 Hello, hello everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel, Laura's Little Library, and welcome to part two of my end of 2022, beginning of 2023 book haul. So as I mentioned in part one of this video, this is editing Laura, and I initially filmed this with the idea that it would be one video put together, but since then I have decided to make it as two separate videos. So welcome to part two. We're just going to jump into it now. Back I am in Michigan. It is the middle of January, and I have officially purchased all the books that I'm going to haul in this video. So there are significantly more books here than I expected there was going to be. Some of it is I was gifted these books for Christmas. Some of it is sales and some of it is like, hey, I recently acquired this money that was unexpected. And so I I traded myself and I bought an insane amount of books. So you saw the Minnesota portion already like literally three seconds ago. And now welcome to the Michigan portion. I won. I don't even remember. I I mysteriously found an Amazon gift card in my wallet. And then at work, I received a little scratch off for like, good behavior and being a good employee. And I actually won until I got another Amazon gift card. So I put these together. And I bought this is self-lipping heavy. The Throne of Glass series. So I have the first book already, but I'm just going to like sell it back to High Price Books now that I have the entire series. And I have not read this series. And I wanted to buy all the books in the series to do a reading blog this year. And I finally had like the enough gift cards to allow me to buy the entire series. So I just decided to buy them together rather than my initial plan of buying a couple every month until I had them all. So I'm very happy to have this and to finally be able to do that reading vlog when I feel ready to do so. So yeah, this will be my first Sarah J. Mass series. And then I'm hoping to to move on to her other series afterwards. And honestly, I'm probably going to do all of Sarah J. Mass's books in reading blogs. Like they're always going to be specific reading blogs of reading this Sarah J. Mass series, et cetera, and so forth. It's always when I'm filming hauls that I'm like, oh, I got to remember to take the sticker off the book because I hate stickers on books. But I most of the time I do it when I buy them. But recently it's just been like so chaotic that I'm forgetting to take stickers off. So now I'm taking them all off as I film. Next, we're going to go with the books that were gifted to me in one form or another. So this first book I won a raffle on Instagram. And so they bought me a book off of my wish list. And they got me The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah. And this is a World War Two historical fiction. It's a chunky historical fiction. And my mom actually read this and she loved it like she cried. So I knew that this was going to be a time going into it. And I've actually read it. I was gifted the book, and then I read it. So look forward to that in my January wrap up. Wow, we're already halfway through January. Oops, I have this and I'm continuing on with historical fiction. It's great. I don't like how empty that shelf seems. So we're just going to put books back as I as I haul them. So these are obviously temporary shelves as I'm at my parents house. All these books will be coming back to Minnesota with me, obviously. So then I was a part of a Secret Santa group chain on Instagram as well. So this next book was the book that my Secret Santa got me. Very sweet. Thank you so much, Katie. And that is Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rodgerson. This is I think the second book actually recently came out. But I just remember when I heard someone talk about I was like, oh my word, this is so interesting. So I'm very happy that I have this. I love it. I'm excited to read it. So thank you. This next book. So I am part of a book club in Minnesota. We are a virtual book club. It's called the not so YA book club. Basically, it's a bunch of adults who like to read YA books. It's pretty great. I've been a part of it for a few months now. And so we also did a Secret Santa in our book club, which was a lot of fun. And so I have the book that my Secret Santa gave me. And I swear I swear. So this was the last book I had to open because we normally have our meetings on the first Mondays of the month. And so we were going to do it, we were opening our Secret Santa gifts in January, except we decided not to do it January too, because it was still kind of like a holiday and people were busy. So I had to wait until January 9 to open this last book for me to haul in this video. I kid you not like the day before and the day of I was like, you know, it'd be the perfect book for them to get me. I really hope they got me this book. Like there was no reason for them to have thought about this being the book that I should get. But I was right. That book is Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sulin Tan. I am so excited and so happy that they got me this book because like, I love mythology based fantasy. It is my favorite genre of all time. I have not yet read this and I don't own it. But the second book recently came out. And so it was just absolutely perfect that they got this for me. And I'm still like a newer member. So I was kind of like a little nervous, but this was perfect. It was so sweet of them. I'm so happy and so excited to read this. Alright, and then I have one more book that I acquired for Christmas. And this is a book that my family gave me for Christmas. They do this every Christmas and birthday. It's a whole tradition. And you'll see why in a moment when I reveal it. Almost there. And this is by Farah Roachan. This is the Disney Twisted Tales for the Princess and the Frog. So the twist is what if Tianna made a deal that changed everything? So my family always gets me the Disney Twisted Tales books. Like for the next gift giving holiday that one has been released. So Christmas or my birthday if there's been a new one released, someone always gets me this. And I don't think I've put up my Disney Twisted Tales video yet. So theoretically, I could just like read this and add it on and then post the videos that we'll see. This is what I got