My First Library Book Haul: A Collection of Surprises

I walked into my local library and was immediately overwhelmed by the vast array of books on display. The fluorescent lights hummed above, casting a gentle glow over the rows upon rows of shelves stacked high with novels, non-fiction, and mystery books. I felt like a kid in a candy store, my eyes scanning the spines of the books for something that caught my attention.

One book in particular caught my eye - it was called "Eligible" by Curtis Sittenfeld, a modern retelling of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". I've had many people recommend this book to me over the years, but I have to admit that I'm wary of books with titles that sound like they were written by a 12-year-old. The idea of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy navigating modern-day relationships in New York City and Cincinnati sounded intriguing, so I decided to give it a try.

As I browsed the shelves, I noticed that the cover featured a picture of Charles Bingley's name as "Chip Bingley", which immediately put me off. Why did they have to change his name like that? It felt like a lazy attempt at modernization. I took a deep breath and opened the book anyway, hoping that my expectations would be met. The story follows Liz, a magazine writer who returns to her hometown of Cincinnati with her sister Jane to help their parents deal with their crumbling home. As expected, Darcy and Bingley show up, and the usual prying and prejudices ensue.

My next library book was "The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" by Stewart Curtin, which was originally titled "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle". I had heard great things about this book, but my initial reaction was to be wary. The title sounded like something out of a horror movie, and I wasn't sure if I was ready for a murder mystery novel that took place in the same cycle each day. But after reading a bit more, I realized that it was actually quite cleverly written and involved a lot of twists and turns.

The main character, Aidan, wakes up in a different body every day, and has to figure out how Evelyn Hardcastle was murdered before the day is over. The premise sounded like something out of those murder mystery dinners that I've always wanted to try but never had the chance to. I couldn't help but think of that one episode of Lizzie McGuire where they do a murder mystery dinner party, and how much fun it looked.

I moved on to "The Kiss Quotient" by Helena Wong, which was recommended to me by several people. The book follows Estella, a young woman with Asperger's who hires a male escort named Michael Vaughn to teach her about dating and intimacy. I have to admit that the idea of a romance novel featuring someone with Asperger's sounded fascinating, but also a bit daunting. I've never read many books that feature characters on the autism spectrum before.

Next up was "Saco Girls" by Claire Legrand, which I got to buddy read with my friend Hannah and Haley from the Clockwork Reader group. The book takes place on an island called Saco Hill Rock, where girls have been disappearing for decades due to some unknown force that no one dares to approach. My heart was racing as I turned the pages, wondering what was behind the disappearances.

I finished off my haul with "If We Were Villains" by M.L. Rio, which promised a thrilling tale of murder and betrayal on stage. The story follows seven Shakespearean actors who attend a conservatory, where their rivalries turn violent ten years later when one of them is released from jail after being accused of a crime that took place during a production of Macbeth.

Finally, I ended up with "Skyward" by Brandon Sanderson, which was the author's first book in his sci-fi universe. I have to admit that I've been intimidated by Brandon Sanderson's work for years, but something about this book seemed different. Maybe it was the fact that it was a young adult novel and didn't feel as epic in scope as some of his other works. The story follows Liam Spencer, a teenager who dreams of becoming a pilot and attends flight school.

As I looked around the library, my eyes landed on images of spaceships on one of the books. It was like looking at a Star Wars movie poster come to life. I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and wonder as I browsed through my haul, wondering what other surprises awaited me inside these pages.

And that's where I left off - amidst a sea of new books and authors, each one promising a unique reading experience. I'm excited to dive in and see what's next for Liz and Chip Bingley, Aidan and Evelyn Hardcastle, Estella and Michael Vaughn, the girls of Saco Hill Rock, the actors from the conservatory, and Liam Spencer as he soars through the skies.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey YouTube it's Zoe and today I have a pretty big and pretty exciting book haul to share with you all I didn't think that I would ever call a book haul exciting but I think this one is personally because of two reasons reason number one is that I have quite a few books from the library to share with you all I have never done a library book haul before at least I don't think so because I didn't think people would be interested in watching me haul books that aren't permanently mine but I watched quite a lot of library book hauls myself and I thought if I watched them then maybe other people will too I am going to the library much more now that I am back home and I have a better library system than I did up at university so I'm planning for the time being on doing monthly book hauls that mostly feature library book in the past I've only done book hauls maybe every three to four months or in this case this has been five months since I listed a book haul but I am excited to go to the library more and share what I'm currently reading I went a little bit overboard with getting library books this month because I am finally back at the library and there were so many good books so I got them all and I don't know if I can read them all before I have to return them but I will learn my lesson but I gotta support your local library I am doing my civic duty I also don't have any library fines yet so we're all good as of now anyway the second reason why this is an exciting book haul is because I have a giveaway to share with you all so it just is a paid promotion with Disney Book Group who is also offering the prizes for this giveaway to celebrate the release of the Artemis Fowl series all eight books by away in a Colfer when I read these books as a kid I called him a Owen colfer but he's Irish you say his name Owen now I know what these books have been all redesigned in these oh gosh they're falling over these gorgeous cover because guess what you probably already know if you are a fan of Artemis Fowl like I am there is a movie from the Walt Disney Studios coming out in a couple of months based on these books and I'm excited also Judi Dench's in it it's directed by Kenneth Branagh Gilderoy Lockhart from Chamber of Secrets directed this movie Gilderoy Lockhart has many skills these are the redesigned covers I don't know if you can tell but they're so colorful they're so pretty the nostalgia of just looking at this series my older sister was very into these books and I wanted to be cool and read the books too also each book has a sneak peek to the fowl twins which is the new novel coming out by Owen colfur so this series is living on and we're getting a movie and you can win all of these books - yes all eight books plus a backpack plus a hat plus a fidget spinner and some chocolate do it all for the chocolate no I'm just kidding these aren't really good books I loved them when I was a kid if you were just getting into reading or you really want to know what the series is about before you see it the movie or if you want to read it along with a younger sibling or your kid I think this would be a really great story to share with somebody else because they brought me and my sister together when we were kids if you want to enter this giveaway and get all of the book first you need to be subscribed to my youtube channel secondly you need to leave a comment down below letting me know what book from my book haul you think I should read first do any of the words enter me along with a book thirdly the most important step don't forget to do this there is a Rafflecopter link down below in the description click it and enter all of your information including your mailing address because I need to mail you all of the give away stuff all of that being said good luck and I hope you'll win these books again Thank You Disney Book Group for sponsoring this video and for sponsoring the giveaway on to the book ah well the first couple of books that I'm going to haul are