**My Favorite Books**

I have read so many wonderful books this year that it's hard to pick just a few favorites, but I'll try to narrow it down. One book that stands out is "Rabbit Cake" by Claire Kann. This book made me laugh and cry in equal measure, and its themes of identity, community, and found family really resonated with me. While I've read many books that deal with similar topics, there's something about this one that felt especially authentic and relatable.

Another happy book that comes to mind is "Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged" by Mitali Perelman. This novel was a delightful surprise for me - it's a story about a young girl who learns to assert her independence and individuality, and it's just so uplifting and joyful to read. I loved the way the author wove together themes of identity, culture, and belonging in a way that felt both authentic and accessible.

Of course, no list of favorite books would be complete without mentioning "Wonder Woman" - specifically, the 2017 film starring Gal Gadot. I was blown away by how well this movie captured the spirit of the character - from her strength and bravery to her compassion and empathy. The way the filmmakers balanced action and emotion was just perfect, and it felt like a really satisfying adaptation of the comic book series.

As for book reviews, I've been meaning to get back into doing more of those on my YouTube channel. One review that stands out is the "Reading Women" episode I did with Co-host Choice. We discussed two books that explore themes of identity and female experience: Laura van den Berg's "Find Me" and Sarah Perry's "The Essex Serpent". It was so great to chat with Sarah about her book, which has been on my radar for a while. Our discussion really made me appreciate the novel even more.

I also enjoyed a recent episode where we interviewed Emily Tesh about her book "The Strays". I loved hearing about her writing process and getting a glimpse into her creative world. It's always inspiring to meet an author who is passionate about their craft, and Emily was no exception.

**Upcoming Reads**

As for books that I'd like to read by the end of the year, I'm excited to dive into some new titles. Ali Smith's "Autumn" (UK Edition) has been a gift from a friend in Scotland, and I'm eager to get started on it. Another book that's caught my eye is Min Jin Lee's "Pachinko", which features a stunning cover design that I just can't get enough of.

I also have a few books lined up from publishers, including some from my favorite authors (who shall remain nameless!). These will make their way onto my shelves in the coming months, and I'm excited to see what they have to offer. Of course, it's always a challenge to keep track of all the books that come out this year - but I'm always up for the task!

**Bookshelves**

As you can probably tell from the photos, I'm a bit of a book hoarder! My shelves are packed with titles old and new, fiction and nonfiction. One of my favorite things about being an adult is having the freedom to collect books without worrying about running out of space (although, let's be real, it's always hard to keep track of everything!).

The shelf on the right behind me contains some books that were published in 2016 or earlier - I like to think of this as my "back catalog" shelf. It's full of titles that I've loved and enjoyed over the years, but haven't had time to revisit recently. The shelf at the top of my bookcase features some newer releases, including a few books by authors whose work I'm just starting to explore.

**Book Tag**

This year, I participated in the Mid-Year Book Tag with Kendra (if you want to see the original video or read the questions and answers, feel free to check out the link in my show notes!). It was a fun way to reflect on my reading so far this year and get excited about what's still to come.

