 Hey guys it's Leona and I'm here today with a book haul. I've never filmed a book haul in this apartment before and I've never filmed anything quite at this angle so I have frankly no idea what's in frame. So I'm hoping for the best. The camera is also like way too far away from me for me to really be able to tell if anything's in focus so I'm hoping for the best. Okay so this book haul is largely books that during my move as I was lamenting the amount of books that I had and had therefore to move, every single time I placed an order for something that I needed from my apartment I had more books added to my Amazon cart plus there's some special edition things that I had been waiting for for some time. There is one special edition book that I was sort of like I should maybe wait until that arrives. Like the one last thing that like I'm expecting right now but there's always more. So let's just be in the next haul because there will be another haul. Let's be realistic because that's what Logan would advise. Okay cool so no particular order we're just gonna go through all these books. Oh my god my foot's going to sleep oh no oh no oh no. Um okay so these are in front of me so let's do these first. I actually got two sets of these on accident. Well not on accident. I got two sets because I got a set from Amazon here because I thought that they were selling the UK editions but they were not and then I just went ahead and also that when I got them I was like oh just kidding. So then I ordered them from Blackwells. So these are the ones from Blackwells and I have sent the US editions to somebody who may probably I don't know if they've received them yet. But I mean as of the filming of this video I sent them out like yesterday so they do not have them now but this video is going up obviously not today. So I don't know if they know that they've got them yet. Any Hoosies what are they? I'm so glad you asked. These are a series of middle grade, oh maybe this angle isn't so good because like I'm super far away but yeah you can see them. They are these mysteries that are middle grade that take place in the Wardian era. So the first one is the Clockwork Sparrow. I hate that I can't help. Well the Clockwork Sparrow is the first one, the Jeweled Moth is the second one, the Painted Dragon is the third one and the Midnight Peacock is the fourth one. And I've been on record as purple being my least favorite color. Fucking hate purple. But I low key think that purple one is the prettiest one. I think it's just like the most jewel-toned. Like the other ones are kind of washed out looking by comparison if that makes any sense. This one's a richer color. Any Hoosies. Yeah I'm excited to read these. Okay since again they're in front of me let's do these next. Okay don't go asleep, don't go asleep. We've got Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clear. I have not yet read Chain of Gold. And the one book that I'm waiting for is still that I thought about waiting before filming this haul but then I was like fuck it is the Waterstones edition of Chain of Iron. Which is so pretty. Oh my god it's so pretty. I can't honestly tell you why I'm collecting all the Waterstones editions of Cassandra Clear books. Other than that I'm the obvious fact that they are gorgeous. But like I read the Infernal Devices and loved the Infernal Devices. And since then I've never really liked anything that I've read from Cassandra Clear. But everyone has told me that Dark Artifices is even better than Infernal Devices. And people seem to be liking this new series and I think I will like it. I haven't read Dark Artifices yet but even so I suspect even if I like Dark Artifices I will probably like this series better purely because of the historical setting. Which is the main thing that I like about Infernal Devices. That and Jem is a treasure. I would die for Jem. Oh my god I just realized that I'm naughty. I didn't even turn on my ring light. Wow. So yeah this is just like the regular first edition from Amazon. I guess the first editions are like even like the regular first editions so to speak. They're not some kind of special edition. They are all a collector's first edition so they feature some like art or some shit. Yeah I think there's art scattered throughout that are like these silhouettes of the characters which I'm given to understand is exclusive to the first printing of these books. Which I guess that's kind of cool. Yeah at some point I'll go back into my trash zone of reading Cassandra Clear and hating myself. Well we will do so beautifully. Then I've got an arc of a book that's already out. Amanda gave me this because she got an arc and then she got a finished copy because she liked it so much. And she's really convinced that I'm gonna love it and it's just by Sarah Gailey the Echo Wife. I haven't read anything by Sarah Gailey. She wrote Magic for Liars which I don't know what I had a copy of but I might have gotten rid of it. Yeah so this Amanda thinks I will love because she got kind of like Frankenstein