 My name's Megan and I need to unhaul some books. Hello everyone and welcome if you're new here. My name's Megan. If you're not, you already know that. And I have far too many books. I have too many books. I have too many books. I do not want to comment. Why? Why? I currently have two bookshelves filled. I need to get another one, but I'm not gonna get another one until I move my whole room around. I need to rotate everything in order to fit a new bookshelf in. So that's not gonna happen for a while. I don't have it in me. I don't have it in my soul. I'm not ready for that. So we've got to get rid of some books. I saw Gavin from How To Train Your Gavin do this video. I will link his original video down below. I'm gonna challenge myself to unhaul. I think 30 is a good number. I think in my life I only have unhauled maybe eight or ten books. I find unhauling very hard. Gavin unhauled 100. I'm not gonna unhaul 100. Not a joke, just a fact. Not a joke, just a fact. Not a joke, just a fact. I don't think I have as many books as him, so I don't think I can unhaul 100, but I'm gonna try and unhaul 30 from both my red books and my unread books. Before we actually get into it, I want to tell you guys about the sponsor for today's video, which is a super cool app I've been using for the past couple weeks, and it's called Basmo. So it's an app made specifically for readers, and I think for readers that are like top tier readers. So I feel like a lot of you will like it. It's basically the perfect place to track your reading all in one place. If you like reading statistics like me, if you watch my rap apps you'll know I always do monthly reading statistics. I love them. This place does it for you. You don't need to like have an Excel spreadsheet like I do. It will have all these graphs and like bar charts based on how much you're reading every day, how many books you've read, stuff like that, how you're feeling about what you're reading. 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So I've really loved using the app. I'll leave the link down below. I'd really recommend you check it out. Okay, let's get into the unhaul. I'm terrified, you guys. I'm so scared. I hate, I fucking hate unhauling. This isn't this. I'm not faking this reaction at all. I hate it. I hate it. I can do this. I can do this. I'm a powerful strong woman. Okay. I'm going to go by like shelf initially and we'll see how we do. So I don't know if you, you can't really see it, but this shelf is my worst shelf. I hate her. I hate now. This is my mystery thriller shelf and it's the one I have the least amount of room on right now, but also there's not many I want to unhaul. So let's, let's go through it. Okay, this one, The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey. I wanted to love this so badly. It was a mystery set in 1920s India, but it was just so boring. Here's the thing, it wasn't even like bad. It wasn't, it didn't anger me with how bad it was. That's why I don't even have an angry reaction left to it. I just have nothing. It was just boring. It was dull. It wasn't well paced. I don't think it was well written. Oh, I need to, I have a shopping list stuck inside of it. Well, I need to get rid of that before I do anything with this book. The first thing is pads. So it'll be great for someone to find. Are you not ashamed of yourself? Are you not embarrassed? This is really embarrassing. Yeah, I don't even have negative feelings towards this. I just have no feelings. So I am happy to let this book go. That's one done. Okay, any more on here that I'm happy to get rid of? Oh, this is hard, you guys. This is really hard. I don't know if I want to get rid of If We Were Villains by MLB. Listen, I didn't like the book, but it was gifted to me by Riley when I hit 1k subscribers. And so like, it just, I feel like I have a connection to it. I don't think I want to unhaul If We Were Villains yet. If it comes to it and we're struggling to reach 30, this may be one to go. I feel like I have a memory attached to it. Make a memory. Oh my God, no one will get that reference. I watch a show called Bargain Hunt in the UK. It's an old woman show, all the old women watching the day. I love it. I want to, no one will get this. I'm just going to cut this out or maybe I won't. I'm one of the experts, Charles, whenever he's trying to sell something that no one's going to want, he's like, make a memory, make a memory. Anyway, sorry, that's embarrassing. I'm going to unhaul my lovely wife by Samantha Downing. This, I think I gave it like three stars, but I didn't really enjoy this that much. It was pretty much like a 2.75. This is like a story about this couple who killed together basically, but I didn't think it was exciting. We didn't actually get any of the killing. Like if we're going to kill, let's fucking kill. Let's go for it. So do you think I deserve better than that? Yes. They ended in a stupid way that I don't really like. And this book was like £3 from Sainsbury's, so I have no qualms unhauling this. I haven't made like any space because this shelf was already overflowing. Do I want to unhaul this? Yeah, okay. I'm going to unhaul The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley. If you look here, you'll see the guest list by Lucy Foley. Probably like my favorite thriller, Mystery of All Time. I love it so much. I