 Welcome back to my channel. I hope you're all good. So many of you all know I have a TBR game called TBR Cluedo. I always say like that. I was about to say it normally but I was like hang on. I thought it'd be fun to do a bit of a mid-year check-in to see how many of the TBR Cluedo books I've actually read because I think there's two assumptions right. Because I stopped giving myself punishments if I don't read the books and kind of checking in at the start of every month how I've done, I think there's two assumptions either that I just readable books or that I'm reading none of the books and neither are true. And I thought I'd just be fun to go through some of the statistics together and then at the end we're going to talk about the books that I haven't yet read individually and kind of go through them. This is going to be a short video because it's freaking hot. It might get to 40 degrees today in the UK and I'm really hot. It's got to get a sip of water. I don't think anything is my light and everything makes it hot in here so good. But anyway I thought it'd be just really fun to check in, talk about TBR Cluedo, how successful it is and let's go. So six months TBR Cluedo has been going for this year, six books each month has been total of 36. Six times six is 36. 36 books so far this year in TBR Cluedo and I have read 32 of them. So on this graph you can see the months where I've missed one book. There's four books in total yet that have been featured in TBR Cluedo that I haven't yet read. So I'm doing a pretty good job of reading the books when I say I'm going to, okay? There's a few I've missed off, a few from the start of the year that I've missed off but I think I'm pretty happy with this. I'm doing a pretty good job. I put a lot of thought into TBR Cluedo, like when I get the prompts really trying to make it work, what videos I have coming up, perhaps rearranging some vlogs so that I move a vlog forward so I can use some of the books that are in that video that would work for certain prompts. So I'm pretty, I'm pretty happy with that but the interesting thing is is the next stat is how many of those books did I read in the month that I was supposed to, right? So if it's on marches TBR, did I read it in March? The answer's no. I can't take it. I can't take it anymore. I can't do this anymore. So here in this graph you can see how many of the books I read in their month. I read two in January, three in February, none in March, five in April, four in May and four in June. So obviously I've been getting a lot better at doing that towards the end of the year. I had a bit of a rough start for the year in terms of reading so I got a lot better towards the end of the year. What was happening in March? I don't know. I think March I was catching up with the books I'd missed from January and February. Those videos were getting made in March instead and so the books I ended up picking from March just didn't happen. It's essentially what I would, I can't believe I didn't read any of them in the month but I've gone on to read all of them. Yeah I've gone on to read all of them so they've all got read but I didn't read any of them in March. Now something that's important with this statistic that throws it off a little bit is that one pick each month is a pick that my patrons vote on that ends up being our patron book called pick now. It has to be announced at the start of the month to give them time to vote and for everyone to read it that month but then our live show is usually the first weekend of the next month to give everyone a lot of time to read the book because I want everyone to have a chance to read the book. I always tend to read the book at the start of the next month because I like to read the book as close to the live show as I can so that all of my thoughts are like really really you know to up to date and like present for me to write all the questions for our discussions we'll have to leave the discussion so I want to read the book really close to the live show so I never really read it in the month that I'm supposed to that it's on my TBR so the month where I read five in the month that was what we were hoping for I never really aimed to read the book club pick in the actual month so that does skew the results somewhat. I don't think I'm ever gonna get unless the live show is like right at the start of the next month I don't think I'm ever gonna get a six out of six on this nor would I want to because I want my thoughts to be contemporary okay it's fine. Out of the 13 books that I didn't read in their month that they were supposed to be 12 I read just one month later in the next month and one I read two months later and this actually surprised me because I went and looked what the book was it was Dark Waters by Catherine Arden. This wasn't even a book that was in a vlog it's pathetic. If there was to be any book that was two months late I would expect it to be a book that was in a vlog that got pushed back and pushed back but this was just an audio book that I was planning to pick up whenever I could so I I was so surprised that there was