I have done a major switch over the years and I don't typically watch book hauls anymore but I could spend all day watching unhauls. Unhauls are a bunch of reviews in one video. And if you are hauling books, most of the time that person hasn't read that book yet. I'd rather wait to hear about that book in a vlog or a wrap up after they've read it. I've watched so many creators over the years where I remember them hauling a book only for them to unhaul it, completely unread, a couple of years later, usually because they just need to make space for new books. Unhauling books is so freeing and liberating to me. I love the idea of owning a technical library but I want it to be filled with books I genuinely love, not just ones that were meh or I think I'll *eventually* get to it
I have recently unhauled 350-400 books. I downsized and removed shelves. I’m also trying to sell book box books that I wi t read or sell the ones I liked okay but don’t need it. Also not buying books as much. I would love a huge room that I could make into a library but I don’t. Also I feel better when my space is organized and I can see what books I have
Just wanted to say that whilst I’m struggling with low mood, you are one of the people that really help. You make me laugh, Thank you. Also, glad it’s not just me that wanted to, and just couldn’t, enjoy Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow.
Immediately distracted by your awesome jumper!!! Then I got distracted by the house panda in the corner! Hi kitty!!! Unhauls are my fav type of video!!! 📦📦📦
Thank you! I do not understand the widespread love for Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow! I was just uncomfortable and confused about why people loved this toxic friendship. AJ Fikery on the other hand, that book lives in my heart forever.
Yaaasssssss...totally mis-marketed as a horror novel when it was historical romance. It also seriously bugged me that they put saguaros on the cover - there are NO saugaros in east TX! haha
As someone who LOVED Ancillary Justice I just gotta say you are entirely valid for dnfing it, it's THICK sci-fi with such a particular perspective and *slightly* unreliable narrator so even though it's one of my very favorite books of all time I hardly ever recommend it because if someone doesn't jive with it's gonna suck to read. Wish you all the best with different sci-fi going forward, you probably already heard of the Murderbot Diaries but those are like Ancillary Justice but more action-oriented and accessable---whatever you read next tho have fun!
Moving tattoos? I love steampunk and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, so the way this sentence made me jump out of seat and snatch it off the tbr. Ty! I love how tropes just click for someone people and don’t for others
Thank God I am not the only one that thought Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow was ZZZ. I just I have tried and every time I pick it up I end up putting it down.
i loved her short story collection, but the stories that inspired her novels were my least favorites in the collection, so i've been reluctant to read the rest of her books 😅
i LOVE the radiant emperor duology but i very nearly didn't read it bc "fantasy mulan retelling" isn't my jam *at all* - but historical political magical realism character studies are, and surprise! i'll never forgive the marketing team for what they did to those books 😭
Tomorrow x3 went bye bye from my house after I read it - which I did not do due to hype that i knew nothing about at the time, but because it was a book club book. I tried one Ana Huang book from the library - a different series. She became a hell no author for me. I felt she definitely put the trash in trashy romance (and I sometimes am in the mood for trashy romance, but not this kind).
I didn’t know tomorrow x3 was problematic, but when I read it and i was very underwhelmed. I almost mourned the time I lost reading it. You missed out on NOTHING.
Can we just send a copy of Monsters to Roger Lewis author of Erotic "Vagrancies"? I fell off my chair laughing at your cat crunching away on that box! 🤣🤣🤣
Tomorrow 3x was a big disappointment. I loved the idea of it but I didn't like the characters and found it boring. I gave it a 2.5 star, but that was me being nice. I should have DNFed it but I was hoping to it was going to get better. I have about 10 books that need to go, a lot of them are ones that I liked but won't reread. The used bookstore is a little far away so I haven't brought them there yet. I don't like throwing books out and hopefully, they will take them. My library won't take books that are over 2 years old and all of the books that have to go older than that. I'm thinking of setting up a bookshelf at my office since a bunch of us are readers and seeing if we can create a little library. That way I can get the stack of read books off my desk and hopefully gain access to more books.
📦 I loved the sleeping giants series but then I did imprint on hughes’ iron woman as a child 😂 Definitely one that is enhanced as an audiobook experience, given the format is almost entirely transcribed audio and I know some people who’ve got confused by who was speaking when reading physical Imo you dodged a bullet with Rotter House - it’s perfectly meh haunted house fiction for the majority of it and divebombs into yawnsville with the “twist” at the end.
I didn't know On the Nature of Magic was part of a series! You're absolutely right, NOTHING indicates that. It still sounds interesting enough that I might try it without reading the first. We'll see how it goes.
