MY BIGGEST BOOK HAUL | breaking a 9 month buying ban! 📚👀✨

I did read Metamorphoses by ID and surprisingly it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be

I've been really excited to continue this series because volume one was so good and it was so entertaining because it's basically about these two best friends and then one of them betrays the other and he goes to fight for the other side in the war that they're currently waging and then the best friend who betrayed him has to come back because they lost and now our main character is trying to figure out why was he betrayed what happened to all the love that they shared and they're also secret lovers like there's so much going on there's so much going on and there is so much pain and emotional trauma going on and like you we don't really know what has happened so we're trying to uncover the mystery of what went down like why did he betray him why is he back now what is the plan like what's going on and it is so riveting like I didn't want to put the first volume down and now that I have volume two I'm so excited I am so excited to continue look at them this is giving flashbacks so maybe we're going to see a little bit more of their relationship before he was betrayed by his lover very first book oh my God H this is going to be glorious this is a very heavy box okay I need to stop saying oh I see all about love okay yes absolutely yes okay wow this is packed to the brim with books it doesn't even have like bubble wrap around it this is just books I love that so the very first one that I see here is All About Love by Belle hooks this is a book that has been recommended to me for so long and so many different people have recommended it to me so I'm like there must be something about this book that keeps reminding people of me I have to read it I have to read it the word love is most often defined as a noun yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb okay when I was a child it was clear to me that life was not worth living if we did not know love shut up okay oh my God this is already hitting and that was only the first sentence of the preface and also this gorgeous red like I don't have enough red books this is going to look so good this is non-fiction so I'm excited about that because I haven't had the best of luck with non-fiction but I'm still trying I'm still trying to find the subgenre of non-fiction that best goes with me instead of just being like Oh I'm not a non-fiction girlly yes oh okay so oh thank you oh that's not bad thank you that was horrible get out my system okay it's going to be really hard to know which book to start with first because I'm excited for literally all of them but let's continue the next one that I see ooh this is bigger than I thought it would be the next one is letters to Meena by France gafka this is a collection well I mean the title says it all this is a collection of letters that France gafka wrote to Meena which if I'm not mistaken was like his lover oh she was his cck translator that is crazy begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair for 36-year-old gafka she was a living fire such as I have never seen it was to Meena that he revealed his most intimate self and eventually and trusted his diaries for safekeeping the way that I've only read one book by France gaka and yet now I have a collection of his most intimate and personal letters ooh there's portraits of the both of them lovely the rain which has been going on for 2 days and one night has just now stopped of course probably only temporarily but nonetheless an event worth celebrating which I'm doing by writing to you I need to stop I need to stop but I already know I'm going to devour this is probably going to be one of those books that I put on my nightstand and I just read a couple of letters before I go to bed every night that's just what this book feels like because it doesn't feel like a book that you would just binge read it feels like one that you would pick up whenever you're my God okay yes I need to stop okay I'm getting way ahead of myself I need to calm down but yes touching horrifying brilliant sickly heartbreaking and infinitely convoluted I am so excited the way that this is probably going to inspire me to read even more literature by France gafka next up this is very different from what we just picked up but it is business casual by BK borison this is the fourth book in The Love Light Farms series quartet this is actually one of my five star predictions I am very excited about this because the very first three books of this series they have all been five stars and they have all been books that I've read in one sitting I think that the first two books I literally read them in one day like back to back because I just couldn't stop I wanted to be in that world forever but I read them as ebooks so I don't own the first three and I might as well Begin by owning the fourth one so that I can annotate it and fully experience this book and I just know I'm going to love this because there's just something about the way that BK borison writes people and the way that she writes emotions and the way that she develops a romance between two people and not only the romance but also like the inner worlds of her characters they're just so rich and so beautiful and so intricate and complex it's everything that I want in a contemporary romance novel and I'm so excited like you don't understand I'm so excited two opposites decide to test their chemistry with one steaming night together so basically if I'm reading this right this has the Trope of he falls in love first there's probably also going to be like the one bed Trope if we're being honest oh my God I'm so excited because like I love when characters are like so adamant about not falling in love with the other person but they're so obviously already in love and the road to acceptance is just so beautiful and also funny if done right and I just know that BK borison is going to do the absolute