Hey guys, it's Emily! For today's video I am bringing you a book haul! So first
thing: hello to a few new faces that I can't see... Anyway hello!
so the lovely wonderful super dope sam from thoughts on tomes shouted me out in
a video so I think a few of the recent bumpit subscribers I've had came from
that so welcome thank you Sam that was like such a lovely wonderful thing to
wake up to one day and I've been a huge fan of Sam's channel ever since they
started not even doing this I've been a fan of her since back when I just like
silently absurd and I watched all of Sam's videos back when that was like all
I did so it was super cool thanks so much welcome to all the wonderful new
people I hope you have a good time here I'm not going a good time it's great so
for today I'm gonna be showing you some of the recent books that I have acquired
the very first book of this whole book haul I'm so excited about and that is
the future home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich obviously if it wasn't
clear by the little dudette up in the corner this was my selection for book of
the month I've never read any of her dicks books but I've only heard amazing
wonderful things I really wanted to pick up a book of Eric's in the month of
November because it is national American Indian Heritage Month I've been trying
to make a more concentrated effort to pick up books by and about Native
peoples that's an area where I've been seriously lacking when it comes to my
reading choices so I'm trying to be a lot more conscious about that and then
when I saw this for Book of the Month I was just like Joseph so excited verdict
is Turtle Mountain Chippewa and she write stories about Native people in
this book we follow a woman who is oh gee boy she was adopted by a liberal
white I think family in Minnesota and then this book takes place kind of when
like the end of the world apocalypse starts and the protagonist in this is
four months pregnant at the time and then we go from there
that's all I know I'm so excited I've only heard amazing things about Eric's
writing I'm just super super super excited to pick this up next I have
another book from the Book of the Month I used up like all my tokens this month
I was so excited and that is the power by noon we older men I have only heard
amazing things about this because Monica over at
Mike Lamonica absolutely loves this book this is speculative fiction in which all
of a sudden the women in the world acquired this power that gives them the
ability to inflict with like just a touch or flick their hand or something
like that extreme amounts of pain and even death and obviously that's gonna
affect power structures in the world so it's this incredible speculative fiction
feminist book and I am just so so excited to pick it up and the last book
that I have from Book of the Month is Turtles all the way down by John Green
this isn't like all other John Green books contemporary and adult in this I
don't really know much about it except for the fact that we follow a girl named
it ASA as ax hoof and she has OCD and this is also on voices so John Green
himself has OCD and in this green focuses more on like the compulsive
thoughts side of OCD as opposed to like the physical repetitive movement side of
OCD which is what we tend to see OCD represented as I'm very excited to read
this I've heard some amazing things next I
have certain dark things by Sylvia Moreno Garcia I talked about another
book of Moreno Garcia's in my litter months how to months work in my October
wrap up I read an early galley copy of the beautiful ones that I really enjoyed
it and I've heard some really good things about this what I know is that
it's vampires at Mexico City and that's all I know but it sounds really cool
next I have a picture book and I don't mean like a graphic novel like this is a
picture book and that is odd and the frost giants by Neil Gaiman I just I
loved everything the old game it does and so I saw this one book outlet and I
was like I just I gotta I gotta do it I gotta next I have the weight of feathers
by Anna Marie McLemore I don't really know what this is about
I read the blurb a while ago and I think it has something to do with performers
traveling performers I'm assuming this is why a because everything else I've
read of macklemore's has been why a I read and absolutely loved both wild
beauty and when the moon was ours they're just such gorgeous books I
absolutely love them they're wonderful lgbtqia+ wrap they have wonderful lofty
neck straps super excited to read this is actually a birthday gift from Joss
over at schools reads so thank you so much Joss you are the very sweetest and
I am so excited to read this next I have a little nonfiction and that is on
writing my Stevie King I had heard about this over and
over and over and over as like one of the great books on writing and I was
like I'm like I'm gonna pick it up I'm gonna try it out so we'll see how like
it next I have a couple books that I have already finished two of them I
mentioned in my October wrap up so you can go check that out if you feel so
inclined the first book that I have is her body and other parties by carmen
maria machado this is a creepy eerie magical realism short story collection i
was completely blown away by this this also features almost entirely LGBTQI
plus women it's an exploration of the female body and female sexuality and
female desire it is very sexually explicit so that's something to know if
that's something that makes you uncomfortable
I personally absolutely love this book can't recommend it enough the next book
that I have is one that I also absolutely loved and that is the
changeling Bechdel ball I did a full spoiler free review of this so if you
want to find out a little bit more about my thoughts of this book you should
check that out I absolutely love this this is own voices and all I will say
about the plot is that it is a modern fairy tale that is examining black
fatherhood and it's just so so so good and next I have another book by the wall
and that is the ballot of black Tom but this is a novella that tor.com put out
toward a comb has been putting out some amazing novellas lately this is a
riemann a ssin of Lovecraft so it is Lovecraftian horror I think having a
little bit of knowledge of Lovecraft is super super helpful and this is like
a reinterpretation that reexamination of one of the most egregiously racist
stories that Lovecraft ever produced it's fascinating and so cool and so well
