Yes, yes, and YES!!! I agree on all points. It's fun, it is useful at times, and why not!?! Also, calling them TBRs uses a term people are familiar with on booktube to describe or stack of books. It shouldn't matter whether or not we read them so long as we're reading something. Plus, it's interesting to hear why someone didn't read something.
I love watching TBR videos and I also love to make my own TBR. I love making lists too and I also love to have a plan but I almost never complete them 🙈 (that goes for TBR but also for house chores 😅). Basically, I'm a mood reader but at the same time I love to plan the perfect reading schedule and sequence. Oh, here's my emoji 📝
Yes! Lists are great, but I also never complete them. But on the off chance that we do ever complete a list, it’s so satisfying! I’m glad I’m not the only one, thanks for sharing what you do. 😊📚
I like watching tbr videos, so glad you're continuing!! Each month I have book club book, a buddy read, tbr spin and Ben's reading challenge. Anything after that is free choice (women's prize excluded!!). I make sort of tbrs, I guess at the moment I talk about the plans at the end of my Friday reads videos. I totally agree that making a tbr for a readathon is sooo fun (& better than reading the books 😂).
It’s definitely more fun than actually reading the books! 😂 I think the things you’re participating in means you have a good mix of set books and free choice. I also really like how you share your next books as well as recent reads in your Friday reads videos. 😊📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf Thanks Alice - that also helps me work through my plans so that I don't forget what I'm doing/ figure out what I fancy next 😊
I ask myself this question so often! I always make TBRs but I don't stick to them as much as I'd like to. xD I think my TBRs help me to prioritize the books I really want to read, so they do seem to have a purpose after all. 🤣
I love lists but a TBR is the kiss of death for my reading. I really like your way of referring to it as possibilities, though. I think I'll work on trying to reframe the way I think about my reading plan. Great video and thanks for talking about this! 🤔📋
I can see that! Sometimes I make the list and get really excited about it, other times I look at the list and think nope. Thinking of it as possibilities definitely helps me. Thanks for your comment. 😊📚
Interesting, this is how I am with most other prizes, I like watching other people’s videos so I don’t have to participate myself. 😂 June plans video is filmed and I’m excited for this experiment! 😂📚📚📚
Interesting topic, Alice. 😊 I don’t read e-books either. I love a physical book. I’ve recently started listening to audiobooks, but it has to fit a certain criteria in order for me to stay engaged. My preference for reading is a physical book. I abandoned making monthly TBRs around the new year and feel more free. I could never read all the books each month, and I’m a mood reader. So, I was feeling constricted by my monthly TBR. Also, I don’t have the time to film videos like I did last year, so I decided to scrap the monthly TBR in favor of a monthly wrap up. I will make a TBR (pile of possibilities, really) for my readathons, knowing I might not get to all of the selections, but the readathon TBR is mainly to keep me organized and help give my friends who are participating some recommendations. I love your reasons for continuing to make TBRS. 😊 I love to shop my shelves for readathons, too. Enjoyable video. 🌸 Happy Reading! 📚
I would agree on audiobooks, I’m certainly fussier about what I listen to and will be quite careful listening to samples because I find it hard to pay attention if I don’t get on with the narrator. Physical books all the way! Can completely understand needing to scrap the monthly TBR to fit in other things too. I love shopping my shelves but I think sometimes I get too carried away with how many readathons I think I can manage. 😂 Happy reading, Kat! 😊📚
I‘m a very list oriented person, so I don’t love it when I don’t cross off everything on my TBR! This is why I rarely create monthly TBR videos, last year I created seasonal TBRs to give myself more time to read (not that I managed to read all lol). Your video just gave me an idea to do a reading vlog where I only read books I haven’t gotten to from preorder TBR video!😊 so thank you!!
At the minute I'm acing my tbr's and reading everything or almost everything off of them. But give it a few months and I'm sure that I'll be failing every tbr and not reading anything from them 🤣 but I like having the option of structure, whether or not I follow the structure!
