Let’s talk bookish ➙ Holding onto books

Good morning!

For some reason I felt like I’ve already talked about today’s topic.. but onto verifying my blog it looks like we didn’t – so here we go! Today we are doing July 21st‘s topic, which is around un-hauling books: Do you always keep your books after you finish reading them? What makes you especially attached to a book? What books are you most likely to get rid of? What books would you never even consider getting rid of? Do you ever give away special books as gifts?

Let’s Talk Bookish is a bookish meme that was created by Rukky @ Eternity books where each Friday, bloggers write posts discussing the topic of the week! Since the beginning of April, the meme has been taken over by Aria @ Book Nook Bits; She also created the pretty new graphics!

As I used to be big on rereading, that is one point that I base my 5-stars reviews on aswell as which books I wanna keep: Would I reread this? For me whenever i’m reading a book I kinda just know instantly what star rating i’d wanna give it (difference between a 4 & a 5? no idea. a feeling.) aswell as if I’d like to keep it.

Pleasant read but no less? eh, chuck it. Unless the cover is remarkably cute, then I might keep it 😅 dissapointing or DNF? chuck it. I like my bookshelves to be full of books, but I don’t wanna keep ALL the books including those that I haven’t enjoyed either.. Sometimes a book might pass the test *for now* and a bit after getting un-hauled in other circumstances – I just unhauled a few French TBRs, because I never really felt strongly about them. I wanted to keep reading in french so much that I kinda forced it and bought them anyway although they weren’t that appealing.

I can remember part of my life memories through medias: video games or even books; picking it up I can remember exactly what was happening when I first read or played it. I remember I had held onto a book before just because it was the last I’d have with my ex – it fell down his stairs, I brought it there, etc.. but the worst is that I didn’t even liked the book! 😂 I finally got rid of it few years ago.

Books that impacted me alot, like Eliza & her monsters, or Radio Silence, or my overly reread Quand souffle le vent du nord (aka Love Virtually) are some that I can’t see myself ever unhauling. My very old edition of my childhood serie Le Journal D’Aurélie Laflamme won’t go either- the very last tome not fitting my 00’s covers slightly piss me off but they’ll stay missmatched. Ofcourse there’s MANY more that I can’t think of right now.

What about you, do you hold onto books?
What’s your unhauling proceedure, if you have one?