Hey everyone, it's Saph and today, I'm gonna be doing a book haul.
So I haven't done a book video in quite a long time and as you probably know I love reading
I'm completely obsessed with books so doing a video like this just makes me very very happy
This is a collection of books that I have been given over christmas and that I've bought myself
with gift cards and things like that over the kind of christmas period and there is quite a few, so
I am so excited to read these 'cause I've heard so many good things about them if there's light
variation it's 'cause I'm sat next to a massive window and the clouds are deciding to just be
not very.. They're not they're not really, um, responding very well to me filming a video today
I got these for christmas and when I said on my story that I was never gonna take them off
I fully wasn't joking. They're so comfy like I fully haven't stopped wearing them. They're so
comfy. But my trousers are, like, my jeans are too long so I keep having to like tuck
my jeans into my uggs because, I don't want to get like dirt on the bottoms of my jeans
Let's jump straight into it and let's do this book haul of 2022.
Okay to start off I have "Midnight In Everwood". So this was actually given
to me by my best friend, uh, Brooke. She sent it to me for christmas and
I'm currently reading it and I'm like just over halfway through.
When I say I'm obsessed I fully mean i'm obsessed it is absolutely amazing. I think the first like
few chapters I was like 'okay when is this gonna, like, change? When are we gonna, like,
find where the character development is going? Where are we gonna note what she wants in life?
And what the character is kind of trying to deal with? When are we gonna like click,
oh, this is happening?' and it did happen just when I was kind of getting to the point of like
'where is this going?' it happened and it happened all so quickly and I was, like, *gasp* so,
I completely fell in love with it. It completely sent me into, like, the zone and if you like are
an avid reader you'll know exactly what I mean by the zone, like, you get, like, lost in it.
So I definitely got lost in it, it's basically an adaptation on the nutcracker story which we
all are very familiar with, um, and it's basically a brand new take on it and I absolutely adore the
take it is so good and they say the word sapphire a lot so it's been really weird to like read my
name in a book, um, because half of the stuff that's in the venue that we're in for most of the
story a lot of the stuff is a sapphire colour. I don't really want to get give very much away
because all I knew when I started it was that it was an adaptation on the nutcracker and that my
friend was like 'I read this in like, so quickly and then had to get you a copy' so I was, like,
AH, so it is so good I'm absolutely obsessed and the version that I got is actually
signed. So yeah I'm really excited to continue reading this. It is fantastic I definitely
recommend it I mean I haven't read the rest of it but I'm, I'm really enjoying it so far so.
Next up we have the "Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo". I've heard so many good things about
this book, I know it's been around for a while but I feel like I kind of have missed
the little trend train for this book. I know so many people say it is really emotional so
I'm ready with the tissues for this one. But it's kind of like, a hollywood-esque retro
vintage feel I think? Bearing in mind I haven't read it yet obviously and I'm just going off what
the back says and what I've heard on reviews. By the looks of it because I'm like one of
those people that likes to like flip through it and I feel like that probably spoils the fun,
but there's some interesting things that look like tear outs from newspapers which I
love the kind of concept of that. They look like newspaper tear outs or like articles and things,
so I'm kind of excited to see what this is about. But I've heard so many good things a lot
of youtubers that I watch have spoken about this book, a lot of instagramers have spoken about it
saying that they've cried and like read it within a day and things like that so I'm very excited to
read this. I think I'll be reading this next. If you have read by the way any of these books please
let me know in the comments what your thoughts were and like, how much you enjoyed them whether
you'd recommend them to other people because obviously I can't say, like, my reviews 'cause I
haven't read them yet, this is purely a haul, so, let me know in the comments, like, which ones of
these books you've read and how much you enjoyed them. So yeah I really am excited to read this.
The next one is "Cerce". I fully have had to look up how to say it 'cause I've been
I have now found out I've been saying it wrong I've been saying like, calling it 'Circe (ser-k)'
for a very long time and I'm-I'm-I cannot believe no one's told me I've been saying it wrong. I've
spoken to so many, like, book readers about this book and no one's corrected me. So this is "Cerce"
the book that everyone raved about before this was "The Song of Achilles" and I still haven't
read that one either. I'm kind of very la- I seem to be really late to trends 'cause I
end up reading books again, like the Harry Potter series and stuff I've like read again and like
classic vintage books so I'm never kind of, I'm not always on it with these trends of books and
I'm never normally on the kind of new bestseller stuff because I like to read the older stuff and
also sometimes I go through patches where I don't have enough time to read so I kind of
fall into like a book slump for like a month or so and once the month is over I've already missed
like four book trends so, this is "Cerce". I have like literally no idea what it's about like I
fully don't know. The only thing I know is that it seems like kind of greek mythology if I'm right? A
lot of people have told me to read this book. So I am going into it kind of blindly because
I don't know much about it but from everything everyone's said it feels like it's going to be
a book that I'm going to really enjoy, we will see how it goes. Also it is, uh, shortlisted for the
Women's Prize Of Fiction 2019, so, that's pretty cool, um, but I'm very excited to read this.