vibes and she knows that I love Frankenstein and Frankenstein adjacent to things. And Amanda and I actually went to go see the play version of Frankenstein together back before the plague. So yeah it's super short anyway so I'm excited to read this. It does sound up my alley so hopefully I'll like it. Then this is on my TBR for March so you already saw that I've got it and I hauled it like or that is to say I acquired it very shortly before putting it on my TBR like heard about it, got it, put it on my TBR like in quick succession. Kind of the way book buying is supposed to go. You get a book because you intend to immediately read it. This is one of the rare occasions where that I haven't read it yet but the intention is there because it's on my TBR. So this is a Viking-y book hence the purchase. That's all I know about it. I'll let you know if I actually read it on March I'll talk about it. So we've got our Books of the Month. I actually skipped in February which is why my March TBR didn't have a Book of the Month because my plan for this year in order to keep up with my Books of the Month is to read the previous month's Book of the Month in the following month because like you get it in the course of said month. So I can't put it on that month's TBR because I don't have it yet. So I did do that in January. I read December's No in February. I read January's Book of the Month in February which was outlawed. And then I skipped February so I didn't need to put one on in March. So we're back on again. And so the Book of the Month I got was The Lost Apothecary which I'm sure tickled Alan because he, if you don't know, refers to my dwelling as an apothecary. But as I told him and some of my fellow world hoppers, know this book isn't about my apartment. My apartment is The Found Apothecary. Oh it's such a freaking pretty book. Everyone I've talked to that subscribes to Book of the Month. I'm pretty sure picked this book. Well it was the only fantasy. They kind of rarely have fantasy books. Really? Fire Siren? Fire Siren? Is that? Yeah it's a siren for a fire truck. I guess people don't really say Fire Siren though do they? Yeah so they kind of don't, they don't always have a fantasy choice, a speculative fiction option. So I think all of us are like thirsting for it. So we were like oh they've got a fantasy one and we all picked it. And it was freaking pretty. Again very purpley but it's a, it's an okay kind of purple. I guess I mainly don't like, I really don't like lavender. I don't like purple. I really don't. Once in a while in the right context it can be forgiving. Don't know what this is about except that it's fantasy. And it's real pretty. Pretty usual. I know nothing about the books I buy. And then the add-on that I picked was A Million Junes by Emily Henry because my god my foot's going to sleep again. No! Never filming at this angle again. If you don't know I'm crouched on the floor next to my coffee table. I don't think anyone would approve. Like this is not ergonomic. Anywho's is yeah, a while ago. An Emily Henry book was the book of the month that being Betrayed. And I quite liked Betrayed which was an adult's contemporary romance but definitely more like lit-ficky than Rom-Kami. And so I have been wanting to read more Emily Henry since then. I did get a couple other Emily Henry books not from Book of the Month and I haven't read those yet. But I was like yeah, I want DC12. So I got to DC12. Don't remember what it's about. And I mainly got it because it's Emily Henry. Didn't really get that much about what it was about. Ooh gruff and sarcastic. I love those words. I think there's a small town with a boy who's gruff and sarcastic. Yeah, I'm gonna like that. Next I got Radio Sounds by Alice Oseman. Because I have on and off heard a lot of booktubers talk about this book. And I only very recently kind of learned what it's about. Because most of- oh why is it like damaged? Fuck you. Yeah, I didn't- I don't know what I thought it was about. I didn't know what it was about. And the title really doesn't give you much to go on. I mean like a title like Assassin's Quest gives you a lot to go on. A assassin will be on a quest. It is a journey book, spoilers. One of the books I'm hauling is Assassin's Quest. So I'm just going off what I see in front of me. Didn't know what it was about. But I guess now I've learned that it is about like a girl either about to go to college or in college or right around there and like not knowing what to do with her life and kind of being lost and purposeless. And I was like, yeah, I feel like a good idea with that. And I pretty much heard everybody who's read it like praise of the high heavens. So I'm quite curious. And I've been reading more contemporary Litviki things of late. So why not give this a go? Can I sit on the couch? No, that's too high. My knees can't take it. They cannot take it. Like a pretzel. The life skill. Oh, oh yeah baby. Oh that's the stuff. I should have done this ages ago. Okay, now we're gonna move on to these. Scooch. Jashana