**The Books I'm Getting Rid Of: A Rambling Goodbye**

As I sat down to write this article, I couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia wash over me. I was surrounded by books, each one a reminder of the reading journey that had brought me to this moment. But as I delved into my collection, I realized that not all of these books were going to make it to their next chapter. In fact, some of them would be leaving me altogether.

One book that caught my eye was an arc I received, a romance novel with a "fixer-upper" HGTv vibe. I was genuinely shocked when I got the like message about this book, and my initial reaction was one of skepticism. Why would someone want to give me a copy of this book? I'm not exactly the cool crowd, if you know what I mean. But alas, it just didn't work out for me. The two main romances in the story were supposed to be at the heart of the tale, but unfortunately, they fell flat for me. The idea of falling apart marriages was just sad, and the romance that blossomed between the two assistants felt lackluster. I wanted more, I wanted a deeper connection with these characters, but it never happened. In the end, this book was just kind of...meh.

I couldn't help but think about how disappointed I was to not connect with this book. I had been so excited to get my hands on it, and now it felt like a waste. I decided to put it in my little free library, hoping that someone would stumble upon it and find something truly special. Maybe they'd be the one to fall in love with this book by the pool this summer.

Next up was "One to Watch" by Kate Stayman London. This book really resonated with me on a personal level, but I couldn't shake the feeling that if I were going to re-read it, I'd want to pick up the audiobook version instead. There's just something about the sound of an author's voice that brings a story to life in a way that physical words can't. As for "One to Watch" itself, I felt like I was missing out on some amazing representation and diversity. Contemporary romances with diverse characters are few and far between, and this one was sorely lacking in that department.

I decided to donate this book to Half Price Books, hoping that someone would find it and appreciate the story inside. While I loved this book, I knew that not everyone would connect with it as deeply as I did. Maybe someone out there will be lucky enough to stumble upon it and fall in love with the characters. A girl can dream, right?

The next book on my list was "Ties That Tether" by Jane Agaros. This one has a special place in my heart because I listened to the audiobook while doing yard work, and I have some really fond memories of that experience. In fact, I'm pretty sure I would buy this book again just for the nostalgia alone. The story was engaging, with cultural aspects that really resonated with me. But even though I loved listening to it, I didn't feel as connected to the physical book as I did to the audiobook.

I'm getting rid of the physical copy of "Ties That Tether," but I still recommend it to anyone who might be interested. Maybe someone will stumble upon it and enjoy it just as much as I enjoyed listening to it.

**The Worst Books: A Bittersweet Goodbye**

Last but certainly not least, we have two books that were absolute disappointments for me. The first one was "Pretending" by Holly Bourne. This book had some very... visceral moments, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around why the author chose to write those scenes into the story. It's like they just wanted to shock readers into submission or something.

I have mixed feelings about this book, but ultimately, it was just too much for me. The romance at its core wasn't even a romance – it was more of an awkward, unrequited love affair that didn't make me feel anything. I felt like the author was trying to tackle some big issues without actually doing them justice.

I'm getting rid of "Pretending" because, honestly, my spirit is just too worn out from dealing with its... unpleasantness. Maybe someone else will find it and appreciate its message more than I did.

Last but certainly not least, we have "In Five Years" by Rebecca Serle. Ugh, where do I even begin? This book was like nails on a chalkboard to me – every single moment of it felt forced, artificial, or just plain unpleasant. I hate this book with every fiber of my being.

I'm glad that I can finally get rid of it and part ways for good. Maybe someone else will stumble upon it and love it, but for me? No thank you. It's time to say goodbye to "In Five Years" and move on to better books.

And so, as I close this chapter on these books, I'm left with a sense of nostalgia and a renewed commitment to finding the stories that truly resonate with me. Until next time, dear readers...

