 oh they hate me basically there's literally a skull on it we'll see i've been wrong before no thank you to that hey guys it's leanna and i'm here today with my october tbr okay so i cannot move these and i cannot move these two stacks you see yeah you can see double stacked see a girl has 37 books on her october tbr and of those 37 35 are physical books that i have stacked beside me there are two books that i don't have physical copies of yet because they have not arrived yet because one because well i'll just tell you what they are we're gonna start with us so one of them hasn't come out yet it comes out october the fifth comes out the first tuesday october that is vespertine by margaret rogerson so i can't have it yet because it's not out yet but it's about to be um then the other one that i'm a physical copy of is a book of the month book so um i usually have or at least this year i've been reading my book of the book of the month club books the subsequent month after the month in which i get it but this is not gonna be one of those times i ordered x hex um which is like a Halloween time like a spooky season rom com don't really love a lot of romance books and most like holiday romances are like chris at least as far as i can tell are usually christmas romances which is like also if you can hear like a rattle like a little bell it's because casus in the bedroom and she has pulled all of her toys out today and i think some of them made it over there so um apologies for that no way is if you can hear it anyway back to x hex yeah it was really the only book that looked interesting to me at all and it's also only interesting in october like i'm not gonna want to read x hex in december i'm hoping it kind of delivers on like bewitched i dream of genie the old sabrina sitcom like that kind of vibes because i love watching all the shows when i was growing up there be runs of bewitched and i dream of genie and i mean i guess there were probably reruns when i was watching sabrina as well because it was on every day anyway i loved all those so like uh i'm excited for that if it's gonna be like that which i hope it is but um on to this mountain of books that i will attempt to get through somewhere all of even though every weekend in october i have something going on uh i would like to do them in a particular order but we're not going to do them in particular order they're in the order that like i went about collecting them and stacking them so uh here we go so the first book i have is the ancestor um by danielle trisoni i got this last year it is a i believe a horror book and i really wanted to read it last year i think it was on my twitter tbr and i got it um because during the social distance book fest this was on the horror panel they talked about it the author and now it's been a long time but i bought it then i don't remember exactly what it's about i think there's an old inherited house in in italy her ancestry has a dark side and bert soon learns that her family history is filled with secrets as bert begins to unravel the truth she realizes that her true inheritance lies not in a legacy of ancestral treasures but in her genes so i don't know it sounds cool and atmospheric and like a good october time read so i want to read it which is true for all of the books on my tbr but i may say i want to read it 37 times so just you know look forward to that oh my god you can definitely hear that rattle can't you i think she's acting out and wants my attention but i literally cannot move right now so suck it guys next up i have the last seance by agatha christy this is a collection of short stories that are all kind of like ookey spooky by the queen of mystery and to my i've had a checkered history with agatha christy christy i lowkey hated murder only orange express the book and i loved and then there were not and i love nearly every okay not every adaptation i've seen every adaptation and all of the ones with all of the poros with david sushi love david sushi he is borrow i also very much enjoy the pbs marbles i watch some of like the feature length ones like the one for cricket house i love the new adaptation of it and there were none can't have branna uh no thank you to that there's some other like i think alfred melina played poro anyway yeah i'm a big fan of adaptations of mysteries uh but reading her has been hit and miss and then in college i read nonfiction uh of agatha christy because she went on digs with her husband was an archaeologist so if you wrote about what i mean i study anthropology so like she wrote about archaeological digs which was relevant to my degree any who's these i've had this for a little while i bought it like around spooky season like three years ago or something and i've never gotten around to it and i would like to get around to it so i decided that i the way to ensure that i get around to it is by sticking it on a tbr with 37 other books well 36 other books because that would this would be three well anyway you know what i mean so here's something i get to it next up i have sabriel by garth nix this is a reread but it has been a very long time since i read this i loved this book when i read it and when was that like end of middle school beginning of high school around about thereish and i have not read it since so i mean i remember loving it and i vaguely remember what it's about i mean like i remember like i recognize merch for it but in fairness it's pretty easy to recognize um of course in merch