Do I Have To Unhaul These Books? Reacting to Self-Destructing Books Video // 2024

[@Megan-gy4ly]

Maybe for the next round of self-destructing books, you could try the first chapter of every book at the start or before unhauling. If you think that sounds interesting!

[@MariaMightReadThat]

I kind of love that you’re sticking to the self-destruct part of the challenge even when you might be tempted not to. Real stakes!

[@ErickaRheanne]

"if it's not 500 pages I'm not vibing with it" 🤣I feel that on a spiritual level. I'm AUTOMATICALLY suspicious of any fantasy that's below 400

[@racheltfisher]

See those big fantasy books put me off… 😅 Priory I’m looking at you 👀

[@AshleyRebecca]

Book of Night wasn’t good lol glad it’s a declutter lol. I’m not sad about your getting rid of any of them. There are spectacular books to read and not enough time. So out with the old.

[@maire4715]

💯

[@robynpukoszek44]

The idea for this book was so interesting and had a lot of potential, but it fell so flat. It was not good. It was also initially marketed as a stand alone, then ends on a cliffhanger for a sequel 😒

[@jenny_readss]

I dnfed defy the night about 50 pages in. I guessed the full story, including twists (my friends confirmed this). I don't think you're missing out, you guess fantasy plots waaay better than me, so if I can guess every plot, you'd be bored!

[@Eliot832]

Cloud Atlas is one of my all-time favorite books! But I don't think you would have enjoyed it, and the first chapter is very hard to get past, so well done. You do you :)

[@kareydwyer9088]

I've read Guilty Pleasures and really do enjoy that series, but I definitely don't think it's for you. It's open-ended so far and a lot of people stop reading it about book 8 as it becomes mostly smut with multiple love interests around then.

[@surpriseitsus9622]

It's one of my favorite series. I loved up to 7, then fell in love again after Rafael. This series started me being obsessed with books.

[@janna7756]

Totally agree. I pretend the series ends after book six.

[@genregarden]

I know most people didn't like Book Of Night, and even though I haven't liked Holly Black books in the past, this one was surprisingly 5 stars for me and one of my best books of 2023!! It was super complex and compelling. I adored it and can't wait to read the sequel!

[@anikamercier2651]

Oh man and Defy the Night!!! I think you need to put the books where you see them or maybe just the ones you really want to try.

[@velvetshock]

I think the fact you haven’t thought about them since you made the video shows that you didn’t really have a reason to keep them. I think trust you have to trust your instincts because only you know what you enjoy and everyone has their own tastes.

[@Johanna_reads]

I read The Bone Houses (I almost wrote The Bone Clocks which you mentioned I read recently 😂) around the time it came out, and I had totally forgotten until I scanned through my Goodreads account the other day. I don’t remember a thing about that book, but I gave it 4 stars. 😳😅 Wonderful chatting with you in “Why Read?” Thanks again for joining that discussion! 💜

[@taeanna1644]

While I thoroughly enjoyed Defy the Night, I don’t think you should be bothered about getting rid of it. Knowing that you like high fantasy and extensive world building, I think that it would end up being a 3 star / forgettable for you. (I say this because I’m thinking of when you read The Bright and the Pale. While they’re not wholly similar, I think that they have the same kind of generality. Though, I did not like The Bright and the Pale at all, so what do I know?) Also, having sampled Book of Night LAST WEEK and DNFed it, I already can’t remember what it was about - and I have a pretty decent memory - so I think that is another one that isn’t any skin off your knees.

[@jkpiowa]

Kiersten White's Mister Magic was extremely deep and allegorical. I don't know about her other stuff, but that one was amazing.

[@marisagettas]

I have read multiple David Mitchell books. For me, he rarely misses. And the breadth of styles and time periods is also super-impressive. No two of his books are alike. But Cloud Atlas isn’t where I’d start with him. Maybe Black Swan Green?

[@sandrapippo8954]

Would be interested in doing a YA themed books that will destruct. ❤

[@Cat-fz1uu]

I like these videos because they're cathartic (it makes me feel like I've cleaned out my own bookshelf when I've done nothing) but also because there are some books you don't like that are up my alley and i add them to my Goodreads. Thank you for being so kind about not liking things

[@kerisbookishcorner2864]

This video makes me feel so not alone lol. I do this now after watching your first self destruct video years back, and many times I don’t get to the books. Also I have so many books that have been on my shelves so many years but I still have trouble unhauling them, you bringing this idea around has truly helped me to be able to do it also!