will be well pleased by these because these are the Michael J. Sullivan like age of myth, age of the first empire. I don't know what the series is called. Legends of the First Empire. So I had the first three and was like, they never go on sale. So I was like kind of waiting to see when the next three would go on sale before acquiring them. Because the story of my life is buying Michael J. Sullivan books and not reading them. But then I saw because I kind of had them in my save for later on my Amazon cart and the fourth one was like going out of print. So I snapped that up and the, no the fourth one had already gone out of print. So yeah, I was like, fuck that. Immediately got the 15 sixth ones before that happened to them. And then haven't opened it yet because I figured I'd be hauling it. That was a good reminder to haul it. I tracked it down on, it burns a noble. They had it. So I was like, okay, good. Got them. Now I have no idea if I'm gonna like them. I've been enjoying Rear Year Revelations and one of my goals this year is to finish the Rear Year Revelations and to possibly start the Rear Year Chronicles so that I can read these because this whole thing started. Because I bought Age of Myth not knowing it was like a part of anything else. It was just the first book in a cool looking new series, coolest cover. Then found out that this series is a prequel series for the Rear Year Chronicles. So I was like, okay. So I bought all the Rear Year Chronicles. Then found out that the Rear Year Chronicles are prequel series for the Rear Year Revelations. So I bought all of those. And now these were gonna go out of print. So now I've got fucking bazillion Michael J. Sullivan books. It's, it's bad. I got them. We're good. And if I hate them, we're less good. But I guess if they're going out of print, personally, we're gonna have a good resell value. So if in the event that I do hate them, I will make money, I guess. Okay, then I got Mythos by Stephen Fry. My last haul, I hauled Heroes by Stephen Fry because somebody got it for me for Christmas. Why are you honking? Can't be that serious. It's Saturday. So I know, I don't think you have to read them in order. But so Stephen Fry is retelling like Greek myths. And the first one is Mythos. So I was like, I feel like I should do Mythos first. So since I've got Heroes, then that bumps my priorities up on Mythos. And I've got the audiobook as well, which is narrated by Stephen Fry. So I'm quite excited about the Greek and Roman stuff. Isn't super my jam? I took classics classes in university and like, it's fine. I'm more interested in classics as they pertain to the zeitgeist, to how they are referenced in other literature, how they have influenced and informed storytelling patterns, like throughout the ages. Like I think it's important to be aware of Greek and Roman, like myth and lore and history. But it's not anything that I've ever been fascinated with. Like some people are Pierce Brown, Allen from the Library of Allen's Andrea. Just why I think Allen and Pierce Brown would get on famously, were they ever to meet? That said, Stephen Fry, I love Stephen Fry. And this feels to me like it's going to be quite similar to what Neil Gaiman did with Norse mythology. Which I love Norse mythology. So me and my favorite author Neil Gaiman, we're on the same wavelength on that. We like our Norse stuff better. But I'm super down to see Stephen Fry retell the Greek stuff. I've been enjoying Madeleine Miller's books. So I'm quite excited about this beautiful coffee table book, which is basically what this is. This is so fucking heavy. And it's, it's, oh God, look. It's just such a freaking pretty book. This very much reminds me of Disney's Hercules, which I love. I do love that movie. I feel like it gets a bad rap. Anyhoosies, yeah. This book is super pretty and I'm super pumped to own it. Is that a picture? Oh yeah, it's also, it's got art in it. No wonder it's so fucking heavy. Yeah, that's the grand old story of this purchase. Then we'll go right along to Shadow and Bone by Lee Bardugo. This is the, they released the collector's edition, which is generally like in the UK, that matches the UK special editions or collector's editions of Six of Crows and Cricut Kingdom, which I already have. But this isn't just the collector's edition, which you can get from like Book Depository Blackwells, that kind of thing. This is the fairy elite edition, which has sprayed pages that are also stenciled with like the stag kind of motif, like calls to like on the back. It's a real pretty book. The inside pages or the end pages are artistically rendered. I don't think, yeah, there isn't like any art inside. The collector's editions of Six of Crows and Cricut Kingdom had like character art, but I hope they're gonna do that. Just like they did Six of Crows and Cricut Kingdom, not just the first one. I'm hoping they're gonna do this for Season Storm and Ruin and Rising to have a complete set. Maybe those will have character art, which would be cool, but yeah, it's a real pretty