Big Charity Shop Book Haul! 📚

morning welcome back to my channel now this is a completely different video for me it's still book related but today i thought i would share with you some books that i have bought recently in charity shops if you enjoy this type of video it'd be really useful if you could let me know by giving me a thumbs up it will just help me to understand whether this is the kind of thing that you want to see because obviously it is a bit different so at the moment i'm sure like so many other people i'm working from home full-time i'm no longer heading into london a couple of days a week um and i find it's really important to get out at lunchtime um i had a few days where i realized i hadn't stepped outside of the house and got fresh air i think it was for about three days it wasn't good for me um so i'm trying at the moment to make sure i get out every lunch time and i have a high street um probably about five minutes up the road from where i live and there are some great charity shops so i've been wandering into those um and have found myself picking up a lot of books now i think because i love shopping and i feel like clothes shopping isn't the same for me anymore since corona since we're not able to try anything on i'm finding it really difficult to shop for clothes because i don't want to be constantly taking it back so i guess i've replaced that and i'm getting my retail therapy from buying books in charity shops instead is anyone else feeling like that and i justify it by sort of saying to myself well you know it's educational isn't it reading um it's also a great form of escapism which i'm sure we all really need at the moment i used to pick up most of my books in the supermarket or i would buy the odd book on amazon or world of books now if you're in the uk and you haven't used world of books it is amazing yeah it's a secondhand bookshop where you don't pay postage that is crazy isn't it because actually when you buy books online other than maybe from amazon they're quite weighty so you have to pay quite a bit in postage so yeah check out world of books especially if you're looking for something that's a little bit more niche you'll probably find it there of course i have got my kindle which i am absolutely loving if you haven't seen my review of the kindle paperwhite i will leave that linked below or up here um so i am reading a lot of books on my kindle however i i think i remember saying in that review that it's very unlikely that i will go to just reading ebooks i have a lot of physical books on my tbr again i have done a video of all of those books and actually as i was starting to go through those a little bit more i can't believe i've just added another how many have i got 10 maybe to the pile is it 10 2 4 6 8 9 to the pile if i can't get my retail therapy elsewhere i'm gonna get it in charity shops with books so today i wanted to share with you the books that i picked up in the charity shops recently there are nine of them um the first one i have already started reading so if you saw my book review last week you would have seen me mention this book already i think the most i paid for any one book was probably two pounds um and the cheapest was 50p which what can you get for 50p these days so much escapism for 50p i think sorry i'm really waffling aren't i i will get into the books in a second but i feel that shopping in a charity shop for books is particularly good if you're looking for something that isn't usually your type of genre of reading or if it's a book that you've heard mixed reviews about but you're keen to kind of judge for yourself if you pay 50p one pound whatever you don't feel that sort of need so much to finish the book if you're not enjoying it so i got some bargains there's a real mix of genres in here i would say it's mainly popular fiction um there's a couple of chicklet there's some thrillers um so yeah let's get started let me show you the nine books that i picked up in charity shops recently so one of the first books i picked up in um my little charity shop shopping spree was the keeper of lost things by ruth hogan look how pretty that cover is this is one of those books where i had read mixed reviews but i wanted to judge it for myself it's not a particularly long book i think it's actually less than 300 pages so the book is about a man called anthony perdue who basically collects lost things and tries to reunite them with their owners it's quite different to what i would normally raise and i don't want to give too much away on here because obviously my review of this will be coming next week so if you're keen to see what i think of this and you haven't already please press subscribe the second book that i picked up i basically can't pronounce um it's from frederick backman who is a swedish guy from what i've read and it is called a man called ovie ov oh we're going with ovie this is a as it says at the top a million copy best seller it's actually quite an old book so i think it was originally published in 2013 2014 time so it's been out for a while i have heard so many people talk about this you'll see that that is a theme with all of these books pretty much now from what i've read there was a stage version of this book in stockholm um the author like i said is swedish and then it was adapted into a film in 2015. i'm not a film person but i must say i haven't heard of this as a film so if you have please let me know below um but yes so many people were talking about this and i know