[@riankoch9126]

Look at all that space you just freed up! Sure sure, it’s on a cart instead of your bookcases. But stilllllllll. So much space!

[@beansquee2383]

And now she can move 10 books from her shelves to the cart and free 10 shelf spaces! 🤣

[@thequeenofbooks24]

I just finished Defy the Night and I would definitely say it had an older writing style - some of the descriptions of punishments/violent scenes were darker than her other books!

[@leighmorris531]

Maybe do a try the first chapter video for your next choices?? It'd only be one video and would give you the time you want to do the other vlogs you're more interested in making. Only a thought! That way you get to sample all of them without commiting to them?

[@pettyella6607]

Love this idea!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

Stoppppp defy the night is so good 😭😭

[@Amberly_Marie]

I think Cloud of Sparrows is worth my reading and I’m sad that I haven’t had it on my TBR 😂

[@user-vp1dj3dl6p]

I’m gonna tell you the opposite of what a lot of people say about guilty pleasures. I love me some urban fantasy, there were years of my life where almost every book I read, was urban fantasy except for school work. And I have never been able to get myself to rea the whole first book of the Laurell K Hamilton series. I’ve tried multiple times because people have told me she’s so essential to urban fantasy. And I just cannot get into it. So honestly, as an urban fantasy reader, I wouldn’t suggest her for you. If I was going to suggest urban fantasy to try and convince you to become an urban fantasy reader, I would most likely suggest Patricia Brigg’s series.

[@sceggy60]

Havenfall was surprisingly good, but the sequel was such a disappointment that I ended up unhauling them both, so I wouldn't recommend it purely based on that.

[@lizaveta3568]

What if you add next bunch to your floor stacks? And if they were not picked by random number generator or left the stacks in any other way, then you unhaul them&

[@laurawisemanphotography]

I absolutely loved The Bone Houses, one of my favourite reads but, I totally get not wanting to read something just because someone tells you to 😂

[@lisathebookcat4669]

I wanted that edition of Havelfall so bad. 😮 I totally get it, it’s so hard for me to let go of pretty editions even when I know I won’t like the book or even dnfed it.

[@kaesinfinitelibrary]

You blowing the dust off these books keeps making me laugh because me too lol 😂 I NEED to read Defy the Night - I love Brigid Kemmerer's fantasy so the fact I own it and haven't read it yet just makes me mad at myself 😅

[@racheltfisher]

I loved The Bone Houses so kind of sad you are getting rid of it, but i borrowed my copy from the library so that’s always a possibility if you did have an interest in it

[@TheCgulledge]

As someone who's favorite genre is urban fantasy, you couldn't pay me to touch a Lauren K Hamilton book. And if I haven't managed to convince my best friend to try UF in 13 years, I'm not going to convince anyone else 😂

[@lini0024]

Definitely also seconding and thirding the people recommending you to try a chapter for everything you pick since that might help in deciding if a book even has a chance in the first place!

[@faithfullygeeky]

I was a big urban fantasy girlie back in the day, and when Hamilton made that huge pivot in the Anita Blake books I was so mad. It was like a completely different series. I never recommend them anymore because it feels like she has no regard for her readers in that series

[@ReadingNymph]

I love these videos, I haven't read any of these and tbh from what you were saying about them im not wanting to try them 😅

[@plushieangela]

there's rarely a book I'll buy without reading the first page or 2, even in the bookstore I'll stand there and read a page before I buy. That could be a challenge option for a book dehaul :)

[@jennalouisedreams7002]

I really liked Book of Night..... I don't know why or can begin to understand the amount of hate people give this book. Well I have ideas but I'll keep it to myself. What an impressive unhaul though. A solid idea. That wasn't me trying to convince you to read anything.

