Hey guys! I'm Trina and I'm doing a
library book haul today and before I get
started you might have noticed I did
get a second tall shelf. So my
background has changed. I'm really liking
it right now. I don't know if this is how
I'm going to keep my books organized and
by the way this is kind of an optical
illusion because like the bottom shelves
are not full, they're like empty. And
I'm still getting used to this new
background because I used to stand like
over here and have more light from my
window and now I'm over here and I feel
like the lighting is a little bit
different so bear with me as I'm getting
used to this background. So today I'm
going to show you guys all of the books
that I currently have checked out from my
library. I haven't done a library book
haul in a long time and it kind of makes me
sad because I love my library. Every single
time I do a library haul I get a lot of
comments that range. People are saying,
"oh, you only have ten books checked out from
your library? I have five hundred and
fifty three books checked out from my
library. Why don't you have more?" Or I
have people saying, "you have eleven
books checked out from your library? Wow
I can only get two at a time
and I can only keep them for a week."
And I definitely know and want to
acknowledge that every library system is
different and I think that I live in a
very privileged area that has a really
incredible library system. I'm allowed to
check out up to 100 books at a time, I
can keep them for three weeks,
I can renew them three times, and my
library system is usually really good
about having new releases. But also on
the other hand of that, I don't have any
need at all to check out the hundred
book limit because I'm not going to read
a hundred books in three weeks. That's
just not the reader that I am. I'm not
that fast of a reader. So it may seem
like a little stack to you, it may seem
like a big stack to you... we're all different.
And keep in mind a lot of the
books I have checked out from my library
are also audiobooks which I usually
don't show but I can show you that in
this one if you want to know what I have
checked out an audiobook format. So I
have Fireworks by Katie Cotugno on
my Overdrive app, which is a free app
that partners with a lot of U.S. libraries.
You can get ebooks and audiobooks and
that's what I use for all my audiobooks.
So I have Fireworks from Katie Cotugno,
which is a YA contemporary book
about two best friends who they've just
graduated high school, they don't know
where they're going to go after this, but
they live in a small town and they want to
get out of it, and they end up both being
recruited together to join a brand-new pop girl group
and they end up like meeting a boy band and I
don't know, I've just started it so I'm
not exactly sure everything it is about but
it's really cute so far. I'm really
enjoying it and it just sounds like a
good summer read. It's also set in the 90s
which was a big appeal to me.
And the other audio book I have currently
checked out from my library is The Circle by Dave Eggers.
and I still have this checked out but I
need to return it because I hate the
narration. I hate it. I cannot stand it. I
started it in print format and because
it's a long book I thought, 'okay audio might
help me get through it,' but his voice for
the female main character and just the
way he reads it is not serious at all
and my own internal head voice was just
much more fitting and appealing to me so
I switched back to the print format,
which I have here. So I do have the print
and the audio book both checked out but
I'm going to be returning the audiobook
and just continuing this one in print.
This one is like an adult science
fiction novel about social media is
taking over the world. It's about our
main character who goes to work for this
big social media corporation. It's kind
of like Facebook, but she starts to learn
like a more sinister side to it, like
this social media is actually spying on
people. That is how it's been pitched to
me and that sounds really interesting
because I'm a little bit afraid to
social media sometimes. The next book I
have checked out is 1984 by George
Orwell and you guys may remember from
some of my earlier TBR videos this year,
I mentioned that I was in a political
book club that was reading classic
dystopian novels this year. That book
club fell apart. They just like quit
updating it, but one of the books that
they were planning to read was 1984. Even
though that group fell apart, I still
want to read this book on my own and so
I currently have it for whenever I do get around to it.
I have perfect days by Raphael Montes.
He is a Brazilian crime writer so this
is an adult thriller and I wanted to
read more books set around the world
this year. I decided this month to read a
book set in South America and this was
one that was recommended to me a couple
of times and it sounds very fitting for
my reading tastes. It is an adult thriller
novel about a man who falls in love with
a girl but she rejects him and so he
decides to start stalking her and he
ends up kidnapping her. This one is
definitely pretty intriguing to me so I
do want to read it. And then Origin by
Jessica Khoury is another book set in
South America that was recommended to me. This
one is a YA science fiction novel. It's
about a girl who was created in a lab
and she's only ever known this lab. She's
never been allowed outside, and then one
day she breaks out and it is located in
the Amazon rainforest so she ends up
kind of just exploring the rainforest on
her own and and comes into contact with
civilization for the first time ever and
just learning about what the real world
is. That sounds really intriguing and
interesting to me too because I want to
know like why was she created in this
lab? And why was she cut off from the
outside world? So a bit of mystery and
intrigue to this one as well. Next I've
got Everything Leads To You by Nina
LaCour. I checked this one out a long
time ago, it is almost due and I haven't read
it yet. This one is a YA contemporary
romance about a female/female
relationship and I think that the
main character is interested in acting
or something? I think that this kind of
revolves around old Hollywood like movie
sets? This book has been out for a long time
and I've heard a lot of people talk
about it just like recommend it so I
picked this one up out of curiosity.
