Hi, it's Maija here with my February TBR. I'm in the middle of a bunch of books
currently and also I have a couple of books planned that I want to read in
February, so I thought I'd film one of those elusive sorts of Maija Reads videos,
namely a TBR video. So I am in the middle of four books currently, and one of those
is The Raven boys by Maggie Stiefvater. I started reading this and read until
page 185 and things were just starting to happen and the plot was starting to
get rolling, but for some reason I put it down and started reading other things
instead. I would really like to finish this at some point. Then I have been
reading this book for a while now, I started this in November or December.
This is a nonfiction book, The Black Count by Tom Reiss, and it's divided
into three parts and I have read the first two parts. This tells about the
author Alexandre Dumas' father, General Dumas, who worked for the army, and he was
a nobleman who was half black and half white in late 1700s - early 1800s France.
And this is a really intriguing book, because it tells everything that is
happening in French history at the time, like the French Revolution, and also
telling us about Dumas' life. It's at the same time very educational when it comes
to France's history and the history of black people in France, but also I'm very
invested in Alex Dumas' life and I just want him to have a happy ending. I'm also
buddy-reading another nonfiction book, and that is How to Be a Victorian by Ruth
Goodman. I'm reading this together with Kelsey and Rachel, and I will leave a
link to their channels down below, and this is just about the everyday life of
a Victorian, it starts from the morning and goes on until night. And we are
reading a chapter every two days. I am just now in the Getting Dressed
chapter where I have learned a lot about the dress of the Victorian man and woman,
and I also really like how the author goes through the clothes and habits of
people from different social classes in the Victorian times and sort of compares
and contrasts them. So I've only read about one and a half chapters of this, but
it's very interesting so far. And then on my Kindle I am reading All Systems Red
by Martha Wells, which is a science fiction novella, the first in the Murderbot
novella series. And I was planning to read this before the nominations
closed for the BooktubeSFF Awards, but I didn't end up reading it. The nominations
are now closed, so I will still need to finish this one. So those were the books
that I'm currently reading and then I also have a couple of others that I'd want
to start or read this month. And AYearAThon is currently going on this week,
and the theme for that is New-to-You Authors, and I had been planning to start
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge for this. I haven't read anything from her
before and I have really wanted to read this one, but since I am in the middle of
All Systems Red and The Raven Boys, I'm hoping to finish at least one of those
before I start this one, so that I don't have too many books going on at the
same time. All Systems Red would also qualify for
the theme, since I haven't read anything from Martha Wells before, but I'd really want
to read this this week. There's also an extra challenge in the AYearAThon, which
is to read a translated work, and I didn't think I had anything for this, but
I actually have out from the library the first volume of... what is it, what is this
called in English... Ancient Magus' Bride. It's just called Velhon morsian or The
Wizard's Bride in Finnish, by Kore Yamazaki. It is the first volume of
a manga series, a fantasy manga series, so this could count for a new author and
for the translated work categories, so I might just read this one this week as
well. And then finally I have a book that I showed you in my last haul video, which
is borrowed from my friend, and that is Odininlapsi by Siri Pettersen,
and this is also a translated work from a new to me author, as it happens, but I
don't think I can start it this week. This is the Finnish translation of a
Norwegian book and there is no English translation, at least not yet.
So this is my February TBR, let me know what you are currently reading, and I
will see you in my next video. Bye!
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