guess what the eight books in the Artemis Fowl series by a Wynn Colfer actually fun fact a couple of days before they contacted me asking if I wanted to be an art amiss fowl ambassador which sounds so fancy I purchased the first book for myself because I wanted to reread them before the movie came out and then they ended up sending me all of the books which was so nice so I sent the first book that I purchased for myself to my little brother because I want to buddy read them with him if you don't know what this series is about it is a middle grade fantasy series but it's not a run-of-the-mill medieval European based fantasy series yes there are similar creatures like fairies gnomes d'oeuvres goblin but this series is pretty high-tech it mirrors our own society there are police squads there are I think there's mafias in this book too except they are run by fantastical beasts so the police squad is run by fairies and when I was a kid I was obsessed with fairies I thought I was a fairy I read every book I could that had a fairies in it and I went into this book expecting nice happy fairies but they're kind of violent kind of dangerous not the fairies I was expecting but I thought this was such a fun twist on them so our main character is Artemis Fowl he is 12 years old he is a genius criminal mastermind he is cynical he will do what he needs to do to get ahead to get some money bring back his family's fortune and that even includes in the first book capturing a fairy to hold her for ransom down here at the bottom there are different symbols and you can figure out what everything means once you go back through the book that was one of my favorite parts of reading these books the first favorite part was fairies I just looked up when these book came out and I've only read I think the first four or five because the last book came out in 2012 when I was in high school and I only read these books in elementary school and I think early middle school so I don't even know how this story ends the next book I have to share with you all is queen of arendelle nests by Cassandra Clare the last book in the dark artifice is trilogy and I am scared to read this I haven't read it yet I went to the book signing back in December I have a whole vlog if you want to watch my experience I embarrassed myself in front of Cassandra Clare I am not read this book yet because it's supposed to start right after that ending occurred and I'm just not ready for that right now like I mentioned earlier I tend to do book hauls every three to five months meaning that I have quite a lot of books that I purchased during October for the spooky season that I have not shared yet the first being chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto aguirre-sacasa and Robert hack this is a graphic novel based on Sabrina the Teenage Witch but then they made it very dark and satanic I already read this it haunts me until the end of my days it is not pleasant to read it's interesting but is it Pleasant no so many nightmares I purchased this because Netflix made an adaptation of this that they released back in October so I thought I read the graphic novel and then I'll watch the TV show I always excited because I really enjoy Sabrina the Teenage Witch the pleasant version and then I read this and then I thought nah I don't really want to watch the adaptation if you want to be severely spooked here you go the next spooky book I purchased is significantly less frightening it is war on the 13th and the all-seeing eye written by Taniya or Tania Del Rio and illustrated by will still a this is an illustrated novel for children so it will not hopefully give you nightmares this about warren xiii who works at his family's ancient hotel as the errand boy he's the bellhop he's the groundskeeper he's anything he needs to be this is a spooky mystery Warren has to find a hidden treasure called the all-seeing eye but he has to solve a few mysteries to get to it and the last 2 spooky books are two books in a series the definers series by Libba Bray I read the first book the diviners back in October and I really enjoyed it so I immediately went out and purchased the next two books in the series and I have since not read these this whole video is just showing me how many books I purchased and then have not actually gotten to but FYI so far in 2019 I have not purchased any books I got some books from the library but I have not purchased any so we're getting better here folks this series is set in 1920s New York and it follows a group of teenagers known as the diviners who all have superpowers in a way our main character easy she is kind of an annoying 1920s modern flapper girl but her power is to touch objects or people and read the past diva moves to New York to live with her uncle who works at the Museum of the occult and as luck will have it or misfortune we'll have it right when she arrives things start happening occult II things we have a demon telling people around New York I like to go into the first book in the series knowing basically everything about it I love to research the crap out of folks before I read them but not so with sequels so I will just say the first book in the diviners is so good and I hear that the rest of the Sirians just gets better then I have next year in Havana by Chanel Klayton which is a realistic fiction of romance I believe which follows two different protagonists a grandmother and her granddaughter during two different eras of time in Cuba so we first follow an eighteen year old named ELISA who is the grandmother back in 1958 she is very sheltered from the political unrest that is occurring in Cuba at the time because she is the daughter of a sugar baron but she falls in love and soon realizes what is happening in her country then we follow Elise's granddaughter Marisol in 2017 in Miami she grew up hearing ELISA say such beautiful things about Cuba one day when ELISA passes away and it's cremated her last wish is for Marisol to go back to Cuba and spread her ashes there Marisol goes and sees what Cuba is like in modern times and learns about some new family members I believe and falls in love this also reminds me a little bit of the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo which was my favorite book of 2018 mostly because of the two different perspectives from two points in time I love that story tool I want more people to keep writing books like that next book I have is radio silence by Alice Osmond one of my favorite books of 2018 so I'm really happy I purchased it actually I first read it as a library book and then I liked it so much that I purchased a physical book to have in my shelf so I can refer back to it this book spoke to me this follows a teenage girl named Francis who lives in the UK but in the United States we would call her a high school senior she was in her last year before she goes off to university Francis is very much focused on academics her dream is to go to the University of Cambridge so she is always working on schoolwork she is at the top of the class she is head girl and she doesn't have much time left over for friends but when she does have some spare time she devotes it to making fan art for her favorite podcast named universe city one day the creator of universe city sees her fan art and asks her if she would be willing to become the official artist for universe city she obviously says yes because that's her favorite podcast and when she says yes she realizes that the creator of the podcast is a boy she knows in real life named Alice and when they become friends in real life they help each other through some pretty dark time the most pure platonic affectionate relationship this book deals with academic pressure struggling with figuring out what to do for the rest of your life at such a young age sexuality mental illness I really enjoyed it and I'm happy that I have my own copy in my hands now next I purchased americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie this is a realistic fiction book which follows two characters who are young and in love living in Nigeria when it is military ruled they decide to leave Nigeria FML oooh I hope I'm pronouncing her name correctly but she lives for America opens I hope to follow her but because the borders were closed in America after 9/11 he instead goes to London where he lives undocumented then 15 years later in Nigeria is democratic they go back and hopefully I think they fall in love again because I hope I hope it's true laughs so many reviewers that I trust gave this book 5 out of 5 stars I think she's a brilliant woman she's also from Nigeria so I am excited to see how she writes Nigeria and how our characters relationships with themselves and the new countries they move to as well as a relationships with each other and the country where they were born