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Hello everyone! Welcome back to my channel and welcome back to TBR Collido! It's about time! Today we're gonna be playing TBR Collido which is my TBR game. It's been a while, I didn't do one of these at the start of the year because I knew with the move, god knows what I'd be reading, what videos I'd be able to do. So it had a rest for Q1 but Q2 baby, it's here, it's back. We're going to TBR Collido to pick what I read in April, May, June. Oh my gosh, June! Anyone excited for June? I love a bit of June. I just can't wait to play it, I can't wait to let it decide what I read. Hopefully I'll be able to pick some of the books that I've got plans to read and put into this. Now before we just dive in, I do want to say I'm not gonna be holding up all of the books in this vlog because my TBR is still packed up. I am going to be unpacking it soon but to find all these books in like the 10 boxes of TBR stuff, I would have just got hot and sweaty. That's not in my reality right now and to be honest, I think some of you would prefer it because I get loads of comments being like, you wave around the book too much and gesture with your hand and I can't see what the heck is. Well, here you go. For those of them now, you're just gonna have the picture up, okay? So shall we just get started with my patron book club roles to get us going? Okay, so we are starting with the roles for my patron book club. Let's get straight into it. Okay, I have not played TBR Cluedo in so long. It feels like it's been forever so excuse me if I'm a bit out of practice. Also, obviously we're in a new location and I'm not sure about my placement of everything. Apologies if it's a bit crooked. I will see what it looks like in post but it's also so bright in here I can't tell what it looks like. Anyways, we are gonna start with my patron book club roles. So let's get into it. I don't know in the move where I've put the big dice that we had so I'm just gonna use these little ones. I'll tell you what we roll as we go. Okay, roll number one is person number seven which is Brown up here in mystery. Let's see how many roll. Two or a five? I am gonna go one, two. That is number 17 which is, oh, a book with multiple audiobook narrators. Okay, I'll have to do a lot of research to find four mysteries. Dida, please have some grace and decorum, I beg. Oh my god, Dida. No, she's gonna lose that book. Holy ----, hold on. Emergency, emergency. No, you can't do that. Goodness, okay, right. Please behave ourselves. No, no. You're gonna have to get shut out of here. Okay, right, that is our first book club roll. Roll number one was a mystery book with multiple audiobook narrators which I thought was a really fun one to have for the book club because it means we're a book that has a slightly different format to it for it to have multiple audiobook narrators. So the options that I gave my patrons were A Box Full of Murders by Janice Hallett, The Next Girl or The Return of Eddie Black, it's got different names, different countries, by Emiko Jean, The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin, and The Main Character by Jacqueline Goldis. And the book that won is what I'm very excited about. It is one that I don't, I can't find, like I say, I'm gonna find my whole TBR in a couple weeks. The one that won by quite a margin is A Box Full of Murders by Janice Hallett. So we're gonna be reading a middle grade, which I don't know if we've ever read a middle grade for the patron book club. We've definitely read some YA, but I don't know if we've ever read a middle grade. So I think that'll be fun. And I'm so excited. I'm so excited about this. I read this, I read the first like 20 pages of this. Oh, I've got Adida Thurr in my eye. Nice. She's over there. I read the first like 20 pages of this for my first book theater testing thing. And I really, really enjoyed it. It's basically a story of these siblings, who it seems their parents are just separated. And one of them is each living with the other one. So kind of split the siblings up, which I think is kind of crazy. And they're like messaging each other. And one of them finds in the attic, a box about this, something that went down at like a summer camp, I believe. And it just sounds like such a fun setup. I love Janice Hallett. You guys know, she's my murder mystery queen. I really feel like her mixed media style is really going to lend itself to middle grade. So basically, this is all told in mixed media. And it's all told through like, I mean, I don't know yet, because I haven't read this one in particular. But I assume you've got the text messages between the siblings, but then you've got in this box, all the documents they find to do with what went down at the summer camp. And that's what we're reading. So you're reading like, you know, the camp schedule, camp diaries, camp news. I don't even know