 It's a new year, new me, and I'm ready to see what books I'm gonna be reading to start off this year. I just realized I haven't properly said happy 2022 to you, so happy 2022. I hope it's going on right for you so far and welcome to the January edition of Tiamya. Say it like that, I just get so excited. The light is going in and out, in and out today, so apologies for any light changes that we have, but hello. So if you don't know, TBR Cluedo is my TBR game that I play every single month, themed off of Super Cluedo. Nothing has changed, it's staying the same, all the rules are the same. So I'll leave the link down below to the playlist where you can watch the first episode, that has all the different rules in it if you don't know anything about it yet. Let's just get straight into it. So December's TBR was, oh my, whoa. Throwing them in the air. I just thought throwing them, they'd come back in the same order. Anyway, it was these five books plus the audio book for the novella Christmas at the Grange. I have read these four and Christmas at the Grange. Midnight Everwood was our book club pick for December over on my Patreon. We had to push the live show back to this weekend to give those in the US a bit more time to get their hands on it because it was a little bit hard for them to get their hands on it. So I've started it, I'm about 50 pages in, so no punishments, but by the time this goes up anyway I will have finished it because our live show for the book club is happening right after this premiere. So also if you can hear loads of banging around my house today, we've got loads of work going on. This is my only time to film. So we have no choice. Anyway, I think that is all of our housekeeping for this month. So let's just get into the first roll of TBR Q&A for the new year. Oh my God, how exciting. Okay, time for roll one. Person number two, which is purples are a mystery. And how many are we gonna roll? Whoa, a five or a one? Okay, one, two, three, four, five. Okay, which is number 16, which is a mystery with four or more words in the title. Okay, so roll one was a mystery with four or more words in the title. And for this I have chosen to read As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson. I wanted this to be my first book I read this year anyway. So we're lucky that it fits into the TBR. But I basically haven't read anything the first half of this year. I haven't finished a book yet. And I've got to finish Midnight in Everwood because it is our book club pick. So I've read the first like 60 pages of this, but that's all I've read. Like I'm not like into working like that. Like I can do like show some media every now and then but like I don't wanna like go nine to five job. I'll come back to it in the next week or so. But this is basically the final installment to one of my favorite mystery series ever, A Good Girls Guide to Murder. If you watched my recent best books of 2021 video, you'll know it was on there. I'm scared for this one because people have said it goes down a very different route than the first two books. We're following Pip who's kind of this like teenage detective in her local town. And by this book, sis has been through a lot of shit. In book one, I was like, oh my God, I can so relate to Pip. And now I'm like, girl, you've gone down a different route in life than I did. Like I can't really relate to where you're at at this point in your life. So she's been through a lot in the kind of various cases she's tried to uncover. She's seen a lot of horrible things. And in this one, I believe she has a stalker and the kind of mystery is trying to figure out who her stalker is. So I'm very excited to read it. Very excited to finish off one of my favorite series. I'm hoping it's still gonna be like a 4.5 star like the other two books were for me, but I'm nervous because everyone has said it goes down a complete different route. So I don't know what to expect, but we're gonna hope for good things. Okay, time for roll number two. Person number one, which is green. A five and a five. Okay, let's just use, I could, because I've already doubled, I could move and then roll again. But I think I'm just gonna pick something in this room. So let's see, let's just go one, two, three, four, five. That was easy. That is number 13, which is a TBR veteran. Okay, so roll two was a fantasy that is a TBR veteran and for this, can you guess what I picked? I'm finally gonna read King of Crows by Libba Brace. You've got to be shitting me. So I have promised to read this many times. It was in a TBR for TBR creator a couple months ago. There's been many reading blogs where I say at the start, I'm gonna read this book and then I don't. I'm just scared, okay? I'm just... This is the final book in the Divinus series and I really liked the Divinus, gave it four stars, loved Lair of Dreams, a five star, before the day of breakthrough 2.5 and then everyone doesn't really like this and says it's worse than before the day of breakthroughs. So like, what am I gonna do? So we're in New York in the 1920s and we're following this kind of scooby gang of friends who have these magical powers. Listen, I'm just hoping for good things. I don't think, from what I've heard, people's stories, like individual character stories don't get wrapped up in the best way. It's big, like it's a big book. Like it's very long, small, fun. Like it's a lot of reading, but I do wanna finish this series off and I really like Libra Bray. Libra Bray's books have this kind of like drama to them that I really like. As someone who did a drama all my life up until the age of 18, I did it for A level. I've done it ever since I was a kid. I love like theatrics in books. I love stuff that's a bit over the top and like I really feel like the Divinus is that and kind of looks at it in a kind of theatric point of view and Libra Bray used to be in like theatre, I believe. I think I was listening to a podcast she did and I think she spoke about that being what she did at uni and you can definitely feel it. So I really like Libra Bray's writing. I'm hoping for great things, but I'm really nervous. Okay, role number three. Person number three, which is red up here in historical. Ooh, a one out of four. One, two, three, four, five. Which is number 21 and that is a title with two words. Something about the books that are talking about how many words a book has in the title I seem to be attracted to in this game and I'm not sure why. So role three was a historical fiction with two words in the title. And for this one I decided this would be the choice that my patrons voted on for our book clubs. If you don't know I have something called the Cat Tales Book Club with my patrons. When we read a book together in a month we have a discussion live show for it. I do an exclusive reading vlog for that book and they get to vote on one round of TBR Cludo every month to pick what that book is. So the choices that I gave them for this were Lovely War by Julie Berry, Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead and The Perishing by Natasha Dionne. Now these two were definitely the front runners but one of these won by quite a lot and it was Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Now I don't know how I feel about the fact we are gonna be reading an ultra summery book in winter. He's mugged you off darling, he has mugged you off. We picked