 Hey everyone, it's Julia and welcome back to my channel. And for today's video I'm going to be talking to you guys about some of my summer reading plans. Essentially I have a bunch of buddy reads, I have some readathons happening, I have some just books and arcs I need to get to so we're gonna talk about all of that in this video. I tried filming this before and it didn't really work out the way I wanted it to so we're refilming it but essentially in July I'm going to be participating in the reading rush which I'll have all the info for that down below. I'm just gonna kind of match up some of the books that are on my TBR with the challenges like I'm not gonna be super specific, I usually not but if you want to add me on the reading rush like a website I'll have my little thing in the corner feel free to add me, I'd love to be friends on there. I'm planning on doing daily vlogs, I do them every year, I've done them for the past three years, I am so excited about this. If you guys have ever watched my old booktubeathon vlogs, I make booktubeathon as like a big challenge for me so like I love winning so obviously the reading rush used to be booktubeathon now it's called the reading rush so yeah if you guys want to join definitely you definitely should it's so much fun I'm excited for video challenges and stuff like that so in terms of readathons for August there is two that I'm going to be taking part in as of now that I don't really want to talk about until later I'll post probably a separate TBR for those. First up here I have Slay by Brittany Morris. I know about this one is it's about a 17 year old who is a person of color and she is into gaming and it's like a society of black gamers that's what I've mainly heard about this one. Got this one at bookcon so I'm looking forward to picking it up I've heard really good things about it and yeah I think it'll be really interesting this one does come out in September so if you're interested keep your eyes peeled for it. The next one I have here that comes out in November is Winterwood by Shanae Earnshaw or Shea Earnshaw. Wow. Basically this is like a sequel slash companion to the Wicked Deep, it'll be witchy, atmospheric, foresty all the things that I love. I did quite like the Wicked Deep when I read it so I'm excited to get to this one and see what I think of it and if it lives up to the Wicked Deep or maybe if I like it more well we'll see. It actually comes out in August so this is Doomsday by Katie Henry. I love this author's book Heretics Anonymous I absolutely love that book it's one of my favorites of last year so I am highly anticipating this so I need to read this I don't know why I've been putting it off. Two girls in this book one who is in extreme fear about the world ending and it's just like one of her biggest fears is like Doomsday and the world ending. A fellow Hannah who knows when the world's gonna end how it's gonna end and stuff like that and the two meet up and they meet in a therapist's waiting room I believe and they start talking and I don't know. I think it's a really interesting concept and I really like Katie Henry's writing there's always a bit of humor in there so I'm looking forward to this one. The book actually already came out it came out in March and this is Dig by ASK. I'm really struggling to explain this one but basically from my knowledge it's about the shovel or the freak can I help you? Fleece Circus Loretta and first-class Malcolm. Dig has the story of five teenagers buried in their families tangled secrets and it's about potatoes. I know. I've never read an ASK but like Books and Lollatocs highly about it so we are going to do that. This one I also don't know how to explain that well but this is my life as an ice cream sandwich by E.P. Zaboi. The only know about this one is that it follows a young girl and it's middle grade which is cool. This place I'm actually heading for and it's like one of about one of the first black engineers and like NASA and stuff science fiction-y. The book comes out when did I say in August and it has these little graphic novel bits in it as well which I think is really cool so these are probably gonna be probably in color in the final copy but there's some graphic novel bits throughout it and yeah I'm really interested to see what this one's all about and I've never read from E.P. Zaboi before. I know this author wrote American Street and like a few another another book too recently so yeah I'm excited to read this. The book that I just want to get to is a poetry collection and this one is Between You and These Bones and this is by F.D. Soul. I'm not too sure what it's about. I was sent it by Andrews McMillen Publishing. They send me poetry collections all the time. I love them. I always read them like I don't love all of them but like I love so many of the ones that I get from them and I love receiving poetry collections because I read them all the time but I'm excited for this one and it looks like it's like a really simple one. It has a few illustrations in there so yeah I'm probably gonna read this. I'll let you guys know my thoughts in like a recent read soon. This one was almost purely a cover by and because it's like a UK copy and I really wanted it but this is called Happy Girl Lucky and this is by Holly Small. Also this author also wrote Geek Girl which I've seen floating around a little bit and heard people talk about but this they had this little UK copy with these edges at my bookstore and it was only like $10 because you know cheap like UK books are only like $10 here. $10 Canadian and I'm like oh okay need that. So I picked this up because I've heard of the author and it just looked really intriguing so I read the back and basically they don't tell you much about the story at all like it's a very a little blurb but it's about these three girls and they have like everything but like like all the superficial stuff, fame, money, success, stuff like that. So they think they have it all but some of them realize that they want love and that not everything is like the movies in terms of romance and but they're like the Valentine's so they're like probably this rich family. So I don't really know but I think it's just gonna be a summer romance kind of thing and honestly it's beautiful. I usually don't buy cover buys but this one is so nice like hello when I think a lot of people are gonna be really excited that I'm reading but this is a Radio Silence by Alice Oseman. I just finished my four years of high school and I'm going into university so I'm in that two month transition period between high school and university. So I heard this is a really fantastic book to read at that time specifically as well that it will be really relatable to me and I know it's about a podcast that deals with mental health I believe and I've just heard it's an absolutely amazing contemporary. I love me some contemporary so I'm really excited. I think it's more of a dark contemporary as opposed to like light and fluffy but yeah a lot of people love this book including Yasmin and Kat from Paperback Dreams. So I'm really excited to read this off of their recommendation as well. Except here I have a Casey West because it is the summer. Gotta read a Casey West. So I have Love Life in the List and this is basically about a girl who's like art is not expressive enough or doesn't have enough substance to it so she gets this bucket list and thinks all these things that she wants to do and to learn and to experience to make her art better and I just love these kind of list books, bucket list books. So I'm looking forward to this. I hope it's cute and I hope it's a good time and the romance I hope is cute as well so yeah. Two buddy reads that I have for July and August. One of them is for the reading rush and that is With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo. This is about a girl named Imani. This follows her as she is a teen mom and also has a great passion for the culinary arts so I'm really interested to read this one. I quite enjoyed the Poet X when I read it last year so I've had this arc for like a little bit and I'm meaning to read it and it's finally out now so like I have to read it. I'm looking forward to it. I'm reading this with Chanel from Chanel Time. I'm so excited. I love her. I'm so excited to read a book with her and talk about it and stuff like that. So this will be for the reading rush at some point. I'll do it from one of the challenges. I don't know probably the purple one. Right here I have Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chibosky. I'm going to be reading this with Jesse from Bowtie's and Books and I'm so excited to read this with them. Jesse's channel is so much and they are like a such a great person so I'm super excited to do a buddy read with Jesse. This book is Stephen Chibosky's new book and this comes out in October which makes sense. This is actually an adult horror book as opposed to person being a wallflower which was a white contemporary. This is an adult horror book. I'm really excited to read this. I've heard about this one is that it's about this boy who like goes missing for a while and then he comes back and he's like a different person and like he's completely different and he has this imaginary friend so I don't know if that's going to be a psychological thing like schizophrenia, delusions, hallucinations type of thing, or if it's going to be like a paranormal thing so I'm interested to see which direction they're gonna go in for that. I also just love horror novels so I'm really excited for this one. There you guys have it. Those are the books that I plan to read this summer. Again I will have probably a few more like one more TBR going up at some point in August just for the two readathons that are happening in August that I will be participating in. Thank you guys so so much for watching. I hope you don't mind a TBR video because I'm just really excited to read these and I want to talk about them with you all. 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