clean out my bookshelf with me! | a big ol' book unhaul

that's water it feels weird that i said that now it seems like i'm lying [Music] hi hello how are you welcome back to my channel how are you doing today so happy to hear that i hope you're taking care of yourself because if not i'll absolutely shoot your ass with a gun i don't know today on my channel couple things that we're doing first of all the main reason i'm just showing you my dolly parton t-shirt okay that's all bye no i'm kidding what we're also doing is going through my bookshelf i'm moving so i need to pack all my books but before i do that i want to go through and get rid of the books that i don't want and don't need i'm not going to get rid of a huge amount of books but i want this shelf to be indicative of the kind of reader i am and that kind of reader is a very delicate balance of basic as [ __ ] and crazy hi it's me editing having a kombucha so i just wanted to say i'm neurodivergent and mentally ill so i'm reclaiming the word crazy not just saying i'm just saying a bad thing just want you to know peace and love i'm very very lucky the kind of uh person that i am now the kind of job that i have means that people send me books which is great and companies send me books which is great but i don't need all of these books so i'm gonna get rid of them if you're wondering where they're going my sister i'm gonna let her go through pick the ones she wants then my mom is a teacher so she'll bring all the books in for her classroom and for the school's library so they're getting used which is great and i'm not going to read them so let's pass them on to the next generation here are the rules i can keep it if it's a favorite it's a book that i feel incredibly emotionally attached to i love it i can also keep it if it's a book that was a gift or if it's a book that i think i will read we're not doing you know wishful thinking oh maybe i'll read it no i have to be real with myself about what books i will read so that's how we're doing this okay oh and it's falling it's falling let's go through so first we have my three sally rooneys mr salary conversations with friends and normal people i'm keeping these i love sally rooney i'm incredibly up sally rooney's ass you wouldn't even believe it i would let sally rooney shoot me in the ass with a bazooka i would let sally rooney wear my skin as a suit i would let sally rooney pour acid up my butthole i would let her do whatever she [ __ ] wants and i'd thank her so i'm keeping these next from my favorites we have the great gatsby my copy's signed by tyler oakley that's a collector's item we're keeping that we have a couple more of my favorites this is pleasure by mary gatesgale i think about this constantly same with slow days fast company by eve babbitt i'm uh an eve babbitt's little fan girl these are all favorites so they're things that i'm gonna keep watch sue me sue me so we're keeping the bell jar my year of rest and relaxation by otessa moshfig obsessed with this book i love it then of course we have less one of my favorite books that i read in 2020 i would reread this this is maybe one of my favorite books of all time just read this we're keeping it i am not myself these days by josh kilmer purcell my best friend meredith this is her favorite book and she gave me an annotated copy of it so of course i'm keeping it lust and wonder by augustine burrows exciting times by nisha dolan memorial by brian washington and such a fun age these are all favorites of mine now we're moving on to random fiction and stuff so this is where we're gonna have to start making cuts holding ourselves accountable that sounds like i'm canceling myself i'm not the alchemist i tried to read this and i think i'm a little too evil i think it's a little too genuine for me number one ladies and active agency would love to reread absolutely loved it we're keeping it fahrenheit451 i've had this forever i've literally never been interested in reading it you all grow up and leave me i found it really interesting and really twisted it's basically just a memoir but told through the lens of this girl's tennis coach being a famous pedophile i'm keeping it sunday philosophy club very cottage core but i didn't enjoy it as much as the number one ladies detective agency i don't think i'd re-read it and i'm not interested in reading the rest of the series in watermelon sugar i think this is a good one to keep it's weird girls by emma cline i've literally never read this people keep telling me to read it i think i bought this like literally when i was 16 or something and i haven't read it pride and prejudice by jane austen i literally think this cover is the ugliest [ __ ] thing i've ever seen in my life it looks like a tim burton thing and it's scary let's do this i have two kurt vonneguts i'm keeping both of them i think these covers look absolutely sick i haven't read kurt vonnegut and i think i really would like to i think there's a universe in which i would love kurt vonnegut so i'm keeping both of these truman capote summer crossing this is his unfinished novella i would keep this just because i think it's a cool book to have voltaire i read in high school loved i'll keep one copy of franny and zoe i'll keep that and i'll keep my two copies of