"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is too many this is this is way too many and I'm definitely gonna drop them okay let's  not destroy all of these books that I just bought hello hi welcome so today I'm coming to you with  a good old-fashioned book haul it's been quite some time since I've filmed a book haul but I've  acquired quite a few books over the past few months I went to y'all West last month so I  picked up some stuff there and also while I was in LA and also because of the tragic news about  Book Depository closing I decided to place like a final order from them as well and they've also  just been picking up other things here and there I've just been in such a book buying mood recently  I should probably go in a book buying ban but I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon I've  had a lot going on in my personal life recently so I have needed some space and time to just do  fun cozy chill activities like reading lots of books watching cozy movies and playing Fun cozy  games and one of the games I've been playing recently is love and pies who is actually the  sponsor of today's video love and pies is a free to play merge 2 mobile game that you can play  either on your phone or on your tablet the game has a storyline component to it where we follow  around our main character named Amelia green who moves to the countryside with her daughter after  a divorce and she meets new characters along the way as you play through the game there's  a mystery involved in the storyline where she's trying to uncover some dark secrets you basically  combine different resources in order to expand the business create baked goods and other things  that you're kind of selling in your Cafe it's a lot of fun it's very very chill I enjoy it  because I can turn my brain off while I'm playing and just live in their little world you can also  decorate and customize the cafe so there are a lot of different components to it and it's  so much fun and also so relaxing to play which is what I really appreciate about it so there really  is something there for everyone if you want a little bit of mystery if you want a little bit  of the storyline or if you need a bit of a break to just take some time for you it's the perfect  game to play so be sure to download love and pies now with my link below so again thank you to love  and pies for sponsoring this video and one last thing before we get into talking about all of  the books in today's haul I want to remind you all that my new journal the Clockwork reader film and  TV Journal will be out on June 22 7th it's about a month away at this point a little bit more than  a month away but it's gonna be out very very soon so pre-order links are in the description box if  you want to place to jot down all of the movies and TV shows that you watched keep track of them  Journal about them it's the perfect place to do so the pre-order link will be in the description box  as always again thank you so much to anyone who has already pre-ordered I'm so excited for this  to come out but now without any further Ado let's get into every single book in my book haul I think  I have like 15 to 20 something like that I did not count but it's quite a few okay so starting off I  have a few books that I had ordered from Book Depository a while ago and these are just some  UK editions because I really love UK editions of books I think most of them are so much better than  the US editions I don't know why the US editions are just so ugly in comparison sometimes but these  I actually like the US editions of I just like the UK editions more which is why I chose to  go with them but those books are the daughter of the moon goddess and the Heart of the Sun  Warrior I read both of these earlier this year and this is a duology but I do honestly believe  that you can just read this one on its own if you wanted to you don't have to read the sequel  and I personally wouldn't recommend reading the sequel I know last time I talked about  these books I was saying I was really loving it and I was in the middle of this and I was  really liking this too but having finished this now I gave this four stars and I really enjoyed  it I would recommend it I think it's a fun time if you're looking for a high fantasy novel this  you can skip it I gave this two stars I hated this one I didn't hate it hates a strong word  but I didn't like it okay this was just the most chaotic messy indecisive main character I've ever  read about in my entire life girl can't make a choice for her life and she just goes back and  forth between these two men non-stop to the point where it's just insufferable it was insufferable  enough in this but I found it endearing for some reason in this one you get to a point where you're  just like girl make a decision and stick to it because I can't take it anymore and then she  did make a decision and I think it was the wrong decision so I didn't like it yeah not a fan of the  second book at all personally the first one is a good time would recommend it it's not my favorite  but it was still fun and I enjoyed myself not not so enjoyable but it's so pretty and they're like a  set so I'm not getting rid of it I'm Gonna Keep both of them but if you were curious about what  to buy and you've been eyeing these editions my recommendation this one's worth trying out  this one save your money okay next up I have another duology that I picked up the  UK editions of I've talked about this one I think in a previous wrap-up video because I've read one  of them but I haven't read the second one yet but that is the river Enchanted series a river  Enchanted and a fire endless by Rebecca Ross These are again the UK editions I just think they're so  nice I have read this I really enjoyed this I definitely need to pick this up I started it I  read like 10 pages but I wasn't in the mood so I have to go back to it but I really liked this one  I described this as somewhat like of a mix of the better parts of the CW TV show Rain and Outlander  both of which I hate in a lot of ways but love specific things about them and to me this was the  perfect combination of the best parts of those two shows so yeah I would recommend have enjoyed this  one don't know about this yet but I am excited to read it I am hopeful