hey guys it's abi from autumn of pellinor and this is the next video
in my tbr tour series today i'm going to be showing you guys all of the
secondhand books that i've bought there's a lot and i tried to organise
them and it kind of failed so this is going to be good
my biggest section is ya fantasy and then i've got
just kind of a random amalgamation of adult books
some historical fiction and some classics the classics are the smallest
ones wait that goes in there i don't fucking know
wish me luck i have a lot of secondhand books because i
when i lived in preston which is a city in the northwest of england
they have some really great second-hand bookshops with really good prices and a
lot of good books in i don't know why their selection is so good it's a lot
better than i've got here in newcastle and it's a lot better than i had in
portsmouth so preston was the best one for
second-hand books and there was one shop where it was like 20
pence per book and then a lot of them were a pound per book and things like
that i like going for these sorts of books
rather than buying new because i am tight and broke
i am unemployed and at the time of buying a lot of these i was a student i
actually had a job then but you know so it was just a lot easier
to go for these books a lot of them i probably would not buy
now but i don't want to like not to the
point where i would unhaul them so it means that now i have to read them
but yes so especially when i was at uni i've got
back into reading again and i was picking up just everything i'd
heard of which isn't the best way to go about it
but it's the way i went about it so i'm going to start with ya fantasy
i, i just piled them up okay they're not in order
leave me the fuck alone the life of never letting go by patrick ness
uglies by scott westerfield sabriel by garth nix
heir of fire by sarah j maas gone and hunger by michael grant
delirium by lauren oliver daughter of smoke and burn by laini taylor rebel
heart and raging star by moira young caraval by
stephanie garber a torch against the night by sabaa tahir shadow and bone
by leigh bardugo the dark artifices series so lady
midnight lord of shadows and queen of air and darkness
i'm tired already
the raven boys by maggie stiefvater queen of the tearling by erika johansson i
showed this one in my discounted books tour because
i got the first one from the works but i got this one second hand and that is
renegade by kerry wilkinson the last unless i fucked up ya
fantasy book is mind games by terry terry
let's go with the classics next because it isn't too big of a pile a
little flip back books i hate saying that
of persuasion by jane austen the ascent of everest by john hunt
and it's got writing in the front which i think is awesome
uh this was gifted christmas 1954. it's got colour photos in which for some
reason i did not expect she says flipping to black and white
photos there was a colour photo look that's colour
shut up kidnapped by robert louis stevenson
i have all of the other books in this sort of cover
for the girls classics like kids classics for girls and then this is
obviously from the kids classes kids, fucking hell, from the kids classics
for boys selection and i only saw this one
otherwise i would have picked them all up kind of mad
that my mum only got me the girls ones but that's jacquie for you the five
orange pips and other cases by arthur conan doyle the man who missed the war
by dennis wheatley sketches by boz and hard times by charles dickens in a very
old bind up and then lastly is a revision course in geography
if you don't know my bsc's in geography my msc's in geohazards i had to pick
this up i really like it i've read a little bit
of it so far and it's really interesting to see
how it's changed and how it hasn't changed in terms of the teaching of
geography so no one gives a shit but i do
historical fiction this is i don't actually know what the
series is called i'm going to assume it's
the labyrinth series so it's by kate mosse
and it's got labyrinth sepulcher and citadel these were
all over preston and i think they were probably read in school
because they there was so so many of them in charity shops i've got a feeling
it was read in school and the kids would read it and then donate it i'm such a
good book reviewer oh it's a skill
it's honestly a skill moving on to the adult historical fiction we've got all
the light we cannot see by anthony doerr not even gonna lie
the essex serpent by sarah perry i picked up because it's pretty then we
have moriarty by anthony horowitz the century trilogy by ken follett
in hardback just so anyone who actually knows knows why this is taking me
a bit of time oh great no they need to be the other side oh that's
skill though so we've got that really hurts so we've
got fall of giants winter of the world and edge of eternity
the only reason i picked this up is because this book
fall of giants was 20 pence and then oh it gets better then i picked this one
up from a shop called barter books for seven
pound and 60 pence so the third one edge of eternity
cost me two pounds from the british red cross and i was like well i've already
bought the other two so i may as fucking well and now i own
the entire probably like 6 000 page series
and i haven't read any of it
moving on just just just moving on first one is a thousand splendid sons
