Hey! What's up, you guys? It's Connor, and today I'm going to do another book haul.
I feel like I've been doing a lot of book hauls, but that's because I've been
acquiring a lot of books and bookish things. My mother is super, super sweet,
and she said that this year I would be getting 26 presents because I turned 26
at the beginning of January. And so now she's slowly giving me items throughout
the year. First she ended up giving me Coraline by Neil Gaiman. This is
illustrated by Chris Riddell which is one of my favorite illustrators ever. I
already owned a copy of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, but because I found out that
Chris Riddell did illustrations for a different version, I needed to have it.
Coraline follows this little girl who... I think she goes through some type of
portal into another world where it's basically the exact same as her world
but her parents are a little bit different and everyone has buttons for
eyes. And then some weird stuff starts happening. I have not watched the movie,
and I've never read this book. But I'm super excited to because I've read a
lot of Neil Gaiman books and he is one of my favorite authors. One of my
favorite authors teams up with one of my favorite illustrators? I've got to have
it, and I've got to experience this story. I will be doing a individual book review
for this when I do read it. My parents also gave me Stormwatch, Vol. 3 which is
a part of the New 52 DC Universe. Stormwatch is a Justice League-esque type team that
has been defending the Earth for a lot longer than the Justice League has. And I
really enjoy the members of Stormwatch, so I was really excited to continue
along and see what happens to this team next. I am enjoying reading about their
stories. This is what some of the artwork looks like. They also gave me a Tesla's
Attic by Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman. This is the first book in the Accelerati
Trilogy, and it follows this boy named Nick. He moves into a new house along
with his father and his younger brother after they inherit this house, and they
end up selling everything that's in the attic. But then Nick finds out that they
need those items back because they are Tesla's last inventions and they were
put into the attic of this specific house on purpose. They all have magical
abilities I believe... or scientific abilities! This is one of the few series
by Neal Shusterman that I have not read yet, so I definitely wanted to pick it up
and get started on it because I love Neal Shusterman's writing. They also gave me Wonder
Woman Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo. This is the only novel by her that I haven't
read. I haven't read the collection of stories from the Grishaverse yet either.
This one follows a girl named Alia, I believe. Diana which is Wonder Woman is a
bit of a mentor for her, and she is going on some type of superhero journey. And I
don't really know anything about it other than that it's written by Leigh
Bardugo and I wanted to read it. I've heard some mixed things about this
mainly because they were thinking that it was gonna be more about Wonder Woman
than it is. But now that I know that it's not as much about Wonder Woman and it's
more about this other girl Alia, I think that I will really enjoy it
because the Wonder Woman movie was awesome. But I'll let you guys know what
I think when I read it. They gave me Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan because I
only had an arc of this book before and I wanted the finished final copy of it to
add to my Michael J. Sullivan shelf. This one is set in his Riyria
Chronicles/Riyria Revelations world, but it's set thousands of years before
those books take place. And there is some overlap, mainly that some characters in
this play some legend roles in the later books. And so if you haven't read those,
you're not gonna understand why those characters are more significant than
just regular characters. But I really enjoyed this book when I read it. I
actually did an individual book review for it, so I'll leave that linked if you
want to check it out. But yeah I'm very very happy to have this, and the last
book that my parents gave me this round is gonna be The Shadow of What Was Lost
by James Islington. I've heard so many good things about this
mainly that just people loved this book so much. It was originally self-published,
and then I think orbit? Yeah, orbit ended up picking it up and traditionally
publishing it. This one follows this main character who's a part of the Gifted, and
the Gifted were these servants to these godlike beings. But the godlike beings
were killed off, and now the Gifted are the most powerful beings, I think. But
they're also shunned because they were associated with those godlike beings
called Augurs. I'm not exactly sure everything that happens in this book cuz
I haven't heard too many people talk about this in depth, but it's pretty
chunky, and I'm really excited to dive in. I'll probably end up doing a book review
for this as well. My parents also gave me a couple of Harry Potter merchandise
items. I got Dumbledore's Cup which is
absolutely enormous. I did not think it was gonna be this big. Oh, it's
Dumbledore's Goblet. Sorry, and it has some dragon decorations
on it as well as on the bottom there. This will be going into my curio cabinet
which is right there. It will be prominently displayed, and my parents also gave me
this little teeny Felix Felicis bottle which I'm absolutely in love with. It is
so cool, and this will also be going into my curio cabinet because it is awesome.
Okay so we have a couple of more packages from publishers this time. First
one, it looks like it's from Simon & Schuster, and it says on the front, "The
Swan Sisters Will Awaken on March 6th 2018." I don't know who the Swan sisters
are, but we're about to find out. Cut away from your body. Oh nice, oh wow! That's a
pretty good cover!. So this is an arc for The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw. Ernshaw?