changes throughout this novel now we talked earlier about a book with a podcast in it here's another book with a podcast in it say to you by Courtney summers I loved this book I listened to the audiobook of this and Wow the audiobook has sound effects has an actual podcast which sounds like a podcast a whole cast of characters I mentioned earlier how much I enjoy two perspectives from two different points in time and that's what this book has as well the first perspective we have is Sadie's perspective she grew up basically raising herself and her little sister after their mother left then one day her little sister is found murdered Sadie sets out to find the murderer and avenge her little sister the second perspective is that of a podcast host who has a podcast on small-town murders he goes to her small town in Colorado interviews her friends and families and other people in the town and then he follows Sadie's steps to where she is at the end of the book but he's a few steps behind her there's no comic relief in this book it's just sad but also so well-written it covers Hedda philia sexual abuse drug abuse murder it's a lot but it's not sensationalized you don't actually see a lot of it happening on the page you might hear a few references to it but it mostly focuses on the victims the next book I bought was Jane Steele by Lindsey Fay which is a gothic retelling of Jane Eyre but Jane Eyre is a murderer surprise this is one of my friends jaws from Squibbles reads this is one of her favorite books so that already gives it some very high praise we have another book that I have already read and really enjoyed so hopefully this doesn't turn into another book review it is an absolutely remarkable thing by Hank green this is a sci-fi story set in our current world it follows a 23 year old named April May who lives in New York City one day she's coming back from work when she spots a ten-foot tall statue looking thing it kind of looks like a transformer so she asks her friend named Andy who is a youtuber to come on down to this corner of New York at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. to film the transformer looking thing she eventually calls it Carl they post the video to YouTube it becomes one of the most watched or the most watched video in the entire world because it turns out that these Carl's have popped up all over the world at exactly the same time no one knows how it happened and they cannot move the Carl's at all April is the first person to have ever had contact with it so she becomes the unofficial expert and ambassador to the Carl's she gets Fame power money she's on new shows and talk shows she has a great voice in what's happening you learn what happens with the Carl's like at most say focuses on how power and fame corrupts april/may as good it's also the first book in a series so I'm excited for the next book to come out that ending I have a book that I bought at the airport bookstore which is Josh & Hazel's guide to not dating by Christina Lauren it follows one person named Josh and one person named hazel they've known each other since college they haven't always been friends ten years after college they meet up again and there's some attraction in the air but they decide to not date they're just going to be friends you know what friends do they set each other up on very bad blind dates because that's friendship that's not secret love at all you know that they start to fall in love he has all kind of reminds me of Jessica day from new girl she's quirky I hate that word quirky josh is the opposite of her opposites attract he is more in his own head whereas she's all over the place I have a book that didn't even know was a book until quite recently it is how was Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones I love the Studio Ghibli film I grew up with it I've heard that this is pretty different from the movie but not in a bad way in fact a lot of people that I know prefer the book over the movie which I didn't think was possible for such a great movie it has a lot of the same characters such as Sophie our main character and Howell and his Moving Castle however Sophia's entire storyline is pretty different she's the eldest of three sisters and because of that she is forced to stay home at her family's hat shop and run it for a little bit while her stepmother is off spending a lot of money but then one day she meets how old she gets cursed turns into an old lady and the rest is the rest of the book I picked up two momenta and gauzy Adichie's dear IG Ola or a feminist min Festo in 15 suggestions this is a response to a letter that one of her childhood friends sent to her right before having a baby girl asking how she can raise her baby to be a feminist and this is her response in 15 suggestions I picked up a poetry collection by Amanda Lovelace the princess saves herself in this one I picked up her second collection the witch doesn't burn in this one a couple of months ago still haven't read it but I think I would read both of them back-to-back I don't read a lot of poetry in fact I don't really like poetry mostly because I've had bad experience with poetry in English class but I think reading more poetry for fun and reading more modern poetry that's not 1912 modern poetry I took a modern American poetry class a couple of semesters ago I really didn't like it and now I'm bitter towards poetry but I think this will be fun and it's a fun concept and I've heard good things so maybe it will cure me of the poetry hate I'm currently suffering from I have the third book in the wayward children series by Seanan McGuire beneath the sugar sky this takes place in a world of nonsense covered in sugar he follows Rimi the daughter of summe who was a character in every heart a doorway she is coming from her world of nonsense asking people Addie home for wayward children to help her and help the world where she is coming from next is the Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society by Mary Ann Schaefer and Annie barrows I watched the Netflix movie before I even knew this was a book and I loved it has Lily James and what's-his-face from haunting of Hill House and people from Downton Abbey so I was living my best life and then I learned it was based on a book so I had to pick this up this is set post-world War two our main character is Juliet she is a writer in London one day she learns that there is a book club on the island of Guernsey and Island on the English Channel and that book club and the connections they formed to the books and each other helped them get through the occupation by German soldiers during World War two she decides to write a book on the book club so she goes to Guernsey she learns about and they're love books there's also some romance with multiple people I have homegoing by Yosi which takes place in eighteenth-century Ghana it follows two sisters one who marries an English man and lives a life of comfort and one who is sold into slavery it then follows their parallel stories and eight generations of their descendants going to the United States during the Civil War and Harlem during the Jazz Age it follows the legacy of slavery seeing how it didn't just affect the people who were enslaved but it also affects their descendants like inventions several times before I really enjoy stories that follow two different perspectives and two different points in time but this fall is two different perspectives and eight different points in time I have a book that I'm very excited for Pride by II me as a boy a modern of Pride and Prejudice retelling and if you know me you know I love printed and Prejudice I haven't read a lot have I read any modern Pride and Prejudice retellings I don't think so I think I've just read Pride and Prejudice seventy seven times and then I've watched a bunch of modern Pride and Prejudice movies this takes place in Brooklyn our Elizabeth Bennet is Zuri Benny tez I think there's yeah yeah look at this artwork it's beautiful this is Zuri she is proud of her afro latina roots and she's proud of her Brooklyn neighborhood she does not want to see it being gentrified but one day the Darcy is moving this is Darius Darcy he's rude he's arrogant he's not a fun person but guess what they fall in love and I'm excited so it follows her reaction to the gentrification of the area her romances with several people including this man right here and her even applying to college which i think is something we need more in books we need more talk about school I've heard about a lot of modern adaptations but I think this one sounds the most interesting I have what if it's us by becky albertalli and adam Silveira a contemporary romance that takes place in New York City it follows two boys Arthur and Ben who meet at the post office when Ben is returning a box of his old