Hey guys, it's Emily! For today's video I'm doing a book haul. I do want to note
that almost every single book--not every single one but the vast majority--of the
books I'm about to talk about were either gifts from family and
friends, or they were bought at a discount/bargain price. Sometimes I feel
like book hauls give off this very consumerist vibe, but I'm not really into
that. There's nothing wrong with buying used books
I love used books! You'll see a
number of these are kind of beat-up or they're old library editions, things like
that. I absolutely love used books and just want to extol the virtues of them.
So if they look kind of funky on the cover either it's because it's a used
book in they're a little beat-up, or it's because I'm too lazy to take the sticker
off completely. I'm realizing now that I maybe should have organized my books using
almost any system other than "stick them on your bed and hope for the best," which
is what I have now... Like my reading tastes, they are a very wide variety of
genres and types of books. So I hope you're okay with that, because you're
getting a mix now! Starting out, I have nonfiction true crime, and that is
Popular Crime by Bill James. This is a library edition so it's covered in
plastic. I absolutely love library editions. They feel very nostalgic to me.
I mostly use my library now for digital editions of things, so ebooks and
audiobooks. So I don't really have physical library books with me very
often anymore. Not that I don't love my library, that's just not what I really
use it for anymore. So it's nice to have a little bit of a library back in my
home. What is this about? That is something that might be relevant to this
video. This is a look at all kinds of crimes from the 1600s to present. It's
basically all the true crime you could imagine in one book. Next I
have Jade City by Fonda Lee. This is epic fantasy. I don't know if it's
standalone or the start of the series. In this book we are in a world in which
jade gives a select group of warriors enhanced magical abilities, but
there is a new drug that has been introduced that gives all kinds of
people the ability to harness the power of this jade, which then turns the world
a little topsy-turvy when it comes to power dynamics. I am super super excited
to read this! I've heard really good things about Fonda Lee
as a writer, so I cannot wait to pick this up. Next I have more creepy
nonfiction. I'm realizing there's a lot of crime oriented books in this book
haul I hope that doesn't reflect on me in any strange ways and that I said that
I have ears the fact of a body by Alexandria Marzano less damage yes and
this is a blending of true crime and memoir Marzano Lesnar bitch she finds
out about this murder and does a lot of research into it and it forces her to
kind of question some of her beliefs she sees some of her own life reflected in
the evidence and the story that she finds through her research I have heard
amazing things about this Wow I really should have organized books cuz I've got
another murder book and that is if we were millions by MLV oh it's maybe about
a troupe of Shakespearean actors so I'm hoping for some amazing melding of
Shakespeare and modern literary fiction and thrillers into one book I've heard
some really good things about this so I'm really excited to get up okay so
honey we have a not murder ebook although I guess Jade said he was not
murdered this is a hundred nights of hero by Isabel greenberg this was a book
this someone actually recommend it to me and I think my favorites of 2017 video
and on top of their recommendation Russell from Inca fever blog he also
recommended this this is like a reimagining of 1001 Arabian Nights
except it features two ladies in love one of them in an effort to save her
lover from a would-be attacker tells this attacker a new story every night
and all of those stories feature female protagonists female heroes and if that
is it right up my alley I don't know what is next I have harmless like you by
Roman decile Buchanan this is literary fiction in which we
follow a Japanese woman who is trying to make it as an artist and we also follow
her son in like the future present tense kind of time and he's dealing with the
emotional fallout of his mother abandoning him I'm super excited about
this I don't remember if it was Joss or Russell who recommended this to me but
we were all booked shopping together actually a lot of these books are from
when we met book shopping together you should watch Russell's video about
it it like takes me back and makes me so happy with such a wonderful day so this
is one of the many I recommend it to me then next I have
one true love's by Taylor Jenkins three I've only read one book by Jenkins read
and that was the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo which is absolutely fabulous
it's amazing so I saw there's some book outlet and was like I gotta do it I'm
also pretty sure jaws said this was one of the few love triangles that she could
get behind that she enjoyed reading about I'm generally not huge on that so
