🐛Book Shopping + Haul!📚

Nothing quite helps my mental health like adding to my already profuse book collection. While I have a lot on my old Nook, I much prefer physical books that I can hold in my hands, that I can smell, that I can feel.

Today Danny and I went on another excursion to Barnes and Noble. I wanted to pick up the next two books in a series I started, and I wanted to try a book I heard about from my favorite book-based YouTuber Christy Anne Jones.

Barnes and Noble is my favorite place in the world. There's nothing quite like the strong undercurrent of coffee smell from the Starbucks at the back of the store intermingled with the musk of unopened books waiting for someone to take them home.

Obviously we like perusing the fantasy section the most, but lately I've been lingering around the YA Fantasy section. There's a lot of winners lately in YA Fantasy and if I can get past the regurgitation of female main characters and the writing styles repeated ad nauseum, there are a lot of storylines that I'm finding very engaging and worth the effort of slogging through the repetitions of style and characters.

Here is what I ended up getting:

This is the book Christy Anne Jones talked about on her YouTube channel.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez is a story about several generations of a family living in an isolated, magical village. Actually, I heard that One Hundred Years of Solitude is what the film Encanto is based on!

These two are the following books in a series I started not that long ago that starts with a book called A Curse So Dark and Lonely. In essence, the story is about a girl who gets taken to another world and finds herself in a Beauty and the Beast situation. Like Alice in Wonderland, you guys know I'm a sucker for anything Beauty and the Beast related. I'm gonna do a review on all three of these books later, so stay tuned for that!

That was our trip to Barnes and Noble and what I got! Are you reading anything interesting? Let me know!

Until next time! 💜