 Did you ever find yourself always reading the newest and most hyped books? While certain books find themselves languishing on your TBR for years and years, never to be read. Well, the latest trend is picking those books up. I'm making it my mission to get those forgotten books off your shelves and into your hands. Maybe it's that mystery number you bought years ago or that classic you've always wanted to explore. It's never too late to dive back in. Imagine the joy of finally cracking open that spine. The anticipation of turning each page and the satisfaction of conquering a literary adventure you've been meaning to read for years. Revitalize your reading life by dusting off those cobwebs and cooking up the storm in your mind with the looks you should have read four years ago. Eat up, honey. Office back for this year. It's time to go old school. That's right, Wrapped Up is back for its fourth year running and this year we are doing Wrapped Up Retro. The idea of Wrapped Up Retro is I have wrapped up the 50 oldest books on my TBR in terms of how long I've owned them for and we're going to be unwrapping once a week, like we always do. Every December I get so excited for Christmas because I'm unwrapping gifts but it's things I already own. And we're going to be reading the book. I really wanted to do this because I really want to kind of refresh my TBR. I want to get the books that have been on my TBR for a long, long time read or off my TBR. I'm really going to allow myself to DNF a book in this if I want but I'll probably, if it's early on in the vlog, I will probably pick another book. I want my TBR to feel fresh. I want all the books that are my TBR to be ones that I'm really excited for. And so what I want to do with this series was to reignite my excitement for some books that I've owned for four or five years and haven't read but also to just get them off my TBR and leave my TBR feeling much more the books that I'm excited to read in this moment. So that's the idea. Shall we look at the books that are wrapped up? The 50 books I have owned for the longest amount of time. Let's run it now. Bias by Jennifer Eberhardt. What Mama Left Me by Renee Watson. Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. Essex Girls by Sarah Perry. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Peckinen. Haven't You Heard by Marie Laconte. Hashtag No Escape by Gretchen McNeil. Tyler Johnson was here by Jay Coles. Forgotten Women the Scientist by Zing Zing. Forgotten Women the Artist by Zing Zing. The Wolf and the Woodsmen by Ava Reed. The Tree of Yoga by BKS Iyanga. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nevo. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. No Surrender by Constance Mord. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan. A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourne. Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Everisto. The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin. Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Lies Edited by Scarlett Curtis. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Star Daughter by Shweta Thakkar. The Language of Thorns by Lee Bardugo. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. Nine Elms by Robert Briesender. Lovely War by Julie Berry. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell. Moxie by Jennifer Mackie. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. When the Stars Go Dark by Paula MacLean. The Fountains of Silence by Rita Sopetys. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. Split Tooth by Tanya Tagak. And The Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtigich. Rebecca by Daphne de Morier. And The Cousins by Karen M. McManus. So those are the books. I'm feeling a little bit nervous. I'm not gonna... Because like if I've owned a book for four or five years and I haven't read it, that like tells you something. Some of these books are older than my channel. We've been here for a while. So I am feeling a little bit nervous and a little bit scared and a bit scared we're not gonna have many standouts. Very comfortable. I'm scared. Are you scared? Yeah, you should be. So we've wrapped up. We always do 10 episodes. So it will run weekly in December and then once a month for the first half of the year. In December I'm actually gonna be uploading four times a week. So I'm gonna be uploading as usual on a Tuesday, Thursdays and Sundays. But I'm also gonna be uploading every Wednesday and that will be wrapped up. So wrapped up will be coming out every Wednesday. Oh my god guys, I'm feeling a bit nervous. But wrapped up retro just had such a good ring to it. I had to do it. I didn't have a choice in the matter. So yeah, I just wanted to do this little video to announce to you what the theme of wrapped up was this year. I do this every year as a little announcement. But I'm excited. I think this is a fun theme. And I think it's a fun way to get some books off of my TBR that should really be off my TBR. So yeah, make sure you ring the bells. You don't miss a single episode of wrapped up. And I'll see you next Wednesday to see what our first book is gonna be. But yeah, let me know which of the books you want me to unwrap the most. Which of these books are on the list are you most excited to see? And I'll see you very soon in another video. Won't be wrapped up next time I see you. There'll be another video before then. But I'll see you soon in wrapped up as well. Bye.