by khalid hassini this is the guy who wrote the kite runner i've not read that
this was in that 20 pence shop shut up um and then this is the controversial
one which is the help by katherine stockett i might be getting
rid of this but i'm gonna just keep it in here for
now because i own it as i'm filming this is i think everyone knows a story
about a white woman called skeeter or something
i've seen the film miss skeeter who ends up
writing about the black slaves black servants i'm not entirely sure
their experience in the south and then ends up making loads of money
off of them and moves away and leaves them all behind to deal with
the consequences it's meant to be like oh look she writes
about racism and then like everything's better and
like white savior
i got this when i didn't know about that aspect of it and i'd watched
the film and felt like i should read the book
god even knows i think this is the one non-fiction book which is scars across
humanity by elaine storkey this um is about violence against women it's
a non-fiction as i said about violence against women
it is a christian book i believe which is normally not my sort of thing i
am not religious but i'm interested in learning about
violence against women as a woman so
and then i think this is the only contemporary adult that i have
which is eleanor elephant is completely fine by gail honeyman
caitlyn from mad cheshire rabbit has been trying to make me read this i will
get to it eventually it doesn't really seem
like my sort of thing if i'm being honest i don't really read
contemporary then we will go with for a little category
uh these are gonna be in the wrong order is a little bit of adult humour
so we've got the big over easy by jasper fford he wrote
the thursday next series the eyre affair and all of that loved that so when i
spotted this in a charity shop i knew that i wanted to give it a go
it's set in the same sort of world which should be interesting as well and then
sticking with adult comedy the last two is pyramids and guards guards by terry
pratchett these are the only two of the discworld books that i own that i
haven't read yet i think it's one of them's book eight um
i will eventually get them all this is the only series i think i will
ever collect in mass market paperback form and
there's 40 odd books although i'm saying that i might not um
if me and my partner move in together he has all of them and
most of them are signed because he grew up reading pratchett and
loves them all so i may end up getting rid of these
because then we will have them as a collection and i don't need my own we
don't need it doubled up but for now those are the only two that i
haven't read that i have then we have the two categories left are
adult fantasy and adult thriller so i'll go with adult
thriller first i don't know if this counts as a thriller
uh but kind of big little lies by liane moriarty dark places by gillian flynn
bizarre of bad dreams by stephen king and gone girl by gillian flynn and then
lastly is the adult fantasy so this is a genre that i am getting a
lot more into now uh but clearly i am still quite heavily
steeped in the ya fantasy as you saw from the beginning of this
video but so the few adult fantasies i have
i think they're all adult i don't know tell me if i'm wrong as if anyone's
watched this far into the fucking video so we've got rivers of london by ben
aaronovich i've heard both amazing things about
this series and seen it a lot in book shops
but i've also heard really bad things about ben
aaronovich arunovich i don't know um so but it was like a quid
and now i have it american gods by neil gaiman
inspired by the show yes that's why i picked it up my partner
actually i bought him a copy secondhand at some point and he's read it and he
really enjoyed it i need to get on that so we can watch
the show the lie tree by francis hardinger
touch by claire north one of my favorite authors the seven deaths of evelyn
hardcastle thought I was saying it wrong then
by stuart turton i've heard so many good things about this and this has so many
tropes that i love like give me all the time
swiping give me all of the mystery i need to read it and those are all the
books uh um um
let's just show you the mess oh boy so those are all of the tbr books that i
bought second hand this is the third installment in the tbr
tour series if i've published them in the right order
so i'll link the other two up in the corner as well if you've made it this
far through the next one that i have to do
is books that i've been gifted which is a lot because i have lovely
family and friends and my boyfriend so but this is
definitely the biggest category it's a problem but
then i also do the same thing with the gifted books a lot of them are just
um both my aunt and my dad will read a book and then
just donate it to charity get rid of it and i will swoop in
and take those books and then they pile up
it's not good but yeah thank you so much for watching guys if you want to see
some more from me uh when i finally read all these fucking
books hit subscribe and i'll see you in the next video thank
you so much for watching bye i've got to put all these books back on
the shelves preferably before mutti dearest
gets home so uh yeah love that for me
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