boyfriends stuff they think each other is pretty darn cute it's New York City so they get separated and then they find their way to each other again they go on a couple of dates though and it doesn't go too well but I think eventually they'll fell in love if all is right with the world they will fall in love because that's what I need next is wonder Smith the calling of Morgan Crowe by Jessica Townsend which is the sequel to Nevermore the trials of Morgan Crowe that's the name by Jessica Townsend which I read in 2017 and really enjoyed it reminds me a lot of Harry Potter it's a middle grade of fantasy series with magic fantastical of beasts I don't know what the sequel is about because I'm not going to read the back because I don't want a few spoiled I just want to be transported to a nice cozy magical world for a couple of days I have two books from one of my new favorite authors Taylor Jenkins read who wrote these seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo again my favorite book of 2018 after I read Evelyn Hugo I learned that that was not her first book she had written several books prior to that and I had to read them all I still have not read all of them but I'm making my way through slowly I have read after I do and maybe in another life though after I do follows a couple named Lauren and Ryan who have been together for I think over a decade however they have fallen out of love there's no spark in their marriage so they decide to spend one entire year completely without contact you will not call each other text each other email each other see each other nothing they are going to spend the time realizing what they want out of their marriage what they want out of life we follow Lauren as she spends time with friends and family talking about what love is all about what a relationship is all about getting to know them and herself maybe in another life is like the movies sliding doors with Gwyneth Paltrow in it Hanna she moves back to Los Angeles she's kind of been floating for her entire life so far one day she makes a decision which completely alters her life this follows two possible storylines if she does something and if she doesn't do something there are different love interests different job prospects I have becoming Michelle Obama's why I am so excited to get to this I am in dire need of some inspiration from a smart powerful lady I've excited to read about her life and learn how she became first lady how her and Barack Obama met I'm excited about that but she's so smart she says so much with her life I also purchased the audiobook I spent a lot of money on this reading experience that hasn't even happened yet but I am ready for her to tell me her life story now I have three books that I purchased for the holiday season I wanted some festive Christmas ebooks but looking at them I realize that I've only read one of them so far and it's January the end of January so do I wait 11 months to read them again I'm always slow on reading the books that I have purchased hence why I'm going to library more because I can just return them and the guilt will not follow me the first book that I have already read is the afterlife of Holly chase by Cynthia Han this is a modern retelling of A Christmas Carol which follows a Scrooge named Holly who did not learn the error of her ways she just went on being a bad person and she died in the afterlife she's forced to become the ghost of Christmas past she's still a bad person until one day a Scrooge catches her attention it's a fun Christmassy read with a pretty unique concept the next Christmas ebook is Pride and Prejudice and mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz I got it at Target and there was a 20% off sticker this is another modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice except it's gender bent so Darcy Fitzwilliam is our main character and Luke Bennett is Elizabeth Bennet's the last Christmassy book is one day in December by Josie Silver so many people who I watch on YouTube we're reading this at exactly the same time I think it was for one of the readathons it's a festive contemporary romance but then I forgot that I bought it I was buying a lot of books around this time I'm not buying a lot of books anymore and the last three books that I purchased before we talked about my library books are the three books in the Grisha trilogy by Leigh bardugo I've had a lot of people a lot of my close tell me to not bother with this serious to not even read it just go ahead and read six of grows because I'm reading these to get to six of crows but now I'm not going to cheat people have told me that six of crows spoils this series I'm not gonna do that I'm gonna read them in their proper order I've already read shadow and bone this is a fantasy series inspired by imperialistic Russia I love the atmosphere of this book there are also Grisha which are magic users not necessarily they don't call it magic but it's magic I think it's a very interesting world and I understand why Leigh bardugo wanted to stay in the world now time for the eight books that I got from my local library my local library is a plus there is at home delivery so I don't even have to leave my home to get library books and I know there are book libraries but I prefer to read physical books just personally I kind of went a little bit crazy when I first came back home and got my library card renewed I went on my library site and I checked out more than eight books significantly more than eight books it was like I was scrolling through Amazon with an unlimited budget I was checking out books that I had only heard of from friends I didn't even have a desire personally to read them but I thought why not read outside my comfort zone and read all these books but I got more books and I can realistically read in a month before I have to renew them so I returned a bunch of them these eight have remained I hopefully can control myself more in the future the first book is the poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo this follows a teenager named Xiomara Bautista who lives in Harlem she lives with her very controlling and religious mother and to release all of her frustration at her life and at her mother she starts writing poetry and eventually starts doing slam poetry I've heard that Elizabeth Acevedo also does slam poetry and she narrates the audiobook so I'm definitely going to have to borrow the audiobook somewhere so that I can listen to it I am ready for these audiobook experiences I have the fourth book in the way weird children's series by Seanan McGuire in an absent dream this is about Lundy's backstory in the goblin market which sounds like it's a story for me are there actual goblins in here I hope so have another modern private prejudice retelling what's the deal with me I don't know but this is eligible by Curtis sittenfeld I've had so many people recommend this book to me my expectations are pretty high maybe they shouldn't be but here we are I just read inside the front cover and Charles Bingley's name in here is chip Bingley and I hate that in this book Elizabeth or Liz and Jane live in New York City Liz is a magazine writer and they go back to Cincinnati Ohio to help their parents take care of their crumbling home obviously Darcy and Chip Bingley show up and you know the whole prying prejudice stuff happens I am now very wary of this because I see the words CrossFit and paleo diets in here it sounds a little bit too modern for my taste but maybe I like it my next library book is the seven and a half death of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stewart Curtin at first it was just the seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle but they had to add the haft because it was too close to the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo Evelyn Hugo reigns supreme this is a murder mystery book where Evelyn Hardcastle is murdered the same way each day for I'm guessing seven and a half days our main character named Aidan wakes up in a different body of somebody present for her death each day and has to figure out how Evelyn Hardcastle was murdered but if he doesn't solve the murder before the day is over he wakes up in the body of a new guest this reminds me so much of those murder mystery dinners I've never done one myself the only reason I know about them is because of that one Lizzie McGuire episode where they do a murder mystery dinner and I've always wanted to do one sense that Lizzie McGuire episode we then had the kiss quotient by helena wong which I've heard is kind of explicit it's a contemporary romance but I think it edges towards pg-13 or R which will be new for me but okay our main character Estella has Asperger's and not a lot of dating experience or other experience so she hires a male escort named Michael Vaughn