Hey guys, it's Emily! For today's video I'm bringing you my November TBR. This is
going to be a very ambitious TBR because I plan on participating in three different
readathons. We have Nonfiction November, which is all about surprise pies reading
nonfiction. There's Tome Topple, which is about reading books that are over 500
pages. And there's also the Bray-athon, which is to read books by Libba Bray.
We'll see if I actually fulfill that goal of participating in all three
readathons, but fingers crossed. I'll include links to announcement videos and
the hosts, all that kind of stuff, for all three of these readathons
down in the description box. So if you want to know more go check out down
below. The first book that I plan on reading in the month of November is The
Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore. This
is historical nonfiction all about the Romanov family covering, obviously, about
200 years of their history. It is nonfiction. It is 657 pages long, and that
is not including the index or bibliography section. So that's just like
pure reading to get through. So obviously it qualifies for Nonfiction November and
for Tome Topple. Checking both of those boxes. I'm a little nervous about finishing this in
the month of November. This is a book that is so big that my hand is starting
to cramp holding it up. I'm not even joking right now, my hand kind of hurts, so I'm going to
switch hands. I'm going to try to finish this in November. Next I have a book that doesn't
go with any of these challenges, and that is Adaptation by Malinda Lo. This is YA
science fiction .All I know about the plot is that there's some kind of
natural disaster and a government conspiracy is involved. I also heard that it
has awesome bisexual representation. All of Malinda Lo's works have
protagonists that are LGBTQIA+ women. I've read Ash by her, and it was so great.
I'm really excited you pick this up! Next I plan on reading You Can't Touch My
Hair by Phoebe Robinson. This is an essay collection, so obviously nonfiction, and
it looks at race and feminism and pop culture and all that kind of stuff I am
so excited to read this. Robinson is known for being one half of the podcast
Two Dope Queens. I am expecting to laugh a lot reading this, and get
angry a lot about the state of the world while reading this, and learn a lot while
reading this. Next I plan on re-reading a book, and I don't know if rereading
technically counts or not for Tome Topple. If you exclude the reference-y
section that's at the very end of this book, it's just shy of a thousand
pages. But I want to read it because the next book in this series is coming out.
And what I am talking about is The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. This is a
huge book! It's book 1 and his Stormlight Archive series. I love this series! It is
such fun epic fantasy. I don't really think going into the plot is going to give you
a lot. It's Brandon Sanderson, so it's not prose, but it is very action-packed and
it has a lot of fun characters. His worlds are so inventive and immersive and
original-feeling. That's no exception in here, and because it is so very long, you
really get immersed in that world with politics and intrigue and action and
battle sequences. Book 3, which is called Oathbringer, is coming out in
November. It might already be out, I don't even know. Because they're so long
there's a lot of details that you can forget, so I'm going to reread this, and then
I'm going to reread book 2, which is Words of Radiance, and then I'm finally going to
get to Oathbringer. Next I want to listen to an audiobook of The Diviners by Libba
Bray. I have a physical copy of this and I think it's beautiful and wonderful and
gorgeous, but I'm too lazy to go get it out of the other room, so I'm not going to
do that... And I want to reread this because I've kind of fallen off the
train of this series. Not because I don't like it, literally because I'm being a
douchebag and I'm kind of mad about the cover changes, so I haven't picked up
the sequels. I don't know if it's complete or not yet, but three books are
out. Obviously I want to get to books two and three, and it's BrayAThon, so
this is the perfect impetus to reread The Diviners, and I specifically say read
because your brain processes audiobooks and an almost identical manner to
literally reading a page. So for people who are snobbish about that: no no! I've
also heard that this audiobook, in particular, is just great! So I'm so
excited to reread The Diviners, to get back into this universe, and to get back
into audiobooks, because I haven't listened to an audiobook in so long! Next
I want to read This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J Levitin.
This is nonfiction. It's nonfiction November. So I'm reading it! It is exactly
what the title says. It's a look at the neuroscience about how your brain
behaves when it listens to music, specially music that you love. In high
school I had a lot of friends who said that this was one of their favorite
books, or that this was a book that totally blew their mind, so I have some
very high expectations. And lastly I have a book that has nothing to do with any
of these readathons, but I just want to read it. And that is Little Fires
Everywhere by Celeste Ng. I went to the Celeste Ng event in San
Francisco with Joce. It was so cool! It was amazing listening to her talk. She's
just so, so, so brilliant, and after listening to her I cannot wait to read
this. This is also a signed copy, which is kind of cool. This takes place in a
suburb outside of Cleveland called Shaker Heights, which is also where
Celeste Ng is from, and to my understanding there's kind of two plot lines, but then
everything is interwoven because it's very much a character driven book.
There's a family, I think they have four kids, and they have some kind of
unit on their property. It's like an apartment, or a condo, or a little
guest house--something like that--that they rent out to an artist and her daughter.
It's kind of about how that causes tension and how they all interact. And
then there is also a plot about the adoption of a Chinese baby. Everything
I've heard about it is it seems to be an examination of white upper-middle class
liberal communities, and how they are often not as progressive as they would
like to project. I am so unbelievably excited to read
this. This is also one of Joce's favorite books. I am just super hyped for this. So
that's it! All the books that I plan on reading in the month of November. I am so,
so, so excited. It's a little ambitious, but I'm hoping that the structure of all
these readathons is going to be helpful in aiding me to actually get this TBR
done, because I can tell you right now that I did not complete my October TBR.
It was... Hmmm. October was not a good reading month for me, and that's totally
fine! So we'll see if November's better. That would be great, but it's also okay
if it's not. Thanks so much for watching this video! If you liked it, give it a
thumbs up! Hit subscribe to see more my face. You can find me on Twitter
@possiblylit and on Instagram @possiblyliterate, and I will see you next
time!
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