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello welcome back to my channel and uh welcome to my very petite very tiny 56 book unhaul i have been collecting these books in a box in my closet for far too long and i figured it was time to show you guys these books before i part with them i don't know how juicy this is going to be i just know that i personally love watching book unhauls i like to know why people are getting rid of books just as much as i like to know why people are buying books i don't know how how exciting this is going to be just because i feel like the reasons that i'm getting rid of a lot of these books are not that exciting but um if you just want to turn this on while you eat lunch or something that's like what i'm here for i'm here to just be some like good background noise for you so without further ado let's get into the unhaul portion of this video and i'll tell you about all of the books that i'm getting rid of and why i'm getting rid of them so first up i'm sure you could see it right here i have cemetery boys by aiden thomas you're gonna see kind of a recurring theme here there are a lot of young adult like contemporary or young adult fantasy books that i'm getting rid of the ones that are like borderline fantasy i guess and that is primarily because it's just not a genre that i tend to reread a lot and i feel like if i want to enjoy this story again i will probably pick it up on audio that's actually how i consumed this story whenever i picked it up for my why a fantasy reading vlog and i had a really good time with audiobook version so i don't think if i want to read this again that i will want to read it physically and i've also noticed whenever i go to my local half price books that's where i'm going to resell most of these books at least the ones that are not arcs i've noticed that when i go to my local half half-price books they don't really have a lot of newer titles besides like you know the actor books and things like that they tend to be like older like 2008-ish by a books and while that's not necessarily like bad i would love to see you know kind of more current titles on the shelves for teens so this one i'm going to go ahead and resell next up is clapping you land by elizabeth acevedo i really enjoyed the story i thought it was really excellent but again this is one that i will probably pick up on audio if i want to reread and it's another one that i've never actually seen in like a half price books so again i would love to be able to sell this to them and hopefully have like a teen be able to pick this one up next up is one that i'm not reselling because i want teens to read it it's because i thought it was kind of boring and that is the darkest star by jla i don't hate jennifer l armentrout's writing i just have not had the best luck with her books i think i've read this i've read um the ones that are popular right now from blood and ash a kingdom of flesh and fire and then i think like half blood the vampire academy rip off and like her writing spine it's just i've never read a book of hers that was really like anything more than a three and a half star and i know that i am not going to reread this because i don't even really remember what this was about it's a spin-off of the lux series which is not one that i actually ended up reading when i was a teen i think i was like past that age group or it was like a little bit after my time i guess yeah i'm not gonna miss this book another book i'm not gonna miss is miss peregrine's home for peculiar children i feel kind of weird on hauling this because it's actually my sister's book but i know that she wouldn't miss it either this is one that i read for a taste test and i'm glad that i got the opportunity to finally read this popular book i had a good time reading it to be honest i thought it was interesting but i'm not going to carry on with the series and in general again like why a is so hit or miss for me i tend to only really enjoy y a paranormal or why a high fantasy at this point so this is not something that i feel like i would revisit next up okay um call me by your name by andre ossiman i picked this up from a local indie bookstore right when the movie came out because i was like oh you know like maybe i'll read the book and then watch the movie i never watched the movie i've never read the book and i just don't think that it's something i really have interest in anymore i really don't tend to like literary romance if that makes sense or literary fiction books that have like a romance at the heart i feel like they're never done in a way that i enjoy and there's just a lot of controversy surrounding this book and this movie and i just i don't know i don't have the interest that i used to have in consuming this so i'd rather sell this and maybe you know someone who would enjoy this we'll pick it up next up are a matching pair we have serpent and dove and blood and honey by shelby maheren i think i have the dust jacket somewhere i know some of you guys are probably going to ask that i do have a big sterilite bucket full of dust jackets for books that i know for sure i'm not going to keep or like i haven't read yet and i'm pretty sure i still have this dust record because i was kind of sure that i wasn't going to keep it anyway i just didn't love these i thought they were fine i think i gave them both three stars perfectly like serviceable why a fantasy if you really want a y fantasy with some like steamy scenes i guess these could work i just feel like at that point why not pick up an actual romance because these don't have the same appeal i don't know i feel like if you enjoyed these maybe pick up those jla books that are super popular because i think you're gonna get a little bit more like payoff than these ones but i know these are two popular books i know that these will get bought up super super quickly um at half price books so i am not sad that i'm saying bye to these and if i want to consume the story say with me i'm gonna pick it up on audiobook so goodbye to these next up is sort of a weird one um because i don't think i've ever read anything remotely like this on my channel watchmen the graphic novel slash comic this is something that i picked up because i had interest in comics and graphic novels kind of right when i started booktube and it's not that i don't enjoy sequential art at this point i do find it fascinating and there are some titles that i do still pick up but i just don't think that this is a story that i would particularly enjoy it's really long too um and it's really heavy on the story aspect i tend to prefer a lot more like picture storytelling in my comics and graphic novels probably because i already do so much novel reading but this just isn't something that i think is really going to strike my fancy it was something that i picked up because it was on one of those like best of lists but it's not something that i have interest in reading anymore how many times can i say that okay getting rid of this next up is one that sort of physically pains me because it took me so long to find a physical copy of this book and it was one that i anticipated loving because i like started it before i even bought a copy and sadly it ended up just being a three-star read for me and that is city of frass by essay chocoboardy i wanted to love this i didn't love this i have a whole reading vlog where i read this and two other adult fantasies and this one was by far the most disappointing which sucks because i feel like on paper this was definitely the one that i thought i was going to enjoy the most but sadly this is just not a story that really resonated with me and i feel like if i ever feel the urge or the pull to read this again i'm just going to pick up the audiobook because it is actually fantastic i'm going to say that a lot for these books that i would pick them up on audio you know if i don't have a physical copy and that is true but this one truly like i do think that the audio book version is the superior way to consume this story so yeah i'm sad to be letting this go cause it is so beautiful and it took me so long to find a hardcover copy of this but it just wasn't my perfect adult fantasy next up we have the black witch by laurie forrest this is just an example of a book that i bought kind of for a video or like a vague video idea that i had that i just decided against doing i picked this up because i had heard like very mixed reviews about this book and i wanted to maybe do a video where i read books that had very mixed reviews or were kind of controversial and the more research i did for this video and in looking into titles i just realized i didn't really have actual interest in the content of the books so it was like why even bother picking them up i guess this one's kind of no exception this sort of fantasy is just not something that i tend to pick up anymore and why fantasy i mean why in general is hard for me to pick up um or hard to get me to pick up i don't know this is a story that didn't even catch my eye when it was popular so i just i know that i'm not gonna read this next up we have these four books by robert galbraith aka jk rowling i enjoyed the first two books in this series i really did i liked the slow burn romance element but to be honest i don't really care for jk rowling anymore as she is transphobic but also these stories really declined in quality as the series went on i i think i only read the first two maybe the first three in this series i know i never read lethal white um i yeah just no interest in reading these so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of these and i don't know i just feel like there's much better mystery out there and there's definitely much better books with slow burn romance in them so yeah no reason to keep these next up we have the girl that the sea gave back by adrienne young this is the author of that one viking ebook i think i might have it somewhere i heard terrible things about this so i really have no interest in it again it's one of those why a fantasies that doesn't really appeal to me because it says c and i don't really enjoy books set at c i think that this one's not necessarily set at c how many times can i say see i'm just gonna get rid of this book next up is a discovery of witches by deborah harkness i know that they've made this into a tv show and i feel like honestly that's probably the better way to consume this story because i cannot tell you how many times i've picked this up and just not gotten very far i feel like everybody has one or two of those books on their shelves they're like i will get to this one day because everybody loves it and