Hi, YouTube, it's Kathy, and today we're trying something a little bit different.
I've never made a monthly TBR before; I've made TBR's before for readathons,
but those are very short periods of time whereas a month seems like a very long
commitment to try to fit in certain books. But with the popularity of other
people picking peoples TBR's, I thought it would be really fun to get BookTube
to pick my TBR for May, so I reached out to some fellow BookTubers, asking if
they would send me a clip of a book that they want me to read. I did give them one
caveat, though: I gave them the website for my local libraries so they can make
sure the library had it because I do not have the money to suddenly be buying 10
new books. And since I gave them no instructions besides "a book that I
should read," they could be sending me terrible, terrible things just out of spite.
I have no idea. We're going to find out together. Initially I wanted to limit
this to like 5 to 8 people, but somehow I have 10 videos so we're gonna go with it,
and as an added bonus, we are watching these videos together because I haven't seen them yet.
And I'm very excited to see what people picked for me.
These are roughly in the order of how I received them, and let's see what people
want me to read in May. First up, Saajid. Yas, Queen. Saajid: Hi, everybody and hey Kathy.
Thank you for having me back on your channel for a second collab video. Today,
I will be picking out a book for you, and I remember when we were talking about
this I told you that there were two books that I sat at your library that I
wanted you to read, and I couldn't pick between them, and they were A Girl Like That,
as well as You Bring the Distant Near, but you can always read these at a
different time, because I just remembered that there's another book that I would
love to see you read, and shockingly it's at your library, and the book is called
Anna In-Between by Elizabeth Nunez. This is a book set in my country of Trinidad
and Tobago, specifically Trinidad. It never says throughout the book that it's
set in Trinidad, it just says a Caribbean island, but it is so clearly, obviously
Trinidad when you read it, at least to me. And then there's also the fact that the
author is from Trinidad and slightly based the book off her life experience.
You're going to be following a Middle East Trinidadian woman who has been
living in the United States for a very long time, and decides to return back
home to visit her parents, and upon doing so she discovers that her mother has
breast cancer. It's a very slow burn literary fiction novel, but it's very
easy to read. So go and get your - go put your hands on it. Go read it and let me know what you think.
Kathy: That sounds wonderful, because I've never read a book from Trinidad that I'm aware of,
so I'm very excited for this. Also my library's website - not only can you put
things on hold, but you can create lists of types of books so I've created a list
specifically for these picks so I can get the holds throughout the month of
May, instead of trying to get them all at the beginning and then finish them all
in three weeks. I try to be strategic about this.
All right, let's move on to our second one, and it's Angel.
Angel: Hello YouTube and Kathy, its Angel here and I am accepting your challenge to curate a TBR for you for
the month of May. I'm gonna give you, like, my top choice and then you can choose if
that's available or not - you can look at a few more and see what you want to read,
but I've read all these. Kathy: I love that I can see Paige in the background of
this video because I know what they both filmed their videos well Paige was
visiting Angel, so I love that. Angel: So I have good things to say ,so let's get started.
First I have The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty. I read this recently and I
really loved it, maybe even a little bit more than Big Little Lies.
I think it's available at your library; I couldn't really figure out the website
too well, but if it is I definitely recommend it. If not for the month of May,
at some point, because I really, really enjoyed it.
Next, I picked up Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed. I read this one
a couple months ago. Kathy: So, Love, Hate and Other Filters - my library doesn't have it yet,
but it's on order, and I believe I'm already on the holds list for it, so I
think I'm going to go with the first book but I just want to see what else
she talks about, because this clip is pretty long, so I just want to see what else.
Angel: My third book is something that Paige suggested on the last video, and we
really think that you should read it, and that is To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han.
We both really love this series. It's great. It's got family,
it's got baking, it's got romance: everything you could want in a contemporary book.
Kathy: Okay, yes, I still haven't read this series. I will put it
on my TBR, but possibly not for this month just because I like to be able to
pick what I'm reading throughout the month and since I already will, from this
list, have 10 books I have to read this month... Although my Goodreads to read list
is super unmanageable. oh it's already as want to read on there. Okay, well...
Fair enough.
Let's see what else she has to say. Angel: My last book which is the one that I'm going to
put as the top recommend, I think, because it's the most widely available at your
library, is the Anna and the French Kiss series by Stephanie Perkins.
