The three year old carrying around the quote book is the cutest thing.

Unhauls are like my favorite thing to watch😊❤

I have been loving your channel, and I just realized that you are church planters in Candada! My brother and his family are church planters in Hamilton, Ontario. I am praying for blessings as you move and start your church!❤

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your prayers!

My philosophy when trying to purge: if you’re on the fence about it, then go ahead and unhaul it. Because unless there is a specific reason to read it like a readathon or challenge, you’re very unlikely to ever pick it up.

@abundanceintheson_467

6 ай бұрын

Good philosophy! I usually look through my tbr pile and if I haven't been picking up a book and I feel guilty about it...then I usually think it is time to unhaul (unless as you said there is a reason to keep it).

I love finding books with notes/birthday wishes etc. in the covers ("happy Birthday Richard" 😊) and so I always write something in books when I gift them ❤

This was so fun! Unhauls are the best

I went through my nonfiction shelf today. I also got my husband to go through our theology books, and he found a bunch to purge.

You made the right choice to unhaul “Scarlett.” “Gone With the Wind” is an incredible book, though!

@abundanceintheson_467

6 ай бұрын

Agreed

Unhauls are so satisfying!!!

“First of all, happy birthday, Richard.” 😅😂

I really like unhauls, so yay for more!

Read under the bayou moon. It’s really good!!

Joe Abercrombie tends to write dark, disturbing books that include torture and gore. I haven't tried Half a King, but I tried one of his other books, and it was gruesome with unlikeable characters. I couldn't finish it. It wasn't the kind of thing I wanted stuck in my head.

Robert whitlow writes amazing faith filled books that involve court cases, hopefully you will give him a chance in the future

Oh man, so hard to choose books to get rid of!!! Good job! I struggle to get rid of them if I haven’t read them (and don’t like them).

It's interesting to see how people organize their unread books.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

Oh dear, don't judge my bookshelves based on this! They were organized 6-9 month ago but then I moved the cube shelf into here and things go majorly messed up, this is NOT how I tend to organize them.

@JaneReads

6 ай бұрын

@ChantelReadsAllDay I was referring to how you have the various tbr piles grouped together ie buzzword, Agatha christie, the diy degree. No shame at all.

You have such a great collection! I love having to hide books from the 3yo 😆

I also need to do some more unhauling - thanks for the inspiration! Also, I love your cute white fox mug. I have the cat version of the same thing, which I picked up at a thrift shop. I didn't realize there was a series of mugs in that style with different animals, until now! So cool!

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

What, really?! The mug was actually a gift from my mom to my daughter, I think she thrifted it too (she gifted it with a plant inside, I stole the mug after the plant died 😂).

I picked up the Moonlight School by Fisher at a thrift store a awhile back, but haven’t read it yet. Nature of Fragile things was great.

The Number of love is my favorite of Roseanna M Whites books, I hope you like it. Once by Cameron Dokey is a bind up of amazing fairytale retellings :)

May your efforts to plant a new church be blessed and fruitful!

I read Great Gatsby in school and didn't like it much, but I reread it last year and liked it a lot more! Catcher in the Rye was my most hated book till I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Anna Karenina was ok but I rec just reading Madame Bovary, it's almost the exact same thing but way shorter (like Carmilla Madame Bovary has a reputation, but there isn't anything anywhere near dirty in it)

I did not like Three Musketeers at all, I'd get rid of that one. It's just a reading slump waiting to happen.😄 The Great Gatsby is a fast read. The Catcher in the Rye is interesting but it has a ton of language. Lady Susan is very intertaining.

@abundanceintheson_467

6 ай бұрын

I enjoyed an abridged copy of "The Three Musketeers". Also, having watched the 1993 movie, "The Three Musketeers " helped a lot as it wasn't too far off the mark.

@Moriahg

6 ай бұрын

@@abundanceintheson_467 I can see myself possibly liking an abridged version. I've read other Dumas books and liked them it's just that one I don't.

❤📚❤️📚 You did a good job.

I have the happiness project so glad to hear I may like it

I liked Out of the Easy....found family, and it's about making better for your life. Kate gave The King's General 5 stars....I decided to wait and read it later.

It's so funny that you had to hide that book of quotes from your 3yo. I had to hide a book of quotes from my 3yo too. It's a pretty little hardcover of Jane Austen quotes. She just wouldn't leave it be 😂

I just finished the last of the Foundation series and yet I think you’re right to unhaul the first one which is not the greatest. However I do think you’d enjoy Asimov’s scifi/very clever detective series with a human Elijah Baley and his robot partner Daneel Olivaw which starts with The Caves of Steel.

