Hey, BookTube! It's Sylwia! I'm really
excited to say that I'm actually filming
this the day that it's going to be
uploaded. Today is January 1st, 2017. I'm
starting the year off with a very
ambitious, 20 book TBR, and it's going to
include an unwrapping. So the first half
of this video are going to be books I
unwrapped in previous unwrapping videos
that I have not yet had the chance to
get to.
I've already started Archer's Voice by
Mia Sheridan. This is, I want to say, a
new adult romance.
I'm a little burnt out on romances. I've
only read three or four in my life. I'm
very, very new to the genre. I'm learning
about it. I have a lot to say about it,
actually, but I'll save it for another
video. So, even though I'm a little burned
out,
I'm just gonna push through and read
this. I'm going to read Appassionata by
Eva Hoffman. Her real name is actually
much more Polish than that. I think she
Americanized her name. I'm reading this
because this has very, very few reads on
GoodReads and the author is Polish. I'm
going to be reading Zodiac Fantastic
which is actually a series of short
stories inspired by astrology? I'm
finally going to read The Left Hand of
Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin, which i
think is a pretty, like, almost a classic
staple of science fiction, as far as I
know? And science fiction is a genre that
I have very little experience in, but
that I know that I will find books in
that genre that I will enjoy. I will also
be reading Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld.
I've already started this book when I
received it over a decade ago. I read
this and I really liked it and I'm
hoping that I will like it again and
will be able to finish it this time. I
made the mistake of purchasing Paper
Towns by John Green back when there was
John Green hype. i read The Fault in Our
Stars and liked it in 2013 or '12 and
then I read Looking for Alaska in 2014
and hated it. So, this book is going to
help me decide if John Green was just a
fad that everybody's over, or if his
work is actually meaningful. And if i do
like Paper Towns, I will read Abundance
of Katherine's. But if I don't, I'll get
over him. I will also be reading Gone by
Michael Grant, and the problem with
having books on your TBR that you wait
years to get to is: Michael Grant has now
said some problematic things about women,
I don't know if about any other
identifiers, so now I feel a little less
enthused about this book, even though
I've only heard good things about it
from people that I trust.
I'm not sure if I want to
starting Pushing the Limits because, like
I said, I'm a little burnt out on the
romance genre, so I will see how I feel.
But this is something that I unwrapped
last year and didn't get to, so I need to
be getting to it. So, I'm gonna be
unwrapping 10 books today. The first book
I'm unwrapping today is from my fantasy
wrapping paper.
Let's see what it will be!
What is this? Hold on. This is an advanced
reading copy that I have no idea where I
received. I'm assuming BookCon 2014 or
Brooklyn Book Festival 2015. I have no idea
what this is about.
None at all! Next I'm unwrapping a
hardcover. This is a very hard cover
heavy TBR unwrapping. This is my
historical fiction. I only have, I think,
three other historical fictions left.
Let's see what it is!
Okay. The Memory Keeper's
Daughter. Is this one of those books
that's going to become a movie soon?
I don't know anything about this. In
terms of history, I think it is set in
this 1960s. This looks very, very much
outside of my comfort zone, so I am kind
of excited to read it. This is my another
fantasy wrapping paper that I have and
I'm very, very eager to start Eragon, so I
hope this is Eragon.
Let's see .
Is it the blue?!
This is not Eragon *soft sound of soul slipping out of body*
Neil gaiman's American Gods. In the wonderful addition that I
love. Neil Gaiman. I'm not sure if I like him
very much.
I'm not sure what I think of his writing.
I remember enjoying Stardust but giving
it a very low rating, so I'm not totally
sure why I did that.
I've tried to read American Gods several
times and I only get a few chapters in
every time so this is going to be its
last chance. I'm opening up another
contemporary book. This one is hardcover.
I'm hoping this is Landline, but it might
not be.
IT IS! Yes! Yes, yes! Landline, heh, heh, without the dust
jacket because I bought it from BOOK
OUTLET*. If any of you know a way to
buy a dust jacket, just the dust jacket,
itself, if there's any way to do that or
any of you want to get rid of yours and
will are willing to give it to me, I
would really like the dust jacket for
this, I am so excited to read this. I'm
completely in the mood for this. I'm in
the right mental state for what I'm
assuming will be pain, pain and romance.
And that's just exactly the mood I'm in
today. This entire unwrapping was based
on me trying to find this book, so i'm
very happy to find it.
The next book I'm unwrapping is in the
wrapping paper I'm using for books that
had, like, multiple genres so whatever
this is, it has multiple genres.
Unwritten by Charles Martin? What? Where
do I get these books from? What even is
this? I have no idea what this is. I
either got it from BookCon 2014 or I got
it from the Brooklyn Book Festival 2015
and this looks awful, so I will give it a
fair chance. This next wrapping paper,
I- I think I get most excited to unwrap
these because this is when i ran out of
all other wrapping papers and I just
wrapped any book that came my way in this,
so this is totally random, I have no idea
what's in here.
Oh! No, no!
*Pained, disgusted sound*
So before Me Before You came out, I won
this in a GoodReads giveaway. I will read
it, but Me Before You was an atrocity so
I'm not excited. This wrapping paper is
the same. It is just completely random. I
have no idea what's in here.
*HAPPY GASP* Yyyeeesss! Yes, yes, yes. Okay. Finally! Heh.
More Happy than not by Adam Silvera, which is like,
science-fiction/fantasy, in a very
contemporary setting, very realistic,
lower socioeconomic, with latinx main
characters who are gay?
I think, it's just like, checking
everything off the list.
I got this in an owlcrate and I'm so
excited to read this. THIS ... terrifying
book ... is one of my classics/literary
fiction books.
I'm scared. I'm gonna let you guys see it
before I do, okay?
I'm not excited for this. A Thousand
Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I got
this book for free, i think my mom had it,
so she just gave it to me. This is a book
that my friend Kimberly is, like,
"challenging" me to read, so i have to read
it, or I have to try *evil cackle*
I really did not like The Kite Runner. It
was not engaging enough even though the
writing was ... above average.
I'm not excited about this. The next book
is a contemporary. It's a very thick
hardcover, and I feel like books that are
thick hardcovers are usually books that
I don't enjoy. I don't know how that
usually turns out. Let's see!
Okay, this is
an Emily Giffin book, I already know.
Yep. Where We Belong.
January is clearly going to be out-of-my-
comfort-zone reads. I really loved
Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin when
I read it,
ten years ago. I don't know if i would
like it now. I actually plan to re-read it.
Let's see if I like this one. And the
last book in this unwrapping/tbr is in
my most anticipated reads wrapping paper
so i expect to be very excited about
this. We will see.
OH! *laughs* Oh, finally! Finally!
Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins. I wanted to read
this so bad for such a long time. I've
such high hopes for it.
Yes! Oh, and I think that only makes 19
books, so i'm also going to read a manga.
I'm going to read the Dengeki Daisy volume
15, which means that i only have two
volumes of this left, and i just want to
get it over with.
I hope you enjoyed that! Come talk to me
in the comments! <3
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