 Hello friends, welcome back to my channel today. We're gonna be doing my summer TVR. I am so excited I am so excited for summer. You guys don't even understand. I love summer I'm a summer girly. I come alive and the heat in the sun. I love I love it So I am so excited for summer and I've got so many exciting videos coming I'm feeling really excited all the videos I'm making at the moment and so I thought let's do a summer TBR I wasn't gonna do one. Usually I do do like a little TBR for every season to give you a tease or some of the books I'm gonna be reading in the next couple months some of the videos I'm gonna be doing but I was gonna do it in summer and then I saw everyone else doing their summer TBRs and I felt jealous We have to do it. So the way that I do my TBRs because obviously I have a lot of videos Planned right so I do five books that I have got plans to be reading I'm gonna be reading in the next couple months and then I do five books that I have no plans to read But I really want to Wishful thinking. Yeah, you're a dreamer. You dream a lot and you're so it's like half solid and half Aspirational I've got a lot of videos coming in the next couple months where I currently don't know what I'm gonna be reading Where I'm gonna be finding out in the moment what I'm gonna be reading. So those books will be good for that I'm increasingly feeling like there's not enough days on the yet Not enough hours in the day to read all the books. I want to read like it's a problem I wish I could read 10,000 books like right now We can't so shall we just get into the list first we are gonna go for yellow face by Rebecca F Quang her name's Rebecca on this one So I'm gonna call her Rebecca I feel like they're trying to distinguish between her fantasy and non fantasy stuff, but um, yeah, I just I need to read it I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I went to the talk for this in London and it's just made me even more excited So the plot of this I'm sure you've heard about it already We're following two characters at the start one is a white struggling author another is an Asian Incredibly popular like doing really well author and they're kind of frenemies and one evening I think they're having dinner together and the Asian author like chokes and darts In a freak accident and the white author decides I'm gonna steal the manuscript She was working on past myself off as racially ambiguous and like published this book And this is basically like a satire around publishing and the situation in publishing, you know publishing is a thing, right? When black lives matter happened and there was movement such as publishing paid me if a lot of you don't know but I actually did for my like I did journalism as my degree at uni and In that instead of writing a dissertation as like our final project We made a documentary and my documentary was about the hashtag Publishing paid me that sprang up a couple years ago talking about how authors of color Traditionally were paid less for their advanced advances and found it more difficult to get published than white authors So that's why I did my documentary and I've never shared it publicly because a the people that I interviewed I interviewed some authors who were kind of surrounding the hashtag and I interviewed like people from publishing and stuff I didn't ask if I could put it on YouTube. I just said it's gonna be viewed by my Uni professors, so that's really the main reason I've never shared it But I was very proud of it and I really got deep into the subject and it's in my opinion my opinion my opinion publishing would say It's not but um, I think the whole situation sucks. There is so much like Engrained racism in all of our structures in life I believe and publishing, you know tried to set up some imprints tried to hire more diverse editors at that time But I'm hearing a lot of those imprints and editors have gone So it's not great and so I'm really really excited to read this and I think that it's I mean Just everything that she does is incredible and is intentional and I just love her. I just love Rebecca So I'm really excited that I've got plans to read this like I'm currently having to hold myself back because I can't wait Let's alternate between ones. I do have plans for and ones. I don't so one that I don't have a plans for But I really want to get to is Murder before even song by Reverend Richard Coles So I got this last year, but I really want to read it because I just bought the sequel Look at the little doggies. How cute is that? Yeah, I got the sequel because I want like matching editions basically This one's like red spread ages and this one has the doggies, but I really want to start this murder mystery series So it's just like a quaint murder mystery series following a reverend and Murders happening in the town that he lives in and I watched what was it and what was it that I heard? Richard Coles, he's like a semi celebrity in the UK not semi. He is a celebrity, but not like an A-list You know, oh, it was the Waterstones podcast. He was on with Janice Hallett and and What's her name? Neeta prose they were on like an episode about mysteries and he spoke about how he really likes having a reverend as his main character Because reverends can kind of like get into places other people can't like people let them into their homes and tell them things That they wouldn't tell someone else. So I'm really excited and I would really like to start this I think it's gonna be like a quick fun read, you know, I mean look it's got like a cute little map like come on It's fun. So I'm excited to read this one. Then I also have decided I am gonna be reading the writing retreat I think I'm gonna choose this as one of my books for summer ween one of the prompts is reader thriller And this is one of the thrillers that I'm most excited