 And now to all again. How are you doing? Washes. Oh, let's be friends. You never see all three together. We're being best friends. I hope you're well. Today we're going to be reacting to the first ever book haul I posted on my channel and seeing how many of those books I've actually read. I lost our home today. The lighting is going to be our enemy today. We're just going to have to live with it. I look back and I went about like four months. I went until Christmas of 2019 until I had a book haul on my channel. I did not buy many books back in the day. Now we have like one a month and they're bigger and I am ashamed. I want to have read at least half. I really don't know what's going to be on this list. I haven't like gone back and looked at the video so I have no idea how many we're going to get but I'm hoping for at least half. I feel like I should get over half really. I'm going to be wearing my nice new headphones that I just bought. I've needed new headphones to edit my videos since like November last year but I hate spending money. I'm really, I'm not good at spending money and so I've been stealing my brothers for like however long. Oh my god this lighting. Me to the sun. If you can't be my friend just please don't be my enemy. Now I've finally got my own. I finally took the plunge and aren't they so cute. Okay so let me put these on. Before we get any further in the video let me know what your prediction is for how many I'm going to have read. Why aren't you connecting? Tell me why. Okay we're connected. I'm going to skip past all the rubbish at the beginning. We don't care about that. Let's just get into the books. I thought we would start really quickly. I'm not going to go into super in depth of these with the books that I bought on my visiting loads of new bookstores in London video. I did not put these in this video. Get out. This was my gift from Tom. It was like the most. Oh my god no. I know I haven't read some of these and it was such a fun day. Fuck. And so yeah these are the books I picked on that video. So the first one is Doughnut in Paris London by George Orwell. Haven't read it. Haven't read Doughnut in Paris London by George Orwell. Here's the thing. We're gonna have a few more I haven't read because for some reason despite the fact that I've hauled I still do this. If I go book shopping and have a book shopping video and haul the books in that video I still haul them in the main haul because we've got to maximise you know exposure of these books. I spit my money on them. I'm gonna fucking talk about them. I can like really tell you the plot. I bought it because I kind of for a moment there wanted to be a George Orwell ho. Like I wanted to be that kind of girl who like reads loads of George Orwell and like reads all his backlists and it's like so intellectual and now I read not that. Are you not ashamed of yourself? This is one of those books that I generally don't know when I'm gonna read. Like I have no plans to read this in the near future. I don't think you're gonna catch me reading this like within the next year. But who knows who knows who knows who knows who knows. Okay next one. Then from Persephone books I've got two. One is Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day by Winifred Watson. This is essentially about a woman living a very mundane life and then one day it all turns upside down and then is there's no cylinder of existence moored. This is all I know really about this is it's set during the Suffragette movement. Neither of them either. We're off to a bad start. We're off to a bad start. We've got some catching up to do. I don't even know what to say for myself. I really I don't know what to say to myself. Here's the thing. Persephone books if you don't know. What's this bookshop in London? I think they've now moved to Bath. They are this bookshop that's absolutely lovely inside. It was my favourite bookshop I went to on this day in London. Like it has this amazing vibe. It's republishing books from women in history that kind of went out of print kind of got forgotten. So I love the ethos of it. I love the vibe of the shop. It was such a cozy welcoming shop. However listen they're classics and it takes me about 20 years on average to get to a classic. Me looking at all the classics I've bought for the beautiful editions but then I realise I actually have to read them. He's mugged you off darling. He has mugged you off. Again this was like at the point at the start of my bookcheap career where I was just buying books that I thought I should or that like oh maybe I'll be interested in reading this one day and no it's too late. Like I wish I had read these kind of immediately when I got them because I could have done that and then I would have been like a free woman now and they wouldn't be sitting on my TBR shelf not knowing when I'm gonna read them. The video that I'm hauling these books on is my most popular video I've ever done and I have not read the books from it. So that's great. And then I picked up two graphic novels as well. The first was the Prince of the Dressmaker. I love the design of this one. I cannot wait to get it. Let's see what the second one is before I talk because I think if I'm right I've read it. Next one. And I also picked up Laura Dinkins Breaking Up with me by Rosie Valera O'Connell and Mary. We're looking a bit better now. I have read both The Prince of the Dressmaker and Laura Dinkins