hey guys welcome back to my channel I realized
that I've never introduced myself or at least I don't think I've introduce myself I'm Dar this
is my channel if you watch if you've watched my channel before you've probably seen that I in the
past I've tried to do like video game content I've tried to do lives with like me streaming but it
never really came it never really came up anything of that lately for the past few years now I've
been reading a lot and I was like you know what I have a l
ot to say about what I'm reading and
that's what we're doing now this is the channel I just wanted to tell you guys that because I was
like I've never introduced myself so that's that today we're going to go through all the books that
I've read in the month of March this month was not was not a good reading month it it was not I'm
going to be completely honest it was a slump Fest comment below if you went through a slump this
month I actually checked my story graph today and I've read 54 bo
oks already in the year it's March
my goal for the year was 50 I don't know what the race is I don't know what I'm trying to run to
but yeah so that all that all caught up to me I will say that I do listen to a lot of audio books
so when I'm working editing working out I don't listen to I don't like to listen to a lot of music
when I'm working out I usually just listen to audiobooks so that's kind of what this month was I
think I listened to four or five audio books this month and yeah and
then after we're going to go
through my April TBR to see if I can stick with it because a lot of the books that I was supposed to
read in March are going to be in the April TBR and I've actually started reading one so I guess I'm
back I'm back baby let's go through the [Music] books okay I just went through my list to see how
many books I read and you know what I'm actually I think I'm being a little bit hard on myself I
think lately I've been having these goals of like reading 16 18 books
where it felt like I was just
turning them out but looking at my list I read a lot I think I read about 10 books this month 10
books I'm going to talk to you guys about actually let's just check let's just check the story graph
has these really good filtering options it's very much it's giving someone who works in like Excel
or does like a lot of analytics obviously story graph made this app and it's perfect for my Virgo
brain because I'm like yes I can look up by month see how many books I
actually read in March okay
in the month of March I actually consumed 14 books there are four books on here that I'm not going
to talk about just because they were just kind of like slump books you know romance Mafia and you
know I'm we're we're not on that relationship yet where I want to open that part of myself up to you
guys so maybe later on we'll start talking about those books that I read but 10 of these books I
did consume 10 books normally not normally but I did consume I did read
I'm saying consume because
I know there's a lot of chitchat about audio books versus reading and maybe I'll do a video on that
maybe I'll do a video on that because that is something that I want to talk about but anyway
10 books this month let's start off with the Lightning Thief I listen to The Lightning Thief
Sea of Monsters and the Titans curse all on audio book this month I'm actually reading the Battle
of Labyrinth right now or listening to it that's my audio book right now those book
s are just so
easy to consume I watched a show with my friends earlier this year that February January February
in the winter I watched that with them and then they caught up they were like yeah this did not
happen in the books I was like I read the books I read The Lightning Thief back in 2022 again so
it was a reread from before and I remember that I did read the five books but now I'm at a place
where I don't remember anything that happened in the Battle of Labyrinth the audio book is so
good the narrator that narrates the book he is a amazing he just brings the characters to life
like it's actually like wow I'm visualizing what's happening while I'm listening to it usually when
I'm listening to audiobooks I'm like okay yeah I get it but now it's like I guess it has to do with
like oh yeah I knew what happened but listening to it and this guy he actually sounds like I got
it I don't know his name I think I should just find it real quick just okay the audio books
are narra
ted by Jesse Bernstein Jesse you're doing a phenomenal job I'm having so much fun
listening to these books they are so quick I'll say that I listen to my audiobooks on two time
speed I think at Max I'll go 2.5 but 2.25 2.0 like two time speed is probably the usual 2.5
is very much there's another book that I read this month that I actually had to do 2.5 speed
on but yeah I read those three books this month and I'm going to keep going see how far I can
go okay the next book that I read was w
as love theoretically so love theoretically was part of
a book swap that I did with uh my book Discord and I think now that I'm thinking about it the
reason why I'm reading so much is when you're on discords and they have like challenges and
readathons you just want to read more and then you're surrounded by people that are reading more
so you just read more so tangent but yeah I did do a spice a swap it was a spicy swap but this was
love theoretically and love theoretically is not spicy um
but I had already I was excited to get
this book cuz I had already checked it out cuz I had just finished bride you know in January so I
was like I'm going to read another Ali hawood I read the love hypothesis like a long time ago and
I was like I remember liking it but now I'm like okay we'll try some more so I did read the love
or love theoretically and I gave this like a solid three out of five it was very academic very much