Kathy: I'm going to put Anna and the French Kiss on this list that I'm creating and then that way I can do a
little bit of mood reading within the list if that makes any sense.
I will read ten books from this list, but because people are giving me extra
options... We also have it as an audiobook, so I'm gonna put that on the list
because I need some audiobooks for this month, because I listen to at least four
a months so... Alright. Angel's so cute. Okay, next we have Paige. Oh, yup same set up.
Love it, love it.
[Kathy giggles] Paige: Just, just doing a thang. Why not?
Kathy: [laughs] I love that you just sent me all your raw footage. I'm really excited to play with it.
Paige: Kathy! There's Angel. Cool thing about living close to one another
is that, like, we can do things together. That sounds like I'm throwing shade at Kathy for living in Canada.
Kathy: It did sound like you were throwing shade at me. I was like, yes, but, like I live literally on the
other side of the continent. Like, you - I've come to visit you now it's your
turn to come to visit me.
Paige: Uh, you know what? I'm gonna give you a choice. Kathy: This does not surprise me.
Paige: I have a whole, good, long lists of books that I like. One of my favourite books that is available
through your library as an e-book is called Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz.
I read this when I was in, like, middle school, I wanna say.
It's all about magic and mystery and murder at a boarding school.
Kathy: Now, I should have known that people were gonna have like, "how could I pick one book?" but
-because that's exactly how I would feel, but like, for some reason I didn't anticipate this.
Just gonna put all these things on one list and then read ten of them in May.
Hopefully. Obviously, I'll let you know how I do with that.
Paige: I really liked In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, which through your library should be
available as an audiobook. I like Everything is Awful by Matt Bellassai.
You can get the physical book, apparently, through your library. It's very funny.
Kathy: Funnily enough, we have two different books with the title
Everything is Awful, but I'll put the one you suggested on the list as opposed to the other one.
Paige: I also might suggest An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir,
which is one of my favourite books that I read last year. But one of my favourite
books and I've ever read is called Beauty by Robin McKinley. It is...
Beauty and the Beast. It's much closer to the original fairy tale than the Disney
version, but it's a version of the original fairy tale that I really like.
Kathy: I was scrolling through that list of authors who have "beauty" and the title of
their books for so long that my camera stopped recording. Okay, yes, I have found it.
I will put it on the list. Paige: The last one on the list for you to choose from
is Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion. It's essentially Romeo and Juliet with
zombies, in the apocalypse. Science doesn't matter. It's kind of fantastical
more than, like, scientific zombies but I'm okay with that.
Right! Now on to Rogan; what do you have for me?
A Darker Shade of Magic.
All right, sounds great. I've - I've heard of this book before. I've never picked it up,
and I'm excited to have a reason to do so. I like Rogan's recommendations.
Rogan reads some good stuff, so if Rogan liked it, I will probably
enjoy my time. So it turns out I only have nine videos, not ten. That's good.
I just - when I was numbering them, I missed the number five. That's fine.
One less thing to read. That's good. That - that is helpful, actually. Maybe I'll read
one of the extra things people have told me read. Jess, what do you got for me?
Jess: Hi, Kathy it's Jess from From Me to You Video, Photography, and Book Reviews,
and also From Jess to You Services, and for your TBR I'm choosing the one that you won for my
giveaway contest for my client Michelle. It is stand alone so you don't need
to worry that it's the last book in her book of four for her Harmony Homecoming series.
But this is Sweet Southern Trouble.
Kathy: I did win this from Jess a while ago and it's been sitting on my shelf mocking me
because I keep going to the library instead of picking up books I have in my possession.
It's a slight problem. I mean, I'm at the library five days a week so...
Jess: You did win this book and I did send it to you. I liked it so much because of how empowering
I felt Mirabelle as character was. I'm hoping you feel the same way.
Kathy: It is actually good to have a kick in the butt to read something I already own so thank you for that.
Louis: Hey all, it's Louisity, so I'm working right now with Kathy Trithardt -
I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing your name correctly.
Kathy: It's okay; nobody does. Louis: And I was actually a bit torn about some of the
books because I would like to recommend a lot to you, but I think the one book that I would
recommend would have to be this one... it's Before Ever After. This is written by a
Filipino author, Samantha Sotto, so I'm sharing this to you as a Filipino myself.
