Hi, it's Maija here with my end of the year and birthday book haul. I'm going to talk
about all the books that I bought in November and December, but I'm going to
start with my birthday books, since those are the ones that I'm the most excited
about. My birthday is at the beginning of December and I bought a bunch of books
for myself. So the first stack here is all
historical fantasy, because that's what I've been feeling like reading lately, so
I ordered myself a bunch of those. So the first book in that order was the
Creatures of Will and Temper by Molly Tanzer, which is a take on Oscar Wilde's
The Picture of Dorian Gray. So it's set in Victorian London and it focuses on
two sisters: the fencer Evadne Gray and her sister, an aspiring art
critic called Dorina, who becomes enamored with their uncle's friend, Lady
Henrietta "Henry" Wotton. The biggest reason why I wanted this, apart from it
being set in Victorian London and being a take on Dorian Gray, is the gorgeous
cover, it's just so beautiful. And the fantasy aspect in this seems to be
a hidden world of demons. Also in that order I got Masks and Shadows by
Stephanie Burgis. This has blurbs from Aliette de Bodard and Ellen Kushner,
among others. "The year is 1779, and Carlo Morelli, the most renowned castrato
singer in Europe, has been invited as an honored guest to Esztherháza
Palace. Music, magic, and blackmail mingle in a plot to assassinate the Habsburg
emperor and empress." So this one also has a very beautiful cover, it's set in the
1700s, it deals with music and magic, sounds really good. And the last book in
that order is The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which is a fantasy of
manners book that is inspired by the belle époque. So it's set in a fantasy
world imitating historical Europe, and there
are telepathic abilities in this one. Continuing in the historical fantasy vein,
I also went to pick up a free book from the bookstore since I had a stamp card
full. So I think it's like when you buy seven paperbacks, you get the eighth one
free, or then it's ten, I can't remember. But I had a full one and I had to use it
in December, so I went and got another historical fantasy. I got Under the
Pendulum Sun, a novel of the Fae, by Jeannette Ng.
And this is about Victorian missionaries and fae. It is said to be a sort of a gothic
novel with beautiful writing, and it also has a beautiful cover. Just look at these
two! Let's move on to the books that other people actually bought for me. So
my mother was visiting town, visiting her sister in town, right around near my
birthday, so we went together to a bookstore, which we don't get to do that
often, and she let me pick books for myself. And the first one I'm really
excited to have found there, since I thought it was only out in hardcover,
and that is The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty. I think it starts a series,
but I'm not sure. And this is set in Cairo and there's a con woman who
happens to accidentally summon a djinn warrior, and the djinn takes her to a
legendary city of brass. And I have only heard good things about this, I'm so
looking forward to this. Then she also picked me up a couple of other books.
I chose Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan, the third book in the Memoir by
Lady Trent series about a dragon naturalist, also sort of historical
fantasy with sort of a fantasy equivalent of an English character. And I own the
second one and I haven't even read the second one, but I really wanted the third
one. And the final book that I picked for myself was Howard's End by E.M. Forster,
I've been wanting to read some more Forster, I have read Maurice and A Room with a View
so far, and I think there is an adaptation, a TV series, that has just
come out or is just coming out, so I'm interested in that one, and also
of reading more E.M. Forster. I think Howard's End is the name of the
house. It says it's a tale of three families at the beginning of the 20th
century. There's a rich family, a gentle,
idealistic family, and a lower-middle-class family. I really don't
know anything about this apart from it being a Forster book. Then on the day of
my birthday, the same day that I ordered those first books online,
my boyfriend also took me to a comic store and he bought the third volume of
The Girl from the Other Side by Nagabe for me. I have talked about the other
two on my channel. I really, really liked this third one,
I have already read it. It's a sort of dark fairy tale-ish manga about this
little girl in a world where there are these monsters called Outsiders, and
there's this really paranoid reaction to the Outsider plague which causes humans
to kill each other if they think someone has been infected, but it's also a very
calm and beautiful tale about the relationship of the little girl and this
one Outsider she calls Teacher. So let's move on from my birthday book haul, the
next two books are Christmas gifts of sorts. My sister gave me a gift card to
Amazon so I can pick up ebooks that I want, and on Christmas Eve I already picked
two. We celebrate on Christmas Eve here in Finland, so we also give out the gifts
on Christmas Eve, and the books that I knew that I wanted to pick up instantly
were Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher, this is Clocktaur War book one. So I
think this was planned to be one book, but then it got so long that T.
