pick for this
month. I do not currently have any unread
Neil Gaimans in my collection. The like
ebooks and audiobooks that I can get
from my library I do think they have
some that I haven't read yet. I think I
might check out Anansi Boys. It's
definitely one that has interest me of a
lot of Neil Gaiman works but I haven't
really put it at the top of the list yet
just because I know that it's gonna- to
some extent, it's gonna have to do with
spiders and I don't like spiders. I might
maybe actually read one of the other
short story collections. Which ones
haven't I read? I haven't read Smoke and
Mirrors or Fragile Things, so I might
maybe read a short story collection. I
don't know, I obviously like don't super
love reading ebooks, so I think that's
just kind of like a we'll see kind of
basis. And lastly I think I'm gonna do my
TBR jar even though I very much failed
it last month the TBR jar is just like
something fun and we could all use some
fun right now. So here is my TBR jar/mug.
I'm gonna pick three out of here like I
usually do but I'm going to be a bit
more cognizant about it and maybe see if
I can find in my TBR collection, that's
behind the camera, some just kind of like
easier, fun, light books that might not
only be good for this time but be good
to help me get out of a reading slump.
The first one I am picking it's gonna be
this one. This one says to "read the first
book in a new series" Okay, um .. I know I
have a few first books in the series
over there. Alright I actually have a lot
of series over there I didn't even
really realize how many. One of the first
ones that kind of popped up to me was
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer, I know
this is the first in a trilogy. Book one
of the Southern Reach trilogy. I know
it's like a sci-fi kind of trilogy I've
really been interested in watching the
movie. Definitely seems kind of like a
weird kind of story. It's also short so
that might be nice. I also realized that
I have like a bunch of YA fantasy
books over there, I'm pretty sure these
are all first in the series. I just
honestly grabbed like a pile of the
first some that I saw. I would absolutely
love and appreciate your assistance, if
you have read any of these and you know
if they're like really good reads to
just kind of get into, they're not
necessarily easy but like, the author did
a really good job at writing it immersible. [bad grammar] That's not a word. It doesn't take
a lot of effort on the reader to really
get into the story, that's what I'm
trying to say. There's Reign the Earth by
A.C. Gaughen. I'm pretty sure this is
elemental magic which would be pretty
cool. Mirage by Somaiya Daud. I did just
recently read a short story by this
author so I'm much more interested in
this. I pretty sure this is a series.
I'm pretty sure this one has to do with
a girl and she like switches places with
a princess or something like that.
Wicked Fox by Kat Cho, I know this one is
a series. The cover for the second book
recently was released and it looks
really good. I know this is Korean fantasy I
believe it has something to do with a
nine-tailed fox.
This one is The Traitor's Game by Jennifer
A. Nielsen. I've honestly had this book
for so long I literally have no idea
what it's about. Ash Princess by Laura
Sebastian, I have heard somebody talk
about this and they kind of said that
this was a YA fantasy but it was about
a young girl .. a princess who kind of
uses her wit to take back her kingdom or
take over kingdom. I've heard it's pretty
feminist and kind of like a new twist on
this kind of story. And this one is The
Cerulean by Amy Ewing. All I know about this
one is that there's like this
civilization up in the sky and like one
of the girls falls from it to Earth.
That's a bunch of YA fantasy books that
I'm pretty sure are first in a series.
I also have a couple adult fantasy
books that I know are first in a series
but just kind of knowing that I, as a
reader, don't want to put too much effort
into getting invested in a story. I don't
really know if adult fantasy is the way
to go. I honestly don't know, please comment
down below if you have an opinion on any
of these books and you think that they
would be good for me right now in a
reading slump. I would very much
appreciate it. The second slip that I'm
going to pick is going to be this one
and it says to "read a continuation in a
series" okay um. I definitely have
continuations. Would any of them be good
for my reading slump right now, though, is
the question?
Because honestly all the continuations
that I'm seeing right now are all high
fantasy. Oh! No, wait! I could read a
continuation and one of my manga or
graphic novel series. This one is volume
7 of Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida and
this one is volume 2 of part 1 The 12
Portals. These are actually both
continuations and I do think mangas,
graphic novels, comics, are really good in
a reading slump. So I do think I'm gonna
try to read one of these. If you didn't
see I did talk about the first volume of
this and my December wrap-up. I
originally read these as a kid. So
vividly remember them and how much I
loved them as a kid and I really enjoyed
the first one so I'm really excited to
continue re-reading this series I'd love
so much as a kid. Tokyo Ghoul is one of
my favorite animes and one of my
favorite manga series as well. It's kind
of like a dark, gorey, urban fantasy story that takes place in Tokyo and follows the
story of Ken Kaneki who is an
average college student but ends up
running into a ghoul, which in this
society, a ghoul is essentially the same
as a human but has heightened senses and
feeds off of human flesh. He ends up having
this violent encounter with the ghoul
and he kind of turns into this hybrid,
half-human, half-ghoul and kind of trapped
between these two worlds he kind of ends
up right in the middle of a turf war. And
it really expands a lot more in that I'm
kind of now in the manga series where it
really differs from the anime - I watched
the anime first. So I'm really enjoying
reading the mangas. And the last slip
that I'm going to pick is going to be
this one and this slip is to "read one of
my arcs". Alright I have a few I'm kind of
interested in. A couple are just short
and I think that might be good. I have
this one Some Places More Than Others by
Renee Watson. Pretty sure this is a
contemporary middle grade story about
this girl who goes to New York, Harlem
specifically, to visit family and I think
she just kind of sees like a new side of
her family. I have this one nothing to
see here by Kevin Wilson, I don't know
much about this all I remember about
this is that I think it follows siblings
and it's like really weird. One of them
has like the ability to spontaneously
combust or something like that. Also have
The Tennant by Katherine Engberg which I think this is
a suspenseful thriller story which I
actually do think I'm kind of in the
mood for. But I do think this is like-
is this a genre? Like Scandinavian crime
thriller, is that the genre? Like Jo Nesbo
and Stieg Larsson like I think it's like
that I pretty sure this one takes place
in Copenhagen I really have no idea what
it's about. When I first got it, it
sounded really interesting but I haven't
really gotten around to it. I'm not like
super into crime fiction.
I love thrillers and horrors and
mysteries but there's just something
about when it's from the perspective of
like a detective or a police officer or
anything like that where I kind of - I
don't know - I don't love it as much. And
it kind of seems like a lot of like
thrillers or suspenseful stories that
kind of come out of Norway and Sweden
and Denmark are kind of like that so .. maybe?
This one is Dear Edward by Ann
Napalitano? Napalitano. This one I was
really excited to get it looked really
interesting when I first got it and I
planned on reading it immediately but
then I didn't. Heard a lot of people
compared this author's work to like
Celeste Ng who I absolutely love. I know
that this one is about a boy who is on a
plane and it crashes and everyone but
him dies and it's kind of like his life
after that. So I have these arcs, these
ones I'm kind of interested, especially
since they're kind of short, but these
ones I think I might have a stronger
appeal towards right now. Are all of
these out by now? Yeah, all of these books
are out by now so if you have read any
of them again let me know down in the
comments. Alright that's gonna be all
for this video, I don't think it ended up
being as short as I originally thought
it would be. But it's fine. Thank you so
very much for watching don't forget to
comment down below let me know what
you're planning on reading at April.
Definitely please, please let me know
your opinions on a lot of the books that
I have mentioned because I-I'm
definitely open to some help in what I'm
picking to read.Thank you again for
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