that one. Next let's talk all about ratings so my average rating for this year for TBR Cludo so far is 3.56 I wonder how that compares to my average rating for the year so far otherwise should we let's find that out give me one moment to do the maths everyone okay so my average rating for the whole year so far is 3.5 and my average rating for TBR Cludo is 3.56 so a little bit higher than my average rating for the whole year. Let's look at the average ratings per month for the books that I have read for their month so far so this is the not the month that I read the book in it's the month from the TBR Cludo group if that makes sense so January's also 3.5 February a 3.2 March a 3.5 April a 3.16 May a 4.4 and June a 3.6 so May is massively skewed by the fact that three of the books were for that month with the books that Marva had picked for me to read in her booktube twin test if you've watched that video you know they were all five stars so that's why that number is so high it's massively skewed by that. In terms of the ratings that I've given out so far in TBR Cludo I've given out seven five stars one four point five six four stars two three point five 11 three stars one two point five three two stars and one one point five so just like a lot of three stars I feel like is what apparently I end up picking for TBR Cludo. Finally in terms of stats I thought let's chat about the genres. So excited. So this isn't the genres that I rolled like the rooms that the picks were from because some books get end up getting picked in other ways so this is me re-assigning the genres to them. So some of these might have picked like I might have rolled a historical and I used the book as a historical but it's primary genre is a fantasy and I've put it in fantasy here. There may be a few books that are a bit skewed but anyway nine mysteries ten fantasy one historical five thriller two contemporary three nonfiction two horror one fabulism magical realism book and three romance so not surprising to me that mystery and fantasy are the two most picked genres most red genres because they're my two most picked and red genres generally throughout the year I would say let's again go look at my tracker wow okay that's interesting so this year so far I've read 19 fantasy and 10 mystery so all but one of my mysteries have been in TBR Cluedo which is so interesting but not all my fantasies that's very very interesting so yeah I feel like on the whole I've been doing pretty well with keeping up with TBR Cluedo. Sure Jan. You know it's hard to read every book it's hard to read every book that I end up picking it's hard to like you know get these random prompts find books that link to them and fit them into the vlogs that I want to do it's not easy but I feel like I've been doing a pretty good job of keeping up with them so let's now chat about the four books that I have not read yet this year that have been in TBR Cluedo. First from January it's shameful it's shameful first from January is Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D Jackson so this is even more shameful because this was one of the rose prompts where my patrons get to pick two books when they join my patron and when I land on the rose prompt I pick one of the books out of here so this was a rose prompt which makes it even more shameful these are probably the hardest for me to fit into vlogs because they're like the prompts are somewhat vague and I'll know what genres I need to get to in the month whereas this I just I mean I'm left I'm left no hope basically so yeah this was picked by all my patrons and what happened was I didn't read it in January and the next month in February um I had a phone a friend prompt and I read I rang up from Nicole and Nicole picked Grown by Tiffany D Jackson and I didn't like it so since then I've been treating Monday's Not Coming as my last chance for Tiffany D Jackson like my last chance to like her stuff and I've been putting it off because I don't want that to happen I've given both Tiffany D Jackson's I've read like a 2.53 around that but her synopses I always say is her synopses are like top tier synopses like the synopses if I could read anything in the world what I'd want to read something about her writing I just don't vibrate so that's why I don't want this to be my last chance but it's not fair like for the author for me to keep picking up their books if I know I'm probably not going to enjoy as much as other people are so this one's a tricky one part of me thinks I just read it I think I am just gonna read it I think once I finish my current audiobook and this might be what I pick up but I'm just scared I just don't want to because I want to love it I want to feel so much for it I want to love it so everyone fingers crossed to me that I end up loving it but yeah that's why I've been putting it off so much is because I don't want to have to write Tiffany D Jackson off and I know if I give this just a three star I probably should next from February is The Woods Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins now this is obviously a horror it's a YA horror I