 Hey guys, it's Liana, and I'm here today with a book haul. These books are so heavy. Oh, no. This isn't even all of them. Yeah, I've been meaning to film a haul for a while, and then I kept being like, well, I know this one other book is coming, so I may as well wait. And I was like, okay, well, wait at this time. I know this one other book is coming, so I may as well wait. Waited long enough time to do the haul. So I'm just gonna start with this deck because it's the most precarious good plan. Some of these books are books that I bought for myself. Some of these are books that other people gave to me for Christmas. Some of them are books that people gave me randomly. I think that's every category. Yes, I bought it for myself. It was a Christmas present or a random present. You know what a book haul is. Let's get started. First book I have is The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. My friend Shaya gave me this. Shaya, whenever I haul Stephen King books or graphic novels. Oh fuck, there's a graphic novel that Shaya gave me over there. Not any of these stacks. Well, we'll just do that last, won't we? Yeah, pretty much with very few exceptions. If I'm hauling a Stephen King book, okay, a few have bought myself, but most of the time if I'm hauling Stephen King or a graphic novel is from Shaya. So Shaya gave me this because she had an extra copy. I was with her actually when she bought a pop-up book version of this, and so she didn't really especially want to keep. Oh my god, why do I look like a ghost now? The sun was just perfect when I set this up. Why? Why? I know if I close the blinds. There's like a bunch of clouds in the sky. It's gonna go behind a cloud and then it'll be too dark. Okay, well, here's hoping for the best. Okay, so back to this, yeah. So she has the pop-up book version of this, so she didn't especially need to or want to keep this like mass market paperback. She's like, you want it? And I was like, sure. Why the fuck not? I don't actually know what this is about really at all, other than like what I gleaned from flipping through the pop-up book with her in the store. So it's a book by Stephen King that I see the words Boston Red Sox on the back. That's all I know about this. Very useful, I know. Next is the book that me and Amanda are reading next month. Well, I say next month. I don't know when this video is going up, but we're reading it in February for our book clip. So for all I know, I've already posted a TBR and you already know that. I don't exactly know. Any hoosies, yeah. So this is Amanda's pick. The live show will be on her channel, and Mara and Bethany are also reading with us. That being Bethany from Beautifully Bookish Bethany and Mara from Books Like War. This is a chunky fantasy romance that they are making me read for reasons that remain a mystery to me. I think this one like Goodreads Choice Awards or something. So Amanda really wanted to read it and she's hopeful that I will like it. I am less hopeful that I will like it. What? Stranger things have happened. It is definitely long. So I'm really hoping I like it because this is a long time to suffer if I hate it. I'm not gonna lie. I do really like the cover. Like the first time I saw this cover and I didn't know who this author was or what this was. I was like, oh, is that a grimdark fantasy? It's like red and has a blade on it. And then I found out vaguely what it was. And I was like, oh, just kidding. It's definitely not a grimdark fantasy. I mean, I have been known to like a trashy book or two. So this could be another Infernal Devices Shatter Me situation. Those are few and far between, but here's hoping. Next is my pick for January, which is The Black Company. I accidentally got the omnibus version, so it's all three books in The Black Company in one bind up. But in January, as of the filming of this video, I haven't started it yet, me and Amanda, and we'll be reading the first book in The Black Company, which is called The Black Company. And that book is, enjoy my flipping noises. Oh, for the love of fuck. Wait, did I pass it? Yeah, that was way too far. It's actually a lot shorter than that. So this is the first book. It's in the bind up version. It's less than 300 pages. The bind up version is bigger, like the pages are bigger, I think in the mass market. It's like 300 pages. Yeah, so it's not terribly long. So I can knock this out pretty quickly, hoping I like it enough to want to read the rest, because I've got it. And I do enjoy a flippity, slobbery paperback, so excited about that at least. Next is another book Shaya gave me, and that's In the Night Garden, by Catherine and Valenti. I really like Catherine Valenti's writing in Deathless. I don't think I've read anything else by Catherine Valenti. I don't think so. I own Radiance, not to be confused with Grace Draven's Radiance. When I talk about loving Radiance, I mean Grace Draven's Radiance. And oh, and