Book Shopping Vlog: A Haul from Barnes & Noble

As I walked into Barnes & Noble, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and nervousness. I had a list of books that I wanted to pick up, and I was eager to dive into reading them. My book shopping vlog has been going on for some time now, and it's always a pleasure to share my haul with all of you.

My first stop was the YA contemporary section. As someone who loves reading about relationships and love stories, I thought this would be a great place to start. I picked up "The Wedding Date" by Jasmine Guillory, which is a romantic comedy about a woman who hires a fake boyfriend to accompany her to a wedding. The premise sounded like a fun and light-hearted read, and I couldn't resist giving it a try. With all the goods and bads of what's supposed to be a really exciting time for lovers, this book seemed like a great fit for me.

However, as someone who has become pretty cynical of happily ever afters for herself and doesn't trust easily, I was hesitant at first. But then I saw Ambrose, a swoony serial dater, and she was reluctant to give him a chance. But you know how YA contemporary romances go – but they do grow closer, and they probably fall in love. So it just sounds like a nice light-hearted contemporary.

I have a handful of friends who say that Sarah Dessen books were like their holy grail of YA in high school, but I have never read one of her books myself. So I'm very excited to dive into one that I think would be a really good fit for me. The next book I picked up is "Is the Emerald Sea" by Richelle Mead, which is book three in the Glittering Court series. I actually reviewed the first book, The Glittering Court, when it first came out, like two or three years ago now, and I really enjoyed it. But I never continued with the series – it was just one of those books that flew under my radar. But every time a new book in the series comes out, I do renew some interest in it.

The overall plot of this series is interesting. There's an organization called the Glittering Court, which takes in impoverished young ladies and turns them into sort of like aristocrats. The intent is to send them off to make powerful, wealthy marriages and live a better life. Each book in this series follows a different main character, but all of these storylines are intertwined. I really enjoyed the first book, but I just never got around to the rest of the series. So I'm very excited that I now have the Emerald City to continue on.

Next, I picked up "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland, which is a historical fiction novel following a black girl during the Civil War. But they're zombies – what I can grasp from the synopsis is that it follows a girl named Jane who is currently attending a combat school to become an attendant, someone who is trained in both weaponry and etiquette, and she doesn't really care for the politics of America right now. She just wants to go back home in Kentucky, but people in her town start going missing, and they're up against some powerful enemies. It sounds like a really interesting tale.

Historical fiction isn't my thing, but I've actually never experimented with a historical fiction novel set during the Civil War. That is definitely a period that I learned about in history that I was more interested in compared to some other times. So I am definitely interested in this one and think it's when I could really like it.

Finally, I picked up "Blowout" by My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows. What I know about this book is that it's not only supposed to be really funny but also a Jane Eyre retelling with ghosts. Personally, haven't read anything from Brodi Ashton or Jodi Meadows, but I did read The Afterlife of Holly Chase last year – which I loved with all of my heart. I'm sure you guys are sick of me talking about that book, too. So it gives me more faith in this series that I think it'll be really for me.

I'm just kind of in the mood to like laugh at some books, so I don't necessarily think I need to be super familiar with the story of Jane Eyre. I think it'll just be a really enjoyable read and I'm very excited to dive in. That concludes my book shopping vlog along with my book haul from today's festivities. I had such a great time and I really hope you guys enjoyed watching.

Definitely do not forget about the Barnes & Noble book haul blowout, which is going on right now. And you can check the description below for all the books that will be 50% off. Wow – what a bargain! No pun intended. And I think it's really awesome that Barnes & Noble is offering such great deals.

