 Is it too soon to reread it all again? You know my answer to that. I'm doing this correctly. Dream on. Okay, so that's not true. ["Memories of Love"] Hey guys, it's Leanna. I'm here today to talk about some plans and changes. I'm gonna go over plans first and then changes because there's not actually a ton of changes but just figure this would be a good time to also bring up those changes. Not enough to make a whole separate video. It's just like an FYI. So plans, I have many. I keep thinking of 2022 as being this like chill open year where I'm just gonna be like free to do whatever. And then I started like actually writing down all of the things that I've already committed to. And I was like, okay, so that's not true. Dream on. Some of the plans I have for you are like already something that is like started happening and is continuing to happen. And just like I just thought I'd tell you everything that's currently happening or about to be happening, everything that I know of, everything that I'm signed up for all in one place so that if there's something you didn't know about or you missed it or you forgot or you needed the exact details, here is the place for that. I've kind of listed them on my cheat sheet kind of in order of appearance. So in order of like when these things are happening for the most part I try to do anyway, I kind of whoopsy doopsy whatever. Okay, let's just get into it. So first up, you definitely don't know about this unless like I've specifically told you about it which is like two people. So my friend Heather who I've been doing the Shakespeare Chats with we're taking a break from Shakespeare briefly to read The Rings War and Trilogy by, oh God, I wrote all this stuff down but I didn't write down the author. Where are the books? Show me your name book. I wanna say it's a Robert or a Jackson or a Robert Jackson or a Jackson Robert. Something of that nature. My phone is too far to reach. Okay, I found it. That was wrong on all accounts. It's Howard Andrew Jones, not Robert and not Jackson. So anyway, I've had the first book for quite some time and I've been meaning to read it. Somebody at some point really recommended it to me and I found it for a good price and then just like never prioritized it. But then McMillan, oh God, is it McMillan? Well, the publisher, it's not McMillan. I'm so bad. Oh my God, it's a different app. It's St. Martin's Press. Okay, I never plan videos. I literally like typed out a word doc with a table with all of the dates and the details. But did I check the author name or the publisher? No, I didn't. So anyway, the ringshorn trilogy in its entirety was sent to both me and Heather by St. Martin's Press. So she and I are just gonna like power on through December and January and then we're gonna do a live show to chat about it in like mid-January. So we're gonna kind of, it's three books so there's no like even way to split that. So I'm gonna put the first two books on my TBR in December with the understanding that I might not finish the second book. I might tag that onto January and read the other half of that as well as the third book in January. We'll see how it shakes out but like across December in the beginning of January, we're gonna read those three books. So please join us. They're not terribly long books which is why we feel like we can do it in that short amount of time. They're not monstrously long but of course life being life if it ends up being the case so we can't quite manage to finish all three books by mid-January. Then for sure we'll let you know and then we'll do a live chat probably like in February or something if it comes to that. But so we are for sure starting in December and the goal is to do a live chat mid-January. So if you've never read that series or you haven't really liked it or you've been meaning to or you've never heard of it whatever the case, please join us because it should be a good time. Next up is the Winter Night trilogy. Read along. This is not hosted by me. I will be a guest host for one of the books. This is hosted by Evie and I'll leave her channel linked down below. I will be rereading all of the books but I will be guest hosting for the second, that's one, second book, Girl in the Tower. I believe how she's scheduled it is that we're gonna read the book and then in the beginning of the subsequent month is when we'll do the live chat to talk about it. So Girl in the Tower, my book will be in January because we're starting in December with Bear and the Nightingale. January, Girl in the Tower but I believe the Girl in the Tower chat will be the beginning of February, I think. But regardless, I'll be reading it in January. I'll be reading them all. So check out her channel, check out the read along and she should have more details very shortly. Next up, I have something that I again don't think anybody knows about like at all, like literally at all. My good friend Hilary over at Book Born and I are going to be kind of sort of trying on each other's favorite authors. So we were, I don't even know how this happened. We were talking about Gaiman