 Please I hope you're all good. Today I'm super excited. I'm gonna be doing the end of year book tag. That's what it's called right? I don't remember love. I don't remember at all. End of year book tag. Okay yeah I'm gonna be doing the end of year book tag because I used to do seasonal TBRs. They were never very accurate but I love the false hope. I love the false assurance in myself that I'm gonna read this book. That emotion, that self belief for that fleeting moment. However wrong it is. I love it. But since I do TBR Cluedo I don't really do those anymore but I really wanted to do this tag to kind of just chat with you about the books that I am really hoping to read by the end of the year. A lot of these are mysteries I'm just now realizing. I'm definitely in the mystery mood. I feel like November, December are just like mystery season. I just love it. I just love mysteries so I love these are mysteries but I'm really excited to talk to you about the books that I really feel like I'm gonna read most of these in the last couple months of the year. But before we get into it I really want to thank the sponsor for today's video which is Boxu. So I have spoken so much about Boxu. I really really love them. If you don't know they are a premium Japanese snack box subscription. So I don't think you're ready. If you haven't seen this, this box, this box comes packed and packed and packed and packed with snacks. Like there's so much in here. This box is the Kansai Autumn Box which I have been showing off in the past couple spots of chips I've done with them. I have been loving these matcha cookies. I'm so excited to have more of them. They're like these kind of thin cookie biscuit kind of chips with this like layer of like matcha cream filling in the middle and it's lovely. Each month has a completely different theme playing up on kind of different elements of food and culture. I love that they work with local companies, local families for the snacks that they provide in the box. There's also this amazing culture guide at the front that shows you where all the different snacks come from in Japan. So I love Boxu. I'm very glad I can finally eat all of the stuff in this box because I knew that I had the same box and I've had the past couple spots of chips I've already eaten all those snacks. So I'm very excited that I can now eat more of my lemon pies. I've been waiting. I've been waiting for these to become available. I've been waiting to do this video so I can finally eat them. You can use my code MEGWITHBOOKS10 for 10% off your unique Japanese snack box subscription and I would really recommend it. Use a link down below. Go check them out. Okay, let's talk books, shall we? First question. This is boring for me. Are there any books you started this year and you need to finish? The answer is no. That's never gonna happen. Ever, ever, ever. I don't think so. Unless we count the book I'm currently reading, which I need to finish. I am not the kind of gal who starts a book and doesn't finish it. I'm just not that gal. I really thought about this. I was like, there must be a book that I started for a video and didn't end up reading it. I like switched it up but there isn't. I'm like, if I start a book, you best believe I'm reading it. I think I've even only DNF'd one book this year, which was A Marvelous Light. And I think that's like a permanent DNF for me. At the time, I think I was like, you know, no, I'm gonna, I'm gonna read it. Like, I'm gonna read it. I don't think I'm gonna read it. I think that is a permanent DNF for me. So other than that, there's no books I've started and haven't finished. Sorry, sorry, I'm boring in that regard. Next question is, do you have an autumnal book to transition into the end of the year? I need to read The Death of Jane Lawrence by Katelyn Starling, which is this amazing gothic, horror, psychological, crazy, you know. I am co-hosting the Literature Dead Book Club with Books and La La for November and this is the Book Club book. It just arrived yesterday. I love the cover. I don't know if you can see, it's so cool with all these like strings in between the hands. It's amazing. I've never read any Katelyn Starling but Katelyn Starling is probably the author I've been meaning to read for the longest time. Like to start, I really want to read Luminous Dead as well, which I do own, but I have to read this in November. So I'm being forced to start Katelyn Starling. It's about time! This is about our character Jane Lawrence who kind of gets into this kind of arranged marriage with this guy in her town to kind of allow her to have the freedom that she wants in her life. It's kind of like a marriage of secret convenience for both of them. He tells her, yeah okay we'll get married but you're never allowed to come to my family home. But one time I think at night she does and she finds him changed and then I don't think he remembers that in the morning. So I'm super intrigued. Also the title is The Death of Jane Lawrence. So like, is this bitch gonna die? Like what are we, I don't know, I'm very excited for this. Also just quickly, many of you know my favorite series of all time is The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter. I reread the first one last month, yeah last month for the first time. I've never reread them with my Patreons Rabbit Club and I'm hoping in November or December to continue this reread and to read The European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman which is the second one. Now it's long. It's very very very long. She's huge but she's so beautiful. She's a mammoth of course. It's nearing 700 pages but I love her. Like I think it's my favorite book of the series. I just love the journey that the characters go on and it's not hard for me to read them. It's just whether I have the time essentially with all the books I need to read for videos. But I love these girls. If you don't know this is like a group of monstrous girls who are linked to men from Gothic Victorian Literature. We have a lot of characters from Victorian Literature pop up throughout the series and they're becoming more best friends and like girlfriends and they're like I just love them. I just love them. So I'm hoping because this is again Gothic Victorian Autumn Cold you know that kind of mystery I think it would really fit this time of year. So hopefully I read that next couple months. And then a book actually winter themed. So kind of transitioning into winter at the end of the year. I'm hoping around Christmas time to read Midwinter Murder by Agatha Christie. This is just like a short collection of short stories. Kind of set around Christmas or winter murder mysteries by Agatha Christie. I think a lot of them have proro in them as well. So I'm hoping to finally get to this because I meant to read it last Christmas and I didn't. I really want to read this on Christmas day but like I'm not going to have time to read on Christmas day. You don't read on Christmas day. Especially because I think me and Tom my boyfriend are going to be like you know nipping back and forth between our families. So I yeah