okay so different location i've reorganized a little bit and now i have
a dedicated shelf for my TBR books - books that i want to read in the future. So
i'll link in the corner my goals video of 2020 but in that goals video i talked
about some things that i wanted to accomplish to be able to make sure that
I get through my TBR in a reasonable and good way - it doesn't matter.
I have tasks and I have certain books that I'm trying to prioritize every
month. I will - it'll all come together if you haven't seen before. So I receive a
lot of books in the mail for my subscribers, you guys are amazing,
trying to share your favorite stories with me. So what I've done is the for
these two shelves right here are all books that you guys sent that I'm
excited about and want to get to really soon. These books that are wrapped are
the books that you guys sent me that I don't know, I don't recognize, I don't
know a lot about and so they wouldn't be high on my priority list. And so I
wrapped them and I select one randomly every month. Ideally I'd like to work my
way up to two or three every month but we're keeping it chill to start off to
get used to the habit. So that I'm still prioritizing the books that I would
naturally kind of not pay as much attention to I want to make sure that
these get read too. These are the books that I just already owned or have been
given to me outside of my subscribers whatever that I also want to get to and
down here are all my books that were sent to me my self-published authors
that I plan on reading as well. So let's talk about the books that I plan on
reading in February. First let's talk about the books that I plan on buddy
reading so on my patreon which is linked down in the description every monthly
buddy read two books and the two books that my patrons selected this month that
we're going to be buddy reading are Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson which is
a YA series that I still have not read by him so I'm finally - this is good
this gives me the push to actually read it. And the other book that we're
buddy reading this month is rage of dragons which is another book that I've
been meaning to get to for a while. Several of my friends here on booktube
have already reviewed it and quite a few people have loved it so I really really
really want to read it. And I have a second buddy read group over on discord
also will be linked in the description so if you can't or just don't want to
donate through patreon, there's still an option to buddy read and over there
we've been reading the first law trilogy for the last
two months and we're going to read the third book in February and I'm so
excited because book two ended on such an interesting note so I cannot wait to
finish the series out. Even though they're still stand-alones waiting for
me after I'm done. I'll also be reading book eight in the Wheel of Time series I -
by the time you watch this The Wheel of Time review for book 7 has not come
out yet but it will be out soon I'm just not entirely sure when but I've recorded
it. But yes I'll be continuing on into book 8. As far as malazan I am still
working on book 2 at the time that I'm recording this so it'll carry on into
February so I'm not continuing with book 3 in February.
Next I have starless which is a self pub book and the synopsis is pretty vague
but it basically sounds like it's a people group that have avoided bloodshed
for a long time but now it's become unavoidable and so they have to fight
their way through it and figure out a strategic way around it I don't really
know a lot about it but it really caught my eye this month so it's all my list. I
also have a book that I've forgotten the title of but I saw it over on Jesse's
channel from bowties and books which I'll link down in the description but
here it is it's a nonfiction and I'm going to actually when I link Jesse's
channel I'm gonna go ahead and link the video where they talked about it because
I think they just described it a lot better than I ever could
so just gonna link that down in the description but it's a nonfiction it's
something that really really interested me so I've been meaning to get to it for
a bit and now it's my perfect excuse. And last where you're going to unwrap a book
so this is the part where we talk about a book that I'm going to be reading that
was sent to me from my subscribers. I need a bigger bowl already this bowl
like I want to mix it up let's just go for it let's just.. And this is the one I
choose. Number 27 which is right - I don't want you guys to see that I'm wearing
pajama pants don't look. Number 27 here we go this is my unwrapped book I'm
I'm unreasonably excited for this new unwrapping routine that I'm going to be
doing.
13th child by Patricia something F was born a 13th child her twin brother LAN
is the seventh son of a seventh son, this means he's supposed to possess amazing
talent and she's supposed to bring doom to everyone around her. Undeterred, her
family moves to the frontier where her father will be a professor of magic at a
school perilously close to the magical divide that provides settlers from the
beasts of the wilderness. It says more but that's enough to get me intrigued. I
love it I love it she's supposed to bring doom - and she has a twin brother is
that what said? A twin brother who's oh man actually sounds really interesting.
It looks like it might be middle grade based on the formatting or I guess it
could just be lower YA. which I really don't read a lot of middle grade so I'm
excited that was a good choice. Okay so Drennan notice my wrapped
presents for the first time - I'm sorry my wrapped books for the first time and he
is super excited about them and he wanted to open one so apparently I'm
doing two graphed books this month. Go for it kid. What is it? A dragon. Can I see
thank you dragon flight. I have never heard of this
let me see to the nobles who live in Brandon City, Lessa is nothing but a
ragged kitchen servant for 10 long turns she has survived by serving those who
betrayed her father and seized his lands but now the time has come for Lessa
to shed her disguise and reclaim her stolen birthright well okay I'm
actually really excited about that. I love Kingdom and royalty tropes. I love you
I love you too sweetheart. Okay so those are the books oh gosh this
is a mess. So the books that I plan on reading this month. Now let's do an
overview so we can talk about what goals they hit. Okay so here are the four goals
that I'm trying to hit every single month with my TBR. For my series that I'm
continuing this month I have the last book in the first law trilogy as well as
the eighth book in The Wheel of Time series. For books from my subscribers I
have Steelheart , Rage of dragons, 13th child
and Dragonflight. For self-published book I'm reading starless and for nonfiction
I'm reading she came to slay which is about Harriet Tubman I'm realizing and
editing that I forgot to say that. And those are all my goals and I only have 7
books on this TBR list. So those are my goals those are the books that I
officially plan to read this month I'm also going to work a couple classics in
there are some that I have in mind but I can't tell you about because I'm only
allowed to have 7 books on my TBR any more. So I'll be reading more than this
but these are the ones that we're talking about today I would love to
continue chatting with you about any of these that you want to chat with me
about in the comments. I post videos every Sunday Tuesday Thursday Saturday
I'll see you guys again soon bye