My tbr is all over the place: sometimes I have one, sometimes not, sometimes I put my books in order of how I want to read them, sometimes not, sometimes a book will launch itself into my hands, and I have to drop everything and read that one. 🤷🏻♀️ I, too, absolutely love lists, so I sometimes watch booktube for recommendations, sometimes..... er.... who am I kidding, I always do this! I'm on pins and needles to hear your June plan! My only plan for June is to read more LGBTQIA books, or rather, more than normal. 💚
I love to make TBR lists but once I make the list, I’m kinda rebellious and say to myself “but you are not the boss of me!” I also have to “gear up” to read a significant book with lots of drama or investing on my part. Demon Copperhead and Razorblade Tears are two examples. Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth is a book I really want to read but I’m not sure I want to invest the time. Sigh!
Haha I love that. I quite often have the opposite problem that as soon as I have made the list I want to read those books immediately but don’t have time because I’m still reading the previous TBR! 😂 If a book is complicated or long I will definitely have to gear up for it! 😊📚
I love TBR videos, but I love anything about books. 😂 I have an informal TBR every month because I do book clubs and buddy reads, but I’ve been thinking that I need to start slotting in more that I have on my shelves. Maybe make that my bedside table book. Of course it takes me forever to read my bedside table book because I nod off so quickly. Good problems to have.
That sounds like me, too. I just love everything about books! I’ve been trying to prioritise my shelves for years now (even before RUclips), sometimes it goes well and sometimes it doesn’t! 😂 I’ve been listening to an audiobook in bed and I think I’m progressing about 5 minutes or less per day at the moment! 😊📚
Love the graphs and the disclaimer that the maths may be wrong 😂 I enjoy watching tbrs but don't make them often. When I do it's usually because I'm doing a themed reading month like for Pride or Halloween. Plus, I am largely a mood reader. Looking forward to hearing about your plans for June 🤔
I love TBR followed by the wrap up video. Not everyone goes back over their TBR when they make their wrap up, and like you I enjoy Gem of Books' wrap ups! 📚📚🤔
I never go back over my TBR unless to say, I’m still reading these ones, but my favourite TBR to watch each month is Gem’s because I love hearing how she’s got on! 😊📚
Great video. I had a lot of fun planning and making my 24 books I definitely plan to read in 2024. Think I've only read 5 of those and reading the 6th. I am going to do a reading goals progress type video on my other channel at the end of June or start of July. I've thought of doing the monthly TBR because I like watching those, but I'm lucky if I read 3 books a month, so didn't know if it would be worth it.
I always sort my books by the order in which I'm going to read them . That way i don't have too many of the same genre or even the same series in a row . Do what ever makes you Happy , Alice ! And take the pressure off your self ! Have a great day !
🤔I used to do a TBR but at the end of last year, I realized that half the books slid into the next month and the end of the year, there was a stack I hadn't read. I love to read, but I have limited time. This month I took off all group reads because I wanted to finish the books I have been reading. I am doing very well, and I am enjoying it. I have a literal stack of books I want to get to next on my writing desk, and when I read one and I go to my bookshelf and pick a non-read book to replace it and read that. It just seems more efficient to me. Next month I will do group reads again but I will only pick one book, that way my reading is fun and I don't get stressed or depressed.