The Headmistress of Rosmere is a Partial stand alone, there are a couple characters from the first that pop in but other than that it's a stand-alone. Also I love this trilogy!!😍😍

The catcher and the Rye might be my least favorite read from last year 😛 I wasn't a fan of A Gentleman in Moscow but I have The Lincoln Highway to try too. LOL I am cracking up she is carrying that book around and calling it her bible!

I haven’t read Joe Abercrombie myself, but I think he’s pretty dark and gritty. I love The Great Gatsby, not sure if you will though. Same with Catcher in the Rye, I love it but pretty sure you won’t like it. Lots of language. I love Amor Towles. He’s right up there with F. Scott Fitzgerald as a favorite author of mine.

Cape Refuge was really good

red rising id the best!!!

Catcher in the Rye is awful! I think you could skip that and not miss out on anything. PLEASE read Chronicles of Narnia. I love that series. Great job unhauling. It feels good, right?

@Booksformonika

6 ай бұрын

I love Narnia too. Fell in love with that series in grade 6

@capturedbyannamarie

6 ай бұрын

Catcher in the rye is awful, and one of those books you read in high school and if you don’t you kind of miss the time to read it.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

I think I've read all but the last two books in the Narnia series (with the first few being read numerous times) but there's a chance I totally did finish the series at one point, I can't remember. Either way, I want to read through it this year!

Here's my two cents.... We Hope for Better Things by Erin Bartels is a wonderful read. I think that you should give it a try if you haven't already gotten rid of it. Also, The Moonlight School is similar to The Librarian of Boone's Hollow by Kim Vogel Sawyer, if you liked that one, you may like The Moonlight School as well.

I'm curious how you're using the boxes to teach the order of the books of the Bible. My kids have learned a song to memorize the books, but still struggle to find them in their Bible. Is this something you could do a video on?

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

I did a video sharing about my favorite Bible and Theology resources in my homeschool membership and share about the boxes there (www.intentionalhomeschooling.com/intentional-homeschooling-membership/) but basically we just have the different books of the Bible written on the boxes and they need to put them in order.

I want to read Half a King!

I believe Foundation is not the first book in de foundation series, so if you're not that interested, I should just get rid of it.

The Book of Lost Names was good and I really enjoy anything by Susan Meissner. Side note-I just read the newest Nadine Brandes book, Wishtress, curious if you've read it yet?

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

Yes, I have!

How can I donate some Bibles that I have? I have so many and I don’t know how about donating them. Does anyone know? Thanks in advance.

I thrifted While We Are Far Apart by Lynn Austin. Oh so many good books!!!! I also thrifted The Book of Lost Names. I am obsessed with historical fiction and deep and meaningful stories. I heard the Testament is really good. Who knows? Here I am just commenting away as I watch!😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

I've only heard good things about The Testament as well but I've had it for years and haven't picked it up, I've seen it at thrift stores multiple times so my theory if I want to read it in the future it should be easy to get my hands on a copy.

@KrisFasseBooksandButterflies

6 ай бұрын

@@ChantelReadsAllDay oh it surely will be. No question. I look forward to seeing how your library GROWS after you move!

I was afraid to try The Kitchen House. Have you read it yet?

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

No, I haven't yet. I'm not sure I'll like it but because it was written by an author that grew up locally I want to give it a try.

@KrisFasseBooksandButterflies

6 ай бұрын

@@ChantelReadsAllDay I keep hearing about it so I may give it a try this year.

7 men and 7 women was very good!

I thought Out of the Easy was just as good as the rest of Ruta Sepetys' books!

I know your a busy women, I had a thought though maybe in the future, would you do a busy person's book club? Say like 1 book every 2 months? Just a random idea I had.

