My dears,
it’s friday and that means…book friday! Today I’m actually going to do a book haul. I love, love, love watching book hauls on YouTube, and so I thought: why not give you a written haul here on the blog.
Last month I bought a few (many) books. I get so excited when holding a stack of new books. I can smell the new-book-smell, gently pet the covers and open them for the very first time. It’s so yummy! So I try to buy a few book every month, just to keep myself and my book senses pleased.
Here’s a list of the books I decided to buy in October:
Look who went and got themselves some adorable, new covers! I love these bright red covers. I really didn’t like the ones with staring people on the front. These are the UK Penguin editions, and they are very nice to look at (because looks matter sometimes).
As the whole series has gotten a follow-up (Bloodlines, and soon to be released The Golden Lily), I decided it was time to start reading the original series. Can’t wait to dive into all 6 of them.
Another gorgeous UK edition cover. I actually started reading this as soon as it arrived in the mail. It was a weird, original book with loads of funny characters. I actually think I will do a book review on it sometime….
I have heard so many great things about this book, so I finally decided it was time to buy a copy. I’m excited about it, because it seems so adventurous and thrilling. I think this would be the kind of book you recommend to boys as well as girls, and that’s always a good thing. We need more boys books!
There are two more books in the series: The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure.
I think most readers either love or hate A.S. Byatts work. I happen to love her, and when I saw an interview with Byatt talking about this book I was hooked. Byatt uses such full, heavy, classic language in her books. I understand why some people find them hard to read, but behind all that heavy language there are beautiful stories. I promise!
I imagine I will spend a few weekends just finishing this book, as it’s such loooong one. But long books are the best, aren’t they?
Isn’t this the best book title you have ever seen or heard? I stumbled across this book somewhere on the internet and fell in love. The book cover, plot and pictures really speak to me – it’s a bit quirky and weird. I imagine I’ll read this in just one sitting, ’cause it sounds so brilliant. I’ll defeniately write a review on it once I’m done reading it.
I will commit I didn’t know anything about this book when I picked it up. I fell for the book cover really… But as I read the summary, I found that this could be one of my new favorites. It has magic in it, witches and Salem. What more could I wish for? Here’s a small summary:
“Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest–to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge”
I had to get a YA/barely fantasy novel as well. This is about a girl who sees dead people, so I thought – hey! that’s a new one. We’re slowly stepping away from vampires and werewolves and starting on ghosts. This is the first book in a series called Darkest Powers & Darkness Rising, and I really hope it’s good so that I can collect the other books as well.
I hope you enjoyed reading my book haul. I know it’s a lot funnier watching them in videos, so maybe I’ll try that sometime.
Have a fun friday!
Love ♥
I hope you’re all enjoying the holidays, and that you got a lot of books for Christmas. I did, so I’ll probably make a video on that soon too + a book shelf tour 
