 and welcome to today's video. So right now it's currently the beginning of May, it's still within the first week of May, and so I'm gonna share with you my TBR and kind of talk about this month's genre that I've chosen. So this month's genre, I chose for it to be science fiction because I do like science fiction, I know that I do. Considering quarantine, I haven't really been able to go out and get books or go to the library to get books of other genres, so I thought that this would be just kind of a month to read all the books on my shelf that I have not been able to read that I've been wanting to. So that's why this month of science fiction and I am choosing to keep it science fiction and that's why I didn't talk about it in my last April video to kind of give you guys a heads up because I didn't know if it was gonna change or not. So one other thing that I do want to mention is when I buy a book I and it's and it's alone, like it's not clear that it's part of a series, I'm really bad at looking at it and seeing if it's meant to be part of a series, like if it's the first book and more coming out later. So a lot of books that I own are first books in a series or in a trilogy or in a duology or whatever and then I never buy the rest of the series because I haven't read the first book yet. So I have a bunch of like first book of this series that I haven't read and then I don't have the rest of series because I don't know if I'll like the first book or not. So that's the thing is that's what a lot of these books are gonna be. First book in a series and I'm gonna read it. If I like it then I'll buy the rest of the series. If I don't then we're gonna unhaul it and at the end of the year I do want to do an unhauling video of all the books that I finally read and didn't like or just didn't think it was good enough to keep on my shelf especially considering I will be moving back to Minnesota if quarantine is over because we have an apartment. My fiancé and I have an apartment over there and we're getting married over the summer so it's gonna be our first home together and it's a very small apartment so I'm gonna also do another video about transporting books because I have some different ways I like to move my books especially since I have a lot of books in a lot of space. So that will also be another video comment down below if you're excited for either one of these or if you have any requests about them like oh can you talk more specifically about this or if you want to hear how I do this or blah blah blah whatever go ahead. So that all being said I'm gonna get into the TBR for this video. The first book that I'm going to read is called Victus and it's by Ryan Groudon. I can't pronounce names I'm so sorry authors if I'm constantly saying your name wrong I'm just I'm so sorry. This book I don't know too much about this book because in here there's a letter to the reader and it says if you don't like time travel books read this book because it's a time-traveling book that you're actually gonna like and I just immediately stopped reading there and I was like I don't have a problem with time-traveling books I do not mind them but I do not read a lot of them so I really hope that this is good because I prefer watching something with time travel than reading just because it can't get confusing if I'm not sitting down and reading it like all in one sitting or in one day or very close together. The thing about this though is that what I think is gonna help me get through it is that I got this as an audiobook so you know I own the physical copy I will be listening to the audiobook so hopefully that'll help me have a better I don't know understanding or you know I'm more likely to be able to listen to my audiobook throughout the day as I'm doing things or as I'm driving places I mean I'm gonna get a delivery job which is really gonna help my audiobook consumption but yeah so I'm gonna start off with this one as an audiobook and this will be the only one that I do as an audiobook because the other ones are not available on the apps that I use and I just don't feel like flooding my phone with all different audiobook apps yet I'll get there but not yet. The next one I have it's Alive by Scott Sigler this one as well as the last one in Victus were both books given to me by a friend of mine's mom originally way before they came out years ago but I just have not read them and I feel really bad because I was supposed to help her. I'm going to be reading this one as well this one it is about a girl and a bunch of kids actually who wake up in coffins and they have no memory except for what their names are and so this girl that we're following is one of those girls and she feels like she's the leader but she doesn't know why because she's not the biggest or the strongest or the smartest but like for some reason everybody is following her and so they're trying to figure out like why they're in the coffin which sounds kind of mystery. This sounds like a mystery slash thriller but Goodreads said it was a science fiction so I think there's something about it that's gonna make it sciencey and fictiony but we're gonna have to find out as I read it and yes and as you may have noticed with a lot of my TBRs I do not get very good descriptions of books before books before I read them because I don't like knowing a lot about them like I hear people give summary of books and it's like you just told me the first half of the book you're like oh it's about this person where this happens to them okay that happens in the first 50 pages okay and then this happens and then this happens and then I'm not gonna tell you the ending I'm like you basically just told me every other part of the book so before I read a book I do not like knowing a lot about it so my TBRs will be horrible why I can give better summaries after I've read them in due time. The bummer is though so while Invictus to my knowledge is to stand alone book this is the first of a trilogy I don't have the other two of the trilogy so if I like this maybe I'll get them if I don't like it maybe I won't so that's the details of this one. Moving on is a I'm moving on to a book that I've technically already started but I started it again at the beginning of May like it was like