Kathy: I don't think I've read anything from the Philippines, as well. I would
have to double-check. I've got a list, but... Louis: This follows a story about Shelley,
who, the love of her life passed away. And it has been, like, years since and she hasn't moved on.
Then one day somebody knocks on her door who looks kind of like her love of her
life, and then from there that's when the story goes. So as a Filipino, you know I'm so proud of
Samantha Sotto because she's making waves overseas. Kathy: Yeah, we definitely have that, so cool.
One of the cool things about getting BookTube to pick my books is obviously
BookTube is international, so I'm glad that my international friends are giving
me some international reads. And... perfect. now we're on to Chantel.
Chantel: Hi Kathy, it's Chantel from the Mommy Bookworm, and the book I think you should read for May
is Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed. It is about a young girl who's immigrant
family is from Pakistan and they've come to America. Their only rule for their
daughter is that they will choose her husband. This is all great until she
meets and falls in love with Saif, who is not a part of her culture and her family
disapproves, so they travel back to Pakistan in order to show her her roots
and visit family. Well, what she doesn't know is they have found her a husband
and they want her to marry him now. So this is a definite read. I liked it and I
would love to see what you have to say about it.
Kathy: I've heard of this one. I remember, I'm pretty sure Saajid has talked about this one at some point and
it's just one I never got around to reading, so again, I'm really excited to
have no reason to pick it up. All right, next we're on to Desirai.
Desirai: Hi, Kathy. Desirai from Libri Labra here. and my recommendation for you is to read
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai. Elan Mastai is a Canadian
screenwriter who is responsible for working on What If with the Daniel Radcliffe,
and All Our Wrong Todays is kind of like a sci-fi, time-traveling
romance ish story. Kathy: I like all of those things.
Desirai: The story follows main character Tom Barren going from his utopian 2016 to somehow ending
up in what we would consider 2016, which is very dystopian to him. If presented
with the choice of getting the e-book or the audiobook, I would strongly suggest
getting the audiobook. It's read by the author and he does a phenomenal job.
Kathy: We do have it as an audiobook. Putting both the physical book and the audiobook on the
list, although I think that I will end up doing the audiobook, given how much
you were just super excited about the author reading it.
We have one more video. Let's see it what the last person wants me to read.
Brianna: Hello my name is Brianna from Coffee, Books and Bullet Journals, and I have a book recommendation
for you that I think that you're going to love. This is actually a book that I am currently
reading right now, and I am loving it. I'm about half way through it and I
would love to see what you think of it, and that book is Behold the Dreamers by
Imbolo Mbue. It is all about a Cameroonian immigrant family who becomes
a driver for a Wall Street exec, and then his wife goes to work for- at
the house, and it just kind of goes through those - kind of seeing those two
families and seeing how different their lives are. In this, it all takes place in
2007, so right before the recession. That whole living in the high life and then
just everything crashing down. So I think that you're really going to like this book.
At least, I hope you will. It's a little bit different than, you know, some
of the stuff that you read, but I really think that you're going to love it.
Kathy: I've definitely seen this one come through the library before. So I think my biggest
fear going into this project is that somebody would be, like, mean and make me
read something just because the library had it, and not necessarily because they
think that I would enjoy it, but everyone is so nice, so why did I even think that
was going to be a thing? Like, am I becoming a conspiracy theorist all of a sudden?
I don't know. Out of those 9 submissions I have [16] books to
choose from, and some of them are available in physical or audio so
there's definitely some flexibility throughout this month, which is very, very helpful.
So obviously I will talk about these books if I read them during my
Weekly Entertainment Wrap Ups, but if you just want to be surprised and see how my
I end up reading throughout the month of May, just come back from my May wrap up.
It really depends on what kind of style you enjoy, because the weekly wrap ups, I
talk about things that I've just read, watched, and listen to, whereas with the
monthly wrap ups, I do all of the nerdy stats and facts and that type of thing,
and then also give my star ratings. Okay, I have some decisions to make to figure
out which book I want to tackle first, so I'm going to do that. Obviously because
all these people were lovely enough to send me in clips for this collab, all of
their channels are linked down, below so you should go check them out.
If you've read any of these books, let me know about it down in the comments below.
No spoilers, please, because obviously I haven't yet. On the way down to the
comments, if you hit that Subscribe button, that would be very nice of you.
You can like and share this as you see fit and I will see you next time. Bye!
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