Book Haul Part 2!

What's going on homo sapiens! Today I'm going to be talking about and sharing my book haul shit with you! This is technically part dos of this haul, since I got the first shipment before I decided to start consistently blogging. However, even though I don't have any pictures of the box containing those precious books themselves, you can just pretend that you seen it, and it's the most amazing picture of books in a box you've ever laid your gorgeous eyes on!

So without further ado, I'm going to share my shit with you! Also, I am not very skilled in picture-collage creating, so please ignore the terrible collages of books that will follow in this blog. I apologize in advance for the 'potato' quality. The only camera I own is attached to my phone, so please bare with me!

So for this collage duo, I've decided to include a tower of books I have received from this shipment, along with the tower of books I've received from the previous shipment. The books on the left are from my previous haul, and the books on the right are from my most recent haul. The lighting in both pictures are crap, but I will list titles, authors, etc!




The first book that I picked up, and I absolutely fell in love with the cover was Gris Grimly's Frankenstein. I was a little worried when I picked this book up, since I ordered it online. I was very fearful that I wouldn't get the dust jacket, and I'm super glad I did! The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous. As soon as I seen the cover I fell in love with it but as I opened this book, to a completely random page, I fell even more in love with it. I gave you guys a little snippet of what the illustrations look like (the book is divided into three volumes). The second picture, containing the skull with the F along with cogs and wheels, that's the cover of the book behind the dust jacket. Although I stupidly forgot to take a picture of the spine of the book, I'll describe it (and you can be rest assured it holds up to the no-dust jacket cover, and the gorgeousness that it contains in between those covers. It has gold lettering, contains more cogs and wheels, and makes my jaw drop every time I look at it. This is not the first graphic novel I have picked up in my time, but it's most definitely the first graphic novel that I have purchased and now own. And I'm so glad that it's mine, so so glad. Look at it! I can't stop looking at it! And it's inspired by Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley! Super duper bonus! Cha-Ching!

Next in the lineup is *drumroll* the first three novels in The Luxe series! And yes, I did accidentally add the photos in the wrong order. The Luxe is the first novel, Rumors is the second, and Envy is the third. Splendor, which I do not own is the fourth novel in the series. I kept hearing BookTubers talk about this series. I heard wonderful things about it, and I heard some people even talk about how it's their "guilty pleasure read." I'm not one who believes in the whole 'guilty pleasure' thing. Nothing that gives you pleasure deserves to make you feel guilty about it, even if the covers all contain girls in really frilly dresses, and probably contain nothing but romance. If you like it, good on you, dude! Don't let the fear of people possibly giving you the stink eye about something you enjoy get you down from enjoying what you enjoy. Forget 'em. Moving along, this series, as I understand it is about two high status girls in Manhattan in the year 1899, but they end up finding out that their status in society isn't as 'secure' as it once was, and their way of living is now threatened. It does sound absolutely interesting. I can just imagine how much drama is going to unfold within this series. Catfights, oh the catfights that are probably within these books. The thing that really made me want to pick this series up, despite all the catfights I'm looking forward to reading, is that this series is supposed to be historically accurate. Hook, line, and sinker! The catfights had my curiosity, but now you, the historical accuracy bit, have my attention. I'm excited to read this series. The books I got are all paperback, and the thickness of the book just, ugh, it feels so good when I hold it. That sounds absolutely weird, but along with my obsession with covers, I am also really particular about the way a book feels when I hold it. It's no secret that I obviously prefer physical books in comparison to eBooks and reading online, and there's something about the way a book sits comfortably in your hand that makes that experience so much more enjoyable.

