 Hello friends, welcome to TBR! I feel like we just need to get more unhinged with the start of every TBR Cludeau video. Okay so hey friends, how are we doing? It's time for July's TBR Cludeau. July! July! I can't believe it! How are we all doing? Are we all excited? I'm not. Because I've got a level with you, Riot. I have not been doing the best at getting to TBR Cludeau. Books. June's TBR Cludeau, have I finished any of those books yet? I'm not sure if I have, if I'm honest with you. I wish that I could just disappear. I feel like I've been trying to catch up on previous months that I haven't finished the books from, that like it's just been this never-ending cycle and I've decided that today that all ends. Today we're gonna try and build a TBR Cludeau TBR that I like actually read this month because I've had enough. It's stressing me out. It's like plaguing my soul, you know? I'm hoping TBR Cludeau will be kind this month. This month, a lot of the vlogs that I have planned, I just don't know why I'm reading or I can't tell you what I'm reading so that doesn't bode well for like TBR Cludeau. So we're focusing mostly on Summerween because I'm gonna do Summerween vlogs when it's happening and I think I'm gonna do three so I'm gonna do one every couple of days and we're focusing mainly on what I'm gonna be reading during Summerween and like fingers crossed I get to order these in Summerween. I actually, I haven't like sat down in this first Summerween vlog I'm gonna sit down and like make my TBR so I haven't even really looked at the prompts other than I think one is like read a thriller which I know what I'm reading for that. Maybe we've, maybe we've, maybe we've got that into the TBR this month I don't know. But yeah I actually don't know what the prompts are but I do know but I've like forgotten them because I want to do it with you in the vlog so we could be selecting books here that I want to read that don't even fit any prompts so you know. What's a girl to do? Anyways shall we just get into the first TBR Pluto roll? Okay time for roll number one person number six which is yellow over here in Thriller. Let's see how many we roll we've got a one and a four we'll just go number one that is number 27 which is a book rated three stars on Goodreads. Roll one was a thriller that is rated three stars on Goodreads this is any book that's rated three points something on Goodreads and guess what I've gone with guys the writing retreat I've spoken about this a ton lately it was in my summer TBR it's in my most recent five star predictions. I believe this is going to be five stars despite the fact that it's rated I think a three point four six on Goodreads at the moment. Everyone who I have similar reading taste two every booktuber who I have similar reading taste two has at this up so frankly the girls would get it get it and the girls that don't don't like I don't make the rules it just seems to be the way it is it's the truth so like you know I'm gonna love it I'm gonna love it I'm gonna love it so this is a book that I'm definitely wanting to get to during summer wean I'm really really excited this might be like the first book that I read in summer wean I just know we've got this writing retreat that this author is holding for like other prospective authors I think there's some like female friendships going on and stuff like that but then things start to become unhinged and I'm just so excited to find out the level of unhinged like I can't wait you guys don't get it you guys don't get my excitement levels let me stand back a bit I was getting a little bit up close and personal there wasn't I let me let me let me take it back a little bit Jesus Christ I was getting a bit hello I cannot explain to you how set I am this is gonna be a five star and how excited I am to read it in summer wean and how excited I am to get to this month I'm certain we're gonna get to this this month so like we're there we're going now on the tbr we're doing well roll number two person number seven which is brown up here in the mystery let's see how I'm gonna roll we've got a two and a four I'll just go one two and get number 16 which is a book with four or more words in the title roll number two was a mystery with four or more words in the title and this is the one that I gave to my patrons to vote on I put my fate in their hands while I do this every month every month my patrons team laks and team rora patrons get to vote on one round of t-bar clido and that ends up being our book club pick for the month so not only are they deciding my fate they're deciding theirs and I feel like often they decide badly I'm not gonna lie to you like I'll put a book on there that I'm like this they're certainly gonna pick that that sounds so good and they pick a book that's rated like 3.1 stars a good reason I'm like I'm fighting against the tide here guys not a joke just a fact not a joke just a fact not a joke just a fact but the options that I gave them this month for all ones I was really excited to read so we have Death on Gokumen Island by Sashiyokamizo all the dangerous things by Stacy Willingham the cat who caught a killer by L.T. Shearer and the night she disappeared by Lisa Droll and I thought this one would win the winner was all the dangerous things by Stacy Willingham this came out I don't I think it came at like the end of last year in the US and maybe the start of this year in the UK but this is Stacy Willingham's second book she wrote a flicker in the dark which I read last year and it was a big release last year for her debut it's one of an option for like tv or film or something and that one I really enjoyed it was a solid small town atmospheric thriller atmospheric atmospheric thriller in this one one year ago this mother's life was changed