New Year, New Unhaul [CC]
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Links to books I talked about in this video
(These are affiliate links. If you buy through these links, I get a small percentage of the sale):
0:00-Intro
0:43-The Hunger Games: amzn.to/2MJYWlR
1:02-The Lunar Chronicles: amzn.to/3bp8oFI
1:34-Wires And Nerve: amzn.to/35vaj7T
1:53-The Grisha Trilogy/The Language of Thorns: amzn.to/2LlfSPe, amzn.to/38BQlud
2:03-To All The Boys I Loved Before/P.S. I Still Love You: amzn.to/2K41g6f
2:35-Everybody Sees The Ants: amzn.to/2LL951q
2:58-Fairest: amzn.to/35sxQWP
3:03-The Storied Life of AJ Fikry: amzn.to/2LdUz2j
3:10-Recursion: amzn.to/35wcOXH
3:26-Furries of Calderon: amzn.to/2LB4oHf
3:36-Wait For Me: amzn.to/35vhtsQ
3:48-Dragonflight: amzn.to/2LL9Jfm
3:50-Shadow of The Wind: amzn.to/38zME8j
4:21-Criers War: amzn.to/39pEChd
4:35-I Love You More: amzn.to/35uIoFd
4:51-Ultraviolet: amzn.to/3seibEz
4:59-The Beauty In Breaking: amzn.to/35w0yq0
5:11-Don't Look Back: amzn.to/2LnRGvJ
6:00-People Like Her: amzn.to/3q99TvN
6:12-Memorial: amzn.to/2XsIBUO
6:14-Magic Lessons: amzn.to/3sbekYZ
6:15-Outlawed: amzn.to/3oAI92B
6:17-Transcendent Kingdom: amzn.to/2MUQhgF
6:20-The Invisible Life of Audie Larue: amzn.to/3bHrdUT
6:24-Outro
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Hi Merphy! I had my birthday a couple days ago, and I discovered that my mom had been secretly watching your videos to find appropriate books to get me! She settled on the Sleeper and the Spindle and the three Gentlemen Bastards books. Haven’t started yet, but given the hype I’m super excited! Thanks for being such an awesome resource! :)
oh my gosh your mom is so cool. That was so sweet of her to do for you!
I love the fact that a mom would deem Gentlemen Bastards appropriate for her daughter 😂
There is quite an amount of blood and swearing (at least in the first book, which is the only one I've read so far), but it's a great book and so much fun to read. Sounds like you have an awesome mom 😊
@@MsBlulucky Haha maybe “appropriate” was the wrong word to use... I just turned 23 so I hope I can handle it 😂 That’s good to know though. And yes, my mom is awesome 😊
That's so nice of her
@@emmaelizabeth3373 If you go to school in the US, I really doubt the swearing will bother you! Your mom's strategy to figure out what you like is very clever!
Omg I think you would love Addie LaRue! Sad to see you let go of it, but luckily there's enough books to read hahah!
I have Addie Larue on my list to read first half 2021.
I was about to say the same! I have a feeling she would love it!!!!
Great book! Enjoy
That is such a good book!
I'm almost done with the invisible life of addie larue right now and it's so good
I just cannot give away books, except if I really hated them. But I really find a loooot of pleasure in owning books, filling large shelves... my precious
Same! My ultimate dream is to have a house big enough so I could have a dedicated room for books only, my own private in-house library
@@elenasreadingcorner oh yesssssss
I'm like that with old blu ray movies. Physical copies of art is great.
@@Kage-jk4pj I have a collection of DVDs and CDs as well! There's something about having all these physical copies of art around...
Same!
I wanted to hear your thoughts on the Invisible life of Addie larue, but I respect your decision to uhaul it
That was my favorite book of 2020
@@kevinhove6893 That's good to know. I just started it yesterday and hopefully, I'll love it too
@@kevinhove6893 Same! It really did it for me and I already want to reread it and I almost never reread anything.
