Hey guys, today I'm here with a quick TBR for the Under Hyped Reads Readathon and
this is a readathon put together by Charlotte from RamblingsofanElfpire
and I will will of course link her channel down below if you want to go
check out her announcement video. This is a readathon Charlotte does every once and
awhile and the whole general point is to read books and promote books that are
under hyped. So that can be books that you don't see mentioned a whole lot
here on BookTube or that can be books that don't have a whole lot of ratings
on Goodreads. You can kind of set your own standard. For this round of the
Under Hyped Reads readathon, I personally was looking for books that I owned already
that had under 5,000 ratings on Goodreads. So, I have three books here
that I am going to, hopefully, get to during the next week or so and let's
just get into it. So, the book that I'm going to be kind of prioritizing for
this Under Hyped Reads readathon is Avenue of Spies by Alex Kershaw. Now I
have mentioned this in several videos
by now, I believe, I featured this in another TBR and in my recent haul. And
this is basically about American espionage in Paris during World War II
and I am very much looking forward to reading this one. I say I'm going to
prioritize this because I actually got this is part of the Blogging for Books
program and I need to write a review sometime this month, so hopefully I will
get through this one. It is just over, just about 300 pages and this had just
over 1,000 ratings on Goodreads the day that I looked up my ratings. Then if I
have time to read another book I also have here The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson
which has just under 1300 reviews on Goodreads because Kij Johnson is a
massively under hyped and underappreciated author. Last year I read
Fudoki by Kij Johnson and absolutely loved it. It ended up being one of my top five
books of the year and I honestly cannot wait to get back into her a magical
world. Both of these books are set in kind of a fantastical, medieval Japan,
which is a time period that I personally am very fond of. So, yeah, I'm really hoping
to like this. I don't know
a whole lot about it. I know it follows a male character this time and then the
fox is actually some sort of a woman, possibly actually a female fox, but we
shall see. I'm very much looking forward to this one and hopefully I can get to
it because it's a bit of a chunker. I haven't made this TBR too crazy
because I will also be in the middle of a buddy read and probably some other
things at the same time, but another book that is under hyped that maybe I will
pick up if I have time is Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children by
Arthur Bowie Christman. Now, this is just a collection of short Chinese folk tales
kind of written specifically for children that we have owned in my family,
this isn't necessarily my book, but I pulled this off my family shelves and I
think we've had this for years and years and I still haven't read it.
Hopefully I do get to this at some point during the readathon because the font
in here is, like, absolutely massive and the margins are huge and there are few
little, like, illustrations. So these are the books on my TBR for the Under
Hyped Reads readathon. I am not sure how many of these I will get to. I will
definitely try and get through Avenue of Spies, but again I have a buddy read
going and I will be in the middle of a few other things as well so this could
be a total wash up, but I wanted to at least attempt and put up a TBR. As for
the dates of the readathon, it starts today, Saturday the third, and runs
through Friday the 9th. The idea, I think, there is that because most of us are
either in school or working, we can get a lot of reading done in that first
weekend chunk and then it doesn't really matter how much we get done during the
week. So again i will link Charlotte's announcement and TBR video in the
description for you guys to check out, but otherwise that's all I have for
today's video, so good luck with the readathon if you're participating, I hope
you guys are having a fantastic day, and I will see you next time. Bye!