hello readers I'm Amy and today we're
doing my summer unhaul
now previously I've done my unhauls as
vlogs so whenever I find a book that I
want to take off my shelf I would vlog
about it
take it off to the library or to my
workplace
to donate and that would be it but with
coronavirus there's not really been a
reason to do that because most of the donation most of the places
are closed to donations I can still
bring books to work
um but I actually still have the
winter and spring unhaul books in the
trunk of my car because they just a lot of them don't
have any place to go so instead of doing
a vlog I'm just going to do my unhaul
all at once because again they don't
really have any place to go right now
besides the back of my car first off we have The Science of Evil
now I this is one of the first books that I
reviewed on my channel
um I enjoyed it I think it had a lot of
interesting things to say it's basically a study of empathy and
being evil and the psychology of all of
that and I really enjoyed it
but that said it was really academic
considering my reading tastes now and
while I really like having it i just
don't think i'm ever gonna read it again
so I'm probably gonna give this to my
therapist friend because I think she
could get a lot out of it then I have When Rabbit Howls I had
started this for the Mentalhealthathon in 2019
and I just wasn't in the place to be
reading it at that time even though it
looked really good so I put it off and then I found the
book at a used bookstore this year
and started reading it again for
mentalhealthathon I was actually buddy reading it with Demi she's from
The Weird Collection because my best
friend has started her own channel
and buddyread-wise I got like two or
three chapters into this before I gave
up on it and Demi also ended up DNFing it
I think it's it's basically
chronicling um Trudy Chase's
childhood trauma and talking about her
92 personalities because she has
multiple personality disorder
or dissociative identity disorder I
think it's just called dissociative
identity disorder now I don't know if
they use a multiple personality
anymore I'll have to check up on that
but I don't know it reminded me of whenever
I tried to read Freshwater
earlier this year as well where
Freshwater is talking about feeling like you're someone else feeling
like you have other people inside of you
and I'm finding that these kind of
stories just feel really disjointed for
me like
um Freshwater was really literary and
wasn't really getting through to me so I
loved the writing of it but I just
couldn't understand anything that was
going on this book also felt
disjointed we would kind of jump
between different voices and
different writing styles and I wasn't
really sure what the starting point of
the story was
it just wasn't working for me if you
have any
DID book recommendations please comment them down below because I'm looking for
one that I can really get into because I
think it's it's important to learn about
um it's a perspective that I'm
interested in I'm just not finding the books that are working
for me next one is Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle I read
this with Victoria from What Victoria
Read earlier this year
um of all the ones I've read so far this
year there's been like
two that I really really enjoyed Lady
Oracle I liked the first
half of it three quarters of it until I
was getting to the point where I'm like
is this book over yet um so I enjoyed it not gonna read it
again gonna go ahead and take it off of my
shelf
Michael Crichton and Micro I have a very
good Michael Crichton collection it's
right behind me here I love Michael
Crichton I've read
a lot of his works definitely not all of
them um
I want to say I've maybe read half
Jurassic Park was the first time I fell
in love with him but every time I see Micro on my shelf
I kind of relived the trauma of reading
it
and I really don't get me wrong I really
enjoyed this book I had a good time with
this book but also I am never going to read this
book again because it was traumatizing
this book is about a bunch of scientists
who get shrunk and um they're like going through the
grass and they're seeing all these bugs
and they're trying to save the world and
all of that and I'm not going to go into detail
about this because I don't want to
traumatize you like I traumatized me
but the giant bugs specifically
one kind of giant bug had a
particular incident with one of the
scientists and even just thinking about
it and almost talking about right now is
freaking me out but if you're into giant
bugs read Micro or rather if you're into tiny
people read Micro the bug part I
just um The Troop is a popular book that's been
going around this year um about people who get like infested with
worms and it changes them somehow
and that as a horror book as a concept
sounds really good to me and I would
like to read that book
however because of my feelings on Micro
and similar bug related issues
I just don't think I would be able to
get through The Troops
so again if you're fine with bugs in
your horror and sci-fi
by all means read this book and I really
hate
giving up a Michael Crichton book but
every time I see it on my shelf
it just gives me the jitters and I'm
like you know what it needs to go
it just needs to go I I cannot keep
looking at it
on my shelf Shutter Island I read this
with Rachel Rae'
it was a buddy read several months ago
I wasn't super sold on it I haven't seen
the movie yet still I've heard good things about it
but in reading the book it took
so long to get through the plot the
length considering the story just felt
unnecessary my husband had said that he might read it
but he's really slow on getting into
actually reading things and I honestly
don't think he's gonna pick this up so
I'm just gonna get rid of it
um guy on island psychological stuff
ensues
The Joy Luck Club which I just reviewed
I really enjoyed this book this is
following a Chinese/Chinese-American um
set of families there's four moms four
daughters whose lives were kind of
looking back on read like a series of short stories it
was really good I really enjoyed this
I think it's a great book however I just
don't think I'm gonna read it again like
I liked it
I I'm glad I read it I'm just
not gonna reread it I know I'm not gonna
reread it and getting to the point where I need to
make some more space on my shelves so
this
is going to a beloved friend of mine who
I think will really get a lot out of it
and it'll find a good home on her shelf
lastly is Fates and Furies I
don't like giving this one up but again
I need to make space on my shelves and I
know there are books that I've been
questioning giving up for a while now
and they're still there so Fates and
Furies I read
several years ago the writing was
phenomenal the writing style of this
book is just top notch
however there is no plot and nothing of
any importance actually happens in this
book and because of that as much as I loved
the writing I just don't think I'm going to read
this again
because again there's there's like no
story but the writing is really good and
even right now it's kind of hurting me a
little bit to give this up
so I'll probably give it to the same
friend that's getting Joy Luck Club
because she might enjoy this and I need
to know that this book
is going to someone who can love it so
that's it
that is a fairly small unhaul which is
fine because I'm running out of room
in my trunk for books but I'll see if I can maybe unload some
of these on the kids at work because they might like some of these uh
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