a BIG book haul because self control in this household? a concept 🤨

[@honeybearfm]

Me saving money for my car and then rewarding myself with at least 3 books every week: It’s all about balance 😌

[@ramirez4630]

I wish I could. But my book buying consist in 3 or 4 books per month. I don't read that fast so I prefer buying the books I know I'm gonna read.

[@camilliakadir9212]

Literally meeeeee

[@whoisthatgirl2924]

Omg same girl same!!!🤣🤣

[@katiemaki5740]

Omg. That is me right now too! I'm not alone!

[@himshetasarma2727]

Perfectly balanced as all things should be.

[@rafagemelli487]

I have to say that These violent delights being apart from Our violent ends in the bookshelf bothers me in a irracional way, but Mel's voice almost fades it away hahaha

[@amelieperger1952]

That’s the only thing I always look at😄 it’s pure pain

[@MelReads]

LMAOOO they're different heights😭

[@rafagemelli487]

@@MelReads OMGGGGG that's so unfair 😭😭😭

[@oliviasmith9851]

You should do a video on your favorite authors and your favorite books for those authors

[@shortmocha850]

I enjoyed Midnight Library especially with where I was mentally at the time that I read it. So I enjoyed it

[@kikiikonomopoulos7323]

I pictured Draco and Hermione when I read Sorcery of Thorns and I HIGHLY recommend 👏👏

[@MelReads]

👀

[@jasminejefferson6630]

It’s really nice to see you’re enjoying more classics. I recommend you Rebecca. It’s probably my favorite book. I think you’ll like the aesthetic. But just so you know, if you ever want to read Rebecca, the first few pages can be kind of boring. DO NOT GIVE UP. The ending is really good.

[@BB-pk1bk]

I’m actually finishing it tonight! It is a really good novel

[@jasminejefferson6630]

@@BB-pk1bk it is! I do not know why people from booktok neglect this!

[@gabrielablanco4402]

This video encapsulates so good how I look when I get home with +10 books after I said my mom I wasn’t buying anything this month 🤡

[@MelReads]

LMAOOOO IM DEAD😂 i do be clowning 99.9% of the time when i say i ain't buying no books🤡

[@andyA192]

Piranesi is soooo fkn good 10/10 I couldnt stop thinking about it for a while

[@Lanaxparillaxwife]

I’m so jealous of that clockwork prince copy 😩 I that set in my life. I love the midnight library it's so good

[@MelReads]

the copy is stunning!! i think it'll be impossible to get the rest of the set though😂

[@Jasminejadelilacreads]

The Thursday Murder club and its sequel are brilliant! I can't wait for the third book to be published. Richard Osman is a genius.

[@girlscandrum22]

I ADORE Cloud Cuckoo Land!! Just know that it takes a hot minute to really understand how everything connects. It's a slow mover but so so worth it. I wanted to hug the book at least 50 times while reading it.

[@MelReads]

i love slower stories!! can't wait to see how it pans out🤩

[@jasminejefferson6630]

Omg yessss I know you said you like the wicked king in your last video but the fact that you enjoyed it a lot [giggles] makes me soooo happy.

[@Mjackson2319]

I have no issue with book hauls but I think it would be nice to see how many books you actually get to read from this 30+ book haul. This year I’m trying to unhaul books I don’t get to before buying more books. It is a struggle 😩

[@Elisa_gee]

Girl I saw the midnight library and I just wanna scream through the screen how much I loved this book ! It’s amazing ! Honestly I’m a new reader and it was such a nice easy fast paced read with such deep meaning . So great I’m sure u will love it too ! Love ur videos ! 🥰😘

[@ppeachygee]

i honestly cant watch u without smiling, u have such an amazing energy nd ur videos have been rly helping me the past few days w my depressive episode. so thank u

[@MelReads]

okay wait😭 you're the sweetest! sending you loads of love💖

[@arlissbunny]

OH!! I’m just finishing Cloud Cuckoo Land today. It’s absolutely wonderful and, I was surprised by this, a fast and compelling read. It’s enthralling and I can’t wait to hear what you think.

