why i'm unhauling every book i own
goodbye to these books
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video chapters:
00:00 introduction.
02:53 One Day by David Nicholls
04:44 365 Poems for Life by Allie Esiri
06:00 Titles Ruin Everything by Kenza Samir and Aubrey Graham
07:04 The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
07:21 You’ll Be The Death Of Me by Karen M. McManus
08:03 Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
08:58 Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
10:44 The Year of the Runaway by Sanjeev Sahota
11:47 Milk and Honey by Rupi Kuar
11:51 A Man Called One by Fredrik Backman
12:36 We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
13:21 The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
13:48 Just Kids by Patti Smith
13:54 getting savage
14:09 Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher
14:41 Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
15:20 Just A Boy by Maeve Henry
15:38 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
15:48 The Dog of the North by Elizabeth Mckenzie
16:04 Are You Watching by Vincent Ralph
16:30 House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
18:00 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
18:57 The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord
20:00 [ad] Squarespace
21:03 A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
22:00 Blood Will Be Born by Gary Donnelly
22:37 The Book Lovers Quiz Book
22:50 The List By Naomi Adegoke
25:33 The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
26:06 The Nun by Denis Diderot
26:50 Jonhson’s Dictionary
27:44 Hitlers Willing Executioners by Daniel Goldhagen
30:20 Joan Didion
Imagine going to a charity shop to buy a book and walking home with annotations from your fave booktuber
I have never wanted to know the location of a charity shop so badly 😂
ahh same😫
sameee, i would love to have one of his annotated copies
He could sell on Depop!
Yes, but people would just flip them for lots of money, so I love that these books just get new homes to get admired for their content, and not just because they were Jack's :)
@@karybooks you're right, didn't think about that loool
the transition from drake's 'book' to The Tattooist of Auschwitz gave me whiplash 😂
Can't believe he didn't get rid of both copies 😂. Jack could probably take a pic of each page and in 20 mins photoshop them all into an A5 sized pic for reference haha.
I had to pause and take a minute lol. Like I'm still thinking about what a douche Drake is, I'm not ready to hear about the Holocaust
That book was horrible to get through I dnf it so fast. It was dry, boring and the text size was tiny. I don't think I got through the first 100 pages
Jack having a breakdown because of SJM's titles is something I never knew I would relate to :))
'these aren't even linked' oh boy do i have news for you
@@neojuns3852 WAIT THEY ARE?? Cause I read one of them and HATED it and haven't read more even tho I have another one on my self ☠️
@@marta3215 I gave up on her books, but I heard she did a crossover with Feyre for Crescent City 2, thereby linking both universes🥲
@@marta3215 SJM I find isn’t very good at starting her series, but once you get through the beginning book or two, you can’t put them down 😂
What irks me even more though is that silver flames doesn’t follow the pattern, like you can’t do it for 4 books in a series and then just not do it for the 5th, at that point it’s the format of the series and you have to carry on
😂 i love how the Nazi story includes the line “I don’t feel like it was my fault because I was just doing what I was told”
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😂😂💀 no way, thats so funny!
I know I thought about that
I'm Swedish and I've heard that the reason they changed the name of A Man Called Ove was because we already have a Swedish adaptation with the original name and out of respect to the original crew they didn't want to just make a replacement, but their own take on it instead. So the name change is to distance it a little from the Swedish adaptation.
Totally makes sense. That Swedish production was excellent.
Also I theorize that they found the name "ove" was too unfamiliar for Americans, so they wouldn't get interested. Even worse, it looks super similar to the word "Love" so they'd think " a man named Love? thats way too cheesy, im not interested"
@@itsalladream5559funny you mention it because Love is a swedish male name 😂 it is pronounced something like Lou-v-eh
*referring to sarah j maas books* “and they’re not even connected!” ooh boy, who’s directing him to cari can read’s plot summaries 🤣🤣
I had the same thought! Like who’s gonna tell him?
I don't really understand; I've read the ACOTAR (well 3 of the books and gave up), are the books meant to be connected and did Cari can read mentioned it or does cari can read agree with this
without spoiling, short answer is: yes, acotar and crescent city books are connected. when cari can read does her plot summaries, she gives us the facts (she doesn't speculate on plot points) @@yingx4139
@@yingx4139 !!! spoiler for all of SJM's books !!! . . . . At the end of Crescent City 2 it becomes a multiverse where the main character goes to the universe of ACOTAR and meets some of the main characters from this series and in her first series Throne of Glass, a character sees Rhysand and a pregnant Feyre while "falling" through worlds.
