 Hey guys it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be sharing with you guys the books that I'm bringing with me to university. So I made this video last year for my first year so I'm going into my second year of university. If you guys are curious I'm doing my undergraduate degree in criminology so yeah I have about 20 books here that I'm gonna bring with me. Last year about 40 and it was way too many and some of them are repeats from last year I think because I didn't finish all of them and yeah so I have about 20 here that are just for enjoyment. This doesn't include textbooks or school readings. This is just my fun stuff so let's get into it. First up here we have the Necronomicon. I've had this for so so long and if you don't know it's kind of HP Lovecraft's take on a lot of different things. It was originally written in the 18th century and I think HP Lovecraft had some contributions to it or deny that it existed or something. So there's just so much around this and I really want to go through it, read it, highlight and annotate it so much like I just want to dive right in. I want to tab it all up like I just want to learn so much about what's in here and learn more about what it is because I only know a few things so I would love to actually read it and learn what this whole book entails. Next up here I have the Papuar and this book I'm super excited about. It's a high fantasy story. It's supposed to be super brutal and I believe it takes some inspiration from Chinese mythology. Yeah, with Chinese history is involved in this and I know it's about a military school and our main character goes there I believe and it's supposed to be really brutal. It's supposed to kill you. This book has so much hype, especially on book twitter and Jesse from Bowton and Books encouraged me to pick it up. So I'm really excited about it even though I don't read a lot of fantasy I still feel like I'm gonna really enjoy this one. Next I have Birthday by Meredith Russo. I've owned this for so long and has these beautiful rainbow edges but this follows a transgender main character and it's a love story. Meredith Russo wrote If I Was Your Girl which I freaking loved when I read it. It was phenomenal. It's also about a transgender main character. It's incredible. Highly recommend that I read it years ago but yes so I'm super excited to pick up another work by this author and I'm really excited. I've heard such great things about it. It's one of those books I've been stalling even though I think I'm gonna really like it. Next I have A Mother's Reckoning. These are all like a little UK. These are all little UK paperbacks you haven't noticed. It's why they're so I don't know they're little. I kind of always like that about when I order off book repository but this is A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Kleebold and this is written by one of the mothers of the one of the Columbine shooters and it's I think her take on it and kind of some stuff that went down and about the kids life I think but it follows the mother's journey and she's trying to like grieve and come to terms with something her son did. Something I'm sure she never expected to happen or expected him to do so I just think it's gonna be super interesting and it talks about the aftermath of the Columbine shooting. I have some books on the Columbine shooting that I do want to read eventually but I'm just gonna bring this one up for you with me for now. Next I have Wicca by Harmony Nice. Harmony Nice is a YouTuber and she's a great YouTuber if you're looking to get into anything Wicca or Richcraft related. Definitely check her out. She's how I learned a lot of things at the beginning for sure. I watched a lot of her videos. She's beautiful and the design of this book is beautiful. Definitely check her videos out if you're trying to get into Wicca or Richcraft but I just got this to do more research. I don't necessarily identify as a Wiccan but like I just practice witchcraft. However, I still really want to read this and it's supposed to be really insightful. So this book does talk about book of shadows, different deities, mental health, meditation, kindness, spell work, that kind of thing and I'm just really excited especially to see her take on it, maybe how she got started, that kind of thing. I also have the Black Arts. I'm gonna sit myself in the face. So this book talks about witchcraft, demonology, demonology, all sorts of fun stuff. I honestly don't know too much about this book only that it's just this big work full of Black Arts I guess. The Magician's Truth, the number of reveals. They just have so many things in here and I'm really excited just to learn about them because a lot of them I don't know much about. Numerology, stuff like that. So I'm looking forward to it. There's some little pictures in here too, little graphs. Next up here I have the Exorcist and I bought this for Halloween-ish time. I brought it for that reason. I bought it last year actually at the Strand. It's so cute. No, I bought it in 2018 at the Strand and it was only $13.49 which is pretty good but I don't know much about the story other than that the movie is like very highly acclaimed and I've seen a lot of clips from the movie. I heard a lot about the movie. I've seen parts of it. I've never seen the whole thing and yeah it still seems super creepy and I'm really excited to