book. When I just reread this, and today we were doing the live show after I filmed this for our Grisha Long rereads. So the edition of Shadow and Bone that I read for my reread was not this one because this is too pretty to read. We do not read these books. We just clutch them to our hearts, which is on this side, unless we're in Strange the Dreamer, and in which case you have two hearts. And this is my spirit heart. I like that, that fits. Makes no sense unless you've read Strange the Dreamer. Okay, I did open this to check it out and then put it back in its little sleeve. So fairly books always come in these. So Shadow and Bone came in one of these as well. I don't want to just put it. But this is, so I originally pre-ordered this book from Book Depository because I wanted the UK edition, and then Book Depository canceled my pre-order. And then since then it's been like a year, and I've just been too miffed about that to go ahead and acquire it. Because I hate the US cover. There was just no way in a million years that I was gonna get the US cover. Absolutely only ever gonna get the UK cover. But having my UK cover order canceled, I was irked. But then Fairy Loot, and their special edition of it, and I was like, okay, we'll get it from Fairy Loot then. This is the UK cover, but it's got special stuff. Raver by Jordany Fuego. I hid the US cover. Oh, God, it's not my aesthetic at all. If you like the US cover, more power to you. Obviously they made it with somebody in mind, but that somebody was not me. That cover, it just looks so like, so fucking technicolor. Just very Lisa Frank. Which that, I mean, that would have been my aesthetic. When I was like in fifth grade. But I grew up into liking business there. So this is the UK cover. The order from the UK, and your order doesn't get canceled. This is how it will look. But the Fairy Loot edition has stencil pages. And possibly other things, I, that's, I don't know if there's anything else special about it. I'm mainly in it for the cover, and was like, may as well get the stencil pages, right? Go harder, go home. I've heard exceptional things about, stop it. I've heard pretty much everyone who's picked this up say it's fantastic. So I'm excited. And that's why I decided to go ahead and splurge on the special edition, even though I've never read this and never read anything by Jordyn DeFuega, which I think, I mean, I think this is a debut. So yeah, this is real pretty. And I'm excited to read it. And we've got a super random purchase, Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch. I actually messaged Elle about this. Elle from Elliot Brooks, because she's the reason that I got this. And it's not because she like adores it or made a big deal about it or anything. She just, you know, I think she rearranged her shelves. I don't know if it's still visible, but for a long time in the shelves behind her, this book was very visible on her shelves. And she had talked about it at some point. Like I know she likes it. But for some reason, I just kept, every time I saw this on her shelves, I just kept looking at it and be like, I want to read that, like a food craving almost. And I mean, I know that the name has gelato in it. I don't even like ice cream. But like that's what it was. It's kind of like when you just like, it's like when you, the movie theater and they show you Coke, cola and popcorn before the movie starts. And you're like, damn, I want that now. That's how I felt every time I saw this book. I was like, I want that. So I bought it and like a message shirt. I was like, I told her exactly that. I was like, I just kept seeing her on shelves and being like, I want that. And she is not confident at all that I'm going to like this. But in fairness, it's not her fault. It's not like she told me that she thought I'd like it. I, on my own, was like want, want, want. Yeah, let's do these. These are almost all from Fairy Loot. I didn't really think about how many of these books would be from Fairy Loot. I was also low-key waiting for these to arrive before doing a haul. These are Fairy Loot Special Editions in Hardcover of the Ember and the Ashes series by Sabah Tahir, which finally concluded. And I hate the new US covers. I liked the old US covers, but they stopped doing those. So you can't have a complete set in those covers because they hate us. I was excited about the UK covers, but then like they were only releasing the new ones in Hardcover in the UK with these style of covers. And then in Paperback, you could get this style of cover for the first two. And I was like, I want a matching set. Fairy Loot heard my call and prayer and answered it. So in addition to having it in all in Hardcover, which is really like the main, if it had been nothing else, just the fact that it comes all in Hardcover with matching aesthetic covers. I would have bought it, but they're not just Hardcover. They all have sprayed pages that are stenciled. These are freaking pretty books. So I'll show you each individually. They are so much pretty. I mean