I own all of the books in the The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland and the ownership of her own main king. I think the series might be called Fairyland? I don't know. I own all those books, but I haven't read them. So yeah, I think the only Catherine Valenti book I've read is Deathless. I really liked Deathless. So Shaya read this and really liked it, I think. I don't think she loved it, but she liked it. And it's illustrated, these beautiful illustrations. So since this looks kind of fairy tale-esque, which is kind of how Deathless is, unlike Radiance, which is a sci-fi book, so I don't know how I'll do with that. But so I've seen her write fairy tale-esque things and enjoyed it, and these illustrations are so pretty. So I'm quite excited about this. Next up, I'll do these together. I have two Brandon Sanderson books that I bought myself. I already owned, in these editions, the hard covers of the Well of Ascension and the Hero of Ages. Hero of Ages being the one that kind of lost me. But I'm a completionist both in reading and in owning. So since I have the other two, it just has been bothering me that I don't have the first one. The reason I only have those other two is because I got them off like Book Outlet or something. It was like, you know, they had like one copy in and I was like, get it. And then since then I've like parted ways with Book Outlet. Not that I was ever affiliated with them, but like I won't chop there anymore. So they might have had this since then, I don't know. But there was no reason to wait anymore because I wasn't like waiting for it to hopefully also be on Book Outlet for a cheap price. So I was just like, oh, fuck it, get it. Just do it. So I got my hardcover Mistborn to complete my hardcover, American hardcover Mistborn trilogy set. And then I'm reading Elantris in this month with this being January. Again, I'm not sure what this video is going up. So I have not read it yet as of the filming of this video, but that's why I got it because I was going to read it in January. So I was like, I need to have a copy of it in order to do that. And I always get a hardcover if I can if it's not like exorbitant. The story of this purchase. Next I have Daughter of Smokin' Bone by Lainey Taylor. Why is there a bookmark here? This came, I bought the special edition Elima crate that was specifically Daughter of Smokin' Bone slash generally Lainey Taylor themed. Although the crate itself, like they intentionally said, you know, oh it's not going to be just Daughter of Smokin' Bone. It's going to be like the book will be, but it's going to be all Lainey Taylor things, except everything in the box was Daughter of Smokin' Bone related, except for one thing. And that one thing was Strange the Dreamer and it was a mug. And I was like, if it had been like a balance where like it was kind of half and half, I'd be like whatever. But I was like, why couldn't I have a Daughter of Smokin' Bone mug? Oh, I did that one thing have to be Strange the Dreamer. Everything else was Daughter of Smokin' Bone. Anyway, that's a petty thing to complain about. The mug is quite nice. And I do love Strange the Dreamer. Anyway, I've been bitching for years that Daughter of Smokin' Bone deserves the kind of like glorious special editions that all this, it seems that all new YA releases seem to be getting. And like it came out before that was a thing. And I've just been pissing and moaning about it. So when Aluma Crate announced this, I was like, fucking finally. So of course I had to get it. I mean the stuff in the crate was fine, but I was in it for the book. And I like, I would pay that amount of money just for the book. So like having extra stuff as well was quite nice. And I've ordered the, because they then separately sold books two and three, which is such a ploy for whatever. Ordered those, they're not here yet. But these editions, they're all, they all have sprayed pages. They all are hardcover. Because you can get this cover now. They re-released it in these covers in the UK, I think, but I think hotter. Is it a publisher? Maybe Simon and Schuster? I don't know. But you can only get it in hardcover from Aluma Crate. With Sprata just and the dust jackets, they're all illustrated by Lainie Taylor's husband, Jim de Bartolo. And the like naked cover has like a quote on it. So I mean it's quite deluxe. And I loved Outer Smokin' Bone. The international edition, which I also own, is the only blurbed review on it. It's from Patrick Rothfuss and the review just says, I wish I'd written this book. Wish like, can you get a better accolade than that? I don't think so. Anyway, yeah, so I've read this. I love it. And I just, I know I have this fancy fucking edition of it. I'll do these next four together. I have another set of four Book of the Month Club books also. Then I'll do separately because they're in a different stack. But yeah, these are all Book of the Month