Midnight Everwood last month because it was like a wintery like in the mood book and then this is like height of summer. So maybe we're all just craving summer and we're gonna live through it by kerosene for this. But I am super excited to finally be reading this. It was such an anticipate release to me. I absolutely loved both the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six. I'm hoping to reread both of them quite soon actually. So I'm really excited to read this with my patrons. The link is always down below if you wanna come join us for the book club. It's so much fun. Our live show discussions are always like one of my highlights of the patron. I love them so, so much. And I'm gonna hopefully experiment with the patron soon of like getting some of you guys onto the live shows. I think I'll be really fun in the book club and stuff. So this is what we're gonna be reading. I'll be doing a reading vlog over there for it. So you won't see it in a reading vlog on the channel. All I know about this is that we're following Mick Reaver's children and it's like set during 24 hours I think at this party that they're throwing in August 1983. And we're kind of following all the different siblings and what they have going on. Very intrigued. It hasn't been as highly rated and like loved as her other two most popular books. But I'm still really excited to read it. Roll number four. Person number seven, which is Brown over here. And five and a five. Okay, I've got to think about how I do this. I haven't really got anything like magical realism that I really want to read this month. So I think I'm going to maybe try and get into horror. I've got a horror quite like to read this month. So because I rolled a double, I can move that and roll again. So we're gonna go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. And then roll again, got a one and a five. We can get in there. One, two, three, four, five. That is number nine, which is a book with under 6,000 ratings on Goodreads. Roll four was a horror that has under 6,000 ratings on Goodreads. So they're kind of like an underhyped, less red book is the kind of idea of this prompt. And I have chosen The Nesting by CJ Cook. I don't really know much about this. I'm reading it for a secret TBR that's coming out this month. So I bought it for that and I don't really know anything about it. All I know is that it's a horror and it had under 6,000 ratings on Goodreads. So it worked for me. It worked for the prompt. I'm not getting involved. I may have to enjoy myself, JC, Starwood, do you know what I mean? I just want to be me. A house stands alone in the woods, deep in the forests of Norway, Lexi finds a fresh start with Tom and his two daughters working as their new nanny. The darkness creeps closer, but Lexi is telling lies because she's not the only one. The family has a history and this place has a past. Ooh, okay, sounds interesting. Yeah, I didn't know too much about it, but I'm very excited to read it all the same for the vlog that'll be coming out this month. Role number five, person number eight, which is blue down in contemporary. I would quite like to get the rose prompt this month for my patrons. So let's see if we can get to that. Okay, we've got a five and a five. I think we can maybe get to it with 10. Let's see how we do this. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. There we go. So that is the rose prompt, which means my patrons will pick what I read. Role five was the rose prompt. I haven't had this for the past couple months, but I always really want to try and pick it because I really want to pick what my patrons have told me to read. So if you don't know, everyone who joins my Patreon gets to pick two books off of my TBR. I send them like my Goodreads TBR, that I have everything listed on there that I own, and they can pick two books off of it that they want me to read. And it goes into this jar. There will be a lot of casualties. We're gonna have a lot of casualties. Then yes, there will be some casualties. Yes, there will. Okay. Picking something out of here because it is packed tight. Oh, we already had one. I need to transfer it to something else other than this, because we're overflowing. We've got too many, but I'm just gonna pick one of these and whatever it is, I have to read it this month. Okay, oh my God. They're just, okay, I've just got to pick one. Okay. Oh, what is that? Oh, Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson. Okay, so only one patron has picked this. Both times I've done the rose prompt, I've gotten a book that only one patron has picked. I've always expected it to be like, there's some books in here that like 10, 15 people have picked. And I always expected it to be one of them. There's only one, and it was Memo. So Memo picked Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson. I have the audio book of this, so that's how I'm gonna be reading it. I can't remember much about it. I think it's about this girl whose best friend goes missing, and it's her trying to find her. Tiffany D. Jackson is definitely an author I wanna make my way through her back this. I did read White Smoke this year, last year, oh my God. Happy New Year! And I didn't love it. I didn't love it, but I felt like I could still love her other stuff. So I really wanna read Grown and Monday's Not Coming this year, and I'm gonna be reading Monday's Not Coming this month, which is super exciting. Okay, time for our last roll. And then final roll, person number six, which is Yellow over here in Thriller. And let's see how many we roll. You've got one and a three. Okay, let's just go one, two, three. That is number one, which is a new to me author. So our last roll was a Thriller with a new to me author. So an author I have never read before. And I have chosen Rock, Paper, Scissors by Alice Feeney. So I've never read anything by Alice Feeney. I feel like she's quite a popular Thriller author, but I've never read anything by her. I know this is about a couple who have had some marriage issues and they're going on this trip to this really isolated, snowy place together and shit starts occurring. Now I love isolation. Isolation needs to be like a character in a book for me. Like I love it that much. We need this. This is essential. This is a crisis. Isolation as a trope just gets me going. I don't know why, but I love it. So I'm so excited to read this. It's been like one of my most anticipated thrillers to get to. It's not very long. It's under 300 pages as well, which gets me excited. So I'm really excited to pick this up. This is for another vlog as well that's coming out this month. And yeah, I'm super excited for you to watch me read this. And hopefully I feel like I'm gonna have fun reaction to this book. I just have a good feeling. So that is our TBR for this month of January, plus Monday's not coming on the audiobook. I'm super happy with what I've picked. We've got some series that we're finishing. We've got some really hyped books we're gonna be reading. So I have a good feeling. Let me know down below what is on your January TBR. I'd love to know what books you're almost hoping to get to this month. Thank you so much for watching as always. I have so many fun plans for the channel coming out this year. And I just love you guys so much. Thank you for all your support. And I'll see you soon in another video. Bye.