what up my channel? welcome back to another
video... i'm jesse and you're watching... welcome to my first book haul of 2021! i am so
excited because i have a lot of really amazing books to talk about. books i'm super hyped for...
i cannot wait to share this haul with y'all. i have a lot of books here! i think i'm trying to
remember what i counted... i think it was 55 or 57 books? i'm really really really really freaking
excited! before i go into my book haul showing off all of these amazing incredible books, there's
something really really important that i want to address. if you guys are noticing my nails um
i work with a six-year-old and she insisted upon painting my nails and uh this this was this is
her beautiful handiwork. i love it. i love her. she's a sweetie uh and she's gonna be an artist
someday.. okay moving on so the thing that i want to address before popping into this book haul
is something that happened on twitter early on in december. i was watching booktube and one of my
favorite booktubers uploaded a book haul reminded me that i wanted to make a tweet about how a lot
of booktubers get hate for posting their book haul videos and this was a conversation that was
happening like months ago in the book community but i never officially commented on it and i just
forgot about it.... i went on twitter and i just randomly tweeted "i don't understand why people
get so mad at booktubers for hauling books. buying books is literally what we do on booktube. if you
have issues with book hauls if you shouldn't watch booktube or shouldn't watch book hauls". there was
something really really really important going on at the time that i just didn't know about -- A
typhoon had hit the philippines and philippine booktubers were trying to raise awareness for
this and we're really frustrated that people were just talking about book hauls instead of
focusing on the very real awful devastation that their homeland was suffering. so the tweet that i
made was incredibly poor timing because i did not realize that philippine booktubers were talking
about how frustrated they were that people were talking about book hauls instead of raising
any amount of concern for what was happening in the philippines and my tweet really upset and
hurt a lot of those booktubers. at the time not only did i not know that a typhoon had hit the
philippines but i also did not know that there were conversations on book twitter happening about
book hauls. i literally didn't see any discourse on book hauls. i thought that i was just making
an entirely random tweet... a tweet that i had intended to make a while ago. i just literally had
a random thought about book hauls and decided to tweet about it and a lot of people were really
hurt and upset that i tweeted what i did because they were like "why are you more focused on
booktubers getting hate for book hauls than what's happening in the philippines" and i responded that
i had no idea that those conversations were taking place and people were upset with me for not for
me not having known that uh typhoon had hit the philippines and days before this happened i had
gone on twitter and instagram and said that my abuela... and shared that my abuela... was
admitted to the hospital with covid19 and was in the icu fighting for her life. i was not watching
the news. i was not reading the twitter feed. i was not keeping up with any kind of news domestic
or international because the only thing that that mattered to me was that my abuela was sick
and so i had no idea that these conversations were taking place and when i shared that people then
started saying that i was lying and then they just didn't believe me. i i know i saw one tweet that
was like "how can you say that you didn't know because your friends were literally tweeting about
it". like i said if my friends were tweeting about book hauls, i wasn't aware because i wasn't on
twitter that way! i literally didn't know that there was any discourse about book hauls happening
whether it was from my personal friends or not. the my tweet was specifically just me remembering
that a couple of my friends had gotten shit for book hauls earlier on in the year and i just
wanted to randomly tweet just wanted to tweet like "hey let people post the content that
they want to post" you know? then i saw tweets from people saying that i was only mad because
people were giving me hate for book hauls and that's just not true-- i posted i think
one book haul last year and that was like five months before this even happened! i just
i know a lot of people were saying that like i didn't care about international issues, that i'm
like only focused on the united states. I am more active on my instagram than i am on twitter
but i'm actually pretty vocal on my instagram about international issues and i'm also pretty
good at staying up to date with the news but um you know with when my grandma got sick, i was
not watching the news and the the last thing on my mind um was anything but her. um unfortunately she
ended up passing away to covid 19 and the last few days of her life i spent like trying to convince
people that i was grieving and not focused on anything but ....but what my family was going
through. i also want to address that there were also people who felt that i was saying that you
have to be you have to buy books in order to be a booktuber and honestly anybody who watches my
platform just simply knows that that's not at all what i stand for. anybody who watches my videos
knows that i don't buy books. i say that it's like every fifth video! that i do not buy books! that i
very rarely buy books! that i use my library. that i unhaul books regularly. i recently said this in
my bookshelf organizing video, i talked about how i read my books from my local library first. the
books that i have are either gifted to me or like sent to me from publishers. i do not buy books and
i don't have the money for it. i talk about that so much on this platform how i don't buy books!