I've moved a few times over the past 5 years or so, and I had to get good at unhauling books (salty or not). So the last time I was able to get rid of a ton of books that I knew I was never going to read (mostly from OwlCrate, which has changed a lot since I first subscribed). But at the beginning of 2024 I did another run through of my shelves to find the things that were hiding from me, and I finally got rid of The Fifth Season by NK Jemison, You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero, and Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo. I think all of these were just different books than what I expected, based on what little I was able to stomach reading.
It is so hard to unhaul, but more now than ever its actually finding a charity shop that will take them (not the limited editions though)...what do you do with the physical ARCs you get (this, for me, is a tough one). Oh, and 📦
They're all new, mostly dnfs or books I won't read ever. Unfortunately in the past I have found our library isn't interested. The limited editions I will eventually sell, and the ARCs I can't do more than pass on to friends.
@@beingbookishpod What a strange attitude for the library to take! Good luck with your unhaul - it's hard enough to build up the momentum to doing it without then having nowhere to donate them!
I love the fact that kitty was chewing his box next John Scalzi's 'Fuzzy Nation' 🤣 also I need that top - please let us know where you got it from 🙏 Let's not forget that I love a good unhaul 😄
Hi, I'm a gamer nerd and I also thought Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow was very boring. It doesn't work for nerds who know what the book is talking about because it over explains it for those people making them feel like it was not written for them but people who don't know much about the medium.
I too, love a good unhaul! I actually agree about she who became the sun which it was very historical and I felt deceived. Not me with days of morisaki bookshop on my tbr waiting for me. I am looking forward to certain dark things though as I do like steampunk and vampires so it might be more for me. NOT NK JEMISIN. It's okay, I'm okay. You tried and that is the most important thing.
Good lord, I had to read Ancillary Justice for a class in Master's school and it was such a slough to get through! You made the right choice to not read it both times you got it
I really loved She Who Became the Sun, but I think I'd picked up that it was lighter in the fantasy elements before I read it. I also don't remember Certain Dark Things being cyberpunk, but it's been awhile and I like cyberpunk.
I DNF the Vampires of El Norte pretty quickly, and the YA tone of the story when I was expecting adult, was one of the reasons. Some people love it, others were left rather disappointed from what I've heard.
📦 Oh no! I just bought Mad Women Ball. Will be reading in March. I actively avoid all the Ana Huang. RomanceTok ain't my jam. (My mini would love your sweater. She has a few dino items. Including jeans and a cute hoodie with pastel images.)
Also super salty about Excavations by Kate Myers. The book seemed like it was going to be literary fiction, and instead it was boring contemporary fiction with immature characters.
I can't believe I'm defending it but Twelve Nights at Rotter House wasn't as bad to me. I think bc it's absolutely predictable and felt safe. It felt like a horror podcast that was trying too hard, however, I think it's a great pallet cleanser between when going from one genre (historical romance) to another (deep space adventure series) without getting too invested in the character.
We set up a sharing library in our neighborhood and now it's so much easier to unhaul books. If they sit there for a bit too long, I pack them up and do a "Little Free Library" tour, dropping them off here and there while seeing what everyone else has. It's been really fun! I bought a copy of "The Historian" years ago and attemped to read it multiple times over the course of 3 years. I finally gave myself permission to DNF and unhaul it. It was very freeing. Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
I loooooved the sleeping giants series. It was like Hank green’s novels with some “people in robots” style stuff. Definitely one I want to revisit when I’ve forgotten more of the plot
A Study in Drowning was my second attempt at Ava Reid and I was so mad about it. For "dark academia" they didn't spend hardly any time at the university and their "research" was them playing detective. Not to even mention the ick with the race comments she made to the "love" interest that were way to easily forgiven. I DNF'd Juniper and Thorn because the way the main character's inner monologue around her body image and ED were far too close to mine and it was making me feel awful. I just don't think Ava Reid is an author for me either.
The book behind the cat Fuzzy Nation wasn't that the perfect title for that scene.😂 Sleeping Giants is dumb I read the whole thing. Back then booktubers were hyping it up its a doozy. Get rid of it.
Oh my god I wish I had known about your opinion on Erotic vagrancy before i had picked it up myself. Holy cow i am not even out of the prologue and i am like ooof he HATES women. And then you tell me in this video I am just seeing (thanks algorithm) that hes published on it. Makes me feel so vindicated in feeling like girl bye-ing this book. Also welsh a "monkey language" its one of the lyrical languages of the British Isles. Oof.
