 Hello friends! How are we all doing? It is time for a spring TBR! Me realising it's spring. I love doing a spring TBR because I really feel like, okay, I'm starting to come into myself in spring. For me personally, Jen and Fribri are always the hardest months of the year for me. I'm just like muddling through and then spring rejuvenates me, summer brings me alive and then that energy like tides me right to the end of the year and the New Year starts and Jen and Fribri are hard. So I always love doing a spring TBR to kind of chat about some of the books I'm planning and I just get really excited. I get more creatively alive in spring. I just, I'm very excited for all the videos we've got coming. I've got really big plans actually for my channel for the rest of the year that I'm hoping to achieve, that I'm feeling very positive about, that stuff happening behind the scenes. I'm speaking to my patrons a little bit about but yeah, there's a lot of changes that I want to make that I'm feeling very creatively excited for. So I thought we would just have a little check-in and we're going to chat about some of the books I'm reading in spring. So the way that I structure my seasonal TBRs is we do half books that I have definitive plans to read that unless something drastic happens, which it may, life happens, I should be reading in spring. So we have half those books and half books I have no plans to read but are the books that I want to read most right now. And if I were to do a video where like I have a bit more freedom over what I'm reading are the books that I would choose. So that's what we're going to be getting up to today. Shall we just dive into it? Usually I alternate between the books I have plans to read and books I don't. I'm feeling like today let's chat about the five that I have definitive plans to read and then we'll do the five that I don't have any plans to read. I just really want to read. Let's structure it like that. So let's get into it with the books I'm definitely going to be reading in the next couple of months. First we have Pride and Premeditation by Terza Price. This has been on my TBR for so long, for so long. It has been languishing on here and I'm finally going to be getting around to it. When did this come out? 2021 I want to say? 2020? Okay, so this is basically a Pride and Prejudice retelling as I'm sure you can imagine. But it's a murder mystery. A Jane Austen murder mystery. Actually this is not the only one or a Jane Austen murder mystery that's on this TBR. Finally I'm very much into Jane Austen murder mysteries. Pretty legendary if you ask me. I love it. And this era will always have such a close place in my heart. This one is a YA one where Lizzie and Darcy are I think like young lawyers, both at these different prestigious firms. And a scandalous murder shocks London High Society and they both want to solve what's happening basically. And yeah, Terza Price has done this whole series of Jane Austen murder mystery retellings. And I am so excited to try one. I've wanted to try this for so, so long. Also I love the cover and I love Lizzie and Darcy. I love them. I don't need to talk to you more about my love of Pride and Prejudice. I can't shut up about it. I actually am feeling like I'm feeling like it's time for a re-watch of the BBC adaptation. Sometimes I'm just walking around at the moment and I start going That theme song slapped. Oh my god. If you've never watched the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, like I don't want to tell you. I don't know how to communicate with you. Like I feel like there's always going to be a lacking element of communication between you and I. If you have never watched the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, like how are we supposed to go on? So yeah, I'm excited to read a YA retelling. I'm really excited to get into this. I'm hoping that maybe I want to continue on in a series. So I'm going to be starting this series this month. Then you've got one that I think you're going to be very excited for. And it is. Heartstop of all you five, my honest honest friend. I'm so excited. I don't believe I've had like the self control to wait to read this into this in a video. Like I honestly, I can't, I can't believe it. Because usually I've read these like on the day that they came out, but I have waited and I'm finally getting into the new Heartstopper. I have not watched season two of Heartstopper. I should put that out there. I don't know if the show is for me. And I feel very protective because now I feel like everyone loves Heartstopper. Once upon a time it was my little thing. Now it's everyone's. Anyway, that's not important, but I still love the graphic novels. And this one is our penultimate. I'm so sad. I think in this one Nick is going to visit universities. Obviously Charlie is a school year younger. So he's having to stay. And it's kind of them figuring out how their relationship is going to continue, what's going to go