Come book shopping with me + haul!📚✨

guys it's ashley and today you're coming book shopping with me so i'm in my living room today because i am just about to leave and head out to go to the bookstore i'm so excited to shop for some books the bookstore always makes me so calm and like so happy so i'm really excited to bring you along for the journey i actually asked on instagram whether you guys would prefer an in-store book shopping video or an online bookshopping video and the majority of you said in store but you know what i'm gonna do both how's that for satisfying the audience so i've got a list of things that i'm looking for we're going to be heading out to the bookstore soon but since we are going on this book buying journey together i am so excited to let you know that this video is being sponsored by karma so karma is a free app in google chrome extension that makes sure that you never miss a price drop or a coupon code on any of your favorite items i personally use it all the time when i'm just like mindlessly online shopping and need to you know control myself a little bit which is let's face it all the time so make sure to check the link in my description box below to try it out for yourself so karma actually used to be called shop tagger and if you watched my previous book haul you might already be familiar with them but they changed their name because they're always expanding their capabilities and their new name represents the good karma that they put forth by helping people save money which i love that so much so most recently i actually used karma to get my hands on the box set of the keeper of the lost city series all of these books are out of order right now so please ignore that i've actually read them all at this point but the karma app actually sent me a notification that let me know that the series dropped from its list price of forty nine dollars to a whopping thirty dollars and because you guys know i am addicted to this series i snatched it up when i saw that so all it takes 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to always be able to use it and then finally we've got the cashback feature so you can actually earn cash via paypal when you shop with select retail partners through karma and this has actually become one of my favorite things recently because now more than ever it's important to get that max value on whatever you're buying so thank you so so much to karma for sponsoring this video working with me again and supporting my work make sure you guys go check out the link in my description below to download karma on both your computer and phone and to start saving as much money as possible so now that we've got that out of the way let's go to the bookstore [Music] been waiting for this i'm so happy it's here i really want this book but i don't like the mass market paperback i want to get like the one that's like big like this so i think i'm gonna wait and see if i can find that somewhere but this book i have heard a lot about recently and i would really really really love to read it at some point so we'll hold on to that [Music] my brother is making me read these books they're pretty good to be honest with you he's making me read them and then i'm gonna apparently watch the anime afterward i don't know these covers are so pretty like the new covers of these books i love these so much i heard about this book it's like pride and prejudice but with a murder it's like a thriller version of pride and prejudice which sounds honestly pretty great [Music] i love the kids section my mom and i watched this tv show on i don't remember where it is is it on amazon prime or something i don't know but we watched the tv show and it was so funny and weird if you haven't seen the show it's actually really funny really good i would highly recommend a lot of people have also been telling me to read this series but we don't have the poppy war here so that's fun this is my favorite shelf in barnes noble all the way down here at the bottom i've also heard a lot about this series over the years and it's always been on my list to attempt one day i might wait on it just because it's not like a priority right now or it's not anything that i'm like really interested in reading at the moment but i've definitely heard a lot about this one and i want to eventually get to it because it's apparently a really good fantasy series but not today ah yes the table of sarah j maas what would we do without you we got the goods now time to go home and order some more books online because i can't stop it's problem that is true that is true that's true it's very true okay you guys so i got home from the bookstore about 30 minutes ago i think and i wanted to go ahead and film the rest of this now before i forgot and put it off for too long so what we're gonna do now is do some online book shopping because if you know you know bookstore prices tend to be very high like the list prices for books in bookstores tend to be really high compared to what's online for lots of different reasons that i won't get into now and if i were at an indie bookstore or an independent bookstore other than like barnes and noble which is the only thing i have near me i would definitely pay those prices to support that bookstore obviously but since barnes noble is a really big company i am perfectly fine with buying some in store and some online and just supporting them that way so that's why i'm to be finishing this up with some online book shopping because i want a couple of more books and i didn't want to pay so much money for them so we're going to do that now sorry that this camera angle is going to be kind of off to the side a little bit while i'm doing this just you know it's the best i can do right now we're gonna go to barnes