May 2 and I was like oh I read the first like five chapters I'll just reread the first five chapters so it can be the entirety of this month and that is Thunderhead by Neil Schusterman this is the second book in the trilogy and as you can see right here I do have the first book I do not own the toll I do not own the third book but I get the feeling that I'm going to want to buy it and finish it yeah so I've technically already started this one but it is like May 9 so I mean I had to get started even though I didn't quite have time to film this video I'm on chapter 10 which is page 89 hey mine 89 my dad's favorite number anyway so I know about this one going in and it's a sequel and I really liked the first book I think what I would like to do is I would like to finish this and then read the tool and then kind of give like a trilogy review so I'll review the first book this book and the last book all in one video separately and then also together as a series but I will read this one for May and I will let you guys know what I think of this one but I gotta say I'm liking it already and I was just super excited for this like when I read when I finished the first book I was like oh my word this has to be a series and then lo and behold the second book came out and I was like oh my gosh it is so I bought it but I and then the toll came out and I just haven't bought it yet because I haven't finished this yet so that's probably gonna be what I read first just because I've already started it but yeah I'm super excited this might be my favorite one calling it now favorite one I have two more books on this TVR and the next one is also something I can't grab the next one is also a book that starts a series and I don't know if there are like three or four books in the series I don't know if it's trilogy or four I looked this up like a little while ago and I just can't remember for some strange reason and that is the thousandth floor Catherine McGee the thousandth floor by Catherine McGee I remember I went to a bookstore and I saw this and I was like oh my word this looks so cool and I think it was on like the bargain shelf or something you know it hadn't come out kind of recently and I was like oh this is so cool I like the sound of it you know the higher you are the farther you fall but it's like the higher you are the like more you're respected or like the more parties you get to I don't know you get a better status the higher you go but also the higher you go the farther you fall so I'm like well and this follows a bunch of different kids as well like each one kind of has their own back story and how they're all trying to climb I started reading this one once upon a time there's a little bookmark in there you can see so I did start reading it but that was when I first got it and then I got distracted because I think I had bought multiple books at the time so I started reading something else and I put this down and I never picked it back up again but I know I liked it I know I was interested in it so I'm gonna again try and start this one see if I like it and if I do if I can't get the rest of them so yeah that is already one trilogy with the first book another trilogy slash series three or four books and then I am reading the sequel to another trilogy so that already is like a lot this month for me to handle I I think really what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna read each book that I have here physically and then if I like them and I want to move on with the series I will wait until I finished all of the books just so I can get this tbr done get the books that are already on my shelf done that all being said I do have one more book on my tbr it's a book that I own on my Kindle it's an e-book but I do I have bought it so it's not like a library book on my Kindle and it's another start of the season technically it's the start of a trilogy but there are five books in this trilogy so if you don't know what it is already so that would be the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy this is a book that I've owned on my Kindle for a while now and I've been really wanting to read it this is by Douglas Adams by the way in case again you didn't know what I'm talking about yeah five books in the trilogy my brother owns all of them and he is so proud to say I own all five books in the trilogy because it sounds weird because it is weird but that's because you know it's Douglas Adams style he only wanted there to be three books he was pressured into writing a fourth and a fifth one by like his editors publisher or something like that he wasn't super happy about it but yeah no so like I own the first one that my brother owns all five so if I like it I'll just borrow them from him because he does let me borrow his books he my brother's an interesting person because he has very few books but the books that he has he's read over and over and he loves very passionately and he's like oh Lord you need to read it you need to read it you need to read it and then I do and I'm like okay let's find another book to read together and he goes no I don't like reading what it's so confusing anyway so I haven't read hittikers guide to the galaxy and I really feel like I need to because I it's so random that I feel like I need to but I also don't generally like random books so this is gonna be interesting for me to read but again I have it on my Kindle so it's gonna be much more transportable but it's not like I'm going anywhere just a bummer but this is how I own it so it's how I'm gonna read it that is five books on my TBR it is already one week through May I've started one of them very briefly but four of them are in series only one is a standalone so and the one that's a standalone I'm listening to is an audiobook so this is gonna be a very interesting month I don't know if I'm actually going to be able to read them all or not but I'm certainly gonna try because here's the thing last month for my OWLs and those vlogs should be up by now because I'm gonna air this at the end of May when it's all one completed video and the OWLs I'm working on editing now and getting them up as soon as possible because it's already one week into May anyway side note there those I was literally reading 400 page