because it's always like her bandolier um of bells is it bandolier bells always well anyway her bells um are like iconic so i made you have using bells to call spirits and like i remember it's like it's kind of like necromancy but it's not really necromancy the bells are for calling like spirits of the dead i think as you can see it's been a long time and i read the whole trilogy at the time but since then there have been more books added to this universe um that i wouldn't really want to tackle without rereading the series so they released this cool anniversary edition i thought it was a good excuse to go ahead and reread it so that is what we are doing hopefully next up i have a very october read and that is the shining by stephen king actually this might be it it might take place in december and not i don't know because i feel like i've heard people say this is a christmasy book because of that reason i don't know but um i've been wanting to read the shining around spooky season for a long time and i keep not doing it so this year i would like to actually do it because i have this gorgeous copy and tis the season and uh i don't think too much more needs to be said about this oh i've never seen the movie the shining and i don't want to see the movie the shining until i've read the book so i maybe possibly like to watch the shining this month after i've read it but that takes even more time away from all of this reading that i need to be doing so i don't know if we'll do that next up i have a book that i bought last october so it was already like in the middle of my 30 book cvr so i wasn't going to be adding it then uh and that is horrid by katrina lino this is why a book that came out at that time i think like every book box had it because it's like an icky spooky y a book i don't even remember what it's about anymore oh yeah this was the one where i was like it me um because she's from california but she moved to new england and there's like creepy stuff that's really all i know uh that in fact is cover called to me and it's very short so those are the reasons that i bought it and those remain the reasons that i wish to read it so hopefully it's it's as good as it looks next up is a book that i put on every october team we are for years now supernatural hands i've almost uh not dmf yet almost unhauled this several times because i'm like am i ever gonna fucking read this and i'm like no no don't unhaul it this year you'll read it in october so here we are again and i've promised myself to read it this october we'll see if i really do it it's like a mixed media format which has like intrigued me always and every time i talk about unhauling it people who've read it are like no no it's so cool and i'm like i bet it is so hopefully this time for realsies next up i have the strange case of the alchemists daughter by theodore goss uh this was recommended to me ages ago which is why i bought it and i i knew it was kind of be kind of like maybe not steampunk but kind of like mystery victorian something or other um and then i came to realize because i don't know someone was reviewing it i don't know but that there's like sherlock holmes frankenstein and dr jackal and mr hide and it kind of sounded like penny dreadful but like more lighthearted i love penny dreadful the show the original show so i feel like this is a great time for you to be reading it i just thought it'd be a mystery and i get mystery is like kind of an october thing but not necessarily but a mystery that has sherlock holmes frankenstein and dr jackal and mr hide that is very much an october read next up i have um these are like scooted over from last month so so that's just like great timing heather wasn't able to get to um a winter's tale and gap of time because she's in the middle of moving and whatnot so we pushed our shakespeare from september into october so in october we will be tackling winter's tale and gap of time so the shakespeare plant and the hograss shakespeare retelling of it so if you've been following our shakespeare athon this is what's next up and so that means we we're originally going to have a merchant of venice this month but that's now been pushed into november so we just like move them all down one month so yep we're doing this also sticking with classics um i will be reading my cousin rachel by daffy demoriae i will be reading it with my demoriae crew that is mar from looks like woe and alan from the library valencia andria so we read rebecca and we read uh jamaica in and now my cousin rachel and i have this very cool edition of it that i am oh so pleased with so i hope i like it because i have this fancy edition oh i still have it um blackwell bookmark in there quick psa blackwells is um better than book depository because in my experience the shipping is um faster it is also free just like book depository but they're not owned by amazon and they come with cool bookmarks and it's otherwise like equivalent so i would rather buy from blackwells so if you're looking for a place to buy uk editions the book depository i recommend blackwells but anyway um yeah so we'll be bud reading this so won't you know how we go uh then i remember i have like a whole bunch of book of the month club books that are like from a while ago from that i've collected as add-ons as i was looking at my tv r and grabbed them off my shelves it hadn't occurred to me that so many of these titles were book of the month club books i was like oh you're just like reading all of