[@Bookbonkers8439]

I just read Defy the Night and I enjoyed it, but not enough to continue the series. I love to unhaul books! It just makes me so happy because then I can add new ones to my shelves! 🤣

[@kimberlystarrett1245]

Honestly, with Guilty Pleasures, I read them years ago but started rereading them to get current and had to stop. I was a die-hard LKH fan, but I have decided to stop reading them. I may unhaul some, but I can't decide since it was such a big part of my life for so long. Like I have signed copies and some of the comics but have just lost interest in them. All this to say, I'm not as mad as I thought I would be on this. Lol

[@TheSjc8605]

If you want to try a brigid kemmerer try Letters to the lost

[@vampvswolf]

I have read a couple of those books and definitely wouldn't think they are ones that you would like.

[@msellenandrea]

I feel you on people trying to get you to do things you don't want. It is infuriating!! Just respect peoples choices, it's not that hard.

[@BookishRaider]

I understand the negative criticisms behind book of night, but I personally enjoyed it. I am not here to convince you to do anything you’re not comfortable doing.

[@macglam17]

Okay you are gorgeous but that red hair looks so good with your skin tone!

[@rasatamulione5151]

I have really loved Book of Night but I have not read Holly Black before. I think the bad reviews comes from people expectig similar things to her previous books and this is quite different

[@arobinreads]

Video idea: try a chapter tag for the books you haven't read for this video. Maybe half way through the year or something?

[@mayacatherinecreative]

Kiersten White did write one of my fave books 😭

[@lienalannister2363]

I haven't read Cloud Atlas but I was sad to see it go bc I really love the movie, it's one of my favorites

[@stephaniebookish]

THE DUST 😭

[@tanninsandtales5682]

If you want to try David Mitchell, read Slade House. It's excellent and also short, so a good way to see if his style works for you.

[@michellewilson6210]

I'm in the same place as you with Brigid Kemmerer and I've read her Curse book. Not read the Defy book yet though.

[@sophiareagan6425]

The only one of these I've read is The Guinevere Deception, which I really liked. But based on your taste in fantasy, I don't think you're missing anything that you would love.

[@MissBronwen]

I’m not really sad about any. I did love The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones but didn’t like the Bone Houses as much. But I can also acknowledge that my tastes are different! I will just say I’ve seen a couple Welsh reviewers say bad things about her books and far more Welsh reviewers say good things. As someone who grew up with a Welsh mother telling me stories and myths she got from my Grandad, I had a lot of childhood nostalgia for some of the references in both books. But that’s a personal thing and wouldn’t necessarily apply to other readers.

[@BashleeByBimb]

If you def aint a RH kinda girl, I spotted a Kathryn Moon book on your stack of books to read and shelf or unhaul. Lola and the millionaires i think it was. J.Bree, broken bonds is RH too ... heads up from that pile of books ♥

[@kareydwyer9088]

But both of those are so good! I started the Ties that Bind series and read it right through even though I'm usually reading multiple series at once. And I've been thinking of a reread of the series that Lola is in because it was a lot of fun. Even with the serious topics.

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

I haven’t read any Holly black except her middle grade and I’ve stuck to that because I just have no interest 😅 I do really love a curse so dark and lonely a lot but not sure if you would like it tbh. Love a good unhaul video!

[@ninijournal2878]

Not me seeing this video with "defend the dawn" in my hand 🤣🤣 second book of "defy the night" Ans I have "book of the night" in my tbr for this month 😭😭 my expectations are really low for that one

[@nancywolf1467]

Cloud Atlas, all of his books are at least 4⭐️ reads. You’ll know if you like his style right away in this book. This is an adult author with thought provoking book. Deception - spot on. I liked it as it was a quick popcorn palate cleanser. Holly Black almost annoyed me as it’s NOT adult. Mid The Bone Houses was much better than I thought it would be! I liked the premise & it was executed well. I do the same thing, an overhyped book gets ignored. That sometimes backfires … I cite Gone Girl … I admit to liking a good book! And sometimes a good book is written in a genre I don’t like 🤷🏼‍♀️or is hyped for a reason. Meh, there are SO MANY books … books that prolly do excite … so unhaul away!!! 😁

[@erikareading]

I find Brigid Kemmerer's writing style somehow comforting to me. I think you are right about it being a bit younger YA. Maybe that's why I like her. Not so much a fan of the New Adult and older YA stuff but I do like some of it. You are probably fine with letting go of that book :)

[@rebelbelle1388]

Gaaaaah I've also had Cloud Atlas on my list for AGES. I keep telling myself I'll get to it eventually but will I really?