that's how i feel about this one i really didn't hear that much about this book until i got onto booktube and there are a few people who really really like this series and i kept it on my shelves because i was like okay yeah like i'll read it eventually and i just keep picking it up getting a couple chapters in and not being invested it really is to be honest just like a pretentious slightly adult twilight that's kind of the vibes i got from it and i personally just have no space for like that sort of vibe and or like pretentiousness if i want a paranormal romance i'm just gonna go to like a paranormal romance not this which i think is trying to be too many things i guess i don't know i don't know if that's making any sense but i'm not gonna read this so i'm gonna get rid of it next up we have a full dark no stars by stephen king i don't know how to feel about stephen king to be honest i have not read any of his books and i feel like if i was going to read one of his books it would not be this one this is like a collection that i believe four different short stories and i bought this because it was on clearance for two dollars from half price books and i think back to half price books is where it belongs next up is an indie book i think this is the only indie that i'm getting rid of and it's simply because i have two copies of it and that is the guy on the right by kate stewart so i don't need two copies and since i never see indies at my local half price books i'm always happy to sell back indies just because i would love to find an indie romance one day on my shelves next is another gy contemporary and it is the five stages of andrew brawley by sean david hutchinson i did not have very much luck with the two books that i did read of his so i don't think this is something that really interests me this is one that i got mega mega cheap from like thrift books or something i was like oh i'm just gonna collect his backlist even before i had even read any of his books i'm i'm very dumb and then i read his books and realized they weren't for me so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of like the one remaining book that i have of his next might be shocking to some of you guys who enjoy this author but it shouldn't be shocking if you have seen any of my reviews of her books um i'm getting rid of daisy jones in the six by taylor jenkins read i know everybody loves this book android loves this author but i just don't i mean there's no other like way to put it i think she does a really good job at what she does it just her writing doesn't connect with me personally i feel like it tends to be a little too here's the point instead of leading you to the point and that kind of writing style just doesn't work for me i don't really like super quotable writing and i also find her characters quite insufferable i understand that they're supposed to be unlikable but they're so unlikable that i just can't enjoy the stories so this is one that i'm gonna get rid of and if i ever wanna read it again i actually have purchased the audiobook copy so i can go and listen to it anytime i please so i'm gonna get rid of this next up is god's grave by jay kristoff i have all of these books in the uk hardcover so i don't need this one and frankly i might get rid of those at some point too because i haven't read them and the more time goes on the less inclined i am to read them nothing against the story or anything i i just don't think it's something i really am into i'm not super into revenge stories they tend to not really resonate with me so i'm gonna get rid of this one next up is a book that i probably should have paired with the other book that i'm getting rid of by this author um that's escaping from houdini by kyrie maniscalco i read stalking jack the ripper last year i read kingdom of the wicked this year and i didn't enjoy either of those books so it feels like high time to get rid of the sequel this is another one that i was like i'm gonna love carrie maniscalco she's controversial not controversial but only some people like her books her books tend to be very hit or miss for people but i for some reason thought that i was gonna be one of those people who thought her books were a hit so i was like i'm just gonna pick up all of her books and thankfully i read the first one before i got past purchasing the first two books in the series i think there's like four or five because i just didn't enjoy either of those books at all start with jack the upper or kingdom of the wicked so i'm gonna get rid of the sequel and i know someone will be overjoyed to find this at half price oh speaking of i just found it kingdom of the wicked getting rid of this really didn't enjoy it if you want to see my thoughts on this book i have a whole vlog where i read five yea fantasies that are like super popular so if you want my thoughts i've got very detailed thoughts over there mostly me just complaining for like i think 10 minutes straight yeah this was very disappointing and i'm gonna stick to adult paranormal when i want that sort of vibe next is a book that i did enjoy but i don't think i'm going to reread and that is these violin delights by chloe gong i ended up giving this book like three and a half or four stars i did enjoy it but for me what separates like a five star read from a four star is would i reread this and is this like kind of all-time favorite material and this just wasn't for me something about the ending was just a little lackluster i did love the setting of the story but i feel like because the setting was so beautiful this would lend itself really well to listening on audio again i did listen to it on audio for like half of the reading experience and it was quite lovely so i feel like if i'm gonna reread this and like read the sequel at some point it's going to be on audio so i'm going to go ahead and part ways with this i hope someone really really is excited when they see this in half price because again i don't think i've ever seen this book there next up is landline by rainbow rowell this is one that i've tried multiple times to get into and i just can't seem to get past the first couple of chapters which sort of surprises me because i think this is a story about a married couple which tends to be something that i'm into when it comes to like chiclet slash contemporary romance but i don't know this just didn't work for me and i didn't really like the concept of them like maintaining their relationship via some magical phone i think that's like silly but it's just i yeah the plot the quirks the whatever just it's not something that really interests me next up is a controversial one not controversial but i know everybody enjoys this book and i just didn't it is betrayed by emily henry i know i know this is everybody's darling i got it from book of the month and i was so excited about it but sadly this was just like a three star for me i liked elements of this book but this is just not my ideal adult romance i need a little bit more fun i need a little bit less anger sadness i don't know i don't really know what to say i just didn't i it didn't connect with me it didn't resonate we're getting rid of it next up is another book from kind of like a failed video idea i might do it at some point i kind of forgot about this until i looked at this book it's the glittering court by rachelle mead i was going to read the i think lowest rated books on my tbr no i already did that actually now that i'm looking at this i actually have no idea what this book was for i think it was for some sort of video like that like reading the lowest rated books on my tbr or reading um books that no one likes from popular authors or i don't know i'm sure the idea was convoluted because i don't have it on my like master list of video ideas anymore but i have no interest in reading this which is sad because i love rochelle mead but the reviews for this book and this series are just so blah it kind of reminds me of the reviews that i've seen for the selection which i also haven't read and kind of have no interest in so i'm just gonna get rid of this okay next up is a book that i know that i've actually gotten rid of the dust jacket for because i thought that i was gonna keep this book forever i thought it was gonna be something i reread but the longer that i am away from initially reading this book the more that i don't think i would ever reread it and that is leah on the offbeat by becky albertalli i kind of feel like when i read this book i wanted to have a different opinion than everyone else and so i was like this is a five star this is so relatable and i kind of get where i was coming from in some regards but i also think that leah was just beyond unlikable and very selfish at points and i think that is you know true for some people's high school experience and their experience of like coming to terms with their identity and like finding someone they like whatever but i just didn't love some of her actions i don't think this is something i'm gonna reread and there's so many queer stories coming out right now in y a that i feel like i would enjoy more so i'm gonna get rid of this one hopefully someone will connect with it but this is just not one that i think i want to keep on my shelves this is a book that i've had on my shelves probably the longest of most of these books i got this before i started booktube i believe i could be wrong you could have seen this in a haul correct me if i'm wrong but i'm pretty sure i got this before i started booktube and it is roar by cora carmack this is kind of i don't even know how to describe this it gives me very big fairy tale vibes and it has some stuff to do with elements that's all i really remember from the little bit that i've read of this it's one of those books kind of like another one that i have right here like truthwitch where i feel like i heard a lot of stuff right when these books came out but then i heard kind of like mixed reviews or the series wasn't that great as it carried on and i just never really had any interest in carrying on or in even reading the first book like i never read truthwitch and i never read rower and i feel like someone out there is going to enjoy these books but i just don't think they're for me at this point i think the concepts are interesting i think this one also might have some sort of like elemental magic to it but i don't know they just don't appeal to me so much anymore and i know that a teen out there would probably enjoy these books more than i would which is something that i can also say for these next three books i have a sorrow fierce and falling a shadow bright and burning and a poison dark