Birthday Book Haul | Part 1 | May 2020

Books mentioned:

Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Happy Vegan by Fearne Cotton
After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Out of Egypt by André Aciman
From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
March Book One by Andrew Aydin, John Lewis and Nate Powell
Heartstopper Volume 3 by Alice Oseman

If you fancy it you can -

[readingwithlaurane]

YOU SHAVED! Badass!

And Happy Birthday!

[fgcalzada]

Happy birthday! I love the hair! I might follow up the example.

[imani]

You will love Patsy. Your videos are always my go to for recs.

[AnItalianKnitter]

Happy belated birthday! I loved “Where the Crawdads sing”, lots of beautiful nature writing indeed!

[monicahira]

Happy birthday Mercedes! Love your videos and the not as well known books that you mention. I still have The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King and must get to it soon. The hair is cool too! Wish I could rock a shaved head xx

[lindseysbooklife]

That MARCH trilogy is excellent. So well done!

[judybrown]

Happy Birthday! I celebrated 70 (yikes!) On May 2nd. I have birthday money so placing an order for After the Fire (I too just read and loved The Bass Rock), Exciting Times, Coming Up For Air, and Here Comes the Sun. Love the hair. Your head is perfect for it.

[kristiekline]

"From the Ashes!" So happy to see Canadian books in the UK. It is an incredible book. Very moving. It gives insight to absolute rock bottom living, but it also has hope throughout. I hope you enjoy!

[shadowmoontarot]

Glad you had a nice birthday! :) I love book birthday gifts! (or...all year round gifts! :P)
Happy reading! xx

[SadieReadsAgain]

Happy birthday!! And that hair 😍😍 Wish I could carry that look off!

[sandyokey]

Lovely birthday haul. Happy belated birthday, and love your new look!

[A_lilBitRatchet]

OMG, your hair!?!? I absolutely love it!😍 I’m African American, Black, whatever and keep mine short and natural. The short cut looks lovely on you🤗

[lindacarson]

Birthdays are great for getting a big pile of books. These all look great. I really enjoyed Where the Crawdads Sing - found it to be a good lockdown book - well paced, compellingly written & absorbing.

[SavidgeReads]

Mercedes!!!! I love the hair!!!! I’m tempted to shave mine now. Your birthday parcel is here. Not able to get to the post office yet but SOON! I really want to read Exciting Times, it’s on my shelves.

[freddylowe]

Same birthday as my mum! Happy Birthday to you too. Glad you had a fab day despite lockdown 😊😊

“I tried to not start it before I’d hauled it...but I couldn’t. Does it matter? No.”
Thanks for making me laugh 😂😂😂

Thank you for the great video (as always!). 😊

[kellygrant]

Wow, love your hair! You look awesome. Great list of books. Happy belated birthday!

[christinacampbellbooks]

I've heard so many good things about Where the Crawdads Sing and it sound right up my street!

[ReadingWithKT]

Happy Birthday! I love your haircut! Some really intriguing-sounding books... especially the memoirs! In the fiction lot, I've read Where the Crawdads Sing and I flew through it... absolutely loved it. Passed it on to my Mum who had the same reaction. The writing is very beautiful and the story was intense and absorbing... though it did take me a little bit to get into it. Hope you like it!

[myreadinglife]

Happy Birthday! Good on you for trying the shaved hair style! It looks great! I’m a big fan of the March series.

[JessicaReadsThings]

Coming Up For Air sounds amazing. And we have a couple of copies at the library! Heading back there tomorrow, so yay? In some ways? Crawdads was massive over here because it was a Reese's Book Club pick which has become a real thing and generally, I think she picks really great books. At least based on the ones chosen that I've read.