 once again i'm doing one of these videos because apparently i just you know i enjoy shaming myself cuties how we all do it it's like in the afternoon right different energy i always film my videos firstly in the morning and uh this is like afternoon because i was out this morning i'm like whoa who is she i'm fashion i'm style and if they can't keep up then let's say problem today i was thinking i recently posted a summer book haul full of so many books i'm excited for and i'm posting less book hauls this year because i'm trying to be a lot more selective with the books that i do by myself and i was thinking back and i posted a summer book haul last year and i thought huh yeah let's let's go back and watch that and see how many of those books last summer's book haul i have read i'm in danger i love doing these videos i don't ask me why because i don't typically do that great at them but i thought it'd be fun to go back and look and see how many of those books i have read now i will say i went and i clicked on the video haven't watched it i have no idea of the books that are going to be coming up but at the start of the video there is a brand that i work with and they sent me i think four books i'm not including any of the total because it's not books i bought myself or requested from publishers or put on my wishlist you know that i wanted um it was a brand that i worked with and i actually think i still have two or three of the four books still on my tbr i haven't read any of them but i still want to read it's either two or three of them so yeah you can include that in your own total if you want but i'm doing myself a favor and i'm not including that so let's just get into it there's nothing more to say you know how these videos go we'll keep a total and it'll be so much fun we'll have the most fun of our entire lives won't we yes i posted this on the eighth of june so almost exactly a year ago girl you look cute did i buy the same dress in my summer book haul this year i think i did let's obviously my summer dress i have so many good books to talk about okay let's talk about so many good books let's see the eyeball let's see i bought circles of wonders by elizabeth now now i think i take the sticker off listen i'm bad at taking sticker off nobody judge me nobody judge me i don't want to hear it i'm still bad at taking stickers off i just don't i'm just bad at doing it and i get scared i get stressed out i'm like i'm gonna do it if i fail anyway reddit bitches you said i could fail you were incorrect we're winning we're winning here we were all so happy that day it's it's actually hard to even imagine how terrible things would soon become i have read circles of wonders i do love that edition one of the most beautiful books i own i really just love the cover the design of it i was a bit disappointed by the book i did a video reading like the most beautiful books on my tbr do they match up in here i was fine but it's nothing i'm gonna think about going forward but i read it actually we're gonna do a red hang on we're gonna do a red and liked and i read and didn't like so i'm gonna put that as didn't like because it was a disappointment even though i liked it fine i'm gonna put it as didn't like and no it's somewhere in the middle and then another beautiful cover is mary and lane and the midnight murder by t a wilberg oh my god i'm gonna why did i start jesus i'm embarrassing guys someone have a go at me i have read mary and lane and the midnight murder but i don't like it yeah this was a major disappointment it was one of my most anticipated releases of last year it was like a locked room murder mystery you know i was so excited for it it was very lackluster it was historical fiction but there was nothing other than characters being like it's the 1960s bitch there was nothing of the time period in the book and it was just a really boring book really really boring book yeah sorry about it but i've read it i can't believe i've read the first two books don't be shocked you're shocked you're shocked this could be my moment wow i bought this ages ago because that it wasn't supposed to be released until june sometime this book and then they rushed up the release really quickly and it's the dinner guest by pp will be spoke too soon i haven't read i haven't read the dinner guest this is a book that i do still really want to read it's wrapped up somewhere so bitch could appear any moment in wrapped up i have a video idea for this it's just getting around to doing the video my vlogs have not been coming as quick and as fast as i would like this year because i haven't been reading as much as i would like we all know this we know the situation i'm about to we know this year 2.0 megan 2.0 new me new year there's a new year actually new year 3.0 is only just begun delusion convince yourself the dinner guest is this like thriller where i think there's a murder at this dinner and you're trying to figure out who did it there's i think two husbands and a neighbor i can't know who this gets killed i think it's like another neighbor i think there's four of them there and you're like who is this i've heard pretty good things from like people who read thrillers particularly like british uk bookchubers who have read it and who read a lot of thrillers i've heard pretty good things so and listen bp waters ran the waterstones twitter account which is a fact that never sees interest me i think if you're many years around the twitter account so i really want to read his book i don't know i don't know why i think the two would correlate but i just think it's interesting cluedo let's talk about some books that my grandparents got me for finishing oh very kindly they i told them the other day they're so kind they always pick so well they do always pick so well they always pick the right books always know what i'm gonna want they always pick so well no one picks better off of my wishlist than them so first i'm so excited um they got me in the hall with the knife by diana peter frond i am not this not this i haven't read it as you guys know this is probably one of the series i want to start the most but i'm trying to get my series down and i tend to be more intentional about not starting the series i this is stupid not starting the series that i want to read the most and i end up starting other series that i'm not as bothered about but i'm like i'm saving that series for when i can do it without guilt which never happens this you know clued mystery series i've spoken about it a lot you guys are probably like sick to death of him we speak about it and just like bitch read it so we're half and half for red and haven't read so far which is not the worst then they got me across the green grassfields by shawna maguire you don't know how hard i've had to try these passing birds not to buy this oh my god yes i have read and i loved across the green grassfields one of my favorites in the way we're children series so far if you know the way we're children