who teaches her things and then I think they fall in love I have Saco girls by Claire Legrand which I got to Buddy read with my best friend's Hannah from a clockwork reader and Haley from Haley and Buckland but only Haley read it Hannah and I have the book but we haven't read it yet so I renewed it this takes place on an island called sock Hill rock and for decades girls have been disappearing because of something no one knows what it is and they don't dare to come close to it until Marian Zoe and Val come together and I hope they bring it down or at least expose what it is what if it's like scooby Doo and they just take off the mask I hope that's what it's like probably isn't it's probably actually a monster I also got if we were villains I'm sorry how shiny all this is if we were villains biml Rio which follows seven Shakespearean actors who all go to a conservatory and in their fourth and final year their rivalries turn violent ten years later after being released from jail one of the Shakespearean actors named Oliver marks is finally ready to tell the man who put him away what really happened so it's about Shakespeare acting the stage and maybe murder it says that it explores the dangerous boundary between art and life so do they kill somebody during like Macbeth or something on stage I and finally at the last library book and the last book in this ridiculously long haul is skyward by Brandon Sanderson a why a sci-fi book so many book tubers that I follow love Brandon Sanders and so many people have recommended me Brandon Sanderson over the years but I've been afraid to read his books because they are quite chunky adult high fantasy I'm not ready for Brandon Sanderson original yet so I'm going to read his why a sci-fi first this is about a car Liam Spencer who lives in a futuristic world and wants to go to flight school she wants to fly amongst the stars I accidentally just flipped to this page and it has images of spaceships they look like star wars spaceships this is so cool I hope there are more images but I don't want to spoil myself so I'm just going to put this away anyway those were the I don't even know how many books that I just hauled a lot of them I'm losing my voice sorry about that I sound nice and husky now though so you're welcome thank you so much for watching my first library book haul I will do more of these in the future and I will talk to you all soon in my next video byehey YouTube it's Zoe and today I have a pretty big and pretty exciting book haul to share with you all I didn't think that I would ever call a book haul exciting but I think this one is personally because of two reasons reason number one is that I have quite a few books from the library to share with you all I have never done a library book haul before at least I don't think so because I didn't think people would be interested in watching me haul books that aren't permanently mine but I watched quite a lot of library book hauls myself and I thought if I watched them then maybe other people will too I am going to the library much more now that I am back home and I have a better library system than I did up at university so I'm planning for the time being on doing monthly book hauls that mostly feature library book in the past I've only done book hauls maybe every three to four months or in this case this has been five months since I listed a book haul but I am excited to go to the library more and share what I'm currently reading I went a little bit overboard with getting library books this month because I am finally back at the library and there were so many good books so I got them all and I don't know if I can read them all before I have to return them but I will learn my lesson but I gotta support your local library I am doing my civic duty I also don't have any library fines yet so we're all good as of now anyway the second reason why this is an exciting book haul is because I have a giveaway to share with you all so it just is a paid promotion with Disney Book Group who is also offering the prizes for this giveaway to celebrate the release of the Artemis Fowl series all eight books by away in a Colfer when I read these books as a kid I called him a Owen colfer but he's Irish you say his name Owen now I know what these books have been all redesigned in these oh gosh they're falling over these gorgeous cover because guess what you probably already know if you are a fan of Artemis Fowl like I am there is a movie from the Walt Disney Studios coming out in a couple of months based on these books and I'm excited also Judi Dench's in it it's directed by Kenneth Branagh Gilderoy Lockhart from Chamber of Secrets directed this movie Gilderoy Lockhart has many skills these are the redesigned covers I don't know if you can tell but they're so colorful they're so pretty the nostalgia of just looking at this series my older sister was very into these books and I wanted to be cool and read the books too also each book has a sneak peek to the fowl twins which is the new novel coming out by Owen colfur so this series is living on and we're getting a movie and you can win all of these books - yes all eight books plus a backpack plus a hat plus a fidget spinner and some chocolate do it all for the chocolate no I'm just kidding these aren't really good books I loved them when I was a kid if you were just getting into reading or you really want to know what the series is about before you see it the movie or if you want to read it along with a younger sibling or your kid I think this would be a really great story to share with somebody else because they brought me and my sister together when we were kids if you want to enter this giveaway and get all of the book first you need to be subscribed to my youtube channel secondly you need to leave a comment down below letting me know what book from my book haul you think I should read first do any of the words enter me along with a book thirdly the most important step don't forget to do this there is a Rafflecopter link down below in the description click it and enter all of your information including your mailing address because I need to mail you all of the give away stuff all of that being said good luck and I hope you'll win these books again Thank You Disney Book Group for sponsoring this video and for sponsoring the giveaway on to the book ah well the first couple of books that I'm going to haul are guess what the eight books in the Artemis Fowl series by a Wynn Colfer actually fun fact a couple of days before they contacted me asking if I wanted to be an art amiss fowl ambassador which sounds so fancy I purchased the first book for myself because I wanted to reread them before the movie came out and then they ended up sending me all of the books which was so nice so I sent the first book that I purchased for myself to my little brother because I want to buddy read them with him if you don't know what this series is about it is a middle grade fantasy series but it's not a run-of-the-mill medieval European based fantasy series yes there are similar creatures like fairies gnomes d'oeuvres goblin but this series is pretty high-tech it mirrors our own society there are police squads there are I think there's mafias in this book too except they are run by fantastical beasts so the police squad is run by fairies and when I was a kid I was obsessed with fairies I thought I was a fairy I read every book I could that had a fairies in it and I went into this book expecting nice happy fairies but they're kind of violent kind of dangerous not the fairies I was expecting but I thought this was such a fun twist on them so our main character is Artemis Fowl he is 12 years old he is a genius criminal mastermind he is cynical he will do what he needs to do to get ahead to get some money bring back his family's fortune and that even includes in the first book capturing a fairy to hold her for ransom down here at the bottom there are different symbols and you can figure out what everything means once you go back through the book that was one of my favorite parts of reading these books the first favorite part was fairies I just looked up when these book came out and I've only read I think the first four or five because the last book came out in 2012 when I was in high school and I only read these books in elementary school and I think early middle school so I don't even know how this story ends the next book I have to share with you all is queen of arendelle nests by Cassandra Clare the last book in the dark artifice is trilogy and I am scared to read this I haven't read it yet I went to the book signing back in December I have a whole vlog if you want to watch my experience I embarrassed myself in front of Cassandra Clare I am not read this book yet because it's supposed to start right after that ending occurred