hey guys it's abi from autumn of pellinor and today i am going through my replacement instead
of having a tbr for the next two months so there are certain books that i want to read before
the end of 2020 i've managed to keep the pile reasonable and that's gonna be my tbr instead of
actually having a tbr over the next few months i have been really wanting to mood read more lately
so i'm letting myself do that apart from these few books and then i do have one bonus
book which is currently a book i want to read like is a mood read and i want to mention it
just to give myself some accountability so so let's get into it first up i've got the two
books left for the booktube rereadathon there's a prompt each for november and december don't
ask me what they are i'm awful um and these are for me the last two books in the pellinor
series so we have the third book which is the crow and the fourth book which is the singing
and i have been reading through these for the last it's gonna be the last four months of 2020 is what
i'm reading through these are going to be my last two rereads and i'm so excited to get to them
i adore these books if you couldn't tell if you look at my handle
so i'm really really excited to get to these guys and of course i have to read them one each month
which should be fine they take like a couple days to get through given that they're rereads
and middle grade i believe if not like young away so the writing isn't too big either too small
okay the next book that i have to read before 2020 is done is the song rising
by samantha shannon so i read the bone season in 2018 then i read the mime order in 2019 so i have
to read the song rising in 2020 so i can read the dawn chorus in 2021 i think that's the next one
um i've started the book i'm eight pages in and as you can see i've tabbed all of the chapters i do
tend to find samantha shannon's writing quite slow to get through although i do adore these books
i gave the last two five stars so don't get me wrong but i do find them quite slow to get through
so having each chapter tabbed so that i can maybe try and get through like one chapter a day when i
am reading this uh for me at least will be really helpful um and will help me kind of keep some
sort of consistent consistency and actually get through this book before the end of the year um
so yeah i am really excited about this it is the shortest book of the three of them so far
that i've read so it should be a lot quicker because the last book i read from samantha
channel was the priory of the orange tree which i'm not getting because it's down there but like
it's a big boy so this should feel a lot shorter but yes just because i do know that for me at
least um some of samantha shannon's writing is quite slow to get through although i do love
it so i've got those tabs in there then second to last what is in here papers i was flattening
i was flattening out a little basic rock identification guide that i made myself,
it's been a while since i've done anything to do with my master's guides okay leave me alone anyway
it's it's the secret commonwealth by philip pullman this is book two in the books of dust
which is the prequel trilogy that's coming out for his dark materials i read la belle savage and
adored it and flew through it i read it being about the same size as this in one sitting
so i'm anticipating this to not be as difficult to get through as it looks like you look at that
and you're like "fuck" but then you think okay i read a similar size book in one day and you
go okay yeah the writing the writing is like not too small and it is it is like a ya/middle
grade book so this is something that i should be able to get through without too much difficulty
so i am taking a look did i not get this signed why did i not do that i got it pre-ordered
i'm so stupid anyway so yes i need to read this before the end of the year this one doesn't have
any particular reason i mean possibly he'll release book three next year but just i had
this on pre-order and i still haven't read it so i need to read this before the end of 2020
and then the last book before the little bonus one there that i have to read before the end of 2020
is seasons of war by derek landy this is book 13 in the skulduggery pleasant series i can't
speak today man so let's try that again this is book 13 in the skulduggery pleasant series
um signed limited edition with a special bonus story i pre-ordered this one as well
uh he's going to be announcing the name
of the next book of book 14 i think today on halloween um it's halloween as i'm filming
uh what the fuck was that so yes um he's gonna be announcing the name of the new book which means
that it might come out next year which means i need to get my butt in gear and read this this is
definitively a middle grade definitely a middle grade and i know i can get through it quickly
again i've tabbed it up this time with um i think 100 pages is it yes i believe so let me check
another one just to be sure just to make sure yes so it's a hundred pages when it hits the chapter
ending just again it tends to take me about an hour to read 100 pages so then it just gives me
some motivation to get through and i can't just take the tabs out if they're demotivating me
so that's been a method i've been using so yes i really do need to read this finally and just get
up to date on the skulduggery pleasant series i do have a video actually i will link in the cards
all about this series where i'm like yeah i'm going to read seasons of war soon
so i need to read it this year oh my god they just fit
and then the bonus book so i have a blog which most of you probably don't know but i have a
blog i'll link it down below it's always linked down below i think um and it is just
autumnofpellinor.wordpress.com i think and i do first line fridays on there which is where i open
up a book and i take like the first paragraph or first few lines of it put what it is in there and
then you guess and see if you can guess what the book is and then the books revealed at the
end of the blog post when you scroll down and i did this with this book and then i realised that
despite how big it is the writing's pretty large and it's split into pretty manageable sections
and suddenly i have the urge to read big books so what i would like to get to
is long walk to freedom by nelson mandela
i i have been like scared of big books for the longest time and then suddenly i'm here wanting
to pick this i don't know this was gifted to me by the amazing kari from kari-ng for books uh
she just knew that this would be who's texting me shut up she knew that this would be something that
was gonna be gonna take a while for me to pick up but it was gonna be something i was gonna adore
um i very much loved learning about politics and about racial inequality just to educate myself
because your girl needs it um and yes so i think this should be an absolutely amazing book i'm
anticipating giving this five stars because how can you give it anything else um and i really
hope that i enjoy his writing style and i did like the beginning which i will read for you
"apart from life a strong constitution and an abiding connection to the thembu royal house
the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, rohlihlahla
in xhosa[zosa] or xhosa['click'osa] i don't know rohlihlahla literally means
pulling the branch of a tree but its colloquial meaning more accurately would be troublemaker
i do not believe that names are destiny or that my father somehow divined my future
but in later years friends and relatives were described to my birth name the many
storms i have both caused and weathered my more familiar english or christian
name was not given to me until my first day of school but i'm getting ahead of myself"
so his name is not mel melson? nelson so i think i'm also going to have to listen to um
at least like the sample of the audiobook and hope that they start at the beginning
so that i can actually hear how to pronounce his name and his people and his language um
just to like confirm everything through cause obviously you don't want to be saying that wrong
but that is something that i am really looking forward to there are um some pictures throughout
that seem to be like progressing in age and i do just think it'll be a really interesting read
okay no i'm swapping these around because that's just gonna cause them to fall over
so yes as i pull them up these are the books that i need/want to read before the end of the year
i mean i'm going to say all of them are need apart from the nelson mandela book
and then mandela is want but we'll see so i am leaning towards bigger books lately but these
this is the closest you're going to get to a tbr from me for a little while i think um i might
start them back up again these are heavy i might start them back up again in 2021 but just for now
in 2020 i'm not going to be setting any more tbrs i might do like oh these are
some books i'm interested in but i'm not going to actually like sit down and make a tbr other than
these books and like kind of that one just to let myself mood read a lot more and just see
if that is something that i want to do just with work at the minute it is very much like i have to
want to pick up the book whereas when i was unemployed and job hunting it was like okay
sit down and read this you have to whereas i've gotta like actively want to pick these up now
so mood reading is gonna help a lot with that because despite wanting to read all of my books
that doesn't mean i want to read them all the time so yes
this is my tb wow eragon this is my tbr for the rest of the year let me know if you guys have read
any of these books that i've mentioned there and what you think of them and if you're doing a tbr
or a mood read or a mixture of the two i think this counts as a mixture of it too
thank you so much for watching guys and i will see you in my next video
bye!