catcher in the rye as well beautiful in the damn by f scott fitzgerald i hated this i'm getting rid of this i hated this book i thought it was so boring yeah just really did not live up to the hype for me and i love f scott fitzgerald played as it lays by joan didion i thought this was fine didn't love it but it's the only didion i own all the other joan didions i read i got from the library so i want to keep it just as you know respect for she's alive i don't know why i pretended like she was in heaven putting some respect on joan didion's name you know okay i'm gonna get rid of lord of the flies i'm never gonna reread it i was in a play of lord of the flies and i played maurice who's an ancillary character a separate piece i read this in high school and hated it but i think it's like very dark academia i would want to reread this this is one of my high school english teachers favorite books i thought this book was absolutely ass i thought it was awful in high school but i might like it now it seems incredibly depressing and i don't mind depressing books we're going to keep that we're also going to keep wuthering heights by emily bronte because i conquered it look at the small type i conquered this book i'm keeping it romeo and juliet i don't really want to keep i read it i really did that i love shakespeare just itching my leg looks like i'm absolutely itching my crotch though sorry i don't say actually as if like i'm the only person in the world that actually loves shakespeare it's really crazy but a lot of people on the internet don't like shakespeare and think he's overrated which is fair but this one i'm like hey it's not a fave these are two copies of jane austen's i have they're the same copies it's so cute it's emma and north anger abby i'm keeping these and then to kill a mockingbird by harper lee i'm not gonna keep this i read it i loved it in high school you know it's good but i'm not gonna visit it again got some more books over here let's go baby this is a cowboys christmas carol my sister got this for me as a joke at walmart it's like one of those sexy little cowboy smut christmas books i have no interest in reading this i really don't then we have the hating game which i will keep i i really enjoyed this one i don't think that's an unpopular opinion by any means it's basically the one romance everyone talks about but i loved this thought it was really well done i think so many romances are really stupid to me i like this i cared about it i love yearning and then we have julia quinn to sir philip with love this is one of the richardson books this is eloise from bridgerton like the smart sisters book i liked it would i ever read it again no this is gonna go i'm also gonna get rid of the first richardson book the duke and i like the eloise one a lot better couldn't get through this one found it boring we have the tempest and tating of the shrew by shakespeare get rid of taming in the shrew absolutely hated it this is you by caroline kepnes you know the u-books from joe you know joe with the hat stocks you know him it was great i read this book and i read the second book got it from my library so fun i mean i'm not gonna re-read it but i loved it had a great time so to the library this is a sherlock holmes novel about mycroft homes sherlock's brother written by the mba's leading all-time scorer kareem abdul-jabbar so obviously keeping that my friend matt got it for me as a gift this is ghosts by dolly elderton it's coming out in in august here in canada this is an arc that kanoff sent me i read this obsessed with it dolly elderton absolutely killing it keeping it a copy of malibu rising by taylor jenkins read i have a new two copies of this so i'm giving this to my sister then we have east of eden by john steinbeck i'm keeping this for a couple reasons first of all i loved it i can't believe i loved it as much as i did but i did john steinbeck you're going places kid and also just to show that i conquered it that i conquered this book and i read it for my emma chamberlain video which is a video that really got a lot of views and brought a lot of people to my channel so sentimental i'm a sentimental [ __ ] [ __ ] sue me then we have my unabridged collection of five agatha christie novels this is a book that my grandmother stole from the library so we're keeping it and i'm literally up agatha christie's [ __ ] ass queen of mysteries a complete collection of all of the sherlock holmes stories i love sherlock holmes too i love an old tummy mystery are they problematic of course they're so white it's insane and mostly men and if anybody is queer they are fully closeted and mental illness is depicted horribly but you know what i love them they're pure escapism it is a hot girl agatha christie gloomy murder summer we're all in agreement i love gloomy mysteries that take place in like the victorian era i refuse to explain myself my escapism is to a time in which i would have surely been killed for being who i am and i don't care let's do it baby hatred of poetry by ben lerner my uh great aunt is a poetry professor and she sent this to me and it's great it's literally just an essay talking about why people hate poetry and it's so interesting because it talks a lot about just like the basis for criticism of anything