physics I'm like I don't really know a lot about ali hazelwood
's background but she I know her
her series is like women stem series I know like the main character in bride was like a hacker and
then the main character in love theoretically is like a physicist a doctor I believe very academic
I'm like a lot of research had to have gone into it it kind of reminded me of back when I was in
college and I tried to do a stats major and have seeing that like seeing the way that the office
and the hallways and all the professors kind of acted kind of reminded
me a lot like that and I
thought that was really fun It Felt Like A Slice of Life and then you had a guy there and um I'm
kind of like smiling to myself because people I know they're I said in my review that people
say that Ali Hazelwood you you just know that you're reading Ali Hazelwood because it's kind of
have like the big tall man and the oh I'm just so small so when I noticed that in the books I'm like
that is hilarious like that's like her thing and then the other thing that she doe
s is um give
her characters like funny interesting unique names Elsie misery in the bride so it's just like
funny but yeah I love theoretically it was it was fine it was enjoyable the the man falls first so
what how could you be upset about that I guess it's like that's fun after love theoretically
I felt the slump coming and you know what I was like this is time for a reread I reread
the serpent in the wings of night by Carissa Broadbent a moment just a moment for chissa
Broadbent she was
a new author that I discovered last year and I pretty much just read all her
works I enjoy her writing I enjoy the story that she told us in serpent the wings of night
and Ashes of the Star Cross King I think that's the name that was one of my favorite romance
Romany fantasy Ro whichever one it is of 2023 um that series that duy I really liked it so I
decided to reread it and enjoyed it I think this time around it wasn't as enjoyable as the first
time cuz you like know what's going to happ
en and you know what to expect but I still liked it
it did what it had to do for me and just I did order the fairy loot versions of this book waited
in line and it took an hour and a half to order them so that's coming this summer I can't wait
to show you guys all the books that I got from like these book subscriptions cuz I I ordered a
few the next book I read in March was Jade War by Fonda Lee last month or January February I
read Jade City didn't really like it I think I said I gave it t
hree stars the first half was just
crap and the second half kind of took off I like I'm going to give Jade War a try guys Jade War
so much better than Jade City and I I have a I have a thing that I say where I'm just like a lot
of first books and series fall into a hole where it's like this is just a setup you know this is
just the setup to a a world that we're going to build that's going to be so much better just
keep going read the second book read the third book and that's what Jade city
fell off it's like
okay we're just setting things up for how they're going to go Jade War so much better I loved the
family Dynamics I love the world building we're in different places guys we're not in the area
originally we're in new cities new people new characters new story lines story lines expanded
it was just so much better it did have its faults things that I just didn't really like more like
I consume this via audio so I think that someone said that it's different when you read it
because
in this book there were like time skips and when you're listening auditorally you don't really
know that time has passed but someone I think said that in the book that tells you that time
has passed because there were moments when I was listening I was like they should probably discuss
this they should probably like I want to see some expansion of like how you're feeling about this
but it's just like no you're just going to skip to the next year that was one of my big gripes
about
that but Jade war I'm going to continue Jade Legacy I am warned now that it will do the
same where it's going to have a lot of time skips and that's it's okay I'm probably going to
read that because it is on Kindle unlimited so I'm going to read that instead of listening
to the audio and then in in March I also had a TBR challenge where I had someone pick two books
off of my long Goodreads TBR and just find them for me and then I would read them I'm doing it
again for April we'll talk abou
t what I'm going to be reading I'm excited for this book this month
I read the Kaiju preservation Society by John scy and then I also read dark matter by Blake Crouch
let's start with the Kaiju preservation Society I like this one it was so fun so interesting
I like reading books when it's a New Concept something I've never heard of I'm like this is
exciting this book reminded me of Jurassic Park the movies because I did not read the books maybe
I will now where this guy he loses his job he
's offer this random job and he pretty much is going
to like a parallel world where he's going to take he's going to take care of Kaiju Kaiju think of
Godzilla which Godzilla is actually is a Kaiju think of what's what's the gorilla donkey not
Don say Donkey Kong not Donkey Kong I'll put it somewhere you you know who I'm talking about but
him so those are Kaiju like big monsters animals and you pretty much just follow this guy as he
finds his footing working with these reptiles and how they
do it and it was really fun really
short read I actually did read this I got this from my library next I read like I said dark
matter in dark matter it's another parallel universe type Multiverse type book and this one
was interesting I finished this in one night it was super fast-paced the books if you ever look
at book pages the book pages were thick so like the book looks heavy and thick and I guess it was
