 not gonna lie I'm ready for 2022 to be over but I'm hoping I'm gonna get some incredible reading done in the last couple months so let's chat about it. Hello friends how are we doing? I don't know why I'm moving around I'm just like in a good mood this morning. So we are two and a bit months from the end of the year. 2022 for me has been simultaneously long and difficult and has gone like that. But anyways we're gonna be talking today about the books that I'm hoping to still read before the end of the year and the end of year TBR tag. I believe this has started by Ariel Bissett I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure she started it. A lot of the books that I am gonna be reading I've already planned out my November 7th content I don't know what I'm gonna be reading yet because I don't know what books are gonna be chosen for the vlogs I've got coming up so I'm pretty blind as to what I'm gonna be reading but we're gonna chat about some of the books I'm hoping that I'm gonna get to. Yeah let's just start the tag shall we? I'm like I've got a skirt and I'm like I feel like I'm in like a I don't know like a stage play you know. Anyways okay first question is are there any books you started this year that you need to finish? Now I don't do this if you guys know me I very rarely like once I start a book I'm finishing it pretty much like I very rarely DNF and I very rarely like put books down for another day so the only two that I have I am currently reading in my dreams I hold a knife so I suppose I still need to finish this I'm gonna finish this today I'm about 200 pages in plot twist I'm really enjoying it the vlog for this was supposed to go up today but I haven't even finished the first book and there's two other books in the vlog so that was just wasn't gonna happen but yeah this is I'm sure many of you know about a group of friends who went to college together and one of the friends was murdered and they basically tried to figure out who murdered the friend in this book. So yeah you hear my thoughts about that not next week now the vlog is having to be pushed back to the week after so you'll see my thoughts on that soon-ish. The only other book that I have started this year and not finished is The Mirror Season by Anne-Marie Mackamaw. Now this was for a wrapped up vlog I've never done this before I've never not read the book that I unwrapped in a wrapped up vlog but it was when I was struggling emotionally uh mentally and this book is very heavy it's about two characters who are essayed at this party both of them and it's about them dealing with it and kind of their trauma and one of the the girl loses her magical gift because of the trauma that she's gone through and I think I only read maybe I don't even know like the first 50 pages and I was like I am not capable of reading this right now like I just knew I couldn't do it emotionally like I just couldn't handle it so I ended up unwrapping a different book and reading it instead. I don't think I've ever done this with a book before like put it down because I know it's not the right time I don't tend to do that. Next question is do you have an autumnal book to transition you into the end of the year? So I did a full tbr which I'll link uh start of September-ish I think and I'm doing a pretty good job of like making my way through that list and all of those like autumnal full books so I don't know if all of these were in that I'm pretty sure they were so I still really want to read The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D Jackson a lot of you have been telling me that I'm gonna love this this is a carry retelling someone told me last night there's a podcast element to this which might make it a shoo in for a while so already I'm a positive bitch I know the audiobooks great so I'm gonna read the audiobook so next week's vlog next Sunday's vlog is now I'm having to film the clip this afternoon that will figure out what books I'm gonna read for it and this is one gonna be one of the nine in contention I will read three of the nine so it is in contention to be read in that video if not I may read it in another one not sure yet but um yeah hoping to get to this still Babel was supposed to be the next book I read but I have pushed the vlog that it's in back a week so it is no longer the next book I'm reading I'm a little bit sad like I am ready to read this everyone has been giving it five stars I recently asked on Instagram Twitter and my youtube community tab what people's favorite book that they've read so far this year was and like everyone said Babel I think that was like definitely the most popular answer so I am gonna be reading this probably not next week the week after now I am very excited and like everyone's been loving it listen dark academia fantasy magic translation colonization like tearing dismantling the institutions that are built on this blood I'm excited I'm excited for I'm going to go there because I know she always goes there she's not afraid she goes there and then The Mist by Richard Osman mysteries are very autumnal to me and I'm so I'm very excited listen I love this series so much if you don't know today series about this old group of friends a retirement village who end up solving murders in real life I think I read the first one in November last year I read the second one earlier this year but I feel like I didn't love the second one as much it was still five stars but I didn't love it as much because I didn't read it in autumn like this is a November book to me always I feel like every book now now that I'm caught with a series I have to read in November next question is there a new release you're still waiting for let's get up my spreadsheet I do have a spreadsheet of all of the new releases that I am excited for oh I kind of like spooky autumnal pick I'm excited for The Glass which by Lindsay Puckett Lindsay is a author Tuba on here and this is her middle grade debut which is very exciting this is a little bit hard to get my hands on in the UK I think I'm gonna have to order it through book depository or something but I would like to read that before the end of the year oh I'm also really excited for Survive by Holly Jackson this is Holly Jackson's first book outside of the Good Girls Guide to Murder series it's more like a thriller I feel like of these friends on this trip and I think they start dying or something I know that this is told over the period of eight hours I think and you can like read it in time which I'm definitely gonna try and do that in December so those are probably the ones I'm most excited for I have a lot of like January books I'm excited for like so many books coming out in January next year but in terms of books coming out before the end of the year those are probably the ones I'm most excited for oh also I did literally this morning just receive uh the Restless Dark by Erica Waters which I think has just come out and this is pitched as Sadie meets Wilder Girls Harper 360 YA what are you doing to me? Sorry I am buzzing the cloud kiss killer is dead now a true crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones shut up Lucy was almost a serial killer's final victim Caroline is a true crime fan who fears her own rage Maggie is a psychology student who has a little bit too much to hide all of them are looking for answers for a new