 Are we not gonna cry? Because I am. I am gonna cry. Like, I am everything I've ever wanted. Fun welcome back to my channel. I hope you're all good. Today I have been so excited for this video. We're doing a book haul today. I think this is one of my biggest book hauls ever and I also think it's one of my most beautiful book hauls ever. We have hauled some of my favourite covers I think I've ever hauled. So it's a momentous moment and today the future starts. I feel like today the future starts. So it's a good day. So first, these are the books I'm most excited for. These four books. I listen. Some of you may know I have an obsession with the cover of my edition of The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie and let me tell you I learned. It's getting weird. I learned that that is a like collection that Harper Collins had done of some of Agatha Christie's most famous books and then one day I got an email from Harper Collins saying that on their site of their books they had 40% off and I was like Megan it's now or never. Megan you may have no money but it is now or never. You will regret this for the rest of your life if you don't do it. So I bought most of the ones in the collection that I don't have. Are you ready? You are going to cry. You are going to cry when you see how beautiful these covers are. So we have got I don't think you're ready. Look how beautiful. We have got Murder on the Orient Express which is gorgeous. Then we have got Death on the Nile. Then we hold it like that so you can really see it. I'll do close-ups as well. Are you crying yet? Because I think you are. Then we've got the ABC Murders. I love the kind of like geometric design on this one and then we've got I also love this one the 450 from Paddington right? So oh my god I want to cry. So I got these four editions and let me just tell you they are just this isn't doing them justice how gorgeous they are. I have never seen more gorgeous books in my life. I adore them. I love them so much. I would die for them. I don't know what my favorite one is out of these. Maybe the ABC Murders. Here's the thing. I think my favorite changes every day. I'm fickle. So right now I think it's that one but if you ask me tomorrow it's going to be Death on the Nile. So I just love these as many of you know I am reading all the Urquiporo books in order at the moment. These three are Urquiporo right? Or am I making it up? And then this is Miss Marpo I think. I just love these. These are like prized possessions. I'm tempted to put them on my bookshelf soon and just have them displayed there even though I haven't read them because they they are literally that beautiful and I love them so so much. They are literally some of my favorite books I have ever bought. Then along with those books I also bought Black Out by um Donnel Clayton, Nick Stone, Tiffany D Jackson, Ashley Woodfolk, Angie Thomas, and Nicola Yoon. So these authors all come together and written this book and it's about a blackout in New York City and about these different like love stories that happen during that blackout. A lot of them are linked. I have listened to a few like interviews and podcasts that they've done talking about this like in the promo for it. There's a lot of like links between the stories so I am so excited to get to this. I'm thinking maybe this is going to be a holiday read? I'm not sure. I don't know how much I'm going to read on holiday. Am I going to read loads? Am I going to read like five books? I'm not going to read at all. Next let's show you this one quickly. This is one of my favorite covers of the year of any 2021 new release. Again you're going to cry. That is my reaction to covers that I love. I just like I just want to cry. I just want to cry. Just like leave me alone in a dark room to cry. Very strange. This was very kindly gifted to me by a subscriber called Trinity. So thank you so much Trinity and it is are we ready? Moment of silence. Okay it is the ones we're meant to find by Joan Key. So this is a sci-fi about these two sisters and one of them lives in this like super futuristicy town and the other one I think has been like deserted on an island and they're trying to find their way back together. I have heard mixed things about this since it's come out. I think everyone's in agreement that it's like the most beautiful cover but I have heard mixed things on the on the content. I've heard some good things. I've heard some not so good things. I've heard it's like quite complicated sci-fi and listen we all know one brain cell. One I can't even say cell. I said sales. Not even one brain cell. I am a bit nervous to read it but I'm also so excited because it is a beautiful cover. It's a shame I didn't have this when I did my most beautiful covers. Do they equal beautiful books? Because this would have been on the list but it is gorgeous. I mean my conclusions in that video if you haven't watched it. Beautiful covers don't mean beautiful insides of books but I'm hoping this will break the mold and I will love it. So next are some books that my parents very kindly bought for me as like a present for getting a first at uni. If you don't know I