noble and normally i try to like look at the books tab maybe if it wants to click okay well sometimes i will go to the books tab and just look through some of the april pics and stuff like that if it wants to load but apparently it's being really slow right now so what i'm going to do instead is start looking up a bunch of different books the first book that i actually want to look up is black sun by rebecca rohnhorse because i've seen a couple of people talk about it recently i know that it's an adult fantasy set in like ancient civilization or something yeah it's inspired by the civilizations of the pre-columbian americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies political intrigue and forbidden magic oh my goodness so yeah i definitely want to get to this wait what is the paperback it's available now oh no pre-order june 29th that's not very far away should i just pre-order the paperback version of it i don't know i'll just add the hardcover to my cart and decide a little bit later but yeah i heard that this is supposed to be really good from a couple of different people uh specifically uh most recently alexandria eng on instagram said that it was a really really really good book one of her favorites of the year so i'm gonna add it to my cart and we will make some decisions i also wanted to order another book from my middle grade tbr video that i uploaded earlier this year ah evo evergreen semi-magical witch oh my god i forgot that i wanted to read that i recently just saw somebody feature that book on instagram and it made me really want it because if you guys haven't seen the cover of this book oh my god it's the cutest thing i've ever seen in my life like the cover of this book 100 qualifies as cutest cover i've ever seen like look at look at how cute it is oh my god like eva evergreen semi-magical witch i love it i love everything about this book i'm so excited i've heard really good things so i want to add it i'm gonna add it because it's so cute do you hear my computer i don't know what's happening another book that i really wanted recently was the kingdom of back by marie lu i don't know why i feel like this was a really popular book when it first came out like either last year or the year before or whatever it was that it came out but um i've been seeing it recently on instagram a lot and every time i see it the cover just like calls to me it's like ashley you know you want me and i'm like oh my god so um i'm just gonna add it to my cart because i just this is a complete cover buy for me even though i know somewhat of what the story is about it's about right the mozart siblings yeah two siblings two brilliant talents but only one mozart historical y fantasy about a musical prodigy and the dangerous length she'll go to to make history remember her i really like that that sounds super intriguing to me so i'm adding it and we will just go through all of the books that i'm adding to my cart later and we'll figure out which ones that i like actually want oh my god all these books are just coming to me there are so many books that i want right now you guys i don't i don't know how to cope with this god there's a lot of books brandon sanderson's written oh my god the stormlight archive the mistborn trilogy miss point the wax and wayne series and then this arcanum unbounded like what and then they're like all in the same sort of universe is that what the thing is i don't i don't understand brandon's sanderson's work but his books are so good i was hoping the barnes noble would have like a larger paperback because when i was in the store i saw the mass market paperback but i didn't see a larger one what does the hardcover look like the hardcover is so expensive oh my god 31 okay this one might have to wait a little bit that's a little bit more than i'm willing to spend on a book let's look at what books i have in my like karma list because that will definitely help me narrow it down behind the flame i added this in here randomly because i saw somebody say that it was like an enemies to lovers romance story and i was like that sounds interesting god i'm so conflicted what do i want you know what i wanted to look at we're gonna go on book depository for a little bit because i really wanted to look at six crimson cranes that reminds me i should buy unravel the dusk oh my god wow ashley so smart i'm going to look at six crimson cranes because the the oh my god it's so beautiful the uk cover of six crimson cranes like yeah the us one is really pretty too but the uk cover of six crimson crates it's so pretty it's so pretty and then apparently they're also re doing uh spin the dawn and unravel the dusk their covers for the uk versions as well and they're gonna match this and it's just so pretty i don't even know what this is about but i want it just because of the cover a princess in exile six enchanted cranes an unspeakable curse a beautiful and immersive guaya fantasy retelling of the grimm brothers the six swans fairy tale set in an east asian inspired world by author of spin the dawn but since this is a july release i'm actually gonna save it to my karma list that way i'll have it there for when i want to buy it later but i'm definitely buying it and i'm buying this cover because this cover is beautiful speaking of all of that i really want to get unraveled the dusk because i don't have it yet it's the sequel to spin the dawn and i haven't read it and i've been wanting to get it so heck yeah let's get it wait is the paper back out yet june 1st oh my god why are all of these paperbacks not coming out until june i would so much rather have the paper bag than the hardcover even though it doesn't match my first one i'd literally rather have the paperback but i mean i also kind of want it now so maybe