Sunday, May 2, 2021

Wheel of TBR #49, May 2nd

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 Thin Air by Rachel Caine, Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater, and I started Grace and Glory by Jennifer L. Armentrout.

Uh, I did some swapping again this month! Swapping The Once and Future Queen by Clara O'Connor, Pushing Perfect by Michelle Falkoff, Zenith by Lindsay Cummings and Sasha Alsberg, and The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody.

Of the books from the monthly roll, I read Kingdom of Shadow and Light by Karen Marie Moning, Tears of Frost by Bree Barton, Reign the Earth by A.C. Gaughen, and I started Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski, so I have none left, just by the skin of my teeth! 

For the rewards, and I have 2(+1?)/4 needed for the next reward, so I have 3 rewards saved up.

Prompts Used This Week:
Trope, Genre, Year, A-Z Start Title, Ebook, 2020 Purchase, Mixed Reviews, ARC-Edelweiss, Colour, Page Count As Last Read, Jax Pick, Page Count. 

Trope-Orange-Enemy Mine-Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart-The synopsis says that the main characters are 

Genre-Chartreuse-Romance-Shadowed Steel by Chloe Neill-This book stars Elisa, who is in a romance with Conner, so I'm counting it! And this is the book that I'm swapping this book with The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody. 

Year-Magenta-2017-The Valiant by Lesley Livingston-This book came out on February 14th 2017 so it works! 

A-Z Start Title-Rose-N-Nexus by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings-This book stars with N, so it works! 

Ebook-Orange-Grimoires and Where to Find Them by Honor Raconteur-I have this book as an ebook, so it works. And this is the book I'm swapping with The Once and Future Queen by Clara O'Connor. 

2020 Purchase-Rose-Dreaming Death by Heather Graham-I bought this book in 2020 so it works! 

Mixed Reviews-Blue-Dating The Undead by Juliet Lyons-This book has 23% 5 stars, 36% 4 stars, and 28% 3 stars, 9% 2 stars and 3% 1 star, so I'd count that as mixed! 

ARC-Edelweiss-Blue-Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen-I got this book from Edelweiss, so it works! 

Colour-Yellow-Azure-Imprison the Sky by A.C.-This cover is more blue then not, so it works! And this is the book that I'm swapping this book with Zenith by Lindsay Cummings and Sasha Alsberg. 

Page Count As Last Read-Violet-A Summoning of Souls by Leanna Renee Hieber-I last read Sightwitch (spoiler for the next pick!) and that was 240 pages, and this one is 243, so that works! 

Jax Pick-Magenta-Sightwitch by Susan Dennard-I gave Jax 3 choices, and this is the one that he picked! And this is the book that I'm swapping this book with Pushing Perfect by Michelle Falkoff. 

Page Count-Orange-360-The Good Girls by Claire Eliza Bartlett-This book works, it's 368, so it's over, but I'm working in narrower confines this month given that I'm doing Clean Sweep ARC Challenge, and choosing basically only ARC's to read this month! 

Colour Totals:
Red: 0
Orange: 3
Yellow: 1
Chartreuse: 0
Green: 0
Spring Green: 0
Cyan: 0
Azure: 0
Blue: 2
Violet: 1
Magenta: 2
Rose: 2

Prompts for Next Week:
Coin Toss-Red
#Bookstagram-Orange
Louisa Pick-Yellow
Dobby Pick-Chartreuse
More Than 1000 Reviews-Green
Author As Last Read-Spring Green
TBR Cart-Cyan
Variety Prompt-Azure
Title-Blue
Book Battle-Violet
Most Anticipated-Magenta
Poll Pick-Rose 

So those are some of the books I'm going to try to read this week. What about you guys? Happy reading!

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