that I will really enjoy it  they're just so pretty and I love looking at them on my shelves okay next up is I believe I don't  know if this is the UK Edition I think it is the UK special edition or 10th anniversary edition  or something but I bought this to replace a copy that I already had of this book and that is this  edition of the song of Achilles I did really enjoy this book I don't think I enjoyed as much as a lot  of other people do like personally of Madeleine Miller's work Cersei is my favorite over the song  of Achilles but I still enjoyed this and I wanted to have a nice copy of it from my bookshelves and  this was the only hardcover one that I liked and the only one that kind of matches my edition of  Cersei as well but yeah I just think this one is so so pretty the end papers are also super  pretty it has a ribbon bookmark this year I have been really into either repurchasing some books  that I already have that are really old or if I have editions of them that I'm not really a very  big fan of I've been trying to like replace them you'll notice that later in the book haul too but  I really just want to have the nice editions of books that I really really love on my bookshelves  and I've also been unhauling a lot and I felt so much better since I've done that because so much  of my bookshelves were just books that were sent to me that I had no interest in reading and now  it feels like my shelves are so much more full of the books I actually really loved and also  want to read so yeah yeah it's been really nice and this was definitely one of those purchases  for me I wanted to replace that ugly paperback with this beautiful hardback so I'm very glad  that I did next up let's get into the books that I picked up at y'all West I did not go for any arcs  or anything I was just there to like have a good time and walk around I'd never been to y'all West  before I just wanted to see what it was like so my friend and I went and it was really fun it had  been years since I'd been to a book festival or book convention I hadn't gone since bookcon 2019  which was so long ago and also a very different experience so it was very odd I don't know how  to explain how I felt being there but it was a strange experience but overall a very good  experience it was very lovely meeting so many of you it was so nice thank you so much to anyone who  said hi I had a great time meeting you all it was so good to meet people in person again but a lot  of the festival was mostly about book signings or Arc drops and stuff but I wasn't really interested  in getting anything but I did get to meet one author who was just so lovely and so kind and  he gifted me two of his books which was so sweet but that is Abdi nazemian he gave gave me a copy  of like a love story and the Chandler legacies which is not his most recent book he has a new  book that has also just come out too I went to the banned books panel that he was on while he  was there and heard him speak on there a little bit which was a great panel as well so many of  the authors there were just fantastic and I loved what they had to say but we saw him later at his  book signing because my friend um really enjoyed his books so we were talking a little bit and  it was just really really great to hear him talk about his work and talk about writing in general  it was really inspiring so he gifted me these and signed them personalized them to me so yeah I'm  very excited to read these books I've been wanting to read like a love story ever since it came out  um because people told me it was written by an Iranian author and it's a queer why a contemporary  so I feel like I would really really love this so yeah I'm very very excited to have these I'm very  excited to get around to them and I really hope that I love them okay the next few books that I  picked up were partially your recommendations because I went to The Ripped bodice which is a  romance bookstore in Los Angeles that I went to last time I was there for the first time and I  loved it so this time when I was going back I knew I had to go again because that bookstore is just  so cute and endearing it's such a lovely space and The Vibes in there are Immaculate so I knew I  wanted to pick up a few books from there because I love that place so I went on Instagram and I asked  you all what books I should buy and these were a few that were recommended pretty frequently the  most commonly recommended one was happy place by Emily Henry but one they were out of it and  two I'm waiting for that to come out in paperback because I don't like that it's a hardback I want  it to match all my paperback Emily Henry books so we're waiting on that one but I will be reading  it soon on audiobook so I didn't pick that one up but based on your recommendations and based  on my own personal interests I decided to pick these up and I really think I'm gonna like them  all the first one is the very secret society of irregular witches I've just heard this described  as a very cozy fantasy romance novel very chill very light-hearted and that's what I want like I  just want something fun and lighthearted and cute to read so I think this will definitely  be something that I really enjoy I've heard good reviews of it a lot of you recommended  it to me like I said so I can't wait to see what I think of this next I picked up half a soul which  is a book that's been recommended to me countless times at this point and I've been wanting to read  it too because it sounds like something I would enjoy a lot of people said that this and also a  very regular Society of witches and the next book I'm going to mention all have very strong house  Moving Castle Vibes which is exactly what I want because as you all know that's one of my favorite  movies of all time and I I just want more of those vibes always so I hope that this definitely does  have some of that energy I know this one is about Faye that is the only thing that has kept me from  picking it up for so long but because so many of you recommending it I decided to give it a chance  I'm just not the biggest fan of Fae in general I've just never really liked any face story that  I've read very much so I feel like there's got to be something out there that I do enjoy um so maybe  this will be the one hopefully it