 Hey guys it's Leanna and I'm here today with a Book of the Month Club book haul. I don't really like doing hauls very much anymore because it's just like boring to me to do but occasionally there's like a particular subset of books that I kind of want to share. I only recently subscribed to Book of the Month and it was specifically, well I had a friend of mine that kept trying to get me to subscribe to Book of the Month and I was like yeah I might have so many other subscriptions like maybe and then there was one particular book that was only available as an add-on that I was like I need it so I decided to subscribe but I've stayed subscribed because you know life. These are in a very short amount of time like since May that I have picked up all these Book of the Month Club books so we're just going to go through them. The pile isn't really stacked in chronological order although it kind of is but not really but it is but a bit okay well whatever I'll just go through them and I'll kind of tell you why I picked them I guess so that's what a haul is it's been a while yeah I'll tell you why I picked them. Please don't fall please don't fall please don't fall. We split it into two piles and it's still falling okay. We may as well start with okay for real please no okay I think we're good. We may as well start with the book that started it all the whole reason I subscribed in the first place. Also if you don't know what Book of the Month Club is I'm not an affiliate or anything I could have been an affiliate for their YA books but I don't care about that so I'm not here to promote anything I'm just here to tell you about it. It's a subscription where new releases are like among the editions they're all like Book of the Month Club editions is a different edition from the normal one and then they also have some Book of the Month Club editions of other books that you can add on to your package so if you subscribe it's kind of like audible where you get a credit and then you apply that credit to a new release or you can like store the credit for next month if you don't like any of the picks they have but if you want any of the add-ons then you have to like use your credit for one of this month's books and then you can add on up to two books that you have to pay for as well that's the only way you can get them is as an add-on. It's a gimmick. Let's be real it's a gimmick and it worked because I here I am a subscriber so anyway the reason I subscribed in the first place was because I wanted a hardcover copy of The Secret History by Donna Tart. I got a paperback copy which is the one that I read and I really really loved it totally fell in love with the story and her writing as far as I could tell there was no hardcover copy around at least not anymore the book came out a while ago and then I saw actually somebody on instagram saying hey anyone who's a Book of the Month Club subscriber do me a solid and get me the hardcover copy they have in their add-ons for Secret History and I was like maybe it's time I subscribe so I subscribed and even though I didn't really like any of the books that were like for that month I picked one so that I could add on The Secret History. This was my goal and I got it so it's a hardcover copy of The Secret History. If you subscribe now I think they still have this available as an add-on not a hundred on that but I think so anyway so it's a hardcover copy and then because it's a Book of the Month Club book then it says it has the little logo on the corner and on the spine and then the neek book also is always like a two-tone and then has the Book of the Month Club logo on the spine there as well so yeah they're just like nice editions they're now like super crazy fancy they don't have like crazy fan art like when you get like I'll create books or anything like that they're just nice they're just nice solid books so this is how it started this is what started it all so I guess well if I find it go to the book that I picked that month because I had to pick something and that was Necessary People by Anna Picherniak yep I actually started reading this one um I told my friend who's the one that convinced me to subscribe in the first place or was trying to get me to before um she reads a lot of thrillers so I was like I don't really like any of the books this month I'll get the thriller and I'll just give it to you but I was like let me read it first and I read that uh a third of it and I haven't picked it up since I kind of want to finish it like it's it's kind of intriguing but it doesn't I mean I kind of forgot that it existed also oh yeah and it tells you what month it is from when it's um so now I know for sure it was May that I subscribed because this is May 2019 book of the month so yeah I mean it's fine I might finish it or I'll just give it to my friend finally and just like secret history it's two tone got the got the logo on there so yeah I might finish it it's really freaking short who knows who knows and then I think it was that same month that I got those two or near thereafter I picked up spinning silver from book of the month as again I wanted a nice hardcover copy and I'd actually ordered a hardcover copy from Amazon but it had like an unremovable permanent sticker on it situation going on and I hate that I just wanted a clean copy so I picked it for as one of my add-ons at some point I think it was in May don't remember I could check my order history but it doesn't really matter it was a book of the month I guess in July 2018 so they still had it as an add-on so yeah same thing logos on it this one is blue and gold two-tone the logo on it and yeah still haven't read spinning silver I've got like three copies of it I was not loving uprooted so people have told me I'd like spinning silver better a lord I hope that's true because I have three copies um then the next book of the month that I picked for my book of the month in June was recursion by blank crouch I have not read this yet I have also not read dark matter but I own it and I've been wanting to read it for years and I think I really would like recursion as well so I hadn't pre-ordered it anywhere and I didn't think it would be coming in any of my sub boxes I didn't have any other editions of it coming so I was like yeah I'll get it from book of the month that'll be nice so I did haven't read it can't tell you anything except that it was my book of the month and it's golden black there you go tada then I think it was in that same month but they're melding together for me then I got daisy jones and the six because I had recently read seven husbands of evil and hugo and I really loved it and I hear nothing but great things about this one I have the goldsboro edition that's like maybe I'll do another special editions haul and show you that it's got like purple sprayed edges and it looks like a record and it's like the coolest thing ever but um I can't touch that one to read it because it's too pretty and special so I have this one to to read I think I have another copy too in addition like I might have three copies I might not I think I might have ordered this and then cancel my order because I was like oh I'll get it from book of the month so anyway that's that this one is tan and black in case you're interested yeah I have not read this yet I imagine I'm gonna love it because seven husbands was phenomenal and then in July my pick was gods of jade and shadow by sylvia marino