Kingfisher, aka Ursula Vernon, wanted to split it into two parts, at least two
parts. I have no idea what this is about, it's a fantasy book with perhaps steampunk
elements. I have read everything that Ursula Vernon has written under the name
T. Kingfisher and I have liked pretty much all of the books, so I just wanted
to pick her newest one up. And I also picked up A Long Day in Lychford by Paul
Cornell, which is a novella about witches set in the modern day, and this is
set right around Brexit, the Brexit vote I think. This is the third in this
novella series and I actually bought- last Christmas I bought the second one
with a gift card from my sister, as well, so I thought it would be a good
tradition to buy the third one. Next there was the end-of-the-year comiXology sale,
which I think is still ongoing, and I had to go and pick up a couple of comics in
series that I had read the first volume of, that I have talked about on my
channel this year. And the first thing that I picked up was Jonesy Volume 2 by
Sam Humphreys and Caitlin Rose Boyle. This is a super fun
comical contemporary comic with fantastical elements about Jonesy, who
has the power to make people fall in love with ideas
and things, just not herself. And I immediately read this one, I
bought this on Christmas Day, it was about like three euros, I read it and
then I was like: I want the next one! There was a great cliffhanger at the end,
I wanted to know what happened next. And that day I also picked up the second
volume of Space Battle Lunchtime, which is an all-ages comic about this chef
called Peony who gets transferred to outer space to take part in this cooking
competition, which turns really dangerous in this second volume. And this is a mini-
comic, so this was the second and final part. So I've read those two already,
and since Jonesy ended in a cliffhanger I wanted to go and buy the third one as
well, and the next day - so, on the 26th - I bought Jonesy Volume 3, which
apparently, it turns out, is the final volume. I didn't know it was the final
volume and I didn't really have the right attitude when I finished, I was
like: It's over now? But I want more. Because I was there to pick up Jonesy, I
also ended up picking up Misfit City Vol. 1. So this by Kirsten Smith, Kurt
Lustgarten and Naomi Franquiz, and this is a contemporary comic, I think, which
features around this group of girls, and it's inspired by the Goonies.
So it's the Goonies, but with all girls, and they're also a bit older than The
Goonies are. It's set in this rural city where these girls live, and the only
claim to fame that the city has is that this youth movie called
The Gloomies was filmed there. I already read the first issue from this, and in
that one they discover a treasure map. I think the author of this is one of the
script writers of Legally Blonde. I have talked for so long already and I still
have all of the books that I have borrowed and all of the ebooks that I
have bought left, so let's move this along. From the library I got Princess
Jellyfish Volume 5 by Akiko Higashimura, which is a hilarious and moving
contemporary manga about a bunch of geek girls and about fashion, and it's good.
I haven't read the 5th one yet, but I loved all the other ones. And then my friend loaned
me a couple of books: the first is Odininlapsi by Siri
Pettersen, who is a Norwegian author, and this is the Finnish translation of her Raven
Rings trilogy - the title means Odin's Child.
This hasn't been translated to English, so I'm just gonna quickly say that this
is set in a world where I think people have tails, because the main character is
fifteen and she hears that she is a human, Odin's Child, a tailless creature from
another world. Then she also loaned me a fantasy book
that I had never heard of, this is Aurora- rama by Jean-Christophe Valtat. [Valtat]?
