The Nation of Immigrants here on Think Tech. I'm Jay Fiedel at 10 o'clock on a given Monday. And we're talking about David Maeda who is running for director of elections in the state of Minnesota. And he's here joining us. We're gonna talk to him. But Chang, you're my co-conspirator on this. I wonder if you could really give a proper introduction to David. I will try. Good morning, Jay. Good morning, David. It is a privilege to be with Jay and hosting David Maeda. David Maeda is a director of elections in the state of Minnesota and a former chair of council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. Mr. Maeda is a second generation Japanese-American. David Maeda graduated from Maclaster College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1987. In addition to serving as Minnesota city clerk, Mr. Maeda served as a chair of Minnesota council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, a charter commissioner of the city of St. Paul and a former chair of legal Minnesota city's election task force. Mr. Maeda previously also worked as a Hanaman County election supervisor. I worked with David for the past two years on the council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans and under his leadership and the council took a lot of initiative. I'm really grateful for his leadership and guidance. It's our great honor and privilege to have you here, David. Thank you. Welcome to the show, David Maeda. It's great to have you here. Did I mistake that you are already director of elections in the state of Minnesota? Is there an election coming up by which you would be continued in that spot? Hi, Jay, thanks for the invite to this. I'm honored to be a guest on the show, but to answer your question, it's an appointed position. I report to the secretary of state who is Steve Simon in Minnesota and he's actually on the ballot in November. All right, got it. And so I have a recollection that Minnesota is one of those states where you have a Republican legislature that does the kinds of things that the GOP does in various states, which is not necessarily constructive. And that makes the secretary of state at risk, doesn't it? Well, we actually have a variant. I think we are the only state in the country that has a split legislature. So the Republicans control the Senate and then the Democrats control the House and then we have a Democrat governor. And it makes, it's particularly for elections, law changes, it makes it very hard to get anything through because of that divide. We have to have, we have an unwritten rule in our state that there has to be bipartisan support for any election related changes and reaching that has been a challenge to name it. If the secretary of state doesn't win in this upcoming election, then you lose your job? Not necessarily, no. I could be continual under the new secretary, but hopefully we won't get to that point. We won't, hopefully we won't, yeah. So, yeah, so why do you do this, David? I mean, this is, it's an interesting position to occupy in these times. Well, it's something I actually kind of accidentally fell into when I graduated from college, I got a job with the state of Minnesota and I happened to get a job in the secretary of state's office in the corporations division. I immediately gravitated towards elections because it seemed like the most interesting part of the office and then I started a career and I've worked with as Chang mentioned in my introduction, I was a Hennepin County's election supervisor. My last job was with the city of Minnetonka, which is a suburb of Minneapolis and I was a city clerk and I ran elections for the city. So elections, I strangely stumbled upon into it, but it's been my entire career. And I think to your question, the past couple of years have been extremely difficult to be an election administrator just because of all the misinformation and disinformation that are causing people to really question the integrity of our system. That's really my focus this year is to make sure we get good transparent information out about voting in Minnesota. You know, there's been news reports in various states around the country of threats made to election officials. Have you received any? I personally have not. We are tracking that in the state. There have been some of our county election officials that were somebody I think has crossed the line. We are in touch with both the Department of Justice and FBI on this issue. They actually stood up a task force where we can report any threats that are made against us. Recently a county official did report something that I thought crossed the line in Minnesota, but yes, it makes it very difficult to try to operate in this environment. The possibility, does it in any way limit your passion for the subject? It's a very good question. I don't think it necessarily limits my passion for the subject, but I will name that. I never saw this coming. I always thought people would trust us as election officials that we knew what we were doing and doing our job correctly. So it doesn't necessarily decrease my passion for this career I've led, but it does really, I guess, depress me that we are in the state we are in. May I just jump in? I just want to jump in and thank David personally and thank all the Secretary of State in the United States. And I was teaching a constitutional courses last semester and when we analyzed the state of the union and together with the students and we finally reached the conclusion that the United States democracy was not saved by the check and the balances, was not saved by separation of powers, was not saved by all the mechanism that founding father put in place to protect the Republic. Instead, the democracy was indeed saved by civil servants like David, saved by the Secretary of State, saved by the professionals who diligently counted and accurately counted the votes and reported to the votes. And it was not pressured by any new influence. So I have with this utmost respect to our civil servants and a particular Secretary of State and election officials. So here I just want to shout out to David and his office, Secretary Steven Simon and all the Secretary of State in the United States. I want to add to that if you don't mind. I think the distinguishing point about democracy is the peaceful transition of power from one administration to the next and the next of course is determined by voting. If you don't have voting, you don't have a democracy. If you don't have representative government, you don't have a democracy. And if you don't have a peaceful transition of power, you don't have a democracy. As a matter of fact, Think Tech is doing what we call the Super Show on April 1st and we're examining how this works in seven continents around the globe. We'll talk to people in many, many places and ask about their brand of democracy or their other brand, which is not democracy. But that seems to be a fundamental point. So I would like to ask you about your interest in voting and what you think it means