Hello everyone! Today I'm going to be
doing an unhaul.
So there were two things that kind of
inspired this unhaul, one
is that I am simply running out of space
on my bookshelves and I definitely know
that I would rather make room for
new books or books that I know I already
love and just haven't acquired yet
rather than keep books that I will never
touch again.
And two because I really want to get my
physical tbr down.
It's not that large, to most people on
Booktube it's incredibly small. I have
like
20 books on my physical tbr. But it
really bothers me when I own a book for
so many years and haven't read it yet
and so I just needed to think hard on it
and finally make a decision of like
do I actually want to read this or
should I just give it up.
So i've been wanting to make this video
for a while now but I wanted to make
sure that I
knew where the books were going or I
could just have a place for them to go
when I'm unhauling them
but when quarantine hit that kind of
took all of my resources away because
libraries are no longer accepting
physical donations at least near me.
But it's been many months now and
quarantine is still a thing
so I figured I would just say what books
I'm going to unhaul and they'll just
live in a pile next to my desk for the
foreseeable future.
So the first kind of group of books I
have are ARCs I got from Bookcon
in 2014. Yes that means these are six
years old now.
And they are Alex by Pierre Lemaitre,
I think it's how you say that. The
Stories We Tell by Patti Callahan Henry,
War Dogs by Greg Bear, the Love Affairs
of Nathaniel P.
by Adele Waldman, and the Iron Trial by
Cassandra Clare and Holly Black.
With the exception of the Iron Trial all of
those books are books I would really
never
gravitate towards. You may be asking then
why did I pick them up at Bookcon
and let me just say that Bookcon in 2014
was different than Bookcon now.
Back then they just gave out everything
for free, people were just
handing out books. I think it's because
Bookcon wasn't as popular.
But me being an excited 14 year old just
took whatever
everybody handed out. The only one of
these that I was considering keeping is the
Iron Trial
but I've kind of heard mixed things
about the series especially about the
later books, how they're not as good as
people wanted them to be
and I just don't really care to read
them. I'm also unhauling Shadow and Bone
by Leigh Bardugo
and--oh shoot! Okay.
I'm also unhauling Shadow and Bone by
Leigh Bardugo and
Mistborn: the Final Empire by
Brandon Sanderson and these are just
because I have duplicate copies of them.
Mistborn is because I bought the box set
of the British covers and they're much
prettier than this
US edition. And for Shadow and Bone, I'm
actually pretty sad about because
I really like this cover but I ended up
buying the box set of the paperback
versions
that look like this and I annotated them
so I can't get rid of these and for this
series in particular I don't really feel
like owning
multiple versions of the book. Six of
Crows on the other hand,
I want those special editions real bad.
Then we have some books that I acquired
as a kid
and don't really care to read which is
the theme of this video apparently.
We have Loser by Jerry Spinelli, A Child
 Called It by Dave Peltzer,
Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by
John Boyne, Mars Year One: Marooned
by Brad Strickland and Thomas E. Fuller,
Hotel for Dogs, book seven in the Spirit
Animals
series by Marie Lu--
I didn't realize that was ~the~ Marie Lu,
that's kind of funny.
And those books I didn't read but these
I have.
And one is Darkest Age: the Book of the
Sword by A. J. Lake,=.
This is kind of a funny story I do
remember liking it but also,
it's the second book in a series and I
don't know how I read this without
reading the first one.
Then we have what I believe is called
the Radiance series by Alyson Noel.
You might know Alyson Noel as the author
of Evermore which is one of those
Twilight-esque books that came out in
the 2000s and this is like
a spin-off series, a spin-off middle
grade series because that other series
was YA,
about that character's younger sister
who died in that series
and in this series we're following her
in the afterlife. This one kind of hurts
a little bit because I do
have some memories associated with this
and the time that I read it
but I also remember feeling pretty
apathetic to the story itself
at the time and so there's just no
reason for me to keep it and maybe
someone else will like it
who picks it up. So now we're going to
get into more well-known titles.
The first one is Alex Rider:
Stormbreaker by
Anthony Horowitz. This was not really a
very popular series on Booktube but I
think it was pretty popular in the early
2000s,
they even made a movie of it with Alex
Pettyfer and I read it and I liked it
but it's part of like a
10 book series and I just don't want to
read it.
Now we have Ready Player One by Ernest
Cline. So I bought this book a few years
ago because I remembered
in the beginning of Booktube, like in
2012, 2013,
people were raving about this book, it
was on like everybody's favorite book of
the year list.