it has had really good reviews so i'm very keen to read this the blurb on the back is quite intriguing apparently there's something about ovie that is and it just says it here in the end you'll see there is something about ovie that is quite irresistible despite him being almost the most grumpiest man you'll ever meet i think i'm getting eleanor oliphant is completely fine vibes with this one could be completely wrong but um just from the blurb and the cover that's what i'm thinking but yeah really keen to read that next up is this must be the place by maggie o'farrell i've got to admit that i think i picked this up purely for the cover um i'm sure like so many of us at the moment i am so desperate to go on holiday um it's a first world problem isn't it when we're living in a pandemic but um i'm really being drawn to things that are based abroad on holiday um have any sort of sort of illustrations of um travel maps aeroplanes anything like that and so this completely sucked me in this was actually according to the cover shortlisted the costa novel award um and i've never read anything by maggie o'farrell so um it's quite a meaty book how many pages yeah almost 500 pages apparently it's a love story that crosses continents and time zones and is set around a rather extraordinary marriage so it does sound like my kind of thing um i just hope that the cover lives up to my expectations next up another book that i have heard so much about and that is the lido by libby page this was published in 2018 i think yeah and again i've heard so many people talk about this that again is the theme to pretty much all of these books that i've got here so it's about two women one recently widowed called rosemary and a young depressed journalist called kate basically they come together to try to save the lido in brockwell which is in south london this to me really sounds like it's a book about community and friendship and i'm all for that at the moment um yeah i'm really looking forward to reading this i mean i'm looking forward to reading them all um this one intrigues me quite a lot um but i must say most of these are gonna have to wait until next year because i think i am after the keeper of lost things i'm pretty much into the festive chiclet then what number are we on number five is elise jewell book and it is watching you so a bit of a different genre this time i thought that this was the first sort of thriller that i had from lisa jewell so back in the day many many years ago when lisa joel used to write more chiclet i think i read ralph's party after the party i think those kind of books um i thought that i didn't have any of her sort of more recent ones but actually and you would know this if you watch my tbr i have a couple on my shelf that i just haven't read so now i've just added another one to it so at the beginning of the book apparently um there is a murder and obviously there starts the whodunit but also who has been murdered i have to be in the right mood to read a book like this um i definitely won't be reading it before christmas i definitely want something more light-hearted very festive very cozy um but i think come the new year i'm definitely gonna start to sort of broaden my reading horizons again a bit this has got pretty big font i don't know if you can see that yeah it's quite big fun maybe because i read quite a small font on my kindle these are in such good condition look at this the spine isn't even marked yeah crazy number six and probably the most talked about book last year was it or earlier this year um was the silent patient by alex oh god mykoladys mika ladies this is over a million copies sold of this book and i think along with where the crawdads sing i am probably the last person to read this book the one thing i'm slightly concerned about with this book is that there was so much hype around it and if you've watched any of my sally rooney reviews you'll know that i don't always get the hype i hope my expectations aren't too high for this book if you've read it and you maybe were a bit worried about this where you're going to get the hype you maybe came to a bit later let me know what you thought of it in the comments i'd be very keen to know this is about a woman called alicia who has been accused of her husband's murder and then she doesn't speak for six years and she's living in a mental hospital for dangerous people then we meet theo who is a psychotherapist and he is very interested in alicia's case but i think there might be something a little bit more to theo it might not just be that he wants to help her out very keen to read this although also a little bit is it gonna live up to the hype number seven is an american marriage by terry jones tyree jones there we go you can see for yourself now how much i've butchered that so this is the winner of the women's prize for fiction 2019 and again i've heard so many people talk about it this is about newlyweds celestial and roy who are settling into their sort of married life together when roy is arrested and sentenced for a crime that celestial knows he didn't commit and then he has to spend 12 years in prison and i was doing a little bit of research for this book um i always look on goodreads love goodreads um i looked this book up and the first review that came up was from bill gates he gave a good review it was a nice meaty lengthy review the only other book i've read that i have seen bill gates review i mean he's unlikely to read the chicklet that i read um was why we