[@cleg78]

I think if you did give Defy the Night a go you would see the similarities between that series that contains Shadowlands you have recently been reading. It is very similar and I am only going off what I have heard you saying xx

[@alysonbrock604]

I’m sad you’re getting rid of Defy the Night! 😢 I loved it!

[@cleg78]

From what I have heard Becca talking about though Defy the night sounds like a younger version of the series that includes Shadlowlands that her patreon have been reading I think. There are many many comparisons between the two

[@xxaleksi]

cari can read read the whole defy the night series last month

[@SuchSweetTarts]

You’re not missing out on anything with Havenfall. The synopsis was absolutely my cup of tea but the plot ended up being confusing and convenient and totally disappointing.

[@nataliejones5441]

For this video in the future, at the end after all the books are revealed, you could choose the one you’re most sad to see go and read it, and include your reading of it in the video. ❤

[@jessicah4631]

I'm 42 and I adore Brigid Kemmerer's fantasy romances.

[@ravensandblots]

Cloud atlas was good for the first half of the book- but then went super mediocre for the last half- it was super disappointing unfortunately. Have a great day! And good luck with the next theme!

[@carolinesch.]

I hated book of night and that was so sad because I loved the crule prince

[@JulEnglefaris]

Ooo I love Brigid Kemmerer

[@kelynspear5863]

The Guenevere Deception is the saddest one for me, bc it was one of the first books i read in 2020 when I started reading again... but also I've unhauled my own copy bc the sequel was awful, so

[@emmal7510]

My understanding is that, after a certain point, that LKH series takes a serious nosedive in quality, so probably better not to start it.

[@LynnetteReads]

I know you are not meant to be adding to the stacks but if there are any books in this video you are really intrigued to read could you add them to the stacks to see if they come out that way?

[@annamarieinbookland]

I’m on the cusp of DNFing The Bone Houses mainly because her welsh rep sucks, the name of the main town isn’t even spelt correctly I was so wanting to like Book of Night but I hated it I only read it coz I enjoyed Doll Bones and it was my 1st Illumicrate book

[@WhatFoxReads]

I like Brigid Kemmerer because of the nostalgia. But am I certain that I would like the books if I was picking them up for the first time? Not sure. And I am still dirty on the death of a character in an earlier series of hers 🤣 Also, if you dont like RH or poly then Laurell K Hamilton is definitely not for you. The Anita Blake one was pretty annoying anyway, the Merry Gentry was better but only because I loved the faerie element. Too many books that you will like/love to spend thinking about those that don't interest you - unhaul!

[@anikamercier2651]

I knew for the entire year you had this on your list and can’t lie I’m so unhappy you didn’t read Anita Blake. Anita Blake is my favorite character of all time. Mass characters got nothing on her.

[@PistachioGold]

I'm usually always sad when I see books with cute covers get unhauled, but in the case of Havenfall...no love lost 😂 that book was so boring to me.

[@AbiofPellinor]

I’m just fully ignoring my last “expire” video 💀😂

[@BookChats]

Wow, that cover for Cloud Atlas is beautiful and I didn't even like the book! If you do decide to read it sometime i think you should pick up the audiobook.

[@heabooktubes]

No one can talk me into a book that I don’t want to read. 😅

[@xxaleksi]

cheat and read a bit of the ones you have a slight interest in before you get rid of them

[@biblio.beth3]

As someone who really liked Everless when I read it, I thought Havenfall was one of the most boring books I've ever read 😬

[@BemuzedBookworm]

The only one I've read is Book of Night which was a disappointment so....

[@KaySutcliff-Michaelis]

I love and hate Kiersten White. I read one of her trilogies and loved the first two books, I've even reread them and the characters are dear and near to my heart. But the last one ruined the whole thing for me, the characters started acting in ways that didn't make sense for them and the ending was just nope. So I wish I could be one of those people that say Kiersten White wrote one of my favourite books but the last one soured the entire thing for me. She's about to publish a book about Lucy from Dracula, so I'll probably give her another chance with that one.

[@ellyra412]

I have read Cloud Atlas and watched the movie and.... I liked the movie better. It is actually one of my favorite movie.