think of these two girls who um go on this hike that goes wrong in these words and if you'd ask me if we'd filmed this video yesterday which I'm wishing right now that we had because I'm very hot they put me through purgatory yeah they put me through hell on this earth if you asked me yesterday I said I have no plans to read this I don't know when I'm gonna read it it's you know I'm not really planning to read it anytime soon strike it off the TBR turns out I'm reading it this week I literally just found out I'm gonna be reading this this week for this week's vlog so it is gonna get tipped off the list I'm very very excited I already put my bookmark in there in preparation this I was a little bit nervous for I'm a little bit nervous because I've heard very mixed things about this and Stephanie Perkins kind of vibes in her new thriller kind of era she's entered a thriller era and the girlies aren't fans but both this and there's someone in your inside your house intrigue me there's kind of this campy slasher over the top vibes from it that I think I could love so I'm actually very excited to read this this week I feel like it's the perfect thing right now summer ween is happening and I haven't been able to take part well because I was planning on it but I've ended up I've just gotten over being very sick and I was just like wasn't up to daily vlogging which was what I was gonna do so we rethink we we change the plans but this makes me feel like I'm still kind of participating so very excited gonna read this this week then jumping ahead to May is the next book that I haven't read and it is the Wintering Her Mystery by Anthony Berkeley so this is a classic crime mystery that's what I really know about it it's happening at this house I think there's a seance someone disappears I'm very very excited I'm doing an individual vlog for this it's kind of vlog I'm so excited to do but also dreading that I haven't been doing it because I want to do it well here's the thing since I was ill last week I spoke to my patrons a bit about this I've had major imposter syndrome like the past week I just think I'm shit like literally Raven talking about me she's shit she's shit she's shit that's how I feel I feel like everything I do isn't good enough my videos aren't good enough my editing is not good enough that's how I I'm feeling at the moment so I want this video to be great and I just know that I need to hold off on it for a few weeks until I feel a bit more confident in myself because my videos are better that's the dichotomy my videos are better when I feel confident in myself and what I'm doing and I'm happy and I'm excited so I need to hold off a little bit but I'm very very excited I tend to have not read many like classic golden age of mysteries other than actually Christie so I'm excited to dip my toe in another one I love these covers as well these classic British crime collection covers I think they're so so cute and then finally a pic from June this is so funny to me a pic from June I haven't read is killjoy by holly jackson so the other three books I knew were on here it wasn't just I went back and watched all my tbrs I found out killjoy was on my tv I just completely forgot I put it on there and then walked away yeah I completely forgot this is a like prequel short story to the good girls guide tomato series so it's not part of like the official series it's just like a little prequel that I think happens before book one where I think there's like a fancy dress murder mystery party and something goes missing maybe and pip tries to solve it I have the audiobook and the ebook for this yeah I just like if I hadn't made this video never would have read it for like a month good girls guide to murder is one of my favorite series like we've spoken about many times before I am going to be doing a 24 hour readathon in a week or so and so I think I'm gonna try and fit it in that I think that's the plan I'm gonna try and fit killjoy in that 24 hour tbr like the the books I already need to read are quite long it's already pushing it a bit but I feel like an audiobook to have to kind of listen throughout the day I'm gonna try and fit it in if not I'll just read it and won't vlog it and I'll just talk to you about it in a wrap up I just could not believe this is on there I was like oh whoops so there we have it everyone that is my mid-year check-in on tbr clue day I feel like I'm doing all right with it um even though in March I did not read any of those books in that month I have been doing a good job of getting to them most of them eventually and like I said would always watching I'm getting to this week killjoy I'll hopefully read next week so hopefully I'll tick off these last few books soon let me know how you've been doing with your tbrs for year whether you set tbrs whether you're a mood reader I would love to know let me know your kind of tbr reading mood reading habits down below I'd love to hear about that uh thank you guys so much for watching as always I love you so so much and I'll see you very soon what the hell I'll see you very soon in another video bye