to the country, to the democracy as we used to understand it. That's a very good question. I think, I mean, I often hear when helping a voter, a voter will say to me, well, I've done my part, which is true. I think voting is a crucial part of democracy as both you and Jayne just said, but to me it doesn't stop with voting. It's to continue to hold your elected officials accountable, make sure that they're doing what they said they would do to get you to vote for them. And so I think it's the beginning of the process but it's not the end of the process. I think we all need to stay involved to hold our government accountable. Yes, I certainly agree. So there have been these baseless claims of voter fraud around the country. And as the director of elections, you would know about voter fraud in the state of Minnesota. And I wonder if you could comment on whether there has been any significant voter fraud or irregularities in voting during your tenure, in the state of Minnesota? Well, that's a very easy question to answer. The answer is no. I mean, in every election, an ineligible voter, one or two might vote. I mean, whether they're a felon that shouldn't vote in our state, if you're under a felony sentence and not off paper, you're not supposed to vote. Whether it be someone that's not 18, I mean, occasionally somebody can vote that is ineligible but that all gets turned over to our law enforcement and those people are investigated and often charged for doing that. But as far as widespread fraud, no, I've seen no evidence of that during my 25 plus years in elections of Minnesota. Let's talk more about Minnesota. Minnesota, to me, I'm from New York and Hawaii. That's my background. I never thought much of Minnesota was somewhere near the Canadian border, as I recall. I hope that's right. And, you know, I didn't think of it in terms of diversity, but it would seem to me when I've learned in recent years, there's just plenty of diversity in Minnesota. How is diversity doing in Minnesota? Well, same question, Lai, may I just add that whenever I see David, I feel proud of to be a Chinese Minnesotan. And we have a Japanese-American to be our election official. And so we have these council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans and about no more than a dozen by senior minority group represented on the council. David, obviously representing Japanese-American myself, representing Chinese-American. And I always curious, I never really asked David about this question. How you guys settled in Minnesota? You know, Japan is cold, but not this cold. And why your parents decided to settle in Minnesota? I know you were born in Minneapolis, you're local, but how come your parents decided to settle in Minnesota? To tell us about your story and also the question about the diversity in the state of Minnesota, please. Yes, please, David. So all four of my grandparents were the ones I immigrated to the United States. So my dad was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. And my mom was born and raised in Lingo, Wyoming, which is a very tiny town in Wyoming, not a farm. My dad's family actually was incarcerated during World War II and was sent to a camp in Minidolta, Idaho. And so my dad experienced firsthand the incarceration that occurred to Japanese-Americans during World War II. My mom's family was not, they were allowed to continue to live on their farm in Wyoming. My dad ended up here because my aunt, his sister, got a scholarship offered from Bullock McAllister, which is my alum, I'm an alum in McAllister in Hamlin, which is another university here in Minnesota. So she ended up going to Hamlin. And that's why my dad ended up in Minnesota. I'm thankful for that because the other place she was looking at was Atlanta, Georgia. And I don't think I would have done as well. I'm a Minnesota twins fan. I couldn't be an Atlanta brave fan to tell you the truth. There it is, right there it is, there it is. But my mom, my mom got her nursing degree and she got her first job in, she didn't want to be a farmer's wife. So she went to the University of Wyoming and got a nursing degree. And she ended up working in a hospital in Minneapolis. Yeah, it's a, well, sorry, I was mistaken. I saw the second generation, obviously a third generation. And have you been to Japan yourself? Yeah, so one of my first jobs out of college was working for a record store here in Twin Cities. And the owner happened to be somebody whose dad was in the army in Japan during World War II. So the owner of the store actually spoke more Japanese than I do. And he looked at it in the late 1990s, he looked at opening a store in Tokyo. And so he asked me if I'd like to come along and I did. And it was an interesting experience because he being a white person, everybody, all the Japanese assumed I was his interpreter. And like I said, he spoke much more Japanese than me. So they would come up to me and start speaking in Japanese and I couldn't answer. So that was my one time in visiting Japan, we all went to Osaka. I was just really happy with that visit. I want to go back so badly. Yeah, I went to Nagoya and Kyoto. I was so impressed. But same time, when walking in the temples of Japanese temples, most of them are not Buddhist temples, obviously. And I feel a little bit sad. I can feel the emphasize with Japanese people when they have this heavy history on their back. But I'm sorry to hear your grandparents incarcerated during World War II. And we all familiar with FDR's exact order in 1966, the Japanese internment and Khromasov versus United States. And in recent years, some Chinese American began to fear similar treatment from the US government should US China tension escalate. So what's your comments or what's your advice to us? Well, I will name that the Japanese American citizens, which is the largest Japanese American organization representing Japanese Americans. The focus of that organization since 2001 has really been making sure people are aware of the parallels between what happened to the Japanese Americans in World War II and Islamophobia. I mean, they've done a lot of great programming around tying what happened to Japanese Americans to what occurred in the early 2000s and continues to occur with people of Islamic faith. But to your point, I think we saw some of that change in 2020 with the pandemic where unfortunately, we had people calling the COVID the China flu. And I think that really put a target not only on Chinese Americans, but on all Asian Americans. And I would agree with the premise of your questions of things continue to deteriorate between our country and the Chinese government than it is going to make things. I think it's easy for people to find targets to blame things on. And I think it will put a target on the Chinese American community if that continues along the lines or on. Well, good to know. Well, you're going through the question of diversity. You know, how has Minnesota done on diversity? Well, if I walk down the street, am I gonna see a