I have done a major switch over the years and I don't typically watch book hauls anymore but I could spend all day watching unhauls. Unhauls are a bunch of reviews in one video. And if you are hauling books, most of the time that person hasn't read that book yet. I'd rather wait to hear about that book in a vlog or a wrap up after they've read it. I've watched so many creators over the years where I remember them hauling a book only for them to unhaul it, completely unread, a couple of years later, usually because they just need to make space for new books. Unhauling books is so freeing and liberating to me. I love the idea of owning a technical library but I want it to be filled with books I genuinely love, not just ones that were meh or I think I'll *eventually* get to it
I have recently unhauled 350-400 books. I downsized and removed shelves. I’m also trying to sell book box books that I wi t read or sell the ones I liked okay but don’t need it. Also not buying books as much. I would love a huge room that I could make into a library but I don’t. Also I feel better when my space is organized and I can see what books I have
@@Tiffs-bookshelfgod damn what a huge unhaul! Congrats on the big amount of free space!
Just wanted to say that whilst I’m struggling with low mood, you are one of the people that really help. You make me laugh, Thank you. Also, glad it’s not just me that wanted to, and just couldn’t, enjoy Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow.
📦 I needed that final message validating the permissibility of an unhaul. Now I need to do it. Thank you.
We love to see an unhaul! 👏👏👏 and I am OBSESSED with your jumper! ☺️💛📦
Salty unhaul.. yes please. Also LOVEEEEEE the shirt.
Right? The shirt!!❤
That FACE! OMG that cat is gorgeous!
I loved 'She who became the sun' and 'On a sunbeam' so so much. Its always interesting to see how different peoples book tastes can be
yes me too😭 two of my favourite books ahah
Immediately distracted by your awesome jumper!!! Then I got distracted by the house panda in the corner! Hi kitty!!!
Unhauls are my fav type of video!!! 📦📦📦
Needed this! TY for the reminder that unhauling is good for the brainbox! 📦
Thank you! I do not understand the widespread love for Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow! I was just uncomfortable and confused about why people loved this toxic friendship. AJ Fikery on the other hand, that book lives in my heart forever.
Agreed x100000
OMG finally someone who understands the pain of reading Vampires of El Norte!
Yaaasssssss...totally mis-marketed as a horror novel when it was historical romance. It also seriously bugged me that they put saguaros on the cover - there are NO saugaros in east TX! haha
I havent even watched the vidoe yet but i must say that your sweater is amazing!
A salty unhaul and a cup of coffee is the perfect start to my Monday. Thank you!
📦📦📦 I’m so here for this. I have a hard time letting go of books. I’m trying though.
Unhinged cat - love it 🐈⬛💜
I love unhauls! I needed this type of video now too because I'm having to do a BIG unhaul before moving house soon and I've been dreading it😅
Thank you Lianne. I so appreciate your channel❤️Love to you and Harry📦📦📦📦📦
The cat !!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤
Always always love your videos ❤ Glad to see someone else not exactly raving about Priory of the orange tree! 📦
As someone who LOVED Ancillary Justice I just gotta say you are entirely valid for dnfing it, it's THICK sci-fi with such a particular perspective and *slightly* unreliable narrator so even though it's one of my very favorite books of all time I hardly ever recommend it because if someone doesn't jive with it's gonna suck to read. Wish you all the best with different sci-fi going forward, you probably already heard of the Murderbot Diaries but those are like Ancillary Justice but more action-oriented and accessable---whatever you read next tho have fun!
Moving tattoos? I love steampunk and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, so the way this sentence made me jump out of seat and snatch it off the tbr. Ty! I love how tropes just click for someone people and don’t for others
Salty unhaul + McNab cameo = 😍
It's one of the indisputable laws of the universe that if you have a box, there will be a cat sitting in it.
I laughed a lot at mcnab chomping on the box 😂
Thank God I am not the only one that thought Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow was ZZZ. I just I have tried and every time I pick it up I end up putting it down.
You're sweater is so amazing I need a fainting couch ❤❤❤
It’s such a relief to hear someone else hated The City We Became 🤣 It was my first NK Jemisin book and I’m so scared to try her other books now
i loved her short story collection, but the stories that inspired her novels were my least favorites in the collection, so i've been reluctant to read the rest of her books 😅
Gosh, that sweater is fabulous.