Great idea to take a finishing off month! Thanks for sharing what you do with your stack, I love hearing how people organise their books and TBR. That’s so sensible to pick one group read only, I definitely did too many buddy and group reads for comfort sometimes in the past and I’ve cut down to ensure reading stays enjoyable. 😊📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf thank you, finishing the books is fun and a relief. Without the self-imposed pressure I seem to read faster, even though I have the same amount of reading time. I have only dnf'd one book this month. And it made me think that sometimes I didn't get along with a book because I was stressed and in a bad mood. And most of all worried about finishing on time. The good thing is that if a group read is a re-read I can just slip in an audio book next month and that will cut my read my time, so my group read will be done and I can focus on my for fun reads. So far, so good.☺
I love watching your TBR (or PoP) videos!! I have unread books in 4 areas of my home. I rotate among the 4, treating them like a PoP and choosing a book from each area in sequence. One area is predominantly fantasy and another contains my oldest unread books. The other 2 are a mix of genres with mystery being the dominant choice. I own more books than I can possibly read in my lifetime, but I have fun looking through them to pick out the next read!! I look forward to your "new" TBR for June. Also, you mentioned possibly making a video about all your series in your most recent video. I'd love to see that!!😊
Thanks BJ. I love hearing about how people organise and choose their books, I like the sound of your system. I will definitely make a full series video at some point. 😊📚
Big love for this video! I absolutely love making tbrs, but I rarely stick to them, for almost all the reasons you mentioned. What is breaking my neck regularly are the xx 🤫 libraries I am a member of. And booktube of course. I also love watching tbrs. Long live the tbr!!! 📚 I also wanted to check on StoryGraph if there's a book on each of our piles, that we could possibly do as a buddy read. But it seems like you don't allow buddy reads on there. 📃
Ooh I would love that. I’ve done a buddy read on StoryGraph before so don’t know why it’s doing that. Any ideas how I change it to allow them? I’ll take a look. 😊📚 Love TBRs!
Having a think about it and looking at the buddy reads section, it might be that I’ve not put a TBR list on there for some reason. I’ll try and sort it tomorrow. 😊
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf I first thought it might be because you don't allow friends, only followers. But that can't be the reason, when you already did a buddy read on there. Thanks for checking!
I found it. You can set up in the preferences, who you are allowing to ask for a buddy read. But to find a possible book for a buddy read, you also need a tbr on there of course. 🙃
I love a tbr video, especially those that include a game or random selection. I’ve made the mistake of counting how many unread books I have on my shelves and it would appear that I too have ‘way too many books ( in the same ball park as you). Do you know what proportion of the books you read each month come from your physical tbr?
Not exactly, but I could work out that stat from my wrap ups as I always make a graphic that breaks down how many were books, audiobooks, physical TBR, library books etc. I love a good stat so I am trying to track this on StoryGraph now as well by tagging the physical TBR books. I’m always glad I’m not the only one with “way too many books”- always good to have a selection on hand though! 😊📚
So far this year I’ve read 56 books, of which 22 were from the physical TBR so that’s 39% roughly so far. January 6/14 February 6/9 March 4/10 and April 4/17 It’s definitely been library books derailing it in March and April. I didn’t count any that I bought and read within the month in those numbers. Hope that’s not super boring. 😂
Not boring at all. My percentage is higher but my numbers are lower. This month I’ve been derailed by Misery May. 🤔. I have read A Woman is no Man on ebook, though ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I love TBRs! I think they help me read books that would otherwise languish on my shelf. I have no shame in not completing them however!
Excellent! That’s my general view on it too, and at least it helps me keep in mind some of my older books I could read. 😊📚
I love TBRs, too, though I often fail to stick to my own!
It’s so much fun making TBRs! 😊📚
I definitely keep a running list of what I'd like to read in a month so it's a no pressure TBR. I can't wait to see what you're up to for June.
Thank you! The June plans will be here very soon. 😊📚
Yes, yes, and YES!!! I agree on all points. It's fun, it is useful at times, and why not!?! Also, calling them TBRs uses a term people are familiar with on booktube to describe or stack of books. It shouldn't matter whether or not we read them so long as we're reading something. Plus, it's interesting to hear why someone didn't read something.
Thank you! I’m glad it’s not just me who loves TBRs regardless of whether or not I read the books on them. 😊📚
I love watching TBR videos and I also love to make my own TBR. I love making lists too and I also love to have a plan but I almost never complete them 🙈 (that goes for TBR but also for house chores 😅). Basically, I'm a mood reader but at the same time I love to plan the perfect reading schedule and sequence. Oh, here's my emoji 📝
Yes! Lists are great, but I also never complete them. But on the off chance that we do ever complete a list, it’s so satisfying! I’m glad I’m not the only one, thanks for sharing what you do. 😊📚
I like watching tbr videos, so glad you're continuing!!
