Books I did not want to read/Impulse buying

There is this content creator that just ruined my reading for Colleen Hoover quite a lot actually, I don’t even like her content also about authors and she is very cringy like yeah using emojis.

Another thing is that before I actually read these books I just bought these as I thought they were what I would read and winter rose book was 700 pgs long and yep I thought it was romance and it’s not. I did not look up much of these books before because all of these books are thrifted and like I had to get 4 and 1 free so most of these books are a plus one to the deal which I know I wasted a lot of money there but it will be in the LFL.

Right now I just booked the LFL, so I’ll wait till it’s empty then I’ll add but for now, I did not want to feel obligated to read these books like I would but after reading an old erotica.. yeah that has to go.

I never read most of these books, like I said either the hype was too much for me, or reading these won’t be my type. For example I still kept an old novel of a Korean family looking for their grandma, another book about a Romeo and Juliet twist novel, the supermarket, etc

I did save much room like a lot but I am not sure if I want to get rid of the bookcase.. or if I should keep it to thrift more books if I get a lucky day..

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