rainbow of people? And are those people all gonna be able to get jobs? Is there social justice among the various elements of the diversity? Is the diversity increasing? Do you think staying the same? Is there bigotry? Is there bigotry against one group or the other or all? All minority groups? How is Minnesota? Well, Jay, to answer that question, I think it would take me about five hours to come back or just ask. I'll say a couple of things. And tying it back to my career and elections, we have a very large Hmong American community here in St. Paul and Minneapolis primarily, but in other parts of the state as well. It's so large in Ramsey County that for the first time ever in our state, we fall under what's called Chapter 203 of the Voting Rights Act where the Hmong population has enough in Ramsey County that Ramsey County and our office are required to translate things into the language for them. And that's a first in it. So the Hmong community, I think is growing and thriving, particularly in Minnesota, but I think in other areas, particularly our newer refugee groups, I think they're struggling with things like housing and employment. And then of course, Minneapolis is where George Floyd was killed. And so I think we're at various stages on the continuum, but I will name, I grew up in a suburb of St. Paul and I was one of two Asians Americans in my class. That happened to be Japanese American too. And to see the community that I grew up would have substantially more Asian Americans has been really thrilling to me. So I think there are certain pockets in our state that are thriving as far as getting more diverse, but there are others that are not. I mean, it's a very complex question you just asked. Well, you know, there's always a distinction between Ichi and Nisei, Sansei, and a third generation is pretty much assimilated, but not always necessarily to the full extent, especially if you look different. My family of Jewish came from, are you ready? Ukraine. And, you know, settled in New York, but what I found very interesting and I like to ask you about this is there are pockets and communities of religious Jews all over the country in small towns and they do well.   That's the way it is in these United States, but in terms of opportunities, in terms of being able to assimilate relatively comfortably, make a living, be middle-class or better, they have been able to do that even in tight little relatively orthodox communities. So how does that play out in Minnesota? How does it play out, for example? I mean, I know I'm asking you a compound question and if we were caught now, the Chang would object, he would say, that's a compound question, Jay. That's what he would say. How does that play out in terms of districts, neighborhoods, redistricting? So again, in Minnesota, we have a more diverse community in the seven, we call it the seven county metro area, which encompasses both Minneapolis and St. Paul most of our larger suburbs. So those are the areas we see the most diverse, racial diversity in the state, but again, there are pockets in other parts of the state like Rochester has a fairly large Indian American community, Asian Indian American community, Southwest Minnesota has a fairly large Hmong population. So I don't know if that really answers your question. Yeah, I think, let me jump in here. So, you know, David is a government official and has to be professional and neutral. I call your attention to the very famous, you know, sayings of Minnesota nice. It's passive aggressive. And we Minnesota hate that word. We don't like to be called Minnesota nice because actually there are some, you know, a negative connotation to that, but it's also, I think that is, I believe the word is neutral. So Minnesota nice means the state very tolerant is have a lot of empathy and we have many different minority groups and it's a very Minnesota very famous for hosting refugees from various parts of the world among Americans and Somalians. And now you walk into any major banks you can see a Somalian clerk and you don't be surprised. You walk into the legislature, you'll see there is a among American caucus, you know, several legislatures among Americans. But at the same time, yes, the ethnic minority groups, even African-American groups, they do not have all the privileges and immunities other, you know, the majority groups enjoying. That is a simple fact. But the state overall is very positive and also have a very strong value system. So when the George Floyd strategy happened, then overnight you'll see thousands and thousands of people on the street and you'll see the public statement from all the government, all level of government official from the governor to the attorney general to the mayor and to the county commissioners. So it's overall, I would say that, I'm not sure David would publicly say that, but I think overall means so there is a very, very good state for diversity. At least we have this very good value system and a potential. And I, sorry to speak too long, but I know David have some very good photos want to show us about his family and career. Please show us and tell us about the story behind these photos. You've seen some of them. Our engineer has been playing them. There's one. You were as a kid, David, yeah. You're talking to your father and my aunt who I mentioned before. That's them, I'm assuming in Seattle. There will be probably 40s, 50s. Oh no, that would be 30s. Oh, 30s. Oh, how about the next one? Again, my dad and my aunt, James. Oh, that's your dad and your aunt. He's a very cute kid as you can see. Oh yeah, I thought it was you.  This is actually me and this is me. That's you. I'm a big music lover and this photo actually shows my favorite things of kids listening to records. Who you listen to? Presby? Be those? A lot of girl lives. I don't know if you know girl lives. Oh, sure. Sure. And that's me as a kid as well. The thing that to note with this picture is I'm sitting on a clown. I still have that in my house.  Okay, cool. Yeah, I had a theme hat when I was a kid. That's you give me a lecture. This is actually one of my favorite pictures of me because it shows my better side. But this is me in my role as the chair of the Council of Asian Pacific Ministers. We used to have a day at the Capitol. Hopefully we can do it again soon but this is me speaking to a group of constituents of the Council. That's pretty cool. This is a picture Secretary Simon, our former press secretary in the office and myself. This is right after we finished the Electoral College Count in 2021, or 2020, I'm sorry. Wow, congratulations. This is me and my dad. This is one of the last photos I have with my dad. This is actually one of my nephew's weddings. The Minneapolis? Yes, yeah. You have a big family in Minnesota? I have three sisters. Two of them are in Minnesota, one's in Los Angeles and then I have a brother who's in Minnesota. Good for you. So if I'm a young immigrant, say an Asian immigrant and I call you up David and I say, look, I'm thinking about moving to Minnesota, to Minneapolis. What's your advice to me? Is it among the top places for me to go? So the first thing I would say to you is, do you know what the weather is like in Minnesota? First clarify that.  