 Hello everybody! E here. Welcome back to another book haul. This one is for, what is it? April? Yeah, April. I know there's some more days left in the month, but I don't have any more money left. So this is what we're doing. Right off the bat, when we jump right into it, because this is probably going to be a long video, I'm not sure if the review is already up for this one, but I got this one this month. Where the line bleeds, and if you don't want us to review of it, I give this sucker five stars. It's amazing. I read it as soon as it got here. I blew through it. No, I didn't blow through it. I took my time with it, it's 239 pages, but I think it took me like a week to read. I cherished every single word of it, and I suggest you do the same thing. Next up, one of the final, I think I need two more collections, and I'm finally done until he releases a new one, Haruki Mirakami's After the Quake, which is a super short collection of stories based on the 1995 Kobe earthquake, Kobe, Japan. Haruki Mirakami has a new, I almost said new albums, has a new book coming out called Killing, Commandantory, or something like that. I don't know, but I'll leave a link down in the pre-order down in the doobly-doo. I have not read this one yet. The only one of his collections I read was The Elephant Vanishes, and I've left the collections for last to buy those because I wasn't too big of a fan of his short story work. Sorry. Next up is one I have a little bit of a story for. I ordered a hardcover of this one. Fumonori Nakamoto's Evil and the Mask. You'll notice this is a paperback. You'll also notice this is an advanced review copy. These guys aren't supposed to be selling advanced review copies. I don't know if you guys know that or not, but I contacted Amazon. The seller refunded my money. The reason why I got this one, instead of the hardcover, is because the ISBN, you see it doesn't even have a barcode. The ISBN for these books, these advanced review copies, are for the hardcovers, so they end up sending out these. I'm really upset because neither the author nor the publisher ever saw any money for this. The publisher seemed like it wouldn't, that big of a deal. They were like, okay, well, since we didn't send you the right, the correct copy, the hardcover, we'll just give you your money back because we don't have another one. Even Amazon was like, what's the big deal? We gave you a refund. Guys, you're not supposed to sell these. You're not. You can donate them, you can give them to a friend, but you really shouldn't even do that because whoever you donate to, like Goodwill or Charity Shops or whatever, they're going to end up selling them. They're not supposed to be sold. Next up, I don't know if you guys know, the Thief, I did a review on the channel for it. That is part of that series. The next one I got, I actually got what I wanted, was The Kingdom by Fuminoi Nakamida. I'm hoping I'm saying his name right, but this one is a sister novel to his book, The Thief. So I'm hoping to get this, he's got another book coming out called Club X that I'm super excited for. That joke goes like 800 pages long, so I'm looking forward to that one. Next one is one that I'm almost finished with, that I almost DNF'd. I didn't buy this though. This one came from Atria Publishing, Simon Schuster, is their parent company. I reviewed Carolina Kepnis' Providence, and I got a connection with them, so a contact with them, and they emailed me asking if I wanted to read this one and the sequel, Us Against Them, I think it's called. Anyway, so I'll be getting that one closer to its publication date. But this one is pretty good so far. I almost did not finish it based on the first 60-some-odd pages, and then it got really, really good and I'm almost done with it. Let me show you guys my, I like this. You inspire my inner serial killer. That's pretty much what this book is doing to me. I want to kill everybody in the book, except for a handful of characters. Next up, two of these, one was a gift from a friend, and the other two were from Books of Millions Clearance, Idle. This is The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner. I don't know anything about this book, other than a little bit of what I read. It says, Rachel Kushner's first novel, Telix from Cuba, was nominated for National Book Award. I'm all about some National Book Awards. And reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, her second novel, even more ambitious and brilliant, is the riveting story of a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s, by turns, underground, elite, and dangerous. That sounds like my jam all over the place. And can somebody tell me, doesn't that look like, what is it, Clan of the Cane Bear? The lady on the front of it with the face paint, it looks that way to me. But we'll see. I'll let you guys know what I think of it. This one is one that was on my radar for the longest time, and I found it for five bucks at BAM. So I went ahead and I grabbed it, Michelin. This is about twins. That's all I really know. But here's the thing that sold me. Konar is an astonishing and fearless writer with incantatory magic. She marches through the most nightmarish of landscapes, swinging her light. That sounds good. I know it's just a blurb, and we can't always trust blurbs. But that sounds awesome. And it's about twins. I like stories about twins. Let's see here. Michelin means hybrid half-breed, used by the Third Reich to denote a person of mixed blood. So yeah, it sounds like my family. So we'll see how that one is, and I'll let you guys know. Last, but certainly not least, this author, this is a funny story behind this. This author, I first saw on Twitter, she put up a video, her just straight up geeking out over the fact that her book was coming out. And she ended up getting a copy of it, and she unboxed it. And just her passion and her gleeful nature, she was like a kid opening up a present on Christmas Day. I was like, I want to support this person, because that's obviously somebody who's in love with their craft, and it's worked really hard to get there. I don't want to murder this name, but it's Tommy Dainy. I'm sorry, I apologize if you happen to find this children of blood and bone. Now I'm not a huge sci-fi or fantasy fan, and I think this is YA also. So those are three boxes that I don't normally like, but my wife's back here smiling at me. If I don't like it, she'll end up reading it. I want to give it a try just because she seems like such a cool person, and that's what drew me in. I think Entertainment Weekly said that she's the next JK Rowling, but I mean in that sense every new children, not children, but any new middle grade or YA magic, you know, anything like that is the next JK Rowling. So I'll let you guys know. I'm definitely going to read it. In fact, I think I'm going to buddy read it with a friend of mine. She mentioned she wanted to read it. So have you guys read any of these books? Do you guys have your own April book haul? Let me know all that stuff and whatever else you want to tell me down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I have been E, you've been U, this has been April's book haul. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!