your on-read book of the month book books in one month um so here we go the broken girls by seman st james i think this is like a scary mystery in a boarding school boarding school haunted blah blah blah that's really all it's in vermont that's all i know about it and that's all i need to know about it to think that this is a good october time read maybe possibly it would have been a good one for dark academia because of boarding school but it's too late that ship sailed next up i have the turn of the key which is the book uh club book of the month club book by ruth wear and this i believe is not necessarily retelling of but it is inspired by the turn of the screw so i don't really know too much about it other than that that like it takes its name from and i think it takes some cues from that story um and i i watched the haunting by manner last year and then also read the turn of the screw so i was very curious to see this modern day thriller that takes inspiration from that story next up i have mexican gothic this was on my tv r last year i didn't get around to it my silvia marino garcia also a book i'm on the phone book i got it when it came out this was my book over the month i still haven't read it but i mean i don't think i need to explain why this is a good october time read i have heard it's a little slower a little less like actually properly scary but it is kind of like unsettling and disturbing and dark um so i don't expect you to be like a page turni thriller but i do expect it to be vibey and dark so i just i love this cover i really want to like this book i'm a little afraid to read it and not like it because i really like this cover that's that then i got the ages ago the alienist by kaleb car this is another one where i i really want to watch the show but i refuse to watch the show until i've read the book and i just i haven't read the book yet and it's been freaking forever so i really really really like to read it now and this is like a victorian like murder serial killer type situation possibly yeah because alienists are it's like it's psychology but i think it's criminal psychology like this they were called so that's why it's called the alienist um so anyway i'm excited for this and i'm excited to marathon the show after i find you read this next up another book of the month club book i have the devil in the white city by eric larson this is nonfiction about the serial killer from the world's fair in what year was it 1893 in chicago um so there was a serial killer in 1893 world's fair and this is nonfiction but everything i've heard about it is that his writing style is one that really is kind of novel like like even though it's fiction it's and it's not actually novel lies like this is not a fictionalized um did i say it's fiction it's nonfiction um but it's just the the style of is narration the style of the book feels kind of more like a novel even though it's not fiction and anyway it sounds like a dark premise i think a lot of you i think this is a fairly well regarded and popular book i did start reading another eric larson book which i didn't like officially dnf i just like lost steam on it and i do eventually want to finish it but it's called something in the damned it's about churchell and it was good but it wasn't like that compelling i think i also just like don't care that much about churchell i'm really fascinated by world war two but not specifically churchell and it is very specifically about churchell so i do want to finish it because like it was interesting and it's well written like again like the style of his writing i do like so anyway i have high hopes for this because the subject matter i think will be more enticing to me another couple of book of the month club books and then there will be other book of the month club books in my other stack so this is this is done for this little subsection of book of the month club but there will be more so anyway um practical magic by alice hoffman uh i saw the movie a few years ago for the first time and i remember being like is that it i feel like it's one of those that people like every year watch practical magic and i'd never seen it my mom had never seen it so we were like we should watch it and then both of us were like oh okay but um the book is also well regarded and this cover is so pretty and magical looking and it's actually quite short so i'd be curious maybe this will be a situation like this peregrines where like i saw the movie didn't love it then read the book also didn't love it but then rewatch the movie and then fell in love i don't know ideally i read this book and love it and then rewatch the movie and also actually love it this time around but i don't have time to be watching movies because i got always frigging books to read and then the last in my book the month club subsection here before we get to other books that include book of the month club boxes one by one by ruth wear which i think is an isolated classical mystery um that is kind of in the style of and then there were none am i correct about this rustic ski chalet in the french alps london based tech startup blah blah blah yeah it does i mean i think it's like i mean it's obviously not an island like and then there were none it's a chalet and there's trapped by snow rather than by like the sea but it is an isolated closed circle mystery where they are dying one by one just like and then there were none so um even though it's like snowy which like if i don't get to