why do people criticize why do people think that certain things are stupid it's just a very interesting essay i really enjoyed it the complete short stories of truman capote i've literally destroyed this so there's no even way it's going to the library so i'm keeping it then we have the 3ya books i own loveless by alice oseman i got her other books from my library this is when i bought though because i had to have it when it was released and i [ __ ] absolutely loved it i jived with it like a novel about going to university and having your first year be absolutely depressing and friendless it hits home it hit it hits home then we have the outsiders by essie hinton an absolute fave of mine and purpose of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky that's all i'll say let's go through some poetry i think i'm keeping all my poetry let's see dreamwork by mary oliver i said this is one of my favorite poetry collections so obviously we're keeping it then i have two other mary oliver collections swan and blue horses i'm keeping all my mary oliver i love her wendy cope of course we're keeping i'm gonna get rid of this pablo neruda i'm not gonna return to it he's an [ __ ] my selected poems of robert frost keeping selected poems of emily dickinson keeping citizen by claudia rankine holy [ __ ] i read this every year it's one of the best pieces of work ever it's basically musings on race in america talking about sports or talking about police brutality talking about it in different through different aspects of american life and how race affects them and it's a lyric so it's like kind of poetry it's more like poetic prose gone girl i'm not going to reread this i would just watch the movie you know so away you go we have the hobbit hobbit is the only fantasy i like so i'm keeping it then these are ian rankin novels they're kind of like literary detective novels i'm gonna keep these because again i love a good detective and i think these are just like a good option to have uh white teeth by zadie smith i want to read this so that's staying over the top by jonathan van ness yes dothan ben s from queer eye i loved this book i thought it was a great memoir i think he has a lot of interesting stories to tell i enjoyed it but i'm not going to read it i think somebody else will get a lot more out of this so away it goes where'd you go bernadette i love this i'ma keep this oh something is in my eye kim ji young i love i'll keep it although i hate all of the choices were made this can't go to a children's school library so yeah it's staying [Music] everything is falling first we have the collected plays of neil simon neil simon is my favorite playwright so i'm keeping this this has california suite one of my favorite plays by him the odd couple female version by neil simon the dinner party by neil simon rose's dilemma by neil simon i love neil simon plays i do i think they're really funny and i think they're timeless because the neuroses of human life and relationships is always relatable if i were to tell you where to start with the assignment i'd say either the odd couple very funny i also loved the plaza suite by neil simon i would recommend neil simon we have noises off one of the most famous forces i'm keeping this i haven't finished this so i'm keeping it then we have rosencrantz and guildenstern or dead which i also love it's funny and existential keeping it who's afraid of virginia woolf i haven't read this i don't even really know what it's about hey girl bosses i'm editing and i realized i didn't say what the play is about so it's basically about a couple who has another couple over for dinner and the hosts their relationship is falling apart and they basically use their guests as fodder to rip apart their own relationship and by extension their guest relationship sounds good to me okay that sounds pretty good and also the importance of being earnest which i haven't read but i would like to then we have macbeth and the twelfth night these are my two favorite shakespeare plays so i'm keeping them valley of the dolls which i read a while ago i really liked this book it's definitely just sad and cool and aesthetic and i loved it all i'm keeping it so you've been publicly shamed tricked mirror some of my favorite non-fiction like essays keeping it crying in age mark just finished absolutely loved keeping it these are some comedy books that i have now i'm a comedian if you didn't know improv nation this is just a history of improv i love improv if you love improv you would love this book we're keeping it sick in the head by judd apatow this is just his conversations with comedians history of saturday night live i haven't read this but i think it's indicative of who i am as a person i can feasibly pick it up and it was a gift so we're keeping it elton john's biography loved it keeping it amy poehler's biography i'm obsessed with her so we have to keep it steve martin's biography which is one of the best comedy biographies he's got an interesting life he studied philosophy in college so he's got like really interesting viewpoints on life and comedy really enjoyed it would read again the situation in the story this is a book about like writing a personal essay i'm keeping it psycho by robert block psycho is my favorite