I loved that book ): I actually ordered a physical copy of it and I just received it today
I love that you donate to the library. I never know what to do with my books that I don’t want anymore. I never thought to donate to the library- I always thought to drop them off at goodwill or some place.
Look up Free Little Library. They are little boxes people build to make a little neighborhood library. There are 3 near my house and I'll add books there sometimes or my local bookstore buys back used books.
I give them to Goodwill too
Prisons need books!! You can always look into giving books you don’t want to a prison near you :)
I hate the idea of taking them to the goodwill cause they make people pay for books they got for free my goodwill is only 2$ which is fine but some rake it up to 5$ kinda annoys me
@@Spawnofademon yeah overtime I came to not be much of a fan of Goodwill .
That’s funny, I read the Lunar Chronicles last year and absolutely adored it! Cress was my favorite book of the year and has made my all time favorites list. But that’s why you give them away, cuz someone else will love them ☺️
Just a suggestion but what about giving your annotated books to your subscribers in a giveaway or something. I could imagine that some people would be interested in that. Just a thought.
Yesssss
@@neetikajha9604 Oh I'd be very interested in that
OH MY GOSH YES!!!!
Yesss I love annotated books
I really thought you'd like Addie Larue, Seems like a lot others did also, lol. My local library doesn't take donated books often and with covid they don't take them at all. But I have a few Little Library's near by I swap or give to.
My library isn't accepting donations right now. Little free library gets my cast offs right now.
Someone stocked a free little library near me with books that all had some variation of 'death' in the title...cracked me up. Wish I had taken a picture.
That's at least creative. My local ones just have musty old romance novels in them. 🤦😂
Maybe some of your subscribers might want to read your copies with the annotations? I haven't seen if you've done a review on those, and they aren't really my type of book, but there might be someone out there who would *enjoy* reading a copy with annotations by a critical eye. I like that you donate books to the library - I don't think my local library takes donations, but I've given some of my academic books to my college library in the past, which they seemed to be rather happy to get. I figure most people don't know that some libraries accept donations, and as libraries in a lot of countries have had their budgets cut, it's doing a good turn that will benefit a lot of people.
(Donating books to charity shops is also a good thing to do with books you don't want any more)
Ever since you stopped vlogs, I’ve missed all your books falling over lol so glad that returned in this video
Loved this! 😻 And excited for the bookshelf tour!
Wow....you are the first booktuber who is giving away Addie Larue without giving a shot....and that´s why I like you!
I just found your channel, and it is AWESOME! I've been loving the "dear author" series!
Thanks to you Merphy I started in Rebecca yesterday, will finish it tomorrow. I also have some double books that i want to donate to someone. So that will be my Unhaul I guess.
Great video and oh my gosh many kudos on balancing those stacks 🙌🏾😁
I love your Fredrick Backman collection 😍 ❤ my favorite author.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue was delightful! I really enjoyed it.
But I think you’ve inspired me to also I haul some books. My shelves are double stacked right now.
I just can't even describe how much I love watching book unhauls. I don't have ocd or anything but I really love to organize lol
Nooo read the invisible life of addie larue. I feel like a lot of comments will talk about this ahha
The hunger games and lunar chronicles are my fave to......I read them many times...but not ready to give them up just yet...maybe in the future😜...
I can't wait fr ur bookshelf tour❤️
Aaagh I love your channel!❤
Just finished cinder and it was really fun, gonna continue the series this year!
When you slowly start to realize that you and your favorite book tuber do not have similar reading tastes..... that's a sad day
I feel that 😅
I'm kind of sorry you didn't get to experience The Shadow of the Wind properly, it's one of my favourite books. I read it in Portuguese and the translation is very well done from the Spanish. I love that book, the writing is beautiful and the story itself is super gripping (the book on its own is like a love story to books, so there's that too!). Maybe one day there's another edition and it will be a better read.
