 Hey guys it's Leigh Ann and I'm here today with my January TBR. I can't believe that it's not 2020 anymore. So we want to start the year off right. That being said, I am going to be repeating history a little bit because in the in January of 2020 I was buddy reading a Robin Ha book with Mara and in January of 2021 I'm going to be buddy reading Royal Assassin with Mara from Books Like Well. We did discuss this and we accept full responsibility for the fact that if this year goes wrong it's 100% down to the fact that we have buddy read a Robin Ha book in January. So Royal Assassin is the second book in the Farsier trilogy. I'm halfway through it at this point. Mara, well I don't know what I mean I don't think she started it yet. I didn't manage to finish it in 2020 and I intended to finish it in 2021. She intends to pick it up so we're she's gonna catch up and then we're gonna buddy read the second half and I'm really excited about it because I would also like to uh one of the it's on my list of series to finish in 2021 the Farsier trilogy and I kept calling it mad ship in like multiple videos but the Live Ship Traders series is on my list of series to start in 2021 but I can't start Live Ship Traders before finishing Farsier so anyway all that to say I'll be reading Royal Assassin with Mara in January next to our also actually next war we're gonna be buddy reads whoopsie dobsie okay well uh so my friend Shaya uh and I are gonna be buddy reading two books in January um because we kind of pitch this idea to the aether and the aether responded positively of us reading each other's favorite books um but we're also going to read our own favorite over again so these aren't I mean I don't think when I talk to Shaya I don't think either is claiming this is our one and only absolute favorite book all time but it is a major favorite so I will be reading um her recommendation that she will also then be rereading Nosferatu by Joe Hill which I have had on my radar for a while but I didn't actually own it um and I currently as of the filming of this video my copy has not arrived yet it's coming from the UK so hopefully I get it soon so I can read it but I will probably um largely listen to it on audio because she did recommend the audio as well so I'm excited about that she originally was trying to push me to read it on Christmas time but I knew I wasn't gonna have time so I was like well why don't we just just make me read it in January and she was like oh I will um and then the book that I'm making her read that I am also then going to reread is the Wolf by Leo Caru which this will be my fourth time reading this book so I guess you could say it's a favorite she's hurt me bang on about this book for as long as I've known about it so she also I think will be largely experiencing it on audio because I did recommend the audiobook and both of us are avid listeners of audiobooks so yep we will be experiencing those books together and hopefully filming a ramp up together of our thoughts about each other's books so look out for that and then my next buddy read is Elantris by Brandon Sanderson which I'll be buddy reading with Jade from the bedtime bookworm I heard Elantris talked about a couple times on booktube quite recently and it piqued my interest even though I sinned after that heard people say well it's kind of her early work and it's not my favorite and it's kind of boring but the premise still really intrigues me and it isn't terribly long especially compared to other Sanderson books and Jade also wants to read it so we're gonna read it and actually I did buddy read not all but some of the Mistborn books with Jade so it feels appropriate to be reading Sanderson with Jade hopefully we both like it but I haven't had the best track record with Sanderson but we'll see I am intrigued and then the next book is the Black Company by Glen Cook which is my pick for me and Amanda's buddy read of the month and this is the first book in this series although I own Omnibus so um if I was hold I mean I I planned to tell you that because I was gonna be holding up my books but since I didn't have all my books since Nosferatu hadn't arrived I was like well I just won't hold up any for that one book um anyway I have a thick ass Omnibus so it looks really long but it's actually not that long because it's only a third of that that the first book is anyway yeah so the live show will be on my channel at the end of the month and actually this month that will be a buddy read not just me and Amanda but Mara and Bethany and we'll be also joining us in reading that and in our live show which is the last Saturday of the month which is I believe the 30th of January this year so all four of us will be reading it and discussing it so please join us it is grim dark fantasy I mean it's my pick so no one is surprised next up is Northern Wrath by Tilt Cold Holt I think her name's quite tricky looking I think it is a Scandinavian name um this is a Viking-y kind of book like well like literally it's not Viking-y it's about Vikings oh and it was actually sent to me by the publisher in September uh so I have an arc of it um and I just didn't get