I would not trade my life as far as where I've lived with anywhere else. I mean, we do have a diverse community here in the Twin Cities. I've been afforded wonderful opportunities in my career, obviously. I feel very fortunate for the life I've lived. So yes, I would welcome any young Asian American into our state. Now, one thing that's been clear to me over the past couple of years, well over the Trump years actually, so I was not aware of is that we do have a growing diversity in many states, even in the South, you know, where white supremacy reigns supreme. But the country is changing. And many people see it as a struggle, as a kind of extended civil war, as a place where there are those who are qualified to participate in the economy, the society, the democracy, and there are others who don't want them. To participate in those things, who are concerned, who carry fear that those people, those diversity people will quote, replace them. We saw that in Charlottesville. We became aware of that and we found it in other places. And I wonder how you feel about that? To the extent you can comment on it, I'd really like to hear your thoughts. Well, I think you hit upon, I think it really is based on fear. I think once somebody gets to know another individual that looks different than them on an individual basis, some of that goes away and hopefully all of it will go away in time, I think I'll leave it at that. I mean, I think if we look at each other as human beings and that is different racially, I think that goes a long ways to understanding and moving the country forward in a positive way. Well, I mean, the name of the show, which Chang selected is really appropriate. It's the Statue of Liberty. It's give me your tired, huddled masses yearning to breathe free. And it's the strength of the country is in that diversity and we should nourish it. We should cherish it. We should encourage and incentivize it. So Chang, we're almost out of time and I know you would like to summarize and thank David for coming down and put this in perspective for us, okay? Thank you, Jay. And thank you, David, so much for coming to the show. We are honored to hear your story and thank you for sharing the family photos with us a lot of fun to hear the story behind those photos. And I, first I want to thank you as a professional, as a government official. And I always remember this President Obama once said there's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter. And secondly, and appreciate your interaction with Jay about the diversity and hear your story growing up in Minnesota. And as an immigrant, I couldn't be more proud to be a part of the Asian Pacific Minnesota community. And just one thing I do want to emphasize that we will not replace anybody. Instead, and as far as my 20 years in the United States, my own observation, I see immigrants are much more, not more as equally as patriotic as all the naturally born Americans. But they are much more value the opportunity. They cherish the opportunity. They agree, they're grateful of the opportunity to be here and to be part of the system. So I don't think they will replace, we will replace anybody, nobody going to, and they will replace anybody instead. They just want to be helpful and be useful and be thankful to be part of this great system. Now, David, you get a chance to follow that, okay? To comment on it, to rebut it if you like. Well, I don't think I need to rebut it. I think I appreciate sharing your wisdom during the time I've got to know you. And I really think your point of view is well taken. I think that that's exactly right. Thank you, thank you. Well, thank you, David. It's nice to meet you and nice to talk to you about your story and your thoughts. And may I say, as I said at the outset, it's fabulous that you're doing this work. You're doing it for all of us, not only in Minnesota, but everywhere. This is a critical element. May not be the only critical element, but it is a critical element in our democracy and therefore in our future. And you are at the center of it. And thank you from all of us for that. Thank you for having me. It's been a great pleasure. Thank you, David. Thank you, Jay. Thank you, Chiang. Thank you, David. I appreciate your participation in Zigtek. Aloha.


So, before we get started with this month's book haul, nobody has asked about the giveaway from last month. The winners have been chosen and they are all going to go out down here when I send out, see they're all down here, but they're all going to go out, I hope I don't screw up the framing, they're all going to go out when I send out my autumn offerings book when I'm going to send all that stuff out at one time because I get a bulk shipping discount. So, please just be patient, I appreciate you on with the book haul. Hello everybody, Ian here, welcome back to another book haul. This one is for, we're going in October, so this is September's book haul. I have a lot of books to talk about, so grab some snacks, kick back and relax, I did not mean to make that rhyme and we're going to jump into it one at a time. So, first we're going to do gifts that I got, I got this scary stories, three scary stories to tell in the dark, more tales to chill your booms from my friend, good friend, Angie. She was nice enough to send me this, it's awesome, I'm going to be reading it off and on to my kids once we get done with the Halloween tree, we're going to be starting that on the first and then we'll go through, I don't know, I think it's like twelve chapters, maybe, I can't remember exactly how many chapters it is, but we'll do a chapter tonight and then we're going to jump into this one. So expect a review from that toward the end of the month. Next up, I have all of these are gifts from my friend Terry, I didn't get a chance to unbox all of these because I didn't have space either, I didn't have time on the channel to unbox them or she needed the confirmation because she sent a lot of these from me, paper backswap, so actually let's see here, one, two, I think all of them are paper backswap, all of them were sent and she needed the confirmation right away and I couldn't get out to do a video right then, but the first one is the one I've already talked about in my October TBR is the witching hour and yes I'm already a hundred pages into it, I'm liking it, I'm not loving it but I am liking it and rice, I don't know, but her characters don't talk to me, they're more affluent and southern and I don't know, but southern like debutante southern and they don't really talk to me, I'm enjoying her descriptions of scenery and the creepiness of it, but yeah I'm not in there with any of the characters, let me put this one down below that, then she also, Terry sent me, we have the interview with the vampire and I