 Hey guys it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be doing a little book haul and a little unboxing as well. So in the past bit I haven't done an actual haul in such a long time, I don't really plan on doing them anymore. I thought like every little while if I do want to talk to you guys about some books that I've either received or bought that I could do a little one and I also got an unboxing so I wanted to show you guys that and I'm really excited too. I opened it once already because I was really curious what was in it but then I put it back and now I don't remember what was in it so we're going to open that together and it's like opening for the first time but like I kind of know what was in it but anyways. So I wanted to talk to you guys about a few things so I also haven't been making many videos so I feel like I haven't really been talking about like what I've been reading a lot, I've been buying a lot but these are books that I've received or bought in the past few months and there's a bit more but like I'm not sure because I stopped like writing them down because I originally didn't plan on doing these videos anymore but I thought I would share some of them with you. So first up we have The Lime Tender by Kate Allen. So this was sent to me by Penguin, Penguin, Penguin, yes. So basically this is about sharks, a marine biologist mom. I'm not really sure to survive, it's also about wait there's an issue in this book with like a great white shark, I think someone dies, this talks about grief, there's also a depressed father, a stubborn fisherman, and a curious old widow, widow, widower to her mother's unfinished shark research and it's kind of like about that I think it's gonna be about coming of age, it's this funny, pregnant, and deeply moving is a story of nature's enduring mystery and the people willing to seek meaning and connection within it. I thought this one would be really interesting, again I requested a little while ago so I didn't actually remember exactly what this was about but let me know if you guys have heard anything about this, this comes out April so it's probably out this month or it's already, it's probably out already or it's coming out like shortly. About a manga that I got recently, I got Hatsu Haru, this book, one of my best friends bought for me not too long ago, it's about a playboy, definitely knows the way to a girl's heart but when he has a run-in with a tomboy he may get more than he bargained for, it just sounds like kind of like a cute romance, the girl is short-tempered, scary and can easily beat him up and I'm like that's me. It's very rare that you get the female characters that are like that and like I relate so I wanted to read about that so the art looks really cool in this one I think it's gonna be really cool and interesting and it just honestly looks so good so that's why I wanted to get this one so like thank you to my friend for buying it for me, thanks Christian but I'm excited to read this one so I'll let you guys know what I think when I pick it up. I actually have like a bunch of manga like first volumes and I think it would be really cool to do a video of me just reading like a bunch of first volumes of manga and then talking about them with you guys and like my first impressions of the series which ones I want to continue with right away and stuff like that. I think that'd be cool so I might do that video. Anyways, next up I got another book from Penguin and this is called Tarot so this is by Marissa Kenerson and I requested this one because of my love of Tarot. Trapped in a kingdom where new ideas are considered treacherous, Anna weaves tapestries of dazzling lands where people are free to decide their own fates but when she escapes Anna finds herself in a world that looks exactly like the one she'd woven and Anna can't help but wonder is it the world I imagine and am I finally free? So this is an interesting, it sounds like magical realism fantasy-esque. It says Anna was never supposed to exist, born of a forbidden union between the queen and is forced to live out her days in isolation in the tower. The daughter of Morocco, a powerful magician and the king is worried that his magical gifts are starting to surface. Okay so it's like a magical realism like royalty a little bit-esque kind of book and there's some element of tarot in there so that sounds cool. I also received with gratitude by Marla Scott. This is a poetry collection that I got from Andrews McMill publishing. They always send over some poetry collections and like I've been reading a lot of them too so you'll hear about those in like my April, my next recent read so like which will be like part of the books I read in April and like if I read any more in April then I'll be just my recent reads during April but anyways you'll hear about some new poetry collections soon and my thoughts that I read from them but this one I'm looking forward to. I don't know much about it. All I know is relatable experiences that will inspire you to recognize the good and beautiful and difficult situations. It also is also like a meditation on the beliefs so I think this one is gonna be interesting and less like depressing as the other ones. Like some collections are obviously really sad and supposed to like get your emotions going and things like that and like I personally do write poetry and I know that when I write them I'm usually like really emotional when I write them so they do come off like that or they come off really sad or like etc but I think this one's gonna be like really kind of like just like gonna be like more around like gratitude and things like that which I think is gonna be really nice to read about and like it seems like something that I'd read as like a self-care kind of thing. I don't know. Like I could picture like reading this like with like a face mask and like a bubble bath and like that whole thing and like reading this and like appreciating stuff so I might do that. That could be fun. Yeah thank you so much to Andrew's I love getting packages from them because they always send over like nice collections and I'm always I always read poetry so I'm really excited every time they come. It releases April 2nd so it's already out so you can get your hands on it if you want it. Another thing I got from Penguin was this book called Dig. This is by AS King. This one releases in March so it's out. I honestly got requested this because I know books in Lala really loves AS King and it also like sounds really cool so it literally says the shoveler the freak can I help you flee Circus Loretta and first class Malcolm. Dig is a story of five teenagers burying their families tangled secrets so like that's all I kind of really want to know. It kind of had like that secretive element to it. It sounds really cool and like I've heard really good things about this author so that's why I wanted to get this one and I'm probably gonna read this one like not like soon but like in a few books like after I finish a few things I'll probably read this one next so yeah if you find the slimy new thoughts I really want to know. I haven't I also haven't been making a lot of videos so I haven't been reading a lot and I haven't been watching a lot of booktube so I have like I'm totally behind on like my friends videos and like people that I enjoy watching their videos so let me know if you've read this what your thoughts were. I also picked up Defy Me which I just have the dust jacket here because I'm currently reading it. This is the fifth installment in the Shatter Me series. I am so happy about this one. I'm so excited that this came out. The Shatter Me series