Ooh i might try reading this in spanish. Im not very good tho
@@yukijames1321 I'm glad you enjoyed it a lot! It's amazing! I didn't like the sequel as much, though, so I haven't got back to the series yet (I plan to!), but I've heard that the last book in the series is even better that The Shadow of the Wind, so... it looks very promising.
@@travisminger9529 Well, it could be a good way to get the author's writing in the original form, without any translation interference (when the translation is poor, it does interfere with the reading, unfortunately - I'm a translator myself, so I'm not just cursing out of nothing xD), but I would suggest maybe starting with a shorter book? Zafon's Marina is also a very good book, and much shorter, and it could be a good way to practise the language and see if it's manageable to read a bigger, more "complex" book for pleasure.
I really did not like that one, it was so predictable, I have no idea why it's so hyped. I loved the first 100 pages and then it turned into a regular detective story unfortunately, which I'm not a fan of. (I read it in Hungarian, that translation was great and atmospheric, I did not have any issues with the writing style.)
shadow of the wind is one of THE best books I've read! GOD I loved it so fucking much although there were some very questionable parts in the book BUT OMGG ITS SERIOUSLY THE BEST!
I can't wait for your bookshelf tour 🖤
The shadow of the wind is one of my favourite books but i read it in spanish maybe that's why. Love your videos!
I have been waiting for a unhaul!❤️❤️
I'm also looking forward quite nervously to my own first book unhaul. I always hesitated to get rid of bad books because they're not worth anything anymore but a few Cents - but I love the idea of donating them to a library. I have to check if my local one is open for that. Then I can do an interview with them right away, which I wanted to do anyway :D Thanks a lot for the tip!
Also: I definitely saw the books crashing down before it happened :D
I have a lot of respect for unhauls because I would not be able to do it unless I had multiple copies. I just cannot get rid of books, even if I hated it. Congrats Merphy on donating and giving back to the community!
That 'HAHA' towards the end with all the books. Iconic.
Ooh I thought you'd be interested in Addie! Totally respect your decision tho but curious why you aren't.
I just finished the invisible life of Addie LaRue yesterday. I loved it!
you got me out of a reading slump thanks for that!
Omg but those book of the month picks are all sooooo good though 😭😭😭
Christopher Asmus I know, I think those were all books I’d either picked or had my eye on!
This was really fun, I love unhauls :- ) Ooh, the new outro is really cool :- ) You talking about how the translation of The Shadow of the Wind is possibly bad made me want to finally make some progress on my Spanish haha :- )
I regularly shelf purge
No joy....no use keeping.
I feel the same as you about The Lunar Chronicles! I still have my copies but I've decided I'm never going to reread them because I don't want to "ruin" them.
Love the shirt!!!! You have to wear it in Christmas haul video b/c it was 1 of best gifts this year!
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue is SO GOOD. Don't get rid of it before you read it :(
Furies of Calderon? Noooo this is a fantastic series with an okay first book. You should keep going with it. Book 3 is one of the better fantasy books I've ever read.
Oh no The Lunar Chronicles! 😭 But I understand your reasoning, there are older books I love but am afraid to reread in case I’d love them less now.
I totally agree with you about The Lunar Chronicles Trilogy I feel like if I reread it I wouldn't love it as much!!!!! Hahaha it was one of the first sci-fi/fairy retelling story I've ever read before! omg this book unhaul as a whole is basically my entire year of 2013 favorites hahahahaha. I LOVED Dark Matter & I didn't enjoy Recursion either!!!
You’re absolutely gorgeous!!!! Love your hair!!!!
I was so scared when I saw THG in the thumbnail, I'm glad to know you still own another set.
was really surprised to see addie larue in the unhaul. really thought you would like it hahahha
I too, am shocked by the choice to unhaul Addie LaRue, since so far everyone else I follow on booktube no matter the taste/preference has LOVED it.