the US covers like look like a really cheap old video game. Like they're atrocious. I feel like the US covers. Like I'm happy for you. I don't. So Emron the Ashes, which I've read and I really loved it. A Torch Against the Night, which I have read and really loved it. Word to the Wise. The audiobooks for these books are read by Steve West and Fiona Hardingham, which are two of my favorite audiobook narrators. So highly recommend on audio. Reaper the Gates, I liked less, but this is probably my favorite cover because of the sort of teal kind of look. This is a real pretty look. I felt like this like quartet was dragging a bit. I think this book is kind of how people often feel about second books or trilogies where I'm like, I just, can we, can we move along? It feels like it's being stretched out a bit and I'm getting kind of annoyed. But I still love the series and I do want to see where it's going and how it's going to conclude. So I'm very excited to have the fourth and final book. I'm much anticipated, which is fucking purple. There's, why is everything purple now? Even though it's purple, I do think it's quite dramatic and beautiful and just like cat is cool. But I will not be reading these copies because these are too pretty. I will, I don't like, they just listen to the audiobook. We're gonna save this for last. So next is a book that you already saw in my VR and that is the Queen's Gambit. Nothing much to see here folks. I just wanted to read it because I want to read it before watching the show. So your girl got a little paperback, nothing special. Also words otherwise I just discovered today that if you have Audible Plus, is that what it's called? It's basically a Kindle Unlimited book with Audible. The audiobook for Queen's Gambit is included in the membership. So you don't have to like pay for it separately or individually or in addition to it's included. So if you've got Audible Plus, then listen to it. I can't say for free because you're paying for the subscription. You know what I mean. Then I got The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. It took me a while to choose which color I wanted. This is by Anne Bronte. I've read the other Brontes. I've read Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and I've read Emily Bronte's Weathering Heights. I've seen the unadaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and I really like that adaptation. But I've heard a lot of people say that this is their favorite Bronte book and I like the adaptation. But I never would have thought that it would be a favorite but I suspect that the storytelling itself which is in large part would be kind of missing from any adaptation is probably where some of the magic lies. So I'm interested to read it because again I've heard so many people say that as much as they like Jane Eyre and Weathering Heights The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is like the unsung hero of the Bronte. So I'm excited to read it. But yeah, it's being a classic. There are so many different editions and I would do my perfect world have this cover on a hardcover but this was my favorite cover of all the covers that I saw available. Then the invention of Hugo Cabret which is I didn't know existed. Oh my god, wow, wow, wow. This book isn't as long as I thought it was. I didn't even flip through it. I don't know what's wrong with me. I honestly thought just that this was like stenciled but also this is a really heavy book and I should have realized. Anyway, if you've seen the movie Hugo the movie Hugo is based on this book The Invention of Hugo Cabret and having learned there was a book that that movie was based on I wanted to read it and it's a really pretty book. It's very much aesthetic. But yeah, I just was flipping through it and a lot of this is pictures. So this will not take super long to read. Wow, wow, wow. I kept looking at it and being like I want to read that but this is a commitment. But in fact, it's not. This is like Illuminae. When you read the Illuminae books you're like, wow, I'm powering through these. Because most of it's pictures. I just got this randomly because I saw somebody who I'm friends with on Goodreads. They either just read it or marked it as to read or something. I think they read it and said that it was great. I was like, oh, I marked it as to read and then went on Amazon and I was like, oh, that's not too expensive. I don't work. And it is historical fiction. Why did I get it? With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lyman Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, Grant Dom of the historical novel presents The House of Nicolo series. The time is the 15th century when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas Vanderpole of Bruges. Have you ever seen in Bruges? Fucking love that movie. Good nature, dire's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire. Nicola Rising, book one of the series, finds us in Bruges, 1460. Jousting is the genteel pastime and successful merchants are of necessity, polyglot. Street