got my results back from my university degree which I just finished and I got off that. Let's just get into it because are you ready for another beautiful book? Are you ready? This is why I'm telling you there are so many beautiful books in this haul. We're gonna cry again. I'm gonna cry again. Okay. Oh my god. Jesus Christ. Check out the label. This is the Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O'Neill. This is the third in the Tea Dragon series but the second was a prequel and I say it again. I cannot find it anywhere. I mean look at how gorgeous the insides are. Again I will do close-ups but like aren't you crying? I am crying about these Tea Dragons who like brew tea and it's just so cute and wholesome and soft and I just love it. So I am so happy to finally own this. It is genuinely just the most beautiful lovely illustration stories. It's like a warm hug as a book and I am so excited to continue on with the series. Like it's just stunning. It is I think the prettiest graphic novels I've ever read. I just absolutely love them. It's like a warm hug. It's like a warm tea. It's like a warm chamomile tea. If this was a book I would just hug it non-stop. It reminds me of like a teddy bear. It is the personification bookification for teddy bear. I hate her. I tell you now. Oh this is a beautiful cover as well. I chose A Lapse Away by Darcy Little Badger. I don't know too much about this other than like everyone fucking loves it. That was enough reason for me. I know this is about like an indigenous girl who I think can raise the spirits of the dead or is it dead animals? One of the two. And it's kind of like a middle grade but kind of not. I've just heard that this is like beautiful writing. Very atmospheric. Everyone who read this it was kind of like in their best books of the year last year. So another one I'm very very excited to get to hopefully soon. I don't have plans but hopefully I will get to that soon. Then what else did we pick? Well I picked these not we. Actually let's talk about the one of these that isn't a new release and then we'll talk about the three that are new releases. Technically the T-Dragon tapestries are new release as well. It is The Jeweled Moth by Catherine Wood Fine. This is the second in the Sinclair's Mysteries. I've spoken a little bit lately about how I made a series spreadsheet of every series I have started and it gave me a kick up the ass. Good god get a grip girl. To finally carry on with some series and maybe like I don't think I'm gonna vlog reading this. I think this will just be a book that I read in my own time because sometimes I get caught up with like I can't read a book if I'm not vlogging it because I don't want you guys to like miss out on my thoughts or anything but it's also not true. Like this is a second book in a middle grade mystery series that I don't think you necessarily want a dedicated vlog for and like that space in a vlog would probably be better spent by putting a different book in there. Not to say like oh I can't put series in vlogs if I if I want to but I just feel like sometimes something like this would be good for me to just read on my own. So this is a middle grade murder mystery series set in like I think the 1900s. The first one was set at this department store called Sinclair's which is very much like Harrod's and our girls were working there and they came together to solve this mystery and it's just fun like I really like it. It presents itself as very campy like it's very like over-the-top dramatic fun. Wow! Woo! And then I picked three more new releases. First we have got the final girl support group by Grady Hendricks. I have always wanted to read some Grady Hendricks and I never have. He also wrote Horror Store which is the one that like looks like an IKEA catalog and my best friend's Exorcism so I've heard so many good things about so many of his books but this one is his latest release and it is about the support group of final girls of serial killers. So these women who have survived these like horrific things and they come together in the support group and I think they start getting killed off basically. I've heard some good things since this came out. It only came out like a couple weeks ago I think. I wanted to read more horror. Horror and sci-fi I think are genres I always really enjoy when I read them but I don't pick up enough so they're currently genres that I am like prioritizing hopefully reading a bit more from. Sure Jan. The next one oh my gosh I am so excited. This is another potential holiday holiday book. Can you tell I'm like I'm trying so hard to figure out what I'm gonna read on holiday and it's really it's really hard. It's really it's a really hard decision but I got Switch by AS King. Oh my gosh I'm so excited. Me and AS King have a have an interesting relationship. I either give her books five stars or like two stars. I'm hoping this will be another five star. My hair is annoying me today. What is this strand of hair doing? Where has this strand of hair come from and why doesn't it want to amalgamate with the rest of my face? Like like why we keep gapping? Like you excuse me what is happening