it in october which like realistically there's something there are things that i will not get to so if i don't get to it now i think i even though i have already started writing out my december dbr this was not on there but i might like i might push to read this this year still in december if i don't get to it now because this is the only snow that i'll get in LA london stack number two y'all ready oh my arm is asleep jesus christ let's scoot you forward so top of the stack i have ghostly echoes by uh william ritter this is the third book in the jackaby series and i started reading the jackaby series and now it's like a couple years and i read the first two and then i just i mean i never continued on not because i didn't like it because i kept being like oh yeah i mean then i'll i'll get to it i'll get to it i'll get to it and then i just happened because it hasn't been like a priority so i'm prioritizing it um so i would like to read this i don't think i need to reread jackaby and we'll say it's something about bones the second one is as bones in the title tell me its name please are you not gonna don't you have a section that tells you the other books in the series other books by william ritter no well anyway the second book was definitely something to do with bones an echo of bones no well whatever um yeah so jackaby is kind of reminiscent of like sherlock mixed with dr hill but with like ghosts and things so it's a really fun vibe it's more like fun halloween vibe than like scary actually like canceling so i would quite like to read this it's the perfect time of year for it and i would like to finish the series there's this one and then one more and then that's the whole series maybe i can accomplish that this year even that wasn't one of the series on my list of series finish this year but nevertheless next up i have another series i would like to continue um skull duggery oh don't go don't go skull duggery pleasant by direct landy this is the third book i read the first two last year for halloween um the first one was on my tbr and then i loved it so much that even though i had like 30 books my tbr i was like fuck it and i read the second one too so i'm excited to give you one this is a very fun vibe it's uh is it middle grade i think it might be middle grade or on the older side of middle grade um but anyway like skull duggery pleasant is a character he's like the uncle godfather whatever of this main female character and he's literally like a skeleton there's this whole like other like underworld of like of ghoulish things that is like living side by side with us and our main character our female character valkyrie kane kind of comes into her inheritance of like being participating in this world and so she and her trusty is it uncle or godfather skull duggery pleasant are taking on the forces of nefariousness and it's very like kind of jazzy and quippy and like the audio book actually uses kind of these like jazzy music and like the entire vibe literally boil it down to the skelly character from corpse bride when he sings that like jazzy song in the underworld telling you the story of the corpse bride that is skull duggery pleasant i love it i'm obsessed the vibes are immaculate so super excited for this next i have something that is not halloweenish at all but it is nevertheless uh something that i must read and that is sword and citadel by gene wolf this is the second half of the book of the new sun um and i'm buddy reading this with bethany so i chose the first half the first bind up shadow and claw as a book club book and then of the four was only me and bethany liked it so bethany and i are gonna continue on without the others to read sword and citadel i did actually already start sword and citadel then when we read shadow and claw and then when i learned that she likes it i was like oh i can't hold off reading sword and citadel if you want to buddy read it so i'll probably start again from the beginning because like this is dense af and i still don't know why i like it on paper it has so many things that it should be the kind of thing that i rant about but i like it for some inexplicable reason we're gonna we're gonna go through this so this is a great month 37 books and one of them is one that you need to like really take your freaking time with someone actually sent me one of my patrons sent me the chapter guide that goes with the book of the new sun like this is the kind of thought this is and it has a chapter guide i'm excited for it though so yep next up it is one oh both of them stacked together well done me so my patrons and i couldn't decide but which i mean like there was a tie on like what book to buddy read as patrons so i was just like whatever i'm not going to break the tie we'll just do both so you can read both one of them or both of them and then we'll just chat about both of them so those two books fortunately they're they're kind of short so it's not unreasonable um so the tide for the win so they're both official buddy reads with my patrons are we have always lived in the castle by charlie jackson and the night circus by erin morgan star both books that i have wanted to read for quite some time both books that are this is the perfect time for you to be reading them this one is more to be creepy i think and this one more to be atmospheric and dark so i'm excited for both honestly i anticipate liking both i don't know if i'll love them but i think i will like them we'll see i've been wrong before