Hi, it's Maija here with a book haul. I visited London last weekend and I picked up a
bunch of books, as you do. I also have another book haul that I need to film, about
all the books that I've bought since my last book haul video, but this is only
the books that I bought in London. Let's start with the most exciting one first, shall
we? I visited Forbidden Planet and I found
The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson there, and it was, like, five days
or something before the release date, but there it was and it was six pounds off,
so I got it for cheaper than I thought. And I was so happy to find this, I loved
The Traitor Baru Cormorant which is the first book in the series. I read it back
in 2016, I think. Back when I read the first one I was sort of treating it as a
standalone, I really loved it as a standalone, but then I heard that there
was a second one coming and I was bit apprehensive, but now the closer and
closer to the release date we have come, I've just become completely excited to read
this and read more about Baru. So this is a fantasy series about this one woman,
Baru Cormorant, who wants to tear down this empire because of what they did to
her family and her home island. They sort of assimilated her home island and
brought their own values there and killed one of Baru's fathers. She now
wants to take vengeance on this empire from within and is climbing the ranks in
the empire, and she sort of takes this political and economical way to get her
revenge, which I found really interesting. And I'm a sucker for revenge stories,
especially if they focus on "will this person lose themselves in their revenge".
I am so excited. From Forbidden Planet I picked up Nicky
Drayden's Temper. I really liked The Prey of Gods, her debut novel, that I read. It was
set in, like, our world, but this one is a straight-up fantasy book, so I'm very,
very excited to read this one. So this is about people who have vices, and the
vices that they have are branded on their arms - I don't know if you can see,
but there are like tattoos along his arm. He has a twin who only has one vice,
and the main character, Auben, has six vices, so he is marked as lesser
in their society. And it says that "the twins' strained relationship threatens to
snap when Auben starts hearing voices that speak to his dangerous side -
encouraging him to perform evil deeds that go beyond innocent mischief.
Lechery, deceit, and vanity run rampant. And then there are the inexplicable blood
cravings." So I'm excited to see where Nicky Drayden goes with her second novel.
I actually visited Forbidden Planet twice, first with my sister who I was
traveling with, and the second time we went with Claire - her channel is Claire
Rousseau - and we picked up some more stuff on the second go-round.
I picked up a bunch of little bobs and bits that are for gifts, but then I also
picked up one more book, I picked up Jane Yolen's Finding Baba Yaga, and this
is a novel in verse, and it is a reimagining of the Baba Yaga tale,
and I'm a big fan of Baba Yaga, so I picked this one up. I think Bree from Bree Reads
Books has read this and liked it. I also went to Waterstones, the big Waterstones
on Piccadilly, and picked up a few things from there. I got the seventh
volume of The Wicked and the Divine, this is Mothering Invention, and this is by
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie. And this a series of these gods
reincarnating in modern day and what sort of shenanigans they get up to. And I
think I will have to reread at least the last one before reading this one to get
the full effect, because I'm very quick at forgetting stuff when it comes to
comics. Then I picked something that's not actually fantasy, I picked up
Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table, which is the next Poirot book that I'm
reading in my Hercule Poirot project of reading them in order. And for some
reason this book in English isn't available in any library in Finland.
There were, like, comic adaptations and then there was the Finnish translation,
but I wanted to read it in the original English. So when I saw it at Waterstones
I decided to just buy it for myself. This seems to be about a man who invites
Hercule Poirot to a party where there are murderers present.
Then the last book shop that I bought something from was Persephone Books. So
they are a publisher that focuses on republishing forgotten stuff, especially
by women authors. So I picked up two books from them that I had heard
something about before. I was sort of browsing, but these where the two that
I knew that I wanted. The first book that I bought from there was The Blank Wall
by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding, and this is a crime novel, and it's about an American
housewife who has to rise to the occasion and protect her family from
blackmailers. And I'm a big fan of crime books where the main character isn't one
of the usual suspects, so it's not like the, for example, the man protecting his
family, but like in this occasion it's the housewife who has to protect her
daughter, or her children, from blackmailers. And the second one that I
picked up was this shorter one, it is The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita
Laski. And this one I really can't describe well what it's about, so I will
just read it from Goodreads. This "tells the story of a young married woman who
lies down on a chaise-longue and wakes to find herself imprisoned in the body of
her alter ego ninety years before." So it's sort of a time travel story. And the
Persephone books usually come in this grey, but then they have different
endpapers and a bookmark with the same endpaper. But it's funny, because this
one, because it's sort of two stories in two times, it has two different endpapers.
The endpaper of The Blank Wall looked like this, I'm not a big fan of it.
But I think all of these endpapers are from the decade that the book
was either written or when the book takes place, so if - for
example this one was published in 1947, and the endpapers are taken from a late
1940's furnishing fabric manufactured and sold in the United States.
Can you believe- Can you imagine having furniture with this fabric on them?
So those were all the books that I picked up in London, I couldn't have picked up
any more because no more would have fit into my hand luggage, but I also picked
up this Disney villain mug. Like, it has the Queen - the Evil Queen - it has
Ursula, Maleficent, and the Queen of Hearts.
I'm not a big fan of the Queen of Hearts. I went to the Disney Store specifically
because I wanted a Disney villain mug that I could take to work and drink from
at work. I was thinking that maybe they would have more Disney villain products
because it's close to Halloween, but they really didn't. So this one was one of the
few... I think they had, like, three villain mugs, and this one was the best of those.
And I do like this side of it, but I think the Maleficent -
Queen of Hearts side, it is a bit too garish in color for my taste.
But this side is great, so I picked this one. Instead of having Disney villain
merchandise they had more The Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise. I do love
The Nightmare Before Christmas, but I was specifically looking for villains. Other
stuff that I picked up from London, I picked up some jelly babies, because I'm
obsessed. With the last of my pounds that I had left on the airport, I picked up some
fancy chocolate. And then I also picked up from a random tea store that we
passed, I picked up some really, really expensive Earl Grey, but it is so good, so
that was a good purchase. So this is my London book haul - I always find it a lot
more fun to actually browse the books that I'm looking for, because we don't
really have specific big fantasy & science fiction book stores in Finland. So
visiting Forbidden Planet is always fun, because I can actually see and browse
and see what I can find from the books. It is a lot more fun than just clicking
stuff online and then waiting for it to come. But I'm still going to film that
other book haul that I mentioned and post it sometime soon, but this was my London
book haul. Let me know if you are excited about any
of these books, and I will see you in my next video.
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