We are coming at the midway point of the year and that means Summer is upon us! Like every quarter Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us what our TBR for the season will be. What books do we really want to read in the next 3 months?
I’m not home when this posts. I will try and link up through my phone but I won’t be able to jump on by. I’ll be doing that later this week ❤
Looking back, I had a reasonable ambitious tbr for spring. There were 12 books on there. Ten first reads and two rereads. I read the two rereads and then read another four. That leaves six.
The Books I read of My Spring TBR: A Thousand Beginnings and Endings / Good Omens / The Copper Cat Trilogy / The Final Days of Magic
As for this Summer, that will be a whole different ball game. Merijn will have far less grandpa days, no pre-school and as he will be turning 3 he will also likely be napping even less. This all means a whole lot less reading time for mom. I was only going to pick 5 books for this tbr but meh why not just go for 10 anyway.
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Fantasy and Sci-Fi Reading Challenge
This was a gift from my husband for our 5th wedding anniversary and seems like a great book to set my teeth in during Summer.
The Awakening (Graveyard Queen 6) by Amanda Stevens
15 TBR in 2019 / 10 Series to Finish
I think it is time I finished of this series.
His Majesty’s Dragons (Temeraire 1) by Naomi Novik
It is time. I have the first 7 books. I can no longer avoid this.
The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive 1) by Brandon Sanderson
15 TBR in 2019 / Dancing with Fantasy and Sci-Fi Reading Challenge
Fool’s Fate (Tawny Man 3) by Robin Hobb
10 Series to Finish
I keep stalling on finishing this trilogy. Bad me.
Grey Sister (Book of the Ancestor 2) by Mark Lawrence
Dancing with Fantasy and Sci-Fi Reading Challenge
I read the first book earlier this year and bought this right after finishing it. I just haven’t had time to pick it up yet.
Bitter Twins (Winnowing Flame 2) by Jen Williams
Wyrd and Wonder
As this post I should already be reading this for the continued readalong we are doing, left over from Wyrd and Wonder.
The Sword of Kaigen (Theonite Companion) by M.L. Wang
Year of the Asian Reading Challenge
This lovely book I won from the author in May and I’ve only heard good things so I really hope I can get on this one
Perido Street Station (New Crobuzon 1) by China Mievelle
Dancing with Fantasy and Sci-Fi Reading Challenge
As I was researching what books i could read for certain prompts for my reading challenge I came across this book and found a translated one in my libraries online catalogue. So here we are. My interested was piqued.
The Emerald Storm (Riyria Revelations 4) by Michael J. Sullivan
5 Series to Read from Start to Finish
Its about time I get near completion of this. After this one just 2 more to go. ❤
You have some fantastic books on your list, many from series I want to read, but just haven’t gotten to yet.
Happy reading.
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Isn’t that the story of our book lives?
Thank you!
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The priory of the orange tree is on my TBR as well! It’s so huge.
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It is! I’m kind of scared haha.
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Great list! I’m listening to the audiobook of Grey Sister right now and I’m enjoying it much more than Red Sister. 🙂 The Priory of the Orange Tree’s on my TBR too, and I need to check out Temeraire at some point!
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I’ve actually finished Temeraire already and it was so good!
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There’s a lot of books on here that I haven’t had the pleasure of knowing about until this post, so thank you for including them!
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You are welcome. Always ready to share more love 😉
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Perdido Street Station is one of my all time favorite books!
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That is great to hear. I hope I love it too.
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I remember those toddler times. I hated summer then. I hope you get some reading time in.
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Fingers crossed!
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The Tawney Man books are my fav of Hobb’s. Totally worth completing the trilogy. So much happens and is revealed.
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Yes so much was already in those first two!
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Priory of the Orange Tree is so big. I’m a bit intimidated by it, but it sounds so amazing. I hope you enjoy all the books you pick up this summer.
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Same! I hope I love it.
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Great list! I want to read Priory too but it’s just so big it’s hella intimidating. I guess the same can be said for Way of Kings but I just love Sanderson so it doesn’t seem as intimidating? Lol happy reading 🙂
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It is. For me I think The Way of Kings is just as intimidating because Sanderson and I have not gotten along just quite yet haha.
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Fair enough! It’s a pretty hefty chunk of a book 😂 Hope you do enjoy it if/when you get to it though!