and drowning by jessica clueless try reading the first book a while ago and i was like oh i'll enjoy this this is fun i read like the first three chapters i got distracted never picked it up again and i was like you know the other two are super cheap on book outlet this was a couple years ago i'm gonna go and get these and i never read them i'm not probably never going to read these i have a couple of other ya fantasy trilogies that i have not read on my shelves that i would probably like to read more than these ones so i'm just gonna go ahead and get rid of these next up is a book that um i've had for a really long time to be honest and it is beared to you by sylvia day i bought this book because i thought it was going to be another 50 shades and that was like all i knew at the time when it came to romance i've come so far this was like i don't know i feel like i read this right when it came out maybe 2012 probably and i ended up keeping this book and it came in handy because i had to read it again for a video that i did the video was fun and i had a good time but i don't want to keep this particular book anymore i i just was honestly kind of more irritating than 50 shades in a lot of ways because the heroine is rich and not in like a fun way you know kind of like an eat the rich sort of way so any i'm just gonna get rid of this next up we have heretics anonymous by katie henry this is a book that i read for a taste test this is a book that i had on my shelves for a while this is a book that i heard a lot of great things about and it was just okay for me it was a three star i just feel like this sort of why contemporary is something that i would have loved as a teen but as an adult it just doesn't have the same impact and that's totally okay because guess what this is not written for me yeah someone will probably really enjoy this i think it has interesting and maybe relatable like teen commentary on religion but as an adult i just kind of like didn't uh relate or care that much so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of this next up i have two copies of this book one is an arc and one is a just like finished copy i have the happy ever after playlist by abby jimenez the art copy i'm gonna put in a little free library near my house and the finished copy i am going to sell to my local used bookstore this was fine it wasn't really my favorite book i liked it better than the friend zone by abby jimenez but it just it didn't really speak to me in the way that i thought that it was going to it is kind of a hard-hitting adult contemporary about grief and i feel like i've read so many of those recently i'm glad that i had these because i did actually end up having to read this for a video that's coming out soon but i just know that this is a book that i'm not going to revisit so i'm going to go ahead and part ways with both of these copies next up we have in a holidays by christina lauren this was fine i think i gave it three stars maybe two stars to be honest now that i'm thinking about it i don't really remember how this book ended i just i don't know i have not been super impressed with christina lauren's offerings recently and that's sad because i like some of their earlier work but this is just not for me and maybe it'll be for someone else but it's just not for me if you want my like actual thoughts on this book it will be coming mid-april so look forward to that okay next up i'm gonna do these in rapid succession because i don't know much about these books i went to a book expo in 2019 and i was so excited to get arcs that i kind of just took whatever was offered to me and a lot of these books are just not things that i would have picked up on my own and i think if i put these in a little free library people will really like these so i have throw like girl by sarah henning i think this is like a why a contemporary romance it does look really cute but i just i don't really pick up y a contemporaries anymore so this is just not something that i think i'm gonna get to next i have followers by megan angelo this is one that i held onto for a really long time um it's an art copy as well primarily because i thought oh like kind of seems like something i'd like but honestly the more i look at it the more that i know that this isn't going to be like a romance or anything and i think it's going to fall into that kind of like borderline chiclet category that i just don't really personally gravity towards i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of this same with fireborn by rosario munda and jackpot by nick stone these are two books that weren't really on my radar before book expo and i think other readers would enjoy more than i would i know a lot of people say they love dragons and stories and i feel like i might have said that when i first got this book but i don't really care about dragons very much so i don't think this is for me and then jackpot by nick stone i don't really know that much about but i do know it's a whya contemporary and it takes a lot for me to pick up white contemporaries like even more so than like a white fantasy so i'm gonna go ahead and part ways with both of these next is supermarket by bobby hall aka logic i just don't really have much interest in this i have a friend that read this and absolutely hated it which kind of colors my judgment i'm glad that i got to receive a copy of this it's really like honored to get an arc i think this is one of my first and this isn't an arc this is a finished copy but this is one of the first books that i was ever like solicited to about i guess was asked to read or like was sent a copy of whatever and you know i was super excited about it at the time but as time has passed i just don't really have a ton of interest in reading this book so i'm gonna pass it along to someone who would enjoy it more next i have the map from here to there by emery lord i think this is the second book or like no i think it's the second book in a series i think the first book was supposed to be a standalone but emery lord decided to just like make a follow-up book a lot of people were excited about it i just don't really read why contemporary so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of this a book that i was interested in and now that i'm looking at it i may or may not keep it just because the cover is so cool is hollow kingdom by kyra jane buxton i actually think this no it's not a finished copy it looks like it but it's not this is an arc and i you know it's personalized to me i was excited to get this one because i know it's supposed to be sort of like a weird horror-esque book but i just don't tend to pick stuff up like this very often if ever so i feel like someone else would really really enjoy this so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of it next is narc that i actually have read and it is all-american muslim girl by nadine jolie courtney this is one that i got at book expo as well and it was one of those situations where you like walk up and you tell them like your most favorite story or whatever and they recommend you a book based off of that or give you an arc based off of that and they gave me this one and i really enjoyed this i think i gave this four stars i've read this for like a backlist readathon vlog or something like that it was a really good story but i think it would be kind of a shame for me to hold on to something like this when i feel like this could be something that someone would really really love and that's kind of how i feel about a lot of arcs um i would have liked to see this go to a muslim reviewer instead of me i mean i was just they handed it to me right like i couldn't have like decided who got it but yeah i'm sad that like this wasn't put in the hands of someone who could maybe more accurately speak to the representation and stuff like that i'm gonna go ahead and um get rid of this put it in my little free library and hopefully someone will be super excited to pick this title up next up is the first arc that i ever got a physical copy of and it kind of breaks my heart to get rid of it but i also know that i didn't ever get past a couple of chapters in this book so you know there's no use really in keeping it and that is hashtag fashion victim by amina akhtar um i just feel like someone else will really connect with the story the idea behind it is really cool but i just didn't connect with the writing for this so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of this the next arc is one that i was passed along by a friend and i actually ended up really enjoying the story but i don't think it's one that i am going to reread and that is girls of paper and fire by natasha nyong like i said i i really did enjoy this but the more i heard about the sequel the less inclined i was to pick it up and that is simply because i think the second book focuses more on war and i felt like this worked really well as a standalone and you're probably thinking like okay well if you liked it you feel like it would work as a standalone why would you keep it for me i just know that i'm not going to reread this book and if i do want to read this book i'm going to pick it up on audio i think honestly that is actually how i ended up consuming this story i read along as i listened and i just feel like someone else could really enjoy this story it's really important representation we've got uh two asian main characters and there's a sapphic romance at the heart of the story i just feel like i would love to see someone pick this up who could feel really seen by this book so i am kind of sad to part ways with this arc but at the same time i feel like this could definitely be a book that really speaks to someone so i'm gonna go ahead and put this in my little free library next up is a book that i kind of debated selling just because i really did enjoy the story and that is the complete persepolis by marshawn tropi i really liked this i felt like it was a super important story but non-fiction like this is not something that i tend to revisit it's something that i feel like i get really invested in i do research about the topics at hand as i'm reading i feel like i get really immersed but i just don't think it's something that i really am going to get a whole ton of value in if i read it again and that's how i feel about most books but especially nonfiction i feel like it's almost it's almost like a textbook i mean it wasn't like a textbook and i specifically said that in my vlog just that you know it didn't feel like a textbook but in the way that you were consuming the the knowledge in these sorts of stories it just doesn't feel like something i'm