books one a day but the thing is I stayed up late to do that and I didn't like it but I always set a 2 a.m. bedtime and I was always able to sleep in the next day but I don't like doing that I am not a morning person I'm an OWL but I do not like sleeping in super super late but I do not like staying up super super late because I don't like sleeping in super super late but I would rather stay up late than get up early so my point is I'm trying to read five books in four weeks and I have classes and I'm gonna have a job but again we're quarantined and I'm taking less classes and I'm hoping that I can do this basically is what I'm trying to say is that I really hope that I can do this I'm gonna try very hard yeah and that's why I'm making this video is this part of the video is to hold me accountable because I say I'm gonna read these five books and potentially more afterwards by golly I better read these five books and potentially more afterwards so that should be it for this beginning part of the video like I said I'm gonna try and make it a little bit vloggy but still super uncertain on what everything is gonna look like with quarantine with working with school so we're just gonna kind of be on the tip of our toes and be ready for whatever comes I hope you're reading journey journeys are a little smoother than that so yeah this month is science fiction and I've got that with immortality time travel alive somehow I'm kind of including dystopian in science fiction in case you couldn't tell because I think the thousandth floor is dystopian with like it's got advanced technology in there that we do not have so that's why I'm including it in science fiction so we've got that we've got time travel we've got immortality we've got spaceships and we've got whatever makes alive science fiction so with that I am going to see you guys later probably at a later date after I've like significantly read one of these books so hey guys what's up it is May 13 and I'm coming at you with a update on the books I've been reading so as you guys know I've been reading Thunderhead by Neil Shusterman here and I'm like a hundred pages in yeah 125 pages and I've been reading this really really slowly but I've also just been I just so happy because I finished my first year of university I just finished that semester and I started doing my summer classes and I'm starting to get a handle on those so I have a schedule again and so I've been reading this really slowly so I've been trying to get things done but things are done now so I expect I'll be reading this much quicker especially because I am enjoying this so much I'm like it's interesting because they add another character in the second one that you don't know of and he kind of comes from like the Thunderhead representative but like things happen I don't want to spoil too much but it's like it's nice because it's not just like a repeat of the first one when you're following the two apprentices and then after the competition but like they're adding in another element so it's like we're continuing on with the same story because I really enjoyed that story so I'm very happy but they are adding another element to it so it doesn't get boring or repetitive so that makes me excited I am gonna try and read this very quickly I'm gonna try and finish it this week so that's my update on that so far still loving the characters still like super excited to see where it all goes but then I also started reading Invictus and this is by Ryan Groudon I'm gonna guess that's how you say his name not really sure I started listening to this as an audiobook but I am also considering like sitting down and reading it just so that it gets done but that's probably not gonna happen I'm probably just gonna read this on audiobook and I am almost a third of the way through this it's about a crew that kind of works on the black market like they go back in time and they take artifacts to bring back to their own time to for their boss to sell on the black market and so while that's an interesting concept to me it is still a time-traveling book which I don't have a problem with but I am I don't know why so I don't read a lot or watch a lot of time-traveling things like I guess I'm a fan of like dr. who and there's also time a little bit time-traveling in Harry Potter which I didn't mind it's a classic like time-traveling novel I don't care if they're stealing artifacts or the black market or if the guy was born outside time you're still jumping from time to time from place to place it's a time travel book but it's it is really good it is really interesting and I am excited to also finish listening to it or reading to it and the next one that I'm going to read after I finish the two it's going to be alive so that is the bookish update for now so I will check back in with you guys after I've done some reading. Hey guys so it's been a while it is now May 21st and I finally have some updates it's kind of interesting because how it happened was that I didn't have much of an update and then all of a sudden I finished two books at once and I started another one so it's like yeah I didn't have much to say and then all of a sudden I now have a time to say because I finished two books and I've started the third one. The first book that I finished was Thunderhead by Neil Shusterman this is the second in the Ark of the Scythe trilogy I finished this and I immediately got on my laptop and bought the third one. I was trying not to buy books during quarantine just because the work to buying books ratio was kind of non-existent but I cannot help myself and I just need the third book in this trilogy just to complete the trilogy because I do like it but also because this was one of those ones that had an ending with a bang and so it was a great kind of lead into the third book. I really enjoyed this one I'm giving it four out of five stars there's a quote in here that I think really does sum up the Scythum. It's said by Scythcurian she says it's high school with murder and I thought that's so true because like it's political but not in the sense of like politics that really make that much of a difference either in the future or for other people you know it's very political within themselves but because it can't influence