 Okay, hi besties! Just a warning for this video. For the vast majority of this video, from like three minutes in, I have lipstick all over my teeth. And like, listen, I'm so sad. But it's okay, it's okay. Am I about to re-film a whole video over some lipstick on some tea? Yes, I was going to before Tom convinced me not to. You can either ignore it or you can clown before every moment that you see it and it brings you great amusement in my demise. So there's your choice says let's get into video. Please welcome back. It is time for another book haul. I don't know how I keep doing this. How do I keep acquiring this many books? My actions don't require any defense. In the same situation I do it again. But before we get into the video, I am so excited once again to say thank you to the sponsor which is Book of the Month. I love Book of the Month. Listen, I've spoken about this before but Book of the Month has been my dream collaborator throughout my time on Book Tube. 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You can skip a month if you want so if there's no books that interest you that particular month there's no risk attached and very amazingly, oh my god it's so exciting, you can use my code Meg with Bex to get your first book for just $9.99. A brand new release hardcover for just $9.99. It is crazy. I do just have to say that the majority of my audience, the majority of people watching are from the US. Book of the Month currently only shipped to the US if you're international they don't currently ship to you but the majority of you watching are from the US so that's why I'm able to work with them. So let's quickly go through the books for November. This is an amazing month like there's so many books that I'm very excited to read. One of the ones that actually surprised me that I'm probably the most excited to read is A Little Hope by Ethan Joella. This is the story of all these people from this small Connecticut town and each chapter follows a different person from this town telling their story which I've always been really interested in books that follow this kind of structure. I've always wanted to read something like that so I am so excited to read this one. It really surprised me how excited I am but yeah I've had this very very emotive. Then we have The Family by Naomi Kropitski. This is the story of these two girls who grew up together, their dads are in the mafia and then something you know seismic happens that changes their lives forever. Then we have The Keeper of the Night by Kylie Lee Baker. I know this is about this girl who like has to collect souls or something in London but then something happens she gets turfed out she flees to Japan. I've heard this is such a good YA fantasy debut. Next we have a book with an incredible title which is How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days by K.M. Jackson. Basically our protagonist finds out that Keanu Reeves is getting married in 90 days and she's like not on my watch, not on my watch and she tries to go and get married to Keanu Reeves. And then finally we have The Collective by Alison Grayling. This sounds amazing. It's all about female rage which I've really been enjoying reading about lately. Her daughter was killed by this very like privileged boy and he's got away with it and she meets this group of women who like endorse each other's anger I think. I'm not really sure but I've really been enjoying reading books about female rage so I'm very excited to read this one. And separate from those like original five selections each month they also have add-ons which are really great so there's books that you can add on to your order if you like the look of them and two that I have got to show you are two really exciting celebrity autobiographies. We've got Will by Will Smith and we've got My Body by Emily Ratikowski. There's been a lot of buzz about both of these lately and about things that like being said about them so I'm very interested and excited to own these. So yeah it's super cool that there's books you can add on to your order and you can get more books why not? I mean come on. So yeah like I said make sure you use the link down below and the code MegwithBooks to get your first book for $9.99 which is just so exciting. Okay let's get into the other books I've hauled recently oh my god I'm gonna I'm gonna spontaneously combust. I think it has been two months actually which isn't that bad listen. Me making questionable justifications and you guys supporting my delusion. Also if you're wondering yes the bookshelves I've got new bookshelves it's a whole new setup I need to figure out how to film in front of them but also there's no they're just shoved in there. Not really in this one maybe I should put some books there because that's really what you can see hold up. Now there's some books there that looks better. What books do I want to talk about first? I'm not going to go through these with any rhyme or reason I'm literally just going to go grab books. Okay so a lot of you all know that my favorite cozy mystery series is the Lady Hardcastle Mysteries and I just decided to go ahead and buy the first two which I have already read and the third one which is gonna be what I read next. So this is about this lady and her maid and like them solving mysteries in like 1900s England they are just some of the best cozy mysteries ever. I love the audiobooks like if you have script which if you don't I do have a code you can use to get two months free listen to these audiobooks they're so good they're just fun silly mysteries and I just love them and yeah so Death Around the Bend I'm hoping to read this month but I have got quite a busy month I've got quite a busy month so I don't know if I'm gonna quite get to it but I'm hoping that I will because then the next book in this series is a short Christmas novella so I want to read this first so I can read that around Christmas time so yeah pray for me that I actually read this. Okay then let's chat