I liked The Moonlight School. It's about a literacy program for mountain people back when. It's not my favorite Suzanne Woods Fiction book but I really did like it. I DNF'd Child from the Sea. BORING. Could not get into it. I rank Amy Lynn Greene's as: Things We Didn't Say, then The Blackout Book Club, and then The Lines Between Us. A Name Unknown--that Shadows over England series is the precursor to The Codebreakers... sort of. I really loved books 2 and 3 in that series and liked A Name Unknown (it was sappier than the others if I recall correctly). Book two was GREAT though. #BecauseMargo. She was awesome (and the protagonist of The Code of Love or whatever that's called). That said, I really don't think you'll enjoy A Name Unknown. I've got To the Lighthouse and hoping for better things because I'm not a fan of Woolf either. Yawn... Catcher in the Rye. Maybe I should retry it. I did NOT like it before. Gatsby... blech. I LOVE Understood Betsy!!! I really loved Bird by Bird. My mom did NOT (I thought she did, but I was wrong!) Under the Bayou Moon is one I'm eager to read. I talked to Valerie about it and it sounds so good but I think it could turn out to be like Edge of Belonging good or more southern women's fiction good. I can't tell which. One I think you'd like. The other, not. LOL.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

Oh, maybe I'll have to grab Under the Bayou Moon out from my unhaul stack!

@abundanceintheson_467

6 ай бұрын

Oh Yes I agree with you about "Catcher in the Rye" and "The Great Gatsby"... completely! They are horrid!

Speak is rough but so so good IMO. Very fast read too.

If you do decide to read Red Rising, I will be very interested in your thoughts! The majority of people seem to love it and it absolutely baffles me! It is incredibly poorly written. Not to mention, the “plot” is mostly just children doing really horrible things to each other (or planning how to do so), and almost every character is unlikable, and not in a good way lol. One of the worst books I have ever read. 😅

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

I read 30 pages of Red Rising when I bought it and it didn't catch my attention at all, but I have a lot of friends that enjoyed it so I want to give it another try.

My husband just finished The Man Who Was Thursday and loved it! Great Gatsby was not great, in my opinion (no pun intended). They're all awful people.

I know you are trying to get rid of books but I got to recommend Of Fire and Ash by Gillian Adams! It's a fantasy one which I know you are in the mood for!

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

I'll have to keep my eye out for it, thanks!

Moonlight School was a decent read. Not "fantastic", but worth the read. Historical fiction about a small town in the Appalachian Mountains.

You recently read Gilly Hopkins and didn’t enjoy. Why don’t you unhaul that one?

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

Haha, the power of filming, I actually filmed this before trying the book, it's now on my unhaul pile!

@angelawix2075

6 ай бұрын

😂 I never even thought of that.

While I personally love Abercrombie, i don't think you will. Half a King isn't as dark and gorey as his other stuff,but I still don't think you'll like it.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

I trust your opinion Catherine, you know my reading tastes well!

Ready player one, I wasn't a fan I think because I don't enjoy that genre.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

Fair enough, I tend to enjoy science fiction and dystopian books so I think I'll like it.

@galoreofbooks6216

6 ай бұрын

@ChantelReadsAllDay can't wait to hear what you think, love hearing your reviews.

Yeah, if you don't like Dune I would probably stay away from Asimov...

For what it's worth, I did not like The Moonlight School. I gave it 2 stars.

Just as a heads up - I am 99.99% sure you are going to hate Anna Karenina. It involves infidelity and suicide - like that's what the plot revolves around. I had to read it in college for my Russian Studies minor and absolutely hated it.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, I also think that about Anna Karenina, I actually started reading it years ago, but because it's a classic I feel like I should read it? Maybe I need to change my thoughts on that.

@sandra3616

6 ай бұрын

I have Anna Karenina on my shelf and i never seem to be in the mood for it, largely because i know some of the content and i watched the movie and Anna was, well, hard to root for, shall we say. On the other hand, it was Chelsea at Voyage of a Time Wanderer's number on pick. There is that. But that's the only reason i'm hesitating at the point. ​@ChantelReadsAllDay

@lesley7033

6 ай бұрын

I will weigh in on this... Anna Karenina is one of my very favorite books. Anna karenina although she is the title character is actually set up as the example of who we should not be in her relationship ship with vronsky. They are a tale of the pitfalls of idolatry. Levin and kitty however are a beautiful story and such an antidote to the title character. Martin Cochran of memoria press once called it the greatest Christian novel... don't know if I would call it that but it is beautiful and shows stories of redemption and beauty and also the opposite. Love it!!! Absolutely recommend. ❤❤

@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD

6 ай бұрын

I loved it... ask Tiffany about it... it's a cautionary tale... and someone here just spoiled a huge plot point....

@agohl85

6 ай бұрын

@@lesley7033Totally valid points. For me personally, I just disliked the characters, how long the book was, and how depressing I found the ending so much that the issues I had with the story outweighed any positives I may have found in the message Tolstoy was trying to get across. We are all different though and all have different perspectives!

The foundaton is much more readable than Dune. I had to DNF Dune, it was too slow, too boring.