identity for a place to bury their secrets but there are more than bones hiding in the shadows sometimes the darkness inside is more frightening than anything the dead louver I do own Ghostwood Song by this author but I think this is gonna be where I start I love the cover like isn't she gorgeous look at that I love the cover yeah I just feel like this is this will be where I start the author so I would really like to read this before the end of the year as well the next question is what are three books that you want to read before the end of the year and obviously all those books that I've just told you are ones I want to read for the end of the year but I thought for this let's recognize I just released like the biggest side okay I've been doing pretty well on my series goal if you don't know one of my biggest goals pretty my big reading goal on the start of the year was to get my ongoing series down to 26 or less I think I'm currently on like 32 now I don't know if we're gonna get to 26 I don't I'm gonna be honest it might not happen right now what I want you to know is you're going to fail miserably but I would like to try and get close so I have no plans to read these three books but I want to read them somehow these are all books if I read this book I finish off a series so we have A Sum of Storms and Silence by Rosanne A Brown this is probably the one I'm least looking forward to I gave the first book four stars and it was fine but I feel like I've forgotten it and it's long like this book is over 500 pages this is a west african inspired fantasy we're in the first book the two main characters want to kill each other but only to achieve aims that are really important to them not because they actually want to kill each other and I did enjoy it it's a very vivid fantasy and so I would like to get to the second book in the series but that may be the least likely the most likely I would say if I can work up to it is Girls of Fate and Fury by Natasha Nyang yeah so Girls of Fate and Fire was is a super important book to me right it's a book I read when I was first getting back into reading then I didn't love Girls of Storm and Shadow as much and it's been a long time since I read them and I'm nervous I'm not ready to read this but I feel like I need to just finish off the series I need to like lay it to rest finish it off it's about time our main character becomes a paper girl who are girls who are forced to sleep with the king the series is about queer girls falling in love fighting against oppression it is gorgeously written I'm so excited to see what Natasha Nyang comes out with next but yes I feel like I should finish this series before the end of the year like it just needs to be laid to rest and then I've been trying to be really good at like finishing series that I start this year as well crying I'm like kind of crying um I read King of Scars a few months ago like maybe three months ago so I would like to read Wall of Wolfs I would like to read Wall of Wolfs that's like easy to say wrong before the end of the year whilst the story is still fresh in my brain because I feel like I'm good forget it so even though I didn't love King of Scars I feel like the audiobooks for these are really good I mean this is this is ridiculously 580 pages this is why I don't finish series because the last book is like 2000 pages long that is a slight exaggeration it is literally 580 it's not 2000 so I mean those three books are not the books I'm necessarily most excited to read but I do want to try and get a bit closer to finishing a few more series they would be nice next question is is there a book that you think could still shock you and become your favorite book of the year I think these are our two best bets if we're honest with ourselves the first book in this series was my second favorite book of last year and everyone has been saying this is their favorite book of the year so I think these are our two like best bets and a book could definitely become my favorite book of the year we have a few different elements here I'm happier than I was at the start of the year so I feel like I'm giving out more five stars this is my favorite time to read I think I often read a lot of my favorite books in like November October December time like I just love the coziness of reading during this time I've had quite a lot of five stars this year but I don't feel like I've had a lot of like all-time favorites like books that just astound me one of these could definitely become my favorite book I think babble is probably best placed to become my favorite book but we shall see and the final question is have you already started making reading plans for next year no here's the thing I have a lot of videos that I know are probably in January February I just haven't planned out which ones are going when I've planned out all of December which I mean December's gonna be crazy guys I'm probably gonna read like 30 books like make 10,000 videos so like I can't think beyond December right now I've planned out like my first few videos for January but they're not vlogs and I don't think I'll plan out the rest of January until January like I'm not December's I just need to get December done the past two years I have set a big reading goal every year so last year it was to read at least 50 percent authors of color this year it was to get down to 26 series and I think next year I don't want a big goal that like influences what I choose what I read I think I've been thinking about it it's a little bit obviously I'll talk about this more and I will do a goals video at the start of next year but I think my goal is just gonna be to get my TBR under 200 books and keep it there which I know sounds ridiculous like 200 books but I really want it to be in the hundreds I don't want it to be in the 200s and I'm currently like 216 so you may think that's not that difficult but Christmas and my birthday in January are like times when I really stock up on books I don't buy a ton of books throughout the year like I try to be very money careful and not spend like loads of money on books so I do get in my family get me a lot of books for this Christmas and January and that's always been the time I kind of stock up and then like read through them so it's going to get a lot more towards the end of the year and start off next year so I think that's going to be my main goal for next year it's not going to be like about what I read more to just read a lot it's my goal next year I'm not thinking about January yet really let's just get through December I'm so excited for all the videos I've got coming the rest of this year like some of my favorite videos I'm feeling so great about the videos I'm making I hope it's showing that I just like lifted up my belt I was like whoa you know I struggled at the start of this year mentally and I felt stuck in a rut and I hope it's showing that I'm now so much more happy and fulfilled and trying to stretch myself and trying to do lots of fun videos so there we have it that is my end of year TBR I hope you enjoyed this video let me know what some of your reading plans are for the rest of this year any books you're wanting to read any books you think could become your favorite books of the year I would love to know thank you guys so much for watching as always and I'll see you very soon in the video bye