the Thunderhead or really other people as much as it influences them it really is kind of like high school especially since so much of it is like petty and like people are taking sides of like old Scyths and new Scyths and this new ideas that are coming to the Scythum and just so it was really interesting I really agree with that statement and I liked it a lot that being said of course a lot of it is petty I don't know I say it works I like it I really love the character development that's going on in here obviously obviously you have your main characters and they're getting character development but even some of the less focused on characters are getting character development and especially towards the end and I really appreciated that I really liked that because sometimes said characters are what make the novel or break the novel so like if you actually pay attention and care for your side characters and actually give them development that just that just warms my heart and it makes me happy I definitely root for that completely um normally I'm not a big fan of politics in books just because I generally have a harder time keeping them straight but I really enjoyed them in here yeah it really just it went out of the bang it was just consistently good I was consistently wanting to keep reading it um it really brought in some new characters like it's still focused on like Rowan etc and the sides and everything but it brought in new characters and new locations which was really interesting um yeah it kind of got to be a lot because it's like there's this new storyline and plotline that we're following in and then there's this new storyline and plotline coming in and now you're following like four or five different points of view four or five different like story lines and they all tie up in the end except no actually no one of them did not tie up at the end of this book and I think that's because it's gonna tie up in the third book which is why I'm super excited to read the third one is to really understand what was going on in that line but like it started to get to be a little much like when you have five different situations kind of going on all playing into each other it's a lot happening um but other than that I really enjoyed it and I'm giving it four out of five stars because it was really good we continued to develop this world I'm like so in the first one I'm just booked everywhere in the first one in the first one site um you were reading out of the journals of the sites while in Thunderhead you were reading from the Thunderhead which was really interesting because the Thunderhead has a personality kind of like it it is super alive you know like it it honestly kind of makes me think of data from Star Trek and how like there was that whole episode of is data human or is data not like should data be treated like human and not like it seemed like the Thunderhead was at that level of AI because he was able to be like talking to us readers but I don't know it was kind of weird I I liked the concept of them doing that but meh so I'm intrigued to see what the third one will be who we're going what we're going to be reading from at the uh end of every chapter so yes I finished this two days ago on the 19th I finished it late at night and I was like oh oh my word I can't believe it I literally sat there and ranted to my fiance about the end of it because I was like oh my because he hasn't read them and he's not going to read them it's not his genre of book and so he was like okay I won't understand anything but go and I just spilled all the specifics of the ending which I'm not going to do here because I want this to be a spoiler free review because it is popular and because if you guys like science fiction I really encourage you to read it but it was just like I just sat there and I was like oh my word and then this happened and then this character did this and oh my word this happened blah blah blah and I just went on and on for a while so if you want a spoiler filled review let me know and I can definitely share my thoughts more specifically on like the ending and the events that took place but for now this is what we're gonna go with and then obviously the other book that I finished was the other book that I was reading although I was listening to it as an audio book and that was Invictus by Ryan Groudon I believe it's I don't know but it's interesting so this is a time traveling novel and it really it was interesting I liked it I rated it three out of five stars though because like it wasn't like a bad story but it just didn't quite capture me or entranced me in the same way that like Thunderhead did or other books that I've read have but it was still like a good book and I would still recommend it especially if you like time travel the one interesting thing though about this is that so this book was published in 2017 and the characters take a little trip into the future except they don't go far into the future because I can imagine when you're writing a time traveling and you want them to go into the future you either want them to go really far into the future to like a place that you know no one's really going to be reading this book and comparing it to the future or you want it to be very close in the future where it's like not enough has changed so that the book can still be accurate but it's funny because he puts it three years into the future specifically April 19 of 2020 and they go to Vegas and they talk about how all the people are there and there's parties and blah blah blah and I'm like you know I don't think that's actually what happened April 19 of 2020 because we were all in lockdown because there's an pandemic going on and so it was just really funny that this book that was published three years ago tried to put the characters in a near future so because the book thought or the author you know thought that things aren't going to change enough so it's going to be okay except that we got a pandemic so like it's super not accurate it's super inaccurate and just cracked me up because I was like oh my word this was like a month ago like literally I finished this on May 20 so I finished this yesterday and I did a lot of listening to it the day before and I was like oh my word it's