 hello hello everyone my name is Laura and this is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video which is my end of summer book haul. The way I do this is a few books every month rather than going on big shopping sprees because I do have a book budget I bring this up in almost any video that has anything to do with purchasing books or gaining books in some way and it's gotten to a point where it's been a few months and I've acquired a few books um so I'm just going to do a haul of what I've acquired so far but before I get started on the books there are a couple bookish items that I have also picked up recently that I wanted to share with you. The first being tabs. So I'm not someone who tags books I have never tabbed a book unless it was for a school assignment but even that I haven't done since middle school most books that I've had to read in high school or college I have done some other system of note taking so I I haven't bought tabs but last year I read a book and I was like there are so many things that I want I want to remember like things that stuck out to me and I started writing down the page number and kind of where on the page it was on my phone in the notes app and I was like this is literally why people tab books is to go back and look at these specific scenes lines characters whatever so I finally caved in and I bought just a generic really simple tab from like Home Depot or something like that but what I liked about these ones so obviously I got different colors for different things but I like that it's not all solid it actually is clear so I can kind of put it over the words a little bit or right on to there without like blocking anything but getting very specifically where I am wanting to tab I I haven't opened the package yet and I'm still kind of hesitant because I like keeping my books in like new condition as brand new as I can keep them as clean and as untouched as I can keep them so I'm scared to start tabbing because it kind of takes away from that but I know there are some books that I just really really want to especially thinking of when I eventually binge read all of Sarah J mass heads up that is a video idea I have I'm going to acquire all of her books and then read through them all and I will block the experience so don't you worry so I thought this would be really good for those books but again I'm not going to tab every book I read I'm only going to tab books where I'm like this is something I actually want to remember not not even just like for reviews but just something that really hits me you know I'm using them sparingly and then the other non-book bookish item I purchased was a book sleeve I am so happy I've been wanting to buy one of these for so long this one says wicked are the ways of women especially a witch which is a quote from the serpent and dove trilogy I love that trilogy I get it the second book was not great and the third book was all right but I still love the first book and just the whole concept of the series and the characters enough to buy a book sleeve off of it it's nice because it has a little snap at the top so it can snap close but I use this really big purse that I can easily fit books in but the books would get damaged so I really like having this to protect them when I put books in my purse if I'm going somewhere and I think I might have some time to read so I'm just so happy plus I don't have a lot of book merch items in general I just I haven't spent my book budget on that because I'd rather just buy more books this was my July book budget purchase so very worth it very worth it in my opinion so the first one I actually got from a free little library down the road and it's Neil Gaiman's the graveyard book but it's like the graphic novel adaptation it's the first volume I don't own any of Neil Gaiman's and I loved the graveyard book so this is kind of more of a placeholder until I can actually purchase the graveyard book itself I just saw it for free and I was interested in it plus I would love to see some of the images in here so I've already read the graveyard book like I said I just thought I'd have this on my shelf for a little while and then when I do replace I'll put this back in another free little library I didn't have this on my list of books that I've bought recently but I'm pretty sure I bought it recently enough like I don't think I've hauled this book yet that Six of Crows by Lee Bardugo I don't own any of Lee Bardugo's other books I don't own the original Grisha trilogy or anything like that but I have read the trilogy I have not read this duology nor the other duology set of books I'm not sure but this is the next book that I want to read so I thought hey it's pretty cheap I'll get it because I eventually want to own all of those books but I figured I'd start with the books I haven't read yet so I can sit down and read them though I am about to give this to a friend to borrow but I trust this friend I do I actually trust this friend which if you're a friend that I trust to give you books that is a high honor anyway I'm sure you all can relate to that but that is not the point of this video the next book I have is the night in its moon by CJ Piper this is a self-published book from a tiktoker who published her own book CJ Piper her entire channel is all about like mythology and folklore and things like that like that's literally what her degree is in and she shows us her degree in every video I love watching her videos she's so much fun just her energy and vibes are just so uniquely her and I love it and I'm a big fan of mythology and folklore it's one of my favorite subgenres of fantasy to read so my friend actually got me this for my birthday and I believe she's actually going to be picked up by a publisher and they're gonna like re-edit the book and republish it so I'm really happy to have the self-published version right now to read but I do want to buy the newly published version when it gets traditional publishing at least I'm pretty sure that's what's happening I'm pretty sure I heard that right and I also was really excited because our there is bisexual rep in this and the main characters are orphans and I assume there's mythology so it ticks all the boxes I'm excited for it it's it's a bit of a chonker but that'll be okay I