I don't think I'm going to read this on Christmas day but definitely around that kind of time I'm hoping to read it. The next question is is there a new release you're still waiting for? The answer is yes. There's quite a few but I'll just talk about two. Probably my most anticipated release is Girls of Fate and Fury by Natasha Nyang. Oh my god I am so excited. You know what's the most exciting thing about winning? It's when you win. If you don't know this is the third and final book to the Girls of Paper and Fire series which is one of my favourite fantasy series. It kind of I read it at a very like you know formative time in my reading the first book when I was just getting back into reading before I started my channel and I was falling in love with reading and it was a little bit of a surprise to me this book how much I loved it. I kind of picked it up on a whim in America and I just love these girls. I love the kind of difficult topics that it deals with. I think of any YA that I've read it deals with difficult hard-hitting topics the best and I'm terrified for how this final book is gonna end. Like I'm really scared. Another one I'm very excited for actually is The Very Merry Murder Club. This is an apology by a lot of middle-grade writers doing like merry Christmas-y wintery murder mysteries which come on. Come on now. Come on now. It's what she deserves. I'm very very excited for that one as well. What are three books you want to read before the end of the year? Now you'll notice these are all mysteries. Listen I told you I'm in a mystery mood around the time of year. I definitely want to read The Christie Affair by Nina de Gremond. This comes out in January of 2022 so I want to read this before then. This is focusing on when Agatha Christie went missing. She went missing for a couple days and no one really knows what happened but it was around the time that she found out that her husband was having an affair and this book this is The Arc which is a super cool kind of newspaper recover. This is following her husband's mistress and kind of her story and Agatha's story and I've heard really really great things from people who have read it already. I love Agatha Christie. She's a girl. She's a girly. At this point tricks the dolls are the dolls. I love a good mystery. I am so excited and hopefully I'll love it and I can just force it down everyone's throats in January. Another one which I'm so excited. I need to take the sticker off don't judge me um but it's As Could As Dead by Holly Jackson. I if you know if you know if you know if you know this is one of my favorite series this murder mystery series following Pip a good girl's guide to murder. It's so good but I'm so scared but I have to read this. I have to read this in the rest of the year. So in this Pip is kind of this young detective in this series and she's trying to solve different cold cases or mysteries that are kind of happening in her small town and this is the last book and I've heard from so many people that it goes in a completely different direction and I'm terrified. You guys I am so scared, so scared, so scared, because what is a different direction? Pip in this one she's been through a lot. This has been through some shit in books one and two and it's changed her you know like it's really affected her as a character and so I'm very intrigued to see what kind of route this goes down. I think in this one Pip is the mystery herself. And finally I'm really hoping to get to Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Booley. This is like another mystery following this indigenous character who I think makes a deal with FBI to investigate drug related deaths in her community. I've heard it's very hard hitting emotional deep like a very very hard book to read but I've heard so many good things. Kourtney Salmon's Blobs on the back one of my favorite authors ever who I need to read more from. I've already read Sadie and The Project but I need to read like all of her backlist. Anyway I really want to read it because I've heard just so many things. My mum read it and she really enjoyed it. I've heard it so emotional so this is another one. Another kind of release has come out this year that I'm hoping to finally get to at the end of this year. And then we have the question is there a book you think could still shock you and become your favorite book of the year? I think like any book could. I've had a lot of five stars this year but I haven't had a lot. Like I don't think I have any book that's become like a new favorite of all time. Like I want another The Star of the Sea, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, The Guest List, The Night Circus, you know? I want another book like that. I don't actually know what my favorite book that I've read this year is. Listen it's still open for debate. If I had to guess I think maybe the appeal by Janice Halle. I'm very intrigued by this. We're following this murder mystery in the small town and this is all told through like emails and text message exchanges. Like literally the whole book is told through that. I think it's going to be super fast-paced rude. I love murder in a small quaint English town. Bitch that is it. That is it. Murder in a small quaint English town where everyone knows each other. Everyone thinks they're that bitch. Everyone's like gossiping about each other. I love it. So I feel like this could be my favorite book of the year if it really hits home. Like if it's oh my god I'm so... And then the last question is have you already started making reading plans for next year? No? No. My reading plan is often dictated by my video ideas and I have video ideas for next year. I haven't scheduled them. Typically I schedule videos like two months in advance, one to two months in advance. So I haven't started penning next year but I have a very long list of videos to do. So in that way I have made my reading plans next year. Like my reading for the first half of the year is probably already in many ways dictated by what videos I'm going to end up doing. I have a couple goals that I know I want to try and achieve next year. I know I want to get my physical TBR down a bit hopefully and I know that I want to try and finish as many series as I can. I'm not sure what number I'm going to set for how many series I want to actually be in the middle of by the end of next year but that's definitely going to be a goal. But in terms of my reading plans now I haven't really but I also have because like I have all the video ideas. So there we have it that is my end of year book tag with all the books I'm hoping to kind of read by the end of this year. Let me know if you've read any of these, what you thought of them. A lot of them are kind of like new releases or I mean this one isn't even out yet so you can't have read it. But let me know if you have read any of these or which ones you are most excited for. If you've gone to the end of the video comment a like full leave emoji like one of the leaves emojis comment that down below if you've gone to the end. 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