Club books. I didn't get them all at once because you can only accept the other stack of four. I did get all at once because it's the end of the year and the end of the year. In addition to your usual one Book of the Month and two add-ons, you also get to pick, if you want to, one of the best of the year if you want. So I got four books in December. So that's coming up, sneak preview. But these came in separate boxes. I don't remember which came with which. Yeah, I don't remember at all. Oh, what I do know is that Hibbidi. This was actually a monthly pick, like one of the Books of the Month. When I got it. And it is a YA fantasy Asian inspired retelling of Romeo and Juliet. Hence the title, which is a quote from Romeo and Juliet. It looks like it was in November. So that's when I got it. The other ones were all add-ons. So because they could be from any time, I don't know which box they came in. So yeah, YA has generally kind of fallen out of favor with me a lot because in recent months and years, it has quite often more often than not let me down. But it couldn't resist a Shakespeare retelling with this cover. And it was like one of the Books of the Month. And I had to pick one and it was the one that most appealed to me. So I didn't have to pick when you can skip. But I like, I almost never skip because I'm like, but I want books. Also, you can't get add-ons if you skip. So generally I don't skip because I want the add-ons. Anyway, I haven't read this yet. It intrigues me. I haven't heard too much about it. I've just seen it around, but I don't actually haven't heard anyone say they've read it and what they think of it. So I don't know. Maybe people are hating it. I have no fucking idea. And then these three were all add-ons. They're all like mystery thrillers. So I got two by Ruth Ware, one by one and Turn of the Key. One by one I got because it's an isolated close circle mystery in the snow. And it just, it sounded very like, and then there were none, which is one of my favorites. And this I learned, oh god, why is everything falling? Okay. This I learned is inspired by, based on or in some way a retelling of The Turn of the Screw, which I read Turn of the Screw in 2020. Didn't love it that much, but I love The Haunting of Bly Manor, which is a retelling of The Turn of the Screw. So like I've become more, it intrigues me more now that I see something as in some way a reference to inspired by or a retelling of The Turn of the Screw. So that's why I got this because I heard good things about it and I was like, oh, Turn of the Screw. And then this one, The Broken Girls by Simone St. James. I think it's an isolated close circle mystery in a girl's boarding school, which sounds like a fun read and by fun I mean chilling. Anyway, they all sounded intriguing. Hence me choosing them. Next I have, oh, these are all gifts. Okay, this, Bethany got me this for Christmas. It's Hansel and Gretel, retold by Neil Gaiman with Art by Lorenzo Matoti. It's got this like little window in it. Why can't I flip the pages? It's quite nicely illustrated, quite darkly illustrated as is appropriate with Neil Gaiman. If you don't know, because you've been in Iraq, Neil Gaiman's my favorite author. So Bethany literally had me photograph every Neil Gaiman book that I own. So she could make sure that I didn't have this before she got it. Which is very wise, because I do own quite a bit. So the odds of me already having the thing you're thinking of getting me are quite high. And then Shaya got me, these are still wrapped in their plastic. Which, yeah, volumes one and two of the Neil Gaiman library. She was like, I knew you wouldn't buy these for yourself. I'm also here and I wouldn't, but I'm excited to own them. These are like bind ups of like some Dark Horse comics done by Neil Gaiman. So the first one of volume one has some of these I've actually bought for Shaya as gifts. A study in Emerald murder mysteries, how to talk to girls at parties and forbidden brides. And volume two has the facts in the case of the departure of Miss Finch. I got that for Shaya. Likely stories, Harlequin Valentine and Trollbridge. So I am quite excited to have these. I would never splurge on comics, but I'm quite excited about this. And these are heavy at the look. This is the recent purchase, the city of girls, or just city of girls know the by Elizabeth Gilbert. Because this is one of Joshana's favorite books, and she was just going on and on about why she loves it. And the more she talked about it, the more I was like, that does sound something I would like. Because I heard it before, I think Joshana, but I think the other people too compare it to the Seven Husbands of Evil in Hugo. And I really liked that book, but I liked it kind of despite the premise, the premise of a Hollywood starlet telling her life story. I was like, when I read that book, I was like, I don't expect to like this because this premise doesn't