A friend of mine who has an awesome YouTube channel, Kristenelle – SFF Reader, announced a Readathon planned for August called Releaseathon where the main idea is to read new book releases.
She has a video with her own recommendations (go check that out after you read my post) and I will plan a TBR of my own too.
They have a very nice bingo board that I will be posting here below:
BINGO BOARD PROMPTS:
I will read books that will most of the time fulfill more than one prompt at the same time and I won’t mostly try the hard mode. For now, I am sure that I’ll try to read at least three new releases for this Readathon.
Book you have not heard about:
This is a very hard prompt for me since I am very much tuned to all new releases. I guess I’ll go with ARCs I saw on NetGalley and just decided to pick because they sounded good:
The Veiled Edge of Contact and In the Shadow of Lightning
New to you author:
Most books I’m planning to read fit this prompt.
Favorite author:
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia would be my option for this, but let’s see if I manage to read it in August. If not I will surely be reading it at Latinxathon.
Title without articles (a/an/the) (Hard mode: title is just one word):
Kaikeyi I took a look at the first chapters and liked them a lot, so I’m looking forward to this book. Kaikeyi is a character that appears on The Ramayana which I will also try to read in August to familiarize myself with the original story this Retelling is based on.
Debut:
Under Fortunate Stars This seems an interesting space opera debut.
LGBTQ+ rep (Hard mode: less-represented queer identities (not L or G)
Ciel Pierlot is described in her Goodreads profile as “a disaster bisexual from the San Francisco Bay Area” so this probably fits.
BIPOC author and host rec:
Here I would recommend Siren Queen that I read together with Kristenelle and that she also recommends in her video.
Genre bender:
One of the books I’m most thrilled to read in August: Mickey7, a science fiction thriller.
And those are my planned books, I’ll be happy if I manage most of them in August, but if not I will certainly keep them in my priority TBR list.
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