i don't sub tweet... i just simply don't do it because of situations like this, and people
assumed that my original tweet was me subtweeting um philippine booktubers who were trying to
raise awareness for the issue that they're facing at home. and um it wasn't a subtweet.
it's just a random thought that i had because i saw that a booktuber i really liked uploaded
a video uploaded a book haul and i went "oh yeah i remember i wanted to make a tweet about book
hauls" so i did and me completely having no idea what was going on on book twitter because i was
focused on my abuela being in the icu... i'm sorry it's like it's still really emotional for
me to talk about....i know what it feels like to be fighting and raising awareness for an issue
and have people not care and not listen to you and think that your voice doesn't matter and
and to be told that what's happening to you and your people isn't important. i know what that
feels like and i would NEVER in a thousand years do that to somebody else. and i'm just really
sorry that my tweet hurt anybody's feelings and made people feel erased and unseen because i
KNOW what that feels like and asian folks already are so erased and invisible. that's not at all
what i was doing and if you were one of those people who thought that i was saying that you
had to buy books in order to be a booktuber-- no that's that's-- i'm so sorry that i gave that
impression-- I DONT EVEN BUY BOOKS OK? so i talk so much on my channel about how you don't need
to buy books in order to be a reader and i firmly stand by that. i still believe that. i was....
that tweet was specifically talking about the booktubers who do buy books like that's what THEY
do. they like to buy books and that's okay! that's all i was trying to say, i'm so sorry that i
worded that poorly and that i hurt people, i just wanted to be able to address that and to apologize
and to apologize for my really poor communication. i donated what i could to the philippines and
i will leave a link down below so that you can also donate if you are able or can share or boost
and support because that is so important. yeah it is absolutely a thousand percent correct that
so many westerners do not care what happens outside of the united states um or outside of
the west-- i've never been one of those people. i've been very vocal about international issues
and i will continue to be vocal and i'm sorry that i um i wasn't on the ball with this
particular crisis and that was just because i was dealing with a crisis of my own. i'm gonna stop
babbling and probably making things worse so all the books that you're about to see in this haul
are books that were either gifted to me by y'all amazing subscribers or were sent to me from the
publisher because again-- i very rarely buy books. um i want to make it perfectly clear that you are
still a reader if you don't buy books, i usually don't even film book hauls that's why i only
have two book hauls on my channel because since i don't buy books and my books are usually gifted
to me... i feel like it doesn't really count as a book haul because i didn't buy them with my own
money. that's a good question for y'all do you feel it's still a book haul if the booktuber
didn't buy the books with their own money? i feel it is but let me know your thoughts. the
reason i wanted to film this video is because a subscriber sent me the most generous gift i
think i've ever received. no i know that i've ever received in my life and so this video is
literally dedicated to that subscriber because most of these books that i have in this haul were
all gifted to me by one subscriber... i walked home i opened my door and amazon had like three
huge boxes full of books this person gifted me almost every book on my wish list.... it was
sobbing sobbing. ugly freaking tears okay?? it was ugly tears and if you're watching
this video i totally respect your anonymity but if you do want to email me let me know that
you were the person who sent me all these books i just would really love the chance to like thank
you formally because this this was so generous. so if you are comfortable reaching out to me please
do because i just would really love to thank you or send you a deck of tbr cards or do literally
something a thank you note anything because it-- i can't even speak. so i'm going to start
with the books that that particular viewer sent me. you know how amazon sends like gift receipts
when you give a gift?? the gift receipt literally just said "a viewer". i have all of these gift
receipts and they all just say a viewer. and i'm dying to know who you are this is so so sweet
of you. side note if you do send me a gift i save these gift receipts. i will write on like
the jacket um where i got the book and who gave it to me so if you do ever send me a book and you're
comfortable sending me your name please do because i saved that and then i will like cherish the book
forever so this is a good example um this person this viewer sent me jade city by fonda lee. which
i don't even need to explain this book because everybody is reading it. everybody loves it. it
is an amazing fantasy book by an asian author. it is a series centering around a civilization