appeal to me. And yet it was so well written that like, I loved it anyway. So hearing that another story is similar to that one. I was like, well, it wasn't really the story that got me on that one. It was the writing. But when she explained it and kind of went over all the ways it's different from it, I was like, oh, that sounds way more at my alley. Because it's like a large portion of it takes place in a physical theater, I think in New York. And I quite like the atmosphere of a theater more so than Hollywood. So that as a setting appeals to me way more. So I know Joshana just loves the fuck out of it. So I feel like the odds of me hating this are slim. I feel like at worst I'll just kind of be lukewarm on it. But yeah, I figured out how to give it a go. Then Gardens of the Moon by Stephen Erickson. This is on my list of series to read in 2021. I will be buddy reading this with my father. I got it for him for Christmas and told him that was why. He was like, all right, let's do it. So that's the plan in February that he and I will read this. I am moving. So that's throwing a hitch into like, because I know that will take time away from reading, but that's the plan is that we're going to buddy read this. So that's why I own it because I need to own it in order to accomplish that. Next is the next book in the All Souls Trilogy. I read Discovery of Witches and I was kind of lukewarm on Discovery of Witches. However, the way that it ends, I am, I know like, where the next book will be taking place and the where highly intrigues me and highly appeals to me. So despite not really loving Discovery of Witches, the setting of this book entices the fuck out of me. So like, I decided to go ahead and give the second book a go. And then if I feel just as lukewarm about this as I did about the first book, then I probably won't read the third one, but I'm a complete sucker for the setting that, and I can't tell you the setting because it's spoilery for the first book. So the way the first book ends, if you've read the first book, you absolutely know where the next book will be taking place. I'm quite excited about it. Next is a gift from a friend of mine who's not on booktube and she's like, I'm quite bad at buying presents. So can you just give me a list of books that you want and then it'll be kind of a surprise what you get. And I was like, sure. So I told her I was interested in Steven, among the others that I said, I was interested in Steven Fry's retellings of the Greek myth. So she got me heroes by Steven Fry. I also need to get Mythos because I think Mythos is first. But like what, this book is so fucking gorgeous. Like, and it's really heavy as I think it's illustrated and it's just like on really thick paper. It's just a gorgeous book. This is like totally, totally, totally a coffee table book. So like it's kind of like epic to hold. I mean, I feel like reading it will feel like intimidating because I'm just like, oh, just holding this. I feel like I should be at the Huntington Library. But I think the audio book is read by Steven Fry. So that all quite appeals to me. So I might do it via audio. But I mean, I always like to own the physical book of any audio book that I do experience. Then I got for myself, my cousin Rachel, because I want to read more Daphne de Moria. I do own two other or, well, I read Rebecca and then I own two other Daphne de Moria books. Those being Frenchman's Creek and Jamaica Inn, which I do want to read. But I was wanting to read this next because I want to see the movie of this. And it's the one that I didn't own. Well, I shouldn't say the one that I don't own because I don't own every Daphne de Moria book. But so I went ahead and got it so that I could do that. That's why we have our books, right? To read them. And then this is another present from Shaya. I think this was a just because present, maybe it was a Christmas present. I don't know. We get each other's shit all the time. So I don't remember the occasion or if there was one. She got me the pop-up edition of The Little Prince. And I know she loves The Little Prince. So I suspect I also will love The Little Prince. Everything I've heard about it. Most people I feel like who read it love it and it breaks their heart. And this a pop-up edition? Like how fun is that? It's still in its plastic because I haven't. Okay, well, let's check it out together. Such a cute book. All right, let's see the pop-ups. Let's do this thing. Oh, where's the next pop-up? Oh, oh, that one moves. I don't know if you can see probably not. Very cute. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now that's a pop-up. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Okay, yeah. So I'm super excited about this. So thank you to Shaya. Next stack. This is Book of the Month Club books and one other. So the one other is Nosferatu by Johel, which is on my January TBR, but at the time of filming that TBR and for half of January, well, not half of January because I'm not halfway through January right now is the filming of this video. But it took quite a fucking long time for this book to get here. It finally did. And I actually have read this already. So I will be filming a review and Miya and Shaya will be discussing it because this is the book. One of the two books that Miya and Shaya are buddy reading because we're reading each other's picks. She picked Nosferatu. So she's rereading it and I'm reading it. And I picked the wolf. So I'm rereading it and she's reading it. So Nosferatu by Johel. Do I need to explain what this is? I feel like it's pretty well known. Johel is Stephen King's son. People often say that this book is quite in the style of Stephen King. I am not an expert on Stephen King by any stretch, but from the experiences I have had with Stephen King, I would say this feels like if I didn't know who wrote this and you said Stephen King, did I be like, yeah, that checks out. So yeah, it's about this like vampiric type being that ferries children in his car with the license plate Nosferatu to Christmas land. And so it's just a real happy little fairytale as you can tell from the cover. Now all my end of year book of the month club books again, so my pick for that month, my two add-ons, and then one of the best of the year picks. I think I remember which is which. Pretty sure I remember which is which. Outlawed is my book of the month pick and it is, I would just get, is this January not December? I don't know. I think they do it in January so that you can include December in the best ofs. I don't fucking know. Anyway, I picked Outlawed because I was super keen on any of the picks this month but this one somewhat appealed to me and I think Shaya picked it too. So whenever we can't decide we just go with whatever the other one picked. It seemed quite feminist and I'm very hit or miss on Westerns but I'm willing to give it a go. I'm not gonna lie, half the reason I even want to pick this is because I hate this cover so much. I can't even tell you how much I hate this cover. It's the worst. I could not think of a cover that appeals to me less but you know, that's a terrible reason not to read something. Also, it's really fucking short which I had no way of knowing before it arrived. Pulled out of the box and I was like, is that it? And the text isn't very small so I should be able to knock this out in no time. Next is one of my pick for one of the best ofs and that was Anxious People by Friedrich Bachmann. I'd seen this around but I had never really been interested but I then read this analysis because I was trying to pick which of the best ofs I would want so I actually looked into what it is and it sounded, now I don't remember, oh it's would-be bank robbers and they're anxious about it and it just sounded like a very strange almost gallows humor comedy of errors that I've heard that his writing is just like excellent and it sounds quite character-driven so it sounded like something that very possibly could be up my alley. Given that in 2020 I was reading more contemporaries and things like Normal People and the Hearts and Visible Furies and Beatrice Reed quite liticky contemporaries and I liked those so I thought this might be a win with me especially if it was one of the best of the year like how bad could it be and then my add-ons I got A Rogue of Ones Owned by Evie Dunmore I really did not like bringing down the Duke which was her first in this series but as I've come to learn romance novel series are kind of more spin-offs where like it's like a group of friends or a family and then there's kind of a book for each one so this is a sequel in that way so I wasn't buttering this but I talked to a friend of mine who read both and she liked bringing down the Duke but I was like you know what my issues were were with bringing down the Duke do you think I would like a Rogue of Ones Owned better and she was like actually yeah she was like I I didn't she didn't have a problem with bringing down the Duke bringing down the Duke but having read both like she knows what things in bringing down the Duke were there and she doesn't disagree that they were there they just didn't bother her so she was like I can safely say that Rogue of Ones Owned does not have those things and you'd probably like it better so I was like all right because I the in bringing down the Duke the writing style like I I liked it I didn't hate it there was just more like specific elements to the romance that like really put me off but because the style of the writing was like you know quite amusing and fun and I do love me a Tessadero style Bridgerton style fun historical romance with like a lot of witty banter I was like all right let's give it a shot and then early riser this sounded strange and I also don't remember what it's about but I remember thinking actually that sounds great every winter the human