and about Murakami and I have a Murakami book that I've been meaning to read for forever and she has been meaning to read or reread American Gods. So that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna do it together. So we're gonna both read American Gods and do a chat about it on my channel in January. And then in February, we're both gonna read Norwegian Wood by Murakami and chat about it on Hilary's channel. So if you would like to read along with us and come chat with us, please, please do so. They are both authors known for having meaty books so there should be plenty to discuss. Of course, Gaiman will come out of this the victor because he is the goat, but apart from that I'm very much looking forward to rereading American Gods, chatting about it with Hilary and then dipping my toes into the Murakami waters. Next up, I have something that has already started but I just kind of wanted to like give you an update on that situation. So the Song of Ice and Fire, read along that I'm doing with Jimmy from the Fantasy Network and Alex from Alex Nieves that started in October and is ongoing. But originally we said we were gonna read the five currently published Song of Ice and Fire books and then also maybe possibly Fire and Blood. So we are now locking in that definitely we're doing Fire and Blood and also I believe this decision was made during the live show for Game of Thrones in October that we're gonna do the World of Ice and Fire as well. Now also maybe possibly some short stories. So this will never end, what I'm saying. We originally planned to do like five, maybe six books and now it's like end more. So right now it's looking like it's running October through April, May, we'll let you know how we go. So if you are joining us and you're coming to the lives you'll hear updates but that's currently kind of what we're looking at is after we finished Chance with Dragons to do Fire and Blood and then the World of Ice and Fire and then the Dunkin' Ducks stories I think is what we're planning to do. Anyway, check back in but that's currently the thinking. Next up I have something that I again don't think a lot of people know about. I told my patrons about it but so I actually I don't think I don't know if you know part one of this is that I am now a permanent co-host of the chapter three podcast that Bethany started. So I'm not in every episode but I am in all of the episodes that are like SFF related. We'll have other guests on as well. Sometimes it won't only be just me and Bethany talking. We'll have other people on as well. But so that said, a large chunk of 2022 will be devoted to a first law read along on the podcast. So this is low key how Bethany convinced me to join the podcast. It was kind of like the bribe. So yes, I did read all of the first line 2021. Is it too soon to reread it all again? You know my answer to that. It's never too soon. So we will be embarking on the first law journey starting in January. There it won't be, so there's 10 books and Bethany we worked it out on our spreadsheet because we wanted to figure out how to slip in maybe a few episodes that are not first law related. So I think the plan right now is to kind of do the first trilogy back to back then kind of take a quick break then do the three stand-alounds then take a quick break and then do the Age of Badness trilogy. So that's the going idea. Bethany's got it all laid out in like spreadsheets and calendars because she's much more organized than I am. And I'm just like, I'll be reading first law. You just tell me where to be. I'm very much looking forward to that. And yeah, so if you haven't read first law now would be a great time to come and join us. Bethany has read the original trilogy before. So that will be a reread for her. I am very much looking forward to chatting with her though about what it's like rereading it after you get to the end of the trilogy. Cause I've said this so many times and I promise this whole video is not gonna be a first law video but when you finish the trilogy is when you have that aha moment of like, oh, actually all of this was going somewhere. All of this was planned. All of this like is actually a thing. So the first time that you reread it, I say first time because of course I've read blade itself four times. The first time you go back and reread the blade itself and before they were hanged now with this knowledge where this all actually ends up going it's kind of a revelation. The really just how many things actually are laid out that how many like seeds are planted that you had no idea. So Bethany's read the trilogy once but I'm very much looking forward to her experiencing the trilogy now knowing where it goes and being able to go, oh, oh, oh. So anyway, please join us. You know I love the first law so I don't need an excuse to reread it. And if you've never read it, I'll be a great job. Then next is another thing that I've mentioned here and there and Bethany for sure I think I mentioned here and there but this is not on the podcast. This will be on our channels. We are hosting a sort of truth read