forever her toddler son was taken out of his crib and so her entire existence now revolves around trying to find her son obsessed with finding him she agrees to be interviewed by a true crime podcaster and his questioning brings up memories that she'd kind of repressed I don't know I'm really excited to get into another Stacy Willingham she's becoming well I've read one book but like the vibes I got from that book was that she'd be another kind of staple reliable thriller off of me someone like Sharon Lapina who like I'm not necessarily gonna give a five star like even trying to be like maybe one five star but I go into most of her books I'm expecting like a four star good time enjoyable and I feel like that might be what Stacy Willingham will become so it's already got really good ratings on good reads really excited for this excitedly the book club if you want to join us the link is always down in my description of videos if you want to join the patreon we have so much on there we have weekly reading sprints we just did a quiz night together we do movie nights I have a podcast on there I do exclusive videos on there I do exclusive vlogs to the book club there's so much on there so if you want to join us links always down below okay roll number three I feel like it's going quite well so far we've got blue person number eight let's see how many we roll we've got a one and a four we will go one two three four five that is number seventeen which is a book that is out of my comfort zone okay roll three was a romance that is out of my comfort zone and for this I'm going with the unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer East Smith I have to read this this month and I'm nervous guys I feel like the romance that I tend to read Ally Hayes who are Talia Hibbert Abbie Jimenez are all within a similar vein right they're all like fun romances maybe a few like serious topics in there but like mostly fun romances you know where you've got the couple together for most of the book and it's like their journey and kind of know the plot beats they're gonna happen this one seems a bit different we're following Greta James who I think um her mother has just died she's a musician and she goes on this week long cruise to kind of like try and like heal her heart I don't know and then she like meets this guy and they fall in love I don't know it seems a bit more serious it seems a bit more serious romance and I just I don't know if that's my thing I feel for me too like I think even when I read romance I like fun like woo you know woo I don't know I just don't know if this is my kind of thing I'm kind of going into it quite low expectations it is out on my comfort zone it's out of the realm of like every other romance on my romance shelves pretty much I feel like so we'll see we'll see I'm not expecting amazing things but we're gonna get another book off the tbr it's essentially the way I'm doing this one roll number four person number four which is pink over here in horror okay I've got a three three oh let's go one two three and get the dagger and that is I have to do a random number generator and it picks what I read roll number four was the dagger which I feel like I haven't done a lot right because I'm scared of it but the dagger the dagger the dagger prompt the dagger what did that remind me of sometimes guys when I'm filming the way I say things reminds me of like a reference of like something and I get so distracted and I can't I can't focus again until I get it oh it reminded me of um I've got it I've got it during the scammers inflection the way you're on the scammers used to speak if I don't remember you're on the scammer that's what that reminded me of honestly truly I'm here I'm here that's that's like deep how deep it goes lux lux is outside he wants to be with me hang on I'm here he just bought me up a ping-pong ball in his mouth because he wants cuddles how you doing you say hi no not really okay down you go did you get me muddy he's like the dirtiest cat you've ever known in your life okay so the dagger um is a random number generator so I have the choice when I learned on the dagger do I want to randomly number generate all of my books on my tbr or do I just want to random number generate that genre that the room's in the super prompts that like weapons aren't constrained by the genre room that they're in like the books are but they can be if I want them to is like the the general kind of the way those work so I've decided since it's horror and it's summer we it makes sense just to do horror and I don't have that many horror books so I feel like there's less chance of us getting something fucking wacky okay oh yeah we can do it here between one and 23 generate seven okay it's gonna be a recent one because I short my I sought my shelves by date added let's see one two three four five six seven oh wait we've got to redo it we landed on dr jackal and mr hide but that is for another video so it can't be that we can't do that one okay redo it generate 11 okay so that's seven eight nine ten 11 we're going to be reading her body and other parties by karma maria machado okay that's interesting for a read-a-thon hang on wait do I own it I don't know if I own it physically no I don't I don't own her body and other parties physically but you know what I'll get it I'll buy it I'm going book shopping in London this weekend so I'll either buy it in London if I see it or if not I'll order it online afterwards but we'll order that okay let me read you out the Goodreads start because I don't own it it's a series of short stories demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction comedy and horror fantasy and fabulism I've heard such good things about this I've heard really good things earthy and otherworldly