best job at portraying this couple I'm I don't even know who the two characters are I really don't but I'm excited to find out business casual by BK borison yes let's go oh we should read the first sentence the tree fields are glowing thank you thank you so much for that riveting description not my favorite first line so far we still have more books in this box so the next one is Letters From AO by senica so this is yet another collection of letters just like letters to Meena but this one it's a bit more on the philosophical side it's a bit more about inner life inner beliefs I mean I'm guessing I have no idea what to expect from this book because it was a recommendation from someone the way that they described it's like they said it made them rethink everything and it made them question a lot of things and honestly that sounds really interesting maybe I'll have like a couple of existential crises when I'm reading this I've never read anything by sanica I don't really know that much about this person he's like a major figure in philosophy but apart from that I'm not really I don't have a lot of background information but I'm excited I'm a little bit terrified but I'm more excited than anything it is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry okay oh okay senica was The Guiding hand of the Roman Empire the wisdom of the self-possessed person immune to overmastering emotions and lives setbacks while valuing friendship and the courage of ordinary men and criticizing the heart har treatment of slaves and the cruelties in the Gladiator Arena I don't know what I signed up for I really don't know what I signed up for oh this has like an introduction that talks about cica life and writing style you see that's what I need nothing to my way of thinking is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop where he is and pass some time in his own company I mean I love being alone like I love my alone time so maybe I'm on to something with this next up we have two very exciting books I don't even have to speak it's these volume two and volume three of Grandmaster of demonic cultivation and now I can finally do this oh my God hold up a few moments later I've been waiting my entire life to do this okay so we have volume two we have volume three we have volume 4 and we have volume Five that means that I officially have all of the Grand Master of demonic cultivation volumes unless there's a sixth one but I don't think so I think this is the last one and then obviously volume one is there so oh my God oh my goodness the way that in the last video I mentioned that I really wanted to do like it would be so fun to do a donme readathon where I just try to read as much as I can of this series and everybody well not everybody but like a lot of You Are excited and now I feel like we need to do a whole thing about it like it has to be this community thing where we were just reading donme novels even if you've never read a donme novel before this could be the perfect opportunity to dip your feet into this beautiful and intensely angsty genre and just have fun with us this is going to be so fun you don't understand holy crap I am so excited about this it's just even better full paneled oh my God exactly I'm obviously not going to flip through the third one because I don't want to be spoiled but just look at the back of this one like what's happening I'm excited I'm so excited shut up shut up the last book on this box not my camera turning off before I could show you the final book in this box which I already took out and it's volume Five of Heart Stopper by Alice Oman oh my goodness this feels so different oh they changed the pages this feels so different so these pages are moreal it's more like I don't know how to explain it but if you know if you have hard stopper you know what the pages feel this is like a normal book page and it just feels a lot heavier and obviously it's a lot longer as well I am excited my dude this is one of the books that are in my 24 books to read in 2024 and I am very excited about that obviously heart stoer is a series that has a very dear place in my heart because it has brought me so much happiness and I haven't read a heart stoer novel in so long I'm so excited I'm so excited I love them so much Nick and Charlie are in love but what happens next what do you mean what happens next what do you mean what happens next I'm going to stop I'm going to stop flipping before I make myself cry ooh it has an orange an orange spine that's going to go really well with the green so these oh my God that is crazy these are all of the books that were in this box look at them so these are all the books that you guys know that I bought but turns out I bought some other books as well I'm so sorry I'm so sorry for not telling you but I wanted it to be a surprise and now we can share the surprise together so let's do it this is really heavy okay wait I didn't order this no absolutely not no that's not real this is not real that's not real at all okay I don't okay so I did an order this I don't know if it's obvious from the way that I'm reacting to opening this box but I didn't order this is Vinland Saga the deluxe edition book four and this is by Makoto yukimura the way that I literally read book three for my 24-hour readathon which was like 3 days ago I can't believe it I can't believe it I can't believe it my heart is in my throat here we are again I hope you are still enjoying this series oh I am trust me to me Deluxe volumes 3 and 4 are The Sweet Spot of the series oh my God it starts to pull everything together in such a satisfying way I hope you love it from Crow I have no words I just I mean first and foremost thank you so much you are kind of insane for this but I love that you're this insane I can't believe I can't begin to describe how grateful I am like you like the way that I read like I literally read book three 3 days ago like three or four days ago and it blew my mind like I'm still thinking of book three and I was