what could be in there. But I'm very excited. I think this is gonna be a really fun one to discuss and a really, like I say, a unique one, because we've never read to my memory in middle grade. Hi, baby. You wanna come say hello? Come say hello. She's in a grumpy moment right now, because I'm not playing and she wants to play. Oh. She's an icon. She's a legend. And she is the moment. Now come on now. I never told you that I love you more than anything in the world. Why are you always gonna moan? She's so moany. I think that's just her voice though, you know. Right now she is moaning because I'm not playing. You sit that up. She's gonna sit with the books. Okay, good girl. She wants her belly rubbed. Okay, excuse me. But yeah, no, I'm super excited to read this one with everyone. I think it's gonna be a really fun time. I think it's gonna be really enjoyable. Like, you know, I'm really excited. She's writing this as a series now and I just think it makes perfect sense for Miss Janice, eh dudes? Okay, roll number two. This is May's pick. Number eight, which is blue, over in contemporary. Let's see how many we roll. Got three and a five. Let's go. What can I get to? Let's go. One, two, three, four, five. That is number 25, which is a book I've hauled recently. Roll number two for May's book club pick was a some of these options I think I hauled like a year ago, but I don't often haul contemporary books. So there was, these are basically the four contemporaries that I've hauled most recently, but some of them I've not necessarily hauled recently. The options I gave my patron to vote on were The Names by Florence Knapp, Come and Get It by Kylie Reid, 14 Days, which is by multiple authors, and Family Law by Elizabeth Acevedo. And the winner of this one, by a high margin again, was The Names by Florence Knapp. Dita, our feet are touching. I love you. Yeah, this one by a humongous margin. I am so looking forward to reading this. So this is a really unique story. It's kind of contemporary. Maybe it's a bit more historical. I don't know. I don't know. It's like one that I think blurs the boundary between is this contemporary or is this historical? But basically a boy is born and his, I think his mother, his father, and his sibling all want to give him different names. And we follow then his life if he had had one of these, each of these three names, right? We're following three versions of his life. This is one of the books I have heard most from people in person and online that it was their favourite book of last year. It's such a unique premise. I love anything that has a unique premise like this. And I've just heard nothing but like amazing things on how this premise is executed. I am a little bit nervous in the sense that it is split timeline. And obviously, I don't love split timelines. But people have told me that it's not going to be as much of an issue in this book. So I'm really looking forward to this. I think this is going to be a great book club pick. I think we're going to have a lot to dive into and talk about. So oh, dee dah. So yeah, we're looking forward to this one. Okay, then June's roll. Whoopsie. Person number three, which is red, a bit historical. Let's see how many rolls. Five, that was a five or a four. Let's go one, two, three, four, five. That is number dee dah. No, that is number 13, which is a gifted book. Okay, I'll have to again, figure out which of my historical books were gifted to me. And then the final roll was a historical book that was gifted to me. This is June's book club pick. And the options I gave my patrons were The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Ramona Garcia, Rewrite Upon Sticks by Quan Barry, The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee, and The Cautious Traveler's Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks. And the winner is The Cautious Traveler's Guide to the Wastelands. This is one of the books in my TBR I'm really excited to read. Okay, this is a bit of a historical ex, maybe fantastical element to it as well. It is the end of the 19th century. Yeah, dudes, you know. I love a little bit of the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. It makes me feel like this. The world is awash with marvels, but there's nothing so marvelous as the wastelands, a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing and Moscow. And we're on the train that is going to go through the wastelands, and we've got a few characters. So we're going on the train. Secrets and stories begin to unravel. The passengers and crew must survive their journey together. I love the cover. You open it up. Map of the train, baby. Map. Oh. Oh, map of the train. Map of the motherfucking train. You don't understand. You don't understand. And I have spoken to multiple people who have given this five stars. I believe I am going to give it five stars also. I have a five star feeling about