As I left the store, I couldn't help but feel excited about my new additions to my bookshelf. I'm already looking forward to diving into each and every one of them.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enHey, what's up? Hello, my name is Emma. And today I am taking you guys along with me as I go book shoppingI've gone book shopping a lot in vlogs and in videosBut I don't think I've ever done just like a regular go book shopping with a vlog so I am very excited for todayI'm actually partnering with epic reads and barnes and noble for this very excitingvideo as I will be going book shopping in Barnes & Noble in Union Square in New York City the special occasion for today'sbook shopping excursion is because Barnes Noble is having a huge blowout sale where it is50% off titles. Oh my gosh who doesn't love a good bargain. We're gonna be buying these booksAnyways, we might as well take advantage when they're on saleI will definitely leave the information for this huge blowout sale in the description belowbut I know they had a ton of awesome yaTitles that are half off which you all know are my theme so I am very very excited for todayMy life is just always mysterious and surprisingIf you want a sneak peek of what books are available during the Barnes & Noble book haul blowoutYou can check out all these awesome titles. Oh my goshSo I haven't mentioned the series in a really long time but a couple of years agoI read a book called The Silence of Six and I loved it so muchI actually got my boyfriend to read it's just like super awesome hacking stuff and the sequel all against silence is50% off today so I'm clearly getting it so lately I have been so drawn to the what I believe is called the JaneSeries when my lady Jean first came out I wasn't super interested in itBut after the release of May Plain Jane and just all the people talking about how funny and enjoyableThese books are I'm definitely interested in this oneI've heard you don't have to read the series chronologically to enjoy it they're all independent storiesSo I'm really interested in My Plain Jane and I think I'm gonna pick it upThere's just something about a new paperback edition of one of my absolute favorite books that just keeps me goingYou know, I am unapologetically going to get this new editionso there is one copy left of what I think is a really gorgeous cover OhOh my god, I need it. Look who I foundIt's me, Michael from Team epic reads and on YouTube as Michael book lion. You're hereFor the Barnes and Noble Book Haul BlowoutOh my God, look you got Warcross. Did you also get Warcross? Yes. I did. It's my favorite of the yearOr last year. This is why we're best friends. This is literally why we're best friends.Listen so I have always been like a non historical fiction reader. I'm like out with the old in with the newbut likezombies and own voices representationI'm intrigued. I've heard really good things about Dread Nations since its been out, so I think maybe it's time I pick it upThis is like my life's dream to be on a moving library ladder,But if I'm being honest it's way scarier than I thought it would be.All rightyso I am home and it is time for me to show you my final haul from theBN book haul blow outthe first book I have on this haul isWarcross by Marie Lu I talked about this book all the time because it was one of my absolute favs of 2017And I'm so excited for a wild cardOh my goshWarcross is a near future speculative science fiction novel where the entirety ofSociety has been changed by the influence of virtual reality. It is in every single person's lifeIt's extremely accessible and along with that comes this exciting game called Warcross, which is an international phenomenonOur main character's name is Emika and she is a Chinese-AmericanBounty hunter for people who are illegally betting on Warcross and one dayshe accidentally glitches herself into the opening ceremony of the Warcross games. Thinking she's about to be executed for this crimeshe is actually invited to go to Tokyo by the creator of Warcross whose name is Hideo Tanaka andcompete in this year's Warcross games, but Emika is not just meant to be there as a playerShe's actually doing some investigating into the darker parts of the world of WarcrossAnd it was just such an amazing amazing bookThis is the new paperback edition, which has this like very monochromaticChrome cover which I really like. I think it's super simplistic and awesomeI love Warcross so much and I cannot wait to read WildcardThe next book I have is one I mentioned earlier which is All Against Silence by E. C. MyersThis is the sequel to at the Silence of Six, which is a bookI read many years ago and really really loved the first book in the series follows aSeventeen-year-old now retired hacker named Max whose life is turned upside down when his best friend from childhoodHacks into the school's livestream of the presidential debate and ends up ending his own life on screen in a turn of eventsMax is now on the run from this governmentWitch-hunt trying to find out what the silence of six is and why it was worth his best friendEnding his life over it is really fun and fast-pacedI have nothing but good memories of reading itBut I just never got around to reading the sequel and it has been way too long, and I'm so so happyI finally have this book next book I got in this hall is a light too bright by Samuel MillerOur main character's name is Arthur Lewis Pullman the third and his life has changedWhen he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle after his grandfather has passed awayIn the week leading up to Arthur's grandfather's deathHe had actuallyDisappeared and it's a mystery as to how much of that was influenced by the Alzheimer's that he was suffering fromand so while living with his aunt and uncle Arthur discovers a journal written by his grandfather at the height of his dementia andThe last line of the journal is a train route and a destinationAnd so Arthur takes off on this cross-country train route to uncover the secrets of his grandfather'sDisappearance his grandfather was also a really well-known authorSo there is the sort of fan base thatArthur keeps coming in contact with and there's this girl with all these secrets that he meets and it just