actually one month after when the characters were supposed to go to Vegas and I can almost promise you it was not it was false it was completely fiction and it just it blew my mind it was so funny because it was like uh little did you know that's not going to be accurate when you thought it was going to be accurate so that to me was just a really funny occurrence just because like you assume so much but anyway one thing I really did appreciate them was each character kind of had their own little thing own little quirk own little oh this is Graham's thing or this is Priya's thing or this is Far's thing and every time they started a ship log they had that so it was like um the color of Imogen's hair the song that Priya's is listening to Graham's touch of score and then it said Far's ego and I was like you're not measuring his ego though like they weren't saying like oh we're so full of himself right now we're always been humbled like no it was just like Far's annoyed and I'm like that's not his ego because we all get annoyed so like I admired and then as LA joined the crew like she gets her own so yeah like that was really cool about the independent characteristics of each character the ending was kind of eh I mean like I liked it I liked it so kind of how it happened here I'm gonna put this down kind of what happened was there was a big climax and then there was a resolution to the climax and then there's that little bit extra afterwards like most books have normally I don't like that little bit afterwards but that's just me I gotta get over that because so many books have it but it was interesting because like I was fine with the big climax ending I like how everything was wrapped up but I did not like that extra little bit at all because like what was happening shouldn't have been happening and it's gonna be really hard for me to explain this without spoiling things too much but it's like if you are born you can't have memories of people you met before you were born you know like okay and that's the tricky thing about time travel it's like so this guy lives his life and then when he's born again like he lives his life and then you he changes something about his birth and then it's like throughout the rest throughout that little section where it's like okay and this is him growing up again he's like oh I feel like I know that person I'm like you shouldn't none of this should seem familiar you weren't even born when all this was happening like they were just like oh I think this was a thing once upon or this seems oddly familiar but I can't place what where you shouldn't be able to because you were not alive like no so like I and that's I think what I hate most about time traveling books is that they will they will just make it seem like oh I remember something from before I was alive like no oh no I that disturbs me a lot I do not like that at all I it's so cheesy it's so bad and it's that's not how it goes that's not how life goes that's not how this all goes and then my only other thing was that so when they're doing this job this new character kind of barges in on their team and her name is Elliott she is sent to do something and she has no problem with it and I'm like you would have some psychological trauma or like some emotional problems with that so yeah there were just some things that were like unrealistic about things and time travel and how it all works but I mean I still think it was a fun story you know like them going back into time and doing things and yeah it just did not impress me at all or wow me or yeah there was it was just kind of flat it was like a flat good so that's kind of what I thought of that book and then finally I started a live by Scott Sigler I am 70 pages into this 345 page book I like it a lot it's moving a little slow right now so I'm really hoping that it picks up because if it doesn't pick up soon it's gonna end up I'm gonna read this like a day or two before May ends and I don't want to do that I want to finish it like now like by this weekend before this weekend really starts for me I want to be able to finish it it's a quick read the chapters are super short which I don't know why I just picked it such a faster read for me and it makes me super happy and it's pretty large print actually so it's like theoretically I should finish this very quickly and just if it just picks up the pace will be great but I like the introduction to the characters and yeah it's mysterious so that's all for this update right now yeah I'll update you either when I'm part way through a live or when I've finished with it I'm also thinking of starting The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy soon I'm on hold for the audiobook of it at my library but I do own it as an e-book so I'm wondering if I want to just kind of sit down and read it on my Kindle and then like finish a live or you know I'm just wondering how how I'm gonna do that if I'm gonna read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy during the day and then a live at night or whatever just so that's kind of where I'm headed now because I only have like just over a week to finish a live Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and read the thousandth floor and then if I want to try and read the toll before the next month because as soon as June starts I'm going to be moving on to the next genre and I won't really have time to continue reading these series that I'm starting right here so yeah it's like the year is going to be done and I'm going to be like oh my word now I get to read all of these sequels and all of the rest of the series of the books that I started this year but didn't finish because I own too many books on my shelves that's not true I don't own a lot of books like this this plus one section of the bottom shelf is it like over there games over here games up here Harry Potter like it's it's just this um but it's like I wanted to get all the books on my shelf read so I wanted to get all the books on my shelf read uh yeah but I don't own the entire series of most of these books most of these books I own the first book or the first and the second one of so it's like I need to read all those before I can finish the series I don't know why but because the libraries aren't