Breaking Up with me. These were great purchases. I really enjoyed both of these. I think they were kind of both around the four star mark. I have not been reading many graphic novels. I don't think I've read like barely any this year. I've definitely read Heartstop of Volume 4 this year but I'm not sure I've read any others. So like the gag. They were both just so enjoyable and gorgeous in different ways. Gorgeous art styles. And I feel like I'm missing a bit of graphic novelage in my current reading. I think maybe I need that to break up some of the other books I'm reading. So I need to start incorporating some graphic novels into other videos. Okay I feel like that's all the books I hauled in that book shopping video. The next books that I'm going to go through I all received from my Amazon Wishlist, which is crazy. Is If We Were Villains by Emeril Rio. This was sent to me by Riley from Riley Marie. I have read If We Were Villains by Emeril Rio. Oh I haven't been keeping tabs of how many of these I've read and haven't read. Hold on because I need to filming Megan needs to know that. I read If We Were Villains that Riley very kindly gifted to me. I didn't really like it. I didn't really like it. What is wrong with this girl? What is wrong with this girl? I think people either love one of and hate the other of The Secret History and If We Were Villains and The Secret History is the book that got me back into reading. That's the, The Secret History is the reason I'm sitting here today. Like it's what got me reading again. So If We Were Villains just was not that bitch to me. It's horrible people like hating on each other but they're not, they haven't got enough spice. They haven't got enough interestingness about them to me. They all bled into like one like morphous, morphous? One blob. One blob. Then next I received Great Goddesses by Nikita Gill. This is a poetry collection and this was from Jean-Anne. So thank you so much. You can touch me. Okay we're actually doing well now. Now that we've got out of those classics that I bought when I was obviously not in my right headspace, I have read Great Goddesses. I can't remember much about it. I think it was kind of like a 3, 3.5 for me. It wasn't bad. I do want to read more of Nikita Gill's poetry. It's poetry that's very much inspired by like Greek gods and goddesses. Well goddesses in particular. It was nice, easy poetry. I read it in like an hour but I don't, I don't think about her. You know she sits there on my poetry shelf but it wasn't, it wasn't, I didn't love it. She wasn't that bitch but she was fine. Next from Angel, I'll link everyone's channels down below by the way who has one. Is that what I think it is? She sent me Heartstopper by Alice Oseman. Oh my god it's wearing up again! Oh my god. Here she is. Heartstopper volume one. Ladies and gentlemen, her. I actually just reread this for the first time ever. My top tier patrons get to ask for a personalized video every month and most people ask like book recommendations and stuff but one of my patrons Anna was like read Heartstopper again. So I reread Heartstopper for a little personalized video I did for Anna and it was such a great experience reading this again because just seeing where their relationship began and their like little facial expressions from another. Is that up to five now? We've read five, haven't read three. Oh your girl's fucking killing it. I have no, I have no worries anymore. I've fucking, I have fucking got this. Imagine if I've read everything in this video apart from those three books. Anyway. Wishful thinking. You're a dream. Are you dream a lot in your sleep? No not really. Yes you do. So next we have got my shining light, Nicole sent me the collect edition of Six of Crows. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. It's over there and it's stacked under like seven, eight books so I'm not gonna get it but I have read Six of Crows. I read that this year so it did take me a little while to get around to it. It was one of the books that took me a little bit longer to get to but I have read Six of Crows. She is that bitch. Six of Crows is kind of iconic. Like it's kind of iconic. I think I gave Six of Crows four stars. I gave Crooked Kingdom five stars but I love the characters in it but it did take me a long while to get to it. I remember being quite ashamed that it took me that long to get to it. Leigh Bardugo does stuff to me. She does stuff to me. Not the original Shadow and Bone trilogy. I kind of pretend it doesn't exist about Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom and Ninth House. Pure excellence. I love it. I love it. And then Charlotte, who also has a channel, I will link it down below. Only one and sent me Crooked Kingdom! Oh my god! Okay. You don't have to shout! So we won't, we won't speak about it for long. I've just fucking spoken about it. I did not know it was gonna be after this but I have read Crooked Kingdom as well. And lastly we have a selection of books that were got for me by my family. These actually all got for me by my grandparents. You watch all my videos. I can't. Hello. Hello again. I hope you're well. Love you lots. So the first book they got for me was Illuminae by Amy Coffman and Jay Kristoff. Okay. I have read Illuminae. I have read Illuminae. It was one of my favourite books that I read last year. I knew it at five stars. If you watched my channel back in the day, you'll know that