and I'm just not ready for that right now like I mentioned earlier I tend to do book hauls every three to five months meaning that I have quite a lot of books that I purchased during October for the spooky season that I have not shared yet the first being chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto aguirre-sacasa and Robert hack this is a graphic novel based on Sabrina the Teenage Witch but then they made it very dark and satanic I already read this it haunts me until the end of my days it is not pleasant to read it's interesting but is it Pleasant no so many nightmares I purchased this because Netflix made an adaptation of this that they released back in October so I thought I read the graphic novel and then I'll watch the TV show I always excited because I really enjoy Sabrina the Teenage Witch the pleasant version and then I read this and then I thought nah I don't really want to watch the adaptation if you want to be severely spooked here you go the next spooky book I purchased is significantly less frightening it is war on the 13th and the all-seeing eye written by Taniya or Tania Del Rio and illustrated by will still a this is an illustrated novel for children so it will not hopefully give you nightmares this about warren xiii who works at his family's ancient hotel as the errand boy he's the bellhop he's the groundskeeper he's anything he needs to be this is a spooky mystery Warren has to find a hidden treasure called the all-seeing eye but he has to solve a few mysteries to get to it and the last 2 spooky books are two books in a series the definers series by Libba Bray I read the first book the diviners back in October and I really enjoyed it so I immediately went out and purchased the next two books in the series and I have since not read these this whole video is just showing me how many books I purchased and then have not actually gotten to but FYI so far in 2019 I have not purchased any books I got some books from the library but I have not purchased any so we're getting better here folks this series is set in 1920s New York and it follows a group of teenagers known as the diviners who all have superpowers in a way our main character easy she is kind of an annoying 1920s modern flapper girl but her power is to touch objects or people and read the past diva moves to New York to live with her uncle who works at the Museum of the occult and as luck will have it or misfortune we'll have it right when she arrives things start happening occult II things we have a demon telling people around New York I like to go into the first book in the series knowing basically everything about it I love to research the crap out of folks before I read them but not so with sequels so I will just say the first book in the diviners is so good and I hear that the rest of the Sirians just gets better then I have next year in Havana by Chanel Klayton which is a realistic fiction of romance I believe which follows two different protagonists a grandmother and her granddaughter during two different eras of time in Cuba so we first follow an eighteen year old named ELISA who is the grandmother back in 1958 she is very sheltered from the political unrest that is occurring in Cuba at the time because she is the daughter of a sugar baron but she falls in love and soon realizes what is happening in her country then we follow Elise's granddaughter Marisol in 2017 in Miami she grew up hearing ELISA say such beautiful things about Cuba one day when ELISA passes away and it's cremated her last wish is for Marisol to go back to Cuba and spread her ashes there Marisol goes and sees what Cuba is like in modern times and learns about some new family members I believe and falls in love this also reminds me a little bit of the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo which was my favorite book of 2018 mostly because of the two different perspectives from two points in time I love that story tool I want more people to keep writing books like that next book I have is radio silence by Alice Osmond one of my favorite books of 2018 so I'm really happy I purchased it actually I first read it as a library book and then I liked it so much that I purchased a physical book to have in my shelf so I can refer back to it this book spoke to me this follows a teenage girl named Francis who lives in the UK but in the United States we would call her a high school senior she was in her last year before she goes off to university Francis is very much focused on academics her dream is to go to the University of Cambridge so she is always working on schoolwork she is at the top of the class she is head girl and she doesn't have much time left over for friends but when she does have some spare time she devotes it to making fan art for her favorite podcast named universe city one day the creator of universe city sees her fan art and asks her if she would be willing to become the official artist for universe city she obviously says yes because that's her favorite podcast and when she says yes she realizes that the creator of the podcast is a boy she knows in real life named Alice and when they become friends in real life they help each other through some pretty dark time the most pure platonic affectionate relationship this book deals with academic pressure struggling with figuring out what to do for the rest of your life at such a young age sexuality mental illness I really enjoyed it and I'm happy that I have my own copy in my hands now next I purchased americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie this is a realistic fiction book which follows two characters who are young and in love living in Nigeria when it is military ruled they decide to leave Nigeria FML oooh I hope I'm pronouncing her name correctly but she lives for America opens I hope to follow her but because the borders were closed in America after 9/11 he instead goes to London where he lives undocumented then 15 years later in Nigeria is democratic they go back and hopefully I think they fall in love again because I hope I hope it's true laughs so many reviewers that I trust gave this book 5 out of 5 stars I think she's a brilliant woman she's also from Nigeria so I am excited to see how she writes Nigeria and how our characters relationships with themselves and the new countries they move to as well as a relationships with each other and the country where they were born changes throughout this novel now we talked earlier about a book with a podcast in it here's another book with a podcast in it say to you by Courtney summers I loved this book I listened to the audiobook of this and Wow the audiobook has sound effects has an actual podcast which sounds like a podcast a whole cast of characters I mentioned earlier how much I enjoy two perspectives from two different points in time and that's what this book has as well the first perspective we have is Sadie's perspective she grew up basically raising herself and her little sister after their mother left then one day her little sister is found murdered Sadie sets out to find the murderer and avenge her little sister the second perspective is that of a podcast host who has a podcast on small-town murders he goes to her small town in Colorado interviews her friends and families and other people in the town and then he follows Sadie's steps to where she is at the end of the book but he's a few steps behind her there's no comic relief in this book it's just sad but also so well-written it covers Hedda philia sexual abuse drug abuse murder it's a lot but it's not sensationalized you don't actually see a lot of it happening on the page you might hear a few references to it but it mostly focuses on the victims the next book I bought was Jane Steele by Lindsey Fay which is a gothic retelling of Jane Eyre but Jane Eyre is a murderer surprise this is one of my friends jaws from Squibbles reads this is one of her favorite books so that already gives it some very high praise we have another book that I have already read and really enjoyed so hopefully this doesn't turn into another book review it is an absolutely remarkable thing by Hank green this is a sci-fi story set in our current world it follows a 23 year old named April May who lives in New York City one day she's coming back from work when she spots a ten-foot tall statue looking thing it kind of looks like a transformer so she asks her friend named Andy who is a youtuber to come on down to this corner of New York at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. to film the transformer looking thing she eventually calls it Carl they post the video to YouTube it becomes one of the most watched or the most watched video in the entire world because it turns out that these Carl's have popped up all over the world at exactly the same time no one knows how it happened