along for the entirety of 2022. And there is more books than there are months. So we're just gonna kind of stop at the 12th one. So Bethany and I both read the sort of truth books some years ago and both loved them. And this last year we did reread actually a couple of years ago we reread the first one and we're like, this is actually, this wholly holds up. We actually still love this. And then this last year we were like, yeah, remember like we were rereading it and we really liked it. And you know, we should continue. We were like, yeah. So then we read the second one this year and we were like, you know what? We should do a freaking read along. We should read all of them. We should make everybody read them. No one talks about them. Everyone crafts on them. You know what? We should reread them all and like make a thing of it. Make our stand. So that's what we're doing. I am not aware that we have decided which channel will be handling which books but it'll go back and forth, you know, me first or Bethany first and then go back and forth from there. So we'll let you know as soon as we know. But yeah, I'm super stoked to reread the sort of truth books, which I gotta say are a ton of fun. I'm just honestly like so excited. Like it doesn't even feel like an obligation. I'm not thinking about 2022 and being like, so many books that I've like decided that I've signed myself up for to read. I'm honestly stoked. Best part of my month is gonna be rereading sort of truth because it's just fun. It's literally just fun. So join us for that. Then in February, Heather and I are making quite the comeback to Shakespeare because we were doing just the Hogarths but so the last Hogarth that neither of us has read because she has read Vinegar Girl and I have not and she's not a fan so I don't know if she wants to reread it. We'll chat about that. The last one that neither of us has read is the retelling of King Lear called Dunbar. And so we decided to do a triple Lear. We're gonna read King Lear, the Hogarth Shakespeare retelling Dunbar and then also the Queens of Innocent Lear and then do a grand old live show chatting about all three comparing and contrasting them all. I've been meaning to read the Queens of Innocent Lear sever since I learned that it was a thing. So this seems like an excellent time to get around to it and I'm so excited to chat with Heather because I always have a great time chatting with Heather. So if you would like to join us, please do so. We always have a great time chatting and yeah, Shakespeare, still relevant. And then the last kind of plans announcement is that we mentioned this in the live show on Amanda's channel for Blades and Bodice Rippers but we will be moving to a quarterly schedule for Blades and Bodice Rippers. So in January, we will have a Blades and Bodice Rippers book and live show. It's my pick, Guns of the Dawn. So the show will be on my channel and then we're gonna do the beginning of every quarter. So we'll do January, April, August. Am I doing this correctly? And October, it'll be the beginning of every quarter. So we will have a Halloween show still. We will still dress up for Halloween because we love doing that but we're all just very, very busy. So we've decided to do, there's four of us make it quarterly. So FYI. Okay, so then just briefly changes coming to my channel which again, aren't many, not enough to justify an entire video. So my TBRs this year have been getting crazier and crazier and I do really wanna, despite all these plans that I just announced to you, like I do wanna carve out time for other things which I'll quickly go into. But for that reason, my TBRs will be exclusively my obligations. So in 2021, at least in the latter half, when I was writing down my TBRs, I would literally like segment them into my obligations and to everything else. I just won't have an everything else section anymore. Like I might read other things in the month. I very much hope to read other things in the month but I don't want to like push myself to read but just a ton of books and I don't really plan to have any goals for like series that I wanna start or series that I wanna finish. I just like, I just don't have enough things going on. So my TBRs, I'll still post TBR videos and in those TBR videos I'll give an update of sort of like what's going on with me but it'll be predominantly just whatever I've like is a read-along that I've signed up for or an official buddy read that I've signed up for or things like that. That will be my official TBR and then that leaves me room to actually read things that I've been wanting to read for like some other sort of TBR type projects that are like themed books that I don't really wanna squeeze them all into one month secretly and then not tell you or then anyway. So there's like other projects like that where I've wanted to like read several books for that project and I don't feel like I've had the room to do that or just to do other things besides reading and certainly to mood read here and there. So that's kind of what I hope to do with that or like I still wanna have a