this. So again, I'm super excited to read this for the book club. I think that hopefully everyone's going to enjoy it. I feel like this could be a smash hit. I feel like all of our books, actually. Actually, let me say it. I feel like all three, both of these and A Box of Notes. A Box of Notes, I feel like, you know, I think I'm going to love it. Some people might not love the middle grade element of it. I think they're all going to be smash hits. So if you want to join us for the book club, the link is down below on the Patreon. I've actually got a, I think it'll still be running at this point. Currently, when this video goes up, I've just had an exclusive readathon happening on my Patreon, but you're too late for that. But I think I do have an offer that will still be live when this video is live, just that if you want to try out the Patreon for free for seven days, you can come and have a go. The week that you'll be joining is not going to be as busy as the week this just happened, because we will have just missed Reading Sprints midweek, Nancy Drew Game Stream midweek, and Readathon. But you can always watch them retrospectively and join in Reading Sprints retrospectively. But yeah, I can't wait. I can't wait to read these. So yeah, check out down below if you want to join. Okay, it's now time for the rose prompt pick. So also when you join my Patreon, you get to pick two books off of my TBR that you want me to read. They used to get added to a jar. The jar was getting too small, but also the jar broke during the move. It smashed. And I have yet to get a new jar because I don't, you know, a jar has to speak to me. So I've yet to get a new jar. So what I think I've done is I've gone through my spreadsheet of my Patreon members, found everything that I have not yet read for the rose prompt, and I've added them to a spare. So we're gonna spin, which I think is kind of fun as well. Like, what do you guys prefer? Do you prefer me pulling something out of a jar? Or do you just prefer me spinning? Let me know which one you'd rather do in the future, because I'm happy to do either. What's more fun? What's more suspenseful? Anyways, shall we spin? Shall we spin and find out? We're gonna do three. What books we're adding to the TBR for this quarter? Oh my gosh, this is so much pressure. Wow. Okay, I feel like I have some control. Six Crimson Cranes. Let's see who asked for that. I feel like, oh no, there's only three. Nikki said Six Crimson Cranes, Alaia said Six Crimson Cranes, and Gabby said Six Crimson Cranes. I know I said I wasn't gonna look for the books, but I feel like that might be on my cart. Let me quickly go have a look. It might not be. It was not on my cart. So Six Crimson Cranes. I do have a beautiful edition though, so it's a shame not to show it. But I actually feel like I need to re-look up this synopsis, because I think I hauled this- well, I hauled it when it came out, because I have the Fairyloot edition of it, and I feel like that was in 2021 or something. This has been on the TBR for quite some time. So I feel like I need re-look up the plot of it a bit. I don't remem- I don't remember, love. I don't remember at all. I really don't. It was an awful long time ago. When did it come out? Yeah, 2021. Whoa. Five years later. Here we go. Five years later. That's embarrassing, Megan. I am laughing to hide my embarrassment. A Princess in Exile, a Shapeshifting Dragon, Six Enchanted Cranes, an Unspeakable Curse. I knew it was kind of like fairy tale and East Asian folklore inspired. I love my cover of it. I love my edition. So I am very excited to read this. This and The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, I think are only of my two fairy- I think I unhauled quite a lot of, like, Fairyloot books I wasn't really interested in. Those two I kept, because I was still very much interested in them. I mean, it's got 4.14 of a rating. I remember a lot of people really, really loving this. Stunning remake of a fairy tale, perfect blend of whimsy and ferociousness. I'm excited about this. You know what? I'm excited about this. I love a fairy tale retelling. I love anything that feels like it's been touched by folklore. So thank you for that pick, guys. I feel like that's a good one. I'm trying to do a mix of getting books off my TBR that I'm most excited to read and getting books off my TBR that I've been there a long time. So that's one of those. Okay, next spin. So I'm editing and it seems that my, uh, laptop decided to stop screen recording after the first pick. So that's great. So I haven't got the wheel spinning footage for our next two picks, but just, I don't want to, like, these did get picked by the wheels. I don't want to re-film it. So, yeah, when you tell me if you prefer me putting them out of the jar or the wheel spinning, like, imagine all three of the wheel spins actually occurring. Next spin. It could be anything. Look, there's