population hibernates during those bitterly cold four months the nation is a snow draped landscape of desolate loneliness devoid of human activity well not quite your name is Charlotte Worthing and it's your first season with the winter consoles the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses you are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams that you dismiss as nonsense nothing more than a quirky artifact born of the sleeping mind when the dreams start to kill people it's unsettling when you get the dreams too it's weird when they start to come true you begin to doubt your sanity but teasing the truth from the winter is never easy you have to avoid the villains and their penchant for murder kidnapping and stamp collecting ensure you aren't eaten by night walkers those whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food and sidestep the increasingly less than mythical winter folk but so long as you remember to wrap up warmly you'll be fine so that sounds really weird really really weird but also as i read that description online when i ordered it and like some of the like book of the month reviews i was like yeah okay that i feel like i could definitely vibe with this okay and last but certainly not least is this entire stack of robin hob books because i've decided i quite like robin hob pooh um so i've i only just as of last night finished royal assassin which is the second book in the far seer trilogy but like even having not finished it i was like i robin hob is the is an author for me i already know this so i decided to just go ahead and get like with my christmas bonus all of the hob books so i and i stacked them in order so this is the live ship trader series which is on my list of series that if i can my list of series to finish this year included far seer and my list of series to start this year included live ship traders which i kept calling mad ship and mad ship is one of the books in the series but i like in four videos i think i refer to this series as the mad ship series i don't know what madness possessed me see what i did there any hoosies ship of magic is the first book followed by mad ship concluding with ship of destiny these covers are eight my favorite covers are of the final three and you'll see why they are objectively without question the prettiest covers but i knew next is the the tawny man trilogy which begins with fools errand then the golden fool and then fools fate like those covers are totally fine and then the final trilogy which is like definitely the best covers definitely definitely and that's the fits in the fool trilogy and they're just they're quite shiny especially the third book which is teal gotta love teal so fools assassin fools quest and the best cover of all assassins fate just just look at this fucking cover like like yum so yeah that does it i is oh wait graphic novel i did this last time where i said i'd haul something at the end and forgot okay i think in my december wrap up you saw shea give me this she read i hate fairyland a bind up i think of the first two volumes she gave me the first volume of i hate fairyland which apparently is oh my god just look look at that apparently the premise of this is that um it's basically like this girl who like falls into fairyland a la like alton waterland or whatever and like them like fairy creatures or whatever or like to leave fairyland return to your own realm you have to like perform you have to like go on this quest and it should take like a day and uh 27 years later she's still trying to fulfill this stupid quest it's not going well and it's blurbed actually by neil gayman it says it can be colored and vicious to light and always dangerously funny so based on shea's description and based on what i have like seen just kind of flipping through this i mean it looks like complete madness but also like it'd be quite fun yeah i mean it's kind of like each color is just like a creola box just like vomited everywhere so it's gonna be a dent so i might have to like wear sunglasses oh i read this all right yeah so those are all the books there may be some books that i acquired since my last haul that like it's like right after that haul so it's been so long that i've already like tbr'd and wrapped them up and forgot that i never hauled them so sorry if that's the case my bad oh i already see over there there's one huh do i go yeah i'll fucking go get it last last last is uh infernal the chronicles of stratus book one by marc diegher uh this was sent to me by the publisher and i need to read it okay four realsies that's it let me know in the comments down below if you've read any of these books if you want to read these books if you recommend these books if you are dreading me reading these books whenever you want to let me know i post videos on saturdays other random times as well but definitely saturdays so like and subscribe and i'll see you when i see you bye