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Young Queens Collection: The Curious Crown by Megan Hess Book Review

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Every year, I hear about all the Christmas themed books that people need to read. I personally don’t like to read Christmas themed novels near Christmas, but I love to read Christmas themed children’s book! I think it is a nostalgic thing, but as an adult and a fan of illustrations, I always love to look at the illustrations.

One of my favorite illustrators that are still publishing new books is Megan Hess. This year, she published another Christmas themed children’s book, bringing her total number of Christmas themed books to three. I already published a review post about the first book (You can read it here) but not for the second book. Since it is Blogmas, I decided to write a review post about Megan Hess’ second Christmas themed book, Young Queens Collection: The Curious Crown.

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Lucy Score’s Kockemout Series Collector’s Edition Book Feature

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For as long as I can remember, I enjoyed collecting books. Sometimes I collected books because I loved reading the books and enjoyed owning them with different covers. Other times I collected books due to their rarity. Still, I enjoyed collecting books. Seeing them on bookshelves makes me happy. Getting the chance to read them makes me even more happy!

For a few years, book publishers have released very popular books in limited edition covers. Usually these books are popular on #BookTok. In my case, I liked looking at these collectable books, but I don’t necessarily like reading them. In these cases, I don’t normally buy these books, even though they are “collectable”.

Recently, I discovered the Collector’s Edition of Lucy Score’s Knockemout series at my local Walmart. I saw them online prior to this and I thought they looked really nice. Yet, I didn’t actually like reading the series. So, I passed on them. When I saw the books in person at Walmart, I was shocked by how pretty the looked! After walking away from the books and continuing with my shopping, I finally broke down and decided to go back to the book section to pick up all the copies in the series.

Even though I am not a fan of the series, I absolutely love the way the books look like! Since I was on the fence about how the books looked online than in person, I decided to write a post all about the Collector’s Edition series. This post is not about what I feel about the books after reading them. Just what the Collector’s Edition looks like and my opinions about them.

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Sarah J. Maas Book Haul

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Over the past few months, I’ve been slowly buying Sarah J. Maas books. I’m not sure if I will like them, especially since they are known for their spicy romance scenes. Since I don’t like to read a lot of books with spicy romance scenes (I’m an action/adventure fan) I held back purchasing the books for years. This year, I decided to buy all the books that interested me. Many of them were on sale, so it was a perfect opportunity to buy the books I was curious about. My intention for doing this is to read them whenever I feel like it. If I don’t like them, then I didn’t spend so much money on them like I would’ve if I purchased them at full price.

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Amazon Book Haul- June 2024

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In June, I decided to shop on Amazon for more books to read. I purchased many books during the month of June. I couldn’t go on vacation this summer or go to the movies. So, it was either buy books and read them or watch boring TV for entertainment. I decided to buy books.

Out of the books I purchased, three of them are books I felt comfortable to talk about in a haul post. I picked these three books because I either talked about them in previous posts or already read them and feel comfortable to talk about them online.

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Amazon Book Haul- May 2024

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In May, I decided to place an order on Amazon for books. All the books I purchased are from series I started previously collecting. My idea for this haul was to not only own more books to the series I started, but to find books I associate with summer time reading.

Summer didn’t end up panning out the way I planned, so even though I read plenty of books, these books were not them. Still, I’m happy I own them and have them in my library!

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Amazon Book Haul- April 2024

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In April, I began to purchase books I wanted to own, but never got around to purchasing. I always have a list of books I want to own but don’t need or want to own right away. Also, most of the books on this list are books I read, but don’t own a copy of. All the books I began to search for in April are from this list. I was able to find many of the books I wanted to own on Amazon, so I placed an order to purchase the books.

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January 2024 Grocery Store Book Haul

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In January, I went on a shopping trip to a grocery store. This grocery store was not Walmart, which is where I like to purchase many groceries at. Instead, it is a smaller chain of grocery stores, but are more locally sourced and contain more foods without my food allergies.

During my shopping trip, I found a bin full of books for reduced prices. Since this grocery store is different than Walmart or Dollar Tree, I decided to have a look through the books available for purchase. Much to my surprise, I found five books I liked and wanted to buy! (Normally I don’t find any books to purchase!) After months of sitting on the photographs I took of my haul, I decided it was time to write a post about them!

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January 2024 Book Haul- Part 3

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Well, it’s time for the January 2024 final book haul post!

In this post, I purchased all the books from either Amazon.com, Walmart, or Dollar Tree. I really am happy I now own all these books, especially the Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream & Desert Book! I am interested in making ice cream from scratch, so to now own their recipe book has been the major highlight of my book shopping for the month of January.

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January 2024 Book Haul- Part 2

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In January, I went shopping for a lot of books. I am still surprised I found so many books to purchase! Since January, I was in a book shopping slump, so seeing this many books together in a book haul form still amazes me.

In retrospect of all the books in this haul, I can say I am happy I own some of them. As for others, I still feel conflicted to own and read. This is due to the fact I’m tired of books that are inspired by the same person, place, or thing. Even though I have opinions about one book in this haul, I will try to keep my current opinions about it out of this post and focus on explaining why I purchased the book in the first place.

All the books I purchased in this haul are from either Amazon.com or Walmart.

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January 2024 Book Haul- Part 1

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For the past few months, I’ve been very busy. Sadly, there are many blog posts that need to be written or finished that still have yet to be. For this reason, I decided to dedicate a post every week for as long as it will take to publish these unfinished posts!

One of these posts are about a series of book hauls. I really liked the books I purchased, but I felt embarrassed by the amount of books I purchased in one month’s time. This was also around the time I started to dedicate more time and energy to decluttering my things, including books. Because of this, I wanted to hold off writing book hauls posts just in case I decided to get rid of any of the books in this haul. For this haul, which is one of four haul posts I will be publishing this month, I decided to keep all the books in this haul. Even though they are new and some I don’t really enjoy as much as I thought I would, I still want to keep them for a little while longer in the event I change my mind about them.

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