to need to revisit i don't know why i'm trying to like really explain this but you guys know what i'm saying right and this is one that i feel like is required reading for a lot of people for different classes especially like college classes i feel like if i were a college student going into half-price books and found this used copy and needed it for a class i'd be super super happy so i'm going to go ahead and part ways next up we have the which doesn't burn in this one by amanda lovelace i didn't really enjoy this personally i enjoyed her first collection of poetry more than this one and i just feel like uh poetry is a really personal thing so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of this and hopefully someone will feel really connected to these poems when they pick this up now the last five books that i have are all romances and i'm getting rid of them for different reasons so buckle in for these last five books so the first book is the honey don't list by cena lauren this is actually an arc that i received and when i got the like message about this i was honestly in shock i was like why would you want me to have a copy of this i'm not cool enough to get a copy of this book but sadly it just didn't really work out for me i wanted to love this so much because i like that whole fixer-upper hgtv vibe but the two like romances i guess at the heart of the story or like the two couples i didn't connect with either of them the kind of like falling apart marriage was just sad and the romance that blossomed between the two assistants it was just kind of lackluster for me i wanted more there i wanted more focus on their relationship that just never happened so this was just kind of meh for me and it was so disappointing because i was so excited about it but you wouldn't send me lose some and you know always think of this book with fond memories just because i was lucky enough to receive an arc for it but i'm hoping that by putting this in my little free library someone will have a really good book to read by the pool this summer next up we have one to watch by kate stayman london i really really liked this book but i just feel like if i'm gonna read this book again i'm gonna pick up the audiobook version of it this is another one too that i feel like i just don't see enough books like this in my half price books i feel like you've got a lot of 50 shades a lot of beard to you and a lot of historical romance but i don't see a ton of these like new contemporary romances with really diverse representation in them i really feel like that's important and i want to see this on the shelves of even used bookstores so i'm going to go ahead and donate this and again if i ever want to reread this which i probably will because i did really enjoy this story i'm going to go ahead and pick this up on audio next up is a book that i feel like i told you guys recently i was going to keep but upon further reflection i feel like i just loved the audiobook version so much that i can't see myself physically reading this and that is ties at tether by jane agaro i read this for a recent video i really really enjoyed the story i loved the cultural aspects of it and i really liked the romance but i actually have such fond memories of listening to this i did a lot of yard work as i finish this book and i know it sounds really silly but i just had such like a good time listening while i was doing that that i have fond memories about this book probably more fond memories than i would had i not done yard work while i listened to it i know that sounds so stupid but i liked the audiobook so i honestly might buy the audiobook version because i liked it so much anyway i'm gonna get rid of the physical copy but i did enjoy this and i do recommend it and then we come to our last two books i saved the best books or i guess worst books for last they should come as no surprise to anyone who's been watching my channel for any length of time because i didn't enjoy either of these first up we have pretending by holly bourne this book may be like pretty viscerally angry i talk about it more in that vlog which i may or may not link in the description if i can remember but this just i i don't know who the audience for this book is it was just so so graphic with the sexual assaults the romance at the heart of the story was not really a romance i just i don't really know what the story was for i i don't i'm gonna get rid of it and then lastly it's finally time to say goodbye to in five years by rebecca searle i hate this book with every fiber of my being every piece of my soul so excited to finally just part ways i feel like my spirit's going to lift when i sell this back to half price books to be honest it just didn't work for me in any any regard but i know a lot of you guys did enjoy it so maybe one of you guys will be lucky enough to find a copy i might have price books that is it though those are the 56 55 i don't i don't know i don't know i'm putting 56 in the title because i counted once and that's good enough um the 56 books that i'm getting rid of if you stayed this long thank you i feel like this video was extremely long for no reason but hopefully you enjoyed me rambling and chatting i have more exciting content coming that is of value to someone unlike this but thanks so much for watching i love you guys so much and until next sunday youhello welcome back to my channel and uh welcome to my very petite very tiny 56 book unhaul i have been collecting these books in a box in my closet for far too long and i figured it was time to show you guys these books before i part with them i don't know how juicy this is going to be i just know that i personally love watching book unhauls i like to know why people are getting rid of books just as much as i like to know why people are buying books i don't know how how exciting this is going to be just because i feel like the reasons that i'm getting rid of a lot of these books are not that exciting but um if you just want to turn this on while you eat lunch or something that's like what i'm here for i'm here to just be some like good background noise for you so without further ado let's get into the unhaul portion of this video and i'll tell you about all of the books that i'm getting rid of and why i'm getting rid of them so first up i'm sure you could see it right here i have cemetery boys by aiden thomas you're gonna see kind of a recurring theme here there are a lot of young adult like contemporary or young adult fantasy books that i'm getting rid of the ones that are like borderline fantasy i guess and that is primarily because it's just not a genre that i tend to reread a lot and i feel like if i want to enjoy this story again i will probably pick it up on audio that's actually how i consumed this story whenever i picked it up for my why a fantasy reading vlog and i had a really good time with audiobook version so i don't think if i want to read this again that i will want to read it physically and i've also noticed whenever i go to my local half price books that's where i'm going to resell most of these books at least the ones that are not arcs i've noticed that when i go to my local half half-price books they don't really have a lot of newer titles besides like you know the actor books and things like that they tend to be like older like 2008-ish by a books and while that's not necessarily like bad i would love to see you know kind of more current titles on the shelves for teens so this one i'm going to go ahead and resell next up is clapping you land by elizabeth acevedo i really enjoyed the story i thought it was really excellent but again this is one that i will probably pick up on audio if i want to reread and it's another one that i've never actually seen in like a half price books so again i would love to be able to sell this to them and hopefully have like a teen be able to pick this one up next up is one that i'm not reselling because i want teens to read it it's because i thought it was kind of boring and that is the darkest star by jla i don't hate jennifer l armentrout's writing i just have not had the best luck with her books i think i've read this i've read um the ones that are popular right now from blood and ash a kingdom of flesh and fire and then i think like half blood the vampire academy rip off and like her writing spine it's just i've never read a book of hers that was really like anything more than a three and a half star and i know that i am not going to reread this because i don't even really remember what this was about it's a spin-off of the lux series which is not one that i actually ended up reading when i was a teen i think i was like past that age group or it was like a little bit after my time i guess yeah i'm not gonna miss this book another book i'm not gonna miss is miss peregrine's home for peculiar children i feel kind of weird on hauling this because it's actually my sister's book but i know that she wouldn't miss it either this is one that i read for a taste test and i'm glad that i got the opportunity to finally read this popular book i had a good time reading it to be honest i thought it was interesting but i'm not going to carry on with the series and in general again like why a is so hit or miss for me i tend to only really enjoy y a paranormal or why a high fantasy at this point so this is not something that i feel like i would revisit next up okay um call me by your name by andre ossiman i picked this up from a local indie bookstore right when the movie came out because i was like oh you know like maybe i'll read the book and then watch the movie i never watched the movie i've never read the book and i just don't think that it's something i really have interest in anymore i really don't tend to like literary romance if that makes sense or literary fiction books that have like a romance at the heart i feel like they're never done in a way that i enjoy and there's just a lot of controversy surrounding this book and this movie and i just i don't know i don't have the interest that i used to have in consuming this so i'd rather sell this and maybe you know someone who would enjoy this we'll pick it up next up are a matching pair we have serpent and dove and blood and honey by shelby maheren i think i have the dust jacket somewhere i know some of you guys are probably going to ask that i do have a big sterilite bucket full of dust jackets for books that i know for sure i'm not going to keep or like i haven't read yet and i'm pretty sure i still have this dust record because i was kind of sure that i wasn't going to keep it anyway i just didn't love these i thought they were fine i think i gave