Hello I'm Holly and today we have a
very, very exciting video. It is time for
my September TBR
and that means that it is
time for Game of Books
but in September it is
also the BookoplAthon which is a readathon
hosted by Becca and The Books
based on her monthly TBR game which is
Bookopoly. I have a bit of a confession to make.
So I have watched Becca for quite a
while. I think I started watching her
either the month that she started
Bookopoly or the month after that.
I pretty much watched Bookopoly from the
beginning and she was a massive
inspiration for me starting my own channel but I
love her Bookopoly game.
So before there was Game of Books
I created my own Bookopoly board.
Yeah. I ... I just love Bookopoly so much and
I did actually play this myself.
When I started my youtube channel
I wanted to do something that was like
my own. I didn't want to like be copying
Becca so Game of Books was born.
For BookoplAthon Becca created a new board and I'll link
her channel, all the information, if you want to find
that board or anything
and most people are probably just going
to print it out. She created this lovely
little mini one and little mini cards
but I'm over the top so I made it
and yeah this is exactly the board but
just like in big.
There were various different ways
that I could play these two games
together. I could have done my rolls on
my board and then done rolls on Bookopoly
and tried to fit them together
but I thought why not start with Bookopoly,
do the roll on here and then go onto my board
and get the genre. If you're new to my
channel this is my
board. This is The Game of Books. It's a
pretty simple game.
There's all these different colours. These
all link to different
genres and then I usually have a mug of prompts.
So for example, it could be an author surname A-M.
It could be young adult. It could be a
recent purchase.
Something like that and then I have to
kind of pick a book that matches with
the genre and that prompt and because of that
format I thought why not just get the prompts
from the Bookopoly board.
I'm sure I'm not explaining this very
well. You'll understand when I get into the rolls
but I'm going to start with the
Bookopoly board because
some of the prompts on that are not
genre specific. There's like some chance
cards. There's some that I just cannot pick a
genre for, if that makes sense,
and then I will get the genre from my
board. Without further ado
I think we should just get into roll
number one. Okay then
roll number one. So I'm going to be using
a big pompom as my counter and let's just get into it.
Eleven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten, eleven - disability representation.
As always I will be using this little
pom pom as my counter
and let's find our starting position.
That looks like the blue. It's closest to
the blue so we're going
with that blue and the first roll
that we got was six and a five
for eleven so that could be one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven -
a sci fi. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven -
a horror, thriller or mystery. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven -
a contemporary or one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven - a fantasy
or one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.
So I think that I'm going to go with a fantasy.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten, eleven. We'll go there with a fantasy.
Roll number one was a fantasy with
disability rep
and for that I've picked The Broken
Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin.
This is the second book in the
Inheritance trilogy,
the first one being The Hundred Thousand
Kingdoms and this one it seems like this follows
brand new characters. The main character
in this
is Oree Shoth, a blind artist.
I don't know if I've ever read a book
with a blind character. I'm sure I'm
completely blanking
but yeah a blind main character is in
this one
and like I said this is the second book.
The first book follows this girl called
Yeine Darr who is the granddaughter of the
ruler of the hundred thousand kingdoms
and when her mother dies she gets
summoned by her grandfather
and she is told that she is one of three
potential heirs
and something that is very present in
that story is that there are these gods.
Yeine's family kind of control the gods.
they're forced to do whatever they're
told and I'm obviously ... I'm assuming that the
gods are in this one too
but it does seem like they're brand new
characters in this so I don't know what
I feel about that.
I don't really know much about this.
I did really enjoy the first book. I gave
that four stars. I've also really loved
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
so I'm very, very happy that I could get
this into this month's TBR. Roll
number two - seven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
which is young adult
and then for roll number two we got
seven so that could
be one, two, three, four, five, six, seven - another fantasy.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven - a horror, thriller or mystery.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven - or a fantasy or
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven - a rainbow.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven - a contemporary. So quite a mix. I think
that I am going to go with a horror,
thriller or mystery.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Then roll number two was a young adult
that was a horror, thriller or mystery
and for that I've picked Truly Devious
by Maureen Johnson.
This is the first book in a young adult
mystery series I believe
and it follows this girl who goes to
this prestigious school
where I think the students are allowed
to study whatever they want.
So they all have like a specific
interest and our main character, Stevie, her
interest is solving murders. That's kind of her
interest and at this school - I'm not sure how far
in the past. At the founding of the school maybe, the first
family, someone got kidnapped. Someone got
murdered. I'm not entirely sure. She's
trying to work this out
and I believe that maybe murders start
happening again.
I really don't know but I don't really
want to know that much
going into a thriller and during
September I am also going to be filming
a secret video,
so that book might be one of the books
in that video. I'd love
if you could try and guess what that
video is going to be. Maybe a little spooky.
