Hey everybody, it's Anna. Welcome back to my booktube channel. Today i am bringing
you my January book haul. These are going to be all of the books that I purchased/
received in the mail for the month of January. A little bit of a disclaimer
here: I did buy all of these books with my own money,
and I am NOT including library books in this book haul, because then it would be
ridiculously long, and I just want to focus right now on the books that I have
actually bought and paid for. And before we get started, I want to do a plug
for another fellow youtuber who made this shirt: "the future is accessible." Some
of you may already know about her. Her name is Annie Elainey,
and she does videos about chronic illness, feminism, queer content,
disability, all different types of advocacy, really, for marginalized people.
And she has created these shirts as a fundraiser for her work, so I will leave
a link downstairs in the description box if you would like to learn more about
her and her work, or perhaps purchase a shirt for yourself. So let's go ahead and
get into the books! So the first book that I purchased in the month of January
is "Meet Cute." This is a young adult contemporary like romance anthology,
which is kind of a different genre from what I usually read, but I heard about
this on Book Twitter, and there are a lot of my favorite authors in here: Jennifer
Armentrout, Dhonielle Clayton, Nina Lacour-- I love Nina Lacour so much!-- Julie
Murphy, who wrote "Ramona Blue," Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi, just lots of different
authors that I really enjoy. And I've also heard that there are a fair amount
of queer love stories in this book. I will probably save it for the
contemporary-a-thon read-a-thon that is happening in February because I tend not
to read a ton of contemporary, so I'm trying to like keep it stock piled until
that read-a-thon takes place. Next is "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning" by
Margareta Magnusson. This is a book that I also purchased from Amazon, and I
thought I was going to like more I am liking it. I'm in the process of
reading it right now, but as you can see I haven't gotten very far.
Pretty much the premise of this book is a way to figure out how to declutter and
tidy up when you are like nearing the end of your life, because you don't want
your family members to have to deal with all of your material goods and
possessions that you no longer care about after you're gone. I didn't get
this because like I, myself, or anyone I'm close to it was like close to death or
something like that. I just thought it was an interesting philosophy
to kind of make sure that you have taken care of your material goods so that you
can make sure that you're spending lots of time focusing on the people in your
life and stuff like that. Um, but this book is kind of disappointing so far,
because I feel like all of the decluttering and tidying tips are very
generic. I thought there was maybe gonna be a bit more about like the philosophy
behind it, but it's very general. And as somebody that already read the like
Marie Kondo "Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," I feel like I'm just getting
a lot of repeat information with this book. Next are two books that I
purchased from a new bookstore in town that I had never been to before. And this
was while I was at a Rachel Lynn Solomon book launch party for "You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone."
The first of those is "Spindle" by E.K. Johnston. E.K. Johnston is a Canadian
author. She is one of my favorite young adult authors. And this is a story that
is about a storyteller queen and how things are spun out of magical threads
into stories and woven into fabrics. And I'm really excited to read this because
of how much I love E.K. Johnston. I believe this is part
of a series-- let me make sure it is. Yeah there's gonna be "the stunning companion
novel" to "Spindle" that's called "A Thousand Nights." Very much looking
forward to reading this. [Indistinct] I got was a YA historical fiction called
"The Hired Girl" by Lauren Amy Schlitz. This is a winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for
historical fiction for young people. And this is about a young girl who is a
servant and reads lots of novels, and she's hoping for a better life for
herself. This looked really intriguing. I do like historical fiction. I was a big
fan of Scott O'Dell, especially growing up. He wrote "Island of the Blue Dolphins,"
among other things. And I was looking forward to seeing where this story goes.
Next is a book that has not come out yet, but I have pre-ordered, and that is "Wires
and Nerve, Volume 2" by Marissa Meyer. I'm actually gonna go get the first one and
hold it up so you can see what that will look like. Hold that thought.
This is Volume One of "Wires and Nerve" by Marissa Meyer. This is a graphic novel
companion series to her Lunar Chronicles series, which are fairy tale retellings.
They begin with "Cinder," which is about like the cyborg Cinderella. And this
picks up where that series left off, and it is told from the point of view of
Iko, who is an android, and one of the supporting characters in the original
Lunar Chronicles series. I am hoping to eventually own all of these as well as
the Lunar Chronicles books, and I am very very excited to see where this story
picks up, because it definitely left me curious and wondering. Next up is a comic book.
This is "Over the Garden Wall, Vol 3." Over the Garden Wall is not just my favorite
piece of animation ever, but also I think *the* greatest piece of animation ever.
