Hey guys, welcome back to my channel!
Today I'm gonna be doing a mini book
haul because I did put myself on a book
buying ban,
and I have been really good and haven't
really been buying that many books.
Um...but then the other day something bad
happened and I was really stressed so
I bought five books, and then I got
another one that a friend bought me
so without further ado let's get started
with some of the books
I have recently received. So the first
two books are part of a
series, as you may or may not know myself
and Charr
um were reading The Fifth Season for
our Dog-eared Book Club and we both
absolutely
loved it, and as soon as I finished The
Fifth Season I knew that I wanted to
read the next two books in the series
like
straight away. So I bought The Obelisk
Gate
and The Stone Sky by N. K.
Jemisin. And what I love about this
series
okay - other than the fact that the first
book was amazing -
um the next two books in the series are
around the same length as the first book,
so it's not a trilogy where the first
book is like 300 pages,
and then the next one is like 500 pages,
and then the one after that is like 700
pages. Yes Sarah J Maas I'm looking at
you,
um because that's what puts me off
finishing a series, is like the sheer
length of them.
But these are all kind of like roughly
around the same size.
So The Fifth Season is a fantasy,
adult fantasy um series that
focuses on a sort of broken earth
idea. So it's sort of set
during like the end of the world. It's
set on one continent
where everything is just sort of
destroyed by
the natural disasters and tectonic
plates...um
creating earthquakes or seasons
as they are called. Um and it kind of
destroys
that part of the continent and then
people have to move to a different part
consistently each season. And there is
also a sort of magic system
where there are people who have powers
that can control
like the shakes and the tremors, and the
people who don't have these powers look
down on the people that do have them
as being like dirty, or nasty or you know....
you don't like them. So all of that
together just creates an amazing concept
for
a fantasy series, but on top of that N. K.
Jemisin's
writing and just just sheer genius, and
the first book contains
a bisexual character and a
like polyamorous relationship - what's not
to love!
So if you haven't picked up this series
yet I would highly recommend it,
and I really hope I do get to these the
next two books in
The Broken Earth trilogy soon. And these
next three books
I bought from a company called Black
Star Books.
It was featured on Charr's last haul
video, and that's where I came across it -
so thank you Charr for recommending them because a lot of the books that were
on my wish list that I wanted to buy
were books by black authors anyway,
so to be able to support a black run
company -
like small independent like little book
company -
is awesome! And the books arrived really
quickly,
they had all of the books I was looking
for on their website,
and they gave me a little, sort of like,
thank you for your custom
sort of like...card which just made me
really happy and so I would highly
recommend them. And I will leave a link
to their website in my description box.
But the books that I got
are as follows... The first one I had seen
around and was just intrigued by but
that is
Black and British: A Forgotten History
by David Olusoga. And a couple of things
sort of,
drew me to this book. The first is the
cover because the cover is just so
gorgeous.
Um...the second is the fact that it is a
non-fiction book about
history -and I love history and I love
non-fiction -
but the fact that it's like teaching
people about the forgotten
Black British history I just think
that's really important, and something
that I am actually really interested in.
And it is massive - I wasn't expecting it
to be so chunky.
I'm glad it is now that I've got it, as
an archaeologist and as someone who has
always loved history...um these kind of
books have always,
you know, grabbed my attention. But I
think the size of them normally puts me
off, so I'm glad I didn't know how big it
was before I bought it
or else maybe I wouldn't have. But I'm
really excited about getting to this one,
and I've already had a flick through and
it includes history
dating back to Roman Britain which
just love,
as an archaeologist, I love when history
includes, sort of like,
ancient history - so that's going to be
really interesting. And I think
I'm going to read it in sections because
of its size - I don't want to be
put off by having to think that I have
to read it all at once, so I think I
might read it in
sections, and enjoy it, and take it all in
that way. The next book I bought from
Black Star Books is another non-fiction
book,
and that is Natives: Race and Class in
the Ruins of Empire by Akala.
So if you don't know, Akala is a hip-hop
artist,
a writer, a journalist, award-winning,
just awesome guy. And this is his, sort of
like,
own personal story of his upbringing and
realising that he lives in a very
racist world. And this book looks at
Akala's own
personal experiences in different
aspects of society
to do with race and racism, like...um
identity,
the police, education etc. And
I've seen this one mentioned on a lot of
people's booktube
hauls and recommended lists
so...and the cover is again, really
gorgeous! And it was one that I knew that
I
definitely wanted to pick up and read,
and again this one's a bit shorter...
um but I want to read more nonfiction, so
that's why I
got this one. And the third book I got
I'm very very excited about,
because I've seen it everywhere, I've...it's so
like, highly praised - people are loving
this book
um...and I just can't wait to read it
because I think I'm
to love it. Loads of my friends have read
it and told me that
I will really enjoy it, but that is Such
A Fun Age
by Kylie Reid. So I was going to wait
until this came out in paperback
to buy it, just because I was on a book
buying ban...I didn't want to spend that
much money
etc...etc. But the recommendations,
like, of this book - and just reading all
of the reviews
and people talking about it on twitter, 
just everything -
I just...I needed it in my life now, and I
really want to read this one soon
because...
the praise, the praise! And if you didn't
know this book follows our main
character
Emira [not Kiera] who is apprehended in a supermarket
whilst there on a shopping trip with a
white child she is babysitting.
And because she is black they
think that she has
kidnapped this child, and then apparently
things just unravel from that moment
forward. One of the topics covered in
this book is
fake allyship - very important topic as we
know, if you've been on booktube, if you
know what's been going on...
um and that's why I really really want
to read this one soon because
I want to, sort of, take that in
and see my thoughts on it. And last but
not least,
is a book that got sent to me by the
lovely Sylvie from the TBR Diaries,
because she's got my address, and she
watched my
recent video of books I wanted to reread,
and I mentioned
that when I reread Six of Crows -
because I kind of ruined my paper copy -
that I wanted to treat myself to a new
copy of the book, or a new edition
um...before I reread it. And then I come
home to a parcel...
and I open it...and I'm like "this wasn't
even on my wish list"?!!!
Um...but yeah, she bought me the
collector's edition
of Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. I just
have like the most amazing friends ever,
like I just...I cried...like a little tear
came out because I was like
W H A T?... Um, and the fact that she'd thought
about doing that
after watching my video, I just...thank you!
...The lovely hardback edition with the red
pages, and the
for the foil...the foiling - I forget what
it's called -
and then on the back, I love that it says
'no mourners, no funerals' on the back.
And then the end pages are the maps,
so you've got that one...and then you've
got The Ice...The Ice Court
at the back...and this, I was
so impressed by this, and it's got like
character pictures
in it, and they're all amazing - and now
I'm even more excited to reread this
book
for obvious reasons. So thank you so much
Sylvie for
sending me this,because I just [no words] and every
single time I look at this book now it's
just gonna remind me of you, and I'm so
happy
because you're awesome! So those are the
books that I purchased
and/or were...um very kindly gifted
recently. And I'm just so excited, just
more amazing books. And now I realise why
I can't do book buying bans, because
your girl loves herself some books... Thank
you guys so much for watching, and
because
on twitter we talked about wanting to
start a new trend...
um don't comment below if you don't feel
like you need to -
just leave a cute little emoji that will
make me smile. Thank you guys again so
much for watching, and I'll see you soon
in my next video.
Bye... <3
you