we'll just like add the cart i'm so bad i'm so so so bad when it comes to book buying you all have to make me stop make me stop let's see what i have in my cart at this point because i honestly don't know what i put in there so we've got unravel the dust the kingdom of back eva evergreen semi-magical witch and black sun i definitely want black sun so that's a definite yes and then i think for the other ones i'm just gonna have to decide what is more important to me like i feel like the kingdom of back is not super important because it's not something that i like need to read right this second but at the same time it's the cheapest book on this list so like should i just bite the bullet and do it but then also unravel the dusk is a sequel to a book that i've been wanting to read unravel the dusties also on my 21 books i will get to in 2021 list so i feel like i should get that so that i can finally read it i'm just gonna decide what i'm doing and we will figure it out a little later and when i do my little haul you'll see what i ended up buying that's the most that i can promise you right now i just really have to like dig deep and think hard about like what i want i'm gonna go i'm gonna make these hard decisions because i'm super indecisive and then i will come back with my little haul where i show you what i got in store and online and we will learn together what i decided to go with in the end alright guys so please ignore my room it's a little bit of a mess but today i'm going to be doing the haul portion of this video it's been some time and i have gotten all of the books in the mail and i've gotten all the books that i got at the bookstore and so now it's time to haul them and show you what i got so we'll start with the ones that i got from the bookstore barnes and noble um i wish i had some like cool indie book stores near me but unfortunately i don't so we're gonna have to settle for barnes and noble the first book that i got at barnes noble is one that probably won't surprise you guys and that is the serpent's curse by lisa maxwell the third book and the last magician trilogy uh i'm so excited for this book it's also so much chunkier than i thought it was going to be which makes me so much more excited to read it if you don't know about the last magician it's one of my favorite series of all time it's so great and so underrated and more people should read it it's an urban fantasy with historical fiction elements to it um it's also a heist book it's got a great romance and it's got a great like ragtag sort of group of people and it's it's so good i love it to death and this is the third book which means everything is going to culminate and and finish up and all of that and i'm just so excited to read it oh my god i do have to reread the second book first before i hop into this but once i do that it's fair game for this baby and so the second book that i ended up getting at barnes noble was actually one that i hadn't expected to get or hadn't planned to get when i went there but i saw it on the shelf in the middle grade section and was like okay i can't pass this up because so many people have been telling me it's so good ever since i mentioned it and that is the girl who drank the moon by kelly barnhell i mentioned this story in my video where i talked about middle grade books i want to add to my tbr this year and i'm super happy to have a physical copy of this because i've been wanting to read it like i mentioned in that video and now that i have it i can like make sure that i see it all the time that way my brain doesn't forget about it and put it on the back burner it's always in front of me so i will always remember my obligation to what i said i was going to do which is read this book this year so from what i remember about this story it's about a witch who lives near this town and the people in the town believe that she terrorizes the town and so every year they leave a baby as an offering for her um but she doesn't like kill the babies or anything like that she takes them in and she rescues them and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest so she's a good witch right but one day she accidentally feeds a baby moonlight and gives it magical powers and so we're kind of following this girl as her 13th birthday approaches and her magic begins to emerge with unpredictable consequences just when it's time for zan to collect another child meanwhile a young man is determined to free his people by killing the witch and then there's a bunch of other stuff that happens so i've heard from people that this is a very moving and touching and beautiful story so i'm really excited to finally read it because i've seen it for years now and just have never picked it up glad i got it i'm also happy that it's a paperback because i love paperback books i'm sorry i'm gonna say it my tastes have changed over the years and i am a paperback those were the two books that i got from barnes noble went online and bought some more so let me show you what i got in the mail i'll continue the middle grade train by showing you another middle grade story that i got that i'm really excited about because it just looks so darn cute and that is eva evergreen the semi-magical witch by julie abe it's probably focusing on my face so i'm sorry but look at how cute this cover is i can't it's so cute so yeah that was one of the main reasons that i picked this book up total cover by not even gonna lie about it but also the story just sounds really adorable as well um obviously it's about a girl named eva evergreen and she is determined to become a novice witch before her 13th birthday because if she doesn't she'll lose her magic forever the only problem is that she only has a little bit of magic remember she's a semi-magical witch