As you may have guessed...

[rachelmanija]

I am going through a bunch of unread books which are not by authors I already know I love, in the hope of having fewer/lighter boxes to move when I move again. I don't feel obliged to finish anything if I don't like it early on, so you're just getting reviews of the ones I did finish.

Books that went in discards without reviews as I didn't get very far: the book about penises with lots of dubiously sourced history, the children's fantasy where a little girl gets switched with her past counterpart and her siblings don't care, an extremely beat-up book on stretching that has nothing I can't get off the internet, exoticizing memoir about Americans who move to Mexico, insufferable book on mindfulness I bought to suck up to a professor, and many more which were more forgettable than those.

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[conuly]

the children's fantasy where a little girl gets switched with her past counterpart and her siblings don't care

Which one is that?

[rachelmanija]

In the Keep of Time.

[oursin]

the book about penises with lots of dubiously sourced history
?????
Presumably not Richard Payne Knight on the Worship of Priapus?

[rachelmanija]

No, Manhood. It's written by a urologist and has a statue dick on the cover.

[oursin]

Of course it's by a medical professional, there's no knowledge but I knows it, right?

[mrissa]

I used to do a series of posts called "I can in fact quit you" about why I had stopped reading various books, but on average it's not very interesting, it's mostly clunky prose voice and occasionally risibly bad history or science. But mostly clunky prose voice.

[oracne]

It is so freeing to be able to cull books. Even though I love books.

This weekend, I finally decided I had no reason to hang onto my yellowing, battered Bulfinch's Mythology paperbacks.

[rachelmanija]

There's something strangely satisfying about it. I think of them going to new homes where people will appreciate them more than me. Or let them sit on the shelves for ten years before opening them, then promptly donating them. Circle of life!

[oracne]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GibiNy4d4gc