@@Melissa-sx9vh oooh interesting, thanks for explaining :)
ah, yes, Francis Bueller's Day Off (the little known sequel to the 80s classic) hahah
I'm pretty sure he also mixed up the original title of Harry Potter with the changed title.
Maybe it’s a British thing!
I came to make this exact comment! 😂
i want to watch this sequel
lol I was looking in the comments for this 😂
The Lies We Tell Ourselves by Jack Edwards needs to be a thing.
There's a good game to be made out of coming up with Sarah J Maas titles. It's too much fun. EG: "A sea of time and toadstools", "A fall of swans and soldiers", "A cauldron of nuns and pitchforks."
A Bowl of Mac and Cheese. A Plate of Cheese and Crackers (yes, I love cheese. What about it?)
a shelf of fear and sadness (the one where they do it in the thriller section)
A game of titles and wordplay A book of romance and fantasy
A cat of claws and purrs
The Library of Duplicates and Drama
Harry Potter was always called “philosopher’s stone” and only got changed to “sorcerer’s” when published in the US, I think cause it was gonna be a more interesting/appealing title to that audience of people? I’m from Australia and always known it as philosopher’s!
yeah i think he just mixed them up on the spot and meant to say that "sorcerer's" was the ridiculous one
@@Random-vd8wudefinitely he case. Not the only scrambled word in this video.
Funny, if I think of the title in English I think "sorcerer's", but if I think of it in Spanish is "philosopher's", since the spanish translation is "filosofal" which is the literal word
In Germany the title for the first HP is "Der Stein der Weisen" (the stone of the wise/sage), nothing about a sorcerer here either.
When I read the US versions as a kid I assumed that JKR had tried to rip off the idea of the philosophers stone but rebrand it with a new name hoping no one would notice. Then I found out that was the one mistake she wasn’t guilty of!
Our taste in books doesn’t even match but you are such a good and smooth talker that I cannot not watch your every video. Its so fun to listen to you rant about your likes and dislikes.
I had no space in my home for books, and it hurts my heart to see them collecting dust in a corner, so I decided to donate them to my local library. If I ever need to reread one, it's just around the block and better kept.
lol so smart, just relocating your collection to the library... definitely taking notes...
Based on your reading taste, I wouldn’t say you’re missing out on Terms and Conditions. I personally quite enjoyed it, and it can be read as a standalone, but knowing what you like to read, I don’t know how much you really would have enjoyed it.
Getting rid of books because they seem haunted is something I didn't expect, but I am 100% on board with (also I know someone who would LOVE some cursed books, so donating them is a very good idea!)
As someone who couldn't even think about doing this a couple of years ago, in December I decided to do an unhaul and I took out of my shelves around 400 books that were just sitting there... I still have more than a thousand, but 400 books are A LOT of books and I felt quite good. It was a freeing experience :))).
well that’s an insane title
"Being a magpie I love shiny things." Relatable 😁
18:30 I read a copy of this book that was a gorgeous green cloth bound book with bee engravings in the cover, sprayed edges, and bee artwork throughout.
When Marie Kondo the says own 30 books, I think, "Oh good, 30 in each genre, 30 on my bedside table, 30 to be read while camping...I am a retired vicar and I live in a condo, basically, a cupboard with a bathroom. I use the library and listen to audio books, but, the best is a book that is yours alone and every so often a good clear out to donate and share.
Fun fact (only to me lol), she did not say that people should keep 30 books! She said she prefers to keep that many because she’s not that much of a reader, but “a book lover may not need anything but books”
Her philosophy is more like if it sparks joy keep it if it doesn’t, donate it.
I have read Kondo. Perhaps my humour did not hit the mark. I was not criticising the philosophy of joy, but making fun of my own indulgence. At 72, your things do not always spark joy, but more often break your heart with memory.
@@alisonnicholson8060 oh i definitely got the humor, i just see people saying that all the time about Marie kondo thinking she actually said that so i for some reason felt obligated to chime in lol
As someone who's both read A Man Called Ove in Swedish and seen the original Swedish adaptations, A Man Called Otto is sadly pretty underwhelming. The original film is absolutely devastating
I agree so much with this! Fredrik Backman writes beautifully and I think something gets lost in translation.
Absolutely correct!
