Hey everybody! Welcome back to my channel. Today I'm going to be doing the
TBR tag. I know this tag is extremely old,
but it's one of the tags I actually really enjoy watching whenever somebody posts
an update to it or if I am just stumbling
across their channel for the first time. It's a really cool way to kind of
engage with your TBR books and so I decided I wanted to
do it as well. So let's hop into it. "How do you keep
track of your TBR pile?" So I have a
spreadsheet on Google Sheets
that I keep track of everything on. I keep track of like, all of my
reading statistics on it for the year
and I got this from Sophie at Portal in the Pages
and I will leave a link to that spreadsheet template down in
the description. So you guys can go and check it out and maybe download it for yourself.
But anyway, I have a sheet in that Google Sheet
that has all of my unread books from
2017. I don't think it's part of the template. I think I
added it myself. But basically I put all of the books that I had unread
at the start of the year and then I just keep
adding books to it so I know exactly which books
I have read during 2017 and
which ones that are still unread at the end of the year.
Also, my 'to-read'
shelf on GoodReads is completely up to date with all the books
that I own that are unread. I don't really add
books that I want to read to
that shelf. I used to do that but now I just keep track of
the books that I physically own or own on Kindle
that I haven't read yet on that shelf. Also I am able to fit
all of my physical TBR onto one shelf -
my bottom shelf right here behind me which
is miraculous because I haven't been able to do that - I started
being able to do that in August I think and
now I can still do it and it's great. "Is your TBR mostly
print or eBook?" The vast majority of my TBR is
print. I think I have about like,
15 or so eBooks that I haven't read, so
most of my books are print. "How
do you determine which book to read from your TBR next?"
So this really applies to 2017.
I'm sure in 2018 things will probably change. But I have quite a
few goals that I'm trying to fulfill in the year
of 2017. I also have a reading challenge that I'm
trying to complete that I've set for myself for 2017.
I have certain criteria that I want to fulfill with my reading every
month. So I read a classic, and non-fiction, a
diverse book and a TBR jar book
every month. I'm trying to complete three series
or catch up to three series. I've completed
this challenge but I wanted to start three new series.
So I have different goals that I'm trying to fulfill in 2017
with my reading. So
when I'm setting my TBR for the month that's the first thing I look to.
The second thing I look to is my reading challenge. So
I think I have about 40 or 45 prompts
I'm trying to fulfill this year and that's the second
I look to - to see if I can fulfill any of those
prompts for the month. And then
I look to the buddy reads that I have scheduled for myself.
Sometimes the buddy reads overlap with the goals or the challenges that
I'm trying to fulfill, but
buddy reads are a big part of my monthly TBR lately
which I really love. All of those things
create my monthly TBR. Things will adjust a
little bit in 2018 and going to the future,
but that's probably how I will try
and set my monthly TBR every month is to look to
my reading goals for the year, look to any reading challenges
that I'm doing for the year, and look to any buddy reads,
and that usually creates my monthly TBR.
"A book that has been on your TBR the longest". These Broken Stars
by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner.
I feel like this should
come as a shock to nobody if you've been watching my channel. I've been
putting this book on TBRs forever and I still haven't read it.
Hopefully by the time this video goes live I will have read it
and it will be in my September wrap-up,
but just keep your fingers crossed for me because
I still haven't managed to read it yet as of recording this video.
"A book you recently added to your TBR". I've recently added
quite a few books to my TBR which you will see in my fall book haul,
but one that I'm particularly excited about
is Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.
I got this in my September Book of the Month Box and
I am so excited to read this.
Michael and I are planning to buddy read this in the month of November
so we are very excited to get to this.
"A book on your TBR strictly because of its beautiful cover".
I don't normally just cover-buy. If I see a
cover I like, it intrigues me enough to read the synopsis and then
I'll buy it if I like the synopsis, but I guess
the closest one I can think of for this is the
His Dark Materials bindup by Philip Pullman.
I don't tend to like bindups, but this bindup
is just so gorgeous. I love - I love it
so much. So it has all three of the original
trilogy of His Dark Materials.
So Northern Lights, the Subtle Knife, and the Amber Spyglass.
Northern Lights is called The Golden Compass in the States.
I don't know why it is, but it's Northern Lights everywhere
else. But I got this off of Book Depository so this is, of course,
a UK edition, so it's called Northern Lights.
But anyway, I think that this is such a gorgeous cover and
that's the reason why I bought the bindup instead of the individual books.
"A book on your TBR that you never plan on reading".
I'm gonna go with none.
I do a really good job of consistently going
through my TBR and getting rid of books that I don't want to
read anymore or I'm not interested in anymore. So everything at
this moment on my TBR I do want to get to eventually.
"An unpublished book on your TBR that you're excited for".
I'm going to assume this means a book
I pre-ordered
because it's on my TBR, I've already pre-ordered it and I'm very excited
to get to it but that is Turtles All the Way Down by John Green.
It comes out in October and I cannot wait to get my hands on it.
"A book on your TBR that basically everyone's read but you."
I'm going to go with The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
I feel like a lot of people have read this and I have not read it yet
but I'm very excited to get to it. I am going to be buddy reading this with Libby
in November. We are very excited to get to it.
I cannot wait to see what all the hype is about.
"A book on your TBR that everyone recommends to you."
I'm going to go with The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson.
Ever since I read Since You've Been Gone, everyone's been saying that this one is
also really great so I cannot wait to get to this.
I'll probably get to this on an upcoming vacation I'll be going on in the wintertime.
"A book on your TBR that you're dying to read."
Basically all of them. I wish I could read all of them at one time. That would be great.
But one that I know I will be getting to very soon is Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn. I am so excited to get to another
Gillian Flynn. Ughhh I cannot wait for this one!
"How many books are on your GoodReads TBR shelf?"
And like I said, my GoodReads TBR shelf reflects what I actually own
and haven't read yet and there's a nice round number
on there as of recording this video but
it is 100 books on my GoodReads TBR.
So I have 100 books that I haven't read that I own and I am
excited to get to all of them. "Who do you tag?"
I'm going to tag people in this video. I don't normally tag people
at the end of tag video because I feel
like I do them really late. I think this tag video's like
5 years old at this point. But I'm going to go ahead and tag
my good buddy Michael over at Michael H, I'm going to be tagging
Becky from Beck's Books, and I'm also going to be tagging
Anita from Anita Lind. I would love to hear your
answers to these questions if you haven't done them before.
If you have...
just ignore me, or do an updated one. That'd be fun, too.
Anyway, that is it for this tag video. I hope you guys enjoyed.
If you did, please leave a big thumbs up.
Subscribe if you haven't already. I do try to make a new video each and every week and
I will see you guys again very soon.
Bye!
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