 since like the beginning of my Patreon. Thrills and chills and gothic-ness. That makes it sound like I'm excited that it's over which is a little bit true. It's not coercion. They asked and I said yes. Happy December! Happy end of year! Oh my gosh! It really is the end of the year. I don't really feel like it is. I don't know why because like I'm decorated. I'm wearing a gingerbread sweater. Listening to holiday music, drinking holiday coffee, opening my tea advent calendar, all the things. I don't know. I just like when I keep thinking about what more I still want to read this year I'm like oh yeah you know I'll try to get through that this month and then maybe next month blah blah blah and then I'm like wait no this is the last month. There is no next month and I'm like oh yeah okay I should probably get on that but I just like I don't believe it. It's not like I can't believe it. It's just like I just don't. I just simply do not believe it. I mean New Year's is dumb anyway. It's completely arbitrary. That's no franting about and if you're nonsense um yeah this is my final tbr of the year. These are the books that are obligations. I have lots of other books that I plan to read in particular vlog projects that I want to finish for the end of the year but um yeah these are the books that I am promising swearing that I will read. First one I don't have a physical copy of. I just stuck this placeholder in and that is debt of bones. That is going to conclude our sort of truth readalong. It is a prequel that takes place before wizard's first rule and the live show for that will be on my channel. I don't know why I'm acting surprised about that because I didn't realize. I also forgot that I agreed to read debt of bones. That's why I don't have a physical copy of it. It's a prequel. That's I have not read it ever so yeah and then that's it no more sort of truth for this well probably ever for me except I love stone of dears. I'll probably reread the stone of dears again in my lifetime. Anyway onto the books I have physical copies of. The first book is the book that my patients have chosen me for me to read and vlog for them and this is kind of a momentous occasion because this book has been on the poll for like for the books that I'm going uh that are under consideration for me to vlog since like the beginning of my patreon. Like I don't know if it's actually since the beginning of my patreon but like pretty close to the beginning of my patreon and the patron who proposed this book has been lobbying for it for forever and I think it was kind of for his sake uh in honor of him that people voted for it so hopefully I will not be breaking any hearts draw that that build up drum roll please. The sheep farmer's daughter or just sheep farmer's daughter not the there's no the sheep farmer's daughter by Elizabeth Moon. This is book one in the deed of Paxinarian. Originally what was on the poll was deed of Paxinarian and after many rounds of it being on the poll I learned that that is a bind up of three books and I was like oh hell no we will put the first book on the poll. I am not committing to reading three novels in a month that's cheating absolutely not so sheep farmer's daughter book one of the deed of Paxinarian and it only comes in like million dollar hardcover or mass market paperback so I got the mass market paperback pretty like old school looking which I kind of love um and yeah I I mean for your sake speaking to my patron I hope I don't hate this for my sake too I hope I like it I always hope to like it but it's not super long so there is that at least. Next up is the conclusion of the Rainwild Chronicles which I'm reading with Mara and actually reading it with Mara and Evie from She Was Only Evie because Evie just finished City of Dragons so she's going to join us for Blood of Dragons by Robin Hawk. I'm excited to see the end of the Rainwild Chronicles that makes it sound like I'm excited that it's over which is a little bit true because it has been my least favorite series if I like people really derived it and I think undeservedly but it is probably my least favorite series in The Realm of the Elderlings so far but it's like by a very small margin people are always like Realm of the Elderlings is great except for Rainwild Chronicles whereas me I'm like Realm of the Elderlings is great and if you want me to rank the series this will be the lowest but it doesn't suck so yeah I really enjoy the City of Dragons and there's a lot of interesting things that have been set up throughout this series and I'm excited to see where we end up in Blood of Dragons. Next up is a book that I have been kind of shouldn't say coerced because they asked and I said yes that's not coercion it just feels like coercion um to buddy read one of my patrons The Toll by Neil Shesterman. I read Psy of like two or three years ago then last year I read Thunderhead with Mara well in intending to read it with Mara and then I finished it and Mara I don't know even if she even started it last year but like that kind of fell through but I read it and I was like okay well you know I mean when you get through it and then we can read the