Hi friends, it's Lily, and today I'm gonna be doing my autumn/birthday book haul.
So these are all the books I've got through September, October and November
which included my birthday. If you're new to my channel, hi, welcome my name is
Lily. Today we're just gonna be talking about all the books I've acquired. I was doing so
well until my birthday and then I received a few books from friends and I
got some vouchers and money and I just bought some books. So let's get into it
because this could be a very long video, I'm gonna try and keep it as short as
possible. So the first book I'm going to talk about today is City of Ghosts by
Victoria Schwab. This is a middle grade urban fantasy book, we follow a girl called
Cassidy who can see ghosts and her parents are ghost hunters but they can't
actually see ghosts and they kind of get given this job on this TV show which
ends up taking them to Edinburgh so we just basically follow Cassidy as she's
trying to navigate Edinburgh which is this very haunted city and she kind of
gets mixed up in the ghost world. I've already read this, it was very cute, it's
very fun, I talked about it in my at last reading recap which you can go check out, I
will link it on the screen and down below. The next book I have to talk about
it's also a middle-grade and that is The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood
Hargrave. So this is a fantasy book and I think it follows a girl called Mila who has quite
a big family and it basically follows her and her siblings when her brother
Oskar gets kind of kidnapped and it follows her and her sisters trying to
transverse this eternal winter that they live in to try and get their brother
back which sounds really really magical and just perfect for winter. I've read a few
of Kiran Millwood Hargrave's books before the, The Girl of Ink and Stars and The Island at
the End of Everything, I'm not always great with Middle Grade but I love hers,
they're just so magical and have great protagonists and I'm hoping the same comes
from this one and it just seems like it's gonna be at the perfect December
read. Also can we just appreciate how like beautiful this book is, like look at
those end pages, I think it's just stunning. Speaking of beautiful books we
also have The Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor. I picked this up because I
read Strange the Dreamer in October and I just had to get the sequel because I
loved it. Strange the Dreamer was definitely one of
my favorite fantasy books of this year. That's not saying much because I hardly
read fantasy really but anyway. So obviously I can't tell you what this is
about because of spoilers but Strange the Dreamer primarily follows a librarian
called Lazlo. He has been obsessed with this lost city called Weep since he was
a child and he basically gets the opportunity to potentially go and find
out what's happened to this lost city and everything kind of takes off from
there. I just love this world, I love these
characters I'm really hoping I can get into this soon and it's not gonna be one
of those sequels that sit on my shelf forever but I think I will get to it
cause I just adored the first book. We then have at The Deepest Roots by
Miranda Asebado. So this is YA Fabulism I believe. It's set in a
small town in Kansas and in this small town basically all the women are born
with like a special kind of talent or power and so we follow three friends who
have these special talents or powers just things like being able to fix any object
that's broken or find anything that's gone missing and I think it's just about
them like struggling with their powers and their friendships and finding out
more and more about the secrets of this mysterious small town which sounds right
out of my street, it ticks so many of my boxes. I think the summary really gave
me similar themes and vibes of Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno which I read
in the summer and loved, that one was also set in like a small town where it
had women with magical powers and was a lot about sisterhood and friendship and
stuff like that so I've heard good things about this, not a lot but good
things from people who have read it. We then actually do have three books that I've
read which is great. So the first of those is What if it's Us? by Becky
Albertalli and Adam Silvera. I'm sure you all know what this is about. This is a
YA rom-com, it's about Arthur and Ben who meet in New York at this post
office, they have this kind of meet-cute, they forget to get each other's details
and then it's about them trying to find each other again and then their kind
of ensuing romance over the course of this summer in New York. I did pick this
up when I went to go see Becky and Adam in October for their signing which
was really exciting, it was great seeing them talk in person and I managed to get
it signed as well. It's just signed there which was really
really lovely um just to meet them and get this signed. Like I said I've read
this, I enjoyed it, I liked it it wasn't my favorite from either of these authors
but I had a nice time at reading it. I think it gave it like a 3.5 out of 5
stars, I talked about it more in my reading recap so you can go check that out if you want
to hear more of my thoughts. The next book we have is Sadie by
Courtney Summers. I read the audiobook of this but because I loved it so much I
wanted to get a physical copy of the book. I'm sure you all know if you've
heard of this book that the audiobook is great and I would recommend reading it on
audiobook but like I said I like having physical copies of the books that I've
loved and this is definitely gonna be I think in my top 10 of the year. So I
definitely wanted to have it on my shelf. This is I think marketed as YA
but it follows Sadie who's 19 and it also has very dark topics so I don't really
know if it's YA. But it follows Sadie whose younger sister has recently
been killed and she thinks she knows who it is and so she kind of goes
on the run trying to find her sister's murderer and avenge her sister's murder