that is powered by jade which gives people magical abilities you have powerful families it
seems like it's like mafia-esque vibes and it's very cutthroat and brutal. i have not started
this series and i am so freaking excited to be getting into it. they also sent me SLAY--
stories from the vampire noir. i have been wanting this book so badly, it is literally a
vampire collection centering black characters. what what more could one ask for?? creepy
paranormal and black vampires but black? i also have one of my favorite thrillers in the
world which is give me your hand by megan abbott. this i read from my local library and i have had
it on my wish list for the longest time and i'm so excited to finally own it. this is a really
good kind of medical thriller. it is about kit who has risen to the top of her profession
within her stem field. she is a researcher but she's surrounded by a lot of sexism and
then when a mysterious girl from her past --one that she used to be best friends with at
17 ends up getting indoctrinated into her cohort and becomes a source of competition-- KIT may
have everything that she has worked so hard for violently destroyed by diane's deep dark brutal
secrets. they also sent me "you had me at hola" which i read last year on audio via scribd and
loved it. this is an amazing telenovela romance! it is a story within a story because the main
characters are actors so you get to experience the story that that the actors are telling as well
as the budding romance between these two co-stars. they also sent me we hunt the flame which i
started via my library right when it came out and i never got to finish it and it was amazing!!! i
only got like 60 pages in but the world building, the magic, the character work it was beautiful
--by an american muslim author ...the writing was just amazing and i cannot wait to get
like just to really be digging and diving into this series. tell me this isn't the most
beautiful beautiful book in the world? and we have rebecca roanhorse's latest book --black sun
which i read last year via audio on scribd and i loved this book. this is definitely my favorite of
her works. this is an amazing fantasy book that is set in pre-columbian americas and oh my gosh i am
already dying waiting for the next one. you have sirens-- i really love siren magic-- the mythology
in this book is fantastic and i loved how strong some of the characters were especially if you
like fantasy books where they are um at sea for at least some of the book this is definitely
going to be a book that you're going to enjoy. especially if you like books that have religion
in them. especially if you like books that have kind of cult-y representation. it's just it's
all the things. this subscriber also sent me "this place 150 years re told" which was one of my
most anticipated releases right when it came out, indigenous comic anthology. it is supposed to be
visually gorgeous, captures the indigenous history of canada. it is speculative fiction. there is
sci-fi and fantasy and i am so excited!!! they also sent me "upon a burning throne" which
i have been dying to read because starlah of starlah reads has been raving about this book! the
first in a fantasy series --a saga if you will-- and i you know it just it sounds amazing. it
sounds freaking phenomenal. "here are all the heroes and gods demons and sorcerers you could
possibly want". you're following two young princes who are in line to rule however inheritance isn't
everything and in order to succeed to the throne they have to sit upon a throne while it is
burning. there is much more to the plot than this but i just it just sounds creative and lush and
mythological and just phenomenal. also so kindly freaking sent me the mistborn trilogy.
i have never read any brandon sanderson and i am so freaking excited for this series. i
want to read all three of these books this year-- brandon sanderson is an author that i really
really want to get into this year especially he is one of the authors that i really want to read
in 2021.... i cannot wait for this i cannot wait to be hopefully on the sanderson hype train ....we
also have jade war which is the sequel to jade city, and this book which i'm so excited about it
was one of my most anticipated releases of last year and that is none other than star daughter.
this book sounds creative and it's just gorgeous and amazing. i cannot freaking wait. especially
because it is trans okay? let's go. essentially the driving force of this book is that our main
character is summoned by her celestial family in order to act as champion in a competition in
order to decide the next ruler of the heavens. they also sent me my dark vanessa which is a
very very controversial and polarizing book. this book is about grooming essentially. it's
about this young girl who is groomed into having a relationship with her teacher and then realizes
years down the road when her teacher is accused of sexual assault and rape that she was in a
predatory relationship as a child. it is supposed to be brilliant and haunting and beautiful and i'm
really really excited to dig into this book. they also sent me don't look for me by wendy walker.
