Hi, it's Maija here, with my October book haul. Now for some reason I have managed to
acquire 19 books in October. You might know that I normally do seasonal book
hauls, since I tend to acquire about 3 books per month, so now for some reason
in October I have acquired as much books as I usually do in half a year!
So, that happened. Out of those 19 books, seven were free, so that's great,
I bought three at full price, I bought three from different sales, and I bought
six used. So the first book that I bought was from a Kindle sale, and that was The
Ladies of Mandrigyn by Barbara Hambly. This is the first book in the Sunwolf
and Starhawk series. It's a fantasy series, and I had been keeping my eye out
for books by Barbara Hambly ever since Scott Lynch mentioned her in the High
Fantasy panel at Worldcon 2017. He mentioned her as an underappreciated
fantasy author and Robin Hobb was sitting next to him, like, nodding along,
so I knew I had to try out something from Barbara Hambly, and I found this
one from the sale. Like I said, this is the first in a series, and it tells about
a mercenary captain, who is a man called Sunwolf, and his first lieutenant, a
woman called Starhawk. And in this one they are hired by the ladies of Mandrigyn.
Then I was feeling this drive to buy new books and I gave myself a budget
of 20 euros to spend. And the first thing that I bought with that was the comic By
Chance or Providence by Becky Cloonan. So this collects Becky Cloonan's
award-winning trilogy: Wolves, The Mire, and Demeter. Those three she first
self-published herself and this is a collected edition published by image.
I don't specifically know what this is about, I only know that I love Becky
Cloonan's art, but the adjectives at the back are
something like "beautiful, haunting, and mysterious", so it sounds good. And then
with the rest of the money I picked up two novellas. The first was a Tor.com
novella, Martha Wells' All Systems Red, the first book in the Murderbot
Diaries. So this is set in a future where all planetary expeditions have to have a
security bot with them, and this I think is told from the point of view of the
security bot who hates humans and calls himself the Murderbot - just to himself,
not out loud. The second ebook novella that I picked up was The
Serpent by Claire North. This is quite a mysterious novella, I don't know a lot
about it, it has just been recommended to me a lot. And this, I think, is set in
17th century Venice in this mysterious establishment called the Gameshouse,
and it is speculative fiction, and that's all I know about it. In case I didn't say,
that is the first one in the Gameshouse trilogy of novellas. So I had spent my
budget and I was still feeling the craving to buy books, so what I decided
to do was go through Project Gutenberg and the Kindle Store and look for
classics that I've wanted to read that are available for free, since they are out of
copyright, and I pick up a few of those classics. The first was The Hound of the
Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which is a Sherlock Holmes novel that I
have read once previously, but I can't remember much about it. And I'm reading
the Sherlock Holmes books in order slowly, so this is the next one, and I picked it
up. I had also just seen Libby from Libby Stephenson read Pygmalion by George
Bernard Shaw, which is the play that My Fair Lady, the movie, is based on, and I
felt the craving to read it, too, so I picked it up. The next book from my TBR
that I found that was available for free was The Enchanted April by Elizabeth
von Arnim, which came to my attention when
Yamini from The Skeptical Reader read it. And this is about four, I think, English
ladies who rent a castle in Italy. And the final classic that I picked up was
Queen Margot or Margaret de Valois by Alexandre Dumas, since I love Dumas and I
want to read more of his works. While I was browsing in the Kindle Store for
those three classics, I also noticed the first book in a fantasy series that was
available for free. This is Lindsay Buroker's The Emperor's Edge. It is the
first in The Emperor's Edge series. I don't know what this is about at all, I know
that I think Elizabeth from Books and Pieces has read Lindsay Buroker's science
fiction series, so I wanted to try her out. Let's just quickly go and look at
Goodreads. It seems to be a steampunk-ish fantasy series about an Imperial law
enforcer who is sent to capture the Empire's most notorious assassin. So
after that, it happened that comiXology had a sale of Oni Press titles,
and I really enjoy Oni Press, so I gave myself a budget again, this time for 10
euros, since most of the comics on sale were about 5 euros per volume, and told
myself I could pick up two comics. The first that I picked up was Lucky Penny
by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota, and this is a graphic novel about a girl called Penny
who loses her job and her apartment in one day, and she is now living in her
