Hey there! It's Olivia-Savannah here from Olivia's Catastrophe and today I'm here
to give you my September
TBR. So we've got a lot of books here.
We've actually got 33 books. Am I going to read 33 books in one month?
No. Ii'm still going to show them all to
you regardless and we can talk about
them. They're split into different
categories and I'm going to try and read
as many of these as I can. And we'll just
see how we go from there.
The first 11 books I have to show you
are books that you guys chose for me.
I showed you my entire tbr and I asked
you guys to vote for which books you
wanted me to choose. And there were
definitely
some that stood out more than others. Ii've got them here in order of most
voted
to least voted. And that's the order that
I'm gonna go through reading them. So let's get started. As usual in my TBRs I
won't exactly tell you what they're all
about but why I'm excited for them
rather. Because I don't like getting synopsis
wrong of books that I have not read yet. So the first book that you guys chose me
which won
by a clear amount of the most votes
by far, which was The Martian by Andy
Weir.
So I know that this one is about a guy
who goes to Mars with a team and somehow
he gets left
behind. And he's the only one on Mars and
he's just trying to survive up there. Everyone seems to love this book and I
haven't read a lot of science fiction
recently.
So I am very much looking forward to
reading this and it's one that I'm
starting
today. Second most voted one was The
Hating Game by Sally Thorne. This is
a enemies to lovers romance and I'm
looking forward to giving it a try. I am
excited . I recently hauled this one so
it's great to just get to it
as soon as. And now for all of the rest
of these they all got an equal amount of
votes.
So they're just all the other ones that
you guys most voted for.
We've got The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon.
This is one of the oldest books on my
tbr and I do have a buddy read for this.
I'll talk
to you about all of my buddy readers in
my wrap up so you know who they are and
everything.
But I am going to slowly be buddy reading
this one throughout the first week of
this month. Then we've also got The Silence of the
Girls by Pat Barker. And I know that this
one has to do with Greek mythology.
And I was originally very excited to
read this one but then I saw a lot of
negative reviews
which made me a bit more anxious to read
it. And that's why I haven't picked it up
yet.
But I will definitely be giving it a go
this month. And again I have a buddy read
for this one going on.
The next one you chose was One Day by
David Nichols. And O believe it spans across
20 years and it's one day where they're
together across all of those 20 years. I
could be wrong. But that sounds interesting to me. Up
next we have The Power by
Naomi Alderman. And I am very much
looking forward to getting to this one
because
I think nearly all of my sisters have
read it and really really recommend it.
It's in a world where women have this
power which causes intense pain in men
and it kind of shifts up the gender
roles
in the world because of this. And that
sounds really curious to me. I've seen it
compared to The Handmaid's Tale. And it's
even got Margaret Atwood
saying that it's electrifying on the
cover. So that gets me excited.
Then we have Their Eyes Were Watching
God by Zora Neale Hurston.
I've not read anything by Zora Neale yet
but I have heard really really good
things about this book. It's supposed to be absolutely beautiful
and I am actually very very excited to
read this one. I'm so glad that you
picked it for me. Another one that you guys picked for me
that I was really excited to read is Stay
With
Me by Ayobami Adebayo. And
I have been seeing loads of positive
things for this one. Everyone seems to
really enjoy it who gets to it.
And it sounds like it's going to be
emotional and deep.
And it's about this couple who really
want to have a child and while it's not
working out,
their family decide that maybe they
should get a mistress for the husband so
that they can have the child.
And that sounds like it's already going
to be a lot
to read about. Getting onto three books
that I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to
finish this month but maybe I can start
them.
The first one is The Final Empire which
is the first book in the Mistborn series.
This one was also
very popular in the votes and it's just
big which I find
personally, intimidating. But I have heard
really good things about Brandon
Sanderson's work and I haven't read
anything by him before so it would be
very interesting to do so.
And finally give his works a chance. And
then we have
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. I
was actually hoping this one wouldn't
get so many votes because I was just
burned by Priory the Orange Tree which
I've talked about more in my last month
wrap up. Which I'll link up above and
down below. But I did own this one before Prior of
the Prange Tree so I guess I'll be
giving Samantha Shannon another chance.
And I do like to give
authors more than one chance so
hopefully if I do read this one it will
be
better than Priory of the Orange Tree. And
I have heard that if you don't like
Priory of the Orange Tree you might like this
one more.
So that's that's promising. Then last but
not least,
I was very surprised that the 11th book
that you guys voted for me was to read
was Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy which is a
huge
classic. But I have heard really good
things about everyone who takes the time
to actually read this one.