read it. This says the most terrifying novel ever written. So we gotta trust that and see if it's any good. I'm super excited about this one. Next up here I have Watch Us Rise. This is my Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan. This is about our two main characters and I believe they start like a club and it's very women expressing their ideas, their creativity but the two girls turn their voices to this online outlet kind of thing and there is like essays on there and poems and suddenly their work goes viral and people kind of try to investigate who they are I think and I don't know. I'm really excited about I've heard great things and I know that's gonna be like I know this is gonna be like Pro Black Lives Matter. I know it's gonna be pro-feminism so I'm super excited for this. This one is really cool too. I'm really glad about this book. Next I have volumes one through three of Heart Stopper. I am super excited about this. I've read the first two volumes and I just need to read the last one but I'm gonna bring them with me and definitely read them a few times but I want to read them over. Like I want to read the first two over and then read this one. If you don't know Heart Stopper is this one and it's about these two boys and it's really cute. It's about these two boys that meet and it's really wholesome. I believe the first or second volume talked a bit about sexual assault in it or some other triggering topic so I'll put that on the screen whatever it is so you guys know but yeah they're so good and the art's really cute. If you don't know the art's actually in black and white I always thought it was colored and then I realized it wasn't and I was like oh which is okay but I think the web comic is I don't know but yeah it's really cute really cute art style and if you want to have a good read in just a good time read those. Next up here I have Felix Ever After. I'm so excited about this. This has been a really hyped recently and I think for good reason like it's supposed to be really really good. I know it's about a trans main character and I believe some photos come out of our main character before their transition and that starts something in a school and things like that. That's all I know. I don't want to know a lot going into it. I heard it's amazing. Super excited. I've had it displayed on my bookshelf for a while just because I was like read it. Here it is. It's also beautiful so but yeah I'm super excited to read this one. I also have Stay Gold which is another like 2020 release. This also follows a trans main character. That's all I know about it. Oh my god the main character's name is Pony. Is that like Pony Boy Curtis? Like you know Stay Gold. Okay I'm gonna. Is there gonna be a huge reference to The Outsider by S.E. Henson in here? The Outsiders? Who knows? Who knows? I guess we'll find out. I have Tyler Johnson was here by J. Cole's but me to read this one for a while. You guys probably see it in my recent videos and my recent TBR videos but me to read this one it's about a boy whose brother was shot and killed by police and so this book does deal with police brutality and the struggles of being black and I've heard this is really good. I think this book is gonna be super hard-hitting so I'm really excited to pick it up. I know it's gonna deal with some hard issues but I'm looking forward to see how J. Cole's handles this and it talks about the subject. Let me know down below what your thoughts are. Let me know your thoughts on all these books down below if you've read them or if you haven't. Let me know which ones you want to read when you land by Elizabeth Acevedo. I was supposed to do a buddy read for this and I kind of just I don't even know like it started and I just didn't read it. I'm sorry Kayla for being a bad buddy reader but I'll read it soon and tell you what I think about it but I only heard 20 pages of it. I really don't know what happened. I've been kind of going in and out of reading slumps and then sometimes I just don't feel like reading something. Yeah but clapping you in. It's totally reversed and it's about these two sisters I think and I think they meet part way on an airplane. Something like that. It's about two sisters I think. I know this book talks about like grief and love and I've loved both of Elizabeth Acevedo's works specifically with the fire on high because it was amazing. So I'm looking forward to picking this one up and actually finishing it soon. Next here I have the outsider for Stephen King so I am currently reading this so I'm going to be bringing that with me to University because I extended the we're doing a buddy read right now in my Goodreads group so I extended the buddy read till maybe the 20th I think of September I'll put on the screen and just to give you guys more time to read it and then I picked the next two. Well from the help of you guys I put a poll on Twitter and you guys helped me decide the next one and then the second result no yeah. So I put a poll on Twitter you guys helped me decide the next read and then I picked the one after that. So let me share with you guys what those are. So starting about like end of September going into October we're going to be reading Night Film by Marisha Pesl. This book has been around for so long I've assumed a lot of you guys have read it but I put it on my poll and I was really shocked that I won. I