Second Hand Book Haul

which is why i am a reader not a collector hi and welcome to my channel my name is sarah and i love to talk about books today i've got a book haul for you because i went and raided the charity shops in my town last week now that shops i have opened back up here in scotland after our most recent lockdown so i thought i would take you on a little tour and share what i picked up [Music] the first job i went into was the british heart foundation i dumped a load of stuff off um to donate as well that sounds bad i'm i didn't dump it i'm not one of those people who just gives their all their crap to charity shops because they're too lazy to take it to the dump themselves so there's some good stuff in there plus i couldn't do that anyway in that one because it'd be too embarrassing it's the one i go into most and it's my favorite because um it's the stuff they usually have in there is good it's nicely laid out the staff are really friendly and it has i think out of all of them the um biggest book section [Music] i picked up loads in here so much so that i actually had to make myself put two books back one was the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafron is that his name because i've been swithering about this one anyway it's on my library list so i put that one back and then the other one was called the shock of the full by nathan flyer but hold that thought anyway i spent 12 pounds and i got six books so the first was the doll factory by elizabeth mcneal this had been on my want to read list anyway and look at that cover oh it's like such a gorgeous color combination i love teal and i think it looks really nice of gold so this is set in london in 1850 around the time of the great exhibition and it's about iris who is a doll maker and she meets louie i think um who is an artist and he wants her to pose for him and she agrees as long as he teaches her how to paint so far so yawn actually but what interests me is that she also meets um silas who although he doesn't leave any impression on her she leaves a big impression on him and as her world is opening up through art he's a collector of the strange and beautiful and he becomes more and more obsessed with iris so that sounds pretty dark the word gothic is thrown out in the blurb so i'm in and then next i picked up pine by francis tune and then i got home and realized i already have it on my kindle so it better figured it better be good than shadow of the wind it's set in the highlands so you know i can't resist that twice and it also has a gothic in the description this is about lauren who lives with her father after her mother had disappeared i think 10 years prior and one night they are driving home and a woman throws herself in front of their car and they take her home but in the morning she is gone their community is full of secrets and mysteries and so that in itself isn't actually that unusual but lauren wants to know what has happened particularly following the disappearance of a local teenager and she's starting to realize that she can't trust anyone and again i love that cover look at that is it gonna focus no it's not gonna focus because technology hates me even out focus i think you can see how lovely that is i think that's really cool so looking forward to this one and then the next one is a bit of a bye it's nick hornby's 31 songs the cover is so blah like why is it a woman this is um a collection of i think essays that nick columbia has written about 31 songs that he either loves or hates and what their place in his life has been so i don't understand why there's a girl on the cover i'd be made worse because after peeling off the price sticker the gift aid sticker i then tried to attack that big monstrosity and clearly i've been defeated so i think i read the book of does it happen to be a boy it's not called that it's just called about a boy and i think i read that ages ago and i did really like the film version of high fidelity i don't think i've read the book um but in general like nick corby isn't someone that i am drawn to read but this is a kind of i don't know a music memoir and to a music junkie like me that just sounds really yummy so i'm taking a chance on that one and then next is a purchase of a book i have already read i had this title as a neck galley or maybe still cover i don't know do they self-destruct um but it really got under my skin it was one of the first neck galleys that i read and i i know it's strange that i put back books that i haven't read in order to buy one that i already have but i've never seen it in a charity shop before so i felt like i kind of had to buy it although god knows when i'll actually ever reread it but this is lullaby by leila slimani i think in the us it goes under a different title i think it's the nanny and this is dark af um it opens with the um really graphic description of the murder of is it one or two children but it's i don't know there's just something about this book um what did i say about it when i read it the first time so i said what a disquieting creepy little book i actually didn't think i would be able to read it after the first chapter because i found the description so upsetting but the novel quickly steps down from that ramped up horus to something stiller though still very unsettling the character of the nanny louise in the translated version is so off but you can't put your finger on why or how even knowing right from the first page what eventually happens this book is uncomfortably close and captures so well