open yet that's how it's going to be so yeah that's going to be it for this update and I hope you're having some good reading hello hello hello it is Saturday May 23 and I am sitting outside in front of my dad's garden he's starting one um my neighbors are playing music as they're working outside it's just it's a nice warm sunny day so I've been wanting to be outside um I kind of took a day off and I've just been focusing on things here at home uh so yeah I am reading a live by Scott Sigler I took the cover off um it's like the dust jacket off because I really like this I think it's really pretty I love the contrast of the black against the light blue kind of teal almost so I have 100 pages left in this book I read all the way up to one-third of it last night and then this morning I woke up and I read another third of it and now I've been reading a little bit but that was like oh my word I should give an update because I am about to sit here and finish this book like that's gonna be the goal I'm gonna finish it today because I have 100 pages left I would like to sit here and finish it but that doesn't happen I'll for sure finish it tonight so I really like it so far it's kind of reminding me of maze runner vibes like a lot uh because it's literally like these people wake up with no memory except for their last name and they thought they were 12 um and it's their birthday but then they're like 19 20 years old um and they're wandering around this ginormous building and they just like yeah they've been wandering from room to room finding more coffins more dead bodies more bones um dust you know it's like just completely abandoned place so it's it's giving me and they're kind of like putting together this little tribe of all the people you know they're figuring out leader and they're finding tools and weapons and things like that so it's like really making me think of the maze runner you know they're trying to find their way out trying to find the grown-ups figure out what's going on while having little to no memory so but I am enjoying it um I think it's just a little slow in my opinion but I also just really don't like slow books even if it's like slightly remotely slow like it annoys me a lot um but yeah so far I'm enjoying it so I will update you guys yay yard work I will update you guys later hopefully when I finish it okay so I decided to move into a shady spot because it got hot outside and yeah and look who joined me my fiancé came out to join me and now he's even reading the book I'm letting him borrow slowly but surely yeah he's reading the samurai else uh trilogy he's almost done with it too I'm really excited to hear what he thinks because both me and my brother love it so I'm really interested to hear what he thinks and he's gonna read the next one so we're super excited uh I have one chapter left in my book so I'm definitely gonna finish that today epilogue you're on the epilogue yay oh yeah you're probably gonna finish before me but haha so that's just a little update I will film again when I finish the book and can give a full overview of my thoughts bye internet okay so it's may 26th it's 3 30 in the afternoon I'm at my fiance's dad's house um and I'm in a closet because it's it's it gives me Harry Potter vibes it's this cute little closet that's got a stare with carpet and I don't know it just seemed like a great reading place to me I don't know why but I'm thoroughly enjoying it so much so that I finished the first book in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy initially I was reading it on my kindle and then my brother came over and he gave me all five books in one that's what this is is all five books but I finished reading the first one um so if I finish the thousandth floor before the end of May I'm gonna try and read more of these um but yeah so I just wanted to give a quick little update I enjoyed it it's definitely crazy you just kind of to let a lot of things go if you're a very logical person but it's very easy for me to do that because I'm not super logical so yeah I don't know what I'm gonna rate it I'm thinking three out of five stars but I did kind of enjoy it I might still just give it three out of five but yeah that's pretty much all I have to say about it maybe I'll talk about it more in depth at the end but pretty simple pretty straightforward anyway so okay guys it is Friday May 29 it's about 5 30 in the afternoon the thousandth floor by it was like Catherine McGee there we go and I started it and I read the first 50 pages and then I had a lot of time today so I read the next 250 pages so I'm actually almost done I'm like two thirds of the way into it and I'm hoping to finish it this weekend um I think I will I will finish it before June pretty much um and it's it's different than what I thought it was gonna be I went into this book thinking it was going to be a dystopian kind of look at society and where society is headed because it's this building where like the higher up you live like the more richer or you know the bigger parties and the more drama happens and so I thought it was going to be like a critique on society and hierarchies and social class and things like that but it's high school drama mixed in with that a little bit but not a lot like there is a little bit talking about the discrepancies between living up in like 900 floors versus like more than 100 floors but that's there's not really much about it like it really is more about these teenagers and the dramatic lives that they lead and kind of them being friends but also jerks to one another in my opinion the thing about this is that each chapter is told from a different character's perspective and it kind of bounces back and forth between characters but it has a large cast and so we've got like four or five characters that we're bouncing back and forth between and so to help me keep them straight of what name matches with what storyline I have ranked them of who my favorite characters are and who my least favorite characters are so it's like okay I am reading from this person's perspective where are they on the rank okay oh they're this person that had this thing happen to them or they're responding to this thing in this way um so yeah it's just a lot more drama filled but