 Hello cuties! How are we doing? Today we're going to be talking about my spring TBR and kind of reading plans giving you a little tease, a little sneak peek as to what will be coming over the next couple months. So the way I like to do these is I like to do a seasonal TBR to just kind of like reacquaint myself, re-situate myself with the videos I've got coming out over the next couple months. I am so excited! And the way I like to do these is I like to tell you half books, we're doing 10 books in total today, half books that I have definitive plans for reading, like set videos, this is happening, I'm reading it, and half books that I really want to get to. Wishful thinking. You're a dream, are you dream a lot in your sleep? No, not really. Now actually over the next couple months I have a lot of videos coming out that I don't know why I'm reading for them yet. It's going to be like in the moment finding out maybe I have a bit more agency with what I pick. So there's a lot of books percolating in my mind that I'd like to fit in over the next couple months but we're just talking about a few of them. And you can guess as to what some videos that are coming out maybe when I tell you the ones I've got definitive plans for. I don't think there's anything else to say. Happy spring everyone! Well here's the thing, we had a couple weeks ago, a couple days where like it was spring was in the air, you know? I was like, I was like, I was vibing. I love spring, I love the turning of spring. And in the past couple weeks it's just been like depressing. It's just sad, dark, dreary. It's not been fun. So I am trying to cultivate more spring. I mean I spring out of it like we're trying to have spring vibes today. That's the goal. So shall we begin with a book? Let's go definitive plans for would like to read. Definitive plans for would like to read. The first book I'm going to mention I have just found out yesterday that I'm going to be reading this book. I'm going to be reading it pretty soon. Pretty soon in a couple videos time. We've all been waiting for it. I don't know how I feel. That's what we've been waiting for! It's what we wanted all along! I yeah I'm gonna be reading Funny Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano. The number one book that you guys have been telling me to read. Like the number one. The number one. And I've been putting it off and I've been scared because this is a mystery book that everyone loves. Everyone on booktube loves this book and I have been avoiding it like the plague. I'm going to be honest with you because I'm like this is made for me. So what happens if I don't love it? All I know about this are following Funny Donovan who's a single mum and I think she's a writer and she's talking to her agent about the plot of a new book and a coffee shop and a woman over here misunderstands and hires her as a hit woman to kill her husband. Honestly, boss bitch behavior. What can I say? I don't believe in the glorification of murder. I do believe in the empowerment of women. I'm going to be reading it finally. A lot of you have been like what the f*** you know asking me all the time. Not letting me rest and it's finally happening in a couple videos time. So keep your eyes out on the next couple vlogs. It'll be one of them. Maybe like three? Three vlogs? It's been taken out of my hands and I can't avoid it any longer. Not that I've been intentionally avoiding it. I've been wanting to read it so badly but it just feels like there's a lot of pressure. A lot of pressure. So yeah I don't know. Then let's chat about one that I would like to read. Well would I like to read this? It is debatable. Hellbent. Hellbent Balibar Dugo. I would like to make the time to read this book this month. Okay if you don't know Ninth House Balibar Dugo. Five stars. I love it. I may I've been debating that maybe should have made my top 25 books of all time video that I posted recently that maybe should have made it. And I have waited so many years for Hellbent, right? I read Ninth House right when it came out and I loved it. It was my first ever Libar Dugo and I just think it's an incredible book. I love the world, the magic, the atmosphere that she builds and now that this is in my hands, too scared. Too scared. What are you worried about? What are you worried about? I can't. We're following Alex Stern who kind of gets given a second chance at life and her job is to kind of monitor the secret societies at Yale. They are magical secret societies. And I just thought the first book was so good. The characters, the vibes, the plot, mystery. I just have seen people reading this and enjoying it and I'm just like it's it's gone to the point now where it's one of those books that it's like I have to read it the perfect time. Like I have to be fully in the right head space to consume this, to appreciate this and I'm feeling sick at the thought. But I would really like over the next couple months to read this. I don't want to put it off. I want to read it. I'm excited. I've been waiting for this for years. I'm so happy it's finally in my hands. Why have I not read it yet? So hopefully we'll get around to it. Okay next book I've just decided I'm going to do the video that this book is in so I don't actually own this yet. It's been on my ideas for a long time and I find it's like I'm doing the video so I don't own it yet. I am going to purchase it but we'll put a little picture in and it's The Floating Admiral and this is a mystery book that is written by I want to say like something like 12 different mystery authors who were oh my god what's it called? The Detective Club? The Detection Club? So it's written by this group and it was a group of mystery authors who