Each month I have book club book, a buddy read, tbr spin and Ben's reading challenge. Anything after that is free choice (women's prize excluded!!).
I make sort of tbrs, I guess at the moment I talk about the plans at the end of my Friday reads videos.
I totally agree that making a tbr for a readathon is sooo fun (& better than reading the books 😂).
It’s definitely more fun than actually reading the books! 😂 I think the things you’re participating in means you have a good mix of set books and free choice. I also really like how you share your next books as well as recent reads in your Friday reads videos. 😊📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf Thanks Alice - that also helps me work through my plans so that I don't forget what I'm doing/ figure out what I fancy next 😊
I ask myself this question so often! I always make TBRs but I don't stick to them as much as I'd like to. xD I think my TBRs help me to prioritize the books I really want to read, so they do seem to have a purpose after all. 🤣
My TBR experience is very similar to yours, although I try to give myself a fair amount of grace with it!
I’m definitely giving myself more and more grace as time goes on! 😊📚
I love making tbrs 😊 I always plan less than I know I will read so I can mood read. They are fun videos to watch 😊💜
Love that you do both the TBR and the mood reading! 💛📚
I love lists but a TBR is the kiss of death for my reading. I really like your way of referring to it as possibilities, though. I think I'll work on trying to reframe the way I think about my reading plan. Great video and thanks for talking about this! 🤔📋
I can see that! Sometimes I make the list and get really excited about it, other times I look at the list and think nope. Thinking of it as possibilities definitely helps me. Thanks for your comment. 😊📚
I love watching TBR videos I just struggle with making a TBR myself 😂❤ Looking forward to your June project 🤔✅📋❤
Interesting, this is how I am with most other prizes, I like watching other people’s videos so I don’t have to participate myself. 😂 June plans video is filmed and I’m excited for this experiment! 😂📚📚📚
I love watching tbrs too but never make one of my own!
Fair enough! 😊📚
I'm a sucker for planning what I'm reading and then it all goes to pot! 🤣
Yes me too! Love a good plan but almost always see something shiny and don’t complete the plan! 😂
Interesting topic, Alice. 😊 I don’t read e-books either. I love a physical book. I’ve recently started listening to audiobooks, but it has to fit a certain criteria in order for me to stay engaged. My preference for reading is a physical book.
I abandoned making monthly TBRs around the new year and feel more free. I could never read all the books each month, and I’m a mood reader. So, I was feeling constricted by my monthly TBR. Also, I don’t have the time to film videos like I did last year, so I decided to scrap the monthly TBR in favor of a monthly wrap up.
I will make a TBR (pile of possibilities, really) for my readathons, knowing I might not get to all of the selections, but the readathon TBR is mainly to keep me organized and help give my friends who are participating some recommendations.
I love your reasons for continuing to make TBRS. 😊 I love to shop my shelves for readathons, too. Enjoyable video. 🌸 Happy Reading! 📚
I would agree on audiobooks, I’m certainly fussier about what I listen to and will be quite careful listening to samples because I find it hard to pay attention if I don’t get on with the narrator. Physical books all the way!
Can completely understand needing to scrap the monthly TBR to fit in other things too. I love shopping my shelves but I think sometimes I get too carried away with how many readathons I think I can manage. 😂 Happy reading, Kat! 😊📚
I love your TBR videos!
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I‘m a very list oriented person, so I don’t love it when I don’t cross off everything on my TBR! This is why I rarely create monthly TBR videos, last year I created seasonal TBRs to give myself more time to read (not that I managed to read all lol).
Your video just gave me an idea to do a reading vlog where I only read books I haven’t gotten to from preorder TBR video!😊 so thank you!!