wendy walker wrote one of my favorite freaking thriller books of all time and that is called
all is not forgotten. i am so excited for this one. this is wendy walker's latest thriller--- i
don't even know what it's about okay --essentially it is about a daughter who returns to a small
desolate town in order to search for clues and get some closure on her mother's very mysterious
death. okay so the next book that i have here is a gift that was given to me by my tio and my tia
over the holidays this is called message to the black man in america by elijah muhammad. my um
tio and my tia are very devout muslims and i'm really really excited that they gifted this to
me because i would love to learn more about their faith and their beliefs and i i really cannot
wait to read this this book. i literally screamed when i opened the package, thank you so much to
Tirill writes, sesame and samuel for gifting me the poison freaking prince!!! okay i am so excited
and like i said i saved the little gift notes so this is going right back into the book ! it's
gonna be my bookmark okay? i read the first book the um crown of the thry-- the crown-- the throne
of the five winds. wow why could i not say that??? last year i had a blast vlogging my reading
experience. i will leave that link down below. this this series just oh my goodness!!! and we
are following five scheming princes and their plans for the throne. the book essentially starts
with a captive princess who is kind of sold into this warring kingdom in order to broker a very
tentative peace between their two peoples. their two peoples have been at war for a very long
time it's about this princess and her lady in waiting --her very clever and powerful lady
in waiting-- trying to survive in this brutal cold-hearted palace. i loved everything about book
one. i loved the banter the setup the characters the combat.... i loved everything and i will be
reading this a freaking sap. i have to give a huge huge huge huge thank you to Boriqueer reads for
pretty little wife by darby kane. a thriller that i have heard amazing phenomenal things about. this
is about a girl named lyla who lives in an idyllic college town. people in her town are going
missing and then she herself becomes the the object of speculation when her husband goes
missing. and then a huge thank you to nicole gaudier from nicole bookish for gifting me if they
come for us.... just oh my freaking gosh i am so so excited for this book. it is a
beautiful beautiful book of poems that explores womanhood and the inheritance
of violence specifically the violences that muslim women grapple with. it's such an
important topic and i'm really really excited, i want to be better at reading muslim narratives
in 2021 i did pretty good last year and i want to continue that because those narratives
are so freaking important and they matter and if you don't already follow sincerely tahiry
she has a muslim book club called the IQRA trials which i will leave linked down below. then i have
to thank my beloved taylor of page scream taylor for gifting me the color of magic by terry
freaking pratchett. i am a fake fantasy fan i haven't read any terry pratchett i have no idea
what this is about. just kidding i know what discworld is about but i i'm excited to get into
it... discworld is legendary and i hope to love it as much as you know everybody else
does ....this next book though??? this next book though? i was panting when i
uncovered this book okay? when i unboxed this book i was... i was breathless okay? i was in cardiac
arrest, it was life alert. it was serious. and i'm really sad because i lost the part of the
slip that had the name of the person who gifted this to me so if you were the one who gifted me
autonomous by analee lee newitz please let me know because i would love to thank you. annalee newitz
is an amazing non-binary author. we read one of their books last year for my non-binary book
club--- enby book club-- that i run and it was freaking phenomenal and i'm so excited
for this one because autonomous is the first of their books. it is science fiction. they write
amazing sci-fi "jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate traversing the world in
a submarine as a pharmaceutical robin hood, fabricating cheap scripts for poor people who
can't otherwise afford them" that's only the first sentence of this description. moving on. then i
have a gift from my beloved gare bear and that is none other than the whisper man by alex north. i
read the shadows by alex north recently on audio. it slapped... i can't wait for this book. i
have very high hopes for this one because i have a feeling i'm going to like it even more
than the shadows and i very very very very much enjoyed the shadows. the shadows at least
was one of those books where you weren't sure if the villain was human or supernatural and i
think that this is going to be the same exact thing and my body is ready. i'm ready to catch
no sleep. the next two books are from one of my favorite booktubers and people in the entire
world and then it's none other than gabby of gabby reads. she so kindly sent me the martian by andy
vere. vire? v veer va? okay german names mess me u.p because i know this is a.... this is a v, the
w's are v's, so Weir???. i don't know okay. i know nothing jon snow. i read this book years ago and
i lent it to a friend and i never got it back. so thank you so much for sending this to me! i can't
wait to reread it! this is a book about a man who gets trapped on mars and he has to use his wits to
survive and it is funny he reminds me so much of deadpool. so if you like really intense sci-fi and
you like a very self-deprecating main character this book is just a freaking ride! it is a
ride! and the movie is pretty freaking great too starring matt damon. she also so kindly
sent me the shadows by alex north. she sent me this just as i was finishing the audiobook
and i'm so freaking excited to have the physical because i know i'm going to be referencing
this book quite a bit.... i'm going to be talking about this book quite a bit um i do have
a series on my channel called thriller thursdays and i wear on thursdays i talk about thrillers!