about some books that some publishers have sent to me I've got three here firstly we've got this one which sounds fucking bonkers it is a YA it's called Every Line of You by Naomi Gibson lovely sprayed edges can we just say thank you very much this is about a girl who has built a boyfriend with code it's getting weird every line of you line of code you get it and like Henry our boyf our boyf he's got our control Henry thinks he runs the show essentially is what I know about this it sounds gripping like psychological thriller YA I'm very excited to read this it's not long at all either it's only like 280 pages of like quite big fonts so it wouldn't take long to read this is something that's like ideal for a readathon I would say but yeah this sounds like what like come on like why are we making a boyfriend out of code why are we doing that but also I'm intrigued then oh my god I actually cried I actually cried a bit when this arrived like it was a moment it was a moment we have got Midnight in Everwood by Emma Kuznir you should brush your teeth at least twice a day aim to brush for between two and three minutes look at this look at this look at her look at this final audition are we not crying in the darkness of night magic awaits it's a reimagining of the nutcracker this is giving me bear the nightingale vibes it's giving me bear the nightingale vibes which if you if you've been around if you've been around you will know it is one of my favorite fantasies of all time if not if it's like up there the bearing nightingale it's set in Nottingham in which is a place in the UK if you don't know in 1906 listen we've just proved that with Lady Hardcastle Mysteries I love you know anything Victorian Edwardian I just love what was that that's what you said and you know what I what was that okay I just love anything set in that time period I just think it's like oh oh my god I just love it I am just so excited to get to this thank you so much to HQ Stories for sending me this I just love this edition and then I got sent Theatre of Marvels by Leanne Dudsworth this comes out April 2022 so we've got a while again listen these people know me have I got a shoot on my face no set in Victorian London it's a theatre I just love anything theatrical if you don't know me I did drama nearly all my life only a couple years ago did I stop doing drama like I did drama from the ages of 4 to 18 I am theatrical so I love anything with that kind of vibe and I think the new star act goes missing and our main character wants to investigate it I love anything of that kind of vibe or like our main character is investigating something that they're kind of drawn up in as well that's something I really really enjoy so April 2022 put it on your anticipate releases of next year lists I am very very excited to get to this and then I've actually got quite a few books that my lovely patrons have gifted to me if you don't know I have a Patreon I have had it for a few months now and it is just the most amazing supportive lovely community like it's kind of gone beyond my wildest dreams for kind of the relationship that we would build up they gift each other books on there like not just me like everyone sends each other books and it's just um just this lovely lovely experience I've had so much fun doing weekly live shows with them and it's just become such a big part of my life that I love so much so I'm so lucky that some of them have sent me some books over the past couple months firstly this one I almost cried because it came with a lovely night but Lisa sent me the T-Dragon festival by K O'Neill so this is a story about a girl named Lucky I fear at night this is the second in the kind of T-Dragon world of graphic novels but this one has been near impossible to get like I like I've tried to get this in the UK you can't get it waterstones amazon but depository like I've looked everywhere I've looked everywhere and it was very very hard to get but Lisa was able to get it from her work and she sent it to me and I now own all three of these I've only read the first one but I've I'm kind of saving these up because they are literally the most joyous experience I mean look at this isn't it just so gorgeous oh my god I just I just love these so so much this one is a prequel to the first one and I just can't wait to dive back into this magical magical world again then Claire watched my most recent reading random mysteries vlog and gifted me The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osmond this literally arrived like two days ago and I screamed I am so excited my mum has already read it she was like give it to me so thanks Claire my mum has already read it I've spoken about this series a lot recently but it's about these friends who run a murder club at their retirement home but then murder actually happens so now they're kind of investigating actual crimes and it's just funny it's ingeniously plotted like so many twists and turns throughout the books I just think like the heart and the humor and the joy that's at the center of these books is what makes them and they're just amazing murder mysteries as well which is just incredible I cannot wait to read this one Thursday Murder Club is up there as one of my if not I still don't know if it's my favorite book I've read so far this year that's hard that's really really I don't know oh I don't know then Shanice very kindly sent me Murder Most and Ladylike by Robin Stevens with these amazing sprayed edges this has been a series listen I know it's not the series I've said I'm not talking about series anymore we're done we're not shaming me anymore it's not happening well they're speechless this is a middle grade murder mystery series which I have always wanted to read I've just heard amazing things about it and I love middle grade murder mysteries because they're just so like fun and they've got this nostalgia to them that I really really enjoy they make me feel like a kid again I know it's about I think these young