them both three stars perfectly like serviceable why a fantasy if you really want a y fantasy with some like steamy scenes i guess these could work i just feel like at that point why not pick up an actual romance because these don't have the same appeal i don't know i feel like if you enjoyed these maybe pick up those jla books that are super popular because i think you're gonna get a little bit more like payoff than these ones but i know these are two popular books i know that these will get bought up super super quickly um at half price books so i am not sad that i'm saying bye to these and if i want to consume the story say with me i'm gonna pick it up on audiobook so goodbye to these next up is sort of a weird one um because i don't think i've ever read anything remotely like this on my channel watchmen the graphic novel slash comic this is something that i picked up because i had interest in comics and graphic novels kind of right when i started booktube and it's not that i don't enjoy sequential art at this point i do find it fascinating and there are some titles that i do still pick up but i just don't think that this is a story that i would particularly enjoy it's really long too um and it's really heavy on the story aspect i tend to prefer a lot more like picture storytelling in my comics and graphic novels probably because i already do so much novel reading but this just isn't something that i think is really going to strike my fancy it was something that i picked up because it was on one of those like best of lists but it's not something that i have interest in reading anymore how many times can i say that okay getting rid of this next up is one that sort of physically pains me because it took me so long to find a physical copy of this book and it was one that i anticipated loving because i like started it before i even bought a copy and sadly it ended up just being a three-star read for me and that is city of frass by essay chocoboardy i wanted to love this i didn't love this i have a whole reading vlog where i read this and two other adult fantasies and this one was by far the most disappointing which sucks because i feel like on paper this was definitely the one that i thought i was going to enjoy the most but sadly this is just not a story that really resonated with me and i feel like if i ever feel the urge or the pull to read this again i'm just going to pick up the audiobook because it is actually fantastic i'm going to say that a lot for these books that i would pick them up on audio you know if i don't have a physical copy and that is true but this one truly like i do think that the audio book version is the superior way to consume this story so yeah i'm sad to be letting this go cause it is so beautiful and it took me so long to find a hardcover copy of this but it just wasn't my perfect adult fantasy next up we have the black witch by laurie forrest this is just an example of a book that i bought kind of for a video or like a vague video idea that i had that i just decided against doing i picked this up because i had heard like very mixed reviews about this book and i wanted to maybe do a video where i read books that had very mixed reviews or were kind of controversial and the more research i did for this video and in looking into titles i just realized i didn't really have actual interest in the content of the books so it was like why even bother picking them up i guess this one's kind of no exception this sort of fantasy is just not something that i tend to pick up anymore and why fantasy i mean why in general is hard for me to pick up um or hard to get me to pick up i don't know this is a story that didn't even catch my eye when it was popular so i just i know that i'm not gonna read this next up we have these four books by robert galbraith aka jk rowling i enjoyed the first two books in this series i really did i liked the slow burn romance element but to be honest i don't really care for jk rowling anymore as she is transphobic but also these stories really declined in quality as the series went on i i think i only read the first two maybe the first three in this series i know i never read lethal white um i yeah just no interest in reading these so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of these and i don't know i just feel like there's much better mystery out there and there's definitely much better books with slow burn romance in them so yeah no reason to keep these next up we have the girl that the sea gave back by adrienne young this is the author of that one viking ebook i think i might have it somewhere i heard terrible things about this so i really have no interest in it again it's one of those why a fantasies that doesn't really appeal to me because it says c and i don't really enjoy books set at c i think that this one's not necessarily set at c how many times can i say see i'm just gonna get rid of this book next up is a discovery of witches by deborah harkness i know that they've made this into a tv show and i feel like honestly that's probably the better way to consume this story because i cannot tell you how many times i've picked this up and just not gotten very far i feel like everybody has one or two of those books on their shelves they're like i will get to this one day because everybody loves it and that's how i feel about this one i really didn't hear that much about this book until i got onto booktube and there are a few people who really really like this series and i kept it on my shelves because i was like okay yeah like i'll read it eventually and i just keep picking it up getting a couple chapters in and not being invested it really is to be honest just like a pretentious slightly adult twilight that's kind of the vibes i got from it and i personally just have no space for like that sort of vibe and or like pretentiousness if i want a paranormal romance i'm just gonna go to like a paranormal romance not this which i think is trying to be too many things i guess i don't know i don't know if that's making any sense but i'm not gonna read this so i'm gonna get rid of it next up we have a full dark no stars by stephen king i don't know how to feel about stephen king to be honest i have not read any of his books and i feel like if i was going to read one of his books it would not be this one this is like a collection that i believe four different short stories and i bought this because it was on clearance for two dollars from half price books and i think back to half price books is where it belongs next up is an indie book i think this is the only indie that i'm getting rid of and it's simply because i have two copies of it and that is the guy on the right by kate stewart so i don't need two copies and since i never see indies at my local half price books i'm always happy to sell back indies just because i would love to find an indie romance one day on my shelves next is another gy contemporary and it is the five stages of andrew brawley by sean david hutchinson i did not have very much luck with the two books that i did read of his so i don't think this is something that really interests me this is one that i got mega mega cheap from like thrift books or something i was like oh i'm just gonna collect his backlist even before i had even read any of his books i'm i'm very dumb and then i read his books and realized they weren't for me so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of like the one remaining book that i have of his next might be shocking to some of you guys who enjoy this author but it shouldn't be shocking if you have seen any of my reviews of her books um i'm getting rid of daisy jones in the six by taylor jenkins read i know everybody loves this book android loves this author but i just don't i mean there's no other like way to put it i think she does a really good job at what she does it just her writing doesn't connect with me personally i feel like it tends to be a little too here's the point instead of leading you to the point and that kind of writing style just doesn't work for me i don't really like super quotable writing and i also find her characters quite insufferable i understand that they're supposed to be unlikable but they're so unlikable that i just can't enjoy the stories so this is one that i'm gonna get rid of and if i ever wanna read it again i actually have purchased the audiobook copy so i can go and listen to it anytime i please so i'm gonna get rid of this next up is god's grave by jay kristoff i have all of these books in the uk hardcover so i don't need this one and frankly i might get rid of those at some point too because i haven't read them and the more time goes on the less inclined i am to read them nothing against the story or anything i i just don't think it's something i really am into i'm not super into revenge stories they tend to not really resonate with me so i'm gonna get rid of this one next up is a book that i probably should have paired with the other book that i'm getting rid of by this author um that's escaping from houdini by kyrie maniscalco i read stalking jack the ripper last year i read kingdom of the wicked this year and i didn't enjoy either of those books so it feels like high time to get rid of the sequel this is another one that i was like i'm gonna love carrie maniscalco she's controversial not controversial but only some people like her books her books tend to be very hit or miss for people but i for some reason thought that i was gonna be one of those people who thought her books were a hit so i was like i'm just gonna pick up all of her books and thankfully i read the first one before i got past purchasing the first two books in the series i think there's like four or five because i just didn't enjoy either of those books at all start with jack the upper or kingdom of the wicked so i'm gonna get rid of the sequel and i know someone will be overjoyed to find this at half price oh speaking of i just found it kingdom of the wicked getting rid of this really didn't enjoy it if you want to see my thoughts on this book i have a whole vlog where i read five yea fantasies that are like super popular so if you want my thoughts i've got very detailed thoughts over there mostly me just complaining for like i think 10 minutes straight yeah this was very disappointing and i'm gonna stick to adult paranormal when i want that sort of vibe next is a book that i did enjoy but i don't think i'm going to reread and that is these violin delights by chloe gong i ended up giving this book like three and a half or four stars i did enjoy it but for me what separates like a five star read from a four star is would i reread this and