Hi guys it's Olivia here, from Olivia's
Catastrophe and I'm here to give you my
massive unhaul video. So, you did not
read the title wrong. Yes,
I'm unhauling a hundred and twenty six
books and I'm not going to show you all
hundred and twenty-six books in this
video because that's quite long, you know.
But I've chosen a select few. I think
about 40. And I want to talk about why
I'm unhauling them so you get a bit of an
idea of the kind of books that I have unhauled
and why I did this. I'm in the
Netherlands so that's why there's no
bookshelf behind me. I'm back home in the
Netherlands and yeah, while I was here I
decided that it's time to count my books
and document them. So I made an Excel
spreadsheet with all of the books that
I've read that I own, all the books that
I own that are not read and sequels that
I need to buy so I can finish series
because that's something I want to do. I
haven't finished counting
because I still have books in the UK
where I'm studying at university. And I
think there's like 100 ish there so I
haven't finished counting my books but I
know that I'm not gonna unhaul any from
England because they're all books I have
recently added to my collection and I'm
not going to unhaul books that I
recently bought. Because I'm still
excited for them. However, here in the
Netherlands I've had books for years and
I just don't want them anymore or I'm
not excited for them.
I've unhauled both read and unread books.
However, the majority of books that I've
unhauled
that are unread are books that I got
when I first started blogging. So I
reviewed a lot of indie or lesser known
authors and I unhauled those ones. They
were all gifted so I'm not actually
losing money here. And I also unhauled
books that I got from secondhand shops
for one pound or less. So basically what
I have learned from doing this is that I
need to buy fewer books at second-hand
shops because I'm more tempted to just
buy on a whim for the sake of buying
because it's cheap, rather than if I buy
a book that's full price I actually buy
something I'm very excited to read. And I'm still excited to read all these years
later and I also need to accept fewer
review copies which I'm already doing.
Anyway it's time to talk about the
unhauled books.
This is a photo of what all the books
that I'm unahuling looks like if you
were curious. So right off the top: Artemis
Fowl by Eoin Colfer. I am unhauling this
as it's a double copy and I'm giving it
to my younger sister. I recently bought a
box set which had all of them in it. And,
yes, if I've got all of them I don't need
this single book that I read when I was
younger. So my younger sister can enjoy
this instead. I am Number Four by
Pittacus Lore. I won this one in a
giveaway on Instagram and back then I'd
just seen the movie and I was excited to
read it but now I have rewatched the
movie and it was quite awful. You know
how some book to film adaptions are awful? I just found the concept as well was not
that intriguing and not that exciting. So
I don't think it's one that I want to
read. The next one I'm unhauling is Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The first
three times -- well not the first three
times -- when I read the first three books
I borrowed them from a friend and then she
moved, so a different friend gave me this
to keep me reading the series. However, by
then I'd understood that I wasn't a huge
fan and I'd switched to reading the
audiobooks. A lot of years later -- so -- 'cause
I'm currently doing that -- so I know I
don't need this book in my life. And it...
it's goin. Next up I'm unhauling some
childhood books. I've got Lola Rose by
Jacqueline Wilson and I've got Lily
Alone by Jacqueline Wilson. I do want to
keep some of my childhood favorites on
my shelf so I have kept The Diamond
Girls by Jacqueline Wilson which is
closer to my heart because it's about
four sisters and hey presto, in my family
we are four sisters. So these two were
ones that I read later on in reading her
because as a child I kind of just
breezed through all of her books and... 
I've actually a checklist in here and I've
almost completed it. And yeah, they were
really nice but by the end I was
starting to feel the repetitiveness of
them. So I wasn't enjoying them as much but more so
reading them for the sake of
reading them and these two kind of fell
into that category. They can find better
homes with other kids elsewhere. Then
we've got Reached by Ally Condie. I read
the whole trilogy. I read Matched and I
thought it was pretty good when I was
younger and in that dystopian phase.
However, I hated Crossed and more so
bought Reached and read it for the sake
of finishing the series. And it was very
disappointing. I don't recommend the Matched
trilogy to anyone and I'm kind of
glad to get this off of my shelf. Angels and
Demons as well as The Da Vinci Code in a
bind up by Dan Brown. This is a brand-new
hardcover and I'm just not going to read
it. This was gifted to my mum, however,
whoever gifted it to her wasn't very
smart because I know that this one kind
of includes him debunking Christianity
and being like: oh,l Christianity is
fake and I've discovered why. Alongside the
mystery and thriller and all that. But my
mum is, you know, a Christian so she was
like: I'm not gonna read this. But she
still accepted the gift and then she
gave it to me because she knows that I'm
more likely to read something like that.