girls who kind of have set up this detective agency at their school and they never really had any real crimes to investigate but now something happens again I almost screamed when I saw this I'm so excited to get to this one and then Tiffany very kindly sent me two books first was Days of Blood and Sight by Lainey Taylor I love these new UK covers I have read the first one daughter of smoke combined I didn't adore it but I love Lainey Taylor's writing so so much I think Lainey Taylor has some of those beautiful lyrical magical writing out there I'm really excited to get to this one I think I do want to finish the Stranger Dreamer series first I think I want to read News of Nightmares and then carry on with this series but I just love these covers and Lainey Taylor's writing is some of my favorite writing even if the story wasn't my favorite her writing is impeccable and then Tiffany also sent me The Young Elites by Marie Lou so all of my patrons get to pick two books off of my own TBR to put into where is she this part which is very full and then if I get the rose prompt in TBR including I pick this out but Tiffany really wanted me to read The Young Elites she was like I'm gonna get it for you so that I can choose that as one of my books so she did she got it for me I literally know nothing about it I know it's like dystopian there was like an illness that swept the nation years ago we're following like a main character who's kind of like I think the chosen one kind of vibes Marie Lou has been in that listen that awful NFT business lately I was rooting for you we were all rooting for you out there you which I yeah that was terrible that was Marie Lou that was terrible I mean come on now that was a scam scam scam that was not good I'm still very thankful Tiffany for getting me this and if it comes up in the rose prompt I will read it very intriguing I'm hoping Marie Lou can redeem herself in the public eye at some point and apologize properly for that NFT business because you know that was an experience but I'm very happy to finally own this kind of like booktube classic that I often feel like I missed out on books that came out like when did this come out my guess is 2013 2014 I was close I feel like I missed out on a lot of books that were popular like 2013 2014 2015 I was reading but I just wasn't reading this stuff I often just got stuff out the library and I didn't really know what big books were so I often feel like I missed out on that kind of vibe so I'm very happy to own this oh these are some exciting books friends so excited I obviously I'm working with Book of the Month that is sponsored this video I should have mentioned this at the start actually when I was working with them they at one point very kindly said to me that I could pick three books off of their like backlist like their previous book box books um to be sent and I picked three and I'm very excited the first one I picked was Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins read I have read both of Evan Hugo and Daisy Jones I've also read oh what was that novella called by Taylor Jenkins read where it's like the people whose spouses are cheating on them what is that called I read that and I actually really enjoyed it I'll put a picture and I can't remember what it's called but I of course had to pick Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins read I know we're following like a family of siblings and a party they're having one night and I think most of the book takes place in one night I also really like the US cover so I knew I wanted to own this version I've heard mixed things but I mean I have to read Taylor Jenkins read there's just no there's no choice then I picked The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner so this one I didn't know too much about but like I've seen it everywhere so I was just like okay there's no choice but to stay 18th century London I mean you can't write it that's a little bit earlier isn't it 18th yes so that's pre Victoria what what English era are we in here Georgian or or Stuart's Georgian one of the two Georgian or Stuart's both good eras in their own right we're not really but you know what I mean we're following two timelines and I believe there's like there was historically this apothecary that was made maybe like poisoning men or some shit like helping am I right yes who sells well disguised poet poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives I was right and then I think in the modern day it's like one of her ancestors like kind of investigating what happened very intrigued I saw this everywhere so I had to ask this one and then I made a decision which you may say was questionable um I don't think it was but I chose survive the night by ready say done it's disgusting I'm blocking you how do I block somebody on this thing this is gonna be fun now this has had terrible reviews it's had bad bad bad bad bad reviews so I am nervous I am nervous I know we're following this girl who I think think she's trapped in a car with a serial killer that's been terrorizing like this university campus and like the whole book is them trapped in this car together listen it's had it's had interesting reviews let's just say that but I have read all of ready say guys like new are releases I've read new are new are new are new are new are releases I've read lock every door and home before dark so this is just the natural progression of things that I should read this as well then let's chat about some books I have bought myself recently the first this was one pound in my local charity shop which usually does not have a great selection but this week it said try me bitch I got the night she disappeared by Lisa Jewell this was literally like three days after it had come out like three days after it had come out I got it for one pound excuse me you just I'm untouchable I'm actually untouchable I'm fashion I'm style and if they can't keep up then let's say proper so I literally know nothing about it I