actually got this on the last day of last month after I had shot my book haul video, had I just waited, but look at this author photo y'all, look at that author photo, that's Anne Rice with a doll, I hate dolls, hate dolls and then cry of heaven sounds amazing, let me read you the first line of cry to heaven, so hide your ears children, cover your ears because Guido Mafio was castrated when he was six years old and sent to study with the finest singing masters in Naples, so this is about, I'm not exactly sure what it's about but it's like a choir, soprano choir and I guess from what I'm reading there is the singers are Unix and then interview with the vampire, if you don't know what interview with the vampire is about, let me know the address of your rock so I can come visit you, this one I have, absolutely I'm going to read you the description of this one because I don't, it's literally I told her yes when she asked me about it, she's like hey do you want this and I literally I was like yes because of the cover and that is the tale of raw head bloody bones by Jack Wolf, that is an awesome cover but meet Tristan Hart a brilliant young man of means, the year is 1751 and it's historical fiction, oops I'm not big on historical fiction the year is 1751 and at the age of 20 he leaves home to study medicine at the Great Hospital of St. Thomas in London, it will be a monumentous year for the intellectually ambitious Mr. Hart who as well as being a student of Locke and Descartes, I think that's Descartes, I don't know and a promising young physician is also alas psychotic, rock on, he is obsessed with the nature of pain and medically preventing it, huh but his equally strong and much harder to control obsession is with causing it so he's a status but he wants to try and figure out how to prevent it desperate to understand his deviant desires before they are his undoing he uses the new tools of the age reason and science and skepticism to plumb the depths of his own dark mind and then the rest of it is you know how great the book is and profoundly imaginative unexpectedly funny yeah I'm not gonna read all that but yeah so this one it sounds interesting but it's also kind of a chunk of a book it's 533 pages this is one that I probably will get to but it's gonna be a while I'm gonna put it on my TBR shelf in my room so that that way that you know I know I'll actually end up getting to it next two were sent to me for review by Atria Publishing and one of them I might have to break not contract but I might have to it might take a while before I get to it but we'll talk about that in a second but the doll factory is the first one this looks absolutely amazing you see that shininess that's only on the glass that's over the butterfly so it's like a butterfly jar cage whatever you want to call it the the cover design of this is absolutely amazing and I love it to bits I have no idea what this is about but I'm gonna be reading it very soon probably starting in November because it's not gonna be on my October TBR I said I've already got the stuff up there I'm focusing mainly on Halloween stuff and I forgot to tell you guys I'm also gonna if I get through with all that stuff which I probably will I'm gonna be reading The Haunting of Hill House by I can never remember her name but you know who wrote the book let's see here Shirley Jackson yes I don't know why it took me looking into this book to figure that out but yeah so I won't be getting to this one until November but it'll probably be the first thing I read in November because it was sent to me for review next up I got the most recent Charlie Parker book by John Connolly which is a book of bones y'all see how thick this book is it's almost 700 it's 674 pages we gonna be here for a while but more importantly it comes out on October 15th 2019 so in October this October this is like book 12 or 15 I can't remember with it this is a long way down the line so I had a friend I have a friend named Amanda who was kind enough to send me books three and four so I also got the killing kind and the white road this is number three this is number four I was going through my collection of paperbacks and I found I have dark hollow so I have this one and I ordered because I found it really cheap on a books I ordered a $3 copy with free shipping there's nuts of every dead thing which is book one I'm going to read at least these four paperbacks and atria is gonna be sending me books the two books before the last one so I only have all those books right there in the middle that I'll be missing so I'll be starting the series reading those first four books and then reading the last three books if that makes sense I figure with any series usually it's the books the beginning and books the end that are the best so hopefully if you guys want to let me know about good ones in the middle that I definitely should try let me know down there in the doobly-doo okay next up I want to give another shout out to to a stranger dream bookmarks so there's they got the Chad Lutzky bookmark on sale you know how big of a fan I am of Chad Chad Lutzky he comes in the chat every now and again which we won't be doing more sadly customizable machetes this is Edward Edward the articulated beetle yeah now I get if you use my code LORN 5 you get 10% off at checkout and then we have the Skela bros this one in a fedora and beat shorts and then this one over here just the awesomely colored pink and blue skeleton so hop on over all they link down there in the doobly-doo jump on over there and check them out next we are gonna go very quickly through a bunch of beancoots books that I already own but I wanted to put on my shelf they literally only got these almost all the rest of these books until I say differently are books that I got at the library for their dollar a bag so you bring a bag I always bring trash bags they're always happy to see me because they're trying to get rid of these books so I have I'm just gonna hold these up some of my favorites the servants of twilight the voice the voice of the night and twilight eyes got them all in hardcover I'm gonna put these back here okay way back here so I'm leaning off camera this one is a copy of soul survivor it's signed but this means absolutely nothing to me what if you guys want this once I end up reading it it's gonna be a while cuz I'm reading one Dean Coons book a month in chronological order but it's signed by the author if you if anybody's interested in this let me know down there in the doobly-doo and when I read it and I review it remind me again and I'll send it to you I don't care about the signed copy and I don't I don't recall liking that book this one I don't have a paperback copy of that one or else I wouldn't have grabbed it but this one is another one I picked that copy of it's from the corner of his eye I remember this one being terrible also then we have Lawrence blocks I love this series the Matthew Scudder series the devil knows you're dead I actually got a hardcover of this all of this was