Being a side character in one's own life. Don't you just hate that!😄 Have a great reading month of August.

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Great wrap-up with your usual hard hitting but honest reviews. Keep cool!🍧🧊🧊

Interesting little store! I was getting nervous that you would get the Magicka book and use it to learn how to cast spells on your subscribers for your Halloween special videos!🧙‍♀

Wow! You are a really tough critic but fair because you give your honest opinion. I visualize authors quaking with trepidation when they find out you are going to be reviewing their book.😄

I discovered your channel through this video. Happy Reading! 😎📚👍

You had some great answers to these tag prompts. A book that caught my interest was The Medici Heist so I will have to check out more details on that one. It's my historical fiction bias rearing itself again!

It must be nice having a large Chapters Indigo available to you. There is only a single small Chapters where I live and they seldom have what I am looking for in stock so I need to order the books. Not the world's biggest problem but sometimes you want that instant gratification!😄 You had a good haul and I am sure your Dad liked the Garfield.

Some interesting books there. Of them all, I would be most interested in the Kate Quinn book because I believe she has a reputation for writing good historical fiction which is my preferred genre. I actually have a couple of her books I picked up at a library sale but have yet to read them.😊

It turned into a June Tea BR!😄

You may have the world's greatest collection of international washi tape!😄 Glad you had a fun vacation!

Wow, what an amazing place!

Now THAT'S a library! Stunning. I agree with you, HOLY CRAP!

Now whenever you use the pens and other supplies you will recall the good vacation memories!

Such a unique and interesting little shop! Certainly much more appealing than Staples! Was that in Spain?

Absolutamente magnifico y hermosa libreria. Gracias por esto. I will go back to English before I get in trouble with my limited Spanish! I see they had some English books as well. I wish I could still travel because Spain would be on my list for sure.

Sounds like these books were reasonably good, just not great. Still you had a good reading month. I had a good reading month as well with 7 books read. The best were Empire of the Vampire, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Three Body Problem. I also read She, The Guns of the South, Captain Blood (really fun classic pirate adventure),and The Devil in the White City which is non-fiction about a serial killer in the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

Would you consider these books romantasy?

I feel embarrassed that I use plain old Scotch tape or masking tape!😳

I have about 70 unread books on my shelves, and that's about half of what it was a year or two ago, lol. I really liked Red, White, and Royal Blue, and a lot of the others you talked about sound really good, too!

It's a good thing I don't make videos especially one featuring unread books on my shelf. I tend to get books at a faster rate than I read them.🙄 If I did such a video, it would be much longer than a typical feature film!😂

Interesting idea re-creating book recipes. I made the mistake of watching this mid-afternoon and I was getting hungry but it is still awhile to go before dinner!😋 I am reading Empire of the Vampire right now and because of Daysdeath there is almost no daylight and nothing is growing but potatoes and fungus. All the characters eat is potato stew with mushrooms all the time. Not very appetizing!

I am so envious that you have such a great bookstore easily accessible. No such luck where I live!😢 There is only a small Indigo store and one tiny used bookstore.

That was so cool to be a guest on a podcast. I'll be interested to hear the full interview. The new book looks intriguing so I will be keen to learn more about it. Looks like you are on your way to the big time!😃👍

I had never heard of owlcrate. It sounds a bit pricey but I guess when you consider the merchandise included, it's not too bad. After all, you can never have too many cool coffee mugs!😄☕ Together We Burn would interest me the most from the sound of it. P.S. Glad to hear you bounced back from food poisoning.

Some interesting books you read. I read Priest of Bones, The Blood Stones (by a fellow booktuber) and it was great, The 39 Steps (one of the original spy thrillers), and The Count of Monte Cristo which explains why I only read 4 books in March.

Which ones are you going to read?

Do like other booktubers. Change TBR to POP (Pile of Possibilities). That takes out the implied obligation!😄

Quite the selection. I have a feeling 2024 is going to turn out as a great year for books. I know my reading has gone well this year so far and I have read some absolute gems.

I don't spend enough time on my Goodreads page. I don't use but a fraction of its features. You are nicely organized in contrast!

Interesting challenge. The new trend of so-called "romantasy" doesn't appeal to me but given that I am not the target audience, I don't think the publishers care what I think.😄 BTW, the haircut suits you.👍

You really are ahead of the game here! I can barely handle 2024 so far!😂 I hope your Egypt trip happens. (Selfishly I ask you to vlog it!😊). That would be a bucket list trip for me.

You are going to be busy reading these sequels! I hope you enjoy them.

I have noticed over a number of your videos that you feature many Asian inspired fantasy books as well as Asian authors. I am just curious what in particular appeals to you about these books. I just finished the book Shogun and I found the description of feudal Japan absolutely fascinating.

That was a lot of books! Thanks for the extra effort to bring this video to us.

I don't read many novellas but I don't mind them. However, I am not a fan of what seems to be a growing trend in the fantasy genre, that is, to place novellas among the actual series books. Instead of say Books 1, 2, 3, etc., you get Books 1, 1.5, 2,2.5, 3, etc.

Enjoy your books! Hope they are 5 stars. My March TBR is abbreviated because I am finishing one huge book and starting another. I will finish Shogun and then start The Count of Monte Cristo. Lots of reading just limited in number!😄

Nice job tantalizing us! Even when I paused the video I couldn't make out the cover clearly.😂 It must be exciting working on a new series as well as designing the cover. Looking forward to your behind the scenes updates. The teaser ending! Now, I am really intrigued!

This made my day! 🌞

The store did give you credit for your books to buy used books in the future, right? I hope so!

I've never read Murakami and I have had no desire to do so. From what I gather on booktube, he is one of those authors you either love or hate. There seems to be no middle ground.

Those covers are real art!

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Marcel Proust? I am impressed! He supposedly wrote these books from his bed with sheets of paper scattered all around or taped together. Perhaps not the perfect work environment.😄

I just got back from my local Chapters Indigo! I was picking up a book that I ordered but I didn't stay to browse-that's dangerous!😄 My local store is much smaller than yours and it frustrates me that it does not have the book I want in stock more than half the time hence my need to order.

Wow! Some big goals. Good luck although you really seem to have what you want to achieve all mapped out and want to put in the effort so I have no doubt you will be successful.👍

Interesting answers to the prompts. I have not read any of those books but I do have The Secret History on my shelf to read this year. You did not inspire confidence in it for me!😅

I read the first two of Steve Berry's Cotton Malone novels a few years ago. I felt much the same as you, they were entertaining enough but not a 5 star read. The fact that I have not gone back to the series since says something (not to say that I won't in the future). I found the character Cassiopeia Witt far more interesting than the main character. For December, I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy for the first time and they were absolutely captivating. No wonder so many people love these books. I must be the last person in the world to read them!😂

You are off to a great start for your 2024 reading year!

Good for you. Books should never be banned. Ever. I read Fahreheit 451 a number of years ago and liked it but I didn't care for the 2018 HBO adaptation. Happy New Year!