for I am gonna be vlogging summer ween. I'm very excited I've never done it before I'm not the best Doing read-a-thons because I always have other videos to do but I'm gonna vlog summer ween and I'm really really excited for it So I think we're gonna read this in summer ween. I've spoken about this a ton already I put it in five star predictions or if you told me I was absolutely batshit insane for doing that But I trust my instincts. I'm gonna love it you guys. I've just decided I'm gonna love it We're following these characters who go to this writing retreat And I think there's a prize for what you write there, and I know it's also about like female friendships. It goes crazy I know this book grows crazy, but I'm so excited to read it one of the most exciting books on my TBR right now And I'm just so ready to read it this summer. I'm like beyond ready. I'm like I was made for this I was made for this then when I don't have plans to read but really want to is throwback by Maureen good This was recommended to me by Courtney Summers when we chatted for the video that we made and I'm just so excited to read It she recommended to me it's about a girl and her mom and the girl ends up going back in time to the 90s Alongside her 17 year old mom basically and it's like set in the 90s, and I'm just I'm really excited Hey, I think this kind of straddles like it'll give me some like YA contemporary vibes to it I believe a kind of a cover gives me those vibes Which I feel like I've been lacking a bit and I feel like it's something I really love reading in summer because it's just fun It's quick and enjoyable, but also it's doing something different It's got like a sci-fi twist to it and I mean listen. I loved 17 again I loved 17 again as a kid and yes It is a bit different because that's like an older guy becoming 17 again in our time But like this is her going back to the 90s and her mom younger is there But like it's kind of giving some of the vibes and I love Zac Efron's supremacy guys I was just I was looking onto it the other day and when you think back to how Incredible the high school musical movies were like just think about it I'm gonna be watching it with my patrons this weekend for our movie night. I think I think it's gonna win the poll I put it on there cuz I was like I'm pretty sure that's gonna win and I just really want to watch high school musical again So that's what's happening, but just think about like the choreography. Oh my god scream scream in high school musical 3 with the twisting I mean Cinematic genius guys high school musical my god talented brilliant incredible amazing show stopping Spectacular then other book. I do have plans to read. I'm finding a reading. I'll be gone in the dark by Michelle McNamara This is a nonfiction. I have wanted to read for so long We're following this woman's path into finding this serial killer and I believe she did actually Find out who it was, but then she passed away. I think maybe before it was confirmed But yeah, this is like her book detailing her journey into finding out who this guy was and I Have you know, I don't want to say I love true crime because I think true crime our relationship with it should be examined our relationship with like women as victims and Idealizing people who do terrible things in true crime and like our fascination with its humans Like I think it should be something that you're conscious of when you're consuming true crime kind of material But it is something that I do find interesting and so reading from this kind of perspective where this woman worked Really really hard to find out this person who had done terrible things I think is an angle that I would be really interested in reading. So yeah, I've always had such wonderful things about this It's got like pictures as well. I think of victims and yeah I'm really really excited to get into this because for years I have heard one for things and it's time to read it then one I currently don't have plans to read but I'm hoping I'm gonna read sometime soon is the last housewife by Ashley Winstead is currently wrapped up behind me Wrapped up is coming to an end next month. So if I don't end up reading it and wrapped up, which I think is pretty unlikely I will probably hopefully read it in another vlog. But yeah, I can't really remember what this one's about I know it was Ashley Winsteads released last year By the way, she publishes like a romance and a thriller every single year. This one is insane I really enjoyed it in my dreams a whole lot of life. It was fun. It was like witty I really really enjoyed it and I've heard really good things about the last housewife I've also heard it's quite different particularly. I think it's a bit raunchy. It's a bit raunchy I literally can't remember the plot something about housewives Can't remember but it's Ashley Winstead and Ashley Winstead is becoming an author that I want to read all of her books on the covers Fucking amazing. So like we're gonna read it. I'm very excited It's one of these books like I even need to know anything about it to know that it might be a five star I think it's gonna be at least a four then another one I do have plans to rude is In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune. Look at her. Look at her. I am nervous, right? So this is TJ Klune's next book and I've given House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door five stars from him And I'm nervous because I've heard mixed things about this one We've got like this family of puppets slash robots like living in secrecy But then someone else a location one of them gets taken away and then they kind of go on this quest I think to save their family member and I think it's gonna be a lot about family there's always like a through line in TJ Klune's books of like Teaching not so teaching but like holding