with this hair? I have never in my life the order to go like this. I was rooting for you. We were all rooting for you. I'll dare you. So just by having a flick through this I can only tell this book is fucking bonkers. It's told in these really short verse so we have like a chapter but within that chapter we have like little sections that have subheadings. AS King if you want wacky books just go to her like she's there for you. She's there with open arms. I'm about to commit a murder to this piece of hair. I was angry. I was angry. I don't usually read like descriptions to you because it's kind of boring. No shade. No tino shade. But this one isn't. Time has stopped. It's been June 23rd 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand a teenager's focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though. Javling Throne prodigy Truda Becker is pretty sure her solution time class wouldn't solve the world's problems but she does have a few ideas which might. Truda lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches. A switch her father protects every day by nailing it into hundreds of progressively larger boxes but Truda's got a crowbar and one way or another she's going to see what happens when she flips the switch. So we're dealing with like bonkers level territory here. I am so excited. I think she like lives in one of the boxes. I don't know but I'm very very very excited for this and it's really short so I have no excuse for not reading it yet. Well I only got it like a couple days ago so actually I do have an excuse. But I did tell a bit of a lie there. And then finally of the books they got me. Another one that I am so dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe excited for. This book haul like No Lie is like one of the best book hauls I've ever done in my life. We have Dead Dead Girls by Nikesa Afia. This is a mystery, a murder mystery set in Harlem 1926 where this black girl is the detective and it's going to be amazing. I've picked this up particularly from Mara from Books Like Woe's recommendation. I go to her for a lot of my mystery recommendations and I've heard that it's like quite a bit heavier than you would expect. I think looking at it Mara said this as well like looking at it you kind of expect cosy mystery vibes like it's that you know it's got that kind of like cosy historical vibes but I've heard it's a lot heavier. I think young black women are going missing and so this girl takes it upon herself to investigate it. So this is a mystery I'm really really excited for and I haven't heard a lot of people other than Mara speak about so I'm very much looking forward to it. Fairly books are always gorgeous. This one I have spoken about already so just very quickly we've got Fire with Fire by Desi Saria. This is a fantasy about twin sisters I think or no they're twins. I think they're just sisters. They're supposed to say a dragon or some shit. I don't really know. I needed to do a video testing. Book box books it. Book box books. Book box books that I didn't know anything about beforehand because I need to test how you know how accurate I swear to God I swear I do not deserve this. I need to test how good they are but I don't really know anything about it so we're just gonna park it let me know if you've read it and if you think I'd like it. Now I have got the July July Fairly box. I haven't unboxed it yet so let's just do that quickly together. I am so excited. I think I know what this book may be and if it if I'm right I am so excited. Like this is a book that I am genuinely very very excited for. Oh we've got a tin. I love a book tin. This one oh my god what is going on here hang on hang on. I pulled the lid off to find another lid. Um that does make no sense. Oh my god I do not want to fuck this up. How do I open you? Does it not have an inside? It does okay we're good. So gorgeous book tin. Inspired by a quart of thorns and roses it's blue it says be glad of your human hearts pity those who don't feel anything at all. Next is this what I think it is oh it fucking is. What do we have here? Oh it is oh it is it is a book sleeve. Fairly do the best book sleeves because they have a zip. Before we even get into the design oh and this one is like fabric key on the inside. Oh that is that is oh that is bougie. They are bougie today. I love book sleeves with zips because otherwise shit falls out. I'm like why please all books need to have zips in my opinion. Anyway oh yeah they said we've improved it even further by using the same material we used in our pencil cases. That is so correct. That is that is correct. That is correct. Um that is correct. Very nice quality. This is gorgeous. This is inspired by the blood of star astrology by Elizabeth Lim. That is so pretty I love the colors on it. Fairly kill me every time. Fairly don't understand how much I love them. Like oh we've got an umbrella. Okay I'm not going to open this but it's got like cards on it and it's inspired by Heartless by Marissa Mayer which I have read and I did enjoy it. Yes I love socks. We've got these lovely sockies. Oh they're big socks. Inspired by Cinderella is dead which I have not