a dollar not each but everything all of this I fit in one bag so you got the Lawrence block the devil knows you're dead and then I got another copy of men knock the devil and then I don't have I got another copy this to sell and then servant of bones by Anne Rice I got a bunch of Anne Rice stuff this time put all these back here I'm gonna try and arrange these I don't have the there you go I want I want the big stuff on the bottom to form a nice base okay we're gonna get it into actually more gifts I just realized that so if you saw my unboxing my buddy Nick scary saying spooky noodles he sent me demonic by Stephen Laws and the original cut version of the stand in paperback so this is more of a collector's copy I'm gonna I gotta clean it up some but not but this collector's copy is going up on my shelf and then this one I do need I said my collection my Stephen Laws collection was complete it is not I still need chasm so I'm looking for that book but demonic so I got that one it's a very cool cover almost reminds me of HR Geiger and it is not going to do justice cameras not gonna do it justice and this one of course is my favorite stand cover okay trying to keep this stuff in order over here and then finally from from Nick he sent me hell train because he knows I like books with trains on the cover and it's a skull on a track switch and then the train in the background is a very very nice copy I need to put this over here so that I remember to take an Instagram picture of it you'll probably see that up there on my Instagram before you actually see this video next to two more Dean Coons books just because I could that I don't have odd hours and the whispering room yeah the whispering room this is the only Jane Hawk novel I have I'll be collecting them very slowly if I can't find them all for cheap extremely cheap I'm talking like a quarter of piece then I'll just be reading the the ebook versions that I got for review on netgalley that I DNF'd they always send me the the latest Dean Coons and I always tell them I don't want them and they just send them anyways so I'll be reading them that way I think we're getting into the other books from the yeah yeah all all the rest of this stuff until I say otherwise is from the library I got Tom Wolfs the right stuff because people keep on recommending me this book so I will be reading it probably next year I'm not sure if it's fiction or nonfiction but the men had it Jaeger Conrad Grissom Glenn heroes the first Americans in space battling the Russian for control of the heavens how'd that turn out putting their lives on the line the women had it while Mr. Wonderful was aloft it tore your heart out that the hero's wife down the ground had to perform with the whole world watching the TV press conference what's in your heart do you feel with him while he's in orbit interesting I did not know that's what that was about these I solely bought to resell I have no interest in the series whatsoever but paranormal romance does really really well on eBay and just the secondary market but these are Janine Frost books a night huntress novel this one and these two so this one's called at Graves and if anybody in the in the comments wants these their year is for a buck a piece plus shipping this one is one foot in the grave they all have that typical urban fantasy cover with a rocking chick on the on the front either she's on a motorcycle she's in some kind of action pose you know the typical let's see here and this one is halfway to the grave and here she's in her sultry pose right there with her leg up because she about to blast a fart I'm just kidding anyways but up and then these I got to try I'm not a poetry dude not at all and after reading these already I'm still not a poetry dude Walt Whitman's leaves of grass and Robert Frost the road not taken and other poems these are great for like quoting in a in in books mainly because they're their public domain so you don't have to get the okay from the author because the authors are dead in fact I think Robert Frost I'm pretty sure Robert Frost has been gone there's not even a copyright page what is up with that I don't know because they have anything about Robert Frost in it you would hope right I mean you would hope that there's like hey here's what the dude here's the dudes whatever yeah 18 dudes definitely dead he died died in 1963 so yeah the poetry books if anybody's interested in these you know what to do leave a comment down there in the doobly-doo okay next up I'm going to roll my table around so that I can get to these other ones I'm big fan of fried green tomatoes the movie so I have that book but I also got this one because it's by the same author and this is called Daisy Fay and the miracle man it sounded interesting Fanny flag takes us on a journey to a south that only Southerners know to a time when blue velvet was played at the senior prom and into the life of Daisy Fay Harper a sassy truth-telling heroine who just can't stay out of trouble or our hearts what's more she tell what's more she tells us everything there there is a significant lack of commas in this description what's more she tells us everything from what or who made her daddy and mama split to what is really stashed in the freezer of her family's malt shop knowing fried green tomatoes I'm wondering if that's interesting Daisy Fay is coming of age in the Gulf Coast Shell Beach which is the end of the road of the South the folks who head for Florida haven't discovered it yet and aren't likely to but it's a dandy place to meet local VIPs like hard drinking Jimmy Snow who uses his crop dusting plane for both transportation and carrying out revenge former socialite Mrs. Dot who is trying to hold junior debutante meetings in the back of the bait shop that's awesome and Daisy's own daddy who comes up with a mortgage scheme in which his daughter has to return from the dead in a carefully orchestrated miracle they're all part of fun that takes us down home back to the 50s and into the best story ever written of Texas that's a bold statement or maybe anywhere else so remember how I said and rice really isn't for me as far as like the debutante socialite South Southern things like this are where they're where the upper class is picked on that kind of thing or you know holding beatings at the back of a bait shop that should that that sounds funny so I am all here for that I gotta find a place to put these so I'm gonna turn this a little bit more and we're gonna put these right right now okay so next up we have the reason right yes I this is part of that thing just tossed it in a bag I was just snatching things off like I was in one of those old shopping spree games you know that just snatching things off the shelf the princess right holy shit yes I love the movie love the movie now I'm gonna try to book I have no idea what the something sticky oh yeah to clean that clean that off I didn't get all the obviously I didn't get all the stickers gone call this next one well not the next one the one after