thinking of like oh my god when am I going to get book four like I have to continue the series and then this Pops in my mail Crow the man that you are thank you so much for this I'm going to be thankful to you for the rest of my life oh this is gorgeous makimura oh my God oh my God look at him okay sock shut up shut up thank you it doesn't even begin to cover how grateful and how much I appreciate this but thank you we still have one more box to open now this one has to have the other books that I bought without your permission actually can you guys guess what books are inside here I'll give you 10 seconds and I'll give you one hint there's there should be three books here and two of them are probably two of the most intimidating books that I will ever read in my life like they're up there with Warren peace and The Count of Monte Cristo so 10 seconds to guess why I opened this box I regret it I regret buying these books I regret buying one of these books just because of the sheer size of it that is demonic that should not be that big that should not be that big that should not be that big that should not be that big okay time's up so I hope you guys have left your guesses in the comments below if you haven't you've made me really sad the first book that we have here I can't believe the first book that we have here is the Divine Comedy by Dante aleri yes this okay the way that it took me it took me so long to decide on an Edition because initially of course I wanted to get the penguin classic edition because it matched all of my other penguin Classics but then I started to do some research because of course with classic books like this there are so many translations and it's so hard sometimes to know which translation is the best one for you have to take into consideration so many different aspects like which one has the most accessible language which one has notes on what the author was trying to say which one has like an analysis at the beginning or at the end of every chapter to help you understand what you just read which one is more critically acclaimed which one doesn't really site their sources you so you don't really know how reliable it is like there are just so many things that you have to take into consideration when you're choosing a translation and for this one when I was trying to get the penguin classic edition I was reading a lot of reviews that didn't like the translation for that Edition and it made me really scared because one of the things that they mention is that the notes don't really explain the text they more so explain Dante's life and his inspiration but they don't really analyze what's going on in the text and already I'm very intimidated by The Divine Comedy because it's not written in like a normal way it's divided into cantos yeah it's like poetry it is a very long poem and I do now have some experience reading long form poetry because I did read Metamorphoses by ID and surprisingly it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be but this one it's a little bit more intimidating it's actually a lot more intimidating I mean it does have illustrations which I really appreciate but the thing that sold me on this Edition is the fact that at the beginning of every ganto they have like a short analysis of what the ganto is and like the general summary of what is going to happen so you can always revert back to this after you've read the Gano and just see if you understood what happened and also at the end of the Gano it has some other notes as well and they're not at the back of the book and so you won't have to be constantly flipping back and forth like you usually have to do with the penguin classic editions so I just yeah it took me a long while to determine which translation or which Edition was the best one for me I feel like I've been talking about this for so long but it's just really important especially with classic literature it is so important to know which translation you're choosing because if you choose the wrong one then you're going to think that the book is not for you or you're going to think that the book is not good or even worse you're going to think that you just don't understand classic literature but as long as you pick the right translation anybody can read classic literature and anybody can understand it and enjoy it and even recommend it to other people after they finished reading it choose the right translation for you this is the right translation for me like even though I'm still scared to read The Divine Comedy I feel a bit more secure knowing that I have those notes at the beginning of each Canto all of that to say I got the Divine Comedy after spending some days in Italy and seeing so many different things about Dante and like the culture and everything and even visiting Dante's home like I had to read The Divine Comedy okay like I have so much knowledge of Dante aleri now like I need to do something with it so I got the Divine Comedy but that's not all that's not all if you thought if you thought that this was the most intimidating book that I got for this video you are incorrect good sir I would like to say that this was an impulsive decision but it wasn't because I've been thinking about getting this book but the thing is I me like just looking at it I'm like why did I do this but anyways I initially put this book in my 24 books to read before 2024 ends or like 24 books to read in 2024 the more months that passed and the more time that I was just like I don't have a copy I'm still really scared of reading it I have other books that I want to read like I just don't think I have enough time to commit to this book but while I was you know trying to get the Divine Comedy you know I was feeling extra what's that word like when you are very you know what I mean like I was overestimating my abilities as a reader as a woman as a girl and I really thought I could do this but now that I see now that I've seen the size in real life I just don't think I can do it's lame