friend's storage locker, I think, and gets a new job at a laundromat. I haven't read
this one yet, but I think it was Amanda from Amanda Egle who really liked this
one. And the second comic that I picked up was Space Battle Lunchtime Volume One:
Lights, Camera, Snacktion! by Natalie Riess. I have read this one already and it is
about this human pastry chef or baker who gets transported into space into
this intergalactic cooking show competition. And I had to use all of my
willpower when I learned that this was a miniseries, so there are only two volumes,
and I didn't go and pick up the second volume, as well, even though it was also
on sale. But I will pick it up at some point, it was quite fun. My boyfriend had
to go and pick up some card sleeves at this role-playing game / comic shop,
so while we were there he also picked up for me the second volume of The Girl
from the Other Side by Nagabe. So this is a manga series about this monster or
Outsider called the Teacher who is looking after this little girl called
Shiva. Then I went home to visit my parents and my siblings, and while we
were there we went to a charity shop, and I picked up Lois McMaster Bujold's
Cordelia's Honor, which I was really glad to find there. This was only about 1
euro and I didn't have coins with me, so I got coins from my sister and my father
to buy this, so basically this was for free. So this is part of the Vorkosigan Saga. I
think this is a good place to start, since it tells about the mother of the
hero. It is about the first book in the inner chronological order, and this
combines two books: Shards of Honor and Barrayar, which are the two books that
tell about Cordelia. Then finally at the end of the month there was the Helsinki
Book Fair, and of course I had to go there. I really enjoyed going through the used
book section. So they had one section all for used bookstores and another for
publishers and book stores, so of course I just headed to the used book store
side first and went and found a used book store that had a big shelf of
science fiction and fantasy in English, and I picked up six paperbacks. These
were about three euros each, so they weren't that expensive. The first thing
that I found there was Sheri S. Tepper's Beauty. This is her Sleeping Beauty
retelling, I think it has a couple of fairy tales that it mixes there. I
haven't read anything from Tepper before, but I knew that I wanted to pick
this one up since it is a fairy tale retelling and since it is told in a
journal. So this is the journal of Beauty, daughter of The Duke of Westfaire, and I love
books that are written as journals. "My life in Westfaire; St. Richard of Chichester's Day
April, Year of our Lord 1347." Then the one mistake that you have to do
each time you pick up more than one used book is that you pick up a second in a
series. I picked up The Cygnet and the Firebird by Patricia A. McKillip, because
I was so glad to find a McKillip book and I am used to most of her books being
stand-alones. She has the Riddle Master series and one or
two duologies, and this is one of the duologies, and it is the second book.
I think our library actually has the first book, so I was lucky there.
The third book that I picked up there was Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber.
This is the first and second of his The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray
Mouser novels. This has two books in it: Swords and
Deviltry and Swords Against Death, and I have read the first book already, but I
picked this one up to read the second book. This is a Sword & Sorcery series.
I also picked up an urban fantasy, Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews, the first
in the Kate Daniels series. I don't know much about this one, but I have heard
good things. The final speculative fiction book that
I picked up was Sunshine by Robin McKinley, which is her vampire book.
I don't know more about it than it is about vampires and also Kelsey from The
Fancy Hat Lady recommended this one to me when I didn't like the one other
book that I read from McKinley, which was The
Blue Sword. I wasn't a big fan of that, but I want to try her vampire stuff and also
some of her fairy tale retelling stuff, which I don't have yet. There's like a
Neil Gaiman blurb that says this is the "unlikely crossroads of Chocolat,
Interview with the Vampire, Misery, and the tale of Beauty and the Beast." Then the
final thing in this haul is a mystery book. This is Agatha Christie's Death in
the Clouds, which is the next Poirot book that I need to read when I'm reading the
Poirot books in order, and my library didn't actually have this one in English, so I
was so happy to find this one at the used bookstore. So this pile is all the
physical books that I picked up in October. Let me know in the comments if
you have read any of these or if you want to read any of them, let's talk more
there, I now have to put this stack down. I will see you in my next video, bye for now.
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