on. If you've read the Nick and Charlie novella, you kind of know how some of that pans out. But I'm so excited. I'm so excited. It's going to be five star. We all know this. This actually may be the next book. I don't think it's going to be quite the next book I read. This is in my next vlog. Not the one you're going to be seeing the next book that I'm filming. So I am going to be reading this soon. And I've got a lot of books through that video. So I'm like, oh, why do I do I put this in the start of it? Do I like save it? But I'm probably reading it in the start of the video. I am so excited to get into the next heart stopper. So yeah, listen, Alice O'sman just does something to me. I think all the graphic novels I read Alice O'sman does facial expressions the best. The facial expressions in this book make me feel so many emotions. They make me feel so much. I just think it's absolutely wonderful. So listen, we love Nick and Charlie. We all know I don't need to give you a synopsis to this. We all know what a heart stopper is. So yeah, very excited to read this soon. Also it smells nice. Next book I don't think I bought with me here to Wales, but I am going to be reading and it is Days at the Morasaki Bookshop. I don't know what the author is. I'm so sorry. I don't have any front of me, but here it is here. Um, do I know what this book is about? No, I think we need to look it up. Just know I'm excited to read it. Isn't it like a magical bookshop? A broken hearted young woman finds emotional refuge in a world of her uncle's second hand bookshop in this magical, thoroughly heartwarming tale. Oh yeah, that's true. So it's like this woman who I think her boyfriend reveals she's marrying someone else. Oh shit. And she decides to live rent free above her uncle's little shop. And she encounters new worlds and the stacks of books lining the Morasaki Bookshop. I'm very excited. So I think this is going to be a very emotional, very touching little book. I'm very excited because it's short. I am very excited. I'm going to be doing a lot of short books soon, which also makes me excited. And yeah, I've had a lot of really good things. A lot of people have really, really enjoyed this. I love the cover. I love the vibe. I think it's going to be a bit cozy and a bit magical. I love books that are like kind of magical rulers of me where they're set in our world, but they've just got a touch of magic to them. A touch of whimsy. So yeah, we're going to be reading days at the Morasaki Bookshop this month. Hang on. I need to get my list back up. I started moving before I finished speaking. That's embarrassing. Another book I'm going to be reading, Spring Time, is bookstress and bonus by Travis Badger. I'm finally going to be reading it. I promise, I promise, I promise, I promise. This is another one that I can't believe I have waited. I feel scared about this one though. This is a prequel to Legends and Lattes, which I've said too many times. It's my second favorite book of last year. I loved it so dearly. One of my favorite reading experiences of a book. Like I just remember, no book has made me feel like that as a person. Like books put you through emotions, right? I feel like Legends and Lattes changed my identity whilst I was reading it. Oh, let's be realistic. I just felt like I was being hugged physically. Like I felt so cozy and comforted. I just loved reading like the mundanity of them making coffee and then making cakes. I just like, I could not. They could, I could read a 600 page book of them just off the board making cakes. I swear. I have never loved anything. Oh my God. It, what an amazing experience. So this is a prequel where Viv, I think goes to stay in this bookshop. I love my little addition. I'm, listen, I'm nervous. I felt very, very, I've spoken about this before. I have been feeling very nervous. This is a bookshop with my own dust because there is so much pressure around it, right? I love Legends and Lattes so, so much. I'm like, how, where do we go from here? Like, how is this going to match up to it, right? I feel that with any sequel that I really, really love the first book. There's a lot of pressure around the second one, but I already know Travis Bowdry is going to be an author by author for me. I'm going to buy everything that he writes. I'm so excited to see what he comes out with after this. Like what is the plan Travis? I need to know the details. So, so excited to read this at some point in the next couple of months. And then the final book that I definitely have plans to read in the next couple of months is Into the Riverlands by Ney Vo. I am so excited to finally be continuing on this series. It has been years since I've read a book in the singing hill cycle. And this is the third one. We follow Klech Chi as they travel around and they gather stories from different people. And this series is really an homage to the art of storytelling. It's a dedication to the art of storytelling. It's talking about how much