 Hello friends! Welcome back to my channel and welcome back to TBR Cliddy! You guys know if you watched last month's that I am pre-filming this so that I don't have to take this away with me whilst I'm away from home. So it's March. It's not for me, it's still like mid-January for me but it's March. You're coming up to March for you. It's time to find out what my March TBR is going to be. Again I've got a lot of really fun videos coming in March that I'm very excited for so let's just find out what we're gonna be reading together. If you don't know TBR Cliddy is my TBR game. It's named TBR Cliddy, not Cliddy because we call it Cliddy in the UK. If you didn't, I wasn't something to be liked. It was something to be understood from an academic perspective. Obviously you're not an academic. No. By the time I named it, I like put the name on it on the board. I found out afterwards that you call it Cliddy. Like if you're an American. Do you call it in Canada? Do you call it Cliddy or Cliddy? Anyways let's get into March's TBR. Okay it's time for March's TBR Cliddy. Are we all excited? I am. Okay roll number one. Person number five over here in non-fiction. Let's see how many we roll. Got three and a one. What can we get to in that room with a three or a one? Let's go one, two, three, four. That is number 22 which is a book rated three point something on Goodreads. Okay roll number one is a non-fiction that is rated three point something on Goodreads and I have gone with Murder Isn't Easy, the Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine. This was in my 24 books I want to read in 2024 video. It's going into the Forensics of Agatha Christie basically. She was super advanced. She came up with the term scene of the crime. Her knowledge of poisons was super advanced. Her knowledge and understanding of things like fingerprints was super advanced and this book basically goes into that. And in that video I said I was nervous about spoilers on this but I since went and read loads of reviews and they all say there's absolutely no spoilers for like resolutions on how things you know who murdered who in Agatha Christie books which is good because I feel like some things, some non-fiction when they do talk about Agatha Christie are just like they just spoil without warning. Give me a warning. I don't want to be spoiled without warning. I know these books are like however many years old like some of them are like almost 100 years old but like I don't want to be spoiled. Do you want spoilers? So yeah I am trying to read more non-fiction this year as well as you guys know. I'm so excited for this one. There's pictures throughout it. I think this is going to be fascinating. This is really like a great intersection of my interests and what I'm interested in. So I can't wait. It's been on my tbi for quite some time now and I'm just so happy and excited to be finally getting around to it. So this is like one of the non-fiction on my tbi I've wanted to read the most and now that I know that there is no spoilers I'm so ready. I'm so ready and I'm so excited. I think this author is like a forensic expert as well so it's really coming from a place of expertise. Oh I'm so excited. Okay role number two person number six which is yellow over here in thriller. Let's see how many we roll. We've got five and a six. Let's go one, two, three, four, five, six. That is number 24 and that is a book I've never seen on Goodreads. Role number two was a thriller that I have never seen on BookTube and I am going with When the Stars Go Dark by Paul McClean. I cannot to my knowledge remember anyone ever speaking about this. This is about a woman who is a missing person's detective. She goes to this I think she has a family tragedy and she goes to this like small town to grieve but there is a local girl who has gone missing and reminds her of stuff that happened in her childhood when there was an unsolved murder case and that's basically it. I don't know what anyone thinks about this. How many ratings does this have? I feel like it can't have many on Goodreads right? It has 54,000 ratings. Who's read this? It's a conspiracy theory that I'm actually interested in. I have not heard anyone speak about this. Have any of my friends read it? Any other booktubers that I know read it? Who is reading this and why? I got sent an arc of it so that's why I have it but I did not know everyone else is out here reading it. Okay that's interesting. It had a fairly high average rating. It had a 3.85 so this is one of the older books on my TBR that I just want to refresh. I want to get all those old books off my TBR, have it all be new fresh books. We're trying to get my TBR down as well this year guys. Don't know if you know that but yeah I'm really excited for this one. I think it could be very atmospheric. You know there's a lot of trees and and what's the