like I said I still have another like third of the book to go so I'm hoping that it changes and kind of gets a little more serious but otherwise I mean don't get me wrong it is a page turner I am reading this very quickly and I am enjoying and just wanting to read more and more and more of it but I wish that there were some more stronger themes rather than like tight school drama with relationships and people not knowing how to have good relationships so that is pretty much all I have to say honestly it's the last book that I have to read for this month then I will have read I think all the sci-fi on my shelf which was the goal so yay um I did order the toll and I don't know I might try and read the toll next month just because I want to finish the trilogy but yeah so speaking of next month um my June TBR is going to be its own video because I've decided to participate in a readathon and so I'm making the readathon TBR video and that's going to be its own thing I do not know if I'm going to vlog very much during this readathon because life is busy and I feel like my vlogs have been pretty dry or like I it's it's really not very interesting so I'll probably do more like what I do for these where I give an update after every book that I finish but I wouldn't say it's super vloggy June I will say is my fantasy month and I initially that was going to be a placeholder I was going to switch it out for another genre one that I had thought of that was going to be more of uh books that I don't read because I do love to read fantasy and sci-fi and like honestly sci-fi was a placeholder for this month as well I had two months where I was going to switch it out depending on like what I needed and what I liked uh but because of the pandemic and me no longer having access to a library and work kind of being messed up I just took to what do I have on my shelf that I haven't read and should and that was a lot of sci-fi and fantasy so that's why I did not change these months to a genre that I do not read because I wanted to get these books done and off my shelf so I can either keep them know the story and like them or I can unhaul them if I wasn't interested or if I do not finish them so that's the update for now the next time I will update you is when I have finished this book and kind of done a full wrap up of all the books that I read for me so yeah I'm gonna say goodbye for now so it is Sunday May 31st the last day in May it's just past eight o'clock and I just finished The Thousandth Floor by Catherine McGee and this was the last book on my tbr for this month and I did it yay and I even have a couple hours to spare so I mean I don't know what I'm gonna do at this time but I'll find some book to read or something to do um but yeah so I just finished this book I own the first one and then there are two more in the trilogy and I I have a hard time with this book because so much of it was very high school drama and the only reason there really was a story was because people wouldn't communicate with each other so it's a very character based character driven story but so much of it was just high school kids being dumb and stubborn and just not talking to each other about their problems with each other and so I think I had a hard time with that because I do not like petty high school drama so I mean so I wasn't super thrilled with that but at the same time it was still good writing and it was still a page turner like every person had a secret and every person was doing something wrong and that was annoying but at the same time I just couldn't help it and I kept wanting to read it which annoyed me because it's like I don't like that kind of thing but let me read more so that's kind of what I was getting a lot of with this book overall I found it being where because it is such a character heavy and character driven book near the beginning I had which characters I like more and which characters I don't like and that pretty much did not change a lot throughout the entirety of the novel but I kind of wish that it was a little more focused on the like social hierarchy of the building a lot more than it was I was hoping for a little bit more of a hard-hitting kind of critique on society and how we value money and earthly objects and like you know having clothes and keeping up with the fashions and all that but it didn't focus on that as much as I was hoping so I'm wondering if it will in the second book because there was there wasn't really much of a cliff hanger it was just kind of a there are still secrets being held and yeah so I don't know if I'm gonna read the second one I think I will if I don't have anything else to read but again still a good book might read the second one we'll just kind of see where life takes me honestly on that one and so with that I finished all my books for me and it's the last day of May so like yay I'm just gonna go ahead and do a full wrap-up of all the books that I read which one was my favorite and kind of their ratings and things like that so I'm gonna get right into that now so in total this month of May during my sci-fi month I read five books off my shelf which I am pretty happy with considering I ended school started school got a job and moved around a lot um so I'm pretty happy with that I read Thunderhead by Neil Shusterman which is the second book in the arc of sight trilogy and I did order the third book and it should be here in a couple of days I rated this four out of five stars because I loved it normally I don't like the second books in trilogies as much as either the first or the third but I really enjoyed this one so if you read the first one you're gonna have a great book to look forward to in my opinion I then read Invictus by Ryan Groudon and this was my first time reading any of her books and so I enjoyed it I'm I'm interested in reading some more of her works it wasn't my favorite book I think I also rated this one three out of five stars because I had a few like nitpicky problems with it but I still think that you know for a time travel book it was still pretty good pretty interesting again it's another character driven one but I ended up loving these characters a lot this cast it was I each one was very unique and so I really appreciated that in this story so