hey guys welcome back my name's lily in case you're new now stop typing your hate comment
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however before you accuse me correctly i might add of literally doing a video that i've already
done that video is like five years old now okay obviously in that time i will have accumulated
new books i've read a lot of the books in that video and i've gotten rid of a bunch of books in
that video as well so it was truly time for an update also the reason i'm doing this video is
because i thought i would challenge myself to a challenge so basically i don't have a crazy tbr
i don't have a tbr that's like 600 books long not even 100 books long my tbr is probably like 30 25
to 30 35 range you'll haven't this is the number this is how many i have so what i wanted to do
was attempt to reach a physical tbr of zero by the end of the year or which is probably going
to be the more likely case in one year's time from today so ideally i want to try to finish them all
by january 1st 2023 so without further ado i'm just gonna go through all the books that i have
um i've acquired some new ones and if there's any funny story attached to them or whatever i'll
i'll tell you but this is my entire tbr of books that i own that i haven't read i'm going to try
to finish them all let's start with [ __ ] hold the fact that i literally filmed this i literally
filmed this entire video and i watched the footage back and i was wearing a really low cut top my
entire tit was out so i look like a greasy 46 year old man at a club that hits on 18 year old girls
except not as brave because i don't have the gold chain and the hairy chest showing like i'm wearing
something under it but that's what i feel like i'm channeling so i'm sorry if i've triggered anyone's
fight or flight response it wasn't intentional i've decided to be the picture of modesty today
let's start with the books that i've had for the absolute longest now not to bring these
three books up for literally the billionth time on my channel i know you guys are so sick i know
everyone is thinking [ __ ] shut up and just read the books already like we don't want to hear it
anymore read the books lily and move on move on with your life i've had this book since i was like
15. so in a few more years i will have had all of these for a decade and it makes me sick because i
want to read these books so bad you know exactly what i'm about to hold up
the three musketeers [ __ ] night film by marisha pessl she's back she's always here i want to read
it so bad okay i'm not going to talk about it again s trusty trusty on the tbr shelf always
house of leaves i've had this since i was 15. rapidly approaching middle age i'm gonna be a
corpse before i read this it's the year okay this is the year they get done heed my word
and that's not a threat that's a promise okay i think this shirt is actually making me act like
a predator instead of just look like one this one the serpent of venice by christopher moore it's
just a cool looking book that's the only reason i've kept it i don't really know what it's about
and i've never read the merchant of venice by shakespeare but i want to before i read
this another old one red queen my brother got me this when he went to america he got it from the
strand bookstore this is when the whole red queen phase was happening on booktube like everybody
and their dog and their fish had read this made my brother bring this back from america
and i didn't read it then i have these two books here that i got at an author signing the bone
season by samantha shannon and the mime order by samantha shannon i actually have a lot of signed
books here that i haven't read which is so [ __ ] rude like why i've gone to all these signings
and not read the books i don't know what is wrong with me if you see me if you're an author and you
ever see me at one of your signings kick me out because i'm literally only there to disrespect you
and i've done it like at least eight times never night by jay kristoff god's grave by jay kristoff
and dark dawn by jay kristoff these are all signed to be honest these ones were just really easy to
get and get signed because the author lives in my city he goes to like every book event in melbourne
so it was just easy to get them and get them signed 1984 by george orwell i've read this when
i was 15 and i basically just like read it without reading it like i was zoned out the entire time i
was reading it and then i got to the end and i was like this book is [ __ ] and i had the audacity
15 year old me to say that this book was [ __ ] on my youtube channel [ __ ] you didn't even read the
[ __ ] book like what are you talking about strong opinions [ __ ] strong opinions on what you didn't
even read it i can't even believe i did that i'm gonna re-read it and then we'll get my real
thoughts then bell jar by sylvia plath and frank's diary i am not going to review this because
something about like reading and reviewing and critiquing or like giving a star rating even to
like a little girl's diary that was never intended for millions of people to read yet they have the
only reason we're reading it is because she died i don't know i just feel like it's not a book that i
would ever like i'm not gonna dare have an opinion on this to be honest i'm just gonna read it and it
like appreciate it and be done you know that's how i truly feel about that fahrenheit 451 by ray
bradbury the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood i haven't seen that show on hulu i want to read the
book first stephen king's carry this is the only stephen king book i have oh actually no i have it
it's over there i'm not gonna go get it because i'm comfortable it and carrie i bought this
because i wanted to read it for halloween the last two octobers i have not been in the country
so i haven't been able to read them so this year is the year okay saving that one oh okay then we
have on the road by jack kerouac the story behind why i have this book is so [ __ ] embarrassing so
embarrassing and when i tell you you are gonna lose so much respect for me you're gonna laugh
and then unsubscribe i didn't steal it or anything i swear i bought it i'm just not ready for all of
you to like not love me anymore so i just i'm not gonna tell you i'll tell you the circumstances as
to why i have this when the time comes to read it okay i'll tell you then but for now it's [ __ ]
embarrassing this book the lord of the rings this is the trilogy so it's got all three books in here
i haven't read it and i'm not reading it right now these are just to separate so that i know like
where the books end and begin but yeah i bought this one because i wanted to read it on the plane
to italy so i bought it for that reason and then i didn't have enough weight in my luggage to bring
it to canberra with me so i left it at home oh and then speaking of i also recently bought this
because i wanted to read the hobbit before i read lord of the rings speaking of books to read on the
plane once i arrived in canberra i bought this book sapiens by yuval no harari to read on the
plane from canberra to italy i read like two pages and i was like oh [ __ ] this is going to be such
a good book saved it for later like what kind of psychopath does that you have to literally be an
idiot to stop reading a good book because you're like no it's it's good i'm gonna i can't read it