picked it up because it was one pound and I've read some Lisa Jewell I've read the family upstairs which I like moderately enjoyed it was like a quick fun thriller I think it's about this girl who went missing years and years ago and then our main character in the present day kind of investigating it listen it was a pound you would have picked it up too you would have picked it up too for a pound so don't judge me for not knowing what it's about they also had not a happy family which I'd have up there for Shari by Shari Lapina I did not get that for a pound my grandparents got that for me for price and yeah hopefully I'll enjoy some more of Lisa Jewell's stuff next oh I'm very excited for this one I'm gonna be reading it this month it's got makeup on it let's not let's not discuss that um a lot of makeup oh that's embarrassing oh it's not coming off either okay uh this was expensive okay we're gonna need to we're gonna need to rectify that uh anyway I got the death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling so I am co-hosting the literary dead book club this month in November for this book with books and lala and I am so honored I've always wanted to read Caitlin Starling oh it's got like very small margins this said thin margins on word you know when you like need to fit more on a page so you put thin margins anyway we're following Jane Lawrence who enters this marriage of convenience for her particularly to kind of help her continue to live her life it is historical and the guy says yeah all right we'll get married but you can never come to my house like my family house and one night she like says I'm coming bitch I'm coming so she goes over there and she finds him changed I think he hasn't remembered it next day very excited to read this I'm gonna be reading it this month I don't currently have a video plan for this to be in so I may just do like a 24 hour 48 hour reading vlog where I try and read this but yes very excited this one I picked up because it was two pound this is people of abandoned character by Claire Whitfield I got recommended this at an event I went to recently and I oh exciting this is so exciting so in this we're following this newlywed woman she's like in this a marriage and she's like whoa life is great and then it starts to turn sour and then the jack the ripper murders start to occur and she's like shit it's my husband man I think things start to kind of come together like he's always out the night that the murders happen I think he's also a doctor surgeon he's a surgeon so he'd know like you know people often say the jack the ripper was like a surgeon or someone who had knowledge of the body and she's like shit it's my husband so yeah super excited to read this let me know if you've read it anything with that kind of font that font gets me they know how to get me they know how to get me in those Victorian books because it just needs that font and I'm picking it up not going to speak about this for long but I did receive white smoke by Tiffany D Jackson um read it didn't love it it was okay thank you again to the publisher for sending it to me because I was so excited like literally I begged for this book I begged to receive this book I was I had a prayer circle like I had a shrines after I received this book and then I did and I didn't enjoy it so I feel very guilty and then a book I have hauled for a secret secret video is the mystery of black hollow lane by Julia Nobel I don't know much about this because I didn't pick it up on my own volition I picked it up for a reason that you shan't know yet I think we're following a group of friends and this middle grade mystery I've heard it's very twisty tiny that's all I know let me know if you've read this like I said I'm going to be reading it this month hopefully yeah I'm going to be reading it this month so I will find out soon enough but a new middle grade mystery spooky icky series yes please like I should love this and then quickly I'm not going to tell you in depth about these books so I spoke about them last month when I did my last month sponsorship book of the month but these are all the books that I got last month from book of the month which I'm very excited to read I'm literally going to say their names because I've spoken about them in depth before but we've got every day everything we didn't say by Nicole Bar which is a thriller we have the Lincoln Highway by Amor Taos this is a historical fiction by the same author who wrote Gentleman in Moscow so very excited to this because I've heard amazing things about this author another author who I've heard incredible amazing things about is Colson Whitehead and this is Harlem Shuffle so super excited to read this Colson Whitehead is an author I've always wanted to read from then we have The Sweetest Remedy by Jane Igaharo the book of magic by Alice Hoffman apples ever fall by Leanne Moriarty another author I need to give a go soon and The Perishing by Natasha Dion so that is my book haul for this month so many incredible amazing books that I am so lucky to have received it's honestly just been an amazing time and I feel so lucky to have received or bought or however I acquired any of these books I feel very lucky to own them all let me know if you've read any of them down below I would absolutely love to know if you have any recommendations for books you think I should prioritize I would love to know so please leave them down below if you've gone to the end comment any kind of snowy wintery emoji for this gorgeous but I think this is one of my favorite books I've hauled because it's just so incredibly gorgeous comment it down below if you have reached the end of the video make sure you go check out the book of month link down below and use the code to make with books I feel so lucky to have my own code so please use the code if you want to check out book of the month and thank you so much for watching as always I'll see you very 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