really wanted the Exorcist to win to be honest but it's okay I'll still read it but like I'll still read the Exorcist but Night Film only thing I know about it thriller very highly acclaimed a lot of people been talking about it for years. I literally got it up a bargain section it's also very pretty on the inside but it has a mixed media in it which is really cool so I think it has like more like case files. What is this? Websites crime scene photos like that probably that kind of thing in here so I'm super excited it has really good paper too that's kind of what we've been to talk about with the book but it has a really nice paper quality. Yeah we're going to be reading this one next if you want to join definitely check out the buddy read group you can read things at your own pace if you need more time if you need a day whatever take your time and comment on the threads and stuff if you want but yeah I'm excited to read this one with you guys in about a month with the outsider I'm low-key behind on so I need to catch up. The book after that for our buddy read is gonna be like end of October going to November so that's gonna be Sleeping Babies by Stephen King and Owen King. I'm really excited to read this one this one a lot of you guys I did a poll in the past for Stephen King books and a lot of people want to read this one and I just know like it's a newer release of his so I feel like we're kind of going through some newer releases like if it blades the outsider you know stuff that's come out in the last like five years. I don't know too much about this one but I like kind of going into King's books pretty blind or not knowing too much something happens when women go to sleep they get in like some cocoon if they're awakened in the rapping it's disturbed or bothered the women become feral and violent. Oh that's fun I didn't know was about that like I knew something was sleep but yeah that sounds pretty cool so I'm excited to pick this up hopefully you guys will also join me for this one if you feel like it. So here I have the Starless Sea and this is by Erin Morgenstern. I freaking love her book The Night Circus that came out I also met the author she's just really cool and I still haven't read the Starless Sea yet and I also have her other book the Found the Silence that I need to read but this one so many people say it's their favorite book ever and I'm so excited to read it like I bought it when it came out. Oh beautiful and it was like it was also an oh what's this? Oh there's a little bookmark in here. Okay I didn't know that but yeah I'm super excited to fix one up and read it again I don't know too much about this book in particular but I'm super excited to go into this blind because I don't know what to expect. I just know it's supposed to be really good and I'm just happy like I'll be happy to like get back to her writing style so yes. And lastly here we have Capturing the Devil by Carrie Menescalco. This is the fourth book in the Stocking Jack the Ripper series. These books follow Audrey Rose who she's super a bat super badass female love her. She works in a forensics which is really really cool so some of the books are a bit more gruesome than your average like thriller I guess. Some of the books like some of the first few books do describe like some of her forensic stuff and like some of the stuff she's doing on the body so just like keep that in mind but this book phenomenal like I was about to say phenomenal that covers phenomenal but this book I'm really excited to read. I absolutely loved the second and the third book in this series so I'm super excited to pick this one up and Capturing the Devil like look how cool this one looks like I'm so excited. Again this one I've been putting off because I'm like oh I'm waiting for the right time to read it and then what's the right time to read it. I don't know but I keep doing that where I'm like I'll wait for the right time the right moment where I can devour it and enjoy it and then that time just takes forever so I just gotta make myself read it. But yeah I'm really excited about this one. If you guys have read this series let me know if you've read this last book. I haven't heard anyone talk about the last book in our thoughts so let me know if you've read it. And there you guys have it. Those are all the books that I'm bringing up with me to uni. If you're wondering what my upload schedule is going to look like I really don't know. I'm only gonna be bringing my vlog camera up instead of my DSLR so you're not gonna be seeing these bookshelves for a while unfortunately but yeah hopefully I'll be able to film when I come home every now and then and also do some vlogs up there but let me know what you guys would like to see. If you want to check out my last two videos I posted a recent reads talking about a bunch of the books that I've read and yeah that's hot. I talked about 10 books in that video so if you want to check that out it's going to be linked down below. I also have a review up for If It Pleads by Stephen King so if you want to know my thoughts on that book and like each story then check that video out. Which yes thank you guys so so much for watching. I hope you guys are all staying safe and doing well. I'll have some links down below for you guys to help with the Black Lives Matter movement and yeah I'll see you guys super soon with a new video. Bye!