Hello
my Zeal of Zebras welcome back to my
channel you can call me Lali
uh my window is closed so hopefully you
cannot hear the weird bass music
that's coming from next door
i'm hopefully catching construction on
their lunch break so we'll see how that
goes
uh today i'm going to share with you a
little book haul of books that i bought
in the month of August
i've got six books here
um from two different purchases
so my first purchase are these three
books
that i ordered from the website Bookshop.org
if you don't already know what that is
it's um an online bookstore that's
marketed as a rival to Amazon in terms
of prices
in selection their business model is
that a portion of every purchase goes
back to independent bookstores across
the U.S.
there's a way for you to kind of choose
which bookstore
will get the proceed and if you don't
make a selection
it just kind of goes into a pool that
gets dispersed evenly
um so i picked up
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin this is
the first
book in the Broken Earth Trilogy i've
been hearing a lot about this author
i've been hearing a lot about
uh this series uh i love me a good
post-apocalyptic sci-fi um so
i'm sure you've probably already heard
something about this
but i look forward to delving into this
world
and getting to know Jemison's work
my next book is The Undocumented
Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
this is an anthology of
stories from undocumented
amer- you know Americans living in the US
without citizenship, without visas,
this is a book that was recently
released it was released in August
and it's a book that i have seen a lot
of book reviewers especially Latinx book
reviewers
hold up as a counterpart to
the popularity and marketing of American
Dirt which
uh i'm gonna go off the top of my head
what i can remember
was a book written by a non-Latinx
author
that was a fictionalized portrayal of
um undocumented immigrants in this
country and there was a lot of
stereotyping and "bad" writing
and also like the amount of money the
author got paid
and it was it was an example of
white supremacy within um the book
publishing
community of just the stories that we
choose to promote
and assign a lot of value to versus
stories that get overlooked or often
get turned down in publishing a lot so
anyway um apart from
a little bit of like a counterpoint
to that whole fiasco i've been hearing
really good things about this collection
of
stories um and this is uh
a part of my society that i
want to hear more our own voices tales
of
um like they are a part of our
country they're a part of our economy
they're a part of
our society and our, our neighborhoods so
um i want to make sure that i'm
not just like open to learning about
their experiences but i'm actu-
actually like seeking out and doing the
work to
listen to them and not just about
political issues but just about
who they are as people who they are as
as
my neighbors um so anyway
looking forward to getting into that
book so the last book i picked up
um that i have already finished and
loved is
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi this is the second
book that i have
read by Emezi i've already read
their book Freshwater which was their
debut novel
uh this, i love, it's a young adult novel
it's a very quick read
it features Jam who is a non-binary (trans)
um mute-
but i don't believe deaf- teenager
who brings to life a monster
from one of her mother's paintings
some of the plots kind of simplistic but
i loved it and i will gush more about
this in my
uh the books i read in August video but
if you haven't already heard about this
love it
it's great okay um and now these
three books uh these i picked up from
the used bookstore Pelican Bay Book
Company
which is based in Anacortes, Washington
uh but they do have an online store and
they do ship
nationally i don't think they do
internationally but they do
ship across the US um
so uh i ordered from them
because my partner's parents live in
Anacortes
his, my partner's mother has
tons of store credit to that bookstore
from buying and selling books and you
know reselling stuff once they're
finished
so she offered that like hey if I, you
know, look at their online inventory and
their is stuff that i want let her know and
she can
pick it up at a discount for me um so
the first book i got was Get a Life,
Chloe Brown this is um a
romance novel i don't think i've ever
really read any
true romance novels and this and the
sequel
not sequel but like second book by this
author (Talia Hibbert)
so uh this was a book that's been
getting
so much hype all over uh
youtube and instagram and it seemed just
like a
really heartwarming lovely well-written
story and a good intro
into the world of romance
novels just to see because i've never
read anything
from that genre to see if there's
something i like in there
um and a lot of like my choice of
purchases was like going down my wanted
list and just seeing
what does do they have in stock because
you know a used bookstore the the
availability is kind of hit and miss but
they had this one i'm like great yes
i will happily buy this used cool the
second book
i bought is interesting it is the
paperback copy
of Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix it's
the um
third book in the Keys to the Kingdom
series and I,
and i'm emphasizing paperback because i
bought this
to replace my hardback
copy, why do i want the paperback over
the hardback?
because every other book i own in this
series is paperback and trying to get
stuff to like
fit and stack on my shelves neatly, that
hardback one is just throwing things off
in buying my books i don't usually think
too much about being a completionist
or the aesthetics of a book but this was
one that just kind of made it hard to
make
my bookshelves look nice so
i knew that i would be able to find a
used copy of this
um and you know the hardback one i
bought used anyway
so this is gonna go on my shelf
the hardback one's gonna go in my little
basket of books to
give away or sell or something um this
is a series i would like to reread again
at some point
i like, i like Garth Nix's uh fantasy
worlds
so um this is not something i'm going to
read soon it's not going to go on my to
be read
shelf um but
they had it in stock so i'm like yep i'm
just going to pull the, you know, spend
the five bucks to get
the paperback copy and
great um and the last one i got was uh
book three in the Sandman series
by Neil Gaiman i've got the first two
so not much to say about this it's a
interesting series so far and
i look forward to delving into this
world again
at some point okay um
so that's my little book haul a little
mix of new and used uh
let me know um have you read any of
these books are you excited
to hear my thoughts on them um
let me know if you have any
recommendations for
used bookstores that have an online
inventory
or websites
that specialize in selling used books
because as much as i would love, i love
the idea of being able to support
bookshop to support independent
bookstores i also want to support
um used bookstores and i'm not really
comfortable with trying to go out
to just go shopping for the sake of
shopping
right now so let me know what online
options you can recommend
to me- there is a spider on my carpet...mmmmmh-
anyway okay that's the video
uh i hope you have a good day i hope you
get to learn something cool today
um Black Lives Matter and
i have a link in my bio for
bail funds across the U.S. because
protests are still happening and there's
still a pandemic
so let's not have people sit in prison
longer than they have to
because
uh anyway all right i'll see y'all in my
next
video bye