read but I do own so here's hoping that I'm gonna love that and then we've got a foil print for the Star Dutch Queen series by Roshani Chopsky and we have got the tarot cards which are inspired by Carrival by Stephanie Garber. Okay let's have a look at the book. I'm hoping it is a certain book so let's see. Oh my gosh look at the sprayed edges already. I love it. I love it and it gives me that buzz. It feeds exactly what I want to do. Oh my gosh oh my gosh I am going to cry. So this is Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim. I have been so excited for this book. This is a 2020 release I've actually been super duper excited for. Are we crying? Yes we are. Look at the gorgeous stenciling of the cranes down the spine and then we've got purple on the other ends. Oh my god let me guess. Let me guess. No no I actually can't take it. I actually can't take it. I can't take it. Look at that. Can you see? Oh my oh my god on the spine. This is actually one of the most beautiful books I own. This is actually one of the most beautiful books I own. Do I read this on holiday? Listen watch me watch me watch me take about 20 books with me. I am so tempted right now. I think I'm gonna take this with me. Look at the gorgeous stenciling on the hardcover and then we've also got a gorgeous art on the back of the dust jacket. Fairly I want to marry you. I will leave them linked down below. Go check Fairly out if you haven't before. I just am a massive fan of them. Thank you so much to Fairly for sending this to me. I appreciate it so so much. I actually I actually am almost crying. Like this this book everything about this all the things they've added are so gorgeous. I actually feel a bit like blown away. Listen you guys can you get over it? It helps that pink is my favorite color but like guys yeah I love it. I love good news love good news I just love good news. Oh shit I forgot one of the books that my parents got for me it was not with the other ones. It's because my mom has just started reading this so I had to go grab it. I spoke about this in my TBR video. They got me Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams. This is by the author of No Exit which I love one of my favorite thrillers. It's about this girl whose sister supposedly killed herself by driving off this fridge and leaving a vague suicide note. She doesn't believe her sister killed herself she believed she was murdered and so it's about her going back to this place and the guy like the patrol um highway patrol guy being very evasive and so I think he's suspicious. Don't be suspicious you are suspicious. Don't let the killer get you. Like Halloween I think it's for ghouls and goblins and for the killer in disguise to choke you out. Oh shit oh my god okay wait I've done this completely out of order. I've got another fairy loop book to show you because it's been a couple months. We have got Witches Steeped in Gold by Sienna and Smart. Look how gorgeous this edition is. This is like this African inspired fantasy. I've heard so many good things about it. Literally everyone who again who reads this loves it and I love this redesign with the pattern on the dust jacket. Listen again like I said fairy loop doesn't know how to lose they just win. Then one of the first book I actually hauled I think this was the first book I hauled so ages ago but it is We Are Okay by Nina Lacour. If you watch my channel you know that I absolutely loved um oh my god why have I forgotten the name? Why have I forgotten the name? Watch over me oh my god I'm so sorry I had a blank. Watch over me my Nina Lacour that's like one of the better books I think I've read this year. So this is another Nina Lacour. I don't know anything about this. I don't really know anything about the story but I am so excited to read it and I'm gonna be reading it this month for a secret video so stay tuned. I am so random I kind of about just did that. Next these are some of the books I am most excited for. I don't know why I've left them so late but let's be honest nothing but hits right? Nothing but hits nothing but wins. So these are some of the books I am most excited for. I bought two of these when I popped into Waterstones a couple weeks back and I could not contain myself. I really could not. I tried. I tried and I failed. I can't. I can't. I've tried it and I failed. Why does everyone excited then? So firstly I showed this in my TBR game as well. I got Ace of Spades by Farida and BK Eamede. This is a private school. It's gossip gun inspired. Our two main characters have secrets starting to be leaked out about them and when I put this in my TBR I uploaded it last night when I'm filming this. All of you were commenting how much you loved it, how amazing it was, how much you think I'm going to love it and I'm not ready. Like I think the ending of this is going to be fucking crazy. I am not ready but I am so excited. I am so so excited. Then we have also got The Appeal by Janice Hallett. Now this was sold to me in Waterstones. This is why I bought these books because the woman there working there sold this to me. Oh my god you guys. It is a motor mystery set in a quaint English