 Today on Typical Books we have a hot cup of coffee, a gigantic butcher knife, and a massive stack of books for me to unbox. This is what has happened during the time that I was reading what I owned and I won't gesture with the knife anymore. I'll set it down safely back where it was in the bookshelf. I have amassed quite a number of books. You'll see boxes from Book of the Month Club, there are ARCs, there are pre-orders, all kinds of things. Books that I had ordered before I started the challenge on November 5th and I was inspired by Criminalli, Olly or Criminalli who took this challenge. I'm also inspired by Michael K. Vaughn who has been undergoing a Read What You Own challenge for quite some time and I've learned a couple things about the Read What You Own challenge. It's great, it's worth it, I love it, I loved it. I also hated it because of this. It's not that I have trouble controlling my book buying, I do just have regular book buying and I'm a creature of habit like so many people and not that the Book of the Month Club is like a bad habit or anything there but I had just started it and I didn't want to really stop it. I skipped a couple months, some books did catch my eye so I was very interested to get to those new releases I'm a sucker for. I mean I curate the list of new releases of the Horror Writers Association website so I see them and they're so enticing. If you think my channel's enticing when it comes to books that I talk about like some of these books and boxes are going to be of interest to some people I'm sure I see a lot of books that are so enticing. I have a lot of cool author friends that I want to buy their books when they come out. Luckily I did get some arcs during that time and gifts were part of the exceptions so I did get some gifts like gifts from my husband and I got gifts just gifts of arcs and I have like review copies so I count those as gifts as well but yeah otherwise there were some pre-orders and I just didn't open them because I didn't want to break the rules and I'm sort of bending the rules now because I've got a couple books left to read but I got a couple books on the go that I'm going to finish like Cold Black and Infinite by Todd Kiesling which I am enjoying so much. Like it is run don't walk I hope it wins awards because wonderful stuff and I'm still just wrapping up the Carl Edward Wagner in a lonely place. I've finished reading Hog which was I skimmed a lot of it because it's just not necessarily my thing but I wanted to get it done and over with and I'm also just wrapping up the big head. I just I think I just overlapped a whole bunch of books to get them read right but hey here we are at the end of the challenge in the beginning of a huge unboxing so without further ado I'm going to try and not be too knifey knifey in case some people are sensitive to a whole lot of knifey knifey going on and I'm also going to try not stab the books because that's not what you want to do right? Have you ever gotten a book or something out of a box that has a great big blade mark in it? I think that's why I appreciate these larger knives because they're a little easier for me to control in a way than a box cutter which is extremely sharp and kind of a little much. This I think because of like years and years as a human being preparing food in a kitchen I have enough knife safety box cutter safety is not my forte. Oh yeah there's going to be a whole bunch of this because I know what's in the boxes I do I know I know what's in the boxes but some of them I forget and I don't know what's in what box this is also part of the rush to get the unboxing done is that I have an order a pre-order that I think is in here but I'm not sure and I want to make sure it wasn't stolen off of my doorstep it might be arriving today. A flicker in the dark Stacey Willingham this was one of the few uh thriller books at Book of the Month Club that caught my eye I might not continue with Book of the Month Club after the next couple months we'll see if anything else really works for me because these are just kind of summer reads the resort Sarah Oaks uh this is specifically for summertime I want to read something summery in summertime and this looks like it will be the one for me so yeah some Book of the Month Club thrillers that I'm very interested in I've heard a lot of good about a flicker in the dark okay so what have we next we have this will be an arc I believe it's it's a big box I don't know I'm worried like what if I what if I accidentally open up someone's Christmas presents or what if I accidentally show you what I'm getting someone for their birthday we'll find out and I hope it isn't too bad as the ASMR in this as well oh my I feel like I'm quartering a pig it's a big box I wonder if there's swag just a lot of really good packaging I know what this is and I know what why it's such a big box because there's two books in here and it's domestic not domestic as in violence but domestic as in from Canada ECW press had asked me if I was interested in either of these books and I said oh my I am very interested in both when I saw that they were coming out this year they were on my list to purchase gray dog by Elliot Gish and withered by AJA Wilmot and withered has such a gorgeous cover I'm very intrigued by gray dog and this sounds like it will be just sublime dark as anything so yes a subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women's historical fiction with illusions wild beasts and an uncontainable power of female rage so yes and a queer paranormal horror novel in the style of showrunner Mike Flanagan showing the complex real-life terror inherent in grief and mental illness very very very fascinated to read these and I'll have reviews coming up soon because these will be second on my list of reading what will be number one on my list of reading you ask I think it's in this box we'll find out in one second it is supposed to get extremely cold today it's been unseasonably warm and it's going to drop all of a sudden 20 degrees after dinner tonight so I want to get all of these unboxed and into the recycling as soon as I can oh come on if I wasn't so afraid of cutting the tops of my books I would use a box cutter like a normal person but I just I just can't what I wish I had was that wonderful jade knife that Mercer I'm harping in the trees would use okay here we go this book will be number one on my reading and you may think I'm holding it upside down but I'm not my throat and open grave by Tori Bovalino this is the patron pick so thank you so much for voting everyone who voted they say he's the devil the lord of the wood with gnarled skin like roots of trees and eyes of a wolf ready to open his jaws and swallow a young girl whole I was so intrigued by the premise of this reminds me something like prom it's folk horror and it's going to be quite dark so I'm very very intrigued to read this I love this cover