I Let Instagram Pick my Book Haul! (and it backfired a little bit...)

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today we are doing a bookhaul and unboxing video! but not a usual one, because for some odd reason I thought it would be fun if I let my insta followers choose which books to buy! so here is that book haul hahaha hope you enjoy!
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Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 23 year old girl who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave). I live in the Netherlands and go to university, but make booktube videos in my spare time :)
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[@raenich8661]

So glad to see I'm not the only one who uses a slump as an excuse to buy books 😂

[@sierrajane5593]

Being a mood reader is such a struggle 😂 I always think "I'd like to read that but it's a winter book" and so put things off until the right season and then just forget about them or why I left them and so just never pick them up

[@hollypeck9615]

You just did the thing where you finally put it into words

[@nikwolf7722]

Leonie: „I’m only buying 4 books at the same time so my TBR doesn’t get too big.” Me, waiting for my package with 13 new books to arrive: 👁👄👁

[@norikiss555]

Ahhahaha SAME 😂✨

[@corkaczarownicy]

I recently downloaded over 20 ebooks, because I discovered an app that allows colorful annotations🤓🙆‍♀️

[@RealReaderEmily]

I absolutely love the idea of having a single TBR shelf and when it runs low I go out to buy more books. Your self control is unparalleled! I might as to do the same though I have about 50 unread books to get through.....

[@TheBookLeo]

good luck!

[@Christinka888]

I didn't know it until now but a bookstore employee cycling around delivering books is something I need in my dream future life! 😍

[@mattkean1128]

I easily spend as much time deciding what books to buy as I do actually reading them

[@pa686]

That’s half the fun though!

[@penguinpaddle743]

I feel uncomfortable when i take more than 3 minutes to decide which book from the library should i take... but i can't stop

[@pretentioussunshine]

Oh my god yes

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I swear I am the only person who hasn’t read a brown sister book 💀

[@AnaReadsBooks]

omg same

[@ri3869]

Me too girl 🤧

[@isisvda]

I read the first one and I didn’t really like it tbh... but for me it was the characters that didn’t appeal to me so I’m hoping I like the next two books more

[@just_ella17]

I feel youuu

[@pratikshabaruah3105]

@@isisvda i've been reading chloe brown for over a month now. im not liking it all that much but i also really don't want to dnf it. somebody send help

[@sawmea5308]

This eye look >>>>> 😍😍

[@uchizc]

“I’m loving these books with the big ass letters” 😂😂😂 honestly mood!

[@eryng515]

love how when you say “my name is Leonie” the subtitles say “my name is *Naomi* ”

[@daydreamer5608]

Lol 😂😂this is the first video I watch of her and I thought she said Emily 😂😂

[@wingcastlereads5657]

Howl's moving castle is so great for getting out of a reading slump! The writing is fantastically whimsical

[@nickia979]

I just finished the dragon republic, it destroyed me as expected 😅 and Howls Moving Castle is a warm and cosy childhood fave of mine! I hope you enjoy all of them!

[@alwaysinmyheart8141]

Out of context but my exams have been postponed and I'm so happy I can watch your videos without feeling guilty for not studying!!!!

[@alwaysinmyheart8141]

@@Elena-tz9ev thank you🤗🤗

[@courtneys119]

Howl’s Moving Castle is one of my favourite books ever, so excited for you to read it 😍

[@marcellademelofalcione]

This notification makes my day 3 times better, thank you! 🥰

[@amyspassiondiary4986]

💜Yaaasss Leonie🥰, Im so excited!! 🤓

[@mossphillips]

So excited for this!!!

[@AnaReadsBooks]

this was so entertaining! your videos always make the happiest, keep it up

[@teawithleia]

I haven't bought a book in the last 5h. That is my achievement so far. *Finnally a book with bigger letters* I never related more. And yes Jade City 🙌 I'm doing a Buddy Read in the end of March so I can't wait for your opinion on it in the future. I bought Howl's Moving Castle for the grandma of my bf and she really liked it 😊

[@alexandrasnookstudio9944]

The invisible life of Addie LaRue does look like a big book but it is a fast read!

[@lucypettigrew9089]

I loved this video!! I've bought so many books recently with the excuse that I'm a mood reader and need a wide range of genres to pick from.. when in reality I just have an addiction to book buying

[@yanlaptak1187]

Finally it came out!

[@marsyairdina3108]

I just finished the gilded wolves and omg i am in love , just bought the second book and so excited to start it!

[@storyworldling7444]

Nice video and book haul! I also bought both Addie LaRue and Howl's Moving Castle recently! 😅 also, I think it's cool that you're so reasonable with the amount of books you buy at once so your TBR doesn't get too big! 🤓

[@chocolatethunder3514]

Unlike most people (me...😅)

[@storyworldling7444]

@@chocolatethunder3514 me as well, my TBR is massive 😅

[@ostrichreads7715]

I wish my tbr had that size 😂 Just last month I created a crazy spreadsheet to finally get most of mine under controle...

[@sadies2430]

Your eye makeup looks SO GOOD

[@luizappicanco]

It’s funny how each one of us has a bubble of our own. I’ve heard about neuromancer a lot sooner than howl’s moving castle and I could swear Gibson was way more famous than Diana Wynne Jones, but maybe that’s just the sci-fi fan in me.

[@amyspassiondiary4986]

I have the 🤓Invisible Life of Addie Larue in my wishlist for 4 months now and I already decided to get it in May (my birth month) also a gift for myself on my birthday 🥰🙌 and other 📚7 more books that I’ve been wanting for several months now 📖

[@heyyounotyouyou7538]

My birthday is also in May

[@nathalie1122]

Hahaha I love how you love the big letters. Can totally relate!

[@pendragon2012]

"This video has taken on Marvelesque proportions." God, I love your way with words!

[@rivendellstarlight]

this video is pure chaotic energy and I love it

[@rachelscattergood3979]

I just bought Howl's moving castle too!! I'm excited to hear your thoughts on it! Love your video concepts 😄

[@samsamuels8328]

OMG you are the best 😂 Enjoy your reading! ❤❤❤

[@WhitneyOpfar]

So excited to hear your thoughts on Howls Moving Castle. I also have thought about buying it for a long time but it was never the right moment. Perhaps Leonie will be the final push I need! 🤷‍♀️🥳

[@justanotherartsygirl4162]

happy to hear that I am not the only one who has a forever tbr pile haha! 🌿✨

[@storiesofwonderland8900]

Night Film has become one of my favourite books

[@musictraveller3598]

This was such a fun video!

[@TheBookLeo]

thank you :D

[@danielmunoz6866]

Howl's Moving Castle is an amazing book ... The movie is inspired on the book and has a lot of things taken almost directly from it, but there is more in the book, I would say... I love the movie, and I've watched it many times. And I also loved the book (now I want to read it again).

[@MiaMonteith]

I cant wait to see your thoughts on the invisible life addie larue!! and dragon republic!!

[@flklrvrmr]

Night Film is really good!!

[@jestertrinidad4518]

i'm so amazed by your book buying control. My mind just went blank everytime I go online for books

[@jessicapratt1400]

I feel so called out 😂 my tbr is definitely too big and has quite a few books that I will probably never read

[@rolandotravieso9534]

I recently read neuromancer and I must say...it is definitely one of the most “mind boggling complex what is happening” books I’ve ever read haha

[@ainulmhakim]

Luv u leonie!

[@JolienReads]

I'm reading the Dragon Republic pretty soon as well! I loved the Poppy War so I can't wait to have my heart broken again. 😅

[@Juliacasualcozygamer]

11:35 Lekker typisch Nederlands hahah. Deden ze bij mijn boekhandel ook, lekker op de fiets 😂

[@noraad6254]

I hope you enjoy reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Howl’s Moving Castle! I loved both so much 😍

[@Jasmijn.F]

My local bookstore also deliveres books by bike! It’s the best 🚲📚

[@banjobonesmama9865]

Oh I love the Dune books! What did you think of it?

[@juliamiranda4023]

I just finished Take a hint Dani Brown, and god I adore that book, really hope you like it

[@skyvolt2566]

I can only read around night time bc its when everything calms down and not as much distractions lol but my TBR is so huge and yesterday added 5 other books to my TBR 😂

[@stevelawrence8945]

Lots of fun...as always........!

[@sallema5029]

watching this is making me want to do a book haul

[@normmansor1313]

Glad to be here

[@AnanasAbanaan]

Just popping in to say that you can order books at local bookstores, even if they don’t have them on the website. I buy all my books at the same bookstore in Antwerp and I just email them about the books I want. Then they get back to me if that is possible or not. The whole Brexit thing has really effed some things up, because some (English) books are just not available right now and if they are, they’ve been stockpiled by the large online stores so they are the only ones who can sell them… But it’s definitely worth the small effort of mailing the store to ask if they can order it.

[@jaimepillsbury8678]

as a mood reader, i relate to this so hard

[@pari7038]

I hope you like Howl's Moving Castle, it's different from the movie but as amazing as that.

[@bookthoughtswitheilish]

Can't wait to hear what you think about Howls Moving Castle!

[@chelsea2059]

I have 48 books on my tbr right now and it’s just so daunting I’m very upset with myself lol 😂

[@corkaczarownicy]

I noticed that for me it is very helpful to assign priorities for the next month. I chose next three books and take them out of the shelf. And then I try to read them next.

[@sunra23]

Leonie, has anybody ever told you that you look and sound so much like Ashley aka bestdressed? you both are my favs 😭💗

[@emilymoran9152]

1:20 - Never so much thought about this, because I'm totally a mood reader but I re-read things a lot. I mean, I have a TBR stack too, but it's rare that I don't get to a fiction book I bought for myself in a reasonable amount of time. Usually it's either slightly odd Christmas presents or certain non-fiction ('I should absolutely educate myself on the impact of United Fruit on Latin America...oof, but I already know that's gonna be depressing') that end up lingering.

[@banjobonesmama9865]

Howls Castle is good. I feel it’s a bit darker than the movie

[@ruffoloreads]

you should do a reading short novels type video! lol

[@willforlife_]

A reading pauseeeee

[@christinacampbellbooks]

Really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue! 🖤

[@ashmeal8942]

Never been this early!

[@thecaffeinatedbookwyrm3051]

I loved Night Film by Marisha Pessl.

[@Jana_Reads_Too]

You are fine. Addie Larue is not really that much fantastical, except of the immortality element. You still get some variety in there :)

[@clickymcclick7924]

I'm trying so so so hard not to buy any more books until i get some of my TBR done but IT'S SO HAAAAAAARD. The last book i technically bought is a preorder of Katie Zhao's *How We Fall Apart* and I am going to try and make that my last book purchase until September.

[@greciajuarez9813]

Please, do a room tour, Leo ❤️

[@carsonchiem145]

throwbacks to one of your earliest reading vlogs when u didn't receive a book package and went full on FBI agent mode like you're tryna track down hannibal or something

[@ryanng754]

i buy the bone season, ember and the ashes and annihilation.

[@Michael-ee4uz]

Gibson is my favorite author! So surprised that Neuromancer isn't well known considering the resurgence of Cyberpunk popularity recently. So many booktubers are stumbling upon it just now. The man coined the term Cyberpunk and many related terms in Burning Chrome and Neuromancer. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it when it makes your TBR in the future.

[@Michael-ee4uz]

@Tanya To give you an idea without spoiling it: His prose is unique and a lot of fun once you get used to it. It's clipped in an odd way. He isn't a science fiction writer who gets hung up on the science itself, but instead focuses on human reaction to changes in technology. It makes him a skilled futurist. It is very much still a future as envisioned by someone in the 80s though, with designer drugs, cybernetics, and virtual reality being major themes. The plot is good, and the characters are fine, if not too fleshed out. In his early books almost nobody had family because he didn't have a handle on how to write those interactions (paraphrasing his words). In short, it is obvious why it is a classic and he has the renown he does once you read it. My favorite book of his, and a good jumping off point if you don't want to start at the beginning, is Pattern Recognition. He switched gears in that trilogy to near future science fiction and it's much more accessible in that way. Plus it has an amazing opening line.

[@Michael-ee4uz]

@Tanya I haven't listened to any audio books except for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It was hilarious in that format though. I prefer physical books for the most part. If you have any you'd like to recommend back I'd be interested.

[@emanthekind2140]

Jade City and The Invisible Life of Addie Larue are both really popular! I think they both just have really different audiences

[@samar1462]

You are gorgeous! 😍

[@Ashleigh_Absurd]

How small your tbr has me shocked as I have over 300 on mine 😂😂

[@mizoompaloompa170]

I am really impressed with your tbr. Mine is like 200 books 🙈🙈🙈

[@darkroseguild4685]

If you are getting rid of fable, what are you gonna do with it? I’ll take it!

[@davidshead1323]

I know what you mean by being excited by big writing lol. I'm reading the final empire atm and the formatting is so gross. Absolutely no line spacing, really thick text that looks like all of it is bold, such a strange decision for both things given it's a fantasy so it's dense enough without it being formatted to be even more of a dense read. I get that they don't want a super thick book and might be wanting to save space but COME ON. I zone out more with this book than any other I've been reading recently.

[@raniasingla3188]

Yay I’m early!!

[@maayans.181]

I finally found out who's your famous look- alike!! It's Olivia Wilde! (from House, The O.C ect'...) 🥰

[@monikaorlow6517]

💛💛💛

[@Sweetlyevil18]

I keep wondering every video...the poster with the man on a cliff, what is that from? It looks so pretty.

[@theresaz.6209]

It's a poster from a painting called "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" from the artist Caspar David Friedrich. It really is pretty :)

[@Sweetlyevil18]

@@theresaz.6209 Thank you so much Theresa!

[@snelebi]

What can I do if I want to see your face more often but I'm already subscribed? :P

[@lamegoldfish6736]

I'm pretty sure Aspen has a slippery slope.

[@hannahschneider9761]

The Dragon Republic: the first 100 pages are so so but stick with it and then it takes OFF. And the last few pages are nuts. I know you said you were concerned about the political content, but it’s very fluidly written (I also don’t really like political intrigue and I thought it was well done) I really hope you enjoy Howl’s Moving Castle! It’s in my Top 3 favourite books of all time. It is so funny and cheeky. Diana Wynne Jones is my favourite author. Her stories are SO original and clever.

[@StewyAdamRules]

I have a hard time only buying one book in a series. If it’s a series I’ve heard good things about or it sounds like my thing, I’ll get the whole set. Sometimes it backfires, usually it doesn’t, but I don’t know why I do. It’s not as if I couldn’t get the others later.

[@belen4213]

I love ghibli films but I find the book of Howls moving castle better than the movie 🤔

[@belen4213]

of course they are quite different, but I like how the story focuses more on Sophie and her curse

[@car5522]

I need to learn the kind of restraint you have when it comes to book buying. T_T

[@annavanrijn4639]

Welke fysieke boekenwinkel(s) heb je gebruikt. Alle vier de boekenwinkels waar ik normaal naar toe gaan zijn aangesloten bij Libris en die importeren geen Engelse boeken meer vanwege Brexit. Een boek dat ik heel graag wil lezen komt maar niet terug naar de bieb dus ik wil hem kopen maar liever niet via bol.

[@robskitlz4391]

I keep buying books. lol. I've been buying too much...😁 I would've chose Neuromancer.. lol.

[@tamakikawaii]

I love the cover of the Addie LaRue book, if only the "white ciryce" was removable 😔

[@piendh9888]

'could not find it anywere' *also buys on biggest dutch webshop possible

[@cupowarmchocolate8103]

I really need to read a fucking book..

[@ms.zoldyck3369]

5 mins and 115 views 😍😍

[@emiliabugueiromeyer8166]

Is Howl's moving castle middle grade??? I was contemplating on buying it, but i'm not in the mood for a middle grade

[@Silverraine1]

Sophie is 18 I think, so it should be YA, but DWJones was writing when there was no such thing as YA so it has crossover appeal, anyways if you love the movie then you'll love the book too.

[@emiliabugueiromeyer8166]

Thanks!

[@anasofia1115]

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@gracepowers3188]

It took me a full month to read Dune too, that book just sucks the joy out of reading. I didn't even hate it either, I even liked parts of it, I was just so bored like half the time ://

[@TheBookLeo]

this is exactly my experience haha

[@moviefiendz]

Borrow Neuromancer from the library. Its prose is weird and dense and hard to take in. Its a classic but I wouldnt wanna own it

[@larissaprates1384]

How do you even do it? I’m in a book buying ban but I’ve bought three books already 🥺 (my buying ban started April 1st for the 100th time trying)

[@Jana_Reads_Too]

Maybe strict book buying ban is not for you. I apply the rule that I can only buy a book if I read a physical book that I own first. (no audio, e-books, library etc). It is weirdly satisfying to compare the lists of read x bought books and it makes me focus on my physical TBR more.