i only uploaded one of those videos last year but i really want to make thriller thursdays a
common thing on my channel and i know i'm going to be reviewing this book for one of those videos.
okay so those were all the books that were gifted to me by fellow booktubers and viewers and
i just really want to thank all of y'all for sending me these books because i-- the generosity
is just.... i i simply don't deserve it ....next stack of books are ones that were being given
away in my neighborhood and i am really excited about them! the first one is ask again yes by mary
beth keanne. this is a piece of literary fiction that everybody was reading i think two years ago
and it was just taking the literary community by storm and everybody was absolutely loving it and
i have no idea what it's about. two rookie cops in the nypd who live next door to one another this
book is essentially about what happens behind closed doors and how it doesn't always stay there.
um and there are some explosive events to come involving the instability of these homes and the
wives of these two men so that sounds definitely very intriguing. i love a good neighborhood,
a character study, like a neighborhood study really gets me you know what i mean ??comment
down below because as much as i love character studies i also love studies of a neighborhood
...i'm exploring this --explaining this-- really poorly. okay i also picked up communicating in
spanish. i got this book about a month before my abuela passed away and i really wanted to
work on my spanish so that i could be better at conversing with my abuela and that was like
something i wanted to surprise her with um.... and unfortunately.... i will never speak spanish
with her again. um oh i just realized that. the crazy thing about grief is that it really
does come in waves. um but i am still going.... i'm still committed more committed than ever to
um working in spanish and reading in spanish and speaking more in spanish and being more
connected to that part of my heritage. okay moving on. another book that i picked up
was the leper by steve thayer. now this book is intriguing yeah? there is no descriptor no cover
and it is set in minnesota where i live and so i'm not sure if this is historical fiction or a
thriller it definitely gives off thriller literary creepy vibes. "the year was 1918 the month was
june the day was dark and lost in the omnipresent fog of war" and it's set in st paul Minnesota--
minnesota wow i'm really not doing a good job of explaining things, being articulate anything
in this video. okay now the next two books that i have are thrillers. my bestie sent me a
bunch of books from book outlet and that's where these two books are from. the first one is
called it ends with her. this is a thriller with a gorgeous cover. i i'm a sucker for
red hair on thriller covers ....it's a thing it's a thing and i love it i love it i love .and
the second book also is a redhead this is about a special agent who is tracking a serial killer
and my lovely wife is one of the favorites of kayla from books and lala-- i'm pretty sure she
absolutely loves this book and i'm very excited about it! it's supposed to have really fascinating
characters it's supposed to be dexter meets mr and mrs smith! it's about a killer couple i believe.
and it was a debut novel ....i'm excited! i also hauled my favorite fantasy series from childhood
because i'm cheesy and that is the sweet far thing by libba bray! i loved these books. they
were so queer and just magical and angsty and i loved them. i loved them. also red hair
on the cover. it's just i just love it.... i can't wait to reread these books let me know
if you'd be interested in me doing a rereading this series video. i can't wait to reread these
books. i i loved them, i loved them so much, also comment down below if you remember this
series, if you read this series, if you're planning on reading the series it just it was peak
ya-- 2000's ya as far as i'm concerned. the final two books that i have from this stack are the kite
runner which i read in high school and loved-- destroyed me i'm ready to be destroyed all over
again-- i really am. and the last one is the book thief.... this is a book that i have not read so
i believe that this book is narrated by death. this book is set in 1939 nazi germany and we are
following a little girl who begins to steal books from nazi book burnings. and if you haven't heard
of the kite runner this is an amazing incredible deeply painful novel about a privileged kid who
was raised in luxury but his life becomes tragedy horror and devastation when his country is
invaded by russian forces. oh my god i have so many books left!!!!! i have 18 books left
you guys okay i'm gonna try and move faster. the rest of these books are ones that were sent
to me from the publisher. the first one i got in my feminist book club subscription. i love the
feminist book club box. the feminist book club subscription box is the best book subscription box
out there on the market as far as i'm concerned and renee sent me Elatsoe. i am so freaking
excited especially because i started reading more indigenous literature last year and i
want to really continue that in 2021. "this america has been shaped dramatically by the magic
monsters knowledge and legends of its people-- those indigenous and not-- some of these forces
are charmingly every day but other forces are less charming and should never see the light of day.