antique antique and sexy queer and caustic comic and deadly serious it's swing some horrific violence the most exquisite sentiment okay we're going to be reading this for summer ween oh my god okay and because it's a short story collection what we can do is like read it throughout the read-a-thon like I can divide it up into like a couple of short stories a day that's so exciting well guess what people I get excited about small things that's so exciting okay that's what we're gonna do oh okay what a good pick I'm really happy with that one I've had such good things about all of karma maria machado's work I own in the dream house I haven't got that yet but we'll get to this one first I guess so I'll get my hands on that at some point in London I know I've seen it before and gaze the word so if I go back to gaze the word I'll probably grab it and there I've seen it on word on the water I've seen it in many London bookshops so I don't think we'll struggle to find it and hopefully I'll get my hands on it this weekend exciting okay roll number five person number one which is green over there in fantasy let's see who will roll can we get the rose prompt yes oh my god one two three and that's the rose prompt which is I pick a book from my patrons right number five is the rose prompt are we ready I'm not I'm not okay so the rose prompt when everyone enjoys my patron no matter what tier you are you get to pick two books off of my physical tbr or my audiobooks and say Megan I want you to read these and they get put in a pot let me get the pot here she is and I pick one out and reread it now sometimes you have to pick multiple times because there's books in here obviously they're live now read but let's see what we get and then we'll see who's picked I'm hoping it's something that fits within the vague thriller mystery horror category of summer okay right I also want to try and not make any fall out what are you what are you the what the gilded walls this is Satan's work who has picked the gilded walls okay Jacqueline has picked it anyone else just Jacqueline well thanks so much Jacqueline at this point it's sabotage because like why would you guys want me to start more series when I'm really trying hard not to so this is series I've been I've owned for a long time and I've kind of been saving I didn't want to start it yet but I guess we are oh I didn't really want to start this yet and I don't know when I'm going to be reading this we'll see it's set in Paris in 1889 I've heard so many good things about it I've heard this a heist novel I love Paris I love Victorian settings like I think I should love this I've heard so many good things about it it's kind of like a staple now I feel like you don't see as many people read it now like many years ago you would have seen a lot of people read it and that's when I got it and then I've never read it I don't know much about other than that group of friends heist Paris Victorian that's what I really need to know thanks Jacqueline Jesus Christ I wasn't ready to read this yet this was like next year maybe I'm starting another fucking series oh no oh no okay okay final roll person number four which is pink over there in horror again that's good let's see how many we roll we've got a two and a four oh I can just go one two that is number eight which is a 2022 release okay and then my final roll was a horror that is a 2022 release this is the last month by the way that's going to say a 2022 release it'll switch to 2023 I leave it a little while before I switch it in the year because otherwise like if it's in January it's like a 2023 release it'll be hard to get so that's why I'm gonna switch it now um I'm stuck I can't decide so I'm gonna show you two and I'll read one of them this month okay so our choices are our wives under the sea by Julia Armfield or what moves are dead by T. King Fisher I'm stuck between which of these I want to read during summer wean this one I know is about wives under the sea no we've got a wife who has got a deep sea mission and come back changed and it's I think told from both of their perspectives or just the other wife's perspective kind of going like what the hell is actually happening to my wife like what the hell is going on I've had such good things I read the first chapter this at the start of the year and loved it I thought the writing was claustrophobic it was such an interesting writing style and then I haven't read any T. King Fisher yet and I'm gonna start we're gonna read loads of T. King Fisher the rest of this year guys delusion convince yourself but this is a 2022 release and I thought it would be good for a readathon because it is so so sure it's really sure I know this is a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe one of his stories like the isn't it the fall of something does it say the fall of the house of usha yes okay so it's like a retelling of that and I remember hearing so many good things when people read it so it's like one of these guys is that okay I can't decide right now maybe I'll read both of them this month who knows but I'll definitely read one of them let me know actually in the comments which of these you think I should get to for the readathon because I am struggling to decide so if you let me know then it gives me it takes a decision out of my hands a bit so there we have it everyone that is my July TBR I'm feeling good about this apart from the gilded wolves I'm not feeling good about that I'm really not Jacqueline thank you but not thank you so yeah let me know what you thought of any of these books let me know which ones are most excited to see me read I'm feeling good I'm feeling positive we're gonna do this guys we're gonna live our best lives thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video bye