like hundreds of books. Oh ----, I moved it, sorry. What is it going to be? Language of Thorns, another beautiful edition that I own. It seems like only one person picked that. So let's see. Erica picked it. Okay. Language of Thorns, I think is my last Leigh Bardugo to read. And then I think I've read, like, every Leigh Bardugo. Not only a fan, bitch, I'm a studier. Okay, I'm a studier. So Language of Thorns, to my understanding, is short story collection. I'm pretty sure. Am I confusing it with another Grishaverse thing? I don't think I am. Short story collection about the Grishaverse. Listen, I love Leigh Bardugo. I love the Grishaverse. For the most part, I don't love the Shadow and Bone original trilogy, but Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom, arguably some of the best YA to ever exist. Like, that is pure cinema. That's pure cinema to me. And I enjoy these kind of spin-off books that she's done, expanding the world. That's an exciting one too. And another one that's been on my TBR. We're getting some fantasy that's been on my TBR for a long time in this selection. Okay, final book. Final book that we're going to read. What is it going to be? Murder at the Vicarage? I'm gagging. You guys are going to gag because I almost put that on the TBR this month for some of the roles we're going to have later on. And I have quite a lot of Agatha already. That might make it three Agathas that's on this TBR. Okay, let's see who picked it. Let's see who picked it. We seem to have five. Okay, Harry picked it, Gina picked it, Sarah picked it, Theresa picked it, and Cookie picked it. Here's the thing that I've been thinking about. I have a lovely paperback edition of it, which I believe was gifted to me. That's why I feel kind of, I don't know what I want to do. Yeah, I have a lovely paperback that I can perfectly serviceably read. However, I do collect the hardbacks. The hardbacks they're bringing out slowly of Agatha Christie books, short story collections, Porros, Miss Marples, whatever. And they just brought out an edition of Murder at the Vicarage and I'm going to put it in here. It is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. And I will get that eventually because I collect these. I'm collecting every edition. I have a website that tells me every single book that's been brought out in these hardback kind of cloth bound editions of Aggie books. That is the only thing I collect. So I am debating buying that edition and reading that edition and I feel bad because I do have a paperback of it at that time. I feel so bad. Oh my God. That fills me with guilt. It's like I'm letting that person down. Maybe I'll have to find out who it is. And if it's like one of my patrons, maybe I'll send them something to assuage my guilt. I love this new edition, the pink sky. Are you kidding me? Oh, I might have to go get that. I am so excited. Okay. I'm really excited for this. The only reason I didn't add it to the TBR was because I was playing out that guilt loop in my head. And I was like, okay, I'm not going to read it because I can push that off. But now I guess I'm going to read it. I'm so excited. This is the first in the Miss Marples series by Agatha Christine, which I have heard. You guys know I am reading the Proros in order, publication order. And I've heard like, well, no, I think everyone knows you don't really need to do that for the Proros. You know what I mean? But I've heard that for Miss Marples, it actually is a huge benefit to your enjoyment to read them in order because it kind of shows, it's over obviously quite a length of time and it shows some of the changing social expectations and beliefs in UK British society at the time. And I'm just very excited. I'm very excited to meet Miss Marple. I love an Agatha. I'm excited to maybe reading three Aggies in the coming months. So that's a great pick. So thank you for wanting to pick that. Okay. Now let's just get into the rest of the roles. Okay. Shall we just get into the normal roles now? Let's get going. Okay. Time to get into the normal roles. Role number one, person number three. Who is person number three? I still don't know. Read in historical. You're there. Let's see how many we roll. Got a four or a five. Let's go one, two, three, four. That is number 22, which is a book rated three point something on Goodreads. Role number one was a historical book rated three point something. For this, I'm going to go with Victorian Psycho. Virginia Fato, I think is the author. I'm super excited about this one. I've heard it's divisive. So I'm looking forward to seeing what I think of it. It is, I think the story of like a nanny in Victorian era. I hear it's kind of horror, kind of absurdist, ridiculous, goes on this crazy tangent. The way it's been described reminds me, it's quite short as well. It's like 200 pages. It reminds me of something like Comfort Moon Apples, like