sounds like a really movingtitle my grandfather also died suffering fromAlzheimer's and so it is a topic that is extremely close to my heart and one that I feel like is almost neverMentioned in young adult books. So although I picked this one off definitely based on the coverIt does sound like a very inspirational story that I think I could really connect to the next bookI picked up at the Barnes & Noble book Hall blowout is A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. MaasThis is not necessarily the next installment in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, but it is a novellaI have no idea at what point this takes place, but it is just a short or I guessThis is probably longer than most novellasBut nonetheless it is the novellafollowing the characters from the A Court of Thorns and Roses series being honest while I did really enjoy my time reading the A Court of Thorns andRoses seriesI wasn't really sure if I was going to pick up A Court of Frost and Starlight when it first came outBecause for some reason I'm just usually not as interested in novellas of series that I'm not like super superInvested in and I'm not saying this is the perfectReasoning to pick up a book but like it was 50%Off and I was never going to get a lower price than I would have during this saleSo I do have it now and I hope to read it in the futureThe next book I picked up is Once and For All by Sarah DessenWhich I actually found out about for the first time at last year's at Brooklyn Book FestivalI was at a panel and Sarah Dessen was on it promoting this bookBut I hadn't really thought about it since but it was on the list of titles that were50% off during this salethis book follows a girl named Luna who has spent every summer working at her mother's wedding planning business and from seeing all of thegoods and bads of what is supposed to be a really exciting time for loveshe's become pretty cynical of happily ever afters for herself and doesn't trust you easily but aSwoony serial dater it named Ambrose enters her life, and she is reluctant at firstBut you know how YA contemporary romances go, but they do grow closerThey find some common ground and they probably fall in love. So it just sounds like a nice light-hearted contemporaryI do have a handful of friends that say that Sarah Dessen books were like their holy grail of YA in high schoolBut I have never read one of her books myselfSo I'm very excited to dive into one that I think would be a really good fit for me the next book I picked upIs the Emerald Sea by Richelle Mead which is book three in the Glittering Court seriesI actually reviewed the glittering court when it first came out like two or three years ago now and I really enjoyed itBut I never continued with the seriesIt was just one of those books out flew under the radar for meBut every time one of the new books in the series does come out I do renew some interest in itSo now I'm very happy that I do have the Emerald sea for when I want to read it. The overall plot of this seriesIs there is thisorganization slash finishing school called the glittering Court which takes in impoverished young ladies and turns them into sort of likeAristocrats and it is in the intent of sending them off to make powerful wealthy marriages and live a better lifeso each book in this series does follow a different main character, but all of these storylines are intertwined and like I said,I really enjoyed book 1, but I just never got around to the rest of the seriesSo I'm very excited that I now have the Emerald City to continue on the next bookI picked up at Barnes & Noble is Dread Nation by Justina Ireland, which is a historical fiction novelfollowing a a black girl during the Civil War but they're zombieswhat I can grasp from the synopsis is it follows a girl named Jane who isCurrently attending a combat school to become an attendant who is someone who is trained in bothWeaponry and etiquette and she doesn't really care for the politics of America right nowShe just wants to go back home in KentuckyBut people in her town start going missing and they're up against some powerful enemies and it sounds like a really interesting taleLike I said earlier historical fiction is not my thingbut I've actually never experimented with ahistorical fiction novel set during the Civil WarAnd that is definitely a period that I learned about in history that I was more interested in compared to some other timesSo I am definitely interested in this one and I think it's when I could really like and the final book I picked up atThe Barnes & Noble book hall. Blowout is My Plain Jane by Cynthia HandBrodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows what I know about this book is not only that is supposedly really really funnyBut it's also a Jane Eyre retelling with ghostsI personally haven't read anything from Brodi Ashton or Jodi Meadows, but I did read The Afterlife of Holly Chase last yearWhich I loved with all of my heart. I'm sure you guys are sick of me talking about that book, tooSo it gives me more faith in this series that I think it'll be really for meI'm just kind of in the mood to like laugh at some bookSo I don't necessarily think I need to be super familiar with the story of Jane EyreI think it'll just be a really enjoyable read and I'm very excited to dive in so thatConcludes my book shopping vlog along with my book haul from today's festivities.I had such a great time and I really hope you guys enjoyed watchingDefinitely do not forget about the Barnes & Noble book haul blowout which is going on right nowAnd you can check the description below for all the books that will be 50% off. Wow. What a bargain50% off is a really big deal. No pun intendedand I think it's really awesome that Barnes Noble is making it more accessible for people to get these new releases that I'msure you guys are excited about as well. So definitely check out that awesome saleand againI ran into my very best friendMichael from Michael BookLion and Epic Reads and you will definitely want to check out his haul and all the books that he gottoday as well. So we'll leave that video in the description below too, but that's it for this videoThank you guys so much for watching and I will see you soon for a new one. Bye\n"