art love it so much this gorgeous red bloody handprint on the nightgown of a girl photographed upside down really unsettling to begin with that will be the first book I pick up after I'm done the read what you own challenge with those three books left to go which I've been reading here and there through work on breaks in the morning time stuff like that uh yeah I'll be done reading those soon very soon and starting my throat and open grave and having a new poll come up on patreon very very soon indeed the next video I'm going to make is a new releases video so I will have a whole bunch of new books to talk about soon hopefully I won't be too tempted because I've got a lot to read on the go this is another arc another reason I am entrusting my books to the knife is that I have had the longest nails I've ever had lately and I don't want to ruin them man amazon really ought to take a note from booksellers on how to package books that this is pristine there's hardly any damage to the corners of the books all the other books have been really well packaged I was surprised the amazon one was actually fine but I think it's because the book actually fit the box perfectly so it didn't get damaged had too many damaged hardcover books from amazon this is as advertised an arc from ink shares so thank you noah for sending ink shares books along this is how I discovered selso hertado's awesome series which I'm very excited for more of ghost tracks or the devil's promise by selso hertado this is midwestern gothic by scott thomas I absolutely loved kill creek I loved kill creek so much I still think of it some of the characters really stuck out and probably because it is a horror readers or horror writers novel it's really about horror reading fiction the people that create it and the people that read it and the people that create the supernatural angle of it all so this midwestern gothic is for novellas I haven't read violet and I really ought to but this is right up my alley it's got these four amazing stories the text it's a little small and I don't have my glasses right now but the boy in the woods where you are secret like a stone the door in the field and one half of a child's face are the titles of the stories in this if you like scott thomas tell me if this is on your list have you read violet I'm very interested because I love kill creek so much I have high hopes for midwestern gothic I've already got like a really big stack of books here don't I well we've got more to come maybe I'll do this little tiny package first and give the knife a break oh I lied I made a knife for this this is waif by Samantha Kolesnik whose last name I always have trouble pronouncing I always feel like I'm doing it right then part of me feels like I'm doing it wrong but yeah waif I've been so excited to read this and of course it was delayed for me and off limits press who published this is also publishing has republished true crime so if you missed out on reading that and we're looking for it it's out again so check out off limits press I also have bella station here on my two read that came in right when I had started my read what you won't challenge so I'm like well I don't technically own it yet do I do I but yeah nice thin book too I wish I had it during the challenge when I was looking for novellas but yeah wait I so badly want to take a sip of my coffee okay so this is another book of the month club and this is one that I be not watching one of sin's book reviews from sins book nook so that I can actually read it first and then watch reviews I can hear the bookmark rattling around in here I like the very plain little book of the month club bookmarks I really do book of the month close to the climax huh I guess it's you should use this bookmark when you're in the middle I don't really I don't really get it I don't really get it is it a sex thing I don't I don't really get it but yes okay so what have we got seasons readings may your books be merry and bright it's been this long this is no one can know a novel by Kate Alice Marshall and it's yet another one of those books that have a novel in the title of the novel I do enjoy that quite a bit houses on the cover this is going to be a theme when I go when I finally like get all these unboxed we have one more box to go I'm gonna see how many houses are on the cover of these books because you know I really do enjoy houses on the cover of a book for whatever reason and now I want to see if I got bookmarks in the other book of the month club box oh it was it was underneath the flaps it had wiggled its way under the flaps book of the month was it something I read I can't you have to say it in that you know oh was it something I read oh oh oh it probably was probably was that should be like the the slogan of my show oh why Jim subscribe was it something I read or something I didn't read so last box oh my god thank you for sticking it out through this entire stack of amazing discoveries um it turns out that the book that I was hoping had already been delivered should be in this box and if it's not then there may be another addendum to this it is it is it is it is in the box I'm so happy because I was so worried someone stole this book for whatever reason it is extremely expensive to get this in Canada right now I don't know why Tim McGregor's Eye and Hollow it is a Bride of Frankenstein story that is getting really great reviews I've listened to a lot of podcast talk about it podcast interviews with Tim McGregor amazing dude I'm very very excited this is a gorgeous absolutely gorgeous hardcover put out by raw dog screaming press it's just out now I mean it was a pre-order that I've been sitting on I think I ordered it mid-December and yeah so wow that is quite a collection as far as books with houses on the cover Eye and Hollow is not one no one can know is one Waif does not Midwestern Gothic surprisingly does not my throat and open grave does not withered does gray dog does not the resort does not and a flicker in the dark does not I'm surprised okay so I did pretty good two books with houses on the cover I thought it would be like half of them so I'm going to see how this fits into my review copy reading that's three review copies of books I'm very excited to read that are here once a little long gray dog looks long I didn't look at to see how big the text is but yeah I shouldn't be like that I know I'll rip through it I'd loved everything I read from ECW press and I know I'll love this so it's slim so is Waif maybe I will read them after I'm done reading the patreon pick so yeah I'll have a big list of books that are coming out soon from horror writers association writers like Tim and a whole bunch of other authors of course and be fashioning a list that you could vote on as well at patreon or as tiebreakers when there's a tie I turn to everyone here so thank you so much for watching and have an icky spooky day