this our hearts will burn us down by Anne Valente this sounds interesting and I just I got it for the cover if I'm honest oh I almost went into Earl that for a second I'm not Earl who said I was Earl as members of the yearbook committee Nick Zola Matt and Christina are eager to capture all the memorable moments of their junior year at Lewis and Clark High School the plays and football games dances and fun drives teachers and classes that are the epicenter of their teenage lives but how do you document our horrific tragedy a deadly school shooting by a classmate yes I've been doing a lot of research on school shootings and mass shootings and all that stuff I did one project already that was very small very very tiny bit of it was was that aspect but I plan on doing a much bigger piece about it so yeah so this is something it sounds interesting so I'm gonna jump into it there's more to the description but if you guys are interested in you can look it up next up we have by young as by yes it's not Joe Nesbo it's yo Nesba midnight Sun hard cover very nice addition it did have a sticky ass stupid ass I thought I got it all off I didn't I'm gonna have to try it again these matte covers are really hard to clean up without ruining but yeah this is another one that was just sitting on the on the shelf at the library remind you like I said all of these books were a dollar all of them total all the ones that I said it from the library I didn't spend a dollar a piece a dollar total and next up we have a short story collection that's been on my radar for a while because it was getting such high praise from friends friends who who I trust there's well not trust friends who whose whose likes are in line with mine so I have plenty of friends that I disagree with constantly and with those friends I if they recommend a book I don't read it if they say they hate a book I am all over that Joker and this is one of those books that like-minded reviewers like-minded friends of mine have been raving about and this is these heroic happy dead stories by Luke Moggleson Moggleson Moggleson yeah it's a cool cover too I mean it's just a suburban street looks like and then you have maybe it's not suburban I don't know but then this nice to look anyways it's nice and it's got dark old urges yeah y'all have a discussion down there the doobly do about whether or not you like pickled edges this one is one I have actually next to our one our next to our one no the next to our books that I've already read and I just want to copy for my shelf because I either well this one I did an audiobook it's not my father's son which is absolutely amazing by Alan Cumming is an actor that I that I love I adore and I wanted to get this a hard cover edition I would like I said I've already read the audiobook and I recommend reading it in audiobook but this is going on my nonfiction celebrity shelf I actually have quite a few of these I recommend this one I recommend the one by Kate Moggleson born with teeth something like that and a choreography by Corey Feldman those are three of my favorite I should do I should do my favorite what are these these favorite celebrity biographies now I don't like vapid celebrities even though Corey Feldman is a bit vapid his younger career had a lot of stuff going on but I'm not here for like a Kim Kardashian kind of you know kind of biography so next up we and also I'm not into business before you crime Kardashian are actually a great business woman I don't care about business either so I don't care about makeup so none of that stuff has anything to do with me next up we have Lola which was a very decent I'm looking forward to reading more from this author who is Melissa Scrivner love I'm looking forward to more from this author this was a this is a debut it's about a street gang and that I can't say too much more about it because there's a twist involving the gang but it's a Hispanic gang and I think East LA I can't remember it's been years since I read it but there were certain parts that took me out of the story it's a good book it's just not a great book but I think that with more time and she especially got some medical issues wrong like how fast lab results come back for sepsis and things like that is a very CSI like you know as soon as it was taken is the blood was taken they found out that the person was septic or whatever it was I can't remember exactly some certain aspects took me out of the story but yeah other otherwise it's a good book next up this is probably going up for sale I don't know I might try it pretty soon everybody tells me how creepy it is but I don't know it's a steppard wives by Ira Levin I might check it out I might not I don't know I bought sliver and then I just ended up selling it this one got deckled edges too so I might actually read this one all right next up are three books that look like book club editions these are going up for sale so again I have actually no interest in these because they look like just your typical thrillers Linda Castillo's a gathering of secrets these are the book book club smaller editions of hard covers okay Chevy Stevens never let you go again I just got these three cell just got these three so and then the perfect stranger by Megan a Miranda I've sold three copies of all the missing girls by this author so I'm hoping this one sells just as well but uh yeah so oh and I also got this is for sale also Tim O'Brien's because I already have a hardcover a hardcover of this I haven't read it yet but I'm going to very soon probably in November the things they carried I think it's a story of Vietnam I'm pretty sure that's what it is but yeah so Tim O'Brien's things they carry so that one's up for sale also because I already have a nice hardcover now on to books that I bought either at a books or brand-spraking new there by there sometimes a book says by God okay so I got Cabal by Clive Barker I got Galilee by Clive Barker and I got weight weave world I can't get my fingers out the way they too fat as this yes weave world I got all of these for about four dollars a piece on a on a which will call it on eight books and it was free shipping so I figured why not I didn't want to take the chance with me and my friend Cammie are going to eventually she's having computer problems right now but we're eventually going to do our read along our chronological read through of Clive Barker's books just waiting on her I don't want to leave her in my dust so yeah just be patient with us next up is a book that I've been looking for forever I hate that I missed it in hardcover but I didn't it's either I didn't have the budget for it or many different things came up actually I spent money on a book of the month club edition of another book called Golden State which I thought was this book but it was not dumb because the author of this one is a female and the author of the other one was a male so I was just a complete nutter idiot but it's the Golden State by Lydia Kaisling Kiesling I'm not sure how to pronounce that last