next up i have carry by steven king same reasons as the shining tis the season christian steven king and carry is nice and short and honestly carry more so maybe then should the shining is something that i really feel like is a good halloween time thing like the shining might be like one by one we're like i could see myself reading that in december maybe first carry i'm like not straight up that's an october read next up i have the devouring gray by christina lin henna herman christina lin herman christine lin herman this is actually a signed personalized copy i didn't meet her but um bethan actually met her and got this for me so i feel very bad about the fact that i have considered unhauling this several times but i haven't actually read it so i might love it there has been plenty of time when a book that a lot of people don't like i end up loving it like shatter me like that's mainly when it comes to people like really you like shatter me and i'm like yep who knows i might like this i've heard it compared predominantly to stranger things and i love stranger things so if it's like i mean the way the ivy's i was like all i really want is it to be kind of like kind of fun kind of page turning if it gives me riverdale season four vibes and great so like if this is kind of page turning kind of fun and gives me stranger things vibes i'll be satisfied i think it's the first book in this series so we'll we'll see how i go with that but um tis the season for something like this i think there's literally a skull on it next up i have the monstromologist by rick yancy i've been meaning to read this forever in a day and i've heard that this is quite horrific for y a it is y a but yeah i've heard it's quite harrowing for y a and i think it is kind of frankenstein and it's a feel where there's like reanimation i mean i certainly get that vibe from the end monstromology i mean i'm getting the sense that monstromology is is i mean they're dissecting stuff i think and taking apart the bodies maybe possibly i don't know but i know it's the first book in a series and i've heard genuinely good things about it and people have recommended rick yancy to me for a while um and i've never you get read anything by rick yancy i have the fifth wave i haven't read it and i have monstromologist so tis the season and i have this cool old copy i don't remember where i found this but i really like this edition this old copy so i really hope i like it because like this this cover and this book like the aesthetic of it like this peak october vibes like i'm really excited for this on my camera battery died i hope i'm in focus because i i didn't bother with like checking this time so we're almost to the end anyway i think yeah i was saying that i'm actually very excited for the monstromologist think the camera got that if not i'm excited for the monstromologist anyway next i have um broken things by lauren oliver um i actually went to the signing for this it was not for me i went to the signing it is signed and personalized to me thanks so much for leading reading reading makes more sense than leading thanks so much for reading she says i actually got an ark of this at a book event and then i never got around reading art and then i went to the signing for this and i haven't gotten around to reading this so i think this is inspired by the thin man maybe possibly yeah i don't know i think these girls do murderous things i think they kill one of their number i don't know it's like a murdery deathy thing i think it's a thriller i think it's dark and i think tis the season four and such things yes next up this probably should have been the top of the video but like you can see why it wasn't game of thrones by george rr martin i announced this uh last month yes yes to give you time to put this on your tbr because myself alex from alex nieves and jimmy from the fantasy network are starting a song rise and fire readalong and so october is month one of the readalong next month we will be reading clash of kings then december we'll read storm of swords then january we'll read dance of dragons and february we'll read no fuck january we'll read beast for crows february we'll read dance of dragons and then march we'll read fire and blood great okay anyway so the first live chat about a song of ice and fire will be on my channel we will be talking about game of thrones on my channel at the end of the month we have currently penciled in the last friday of the month which i think is the 29th in the evening for me so like six p.m pacific time and then you know figure it out for yourselves i'm terrible at times i just know that i need to be on camera at six p.m pacific time like subject to change possibly like we're pretty sure it will be then but like we'll let you know if that changes so like until further notice friday the 29th of october is when we will be talking about game of thrones by georda r martin this is a reread i believe for all of us i mean for sure for me and jimmy i'm pretty sure it is for alex as well i could probably talk to my co-host of said readalong but i am like pretty sure pretty sure any who's these yeah i'm very excited to watch the taste of season eight out of my mouth with reading going back to the sorps remembering why i love it next up i have something that's like not very halloweeny at all and that is the castle of lear by loyte alexander um i recalled very recently that it had been on my list of series to finish in 2021 the the what's it called