Overall, I'm feeling grateful for all the wonderful books that have made it into my life this year. From happy endings to thought-provoking themes, there's something here for everyone - or at least, it feels like there should be!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys I'm Kenda Winchester welcome back to my channel and it's exciting to be back on the East Coast if you follow me on Instagram you might have noticed that I have actually been in California for the last two weeks and Dillon didn't get to go but look at that even that cute yeah that's the San Francisco Giants baseball a t-shirt for him I'm sure he loves it right it's like my parents went to California and all I got was this lousy t-shirt pretty much so yeah that we went on vacation that was really cool we went to a bunch of different San Francisco type of touristy places casinos from the Bay Area so we went to muir woods which was cool it's a small cover of woods north of San Francisco and we also went to Donner Lake which is in Tahoe which is location of the cabin where the Donner Party stayed if you don't know who the Donner Party is they're a group of pioneers that were heading west to California they got stuck in the Sierras at Sierra mountain range and it snowed and they got snowed in and so you know they starved and ended up eating each other but the Memorial Center is actually really cool and fun bookish fact the guy who wrote the boys in the boat also wrote in different stars which I didn't even know existed but I now I'm going to listen to I've never listened to this author before or Rogan whatever but I do enjoy these narrative nonfiction history retelling so the fact that I could go to the location and see where the cabin was and just read so much about it on and the little museum ish thing there it was really cool and while we were there we went to a little town up there and found this mug this is it one of the really famous um like logos for California is this bear I unfortunately did not take any like vlogging footage but I did record a lot of it on my Instagram so you can go check that out and see all of the ventures that we had which is really cool so now that I've told you a little bit about my trip and actually going to do the Madeira book tag because yes it just is amazing and I've watched all of them and they're just like you want to do the tag to the tag on so here I am doing the tag so I have the questions on my computer down here and so you are just going to read through them because there's a lot of good ones here all right so the first one is the best book that I have read so far and 2017 now I don't want to tell you the book that came out in 2017 the best book because of a reading room in a word and I read for the award and I don't want to spoil that so books that weren't out in this year or are not eligible as what I'm going to do here but I would have to say Maggie O'Farrell's this must be the place or Jhumpa Lahiri's interpreter of maladies now Jhumpa Lahiri's book is a collection of short stories and it is fantastic the perspective that she is and her writing is just talk not it's it's wonderful and this must be a place the Maggie O'Farrell was actually kind of surprising I picked it up as a recommendation from Simon over at Savage reads and it just the structure of it is something that I really really admire in you know one of my other lives I am a developmental editor and so I do macro edits on books and structural stuff when a writer of any type of book gets structure right and it's just beautiful I can't help but admire that that's wonderful so kudos to Maggie O'Farrell I'm the best sequel that I read is pretty easy the mystique around 2017 would definitely be obelisk 8 by NK jemisin I love these books so much I think that her writing is just so genuine for an epic high fantasy just so accessible and so different and the way she approaches her characters and the world building is just so different from a lot of different books that I've read and I just really really love her stuff and I was worried that the you know the obelisk gate would just be repeat at the fifth season of nothing cool or whatever but no No so good job NK jemisin I am on pins and needles waiting for stone sky I think it's called I don't know I don't care what's to come just go read it a new release that I haven't read yet but I want to and that would be Idaho this is a jacket this is not the actual Bookman is actual book of downstairs because I am that close terenia actually took this on vacation which is why I take the jacket off in the first place do not get to reading it but this is definitely probably one of the top ones that I want to read I've heard so many wonderful things about it and it's about a rural community hopefully it won't be too stereotyped but I'm at the point where I'm like kind of nervous like I've had a hyped up in my brain and I'm worried that it won't be as good as I want it to be but we'll see also that cover I just want to frame it you know you know yeah of course you do well this antennas data releases for the second half of the year oh my goodness okay so I'm going to do two of them because what I've read already actually and what I haven't so the first one I'm really excited about is seeing unburied saying by Jasmine Ward you're watching this channel you know I love Justin Ward I love Jasmine Ward her writing style and the prose is just like we're right out loud it's just phenomenal I love her writing and so I really love seeing embarrassing it really is just fantastic I'm also excited about little fires everywhere by sloughing I haven't read this book yet but I love everything I never told you so I can't wait for this book to come out I've just been waiting and waiting and waiting for like three years now so it's about time it's about time like the question number five is my biggest disappointment and that would have to be a separation by Katie kin amaura because it's very short and the cover is amazing and I was really excited to read about this book because it delved into like this marriage were of this woman's estranged husband goes missing as a hurt in-law once you know her to go find him like really interesting sort of like a literary thriller it's not I thoroughly slow nothing happens I probably