This is a tag that helps to organize all of the thoughts of readers as we go into the end of the year. This was created by Ariel Bisset but I saw it on Kayla’s (BooksandLala) channel. With there being a month and a half left of the years, this is the perfect time to do this tag!

Question One: Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish?
At this point in the year, if there is a book that I need to finish I have probably DNF’d it. I went through a phase where I either finished or I unhauled books I have started but not finished because I knew I wasn’t going to pick them up. I am currently reading Kingsbane by Claire Legrand but I plan on finishing it this week!

Question Two: Do you have an autumnal book to transition into the end of the year?
I don’t have a specific book that I am going to read to transition. I do have a type of book that I like to read during the autumnal season to make that transition and that is a witchy, magical, kind of story.

Question Three: Is there a new release you’re still waiting for?
Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha Series #2) by Tomi Adeyemi

So, here we go with some shame. I have not even read Children of Blood and Bone, which is the first book in this series. I think I am going to try to get to the two of these books in December after this second book comes out because I heard from a lot of people that there is a cliff-hanger so I am glad I am waiting!

Question Four: What are three books you want to read before the end of the year?

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Question Five: Is there a book you think could still shock you and become your favorite book of the year?
I have not thought of what my favorite read of 2019 is but I have the feeling, I could love 99% Mine by Sally Thorne. I read The Hating Game last year and I LOVED it so much. I have high hopes for 99% Mine.

Question Six: Have you already started making reading plans for 2020?
I have a few plans for next year but I am yet to sit down and start writing anything down to try to make them a little more concrete. I know my GoodReads Challenge but that is about it at this point.

I am still making my way through my Tome Topple tbr but this week I am going to focus on two books. One on audio and one physically.

Kingsband (The Empirium Trilogy #2) by Claire Legrand

I am working my way through this on audiobook and I am really enjoying it! I hope to finish this by Friday so I can move on to the next audiobook on my TBR.

Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy #2) by Deborah Harkness

A couple of years ago I read A Discovery of Witches and instantly fell in love with the characters and the story. I have been putting off carrying on with the trilogy because it does frighten me a little. Being an adult, fantasy novel it takes me a little longer to get through it because I want to soak up and understand everything. Hopefully I can get through it over the next six days so I can continue with my TBR.

While I am crawling my way out of a reading slump, I am still in a drama slump. With all the new shows I saw on Netflix, I feel like one is bound to catch my attention soon! So, here are the three shows I want to watch this month.

Do Bong Soon is a petite, unemployed woman who is honest and kind. She appears little and sweet on the outside, but she is in fact very, very strong. In her family, for generations the women have been gifted Herculean strength to use for the greater good. If abused, however, their power will be taken away. Whilst standing up for herself after gang members bully her, she finds herself approached by Ahn Min Hyuk, the handsome and somewhat childish CEO of Ainsoft, a gaming company. Ahn Min Hyuk, who holds a great distrust towards the police, witnessed the whole exchange of Bong Soon’s superhuman strength, and now wants to employ her as a bodyguard after being threatened by an unknown enemy. Min Hyuk falls in love with super-strong Bong Soon at first sight, but there’s a catch. Bong Soon has eyes for someone else; police officer and childhood friend, In Guk Doo, whom she has known since high school. When chaos ensues after a series of kidnappings in Do Bong Soon’s hometown of Dobong-dong, Dobong-gu, Bong Soon must decide whether to use her strength and stand up to evil, or play it safe and keep her powers hidden from the world. Combined with the love triangle she faces between In Guk Doo and Ahn Min Hyuk, as well as having to keep Min Hyuk safe, Bong Soon’s life is thrown into turmoil. Can she use her strength for the greater good, or will it prove in the end to be too much?

A young woman with bad premonition dreams meets two people who suddenly develop the same ability.
Nam Hong Joo lives with her mother, Yoon Moon Sun, a widow who runs a small restaurant. Jung Jae Chan, a rookie prosecutor, and his younger brother, Seung Won, move in across the street. Since she was young, Hong Joo has had the ability to see bad events before they happen, but she is often unable to do anything about it.
One day, Jae Chan has a strange premonition dream about an accident involving Hong Joo and Lee Yoo Beom, a ruthless attorney who used to be Jae Chan’s tutor. Jae Chan decides to interfere in the course of events and ends up saving the lives of Hong Joo and Han Woo Tak, a young police officer. When Jae Chan, Hong Joo, and Woo Tak then start having dreams about one another, they realize that their lives are now somehow entwined.
But can the three discover the reason that they were brought together, and can they prevent the people closest to them from getting hurt?

Noh Ji Wook is a unique prosecutor. He is handsome, hard-headed and intelligent who strives hard to be successful. He is the perfect example of what a prosecutor should be. Later, he becomes a lawyer.
Eun Bong Hee is a prosecutor trainee. Once a former taekwondo instructor, she trained to become a lawyer. She is confident and strong, but naive. She is assigned to work under Ji Wook.
They work together on a mysterious case involving a sly psychopath murderer. As they’re working as a team, they develop affection between them.