name but I think it's Kaisling anyways but this one is about well let me just read it to you because this one I actually read the description and that's what drew me in Daphne has had enough a young mother bucking under the weight of being a single parent her Turkish husband was forced to surrender his green card she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco and heads for the high desert of Alta Vista somewhere I know personally that's another reason why I bought it she heads to the high desert of Alta Vista with her toddler honey they take refuge in a mobile home Daphne inherited and hopes that the quiet will bring clarity but clarity proves elusive instead Daphne is anxious she drinks too much she wanders the town looking for anyone and anything to punctuate the long hours alone with the baby among others she meets Cindy a neighbor who is active in the state of Jefferson secessionist movement and be friends the elderly Alice who has traveled to Alta Vista as she approaches the end of her life but when Daphne's relationships with these women culminate in a dangerous standoff she is forced to reconcile her inner narrative with reality I'm a huge fan of people that run away that run you know that runoff somewhere new that try to start over again especially if starting over again proves just as troublesome and bothersome as their original life or worse I am super stoked to read this one this is going to be another November read I'm gonna be reading a lot November the cooler weather means I read even more than normal because I will sit outside and read I'll be doing quite a bit quite a few audiobooks as I'll be walking even more but there's that one next one up is Ohio by Steven Markely this Joker was marked down to eight bucks for a brand new paperback and it's Simon and Schuster they almost never do that but this is Ohio I'm gonna read you the description of this one also one sweltering night in 2013 for former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio there's Bill Ashcraft a passionate drug abusing young activist I'm all for that whose flailing ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zikati Park to post BP New Orleans I'm all about that too I think that's gonna be cool to read about and now back home with a mysterious package strapped to the undercarriage of his truck Stacey Moore a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting her family and the mother of her best friend and first love whose disappearance spurs the mystery at the heart of the novel Dan Eaton those are at the heart of the novel Dan Eaton a shy veteran of three tours in Iraq home for dinner date with the high school sweetheart he's tried desperately to forget and the beautiful fragile Tina Ross whose rendezvous with the washed-up captain of the football team triggers the novels shocking climax there's more about how it all takes place over a single evening in this Ohio town that sounds awesome it reminds me of not crash but there was a what was the movies like 1113 or 1111 I can't remember what it's called I think Patrick Swayze was in it I can't remember but it all happened every single one of the segments all led up to the same time and then it stopped and started over from somebody else's point of view and that that sounds cool that might be what this is like it might not be but a book that is it's gonna be interesting to see how an author got through a 484 page book to make that much of a book out of one evening next up I got I finally found a copy of this was that Ollie's it was on clearance I have a review copy up there with my other review copies but this is watching you so I finally got the hardcover I thought I'd bought this when it came out but I did not but I finally snagged a copy this is a terrific book is one of the best thrillers of the year it came out next up this one actually this was a mess a mix-up because I actually got this one in my dollar haul recursion by Blake Crouch I already have a copy of this but I grabbed another one so I'll probably be selling this one but recursion but it's a brand new book brand new there's absolutely nothing wrong with this but I guess somebody donated it to to the library and it was it was on the shelf I grabbed I grabbed this one so quick I saw it shining because it's nice and yellow it's also a very cool cover see that yeah the silver in there that mirror finish kind of deal does a rainbow if you do that it's cool anyways so and next up we have one that I also found at Ollie's that was on clearance and that is David Wong's what the hell did I just read this is the third Bert book this the third book in his John dies at the end series I do not have the second book and I have the first book in softcover but I mean I couldn't pass it up I think it was three or four bucks 399 I think with my Ollie's discount is probably you know less than three bucks last but certainly not least I know we've been here forever and for you troopers who out there who watched the entire video thank you so much for hanging around this one I was gonna put it at the beginning but I didn't and I forgot but one of my favorite books of all time is and one of the only one of the only other than John Green books YA books that I really love and really adore is grasshopper jungle it's an amazing book it's original it's a book that was written by Andrew Smith because he was tired of writing your typical YA so he just threw everything out the window stopped all that and then wrote this bat shit crazy book that just ended up being amazing and now we have a sequel it's exile from Eden by Andrew Smith it's also a great cover and also I had a new book bark from Terry it says not meow I'm reading and has a little demon kitty down here well they're all demons all cats are demons they're all evil entities possessed by Satan down here you have a kitty with glasses on it's very very cute it looks innocent like it's not summoning the devil from the bowels of hell but you know you know that's what it's doing in a spare time but this is just it's pretending but we all like to pretend that that they're nice innocent creatures and there you have so you have a demon with glasses it's very cute thank you very much Terry if you hung around for the entire thing anyhow so that's everything I have to share with you today I did book book halls are my favorite content on YouTube so if you have a book haul video that you'd like to share with me please leave a link down there in the doobly-doo or say hey go check out my newest book book haul did I say book haul I hope I said book haul anyways but they're my favorite content so please share if you don't have a video then just type all the books that you got down there in the comment section I read through all of the comments I may not respond to everyone anymore all the time now but I do read every single comment so yeah leave that down there in the doobly-doo but until next time I have been E you've been you this has been another book haul video I'll talk to you guys later bye bye