around to it I've been kind of dying to read it ever since because it's fucking Vikings while Vikings is a really wintry thing to me to be reading about it's not like cozy fall and holidays so I feel like ice cold barrenness of January even though I live in LA so it's really not ice cold but the in my mind January is a cold is a cold and barren month so it feels appropriate to be reading something about Vikings in January so I'm very very excited about that next up I have where the world ends by by Geraldine somebody I can see the book on my shelf right now and the last name definitely starts with an M it's Buck something which is appropriate because the book takes place in Scotland and I get the feeling that it's kind of again this kind of cold and barren landscape um I'm not remembering if it's dystopian or fantasy but it is there's something cold and mysterious and dark about it and that's all that I was thinking about when I put it on my TBR because as previously mentioned I regard January as a cold and barren month keeping that theme going of cold and barren I'm gonna reread The Baron the Nightingale by Catherine Arden I read it when it came out so it's been a minute and I would really like to finish the winter night trilogy but in order to finish the winter night trilogy I believe I do need to restart the winter night trilogy because I tried reading The Girl in the Tower like a year ago and I was like I don't remember what happened in The Baron the Nightingale so it's definitely not gotten better since then so I definitely definitely definitely need to reread The Baron the Nightingale if I ever hope to finish that series so January being the cold month that it is thought it'd be a good time for it next I have the evening in the morning by Ken Follett this is also Viking-y this is a pretty pretty cool to Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth it's another ninth bridge no Kingsbridge another Kingsbridge story so he's invented this fictional city of Kingsbridge and and so he's told different years of history told stories in different years of history so it's historical fiction not fantasy but Kingsbridge doesn't exist but he's using it as like playground in which to play out this historical like stories in a historical time period without messing too much with like a real place or real people so Pillars of the Earth was kind of Renaissance medieval Renaissance and then like the prequel to that was World of that End another pre prequel is evening in the morning which again is sort of like viking era viking-ish Viking-y so hence my interest next I have the girl the sea gave back by Adrian Young which is also Viking-y this is gonna be in most excellent month between the wolf and northern wrath and evening in the morning and the girl the sea gave back this is just gonna be a great time where the girl the sea give back is a sequel part two of the duology follow-up to the sky and the deep which is very viking-y and so the girl the sea gave back takes place in the in the world of sky and the deep but it follows entirely different characters so it's not a direct sequel it's not continuing the story of the characters in sky and the deep but it's the universe of sky and the deep I've heard mixed things about it but I own it and I've wanted to read it since it came out because I did I didn't love sky and the deep but I quite liked it and I've heard amazing things about her new book fable but I figure since I've heard amazing things about fable probably better treats girl the sea gave back first and then fable instead of reverse order and be disappointed so yeah like I didn't mean to poop over it so much but yeah uh and last but not least is things in jars by god damn it just kid I got it from book of the month a while ago I actually thought it would be a good fall read because my understanding is that it's kind of like a Victorian gothic magical speculative mystery that's got kind of like magical realism vibes like a yeah like the old curiosities of like the Victorian era where there were literally things in jars and like I'm given to believe that there is something to do with like a mermaid or something there's one on the cover ish anyway it sounds cool and quirky and mysterious which is why I kind of thought it'd be a good fall read but why not January why not hello there after the fact me coming to tell you that I'm also reading the blade itself because I haven't yet filmed video in which I will say this but one of my goals of 2021 is to reread all the first law and if I read one a month um that'll be pretty much right on target for having reread all of it before the new one comes out in September so yeah add that to my cbr the blade itself those are all the books that I will be reading in January please join me in reading any and all of them if you are so inclined but definitely uh join us in reading black company because it's always more fun if you guys come and chat with us during the live show at the end of the month uh so yeah let me know all the things I post videos on saturdays other random times as well but definitely saturdays so like and subscribe and I'll see you when I see bye