Haven't gotten to it yet because I've
had so many other books but I am still
really interested in it. I also have Rise
of Fire by Sophie Jordan checked out and
this one is the sequel to Reign of
Shadows. This is a YA fantasy set in
a world that is cast into darkness.
Like there's been this eclipse for 17
years, everyone lives in darkness, and the
darkness has brought out these monsters
that live underground and they come out
when it's the darkest hours of the day
and they like eat people. So it's definitely
like a survival, post-apocalyptic type
story. I really enjoyed the first book so
I have been really eagerly anticipating
this sequel. It's just a duology so this
will be the finale, so I can't wait to
find out how this story ends. I also have
Hunted by Meagan Spooner and this one is
a Beauty and the Beast YA retelling.
It's a fantasy world? And I don't really know
anything about the synopsis of this one
other than it is a Beauty and the
Beast retelling. The reason this one
was on my radar at all is because I
wanted to read something by Meagan
Spooner that she wrote by herself
because I enjoyed her and Amie Kaufman's
Starbound trilogy, with These Broken
Stars, that series. I really enjoyed that
series and I really want to see how I
like her as a solo writer. But yeah,
seeing the Beauty and the Beast movie
just really put me in the mood for a
Beauty and the Beast retelling, which is really
weird because I'm so over Beauty and the
Beast retellings most of the time, but
right now this one is just like wanting
to grab my attention. I've been wanting
to read this one for so long. Next I have
Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett and
this one is a YA contemporary story
about a guy and a girl who know
each other online. The girl has a massive
crush on this guy. She ends up moving in with
her dad to start living with him and it turns out
that her dad lives in the same town as
her online crush does so she's wanting
to find her online crush and then she
runs into this boy who is so rude, she
can't stand him, but she keeps running
into him and I think it's kind of setup
to be like this guy she can't stand in
real life is really the guy she's
crushing on online. And that is something
that you do know is in the synopsis, so
that's not a spoiler. I've heard
people compare this to You've Got Mail,
that movie, and I love stories about
online friendships and online romances.
It's just something that's really
interesting to me and this whole idea
that she hates him in real life but he's
really the guy that she likes -
oh! It just sounds like a mess and I want
to read this and find out how that's
going to resolve. The last three books I
have checked out to show you are three
debut novels, and if you don't know I
have a debut novels group on
Goodreads if you want to know which
debuts are coming out in 2017, but the
first one that I have is The Takedown by
Corrie Wang and this one is an online
YA thriller. It's about a girl who's
like the valedictorian, she's got all the
perfect grades, all the perfect
accomplishments on her high school
transcript, and then one day this video
surfaces of her online having like an
affair with one of her teachers.
The thing is, it was not her.
Somebody has doctored this video to look
like it was her to get her in trouble
and so she sets out I guess on a path of
revenge to find out who did this and why.
Because this one has that online element
and it has a revenge plot to it, those
are things that really grabbed my
attention about this one. I also have
You're Welcome, Universe by Whitney
Gardner, which has been one of my most
anticipated debuts of this year. This
one is about a deaf Indian American girl
who gets kicked out of her School for
the Deaf because her best friend was
getting bullied and when she kind of
strikes back she's the one that gets in
trouble and so she got kicked out of
her school and now she's going to a
public school where most of her peers
are hearing people. And I think she is
just dealing with like this transition
into a new school and I've been really
interested in this one because I've
heard it has amazing deaf representation.
I don't think that its own voices but
I've heard really amazing things about
it and I've been really interested in
this one for a long time. And the
last book I have to show you today is
Toward a Secret Sky by Heather Maclean.
This is a debut novel that I have
heard nothing about. I've never heard anyone
talk about it, and I read the synopsis and I was like
sold, yes please! It was compared to
National Treasure and The DaVinci Code
like on the Goodreads page and it's
about a girl who is orphaned and she
ends up moving in with her grandparents
in Scotland and there she uncovers her
mother's teenage diary and figures out
through the diary that her mom was
involved in some sort of secret
organization, and so she starts following
these clues in the diary to figure out
what her mom was involved in. And this
mentions angels and demons, otherworldly
visions, and underground booby-trapped
labyrinths, so I definitely want to check
this one out and see if it's any good
because it definitely sounds very
exciting. The longer I've been on
booktube the less and less interested I
am in picking up a huge stack of books, so
I'm not doing that today, but those are
all the books that I currently have
checked out from my library. I hope some
of them maybe sounded interesting to
you or give you an idea of some of the
books that I'm interested in. If you've
recently checked anything out from your
library I would love to know what it is.
Thank you guys so much for watching and
I will see you in the comments. Bye!
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