Next, we got some random Stephen King books! We have: The Dark Tower (part of the dark tower series), Danse Macabre, and Storm of the Century (which is a screenplay). These, well all Stephen King books I own are shared with my mom -- to be fair they should be more her books than they are mine since she had an entire collection of King books before I was even conceived, and most definitely before I could even read. But as time went on, I picked up Pet Sematary, Carrie, Christine, Skeleton Crew, and have since tried to make my way through her entire collection, because this guy is quite possibly one of my favourite writers of all time. He's all dark and twisty, and psychotic, and gets you paranoid, and he scares the absolute shit out of you and I love it. So I picked these up, more for her, to add to her ever expanding collection. And when I'm done with my enormously large non-King T(o)B(e)R(ead) list, these will most definitely be working their way into my busy
reading schedule and giving me the utmost pleasure of going to bed, terrified as shit, and enjoying the thrill of the paranoia.


Moving along, we've got a collage here of four different books, by four different authors. Aside from The Treatment by Suzanne Young and The Art of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar, the rest of the books aren't part of a series, that I'm aware of. The Treatment is the second book in The Program series, The Program being the first book. However, I have yet to read it, and own it, so I won't be able to read The Treatment anytime soon. But my impression of what the series is about is: Teen suicide has become an epidemic, and in order to prevent teens from taking their own lives, at any sign or display of emotion or distress, these kids are taken and brought into the 'program' and when they come back they're blank slates, with no memories, etc. So they try to hide their feelings as best as they could, but these two teenagers suffer from depression and the 'program' is going after them. And the second book is The Treatment, and since I have no idea how the first book ends, I'm not going to look up any synopses about it because I'll end up ruining it for myself, then hating myself, and then I'll just be really sad.

Next up, Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (I picked up All These Things I've Done by her in my last book haul, and when adding books upon books to this order, I read the synopses and watched a book haul video on YouTube and found someone mention this book and a quick little blurb about it, and it intrested the shit out of me) -- So to sort of paraphrase what I've heard about it: It's about a fifteen year old girl who has gotten into an accident, and dies. From there she is brought to this place called 'Elsewhere' and in this place you age backwards until you are reborn. Which is interesting as shit, right? Like, damn. Reincarnation never sounded so cool, well it did, but this makes it a whole different kind of cool.

The Art of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar. I'm not going to sugar coat how little I know about this book. The only thing I know is that it's about genies. And since I have very little experience reading paranormal or supernatural type books, I thought I would pick this up at at least give it a try. But with a genie in it, I can only imagine how many amazing wishes are going to happen! I'm Stoked!

And the last book in this picture collage, Parallel by Lauren Miller. I was browsing the site and since there's a discount on science fiction books, this book was dirt cheap and it sounded interesting as shit. Apparently it's about this girl who is about to graduate from high school. She takes a drama course, but then something happens (the collision of parallel universes) and instead of being on a set, she's in a dorm room at Yale. So this girl now has to navigate through everything that's happening to her, and learn how to cope. It sounds really interesting. Imagine just waking up one morning and your life is completely different based on choices the parallel you made that you didn't. I'm so down to read this. I'm so excited to read this.

Last but definitely not least is Jennifer L. Armentrout's Consequences (Part of the Lux series, and part of the Special Collector's edition). This sparkly edition contains two books in one: Opal and Origin. I haven't read the first two book in the series yet either (Obsidian and Onyx; eek) but once again, I've heard nothing but wonderful things about this series from BookTubers and other bloggers, etc. So after reading the synopses of Obsidian, I thought I would give it a go. Aliens are cool. So I'm stoked to read this. Part of this picture has the famous tower of books I received in part two of my book haul! I'm super excited and I absolutely can't wait to finish my TBR pile and start reading these beauties.

A special thank you to bookoutlet, for making all my book buying dreams come true. You guys really do offer read-iculously low prices, and I'm completely and utterly addicted to your site. If I could marry it, I would. You guys have overflowed my bookshelf and overflowed my heart with love, and you guys have made it possible for me to buy books upon books for really affordable prices. I just want to say, bookoutlet, that you tha real MVP! You make a struggling student indulge in books like this, and it makes me so happy. You guys are super rad.

Enjoy book hauling, and don't never stop being you cause you're awesome as shit
xoj