Yeah! Boom! There, I said it: greatest piece of animation ever. And
this comic book is written by one of the storyboarders from Over the Garden
Wall. They have lots of different authors come in and like draw different styles
for the covers, which I think is really fun, and I really do-- sorry about the
light-- I really do enjoy this series very much. The last one was a little bit
weaker in the second half, so I'm hoping that it picks up in the third volume.
I also purchased the Lumberjanes crossover with Gotham Academy book from
my local comic book store. I am getting caught up on the Lumberjanes series as
we speak, but this is also a part of a comic book series that I want to collect.
I want to own all of the Iumberjanes books, and now also all of the middle
grade novels that they're coming out with. This is a fantastic series about
lady and lady-adjacent children that are in sort of a
fantastical summer camp in the woods, where there are these crazy, like, magical
creatures coming and invading the camp. And they're kind of learning about what
it means to be like girls and women, and in some cases like men, that are getting-
more like boys- that are getting more in touch with things that are traditionally
feminine. Or non-binary scouts! And it's a great, just delicious, delightful,
heartwarming series. There's a cute little like "two girls falling in love"
love story that's going on there, and it just it warms my heart so so much. This isn't
a book technically speaking it is the--whoops!
It's the Mouseguard RPG. I have been reading these comic books, which are kind
of like if if the Night's Watch from Game of Thrones was actually run by mice. And
while I was at Orca Con this month, which is a board gaming convention that's in
my town, I got bitten by the bug for tabletop RPGs. I used to play a lot of
tabletop RPGs in college, and then I kind of fell off of it, but I definitely got
back on again after playing some RPGs at the convention! So while this isn't a
book, it is based off of a graphic novel series. And there is a very large rule
book contained within the box! And as I am going to be the GM for this RPG, I
thought I would include it because it was a book I purchased. I'm reading it
and annotating it *exhaustively* in preparation for the game. So that is the
Mouseguard RPG. Check out the graphic novels if you're interested in learning
more about Mouseguard itself. Next up we have "Magic for Beginners." This is a short
story collection by the author Kelly Link. I've never read anything by this
author before, but I have heard amazing things about her, and the way that she
bends and challenges the notions that we have of genre. I believe she's classified
as a science fiction writer--at least she was in the bookstore where I picked this
up. But I know that she definitely mixes and bends genre a lot, so very much
excited to read this. Next is "An Unkindness of Ghosts" by Rivers Solomon .
O first heard about this book I think on a podcast, but I watched a video that Onyx
Pages did, and I will link her down in the description, her channel. Her name
is Njeri, her channel's name is Onyx Pages. did [a video] talking about this book,
and she was so enthusiastic about it that I knew that I had to read it. This
is another science fiction novel where everyone is sort of living on this ship
in space, but the decks of the ship are arranged according to sort of like a
social structure of like: people of a certain class can only go on this deck,
and people of a certain race can only go on this deck. And I've also been told that
there's kind of like a mystery and puzzle-solving aspect to this book, which
is also very exciting to me because I like to read that kind of thing. Next up
is "Let's Talk About Love" by Claire Kann. This book has also not come out yet. I
believe it comes out January 23rd. And I have pre-ordered it. It is a young adult
contemporary novel that has both Black representation--a young Black girl who
is suspecting that she may be asexual. So those are two points of view that we...
don't really get a whole ton of diversity of those things! Especially in
combination in the YA literature that I am aware of. So I am looking forward to
reading that. Ginally we have a little bit of a bonus book, which is the one
book that I received from Sean as a Christmas gift. And that is "Paper Girls,
Volume One" by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang. This is a comic book series that I
have been wanting to read for a really long time- never picked it up- but it is
also one of the few that I have been wanting to read that I'd also haven't
read yet, so it made a wonderful gift. Technically, I got this in December, but I
was not making videos then, and I definitely wanted to put this in because-
look how big this is! I'm definitely going to have thoughts about this by the
time I finish it. Ooh, and lest I forget, the January Owl Crate was
"The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black. I don't think this really needs any introduction.
If you're on booktube or you read like any kind of YA or fantasy- type stories
at all, you've probably heard of Holly Black. But I know that this is a reverse
changeling story: not something I would have picked up for myself, but I am still
excited to read it and see whether I like it. So that is it for my January
book haul! Comment down below if you read or enjoyed any of these books: what you
thought about them, if you disliked them, let me know that too!
I think it's very important to talk about books that we dislike as well as
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