Category: Un-Hauling2015

May Book Unhauling #5

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In the month of May I took roughly a week to go through a few boxes of books as well as the book cases to try and purge them down in prep for the books I would be bringing home from BEA. I managed to gather a box full of books but sadly I never got the chance to document or take photos of the books I was giving away so I have no idea what I gave away or how many.

I think with all the hype and getting ready for BEA I think at some point I told myself I had taken photos and I never second guessed that.

So as of right now I have give away 89 books. I wish I could remember how much was in that box oh well I think I am still doing good and I am pleased with my work so far.

Do you have a hard time giving books away?

April Book Unhauling #4

April Book Unhauling #4

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April was a pretty good month for me because I manged to read a bunch of really good books this month and we are still slowly doing Spring cleaning. This summer I plan on tackling the boxes in the basement and doing another clean of the bookcases.

Right now I am trying to focus on the children and middle grade books because I would love to make a drop off at my son’s school before June if possible because I know thats when the librarian closes the llibrary and does her count.

Are you curious to see what I am unhauling this month?

These are all books we have read and I know I won’t be rereading them again and for Michael its stuff he doesn’t want anymore.

  • The Haunting of Sunshine Girl (my review will be posted in May)
  • Pokemon DP Battle Dimesion The Secret of the Tower
  • Geronimo Stilton Alerte aux meteorites sur silexcity
  • Geronimo Stilton Qui a Vole le Diamant geant?
  • Tiyi, Princesse d’Egypte
  • J’aime Lire Un Cheval pour Noel
  • Book Of Hockey Lists by Paul Romanuk
  • Hockey Trailblazers by Nicole Mortillaro
  • Pokemon Black & White Emolga Makes Mischief
  • Pokemon Black & white Ash’s Triple Threat
  • Pokemon Black & White Sandile in Trouble
  • Phineas & Ferb Lost at Sea
  • Dear Canada Pieces of the Past the Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz
  • The Warrior Sheep Go West
  • The Quest of The Warrior Sheep
  • How to Outplay a Bully by Nancy Wilcox Richards
  • Hockey Rules by Irene Punt
  • The Rink Rats by Irene Punt
  • The Wicked Slapshot by Irene Punt
  • Foul Play by Karen Edwards
  • Project Jackalope by Emily Ecton
  • Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader for Kids Only
  • Hockey Superstars all time greats
  • 2011-2012 Hockey Superstars
  • NHL Hockey an offical fan’s guide
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid Hard Luck
  • Don’t Try to Find Me
  • The Girl on the Train

The total unhauling for April is  28  and the total to date is 89,

March Book Unhauling #3

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Its hard to believe we are already at the end of March. Where is the time going?

With spring just around the corner I will once again be doing a whole bunch of spring/summer cleaning in the next few months. I have boxes upon boxes of books in the basement that I really need to go through and purge what I realistically shouldn’t hold on to. I rarely reread my books so why am I holding on to them?

But for now here is what I am unhauling:

  • I Will Always Write Back: How one letter changed two lives by Caitlin Alifirenka & Martin Ganda with Liz Welch. I read this and enjoyed it. My review will be up in April for this.
  • The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan. My review will be up on April 7th.
  • The Tapper Twins Go To War (with each other) by Geoff Rodkey. My review will be up in April.

We discovered we had doubles of these ones:

  • Thea Stilton Mouseford Academy: Mouselets in Danger #3
  • Thea Stilton Mouseford Academy: Dance Challenge #4
  • Thea Stilton and the Chocolate Sabotage
  • Geronimo Stilton The Enchanted Charms The 7th adventure in the Kingdom of Fantasy

The total unhauling for March is  7  and the total to date is 61.

February Book Unhauling #2

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Its another month and I thought I would share with you the books I am unhauling this month. Have you read any of these?

Books Read:

  • After by Anna Todd
  • New Uses For Old Boyfriends by Beth Kendrick
  • After We Collide by Anna Todd

Those were all the books I have read and enjoyed and with the amount of books on my TBR I know I will never re-read them so why not pass them along to others who will enjoy the books just as much as I did, right?

The following books are books that I didn’t like/enjoy or didn’t finish. The have been sitting on my shelf for the longest time in hopes that I would re pick it up to try again but honestly I think that if I couldn’t get into them the first time I probably won’t get into them again. So its time to take them off the shelf and share them with people who will actually read and enjoy them. Sorry if this list upsets anyone but its only my personal taste and not everyone likes what everyone is reading or has read.