I don't know. So it says on the back that this one follows three sisters that
were accused of being witches in the past - two centuries ago - and they were
drowned by having people tie stones to their feet. And they were thrown into a
lake or some rivers. It just says deep water surrounding the town, and now every
year they come back for a very short amount of time each summer, and they try
to kill young men in the town by luring them. I guess they take possession of
three young girls, and they use these young girls to lure all these men into
the waters. And they kill them (the men) It follows a girl named Penny who can see through
these witches plots, I guess. She has to choose between saving herself and saving
this boy named Bo. It says that "death will come swiftly to those who cannot resist
the call of the sisters." Dun Dun Dun! And then this one says that it is from
penguin, but it's probably an imprint because I've never been sent anything
from actual penguin. Oh yes! I was wondering if I would get this! So DAW
Books ended up sending me a finished paperback copy of With Blood Upon the
Sand by Bradley P. Beaulieu. I did a book review of this last year when the
hardcover came out, so thank you guys. I absolutely loved this book by the way.
Check out that review if you want to know more. I also did a review of the
first book and of the prequel novella-novel thing. if you guys don't know this
follows a girl named Çeda who is living in this desert oasis city-state, and they
control all the deserts around them. There are
twelve immortal kings that have been ruling the land for a ridiculously long
time. They are responsible for the main character's mother's death.
Çeda decides that she is going to get revenge on the kings and try to kill
them. There's obviously a lot more stuff going on other than that, but if you want
to know more, check out those reviews. This series is so freaking good. Okay. I'm
so excited because they also sent me an ARC for A Veil of Spears which is the
third book in the series, and it comes out soon, I believe. March 20th. I hope
that I can read this before the book comes out. I'm super busy with the
BookTubeSFF Awards reads. I'm trying to get all of those done as quickly as
possible because I have to read like seventeen or something before the awards
show. But I'm so excited for this, and I love the series so much that I think
I'll try to squeeze this in between two BookTubeSFF Awards reads because wow,
I'm so excited. Thank you, guys! Thank you, DAW. Yes, yes this is so good. Okay.
And I think the next part is going to be the last books that I'm gonna
include in this book haul because the different clips have spanned like over a
month or something like that. So yeah. One last group of books and then done. So
last part for this book haul... hi, puppy. What's up, bud? You think that the
camera means treats? It does sometimes. I ended up getting sick again.
This is my third time being sick this year, so it delayed me filming this last
part. But I have one more package from Simon & Schuster, It says "whatever" in
pink a lot of times on it, so we'll see. Okay so it has one of those phone things
in it. I don't even know what those are for. So it is an ARC for Emergency
Contact by Mary H.K. Choi. So this one follows two characters. It follows a
girl named Penny Lee who did not really like high school all that much which is
a lot of people. She moves to Texas to learn how to write. She wants to be a
novelist, I believe. And then it also follows a boy named Sam who is literally
living at the place that he works. He works at a cafe, and he sleeps in a
storage room upstairs. He wants to be a movie director, and then they meet. And
then they start having an online relationship/friendship (I'm not really
sure). It came with a little card from the author: "Ahoy, friends! Good grief. I don't
think I've ever deployed 'ahoy' as a salutation, and let's be honest the whole
'friends' thing is a skosh over familiar to write. Yeesh.
Hi! You don't know me. I mean, you might know me but not to where you've read
an entire book me and my brain completely made up..." So it sounds like the
author has anxiety, and maybe the characters in this also have anxiety. So
we'll see. I don't read a lot of contemporary, but I may end up giving
this one a shot. I read a contemporary book every once in a while,
and sometimes I absolutely love it like "Eliza and Her Monsters" and sometimes I don't
love it like "Everything, Everything." That's funny! This is blurbed by Nicola Yoon
which is the author who wrote "Everything, Everything" which I did not like. So we'll
see where this one falls. I got a few books from my sister and her
husband. I got From Here to Eternity by Caitlin <stuggles to pronounce> Doughty.
I don't know how to say her last name. She says in her videos, and I still don't
know how to say it. Caitlin has a YouTube channel. It's
called Ask A Mortician, and she talks about all things death-related like
different types of burials ,and different ways of treating a body, and all that
stuff after someone passes. I find her channel super interesting, and I really
like her as a person. So I wanted to give her newest book a shot.
This one, I think, is about her traveling around the globe and learning about
different peoples' death traditions. But it has illustrations in it as well, so
I'm pumped to get to this one. I've been really wanting to read this for a while
now, so hopefully I'll be doing that soon... probably not because of BookTubeSFF Awards.
Speaking of, my sister gave me Raven
Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee. This is the second book in The Machineries of Empire. I didn't know
that was the name of it, but the first book is called Ninefox Gambit which I
read and did a review on. So I'll leave that up in the card symbol, and you can check
it out. This is obviously a continuation. I don't know where the story is gonna go
from how the first book left off, but I will be reading this one for the
BooktubeSFF Awards. Hopefully I'll be doing a review. No promises.
Now I'm all red because I coughed. My sister also gave me Age of Assassins by
RJ Barker which I've heard amazing things about. I don't even remember where
I first saw this book. It follows an assassin. Instead of trying to kill
someone, he has to save someone from being assassinated. So it's an assassin versus an assassin
who's trying to kill the person he's trying to protect. I've heard great things. I'm
really excited to get to it, and I'll let you guys know what I think when I do. And
lastly my sister gave me Year One Batman which is by Frank Miller, David... ooh...