is really well known on booktube. I'm sure you've heard of it so yeah I'm currently reading Defy Me but I bought this one as well. This was the only book that I bought in the month of April with my own money. It's probably the only book I bought in the last two months with my own money more so I mean I'm good at book buying now apparently. One that I got from my New York trip that I didn't really talk about or show was something that I'm really excited about so you guys all if you're new here you don't but my favorite book is called The Virgin Suicides by Jennifer Eugenides. I love it. I've read it five times. I own like six copies. It's they have a 25th anniversary edition and I saw it at the Strand in New York City. I haven't seen it in any of my books since I've been back so I'm dead. I love it. It's beautiful. I totally love it and it wasn't too bad. It was like 15 US which is like what 17 Canadian mmm that's not even that bad. Like anyways that doesn't matter but look at it. I love it. Anyway so those are some books that I acquired recently that I wanted to share with you guys. Hopefully found out about some like new releases as well like some of these arcs and stuff or if you've read them I really want to know your thoughts. Anyways now I have a little unboxing. So this box is the unplugged book box. This was sent to me by the company. Thank you so much to them. I haven't gotten like a book box like this in such a long time so I was super happy about this. This one focuses a lot on self-care and things like that. I will have all the links for it in the description box. Where to buy it. The site if you want to check out more on it. Some other booktubers have been doing unboxing so if you also want to hear some other people's reviews you can do that as well. So I'm really excited and it's like a heavy box. It's a nice box. Like it's a nice black box and it has like all the stuff I love. We're gonna open it. So it came beautifully wrapped. I kind of ruined it. So don't mind that. But it came with this was the April young adult box. So it came with it was wash away your worries with the theme. So this one comes with a book as well as some self-care items. They also have an adult box too. So they're young adult box in their adult box. So the first thing that came in here was a body lotion and this one's called Aquaman. So this was by this fiction bath company. Fiction Bath Co. And this one smells like sandalwood and things like that. It's a body lotion. I think it's really nice. It's actually a decent size. So I was really surprised. Like it was like a nice bottle that came in the package. So I don't know. That's really cool. And it's like Aquaman themed. It smells so good. I really love those like woody smoky kind of scents. Next up there was this. This is another kind of like bath product. Oh my god I should use all the stuff when I read with gratitude. This is called Anna safety net. It is a shower gel by the soap librarian. So this is like a shower gel that has like rose and things like that in it. It looks really cool. I'd be interested to check out like the other like kinds that the soap librarian has. Like I haven't heard of a lot of these companies. So that's really cool. Another thing that I also thought was really cool about this box is that it comes with a recipe which I won't be able to use anyways because I am vegan but we could probably change a few things and make it vegan. But anyways I thought it was really cool. So it has luring snickerdoodles and it comes with like a little thing with like the recipe on it. I thought it was really cute. Then the other side again I'm not really going to use this because my music taste isn't this but it comes with its own like Spotify playlist and you can like scan. You can find us on Spotify. Click the camera in the search bar. You can scan their code and it has like a theme song all the tracks and a bonus track that goes with the box and I just think that's so cool. Like what a great idea. I was totally impressed by this box. This is a poster that's for the book that came in the box. It does have a map on the other side so I'll show you guys that. It was so cool. Like I would actually hang this up like this is really nice. You can tell I like the box. It also has this little card. May 2019 reveal. Theme reveal if not now when. And it also has five reasons to reduce stress on the back so it has a little self-care thing which I love. They also came with a bookmark. This one is a quote from Vegemina Leary's Signs on those signs which I love. It's from Aristotle and Dante. They also came with a Steve Jobs magnet that has a nice quote on it. Then it came with this like bag. It's not a tote bag because it's like one of the ones with the strings but it has a pocket at the front and it has like another pocket. So it basically has like it's a pirate to the Caribbean thing so it says like treasure. Treasure is silver and gold and it has not all treasure is silver and gold and it has like the crossbones the mermaid and then it has like one pocket here and like the two little things and then it opens up here too which I thought was cool. So then we have the book which is this guy. So this is Sky Without Stars. This is like a big YA book by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell. I believe I heard of Jessica Brody. Yeah. This is System of Divine Book 1 and it looks so cool. The map looks so cool and I don't read a lot of fantasy but like this looks really cool to me. Also there's a little note in here for after you finish the book it comes with a signed author plate for the autograph and it also comes with a little thing on the inside. I believe this is a note from the author. Yeah. Little thing from the author. From the authors. Also each book apparently has there's like two different naked books you can get. So when you take the jacket off mine has like this key thing and I believe another one has like a skull so you can kind of like see which one you got which I thought was really cute. We have all three characters. What does this have? All three have roles to play in a dangerous game of revolution and together they will shape the future of a planet. Power, romance, destiny, collide and the sweeping reimagining of Victor Hugo's masterpiece the Les Mis or Roblox. This is the Les Mis retelling. I'm learning so many new things. I'm learning so many new things. I'm learning more things in this video than you guys. So this is apparently Les Mis retelling which I think is really cool. That's all the stuff that came in the box. I thought the box was really cool. Thank you so much to the company for signing it to me. I think it came with like a good amount of products and it was also like I like the self-care thing like I think that's really nice and it's really important too obviously. So thank you so much. I really love the box. Anyways so I hope you guys enjoyed this video in this little haul. Again I'm probably not gonna be doing hauls regularly but I will do them every now and then because I just know people like to see them and also because sometimes I want to talk about some of these books that I get that I haven't read yet but I just want to talk about them with you guys and hear your guys' thoughts so that's why I also wanted to talk about them. I also wanted to do some boxing for you guys because I'm super excited to receive this box and I really wanted to talk about it and I've seen a few other booktubers that I know make videos on it so like I wanted to make mine too and I wanted to talk about the company. So yeah thank you guys so much for watching. 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