I'm gonna trust her opinion there and this we follow a woman named Emma her
husband is like on assignment somewhere for like a documentary film and his
helicopter goes missing and then we flash forward a number of years and he
is still missing and she has fallen in love again and is engaged and then
harassment salmon comes back and so we gotta go from there it's always good to
have a little bit of fluff in your life so I'm excited to read this
next I have kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig this is a translated work
originally in Spanish and in this we follow two prisoners in Argentina one is
gay man and one is revolutionary and they are talking and sharing secrets and
one of them is like obsessed with film old movies and things like that which I
love I'm always excited about books that incorporate cinema into them I just love
it I'm really excited to read this but I'm going to save it because it's going
to be one of the selections for Russell's around the world book club so
I'm gonna read it then but it is on my radar and on my shelf I'm really excited
next I have Jane Steele by Lindsey Frey and this is like a Jane Eyre retelling
of sorts except the Jane in this is an assassin yep sign me up next I have and
again by Jessica Chia Ella and this we follow several characters who are
granted new bodies almost physically identical to their old bodies that their
old bodies were like ravaged by disease or had suffered some kind of accident
they're then put into these new bodies that are free of all of those issues any
scar or blemish except these new bodies don't have physical memories so one
character who's an artist I so like literally relearn how to hold a brush so
spooky things happen from there I think I'm guessing I don't know I'm excited
though next I have a constellation of vital phenomena by Anthony Mara this
follows several characters in Chechnya this came highly recommended from
Russell and I trust his opinion so I'm next I have another book that came
highly recommended from Russell and that is the association of small bombs by
Karan Mahajan this is about the aftermath of a small bomb that is
detonated in a marketplace and I think Delhi in 1986
Russell said that this had him crying within the first chapter or something
like that so I don't like prepare myself for a good cry with this one next I have
some middle-grade I have not been reading a whole lot of middle grade
lately so I thought I would pick some up and what I got is in the shadow of the
banyan tree I thought II Ratner this examines the horrors committed by the
Khmer Rouge in Cambodia through the eyes of a seven-year-old girl and I've heard
absolutely phenomenal things and really excited to kind of get back into middle
grade I hope this would be a good starting point for me next I have a book
that was a very very very special gift and that is my beloved world by Sonia
Sotomayor Sotomayor is the first Latina Supreme Court justice in the United
States and why this book is so very special to me is that it is a signed
edition my dad got this for me for Christmas it went missing and you
couldn't find it and so I finally found it and gave it to me and I am just so
excited and thankful and grateful that I have such an amazing dad and I can't
wait to read about an amazing woman next I have another book that I am just
unbelievably excited for and that is an unkindness of ghosts by Rivers Solomon
this is something that I had heard of but I hadn't actually done any research
into and I was just wandering around the books met and said what Cisco on my own
and the cover caught my eye and I was like oh I've heard of it and then I did
some reading and the names thrown around saying that Solomon brought to mind
these other authors it was like a mere Butler it was Colson whitehead this is
also blurbed by one of my new favorite Duvall and
this is a science fiction book examining collective trauma and racism and this we
follow our protagonist aster who is queer disabled and intersex and the
world in which this takes place is on a ship that has left earth like centuries
ago and basically Jim Crow has come back into being I am just so excited to read
this everything I've read now because I was doing a little bit of research about
it everything I've seen I said that it's absolutely amazing the world-building is
absolute phenomenal the writing is phenomenal I
just cannot wait to read this thanks I have women and power by Mary e beard
this is a teeny tiny little pocketbook I think it's only two essays in here I'm a
big fan of Mary beards I read her book SPQR which is a history of ancient Rome
it is phenomenal phenomenal historical nonfiction I was completely blown away
by it because not only is it's so meticulously
beautifully researched it's beautifully written it's also funny it's really hard
to write classical nonfiction like examining the Classical period and have
it be funny without coming across as kitschy or like the writer isn't really
focusing on the research Mary beard toed that line so beautifully it was
completely blown away and so this little book is basically an examination of