because her sister like meant everything to her, she was basically her sister's
carer. So you follow that perspective and then you also follow the perspective of
this podcast which kind of deals with missing girls and they basically get
involved in Sadie's case and so you're following that perspective as well which
is great on audiobook. I've already read this, I talked about it in my reading recap but I
did love it, I will say there are trigger warnings with this book for sexual
assault, sexual violence, pedophilia, that kind of thing it has very very
dark topics. The next book that I got was Blanca y Roja by Anna-Marie
McLemore. So this is YA magical realism. Anna-Marie McLmore is one of my
favorite authors and this further cemented that. So this is inspired by
a few different fairy tales, it's inspired by Snow-White and Rose-Red
and also Swan Lake. So you follow this family primarily these two sisters
because they are in this family where they have been cursed by swans and so
the swans when the girls are teenagers will take one of the sisters in each family,
there's always two sisters and then will take one of the sisters and make
them become a swan forever basically. And this follows Blanca and Roja as they are
approaching that time and everyone is kind of convinced that Roja is gonna
be the one that has taken but everything kind of takes off from there and you
know there's lots of twists and turns. And I just love Anna-Marie McLemore's books,
I'm not going to go into it too much, this is not a reading recap but I did love it. I just
love her books so much and more people need to read them. And then finally for the
books that I picked up outside of my birthday I got Heartstopper by
Alice Oseman. I finally received this in the mail because I backed the
Kickstarter back in July or August whenever it started. And I got my copy of
the book, this started as an online webcomic and she's now made it into a
physical book and it's being actually traditionally published in February but this basically
just follows two boys in a secondary school in the UK called Nick and Charlie,
they are side characters I think in her novel Solitaire which is the only one of
hers I haven't read but I've been following web comic for ages and I love
it and I just wanted my own physical copy because Nick my Charlie are so adorable
and whenever I'm sad I just read Heartstopper and it makes everything better.
It's just a really cute LGBT romance and I adore it. So now we move on to all of
the books I got for my birthday. The first of those was one I got from
flatmate Millie, we always exchange books on our birthdays and Christmas and
stuff because we both love reading and so she got me The Princess Bride by
William Golding which she got for me because I let slip that I'd never read this book or
seen the film or had really any knowledge of it and she was very taken
aback and was like you have to read it I'm gonna buy it for your birthday, so I
got this. I really do love this edition though she really got a great edition.
I don't really know what this is about, I tried to look up the synopsis and it was
very vague. From what I can tell it's a fantasy but it's like a satire or a
twist on an original tale that William Golding has done and I think it's meant
to kind of bend a lot of fantasy tropes which I'm really here for if that's
what it's about but I really don't know much. I know lots people love it and lots
people love the film so I'm very intrigued to go into it because I know
it's kind of like a cult classic. We then have a book that I just kind of bought
for myself it's like a treat yourself it's a birthday kind of thing and that
is that The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed. I realized I hadn't read like a
straight up YA feminist contemporary in a while and I just was really in the
mood for that so that's why I picked this up. Also I'm pretty sure because I saw
a review of this book that basically the reviewer said like this book made me
realize how much I loved women in both of a feminist way and a gay way and I
was like: I need to read that. So that's why I got it, I've heard really good things about
it from people who have read it and I think this basically follows three
girls who are all from different kinds of backgrounds. I think some of
them are queer if not all of them, and basically they come together to avenge
the rape of one of their fellow classmates and also to tackle the sexist
and misogynistic culture at their high school. It just sounds really really
great, lots of people said really great things about it. The synopsis, especially
the last part kind of reminded me of Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu which i
really liked but my biggest problem with it was that it wasn't very intersectional
and people say that this book is pretty intersectional so I really hope that it
delivers on that front. I then it got an Amazon order because my brother gave
me an amazon gift voucher for my birthday and so one of the books I got with that
was Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand. This is definitely a book that I got
because I'd just kind of seen it everywhere on book twitter and on booktube
and from the very little things i've heard about it, it sounds good. I honestly
don't know if this is contemporary or fantasy, can someone let me know because
I'm very confused about what it is. Again I think this follows three girls, I think
all of them are queer in this book and basically I think they come together to
like solve or like avenge this person who has been killing girls on
this island called Sawkill rock for generations and that's kind of all I
know about it but again I think I saw someone just be like this book is about
girls loving girls in like both a feminist way and a gay way and i was like, yeah I'm here
for it, so that's why I got it. The next one I got was because I realized I
didn't have, other than to all the boys I've loved before which I'm planning to
read for a read-a-thon soon, I realised I don't really have any like light-hearted
like contemporary books and so I got My Heart Goes Bang by Keris Stainton.