Next up is "The Secret History". I've had this in my saved for later list on amazon for longer than
I can remember, like, I fully have had this in my saved for later for ages and I have finally bought
it, it is so beautiful, I am absolutely terrified of damaging it, like the way the book is, is just
so pretty it feels so smooth and lovely and I just, oh it's gorgeous. It was published in the
early 90s so it's kind of like a modern classic so I'm-I'm really looking forward to giving this
a go. I mean, a lot of the stuff is very like, it's very like it's got like, a lot of different
vibes within it. But yeah, as this says here 'haunting, compelling and brilliant' that just
feels like a vibe to me. But as I said it's just such a beautiful book and the pages are so light.
Next up, we have the "Eight Detectives". It doesn't actually say 'the'. Next up we have
"Eight Detectives". Look at how cool this book is. Oh I don't want to bend it, like, so cool. So I
was on FaceTime to Brooke who got me "Midnight In Everwood". We were talking about different books
that we were reading and she was saying 'I just finished "Eight Detectives" and you have to read
it, it's really good, good crime fiction'. I'm not normally a crime fiction reader I do it sometimes
but I sometimes find it way too intense because I can't put the book down and suddenly it's
finished, and I hate when like a book is finished so quickly. A book that I read that was similar
to that kind of feel was "People Like Her", um, I read it within, like, a day because I was so
obsessed and it was one of those like proper crime fiction where like, every chapter was *inaudible*.
Gives me chills just thinking about it because of how intense that book was, but. I-I hated how it
finished so quickly because I couldn't put it down I don't normally read crime. This! Like,
it looks so good. It's based in the 1930s, so, I seem to go with like books that are based
in different eras to now because why not. Yeah, I'm very excited about this.
Next is "You And Me On Vacation". I originally knew this book as "People We Meet On Vacation".
A lot of people are talking about it at the moment, lots of people reading it
and reading it very quickly, so, I had to jump on this train before I missed it 'cause as we know
I miss all of the trend trains for these books so, I've jumped straight on this train.
It looks so good, it looks SO good. Two best friends, ten summer trips, and their last chance
to fall in love. From what I know it seems that like, they've been on all these trips and stuff
and like, it's all gone wrong and then they have to try and fix it. So it does seem really good,
I love a good romance book so, I read a lot of romance and I really enjoy romance. This
looks like a kind of Saph read but it also sounds like really intriguing like,
I'm fully so intrigued by this. I'm also intrigued as to why it's a different name.
Next is "The Seven Sisters" This was given to me by my mum. I adore Lucinda Riley's writing. My
favourite book, literally ever is a book called "The Italian Girl" which is by Lucinda Riley.
Absolutely adored it, obsessed, it was amazing. And I can't wait to just delve into this.
Next we have "The 5 AM Club". I am one of those people, I get up at 6 every day, I go to the gym
really early and I'm up and out, like, I don't like laying in very much, I don't. Even when
I've got a day off and, um, I don't have to get up early for the gym like, on a weekend, I still
like get out before 8, so, I'm always very up and about. Hearing about this book was, like, really
interesting. I don't think I'll be joining the 5am club anytime soon I feel like 5am is a little bit
early for me. But, turn this into the 6am club and I am there. My mum got me this again for christmas
'cause I said about it. She was asking me what I'd like for christmas and I-I did say about
this book. This is the kind of book that is going to really motivate me for the rest of the year.
Last but not least we have "Magpie". So I read about this in a magazine, I was reading the
Cosmopolitan. I read about it. It was like a book list, books that you need to read
that will be really good and that you'll enjoy. So, this was one that caught my eye I was like,
'this looks really interesting'. It's a crime fiction. Also, I thought I ordered a
paperback but ended up getting a hardback which looks so nice and is really pretty and like,
even the front has like, the feathers of the-the magpie feather has like, iridescent bits in it,
it's like really pretty. It looks really good, I haven't heard anybody else talk about it so much.
I think I may have heard one youtuber talk about it and say that they loved it.
So there we go, that is my book haul for 2022. I will let you know how I find them and if I've
enjoyed them over on my Instagram, so make sure you go and follow my Instagram because I'll put
like, little mini reviews about all of these books on there onto my Instagram stories so
make sure you're following there to find out how I found them. Also let me know in the comments
if you've already read any of these. Please no spoilers 'cause we don't want to spoil
the books for anyone and obviously I haven't read them yet so please no spoilers! PLEAAASE!
So yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this video, and my book haul. I'll see you guys very soon. Bye!
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