is okay by Victor Hugo I went ahead and got myself a copy of lay Miz by Victor Hugo look at this I don't understand I don't understand they fought hand to hand for every inch of ground using pistols swords fists at a distance At Close Quarters from above from below from everywhere lay is weaves together individual stories with real life historical events to create a rich imaginative drama of human life this has one the way they're in the way that we're in the four-digit territory this has 1,33 Pages why did I do this why did I think this was going to be a good idea I am so scared don't understand how scared I am I need someone to hold my hand like please hold my hand I really don't know what I was thinking when I bought this look are you s I'm going to have to like do some severe spine balancing so that it doesn't get ugly well too ugly cuz obviously it's going to suffer a bit so that was the last book in this box we're actually missing one more book that didn't come in the Box okay so these are all of my new books I genuinely cannot believe that I did this but if you can't tell by the biggest smile on my face I'm really happy that this is real life I'm really happy that this is my life right now we have four Classics we have one manga one graphic novel two three DME novels one non-fiction and one romance should we say which ones I think are going to be a five star Vinland Saga for sure Heart Stopper for sure business casual for sure I'm thinking either two or three of Grand Master is going to be a five star because it does take a while at least for me for Don stories to like fully develop the way that lay M takes up all the space that is insane oh my God okay so we're not going to try that again as I was saying I know that guy up as I was saying these are all of my new books I would love to know if there are any specific reading challenges that you guys would love to see me do with these books of course I have a very special video planned for L is but if you would like to see any of these books in any reading challenges please leave them down below because obviously I'm excited to read all of these and I want to share them with you guys in the most possible fun way that was incredibly exciting probably the best thing that has happened to me in 2024 so these are all my new books say hello to your new home very excited to organize all of these because I don't know how I'm going to be doing that but thank you guys so much for watching I'm kind of sad that we didn't get the last book that I ordered 2 hours later hi it's Bella from the future literally just as I finished recording this I got a message that I had a new package waiting for me and I was like oh my God could that be the book that I'm missing so of course I ran all the way there on my feet that's why I'm out of breath I ran all the way just to get this just so that I could film it so let's open the very last package now this is actually the very last package that we're going to open at least for this video and can you guys guess the very last book that I bought it's one book that nearly every single comment mentioned they were like girl get it girl get it and I was like okay I heard you can you tell what it is I'm so excited okay the book is upside down of course the book the book is the sunshine Court by noris stovic if you don't remember on my book shopping video I was actually like should I get the sunshine court because I loved it so much I read it as an ebook and I have so many annotations and I do own the first three Foxhole cour books but I have like the special should I just show it to you I have the special covers that were made by this specific artist I don't remember her name so I'm going to put it up here so I have these iconic dust jackets literally the only thing stopping me from getting the sunshine court is the fact that it wasn't going to match the rest of my Foxhole Court books but then everybody in the comments which thank you by the way I would have never found out about this if it weren't for you guys everybody told me that the same artist that did these dust jackets also did a dust jacket for the sunshine court so I have the book now I can pass all of my annotations into it which is very exciting and I can also get the custom dust jacket to match all of the other covers this is so good this is so good this is so good mystery book revealed we love it we love her she's studing she's perfect back to past Bella who doesn't know that she's going to be holding this in her hands very soon these are all of my beautiful new books hi welcome home I wouldn't have been able to be this successful at my book buying band and I wouldn't have been able to celebrate like this if it weren't for you guys so once again thank you so much for your support your love your appreciation literally it means the absolute world to me and I love that you let me into your life and you let me be a part of it so forever eternally grateful to you guys I love you very much I also have a patreon where I post exclusive content I host readathons weekly reading Sprints and I also have a monthly book club so if any of that is interesting to you the link is down below as always you can even join as a free member just to get kind of a feel of what's going on over there so if that sounds interesting to you the link is there no strengths attached I would love to have you join my found family if you enjoyed this video please let me know any way you want to with a comment a like or just by telling me that you liked it I love and appreciate every single one of you guys so I hope you're having a fantastic day whenever you're watching this and I will definitely be seeing you next time bye hey Jimmy you nice keep going

I was actually like should I get the sunshine court because I loved it so much I read it as an ebook and I have so many annotations

the way that I read like I literally read book three 3 days ago like three or four days ago and it blew my mind like I'm still thinking of book three