That's a great idea! Glad to have given you some inspiration for a video. I like the idea of seasonal TBRs! 😊📚
At the minute I'm acing my tbr's and reading everything or almost everything off of them. But give it a few months and I'm sure that I'll be failing every tbr and not reading anything from them 🤣 but I like having the option of structure, whether or not I follow the structure!
My TBRs go like that too for sure. I absolutely agree, like having the option of the structure in place. 😊📚
My tbr is all over the place: sometimes I have one, sometimes not, sometimes I put my books in order of how I want to read them, sometimes not, sometimes a book will launch itself into my hands, and I have to drop everything and read that one. 🤷🏻♀️ I, too, absolutely love lists, so I sometimes watch booktube for recommendations, sometimes..... er.... who am I kidding, I always do this! I'm on pins and needles to hear your June plan! My only plan for June is to read more LGBTQIA books, or rather, more than normal. 💚
Absolutely know what you mean on those pesky books that launch themselves into our hands without warning and we have to read them regardless! 😂📚
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Thank you. 😊📚
I love to make TBR lists but once I make the list, I’m kinda rebellious and say to myself “but you are not the boss of me!” I also have to “gear up” to read a significant book with lots of drama or investing on my part. Demon Copperhead and Razorblade Tears are two examples. Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth is a book I really want to read but I’m not sure I want to invest the time. Sigh!
Haha I love that. I quite often have the opposite problem that as soon as I have made the list I want to read those books immediately but don’t have time because I’m still reading the previous TBR! 😂
If a book is complicated or long I will definitely have to gear up for it! 😊📚
Pillars of the Earth is so worth the read! 🤗📚❤️
I love TBR videos, but I love anything about books. 😂 I have an informal TBR every month because I do book clubs and buddy reads, but I’ve been thinking that I need to start slotting in more that I have on my shelves. Maybe make that my bedside table book. Of course it takes me forever to read my bedside table book because I nod off so quickly. Good problems to have.
That sounds like me, too. I just love everything about books! I’ve been trying to prioritise my shelves for years now (even before RUclips), sometimes it goes well and sometimes it doesn’t! 😂 I’ve been listening to an audiobook in bed and I think I’m progressing about 5 minutes or less per day at the moment! 😊📚
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Love the graphs and the disclaimer that the maths may be wrong 😂 I enjoy watching tbrs but don't make them often. When I do it's usually because I'm doing a themed reading month like for Pride or Halloween. Plus, I am largely a mood reader. Looking forward to hearing about your plans for June 🤔
I can never be quite sure of my maths! Not even when it’s just the TBR went down by two so I need to take away 2 from the last number! 😂
I love TBR followed by the wrap up video. Not everyone goes back over their TBR when they make their wrap up, and like you I enjoy Gem of Books' wrap ups! 📚📚🤔
I never go back over my TBR unless to say, I’m still reading these ones, but my favourite TBR to watch each month is Gem’s because I love hearing how she’s got on! 😊📚
Great video. I had a lot of fun planning and making my 24 books I definitely plan to read in 2024. Think I've only read 5 of those and reading the 6th. I am going to do a reading goals progress type video on my other channel at the end of June or start of July. I've thought of doing the monthly TBR because I like watching those, but I'm lucky if I read 3 books a month, so didn't know if it would be worth it.
Thanks Harmony. It’s a lot of fun to make a bigger list to give priority ideas for the year, I enjoy that too. 😊📚
I always sort my books by the order in which I'm going to read them . That way i don't have too many of the same genre or even the same series in a row . Do what ever makes you Happy , Alice ! And take the pressure off your self ! Have a great day !