series it's portal fantasy with these kids going to these magical worlds and across the green grass fields i just loved it it's about like horses and centaurs this girl going into this world of them and listen i'm not a horsey gal but i just love the found family and relationships in this i just think it's such beautiful work it made me cry like shawna maguire does something to me i just love shawna maguire shawna maguire is one of my favorite authors ever without a shadow of a doubt and i've read the next in the series after it as well you can't stop me i'm on top of the world yeah yeah but before we continue in seeing me succeed and fail i want to say such a big thank you to the sponsor of this video which is polygents polygents is a research academy dedicated to driven students who are looking for one-on-one mentorship with top tier academics and practitioners it's such a cool way for students and young people to turn their 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passion project into a reality okay thank you so much to polygents to sponsor in this video it is time to get back into it look into the embarrassed one and then finally they got me i love this cover as well so much and so many people didn't like this cover rule of rules by li bar du go yeah no uh i haven't read it i haven't even read king of scars i haven't even read king of scars but i love rule of rules cover and listen i've read everything else in the bar du go so it is time to get around to this soon i've just again been avoiding starting more series because that's the moral thing to do oh my god okay sid sid oh sit oh wait i know what this is if you haven't already finishing my degree she got me the mirror season by alimary maccamore okay it's actually painful to watch this one is interesting because this is i'm about to expose myself a little bit okay i have read the first maybe 40 pages of this because i unwrapped it and wrapped up now i never do this but i started reading it and then i went back and filmed different unwrapping that's the first time i've ever done it because i was reading the book and it just felt like too heavy a book to do like a dedicated reading vlog for because obviously and wrapped up i only read the one book it was a couple weeks ago and i wasn't in the best place mentally and i was just like you know the book has very heavy topics surrounding essay and i don't think i was ready to talk about that solely in a vlog if it was like a book i had to read like in a three book vlog i think i probably could have done it but i just didn't feel up to that in myself and also reading it i found pretty tough at the time so i did go back and re-film something but i did enjoy the like 40 pages of it that i read but i still also think that i want wild beauty by anime mech more to be my first book by them that i read so yeah hannah from snow art reader very kindie sent me an arc of girls of storm and shadow by natashina yang this one we don't count because i was never supposed to read this hannah sent me this but i'd already read the book it was just to own and be part of my collection so that's like a free pass whoa hey we love to see it oh i just clicked on mina's video hey mina love you but i'm watching me right now that fairly sent me a shadow and bone the collector's edition oh another one another one another one i love this edition it's up there on my favorite shelf even though it's not a favorite i didn't really like it but it matches my six of growth and green kingdom so it goes there another one another free pass yes um yeah another one that i was never intending to read because i'd already read it and then let's talk about some books oh publishers sent me the one i'm probably most excited for out of what is here um these first two are sent to me by harper 360 y a and they have like a form where you can request some books and this was one i knew i wanted to request this is love and other disasters by misa saguria yeah i really want to read love and other natural disasters by misa saguria i think it's again it's one that's wrapped up so like let's don't hold your breath um now the other book they sent me they're long list i don't think i requested this one but i am excited for it so they sent me sisters of the snake by serena and sashina nuna okay okay here's the thing i i'm gonna say red and didn't like because i dnf'd it i think we're gonna count it we're gonna count it i mean i didn't really love a bit but i didn't i just didn't really have that much of an interest in it because like i said i didn't request this from harper kinds i think they also mix up and whilst i'm incredibly grateful to receive it it just wasn't really the kind of why i found to see the interests me anymore i've read a lot of this kind of why i found to see with like sisters and another king and queen and like who's the true princess and whatever it's not for main park so it just wasn't for me personally and i i dnf'd it so and then the last book that i published last book of other people's clothes by i mean what even do i say at this point no this is interesting this is interesting it's interesting to see what percentage of stuff i've read a year on and i have heard a lot of good things about other people's clothes a lot of people also hauling it i think it's had a bit of a resurgence it's kind of like risen from the ashes this past few months versus when it first came out um it's like this thriller set in berlin we've got these girls staying at this woman's apartment and they're like thinking it's something shady is going on with her they're like oh i've heard it's kind of sad i think it's set in the early noughties and like the britney linsey era which is something i'm always looking for in books so i'm still super excited to read it just haven't read it yet so that was the last book that was a small book haul now i always try to like keep at least 20 books like back until i do a book haul some people like wait for like 100 and i'm like um i'd be waiting the whole year so i read and liked one read and didn't like three this is so bad so bad and haven't read six well only liking one that i've read at that list yeah not great not great but i feel like this year i've been so much more critical with my reading and maybe even towards the end of last year i'm just learning more what i like and what i don't like and and spotting trends of what i don't like in books like i've had almost the same amount of two stars already this year than i had in the whole of last year and i have not read a comparable number of books so the ratios they're slipping they're slipping a bit so i think i just need to be more intentional with what i buy and i think doing these kind of videos reflecting on it is really helpful for me um learning about that so let me know what you thought of any of the books that we saw in this video i thought there would be more but hey ho hey ho means a shorter video for us all let me 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