we love storytelling. And I love it so much. There's something about Ney Vo's writing that's absolutely enchanted. I'm so excited to pick up this one. What is this one about? On the road to Bethany Ducks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chi runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themselves far more entangled in the history of the Riverlands than they ever expected to be. I'm so excited. I just think Ney Vo can do no wrong. This series is incredible. I'm so excited to make some progress in it. I may also be reading the next. Hey, fancy another one? Let's just throw in another one for good measure. I may be reading both of these very, very, very, very, very, very, very soon. And I'm excited to actually... Let me talk about both of them now. I'm excited to read them back to back. I mean, I've never done that with this series and I think I'm going to read them like one after the other. I just think it's incredible, it's incredible, it's incredible, it's incredible. What do I always say? It's incredible, it's incredible, it's incredible. Ney Vo can do no wrong. I love the series. I love the covers. They're short. I'm so excited. Okay, now we're getting into books. I don't have set plans to read, but I want to try and to fit into vlogs where I don't have a set TBI. I have a few of those vlogs coming up, so let's chat about it. The first is... Oh my God, guys. I shouldn't even be showing you this because I haul it in this weekend's vlog. And sometimes I don't like to talk about books before I haul them because it's like continuity. I don't know. But I can't contain myself. I can't contain myself. And also, I really wanted to put the other book that I hauled this weekend in this list. But I just was like, I can't do both of them. I'm just so excited for them because I just got them. However, this book, let's set the scene. This book was not on my 2024 Most Anticipated Releases list. It was not on my reading spreadsheet. It somehow slipped my mind. However, as soon as this book was announced, like before the cover, before the synopsis, like when the book sold to a publisher and there was announcement about it, I have followed the author since then because I have been so excited for this book. I have been so excited for it. And I saw it in Waterstones. I was like, oh, I didn't know what time this was out. No, I didn't know what time this was coming out. We have got Miss Austin Investigates by Jessica Bull. So this is a debut. But you just won't take a moment. It is a humane mystery with Jane Austen as the detective. I think I've ever heard of something so perfect in my entire life. Like it is everything. I'm just in my Jane Austen era as we all know. I loved Emma last year. I'm going to be reading Bruno Bridges soon at some point. I just love Jane Austen. I've been watching Jane Austen documentaries. I have been obsessed. I've been obsessed. Jane Austen and Agatha Christie are my favorite historical girlies. You know, historical author girlies. I'm just obsessed with them. I read stuff about them. I watch documentaries about them. You can't stop me. Anyways, in this one, Jane Austen is just starting out in society. The body of a milliner discovered during a ball is an upsetting tragedy. Jane, however, is much more than personal. Firstly, she's acquainted with the victim. Secondly, her beloved brother, Georgie, is accused of the murder. To clear her brother's name, she must find the real killer. I am so, I don't even, I don't even know. I need to read this. I need to read it ASAP. I need to read it soon. I love the cover. It's another Thursday Madicub kind of, you know, shebang style, isn't it? But I don't care. I don't care. I am so excited for this. I think this could be five stars. I think I'm going to be obsessed with it. I cannot wait. I need to read this soon. Next, everyone, we have Bride by Ali Hayeswood. I very kind of got gifted this recently and I'm just so excited. Also, we could put Love Theoretically. I need to read Love Theoretically soon. Everyone's telling me to read it. Everyone's telling me it's going to be five stars. But I'm so excited for Bride. I'm so excited. This is Ali Hayeswood's Paranormal Romance debut. And I have heard that there's some like, listen, listen, listen, listen. I always say I used to read Paranormal Romance as a child. I mean, I read my own. I was a young teenager. I read a lot of Paranormal Romance. However, I think with the level of Paranormal Romance I was reading, it was actually quite tame. I am not acquainted, shall we say, with the tropes of adult Paranormal Romance and some of the weird elements of it. And I've heard little whisperings from people that there are some elements of this that are interesting. I'm a little bit concerned. But I just think Ali Hayeswood can do no wrong. Listen, I've never given her lesson really a five star. I think I gave Love on the Brain a 4.5. But I'm rounding it up. It's a five. Everything has been a five from her. I