Hi guys. I've got my September TBR today and I thought I would do it separately
from my wrap up this month because for the first time in a very, very long time,
I have more than one book to talk about and more than one book on my TBR.
The reason that I have a slightly bigger TBR for September than I have done over the
past couple of months, is because my birthday is in September. It is on the
16th of September and last year I did a specific TBR for September, so that I
would have the best reading month possible because I am really not a
birthday person. I love other people's birthdays. Other people's birthdays are
my absolute favourite things in the world but my own birthday I could very
much take it or leave it and happily leave it. So what I did last year was
basically put aside a load of books throughout the year that I was really
really looking forward to reading, so that I would have them saved up for
September, so that I could make September as good of a reading month as possible.
Which kind of sounds a little bit ridiculous as I say it but it worked
last year. And I'm still not gonna put too much pressure into myself into having
to read these books. But I do have five books that I am super excited about
reading and that I've been wanting to read for ages and I'm keeping my fingers
crossed that I won't be disappointed because every single one of them sounds
like something I would absolutely love. I'm just gonna get straight on into the
five books that I am hoping that I'm going to read in September and that I'm hoping I'm
going to absolutely fall in love with in September. The first book I have on my
September TBR is 'Eliza and Her Monsters' by Francesca Zappia and this was one of
my most highly anticipated releases of this entire year and I just recently
hauled it and I am so looking forward to this book. It just sounds like something
I will absolutely fall in love with and it's basically I believe about a girl
called Eliza, who runs an online webcomic and then one day a new guy joins her
class and he is a huge fan of this webcomic but she decides not to tell him
that she is the one that writes it. And I think it's basically following their
relationship and I'm not sure whether it's a platonic relationship or a
romantic relationship but it just sounds like something I would absolutely adore
because I really enjoy graphic novels and comics and things like that and also
I believe that there is anxiety representation in it.
Which is something I always absolutely love in books. So I'm really, really
excited about it and also throughout it there are examples of her webcomic which
I think will be really fun and I have heard some really fantastic things about
this so far. So I'm very much looking forward to this and I'm thinking that this is
going to be the first one that I pick up because I've been looking forward to
this ever since it was announced, which I think was last year. So I have been
waiting a very, very long time to read it and I'm very much looking forward to
finally getting around to doing so. I then also have 'Daughter of the Burning City'
by Amanda Foody and this is set in the circus and from what I can tell it
follows a girl who is an illusionist and she can create illusions that people can
see and feel and touch and she's always believed them to be just illusions and
not real and then one of these illusions gets murdered and it basically sounds
like a magical murder mystery, set in a circus. Which sounds like something I
will absolutely love. I haven't heard too much about it but the things that I have
heard have been really great and I'm just always very much intrigued by books
set in circuses. I love a good mystery, especially when it is surrounding a
murder and I also believe that it is a standalone, which I'm very excited about
because I am always up for a good standalone fantasy.
The next book I have is one that I bought, I think back in spring and it has been absolutely
killing me and eating me up inside that I haven't been able to pick it up but
I purposely wanted to save it and read it for my birthday because it just sounds
like it could be one of my favourite books ever. And I am really hoping that I
haven't set my expectations far too high because I probably have done but it just
sounds like everything I could ever possibly want in a book. And that is
'This Is Not A Test' by Courtney Summers and this is basically set I think during a
zombie apocalypse and follows a girl, who is trapped in her high school with a
group of her fellow pupils and it just sounds so great. If you've watched any of
my videos before, you will know how much I love anything to do with zombies.
'iZombie' and 'The Walking Dead' are two of my all time favourite TV shows ever and I
also just recently finished the 'Santa Clarita Diet', which was also fantastic
and just anything to do with zombies, I am all about. I just love that whole
zombie apocalypse narrative and the fact that this is set in a high school and
that she is trapped in a high school, sounds like a nightmare
I have probably had because although I love zombies, I wouldn't want to be in a
zombie apocalypse and two, I really didn't enjoy high school all that much. So this
just sounds like something that could have been written specifically for me
and then it also believe that the main character is living with depression and
I really enjoy as I've said, books that surround the topic of mental illness.
So I'm really intrigued to see how that is going to be
integrated into the plot of a zombie apocalypse but it sounds really, really
great and I haven't heard anything about this before. So I'm not really going into
it with any expectations, other than the ones that I have set on myself. Which is
probably risky but I'm really, really looking forward to this one.
Next I have a book that I have heard a lot about and have only had the most
fantastic things and that is 'The Princess Saves Herself In This One'
by Amanda Lovelace and this is a poetry collection that is split into four sections.
The Princess, The Damsel, The Queen and You. I read a few of the poems
when I first bought this and kind of instantly fell head over heels in love with them.
So I'm really looking forward to reading this from start to finish and
the fact that it has anything to do with princesses in it, is automatically going to
make me want to read it and I think again, it has quite a few poems about
mental health and feminism and things like that. So it sounds brilliant and
I've heard some wonderful things about it and I haven't read any poetry for a
really long time and this is the one that I've been wanting to read for the longest.
So I'm looking forward to finally getting around to reading this
and also finally not just wanting to sob over all of the pictures of the
poems that I see on Twitter. And lastly for my September TBR I have
'Ms Marvel, Volume. 3: Crushed' and I cannot wait to read this. I'd been meaning to get around
to this volume during Booktube-A-Thon and then Volume 4 in September but I didn't
manage to read this during Booktube-A-Thon, so I'm gonna pick this one up.
I can't wait this, series just makes me so happy. It is without a doubt my
favourite comic series I have read. It's just so much fun. It is such a badass,
kickass superhero story but Ms Marvel is also this incredibly relatable, funny,
awkward teenager and it is so much fun to read. I tend to ration out my graphic
novels, so I read Volume 2 quite a few months ago, so I'm looking forward to
finally getting back into it. This series honestly just makes me so happy. It is
always a real joy to pick it up and read it again. So those all of the books
that I am hoping to get around to in September and I don't think I've felt this
excited about a TBR since last September. So I'm very much looking
forward to it but as I said, I'm not going to put too much pressure on myself to
read all of these books, just in case I end up not feeling like reading some of
them. Although I do think that is very, very unlikely because I've been looking
forward to these books for a very long time and I am so
excited about them because they sound absolutely fantastic but as I said I
don't want to put too much pressure on myself because I do want to have a good
reading month and just a relaxed reading month and I just want to enjoy reading
and what I'm feeling like picking up up to the time. But I would absolutely love
to know which books on the top of your TBR to get to in September and if you
have read any of these, I would really love to know and I would love to know
what you thought of them and if you're also having a birthday in September, I
hope you have the most fantastic day and I will leave the links to my Twitter,
Instagram, Tumblr, Goodreads, Blog and Snapchat in the description box below.
So feel free to follow me on any of those if you would like and I hope you're
having a really, really lovely day and I hope you have the most wonderful start
to September. Bye!
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