word smog? Fog? It's not smog. Isn't smog like dirty? So yeah I think this could be a good one. I'm excited to pick it up. Roll number three person number seven which is brown up here in mystery. Let's see I'm going to roll. Got a one or a five? Okie doke. Oh can we get to the glasses with that? The glasses is a wild prompt but I'm kind of down for it. One, two, three, four, five. Oh my god we can. Okay that's the glasses which means I have to scroll on Instagram until I see a book I own and then I have to read it. Roll number three is the glasses weapon which is absolutely psychotic and it involves me scrolling on Instagram until I see a book that I own and I have to read it. So let me open Instagram and screen record. I'm going to be off screen. It might take us a while because I follow a lot of book accounts but I don't think that's the content Instagram really recommends to me. I don't look at a lot of bookstagram content I'm going to be honest. Like I do on stories but I also I never scroll on Instagram. I always just look at stories. So oh we've got Kylie Jenner up front skincare. See what I mean? So that's an ad for Ruth Ware's new novel but that's not out yet. Bright young women I have read. See there's a lot of like house content, food content. Come okay come spend a day in publishing with me. Anything there? No. There was no book there that I owned that I recognised. Is there going to be any other books? We shall see. Let me turn this down. No don't own that. Wayward to get out of here. Sorry, sorry. I don't think there is going to be a book here. No don't own that. I don't think there's going to be one I know. Oh oh oh oh in the background there in the background in the background. So I decided to go and investigate it. Is there anything else that I can choose from? No okay it looks like in the background there. Can you see on that board? The only one I own there is How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie. I guess we're reading that. We're reading How to Kill Your Family. Okay wait where is that? I have no idea where that book is. Is it on my cart? Let's have a look. Oh yeah I found it. So this is How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie. This is the kind of book that I got because it was really cheap in Tesco's. Oh no no shame. Whenever I go into a supermarket I don't go very often we would do our food shop online so whenever I go into a supermarket I was going to have a little look at the book selections and this is one that's always in there really cheap. And it's one that was been super popular here in the UK. They say you can't choose your family but you can kill them. Meet Grace Bernard, daughter, sister, serial killer. Grace has lost everything and she will stop at nothing to get revenge. Okay I'm a bit nervous. I don't know if this is going to be 100% my thing but I have heard great things about it but I worry is it a bit more like is it marketing itself as a thriller mystery but really it's like contemporary fiction about women here in the UK because that's a thing that happens. I don't know we shall see but we're going to be reading it this month thanks to the glasses. I don't think that was a good choice glasses. I think we should have had a better one. Not that I don't think I'm going to enjoy it, a lot of you have told me I'm going to enjoy it but like I'm not feeling it. Roll number four. Person number one over in fantasy. Oh come get the rose prompt. I'd love to get the rose prompt as well. Ah I got roll that one again. I don't know what it landed on. Two to one. Oh my god you're kidding me. One, two, three. We can do it. Oh my god we got the rose prompt. That's so fun. We got two of the weapons. And then roll number four was the rose prompt. So when I land on the rose prompt everyone who joins my patron gets to pick two books off my physical tbr that they would like me to read and it gets put into this jar. Let me get to the jar. Here is the jar. So yeah this is all the books that my patrons have picked for me and we pick one out and we read it. So let's see what it is. I'm going in with no hesitation. I'm just grabbing one. I always hesitate. I'm trying to get better at that. Okay focus on my hand please. Okay okay. What's it gonna be? Stop it. We're reading a curious beginning. We're reading the first Veronica Speedwell. I think that's wrapped up isn't it? Is that wrapped up? Yes okay I need to go find that. I'm gonna stop this recording and I'm gonna go find it because basically all the books that are wrapped up when we wrap them up we write a tiny number on them that you can't see very easily but if I need to find a book that is wrapped up I can go through the books and look for the numbers and find them. So bear with. Okay here it is. I cannot believe I've been forced into it after all this time. Let's find out who picked this. Oh we've