However, I'm not gonna read it because a)
my younger sister read it and she didn't
think it was very good. B) we did a bad
writing class in creative writing and
the teacher gave us some examples of bad
writing. These excerpts. And they were so
awful. They were so terrible - there were
so many things wrong with it. They were by Dan
Brown. They're from his book so I was
like: I'm not gonna read a Dan Brown book.
And thirdly, I am also a Christian. She
knows that I'm a bit more... I don't know. She knows that I'm more likely to just
read it and not actually take anything
of it. But I've decided that I don't need
to read a book where the person is quite --
being quite rude -- it's known for being
quite rude towards Christianity and kind
of hating on it. And I don't really need
that in my life. So thank you, next. That was a little rant. Next up we've got Macbeth
by Shakespeare. We've got As You Like It
by Shakespeare. We've got Henry the
4th Part 1 by Shakespeare and also
Othello by Shakespeare. So I am
Shakespeare fan, I love Shakespeare and I
don't know why I have all of these. I
think these three were gifted to me by
an English teacher who realised I really
enjoyed when we studied The Merchant of
Venice and Romeo and Juliet, and then I
bought this one probably a couple years
ago. However, I now own the complete works
of Shakespeare in one book so I just
don't really need these. Next up we've
got Trickster's Queen and Trickster's
Choice by Tamora Pierce. Now, these are
two that I got for a pound in a
secondhand shop. However, I did not remove
the hard covers because if I had
removed the hard covers I would have
realized in what terrible,
terrible condition these books truly are.
Like, they're hard covers and they're
wrapped really nicely so you think
they're nice but the pages are really
spotty. They kind of look a bit mouldy and
nasty so these are actually two that I'm
gonna be throwing away. And yeah, I do
want to read something by Tamora Pierce
but it's not going to be these two books
because I don't have space for bad books
on my shelf. Like, bad condition books.
Next up we have the Immortals series by
Alyson Noel. And these are the first four
in the series. Again, I got these for 50p
each in the same secondhand shop and
they're good quality and everything but
I just have no interest whatsoever. I
think I saw four books in a young adult
series for a cheap price and just
snapped it up. I know that some people
have enjoyed this series but I have no
inclination to read it. So it's going.
Next up we've got Strong Poison by
Dorothy L. Sayers. If you saw my wrap
up in either January or February I read
this one and I thought it was okay. However, I read it for university and
it's quite an old worn copy because I
got it like, secondhand from somebody who
probably got a secondhand, who probably
got it secondhand. So I don't really need
it in my life and it wasn't that great.
Studied it and it's done so BAI! Next up
we have Heart of Darkness by Joseph
Conrad. I studied this in my first year
of university. I hated this book so so so
so so so so so so so so so so much. It's
awful! It's terribly racist and it's
supposed to be like, debunking racism and
being against racism. However, it is very
racist in itself while doing that. It was
so so boring and I think it's like -- it's
like a hundred and twenty pages long. It
was the longest read of my life like
H-O-N-E-S-T-L-Y. I read Game of Thrones and that
felt faster and quicker paced and better
written than this terrible classic. Good
riddance. Next up we have Wild Swans by
Jung Chang and this is what I actually
want to read. This was gifted to me by my
mum. She got it secondhand and then she
was finished with it and she passed
it down to me. However, I find it's really
bad condition. 
It's not that terrible but I've heard
really good things about this book and I
know I'm going to love it, I know I'm
gonna want a really nice edition of it
on my shelf so I am hoping to get a new
copy of it. And I'm getting rid of this one. So we've got a
couple of books where I do want to read
it but I want better condition. So one of
those is Andersen's fairy tales. This one
was gifted to me by a schoolteacher and --
you know, schoolteachers? They must have
really liked me or something. I was a big
English Lit person. I loved English
literature, gave it my heart, talked to
teachers after school and everything. So
that's why so many English literature
teachers with gifting me books. But yeah,
it's not the best copy. I know that
they've read it and they've probably
read this multiple times. It's really old
yellow pages so I'm gonna get myself a
nice edition of this. And also
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. I do
want to read it. I've got Beloved on my
shelves and I'm gonna read Beloved first
and if I like it I will get me a nice a
copy of Song of Solomon where the pages
aren't stained by coffee droplets. Then
we've got Blessed by Tonya Hurley. This
was something that I won in a giveaway
alongside other books I actually wanted
like Aristotle and Dante Discover the
Secrets of the Universe. However, this was
just included in the package that came
with it. I think the person who sent it
to me didn't want it because this is an
ARC but I don't want it either. I looked at
reviews on Goodreads and it doesn't
say very promising stuff. It sounds
confusing, it sounds like a stereotypical
young adult like, paranormally kind of
one. Not for me. Then we got The Book of
Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern. This was -- you
know, somebody unhauled Throne of Glass and Crown of Midnight and in that they
said: oh yeah, you can have it. So they
just sent me those two books. However,
with those two books she actually sent
me like, 16 books of books that she was
unhauling which is okay because it's
free books. But I didn't ask for those
books. I was just expecting Throne of Glass and Crown of Midnight so I ended up with
a lot of books I'm not actually
interested in. And The Book of Tomorrow
by Cecelia Ahern was one of them. I've
heard it's really sweet. I don't care I
have no interest or want to read it so
it's going. And in that box that that
person sent me of Throne of Glass and the sequel she also sent me Babyville by
Jane Green and also The One I Want by
Jennifer
Echols. These sound like two, like,
contemporary books that are like, romance.