TBR because it gives me some kind of structure and I have signed myself up for a bunch of things but the rest of the month freeze me up to be able to do other types of reading projects and also just to not read. Then I am planning to start my second channel which I meant to do in 2021 but I've just been too terribly busy. So I was just like whatever I'll just start in 2022 fresh beginning of the year. I'm gonna start a channel for vegan food and food related content because I have posted about that here but this is a book channel. So I completely understand that people are here for books mainly. So if you do wanna hear me talk about vegan recipes or vegan food recommendations or trying out different vegan things or that kind of thing I will be starting my second channel. This does affect my main channel in so far as it is not been, it is not reasonable for me to do more than two videos in a week which have all been videos for my booktube channel. And so I will continue to do two videos every week but that will mean one video is a book one and one video is a vegan food one. Now I have also posted extra videos. I don't like stick strictly to a two videos a week schedule. Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's two, sometimes it's three, sometimes it's four but like I can't really like commit to more than one to two in a week. So since I'm starting a second channel I will probably do one video week on my booktube channel. And then I mean obviously do extra videos here and there as I am able, as I see fit, as I want to, as I have time to but like committing to, I mean even when I'm in my outro I always say I post videos on Saturdays but I aim to always post videos on Saturdays and Wednesdays. I just never say Wednesdays because I wanna give myself a leeway to not post on a Wednesday if I don't have time. Like you can take Saturday to the bank and then Wednesdays maybe probably. So now it'll be more pretty much just Saturdays so that I have the space and time to do a food video as well. And despite all of these plans that I have, all of these books that I've signed myself up for for reading all these projects, a whole second channel that I'm starting, part of why I wanted to kind of cut down on my TBRs, even though it doesn't sound like I am, is because I want to write again, I really just didn't write almost at all in 2021. And I cannot even tell you how much I keep thinking about it and how much I keep thinking about that magical, mystical future time when I will have all of the time in the world to be writing and it just like never comes. I'm so freaking busy all the time and I keep saying yes to things. So I'm trying, it may not seem like it, but I'm trying to cut down. So like if my TBRs are only my obligations, that gives me the space to do writing if I feel like it or if I don't feel like it, if I'm not, if I've got writer's block, you know, I can't just mood read, but I haven't signed myself up for so many things that every waking breathing moment is spent either reading or then filling a video about reading or editing a video that I filmed about reading. I do want to give myself some grace to be able to do that. And as I mentioned before about reading books outside of a TBR or just like for other projects, there are so many books that I've collected that are specifically for what I'm writing. And like I don't really want to put them on a TBR and I don't really want to talk about them on my channel because I'm not reading them to read them. I'm reading them for specific like research reasons for what I am writing. And so like this isn't an author tube channel. I don't want to talk about what I'm reading in order to research what I'm writing, but I don't have any space to read anything to research for what I'm writing because my TBRs are like filled to the brim. So I'm hoping in 2022, despite signing myself up for so many things to kind of still keep it tighter, keep it narrower, I give myself some space to do some writing, which I think about every single day and I go to sleep sad that I have not written a word. So anyway, that's what's going on with me. That's what's going on with the channel, the podcast. I'll have all of the relevant links down below, all the channels that I've mentioned where you can find the podcast, the books that I've mentioned if you want to get them so you can get a head start on reading them. I can't imagine what else, but if I've mentioned anything else that requires a link then it will be linked down below. Yeah, so let me know in the comments down below your thoughts and feelings about whatever I've shared. If you've got questions about anything that I've shared, I've tried to give you as much information as I have. The questions you have may be questions that I can't answer. But if you've got questions about any of these plans, do let me know and I will do my best to answer whatever you want to let me know. I post videos on Saturdays, other random times as well, but definitely Saturdays. So like and subscribe, join my Patreon if you feel so inclined and I'll see you when I see you. Bye.