I think it's [Valta]. And this is the first book in the steampunk trilogy The
Mysteries of New Venice. "New Venice, the pearl of the Arctic. A place of sparkling
frozen canals and gorgeous architecture laced in ice, of elegant sleighs and
ingenious technology... Also, of extreme cold, food shortages and drug problems,
secret police, anarchist terrorism, snowcaine gangsters, and the occasional
phantom. In short, a place where bad things happen after dark. The thing is...
it's dark all the time." I had never heard about this one, it seems to have come out
in... the copyright is 2010, was it? Yeah, 2010. Have you heard about this steampunk
fantasy set in the Arctic? Sounds good. It says that it's "perhaps what Jules
Verne would write if woken from the dead and offered a dose of mushrooms." So
I'm going to quickly go through the ebooks that I bought in November. I
bought The Prey of Gods, because it was on sale and I needed to buy it for a buddy
read that I did with Njeri. And I'm glad that I ordered the e-book because
at first I had planned to order it together with my birthday book haul, and
it got stalled in the Christmas mail, and I didn't get it until the week
of Christmas, so I couldn't have done the buddy read if I hadn't found the e-book
on sale. This is a science fiction and fantasy mashup set in South Africa about
gods and robots with AI and magical powers and everything. Likewise, from a
comiXology sale - these are all from a sale because I had planned not to buy
anything in November, because I bought so much in October, but when things that I
really want are on sale, and it was the end of the month, I just went and picked them
up for a couple of euros. This is the Secret Wars Runaways arc, or the
Battleworld Runaways by Noelle Stevenson and Sanford Green. The only
original member of Runaways in this is Molly, then there's teenage versions of other
Marvel characters. There was also a Humble Bundle of science fiction and fantasy
books and I bought the first tier, which was only one euro, because I wanted Nalo
Hopkinson's Falling in Love with Hominids. I haven't read anything from
Hopkinson before, so I wanted to start with her short stories. And then in that
tier there were about five books, but I only downloaded Falling in Love with
Hominids and then this one, which is Wicked Wonders by Ellen Klages, which
seems to be fairy tale-ish short stories. So that was the one that I was interested
in from that bunch, I just bought it for the Hopkinson book. I also requested my
first ever review copy in November, that is for Prime Meridian, the novella by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I got this from NetGalley and I have already read this, so
look out for the review. It's a science fiction set in near future in Mexico City,
and the character works in low-paying
jobs and she really wants to get to Mars. And because I was on a Silvia Moreno-Garcia
kick, even though I haven't read any of her novels yet, I also picked up Love and
Other Poisons, which is her short story collection, because it was available for
free as an e-book. And then on the first of December, I think this was a Kindle
daily deal, I picked up a romance book, yes, The Goblins of Bellwater by Molly
Ringle. This is a romance novel with fantastical elements, the goblins, based
on Christina Rossetti's poem The Goblin Market. I have heard that it is
leaning more on the romance than the fantasy, so I don't know what I'm going
to think about this, but I still picked it up. I think The Goblin Market would
be great for reimagining as a lesbian romance - if you just change the women
away from being sisters - but I think in this one there is a male love interest for
both of the sisters. But anyway, I am excited to try out a bit more of a
romance-y book, I don't usually read those. To be honest, again, the cover was a great
incentive, and it was only a euro. But we have reached the end of this book haul.
This took a lot longer than I expected, but anyway, my TBR shelf is now
overflowing. With my birthday books and the books that I bought
in October, I will have plenty of reading, and I do have a lot of older TBR books as
well, but I will tackle those in 2018. I did also take part in the BooktubeSFF
gift exchange, so I will be getting, I think, two books in the mail sometime. I
didn't get them before Christmas, I think they are stuck like in the Christmas mail
traffic, so I will get them sometime. Maybe I will do an unboxing in a Friday
Reads or something. I think I'll be getting two books and I have no idea
what they are, even though I can sort of guess one, because I know who the person
is who chose the books. So I think I'm guessing one, but we'll see. Anyway, I hope
you enjoyed this long-ass book haul, and I will see you in my next video. Bye!
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