Gosh I love your channel. You are delightful! I know about tidy spaces; so you do you for peace of mind. Elizabeth
delightful. I also didnt jive with Tomorrow x3 except I really liked one chapter because it was nostalgic and so different.
This was fun to watch! 📦
i LOVE the radiant emperor duology but i very nearly didn't read it bc "fantasy mulan retelling" isn't my jam *at all* - but historical political magical realism character studies are, and surprise! i'll never forgive the marketing team for what they did to those books 😭
Salty unhauls are the best 🩵
Tomorrow x3 went bye bye from my house after I read it - which I did not do due to hype that i knew nothing about at the time, but because it was a book club book.
I tried one Ana Huang book from the library - a different series. She became a hell no author for me. I felt she definitely put the trash in trashy romance (and I sometimes am in the mood for trashy romance, but not this kind).
26:42 I have ancillary justice on my kindle, never going to read it 😅
your cat is so cute!!!
That box needed a lot of stapling. Gotta love a crunchy sound. 🤣
Also that shirt is chef's kiss 🦕
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Your kitty is so cute! I agree with you on Tomorrow X3 and She Who Became the Sun. I just found both to be so boring.
I have about 300 books on my kindle that’s I’ve listed in a collection as books I’ll never read 😅😅
I really need to clean out my shelves and accept that some are just not my besties any more 🧃
📦 So helpful! Love your lippie!
oh my GOD i felt the EXACT same about tomorrow x3!!!! i felt BORED
Salty Lianne, yay!
Agree so hard on the icky sentences in Tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow and over all being boring. I should have dnfed it.
Sleeping giants was so good in audio though 👀 but valid lol
I didn’t know tomorrow x3 was problematic, but when I read it and i was very underwhelmed. I almost mourned the time I lost reading it. You missed out on NOTHING.
Great video and review. Every book can’t be for every person . And that’s ok. 📦
Can we just send a copy of Monsters to Roger Lewis author of Erotic "Vagrancies"? I fell off my chair laughing at your cat crunching away on that box! 🤣🤣🤣
Book tossing, the new Scottish Highlands sport.
Tomorrow 3x was a big disappointment. I loved the idea of it but I didn't like the characters and found it boring. I gave it a 2.5 star, but that was me being nice. I should have DNFed it but I was hoping to it was going to get better.
I have about 10 books that need to go, a lot of them are ones that I liked but won't reread. The used bookstore is a little far away so I haven't brought them there yet. I don't like throwing books out and hopefully, they will take them. My library won't take books that are over 2 years old and all of the books that have to go older than that.
I'm thinking of setting up a bookshelf at my office since a bunch of us are readers and seeing if we can create a little library. That way I can get the stack of read books off my desk and hopefully gain access to more books.
📦 I loved the sleeping giants series but then I did imprint on hughes’ iron woman as a child 😂 Definitely one that is enhanced as an audiobook experience, given the format is almost entirely transcribed audio and I know some people who’ve got confused by who was speaking when reading physical
Imo you dodged a bullet with Rotter House - it’s perfectly meh haunted house fiction for the majority of it and divebombs into yawnsville with the “twist” at the end.
I didn't know On the Nature of Magic was part of a series! You're absolutely right, NOTHING indicates that. It still sounds interesting enough that I might try it without reading the first. We'll see how it goes.
I'm a 90's kid, a gamer nerd, and a programmer, and Tomorrow x3 also made me snore. I hated it 🤣
Finally someone else who didn't love TomorrowX3. Just boring.
Yeeeeesssss they already served their purpose.
Not sure I have ever hit that subscribe button so fast before… how did it take me this long to find you?
Salty Liaane + Me = happyness
I L O V E Unhaul Videos!!
I've moved a few times over the past 5 years or so, and I had to get good at unhauling books (salty or not). So the last time I was able to get rid of a ton of books that I knew I was never going to read (mostly from OwlCrate, which has changed a lot since I first subscribed). But at the beginning of 2024 I did another run through of my shelves to find the things that were hiding from me, and I finally got rid of The Fifth Season by NK Jemison, You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero, and Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo. I think all of these were just different books than what I expected, based on what little I was able to stomach reading.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow was also a dud for me! Though everyone around me loved it, I just couldn’t hack it.
It is so hard to unhaul, but more now than ever its actually finding a charity shop that will take them (not the limited editions though)...what do you do with the physical ARCs you get (this, for me, is a tough one). Oh, and 📦
If they are hardbacks in good condition, your local library might take them? I did this when I culled a lot of craft/hobby type books a few years ago.