garcia which is a fantasy that's kind of as taken spider I want to say I haven't read it yet oh it's the jazz is in full swing but cassiopeia tongue is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather's house blah blah blah blah yeah it's like a jazzy Mayan thingy it's cross-country odyssey from the jungles of yucca yeah anyway it's like a crazy thing it's a really cool cover and it sounds like a really cool unique read it's not too super long it's also book of the month is all adult books with I guess they used to have like some add-ons and still do that are some YA books but they do now have a YA book of the month like separately which is like I could have signed up to be an affiliate but I didn't because I have too many YA books already that I don't want to read but anyway all of the normal book of the month books um with some exceptions for some reason are adult books so this is an adult fantasy it's not YA I say that because this looks like it could be and it's not not ready yet though I've heard good things and again it's not super long but I haven't read it that same month my add-ons were the heart's invisible theories by John Boyne I had seen like a couple days before I had to pick my books for the month someone on Instagram talking about how they had just read this and loved it and how amazing it was how emotional it was how it really struck a chord with them and from the way they described it it really sounded to me like it would hit the feels that Angela's ashes hit and I love Angela's ashes so much not a book I talk about on my channel really at all ever because it's not a recent read and it's not fantasy which is mainly what I talk about but I adore Angela's ashes by Frank McCourt so not that I'm expecting this to be exactly like Angela's ashes but I feel like because I liked it I will like this um because it is about sort of like poor Irish people and specifically like two little boys I think or one little boy I'm not sure but it's like it's about poor Irish people and it's super long so I got it because I had just seen someone talk about it and this was a cool edition all the like regular editions on Amazon that are available now looked terrible to me just like aesthetically and for you girl who likes to put books on Instagram they gotta look good enough to be Insta worthy so yeah haven't read it yet it's a beast but I hope to and I think I won't like it and then that same month my other add-on was The Alienist by Caleb Carr I've been wanting to read this ever since they did I didn't know it existed tbqh before they adapted it for it was it on amc fx I don't know there's a tv series based on it with Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning and I don't know it looks gothic and cool and moody and dark but as soon as I found out that it was a book originally then I wanted to read the book and then see the show so I can't see the show until I read the book and I want both to happen my motivation was a bit to see the show first but I want to read it first and um I feel like it's going to be my jam it's historical fiction not fantasy um but I do like historical fiction especially with some sort of gothic morbid variety so I haven't read this but I feel like if I carve out some time for reading in October which would be great because I hardly read anything in August or September because I've been so busy how would I like to read in October like I'm already trying to say no to plans because I would like to have no plans in October that is my dream let's make my dream come true anyway I would like to read this in like fall time it seems like a dark gothic read and I live in California where it's never dark or gothic any time of year but you know I like to imagine that it is by reading books like this and then pretending it's a dark and gothic time and that brings me to the most recent month's book of the month and um my pick for this will be my September yes these are my September yes September it says it on there um my pick for them like book of the month was bringing down the dupe by evie done more this is a case of one I didn't really like any of the picks for the month but I wanted to get one of the add-ons and you'll notice the pattern it's the exact same thing um for when I got secret history but yeah so this was like of the ones that were available the one that I was like the least disliking and then if you saw my video on Amanda's channel where she made me read bodice rippers and or my channel where we talked about blade itself slash bodice rippers anyways like a thing we did where Amanda from the notary librarian made me read bodice rippers and her channel linked down below um I had just read those bodice rippers when I had to place this order and I was like maybe I should try to read more romance like I shouldn't just say no to the genre and I looked at the description for this one and it looked more sort of intellectual so it seemed like something that I would be into because it's a story with interesting characters it's not just sexy times so I decided to give it a try um it seems like quite a feminist kind of story and I needed to pick a book I had to so that I could get the goldfinch by Donna Tartt as an add-on apparently I subscribed to book of the month just so I can get hard covers of Donna Tartt books I have a paperback of this which is already kind of beastly and when this arrived I was like oh man she thick I really wanted to read this before the movie came out and that didn't happen but I still want to read it before I see the movie that's also probably not gonna happen at least on theaters I'm gonna need to accept that either I see the movie before reading it or I don't see the movie in theaters it's fine I can carve out some time to read this right right and then my other add-on book for September was the devil in the white city by Eric Larson this just like the alienist is historical fiction actually has this it's historical it's like fictionalized non-fiction I think what I like I've heard of this book for years and like I vaguely knew what it was but not exactly but it is it's based on a true story but I believe it's like a fictionalized like novelized version but it is based on like true events from like the world's fair I think that was in America blah blah yeah it's at the 1893 world's fair and there's a serial killer that was at the world's fair yeah so it is it's non-fiction because this did happen but it's like a story like it's told like a novel anyway I've heard amazing things about it and this and the alienist kind of seemed similar to me in like what they would be offering so yeah this is on my October to read list that I don't actually have one of those if you're hoping for a tbr keep open but vaguely theoretically I'd like to read this at a similar time is when I would be reading the alienist aka on like the one rainy day we get when I break out all my candles and all my viking books and I'm like let's read everything so yeah those are all my book of the month club books I am still subscribed so I might do another book of the month club book haul if y'all want me to let me know the comments down below if you do want me to let me know if you are also a subscriber and have picked any of these books if you've read any of the ones that I haven't yet and want to like recommend that I do yeah let me know stuff and things I post videos on Saturdays so like and subscribe I'll see you next Saturday bye