written and it's just it's really really good and it's super short so you can get
through it very quickly I love this definitely recommend checking it out
next I have some books that my dad sent me in the mail he sends me books from
time to time because he's just the best the first if this is one that I'm
currently reading I am I think about like 200 and changed pages two hundred
and twenty something pages through this and that is the Romanovs by simon seabag
Montefiore this is historical nonfiction looking at the rule of the Romanovs for
300 years one they were in power that is redundant it's looking at the Romanovs
so obviously russian history so far it's already a trip which is
usual for historical fiction which could generally be slightly very very dry this
is not it's amazing I'm super excited to finish it and it's got a cool cover
next I have From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Dodi this is nonfiction all
about death that's really all I know about the plot what I know about Caitlin
Dodi is that she runs a youtube channel called ask a mortician because she's a
mortician she looks at death about the importance of talking about death about
having frank conversations about death because even though it is such a taboo
subject talking about it really is important like no one wins if we don't
talk about it next he sent me a tune by Dave Eggers this is about Hurricane
Katrina it also might have something to do with the war on terror I'm not super
sure this is a very well known book so I'm super excited to get to it this is
not sent to me by my dad but that's okay I know he would approve and that is 1776
by David McCullough David McCullough is one of my favorite historical nonfiction
writers these voice reads like this wise old grandpa telling you a story and it's
just great I really really like it I read John Adams and absolutely loved it
that is the John Adams that was then adapted into the HBO miniseries which is
also great this one if you couldn't guess that a title is about the American
Revolution I am very excited to dig into it next I have a book that I've already
mentioned my channel cuz I'm planning on reading it this month and that is little
fires everywhere by soliciting this is a signed copy which is so cool because I
went to this Alessi event in San Francisco with Jost
it was amazing she was so so so brilliant so I'm really excited to get
to this and this we follow a suburban family who rent out a unit condo
something they have to an artist in her daughter and it's kind of about that
clash of cultures and values and that kind of thing and then it also has a
plot about the adoption of a Chinese baby and then we go from there
I am so unbelievably excited to read this this is one of Josh's all-time
favorite books and she has some pretty great taste so I'm super excited to read
this next I have a book that I already uhm just gonna lay that out there and
that I've already read multiple times and I just loved it so much but this is
a special edition and what I am talking about is the name of the wing tent
it has a new cover it has red end pages of spine it's just so pretty so oh that
hurts this is some very well-known very well-loved epic fantasy I absolutely
love this series so so much I'm a little bit upset that we already have the 10th
anniversary edition of the first book in a trilogy we're still waiting on book 3
so someday we'll get that hopefully and lastly I have a few books that were sent
to me by publishers the first of those is 36 questions that changed my mind
about you by Vicki Graham this is contemporary it's set in a college
campus that oh so does that make it new adult I don't really know how this works
anyway this is based on that quiz thing that was going well not a quiz I think
there was like New York or New York Times article about how there was this
set of 36 questions that could supposedly make you fall in love with
someone I don't know if you guys remember that I remember that and the
premise of this is that a girl and a guy take part in a psychological study test
which is the thing that they do on college campuses and you always are
encouraged to sign up for them to try and make an extra buck they have to sit
down with each other and go through these 36 questions that supposedly have
the power to make you fall in love with someone I am just so intrigued by this
concept I'm really excited to read this thank you very very much to Running
Press for sending this to me next I have this mortal coil by Emily Sebata this is
why a science fiction and I am so so excited to read this first of all the
cover is so so cool and second of all the main character of this is a badass
lady hacker and this people have the ability to literally like hack genetic
code and also there's some crazy virus going around so we have a little bit of
apocalyptic things happening and the main character in this find out that her
father who's gone missing has figured out a vaccine for this crazy virus
that's going around I'm super excited to see a female protagonist and why a super
into coding there are some white books that have that but not all that much in
the grand scheme of things so I'm super excited to read this a big thank you
simon and schuster for sending this my way and the very last book oh I'm so
excited to read this and that is beneath the sugar sky by
Seanan McGuire this is the third book in the wayward children's series the series
is kind of all over the place in terms of
timelines the first book is every hard doorway every heart a doorway is set in
a boarding school for children who have gone through portals to other worlds and
then come back into our world and are having a hard time coping and then the
second book in the series is actually a prequel and it's set in one of those
worlds it's called down among the sticks of bones
it's set in a world that's very inspired by Gothic and Romantic literature it's a
little scarier but every how to do light I believe this takes place after every
heart a doorway I do think unlike down among the sticks and bones which I think
you can read whenever you want this one you really do need to read after you've
read every heart a doorway this has to do with a world that's like cotton candy
clouds and lollipop trees and things like that I am just so excited to
continue this series I absolutely loved all the books in it so far this is an
arc I believe this comes out in January of 2018 I'm just I'm so so so excited to
read this so that is it all the books that I have
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