wouldn't finish it if it was I wasn't under 100 - it was under 200 pages I think though otherwise I would have finished it but I did and I was really sad so yeah my biggest surprise okay it would definitely have to be the weight of him by f / hun and this was not even on my radar it was not even on my radar and I had no idea and then you know autumn got sent a copy and yeah so this this book is about a band by a man who lives in Dublin era around Dublin I think near Dublin whatever he was hit in Ireland and his son commits suicide and so he is a very large man and so he then decides to do a walkathon like versions sort of thing and people pledge money for him to lose weight any plans losing 200 pounds which is half of his body weight and donate all of the money to charity to help teen suicide threes awareness for that and it's a really amazing book I've seen it nowhere on booktube and i haven't seen people reading it and so please go pick this up this book is really like a dark horse like it is really fantastic and the themes in it really need to be talked about and they're not really being covered enough and I really appreciated the way that etheral hand handles suicide in this book because it doesn't go into the extreme detail of portraying suicide and more talks about what happens after and how the families handle it I really didn't like 13 reasons why because it's very triggering for a lot of people I know who struggle with mental illness and I really really didn't like it and so I read this shortly after I watched that series on Netflix and I thought this was way more mature and just so much better handled especially if you're on a you know for adults looking at teenagers who are struggling with this this is great favorite new author debut are new to me maybe you would have to be rabbit cake by Annie Hartnett now this is not the best novel that I read this year but Annie Hartnett is was the quirkiest and different books that I read in a long time I read a lot of books this year and a lot of them begin to feel like the same but this is not this is quirky and wonderful and so there's a girl named Elvis and her mother asleep walks into a river and dies and basically the counselor tells Elvis but you know this is the stages of grief and this is how much time you have to get basically over your grief I know right what counselor is that so this is really funny and it handles grief and mourning in a really funny way but in a very poignant way and it's just so out there and weird and I loved it so the next question is your fictional crush and I don't really get fictional questions on people in books I might get fictional crushes on authors like an author crush I have several of those but not really characters except there are a few exceptions and I had to think about the fun but I would have to say the Jack Frost winter king character and the bear and the nightingale I would have to say yes he's mysterious and I see in magical and he seems like some weird god of Russia some doing whatever I don't know I just think he's really cool yeah I can see him like the frost king with like blue eyeliner like almost like Jon Snow in Game of Thrones all the posters that you saw almost like that but not quite just read just read the bear in the nightingale it's really cool and the next one comes out in December / January depending where you live in the world so good reading so my newest favorite character if you'd asked me last year it would be gained from Jane Steele but this year it is an Jacob from the butcher's hook now you might have noticed I like really weird characters actually you might not see if you have a rebus book so the butcher's hook this is about and who is just weird right and she grows up and she falls in love with boy and she makes plans on him and I really like how if you've read the book you're gonna be like weird out but really really like how she knows what she wants and she goes for it and she plans it and she's very devious and she wants to sleep with Bob and she she wants him and she wants him as much as she can get him and it's like oh what on earth she's really sinister and I don't want to give it away any spoilers but I really like a good antihero I feel like she and Frank Underwood and Claire underwood from house of cards that they could be friends and yeah that's all I'm going to say just gonna yeah so next up is a book that made me cry I would have to be the clay girl by Heather Tucker I don't cry a lot with books I might like go into this huge moody coma but I don't cry a lot but this one the end of this book like you can see it coming like you see it coming and I I think I saw pretty late but you see it coming and then you open your eyes and it's there and you just fall to pieces because you know what's going to happen and you know what facing the protagonist when she makes that decision but you're like that's the only way it could really end and it's all my goodness it was like the end of the his dark materials series all over again but not quite like that's the one I've really bald for with the end of his art materials but this one my word is so good it's such a hard book to read so good it's so good so the next is a book that made me happy and I've already mentioned rabbit cake so I'm not going to mention that but I will say I really made I have not read a lot of happy books right though I really enjoyed Sofia Khan is not obliged like that's really happy like it's it's nice so I would say that one I also read giant days by John Ellison it's a graphic novel comic series and it is really funny like it is just about college and it's really simple and kind of like a sitcom but it just makes me really happy like whenever I just mean like the book equivalent of chocolate a region issue of that and life is better you know just give you a moment to breathe and relax so I would definitely take some of those favorite books to film adaption but I saw this year I actually if we won't include comic books I like Wonder Woman right Wonder Woman like everything from the romantic interest to like even her costume like I was worried it was going to be another Catwoman where they over sexualized her making her prancing around like doing nothing really of importance like it was just but they didn't screw up on her