Well... it is what it is.
So I recently went to Half-Price Books and I got a ton of books so I decided to a haul.
Let's do it.
Most of these I got pretty cheap and because of that I went a little bit overboard.
I got The Vile Village.
This is the seventh Series of Unfortunate Events book.
I already own all of them and I've read all of them.
But I have decided to switch over to hardback editions of everything.
and so...
I also got the fifth and sixth books in the Chronicles of Narnia series.
And now I have the complete set.
The first three books in the Shiver series--The Wolves of Mercy Falls.
I own Sinner. For some reason that's the only one I own.
I've already read the entire series. I love this series.
And now I have the whole set. I'm really excited.
In case you're not familiar with this series, it follows some high schoolers in a small town in Minnesota.
There is a pack of wolves that are also humans.
They are shapeshifters.
I also got The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver.
Which I already own.
But I saw this edition of it and I thought it was so pretty I just had to buy it.
It's like, really nice paper and the cover is beautiful.
And something about it just feels really rustic and comforting.
This is one of the favorite books of a very close friend of mine
and she keeps telling me to read it, so I need to read it.
It follows this girl who grew up in a very small town and I think that she decides to get out of the town.
And she just drives off. She ends up picking up a three year old child.
I don't know how that happens exactly and I think the two of them go on a road trip together.
I don't know for sure 'cause I haven't read it but I'm pretty sure that's what this book is about.
I got Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King, who is one of my favorite YA authors.
This is a book about a boy who bullied extensively in school.
And it is also about these dreams he has where he goes back to Vietnam and talks to his grandfather in the war.
Then I got The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde, which, it is the first book in this Jack Spratt Investigates series.
It's like a detective story based on Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall and breaking, I believe.
32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter, which I have already read.
I adore this book.
It's in really bad condition but I've never seen this book--like, a physical copy of it before.
I've never met anybody else who's read it.
So when I saw it, I needed it.
And now I can lend it to my friends and make them read it too.
The main character of this book is obsessed with the movie 16 Candles, which is why it's called 32 Candles.
You follow her throughout her life, I think 'til the age of 32.
And it's very romantic comedy-esque.
But it's just such a good coming of age story and it is... so good.
It makes my heart happy.
Rooms by Lauren Oliver
which honestly I just bought because it was on clearance for like, a dollar
and it's this really nice new hardback.
And the cover is so pretty.
I've read handful of her books, but only young adult books.
So I'm interested to see her write adult fiction.
I'm not like, a massive Lauren Oliver fan but I've liked everything she's written for the most part.
I think this is ghost story that mostly focuses on the house in which the ghosts live.
I don't know for sure but that's what I've gathered.
This next book I also bought because it was very cheap and it was a brand new hardback.
And the cover is beautiful. It is The Bone Season.
Super gorgeous.
This is a futuristic--I think dystopian--book about this girl who is clairvoyant
and she, I guess, is kidnapped for her powers.
The next book I bought was Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley.
This I guess is a kind of coming of age story.
A guy in high school is dealing with family issues.
His brother disappears.
And this mysterious woodpecker comes back from extinction?
I don't know, this is just what I'm getting from the back of the book.
We'll find out.
It won these awards, so...
it might be good.
The cover kind of reminds of The Fault In Our Stars.
It's like the same color.
Next I got Every Day by David Levithan.
I have read this book already.
I absolutely adore this book.
If you're not familiar with it, it is about a person who wakes up every day in the body of someone else.
And they just live their life traveling from person to person.
I would recommend it. It's super good.
Next I saw these two books by Caroline B. Cooney.
They're two of the books in the Face on the Milk Carton series
which I was addicted to when I was in middle school--elementary school, I think.
Now I'm probably gonna try to collect the whole series too, and then once I do I'll probably re-read it.
I have The Voice on the Radio and What Janie Found.
Basically it's this series about this girl who one day looks down at the missing person on her milk carton
and she recognizes herself as being a kidnapped child
and doesn't understand what is happening.
Then I found this which I grabbed at the last minute because it was on one of those super-bargain bins for like, a dollar.
Half-Bad. I've seen it around. I don't know anything about it.
But like I said, I was just like, "cheap books!"
Um... it's the first book in a trilogy.
That's all I'm gonna say about it.
[knocking on book] I own it now.
And then, the final two books that I got are books that I've wanted a long time and I just decided to cave and buy them.
It is The Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith.
This is a crime series which is written by J.K. Rowling under the pen-name Robert Galbraith.
I've heard really good things about it. I don't read much crime fiction but I just--you know--I need every book that JK Rowling has ever written.
For obvious reasons.
This book is....
Yep.
