2022 Book Unhaul! [CC]

The last book that I'm getting rid of that's from the 'already read' pile is 1776 by David McCullough, not that I hated this book. It was alright.

For me, the synopsis of this book makes it sound more interesting than it actually is. The reading experience is just too 'big brain energy' for me and it's such a big book that I was not going to spend the time to try and get through it and really understand what I'm reading and you can also tell that it's been on my bookshelf for a really long time because it got a bit sun damaged, so sorry, but hopefully somebody will still want to read it.

He's a very famous author and this was too weird for me. Maybe my brain capacity just can't take in something like this, but it was just a little too wacky for me.

I didn't end up reading them until a little bit later, but I actually really enjoyed Falling Kingdoms, like this was a four-star read for me and as a YA fantasy that was not something I was expecting to happen.

However, when I read the other two I definitely didn't like them as much and I didn't feel like the story was gonna get any better so I stopped at three and at this point I don't think I'm ever going to read them again.

I have a lot of Bill Bryson books on my shelf. I read a lot of them, but this one didn't really appeal to me anymore because it's him writing articles for an English newspaper about stuff in America, I believe that was the gist of it, and this was written, or at least those articles were written, in the 90s and I read a couple of them and they just read very much of that time and I didn't want to just continually read those kinds of things while reading this book.

Unfortunately, I just did not have the same great time that so many other people had. This was a three-star read for me.

However, when I read the other two I definitely didn't like them as much and I didn't feel like the story was gonna get any better so I stopped at three and at this point I don't think I'm ever going to read them again.

However, when I did the Try a Chapter, I was reading an entire first chapter that was about a wedding between the main character and his new bride and that's just not really why I wanted to read this book. I wanted the nitty-gritty of the slaughterhouses and all that gross stuff that was happening and that is in here, but I don't want to spend the time to read the other stuff just to get the more non-fiction-y bits of it.

The other thing that really sealed the deal for this one is that the TV show was released semi-recently, so a lot of people were picking up this book to give it a go and every review that I've seen has been very 'meh' so that's- that's definitely not going to sell such a big book to me when I was already feeling like I wasn't going to like it because I had tried reading this book in like 2016 and I wasn't feeling it, tried it again for the last 'hurrah' and no, still didn't work out.

This is a self-help book and although it is structured really well, it's just not something that I want to spend time reading about.

This was another book that I received from the publisher and it's the author recounting different stories in their life, also a lot about her getting cancer at a very young age and when I read it, it was fine. I think I gave it three stars, but it's just not a book that I'm ever going to read again and I do really feel like it's geared towards a younger audience, like this would be a great book for someone who's in their teens.