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That is a great anniversary gift! Your hubby is totally killing it. 😉 I bought a Kindle copy, and I’m looking forward to reading Priory, as well. Temeraire is NINE books long?! My goodness. I mean, I’ll have to read it eventually, of course, because dragons, but man is that daunting haha. I hope it’s good! I haven’t read The Stormlight Archive yet, but I’ll be picking up Mistborn next month, so yay for Brandon Sanderson! Happy reading.
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That he is haha. YES, so long but the books aren’t very big. Mostly around 300 pages so very doable.
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I hope you’ll be able to find enough reading time this summer. Good luck with all of the changes going on in your life!
My TTT.
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Fingers crossed!
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Not only did you pick 10 books, you pick a lot of HUGE books! Haha its a great list tho! I have been meaning to read the Temeraire series forever too, and I just bought the first book, so maybe I will actually get around to it 😀
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Haha yup that is the hazard of being a fantasy reader haha. I have read the first temeraire book now and I loved it. It’s not perfect but I flew through it.
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I’m not sure when I’ll get to it but The Priory of the Orange Tree is one I’d really like to read too. I’ve seen so many wonderful reviews for it.
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Yes me too! I hope to start it this week actually.
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Robin Hobb! 👍✨
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Of course
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Hallo, Hallo Annemieke,
Congratulations on your son’s third birthday!! 🙂 I can’t wait to be a Mum myself – I’m hoping to adopt a sibling group of boys in the future. Unsure if I ever shared that with you previously? I keep forgetting your a Mum!
Although I focused on talking about #MyYASummer for this week’s TTT I’ll be hopefully getting back into PRIORY this July as I’ll be making an announcement about the #IronTomeAThon (for July) lateron this week for which PRIORY is a part of it! (big smiles) You might remember, I attempted to read it for Wyrd And Wonder this year but 5x migraines did me in! 😦 I’m still trying to finalise my final review for the event, compose my wrap-up to run this end of June and talk about how I pushed forward the final reviews into either a) this Summer or b) our mini-event #SpooktasticReads this October!! (bigger smiles)
Even TTT was delayed this week due to an epic horrid flood + plumbing diaster in the bathroom which encroached on my room, the living room, kitchen, laundry room – lets just say it was at least half the flat covered in 3in of not the kind of water you want in your house? Aye…. better days are ahead.. I can feel them! One blessing – despite the stress and the hard work to clean/launder/fix the house back to rights, I was left with horrid back pain but I’m still #migraine-free which is something in of itself, right?
I want to read Novik’s series as well. I just need to sort out when to read it – still thinking I need to *keep!* all the lovelies of #dragonfiction ready for W&W Y3!! lol Except for PRIORY, of course. What a sweet anniversary gift for you!!
All the others are #newtomeauthors – so I’ll have to await your notes/reactions.
Here’s to an epic lovely #SummerReads fest for us both!!
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Well he doesn’t turn 3 until the end of August but thanks 😉 Oh that is so cool. No you haven’t!
Ugh reading between that is hard but with such a tome, there is no way. Nooo. I hope everything is fixed and there is no smell hanging in the flat? Please take it easy with yourself. ❤
Haha I mean dragons are a 100% wyrd and wonder. And Temeraire is around 300 pages so a really quick read.
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I’d really love to read Grey Sister, I’ve got a copy on my shelf! I also have a copy of Sword of Kaigen that multiple people tell me I need to read. Enjoy your summer books!
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There is a actually a readalong happening at the end of the month for Sword of Kaigen on Instagram if you want to join. It starts July 22nd. Hold on as I try and find the post… Ah here it is: https://www.instagram.com/p/BzCvHh6AT0R/
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Ooo, good to know, thanks!
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I really wish Priory had been the poll winner on Twitter because all three of us could have been reading it at the same time. 😏
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Hah but I am reading it now anyway 😉
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Ik kijk zelf heel erg uit naar Wild Country van Anne Bishop. Dat boek kreeg ik cadeau van mijn lieve schoonouders en ik ben aan het twijfelen of ik het nu al zou lezen of het zou sparen tegen augustus vermits ik het dan voor één van mijn prompts zou kunenn gebruiken. Dilemma’s, dilemma’s … Hopelijk kan je deze zomer toch nog wat leestijd vinden zodat je werk kan maken van deze leeslijst. Hier ligt het lezen plots weer wat stiller. Maar misschien komt het binnenkort weer wat meer op gang. Eerst even wat meer energie bij elkaar sprokkelen. 🙂
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Nog heeeeeel even sparen. 😉 Ik heb ondertussen 4 van de 10 gelezen al was dit nog terwijl Merijn nog naar opa en school ging. Nu 6 hele weken niet haha.
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