what i still really want to read this oh my god i don't want this to become the next house of leaves
i need to read it this year i need to read it this year okay no excuses no excuses following
the timeline when i was in italy i bought these two books color of magic and the light fantastic
by terry pratchett the first two books in the discworld series i bought these in milan at the
international bookstore so that i could get them in english and i didn't read them when i was over
there and i don't know why i think because i knew that i wanted to collect them all and i knew that
if i read them i'd want to read more of them and then i would have to buy more discworld books and
then i would have to bring a bunch of books back to australia with me and that was going to be like
really hard so i think that's why i didn't end up reading them now we'll transition into books that
were gifts starting with this book that my mom recently gave me which is boy swallows universe
this is literally a present that she bought for herself and then said that it was a gift for me
because she wanted to read it after me you know when someone gives you a gift and they're like
oh i'll read it after you i mean look how many awards it's won it's got to be good yeah then we
have this book the confessions of franny langton which was a gift from my mom's friend it takes
place in 1862 in london and i think this is about a maid who i think she murders the how like the
family that she's supposed to be serving could be wrong maybe i've gotten half the details right or
not it's just like her life story as well i think sounds promising next book was gifted to me by my
grandma which is murder on the orient express and just look at that [ __ ] oh look at the cover oh
stop it i've only read one agatha christie and it was and then there were none and so i'm curious
to read more the next book is this was a gift from matteo sempre a messo que parta by mateo rocca so
this is the book that my boyfriend self-published last year before we left don't think you guys know
much about matteo honestly but he did this like world trip where he traveled from it says here the
misadventures of travel italy to singapore without aeroplanes he spent like a year or a year and a
half traveling and basically he kept like a diary all of his like adventures on his trip he's also
a photographer so a lot of his like travel photos are in here too for example like they're all his
pictures on the back that's his picture that he took on the front as well he designed the cover
as well which is cool although this picture was my idea his dad kept a journal as well while he
was traveling while mateo was traveling and then the book basically flips between like matteo's
journal entries and then his dad's journal entries and it's supposed to be like really wholesome and
sweet allegedly because i haven't read it i will read it one day i've been putting it off because
i want to read it when i know that my italian is like at a really good level so that i can
just like read it and not struggle reading it but yeah unfortunately it's not translated that's why
i haven't gotten to it just yet if you can speak italian and you want to read this book it's on
italian amazon then the next book was gifted to me by mateo again when we first started dating when
he found out that i loved reading and he got me the narrow bed by sophie hannah i think it's about
a serial killer and a detective trying to solve a mystery he wrote a blurb in the book i didn't read
it but i heard is a good one thanks potato the next one was a gift from jody a touch of darkness
i've always wanted to read a hades and persephone retelling people lose their mind for it not this
book specifically but hades and persephone retellings it's like crack for some people
and i don't understand the hype but so i've always been curious to read one and so here we go perfect
example the next one was a gift from my friend kat from the channel bambina katarina love her
she's been on my channel as well no more people by sally rooney so she got this for me from the
piccadilly waterstones in london i went with her and kevin from irish reader so so excited to read
that i went and got this one as well in oxford with jody there's obviously the vlog on my channel
if you want to watch it but i got this book as well so conversations with friends so now i
have them both my final book that was gifted to me that's part of my tbr is this one which was gifted
to me by macmillan so thank you macmillan and it was if i can't have you they gave this to me like
literally years ago so this video isn't like a hashtag sponsored by mcmillan i didn't request
this or anything and they didn't tell me they were sending me this it just like showed up at my door
so it's like one of those unrequested arcs or something it sounds like a domestic thriller
i could be wrong so if it is i'm gonna eat that [ __ ] up but if it's not i think um i don't know
i don't know how it's gonna go down these ones i think i got these for free somehow i think a
family member maybe it was my brother don't know whose books these belong to but they're mine now
like you know those like hustle people like the hustle culture people they [ __ ] eat these books
up the four hour work week think and grow rich that's another one this is like the hustle bros
of youtube and like the self-improvement dudes like this this is their [ __ ] this is their
[ __ ] [ __ ] they are so far up these books asses it's actually not funny yeah i have these
i read them one day and i also have these ones against my will i don't know how
um the thing can grow rich cash flow and think and grow rich in property i'll have a crack at reading
them but i don't know how that's how well that will go down and then the final book that i had
oh no it's a lie i've got two more then i have this book that i got for free
like two weeks ago percy jackson and the lightning thief which is the first book in like the base
percy jackson series which is i've always wanted to read them the cover is absolutely hideous but
i got it for free so i can't really complain but i would like to have those pretty ones
but hey a free book is a free book you know and it's a book i wanted to read matteo got me this
one for christmas which is the complete sherlock holmes which is something that i've wanted to read
for the longest time i've never read any sherlock holmes i've never seen any of the
movies or watched the series or anything i did visit like the number 10 baker street in
london like the sherlock holmes house that they have there and it was so cool and i saw like the
little museum type thing i was so inspired to read the series after that and i really wanted to get
the really big beautiful like leather bound edition i got this one from um gaze the word in
london song of achilles by madeline miller oh and it's like the really pretty hardcover one
and this one has the signed bookplate in it as well which is just amazing like so excited to
read this one but yeah that's pretty much all the books that i have on my physical tbr that i own
if you were curious now you know let's see how i do with this challenge i have faith
only a shred but still there now question for the viewers what is your physical tbr number how many
physical books do you own on your shelves that you haven't read count them and comment it below
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