So I am looking forward to reading it. Maybe I can
take this one slowly throughout the
month by myself. Read little by little
and I might finish it or it might be one
that I carry over into the next month.
Then we've got my buddy reads. So I did mention that I'm buddy reading
some of my main novels,
but I have got a buddy read set for
every single week in September as well. As a few that are going
much slower throughout the month. So I've
got another four books here that I'm
buddy reading. The first one is Beartown by Frederik
Backman which I do own in physical form but
I just don't think I brought it into
this room with me. So I'm buddy reading
Beartown by Frederik Backman with Cara
from Wilde Book Garden. And we are halfway through and I am
absolutely
adoring this book. I think I'm gonna love
it by the end of it. Then we've got another four. So the first
one we have here is
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor
Jenkins Reid. And I'll be buddy reading
this
with a bookstagrammer. And I really
really loved The Seven Husbands of
Evelyn Hugo last year and
this seems to be her second most popular
novel. So I am looking forward to giving
it a go. I think it's got something to do
with the rock band and
I'm excited. After that we have Shock of
the Fall by Nathan Filer. This is one
that's been on my
tbr for very long time. And I think it
made an appearance for
another readathon that I was planning to
do this year but I never got around to
reading it. And it's just time I get to it. And I
have a buddy reader who also
has been meaning to read this one for a
very long time. So we are going to read
this one together and encourage us to
get it off of our tbrs once and for all. Then
last but not least, you can probably
guess this one. It's the next Artemis
Fowl book. And I'm going to be buddy
reading this with Gaia -- whoops --
and I'm going to be buddy reading this
with Gaia Athena again. We have been
reading our way through the entire
series and having so much fun
doing so. So I'm going to continue on
with the next book.
Okay so the next books I have to show
you are some review copies that I really
do need to get to. The first one is Betty by Tiffany
Mcdaniel. I did start it. It's just going
a bit slow for me.
And this one is a family saga kind of
one.
And it's following the author's mother
and her mother's life. And just going
through that. So it's quite a big book and I do really
need to get to that one this month. I also would really like to get to The
Deep Blue Between
by Ayesha Harruna Attah. I was meant to get
to this last month and it does come out
in October so it'd be very good to be
able to read it
and share my thoughts with you in a wrap
up before October begins. And this one follows these two sisters
who get separated. One of them
lives in Africa and the other one lives
in
Latin America I believe. And it's about
them having these connected dreams
that they share with each other. And yeah,
I'm curious to see
how that's all gonna unfold. And then the
last review copy I have here is The
Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mantell.
And this one follows a range of
characters who are all living very
different lives but they get
interwoven together. And I believe it has
something to do with the glass hotel. This one was sent to me by book break
and I'm very much looking forward to
giving it a read
this month. Okay so, now we've got some
inevitable staples that I just have to
talk about that will be read for sure
this month.
The first one is this is the complete
collection of Shakespeare. And I'm going
to make Shakespeare's Sundays a thing
for me.
I have read two plays last
month or like... two works of Shakespeare
on a Sunday. And I think I'm gonna try
and just continue that for the rest of
the year. Reading some Shakespeare on Sundays. So
for this month I want to read three
plays. And those are going to be
Henry the sixth part one. Henry the sixth
part two and Henry the sixth part
three. I'd love to read them all back to
back in a month.
One a week and that will definitely --
that's just gonna happen.
Then it's inevitable that I'm gonna be
reading my book for my read it backwards
series. So this month we'll be reading
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. This is the
last one
in the Twilight Saga but it's actually
the first book. But it's the last one I'm
gonna be reading.
And it's actually my favourite in the
series so I'm looking forward to that
and finishing off the Twilight portion
of my read it backwards series. And then
we also have
Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James. So I did
say
a long long time ago that I'll make a
video where I compare
Fifty Shades of Grey to Twilight. And
actually
read Fifty Shades of Grey. I wondered if
anybody was interested in that
and the response was an overwhelming yes.
So I'm actually going to do it seeing as
I'll be reading
Twilight for read it backwards anyway. And
I also said I wouldn't do it if I
couldn't get this book for free because
I was not going to spend my money
on Fifty Shades. And when I visited my
sisters they had a copy in their house
even though no one's read it. So I was like: can I borrow that for a
video and they said yes. And here we are  Last but not least, I'm
going to do some shout outs to my
current reads that I started last month.