weird, a train gets going and you can't stop. The brakes are broken on the train. I don't know much about it other than that. And to be honest, I don't want to, but I love anything Victorian era as we know, as we know, as we know. And I feel like this is one of those weird books that some people love and some people hate. And so I'm excited to see where I fall on that. And also I feel like I haven't read a book, a weird book, like a properly weird book in a while. I used to read a lot of weird books and I feel like the weirdness is missing. So I'm very excited to see what I think of this one. Roll number two, person number seven, which is brown up in mystery. Oh God, I keep moving it. It was seven. Let's see how many we rolled. Sugar. We got two and a two. Okay. So I can move and then move again. Um, cause I don't know if I can get to any of them in two. I can't, can I? So let's move. Let's go one, two, three, four. And then let's roll again. Five or a six. What do I want to get to in a five or a six? I feel like I'm very close to this one, but how do I, how does one get to it? One, two, three, four, five, six. No. What? One, two, no. One, two, three, four, five. Okay. I don't know why I worked so hard to get to that one. My brain just needs to work. Okay. Number one is a new to me author. Roll number two is a mystery by a new to me author. For this, I'm going with The Murder at a World's End by Ross Montgomery. Five star prediction. Have not heard anyone speak about this. Found it on my own accord. Five star prediction. I just think she's very delusional and maybe possibly insane. This is set in Cornwall, 1910. I mean, come on. The Viscount is found dead, I think, and he's locked to study. And we have two characters who are going to figure out what's happened. They are the newest member of staff and a fearless, foul-mouthed, 80-year-old matriarch who relishes chaos and puzzles alike. I've spoke about this book quite a lot recently because it was on my 2026 TBR. Floor plan. Floor plan. Floor plan. I love a floor plan. I feel like when a mystery book has a floor plan, it's just going to be good vibes. And people have been reading this and in my Patreon, and I feel like everyone was giving this between four and five stars. That's pretty high praise. A lot of people on my Patreon read a lot of mysteries like me, have high standards. And so I think it's a five star prediction. I can't wait. It's the start of a new series. I'm really hoping I love it. I need a good mystery series. I need another one. I need another one. Everything about this is like a comet about to strike Earth, a house filled with suspects, an old house. I mean, it's just everything. Secret passages, buried grudges, I'm so excited. The guy, the Viscount is in a sealed study murdered by his own ancestral crossbow. It's camp. It's camp. I don't know what to tell you. You know, anyone else getting that vibe, it gives me a bit of camp. So can't wait. Roll number three. Pass number one again. Holy ----. Okay. I'm reading a lot of mystery apparently. A three and a three. What can I get to in that? Let's just go one, two, three. That is number 18. Deeder, I swear to God. Now she's playing with a pen. Okay. That is under 300 pages. What mystery do I have that's under 300 pages? I'll have to figure that out. Roll number three was another mystery book. This time one under 300 pages. I am going with Five Little Pigs by Christie. This is the beautiful edition, I'm coming in close, that I was talking to you about that I collect. I love them. I love them. I mean, just look at that. I just love it. I just love the designs. Now the perceptive among you will realize this is a Poirot book that I am not at that point in the series. It's further along in the Poirot series than I'm up to. I'm reading this for a vlog. You're not going to see my thoughts on it for a very, very long time. It's a bit of a mystery. Okay. You have to wait a while for my thoughts on this one. I don't actually really know the plot of this one because it's so far ahead. Hang on. Let me actually look up what the plot of this is. Usually in my brain, I only have like my next few, and this technically wasn't supposed to be one of my next ones, but it's being added in. A woman is accused of poisoning her husband. There were five other suspects. The stockbroker who went to market, the amateur herbalist who stayed at home, the three-time divorcee who had roast beef, the devoted governess who had none, and the disfigured sister who cried weeweewee all the way home. It's 16 years later, but Urky Poirot just can't get that nursery rhyme out of his mind. Aggie. She says, I'm going to have a bit of fun and play with a nursery rhyme here, baby. Okay. I'm really looking forward to it. Annex of Christies was a fun time, right? She's my girl. She's one of my girlies, but always a fun time. Actually, that might be a little lie. We've had a few ups and downs, but she is the greatest. She's the greatest to ever do it in terms of murder mysteries. And the thing about her book, if you've never read Annex of Christies, they are so accessible. They're very short. They're very easy to read for a classic. I think if you're ever in a readathon or something where it's like, read a classic, read Annex of Christies, babe. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. And you'll have a great time. So I'm very looking forward to this one. Okay. Roll number four. Person number eight. Finally, a different number. We have had Contemporary to be fair, but that's blue over in Contemporary. We've got a two and a two. Do you know what I'm going to do? I am going to go one, two and get the dagger, which is a random number generator. So I can either choose to random number generate just Contemporary or my whole TBR. We'll see which one I choose. But yeah, I have to use a random number generator to pick what I read. Then we have the dagger, which is a random number generator. Oh ----. Okay. I need to fetch my phone. I'm going to go with my whole TBR rather than Contemporary because I'm going to be honest, the Contemporary section of my TBR doesn't like me on fun. I'm going to be honest. I believe I have about 297. I think I have about 297 books on my TBR right now. Shall we just generate? 81. That's like new-ish. Actually, if I can just figure out how many there are like on a page that it loads. Let's see. Okay. I think it's 20. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Yeah. Okay. So it's 20 each time. So if we go again, that's 40, 60, 80. It's the next book after Impostor Syndrome. What's it going to be? Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan. Oh, that's a result. I want to read that so bad. Where is it? I think it's in somewhere. Hell yeah, baby. That's a result. Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan. Vampires. I'm so into vampires right now. I'm so into voguing right now. We're in 1999, Southeast Texas, and the Evans woman's owner of the only funeral parlor in town are keeping steady with normal business, but the town gossips body is brought in for a regular burial and she writhes from the dead. I think they're going to be like killing the vampires, right? I think, oh, babe, babe, babe, babe. I think I'm going to love it. I think I'm going to love it. What a result. I love when I, for these random things, I get a book that I am actually really looking forward to reading. That's a result. It reminds me a lot in synopses of the Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix. I gave that, I think a 4.5. I really, really enjoyed it. And I just feel like I'm going to love this one just as much. It sounds a bit ridiculous. I think it's kind of funny, gruesome, clever, family drama, emotional, mystery, horror. It's got a lot going on. What a result, babe. I'm very, very happy. Very, very, very, very, very happy with that. Roll number five, person number three, which is Red Evans. I feel like I haven't got like green yet. I haven't got nonfiction white yet. What's going on? Let's see how many we roll. We got a one or a five. Can I get to the last historical that's left in a one or a five? One, two, three, four, five. There we go. That is number 12, which is a title with alliteration. Do I have any historical on my TBR that has alliteration? I guess we will have to find out. Next was a historical that has alliteration in the title. I told you that there would be three Aggies on this list. And next is the prorogue that's actually next in the series for me to read, which is Murder in Mesopotamia. I know it's a mystery, but it is historical. It's set in like the 1930s, 40s or whatever. This is my next prorogue to read. Now, I don't know. I think I haven't got plans to read this. I think I put it in here because it was one of the only historicals with alliteration in the title. And because they're short and easy, I can read this at some point. I could even not read this in a vlog, but I do like vlogging every book I read. So I like trying to fit things into a vlog, but I don't know if there's a vlog that this fits into. The synopsis of this, 15 years ago during the Great War, Louise Ledner's first husband was charged with spying, sentenced to death and escaped only to die in a train crash. So how is he sending her death threats from beyond the grave, death threats upon which someone has followed through? Prorogue is going to investigate it. I love him. I love Prorogue. I love him and his little grey cells. He's a great character. I think a lot of people don't realise how funny Prorogue is. Prorogue is a ridiculous little man. He's ridiculous. His little grey cells and him are ridiculous. And I feel like the modern adaptations we've seen of Prorogue just don't. He's funny. He's stupid. He's pompous. He says these stupid things. And so I'm really excited. Three Aggies