is I just really want some more feel-good romantic fantasy stories  it's just one of my favorite genres as you can tell based on everything I like to read and all of  my favorite books but I feel like I'm so picky and particular with them too it's hard for me to find  something that I really really love in that genre sometimes okay and finally the last book that I  picked up from The Ripped bodice was Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of fairies this is the book that I  think I'm gonna like the most out of the ones that I ended up buying because this was the one  I bought not because of anyone's recommendations specifically but just because I've really been  wanting to read this but I've just heard countless good things about this I have no idea what it's  about and I really don't want to know I just know that people keep comparing it to house  moving castle and saying that it's really similar in some ways with the Dynamics of the characters  and that's all the incentive I need to read something so I'm really hoping to love this this  one was again mostly my own choice but I did ask you all if you think I would like it and everyone  told me that they think that I would so hopefully you're all right and I end up loving this one too  okay and then finally the last book that I picked up while I was in Los Angeles was from a different  bookstore called Village well books that bookstore was so beautiful I enjoyed it too every time I  go on a trip I literally just go to as many bookstores as I possibly can in the city that  I'm in because I I love exploring bookstores it's genuinely like one of my favorite activities and  I try to always buy at least one book from the new bookstores that I visit because I like supporting  Indie bookstores but the book I picked up from Village well was what my bones know by Stephanie  Foo this is non-fiction it's a memoir A Memoir of healing from complex trauma to be specific this  book is about the author's personal experience with being diagnosed with cptsd or complex PTSD  it's mostly about her own personal experiences like I mentioned but also includes some interviews  that she's done with scientists and psychologists and doctors and she also discusses immigrant  trauma and how that is connected to everything else that she's been experiencing and I just  heard fantastic things about this book and I've been wanting to read it for some time I know it's  going to be probably a very difficult book to read but I think it's going to be something I  really enjoy I do really like these types of personal Memoirs they're some of my favorite  non-fiction books to read so yeah I'm very much looking forward to this one and I'm glad that I  was able to pick up a copy all right and then the last section of books that I have to show you in  this haul are all the books that I ordered in my final book repository order which just feels so  sad and tragic to say I know that Book Depository was owned by Amazon and it was definitely not the  best place to buy books in general but it was one of the only places that allowed people to  buy books internationally and they shipped like almost anywhere still not everywhere but to a lot  of different countries and so now buying books is going to be a lot more inaccessible to a lot  of people which is just not good so it's sad that Book Depository is closing for a number of reasons  and yeah I was very very upset about it there are a couple of like alternative options I'll try and  Link some other bookstores that I know of that sell like UK editions and stuff and still ship at  least to the US that I know of I don't know about other countries I can try and find some more too  but I just know that losing Book Depository was a very big loss for a lot of people I did place  my final order um and these are the books that I picked up so starting off I picked up the next  two books in the don't even know what this series is called the bear and the Nightingale series I  guess if you want to call it that I picked up the girl in the tower and The Witch of winter these  are books two and three in that series I've had book one for years I still haven't read it I know  I have the entire series and I haven't read any of them not the smartest choice but I just wanted all  the matching UK editions but then these arrived and they have these stickers that are not stickers  because you can't remove them on the covers and I hate it why do we do this how many different  people have to say this everyone hates these stop doing this me at every publisher stop doing this  stop putting these non-removable stickers on your cover and ruining your cover art why what is the  reason anyway I picked up books two and three um and they kind of match but they don't match  because the fonts are like a little different the color of the text is a little different  I'll grab the other one see this is my beautiful edition of the bear in The Nightingale free of  any non-removable stickers on the cover I love it and on the spine is like this the publisher  logo is Delray and I don't know if the publisher changed if they switched to a different imprint  but now it's just the regular penguin logo at the bottom it's not blue it's yellow I know  I'm being nitpicky but I literally I hate when books don't match on my shelf it's infuriating  but it's fine at least they're all the same size so we have that maybe if I end up really really  loving the series I'll try and find some special editions or something to buy eventually but for  now this is good enough okay next up I picked up parable of the talents by Octavia Butler this is  the sequel to parable of the sewer which I read last year and absolutely loved literally one of  my favorite books of all time now and I have been wanting to read this so badly but I'd ordered the  UK edition of parable of the sewer so I wanted to get the matching UK edition of this so that  they match and that they look nice on the shelf and they do so I'm very happy but yeah I really  needed to pick this one up because I plan to read this pretty soon okay next up I picked up a book  that I already own a different copy of I have a different version of it but I really wanted this  Edition ever since I saw it was announced and that is this special hardcover Edition I think  