movie so i thought i'd read the book the book sucks ass it's lee it's going these are two mystery novels relating to dogs it's like the detective has a dog and the mysteries involve dogs my manny my grandmother got them for me hi nanny she watches my videos so that's that let's do my tbr now because there's some books on my tbr that just like i'm not gonna read but i think most of them i am gonna read and some of these are just also books i fully read and just haven't put anywhere we have spark by naoki marioshi beautiful crazy very funny book about two manzai comedians which is a japanese form of comedy loved it i want to keep it i would recommend it all the light we cannot see i haven't read my partner gave this to me it's his copy i can't get rid of it two murakami's that i want to read at some point so we're keeping that the interpreter by suki kim which i fully have read loved it now here are some books that i haven't read elena ferrante my brilliant friend somebody sent this to me i don't know who you didn't put a note if this is you please let me know i would love to thank you i've heard nothing but great things about this book i think i will really enjoy it this cover is gorgeous i'm excited to read this okay shoko's smile which is the new korean release and it's little short stories about slices of life i bought this because i heard the author be compared to a korean sally rooney and i'm up sally rooney's ass as we all know and also jisoo from blackpink read this and recommended this choi young paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in south korea balancing the personal with the political sounds great to me okay say nothing this was a book recommended to me by one of my old roommates it basically follows the murder of gene mcconville who was murdered in 1972 in belfast by the ira and it discusses the ethics of murder in relation to opposing colonial rule when your land is being stolen and you are being oppressed by colonial power what are the ethics of murder sounds good next these two books next to each other are crazy the next book is one last stop by casey mcqueston this is a sapphic romance that's duplicity baby i'm keeping this okay the new york trilogy again another old-timey detective thing i haven't read this but it's basically three paul asked your detective stories taking place in new york absolutely banger obviously i'm keeping that this is a short story collection by brian washington i love brian washington keeping that i'm sorry i know you thought i'd get rid of more books but unfortunately i have no self-control convenience store women by sayaka morata this is about a woman who works at a convenience store is very happy working at a convenience store and doesn't want more from her life absolutely wish it was me i'm gonna keep that okay this is james joyce dubliners james joyce's collection of short stories of people living in dublin keeping that sleepwalking by meg wolitzer i bought this what two years ago haven't read it i hope to one day do it these are two books my cousin cora has given me the whisper man and it bleeds by stephen king so can get rid of those and actually should probably read them because i should give them back to her this is my arc of malibu rising haven't read it yet would love to will do keeping it we have saved me the waltz by ms zelda fitzgerald obviously not gonna get rid of it we love zelda in this household this is an arc for all's well by mona awad i loved bunny think i would be obsessed with this this is also about basically a woman's struggle with chronic pain and mental illness as she is staging a university production of allswell that ends well and then the cast stages a coup because they want to perform macbeth i i can't ask for much more in a novel this is promising young woman by caroline o'donoghue i listen to a podcast hosted by caroline o'donoghue and dolly alderton who wrote ghosts and this seems like a book about me too and female rage in regards to the violence that is enacted on our bodies not much more i can want from that somebody sent me lot by brian washington as a gift i have two copies of this as you've seen so i'm gonna get rid of the one actually that i bought for myself and keep this one look mommy book and baby book we have the guest list by lucy foley i've tried to read this four times i love a take on and then there were none by agatha christie i do but i can't get into this so it's it's going her body and other parties by carmen marino machado i love this book i'm keeping this collection of short stories that connect fantasy and fairy tale to sexual trauma eaves hollywood by eve baptist which i've read and loved there's two books missing i have and then there were none by agatha christie and the mouse trapped by agatha christie they're just downstairs because i was reading them and i'm keeping them thank you for joining me while i clean out all of my books was this interesting only time will tell we may never know if this was interesting but i do really thank you for joining me all of my stuff is in the description that's that's everything i hope you have a great day see you soon bye

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Length: 19min 32sec (1172 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 18 2021