for Christmas. And I'm so excited. I have all the Disney Twisted Tales books again. I own them all. So that's exciting. I love it. Now we're going to get on to the books that I bought myself. Yep. Yep. I cannot believe that I did this. But you know, it is what it is. It's what happened. So we're going to start off with, so all these books were from Barnes and Noble. And Barnes and Noble has their 50% off all hardback sale at the end of December. And I had completely forgotten about it. Like the terrible, terrible reader I am, my husband actually reminded me of it. And I was so I asked him if I could have an advance, an advance on my January book budget to use for this sale. And he said yes. He allowed me to do it. And he went with me. And it was the second day of the sale. And it was in the evening. So it was like, I got to Barnes and Noble and there were so many empty tables I was kind of worried. But I still managed to get some good finds. It's really nervous ripping off stickers too. They almost always come off okay, but you know, sometimes they just scare me. So first up I got This Fish is Grace by Emily Feed. This is the first book in a duology. It's an Italian based fantasy where our main character is this special person who can amplify the powers of others. So she needs to find her partner, the one person that she can touch and amplify their power rather than touch and kill them. She's not having the best of luck with finding her partner. She has killed three people and the time of needing her power is drawing near. So she has to find a partner to amplify their power because these creatures are going to come and try and end the world. And this happens every like 10 years or so. And so she's kind of freaking out. She needs to find someone that she can, you know, amplify their power to save the world. So I read this book and I enjoyed it. I loved it. So I thought, you know, this year I'm going to try and focus on purchasing books that I've already read that I enjoy and want to have on my shelves. So I thought I'd get started with this one. Next, I have Monsters Born and Made and this is by Tanvi Berwa. And this is a South Asian inspired fantasy. This is, I just finished reading this. And so it follows our main character who hunts these sea creatures in order to breed them and then sell them for the glory race that they have every year. This was very Hunger Games-esque. She has a younger sister who is sick and needs medicine, but her family does not have enough money for the medicine and they're very poor. So she decides that she is going to race in the glory race with the creatures that she breeds in order to win the prize and gain enough money for her sister's medicine. It's also very divided by class, but mostly, it's mostly two where you have the people who come in and they're the rich ones and they're the ones who put on the glory race and then you have the locals who are really looked down upon and then there's a whole subplot with rebels and everything. There's a lot going on in this book, but I do want to say. So the cover is beautiful. I love the cover, but her naked? Look at that! So I honestly might keep this book on my shelf naked, but for now, we're gonna not lose the cover. So, oh my word, this book has two stickers on it. Okay, we're just gonna do the next one. So I already take the stickers off the next one. And then I have a new 2023 release. It came out January 3rd. That is The Stolen Air by Holly Black. I got the Barnes and Noble exclusive edition because she's beautiful. And I was thinking about the other Holly Black books that I have on my shelf, so how the King of Elphame learned to hate stories, as well as the Cruel Prince trilogy. And I was like, okay, the Cruel Prince is white, the Wicked King is blue, and the Queen of Nothing is like a purpley. And I was like, okay, both how the King of Elphame learned to hate stories and Cruel Prince is white. And this book was also white and it takes place in the same universe. So when I saw that the Barnes and Noble exclusive was black, I was like, yeah, I want to have something different of Holly Black, so I decided to get the black one. I am about to start reading this. I am so excited to read this. I love the Cruel Prince trilogy. Really excited. So I bought this and I'm like, I'm going to be on top of those 2023 releases this year because last year I did a terrible job catching up or like reading the 2022 releases that I was excited for. So I'm like, this year I'm going to read the new releases that I'm excited for. Starting with this one. This is the Bandit Queens and this is by Perini Shroff and this is a South Asian book where this woman's husband goes missing and she's not all terribly upset about that. And really most women in their villages kind of wish their husbands could go missing. And then they're like, wait a minute, she got hers to go missing. Maybe she can make mine go away. Except our main character did not make her husband go missing. He just up and disappeared. She had nothing to do with it. So now she needs to figure out how to make these other women's husbands disappear. It sounds like so much fun. I'm excited. Kind of gives me a slight Finlay Donovan vibes where it's like crime unintentional, also not her fault, but it kind of leads down a path that's going to be interesting. So I'm excited to read this one as well. Also during the sale, I got some other books that were not hard to cover because they were on a different sale and I wanted them. So going back to Miss Sarah J. Mas, if you remember, I saw the Barnes & Noble exclusive edition of this book and decided that I wanted it so that when I did eventually purchase the series, I would have this cover instead of the regular cover. And so if I buy it and it's set like this, I'll just sell the original. But if I buy them individually, then I already have this one purchased. And it is not the first book in her series. It's a Court of Silver Flames. This is such a flippin' chonky book. Anyway, so this is the Barnes & Noble exclusive. It is black instead of, what, silver and orange? I don't know. But I liked the black and silver better than the original cover. So when I start collecting this series, I have this one done. This is not the first one, I know that. But hey, I'm just happy to have it. And also I'm assuming