I like this idea, it sounds like it gives you variety! My plan for June will definitely make me happy (I hope). Have a great day, David. 😊📚
🤔I used to do a TBR but at the end of last year, I realized that half the books slid into the next month and the end of the year, there was a stack I hadn't read. I love to read, but I have limited time. This month I took off all group reads because I wanted to finish the books I have been reading. I am doing very well, and I am enjoying it. I have a literal stack of books I want to get to next on my writing desk, and when I read one and I go to my bookshelf and pick a non-read book to replace it and read that. It just seems more efficient to me. Next month I will do group reads again but I will only pick one book, that way my reading is fun and I don't get stressed or depressed.
Great idea to take a finishing off month! Thanks for sharing what you do with your stack, I love hearing how people organise their books and TBR. That’s so sensible to pick one group read only, I definitely did too many buddy and group reads for comfort sometimes in the past and I’ve cut down to ensure reading stays enjoyable. 😊📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf thank you, finishing the books is fun and a relief. Without the self-imposed pressure I seem to read faster, even though I have the same amount of reading time. I have only dnf'd one book this month. And it made me think that sometimes I didn't get along with a book because I was stressed and in a bad mood. And most of all worried about finishing on time. The good thing is that if a group read is a re-read I can just slip in an audio book next month and that will cut my read my time, so my group read will be done and I can focus on my for fun reads. So far, so good.☺
I love watching your TBR (or PoP) videos!! I have unread books in 4 areas of my home. I rotate among the 4, treating them like a PoP and choosing a book from each area in sequence. One area is predominantly fantasy and another contains my oldest unread books. The other 2 are a mix of genres with mystery being the dominant choice. I own more books than I can possibly read in my lifetime, but I have fun looking through them to pick out the next read!!
I look forward to your "new" TBR for June. Also, you mentioned possibly making a video about all your series in your most recent video. I'd love to see that!!😊
Thanks BJ. I love hearing about how people organise and choose their books, I like the sound of your system.
I will definitely make a full series video at some point. 😊📚
Big love for this video! I absolutely love making tbrs, but I rarely stick to them, for almost all the reasons you mentioned. What is breaking my neck regularly are the xx 🤫 libraries I am a member of. And booktube of course.
I also love watching tbrs.
Long live the tbr!!! 📚
I also wanted to check on StoryGraph if there's a book on each of our piles, that we could possibly do as a buddy read. But it seems like you don't allow buddy reads on there.
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Ooh I would love that. I’ve done a buddy read on StoryGraph before so don’t know why it’s doing that. Any ideas how I change it to allow them? I’ll take a look. 😊📚 Love TBRs!
Having a think about it and looking at the buddy reads section, it might be that I’ve not put a TBR list on there for some reason. I’ll try and sort it tomorrow. 😊
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf I first thought it might be because you don't allow friends, only followers. But that can't be the reason, when you already did a buddy read on there. Thanks for checking!
I found it. You can set up in the preferences, who you are allowing to ask for a buddy read.
But to find a possible book for a buddy read, you also need a tbr on there of course. 🙃
@@ameliareads589 I think I’ve set my preferences so people can ask to be friends now and ask to buddy read. Will work on adding the TBR today. 😂
I love a tbr video, especially those that include a game or random selection. I’ve made the mistake of counting how many unread books I have on my shelves and it would appear that I too have ‘way too many books ( in the same ball park as you). Do you know what proportion of the books you read each month come from your physical tbr?
Not exactly, but I could work out that stat from my wrap ups as I always make a graphic that breaks down how many were books, audiobooks, physical TBR, library books etc. I love a good stat so I am trying to track this on StoryGraph now as well by tagging the physical TBR books. I’m always glad I’m not the only one with “way too many books”- always good to have a selection on hand though! 😊📚
So far this year I’ve read 56 books, of which 22 were from the physical TBR so that’s 39% roughly so far.
January 6/14
February 6/9
March 4/10 and
April 4/17
It’s definitely been library books derailing it in March and April. I didn’t count any that I bought and read within the month in those numbers. Hope that’s not super boring. 😂
Not boring at all. My percentage is higher but my numbers are lower. This month I’ve been derailed by Misery May. 🤔. I have read A Woman is no Man on ebook, though ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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