Addie Laure is cursed to be forgotten as soon as she walks out of a room......it’s apt for this unhaul...
I have a friend who read in Spanish Shadow of the wind when she wanted Name of the wind. She didn't regret it. Now it's my time to learn this language
I'm from Spain and Shadow of the wind is almost like a classic here, I highly recommend it!
I felt the exact same way about Recursion! I thought I was the only one since everyone I know loved it.
I like this because our reading tastes are similar and I like knowing what doesn't appeal to you.
Good call on giving them to the library.
This inspires me to unhaul some of my books. Your way is so simple, just asking "will I reread it?" Seems like the best approach.
Time to unhaul the Boy, the Goat, the Monkey, and the the Portrait of what Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash
I love your videos!
Wow, I’m really surprised you didn’t like shadow of the wind. It’s a book I have been wanting to recommend to you, actually.
I think the series, the cemetery of forgotten books, is one of the most remarkable book series I’ve read in the past 10 years, if not longer. I can’t speak to the translation being bad, as I can’t read it in the original Spanish, but I found the English version to be exquisite.
Not gonna lie, The only review on "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" that I've been waiting for is yours. I think you might enjoy it a lot. Maybe you could give it a try 🥺
I am so sorry you didn't like Shadow of the Wind. That book is amazing and the rest of the series as well. Easily one of my favorites.🍀
On another note, just started reading The Lies of Locke Lamora and I have to say I am loving it so far. Thank you for the recommendation. 😊
I own The Hunger Games trilogy in hardcover. I was obsessed with it in high school, but after reading them again this year after 8 years I still like it but it’s not the best thing in the world. I will try out Lunar Chronicles this year, see how that goes.
That's the problem of translation, sometimes it ruins very good books. I loved La Sombra del Viento (The Shadow of the Wind ). I read it in Spanish, the author had beautiful prose, it was fast-paced, so engaging and the story captivated me.
Can you please read the “His Dark Materials” series some time this year.
oh no! the invisible life of Addie! i was interested in hearing your thoughts on this one....
I know that where you film is probably just a normal office space but for some reason I imagine it as this large, cavernous space and I don’t know why. Must be the shelves.
Oh! I would also like to suggest giveaways for any of your annotated books. I have zero desire to read either of those books but if it had been annotated by you?? Prize possession haha. I'm sure there are lots of others out there like me
I don’t know if others feel the same way, but I love buying used books especially when I discover they were annotated. It’s like having a book pen pal. If you are comfortable with it, maybe you’d consider adding those books to a giveaway for your subscribers. Marginalia always warm my heart!
Which book are you currently reading in Percy Jackson?
😁💚!
I think she is reading Book 4
Annotated Goodwill or thrift shops will take them usually. I love finding annotated books at thrift stores.
Ohh!! I' m really sorry about The shadow of the wind!! I read the 4 books and it's incredible beautiful!! But I totally understand if the translation isn't good is complicated. Sometimes it happens to me the other way around, luckily I can read/ listen in English. Hugs from Argentina 🤗
Halfway through reading Locke Lamora and you post?! Fate.
"Furries of Calderon" ... I def don't want to read that. 😂😂😂🐻🐼🐨
Wow that's a thick stack also it's pretty cool hearing the books that you just didn't agree with
i ~~loooooved~~ don't look back! i felt duped tho that it wasn't about a ballerina lmao
You could offer your annotated books to your patrons - I bet they'd be interested in the inner workings of Merphy's reading mind.
Lol you and Dragonflight should turn into a channel meme
Ooooh, space for new books!
Love you donating to the library! I read Addie LaRue and it just wasn’t for me, I know a lot of people really loved it but it just fell flat for me
Hi Merphy. I love your videos. I hope it's alright if I suggest two books for you to check out.
1. Close to me by Amanda Reynonds - A domestic thriller about a wife who wakes up from a coma with memory loss to discover her husband and kids are keeping secrets from her and that she might not have been the good wife and mother she thought she was.