the chronicles of prudain doesn't even say that on the side i just thought of it anyway the chronicles of prudain was my list on my list of series to finish this year and i realized that i had three tbrs left and i had three books left in that series so i was like i can do it still i can like in the 11th hour i can actually pull this off because they're actually like they're very short books um the last two get a little bit longer but they're not very long books so i'm aiming to actually get this done i'm excited for it too because i really enjoyed the first two i love lear by loyte alexander's books when i was a kid although i never read the chronicles of prudain and yeah i mean i love the movie the black cauldron it was shafted by disney but nevertheless like it could have been truly great and what we ended up getting was still pretty good and it's criminally underrated but any hoses i'm enjoying reading the actual books that inspired that movie and yeah i'm excited it's not halloweeny it's just fantasy but i mean yeah the horned king is not going to be hitness but the horned king obviously i think black cauldron is a pretty good halloween movie if i'm honest another book of the month some book home before dark by riley sager i think it's sager i think some people say sager that's weird to me i think it's sager um i've never read any riley sager um they've written a ton of books and i've heard mixed things in particular for one of my patrons loathe and despises riley sager i have not yet to have an opportunity to form an opinion on riley sager but i'm excited to read this because i'm excited to have an opinion on riley sager and i think this is like a haunted house type thing so yeah tis the season for that kind of thing i'm excited next up i have this month's blades and bodies trippers pick which is the last final girl by steven graham jones and we will be talking about this on amanda's channel on saturday october the 30th but unlike our usual time which for me is 11 am pst we are going to do it in the evening because it's halloween time so we're kind of kind of make a thing of it like we did last year last year we read a vampire book so we all dressed up as various vampires of choice this year we're reading the last final girl so we're all dressing up as final girls and spoilers i will be dressing up as a very specific final girl um that final girl being from ready or not anyway um yeah join us in reading it and then in celebrating and then having a good time come the end of the month next up i have lesson in vengeance by victoria lee i had originally wanted to include this with my dark academia but i didn't i wasn't i heard mixed things about it so originally i was gonna get it from the library uh instead of getting my own copy and then i couldn't i mean it was a new release so i couldn't get it from the library in time so i just caved and got a copy of it because this really does seem to be like the time of year for it and honestly there's there's spider webs on here i think this is a pretty good october book but it is definitely a dark academia book so i mean i love october i mean october is a good time for dark academia as well so i'm i'm hoping for good things so i'm excited for this i've heard generally positive things i haven't heard anything terribly negative about it so i'm excited next up i have small favors by erin a craig i'm actually so freaking stoked for this i know this doesn't really like give off halloween vibes it's covered in flowers and honeybees but but this is the author who wrote house of salt and sorrows which is a book that i did not expect to love and then i did i also wouldn't have expected it to be a good halloween time read but i read it when it came out around halloween time i mean i read the year it came out and i happened to read it around halloween time and it ended up being a perfect halloween time read it's a retelling of the twelve dancing princesses but it's like seaside ghostiness and it was so atmospheric i i loved it so i didn't even know that erin a craig had written another book someone on instagram told me because i think i was just randomly like going on about how much i love house of salt and sorrows and they're like well have you read her new book and i was like she has a new book they're like yeah small favors and they told me because they also felt the same way that i did about house of salt and sorrows and they said that her new book because that was a debut the other one this one is even better because like it has like gotten over its growing pains like her writing styles really come into its own it's no longer a debut like she's really honed her skills and this is even more atmospheric and even more kind of chilling and unsettling and i was like perfect for october i'm gonna read it immediately already in the dust jacket we have monstrous creatures in the woods like need i say more such an atmospheric writer at least in that other book enter not the forest deep beyond the bells the dark fiends keep i mean does that not sound like an october book like i know it doesn't look like it but i think it will be i'm stoked okay only three more to go next up small spaces by kathryn ardent i know nothing about this except that it is spooky creepy middle grade written by an author whose work that i previously read i have loved kathryn ardent is the author of the adult winter night series which is the extremely atmospheric um retelling of like russian folklore and myth in its own kind