[@Sarah_Likes_to_Read]

I do like Holly Black, but I absolutely hated Book of Night.

[@janeb2958]

"Saddest" about The Cloud Atlas. David Mitchell is original and brilliant and an excellent constructor of complicated books which hang together without much effort needed to follow the structure for the reader - but for me at least he's both someone I can only read when I'm in the right mental and energetic space, and he's almost TOO good because of the topics he tackles - the last few chapters of The Bone Clocks, which are set in an all-too-plausible dystopic near future, haunt me, and I'm not sure I should have read them for my own mental health, because they were *that good". and "most in agreement" to see the Laurell K Hamilton series going - I really like urban fantasy, but her series ESCALATE so it's increasingly annoying as the plots and the unnecessary/excessive spiciness (yes, poly, harem and reverse harem, and just... SO MUCH) go off the rails. I am just done with enjoying and seeing potential in the first couple of books then being increasingly incredulous and icked-out by the rest of it...

[@surpriseitsus9622]

Laurell K Hamilton is my favorite series. 😔 oh well...

[@shawnieadams1319]

I only made it 4 books into the Anita Blake series. I say ditch it. 😁

[@jaycarr5906]

I love Urban fantasy romance, one of my favorite series is paranormal urban. And I can tell you this, I hated the Anita Blake books by Laurell K Hamilton. lol. I never thought you would like them. Anita blake is very much a product of the nineties. She was so irritating.

[@WhatFoxReads]

Thankyou! The same. Actually, I liked the 1st book I think because it was an interesting concept that I hadn't read before that but...yeah, few books in and I remember that there was like just 1 conversation between the characters with internal monologues that took FOREVER. I'm talking like multiple chapters and I just thought, am I going crazy?

[@sanitycalamity]

I gave the Bone Houses 2 stars as I found it quite boring. I've read 5 Kiersten White books and the only one that was 5 stars for me was the Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein.

[@vickyreads]

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[@jenny_readss]

Theres not a single one of these i'd save 😂

[@Grimtide17]

Wait book of the month sends to the UK?????

[@taeanna1644]

No. They’re only in the U.S. and Canada, but their reps are global.

[@maire4715]

I love urban fantasy, but Laurel Hamilton series gets ridiculous after book 6 or so. Characters all become so obsessed with sex it’s all they talk and think about, the only motivation for these characters after book 5 or 6 is sex. Among each other. After 3000 pages, it gets boring. Good for you for unhauling this one!

[@ravent3016]

Anita Blake series turns into reverse harem, I agree the first books are good, but after a while the romantic drama gets OTT and she starts to seem very author self-insert. One of her many men is a submissive stripper shifter, and he has purple eyes and long luscious locks. *eye roll* I liked Anita at first but then she turned very self-righteous and she also seems smug about her harem lifestyle, and there are also some recurrent bouts of guilt that she deals with over the course of the books. Just turned into no fun. I noped out of the Blake series the same time her Merry Gentry books came out because I could see how self-indulgent the writing had gotten, just tons of sex and violence for those who literally get off on that.

[@sierraglenn6250]

The Cruel Prince series is definitely not worth it so spare yourself and don't read it. No matter how much you are bullied to read it. The sibling relationship, setting, writing style, and the "romantic" relationship is just not good.

[@moonmagister]

You dodged a bullet with ‘The Bone Houses’, can confirm as a Welsh person it doesn’t read true. It reads like bland YA fantasy and the world building is so poor that it doesn’t even feel like it’s based on a real life country. Kind of sore about it honestly considering how few widely known books there are based on Welsh mythology!

[@cleg78]

The Guinevere Deception is awful and tbh I think it would drive you crazy. How it got as far as a trilogy I will never know

[@laughsoharditssilent]

I ANGRILY dnfd Guilty Pleasures. I wanted to give them a chance for yearsssss and when i finally did I was almost furious. You didn't miss anything. Really poorly written mess. Sorry not sorry😅😅

[@killlanadead]

I have Cloud Atlas somewhere and haven’t been motivated to read it yet. It’s one of my favorite movies but I haven’t been in the mood to try it. I normally read trashy romances 😂 Anything else I just can’t force myself through it 😂😂