It is my birth month! To celebrate I am forcing myself out of my slump and I am making plans to read! I have a friend who hosts a readathon that I thought would be a good place to start this month. There is also a readathon happening where you read books over 500 pages that I decided to participate in. So, here is my Readathin November 2019 and my Tome Topple TBR but that TBR will be up on the day that readathon starts (but there are hints in the image below).

The challenges for Readathin are below!

To fit these challenges, I have five books since I am doubling up on two challenges.

Challenge One and Five – Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

Challenge Two – Keeping Her by Cora Carmack

Challenge Three – Kingsbane by Claire Legrand

Challenge Four and Seven – The Guinevere Deception by Keirsten White

Challenge Six – Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan

Why hello there everyone! I hope October has been kinder to you than it has been to me. If you follow Kpop then you know some of the shit we have had thrown at us in the last couple weeks so I will not rehash all of that. I did want to come on and say that we are still alive.

Chelsea and I are still breathing (while it is hard some days, we are here). I am not going to speak for Chelsea and more other than the fact she is breathing because I know this month has hit her different than it has me and even while she is my best friend, I do not feel like I have the right to speak for her. So, continuing on, here is what has been going on in my life.

I took a break from reading. I took a break from watching anything that isn’t Kpop crack videos. I stopped posting on here. I do not think I have a recent picture on Instagram. I have not touched my YouTube channel in months. I took a break from the latter half of the comebacks from October. I got so overwhelmed with everything I just kind of stopped.

Towards the end of the month, I could feel myself wanting to crawl out of the hole I dug for myself so, here we are. I would sit and stare at my shelves and my books were calling to me. I started watching BookTube again. I was inspired for the first time in a long time. While I am still in that hole of life suck, I am starting to slowly coming out.

To start, I have been reading. I finally picked up a book and it’s kept my attention so that is a good sign. I picked up Lock Every Door by Riley Sager and I am about half way through it. I hope to finish it this weekend so I can get a review up sometime next week!

I have ideas for the blog again instead of the same thing every week. I mean, mostly it will still be the same things every week but I have some little sprinkles of ideas to change things up so please look forward to those.

I just recorded a little vlog-style Life Update for my Youtube channel! I think the last video I posted on there was in May and it was an announcement for a readathon I did nothing in. Before that the last video was in April and that was the end of the channel besides the Kpop concert vlogs I uploaded.

I am currently sitting on one vlog I need to get together and upload so hopefully that happens this weekend. By next week though, I would like to have my November Readathing TBR up as well as my TBR for Tome Topple happening in the next week.

So, all in all, things here are getting better. All I can do is keep pushing forward in hopes that all will be right in the world once more. Blog posts will resume, my Instagram should be active again, you will begin seeing my face on YouTube (I am so sorry), and I should meet my Goodreads Reading Challenge for the year.

I will see you on Monday with daily blog posts! Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to hearing from you then. ❤

Taylor

So, this month I had wonderful plans of reading a ton of books but once again, I only ended up reading five. Not that upset about it because I had a couple shows this month that kept me away from my books. Mangathon is starting on the 30th so whatever I read on the 30th I will mention in my Mangathon wrap up. That being said, here are the books that I read this month.

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
Dates Read: 09-01 to 09-05
Format: Audiobook
Rating: ★★★

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare
Dates Read: Aug to 09-16
Format: Audiobook
Rating: ★★★★

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Dates Read: 09-18 to 09-20
Format: Audio
Rating: ★★★★★

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Dates Read: 09-16 til 09-29
Format: Audiobook
Rating: ★★★★

The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
Dates Read: 09-10 til 09-30
Format: e-Book
Rating: ★★★

What books did you read this month? Which one was your favorite? Let me know in the comments!

A new month is beginning so that means we have a new round of RDP-athon! I am super excited for this month so without any more introduction, here are the eight songs and the challenges that match!

Our Dawn is Hotter than Day – Seventeen
Read a book that you meant to get to during the summer

Question by Stray Kids
Read a middle grade book

Blood Sweat and Tears by BTS
Read a new adult or an adult romance

Treasure by Ateez
Read a New York Time’s best seller

Simon Says by NCT 127
Read a witchy book

O Sole Mio by SF9
Read a book with a yellow cover or yellow on the cover

Baby Come Back Home by Target
Read a coming of age tale

Vroom Vroom by EXO – CBX
Read a book with a vehicle on the cover

Will you be participating this round? What are some songs we should look to add for future rounds? Let me know in the comments!

One of the prompts for the Random Dance Play-athon is to focus on a book with metal health rep, I chose a T5W topic that relates to it. The topic is to choose five books that feature Mental Health Awareness.

Number Five
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a book that deals with PTSD and social anxiety.

Number Four
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson is a book that deals with an eating disorder and trying to rehabilitate from it.

Number Three
Eliza and Her Monsters deals with PTSD, social anxiety, and social muteness.

Number Two
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell deals with social anxiety.

Number One
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo deals with many different things. The fear of skin on skin contact, PTSD, anxiety, and autism.