and they cannot move the Carl's at all April is the first person to have ever had contact with it so she becomes the unofficial expert and ambassador to the Carl's she gets Fame power money she's on new shows and talk shows she has a great voice in what's happening you learn what happens with the Carl's like at most say focuses on how power and fame corrupts april/may as good it's also the first book in a series so I'm excited for the next book to come out that ending I have a book that I bought at the airport bookstore which is Josh & Hazel's guide to not dating by Christina Lauren it follows one person named Josh and one person named hazel they've known each other since college they haven't always been friends ten years after college they meet up again and there's some attraction in the air but they decide to not date they're just going to be friends you know what friends do they set each other up on very bad blind dates because that's friendship that's not secret love at all you know that they start to fall in love he has all kind of reminds me of Jessica day from new girl she's quirky I hate that word quirky josh is the opposite of her opposites attract he is more in his own head whereas she's all over the place I have a book that didn't even know was a book until quite recently it is how was Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones I love the Studio Ghibli film I grew up with it I've heard that this is pretty different from the movie but not in a bad way in fact a lot of people that I know prefer the book over the movie which I didn't think was possible for such a great movie it has a lot of the same characters such as Sophie our main character and Howell and his Moving Castle however Sophia's entire storyline is pretty different she's the eldest of three sisters and because of that she is forced to stay home at her family's hat shop and run it for a little bit while her stepmother is off spending a lot of money but then one day she meets how old she gets cursed turns into an old lady and the rest is the rest of the book I picked up two momenta and gauzy Adichie's dear IG Ola or a feminist min Festo in 15 suggestions this is a response to a letter that one of her childhood friends sent to her right before having a baby girl asking how she can raise her baby to be a feminist and this is her response in 15 suggestions I picked up a poetry collection by Amanda Lovelace the princess saves herself in this one I picked up her second collection the witch doesn't burn in this one a couple of months ago still haven't read it but I think I would read both of them back-to-back I don't read a lot of poetry in fact I don't really like poetry mostly because I've had bad experience with poetry in English class but I think reading more poetry for fun and reading more modern poetry that's not 1912 modern poetry I took a modern American poetry class a couple of semesters ago I really didn't like it and now I'm bitter towards poetry but I think this will be fun and it's a fun concept and I've heard good things so maybe it will cure me of the poetry hate I'm currently suffering from I have the third book in the wayward children series by Seanan McGuire beneath the sugar sky this takes place in a world of nonsense covered in sugar he follows Rimi the daughter of summe who was a character in every heart a doorway she is coming from her world of nonsense asking people Addie home for wayward children to help her and help the world where she is coming from next is the Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society by Mary Ann Schaefer and Annie barrows I watched the Netflix movie before I even knew this was a book and I loved it has Lily James and what's-his-face from haunting of Hill House and people from Downton Abbey so I was living my best life and then I learned it was based on a book so I had to pick this up this is set post-world War two our main character is Juliet she is a writer in London one day she learns that there is a book club on the island of Guernsey and Island on the English Channel and that book club and the connections they formed to the books and each other helped them get through the occupation by German soldiers during World War two she decides to write a book on the book club so she goes to Guernsey she learns about and they're love books there's also some romance with multiple people I have homegoing by Yosi which takes place in eighteenth-century Ghana it follows two sisters one who marries an English man and lives a life of comfort and one who is sold into slavery it then follows their parallel stories and eight generations of their descendants going to the United States during the Civil War and Harlem during the Jazz Age it follows the legacy of slavery seeing how it didn't just affect the people who were enslaved but it also affects their descendants like inventions several times before I really enjoy stories that follow two different perspectives and two different points in time but this fall is two different perspectives and eight different points in time I have a book that I'm very excited for Pride by II me as a boy a modern of Pride and Prejudice retelling and if you know me you know I love printed and Prejudice I haven't read a lot have I read any modern Pride and Prejudice retellings I don't think so I think I've just read Pride and Prejudice seventy seven times and then I've watched a bunch of modern Pride and Prejudice movies this takes place in Brooklyn our Elizabeth Bennet is Zuri Benny tez I think there's yeah yeah look at this artwork it's beautiful this is Zuri she is proud of her afro latina roots and she's proud of her Brooklyn neighborhood she does not want to see it being gentrified but one day the Darcy is moving this is Darius Darcy he's rude he's arrogant he's not a fun person but guess what they fall in love and I'm excited so it follows her reaction to the gentrification of the area her romances with several people including this man right here and her even applying to college which i think is something we need more in books we need more talk about school I've heard about a lot of modern adaptations but I think this one sounds the most interesting I have what if it's us by becky albertalli and adam Silveira a contemporary romance that takes place in New York City it follows two boys Arthur and Ben who meet at the post office when Ben is returning a box of his old boyfriends stuff they think each other is pretty darn cute it's New York City so they get separated and then they find their way to each other again they go on a couple of dates though and it doesn't go too well but I think eventually they'll fell in love if all is right with the world they will fall in love because that's what I need next is wonder Smith the calling of Morgan Crowe by Jessica Townsend which is the sequel to Nevermore the trials of Morgan Crowe that's the name by Jessica Townsend which I read in 2017 and really enjoyed it reminds me a lot of Harry Potter it's a middle grade of fantasy series with magic fantastical of beasts I don't know what the sequel is about because I'm not going to read the back because I don't want a few spoiled I just want to be transported to a nice cozy magical world for a couple of days I have two books from one of my new favorite authors Taylor Jenkins read who wrote these seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo again my favorite book of 2018 after I read Evelyn Hugo I learned that that was not her first book she had written several books prior to that and I had to read them all I still have not read all of them but I'm making my way through slowly I have read after I do and maybe in another life though after I do follows a couple named Lauren and Ryan who have been together for I think over a decade however they have fallen out of love there's no spark in their marriage so they decide to spend one entire year completely without contact you will not call each other text each other email each other see each other nothing they are going to spend the time realizing what they want out of their marriage what they want out of life we follow Lauren as she spends time with friends and family talking about what love is all about what a relationship is all about getting to know them and herself maybe in another life is like the movies sliding doors with Gwyneth Paltrow in it Hanna she moves back to Los Angeles she's kind of been floating for her entire life so far one day she makes a decision which completely alters her life this follows two possible storylines if she does something and if she doesn't do something there are different love interests different job prospects I have becoming Michelle Obama's why I am so excited to get to this I am in dire need of some inspiration from a smart powerful lady I've excited to read about her life and learn