So, I lost all control in the past month when it comes to book buying. This is only the ones I've bought in the past week! I may have found a new bookstore in my town where every book is $5 or less. It was difficult to restrain myself to only buying 3, to say the least. I thought I wouldn't include everything I've bought in the past month because it's ridiculously depressing thinking about all the money I spent. But from top to bottom, I've bought:
- The 5th Wave by Rick Yancy: I have been hearing so many positive reviews about this book that when I saw it in my local bookstore the other day, I just had to pick it up! I'm super excited to get to it!
- Illumination by Karen Brooks: A relatively underrated series is the Curse of the Bond Riders trilogy. I found it many years ago and the first two were amazing, so when I saw this baby for $5, I had to get it! I'm really excited to finally finish this series soon, especially after where the last book finished.
- The End Games by T. Michael Martin: I literally have no idea what this book is about but the cover is gorgeous and it was only $5. The blurb sounded interesting enough that I took the chance buy.
- The 100 by Kass Morgan: The last of my $5 buys, I was really excited to find this in a discount bookstore. I won't lie, I bought this solely because I recently got into the CW show it is based off and I was curious about the book. I know that the CW has made a lot of changes to the novel but I thought it'd be an interesting read anyway!
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell: Might be the book I'm most excited for in this book haul! After reading Fangirl, I have been wanting to read more Rainbows Rowell so badly. I didn't know which one I wanted to go onto but I saw this for cheap the other day and thought it must've been a sign. It's safe to say I am really excited to get reading this one!
- When Dogs Cry by Markus Zusack: I regret buying this book only because I bought it on a whim and then got home to realise it is a companion novel to a series I have not read yet. Nonetheless, I love Markus Zusack and am sure I will get to reading the series at some point and then will be able to get stuck into this book.
Okay, so that's the book haul! Ah, the feeling of all these new books to read. It's so exciting! Now onto Booktube-a-thon talk!
As probably many of you know, Booktube-a-thon is an event which is running from the 14th-21st of this month (which basically means it starts in a couple of hours for me, omg!) and has a bunch of reading and video challenges that people strive to complete within the week. If you want more info, check out the Booktube-a-thon youtube channel here. I will be participating in this event for the first time this year. I am so pumped to get going! I will be updating on this page and on my Tumblr page here about how I'm going with the challenges. I will not be posting a TBR list up as 1) a few of my current choices I'm not 100% set on and 2) putting up a list puts too much pressure on me to finish them all and I can't deal with that.
But anyhow, I am really excited to get going on Booktube-a-thon! As I said, it starts in a few hours in my country so I've already got my first book ready! Keep an eye out on this page and my Tumblr to keep up with my progress. And let me know whether you're participating in this years event. What are you reading? Are you just doing the reading challenges or the video ones as well (and props to you if you are. So much work!)? Let's help each other finish as many of the challenges as we can! :)
Until next time!
Jess, xxx
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