smart, brilliant at figures, adept at the subtleties of diplomacy and the well-timed untruth. Dunnett's hero rises from waste drill to prodigy in our breathless adventure that wins him the hand of the strongest woman in Bruges and the hatred of two powerful enemies. From a riotous and potentially murderous carnival in Flanders to an avalanche in the Alps in a peachy battle on the outskirts of Naples, Nicola Rising combines history, adventure and high romance in the traditions stretching from Alexander Dumas to Mary Reneau. That just, it sounds like decadently lush and it's prose. This sounds like the wordplay itself will be swashbuckling, if that makes any sense, where like the words are like jabbing and parrying and being all wordy and fun and adventure-some. I'm really excited about this. It just sounds super at my alley. I've read mainly classics in high school for fun so like I kind of miss reading The Through Piscoteers and it's also kind of gives me gentle and bastard vibes. I mean I know this is not fantasy but that swashbuckling, quick speaking, like renaissance man thing. I'm super pumped for this so I hope it lives up. Second to last, is that right? It's right. Is Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb? I put Assassin's Quest on my merch TBR without even realizing that the Illustrated Edition was just coming out in March. I hadn't even pre-ordered it because I thought, like the last time I checked on it I was like, oh that's a ways away, like I mean I can pre-order it but whatever, like and then I was like, oh it's coming out now. So just in time. I don't like to read these as like to be the one that I'm reading actively but there's there are full page illustrations in all of these Illustrated Editions plus I'm a collector as you know. There's like full, full page beautiful illustrations and the style of the art reminds me of the Brothers held a brand which my favorite book of fairy tales when I was a kid and our edition of Pinocchio were illustrated by the Brothers held a brand. It's a very kind of like realistic art style that I used to stare at those pictures for hours. You know this is back before kids had 24 seven television and iPads. We weren't allowed to watch TV so I just stared at the art drawn by the Brothers held a brand. Yeah so like I would not be actively reading this copy of it but there's so many beautiful like illustrations and again I'm just a collector so I will be reading my regular paperback of it but then upon reading it then I like to flip through either at the end of the chapter like once I've read that chapter or at the end of the book to flip through and see the artistic renderings of what I've just read and then my most prized possession I keep stuffing it back into the bubble wrap but it might be doing more damage than health so I'm taking it in and out it's not constant but I took it out to show to see it myself and I took it out to show my parents and now I'm taking it out for a third time to show you and taking it in and out of this plastic sleeve this may be the last time but I even managed to do it coming out for permanent now because I think I have to rip it the things I do for you it is in fact the subterranean precedition of a little hatred by Joe Abercrombie this book is the most beautiful book that I've ever owned oh my god like I love the choice to not even have the title on the cover this is Sabine Denglachtel on the cover there the the it looks like the this art just wraps around this is the same image just the other side of it it just looks like a fancy fucking book from some old-time elaborate we've got Joe Abercrombie's signature page there are full page illustrations oh there is okay there is yeah I can show you that there's even a fold out one my god and just the each page like the type setting it's fucking gorgeous like it makes me anxious to hold it so I just remembered that there's a Terry Fratchek quote because he likes to begin a lot of chapters with or parts of the books with quotes there's Terry Fratchek quote in here so yet another reason for Alan to read these books I'll just add it to the list oh my beauty is starling okay I think that does it for my book haul hope it was in focus hope you could see in here everything you needed to see in here again I don't know what's in frame you can probably see like my grand of stuff in my apartment and my kitchen god I hope not any hoosies yes let me know in the comments down below what you think and feel about these books that I have hauled every your thoughts and feelings may be as long as they are not uh offenses let me know the things I post videos on Saturdays other random times as well but definitely Saturdays so like and subscribe I do have a Patreon which I guess I should add to my outro so FYI I have a Patreon which I'm still working out exactly what and how to do that so if you want to be part of me figuring that out you're in the early phases uh you know join or whatever or don't it's up to you yeah I think that does it see when I see you bye