a light up to humanity in some aspect and I'm suspecting this could be family I've heard mixing some people have told me that they loved it Some people have told me they didn't think it's as successful as his previous two, but I'm really excited I think he always has a very interesting perspective in his books and I always have a great time reading them So even if it's not a five star, I'm not putting five star pressure on it because I have had mixed things I'm still Expecting a good time then another one. I still have no plans to read but like I really I want to read it So bad is our wives under the sea by Julia Armfield If you watch my first video of the year where I was trying to find a five star book for my first book the year Which I succeeded in this was another one of the options and it didn't end up winning But I did really really like the first chapter of this because in that video I read all the first chapters and picked one with following that these two wives one who I think has come Back from like this deep sea mission of some sort and has come back Really changed and is a different person is distant emotional the writing in this I remember I mean I read the first chapter It's like eight pages or whatever a long time ago half a year ago now But I remember the writing feeling very like claustrophobic Very tight and very close and it was it was such an interesting Writing style that I hadn't necessarily read in a long time. So I'm really excited to read a whole book of that I've had such wonderful things for pretty much everyone who has read this So I just I need to get to it guys So in any video that I can we're gonna try and get to it then the final book I do have plans to read and it's actually because I'm reading it now I'm only 30 pages in is the Inagami curse by Sashi Yokomizo. So I read the hongin murders Here she is. Hang on the hongin murders by Sashi Yokomizo. It was much smaller. This one's much smaller Well, guess what people I get excited about small thing a while ago now And I've since been collecting all of the new releases of these books because these are classic Japanese Murder mysteries are slowly being translated into English with these gorgeous covers. Hang on. Let me show you the other ones These are the other two I have I think maybe there's one more out already But we've got the village of eight graves and we've got death on Gokumen Island I mean look at these covers aren't they incredible? But yeah, I read that and I've wanted to get to more hence me being Me collecting them all and now it's finally time to read another one this one We've got the wealthy head of this family dies and they're kind of the family It's a rich family and they're like waiting to read the will but then death like murders start happening I think they're trying to like kill each other off so that they can get the inheritance or something like I said I'm only 30 pages in I've barely read anything. I'm excited to read more of these I love reading like murder mysteries from different cultures and seeing the different tropes and seeing the different kind of like Ways in which the story is traditionally told so yeah, you'll see this hopefully this weekend in a vlog And then the last book that I don't have set plans to read but would really like to get round to is a Finney Donovan Knock some dead, so I read Finney Donovan is killing it. Where is she? I'm still so mad that they're the paperbacks of different sizes like this is just like what is going on? That's so upsetting Finney Donovan is killing it. I read earlier this year. I loved it It was five stars. We always knew it's gonna be five stars And so I'd really like to continue on in the series in the next couple months These are just so fun like they're such fun murder mysteries Finney Donovan is killing it is definitely gonna be a book I give to my mom soon because she's whispering about starting mysteries again If you don't know I used to always share my books with my mom we chat about them And in the past couple years She's only want to read romance because like some stuff has been happening in our lives behind the scenes that have been tough So she's only wanted to read like happy books romances, and I didn't really read that So we haven't been sharing books together, but she's whispering about being able to start reading other stuff So I'm thinking Finney Donovan will be an early pick because it's still kind of happy Kind of even though there's murders like it's still it's so kind of happy. So yeah, I would love to make progress I don't really oh, I know I do know what the plot this is But I can't tell you because it would spoil stuff from the first book But yeah, really excited to continue on Hopefully we will do soon. So there we have it That is my summer TBR half books that I have plans to read half books that I am just excited to read And would like to get around to some of the books I'm putting as like priority for me right now So yeah, let me know what you thought of any of these books if you read them I would love to know have any of you read yellow face yet Have any of you read the rioting retreat if any of you read throwback I would love to know any of your thoughts and let me know what is on your summer TBR because I want to live Like heresy through you because like I said, I want to read 40,000 books in here. Why is that not possible? Why is that impossible? Like I am constrained by my mortal body and it's not fair if he got into the end of Video comment the eyes looking like the eyes looking emoji for yellow face because I could just read this Right now if I was living my best life, I would just go sit on the garden read the whole thing right now But that's not that's not happening right now. So anyways, I love you guys Thank you so much for watching and I will see you very soon in another video. Bye