That's all I'm giving you. That's all the
hints I'm gonna give you. Roll
number three - six.
One, two, three, four, five, six -
a sequel and then roll number
three is a six, so that could be one, two, three, four, five, six - a contemporary.
One, two, three, four, five, six - another horror, thriller or mystery.
One, two, three, four, five, six - a fantasy or
one, two, three, four, five, six - a horror, thriller or mystery.
I think I'm gonna go for another fantasy.
One, two, three, four, five, six and then
roll number three
is a fantasy that was a sequel and for
this I've got A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney.
This is the second book in the what was
it called? A Blade So Black series? I
think the series title might be the
Nightmare-verse
and this is a modern retelling of Alice
in Wonderland with a black protagonist
and in this book Wonderland is plagued
by these monstrous creatures
called Nightmares and humans are
enlisted to fight these Nightmares. Our main
character, Alice, becomes one of these
Dreamwalkers who has to
fight these creatures and there's a lot
of takes on the original
Alice in Wonderland story. So there's a
Mad Hatter character.
There's a set of twins called the
Tweedles and I
really love all the hints to Alice in
Wonderland. There's a Cheshire Cat clock.
I just really, really enjoyed the first
book and I'm very very excited to
continue with this.
Roll number four - seven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven -
set in the past. Roll number
four is a seven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven -
you've got a contemporary.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven - a
classic or
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven -
a historical fiction. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven - a contemporary.
Now as that prompt is set in the past
I'm thinking either a classic or historical fiction.
What should I do? Should we just go with
a historical fiction?
I think we'll just go with a historical
fiction. So one, two, three, four, five.
One, two and then roll number four was a
historical fiction
set in the past. I think for the set in
the past prompt
I pretty much could only pick a
historical fiction or a classic
and I went with historical fiction and
the moment I did that
I regretted it because there are a
couple of classics that I really want to
get to this year.
There aren't really many historical
fictions I want to get to this year. I do
like the historical fiction genre
but a lot of them tend to be pretty
chunky. Pretty dense
and I just ... I don't want to read that
right now
so I went for this one which is A Spool
of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler. I honestly
have no idea what this is about. I got it from
a charity shop for a pound.
I think I saw Jess from Read by Jess
talk about this at some point
which is why I put it down on like my
mental TBR.
Does everyone have that? You know a book
that you see in a charity shop and
you're like oh yeah I've heard someone
talk about that.
I'll pick it up even though you have
absolutely no clue what it's about.
I think from the blurb it seems like
you're following several generations of this family.
They've got Abby Whitshank and Red who
fell in love in 1959.
You've got Red's father and mother, the
grandchildren.
So I do think maybe it does come into
the modern day at the end if you're
following the grandchildren as well as
like the
great grandparents. Is that right? I'm not
entirely sure.
It's following a family. This one didn't
seem too intimidating
because the writing is pretty big. A lot
of the historical fictions I have the
writing is absolutely tiny
so I'm not that excited to read this.
I might really enjoy it
and yeah that is my historical fiction
prompt and then hopefully our final roll,
roll number five -
that is a five.
One, two, three, four, five - a chance.
Okay then what is it going to be?
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
and then the final roll. Luckily I didn't
have any doubles which really is
shocking because I feel like I have doubles all
the time usually but this time I didn't
and that means that my final roll was a
chance card and that was
The Secret History by Donna Tartt. This
may also be on that secret video. I wonder if
you can guess what that video is going to be about but
this is so hyped on Booktube. This is a dark
academia following a bunch of students
who are classic
students I believe. I'm pretty sure
someone is murdered
and they're trying to cover it up.
I really don't know.
For some reason this book is really
heavy. I don't know what it is. It must be
the pages.
They're pretty thin so I think this is
going to be an interesting read. I know that it's
pretty divisive. You're either going to
love it or hate it.
I think that it's quite a slow read.
I did really enjoy If We Were Villains by
M. L. Rio.
That was another dark academia following
a bunch of students and a murder,
so I'm interested to see if I do enjoy
this genre.
So yeah, The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
I'd love to know what you've thought of
this book if you've read it.
I'm a little bit scared. Also this cover
is no offence but it's incredibly
boring. Actually offence. Yeah that's all I've
got to say.
I'm very scared but I'm also very
excited and that is my TBR. As I said I am going
to be filming a video throughout September
reading a bunch of books and some of
them aren't in this TBR because I wanted
to keep a few of them secret
but yeah that is my TBR. I had so much
fun doing this this month and even though I
haven't even started reading the books I
hope that Becca does another BookoplAthon
in the future because I just want to use
the Bookopoly board
but now that I have my Game of Books I
can't really be doing that every month.
I hope you've enjoyed this video. What
books are you hoping to read in
September?
Thank you for watching and to everyone
out there, stay curious, bye.