2. Good as Gone by Amy Gentry - A girl's sister goes missing and comes back years later. But the family suspects something's off and she might not be who she claims.
Yea! Somebody else who didn’t love Shadow of the Wind!
I stick annotated books in those little free library boxes that are by, like, parks and stuff
Speaking of the lunar chronicles, I am reading Heartless, which I'm enjoying
I'm sure a bunch of your fans would love to read some of your annotated books. I'm sure tons would sign up if you were to offer them as random giveaways.
Agreeing with the comments, I think you might like Addie Larue! It has flaws that I think you will probably note, but for the most part it was a nice read 😊
Great vid
Wait for me by Caroline L is my fave historical YA romance. I couldn't find a copy of the book here in the Philippines and seeing you unhauling it is heartbreaking :(
If you have any little free libraries near you, they would be a great place to put your anotated books
Aha, I didn’t like Dark Matter as much as Recursion since I read Recursion first. I think because they are so similar whichever one you read first, you prefer. Great unhaul 👍
Same I read Recursion first and prefer it
I read Dark Matter first and I prefer it more, but I actually like the concept on Recursion better. The thing is that I don't feel Recursion is as well executed as Dark Matter.
My book club is reading The invisible life of Audie LaRue! Starting part 3 and it's sooo good! Its been getting a lot of great reviews
I recently read (by that I mean fall 2019) Everybody Sees the Ants and yeah the issues are very glaring reading it now. An issue I have with A.S. King's books (despite loving her books) is that they are always products of their time and even if that time is 2012 it's a bit jarring. If you want to read her newer stuff, Still Life with Tornado is one I would think you would like but tw for abuse and a student teacher relationship (it's condemned and in the background but still). Her middlegrade also stands out. The Year We Fell From Space is particularly heavy for a middlegrade.
It's centered around mental health and increasing awareness due to a personal tragedy she suffered.
My personal favorite is Dig but that book is genuinely surrealist so your mileage may vary
I was thinking let those towers fall, fall please fall
There are etsy accounts and other small businesses that make art, journals, other things out of old books. They may take annotated books 🤷🏻♀️
I read Shadow of the Wind in English in November last year and I listened to the audiobook in German alternately and the difference in the richness of the two translations was even there blatantly obvious (even though the German is also a translation). The German one was poetic and some lines were so beautiful and quotable but when I looked them up in my English copy, they were always a bit of a disappointment...What a pity! Overall I liked the story but I had big issues with the telenovela-like turn in the plot, which ruined my enjoyment.
And Addie Larue, why??? I got it for Christmas, I am looking forward to reading it this year and it would have been so good to hear you speak about it...
I really wanted to hear what you thought about Addie Larue.
I’m a bit surprised at people trashing the English translation of Shadow of the Wind. It’s actually highly acclaimed in literary circles. 🤷🏽♀️ It’s one of my all time favorite books and I find the language hypnotic and the story beautiful. I can understand people not liking it because it’s much slower paced in the beginning. It’s actually not one I’d have personally recommended to you based on other things I’ve seen you like/dislike.
Oh man, I was hoping to hear your thoughts on Addie LaRue, I thought it would be right up your alley! But if you’re not interested I get it.
Crying about lunar chronicles 😂 starting off with a bang
Nice t-shirt!
I read Recursion after Dark Matter and I liked it a lot. I think it’s because I loved Dark Matter and wanted to read something with a similar concept. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue was a good book, but I can understand why someone wouldn’t be interested in it. I don’t think I’ll donate/sell any of my books until my bookcases are full (like yours). Then I’ll just get rid of a few at a time to make room for new ones.
I honestly don’t think I’ll ever unhaul my Lunar Chronicles books
Dragonflight was a little slow. It basically sets up the world of Pern, paving the way for the superior sequel, Dragonquest.