love her. She is my favorite romance author. I don't care if that's unpopular. I adore her. So I'm very excited, hopefully, to read Bride soon. It's really these, these books. I'm just so excited. I love reading. I love reading. I've had, I've just done a very intense vlog that you're going to be seeing this weekend. And I was feeling all bent out. I took last night off. Like, I'm not thinking about reading. I'm having a really relaxing evening. And now I'm like, I was not going to read today or maybe even tomorrow. I was going to take a couple of days off to like, but I'm already getting excited. I'm already getting so excited about reading. So I may have to start that vlog sooner than anticipated. But anyways, I'm very excited to read Bride. Then in terms of nonfiction, I've been doing a pretty good job of getting through nonfiction. I wrote one in this weekend's log. I put me up to three nonfiction so far this year, which, listen, my goal was 12. We're getting there. But one that I really, really want to read that I haven't gotten around to yet is In Defense of Witches, Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Shalott. I am very excited and very intrigued by this one. It kind of goes into the history of witchcraft and how witches exist today and how women, the kind of history of women being persecuted. I have heard mixed things about people who have read this. Some people say it doesn't quite go into enough depth, but it's still a topic that I very much want to read. Also, I just love the cover. Oh my God, we're matching. Everyone take a screenshot. This topic that I'm very much interested in and I, listen, all nonfiction I read is pretty much about women. It's my interest, my interest. Women. Yeah, I just think the tropes that women have been putting to throughout history and how witches kind of go into that, I just think is fascinating. So I definitely want to pick this up in the next couple of months. Next, we have a book that was one of the books that I almost read as my first book of the year. So I've had a little taste of it. I have read the first chapter. It is Monstrilo. I have heard such good things about Monstrilo and I know I need to get to it. We're following a woman whose son dies and in her grief, she decides she needs a part of him so she cuts out a piece of his lung and the lung grows into like this little creature. I've heard this is strange. I've heard it's weird, but I loved the writing of the first chapter. This was like up there. I mean, I loved all those first chapters. I made the wrong choice though because I read Emily Guard and I didn't love that. There's something about the writing of the first chapter this was so enchanting and just like captivating and really pulled you in. So I am very, very excited to get to this. I don't read a ton of horror and the horror that I do read, as we know, is more camp horror and I feel like this is a little step up for me. I feel like in the world of horror, it's a little, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. We'll see, but from my perception of it, it's like a little bit out of my comfort zone, a little bit, but I am very excited to read it. And then final list is a book I've been toying. It's almost made into a few different videos. So I've been toying with reading it and I haven't read it yet. And as of now, I don't have set plans to read it but I have a couple of videos that I could go in and that is Shark Heart by Emily Hebek. So we're following a young couple and a few weeks after their wedding, Louis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. I have told you guys I've been wanting to cry recently and everyone's like, Oh my God, I'm really feeling the green today. I'm just picking green books. Look at us. Everyone take another screenshot. Also, the way that this book is structured is very exciting to me. There's often chapters where there's just like, I'm trying to find a good example, where it's just like one paragraph or there's also some elements that are written in like a script format. So it's kind of written in a unique way and I'm just very excited to see what I think of it. I know some people have read it and found it a little bit disappointing but I feel like I could love it. I'm very much interested to pick this one up. So that is my spring TBR, half books that I am definitely gonna be reading and half books that I'd really love to read and really love to fit into blogs. Let me know what you thought of any of these books or let me know which ones you most want me to read, whether it be because you've loved them or because you want me to read them so whether you know you should get them, I have a good feeling about a lot of these. And like I said, spring, I just become a lot more positive, a lot more excited, a lot more, I have more energy, you know? So I get very excited for spring and summer. So let me know some of your spring reading plans as well and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye.