Bookshelf Tour 2022
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- Join me on a tour around my bookshelves to see how I organise my books and all the places I store books in my apartment. I also show off some physical copies of books that have special meaning to me. Click ‘Show More’ for info.
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More about my newly published “50 Books” series: • 50 Books to Read...
Previous Bookshelf Tours
2017: • Bookshelf Tour
2018: • Bookshelf Tour 2018
Books discussed & purchase links:
Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard: tidd.ly/3VBK1Iw
Perfect Agreement by Michael Downing: tidd.ly/3iul9UQ
Underland by Robert Macfarlane: tidd.ly/3BhfztZ
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud: tidd.ly/37X4f9v
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James: tidd.ly/3FcXW1t
Swing Time by Zadie Smith: tidd.ly/3udQv4L
Frankenstein manuscript: fnty.co/c/r-bnNZGhuh
The Grapes of Wrath manuscript: fnty.co/c/r-pEyVoRWW
The Waves by Virginia Woolf: tidd.ly/31bjmbE
In America by Susan Sontag: tidd.ly/3H593fc
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders: tidd.ly/2VUH3We
Breath by Tim Winton: tidd.ly/3EVUOGQ
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte: tidd.ly/3VYTtWX
Soul at the White Heat by Joyce Carol Oates: tidd.ly/3VECj0v
Record Time by Edmund White
Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates: tidd.ly/3yFb3Dz
A Door Behind A Door by Yelena Moskovich: tidd.ly/3ETkMuF
All Along the Echo by Danny Denton: tidd.ly/3xqzuHt
Unexhausted Time by Emily Berry: tidd.ly/3u8rU0K
Out of the Sun by Esi Edugyan: tidd.ly/3FhcxtG
My full reviews of some of these books:
Underland by Robert Macfarlane: lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/...
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud: lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/...
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James: lonesomereader.com/blog/2015/...
Swing Time by Zadie Smith: lonesomereader.com/blog/2016/...
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders: lonesomereader.com/blog/2017/...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte: lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/...
Soul at the White Heat by Joyce Carol Oates: lonesomereader.com/blog/2017/...
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What a wonderful collection of books! 😍 Your shelves are beautiful, and your home looks so cosy. :)
Thank you! 😊📚
So jealous of your shelves, and all the wonderful authors you've met! Your books are now on my end table, I'm dipping in and out. Such an interesting read. I don't know you personally, obviously, but I've been watching so long that I feel like I do, and it's such a kick to see your name when I pick them up.
Fun story: I live about 5 minutes from JCO, and years went to see her talk (at a now defunct Borders) when she released The Gravedigger's Daughter. I was trying to break into publishing at the time (a long time ago!) and for motivation I asked her to write "You really are a writer" on my copy with her signature. She capitalized and underlined YOU ARE. I treasured this...Years later, multi published by PRH, I went to hear her speak again and along with other books of hers I brought my The Gravedigger's Daughter copy, showing her the signature and telling her I'd finally made it. She was so sweet to me, and under the previous signature she wrote, "You see?" :) ❤
Thanks so much about my books! And that is the BEST story! 🥰📚 I’m so glad you had that interaction with her and I’m jealous you live so close by.
This is amazing. I always admired the very symmetrical and full bookshelves in your background in the videos. But didn't think it would be quite this epic. Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE Joyce carol oates! She’s one of those authors that I will read anything she’s written. I’ve started my own collection of her books & usually manage to snag them when I see them pop up at my local half price lol
The Waves is my favourite Virginia Woolf novel. I love that you have such a variety of copies. You have a really nice place and it is nice that your bookshelves are very present, but don’t overpower the space. I love that you own a copy of Record Time which is a lovely story. Also, you are really lucky to have an author dedicate a book to you what a special thing to have happen. I really enjoyed your bookshelf tour and it is so sweet you and your husband read to each other.
Thanks so much! Glad to be in the company of another fan of The Waves!
You broke my heart when you mentioned that you havent read The Grapes of Wrath
That's a lot of books!
🦢Nice Bjork poster ! "Vespertine" is my favorite album of hers. Thanks for the tour.
🌸🎶 "We go to a hidden place ......we go to a hidden place."🎶🌸
Thank you! I love that album so much and was lucky enough to see her on tour when it came out. Magical.
Thanks for sharing!
I love picking a new recipe to do every week, especially Nigel Slater . Love his Christmas Chronicles to read from Nov to February
I love your library! what a beautiful home!
Thank you! 😊📚
One day after school and I figure out where I want to stay, my goal is to have a room to accumulate a library. This is very much Goals. I love your author stories so much, thank you for sharing them ❤
Lovely collection. I don't have a lot of space in my home but recently started at a bookstore so I've been getting a lot. My collection is a bit all over the place but I like to think that for me my library is an ever changing thing. My favorites and hard to find editions will stay on my shelf most others will be given away or donated so they find a new home. I really love giving books to people
Yes, it always feels great giving a stack of books to a grateful reader! 📚
What a beautiful and joyful library tour! 🥰 First time discovering your channel and it was a lovely video. :)
Thanks so much! 😊📚 And welcome!
I love how you use the Fitzcaraldo editions for decorating! I love that shade of blue and it’s all too tempting to buy all their books! Especially because I have a thing for blue books!
Gorgeous library!!! 😍😍😍
That's a nice library, Eric: Use it in good health. Personally, most of my library now is in Kindle but I think honestly I prefer that at this stage in life. Respecting some of your author stories, I too had some of those once, when I was younger. My first writing teacher, the National Book Award winner, Ray Carver, never dedicated anything to me. In fact I believe he thought I was a bit of a punk, but no more of that. A classmate of mine, tho, Jay, wrote a scene in his big novel, Bright Lights, Big City, wherein I'm sure I saw myself, but who knows. I never asked him and we did have things in common once. Since then life has taken us different places, but I think I understand why you feel really good about seeing that dedication - enjoy! and thx.
Fun, geeky, bookish stuff ❤❤❤❤❤ love it! Your shelves are gorgeous
Thank you! 😊📚📚📚
the blue bathroom w/ the fitz shelves are awesome!! 💙
We just added very nice built-ins in my wife’s artist studio room, mainly for art books, oversized books, but also to hopefully pull in some of my books from many, many shelves and cases I have set up in our garage. It’s not the ideal place for books, but it’s the only viable space. The books have been there for three years now, and seem to be holding up well.
Love your shelves and reading nook! Lovely. I've been culling books my entire reading life. I am surrounded by my books at my reading and writing nook. I tried so hard to get into Kindle but I am so old school. I enjoy a tactile reading experience. I also move apartments a great deal (mainly due to ever increasing rent right across Sydney). So my next move is going to be smaller and tighter and facing the culling problem is for me an emotional as well as physical exhaustive experience.
Wow!!!!! Amazing! Thank you for letting us peek at your books 😍😘
Yes, having the golden girls signatures is the gayest thing ever 😊 but the Best thing I've see today ! 😍
Oh my goodness, that bathroom! The Fitzcarraldos are a perfect fit! 😍😍😍😍
The Grand Tour by Eric, full of knowledge, très interessant. I saw you have a book by Susan Orlean on your bedside table. I have just finished The Orchid Thief, which I, as an orchid collector, found incredible. Thanks for all that!
I love the fact that you found a way to put a book in every single room 😆
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This was so enjoyable! The books look great everywhere, in different places around the apartment! And that bathroom! Who wouldn't design a bathroom around the Golden Girls' signatures?!
I watched Born Yesterday last summer and didn't know it was the movie your old opening was from! I was like oh my gosh! Judy Holliday was such a radiant actress!
I have stacks of books on my floor right now... I too struggle with finding more space for what I acquire. I do have some wall space I can put shelves but there are certain parts of my room I like being open and to be able to hang posters but I might have to cave and put new shelves there.
Thank you! 😊📚 And im so glad you saw Born Yesterday. She was so talented - gone too soon!
Love your shirt. Love the 🪜
I need to read more Annie Dillard.
Love After Love and A Brief History of Seven Killings are waiting patiently on my shelves. Your collection of The Waves 💙 Folio Society 💙 The Golden Girls 💙. Thanks for sharing your “magic cave of books”. 😊💙
Thank you! 😊📚 Dillard is excellent.
I constantly have to think about where books go. I always ask myself " will I read this book again?". If no , it deserves a new home.
I do keep my favourite books. 🥰
I used to have books in one room that were tbr. In another, that were read, but I realised I liked to keep all my vintage editions together or my Oxford Univ Press together ( you get the picture, I'm sure). So a reshuffle was required.
Frankenstein is soooo good. Love it. . I have read Grapes of Wrath , but many years ago. I think it deserves a re- read
Great video Eric and beautiful library 📚
Thank you! 😊📚
Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing what books you have, how you organise and where
Thank you! 😊📚
goals
Your eccentricity is such a highlight Eric, your passion for books and your admiration of your collection perfectly encapsulates my same feelings of adoration for my own (albeit much smaller) collection!
Do you happen to a spreadsheet or some app that you keep as a backup version of your collection, and would you be able to recommend any apps? I’m always so worried in the event of a fire or some other tragedy that I will lose my collection l, so it’s always lingering in my mind to make a backup
Wow this is amazing. Have been following you for years now but this is one of my favorite video. Loved your ladder 🪜. That was a bulb on moment. I would grab something to stand on to get my books from top shelf. My one book shelf is arranged in the alphabetical order of Authors, and another in my study on my reference and favorite ones and on my desk is the two recent ones by you with notes around it. You need to keep yours in the living room right in the centre or above/below your favorite photo frame in this study of yours.
Thanks so much! 😊📚
Wonderful video 👏👏👏👏🥰🥰
I love Zadie Smith. You are so lucky to have met her in person. Your bookcase looks wonderful and very inviting. I don't know whether you have ever visited Greece but I own a wonderful Greek translation of the Waves from the 90s in a beautiful sea green cover with Virginia Woolf's face on it. I think you would have liked it very much, not that I am willing to part with it. It's one of my favourites too.
I was thoroughly enjoying the video and then you mentioned JCO dedicated a book to you?! That's so cool!
Yes, I was so honoured!
I am equally guilty of not reading Steinbeck yet even though I have had his book for years! I hope to read it soon. This was such a perfect BookTour. Like, I am glad you didn’t go around showing each and every book and rather took us through it like you were having a conversation or introducing your shelves to a guest at your house (other Booktubers take note, please). Just one question- how often do you dust or clean your shelves? In India, it’s impossible to keep books naked on the shelves without a layer of thick dust settling on it in a week’s time or so. :/
Love this video!!! I have a thing for owls, love Tim Winton ( especially his nonfiction), however I did love Breath. I would love to be a guest in your house! I could spend hours looking at all your books. I am so glad that Joyce Carol Oates dedicated a book to you. Oh yeah, I just got your two books from Book Depository today!! If you are ever having a book anything in New England, I would love to go. Have a wonderful Holiday Season!!!!🎄🎅📚
In these economic crisis times, books provide extra insulation.
Very true!!!
I think your collection of books is amazing. Can you please do a video on marcel proust after seeing him on the bookshelf I googled him up he seems quite interesting I would like to read his books so if you could give me a heads up
I just did a museum “ slo read “ book club for “ the grapes of wrath “ I am a reader . I had never read it before . It was soooooo worth the time . There are breathtaking moments that are genius . I hope you read it .
Now I have severe bookshelf envy. I have run out of space so my current situation is looking a bit like your piano area, but I have some vague plans for a new library area in my home if I can convince my partner to help. I love that you have allowed your husband some shelves for his movie books 🤣
It was very generous of me to let him have that, wasn’t it? 🤣📚📚📚
Eric thank you for your tour. I love the look of books neatly stacked and your library is beautiful. Have you read Hermione Lee's biography on Virginia Woolf? I'm reading it at the moment. Just dipping into different sections that I feel might be interesting as I read Woolf's novels.
Thanks! 😊📚 I started reading it ages ago but got distracted. I think dipping in and out of it is the way to go.
I wish I could help but my house is staggering with all the books I have in every room. I can vouch for the fact that moving house just means more book space for only a short time then you are back to square one ha ha. Currently donating new books to my library if I don't want to keep them and some old books to charity shops. But they still keep coming
Wow, truly impressive! I agree with another comment I see that your home looks very cozy. (One question about the bathroom: Looks wonderful but do you worry about the books becoming damaged by steam?) I just discovered your channel and subscribed earlier today. I really like your style, and the books you read and describe seem to be all new to me so I'm sure I"ll have a lot to learn and enjoy as I watch more of your videos and start picking up some of these fascinating-sounding stories.
Thanks! It’s the guest bathroom and the shower isn’t used that often so the books are fairly safe.
Have you come across the Sapien book shelves? Very cool design and perfect for limited space. I have 4 of them in my apartment. Generally I hate getting rid of books but have to do a mass cull every 6 months in order to not tip into hoarder territory. Most I take to the Library. Then usually there’s always one or two I regret or forget getting rid of and so of course buy again and the cycle repeats
your library is great. I've always wanted a dedicate room for my books. I have been carrying many boxes of books around the world. Even the ones I've pulled out for the shelves we have are covered with new acquisitions. I don't think I could put them behind.
Thanks! Yeah, I feel fortunate to be able to have (most) of them on display. 📚
"A visit from the goon squad" is insanely good...
I generally love Virginia Woolf but I did not understand The Waves at all. I think I might not be clever enough for it 😂 Hearing it’s your favourite book makes me want to try again.
It took me a while to get into it as well. I think it can feel alienating at first because it has a specific structure and highly poetic language that all the characters can feel the same but the more you read it and follow their lives the more their personalities come out and you might feel more emotionally invested in their lives and journey - or, at least, I did. So I’d say give it another try but I know it’s not a book for everyone.
I’m sorry but I cringed at the sight of the Fitzcarraldos in the bathroom - won’t they gradually swell up with the humidity and start growing mould? The only books I manage to unhaul are either duplicates or dnfs so like you I am struggling to find room for myself among the book piles!
Nice! My books are sorted by language. I read in 5 langages.(mostly Portuguese, English and Dutch, and the odd ones in Spanish and French). Do you read in other languages?
I don´t have many books, I tend to hand them down and I read a lot from public libraries.
I do have some about actors, like biographies and interviews. I love movies, but learning about Hollywood history was quite enraging.. I´ll choose British or Canadian made over Hollywood any time.
Reassuring to see that the universal rule that books acquired will always grow to be 125% of available shelf space also applies to someone as organised as Eric too!
Thank you so much for the generous tour of your book shelves. I totally identify with your book storage challenges. My books are organized mostly by country of origin and then, within that, alphabetical by author's surname. I also have shelves reserved for: fantasy/fairytale; biography; literary criticism; books about books; short stories; and poetry. I also have books organized by collections (e.g. Fitzcarraldo; Vintage; Europa; etc). My QUESTION to you, Eric, is as follows: Do you think it is a bad idea to store books in piles? In order to maintain alpha organization of books on my shelves, but also to accommodate the fact that most of my bookcases contain shelves of varying heights, I have stored many of my taller books in horizontal piles next to the 'shorter' upright books. I worry that this might be bad for the books. What do you think?
Thank you! And I don’t think that’s bad for the books. As long as they aren’t damaged. The more books that can be fit in the better! 😊📚📚📚
You definitely need a book ladder. Like the channel Guilty Feet ain’t got no rhythm.
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I went to the eye doctor last week thinking I would need☹ reading glasses, It turns out I have cataracts and will be needing surgery.
Oh no, im so sorry
My cataracts are cloudy and I need laser treatment; you'll do fine
If you had a portrait of Liberace above the golden girl’s signatures, that would be the gayest thing ever. Love your collection of books.
How important would a signed book be to you? Sometimes I've bought signed books straight off the shelf, but after the Bob Dylan thing I'm now wondering if they're real.
They aren’t so important in terms of value but when an author signs it for me I find it special.