so she ends up going to this town to open this shop to try to prove that she's worthy of her magic or something like that and then she ends up having to try to fight off this dark evil thing that is coming soon and um she has to you know muster up her strength even though she's only semi-magical and try to fight this thing off so i think it's going to be a really cute little fantasy story and i'm really excited to read it it's just one of those like really like aesthetically pleasing stories that i absolutely love and really want to have on my shelf no matter how like childish they may look i'm totally fine with having this on my shelf as a 23 year old because it's beautiful so there we go now the last two books that i got are actually adult fantasy and i'm really excited to haul them right now because i've been wanting to read them for a while and just hadn't gotten my hands on them so without further ado the first one that i would like to haul is black sun by rebecca roan horse the only thing that i know about this story there's two things that i know one is that it is based on the civilizations of the pre-columbian americas which i think is really interesting and cool because i've never read a story like that before and also i'm pretty sure that this features like non-binary characters and other characters of different genders and possibly sexualities which i am excited to read because i feel like we don't get as much of that in fantasy as we have recently in contemporary and romance and stuff like that so i'm just super excited to read this especially as a like just super diverse fantasy i'm here i'm ready i don't know anything about the plot to be completely honest with you but it's fine i never usually do i like to go into books not really knowing what the hell is happening and this will probably be no different i'm just really excited to have it also this cover is just so pretty like what is happening on here i don't even care i just i really want it and like it and want to read it and then the last book that i got from my online order that i placed was warbreaker or breaker oh my god i thought i was saying that wrong by brandon sanderson so you might notice that this is the uk version of this cover and when i was doing some research and trying to find a paperback version of this story i could only find the mass market paperback which is teeny tiny or the hardcover which is like freaking massive and thirty dollars so i was like okay let's do some research and i ended up finding this on some website i can't even remember what and i just bought it i bought it and i don't care that it doesn't match any of my other books because i'm pretty sure this story is kind of like a standalone in a way anyway right i could be totally wrong so don't quote me on that but i'm pretty sure and i also don't know what this book is about either i just i hell if i know um war breaker is the story of two sisters who happen to be princesses the god king one of them has to marry a lesser god and an immortal trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago theirs is a world in which those who die in glory return as gods a world transformed by biochromatic magic a power based stun in essence known as breath which can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people but it's worth it by using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects all manner of miracles and mischief can be performed so i knew before going into this that the magic system was somehow based off of color which i found really interesting so i'm really excited to hop into this at some point soon and also uh i can't remember what order somebody recommended that i read brandon sanderson's work in but i have already read the mistborn trilogy and i figured that this was a good stepping stone before i started the way of kings and that series whatever it's called i can't remember the name of the series um because i'm pretty sure maybe possibly this is a standalone fantasy even though all of his work consists and is set in like the same universe right like it's like the universe of the cosmere or something like that brandon sanderson mega fans i'm sorry i'm probably disappointing you here but i'm just giving you what i know off the top of my head so anyway all of his work kind of falls under this umbrella universe kind of thing even though the series might be standalone or separate so that's all i know that's all i got now i have this one and we'll get to it at some point right okay so these are the books that i ended up getting in this video and on my little come book shopping with me tour they're all technically books that i have wanted so i'm really happy that i didn't just go in with like i don't know i did go in with no expectations but i'm glad that i didn't just buy things for the hell of it but i really stuck to books that have been on my list for a while i'm really excited to get to them i have a good mix of fantasy actually they're all fantasy i just realized that i have a good mix of young adult adult and middle grade that's one way to look at it and before we go i want to give a huge thank you once again to karma for sponsoring this video and for working with me again and supporting my work i really appreciate it and remember you guys can check the link in my description below to download karma for free and start saving money it's amazing and i love it so much i use it all the time oh my god but other than that i think that's going to be it for this video if you guys want to follow me on any of my socials all my handles are in the description thank you so much for watching and i will catch you later bye [Music] you

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Length: 22min 50sec (1370 seconds)

Published: Tue May 04 2021