September 2015 | TBR

I haven't done a monthly TBR in a while but I think it's a good month to do. I hope to get a lot of reading done this month - like a ridiculous amount - but for this TBR I'm just going to put some vague plans, not too many things. If I put too many, I'll just stop reading and definitely won't read anything from the TBR, I'm learning.

Now I did a video - that'll be embedded at the bottom - that's just talking in video format about what I'm planning to read. The first thing going on is that some people in the BookTube community have created something called #BookishSeptember, which is basically just a mixture of a read-a-thon with challenges and just dedicating the month to books and reading, which is something I can get behind (and I'm a sucker for reading challenges).

Mostly my plan is to just read as much as I can without letting too many other things fall by the wayside. I want to get really back into blogging, I'm actually feeling like writing reviews and talking to people which is a good sign, and try and post one view a week on my YouTube channel and maybe try and film a review, maybe a few short reviews and see how it goes? My plans are kind of vague.

Now - onto the books! And the challenges for this bookish thing. The first one is to reread a favorite and I have three possibilities - I love rereading things, so I'm surprised I stopped at three - but right now I'm going to pick from rereading The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (Casey, didn't you read that in November and then again in December? Yes, yes I did. But I want to get to Blue Lily, Lily Blue), The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (which I've been thinking about recently and want to reread the original mistborn series before continuing on), and The Storm of the Century (the screenplay by Stephen King. I found it in this move, I hadn't really lost it but it was buried slightly, and it's been a few years).

The next challenge is a recently purchased on and I think I'm going with Hounded by Kevin Hearne. And then for favorite genre - fantasy - I'm going to read probably both of there, hopefully: Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater and A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab. Beautiful cover is going to have to be Uprooted by Naomi Novik (UK cover, it's in my video, check it out, it's gorgeous).

And then the last three are a book you know nothing about (I think I'm going with a graphic novel called War Fix), a book with a darker theme (I mentioned some horror in my video and I think I'll stick to that, both books go pretty dark Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King and Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey, the second being a reread), and finally just a book you want to read.

I have slight plans to try and get to Runaways: The Complete Collection, Volume Two and Phonogram, Volume 2: The Singles Club along with maybe, finally Monsters of Men and a few others, but that's all I'm going to mention here.

I'd love to hear what you're planning on reading soon or this month. And, also, if you've ready of the books I'm planning on reading and what you out thought of them.

Have a good (bookish) September!

January - March TBR | TBR Double Dog Dare

Oh yeah, that's right, it's not a challenge it's a dare. And not just any dare a double dog dare. Well, I can't turn down a challenge. Also it's related to something I've been thinking about going over compiling all my end of 2014 data. I did not read a lot of things I already owned, like serious did not (I read an okay amount, but not what I would of liked. Listen - I own a shit ton of books that are unread, I need to start working through them and stop buying so many more).

To explain what the hell I'm talking about with this TBR Double Dog Dare thing. It's an idea challenge from James Reads Books about taking January through March to read as many books that you physically owned (before 2015) as you can. (I'm assuming the before 2015 thing, even before that would be better).

He says you can make exceptions and I'm probably only going to make exceptions for new releases (a Sanderson book comes out first week of January, listen). Besides that, though, I've got stacks of books I want to read super soon and Bout of Books 12 is the secondish week of January.

I'm going to list some stuff/ideas at the bottom, but I'm obviously probably not going to stick to it (I'm just not, TBRs and me don't always mesh), but it's what I want to read soon or in arms reach. Series I want to marathon for a read-a-thon or just because I now own it and can (*cough* Ouran *cough*)

That's pretty much it, I think. Read as many physical books are you can, I'm going with they had to be bought before January 1st. (His post for this specifically). And onto tentative and wishful plans, as all TBRs tend to be with me.

• Ouran High School Host Club manga (christmas present to myself, all 18 volumes, let's do this shit).
• The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman (let's do this shirt
• The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
• Freak by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
• Elantris and The Allow of Law by Sanderson

I also have a ton of backlog comics (trades and single issues) and also manga (Death Note up to volume... 8? And then a handful of others). I don't want to guess too much, even though this is going to be for the next three months. I'd like to read more from Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue but also her faerie books), I've also got a few duologies and series I'd like to marathon to knock them out early in the year.

I don't want to jinx myself, which sounds silly but I'd just be naming whatever my eye catches on anyway (which is also silly). Those all seem highly probably, though, especially for the next three months.

It's a new year! I hope yours started off well (and, if not, at least not too badly?). My 2015 reading resolutions post should be up soon along with my 2014 favorites, I've been working on a bunch of posts for this beginning of the year time and I hope you check them out.