Toll together and she only just read Thunderhead this year and she DNFed it so she's obviously not going to be going on to the Toll and for it's been a year over a year now since I read Thunderhead and I kept putting it off because I was like well I'm waiting for Mara and slash it's no longer a priority to me because it's been so long so hopefully I remember enough of Thunderhead if there's a wiki maybe I'll look it up but um I really really loved Thunderhead I kind of binged it so I am excited to read the Toll assuming I remember what happened in Thunderhead I just remember really liking Thunderhead hopefully they'll like come back to me as I read it but anyway it would be nice to like wrap up this series there's a few books that I want to read that are not on my TBR because I haven't agreed to read them with anyone but they're like I only have like one book left in the series and I'm like if I could squeeze that in it would be nice to like wrap up the year by wrapping up some series but we shall see at least we'll get this one done next up is the book that my patrons have chosen for our buddy read yeah I didn't flip those around right this is the buddy read and that's the yes yes this is the buddy read um and we will be buddy reading The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkein yeah I'm out I don't think I need to explain to you what the Silmarillion is I did start reading The Silmarillion back around right before when Rings of Power started airing and then quickly stopped reading The Silmarillion when I started watching Rings of Power and realized that reading The Silmarillion will only make me more upset about that show and I'm upset enough so I tabled it and now it's won the poll so I'm gonna read The Silmarillion next up is a book that a couple of my patrons want to buddy read and I was like sure which again it's not coercion they asked and I said yes and that is It Girl by Ruth Ware I expressed a great liking for Ruth Ware it's not been always hits I really really liked Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware which I read last year I think for our Halloween time and I also around Halloween time last year read One by One which I didn't like as much as Turn of the Key but it was good and then this year I read The Death of Mrs West away and it's my least favorite so far so like this year wasn't so good for Ruth Ware but this is Ruth Ware's newest and a couple of my patrons who also enjoy Turn of the Key used to think they both did want to read the newest and I was like okay so I'm reading it next up is The Spider by Leo Karoo which I've read before and loved it it is better than The Wolf even though I've read The Wolf more like no two ways about it The Spider is better but The Wolf is perfect so that should tell you how good The Spider is according to me nobody really like so The Wolf is perfect for me but The Spider is like objectively a better book so I feel like while still being everything that I love about The Wolf it this would have more broad appeal because of interesting developments that I can't tell you because they're spoilers anyway we're reading this for the read along with Alex and Alan in anticipation of the release of The Cuckoo which I may be reading early for reasons and then last and probably least are my Book of the Month Club books from November therefore I read them in December and those are The Cloisters and The Wilder Women um The Cloisters this just cover this intrigues me and it's like thrills and chills and gothicness which I mean I'll always pick it up and if it's from Book of the Month I'll probably be disappointed but the cover and premise and vibes they sound appealing whether or not it delivers as another matter I am more hopeful for The Wilder Women by um Ruth Emmy Lang because quite a quite some time ago now my friend gifted me which I believe was Ruth Emmy Lang's debut um Beast of Extraordinary Circumstance and I really did enjoy the Beast of Extraordinary Circumstance and this I think is the first book that Ruth Emmy Lang has written since then and having liked the first one I have high hopes for the second one so I saw it and I was like well I don't know anything really about this but I liked the first one and I don't believe maybe it is but I don't think it's a sequel I don't think they would have picked I don't think Book of the Month picks sequels as their books of the month plus Beast of Extraordinary Circumstance was quite obviously a standalone the Death Jacket says Ruth Emmy Lang returns with a new cast of ordinary characters with extraordinary abilities in The Wilder Women I did read the blurb before I picked it but anyway it's based on liking the first one that I'm like yeah well let's do this one those are all the books that I promise to read in December let me know in the comments down below your thoughts and feelings if you will be reading these books if you never want to read these books if you have already read them uh whatever you want to let me know I post videos on Saturdays other random times well up on Saturdays so like and subscribe share my patreon if you feel so inclined and I'll see you when I see you