The book was such a beautiful surprise! I keep recommending it
I could never have done this. I would have chosen 2 books to donate and then proceed to feel guilty for only having 2 books to donate. I cant help it, I’m too attached. Good on you though, I’m glad it’s for a good cause :)
tbf most of them were duplicates
I'm the exact opposite. I donate books I think I'll never read again, regret it and re-purchase them new. What? I used to do the same thing with hard copies of my game collection. I finally learned that even if I think I'm done with something, give it 5 years. My husband is very grounding, he won't let me get rid of anything lol.
re: the haunted copy of the nun with some older books, only the top edge was sprayed because it helped to keep dust from collecting on it!!
The original Harry Potter Book was “Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone”. Scholastic had a meeting with JK regarding the meaning of the word Philosopher in the US. They were afraid that kids would associate the stone with Philosophy and that is going down the wrong route. They also feared releasing “accurate information” that could lead to a mass of children going to extremes. The accuracy was regarding “Nicholas Flamel” he, in real life, was a French scribe who believed in and practiced alchemy. When he died he believed in the “Philosopher’s Stone”. This is extremely interesting that JK included some ACTUAL history in her first book, that being said, The US is a different beast. Parents were already upset that kids were reading books about magic, if there had been REAL information about Alchemy and a stone that they believe(d) actually could be created then parents would lose their minds. So, it became Sorcery and a Sorcerer’s Stone. Think of the negative impact that a Sorcerer could have, then think of the negative impact a Philosopher could have. It may seem like a small change, but it makes a HUGE difference. Even our favorite books in the series, and films in the movies are different than those outside of The US.
Well, they need to be told to not microwave hamsters, so....
While dated, a notable opposing example is the original title in the UK of Agatha Christie's "And There Were None." Even at that time, US publishers refused to give it that title.
France literally renamed it "Harry Potter at the School of Wizards"
@@_jolie_ Scholastic wanted to call it Harry Potter and the School of Magic! Rowling said no to that and Sorcerer's Stone was the end pick.
In norwegian it is translated to "Harry Potter and the Stone of the Wise", which I think is a good translation of the original title. It would even argue it feels more child friendly.
I feel like this video needs a part 2🙈 alsooo the sarah j.maas title slanders I stand by because WHAT?
Jack you should check out the US covers for TJR books!!! they look wayyyy better, i have literally no clue why the UK always tie dyes TJR book covers😭 it’s so interesting how the UK stays so consistent with it too, I wonder if it has something to do with the consumer market or reaching a different target audience? idkkk
I hope this title is some kind of click bait 😫
Yeah. It was.
@@t0ebeans sure was
Of course it is. You don't just unhaul your whole personality. >>
@@Aigra I was well aware it was, I was just expressing in a roundabout way how awful it would be if it wasn’t. You really don’t need to take everything you read quite so literally.
@@twinny555Maybe take your own advice and don't take my reply quite so literally either. But thanks for the laughs.
I've done a few of these and it feels great. I've donated to a school library, choosing books aimed mostly for teens that I loved reading but probably would never touch again, and to a community center, choosing a variety of titles for all ages. There are books in your bookshelf very unlikely to ever be read again and being able to foster someone else's love of reading is a wonderful thing!
The American cover of Secret Life of Bees is actually cute! You should see if you can find that one because it is a great read
My heart went pitter patter pitter patter
The secret life of bees cover with the honey jar and yellow spine is much better than the one you have! I do think it’s a pretty good book so you should give it a chance if you look into the other cover!
I loved the movie and tried reading the book but I found it really boring to read :/
@@omdhdk that’s understandable it is definitely on the slower more character focused side which isn’t for everyone
The cover you’re talking about is the U.S. version of the book. I know cause I have it and loved it😉🐝
i love spayed edges, especially purple edges on paperbacks!! I have started diying spayed edges on my books and it is so fun!!
That is so cool! Did you just figure it out how to do it or follow a tutorial or something?
yesss!! i plan on doing a purge this summer! by then i'll have finished my lit degree and can finally get rid of all the books i didn't like and will never need again hehe
Getting rid of uni books is soooo cathartic! I actually kept a few, because I liked them a lot, but most of them? To the charity shop!
I know that feeling. Getting rid of Heart of Darkness brought me deep joy! 😅
12:14 The original is Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone!!!!! Not the other way round. I'm way too obsessed with this fact.
Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney was in the my GCSE exam for unseen poetry don’t even I shudder every time I come across this poem
Same haha, but we were really lucky to have done it in class when we were doing unseen practise 🤣
I love that halfway through he just starts roasting everything 😂
FRANCIS BUELLER?!?!?