the Illuminae Files was a five star series for me. Every book in that series was five stars and I just loved it unconditionally. But I don't speak about it really anymore on my channel because Jay Kristoff has done some things that I didn't like and I don't think he's apologised sufficiently for them. So I just haven't really spoken about any of his stuff on my channel since he did that. I'm not saying I'm never gonna read a book ever again by Jay Kristoff and what's saying, people who are reading books by Jay Kristoff now or creators in particular who are reading books by him now are like bad at all but I just wanted to make the decision to like not really promote his books on my channel at least until there's been sufficient apologising the stuff that he said. I'll leave a link down below to the video where Jess Owens covered it because I think that will sound out better than I can because I'll just I'll get things wrong. My old login is not very good at remembering specific facts unless I have some props in front of me. But yeah so I mean I loved Illuminae, one of my favourite books of last year, the whole series, one of my favourite series ever but I just don't really discuss it anymore. You know I don't know if it's going to be too soon to say it. I don't know if it's going to be too soon to say it but I think I'm going to have read every fucking book other than those first three. God can I just say I'm purposely not showing you much of me actually talking in this old reaction video because sis had no energy. Where's the flavour? Where's the flavour I'm like girl what's wrong with you? Lie it up a bit. Like I was speaking so shyly I was still quite shy on my channel. I was still quite shy but maybe one day I'll look back on me now and be like that bitch is fucking annoying somewhere shut the fuck up. Well I think that now but maybe I'll think it even more in a future video. Who knows. And then next is Haven't You Heard by Marina Cant. I have not read Haven't You Heard. Again it's somewhere in that stack of fucking books over there. I have no idea where it is. It's missing. It's not missing. It's over there somewhere but I'm not about to go... Hello tiny hands. I'm not about to go try and find it. It's non-fiction about how politics works particularly in Westminster in the UK by a political journalist. Now at this point in time in my life I was much more interested in wanting to go into political journalism. Now I don't. Now I never want a traditional job ever in my I'm still interested in it. It's still something I want to read because I am still interested in politics but I just don't know when I'm going to get the chance to read that book. Then I received Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Nyang. Yes I have read Girls of Storm and Shadow. Let me add it to the total. I absolutely loved Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Nyang. I enjoyed Girls of Storm and Shadow but it wasn't like my favourite ever but it is one of my favourite fantasy series ever I would say. I just have a very soft... like I have a very strong soft spot for it because of when I read it and it was when I was getting back into reading and I really brought me so much joy that series. The final book is coming out I think in November. Am I? I don't know. I think it's coming out in November and I am terrified of the series ending. I really don't know how to feel about it. And then the last book I received was Middle Game by Sean and Maguire. I had to get this. I have read Middle Game. I've read Middle Game. Go me. Honestly go me. Honestly I'm so proud of me. Honestly Megan you are excellent. Honestly I should never have doubted me. I am so proud of her I could cry. Another one of my favourite books. This this book hall had some really good books in it. Like some really good books. What an amazing book. What an amazing author Sean and Maguire is. It was such a clever book but I'm really scared for the sequel to come out because I don't know how well it's gonna lend itself to having a sequel. Like I don't know if I feel that eventuality but I mean I'm still gonna read it and I'm still probably gonna love it but I'm very nervous about it. So I read. If my calculations are correct and if as long as it's not a different number up there because it happens to me quite often I miss count. But my calculations I've read 10 of them. I haven't read four of them which honestly if that's true I'm so proud of myself. Honestly truly I am just I am so happy. I did not expect that coming through it. I thought I was gonna have read like two of them but I read a lot of them. It shows that when you buy less books you do read them. That was so interesting to go back and look at what kind of books I was buying then. I think a lot more fantasy. I haven't been buying as much fantasy at the moment although I do love it but I've been struggling to find fantasy that I love. And I'm honestly just sitting here in shock and the fact that I've read that many of them. So thank you so much for watching. If you've gotten to the end of the video comment a hand emoji for middle game. That was the last book. Comment a hand emoji if you got to the end. A massive shout out once again to my patrons. I love you guys so much. Thank you so much for supporting me. Your names are on the side and I can't thank you enough for watching to the end. I love you. I'll see you soon. See you in another one. Okay bye.