Hi my name is Kat. Welcome back to my channel. Today I am so excited to do a book haul. So I have
seven books to talk about and six of them I traded for. So if you remember a few weeks ago, I posted
a book unhaul where I kicked 10 books off of my shelves. I will leave the link down below if you
want to see which ones I got rid of. But I used those to trade for six of the books in this pile
and then one of the books my husband bought for me. So we'll start with the one that he bought
for me and then I'll do the ones that I traded for. So first up is The Mourning Bird by Mubanga Kalimamukwento.
This is from Zambia. So I realized that I don't have a lot of African literature on
my shelves. It's mostly Nnedi Okorafor and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. So I wanted to
expand and read other countries especially. So I've never read anything from Zambia.
This is following 11-year-old Chimuka and her younger brother, Ali. And they were orphaned in the 1990s.
Their ordinary Zambian family is brimming with secrets from HIV/AIDS to infidelity to suicide.
So, faced with the choice of living with their abusive extended family or slithering into the
dark underbelly of Lusaka streets, they escape and become street kids and it follows them.
And I just thought that this kind of reminds me a little bit of Dog Boy that I read by Eva Hornung
which is five out of five. It's one of my top books of the year. Not that it has anything
to do with dogs, but that it follows street kids and kids who are left without any other options
and how they fend for themselves and make a life basically in the gutter of society.
So I really really want to read this. I'm thinking that I'll read this in December for a readathon
that I'm hosting with eight other amazing hosts. So yeah more on that to come probably
next week. Next up is a magical realism book. This is The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter.
One of the reviews I think for this sums it up the best. It says: "You have to read this book just for
the plot, which involves, and I'm not making this up, all of the following: Post-apocalyptic America,
forced sex-changed Evelyn to Eve, a tribe of Amazonian superwomen, a goddess with
six breasts, a cult of an androcentric self-created demigod, a love story between a male to female and
a female to male, LA in flames, and a boat." So all of that is in this slim little novel with
this cover. So I take it that that's LA burning in the background, and then these two women,
one clothed one not, and they both have mustaches. So I'm really intrigued. And next I have four
thrillers and this was from a specific street library where we actually got to meet the owner
of the library because she also keeps extra books in her foyer like in front of her house.
And she is a huge mystery thriller reader so almost all of the books in her
foyer? fourier? were mystery thriller. Just like bookshelves and bookshelves of them. And she said
I could take as many as I wanted. This is Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner, who's an American writer.
Says 13-year-old Sharla knows the first time her brother killed he did it to save their
lives. Now FBI profiler and his wife have offered Sharla a new life of safety, but he's back.
I hope that is the mailman, oh my gosh be right back! So, very sadly, it was not the mailman. It was
the gas meter checker person. Okay anyway... All she knows is that her brother is back because
two people are murdered in their local convenience store and her brother is identified as the killer.
So people are out on the hunt for Sharla so that they can find her brother. Sounds interesting.
The next one is from Sweden. This is The Black Path by Asa Larsson. And the reason that this
got my attention is because it stars two female detectives. So it says the body of a woman is
found in a fishing hut on a frozen lake in far northern Sweden. She has been tortured but the
killing blow is clumsy, almost amateur. The body is quickly identified. But when a six-month-old
suicide is disinterred, Rebecca Martinson and Anna Marie Mella find themselves investigating
corruption at the heart of Sweden's biggest mining companies, one with powerful enemies of its own.
So I think it sounds really interesting. I really like Scandi mystery thrillers so very excited about that.
Next up is The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons (who I have since learned is problematic). I don't know where he's from. He oddly enough doesn't
have an author profile in the book. But it says: A killer roams London streets. He cuts the throats of
London's rich and powerful and he's good at it. No one knows who he is or how to stop him until now.
Yeah so I think that this is probably... sounds like grizzly Robin Hood where we're following a
male detective and it's probably yeah it's London so the author might be from the UK. And the last
mystery thriller I have is A Place of Execution by Val McDermid who is a Scottish writer.
And this says in the peak district village of Scardale, 13-year-old girls don't run away. They are murdered.
So when Alison went missing, everyone knew she was killed. Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well,
a child herself when Alison vanished. She remembers the fear parents had to keep their children close.
Now she's a journalist and she persuades DI George Bennett to speak of the hunt
for Alison and tantalizing leads in and harrowing dead ends. But when a fresh lead emerges,
Bennett tries to stop the story, plunging Catherine into a world of secrets and revelations. So I think
this just sounds really excellent. I really like anything that's set in Scotland or Ireland. For some
reason, it just has really gothic feel to me. And this is so thick, this is a chunky boy. This is
600 pages, oh my god. But it sounded really good. All of these thrillers have good ratings.
Like I always check them because if I'm gonna read a thriller I want it to be good. And then
the last book that I traded for is this one, Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro.
First off, like the cover drew my attention. Like it's very very striking. I wasn't sure
if I wanted to trade for this or not, but I figured I would give it a go. It's basically
the development of feminism in people who are I think 50 years old or older. It's how
as laws and times changed throughout that specific age demographic's lifespan, they were feminists
before kind of feminist movements and modern day feminism. Yeah so I'm intrigued. I'll probably save
this for Women's History Month next year because it's not often that you read feminist things from
older women. So that finishes up my book haul. I am just loving my street libraries. I love them so so
much and guess what guys? Guess what? Melbourne opens up tomorrow, Wednesday, which is today when
you're watching. I'm so excited. I'm gonna go to the library tomorrow because I have some books
on hold for IndigAThon and for my November TBR pile. And I just cannot freaking wait. And I will
also leave that unhaul video down below if you want to see me be really salty about some books.
I hope that you are having an absolutely most fabulous day and I will talk to you later. Bye~