misogyny from ancient times to present focusing on a few historical examples of
that because beard I guess I didn't know this but she has been a victim of
vitriolic misogynist hatred online and in the real world as a fan of beard and
as a feminist I'm very excited to read this next I have a book that a lot of
you will probably have heard of and that is singing unvaried sang by Jasmine Ward
this is a 21st century Road novel examining race the United States we
follow a family the mother is black the father is white and incarcerated and
they have a son who's obviously biracial I am just so excited to read this I've
only heard wonderful things this won the National Book Award in 2017 I can't wait
I'm lastly I have a book that I picked up not knowing what I was about at all I
just know that I love this author and that is the refrigerator monologues by
Katherine and Valente I love Valente's work
I read radiance by her which I absolutely loved I read the girl who
circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making absolutely loved that and
I am currently reading her upcoming release which is called space opera
that's gonna come out in April of this year all of those are wildly different
and so inventive and lush the writing is amazing I could go on and on and on and
so this book I was like I don't even know what it's about
I'm gonna pick it up because I love Valente and so doing a little
research first of all this is also illustrated it contains illustrations by
an emu always excited when they're surprised illustrations in a book I
maybe should have paid a little more attention to the cover where it
literally says illustrated by any whoo but there you go
so this follows like the girlfriends of superheroes the wives of superheroes
even female heroes themselves all people who have often been what's quote-unquote
called refrigerated and that's a term that's been used since 1999 I think by
gail simone because i think was in green lantern he comes home to discover this
female partner has been murdered by the arch villain of that particular story
arc and stuffed in the refrigerator and basically that website was all about
examining how in comics this is a very common thing women being used in
extremely violent ways to further the plots of male superheroes so this
follows all of those people who would have been refrigerated and tells the
story from their perspective and I'm just so excited by that whole concept I
think I said that was the last one that I have but I lied I found three more
very underneath all the other bugs that I've already talked about so here are
the final three first I have by Gaslight by Steven price this is first of all
huge so this is gonna take me a while to get through when I decide to pick it up
it's just super atmospheric creepy read in which we follow several different
characters whose lives in various ways are all tied up around this one
con-artist thief figure in Victorian London like one person is a detective
and then other characters their lives are just kind of like we related in some
way to him next I have the woman who smashed codes by Jason Foucault
this is historical one fiction all about Elizabeth Smith who was a code breaker
from World War one through the Cold War I am super super excited to read this I
love historical nonfiction I love badass ladies what more could you
want and lastly officially lastly I've now double checked and this is actually
the last book that I'm going to talk about and that is the book of the
unnamed Midwife by Meg Ellison this is a signed copy which is super cool Meg
Ellison was actually at the Lainey Zuma read clocks event a couple weeks ago we
got to chatting a little bit I did not realize who she was and she's
like actually my books right over there and I asked her what it was and I could
have this book on my radar for a while and she's like well some of them are
and I was like I'm picking it up I'm so excited this is set in a kind of
post-apocalyptic world in which a fever kills off most women and children and
for the women who do survive childbirth is now extremely extremely dangerous so
we follow a midwife in the society with a physically strongest dominate and
there are a lot of men who now seek to control the few remaining women so much
of this is right up my alley I love science fiction
I love examinations of gender power dynamics also I'm very interested in the
history of midwifery that's something that I was fascinated with in college
because midwives are one of the few groups of women in historical times that
had any kind of power and I talked about this a little bit in my read clocks
review which I will link through the cards and down below I am super super
excited to read this so that is finally at all the books that I have recently
acquired I am so unbelievably excited for all of them almost all of these are
things that I've had my eye on for a really long time or they come super
highly recommended by people whose opinions I trust so I'm just I'm so
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