had this kind of club together. They were Bettymates. They had fun together and they wrote this book where each of them writes one chapter. So Agatha Christie's in there, Dorothy Elsayers, Anthony Berkeley, he writes the end chapter from what I know. He pulls it all together if you've watched the video where I just tried to solve this book and I just think this is such a unique idea. I want to understand how it works. Like did they all just like get the previous chapters and then they have to write the next chapter or like how does this work? Like and how does it work for a mystery book to be written without like a clear or different endings in mind? So my understanding is that Anthony Berkeley writes the last chapter but you do get in the book as well at the end all of the other authors solutions for what could have happened and apparently Agatha Christie's one is amazing. So I'm really excited for this one. I'm really excited to give it a go. I think it's just such a unique idea and as someone who loves mystery and I want to get more into classic mystery other than Agatha Christie as well, I think this would be a fun way because Agatha's in there, Anthony Berkeley's in there, I've always wanted to read some Dorothy Elsayers so I'm really excited for this. I think it's such a unique idea and I don't know just like it just sets off my fun senses. Do you know what I mean? Like it's such a fun idea to collaborate in this way that it just sets off the fun senses and I have to read it. I'm having fun. You have no idea. I have so much fun. Next is a book that I would like to get to. We have one that I received actually in my last video. I unboxed it when I did the Courtney Summers reading vlog. It is Reach for the Stars. I didn't do a good job of picturing this to you. I don't feel like Michael Craig. I was just so overwhelmed having my hands. So this book is a nonfiction that focuses on Britpop, late 1990s, early 2000s. We have the Spice Girls interviews. We have Five, Atomic Kitten, S Cup Seven, like who else? Everyone. Girls are loud, sugar babes. Oh my god. Like I'm so excited for this. Richard Osman, actually me and Richard on the twins. He just posted on his Instagram that he got this arc as well. Me and Richard Osman getting the same arc. Excuse me. And he loved this. He's been reading it already. It's all basically interviews with all of these kind of noughties, nineties pop stars. And I just love like British pop culture history. I think it's so interesting. I'm just so excited to read this. I would really like to get around to it. It does seem quite long, but the font is massive and it's all just interviews. So oh my god, blue. Yeah, let's talk about blue. One love for the mother's pride. One love for the desert crowd. One love. Oh, find the note. Find the note. Yeah, I'm super intrigued by this, super excited to get around to it. And hopefully I will in the next couple months. Then for another one, I do have plans through. This is actually the next book I'm going to be reading. It is Snow White Lens Witchcraft by Theodore Goss. This is going to be my first time reading Theodore Goss since the show you case the Alchemist's daughter series. Are we nervous? Theodore Goss wrote my favorite series of all time. The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club. I love that with my whole heart. This is a series of short stories and poems by Theodore Goss, kind of focusing on folklore and fairy tales with this kind of feminist perspective. I'm nervous, but I'm excited. But also like, what's it gonna be? I don't know if I'm the biggest fan of like short stories and poems as like a collection. I just do, I do love a good novel. And so I don't know how I'm going to react to this, whether it's going to be that same feeling that I got from this plot and this characters that Theodore Goss wrote in that series. So I don't know, I'm feeling a bit nervous. But I need me some more Theodore Goss. And I don't think she really has any other novels other than these. She has a lot of like short story collections and short stories that I want to make my way through. But I'm reading this next. I'm so nervous. On the back, I'll just give you a little taste of some of the stories we've got. A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic. A bear wedding is cause for celebration. The sea which reveals what she hoped to gain when she took the mermaid's voice. A wiser snow white sets out to craft herself a new tale. I'm excited, but I'm nervous. Isn't that the story with all of these, let's be honest. Then we have a romance that I would really like to get to over the next couple of months. And that is Honey and Spice by Bolly Baba Lola. Listen, I have everyone who I've seen reading this has been loving it. They've been loving it. We need this. This is essential. This is a crisis. I know Kayla, it was like her favorite romance. So many other people I've seen reading this and they've been giving it five stars and loving it. So I need to get on it. I follow Bolly Baba Lola on Twitter and she's one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter. Again, I'm nervous. You know romance, I do try to be very discerning with the romance I do pick up. But I think I do a good job of that. Like I do tend to enjoy a lot of the romance that I pick up. I'm just not like super drawn to it as a genre. But when I am drawn to a romance book, I feel like that means something. And I just know it's about two characters. They're at university. I feel like they're, I want to say they're at university and they just get to know each other and fall in love. And I'm hoping it's going to be a little bit funny, but clever. That's the sense I get from Bolly Baba Lola's tweets. Like she's funny. She's into pop culture. She knows references, but like she's clever, you know? So that's the hope I'm hoping. That's the hope I'm hoping. That's the vibe I'm hoping to get from this book. Then a book that I, I would say I have like this, this is 90% certain that I'm going to be reading it is The Murder Game by Tom Hindle. So I read A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle when I read Murder Mysteries set on a cruise on a cruise when I went on a cruise to Norway. And I didn't love it. It was his debut. And I'm really intrigued and I want to try more. And this is more of like a, like a almost like an homage homage. I never know how to say it properly. Okay, I'm done. Two classic murder mysteries. So we are at this like dinner party. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. One house, nine guests, endless motives for murder. Guests assemble at Hamlet Hall for a New Year's Eve party to remember. Taking part in a murder mystery game in the 1920s. Oh my God. And someone dies. Someone's murdered. Oh my God. A themed murder mystery party with a murder happening. Ideas are percolating in my mind. So yeah, I'm really excited. I'm hoping that I'm going to love this more than I loved A Fatal Crossing because Tom Hindle is giving me murder mysteries that feel referential to classic murder mysteries but with a modern twist. And I want to love it. So there's a lot resting on you. Then another one that I'm really hoping to get to. I keep looking at this on my shelves and I really want to get to it. And it is Half Asoul by Olivia Atwater. So I think this is kind of romance-y as well. It's like a fantasy romance. I don't want to know too much. I know it's Regency Era, maybe a bit like Faye Ferry. I love a bit of historical. I don't know if you guys know that about me. But I do love a historical setting and like Regency, I love me some Jane Austen. Okay? I do, right? Whenever I was ill as a kid, I would watch the BBC adaptation of Pride and Poetry Disks. That was my I'm Off Sick School viewing party. That's not normal. And I think, you know, you should maybe get some help or something. And I, oh, just converse. Anyways, so I'm really excited for this. I've heard such good things. I'm looking for more kind of cozy fantasy. I feel like there's a lot out there but like the big ones, I feel like I've already read, you know? So I'm looking for new ones and I'm hoping, yes, it's a series, I will be starting a series but hopefully I'll be finishing a few series, you know? Also, give a girl a break. Yeah, I'm super duper excited. I just keep looking at it. I keep looking at it when I'm doing yoga and I'm like on the floor and next to it and I just look at it and I'm like, I need to read it. I need to read it. Then another book that I've just decided to do the vlog for. So I don't own the book for it yet. But I'm going to be reading, what is it? The last thing he told me? I'll put it here. That's what it's called. I know this is just being made into a film. This is being made into a film and it looks really, really good. So all I know about this is that we are following, I think like a step-mom and her step-daughter and the girl's dad has just gone missing and he was like, just always protect my daughter for me if anything ever happens. And they're trying to uncover there's something, there's something going on. There's something mysterious going on in his disappearance. Was he who he said he was? What's going on? What's the truth? So yeah, that's all that we know about it but I just thought I'd let you know that I'm reading it and I'm nervous for the video that it's going to be in. That's all you need to know, okay? You could start coming up with some ideas. That's all I'm going to say. You could start coming up with some ideas, you know? And then the final book that I'm really hoping I get to. When putting on this list, it's holding me accountable. But I really want to get to it. It is the T-Jackin Festival by K.O. Neil. I am so excited to read it. This is a prequel to the T-Jackin Festival, one of my favorite graphic novels ever, and I've decided it's time. I can't make it longer. I have to read this. It'll take me like no time at all but it's time. I don't know too much about what this one's about other than it's a prequel and we're following a lot of the elder characters from the first book when they're young and it's just these little T-Jackins who make tea. New brew tea with their leaves. What can I say? What can I say? It's the cutest, most heartwarming, if you're looking for cosy fantasy, like try this graphic novel series out. Why not? Why not? Who said cosy fantasies just have to be novels? Can be graphic novels? But yeah, I just love the first one so much and I've been like, you know when you save the best food on your plate till last? Does anyone else do that? I like to like eat the stuff I'm not as excited for first, then just be left with like the good stuff. That's what I feel like I do with this. I've been holding it off, holding it off. I want to make this last but it's time to read one of them. So there we have it. That is my spring TVR sneak peek of some of the videos I'm going to be doing over the next couple months as well as some books that I'm hoping to fit in for those videos where I can fit in other books. I don't know why I'm reading yet. Those are kind of the books that I'm hoping to prioritise and yeah, let me know what books you're hoping to read in the next couple months. If you're going to the end, comment a spring flower emoji. Any kind of spring pink, yellow flower. We're seeing spring in. Oh yay! Comment down below if you got to the end. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!