Hi, it's Maija here with my March TBR. I did so well with my February TBR, I got to
most of the books that I showed you, so I decided to do a March one as well. I will
first show you the books that I plan to read this month and then I will also
show you - I decided to do a TBR jar, I have never done one before - and I will
show you my challenges for it and pick one at the end of the video. From my
February TBR I'm currently reading Odininlapsi by Siri Pettersen - the
only book that I didn't get to at all in February was The Lie Tree, so that one
is still unread - but I started this one, I only read about 50 pages, so I can't say
much about it. It's a Norwegian fantasy novel and it doesn't have an English
translation as of yet. You might also know that I'm only trying to read one
book from the library per month, and the reservation that came in for me in
February was Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, which is the first in his
Southern Reach trilogy of science fiction novels, with perhaps some horror
tones? I've heard these are quite weird. And then there's also the movie that
just came out in the U.S, I believe. It'll only get a Netflix release in
Europe, so that's a bit of a bummer, but I am looking forward to reading this. As
you can see, it's quite short, so I think I will start this today or tomorrow and
try to finish it this week. Today, my March reservation from the library also
came in and I went to get it, and that is The Strange Case of the Alchemist's
Daughter by Theodora Goss. I have been wanting to read more from Goss ever
since I read Red as Blood and White as Bone, the novelette of hers. I don't even
know a lot about this book, it was just nominated for the Nebula awards, and I
only know it's about these female characters who are the daughters of
famous Gothic horror literary characters. So there's Mary Jekyll, Beatrice Rappaccini,
actually don't know that one, I will have to google it, Catherine Moreau,
and Justine Frankenstein. And I have no idea about the plot, but I really
liked Theodora Goss' writing style in the novelette that I read, so I'm really
looking forward to this one. I believe the second one is coming out
this year and I hope I really like this one, so I will have more to read then.
I also have one manga out from the library, and that is Natsume's Book of Friends Vol. 1
by Yuki Midorikawa. And this was recommended to me on Goodreads by
machinaheart. It is a fantasy manga about Takashi Natsume who can see the spirits
and demons that hide from the rest of humanity.
Then I also have a couple of buddy reads planned in March. The first is for The
Chrysalids by John Wyndham, which I'm planning to read with Kaitlin from
Kitty G next week. And I really liked The Midwich Cuckoos by John
Wyndham, which I read I think last year. And John Wyndham wrote a lot of science
fiction books in the 50s or so, and this one I think is about mutants. Then I'm
also going to be buddy reading Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher with Rachel from
Kalanadi during the last half of March. I think this is sort of a steampunk-ish
fantasy duology, I don't really know, because I just knew that T. Kingfisher
aka Ursula Vernon had a new book coming out, so I bought it. And this is a
duology, The Clocktaur War is the series, and the second book, The Wonder Engine,
just came out a day or so ago, and I already bought that one, as well, so I can
finish the series back-to-back if I feel like it. Then I also have a couple of
maybes. So these are the ones that I definitely want to try to finish in
March. It looks like quite a lot, it's one- two-three-four-five- six books, but one of
them is a manga and two of them are very short, I think three of them are quite
short, so I think I can do it. But then I'm just gonna show you a couple of the
maybes. So I just bought The Wicked and the Divine Volume 6: Imperial Phase
Part 2, so if I feel like it, I will reread volume five and then read this
one. My other maybes are short books that I think I'd want to read for my A to Z TBR
project. So if Chrysalids would be for C, I would have Agatha Christie's Death
in the Clouds for D - this is another Poirot novel - and then for G... I actually
don't have a physical TBR book starting with E, so we will go straight to G, and
for that I have Giants at the End of the World, A Showcase of Finnish Weird,
edited by Johanna Sinisalo and Toni Jerrman, which I got at Worldcon last year. And
this has a bunch of short stories from Finnish speculative fiction authors, such
as Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, Johanna Sinisalo, Emmi Itäranta, Leena
Likitalo, Anne Leinonen, and there's also a sneak peek
Chapter One of Hannu Rajaniemi's upcoming book, Summerland. Then there's also this
mini-book, The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This is one of
the Penguin Little Black Classics. I just visited the bookstore and decided to
pick this one up, and I also didn't have anything for Y for my A to Z project,
so now I have one. It's like 50 pages, I can read it quite quickly. I think
this is a classic short story about a woman who has depression. And then there's
one that I probably will not pick up, it's The Child Thief by Brom, which is a
retelling of Peter Pan, and next week there is AYearAThon with the theme
Retellings, and at the beginning of the year I had planned to read this one for
that theme, but I have other books and this is so chunky, so it's probably not
gonna happen. Okay, lastly, let's move on to the TBR jar. So I didn't do the one
where you write down every single book that you own that's on your TBR, I wrote
down some challenges instead. I watched a bunch of YouTube videos of other
people's challenges, and I think most of these challenges are from either
Elena and Janet's Shelf Slam that they did last year and Emma from Drinking by My
Shelf's Get a Hold of Your Shelf, I think that's what it was called, TBR challenge that
she also did last year. And then I also, I think, came up with a couple of
them myself - I might be fooling myself. So I'm gonna show you the
challenges and then pick one. I will drop them into this TARDIS mug slash cookie
jar - I have actually no idea what this is meant to be used for. I have used it for
storing tea bags in it, so it's gonna be my TBR jar now. So the challenges that I chose
are Children, Middle Grade or YA book, a Book haul revisit pick (so this
means a book that I have shown you that is still unread from my Book Haul Revisit
videos, Prettiest cover (completely my own decision), The longest book (I hope I will
not pick this one), Recent purchase, Shortest book, A classic, A try a chapter
pick (which means a book that I have shown in a Try A Chapter video), Released
in 2017, Longest title, Next in a series, One word title, Hardcover (I don't really
own that many hardcovers), Over 400 pages, and a New-to-me author. So now I'm
gonna mix these up in the TARDIS, across all time and space. "Space, the final frontier."
I don't know if this is actually doing anything. Okay, I'm gonna pick this one.
Hardcover. Okay, I'm gonna read a hardcover. I think I own, like, four unread
hardcovers or something. With a quick glance it seems like I own
five hardcovers that I haven't read yet, and I narrowed it down to these three:
Illuminae by Amy Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, The Beautiful Ones by Silvia
Moreno-Garcia, and The Just City by Jo Walton. I'm not quite sure which one
of these I will feel like reading the most, I am leaning towards either one of
these two. So at the end of March I will have to have read either Illuminae,
which would be a good pick since I don't have the letter I in my A to Z TBR
challenge yet, and The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which I just
really want to read. I bought this in December for my birthday book haul.
I already do have a B in my A to Z TBR challenge, but I just really want to read
this one. So at the end of the month we'll see
which one of those I decided to pick up. I think it might be Illuminae, since I
got it in January last year, so it is like a year old now. Those are all the
books that I'm gonna *try* to read in March, let me know in the comments how you feel
about these books, have you read them, and I will see you in my next video. Bye!
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