Hello, and welcome to the channel! My name is Annalisa and today I've got a book haul for you.
These books are actually from quite a while ago and I wasn't gonna do a haul of them
but then I watched a couple haul videos by other booktubers and really enjoyed them.
Somehow it's just relaxing and pleasant to hear people talk about books
even if it's not in a recommending kind of way.
So that's what I'm gonna do!
as per usual I got all these books for a dollar or less at a library store.
So when a library feels like they used up their books
or for some reason don't want them in circulation anymore they'll sell them for cheap
to raise a bit of money and offload a bunch of books.
That's how I come to own most of the books that I have.
And I totally recommend if you're a
book person to go check out your local library's sales.
So these ones didn't actually come from my local library they came from the Spokane Public Library,
which is a city that my family likes to go to a lot
and every time we're there
we stopped in to the library store.
Let's start with the two I think are the
prettiest and I was most excited to find.
These are lovely little editions of a
couple of The Chronicles of Narnia -
as you can see they've got this foiling
stuff on them that's very shiny,
plus just really gorgeous art, it's just lovely!
And this one has such pretty colors it's
almost - is it rose gold or is it copper?
It's something like that, I think it's
rose gold which I like even better than copper,
but I like copper too, and also
the only editions of The Chronicles of Narnia
that my family own at the
moment are big hard backs
so and these are like little things
you can stick in your purse
So I really love these both for lookingat and for actually reading they're very handy and they were fifty cents each
And this one, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman.
I've heard about this one a fair amount on bookstagram and Twitter -
I don't know if I've heard that much of it on booktube
but I've heard a lot of good things.
And it was on the clearance special which is even less than usual so it was three for a dollar,
so I got this as one of my three.
This I think was the highest price that comes at these library sales, which it was a dollar,
and it is a graphic novel and I just really enjoyed graphic novels,
especially big meaty ones like this it's more of a bother when they're the really small ones
because then you have to have several to have any kind of -  to really get into it
and have any kind of time in the story
and with the characters  but
this is a nice meaty one!
Gunnerkrigg Court: Research by Thomas Sidel.
I noticed when i started reading it which this is -
I think the only one - yeah i think this is the only one that I've actually started reading from this haul.
And obviously it's easier to get into than a lot of books
because it's a graphic novel, you can read it pretty fast.
So I actually started reading this one and it
was really interesting I really liked the concepts.
One thing that was clear from the beginning is that it is not the first of a series  it's in the middle of a series,
so I'm a little confused as to what the heck is going on
but the fact that I found it entertaining
and was able to connect the characters despite it not
being the first in a series indicates to me
it's a really good series that I
should really get the first one of.
Then we have a cover buy: The Book of Life by
Deborah Harkness
who is apparently the author of A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night,
which I have definitely heard of A Discovery of Witches in a positive way, so.
This one is very bookstagram friendly. But here's the back cover synopsis:
What did the witches once discover?
Why was the secret encoded
in a mysterious book called Ashmole 782
and then chased through the centuries by
demons vampires and the witches themselves?
How can spell bound witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Claremont
fulfill their love and their mission on contested ground
and with the weight of their very different
histories pulling them apart?
Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present,
facing new crises and old
enemies and Matthews ancestral home, Sept-tours,
they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches with one significant exception.
So it's a book later on in the series after A Discovery of Witches, but yeah, basically a cover buy.
This one, The Home - The Home For Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman.
I think I had heard a little bit about it before,
but I've heard significantly more about it after I bought it
but I grabbed this one because
it was another of the ones on clearance
so it's gonna be three for a dollar so I need to fill up my three for a dollar deal.
And so The Home for Unwanted
Girls just sounds like it's going to be very female-centric
and possibly about - probably, almost definitely about -
marginalized and down-on-their-luck little
girls and so I'm interested in that kind of thing.
I have heard from The Other Christine That Reads, who will be linked below,
that she really liked it, I think
it was one of her top books for this year
that she's read, so high
recommendation from her.
And she's pretty cynical and critical so when she likes something it's usually pretty good.
Then we have these two, City of Ashes and City of Bones of The Mortal Instruments series,
which I've heard a lot about the
Mortal Instruments on its own.
I heard about it even before I think I got on booktube and bookstagram, but then once I was on booksstagram
I saw pictures of these books and the other series -
the others in the series quite a
lot and they seem to be either loved or hated,
there don't seem to be a lot of
people who are, like, neutral towards them
so I'd love to hear your thoughts on
them if you've read them.
I intend to read them at some point but they're not
very high on my TBR just because
I'm really not sure whether I'd like them  not
and I'm also kind of worried that I will like the characters
and then they'll die 'cause I don't know what kind of author this is, and if she's one who kills characters a lot.
So I should really research that before I start reading them.
Oh, I didn't even notice before, but oh, it has a recommendation from Stephenie Meyers.
She says "The Mortal Instruments series story is a world  that I love to live in. Beautiful!" Lovely.
Okay, we're down to two more.
This one by the sticker I
know this is one of the three for a dollar ones
and basically if I see a
cheapo Nora Roberts book of any kind
I will buy it because she's a magnificent
author.
My mom owns most of her books but occasionally she'd only have one on Kindle
 
or she'll only have the hardback or something so a paperback of Nora Roberts is always a buy for me
if it's like cheapo like this.
In case you're unaware she writes the In Death series under the pen-name J.D. Robb
and that is a series that I have talked about a lot on this channel  but I've also read a few of her romances
and while I don't like her standalone or
trilogy romances as well,
basically because you don't have nearly as much
time with the characters
because there's only three books as opposed to 47 I
still like them quite a lot.
I highly recommend her various stories
set in Ireland, by the way, they're my favorites,
I like Ireland and clearly so does she.
By the way I don't know if you can hear but my cat is purring rather loudly right here in this area, yeah, yeah.
She likes to hang out on my bed so
she's here a lot when I'm filming.
This is The Harsh Cry of the Heron by
Ian Hearn and the subtitle or whatever the heck this is
says The Last Tale of the Hotori and this is another cover buy.
I'm super interested in East Asian
history and art and so I had to have this.
I'm very excited for this, I do kind of
want to wait until I'm in the right mood, though,
because it's sort of an epic
sort of a tale and you kind of have to -
like, I don't know, tell me if you feel the same way,
like you have to have a good chunk of time and the right mindset to go into an epic tale
as opposed to some fluffier reading, like this.
That is my book haul - so I got about 10 books for seven to eight dollars,
which is my kind of way to collect books.
I am also thinking of doing an un-haul sometime soon because via this method
and by accidentally buying duplicates once I've accumulated a few books that I don't intend to reread
and they could find a better home elsewhere.
Since I do so much of my book buying in the bargain area I would like to pay it forward
and I think when I do get rid of these books I'll be donating them to the library
for them to put into their sales.
One nice thing is that one of them at least is a book I actually like,
so someone will get the getting a bargain book that in my opinion is actually good and really wonderful actually
I duplicate bought the second in the
fairyland series because I bought them through Amazon
and it was a third party seller
so they said that they weren't gonna be able to get it to me and then eventually they did anyway,
but in the interim I bought another one
because I wanted it so now I just have two.
So if you are interested in the second of the Fairyland series by Catherynne M. Valente,
titled The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, let me know
because I would love to send it to a home that I know would appreciate it.
Anyway that's the video thank you so much for watching
and I'll be seeing you in the next one, bye!
