Weird question. What do you do with books you put on Pango that don't sell? My unhaul stack is becoming intimidating.

Nice unhaul ❤

📦 Hooray for more shelf space and making a good dent in your TBR!

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You might not have enjoyed contemporary/historical but we still won so maybe we're just the best genre 😏

I agree with The Will of the Many. It was very meh for me. I rated it about the same. I almost freaked out when you said you were unhauling The Housemaid but I calmed down when you said you were just exchanging it for a paperback lol.

i want to read that book by jen lyons!!

My last solid 5-star book, where I am not rounding up to 5 stars for Goodreads, was Murder on the Interstellar Express, by Gregory D. Little, a netgalley arc murder mystery/thriller set in space. Netgalley says it comes out August 13. Definitely scifi, so not for everyone, but really fun.

The Marriage Act by John Marrs was really good (I loved it).

i def mood reading in july!! but i love the picking one goal to work on each month!!

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I don’t envy you attempting to predict what will be 5 stars. I’ve picked up books which logically should have been 5 star classics that completely sucked. Even picked up things from authors I loved and been bitterly disappointed. To be honest I even struggled to decide what star ratings to give books I HAVE read consistently let alone predict what star ratings it will be in advance. That’s why I came up with a spreadsheet in the end 😂

Such a great month!! 🎉🎉

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i felt similar with year of yes! she definitely made it way more convoluted than it needed to be by going back and forth in time! at least you didn’t dnf any! 😅

This is a great idea, I love watching these and I’m curious to do one myself. I’m not so consistent at predicting my 5 star reads either 🤔

Empire of the Sand was 4 stars for me so I'm hopeful you'll give it at least that! Especially since we agree on loving Daughter of No Worlds

Thanks for sharing your thoughts; it is always interesting to see what others think :) Sorry, you had a hard time with all the books. Thank you for sharing. We are still friends.the world would be such a boring place if we were all the same LOL

For dystopian/social experiment, try The End of Menby Christine Sweeney Bird- plague kills only men and how that affects the world- written similarity to The Measure..

We were on a similar Page 😂 😅

Here she recommendations for you, because I also love dystopian and books that play with time. Dystopian: upright women wanted, which is sapphic female Cowboys in the near future and it’s short. The great transition which is a near future climate thriller esque dystopian. The word exchange Time: waterfall, young adult, 14th century Italy, romance with a night. Time after time Manhattan Hwnge

Bri it’s totally okay to end by realizing your tastes don’t align!! Even though I love your content, my taste doesn’t always align with yours, so I’d love to find other creators who have more similar taste to me too!

Dang!! Nicole is such a wonderful human and we all were over here struggling😅😅 it’s us, Nicole, not you!!

Nicole is so fantastic!! She contributes so much to our community and I appreciate her so much. It has such a great project to expand my horizons.

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I’ve heard lots of good things about Wild and Wicked Things. I haven’t read it yet though. Not sure if I’ll try it after hearing your thoughts but we’ll see.

The passengers is really good!

Nicole IS a wonderful human! And so are you! I totally agree that this has been a great project for testing our comfort zone barriers and stepping into other readers' shoes! ❤

Sign Here sounds like it might offer some inspiration for my current DnD campaign lol

Go Team Wings! 🪶🕰️

SO MAN BOOKS TO ADD TO THE TBR!!

One of these days, I hope you finally get to Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson - revolution and religion vibes galore

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I love how you did this and I hope it works! ☺️💛⏰

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I don’t think we have ever had a book on one of our best books and the other have it on the worst !

I am SO glad you liked The Teacher. I had a great time with it and almost everyone else I have talked to that has read it hasn't liked it. But, to be fair...many of them were teachers and they had obvious problems with the subject matter. Lol

If you want a good series with some political intrigue and fantasy romance I highly recommend Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer. I loved every moment in that series and I still think about it to this day.

Loved June Farrow! One of my favorites.

I wish I were at 60%. I went on a request binge a few years ago thinking I would never get approved..... I still haven't caught up, and am at 27%.

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I still need to read The Teacher. I have a friend who didn’t like it but your review makes me want to pick it up. I have so many Frieda books that I loved. For me my top 3 of hers is The Housemaid, Never Lie, and The Inmate. I plan on continuing her backlist at some point.

This is so cool! Bummed I couldn't participate this year. I wanted to comment though because I think an opportunity may have been missed with the cities/travel idea (unless I'm mistaken). It'd be really cool to add bonus points for each leg if someone reads a book set in the country they're going to or by an author from that nationality/heritage or in a country's official language(s). Just an idea to link it more to the locations. From what I see in the rules, there's not much to link the books to the specific travel locations? But I could be missing something!

I am addicted to Hexa Sort also.

As soon as you said 41C i expired

Ok but I'm kinda intrigued by The Friedship Study though

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Adding to TBR immediately ❤

👩‍🚀 this was a fun vlog! I always enjoy watching people try to tackle old TBRs and that kind of thing, so I definitely think it’s fun just to have a “Netgalley TBR” vlog!

I absolutely love Hexa sort!! ❤ it’s good to help you focus on listening.