how she became first lady how her and Barack Obama met I'm excited about that but she's so smart she says so much with her life I also purchased the audiobook I spent a lot of money on this reading experience that hasn't even happened yet but I am ready for her to tell me her life story now I have three books that I purchased for the holiday season I wanted some festive Christmas ebooks but looking at them I realize that I've only read one of them so far and it's January the end of January so do I wait 11 months to read them again I'm always slow on reading the books that I have purchased hence why I'm going to library more because I can just return them and the guilt will not follow me the first book that I have already read is the afterlife of Holly chase by Cynthia Han this is a modern retelling of A Christmas Carol which follows a Scrooge named Holly who did not learn the error of her ways she just went on being a bad person and she died in the afterlife she's forced to become the ghost of Christmas past she's still a bad person until one day a Scrooge catches her attention it's a fun Christmassy read with a pretty unique concept the next Christmas ebook is Pride and Prejudice and mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz I got it at Target and there was a 20% off sticker this is another modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice except it's gender bent so Darcy Fitzwilliam is our main character and Luke Bennett is Elizabeth Bennet's the last Christmassy book is one day in December by Josie Silver so many people who I watch on YouTube we're reading this at exactly the same time I think it was for one of the readathons it's a festive contemporary romance but then I forgot that I bought it I was buying a lot of books around this time I'm not buying a lot of books anymore and the last three books that I purchased before we talked about my library books are the three books in the Grisha trilogy by Leigh bardugo I've had a lot of people a lot of my close tell me to not bother with this serious to not even read it just go ahead and read six of grows because I'm reading these to get to six of crows but now I'm not going to cheat people have told me that six of crows spoils this series I'm not gonna do that I'm gonna read them in their proper order I've already read shadow and bone this is a fantasy series inspired by imperialistic Russia I love the atmosphere of this book there are also Grisha which are magic users not necessarily they don't call it magic but it's magic I think it's a very interesting world and I understand why Leigh bardugo wanted to stay in the world now time for the eight books that I got from my local library my local library is a plus there is at home delivery so I don't even have to leave my home to get library books and I know there are book libraries but I prefer to read physical books just personally I kind of went a little bit crazy when I first came back home and got my library card renewed I went on my library site and I checked out more than eight books significantly more than eight books it was like I was scrolling through Amazon with an unlimited budget I was checking out books that I had only heard of from friends I didn't even have a desire personally to read them but I thought why not read outside my comfort zone and read all these books but I got more books and I can realistically read in a month before I have to renew them so I returned a bunch of them these eight have remained I hopefully can control myself more in the future the first book is the poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo this follows a teenager named Xiomara Bautista who lives in Harlem she lives with her very controlling and religious mother and to release all of her frustration at her life and at her mother she starts writing poetry and eventually starts doing slam poetry I've heard that Elizabeth Acevedo also does slam poetry and she narrates the audiobook so I'm definitely going to have to borrow the audiobook somewhere so that I can listen to it I am ready for these audiobook experiences I have the fourth book in the way weird children's series by Seanan McGuire in an absent dream this is about Lundy's backstory in the goblin market which sounds like it's a story for me are there actual goblins in here I hope so have another modern private prejudice retelling what's the deal with me I don't know but this is eligible by Curtis sittenfeld I've had so many people recommend this book to me my expectations are pretty high maybe they shouldn't be but here we are I just read inside the front cover and Charles Bingley's name in here is chip Bingley and I hate that in this book Elizabeth or Liz and Jane live in New York City Liz is a magazine writer and they go back to Cincinnati Ohio to help their parents take care of their crumbling home obviously Darcy and Chip Bingley show up and you know the whole prying prejudice stuff happens I am now very wary of this because I see the words CrossFit and paleo diets in here it sounds a little bit too modern for my taste but maybe I like it my next library book is the seven and a half death of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stewart Curtin at first it was just the seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle but they had to add the haft because it was too close to the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo Evelyn Hugo reigns supreme this is a murder mystery book where Evelyn Hardcastle is murdered the same way each day for I'm guessing seven and a half days our main character named Aidan wakes up in a different body of somebody present for her death each day and has to figure out how Evelyn Hardcastle was murdered but if he doesn't solve the murder before the day is over he wakes up in the body of a new guest this reminds me so much of those murder mystery dinners I've never done one myself the only reason I know about them is because of that one Lizzie McGuire episode where they do a murder mystery dinner and I've always wanted to do one sense that Lizzie McGuire episode we then had the kiss quotient by helena wong which I've heard is kind of explicit it's a contemporary romance but I think it edges towards pg-13 or R which will be new for me but okay our main character Estella has Asperger's and not a lot of dating experience or other experience so she hires a male escort named Michael Vaughn who teaches her things and then I think they fall in love I have Saco girls by Claire Legrand which I got to Buddy read with my best friend's Hannah from a clockwork reader and Haley from Haley and Buckland but only Haley read it Hannah and I have the book but we haven't read it yet so I renewed it this takes place on an island called sock Hill rock and for decades girls have been disappearing because of something no one knows what it is and they don't dare to come close to it until Marian Zoe and Val come together and I hope they bring it down or at least expose what it is what if it's like scooby Doo and they just take off the mask I hope that's what it's like probably isn't it's probably actually a monster I also got if we were villains I'm sorry how shiny all this is if we were villains biml Rio which follows seven Shakespearean actors who all go to a conservatory and in their fourth and final year their rivalries turn violent ten years later after being released from jail one of the Shakespearean actors named Oliver marks is finally ready to tell the man who put him away what really happened so it's about Shakespeare acting the stage and maybe murder it says that it explores the dangerous boundary between art and life so do they kill somebody during like Macbeth or something on stage I and finally at the last library book and the last book in this ridiculously long haul is skyward by Brandon Sanderson a why a sci-fi book so many book tubers that I follow love Brandon Sanders and so many people have recommended me Brandon Sanderson over the years but I've been afraid to read his books because they are quite chunky adult high fantasy I'm not ready for Brandon Sanderson original yet so I'm going to read his why a sci-fi first this is about a car Liam Spencer who lives in a futuristic world and wants to go to flight school she wants to fly amongst the stars I accidentally just flipped to this page and it has images of spaceships they look like star wars spaceships this is so cool I hope there are more images but I don't want to spoil myself so I'm just going to put this away anyway those were the I don't even know how many books that I just hauled a lot of them I'm losing my voice sorry about that I sound nice and husky now though so you're welcome thank you so much for watching my first library book haul I will do more of these in the future and I will talk to you all soon in my next video bye\n"