Okay so every season i do a seasonal DNF video. Books that i did not finish that season as well as
a seasonal haul. We're coming to the end of Fall, start of Winter on my side of the hemisphere. So
it's time for those videos. I've combined them this time because i didn't quit on very many books
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you use the link in the description of this video. Okay, the book that i DNF'd or did not finish
first is The Bat. This is my first Scandinavian crime novel that i have tried and i didn't,
i got halfway I think. My situation with murder mysteries is that i often times will be really
interested in the beginning and really interested in the end and the middle usually loses me. I'm
usually ready to move on from questioning people and suspects and uh the detective trying to solve
the mystery. I'm usually done with it before the author is done with it and i'm ready to move on.
Actually tomorrow's video i'm reviewing a murder mystery that i did see through to the end and
i had the same experience and i ended up putting that one down in the middle and reading something
else and then coming back to it, so anyway... that's the same experience i had with this one.
It was an interesting setup, but near the middle i was just ready to move on to other things and i
happened to be reading several books at the time that i was casually enjoying but nothing that i
was loving so i was really trying to power through a couple of them that i was enjoying a little
bit more and then my plan is to come back to this eventually. I still haven't picked it back up.
Maybe someday i will, but this is just kind of my pattern with murder mysteries. I either
quit in the middle or i will put it down for a while, read other things; come back to it. So,
the book didn't really do anything wrong i just lost interest
and we'll probably come back eventually. Maybe. I don't actually know. So that was the book that i
quit on this month. I am going to be reading another scandinavian crime in January because
it's the buddy read of the public server. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo so hopefully
i'll i'll do that one right. Now on to the haul. So these are the books that i bought from October
to at this point in December, mid-December. First book is The Sword of Kaigen. This is a
book that my friend Brittany highly recommended to me. She'll be linked in the description.
She is confident (we have very similar taste in books) and she is confident that i will
like this one, so i bought it. I still haven't read it because it does this thing, especially
at the beginning where it has... i don't know if they're flashback sections, but it's like a,
it's a good chunk of text written in italics which is very difficult on my dyslexia so i'm
going to get the audiobook and i'm going to read it and i hope to read it soon. Actually, my friend
Michael who will also be linked in the description just finished this and he had a big book hangover
for it which then just made me that much more sure that i'm going to really enjoy it. Jamaica Inn and
crete.. what??? Jamaica Inn and Frenchman's Creek are two Du Maurier novels that i bought because
i'm obsessed with this author now. I actually am reading a short story by her in December and then
i'll probably be reading these ones in January and February because i just i need my Du Maurier fix
often. Now that i've gotten into her work, i love her work. So i bought these because these are ones
that a lot of commenters have said; "Read these books by Du Maurier if you're loving her work."
And i am. The Humans, which was recommended by another friend, G. Wow. I'm picking up a lot of
books by friends. Recommended by friends. G will also be linked in the description of this video.
So what i know about this book... actually i've already started it. I'm a whole 20 pages in. Just
started it, but um it is from the perspective of an alien who as i understand it has come to earth
for a reason. I think he's studying humans and well, i guess the title... okay. He's studying
humans and he's writing a report to send back. That's what the first 20 pages have told me
and i think it's going to be a speculative fiction potentially a cross between science fiction and
literary fiction. I'm not positive yet, but it seems very introspective. There have already been
several lines that i've underlined or that i've like taken note of because i plan,
i expect it to all come back to certain things in these first pages. I'm already really enjoying it
so that's cool. You'll know how i felt about it soon. I got the first six volumes of One Piece
because, well first of all people keep recommending this manga to me, but also
one guy has recommended it to me so many times that at one point he changed his youtube name to:
"Merphy! Read One Piece!" Sir, i bought these because of you. And i have read the first volume
so far and i enjoyed it quite a lot actually, and will be continuing on. I know that it's about a
hundred volumes long. It'll take me a while to get through it. I'm gonna balance it out with
other mangas and graphic novels while i read it so it'll take me a long time to get through it,
but hey, i've started. Next book i bought was Legendborn. I picked this up off of the
recommendation of QandTG which their channel will be linked down below as well. I've actually been
obsessed with their content lately so please go check them out and show them some love. They're
two best friends that review books together and their content is fantastic. But anyway,
Legendborn is a YA fantasy and it's about a girl who's recently, i think she's lost her parents
and she's gone off to join this secret society called the Legendborn and they are hunting these
creatures that are attacking their world and the way QandTG described this book,
uh they put a big emphasis on how much grief is explored in this story and if you've hung
out with me for a while you know that that is a theme that i really enjoy exploring in books so
i instantly wanted to pick it, up plus the cover is gorgeous. Not trying to be shallow, but also...
it's a little bit shallow. I wanted this cover. So this is another one that i plan on reading
really really soon. And the final books that i bought in this season, they haven't
actually come in the mail yet, but they are arriving. Some of them are arriving tomorrow,
some of them are arriving a little bit later, but i'll put them on the screen. House In The
Cerulean Sea. This won the January poll for our Patreon, one of our Patreon buddy reads and i'm
gonna read it and uh one of my friends over on the server, she's actually mod on the server,
has been obsessed with this book for a while. So the whole server is pretty excited to read
it together. I also bought The Woman In Black, which is a gothic horror, ghost story. I love
gothic horror so this is just next on my list of gothic stories that i can't wait to explore.
I don't know much about it, but i'm really excited about it. I've had my eye on it for a long time.
And Royal Assassin. I'm finally moving forward with the Farseers trilogy. I read the first book
uh last year and i enjoyed it, but i never continued on even though i had planned to
and then several of my friends have been reading the Farseer and the Elderling? Is that correct?
The whole universe that Robin Hobb has written and they're obsessed with her books, so i figured it's
time for me to move forward. I bought the second book so that i can be reading that soon as well.
So those are all the books that i quit and bought in the last season. Let me know which of these
books you're interested in or you have read and you'd like to hype for me. You'd like for me to
pick up really soon. Check out my Patreon if you want to buddy read some books with me or read some
of my own writing. I post videos every Tuesday through Friday. I'll see you guys again soon.
Bye.