like 300 pages but margins were large print was large so I just flew through this
book I how did
I feel about this the first half I enjoyed super fastpac I did not know where it was going to go
and that's kind of where it went where it went downhill because it did not go where I thought
it was going to go go and not in a good way we pretty much follow this guy we find out he's
a physic physics Professor or something like that like quantum mechanics physics I failed
physics so I don't know but we find out that he gets kidnapped one night and pretty much wakes
up in this
weird sterile laboratory pretty much and and he's very confused the world is looks
like his world but it's not his world it looks like he goes home it looks like his house is not
his house he doesn't have a wife he doesn't have his child he's missing his whole family where am
I how did I get here who kidnapped me who this guy who's this guy so he pretty much followed this
guy's Adventure as he tries to get back home and this involves time leaping and multiverses and it
kind of gets insane
so insane came to the point where the author almost didn't know how to finish
it in a way that was like that makes sense and I think my issues with it were the main character
he was a little annoying he was obsessed with finding his wife which I guess I get it like you
love your wife so much of course I'm going to get to it but it was just kind of like weird um the
ending like they said the ending was so crazy I still don't understand the meant ending and why
the author chose to go that way
and then didn't clean it up well enough but yeah still super
fastpaced a book that you can kind of like push it out really quickly and still an enjoyable
experience like having that Thriller like I'm starting to like I'm starting to enjoy Thriller
and then science fiction Thrillers as well it's just like wow this is insane and then it just
Falls flat last two books that I read this month we have the Misadventures of Aqua black
girl by Issa R funny story about this and then I also read yell
ow face by rfang Misadventures
of awkward black girl I was so I was very much in the slump that I own this book but I listen to
the audio I don't buy my audio books so it's okay I'm supporting the library I listen to this on I
listen to The Awkward the misadventure aqu black girl on audio it was 5 hours long so it took me
2 hours literally a gym session pretty much to finish it and I enjoyed it I do not like short
short stories or essays or I don't think I do and listening to this I did not
know that it was
like a collection of essays from isay because I was just like issues that I had with it we're
like the story line doesn't make sense she was just talking about here but we're back back here
and she's a child she was just in college and then I'm after I'm done reading it I go on good reads
and I like put start putting information in it's like this is a collection of essays oh that makes
sense that checks out because now it makes sense about why stuff isn't following chronol
ogically
and it's pretty much mishaps with Issa we kind of learn a lot about her and I was like thinking
like before I knew that it was a collection of short stories I was like I want to know more
about her speaking French she doesn't talk about that or like how she got into insecure and her
whole timeline so one thing that I hope in the future from isay is an actual Memoir from her from
like child baby to now about everything because I think that would be awesome um but yeah that
was a bo
ok that I've had I actually stole this for my mom years ago like right after college so
I finally got around to that and then the last book that I read this month was yellow face by RF
kuang in my addition I actually own two books of this and it's crazy cuz I'm not sure how I feel
about this I was annotating this and then stopped just because the MC in this book is insufferable
she is so annoying on purpose I love Rebecca I mean I love her name is Rebecca it's kind of like
when you're M whe
n you like not mad but like when you have like an attitude like call People by the
first but arquon she's one of my favorite authors I own all her books and probably will continue to
but I write yellow face and this is her first work into the fiction contemporary space and her voice
is so distinct that you just know that it's her but this book she the main character June Juniper
June let's call her June she pretty much steals a manuscript from her writer friend they're not
even well they're
not even really friends we're not even really sure the length the depth of
their relationship because I think that the main character kind of just talks in circles in
a way that's like we're not even really friends it's okay it's like stealing $20 off the street
from a stranger it's not that big of a deal and she goes through like this mental gymnastics of
like is this okay like she's very racist think of all the is she's not well no I guess she's not
sexist but she's not really a girl she
's not a girls girl either but anyway I can I could talk
about this we can make a video I'm sure there are videos from people who have explained this book
it's it was good I give it about 3.5 four stars maybe a 3.75 if you're going by story graph scale
um it just wasn't something that I was like oh I'm ready to pick this up and dive into the world
and I think that's just because I'm a fantasy girlly through and through science fiction fantasy
girly this is like a contemporary literary ficti
on not really kind of and I wasn't really got to go
read my book but I did make sure to read it almost every single night to get through it and I did and
for what it's worth I did enjoy it so those are the 10 books that I read in the month of March
five audio five ebook physical books so pretty good I think audiobooks are superior I love them
