 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book haul video. This one is for March. I'm also going to be doing my March wrap up, which is going to be super, super succinct. It is, I read Your Life is Mine by Nathan Ripley. Reviews already up on the channel. I read Lot by Brian Washington, which I'll have a review of very shortly. I also listened to Becoming by Michelle Obama, and I will be putting a kind of review. Anytime I do nonfiction, I like to talk about personal experience more than the actual book. So that will be up sometime this week or next week. Don't hold me to that. There is another one that I have read that should be getting a review for I think on Monday, the last by Hannah Jamison. So most of these books are on my book haul, this book haul video also, so we'll get to those in turn. First and foremost, a book that I was talking about last month, I already did a review for, which is, I almost said, fuck yourself, Unfuck Yourself by Gary John Bishop. Fantastic book, even if you hate self-help books. This is a great book. There's a part in here. I'm going to go ahead and read it because it's the part I was talking about last time. So I'm going to read the exact part I was talking about. One day you are going to die. You are going to stop breathing, become still and cease to exist. You will exit the physical plane, whether it's tomorrow or 20 years from now, it's going to happen. We are all mortal. There's no escaping it. You might find discomfort in these words or resist the notion of your demise, but if it's truth you're after, that's the one truth you just cannot argue with. You are going to die. For me, myself personally, that shit gets me out of bed almost every single morning. Sometimes I just fight my way through and I don't think about that, but ever since I've read this book, that's almost the exact sentence that I think of when I wake up in the morning is you are going to die. That might depress some of you, but for me it's a hell of a motivator because we're not promised tomorrow. Next we have a book that I grabbed at the library. They had one of those bag of book sales again for a dollar. Let's see here. What else did I get? I didn't get too much. I only got three books, so it's more than a quarter a piece. The Nest, because it looked interesting, I don't know. I've seen this everywhere. It was on Goodreads in my Goodreads free fee for the longest time. It's by Cynthia, Diaprix, Diapri, I don't know, Diapri, Sweeney. It's another family saga that's super short by comparison to what I consider a saga. It's only 340-some-odd pages, 350 pages, and it's a saga? I don't know. We've had this discussion before, but down there in the doobly-doo, let me know what you consider a saga. I even went and looked it up and it was a long body of work, and now they're calling these short 200-400-page books sagas, so I guess it doesn't matter the course of time, or do you think, I want your opinion, do you think it's the course of time that it spans in the novel, or do you think it's more about the size of the book, the length of the experience? Let me know. The next three are going to be advanced review copies that I got from Atria Publishing. Your life is mine, which I've already talked about on the channel. They sent me this one. They sent me American Magic by Zach Feist. I don't know, Zach, I'm sorry. They sent me this one. I actually don't know if I'm interested in this one whatsoever. It seems like a bit of urban fantasy and I don't care too much for urban fantasy, so I'll try it. I try everything that I get a review copy of, but it's definitely not in my wheelhouse. Next one, one that I'm reading now is The Obsolete by Simeon Mills. I think it's the name, yeah, Simeon Mills. This is a book that has a metaphor for, they use robots instead of any other non-American entity. It basically, the whole book's a metaphor for, what is it, a xenophobia. So how they treat robots differently than, you know, actual human beings. It's not a new concept. I am enjoying the book. I do like the writing more than anything else. I'm 50 pages into it. I'm enjoying myself. I don't know if it'll be a favorite read, but so far I am enjoying it. Next up we have one that I read ages ago. I was sent a bound manuscript from the PR person that works for Atria, David Brown, and I read it. I didn't quite enjoy it as much at the time that I read it, but then it started, as I thought about it more, the more it grew on me. So we'll talk about this more in detail, but the last by Hannah Jamison that you sent me a hardcover because the bound manuscript that he sent me has a cover that they are not going to be using and I don't want to show that off in this video, but this is a pretty, pretty cool cover. I will be showing in my spoiler, the spoiler section of my review, which is always after the good, the outro toward the end of the video. I will show that bound manuscript. I actually like the bound manuscript a lot more than I like this cover, but it is a pretty cover. I mean, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's really good. I just prefer the other one. So that's all of my ARCs. And then to go along with the library stuff that I got, I got Nick Tosh's, Tosh's, whatever, The Devil and Sunny Liston. I've never read a book about boxing, so I'm going to give this one a chance. The whole reason I got that. Next up, Cody, my friend Cody Tidwell, if you're watching this man, this is because of you. You told me if I'm tired of horror and thrillers and whatnot pick up some Jodie Pekult, so I picked up small great things. Basically, I paid $0.33 for it because it was in a pack of books that I paid a dollar for out of the three books. So $0.3333333333333333 3 cents. But yeah, I have no idea. I've never read a Jodie Pekult book. I believe she's contemporary fiction. I don't know. Is she literary? I have no idea. I will get into it last, but certainly not least. This was my faith. I read a lot of terrific books last month, but I think the book that I adored, and this is a weird word to use, but I had a very close connection with this book, and I'll get to that when I talk about it in my review, but that's a lot by Brian Washington, which is, of course, a Book of the Month Club. I didn't bring out the other Book of the Month Clubs books that I got. I got The Woman in the Window by A.J. Flynn, and what else? Daisy and the Six. It's a book about a band. I got that one also, but you guys watched the Book of the Month Club video, so I didn't bring those out. But yeah, this is a terrific book. That's the TLDR, but you'll get a further analysis and a more in-depth review later on, either this week or next week. But that's my book haul for March and my wrap-up for last month. I'm not going to do a TBR this month because I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to be reading. I did one last month, and guess what? I didn't read a single thing on that TBR. So I'm not going to pressure myself into doing the TBR, so don't be expecting a TBR video this month, even though they are popular. I just can't, and I just don't enjoy it. I feel like, you know, I'm stuffed into a box that I can't work my way out of. And in Rebellion, I didn't read, like I said, I didn't read a single thing off of my TBR from last month. But if you have a book haul video, some of my favorite content, even if you just want to leave a list of the books that you bought for yourself or for other people or whatever, down there in the doobly-doo, that's great. But my favorite content here on YouTube, some of my favorite content, is book haul videos. So please leave links to your own book haul videos down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another book haul video. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!