this was a good time travel the next one that I read was alive by Scott Sigler this is also the first book in a trilogy and I might pick up the second one this had a very interesting twist at the end which at first I wasn't game for but then the more I read the more I was like okay yeah I do like this I think it was a little slow at first but otherwise it was good I think I also rated this one three out of five stars so this one is where kids kind of wake up in these coffins or boxes or whatever and they have no idea what they're doing there and no idea why they're much older than they thought they would be so this is a very good kind of mystery sci-fi that I would still recommend definitely next up this one's gonna be a little deceiving but I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams I read the first book in the trilogy which has a total of five books although the last book is like what is it like not 14 pages I don't know it's not a lot it's barely a fifth book I have all five of them right here in this copy because this is my brother's copy I initially started reading it on my Kindle again I rated it three out of five stars this is just a three out of five star month for me just I don't know it's it's one of those books that you love because it's crazy but I don't know I like I enjoyed it and I'm glad I read it because it's like it's going to be a classic or it is a classic but it just didn't throw me as much as I hoped but this was kind of my space travel book and I also will probably continue reading this series because if I don't my brother will attack me no he you won't want his book back until I finish it so this thing is like keeps flopping back and forth so I read the first one in this one and then finally I read The Thousand Floor by Katherine McGee this is the one I just finished it was also rated three out of five stars um just because it wasn't what I was it isn't the kind of book that I generally enjoy and I didn't quite understand that going in but again I would still recommend it like just because all these books except for like the first one was rated three out of five stars does not mean they're bad like I will generally still recommend a three out of five star book to people it just means that that there are a couple things that I had problems with or didn't like or think could have been better as well as not having that special x factor that made me like super emotional or super attached to the book I like it's I'm very it's very rare for me to give out five star books but I do actually give out five stars to some books it's just very hard for me to get there so four stars kind of my normal yes this was a great book I loved it I just was missing that special something but otherwise it was great so three stars is me one step below that I still enjoyed it I would still recommend it but I just had some things that just made it not quite one of my favorites are like a great book um I will probably still keep most of these on my shelf I will probably um keep them all because I will still have three three star books on my shelf the question is since so many of these were beginnings of series the question is really if I'm going to go out and buy the rest of the series and read the rest of the series because if I'm going to do that then obviously I'm going to keep the book but if time passes and I find myself still not interested in picking up the second book or the rest of the series then I will most likely unhaul it because I am sick and tired of having all these books that are the beginning of a series and not the rest of the series on my shelf I'm finally reading them to know if I want to buy the rest of the series and read it or if I just need to say goodbye and give it to someone else who will enjoy it a lot more than I will so I'm very happy that I got that done this month um that was very exciting for me next month is June and next month is my fantasy month but I'm also going to take part in a read-a-thon that I recently found it was interested in so actually I took my June TBR of the fantasy books I was interested in and kind of wove them into this read-a-thon while adding some more books that I was hoping to read but I didn't think I'd have time for but now that I'm doing a read-a-thon I magically think I had time for them all of a sudden so if you're interested in watching that video it's actually going to be the Olympic Games June TBR because that is the read-a-thon I've chosen to partake in so that video will be up very shortly after this one hopefully so if you're interested in June it's TBR and the fantasy books I will be reading that's the video to go and watch um I don't think I'm gonna do as much of a vlog with these as I did with the owls just because times are crazy and I just got a lot kind of going on on my plate right now so um I will still like film after I finish a book and my thoughts and kind of wrap up at the end but I don't think I'll do as many um vlog clips about my life or reading but if you guys don't like that and you really do want me to include more of a vlog or lifestyle in it then comment down below letting me know and I can certainly add some clips in that would be fun or entertaining to watch um otherwise comment down below letting me know if you've read any of these books and what you thought of them or if you've been inspired to read any of them or if you have any video ideas that you want me to do over the summer I'm hoping to do more fun videos like tags and challenges and different things like that so I hope to do that so feel free to comment down below also give this video a thumbs up if you found it to be interesting entertaining or educational in any way um also feel free to subscribe and hit the bell so you're notified when I upload because I am doing one genre per month throughout this entire year to kind of expand my reading tastes and figure out what I like and what I don't like so if you want to follow me along that journey then hit the subscribe button I will always have something per month for that and then I may add extra fun videos on top of it time allowing and health allowing so with that I'm gonna say that's the end of this video and I hope you're all staying safe staying healthy and I wish you happy reading