And so when the movie was coming out I
was like, hey maybe I should read this
finally
but the movie has since come out and i
don't have any more inclination to read
it. I also think this isn't something
that I would necessarily
really enjoy per se because in a lot of
reviews people cite the nostalgia factor
like the fact that there's so many 80s
references in this book
as to something that they enjoyed about
the book. And 80s culture
is not something that I know too much
about nor am too invested in
and I've also heard some mixed things
about the author and his portrayal of
women.
And so yeah that all just adds up to
like I don't really want this anymore.
Then we have If I Stay by Gayle Foreman. I
actually didn't hate this book I think i
gave it around three stars it was fine,
I just remember how people were saying
how this was a very emotional story and
it made them cry
and it moved them and I was pretty
apathetic towards it. It wasn't bad I
just didn't understand what all the hype
was about
but I hope that someone else who
eventually gets this book enjoys it a
little bit more.
The next book I'm unhauling is Eleanor and
Park by Rainbow Rowell.
This is definitely a book I read because
of Booktube hype
and I did enjoy it at the time but
similar to If I Stay
just not to the extent that other people
were seemingly enjoying it.
But what pushed me to finally unhaul it
was the criticisms aimed at it about the
Korean representation.
I was pretty young when I read this and
didn't understand all of the nuances
that went into
why this book is problematic but since
then I have watched more reviews and
listened to people speak
on it and I will link those sources down
below if you also want to get more
in-depth reasons
about why this book is harmful and
problematic and yeah I would just rather
the space on my shelf go to another book.
Then I have Delirium by Lauren Oliver. I
actually meant to unhaul this
many years ago because I didn't even
really like it at the time that I read
it.
Pretty sure I gave it three stars but
might have given it lower
if I read it now. Just nothing really
about the world like the dystopian
society she created or the characters or
the plot really intrigued me,
but I probably would have continued with
the series at the time that I read it
which was like
many years ago had not there been
massively mixed reviews about the last
book.
And because I was apathetic about this
one I didn't really feel like devoting
any more time to this series if it was
going to be a lukewarm ending.
Anyway so now I'm finally getting rid of
it. And now the ones that I really had to
contemplate
but I did come around to a decision
about getting rid of
and the first one of that is the
Selection trilogy by Keira Cass.
I guess it's not really a trilogy
anymore because there is a continuation
butI would consider these like their
own trilogy and this is exactly the case
where I don't feel too much attachment
to the series in general like to the
story.
I remember them finding them very
entertaining and I read them really
quickly
but I couldn't stand the characters or even
how the plot went down.
But i have so many memories associated
with this series and specifically
seeing it on my shelf because I had this
one dystopian shelf where I bought all
these dystopian series
around the same time and so it just
feels kind of weird not
having that series there but in reality
it's really just taking space and I'd
much rather put
more books that I love dearly in their
place instead and so I just have to bite
the bullet and get rid of them.
But even though that pains me because of
nostalgia I can
solidly say that I should get rid of
them but this next series
I'm still a little bit conflicted though
on the side of unhauling hence why
they're in this video
and that's the Miss Peregrine's Home for
Peculiar Children series.
I read the first one back when it was
really popular whenever that was,
around 2012, and I did really like them
and I bought Hollow City when it came
out
this copy is even signed which makes me
feel extra guilty.
And I also bought Library of Souls when
it came out because at the time I always
finished series so I just assumed that
even if it took me a while I would get
to it. But it's been many years, I
believe that Hollow City came out in
2014
and every year I'm like this is a series,
I'm gonna read it this year and every
year I don't
I think if Ransom Riggs hadn't continued
this series
I might have read it. I don't know why
something in me,
when he released more books made me not
want to read them anymore like I was
like, no that's just too much.
I could deal with three but more? You're
asking too much of me.
And also for some reason I rewatched my
books I want to read in 2019 video
and in it i said I wanted to read the
Miss Peregrine's books
and I also said in that video that if i
didn't read the books that I owned that
I said I would read in that video
by the end of the year that I would
unhaul them. I guess I have to
listen to myself and just get rid of
them.
So for the books that are pretty popular
and still in good condition
I'm gonna try to see if i can sell them.
I think
Depop is a really popular platform
people use for that.
I haven't really looked into too much
about how to do that but if I figure it
out, I will leave it in the description
and for the rest of them I'm just gonna
give to the library except for the
ARCs,
don't really know what I'm supposed
to do with the ARCs. When I tried looking
online they just said
either give them away to like a person
or
recycle them so we'll see what I
figure out about that.
So I just quickly counted and that's a
total of 21 books that I'm unhauling
which is kind of a lot, I'm kind of proud
of myself for
not sticking to sentimental value and
keeping things that I don't need.
Anyways thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you later bye!
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