is this like kind of all-time favorite material and this just wasn't for me something about the ending was just a little lackluster i did love the setting of the story but i feel like because the setting was so beautiful this would lend itself really well to listening on audio again i did listen to it on audio for like half of the reading experience and it was quite lovely so i feel like if i'm gonna reread this and like read the sequel at some point it's going to be on audio so i'm going to go ahead and part ways with this i hope someone really really is excited when they see this in half price because again i don't think i've ever seen this book there next up is landline by rainbow rowell this is one that i've tried multiple times to get into and i just can't seem to get past the first couple of chapters which sort of surprises me because i think this is a story about a married couple which tends to be something that i'm into when it comes to like chiclet slash contemporary romance but i don't know this just didn't work for me and i didn't really like the concept of them like maintaining their relationship via some magical phone i think that's like silly but it's just i yeah the plot the quirks the whatever just it's not something that really interests me next up is a controversial one not controversial but i know everybody enjoys this book and i just didn't it is betrayed by emily henry i know i know this is everybody's darling i got it from book of the month and i was so excited about it but sadly this was just like a three star for me i liked elements of this book but this is just not my ideal adult romance i need a little bit more fun i need a little bit less anger sadness i don't know i don't really know what to say i just didn't i it didn't connect with me it didn't resonate we're getting rid of it next up is another book from kind of like a failed video idea i might do it at some point i kind of forgot about this until i looked at this book it's the glittering court by rachelle mead i was going to read the i think lowest rated books on my tbr no i already did that actually now that i'm looking at this i actually have no idea what this book was for i think it was for some sort of video like that like reading the lowest rated books on my tbr or reading um books that no one likes from popular authors or i don't know i'm sure the idea was convoluted because i don't have it on my like master list of video ideas anymore but i have no interest in reading this which is sad because i love rochelle mead but the reviews for this book and this series are just so blah it kind of reminds me of the reviews that i've seen for the selection which i also haven't read and kind of have no interest in so i'm just gonna get rid of this okay next up is a book that i know that i've actually gotten rid of the dust jacket for because i thought that i was gonna keep this book forever i thought it was gonna be something i reread but the longer that i am away from initially reading this book the more that i don't think i would ever reread it and that is leah on the offbeat by becky albertalli i kind of feel like when i read this book i wanted to have a different opinion than everyone else and so i was like this is a five star this is so relatable and i kind of get where i was coming from in some regards but i also think that leah was just beyond unlikable and very selfish at points and i think that is you know true for some people's high school experience and their experience of like coming to terms with their identity and like finding someone they like whatever but i just didn't love some of her actions i don't think this is something i'm gonna reread and there's so many queer stories coming out right now in y a that i feel like i would enjoy more so i'm gonna get rid of this one hopefully someone will connect with it but this is just not one that i think i want to keep on my shelves this is a book that i've had on my shelves probably the longest of most of these books i got this before i started booktube i believe i could be wrong you could have seen this in a haul correct me if i'm wrong but i'm pretty sure i got this before i started booktube and it is roar by cora carmack this is kind of i don't even know how to describe this it gives me very big fairy tale vibes and it has some stuff to do with elements that's all i really remember from the little bit that i've read of this it's one of those books kind of like another one that i have right here like truthwitch where i feel like i heard a lot of stuff right when these books came out but then i heard kind of like mixed reviews or the series wasn't that great as it carried on and i just never really had any interest in carrying on or in even reading the first book like i never read truthwitch and i never read rower and i feel like someone out there is going to enjoy these books but i just don't think they're for me at this point i think the concepts are interesting i think this one also might have some sort of like elemental magic to it but i don't know they just don't appeal to me so much anymore and i know that a teen out there would probably enjoy these books more than i would which is something that i can also say for these next three books i have a sorrow fierce and falling a shadow bright and burning and a poison dark and drowning by jessica clueless try reading the first book a while ago and i was like oh i'll enjoy this this is fun i read like the first three chapters i got distracted never picked it up again and i was like you know the other two are super cheap on book outlet this was a couple years ago i'm gonna go and get these and i never read them i'm not probably never going to read these i have a couple of other ya fantasy trilogies that i have not read on my shelves that i would probably like to read more than these ones so i'm just gonna go ahead and get rid of these next up is a book that um i've had for a really long time to be honest and it is beared to you by sylvia day i bought this book because i thought it was going to be another 50 shades and that was like all i knew at the time when it came to romance i've come so far this was like i don't know i feel like i read this right when it came out maybe 2012 probably and i ended up keeping this book and it came in handy because i had to read it again for a video that i did the video was fun and i had a good time but i don't want to keep this particular book anymore i i just was honestly kind of more irritating than 50 shades in a lot of ways because the heroine is rich and not in like a fun way you know kind of like an eat the rich sort of way so any i'm just gonna get rid of this next up we have heretics anonymous by katie henry this is a book that i read for a taste test this is a book that i had on my shelves for a while this is a book that i heard a lot of great things about and it was just okay for me it was a three star i just feel like this sort of why contemporary is something that i would have loved as a teen but as an adult it just doesn't have the same impact and that's totally okay because guess what this is not written for me yeah someone will probably really enjoy this i think it has interesting and maybe relatable like teen commentary on religion but as an adult i just kind of like didn't uh relate or care that much so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of this next up i have two copies of this book one is an arc and one is a just like finished copy i have the happy ever after playlist by abby jimenez the art copy i'm gonna put in a little free library near my house and the finished copy i am going to sell to my local used bookstore this was fine it wasn't really my favorite book i liked it better than the friend zone by abby jimenez but it just it didn't really speak to me in the way that i thought that it was going to it is kind of a hard-hitting adult contemporary about grief and i feel like i've read so many of those recently i'm glad that i had these because i did actually end up having to read this for a video that's coming out soon but i just know that this is a book that i'm not going to revisit so i'm going to go ahead and part ways with both of these copies next up we have in a holidays by christina lauren this was fine i think i gave it three stars maybe two stars to be honest now that i'm thinking about it i don't really remember how this book ended i just i don't know i have not been super impressed with christina lauren's offerings recently and that's sad because i like some of their earlier work but this is just not for me and maybe it'll be for someone else but it's just not for me if you want my like actual thoughts on this book it will be coming mid-april so look forward to that okay next up i'm gonna do these in rapid succession because i don't know much about these books i went to a book expo in 2019 and i was so excited to get arcs that i kind of just took whatever was offered to me and a lot of these books are just not things that i would have picked up on my own and i think if i put these in a little free library people will really like these so i have throw like girl by sarah henning i think this is like a why a contemporary romance it does look really cute but i just i don't really pick up y a contemporaries anymore so this is just not something that i think i'm gonna get to next i have followers by megan angelo this is one that i held onto for a really long time um it's an art copy as well primarily because i thought oh like kind of seems like something i'd like but honestly the more i look at it the more that i know that this isn't going to be like a romance or anything and i think it's going to fall into that kind of like borderline chiclet category that i just don't really personally gravity towards i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of this same with fireborn by rosario munda and jackpot by nick stone these are two books that weren't really on my radar before book expo and i think other readers would enjoy more than i would i know a lot of people say they love dragons and stories and i feel like i might have said that when i first got this book but i don't really care about dragons very much so i don't think this is for me and then jackpot by nick stone i don't really know that much about but i do know it's a whya contemporary and it takes a lot for me to pick up white contemporaries like even more so than like a white fantasy so i'm gonna go ahead and part ways with both of these next is supermarket by bobby hall aka logic i just don't really have much interest in this i have a friend that read this and absolutely hated it which kind of colors my judgment i'm