town. Breathe with me. Okay breathe with me. I'm not going to coin it. It is told to mixed media like emails and texts and all of that thing. It's entirely told through like emails. What? Excuse me? Are we not gonna cry? Because I am. I am gonna cry. Like I am everything I've ever wanted. I am so so excited to read this. I literally can't wait. It's going to be amazing. That's all I need to know. These two law students have been assigned to the case. Someone has already been sent to prison for murder but the person charged with the case believes they are innocent. So we're just going to go through all the evidence and like figure it out together. I want to cry. It's everything I have ever wanted. It's everything I've ever wanted. And then lord I got sent a proof of the Christie affair. This isn't the final cover. This is like the proof cover. But can we talk about what a cool proof cover this is? I must stand. Not gonna lie. I must stand. No I don't think you understand. I'm upset. So this is about when Agatha Christie went missing for about 11 days and this is told from the perspective of her husband's mistress which is kind of theorized to be the reason why Agatha Christie went missing. She found out her husband was having an affair. She had some kind of mental break and she actually like signed into the hotel where she went and stayed in, I think it's either the mistress's name or the mistress's last name. One of the two. And so it's told from the mistress's perspective and I am already obsessed. You guys know me. You know I love Agatha Christie. You know I love murder mysteries. You love mysteries. This book has been written for me. Can you believe nothing but hits? Like I don't think I've ever had a book called like this. So yeah I am so excited to read this. It comes out in January 2022. So I've got a little while. I feel like this could be a good Christmas read. The lovely people over at Verso Books contacted me and wondered if I wanted to see a few of their books which I was super interested in because they are like a pretty well known more like left-wing publisher of non-fiction. I've always add up their books so I'm super excited to receive these and hopefully I'll read some of them soon. Firstly we have crippled austerity and the demonization of disabled people by Francis Ryan. So this is about how austerity in the UK has made disabled people be viewed as worthless, be viewed as scroungers and has kind of demonized the public perception of them. Which is a topic I'm very interested in. I don't think disability is talked about enough particularly in non-fiction. I've always said I wanted to read more non-fiction about disability. So this is now my chance. I'm very intrigued about this. Then we've got this tiny book called Feminism for the 99% and Manifesto. So I believe this is viewing feminism through the lens of anti-capitalism, eco-socialism and anti-racism. So it's kind of making sure your feminism is inclusive of all people and especially of the people who need it. So again I'm very excited for this. I feel like this would be maybe a good one for me to again not read in a vlog but just read on my own at some point. Then we have got Black Women's Lives in Britain. So this is reclaiming and recording Black Women's history throughout Britain. I'm sorry it's called Heart of the Race Black Women's Lives in Britain. Yeah like rewriting this history and making people aware of the history that Black women have in Britain which has so often been erased and ignored. So I think this is a super important topic as well. And then this is fiction actually. I don't think this is non-fiction but this is Terminal Boredom which is a collection I think of like seven short stories which have been translated from Japanese. I believe it's kind of like science fiction-y, speculative-y. Which you guys know I really enjoy. I love speculative fiction so I'm very excited to get to this as well. So thank you Verso Books for sending these for my way. I'm super excited to get to order them. And then I don't want to end this on a bum note. This is what I'm going to do. I'll be sitting on the floor. The last three books I will just hold up very quickly. They've been in a video and a wrap up but I did haul in the last couple months. Only Love Is Real by Dr Brian Weiss. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz and Pretty Little Liars by Sarah Shepherd. These were all for the Reading Kylie Jenner's favourite books video which I will leave linked. It was interesting but I'm glad it's behind me. I'm glad there's in my past. So I'm not going to attempt and even hold up all these books but this is generally one of my favourite books because I've ever done. I think this is like nothing but hits like I say. Nothing but hits. Just like so many beautiful books. Let me know which like book here is your favourite to look at out of all the ones I showed. If you've gotten to the end comment um is there like card emojis? I think there must be. Comment anything related to playing cards basically. Anything along those vibes if you've gotten to the end. Thank you so much for watching. I will see you very soon in another video. Bye!