They're all new, mostly dnfs or books I won't read ever. Unfortunately in the past I have found our library isn't interested. The limited editions I will eventually sell, and the ARCs I can't do more than pass on to friends.
@@beingbookishpod What a strange attitude for the library to take! Good luck with your unhaul - it's hard enough to build up the momentum to doing it without then having nowhere to donate them!
I love the fact that kitty was chewing his box next John Scalzi's 'Fuzzy Nation' 🤣 also I need that top - please let us know where you got it from 🙏 Let's not forget that I love a good unhaul 😄
I love how this sounds like the most ADHD version ever of Mari Kondo's method
I was so bored when I first tried She Who Became the Sun, but I picked it back up over a year later with correct expectations and truly enjoyed it
Hi, I'm a gamer nerd and I also thought Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow was very boring. It doesn't work for nerds who know what the book is talking about because it over explains it for those people making them feel like it was not written for them but people who don't know much about the medium.
I hated The City We Became too 😅
I too, love a good unhaul! I actually agree about she who became the sun which it was very historical and I felt deceived. Not me with days of morisaki bookshop on my tbr waiting for me. I am looking forward to certain dark things though as I do like steampunk and vampires so it might be more for me. NOT NK JEMISIN. It's okay, I'm okay. You tried and that is the most important thing.
Good lord, I had to read Ancillary Justice for a class in Master's school and it was such a slough to get through! You made the right choice to not read it both times you got it
I really loved She Who Became the Sun, but I think I'd picked up that it was lighter in the fantasy elements before I read it.
I also don't remember Certain Dark Things being cyberpunk, but it's been awhile and I like cyberpunk.
I unhauled so many books to the charity shop recently
I DNF the Vampires of El Norte pretty quickly, and the YA tone of the story when I was expecting adult, was one of the reasons. Some people love it, others were left rather disappointed from what I've heard.
📦I felt the same way about The Darkness Before Them. I think I gave up around page 200 or maybe 250.
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Oh no! I just bought Mad Women Ball. Will be reading in March. I actively avoid all the Ana Huang. RomanceTok ain't my jam.
(My mini would love your sweater. She has a few dino items. Including jeans and a cute hoodie with pastel images.)
Also super salty about Excavations by Kate Myers. The book seemed like it was going to be literary fiction, and instead it was boring contemporary fiction with immature characters.
I wish I liked NK Jemisin also but something about her writing style just isn’t for me
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📦not gonna lie here for the cat content
I can't believe I'm defending it but Twelve Nights at Rotter House wasn't as bad to me. I think bc it's absolutely predictable and felt safe. It felt like a horror podcast that was trying too hard, however, I think it's a great pallet cleanser between when going from one genre (historical romance) to another (deep space adventure series) without getting too invested in the character.
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you are so stinken cute!!! i should do one of these videos. however i cant edit and i dont have some of the books ive read this year (So far)
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We set up a sharing library in our neighborhood and now it's so much easier to unhaul books. If they sit there for a bit too long, I pack them up and do a "Little Free Library" tour, dropping them off here and there while seeing what everyone else has. It's been really fun!
I bought a copy of "The Historian" years ago and attemped to read it multiple times over the course of 3 years. I finally gave myself permission to DNF and unhaul it. It was very freeing. Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
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I loooooved the sleeping giants series. It was like Hank green’s novels with some “people in robots” style stuff. Definitely one I want to revisit when I’ve forgotten more of the plot
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A Study in Drowning was my second attempt at Ava Reid and I was so mad about it. For "dark academia" they didn't spend hardly any time at the university and their "research" was them playing detective. Not to even mention the ick with the race comments she made to the "love" interest that were way to easily forgiven. I DNF'd Juniper and Thorn because the way the main character's inner monologue around her body image and ED were far too close to mine and it was making me feel awful. I just don't think Ava Reid is an author for me either.
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The book behind the cat Fuzzy Nation wasn't that the perfect title for that scene.😂
Sleeping Giants is dumb I read the whole thing. Back then booktubers were hyping it up its a doozy. Get rid of it.
Oh my god I wish I had known about your opinion on Erotic vagrancy before i had picked it up myself. Holy cow i am not even out of the prologue and i am like ooof he HATES women. And then you tell me in this video I am just seeing (thanks algorithm) that hes published on it.
Makes me feel so vindicated in feeling like girl bye-ing this book. Also welsh a "monkey language" its one of the lyrical languages of the British Isles. Oof.