fifth anniversary edition yes fifth anniversary Illustrated Edition of if we were villains by  ml Rio this was one of my favorite books of last year here I'm utterly obsessed with this book it  has become so much of who I am at this point and I just knew I needed to get this Edition because  it's so so beautiful there is some gold foiling on the hardcover there are Illustrated end papers  which are so pretty and they're also just like illustrations in the book as well so yeah I just  needed to get this because I wanted a nice pretty hardcover edition of it on my shelves so now it  just sits next to the other one because as most of you probably know I love buying multiple editions  of my favorite books you can never have too many you definitely can have too many I've had too many  at certain points but for me I think two is fine okay the next three books that I picked up were  just new editions of books that I already owned as well but I wanted to replace those editions  because I did not like those covers I've never liked those covers and I've always wanted better  ones and when I saw these I knew I had to buy them because I think they're just absolutely  beautiful truly some of the prettiest books I own I think oh they're so good and that is  the Graceling Trilogy these books are so pretty oh my God look at that look at these covers are  you kidding me this gold foil feeling if you know what the original Graceland covers look like they  do not look like this these are gorgeous I know they've redone the US covers as well and those  are nice but I don't really like them very much I think these are perfect covers for these books  I feel like they match The Vibes of the books perfectly this feels like the Graceling Trilogy  to me and they're just so well designed and I will always fall for some good gold foiling so  yeah these books were just oh such a such a need for me such a need so yeah I'm very very happy  to be able to replace my old copies I've had those since middle school and there's nothing wrong with  them I will just donate them but I wanted some nice new ones because I really love this series  I do want to read the other books in the series as well I think there are two more out or maybe three  more out I still need to get those eventually but I just got these for now since I've read all of  these but whenever I decide to read those I will definitely be purchasing these editions of them  okay speaking of another book with beautiful cover art and beautiful gold foiling I absolutely had  to pick up the UK edition of The Adventures of Amina El sarafi this book is so pretty  look at this literally one of my favorite covers I think ever this is just so so nice  and it's not even a special edition this is just the regular UK hardcover and then wait until you  see this map this is such a nice map if I were to write a book I want this artist to draw the  map for my book I'm just utterly in love with this whole thing it's oh it's so good and the book is  also really good so far I'm about 70 or 80 pages into it as you can see this is my current read  right now and I'm loving it this is exactly what I've been wanting a fantasy novel about the most  notorious female pirate sign me up oh my God it's so good it's better than I was expecting it to be  even and I'm having a great time reading it and it may be a little bit too early to say because  I've not even fully 100 pages into it yet but so far the cover and the inside both beautiful truly  like I'm gonna face this out on my bookshelf even if I don't end up loving the book it's a work of  art I want to stare at it all the time all right and then finally the very last book in my haul  the last book that I ordered from book repository was Belladonna by Adeline Grace this is also the  UK Edition I'm going to show you a picture of the US edition and you tell me if these two books give  off the same Vibe because I saw this cover and I was like I'm not reading that book I have no  interest and then I saw this cover and I was like I have to read that book that looks like exactly  the type of book I would love just based on the covers Vibes alone who did this what was the  reason why why are we doing this why are we still putting people on covers that's my real question  in 2023 does anybody want a person on the cover I never want a person on the cover unless it's  some really really beautiful like illustration not interested truly not interested this however  gorgeous I love it I I feel like I will like it based on some of the people I've seen recommending  this book they've liked other books that I've liked as well so I feel like I might like it  but honestly I mostly bought this because of the cover and I'm just really hoping that I like it  it's bloomed by Stephanie Garber on the front as a deliciously deadly Gothic romance and I do love  Gothic romance fantasy so I do feel like there's a pretty good chance that I will enjoy this but  yeah more than anything I just saw this and I was like I I love it I love the look of it I  don't know what it is about it but I'm just drawn to it is the covered potentially deceiving me yes  there's no way to know until I finally read it um but I do plan to read it soon because it's been  high on my list for a while now and I really just want to know what I'm gonna think but there you  all have it that is it for my book haul I hope you were able to learn about some new books or  find some new books that might interest you I'm very excited to read all of these and share my  thoughts with you very soon on them but I hope you all enjoyed watching this video let me know  in the comments down below if you've read any of the books that I mentioned in this video if  there are any that you think I should move up on my list that I should start with first I would  love to hear any of your thoughts if there are any other books that you think that I should buy let  me know as well I have been in such a book buying mood all I want to do right now is buy more books  it's probably not a good thing but I'm just gonna stick with it for now if you'd like to follow me  on any of my social media all of my links are in the description box as always but thank you  all so much for watching this video I hope you enjoyed and I will see you in my next video bye\n"