Mazzucchelli, and Richmond Lewis. I heard that this is a great Batman volume.
I actually do really enjoy the Batman comics. I don't really enjoy the movies,
but I do like the comics. And Richard from RichardReads who I'll leave a link to
down below told me that this is a really fantastic one to read. So I put it on my
wishlist, and my sister got it for me. This is what
some of the artwork looks like. It's very old style which is interesting, so we'll
see how I like it. But I am pumped to get to it because I like Batman. So in my
Christmas or my birthday haul from this year I ended up getting Arcanum
Unbounded, but the cover was messed up. So my aunt sent it back, and I got one that
actually has the full cover, and it covers the book actually. This is a
replacement copy for the one that I had because somehow that one got completely
trashed and ruined. So hopefully I will be taking better care of this one and
not have it get all destroyed. This is a bind up of a lot of the Cosmere novellas
and short stories that are in the Cosmere which is Brandon Sanderson's big
universe where a lot of his adult fantasy novels take place. You want to
read certain books before you read certain stories, and some stories you can
read without reading books. I did a book review for this which I'll leave up in
the card symbol. You can check it out to see when you can read different stories,
and what you should read before you read certain ones, etc. But I'm very happy to
have this replacement copy, so that I can add it to my collection and have
everything looking nice... The shallowness of BookTube... but mainly just me being
shallow. As I said earlier, my mother and father have been giving me my presents
for my birthday slowly throughout the year. I got Whitesand, Vol. 2 by Brandon
Sanderson, but it is by Rik Hoskin and Julius Gomez. This is published by
Dynamite. This one is set in the Cosmere. It's a graphic novel version of the
first book that he wrote in the Cosmere, I believe, but the book was never
published. And I don't think it'll ever be published in novel form. This one
follows a boy who lives on this planet called Taldain, I believe. Yes, and the
magic system of this world is that people are able to control sand. But to
be able to control sand, they have to use body water to do that. And they live in a
desert, so body water is hard to come by. The main character at the beginning of
the book has a very low ability to control sand. He can only control one
strand of sand at a time, and he has to come up with different ways to use this
one strand so that he can accomplish what other people can do with many
strands. This is what some of the artwork looks like. I like the coloring that is
in this book because when they're in the desert, the tones are more muted and when
they're in the city, the colors are a lot more vibrant, so I
like the play with colors in this comic book / graphic novel. It's a graphic
novel, and I'm excited to see where the story continues. There's also some Cosmere
connections in here. Like, one character that's in here pops up in other stories
as well. There's a world hopper - a different world hopper than the main one
Hoid. I did a book review for the first book in the series, and I'll leave that
up in the card symbol as well. But hopefully I'll be getting to this one at
some point soon and maybe doing a review of this one as well. Last two books I
bought myself. The first one is All Systems Red by Martha Wells. I really
enjoyed Martha Wells's Books of Raksura series which is a trilogy that has some
short story collections, and then it continued with a fourth book which I
have not read yet but I do own. This one follows a robot who hacked its own
governor module and refers to itself as Murderbot, and Murderbot is trying to
investigate some neighboring mission that goes dark. This is nominated for the
BookTubeSFF Awards in the short fiction category. I'm not a judge for that, but I
still wanted to read the nominations for it. I obviously like Martha Wells, so I
wanted to give it a go. I've also read her Wheel of the Infinite book which is
about a woman who is a middle-aged monk or something like that. She goes around, and
she's trying to save the world. But yes, I will be reading this one for the
BookTubeSFF Awards, and I'll let you guys know what I think.
And the last book in this book haul is gonna be My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
by Emil Ferris. This one follows a young girl, and she is living in an
apartment building. And there's a murder that happens, I believe, and then she is
on the case and trying to solve the murder. She also thinks being human is,
like, the worst thing in the world, and she thinks of herself as a werewolf or
something like that, I believe. But the artwork in this is very, very cool. It's
all done on lined paper, so if that's gonna bother you, know that. But it's all this
sketch work, and sometimes it's in full color, and sometimes it's black and white.
This is the book that I'm hosting for March, so if you haven't got your hands
on this book yet, do so and join me in the readalong for this month. I will
leave a link down in the description to the Goodreads group where you can share
your thoughts and feelings about this book. I'll also leave down in the
description an interview that Emil Ferris did where she talks about this
book and everything that she went through. She ended up being bitten by a
mosquito and then losing her ability to use her hands for a while, so she went
from being paralyzed to then really trying to get back into doing art. And she ended
up coming up with this book which is fantastic. So I'll let you guys know what
I think when I finish this one. I am going to be starting this one soon
because I actually just finished the book that I was currently reading which
took me forever to read! But yes, I'm excited for this one! So those are all
the books that are gonna be in this book haul. If you liked it, please give it a
big thumbs up and comment down below if you have read any of these books. What
were your feelings and thoughts on them? If you want to see me review any of
these books, let me know that as well, and I will talk to you guys next time.
Bye! <finger gun and tongue click>
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