woman they found an Israeli woman who's been in the military to be Wonder Woman and it was amazing and then Robin Wright is my favorite sing oh my goodness you you want to not talk about fictional character questions oh my goodness like her as a general is like one of the best things I have ever seen I love Wonder Woman I'm getting that one when it comes out on blu-ray and DVD yes yes please favorite review that I have written this year I did really enjoy honestly the co-host Choice episode that we made for reading women like I know this is an on booktube and I've only done one like review on booktube but on reading women we talked about the weight of him and we talked about the Essex Serpent and I really enjoyed those discussions that we had into a link that discussion episode down below and we also interviewed Sarah Perry while I was in California macking up three time zones is insane but oh my goodness it was just it was great so we had the discussion then we got to talk to her about some of our questions and it was just perfect and yeah I really enjoyed that on booktube I've only reviewed one book and that is Emily bittos the strays we did and talked to her on the podcast as well which was fantastic was trained so good I love it so much and if you haven't read the strays you need to yes oh just gonna have a moment so the most beautiful that I have bought this year or I've received which is the next question and I got Ali Smith as autumn the UK Edition from a friend in Scotland and I think it got here after the new year but I don't remember so that would definitely be high on my list I can't wait to get winter but another option would definitely be pachinko by Minton Lee just that cover I'm trying to get there we go so it's not so shiny but yeah that cover like is that amazing and then there's like the foil butterfly on there there are some other ones that I haven't read yet but I don't know I just think the one of these these are enough these are enough there's just so many beautiful books right okay so the next one is books I need to read by the end of year so we're going to take a little tour of Kendra's house so yeah again books that I would like to read this year well you can see this shelf yeah thoughts and lots of books on the shelf including of course the lovely salt lamp but yeah so I have a fiction and nonfiction is on the bottom behind the front ones also there's a lot of poetry collections there a lot of library books some of these are Sam's but most of these are ones I would like to get to plus is the published in this year shelf for the most part I think there are a few exceptions again like Sam's books and just some random ones you can see ones behind me right here this shelf is the published 2016 and backwards so I don't get to them all you know that's okay I'll just deal with it but yeah I really hope I can get to the most of those in time but then again I keep getting more books so really I'm doomed right yeah so that was my mid-year book tag if you would like to do this book tag please do this book bag because it's a lot of fun so I will link the original video down below and all the questions will be in the show notes so you can just check that out yeah that's all for me and I guess I will talk to you guys later alrighthi guys I'm Kenda Winchester welcome back to my channel and it's exciting to be back on the East Coast if you follow me on Instagram you might have noticed that I have actually been in California for the last two weeks and Dillon didn't get to go but look at that even that cute yeah that's the San Francisco Giants baseball a t-shirt for him I'm sure he loves it right it's like my parents went to California and all I got was this lousy t-shirt pretty much so yeah that we went on vacation that was really cool we went to a bunch of different San Francisco type of touristy places casinos from the Bay Area so we went to muir woods which was cool it's a small cover of woods north of San Francisco and we also went to Donner Lake which is in Tahoe which is location of the cabin where the Donner Party stayed if you don't know who the Donner Party is they're a group of pioneers that were heading west to California they got stuck in the Sierras at Sierra mountain range and it snowed and they got snowed in and so you know they starved and ended up eating each other but the Memorial Center is actually really cool and fun bookish fact the guy who wrote the boys in the boat also wrote in different stars which I didn't even know existed but I now I'm going to listen to I've never listened to this author before or Rogan whatever but I do enjoy these narrative nonfiction history retelling so the fact that I could go to the location and see where the cabin was and just read so much about it on and the little museum ish thing there it was really cool and while we were there we went to a little town up there and found this mug this is it one of the really famous um like logos for California is this bear I unfortunately did not take any like vlogging footage but I did record a lot of it on my Instagram so you can go check that out and see all of the ventures that we had which is really cool so now that I've told you a little bit about my trip and actually going to do the Madeira book tag because yes it just is amazing and I've watched all of them and they're just like you want to do the tag to the tag on so here I am doing the tag so I have the questions on my computer down here and so you are just going to read through them because there's a lot of good ones here all right so the first one is the best book that I have read so far and 2017 now I don't want to tell you the book that came out in 2017 the best book because of a reading room in a word and I read for the award and I don't want to spoil that so books that weren't out in this year or are not eligible as what I'm going to do here but I would have to say Maggie O'Farrell's this must be the place or Jhumpa Lahiri's interpreter of maladies now Jhumpa Lahiri's book is a collection of short stories and it is fantastic the perspective that she is and her writing is just talk not it's it's wonderful and this must be a place the Maggie O'Farrell was actually kind of surprising I picked it up as a recommendation from Simon over at Savage reads