This is like an adult contemporary
and this is like a teen contemporary.
Ugh, I just don't want them!
Like, I do read the contemporary genre
but I'm very fussy with what I pick.
Usually the theme of grief is somehow
related because I am a sad person like
that. And yeah, these just don't sound
like my type of ones. They sound too
lovey-dovey, cutesy-cutesy romance. I
know that's what like, romance
contemporary -- contemporary books are like. And I do like my dose of romance and
contemporary reads but I'm just very
specific and those don't make the cut
for me. Then we've got what I like to
call mum books. I'm not judging you if
you read Debbie Macomber books or if you
read Danielle Steel. However, I've seen a
lot of mums who are reading Debbie Macomber. So whenever I see one I'm like:
that's a mum book. And my mum has so
many Danielle Steel books. She loves them!
So when I was gifted these two, I think
secondhand, when I've got these
secondhand actually, I was like: okay, so
I've seen mums read this a lot so it
must be good and my mum reads Danielle
Steel a lot so it has to be good.
But the truth is that I've so heavily associated them with mum books I
feel like I need to be a mum to read
them. That's not the case.
It's so ridiculous. It's such a bad
mindset to have but I can't get out of
it. So yeah, Betrayal by Danielle Steel and
No Competition by Debbie Macomber
are going just because I'm not a mum.
Uh-oh, what bad reasoning is that. Then we've got
Green Juices and Smoothies.  So my friend
gifted this to me for Surprise. Like... a
secret santa but the Dutch version. And
that's when I started clean eating for
the first time. I had a juicer at this
house, there's a juicer here but there was no
smoothie blender. So I made all the
juices. Then I went to England for uni
and I bought my own blender so I made
all the smoothies but I didn't have a
juicer. However, I've made everything in
this book and they're not my favourites.
But the person who gifted me this
recently bought a juicer, and I feel like
they're gonna like these juices. So I'm
just gonna give it back to her. I'm gonna
explain the situation but I think she'll
be happy to have it.
So it's quite a funny story because
somebody gifted it to me and I'm giving
it back. You might not be laughing. Never
mind.
Then it's Chained by Night by Larissa Ione. This was gifted to me with the Throne of
Glass books. That's going. Also with those
books was Dead Until Dark by Charlaine
Harris. These just... they don't seem like
my type of paranormal books? Maybe this
one cause like, vampires but like, I'm not
actually interested so bye... I won a give
away and I won Vostok by Steve Alton and
I originally put this with the books to
keep. But then I checked on Goodreads and
yes... So apparently the first half of this
is really good thriller sci-fi and then
the second half is just the author
throwing in their political agenda and
being very atheist and against
religions, and just a bit rude about it. Even the people who are atheists in
Goodreads were like: it's a bit... it's a bit
much so... Then the last two I'm going to show
you are Fearless by Francine Pascal and
Heaven by Christopher Marzi. Again, I
don't really know much about these books.
I believe this one... I actually have no clue. Bye! I have no clue what it's about.
It came in the Throne of Glass Box. And this one is about this girl who doesn't
have the fear gene in her, so she has no
fear. And I'm gonna give this one to my little
sister because it actually sounds like
something she would like. Again it came
in that same box. So there you have it.
You understand that most of these books
were give it to me for free or were to
support a secondhand thing. Lots of the
cases it's just I don't have interest, I
never did but I still got the book
somehow. Or I read it and didn't like it
or read it and I have no more use for it.
Or that I just want to read it but I
just want a better condition for it. The
other 126 books follow the same thing.
Once I'm done counting my books I will
have a video up about more on why I've
counted my books specifically and why
I've decided to list them all because
that's something exciting. And I'll also
explain how I'm gonna actually be
tackling my TBR. Show you how big my TBR
and how big my collection is. That's
going to be an interesting video and I'm
quite scared to finish counting. Yeah.
Okay thank you so much for watching this
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