that odd existence of looking after young children almost in a bubble separate to the rest of life as it goes on around you the door closes as the other adults leave to live out their days in the big wide world and even for those of us who don't go on to commit atrocities it can be a very claustrophobic and lonely time louise is even more divorced from life being the nanny but also having no existence outside of her often unappreciated work and watching her come undone is horrible but also compelling many may find the ending unresolved and i was frustrated at the time but i appreciate that it too is all part of the horror of this story it's a goodie and then book number five from the british heart foundation i got me a louise welsh this is death is a welcome guest and i didn't even read the back of it in the shop and then when i got home i realized it's book two of a trilogy the plague times series so given that out of all the books of hers that i've read my least favorite was timberly must die which is set in shakespearean times which i think is not that far out from the plague i i got a bit of buyer's remorse after um i got home shadow of the wind someone someone please tell me shadow of the windows rubbish but it turns out it's not the plague uh the main character is a stand-up comedian and i gather in the first book the protagonist is a shopping channel presenter and even the author herself says that these can be read out of order because apparently she wrote these kind of with second-hand book buyers in mind she used to work in my favorite little book cave voltaire rousseau in glasgow and so i appreciate that she has the second hand purchaser in mind when she writes so this is actually about magnus who has escaped from prison and is trying to survive in a sort of post-apocalyptic pandemic this was written in 2015 pandemic world where an illness has swept the i guess it might just be the country country or planet um and people are dying off of the sweats so um this could be a timely read i do like myself a little bit of um dystopia which that sounds like this is going to be and so the buyer's remorse is is lifted a bit now and then my final purchase in that shop was britt marie was here by frederick backman because i've been hearing so much about this author um it seems to be all over booktube and i did think i was going to start with either bear town or a man called over but um so i nearly put this one back until i read the the blurb and it spoke to me because britt marie walks out on her cheating husband and realizes she spent her life making choices for the sake of other people ah here you go um so although it is about a crotchety old busy body it is about women trying to find her place in the world and i am really enjoying that is it a trope is it theme um whatever you would call it i'm really enjoying that at the moment in my reading so i decided to go with this so after that i went into the cancer research shop this has a much smaller book section but i thought i'd just take a wee look but i forgot to vlog properly because i was too busy giggling at this find that i will share with you that i thought would be perfect for simon from booktube with simon and amy if you know you know so i still managed to spend 2050 and i got two books so what did i get so one again was a purchase of a book i've already read in another format this time it was a book that i listened to as an audiobook first time around this is like the skinned person's version of people who own more cars than there are drivers in their household it would appear even people who have limited um disposable income can also have more money than cents but i really love this author most of the time and i really enjoyed this book so i picked up a copy of blind assassin by margaret atwood and it's got some gunk on the cover from the last person who tried to peel off a sticker from it stop defacing books down with capitalism especially when it's capitalism in the form of promotional stickers when you were already doing the capitalism by selling me the book anyway i don't know how to describe this it's set in the 30s and 40s um it's after the the war i think and it's about iris whose sister dies by driving her car office really heavy his sister dies by driving her car off of a bridge on yes it is after the war because i'm sure it's on the day the war ends and inquest found that death um accidental but then there's also um an issue i think iris's husband his body is found on their yacht or something but then there's also a book within a book or within the book and that's called the blind assassin and it's a sci-fi book about two anonymous lovers who meet in like shady back alleys and stuff like that i cannot remember how the two come together or what even is the plot of either the actual book or the book within the book but i know i did enjoy it and um yeah i just none of my margaret atwoods match i don't think i've got any two that came from the same print run but i would quite like to get my hands on most of her work i mean i i have a copy of her book that i didn't like so i would like to get my hands on the ones that i did and then don't laugh but i bought a ready set novel which is a nano remo book or it turns out i've been pronouncing that wrong for more than a decade because it's only really since i have been watching a bit of authortube that i've heard people say out loud and it's actually nanowrimo which makes more sense because it's national novel writing month so nanowrimo and it's possible that i