of unique store love that trilogy love her writing style so i can see i can imagine her style lending itself well to like a a kitted down a simplified version that's for middle grade but still be very atmospheric and spooky and creepy if it's like i mean there's like a scarecrow and a school bus i've heard generally positive things like every time i see this pop up on my feed it's usually like with praise and it's very short and i am honestly super super stoked about this as well whoo last two are you ready i'm not ready this is a very recent addition to my tbr because like why the f**k not um the last house on needless street by katriona ward or katriona ward katriona katriona i don't know so one of my patrons mentioned wanting to pick this up in october and was like add to your tbr and i was like i have so many books on my tbr i can't possibly add another one and then i saw it pop up again on my feed somewhere somewhere somewhere it brought like it was brought to my attention again and i looked at it and something about it struck me as familiar so i looked it up and it did sound interesting i was like oh i do kind of want to read that in october i'm not gonna lie and then i looked at the author's picture and i was like that looks familiar and then i realized i was like i think that's ed mcdonald's wife or girlfriend and it is and i remember because i follow ed mcdonald because he's the author of blackwing which is honestly a pretty good october time read if you haven't read it it's very dark kind of like horror fantasy so anyway i follow ed mcdonald because he wrote that series and i love that series and he on his instagram had pictures with her in particular i remember like them having like champagne or something celebrating because she had just like gotten up her book like um signed a deal with a publisher or something like she had just sold her book or like something like that and i remember the time being like oh that's cool that you know she's an author too and like seeing this i was like oh this is that book that they were celebrating then and like i don't know just like not i mean i don't know them they're not my personal friends but it just like felt like this weirdly personal connection like i'd kind of seen it come full circle i hadn't actually been paying attention and i don't know i just i saw that i was like yeah i'll get it i'll read it in october because yeah so here we are it's been blurbed by steven king and the like joe hill alex north so yeah it's not too terribly long and uh i hope i love it oh boy it's right up there with a sword and citadel like this is not the month for this but i had no choice in this matter this is not my fault house of leaves by mark z daniel uh danieluski by mark um this book which is genuinely heavy to hold so like just reading it myself like physically this month like i'm gonna have to put it on a table to read it i can't possibly just like can't really be reading this thing because jesus christ oh this is like a fucking textbook oh my god and i know it's like all over the place like there's texts that's like upside down and shit like this is gonna be like i'm taking the whole fucking month to do this but my patrons have chosen this for me to vlog reading for them so they hate me basically is what i've learned i had never actually heard of this and yeah i just they they picked it and then people were like oh yeah i need someone to like help me push through it and like saw these other people picking it up and i was like what the fuck is this i've never heard of this so i guess it has kind of some history to it and i think it was originally like this like unwieldy manuscript that was like photographed or something it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper parts of which could occasionally service on the internet no one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command so yeah and now it's like actually been published into like a full readable book but that's why it looks all wonky because i guess it's trying to preserve some of that original experience where it's kind of this hodgepodge of like stuff put together like newspaper clippings so like the that's interesting to me certainly like that immediately grabs my attention like wow cool and unique but also i don't have time for this so i feel like it's going to be a situation where like i mean unless i end up hating it which is always a very real possibility with me unless i end up hating it i think this will be a situation where i'll be like i'm glad i was pushed to do this which like on my own steam i would never actually like get around to because i'd always be like oh later or i'll hate it and i'll hate everyone who can't read this also a very real possibility but anyway i'm reading this i have to no choice so let me know the comments down below what you're reading in october if you're reading any things that i'm reading if you are now going to read any things that i'm reading if you have read any things that i'm reading if you want to read these things that we don't want to read these things you want to tell me not to read them because they suck if you're like super hyped that i'm reading certain ones of these so i should like really prioritize those because like odds are i will not read 37 books whatever you want to let me know i have my videos on saturday the other random time is 12 definitely saturday so like and subscribe join my patreon if you feel so inclined and i'll see you when i see you