need to reread it. But for me, The Hunting Party is like the bad baby version because this was written before. It's like the bad baby version of the guest list. The characters were all annoying. The plot wasn't great. I didn't really enjoy it. And like having it there does bring me some level of joy because it's yellow. It's pathetic. You are pathetic. But I think getting rid of it and giving it, putting it back out, this is the way I've got to think of it. I'm putting these books back out into the world for people to enjoy. That's not me. That's three books down. And it already is hard. You guys, I'm going to do this. Okay. This shelf, nothing is going because this is like a favorite shelf. The next shelf down, nothing is going because there's a lot of favorites there. Oh my God, this is hard. Okay, I'm going to take a big leap. I'm going to take a big leap. Are we ready? Now, this is hard because again, there is a memory attached to this. But I'm going to unhaul Scarlet Crest, Winter and Ferris from the Lunar Chronicles series. This is hard for me because when I was like 13, this was one of my favorite series ever. I loved it. You probably know what this is. It's by Marissa Meyer. It's like these sci-fi retellings of fairy tales. And I loved it. I haven't obviously read it for like eight years, but I've always wanted to reread them. However, my mum lent Cinder to a family friend and I've never gotten it back. So I can't start the series. I don't have the first book in the series. And so I think I want to get the new covers. I'll put a picture of them in here. They're much nicer. So if I ever reread these books, I'm going to buy the new covers anyway. So I think we can unhaul that. And that's four. That's four done in one fell swoop. So I'm proud of myself there. So we're up to seven books. Okay, what next? Okay, so this one is the first book that I am unhauling that I know for sure has been gifted by a friend. I don't know if I said this. Did I say this? I am going to be unhauling books that I think may be gifted. I forget what books I have have been gifted and which ones haven't. And especially because my family buy books for me, like off my wishlist at Christmas and birthdays and stuff, I forget very... I may remember a book has been gifted, but I can't remember is it family because they don't care? Or is it like a friend or one of you guys? So I hope no one gets offended if I unhaul a book that you gifted to me, whether you're one of my friends or whether you're a viewer. I wouldn't have a problem with someone, if they've read or DNF'd a book that I've gifted to them unhauling it. I wouldn't unhaul a book that someone's gifted to me and I haven't even read it. But if it's something that I have read and not enjoyed or DNF'd, I hope no one's gonna get upset with me for unhauling that. I know in Gavin's video, he didn't unhaul gifted books and he started like struggling because everything he wanted to unhaul had been gifted and everyone in the comments was like, it's fine to unhaul those books. And if it was on the other foot, I wouldn't mind. Like I'd want them to unhaul it to make more shelf space. So I can't remember. I may have already unhauled books that someone's gifted to me. I don't think I have, but like I said, I find it hard to remember like individual books, like a year, a year and a half on. Okay, editing making here. I am so annoyed. I am so annoyed at how much I keep scratching my nose. I have really bad hay fever, but I'm like, girl, leave your nose alone. Anyway, sorry, back to the video. So I hope Molly doesn't mind. I love you. I hope you don't mind. But my friend Molly gifted me The Court of Miracles by Kesta Grant. I DNF'd this. I never DNF'd and I didn't DNF'd this at like 50 pages in. I'm sad because it's beautiful and because Molly gifted it to me, but Molly's gifted to me lots of five star books. And this was just so bad. Like it was written terribly. He's terrible, your honor. He's really terrible. I don't understand how anyone could read this and think it was good. Like some books that I hate, I'm like, okay, I could see how people enjoy that. But this was just terrible. Like the writing was some of the worst writing I've ever read. So I'm gonna unhaul it. I hope that's okay. This shelf down here is double backed. And I feel like a lot of the books down here that are hiding, I can unhaul. So let me try and grab a few and we'll speed through them. Okay, we've hit the jackpot ladies and gentlemen. Basically, on my bottom fantasy shelf, I had all these books hiding behind other books. And I just think okay, it's time to let some of these go. So let me go through these quickly because I could not remember what most of these books about. I read them when I was like 12. The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer. Can't remember what it's about. I don't think I really liked it even then getting rid. Dracula by Brown Stoker. I studied this at sixth form. So like when I was like 16 and I didn't like it even then. I've probably given like two stars then. You've been very, very harsh. Nice to meet you, Kelly. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I have no memories of reading this. Macbeth by Shakespeare. Another book that I studied. Don't think I really cared. Getting rid of this. Have a Little Faith by Mitch Album. I cannot remember this book at all. I'm not even sure I read this. I don't think I even read this. So getting rid. Now this one I remember enjoying. So I'm a bit like oh, but I don't think it's like it's never a book I'm gonna reread and I cannot tell you what it's about. So I have no reason to hold on to it. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. I remember enjoying this. I remember really enjoying this when I read it when I was like 13. But I could not tell you what it's about. I know it's like a series. I'm not gonna continue with this series because I literally cannot remember. So it can go it's a big voice or make a room for more books. This one I did read more recently. I read it like while I've had my channel maybe or just before I had my channel. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. I know this is like a super popular book. I think I read it. I read this for the reading rush not last year, the year before. So right before I started my channel and I just didn't like this. I just thought like it was a bit shit. How do you know what's good for me? That's my opinion! And then The Humans by Matt Hague. I didn't like this when I read it when I was like 13. I love the Midnight Library by Matt Hague. It's like a five star for me. But this was just shit. Sorry that's mean. I shouldn't say those kind of things. I should just keep that inside. But I just didn't enjoy this. I thought the writing wasn't for me. Again like I have no very small memories. This was eight years ago. But I remember not liking it. So how many best that's helped us out there. Right how many books are we up to now? 15, 16. Oh my god. We are over halfway. We are over halfway you guys. I am so proud of her. I could cry. So that's everything from an initial search. I'm happy to get rid of on this shelf. Let me go over to some of the other shelves. I'm looking at them and it's like nothing I want to unhaul. Okay. Okay I've got a few. The top shelf over there is my non-fiction shelf. And to be honest there wasn't many that I wanted to unhaul from that. Because I feel like a lot of those books will be useful to have in the future. So the only one I'm unhauling is Truth to Power by Jess Phillips. This was just not really a book. I really enjoyed Every Woman by Jess Phillips. Jess Phillips is a UK politician. It is signed though but I don't really care. I don't want to call it a cash grab. But Every Woman, her other book did so well and it was more of a memoir. And I felt like that really had a point of view and like had a purpose. And this book I just felt like was just because the other one did so well and they thought she could do another book. Next one is going to be controversial but I'm finally going to let go of Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. I didn't like Red, White and Royal Blue. I gave it two stars. I really didn't like it. I don't think it's very good. Yeah it was just not for me. It's not for me. It's not for me. It's not for me. It's not for main part. Yeah so it's going, it's going, it's going. We're saying goodbye. Then next I am going to buy, buy? No. I'm gonna unhaul Next to You in Havana by Chanel Cliton. This is like another romance. It's set in Havana in the 1950s and then in 2017. And again I just really didn't like this. I didn't like the romances. I didn't like the writing. I thought it was really poorly written. So time to let go of this one finally. Now this one isn't because I don't like it. I'm gonna unhaul this copy of Persuasion by Jane Austen. This was like one I bought at a charity shop for like one pound and I now have the copies of Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice and Emma in, hang on, let me grab one of them. In these editions which I love, I love these editions so much. So once I have read these three I will probably just end up buying Persuasion in the edition so that they all match. I don't like this edition, it's ugly as fuck. So yeah, it's kind of similar to Lidl Chronicles. If I ever want this book again, I will buy a different edition basically. One of these I've read and one of them I haven't. The one I read I did give four stars but I just don't really feel any need to hold onto it. They are Americana and Half of the Yellow Sun by Trumandan Nogosi Edici. I've read Americana, I did give it four stars. I haven't read Half of the Yellow Sun. I don't really feel the need to. I know Trumandan Nogosi Edici has made some like controversial comments on I think gender and like cancel culture. We don't need to get into that whole like is cancel culture even real topic or whatever. And I haven't, if I'm honest I haven't read into the opinions like fully to see to give you an opinion on them myself because I didn't want to anger myself. Like with stuff like that, I have started to just try and find a balance between educating myself on these topics and not damaging my own mental health to find out these things. So I just don't feel any need to hold onto these. I bought them again for like one pound, two pound at a charity shop. So it's not like I'm losing loads of money by unhauling these. I just don't feel the need to hold onto them anymore. How many have we unhauled? One, two, three, four, five, six. 23. That is not correct. Oh my god, we've done 23. Okay, I think now I'm gonna unhaul a few from my TBR because I know there's probably seven on