Hello and welcome my name is Starlah and
welcome to my July TBR.
July is my birthday month! I didn't know
when was a good time to insert that so ..
I'm just gonna open with it. Birthdays
are big to me and in my family so I'm ..
excited? I'm excited it's finally July. At
the same time I like can't at all believe
that it is July. Like this year has been
the longest and shortest year at the
same time. But not going into that rabbit
hole.
It's July's. It's my birthday month. Here's my TBR. I didn't plan this but it worked out
really well. I, personally, I really loved
buddy reading and a few of my bookish at
friends and I are going to be doing some
buddy reads in July for some books that I
am super excited to read. For the first
one.. [face of surprise] It's finally happening! How long have
I been talking about this book. I am
finally going to read this. I'm going to
read this with Becca from "Becca and the Books". Becca's channel will be
linked in the description - everybody that
I mentioned, their channel will be in the
description. The City of Brass is a
historical fantasy that I've been
talking and raving about for so long and
still have not yet read - until now! And
I mean it this time. It's a historical
fantasy set in Cairo that follows a con
woman named Nahri who accidentally
summons a djinn warrior. They have to
travel across the desert to the djinn city
of Daevabad. I have heard *literally*
nobody say anything bad about this book.
I am beyond excited to finally read it.
It's finally happening.
Regan from "PeruseProjects" and I also
wanted to do a buddy read. We were
originally going to read Red Sister
by Mark Lawrence. That is until we saw
V.E. Schwab/Victoria Schwab opened up on
Twitter about the harassment that she
has experienced with him and I just kind
of went down this rabbit hole of reading
a bunch of people coming forward and
talking about their experience with him
and how much he has harassed people. So,
fuck that! Instead, we are going to be
reading From Unseen Fire by Cass Mooris
which is a historical fantasy that has
elemental magic. The book opens up with
the death of a dictator and the
opportunity for our main character,
Letona - who is a mage of spirit and fire -
to seize power as the protector of the
people. I know we're both very excited
about this. Not a lot of people have
talked about it. We haven't heard many
things about it so, I'm so super excited
to read this and to read it with Regan.
I am also forcing Jesse from "Bowtiesand
Books" to read something with me. They
don't have a choice, I told them it's my
birthday so they have to. We're probably going to read The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
or The Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanna A. Brown. This is Jemisin's newest release,
it's an urban fantasy where cities are
alive and parts of it are personified. I
don't know much about it but I really
don't need to because I just love
everything by N.K. Jemisin. And A Song of
Wraiths and Ruin is a debut YA West
African fantasy, following two
individuals, a dude who is tasked to kill
the crown a princess in exchange for
saving his sister. And the crown
princess who is trying to resurrect her
deceased mother but needs a king's heart
so she decides to marry dude .. make him a
king .. take his heart. Two people who are
trying to kill each other. There are also
quite a few July releases that have
caught my eye. I am going to make a
separate video talking about all of them
because there is a lot. The ones at the
top top of that list are probably The
Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal, which is the third book in the Lady
Astronaut series. Aaand Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron. And lastly I'm going to
do my TBR jar. Now, to be very honest, I
have not been being very good at my TBR
jar. It is currently like a week out from
July and I have not read any of my TBR
jar picks for June. I'm definitely
embarrassed. I am gonna try to get to at
least one of them by the end of the
month. And I know I set myself, you know,
this goal of 'if I don't get to it, it
needs to get unhauled' but ... I'm not ready
to get rid of any of them. We're just
gonna pretend like June didn't happen
and I think I said that for May too. Just,
let's do the jar. My first pick is going
to be ... is this one or two? This one!
And it says to "read a book with a one-word
title". Okay, I'm trying to cry in July. I'm
going to pick Beartown by Fredrik
Bachman. I've had this book for a long
time Fredrik Bachman is a really
popular author and one I've been meaning
to get into. I think he even has another
book coming out soon or maybe not soon
but this year like in the next couple
months. All I know is that it takes place in
this really small town, it has to do with
hockey, and I think the whole town is
kind of shook because there's a girl who
gets sexually assaulted. I've heard it's
very emotional and maybe I am trying to
cry, in July, that rhymed. Next, we've got
this one. Which is to "read the first book
in a new series". Oh! I know exactly which
one I want. I really want to read The Tethered
Mage by Melissa Caruso. This is the first
book in the .. Swords and Fire series. And
I really want to read this, not only
because I've had it for a long while but
also because I was recently gifted The
Obsidian Tower, which is Melissa
Caruso's newest book - oh my gosh both of these books I've been gifted - A friend
gifted this to me. "In the Riveran Empire,
magic is scarce and those born with
power are strictly controlled. Taken as
children and conscripted into the Falcon
army." It looks like it follows two main
characters. One, Zaira, who has grown up on
the street and has always tried to hide
that she is a mage. And the other, Lady
Emilia, who was never meant to be a
Falconer. Looks like a falconer is
somebody who is tethered - *get's the title* - to a mage to keep them under control and they get
tethered together and wars on the brink.
And my last pick is going to be this one.
And it says to "read an ARC", an ARC that
like I haven't gotten recently; an old
ARC. I think I'm gonna read These Ghosts
Are Family by Maisy Card. This is an ARC
I got a long time ago. This book came out
in March of earlier this year. It says "a
transporting debut novel that explores
the effects of an explosive secret on
multiple generations of a Jamaican
family." What I know about this is that it
is about a man who like abandons his
family in Jamaica, goes to America, and
assumes a new identity. And like 30 years
later, the child from that family he
abandoned, the girl who's now a woman, is
just living her life in America and she
happens to stumble across him and then
he reveals himself as her father. It's
just about like some big secret- I don't
even know if that's the secret. I might have
spoiled it, I'm sorry. No, it's not a
spoiler. It's in the synopsis. I have
heard amazing things about this. These
are a good chunk of the books that I
plan on getting to in July. I promise,
this time I'm really gonna take my TBR
jar pics seriously, I'm really going to
try. That is gonna be all for today's
video, please let me know down in the
comments what you plan on getting to in
July. Let me know if you've read any of
the books that I plan on reading. And
that is going to be all for today's
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and I will see you very soon, in the next
one. Goodbye!