glad that i got to receive a copy of this it's really like honored to get an arc i think this is one of my first and this isn't an arc this is a finished copy but this is one of the first books that i was ever like solicited to about i guess was asked to read or like was sent a copy of whatever and you know i was super excited about it at the time but as time has passed i just don't really have a ton of interest in reading this book so i'm gonna pass it along to someone who would enjoy it more next i have the map from here to there by emery lord i think this is the second book or like no i think it's the second book in a series i think the first book was supposed to be a standalone but emery lord decided to just like make a follow-up book a lot of people were excited about it i just don't really read why contemporary so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of this a book that i was interested in and now that i'm looking at it i may or may not keep it just because the cover is so cool is hollow kingdom by kyra jane buxton i actually think this no it's not a finished copy it looks like it but it's not this is an arc and i you know it's personalized to me i was excited to get this one because i know it's supposed to be sort of like a weird horror-esque book but i just don't tend to pick stuff up like this very often if ever so i feel like someone else would really really enjoy this so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of it next is narc that i actually have read and it is all-american muslim girl by nadine jolie courtney this is one that i got at book expo as well and it was one of those situations where you like walk up and you tell them like your most favorite story or whatever and they recommend you a book based off of that or give you an arc based off of that and they gave me this one and i really enjoyed this i think i gave this four stars i've read this for like a backlist readathon vlog or something like that it was a really good story but i think it would be kind of a shame for me to hold on to something like this when i feel like this could be something that someone would really really love and that's kind of how i feel about a lot of arcs um i would have liked to see this go to a muslim reviewer instead of me i mean i was just they handed it to me right like i couldn't have like decided who got it but yeah i'm sad that like this wasn't put in the hands of someone who could maybe more accurately speak to the representation and stuff like that i'm gonna go ahead and um get rid of this put it in my little free library and hopefully someone will be super excited to pick this title up next up is the first arc that i ever got a physical copy of and it kind of breaks my heart to get rid of it but i also know that i didn't ever get past a couple of chapters in this book so you know there's no use really in keeping it and that is hashtag fashion victim by amina akhtar um i just feel like someone else will really connect with the story the idea behind it is really cool but i just didn't connect with the writing for this so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of this the next arc is one that i was passed along by a friend and i actually ended up really enjoying the story but i don't think it's one that i am going to reread and that is girls of paper and fire by natasha nyong like i said i i really did enjoy this but the more i heard about the sequel the less inclined i was to pick it up and that is simply because i think the second book focuses more on war and i felt like this worked really well as a standalone and you're probably thinking like okay well if you liked it you feel like it would work as a standalone why would you keep it for me i just know that i'm not going to reread this book and if i do want to read this book i'm going to pick it up on audio i think honestly that is actually how i ended up consuming this story i read along as i listened and i just feel like someone else could really enjoy this story it's really important representation we've got uh two asian main characters and there's a sapphic romance at the heart of the story i just feel like i would love to see someone pick this up who could feel really seen by this book so i am kind of sad to part ways with this arc but at the same time i feel like this could definitely be a book that really speaks to someone so i'm gonna go ahead and put this in my little free library next up is a book that i kind of debated selling just because i really did enjoy the story and that is the complete persepolis by marshawn tropi i really liked this i felt like it was a super important story but non-fiction like this is not something that i tend to revisit it's something that i feel like i get really invested in i do research about the topics at hand as i'm reading i feel like i get really immersed but i just don't think it's something that i really am going to get a whole ton of value in if i read it again and that's how i feel about most books but especially nonfiction i feel like it's almost it's almost like a textbook i mean it wasn't like a textbook and i specifically said that in my vlog just that you know it didn't feel like a textbook but in the way that you were consuming the the knowledge in these sorts of stories it just doesn't feel like something i'm to need to revisit i don't know why i'm trying to like really explain this but you guys know what i'm saying right and this is one that i feel like is required reading for a lot of people for different classes especially like college classes i feel like if i were a college student going into half-price books and found this used copy and needed it for a class i'd be super super happy so i'm going to go ahead and part ways next up we have the which doesn't burn in this one by amanda lovelace i didn't really enjoy this personally i enjoyed her first collection of poetry more than this one and i just feel like uh poetry is a really personal thing so i'm gonna go ahead and get rid of this and hopefully someone will feel really connected to these poems when they pick this up now the last five books that i have are all romances and i'm getting rid of them for different reasons so buckle in for these last five books so the first book is the honey don't list by cena lauren this is actually an arc that i received and when i got the like message about this i was honestly in shock i was like why would you want me to have a copy of this i'm not cool enough to get a copy of this book but sadly it just didn't really work out for me i wanted to love this so much because i like that whole fixer-upper hgtv vibe but the two like romances i guess at the heart of the story or like the two couples i didn't connect with either of them the kind of like falling apart marriage was just sad and the romance that blossomed between the two assistants it was just kind of lackluster for me i wanted more there i wanted more focus on their relationship that just never happened so this was just kind of meh for me and it was so disappointing because i was so excited about it but you wouldn't send me lose some and you know always think of this book with fond memories just because i was lucky enough to receive an arc for it but i'm hoping that by putting this in my little free library someone will have a really good book to read by the pool this summer next up we have one to watch by kate stayman london i really really liked this book but i just feel like if i'm gonna read this book again i'm gonna pick up the audiobook version of it this is another one too that i feel like i just don't see enough books like this in my half price books i feel like you've got a lot of 50 shades a lot of beard to you and a lot of historical romance but i don't see a ton of these like new contemporary romances with really diverse representation in them i really feel like that's important and i want to see this on the shelves of even used bookstores so i'm going to go ahead and donate this and again if i ever want to reread this which i probably will because i did really enjoy this story i'm going to go ahead and pick this up on audio next up is a book that i feel like i told you guys recently i was going to keep but upon further reflection i feel like i just loved the audiobook version so much that i can't see myself physically reading this and that is ties at tether by jane agaro i read this for a recent video i really really enjoyed the story i loved the cultural aspects of it and i really liked the romance but i actually have such fond memories of listening to this i did a lot of yard work as i finish this book and i know it sounds really silly but i just had such like a good time listening while i was doing that that i have fond memories about this book probably more fond memories than i would had i not done yard work while i listened to it i know that sounds so stupid but i liked the audiobook so i honestly might buy the audiobook version because i liked it so much anyway i'm gonna get rid of the physical copy but i did enjoy this and i do recommend it and then we come to our last two books i saved the best books or i guess worst books for last they should come as no surprise to anyone who's been watching my channel for any length of time because i didn't enjoy either of these first up we have pretending by holly bourne this book may be like pretty viscerally angry i talk about it more in that vlog which i may or may not link in the description if i can remember but this just i i don't know who the audience for this book is it was just so so graphic with the sexual assaults the romance at the heart of the story was not really a romance i just i don't really know what the story was for i i don't i'm gonna get rid of it and then lastly it's finally time to say goodbye to in five years by rebecca searle i hate this book with every fiber of my being every piece of my soul so excited to finally just part ways i feel like my spirit's going to lift when i sell this back to half price books to be honest it just didn't work for me in any any regard but i know a lot of you guys did enjoy it so maybe one of you guys will be lucky enough to find a copy i might have price books that is it though those are the 56 55 i don't i don't know i don't know i'm putting 56 in the title because i counted once and that's good enough um the 56 books that i'm getting rid of if you stayed this long thank you i feel like this video was extremely long for no reason but hopefully you enjoyed me rambling and chatting i have more exciting content coming that is of value to someone unlike this but thanks so much for watching i love you guys so much and until next sunday you\n"