 Hey guys it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I just wanted to do a little book haul for you guys so these are some books that I've either purchased or like acquired in the past little bit and this is like from the last bit because I haven't been buying that many books recently at all. First up here I have Flower Crowns and Fear Some Things by Amanda Lovelace. This is one of her newest poetry collections that just came out in October. I was so happy to receive this like I almost wanted to cry because I love her work so much and I've read everything she's put out at this point so I was very very excited to get this in the mail. Though I did like it wasn't like my favorite but like the cover is gorgeous, the art in this is beautiful. Half the pages are poems and then the other half are like these beautiful illustrations. I also always respect that Amanda Lovelace puts trick or warnings at the beginning of her books so you know what it's dealing with like this one is Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault Cheating, Child Abuse Trauma, Death, Violence, Misogyny, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Alcohol, and more. So it covers a lot of different things but I really do like her poetry. This one was not my favorite but her some of her other poetry series are really really good too so definitely take a look at them and see which one interests you the most. But that was sent to me kindly by Andrews McMeal Publishing. Thank you so much I was so happy and I from them I also got the Apricot Memories. I don't know if I've talked about this so I'm just including it anyways. All I know is that I think I've talked about this but all I know is the pages are pink and they're just it's a bunch of poems and the I don't know they sent this to me unsolicited but the pages are pink and there's like red text and it's pretty cute. Okay I found a little news thing that they put in books for when you get them sent but this one says for one soul season of adventure unraveling this romantic fusion of poetry and prose explores themes of spirituality love personal growth creativity vulnerability and motherhood. So that's what this one's about. I started it but I haven't finished it yet. I honestly forgot that I started it so I might go back to it. Well I definitely will at some point but I was really happy I got this sent as well so thank you again to Andrews McMeal. And then two things from Harper Collins. This was for a frenzy event not the last one but the one before it. I got XOXO and I also got Me Cue Diary. This is by Emerly Lee and this is by Axio I think is how you pronounce it. So this book is written by a Korean author and it's about this girl who is a is a cello prodigy so she's very talented with music and she meets this boy who's very into K-pop or like performs K-pop or something and they have this forbidden romance I guess. So it sounds really cute. They sent you like two or three arcs that random ones that they talked about so you didn't really get to pick but I was very thankful to get sent these and this one sounds really cool it seems really cute so I think a lot of people will be interested if you like romance if you you're looking for Korean YA fiction if you're looking for K-pop you'll probably like this one. So this meet cute diary I believe is just a bunch of meet-cutes so people meeting for the first time and they're cute interactions as couples and stuff. So on the back it says this is a romance that celebrates trans and non-binary teens which is great that's that's why I was interested in this book but this just explores love relationships and social media so this on the back it says it's recommended for people who liked I wish you all the best but Mason Dever so yes please I love that book so I definitely want to pick up this soon. It also just seems like a very chill like simple kind of read so next up here I have Pan's Labyrinth. So I wanted this book for a while I originally wanted the hardcover because if you take the dust jacket off it's beautiful beautiful book if you taste it clearly I can't but if you take the dust jacket off the hardcover it's an absolutely beautiful book so so this book is the book version of the movie Pan's Labyrinth and I watched that movie for school I watched it in Spanish with the English subtitles and I really love the story but this is a dark fantasy novel and it's very nicely like illustrated as well there's a lot of beautiful illustrations in here but I'm currently reading this one and it makes I just see where it goes but yeah it's very magical and also like kind of mysterious so that's what we're going with at the moment but I really am enjoying this one so far. Next up here I have Billy Summers by Stephen King. I picked this one up recently we are going to be doing a buddy read of this starting on the 25th so if you are interested in joining us I would love for you to. We are doing it in my Discord server so on my Twitter I have like instructions so I'll link that post down below and my Discord down below but if you have any questions just message me or something but if you guys like to read this with me and some other people I'm so excited this is my first one in like my Discord server but I feel like it's just gonna be me be much easier and we could still have spoilery discussions and block those parts off for certain people and it's gonna work out it's gonna work out we got this but all I know is this one like I read the synopsis before but what I'm kind of just going with is that it's about a hitman and then we're just gonna dive right into it and see what happens but yeah we're gonna be reading this for a month if you read faster slower no worries we're gonna have everything like you discuss it at your own pace read it at your own pace like I really don't care how fast you read I might fall behind I probably will but yeah I'd love for you guys to join us next I to witchcraft books that I got from the sales section at indigo this one witchcraft I've seen this around a lot and full price this is like an expensive book but it has a lot of stuff it has magic spells and potions so this is just this is the book power spells witchcraft making a circle kind of a lot of the basics of spell work so that's what this one's about and I also got this which I'm also reading and this is the witch's complete guide to self-care it was only $12 but it is super cute and beautiful and I'm so happy I picked it up but this is like one of the pages this one's like the astrology thing chapter but it's beautiful and it's all colored and it's beautiful so this just explores self-care as a witch and some of the like the practices that you can do and some spirituality things so this one's really good so far I'm enjoying it last but not least I have three YA books to talk about so let's talk about this one first so this one I got because it's only because it was in the sales section I'll leave the last two to the end but the Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein this came out like a year or two ago I remember hearing people talk about it I heard like mediocre reviews but this is a Frankenstein retelling but with a female Frankenstein I believe our seat flew out of that victory fair escape from misery Elizabeth does everything she can to but to make herself indispensable and at work she's taking in by the Frankenstein family and rewarded with a small bed soon her and Victor will be inseparable but her new life comes at a price that's what this is about I'm really excited Frankenstein I absolutely love the original Frankenstein so much so this seems like a very fun retelling it's a YA one so we'll see an emotion of great delight by Tehara Mafi I'm so excited to read this this explores the aftermath of 9-eleven and how Muslim families were treated and how like a young Muslim girl is treated at school after 9-eleven and stuff like that so this this is gonna export so many tough and important issues so I'm really looking forward to it and all her work is so like written so lyrically and it's so well written and beautiful so I highly recommend checking this out I hope to read it soon I've been kind of saving it I don't know for what but I'm gonna save it for something last but not least I almost died when I saw this in the bookstore because I did not know this was happening I knew they announced the sequel however I didn't hear anything else about it so I was like I don't know and then I saw it in the bookstore so I couldn't leave without it and it's Aristotle and Dante dive into the waters of the world by Benjamin A. Leary science this is the sequel to Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe which is an amazing book so well written I love this author's writing such like a good bond between the characters and absolutely worth the read I highly recommend it's a YA contemporary totally check it out if you like hype like heartfelt stories I can't believe the first one was released in 2012 and this one came out in 2021 like this is big deal it's so excited so I mostly want to make this book call to talk about this but I'm really excited I don't really know too much about what book 2 is obviously a continuation from book one so we'll see I'm really excited to see what they're gonna be up to in this book so there you guys have it those were all the books that I want to talk about today thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed this video please give it a like and subscribe if you're new I'd really appreciate it all my links including like my twitch my discord and Instagram and all that will be down below again thank you to Harper Collins and Andrews McMeal Publishing for sending me some of these books I hope you liked the video and maybe discovered some new books that you would like to check out or I don't know just enjoyed watching me nerd out for a bit I guess but thank you so much for watching nothing super soon bye