  • Call of the Jersey Devil by Aurelio Voltaire
  • Once Is Never Enough by Mira Lyn Kelly
  • The One-Way Bridge by Cathie Pelletier
  • Help For The Haunted by John Searles
  • My Basmati Bat Mitzvah by Paula J. Freedman

The total unhauled books for Februaru is 8 and the total so far is 54.

January Book Un-Hauling #1

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Good morning everyone. Today I thought I would start a new monthly feature on my blog and its going to be all the books I un-haul for that month and it will be posted at the end of each month.

I know I have shown in the past the books I have released but you never really got to see what books they were and why I was releasing them so I thought I would start 2015 with that.

If you know me IRL you know that I don’t tend to keep the books I have read unless I really like it or I love the covers, but once the fall came around and I was cleaning up for Christmas and preparing my background for my YouTube show, I realized that I have way to many books as you can see from this photo below and everything just looked cluttered and overwhelming. (This has already been purged in the fall and alot of books were given away then)

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That is just what is on the book cases image having boxes and boxes and more boxes fulled with books in your basement just sitting there and that will be tackled this summer.

So, for now I thought I would just tackle what I can physically see around me. This week I ended up tidying up the book cases behind me just because it didn’t look right on camera so these are the books from the book case and that huge stack beside it. I will post a photo at the end of this post showing the new look.

Books Read:

  1. Budapest Romance by Rozsa Gaston (Read and Review will be up in February)
  2. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  3. Can’t Look Away by Donna Cooner
  4. Captivated by You by Sylvia Day
  5. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
  6. We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist
  7. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
  8. Defriended by Ruth Baron
  9. Cure For The Common Break Up by Beth Kendrick
  10. Good Riddance by Cythina Copeland
  11. Beginning Pearls by Stephan T Pastis
  12. Blaze by Laurie Boyle Crompton
  13. In Real Life (Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age) by Nev Schulman
  14. The Silversix by AJ Lieberman & Darren Rawlings
  15. Smile by Raina Telgemeier
  16. Letting Ana Go
  17. Fakebook (A true story based on actual lies) by Dave Cicirelli
  18. Reflected in You by Sylvia Day
  19. Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich
  20. Prodigy by Marie Lu
  21. Fever by Megan Abbott
  22. Level 2 by Lenore Appelhans
  23. Mia’s Dairy Home Sweet Rome by Marissa Moss
  24. Teen Boat by Dave roman and John Green
  25. Send by Patty Blount

Those were all the books I have read and enjoyed and with the amount of books on my TBR I know I will never re-read them so why not pass them along to others who will enjoy the books just as much as I did, right?

The following books are books that I didn’t like/enjoy or didn’t finish. The have been sitting on my shelf for the longest time in hopes that I would re pick it up to try again but honestly I think that if I couldn’t get into them the first time I probably won’t get into them again. So its time to take them off the shelf and share them with people who will actually read and enjoy them. Sorry if this list upsets anyone but its only my personal taste and not everyone likes what everyone is reading or has read.

  1. Dog On It by Spencer Quinn
  2. To Fetch a Thief by Spencer Quinn
  3. Return To Sender by Julia Alvarez
  4. Hedge Fund Wives by Tatianna Boncompagni
  5. Feminista by Erica Kennedy
  6. The Beef Princess of Practical County by Michelle Houts
  7. The Tear Collector by Patrick Jones
  8. Just One Kiss by Susan Mallery
  9. Forever an Eaton by Rochelle Alers
  10. The Night is Watching by Heather Graham
  11. Rescue My Heart by Jill Shalvis
  12. Deas is a Killer Tune by Marlene Perez
  13. The Book of Mormon Girl by Joanna Brooks
  14. Between You and Me by Emma McLaughlin & Nicole Kraus
  15. Shelter by Frances Greenslade
  16. Some Kind of Peace by Camilla Grebec & Asa Traff
  17. The Broken Lands by Kate Milford
  18. Farewell to Freedom by Sara Blaedel
  19. Only One Life by Sara Blaedel
  20. What Came From The Stars by Gary D Schmidt
  21. Beach Season by Lisa Jackson

 

A photo posted by @cindysloveofbooks on

This is what it currently looks like. As you can see I still have alot of books and I am trying to avoid having them double or triple stacking apart from the bottom shelves and I am going to make it a point to read those one firsts.

The total of un-hauled books for January is 46.