sleep um i've done a review on that as well so i will leave that linked in the description below i'm not expecting this to be a light-hearted read by any means um however i think it touches on a lot of important subjects from what i've heard um and also i imagine it's probably going to be quite thought-provoking so again i need to be in the right frame of mind in order to pick this book up but i think next year this will definitely be on my list quite early on now we're moving into something a little bit more in my comfort zone of reading and that is one of my favorite chiclet authors veronica henry and a wedding at the beach hut this was one of the more expensive ones it was from cancer research uk i love veronica henry i also loved the beach heart i think that's what it's called so when i saw she had bought a new book out around the similar series i knew that i had to pick it up this is definitely more of a summertime read as you can probably tell by the cover i think i'll probably wait until spring summer next year in order to read this um i'm very much a mood seasons reader in case you hadn't worked out so this is set in everdene in devon on the coast and i imagine that this is going to be great escapism i'm hoping we won't quite need the same amount of escapism that we've needed this year next year but who knows with the way we're going at the moment is anyone's guess this is part of the everdean sans beach hut series like i said i've read the beach heart i absolutely loved it in fact i think my mum read in it's one of the few books that she's read she's not a reader but she really really enjoyed it and she read it in no time though it is part of a series but you can definitely read it as a standalone book and it won't make any difference so the book is about robin who is a landscape gardener who when she finds out she's pregnant she wants to know more about her own adoption and her birth mother i'm thinking this is probably quite an emotional story maybe a little bit of a roller coaster but very feel good and like i said um at the moment pretty much perfect escapism and we have one book left um this is probably a pretty lengthy video finally i picked up the beekeeper of aleppo by christy left terry again this is another book that i have heard so many people rave about this really seems to have struck a chord with people and really had an impact on them um so it's about nuri a beekeeper and his wife aphra who is an artist living in the syrian city of aleppo and as war breaks out they are forced to flee to the uk again i think as i said with one of the other books i don't think this is going to be a light-hearted fluffy read at all but i do think that this is going to be quite sobering quite emotional obviously very different to what i would normally pick up and read but the reviews are amazing so i think on goodreads it gets an average of 4.25 out of 5. now that is pretty good i imagine that after i've read this book it's one of those stories that's going to stay with me for a while here they all are um there is quite a mix in there isn't there actually not so many chiclet is what i would normally pick up and i like that i feel that i know i love chicklet that's fine but when i go to a charity shop i feel it's an opportunity to pick up books that i wouldn't necessarily buy at full price yeah i'm really looking forward to getting stuck into those in the new year probably i might read one or two this side of christmas but my festive reading is really stacking up is my coffee gone cold now that would be a yes thank you so much for watching i realize this is quite a different video like i said at the beginning so please let me know if you've enjoyed it or you like this type of video if you haven't already please subscribe and press the bell i think as this video is going up i am around 13 14 subscribers away from reaching the 1 000 subscribers milestone which sounds crazy even for me to say um this is simply a hobby for me i just really enjoy it to think of those thousand people in a room actually makes me a bit scared um but thank you so much if you have subscribed thank you so much for supporting me and watching my videos week in week out if you have any feedback on anything you would like to see me do um anything you'd like to see me review any other book content please let me know in the comments below um and like i said i hope you enjoyed it i will be back next week with my review of the keeper of lost things um i should get it done i'm being quite slow again at the moment um i've started watching emily in paris and that was a big mistake wasn't it because when i should be reading i am watching that on netflix instead i'm gabbling on i really i need to go and do some work now thank you so much for watching and i hope to see you again back here next week where i will have my book review of the keeper of lost things for you i'm speaking so fast um take care have a good week see you later bye

Channel: Hayley's Bite-Size Reviews

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Rating: 4.7735848 out of 5

Keywords: Book haul, Booktube, Charity shop, Charity shop finds, Charity shop books, A man called Ove, Maggie O'Farrell, Lisa Jewell, The Silent Patient, Popular books, An American Marriage, Fiction, Book shopping, Second hand books, Fredrik Backman, TBR, Recommended books, Book recommendations, Thrift shop books, Thrift shop finds

Id: KrG4jBRfolE

Length: 18min 6sec (1086 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 24 2020