already own this because i've got quite a few nanowrimo um books tucked away in my loft somewhere but it was only a pound so i thought i would just grab it i've never taken foreign nanowrimo but i have always had this thing since i was a child that i wanted to be a writer though i know i don't have it in me i used to i wrote tons of stories when i was a kid i mean there's nothing to say that were any good but at least i had the work ethic but now i don't really even have that and i very much doubt i've got any talent um but a girl can dream and buy books i went in a couple of other charity shops after that but they didn't really have anything worth picking up um but then i went to oxfam which is the most expensive place to buy second-hand books but i managed to spend 15 pounds known probably nearly 16 pounds on six books in them i did see a hardback of jenny fagan's panopticon which i really want but it was nearly 10 pounds um because it was a first edition so i put it back which i'll probably regret in the same way that i regret not getting the signed edition of the god of small things when i was in here on y back in 2018 at that point i hadn't read the book i hadn't realized how much i was going to love it so at the time it seemed silly to pay more for a copy of a book that i already owned hadn't read by an author i hadn't tried which is why i am a reader not a collector so what did i get here so i normally ignore the hardbacks in here because it's so bougie they are just way too expensive but i couldn't pass this one up because it's so pretty this is kit dewal's um the trick to time and i don't know if this is going to show up but it's a little bit sparkly yeah there we go a little bit sparkly and gorgeous and i have been meaning to read kit dewal and for a while i've just seen her on the sky art book club and um lauren from lauren and the books um has spoken about her before and really loves her and i i like lauren's taste in books so happy means pick her up so this is the trick to time i have no idea what it's about um because i didn't even look at that i've purely bought it for the author and the cover um mona is a young irish girl in the big city with the thrill of a new job and a room of her own in the busy boarding house on her first night out in 1970s birmingham she meets william a charming irish boy with an easy smile and an open face they embark upon a passionate affair a whirlwind marriage before a sudden tragedy tears them apart decades later mona pieces together the memories of the years that separate them but can she ever learn to love again [Music] that sounds exactly my kind of thing so i'm glad i picked that one up and then i also got um before the coffee gets cold tails from the cafe um which is a bit of a silly purchase in a couple of ways one because i haven't read the first book yet and this is the sequel too before the coffee gets cold and two in this shop i found a man called ove but i put it back because i haven't yet read the other frederick backman i've bought so i am a mess of contradictions but this one is signed and it has french flaps which is fun to say and even nicer to read with so anyway this is just a return journey to the cafe that um if you sit in a particular chair you can go back in time the only condition is that you have to be back before the coffee gets cold and then the next one is a strange pick for someone who is not interested in reading about america no nothing personal i've just read an awful lot of an america of american books in my time um and i'm not interested in marriage either but i picked up an american marriage by thierry jones thankfully this goes beyond the title this is about an african-american couple and the husband is wrongly convicted and sent to jail that's normally what convicted me and sarah yes i gather the wife turns to the husband's best friend for some comfort so i'm not sure how i feel about that but her husband's conviction is overturned after i think five years and he comes home and expects to pick up where they had left off so the big question is can they and i've heard loads of good things about both this book and the author in general so i'd have been silly to pass this one up and then i got not one but two ali smith books i got winter and spring which are books two and three of the seasonal quartet which sounds like a bit of a dull dud purchase but um apparently you can also read these out of order and to be fair by the time i actually get around to them i'll have probably found the other two in charity shops anyway they are very of their moment i gather things like brexit and maybe even the pandemic feature in the books but they are also very true to the season i think they bring elements of the season into the writing as well and ali smith for me is an author i have yet to crack i've read a few of her books i've read a novel a short story collection oh and yeah two novels in a short story collection and sometimes i like her and sometimes i just don't get her so i think the quartet will help me decide which side of the ali smith fence i sit on and then quite a random purchase i picked i picked up tom hanks's uncommon type and i nearly put this back because i know he is a collector of typewriters and i did think that this was just a book on that but guys he wrote us some short stories possibly on one of his many typewriters um and i don't know i just i've always had this kind of soft spot for tom hanks and i don't know what it is because i wouldn't really class myself as like a fan i haven't seen