Elatsoe lives in the slightly stranger america. she can raise the ghosts of the dead animals. a
skill passed down through generations of her lipan apache family. her beloved cousin has just been
murdered in a town that wants no prying eyes but she is going to do more than pry." i am so excited
about this book. this next book is one that i am dying to read literally i i could not believe that
i got sent it. this also was a book that came in the feminist book club box and that is braiding
sweetgrass indigenous wisdom scientific knowledge and teaching of plants. i have heard that this
book is amazing and i am so freaking excited to read it. then we have when no one is watching by
alyssa cole. this was one of my favorite thrillers of 2020. i don't care what anybody says this book
is a thriller and it is phenomenal i have a review talking about bipoc thrillers and i talk about
this book at length in that video the video is basically about how there's a lot of gatekeeping
within thrillers where the contributions of bipoc individuals to the thriller genre are constantly
rejected by white publishers and white readers. highly recommend watching that video because it
means a lot to me. this book is so good. anyway this book is about a young woman who is living
in rapidly gentrifying brooklyn and when her neighbors start to disappear she suspects that
something deeply nefarious is going on and she's trying to decide if she is dissolving into a mess
of paranoia and fear or if someone truly is after not just the lives of her neighbors but her life
as well. now i have the invisible life of addie larue and these violent delights by chloe gong.
this one came in an illumicrate box and i just think this edition is really really pretty.
everybody was reading this book last year and loving it. ve schwab is an author that i haven't
read yet. i'm not sure that this is the book that i want to start with but vicious is a book on my
2021 tbr that i'm really really wanting to read. these violent delights is a romeo and juliet
retelling but set in the 1920s between mobbing families. so sold. the december feminist
book club box was themed after afrofuturism and kindred by octavia butler was in that box
which is just one of the most amazing books ever written. i really do want to reread it.... i'm not
sure if i'm going to get around to rereading it this year but this is about a black woman
named dana who is celebrating her 26th birthday and all of a sudden she finds herself transported
back to plantation life in the 1800s and basically she has been summoned back through time by a
white ancestor who is consistently calling on her for help. it is just such a mind-bending
just angering, amazing fantastically written book. you have to read this. random house sent me
barack obama's memoir. i am so excited about this chunky monkey. i love i just i'm ready i'm ready.
i really want to read this and becoming. i would love to read them in one month. the next book is a
thriller that i am very very very very excited for this is called lazarus by lars Kepler. "all across
europe the most ruthless criminals are suffering gruesome deaths at first it seems coincidental
but when two of the victims are found to have disturbing connections to detective lena. it
becomes clear that there's a single killer at work". i'm excited about that. we have another
thriller that i'm really excited about this is the kingdom which is the latest by joe nesbo.
cannot wait for this. this is about two brothers. when one of the brothers finds himself connected
to a bunch of unexplained gruesome deaths that have taken place in the town, his older brother
has to decide how far he's willing to go to clean up his younger brother's messes. okay are you
still with me? this is a black girl magic book that i cannot wait to get to... i definitely am
going to be vlogging my experience reading this book. it is a wattpad book that wattpad sent me
and it is called GIVEN. look look at this cover. black girls and dragons.... it's everything that i
need and more. "as princess of the moonrise isles and one of the fiercest warriors, yenni has always
put duty before her own desires , but when her father falls gravely ill she knows she must find
the cure and set out on and sets out on an arduous journey that takes her to a magical academy in the
far reaches of the empire of crush" i don't know about y'all but magic schools, dragons black girls
and fantasy, that's really all i need to know and Land of the big numbers by Te-Ping Chen is
another book that i'm really excited about. this was sent to me by the publisher this is a debut
story collection that looks at the diversity that exists within chinese people-- their history
their government and how all of that has tumbled messily violently but still beautifully
into the present.... then we have one of my most anticipated releases of 2021 which is the
prophet and this book has gotten such amazing reviews. thank you so much to putnam for sending
me this book. i honestly cannot wait.... i have heard that this is devastating and glorious and
epic and just flawless writing and it is queer, it is about love that takes place between two
enslaved young black men okay and i am freaking ready. "a singular and stunning debut novel about
the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a deep south plantation, the refuge they find
in each other, and the betrayal that threatens their existence" i'm so i'm i i'm so excited for
this. random house also sent me sarah mcbride's memoir and i am so freaking excited about this.