I think this follows a group of five girls who are in the second year of
university, they're all living together and it's just kind of their escapades and I
just really really wanted to read about that. I don't think I've read a book
about a group of characters at a UK University before in this kind of style
and I'm really excited about it. Obviously I'm at university I'm gonna be a bit older than
these characters because I came to uni a bit later but I'm excited to read about
that, I definitely need to read this while I'm still at uni. I'm in my
third year now so, a little bit more stress than second year but I have very fond
memories of my second year at uni, so maybe this will make me a little bit
nostalgic for that. And I think some of the characters in this are queer because
I saw it Gay's the Word so I'm assuming that some of the characters in this at
least a queer. And then the last book I got in that Amazon order was The Girl with
the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke. I mostly got this because Madalyn from
Novel Ink who is like one of my favorite booktubers and generally one my favorite
book people now, says this is her favorite book and we have very similar
taste in books and so I really really trust her recommendation. As far as I
know this is about girl who goes on a school trip to Berlin like in kind of
modern day and she ends up through this kind of magical way gets transported
back to Berlin in 1988 when the Berlin Wall was still up and gets involved
helping people get over the Berlin Wall and escape and that just sounds great.
I've been to Berlin I find it's such a fascinating city, I really really want
to go back and I just find that whole period of history very very fascinating.
So the fact that there's a book like that, that has kind of magical elements
just sounds fantastic and I believe the main character is Jewish and that that
representation is #ownvoices, I believe, so that all just sounds great
and I'm really excited to get into this. This is one that I've not heard a lot about but
Madalyn's recommendation was enough for me to get it. The next book I got just kind of
on a whim with some more birthday money and that is Practical Magic by Alice
Hoffman. This is similar to The Princess Bride, I just kind of got it
because it's a cult classic and I don't know much about it but I heard there were
witches, I'm very to witches right now and so I just
decided to get it. I think it is a fantasy book and it just follows this family
of witches and primarily two sisters and I think they're very close when they're
young and then they kind of grow apart and then they have to come back together
when they're adults because of some kind of tragedy. I think that's what it's
about, I really don't know. I just kind of picked this up on a whim, I think I've seen people talking
about Rules of Magic which is the prequel so I just thought I'd give it a
go. And then finally my best friend Kate got for my birthday
Becoming by Michelle Obama. I'm actually currently reading the audiobook
of this, but I've got my little bookmark in keeping track so I'm a out, I'm over
halfway through now and I'm just getting to the bit where she's talking about Barack
Obama running for president. So I'm sure you know what this book is about it's
her memoir about her life from when she was a child to leaving the White House
in 2016. I'm really enjoying it so far, she gets very personal which I really
really like, I feel like I'm learning a lot about her as a person.
I'm definitely relating to a lot of what she's saying and yeah she's a really
good writer and I'm just enjoying this thing to thee audiobook, she narrates it um
which is great. I'm really glad I like to have a physical copy of this to own now
and it's got like the pictures in and everything so that was really cool.
I do have an Amazon order that is coming through tomorrow that I-, I really
wanted to get a video up because I haven't filmed a video in like two weeks but I
might just include a clip of that like a quick unboxing of that here. Just got a
package from Amazon. I'm actually so excited this is one of the most extra
thing I've ever done. They're so pretty. So I may have ordered new editions of The
Hunger Games, these are the 10th anniversary editions. I saw them in
London a month ago and I just loved them and I had some birthday money and I was
like if I buy these I've already read them and I'm not adding to my TBR
you know. I own another copy of The Hunger Games but I don't own another copy of
the series and I wanted a copy to have here at university with me so that's all
we did. This is the cover of the first book. This is the cover of the second
which I think might be my favorite, I really love this cover. And then this is
the third one which I also love like this is the one that caught my eye in
the shop. I also may have bought these for a project that I'm planning on doing
next year which I will do a video about soon,
but I'm not giving away any details right now so you'll just have to wait
and see. So I will now cut back to the actual book haul. So that is
everything that I have got in the last three months in terms of books, I was
doing so well until my birthday and I just kind of splurged but you know what?
it's okay. Thank you all so much for watching, if you've read any of these
books please let me know your thoughts on them in the comments below I'd love
to have a discussion about them and let me know what you've been reading
recently I would love to know that as well. I hope you're having a wonderful day
wherever you are and I will see you soon in my next video. Bye!
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