my TBR that I'm no longer interested in reading that I bought a long, long time ago. So let me go find them. I don't know if we'll actually be quite seven. Okay. Okay, so well, half of the other side was one, but there's only four more that I actually want to unhaul from my TBR. First, we've got Cube by Christina Doucher. I could not even tell you what this book is about. It's by the author of Vox. My mum has read both of them. I haven't read either of them. This is hers. I'm just gonna give this back to her. I didn't buy this. I'm just gonna put it back in the other room by unhauling it. I'm just taking it off my TBR. Sorry, my nose is so itchy. It's like a feminist dystopian sci-fi thing. I just don't have any interest. Then I'm gonna unhaul Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I did DNF this. I think I read like 50 pages or something like that. And it was just too much for me. This book is holding a really weird way. I don't even know the plot anymore. I know it's like about a bomber. Maybe I'm never gonna read this. I have no interest in reading it. I don't care. I've talked about this a bit, but when I first got into reading, I went to a lot of second-hand bookshops and I bought books like this that are classics or really popular that I thought like, oh, I have to read that. I have to read Catch 22. Whereas now I just didn't give a shit. Like, I have no interest in you. So, bye. And then these two are ones that have been on my TBR forever. And again, I don't know anything about them. I think they're both ones that my mum has read and she's given me. So, I'll either, I'll ask her shorts to keep them. She might even want to keep them, to be honest. The Wall by John Lancaster and Warlight by Michael Ondace. This one's set in 1945 in London. I know that. But I don't really know anything about it other than that. And I cannot tell you what this one's about. So, I have just, I'm never gonna read them. I have no interest in reading them. Might as well just take them off my TBR. Oh my God, this is so hard. I've got three left. Actually, four bitch. Three, I need to unhaul three more books. If I could unhaul one from here, it would be helpful because, because that's where I need space. I think I have to do it. Okay, I'm gonna unhaul a few villains. I don't, part of me doesn't want to do it. But I hated it. So, like, why am I holding on to it? I'm sorry, Riley. I always feel so thankful for you getting this from me. I don't want to unhaul it. I don't want to unhaul it. Well, what you want to do is not necessarily what you're going to do. Okay, we're unhauling a few villains. I hope I've counted this right. Do I want to unhaul Ask the Passengers by AS King? Not really. Two more books. Two more books. That is really hard to do. I'm gonna get rid of The Untethered Soul by Michael A Singer. This is, like, a self-help spiritualism book. I like yoga, so I like to read books that are, like, really popular amongst yoga people. But this was just a bit too spiritual. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I think I gave it, like, two stars. And I read it, like, years ago. I'm never gonna read it again. One more! This is so hard. But I do love seeing the amount of space that has appeared on my shelves. I'm not gonna lie to you. Okay, this has been hard. But the last one I'm gonna unhaul is Milkshakes for the Almost Dead by Lulu Wood. I enjoyed this when I read it, but again, I can't remember much about it. And just looking at my other contemporaries on that shelf, because I think I do need a bit more contemporary space as well. This is just one that I don't, like, feel anything towards. And it's quite a big one, so I just feel like it makes sense to unhaul and put back into the world and someone else can read. Because I think this is like a, like a, this book isn't read as much. So I feel like it's actually better for this book to put it back into circulation and, like, someone to pick it up and read it. So that's my last one. I think, I hope. Let me, like, stack these up properly and count them. Honey, you've got a big storm coming. No! Oh no. I need to unhaul one more. Okay, um, okay, last one. I'm just gonna go ahead and unhaul a Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, because I do have the illustrated copy. Again, this one was gifted to me, so I'm sorry. Oh, that's okay. I just have two copies. I may, I think instead of, like, giving this to the charity shop in terms of unhauling, I think I'll just give this to my brother. So it's gonna stay in the house, but I'm counting it as unhauling because it's coming off my shelves. Now we've actually done 30 books. That was hard. I'm not gonna extend it to 40. I'll try and do more. 30 was hard. 30 was hard enough. But I have now got a bit more room on my shelves, which I'm really happy about. If I do end up selling any of these, not ones that I've been gifted, I will put my de-pop link down below. And that is end of this video. I hope you enjoyed it. I feel a bit emotionally scarred from trying to unhaul 30 books, but hey-ho. It's done, it's done. And make sure you check out Besmo as well. The link for that will be in the description, or you can just search it on the App Store. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed it. I need to go lie down in a dark room and recover. I'll see you soon in another video.