I have decided that he was talking about Ferris' English counterpart 😂
Ahhhh- Frances Buellers’ Day Off , the little known prequel to Ferriis Buellers’ Day Off- set in 1940,s Aristocrat England 😂😂😂
I thought I heard him say that!! I had to keep going back and re-listen.
I donated hundreds of books last year. I used to want a home library, a whole room full of books. But I've changed, and now I only want books that I absolutely love, and want to or have read more than once. Books I am proud to own, books that mean a lot to me. So when some hypothetical book lover comes to visit me and looks at my shelves, they will essentially be seeing my biography.
This is beautiful
Jack babes both those sjm series are linked😭
Terms & Conditions is the second book in a trilogy of interconnected standalones (each book featuring a different brother). You absolutely don't need to read The Fine Print to enjoy Terms & Conditions... that said, knowing your taste, I doubt you'd like it. I love it/the whole series, but I'm a die-hard romance reader.
This has motivated me. My parents are moving and downsiszing. I'm helping them sort out books, deciding which charity some of them will go to, including some books coming to me, so I need to make space for those.
Terms and Conditions can be read as a standalone. And I so agree on that Gone With the Wind cover! It's spooky.😅
One of mye fave Fredrik Backman books that I highly recommend is «my grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry». It is such a heartfelt and charming book!
My shelves are all my faces and sentimental books and some tbr. I don't keep books that don't make me happy and tbh it is a wonderful feeling looking at my shelves and seeing only stories I love and am excited for
I did a big unhaul like six months ago and now all those books are just sitting on the floor of my closet. Thanks for the reminder that step two is getting them out of my house. 😅
Ah, the hardest step 😂 Why is it taking the books to either a thrift shop or used bookstore feels like more effort than the purge?
@@ciannacoleman5125 lol, I don’t know why but it definitely does.
Regarding the only black top at 26:39 it does actually have a purpose! Sprayed edges aren't just pretty, they seal the pages so they don't absorb as much moisture which leads to them not attracting as much dust. Which is also why only the tops are painted sometimes (since that's the side which is most exposed usually)
Jack!!! Snow flower and the secret fan is such a wonderful story of love, friendship, hardship and how easy it is to loose it all. You should definitely read it someday.
I find doing this so cathartic!
i started having heart palpitations after reading the title
The names they gave us really hooked me in! The writing was easy to fly through. Good choice keeping it
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is definitely worth a read! All of Lisa See's books are great
I agree!
My favorite Lisa See book. Read it so long ago but I remember it so well - wish he would give it a shot!
Couldn't agree more!! It was sad to see that one go...
Yes I came here to say this also!
Yes, I was looking for your comment, like thiis book is so beautiful 🥺
I love building Ikea stuff! I'll come finish it for you and build that new shelf lol
30:05 "I was just doing what I was told" interesting argument given the subject 😅😂
Good to do this regularly, I do it about 4 times a year. I think there's a lot of value in following up haul videos and 12months later a revisit to those hauls and if those ones are no longer loved, off they choof.
what is up with the editing nowadays? feel like this isn't the first video of jack's to have multiple takes of the same line included
no hate, just commenting in case he genuinely doesn't know
I was wondering too, I always think I’m going crazy
Multiple times in this video did he say something- go to a cut and basically re-say the same thing again. I thought my app was glitching!!
Last Ikea thing that was a serious pita for me to assemble at least had the decency to be a little more complicated than a bookcase. FYI, If you ever need to assemble a Tigerfink, insert the last piece way before the instructions tell you to. It's so hard to get in position at that point, I'm certain that no one tried out the instructions.
The way my heart sank to the bottom of the earth when I saw the title in the notification
Snow flower and the secret fan was pretty good in my humble opinion!!
the nun looks like somebody (a bookbinder) had handmade binded it or it is just old and books used to be made that way! the edge is sprayed only at the top, because back in the day people did that not to make the book look pretty but to hide the fact that there is dust on the top part (with colored top it is less visible I suppose). As a bookbinder myself I also put designs on the top edge only when I am making a book. With the cardboard box/sleeve, how it looks in terms of colors and all I would say it is either made to look handmade and in kinda oldschool way or a bookbinder actually made it themselves :3
I’ve never seen that cover of Secret Life of Bees before. The cover with a jar of honey on a window sill is pretty and deserves the read.
This is the comment I was looking for! I’m like… Jack, I’ll send you mine!
i 100% agree that sprayed edges look so better on hardback than paperback. I absolutely love spayed edges but on paperback books it looks kinda awkward and bit a weird to me sometimes.