got a lot of people. So Rosie picked it, Kayla picked it, Lucy picked it, Alyssa picked it, Brittany picked it and Mara picked it. That's it. Those are people who have picked this for me. I cannot believe I've been forced into reading it after all this time. You guys have been telling me for so long to pick up the Veronica Speedwell series and that I'm gonna love it so much. I think I know I am. I know I'm gonna love it. I know I'm gonna love it but I've just been scared off for some reason. I think it's because it's such a long series right? It's like 10 books or something and even though I read some series like that I just don't opt into more because I know I'm not gonna get caught up in it by the end of the year. You know what I mean? We're following Veronica Speedwell and the guy that she's stoker yeah and they're solving mysteries and it's like Victorian times and it's so much fun and everyone tells me I'm gonna love it. Everyone tells me I should read it. Everyone is like man have you read it yet? You know and everyone who I know has read it loved it. Oh my god I can't believe this has happened. I believe this is the start of me now and nothing's gonna change it. I can't believe this has happened. Okay we're gonna be reading a curious beginning this month. Wow that's that's a moment. That's a moment in history my goodness. Role number five. Person number three which is red up here in historical. You see oh my god these are going crazy today. We've got five and a one. Let's just go one. And get number 21 and that is a TBR veteran. Role number five was a historical that is a TBR veteran and I am gonna be reading Pride and Prejudice by Jay Lawson. I'm so excited. I am so excited to read Pride and Prejudice. I feel like today the future starts so it's a good day. I'm excited. I've spoken to you guys a lot about this recently or at least it feels like I have and like in my present day maybe not for you but I love Pride and Prejudice. I grew up watching the BBC adaptation. I love it so much. I could probably like quote a lot of that adaptation to you. Like so much of it is stored in my brain. I know it so intimately and I read Emma by Jay Lawson last year and it made it into my top 10 books the year. I absolutely loved Emma and so I'm so excited to read Pride and Prejudice finally. Well I read it when I was younger. Me and my mum read it together when I was younger but I'm gonna be reading it as an adult finally. It's been probably like 10, 15 years since I've read it. So it's been a while and I just think I'm gonna love it. I think it's gonna be five stars. I'm getting into my classics era. I'm suddenly reading all these classics. Who is she? You can't stop me. I'm out here reading classic upon classic upon classic. I'm unstoppable. We're having a lot of fun. So um yeah we're gonna read Pride and Prejudice. We're gonna oh Lizzie and Mr Darcy. I just think it's so, Jay Lawson is such an interesting author because I feel like the stuff that she writes when you boil it down to its core is still so relevant to all of us today. You know what I mean? She just gets it. She gets it. I feel like it could have been a modern novel. You know what I mean? So I cannot wait. I cannot wait to read it and I just thought about the story of Pride and Prejudice. I think it's why I love Grump Sunshine. Like when I read romances now my favorite duo is Grump Sunshine. Like that's what I tend to give five stars in romances because they are the blueprint you know. Okay final roll. Person number four which is pink over here in horror. Let's see how many we roll. We've got one on one. Oh my gosh okay so we've got go one team. That is number nine which is a book recommended by Goodreads. Okay so I'm gonna find like a horror, horror list and find out what books are on it. And then my final roll was a horror that's been recommended by Goodreads and this is the one I'm giving to my patrons to vote on. They vote on one around a tblcuda every month and that is also our book club pick and I don't know what this is yet because I haven't done the poll yet. I'm gonna do the poll guys to the time so let's switch to Future Megan telling you what books I put on the poll and what one. Okay hello it is Future Megan here in Wales and the category was a horror that has been recommended by Goodreads. So what I decided to do for this poll because this is the one I think I can't even remember what I've told you. It's been so long since I found this tblcuda. What I decided to do was for the four options that I give them to vote between for the poll. I do all books that were nominated in the horror category for the Goodreads Choice Awards in the most recent year because I thought that would be a really fun way to pick our option. I remember feeling like the horror category had some really strong options last year and that if I was going to have read