Last month I really had a problem where
I just started a lot of books and didn't
happen to finish any of them. So O'm just going to read you their
titles and say how much I'm enjoying
them or not.
And I don't know if I'm going to get to
them or not this month.
But I'm just going to put them on this
list and if I finish one,
I finish one. And if I don't, I don't. First of all though, I forgot to mention
in my inevitable
going to get to them I've also got A
Gathering of Shadows by V.E Schwab. This
is the second book in the Darker Shade
of Magic series. And I'm going to be
reading this because I'm participating
in the live show for the Darker Shade of
Magic readalong that is being hosted by
Sabine from Sabine's Book Nook and
Yasmin from Yasminthereader. So I'll
definitely be reading A Gathering of
Shadows
next month. For my current reads first of
all we've got Crooked Kingdom
by Leigh Bardugo. I mentioned needing to
wait until my love for Jesper had abated
a bit, and it successfully did. So
I read a little bit further and I
just didn't get that far. Still within the first hundred or so
pages. So
I need to continue with this. Then we
have Sabriel by Garth Nix. If you watched
my Chloe Ting
challenge and reading challenge videos
you'll know that I was buddy reading
this. However, my buddy reader dropped off the
radar and dnf'd it. So after she dnf'd it I kind of just was...
didn't pick it up again. I should
continue though because I'm well over
100 pages in. The Travelling Cat
Chronicles is one that I started by with
Draconathon. And I enjoyed but I didn't get that far
in and I need to continue. This is A Song of Wraiths and Ruin. And I
was buddy reading it with one of my
friends over on instagram. And we were
both enjoying it. However, she's been hit by university and
it's just going for a little bit of a
difficult time. So we haven't been able
to continue our buddy read. And I have to
admit
my mood just switched from fantasy
completely and I wasn't in the mood to
read any more fantasy. So it was kind of put on pause for both
of us. And I wonder
when we'll pick it up or if I'll just be
picking up by myself at some point. But I
do want to continue it. It was good. It
was off to a good start but I'm
maybe like over 100 pages -- oh my gosh! I'm
almost halfway. I should really finish this. Tthen we have For
Real by Alexis Hall. This was this is one of my favourite
books and it's my favourite new adult
books.
And I was rereading it. I was rereading
it a little bit before bed every single
night. But then we went on holiday
and it kind of disrupted my doing that
reading before bed. But it was really
good to read a bit before bed every
night of something I knew, that was familiar,
that I could fall asleep to. And I was
loving my reread in physical form.
I'm about halfway so I'll probably
continue picking this up right before
bed again and have fun with that. Then we have Afrofuturism by Ytasha L.
Womack. I
am reading this for my dissertation and
it's a nonfiction one. And I'm getting a
lot of good notes from it which is why
it's taking
me some time to read. Usually my
dissertation fiction reads I read the
whole book and then type up
all my notes. However, with this
non-fiction one I was just pulling so
many notes I'm typing up my notes
as I read. Which means it's just going
much much slower. But I
am really getting so much content from
this one. I'm so glad I picked it up. We also have Slay by Brittney Morris. I
am enjoying this and I am also reading
it for my dissertation.
However, it's not gripping me quite as
much as I expected. And I think I hyped
this one up a little bit
too much for myself. But I am going to
continue it because I have to for my
dissertation.
And it is good. It is really good but I
think i'll explain my thoughts a bit
more about why
it was more hyped for me than I expected
in the wrap up. Then I started Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn. And I got quite a bit
of the way
in. I'm at like, page 100. But here's the
thing: I'm not really loving it. I don't
like
any of the characters and as a
character-driven reader I really
struggle when I don't like any of the
characters.
But I want to know what happens. I
really want to know what happens. So I'm
just pushing through but I'm going
a bit slow with this one. Last but not
least, I'm still mostly halfway through
It by Stephen King.
I'm probably not going to finish this
one in this month
because I'm waiting for my best friend
in real life.
She is currently reading this one. She
reads a bit slower than me
and she is halfway to where I am
at. So I'm just waiting until she gets to
where I'm at. And then we're going to
just buddy read it
slowly the rest of the way. Because I
don't think this is a book I can finish
if I don't have a buddy read for it. And
the fact that she's already reading it
means that
we can just meet each other. And then
continue together which is perfect. And there you have it those are all 33
books. This is a huge
tbr. We'll see how much I have or haven't
read by the end of the month. Please let me know in the comment
section down below have you read any of
these?
Or did one of the ones you voted for win? And what are you planning to read this
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Excelsior! The Martin. *scoffs* The Martin.
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