it is called tomorrow will be different and it is about her experiences being a trans woman. her
loves and losses and her fight for trans equality "before she became the first transgender person
to speak at a national political convention, sarah mcbride struggled to come out" oh my god
i'm so excited for this book then we have black buck which is another one of my most highly
anticipated releases for 2021. it is supposed to be a good cross between sorry to bother you
and the wolf of wall street and those kinds of stories deeply fascinate me. we're following a
22 year old black man named darren who begins to "rise through the ranks at this cutthroat company.
he's the only black person in the company and he reimagines himself as buck-- a ruthless salesman
unrecognizable to his friends and family but when things turn tragic at home and he hits rock bottom
he begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate america's sales force setting
off a chain of events that forever changes the game." okay i only have four books left --are you
tired of listening to me talk because i'm tired of of hearing my own voice. i have a bestiary by k
ming cheng. and this is a book that was sent to me by random house. thank you so much. i am really
really excited about this because i heard really good things about it last year it is following
three generations of taiwanese american women who are haunted by the myths of their homeland. it is
a visceral debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets from hmh
books. i have no one asked for this --this is a darkly funny essay collection of stories about
misanthropy social anxiety relationships and growing up in a wildly eccentric family. i can
relate to all of those things. i also have the long long awaited sequel to the coldest winter
ever, which is life after death by none other than legendary epic author sistah soulja. i
read the coldest winter ever in high school when i definitely had no business reading such an
adult book but i was really impressed with it and unfortunately i've heard not great things about
the sequel but i i still want to know i've been waiting 20 years okay not literally 20 years but
you know what i'm saying, and of course coldest winter ever is about a very precocious street
smart young black girl who is the daughter to a very prominent drug dealing family in brooklyn and
she's coming of age and when her father i believe he gets arrested or killed i can't remember
--which she then has to fend for herself for the first time in her life. it was a book that
really spoke to me even though i was so vastly different from winter the protagonist and coldest
winter ever and i'm really excited about this. and the last book that i have is ready player two
this is of course the sequel to ready player one, this was sent to me by penguin so thank
you so much for this.... i'm not gonna lie i have no interest in ready player one but
since they unsolicited sent me the sequel i'm i'm a little bit more inclined to pick up
ready player one, if you've read the first book let me know in the comment section down below
if you think that i would like it or if you were curious on my thoughts, oh my god i'm canceled, i
forgot to show you all the graphic novels that i bought.... these are the um books that i
actually paid for. i love horror comics and little girls is a comic that i'm very very excited
about. this is about two kids who are living in ethiopia. they are coming of age and dealing with
regular teenage things as well as living in a town that is haunted by monsters and like brain eating
things and just general creepiness. um gasolina is a graphic novel that i've been wanting to read
for a long time. i started this a while ago and i wasn't impressed but this time i just decided i
was going to throw my heart and soul into it... i know that it is a thriller action comic and it is
about monsters who have been unleashed in mexico. and then i have the first two volumes of
elsewhere. i read volume one and it was amazing i read this years ago and this is a
kind of retelling of amelia earhart um about where she might have gone when she vanished
and it's her exploring um fantastical realms very excited about this and then of course i
have the ascender comic super freaking excited sender which takes place i think 10 years after
the events of the descender comics conclude, magic has taken the place of machinery in this
realm and we are following the child of the protagonist from the descender comics. so i'm very
excited about it and i really love dustin nguyen. that was so many books okay i'm gonna go take my
dog on the longest walk ever because i i think we both need it at this point. if you made it this
far in the video comment down below with the word truck or leave a truck emoji because this was a
HAUL okay?! this was like this was a haul ....also it would really help me um if you tell me which of
these books that you want to see me do reviews on because that way i know what to get to first. if
you've read any of these books whether you really liked them or really disliked them i would love
to know that as well.... let's talk about that in the comment section down below. don't forget that
the fundraiser for the philippines is also in the comment section down below in or i'm sorry not the
comment section in the description. i cannot talk. it is in the description box below. circulate
and donate to that fundraiser if you are able to do so. okay i am signing off ....this was this
was a lot thank you so much for watching this huge video. thank you so much for watching another
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