all of his films i wouldn't watch a film just because he was in it but just there was something about this that that i couldn't not buy it do you ever get that like sometimes a book just really wants to come home with you that was this one and now it has and then i thought i was done so i went to the co-op to get a few bits and pieces and i ended up going over to the little um book sale table they've got there i didn't take a vlog for this part because i was balancing a 12 pack of copper berg and an eight pack of pepsi on a very tiny bit of the table um so i didn't have enough hands plus it's not it's not well presented but remember i told you to hold that thought about one of the books i put back um it was in there and it was only a pound so it was half the price of the first shop that i got into and this is it was essentially a cover buy i won't lie i just think that's i'm going to confuse myself with swapping hands i just think that's really lovely cover um but it did um turn out that it was on my want to read list on goodreads anyway this is about a man whose mental health deteriorates following the death of his brother during their childhood and it was written by a mental health nurse i don't know if it's adult or why a goodreads user seem to be confused on that fact as well and i am trying to ignore the fact that it has a daily mail endorsement on the back cover but it did win acosta so there's that and then my final book for this haul i saw this um a few maybe months ago i didn't pick it up at the time and then kind of regretted it so i was glad to see it was still there this is killers of the flower moon by david graham now the tagline makes it sound like something i would only be interested in if it was like a netflix documentary it says oil money murder and the birth of the fbi i don't think that's the usual sort of book that would appeal to me i'm interested in it because the oil itself was found under the ground of the osage indians um in oklahoma and at least one of the families was killed off because of it and it was this huge conspiracy and i would like to know more about um you know like the treatment of native americans it's also narrative non-fiction so i'm hoping that means it won't be a dry read and so that is mustache that was two books there and they were a pound each that's two pounds so that takes my total to just under 32 pounds for 16 books it's just not too shabby for an hour wandering around my town but i always get a bit conflicted with book calls because although these were all second-hand purchases it does feel a bit icky being like look what i bought so two things one the reason i do book hauls is just to talk about books in a different way i would have genuinely bought these books anyway i want them in my collection and i just like to share it with you guys two if you are also feeling a bit squeaky like me um when it comes to spending money and books and things like that can i point you in the direction of kieran over at kd books he is donating and asking his um bigger subscribers to share i know i'm not a bigger subscriber but i would like to share it anyway to mission oxygen which is um a charity push to provide oxygen to people in india who are literally dying without it is to provide oxygen to hospitals and i think it's a really important cause i'm going to be donating after i finish filming this i will leave the link to kieran's video and the link to the charity in the description box below no pressure i don't expect you to report back to me or anything but if you are in a position to be able to please think about donating and um because he's raised this awareness of a great charity go and give kieran a subscribe as well if you haven't already because he's bad so there we have it a little tour around my um towns charity shops and a wee tour of what i managed to pick up in them now i need to just keep myself away from charity shops for a little while until my bank balance recovers um but i'm hoping my family will get me some either some book tokens or some books for my birthday at the end of the month so hopefully i'll have something to share in june um in the terms of a book haul because i really enjoy doing book hauls it's just nice to talk about books that are totally fresh and new to me most of the time anyway i know there's a couple of rereads in there but yeah i think because of the way that i structure my reading the books that i read during the year i'm already quite familiar with before i've read them so i always like um just being able to go oh look you're shiny you're shiny um so that has been fun and as always let me know if you've read any of these books is the shadow of the wind worth my feelings of guilt of not buying it should i go down there tomorrow and see if they're still selling it please just tell me it's rubbish and yeah let me know what charity shop or thrift store um has the best book selection near you what's the best bargain you ever got in one i'd love to know and until next time

Channel: Sadie Reads Again

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Keywords: books, reading, booktube, booktuber, scottish booktuber, booktube uk, what i read, what i'm reading, currently reading, book recommendations, Goodreads, fiction, memoir, literature, literary fiction, booktube newbie, book covers, new books, second hand books, short stories, non-fiction, historical fiction, book haul, netgalley

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Length: 27min 20sec (1640 seconds)

Published: Fri May 14 2021