[@hazelreadsss]

literally obsessed with your channel 🥺🦋 that is all 🥰

[@MelReads]

🥺🥺💖💖

[@ccm7319]

I remember crying at the end of the Travelling Cat Chronicles. Take care of your heart

[@catking396]

Frankenstein is so good. I've only read a few classics and that is one of them. So good.

[@papriica]

The thursday murder club isn't really a horror/thriller, so you're safe there hahah. It's more of a somewhat cozy mystery. Decently fun read overall! Also ahh wasn't expecting to see Traveling Cat Chronicles on here, I read that book in January and it's great I loved it, hope you enjoy it too!

[@MelReads]

oooo a cozy mystery sounds even better🤩

[@manyaarora717]

I love watching book hauls.. guilty mel 🤭

[@KatieColson]

Omg yes! I love the Strange Case of the Alchemist Daughter! I adored the second book

[@KatieColson]

Omg not the Batman voice 🤦🏻‍♀️😂😂

[@KatieColson]

I’m so jealous of you holding up Gallant. I’m still waiting on line to arrive 🙄

[@MelReads]

that second book better be worth it, cause... bitch is LONG

[@MelReads]

i tried with that batman voice🤡

[@taijhak07]

loved loved the video Mel! Also ur voice is some aesthetic and comforting lol😭💗 I love it

[@MelReads]

🥺💖

[@paulasalazar2093]

me thinking that maybe mel's doing a book hall mostly or all from botm books, sponsored book boxes, or books people sent her 👀

[@MelReads]

nope🤭

[@ReadAllTheBooks]

I really enjoyed All Of Us Villains- definitely Hunger Games vibes, but the ending was a bit rushed. Gallant was a mix between the writing of Addie and City Of Ghosts

[@smallcece]

i loved this video and i lived for all the spanish pronunciations, that moment when you just gotta roll you r's and make the j's as sharp as a knife lmao

[@MelReads]

you already know😏

[@coffeewithcady]

I love All of us Villains! Really good

[@fluffyunicorn7275]

Orange is my favorite manga, it’s so unbelievable good. I’m so glad you bought it for yourself, you’ll definitely enjoy it 😊

[@MelReads]

aahhh i can't wait to read it!!! i know people ADORE it💖

[@blackroomred]

ah, your energy never fails to make me smile. 📚

[@MelReads]

🥺💖

[@akingleb]

The traveling Cat Chronicles was awesome 5 🌟

[@MelReads]

i've seen a few people in the comments loving this one and i'm so excited🤩

[@brittanywalker5079]

Cloud Cuckoo Land is my favorite book of 2022 so far! Stick with it, it's great!

[@MelReads]

oooo yes!!! i'm loving y'all sharing your love for this book in the comments🤩

[@HaileyAnnReads]

I want to read The Shadow of the God's sooooo baaaaad!! I hope you love it!!

[@MelReads]

it literally sounds so epic and good, i'm so freaking excited😭

[@zailiarrlou]

I wasn’t crazy about the midnight library. it felt very repetitive and it was easily predictable despite the overall message being nice. I donated the book 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@ambermalloy9210]

That clockwork prince 😍😍😍

[@jasminejefferson6630]

You look so happy 😂😂😂 I love this Lots of love Mel xoxo

[@kayleejohnson6883]

Im reading Gallant right now! andddd does not disappoint so far! 🏘❤️

[@LudiVegas]

Amazing videoooo but i was mentally dying when i noticed that these violent delights and our violend ends were in different shelves lol

[@MelReads]

dying at y'all being in distress at this😂

[@umamamuhammad3238]

YESSSSS😭 I've been waiting for this❤️📚📚

[@paxtonbaker698]

These videos are my FAV!! But bad for my wallet bc then I get the itch to buy all the books!!

[@MelReads]

why is this me watching book hauls too😭😂

[@misscocopop1801]

I loveeee the air of the folk series 🥰🥰🥰

[@MelReads]

it was a real good one🤩

[@bookishvlogs3102]

just found your channel and am mega binging your videos :)

[@courtneyray3531]

My new fav is on kindle unlimited but read Things we never got over by Lucy score!