and it just the structure of it is something that I really really admire in you know one of my other lives I am a developmental editor and so I do macro edits on books and structural stuff when a writer of any type of book gets structure right and it's just beautiful I can't help but admire that that's wonderful so kudos to Maggie O'Farrell I'm the best sequel that I read is pretty easy the mystique around 2017 would definitely be obelisk 8 by NK jemisin I love these books so much I think that her writing is just so genuine for an epic high fantasy just so accessible and so different and the way she approaches her characters and the world building is just so different from a lot of different books that I've read and I just really really love her stuff and I was worried that the you know the obelisk gate would just be repeat at the fifth season of nothing cool or whatever but no No so good job NK jemisin I am on pins and needles waiting for stone sky I think it's called I don't know I don't care what's to come just go read it a new release that I haven't read yet but I want to and that would be Idaho this is a jacket this is not the actual Bookman is actual book of downstairs because I am that close terenia actually took this on vacation which is why I take the jacket off in the first place do not get to reading it but this is definitely probably one of the top ones that I want to read I've heard so many wonderful things about it and it's about a rural community hopefully it won't be too stereotyped but I'm at the point where I'm like kind of nervous like I've had a hyped up in my brain and I'm worried that it won't be as good as I want it to be but we'll see also that cover I just want to frame it you know you know yeah of course you do well this antennas data releases for the second half of the year oh my goodness okay so I'm going to do two of them because what I've read already actually and what I haven't so the first one I'm really excited about is seeing unburied saying by Jasmine Ward you're watching this channel you know I love Justin Ward I love Jasmine Ward her writing style and the prose is just like we're right out loud it's just phenomenal I love her writing and so I really love seeing embarrassing it really is just fantastic I'm also excited about little fires everywhere by sloughing I haven't read this book yet but I love everything I never told you so I can't wait for this book to come out I've just been waiting and waiting and waiting for like three years now so it's about time it's about time like the question number five is my biggest disappointment and that would have to be a separation by Katie kin amaura because it's very short and the cover is amazing and I was really excited to read about this book because it delved into like this marriage were of this woman's estranged husband goes missing as a hurt in-law once you know her to go find him like really interesting sort of like a literary thriller it's not I thoroughly slow nothing happens I probably wouldn't finish it if it was I wasn't under 100 - it was under 200 pages I think though otherwise I would have finished it but I did and I was really sad so yeah my biggest surprise okay it would definitely have to be the weight of him by f / hun and this was not even on my radar it was not even on my radar and I had no idea and then you know autumn got sent a copy and yeah so this this book is about a band by a man who lives in Dublin era around Dublin I think near Dublin whatever he was hit in Ireland and his son commits suicide and so he is a very large man and so he then decides to do a walkathon like versions sort of thing and people pledge money for him to lose weight any plans losing 200 pounds which is half of his body weight and donate all of the money to charity to help teen suicide threes awareness for that and it's a really amazing book I've seen it nowhere on booktube and i haven't seen people reading it and so please go pick this up this book is really like a dark horse like it is really fantastic and the themes in it really need to be talked about and they're not really being covered enough and I really appreciated the way that etheral hand handles suicide in this book because it doesn't go into the extreme detail of portraying suicide and more talks about what happens after and how the families handle it I really didn't like 13 reasons why because it's very triggering for a lot of people I know who struggle with mental illness and I really really didn't like it and so I read this shortly after I watched that series on Netflix and I thought this was way more mature and just so much better handled especially if you're on a you know for adults looking at teenagers who are struggling with this this is great favorite new author debut are new to me maybe you would have to be rabbit cake by Annie Hartnett now this is not the best novel that I read this year but Annie Hartnett is was the quirkiest and different books that I read in a long time I read a lot of books this year and a lot of them begin to feel like the same but this is not this is quirky and wonderful and so there's a girl named Elvis and her mother asleep walks into a river and dies and basically the counselor tells Elvis but you know this is the stages of grief and this is how much time you have to get basically over your grief I know right what counselor is that so this is really funny and it handles grief and mourning in a really funny way but in a very poignant way and it's just so out there and weird and I loved it so the next question is your fictional crush and I don't really get fictional questions on people in books I might get fictional crushes on authors like an author crush I have several of those but not really characters except there are a few exceptions and I had to think about the fun but I would have to say the Jack Frost winter king character and the bear and the nightingale I would have to say yes he's mysterious and I see in magical and he seems like some weird god of Russia some doing whatever I don't know I just think he's really cool yeah I can see him like the frost king with like blue eyeliner like almost like Jon Snow in Game of Thrones all the posters that you saw almost like that but not quite just read just read the bear in the nightingale it's