this quarter. I'm so excited. So they're always, like I say, I assume this will be a really fun time. They're quick, they're easy. There'll be progress in a series. And yeah, I can't wait to read it. Roll number six. Person number four, which is pink over in horror. OK, let's see. What should we roll? We've got a three or a six. I'm going to go one, two, three, which is number 21, which is a TBR veteran. OK, a horror I've had a long time. Next we have a horror that is a TBR veteran. I'm going with Anna Tree's Creptin by Dawn Kertogich. I cannot count how many TBRs this book has been on. It's been on yearly TBRs, monthly TBRs, books I most want to get to. If I don't read this book, I have to unhaul it. It didn't happen. Didn't do that. I refuse. I don't know why I haven't read this book yet. It's a Hawaii horror. And I think it's about these two sisters who go to stay with their aunt in the forest and things go wrong. It's a book that I've read for literally probably six years at this point. It's time. It's time I get around to it. And it's still one of the books on my TBR that makes me feel really excited. There's a lot of books on my TBR that I've had for a long time that don't, you know, I'm intrigued to read them still, but they don't light me on fire. This lights me on fire still to this day. I know it's told in a unique way. There's, I think, maybe even diary entries or the way things are written on the page is very unique. So I think this would be five stars. I know that's crazy to say about a YA, but something about it gives me really great feelings. So you have to hold me to it. I have to find a way to read it. I think this is another one I don't actually have set plans to read, which is always a mistake. It's a mistake. I'm a mistaker to make that, but I'm really looking forward to it. Hopefully I do get around to it. Roll number seven. Person number seven, which is brown. Oh my God. Oh my goodness. Okay. How many am I rolling? I'm reading another mystery. Five or two. Okay. Do you know what I'm going to do? I'm just going to go one, two, to get The Wand, which is a book that I need to read for a reading vlog. The next pick was The Wand, which is a book I need to read in a reading vlog. And I'm going with Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. I'm very excited about this. I spoke about this recently. This was on my 2026 TBR, so I won't spend too long on it. This is by Margaret Atwood. It's a historical book. It's based on a true story about a woman who is accused of murdering her husband. One of the And I think Margaret Atwood is one of the world's greatest writers living today. I think she is. I've only read a few Margaret Atwoods. I've read The Handmaid's Tale, I've read The Heart Goes Last, I've read The Blind Assassin, probably a few others. But before I started YouTube, I said in that video, she was one of my favourite authors. I wanted to read every Margaret Atwood. I want to collect them all in this edition. And then it's just something about it and the way my reading has evolved since I started my channel. I feel like it's taken a turn away from Margaret Atwood, but why? Why? I feel like she could be one of my favourite authors ever, if I just read more of them. When you look at her list, I would read every book. I would read every Margaret Atwood book. So I would really like to read more. This predates my channel, and I've been here since 2019, baby. I bought this before I started my channel. I have a very distinct memory of going to the Waterstones in Leeds with a gift card, and then this was one of the books I picked up. So it's crazy that I still haven't read it. I think I'm kind of intimidated by its size and maybe seriousness, but I've done longer books. I've done serious books before. Why not this one? It's time. It's time. Okay. Final two rolls. We've got person number six, which is yellow. We've been thrilled. Oh my God. Yay. We've got a number that isn't, we haven't already had. And then we've got three and a three. Do you know what? We're doing loads of the tools. I'm going to go absolutely crazy. I know. She's so crazy. Someone, someone else. But I'm going to go one, two, three, and get The Magnifying Glass, which is recommended by a viewer on my most recent TBR video. A book, it doesn't have to be a thriller, but the first book we find that was recommended by a viewer. The next roll was The Dagger. That is not correct. Which is a book that's been recommended to me by a viewer. So I have got the link for the video I do every year, which is all the books on my TBR. And I ask you guys on the comment to either give me books that you've loved from that list or books that you've hated. And we are going to randomize a comment until we find, because a comment, the first comment might be something people have hated. We're looking for one that people have loved. There's a lot of comments. How many comments are