think and then the next two books aren't like the same as all the rest and I wanted books on these subjects but I got these books specifically because they are gorgeous and they go together I have Celtic myths myths and tales and I have Irish fairy tales so these are extremely similar obviously like the embossing is very similar very similar and the titles and they are they don't really have authors they're just kind of a combination of different fairy tales folklore's stories from Celtic mythology and Irish mythology and there is like there is a lot of overlap with heroes and stories and creatures and whatnot but there are some slight differences and there are stories in this one that aren't in this one and vice versa because Irish and Celtic are not necessarily the same thing the Celtic are a group of people that actually immigrated to Ireland and have uh stayed there versus Ireland is its own set country that has native people and so while they're very similar because their history entwines for a very long time they are different so I did want to purchase both of these I am kind of using these as more immediate proof of my research for the book that I am very slowly writing because that has to do with Irish mythology so I just love reading these kinds of stories whenever I have some spare time or I feel inspired to read them or write now I'm moving on to my last stack here they're little stacks but I will say there is one other book that I purchased that I don't currently have that is the daughter of Dr. Moreau by Sylvia Moreno Garcia I bought this in Michigan but Sylvia Moreno Garcia was actually going to my local library for a little presentation Q&A and book signing but she was doing it the day we drove back to Minnesota so I was not able to be there so my dear wonderful mother took my book and went to the Q&A and presentation listened took some notes and got the book signed for me so kind of her to do so it's it's signed to me always read always write always imagine I believe is the quote she put in there so my mom will be mailing that to me shortly I cannot wait for it to arrive but I didn't want to put this book haul off any further as we're going into spooky season very soon so I want to start gearing towards that which it's also perfect timing because it's so Sylvia Moreno Garcia is the author of Mexican Gothic but she has many other books in many different genres but I think the daughter of Dr. Moreau kind of goes back into her more Gothic kind of darker style writing it is based off of a classic Dr. Moreau with her own like Mexican feminist twist on it so I think it'll be good to read the spooky season so I wanted to include it in this haul I also got for the throne which I mentioned in quite a few videos this past summer I mean you know like the three videos I filmed this summer I am currently reading it it's the second book in the duology by Hannah Witten I am so excited to finish this I'm hoping to finish it in September spoiler alert for my September TBR I loved the first book and so far I am really liking the second one but we'll see then I got surprisingly my killer vacation by Tessa Bailey I did not think this was going to be the first Tessa Bailey book that I bought I honestly thought it was going to be window shopping from like this past Christmas but it's a really short very adult romance where our first second grade teacher kindergarten teacher is obsessed with a true crime and she ends up finding a dead body in her Airbnb and she falls for the brooding bounty hunter Grumpy Sunshine I've actually already read this the reason I bought it was because I was doing a buddy read with some people on Twitter for it and so I wanted to make sure I had the book I had access to it and that I could read it um and I really liked it but that'll come up in my wrap up whenever I get around to filming that as well it was a great summer read yeah then my most recent recent purchases were the merciless ones by Namina Forna this is the second book in the gilded ones trilogy I think that's just what the trilogy is called it came out this past summer and I cannot wait to get around to it sometime soon but I would highly recommend uh the gilded ones by Namina Forna and then the last book that I have on this list I was so excited for I've been anticipating this release ever since I heard that it was a thing and that is wild is the witch by Rachel Griffin this so Rachel Griffin wrote nature of witches which I absolutely adored so this is her other her newest book it takes place in the same world with the same like witch magic concept but following completely different characters and a completely different storyline so you don't have to read the nature of witches to uh be able to read this book however I haven't read this yet but I think the nature of witches probably is a good starting place just because it's more of an intro to witches and their magic but I'm really excited to read this also the nature of witches had a beautiful uh like naked book and uh so does this one I love it so much it's just absolutely gorgeous it blows my breath away I love it so much so I knew I had to get it as soon as possible and again this will probably be on my upcoming tbrs because I am so excited it was such a good fall read it's very seasonal but yeah I'm so excited anyway so those are all of the books that I have reached just reachously those are all the books that I have recently purchased or gained from one way or another in these past summer months I believe was like May through August so I'm probably gonna end up doing more seasonal hauls just because of the nature of my book buying budget but yeah that's all I have to say thank you so much for watching this video if you're interested please subscribe I post on Sundays and Wednesdays and I am going back to that posting schedule now that my life has settled a little bit more if you liked this video give it a thumbs up comment down below some of the favorite books that you have bought this past summer and whether you've read them or not or if you'll be saving them for next summer I do also have bookish social media down below so you can go ahead and follow me there and get more instant updates on what I have been reading but until we see you all in the next video I wish you happy reading