any other category other than Mystery Thriller I would have liked to have read horror because I was excited by a lot of the options. So I picked four options that were nominated and they were Silver Night Trade by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendricks, Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang and Rouge by Mona Awad. Now I really thought that How to Sell a Haunted House or Rouge would win because I thought they were the two biggest names on that list. But the winner, quite substantially, was Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang. I am so excited to read this with everyone. I think this is going to be a really good book club pick. I think we're going to have really good discussions from it. I can't wait. Everyone also agreed that this was a great selection. This is like one of the best polls. Like this is really hard to choose. I don't know what I would have voted for. Generally, I don't usually vote in the book club polls but I don't want to sway anyone. Yeah, I'm really, really excited to read this. So from my... I actually haven't read the synopsis but from my brief understanding of what this book is about, we're following this galley who I think, yeah, used to work at like some musical conservatory and she decides to abandon her music career and go into high-end beauty, this like beauty lab, like Botox place. And she becomes obsessed, I think, with the niece of the owner. And it's all about... it's basically a horror about beauty and the beauty industry and skincare and makeup and Botox and procedures and all these things. And as someone, I consume quite a lot of beauty content online, be that makeup skincare. I think it's quite interesting to make a horror based on that. I am really excited to see the route that this goes down. I also own Ruge by Moana Ward, which I know these two are on quite a similar topic. But I'm really excited to see how this book does it because I remember hearing people who have read both. I think a lot of people prefer the kind of narrative route and angle that this one goes down. So I can't wait. I think I'm really gonna enjoy this. I'm excited to read this with everyone. I really love any book that kind of takes something that's like very prevalent in our modern culture but it feels like almost no one is writing about it. Like other than Ruge, I can't really think of many other books that are about the beauty industry in this way and really tapping it. If they are about the beauty industry, I find they're often a bit like outdated. Whereas this seems like it's really going to tap into the modern cycle and modern nature of the industry. I'm really excited. So if you want to read this with us on the Patreon, I'll leave the link down below if you've enjoyed the Patreon. There has been so much exciting stuff happening on the Patreon lately. I've overhauled the Discord. We're doing games nights. Everyone, like it's growing an amazing community over there at the moment. So if you're interested, I would really recommend going and checking it out down below. But there will be discussion groups on the Discord for this where people share their thoughts and going to chat with each other about their thoughts. Then there's a discussion live show that I host and then there's also a reading vlog where I will exclusively post reading a vlog on the Patreon as well as so many other stuff that aren't related to the book club. So I'll leave that down below. But if you've ever been interested in the Patreon, I really think that this is the time to do it because I feel like the community there is amazing. I feel like I'm hitting my stride with a lot of content I'm posting over there. And I've been speaking to some people who've been like intimidated by joining Patreon in the past. But I feel like everyone, everyone who I've spoken to has really enjoyed it. So I'll leave the link down below. You can support for a month as little as it costs to buy coffee. My cheapest tier is £3 a month. The book club tier is £7.50 a month. And then we have a higher tier as well. But yes. Okay, I'm really excited for this everyone. I think this is going to have great discussions for the book club. So we have everyone that is my March TBR. I feel like that's a pretty good one. Let me get the books actually. Oh my goodness, I am so excited for so many of these. I think this is going to be a great reading month. Please let me know what you thought of any of these. If you're one of the like 55,000 that I've read when the stars go dark, I don't realise anyone had read it, let me know. No, let me know what you thought of any of these. I can't believe I'm reading a curious beginning. I can't get over it. I feel like I haven't protested yet. I'm very excited. So yeah, let me know what you thought of any of these books. And I will see you very soon in another video. Bye!