I saw
Codie's Book Corner doing the Wheel of TBR, and I thought that sounded like a great way to pick what to read from your TBR. So thanks to her! I'll only do 3 spins, because I'm doing this every week, and so it won't make up my total TBR of the week, but it'll be a start!
Rules:
1. On the first week of the month, I'll do 12 spins, for books that I'll have all month to read. For each week for the rest of the month, I'll do 3 spins each week to read each week though I do have the rest of the month to read them. Once a prompt is used, I'll randomly choose one from the list, keeping track of how often a colour comes up. If colour comes up 4 or more times in a month, I'll do another spin once it comes up 4 times.
2. If I don't read a book that week or at least start it, then for my next week of spins, I have to add a punishment for each book unread. I'll roll for each unread book, and have to apply each and every punishment chosen to the week.
3. On the other hand, for reward, if I go 4 weeks in a row making my TBR, then I have one opportunity to have a grace on a book-if I haven't read it in the week or month I was supposed to, than I don't have to read it (though I'll still try and read it shortly thereafter). The reward can work for only one book. Which would prevent me from getting a punishment, but it takes 4 weeks to get a reward, so I'm fine with that. It evens out for me!
Of the books from the last week, I read A Wicked Conceit by Anna Lee Huber, Zodiac by Romina Russell, A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones, and I started Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins.
I'm doing things a little differently. One of prompts below, well, I couldn't wait to read it, so I already did. So I'm going to swap it with a book of similar length, so I have next month to read one this month's monthly roll to read next month. And that's Kingdom of Shadow and Light by Karen Marie Moning. But I'm also going to swap one of the below books for Tears of Frost by Bree Barton.
Of the books from the monthly roll, I read the book I swapped, so I have The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid, Havenfall by Sara Holland, Black River Falls by Jeff Hirsch, Scarlet by Marissa Meyer, left.
Of the books from my 1 month save, I didn't read any, and it's getting close, though I'm going to be reading as much of these as I can in the end of this month, so I have The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody, Dead Girl Running by Christina Dodd, Here So Far Away by Hadley Dyer, One Perfect Summer by Brenda Novak, left.
For the rewards, and I have 3(+2?)/4 needed for the next reward, so I have 4 rewards saved up.
Prompts Used This Week:
DAC Book, Most Anticipated, Restart the Series, Word, 2021 Purchase, #Bookstagram, ARC To Be Published, Steal a Book, Mood Read, Louisa Pick, Book Battle, Page Count, Physical Book.
DAC Book-Orange-The Once and Future Queen by Clara O'Connor-This is the first book by this author, so it works!
Most Anticipated-Spring Green-The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout-Of all the books coming out in April that I know about and want to read, this is the one I most want to read that I haven't yet! And I know it'd doesn't come out until April 20th, but I can wait!
Restart the Series-Azure-Soulbound by Z Brewer-I read this book around the time it came out. Book 2 only recently came out, so I need to reread the first book, so I'm restarting this series!
Word-Yellow-Push-Pushing Perfect by Michelle Falkoff-This has the word in the title, so it works!
2021 Purchase-Orange-Zenith by Lindsay Cummings and Sasha Alsberg-I bought this book this year, so it works!
ARC To Be Published-Orange-Murder at Sunrise Lake by Christine Feehan-This book comes out in June, so it's going to be published at the time of this post going live! And it's the one I'm swapping with Tears of Frost by Bree Barton. Yeah. I know, I'm making all sorts of outlandish choices!
Steal a Book-Cyan-Reign the Earth by A.C. Gaughen-Melanie from
Completely Melanie, had this book in her
Have I Read It for April, so I'm stealing it! Might switch this out since most April TBR's haven't gone out yet, but right now, this is one I'd love to read!
Mood Read-Blue-This'll be whatever I want to read this month!
Louisa Pick-Orange-Cast in Conflict by Michelle Sagara-I really, really want to read this book. Which is why I already have, and it's the one that I'm swapping with Kingdom of Shadow and Light by Karen Marie Moning.
Book Battle-Magenta-TBD! The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen-This book is on my Book Battle TBR (and is the one with the most points) so I'm adding it to this TBR!
Page Count-Green-395-Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski-This book is 398 pages long, so it works!
Bonus Spin for Orange-Physical Book-Red-TBD! I hope to pick a book that also works with Book Battle here, so I'll update once that happens! The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson-I have a paperback copy of this book, so it works!
Colour Totals:
Red: 1
Orange: 4
Yellow: 1
Chartreuse: 0
Green: 1
Spring Green: 1
Cyan: 1
Azure: 1
Blue: 0
Violet: 1
Magneta: 1
Rose: 0
Prompts for Next Week:
Coin Toss-Red
Month-Orange
ARC-Edelweiss-Yellow
Stand Alone-Chartreuse
Blurbed-Green
Author As Last Read-Spring Green
TBR Cart-Cyan
Book to Read in 2021-Azure
End the Series-Blue
More Than 1000 Ratings-Violet
Year-Magenta
Goodreads Update Feed-Rose
So those are some of the books I'm going to try to read this week. What about you guys? Happy reading!