I love Frederik backman. His novella the way home get longer and longer is so beautiful, you should really read it
Can't believe the one poem you turned to was Scaffolding, you're giving me flashbacks to GCSE unseen poetry!
The title had me gasping for a second
The names they gave us has been my favourite book since I was like 16 and it gave me whiplash to hear it mentioned in a video
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is one of my favorites. It’s sooo good.
We appreciate your dedication and hard work. You'll always have our support.
We love this for Jack, I hope you keep books you adore though❤
the amount of times I wished that we could annotate videos whilst watching this was insane, some of the some jack said was so unhinged and i was loving it 😭😭😭
I love doing this! Great video
Jack, you have no idea how much I wish I could help you with making IKEA furniture and organizing things(if you wanted that), because that is like...ONE OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS TO DO. Even when I was watching your videos of when you were ma,ing the shelves I just wanted to jump thru the screen and help you along😭😭😭
The Secret Life of Bees is a really good book. If you ever pursue it, you’ll have to go for the US cover. It looks like a watercolor painting of an open jar of honey on a windowsill with a bee flying above it. The jar also has a label depicting the Black Madonna, which is important to the story. Overall, the US cover is much more aesthetically pleasing. 🍯🐝
10:30 funnily enough, the brazilian version of this book is EXACTLY how you described it!!
PLEASE read family of liars it’s one of my favorites of all time. The quotes will have you melting
I’m in America and my copy of The Secret Life of Bees is gorgeous, and also the book itself is breathtaking. Would recommend ordering!
Sprayed edges can be a nightmare on paperbacks especially if they get damp - I have one book from a charity shop that looks like it has bled out, and it wasn't even a murder mystery!
Always interesting to see how other people visualise books / characters and covers - would be interesting to do a ‘actual cover vs cover as I envisage it’ type thing!
You could’ve just glued some paper sunglasses on Scarlet. 😋 “This book is taking up prime real estate”. I get that. ❤
Snow flower and the secret fan is soooo good
7:40 I thought it was funny that you called it Francis Bueller's Day Off 😂
Good job Jack so important to donate and get rid of books you need anymore and to libraries too ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Daisy Jones and the Six actually has a gorgeous cover, it's the one where you only see the face and wavy hair of a woman, and the title is at the bottom while the author's name is at the top (or vice versa, but not in the middle). It gives me major 70s vibes I love it
Not the Snow Flower and the Secret Fan :( That is such a beautiful book, definitely changed me. One of my favourites no doubt. I am so sad to see you pass on it :(
anyone who did the gcse 2023 exam series had scaffolding by Heaney as the unseen poem !! i loved writing about it xx
My secret life of bees cover is beautiful. You gotta get the Canadian version! It’s a heartwarming book
I did this with my books recently! I still have almost a library worth of books, but it felt good to donate the ones I knew I’d never touch
I have a copy of Secret Life of Bees that has bees and honey jars on the cover. There's still blue going on though. I loved that book. I read it for a summer reading program as a kid and then bought 2 copies by accident to own and read again
‘We could have had a Renoir painting and instead we got stabilo highlighters’, cracked me up😂😂😂
The penguin books version of The Secret Life of Bees has a gorgeous cover! It's a painting of a jar of honey on a windowsill, with a solitary bee flying by it. It’s so much better than the one you had lol.
Ohmygod laughing outloud at the Gone with the Wind spine and your reaction! I love this video!
15:46 I read Lisa See's book and is very good. If you sent it already to the charity shop listen it on audiobook 😊
The title-shaming is sooo real
I had that same copy of Gone with the Wind for soooo long and that lady's eyes do follow you!! Haunted, definitely
You can get custom made dust jackets for hardcover books. I don't know where but I've seen people with them so someone's making them.
My grandmother sends her regards and apologies by Frederick Backmann is one of my very favourites ❤️
19:59 I actually really enjoyed that book! It's an easy contemporary read
if its any consolation (or enabling): terms and conditions is the "second" book in the series, but the three books surround three brothers (one brother per book). it's a different story from the first, and you can honestly read it as a stand alone. there's SOME spoilers for the first book (as in like vague mentions) but tbh, it's nothing that isn't already predictable.
Hoping that Jack’s choice of words for the end of Small Pleasures was an intentional pun, because I snorted! Completely agree, the ending knocked a star off for me too!
Thank you for what you said on SJM’s books. Someone needs to say it out loud
This is probably the most entertaining video you have ever made - please never stop the unhinged commentary.