that I'm going to love these books because of how much I'm investing in these books financially. So great life and financial decisions made on my part. They're perfectly. And then I got two more books because they were like buy one, get one, half off. And again, I wanted them. So I have The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik. I have the first book, which is A Deadly Education. I've read the first two. I haven't read the third one yet, which is kind of stupid. But I love the trilogy. I've just really been waiting for them to come out in soft cover. Like the reason I didn't purchase this earlier was because it hadn't been released in paperback yet, but now it obviously has. So as soon as the golden enclaves is released in paperback, I will be purchasing that one. But oh my word, I love how her main character is a language geek, because she has to be, but also just is. I love that so much. So of course I love the series and I have to own it. And it's Dark Academia. I love Dark Academia. I'll put you up there. There's The Bear and the Nightingale and this is by Catherine Arden. So this is a Russian fairy tale inspired book. We have our main character whose mother dies giving birth to her and she is like kind of magically gifted, like slightly, like there's the possibility of it. And then their father goes off and marries a new woman and she is not super keen on the daughter. But honestly, that's not super, that's what the like summary says, but this book is just more about this girl who loves the woods and meets the god of winter and the god of death and like how she avoids getting married off and how she like grows up in a time like this in old Russia. Yeah, there's a lot of like religious things with Catholicism versus like gods and kind of this mythology almost of Russia and it's it was really cool. So I didn't realize this was the first book in a trilogy, but it is. And I immediately read books two and three after reading this one as well. So I do want to purchase the rest of that series. And I'm very happy I have this. I don't read too much like Russian, Slavic folklore books, but I really want to and this was so richly steeped. Okay, this is not a review. I have this book and I'm happy about it. And now I have another stack of books that I got from Barnes & Noble because I got paid a bonus at work here in Michigan. And I was like, well, if I have this unexpected money, I might as well use it to buy books. So I on this trip, I was very focused on books that I'd already read as well as series like because I have so many like first book in this series that I've read the entire series and I love so I need to buy the rest of the series. So that's what I focused on here. Okay, so like for example, first up, I have Legendary by Stephanie Garber. This is the second book in the Carrival trilogy. I have Carrival. I don't have any of the other books, but I've read all of Stephanie Garber's like the Carrival trilogy as well as the Once Upon a Broken Heart and The Ballad of Never After. I've read those and I kind of tell myself I can't purchase The Ballad of Never After and Once Upon a Broken Heart until I finish purchasing the Carrival trilogy because it's the order I read them in and because I already have Carrival, so I want to finish it. Legendary to continue with owning that series and it's also just such a beautiful cup. I love them. Next one is the second book in a duology and this, it took a while I think to be released in paperback and I wanted it in paperback to match the first one. So I finally saw in paperback and I was like, yes, this is what I need. All right, and that is We Free the Stars by Hafsah Vizal. I have the first one. We Hunt the Flame. There we go. I've read them both. I enjoyed them both. So I just needed the second one to round out the duology, so. Final two books I'm going to show them together because they are a duology first and second book here. I did so much about getting these versus other books by this author, but I decided to go with these and it's Daughter of the Pirate King and Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller. I read them this past summer. I adore them. They are books that I would honestly read again this summer. Like I would reread these. The banter especially in Daughter of the Pirate King. The banter was just so good and then the plot in the second one was so good. So I've been having my eye on these and wanting to get them for a long time. I have read every single one of Tricia Levenseller's books and I've loved every single one of her books, so I am also just kind of on this. I'm on the prowl of purchasing all of her books. So I have Warrior of the Wild and now I have the duology, so I will slowly be gaining all of them and this was just so good. Like if I were to annotate the first one it would be so full of all the amazing banter and like sexy but not sexy scenes. Like oh my word. Those are all the books that I got here in Michigan and then you saw all the books in Minnesota. So yeah I came here with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. I came here with 9 books and then I got I got 23 books in Michigan. That's also not including the fact that as I mentioned in Minnesota I got window shopping. It arrived here before I did so like I mentioned it but here it is. 8 books and 24 books. That's insane. That is so much but well there it is. The beginning of 2023 haul. I'm just glad that I did a fairly good job of getting new releases and books that I have already read or series rather than like a book that I had never heard of before but that was older like I'm happy and I'm satisfied. This was a lot so thank you all very much for watching. If you liked this video give it a thumbs up, comment down below some of the books that you're excited for this year or if you've already purchased and given yourself a mini little self-care haul to start the year off I think it's a great idea of course and subscribe if you are interested in bookish content. I post twice a week and yeah hit the bell to be notified for when those videos do go up. I have bookish social media linked down below so you can see the updates on everything as I read it. Like I said the stolen air will be next so keep up with me there but until I see you all in the next video I wish you happy reading.