there? Over 300? Pick a winner. If that's a TBR, what on earth is the total number of books you own over consumption? Sorry, just distortion. It's my job, babe. And I love it. That's my hobby. Worst things a girl could collect. Right, let's pick a new winner. That's not a winner. Dungeon Crawler Carl and the Thirteenth Tale. Okay, what do I want to do here? Do you know what? Let me get it. Let's go with Dungeon Crawler Carl. Now, the reason I hesitate is because I may be reading this soon anyway, and I may finish it before Q2 begins. But technically this is a spring TBR, and spring has begun. So we're counting it. We're going to count it. Dungeon Crawler Carl. I am very, very excited to read this. People have been telling me for so long to read this book, and it's finally happening. We're following Carl. The apocalypse is televised. The whole world ends, and he gets put in basically this, like, reality TV show that is people who were left in the world fighting it out. And it goes from there. There's Princess Donut, who everyone says reminds them of Deeder. I would agree. And yeah, it's from a very unique way. I've heard the audiobook is wonderful. Everyone loves this series, right? There's people I know who are, like, on number seven in the series. I want that to be me. I really want to love this. I feel like I'm going to. So that is a great pick because I am actually going to be reading it anyway. But let's add it to the TBR officially so I can't back out. I feel like also this is going to be a book that I can recommend to, like, my dad or my brother because they both, like, kind of fantasy stuff. Or, like, my brother likes Dungeons and Dragons. I feel like he'll enjoy the kind of game element in this. So what is there to say? What is there to say about Dungeon Crawler Carl? Apart from everyone else loves it, I am the last one to the party. But hopefully, hopefully it's going to be a win for me. Okay, final roll. Pass number one, which is green. Oh my god, we finally get green. Oh my goodness. Let's see how many we roll. A five or a four. What can I get to? The green is there. It moved. I think Deeder must have moved it. I'm gonna go one, two, wait, hang on. One, two, three, four, five. Why couldn't I count them? That is number 24, I think? Or is that 29? I don't know. Is that 29? Okay, no, it's 29. It's 29, which is a book with an odd number of pages. Sugar, a book with an odd number of pages. And finally, the final roll was a fantasy book with an odd number of pages. And I'm going with Star Daughter by Shreta Thakar. Hopefully, Goodreads has the right number of pages for this. I think it was like 435 or something. So I'm counting on it having an odd number of pages according to Goodreads, because god knows where that is. But this is one of the oldest books on my TBR. This was the first book I ever received from Peridot as a rep. So I have a lot of... I still remember opening that box and it being one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me. I felt so lucky to be receiving that as a rep. And I remember it has like these beautiful gold sprayed edges and I just loved the gold sprayed edges. However, I haven't heard the best things about this book. It's a YA fantasy. I honestly can't even remember the... I feel like she's the daughter of a... Let me catch myself. I was gonna say, I feel like she's the daughter of a star. The title is Star Daughter. Hey, clown. Jester, you have done it again. Constantly raising the bar for the circus and doing it foolishly. But I feel like it's the whole thing... I feel like the plot revolves around that. Like celestial... her celestial heritage and stuff. It's time to see what I think of this. Why am I doing that with my hands? It's time to see what I think of this book. It's time to give it go. I'm either gonna love it or maybe even DNF it. Who knows? Because it hasn't had the best reviews and I'm not a big YA reader anymore. It's a beautiful copy I have and again, I feel this love towards it because of that... how wonderful that experience was, opening that for the first time. But I don't want to just DNF it. I want to give it a go. There were other fairy books that I unhauled that I probably would have wanted to read more than this but I couldn't unhaul this. I probably won't even if I DNF it because it has that special meaning to me. So yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing what I think of it. So there you have it everyone. That is my spring TBR collido. I think we have a pretty outstanding selection of books here. I'm very very excited to read all of them. I'm so excited for all these books but please let me know which ones you've read, what you thought of them, which ones you think I'm going to enjoy or also let me know what's on your spring TBR. I would love to know. Thank you so much for watching this video. I love you all so much and I'll see you very soon in another one. Bye!