[@anyeivette]

Now I have to put sorcery of thorns in my book list.

[@wiktoriabadora1243]

not the book buying ban queen LMAOOOO

[@thewitchypreneur]

Loved this video! 📚

[@fabianaferreira5488]

Piranesi is amazing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@wiktoriabadora1243]

I read an ARC of All Of Us Villains and I really enjoyed it!!

[@jalyntaylor7609]

Y’all know how when you buy so many books that you forget if you brought a book you may see in the store??? Anyone else have this feeling/thought??

[@MelReads]

literally me🤡

[@FireFr0ggy]

Love, love The Thursday Murder Club. Don't expect hard hitting detective mystery. But do stay for the most charming, badass cast. I would love be to friends with the Thursday Murder Club.📚

[@MelReads]

okay okay, this is good to know!!!💖

[@lightscamerasashley.]

so many books 💖🥰📚

[@brittanywaynestilphen4685]

I loved both Finlay Donovan books and cant wait for the next. I also just bought a bunch of books... i went to a store that jad a huge half off sale. There were such good cheap new books

[@MelReads]

gotta love a good deal omg💖

[@KM-690]

queen of nothing was my favorite of the 3. flew through that one so fast and it left me wanting more. finally got into ACOTAR after 2 months of fighting it but im so glad i read cruel prince before ACOTAR because maybe i wouldn't have enjoyed it as much lol.

[@MelReads]

yeah, the series are VERY different😂

[@crystalocasio3802]

You need to read orange! Trigger warning for suicide and depression tho

[@hfollman98]

On my KNEES for the Seasonal Fears ARC 😩😩

[@MelReads]

i cannot with y'all begging for the arc LMAO

[@ramirez4630]

I think you'd love heaven official's blessing by mxtx. Like girls, it has Gods, martial art masters, demons, ghost, adventures, romance, placed in the old China, high fantasy... Girl, it sounds like your type of book.

[@MelReads]

waaaait👀 you may be onto something...

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I’ve had an arc of all of us villains for so long now 👀

[@vintageroses5825]

HAHAHAH ME WITH THE SAYING IM NOT GONNA BUY MORE BOOKS AND READ THE ONES I OWN LMAO

[@hafsahnadeem921]

📚 I got beach read, you and me on vacation and beautiful world where are you from the library. Stared you and me on vacation 2 days ago 🥳

[@MelReads]

aaahhh yesss!!!❤️‍🔥

[@scuttyHoOG]

The description u gave of Gallant reminds me of beautiful creatures.

[@MelReads]

the way you just gave me a massive flashback to the beautiful creatures era omfg🤡😳

[@BeyondBookish]

I have failed my own book buying ban but I still have about 9 months to get it together haha. Let’s hope Gallant is good! 📚

[@MelReads]

not you giving yourself 9 months to get it together🤡😂😭

[@jamieserrano827]

You thinking about Veronica Speedwell and I really want to read that series it seems very fun

[@MelReads]

yes, that one! my brain completely blanked for a sec😂

[@Bookishly.makayla]

I've bought 6 books this month so far... But Ive also read 4 this month and it's still early in the month so I think that's fine.. right? 😂😂

[@MelReads]

that's actually a really nice ratio!!!

[@josiewelch3663]

Am I the only one who read Piranesi and thought I was slowly going insane? I think I thought to myself in the third person for a couple of weeks... Good book but do take your time with it!

[@MelReads]

will circle back to this if i do😂 it's only happened to me with 2 books and the experience was wild LOL

[@warnerblair]

I was lucky to get an arc copy of the hunger of the gods. Omg I love them! I devoured both books in 3 days

[@MelReads]

omg yesss!!!! i can't wait to get there🤩

[@warnerblair]

@@MelReads I hope you love it!!!

[@angelaholmes8888]

Sorcery of thorns is really good I'm definitely will be reading vespertine this year The shadow of the gods is really good I can't wait to read hunger of the gods

[@MelReads]

y'all got me hype for the shadow of the gods🤩

[@TheWinnie9611]

I hope you love orange, it’s been a bit since I read it but I remember it being beautiful and that I loved it. Aaaah sorcery of thorns is one of my fav books ( I legit read it twice within a week lol ) and I cannot wait to read Vespertine. All the light we cannot see is also one of my fav books of all time so I’m also quite excited for cloud cuckoo land ( I read 80 pages of it and I was really loving it but I put it down cause mood reading lol ) As far as poetry goes one of my fav poets is Emilia Pesqueira ( she has 2 books I think but I usually listen to her read her poems on IG ) and I think since you are getting into poetry you’ll quite enjoy her work ( I’ve read and quite enjoyed her book “rómpeme en caso de emergencias” ) ❤️

[@MelReads]

omg thank you so much for the rec!! i love that it's in spanish🥺💖

[@ellieskouros2174]

omg i literally went to the bookstore like two days ago and bought vespertine and sorcery of thorns...what are the odds?!

[@MelReads]

omg yessss✨

[@niyahdenee]

lmao crying at spindel

[@MelReads]

GORL, when i tell you the title of the book LEFT my brain😂

[@BeccaandTheBooks]

Damn I love Orange so much, I hope you do too!

[@MelReads]

i can't wait to read it😭

[@ambernicoletv8189]

Series completion? Are we getting the Mistborn vlog this year? 👀

[@MelReads]

it's the way i lost all the footage for well of ascension, only have half for the final empire, and i'm still sobbing about it🤡

[@ambernicoletv8189]

@@MelReads *falls dramatically in the rain and rips shirt while crying* 😭

[@ambernicoletv8189]

@@MelReads I’m kidding 😂. I look forward to your thoughts on the books though!

[@surannefrench9385]

@MelReads how many books have you read and how did you discover the genre that called to you

[@kyra6744]

Watching this as I spontaneously am cooking a banana cream cheesecake for my mental health oops

[@aidahhh]

Curious to know what you think of Gallant.

[@MelReads]

me too👀🤭

[@manyaarora717]

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[@IMAANMARIUMIQBAL]

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[@parnikajain3151]

2 days ago I went to B&N w my friend and bought 3 fantasy books. Granted hopefully I’ll get into a fantasy mindset soon. But including those I have 20 books in my tbr. Am I a booktuber now?😂I need to remind myself to not buy more books until ALL of those get read😅

[@jadenrae7028]

I was just wondering if you read this Savage song I read it recently and loved it I think you would really like it based on your reading tastes📚

[@MelReads]

i haven't read it yet😭

[@jadenrae7028]

@@MelReads you really should I had it for over a year and I just picked it up because I’m trying to read books on my shelf and I finished it in two days really fast paced after the first 100 pages I really liked the beginning still just not much action

[@mistidoud4107]

📚📚📚📚📚📚

[@blu5480]

Oh really extra seasonal fears ARC copy? 😳 since ur not allowed to sell them would you take a donation……. 😳😳😳

[@MelReads]

DEAD OMG😂

[@bstmmyevr]

📚📚📚📚

[@jennireadsmaybe]

book buying ban??? i pretend i do not see lmao

[@MelReads]

okay but truly😳

[@lexislibrary923]

📚.

[@sarahasselmann9225]

Victoria Spindle = Veronica Speedwell?

[@MelReads]

YES! the same one😂 i short circuited for a second there

[@AuthorBooksReader]

Love From India!!!

[@parnikajain3151]

Born and raised in the US but I’m Indian too!

[@MelReads]

💖💖💖

[@adrianadelval8544]

Can you fly me know the tittle of the Middle Grade books because you cover the title lol with your hand.

[@MelReads]

wait, which one?😂 there was the haunting of aveline jones and a pinch of magic!

[@adrianadelval8544]

@@MelReads that one the haunting of aveline jones 👍🏻 thanks

[@laurenloveslibros]

Ummm book buying ban who?

[@MelReads]

out the window, that's where🤡

[@ybell10]

Lol ur funny

[@MelReads]

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[@Leilers]

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