when they're available cuz the holds on audiobooks and if you're not willing to buy them and I'm not
really I have an audible free trial that I'm doin
g right now but I I can't even use my credits
because I'm like I don't want to buy I don't want to keep these books anyway let's get into
the books that I'm going to be reading for April I'm not going to lie my TBR I we're I'm going to
stay positive we're going to do it starting off I mentioned this in my last book my last video
I'm going to be continuing the house of leaves I'm about 30 40 about 30 pages in so I'm ready
to sink my teeth into this this is going to be a buddy read but also a
bullup read with my aunt
we're reading House of leaves we're only going to do one book I think this month and that's this
one so I'm excited to have someone hold my hand as I get through this expect a reading Vlog for
this book I'm excited cuz I never done one before and I'm going to share my thoughts about how this
book is going as I read I'm doing a book swap in April why am I signing up for this I'm going to be
reading vicious by V Schwab I don't know what this book is about Victor and
Eli College roommates
so I'm guessing a academic dark Academia I do like those I have had this book for 2 years you
know that's you know we're going to read it now I'm excited because I do like some of V Schwab's
work so we're gonna continue that this month I'm also going to be reading gold finch by Donna
tart I have read the secret history by Donar I love that book I gave it five stars I do like dark
Academia to an extent but we're going to see about the gold finch I actually did try and r
ead this
either last year or in 2022 and I was a little bored so I think either the hold ran out or what
so I do know that I'm going to be attempting this via audio this is probably the longest audio book
I've ever read I've ever listened to we 32 hours long so about 16 hours if you're doing two times
speed which I will be but I'm already 9% 2 hours and 37 minutes through it from before and I'm not
starting over because I know what happens in that time I remember so I'm going to continue th
is
is my chonka along read for the month of April we're also going to be reading a fanfiction yep
I'm multifaceted many layers to me I'm an onion but yeah we're going to be reading manold um which
is a jione fanfic and it's a really popular one and I'm doing like a buddy read on this one so I
have to read it and I just decided to read this one because I've heard so many things about this
book or this fanfic and it's going to be actually being traditionally published called alchemized
by S
U and I was like I to read this before she like removes it from the platform so we're going
to do that I have I did start it briefly this is the slump where I'm saying all my books moved to
April I did start it I'm about three chapters in and yeah we'll see how it goes this is a chunky
book so if I don't get through this till May as long as long as I get through some of it next I'm
going to be reading nettle and Bone I'm actually reading that right now I might finish today I'm
about 40% in
and it's very fast very quick 200 pages I believe so I'm I'm enjoying that it kind
of reminds me of Stardust by Neil Gman but more of like a very dark Twisted one but like a adventure
kind of fantasy cozy Thriller Gothic horror type fantasy and yeah I'm having a good time with
that so far next blood over bright Haven by ml Wang I actually kind of had like a moment
where I got super scared because this book I was trying I wanted to buy this book I had it
like on my list my Amazon Wish List I
was like I'm going to buy it for myself you know I'm going
to get this from my own on my own and then they removed it on Amazon it used to be it's an Amazon
original but I think it's getting traditionally published which I'm so happy for along I love
sport of Ken that might be my that's my book of the year and we're only in April tomorrow's April
we're only in April and swear of kayen is my book of the year how will Mo top sword of Ken we will
see I heard this book is super good I am excit
ed to read it another dark Academia book I believe
um I actually was able to order it before they brought it back the paperback it's not here yet
doesn't come until mid April in the meantime I believe it's still on Kindle un Limited at least
on my Kindle it is if not it is now available on Libby so I actually have it on hold on Libby I
will be reading that I'm hoping I can read it physic so I can annotate it next I have when the
moon hatched this is like a Romany I believe it's also getting
traditionally published you know
I get really I'm really happy for Indie authors I'm going on a lot of tangents in this this video
but I so happy for Indie authors and them getting traditionally published after reading yellow
face which gives you Insight onto how books get published and how they do all that stuff which
thank you RF Kong for doing that cuz now I have how are we going to Pace it and a lot of these
books will not be available on audio so we'll definitely have to actually read
them but I think
we'll have time if stardy Valley doesn't take over my life like it has this past week but anyway guys
thank you so much for watching this video thank you so much for all the support on my last video
it actually made me so excited to see all the comments all the likes the views the subscribers
I've gotten it just it means a lot to me that this is something that people want to see and I'm
actually having fun doing and just chatting and yapping to the camera and having you gu
ys
watch um I will see you guys in the next video [Music] bye there is now a dog on my la oh hi so
now you met all my pets this is Milo say hi M oh okay he's going to sit until
he doesn't want to sit anymore but
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