really cool and the next one comes out in December / January depending where you live in the world so good reading so my newest favorite character if you'd asked me last year it would be gained from Jane Steele but this year it is an Jacob from the butcher's hook now you might have noticed I like really weird characters actually you might not see if you have a rebus book so the butcher's hook this is about and who is just weird right and she grows up and she falls in love with boy and she makes plans on him and I really like how if you've read the book you're gonna be like weird out but really really like how she knows what she wants and she goes for it and she plans it and she's very devious and she wants to sleep with Bob and she she wants him and she wants him as much as she can get him and it's like oh what on earth she's really sinister and I don't want to give it away any spoilers but I really like a good antihero I feel like she and Frank Underwood and Claire underwood from house of cards that they could be friends and yeah that's all I'm going to say just gonna yeah so next up is a book that made me cry I would have to be the clay girl by Heather Tucker I don't cry a lot with books I might like go into this huge moody coma but I don't cry a lot but this one the end of this book like you can see it coming like you see it coming and I I think I saw pretty late but you see it coming and then you open your eyes and it's there and you just fall to pieces because you know what's going to happen and you know what facing the protagonist when she makes that decision but you're like that's the only way it could really end and it's all my goodness it was like the end of the his dark materials series all over again but not quite like that's the one I've really bald for with the end of his art materials but this one my word is so good it's such a hard book to read so good it's so good so the next is a book that made me happy and I've already mentioned rabbit cake so I'm not going to mention that but I will say I really made I have not read a lot of happy books right though I really enjoyed Sofia Khan is not obliged like that's really happy like it's it's nice so I would say that one I also read giant days by John Ellison it's a graphic novel comic series and it is really funny like it is just about college and it's really simple and kind of like a sitcom but it just makes me really happy like whenever I just mean like the book equivalent of chocolate a region issue of that and life is better you know just give you a moment to breathe and relax so I would definitely take some of those favorite books to film adaption but I saw this year I actually if we won't include comic books I like Wonder Woman right Wonder Woman like everything from the romantic interest to like even her costume like I was worried it was going to be another Catwoman where they over sexualized her making her prancing around like doing nothing really of importance like it was just but they didn't screw up on her woman they found an Israeli woman who's been in the military to be Wonder Woman and it was amazing and then Robin Wright is my favorite sing oh my goodness you you want to not talk about fictional character questions oh my goodness like her as a general is like one of the best things I have ever seen I love Wonder Woman I'm getting that one when it comes out on blu-ray and DVD yes yes please favorite review that I have written this year I did really enjoy honestly the co-host Choice episode that we made for reading women like I know this is an on booktube and I've only done one like review on booktube but on reading women we talked about the weight of him and we talked about the Essex Serpent and I really enjoyed those discussions that we had into a link that discussion episode down below and we also interviewed Sarah Perry while I was in California macking up three time zones is insane but oh my goodness it was just it was great so we had the discussion then we got to talk to her about some of our questions and it was just perfect and yeah I really enjoyed that on booktube I've only reviewed one book and that is Emily bittos the strays we did and talked to her on the podcast as well which was fantastic was trained so good I love it so much and if you haven't read the strays you need to yes oh just gonna have a moment so the most beautiful that I have bought this year or I've received which is the next question and I got Ali Smith as autumn the UK Edition from a friend in Scotland and I think it got here after the new year but I don't remember so that would definitely be high on my list I can't wait to get winter but another option would definitely be pachinko by Minton Lee just that cover I'm trying to get there we go so it's not so shiny but yeah that cover like is that amazing and then there's like the foil butterfly on there there are some other ones that I haven't read yet but I don't know I just think the one of these these are enough these are enough there's just so many beautiful books right okay so the next one is books I need to read by the end of year so we're going to take a little tour of Kendra's house so yeah again books that I would like to read this year well you can see this shelf yeah thoughts and lots of books on the shelf including of course the lovely salt lamp but yeah so I have a fiction and nonfiction is on the bottom behind the front ones also there's a lot of poetry collections there a lot of library books some of these are Sam's but most of these are ones I would like to get to plus is the published in this year shelf for the most part I think there are a few exceptions again like Sam's books and just some random ones you can see ones behind me right here this shelf is the published 2016 and backwards so I don't get to them all you know that's okay I'll just deal with it but yeah I really hope I can get to the most of those in time but then again I keep getting more books so really I'm doomed right yeah so that was my mid-year book tag if you would like to do this book tag please do this book bag because it's a lot of fun so I will link the original video down below and all the questions will be in the show notes so you can just check that out yeah that's all for me and I guess I will talk to you guys later alright\n"