Hey guys it's Abi from autumn of pellinor and today i'm going to be doing
something kind of stupid but it should be fun so i originally
wanted to do what i'm about to do for my tbr
for august i was going to really challenge myself
it was going to be mad i was going to fail it would have been great
but things may change so i've said this on my channel before
i'm unemployed right now but i've been told that i might have a job on the 17th
of august like that would be my start date, when i work my
chronic illness means that that's it i can't do anything else so i'm going to
be trying to get lots of videos ready
trying to read as much as i can before i start working
so that i can kind of get as much done as possible
before my life ends my chronic illness just means i go to work
i come home i sleep i go to work i come home i sleep
it's not good so that scuppered my plans scuppered since when the fuck did i say
scupper? for years um but my plans had been if you've read
the title to do in august an alphabet tbr
my abc tbr whatever and i have gotten a book for almost every letter of the
alphabet i couldn't find j x and z so please
in the comments down below leave book recommendations for j
x and z books it can have the or in front of it that's fine
um as long as the next one begins with j x
or z let me know give me recs i would love if they have audio books and if
they're by Black authors or other PoC or other
kind of own voices diverse books because a lot of the books that i have on my
shelves currently are white cis non-diverse books and i
need to change that so i would appreciate diverse
recommendations for books beginning with j
x and z thanks these are my alphabet books what i'm actually
gonna do now i oh let me show you on this
flimsy sheet of paper i have written out all of the books in order, the gaps
are for the three letters i haven't gotten yet it says the page numbers
and how long it should take me so the first book to give you an example
is a darker shade of magic this is a reread because once a month i do at
least one reread for the booktube rereadathon hosted by alex black reads and
abi mac reads and this is going to be it for the book
that surprised me for august so that's the first one it's 387 pages
and so i rounded it up that should take me
four hours to read it takes me roughly one hour to read 100 pages
which is handy but sometimes i've extended that a little if i think that
the book's going to be difficult if i think i'm not gonna be able to read it
in one sitting or if it's got smaller writing so i've done that
with all of the books and i'm hoping that i can just kind of
be like oh this should only take me four hours just sit and read it
basically i'm gonna bully myself so yes i have all of these books
it's big long list the highlighted ones are ones that are five hours or over
because i know that they will be harder for me to get through
just long books obviously take like a mental
differentiation so let me shut up and tell you all of the books
as i said before a is a darker shade of magic by victoria schwab b
is the boneless mercies by april genevieve tucholke c
is crown of midnight by sarah j maas d is dark purpose by ab endacott e
is eve of man by giovanni and tom fletcher f is firesong by william
nicholson g is good me bad me by ali land h is
heir of fire by sarah j maas i struggled with h there was one other
that i could do but i'm gunna attempt a bigger one i
is in the midst of life by jennifer worth j is one of the letters i don't
currently have a book for k is kidnapped by robert louis stevenson
l is lost boy by christina henry m is moriarty by anthony horowitz
n is neverknight by jay kristoff another bigger one this has got
really really tiny writing o is other words for smoke by sarah
maria griffin p is prodigy by marie lu q is the queen of the tearling by erika
johansson this is another big one i didn't have
anything else for q r is rebel heart by moira young
s is samuel nowak by caitlyn j bolton t is truth sister by phil gilvin
u is the unseen world by liz moore v is vesuvius by kina italia publishing
this is going to be a nice quick one just
it it worked okay don't judge me w is wormwood by gp taylor x is another
one i don't have any books for y is the young elites by marie lu and
z is another one i don't have any books for so those
are the alphabet books that i'm going to
attempt to read i have them all piled out at the minute
on the floor because i i'm in a very small room so that's
where they can go and i really want to pick them up they're
like i want to read them i want to read them
but i'm filming this mid-july so that would be ever so slightly
cheating if they were supposed to be my august tbr
so i'm debating with myself whether this is still going to be my august tbr and i
just get through it as far as i can and then september i try and read more
so that is what i'm thinking at the moment and the last book on my tbr for
august is frankenstein by mary shelley so this is for me to take part in the
mary sherry mary shelley read-a-thon
which caitlyn bolton is hosting at mas cheshire rabbit i'll leave a link down
below she also has some other prompts that
include like read a book published between this year and this year um
it's like in the 1800s hundreds ish and kidnapped
was published in 1880 i believe so this will count for that if i managed to
get that far but i've never read frankenstein it's not
too long of a book and it's caitlyn's favourite book so i think
i can try and squeeze it in i would love to take part in her
readathon and then also she has promised that if i read frankenstein she will
read the gift that is a sweet deal that is
my plan is to try and read all of these and i'll probably only get through
like maybe this stack maybe but you know i'll try and we'll
see how it goes i am tempted to vlog it but then also
that's going to take time i did try where i could to pick the shortest books
on my tbr for example i could have picked vox by
christina dahl-chey, dahl-cher, I don't know. Dalcher
instead of vesuvius because i do really want i'm looking at it i do really want
to read vox but this is 80 pages
and it's still a book so you know 26 books is a big it's a big tbr
why why so yes that is what i'm going to be
trying to read in the month of august and then it'll
fail and i'll have to read the rest of them
in september but i don't know how much reading i'm going to be able to get done
when i'm at work i am going to be able to read if i get
the job um i've gotten the job but it actually goes
ahead because i've gotten like two three other jobs so far and they've not went
ahead i am going to be able to read more
audiobooks now because i'll be going on the bus and
i can't read physical books when i'm on like in buses and cars i vomit so i'm
gonna have to get lots of audio books for that i don't know if i'll be able to
get the audio books for any of these i'll probably try and find them for the
j x and z books if i can
or they may just be additional on top of these guys
and i'll just take a physical book in with me and hopefully try and read it on
a lunch break or whatever that is the ridiculous tbr that i have
set myself let me know if you've read any of these books if any of them
you know are quick reads that would be really lovely to know in advance
uh and let me know if you've ever set yourself a stupid tbr like this one
and if you have a booktube or a book blog or whatever
send me a link so i can go check it out and not feel so alone in my stupidity
why am i doing this? thank you so much for watching guys
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can read 26 books in a month but am i going to i
genuinely do not know so yes subscribe and i'll see you in my next video, bye guys!