Great video, Pat! Not surprised at all at the quantity of books you've got - I'd expect nothing less 😉 Thanks for the tag, this will be a fun one to do. Always lovely to consider my collection and pull out some favourite covers to enthuse over!😊
I really enjoyed your video. I love seeing what other book lovers own and hearing about their reasons for collecting a certain series or why they like a particular book. Thanks you. 😊
I love this tag--and your answers. I too am finding that books are taking over my house and so I'm trying to winnow things down a bit. (Even my e-reader needs a good clean out! The figurative weight of all those volumes is hard on me...)
This is a fun tag...I have to admit that I missed part of your video because my husband came and started talking to me, but I agree with your distaste for movie tie-in books. My husband bought me a copy of the The Art of French Cooking by Julia Child and it had a picture of Meryl Streep (as Julia Child) on it.
I live with my sister-we have been planning on putting a little library somewhere near us-we both have so many books. She, like you, is a retired English teacher-our house is full of books and so is the garage (boxes and boxes). I volunteered with the Library Friends when I lived in Arizona-books for 50 cents and $1.00 are hard to resist. Once, I decided after I read a book I would donate it. Well, I donated Maeve Binchy’s “Light a Penny Candle” but I missed the spine in my bookcase so much, I bought it back. Books, lps and yarn-my most prized possessions. Great video!
Thanks for the tag, Pat. I probably won't get around to this one but may provide some of the answers in a different tag I have planned for the end of the year. Cheers!
A basement filled with books...and I thought I had too many books before my move! Who writes prices in their books? Madness. Due to space, very few new books are coming in, but I have many unread which at last I'm getting to. I do miss the bookshelves I left behind and gave away though. They were loyal to the end.
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt I remember your preparations for the move! I really have to start going through all of the books stored in the basement. Most of them will be ones I’ll give away, I suspect. Hope you’re doing well!
I like learning the ways people sort their books. There are so many variations. Mine nonfiction that is not about literature, cooking, or gardening is upstairs. These upstairs nonfiction books are sorted into read and unread, and those two categories are organized into general topics such as health, nature, faith, etc. Most of the read books about faith, the Bible, etc. are in my bedroom. Exceptions - The art books are in the living room; the cookbooks are in the kitchen,. The gardening books are in the downstairs room until I don’t need a toy shelf in the kitchen. Prose fiction, plays, poetry and books about literature are in the downstairs room. They are also sorted into read and not read , and then into those three categories. Read fiction is alphabetized by author. The unread fiction is shelved in the settings’ chronological order. These are just my books. My husband has his books in another bedroom, the downstairs room, and the office. Books are everywhere but the bathrooms.
I really enjoyed this Pat, it was fun to hear more about your book collection. I’m with you on movie book covers, The Hours is one of my favourite films but I still don’t want it on the cover of my book!
I find it fascinating that you kept and marked all of your college books. I don’t do that, but I do hold onto most of them after the course ends. For example, with my Harlem Renaissance class, we read Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (a book I’ve seen on your channel!), and it was so good, I wouldn’t want to throw it away.
Hi Josh. I always took notes inside my college texts--at least inside my literature texts. The notations wouldn't mean much to anyone else, probably. I don't seem to have my college texts from other courses. I saved only the English books, but that made sense as I referred to them throughout the years as a teacher of literature myself. Most of them are not in great condition now--as they are all more than 45 years old. My copies of Their Eyes Were Watching God are more recent acquisitions. Although I did first read it in graduate school, I also taught it for many years, so those are newer copies.
Hi James. I guess it's another marketing ploy. Nowadays, I really resist buying a book with a movie cover, but I imagine when I bought The Hours, I didn't have much of a choice. That's not even a really bad one as far as movie covers go. I just don't like them at all. I wonder if anyone IS actually drawn to a book because of a TV or movie cover? They must be....But I guess we don't know those people.
Wow, you have collected alot of books. I bet those books you taught have some fantastic notes throughout. I am not surprised you donate books, your love of reading is evident. Built your own bookcases, you are quite the human domino Pat. Phenomenal insight and answers!
Well, I didn't build them from scratch! My idea of "building" book cases is that I was able to put them together and they remain standing! I'm definitely not a wood-worker. But I have very vivid memories of buying them, having them arrive, and then wondering, "What on earth am I going to do with these?" And then I set about putting them together, very slowly at first. This old friend of mine just happened to show up in the middle of the production, and she helped immensely. It remains a source of great pride that we were able to accomplish this feat! But that room is still in a state of chaos now. I had an older brother living with me for a while as he was going through a bad divorce, and he lived in that room. He's back out on his own now, but a lot of his stuff is still here, and I haven't really done the work I need to do in there to reclaim the room as a library. One of these days....
I’m really enjoying this tag, Pat. Thank you for doing it and for such great answers. As an inveterate horizontal book stacker, I say solidarity! And you reminded me that I should be looking at my collection and doing some weeding. All the best! ❤️📚
It can be hard to part with books, but the reality of the situation is that I have many books that I will probably never look at again. They might as well be put to some good use, especially since I really don't have the space for them. I'm glad you're enjoying this tag. It was a good one to do.
Three to four bags to your library weekly, plus contributions to your nearby little free library? The bookish folks in your part of town are very lucky!
The Simak _Worlds Without End_ struck a major (and distant) chord with me. That takes me back to primary school... I'm glad you liked the tag. Almost instantly, within 4-5 videos there are evident differences but also similarities. with warm regards,
Hi Richard. I really enjoyed this tag. I am relatively new to science fiction, but I’ve been trying to catch up by reading a lot of the classics. I’ve loved discovering Clifford D. Simak. Thanks for creating a great tag.
This was great! I have a few of my childhood books and wish I had more and inherited a few of mum's books too - all very special to me. I agree on film tie-in covers. I adore the vintage style. I collect Agatha Christie ones and I also try to find Penguin black classics and I really like the pale blue Penguin modern classics, too. I am fine having lots of books but they need to be read ones and part of my collection. I don't want too many unread books, something I need to rectify. Great answers to this and I hope you're well ❤
Thanks, Helen. I hope you're doing well, too. I love all of the Penguin Classics--the black ones, the newer Deluxe ones, the old orange ones (I have lots and lots of old orange ones from my college days). I enjoyed putting this one together. It has made me more determined to continue the weeding process and get things in a better state of organization.
Love this tag because I have been thinking for some time how much my books need sorting and I am struggling! Great answers Pat. It’s interesting that we’ve just been discussing those Pineiro covers. Thanks for the tag. I shall look forward to this 😊
Hi Pat, you seem to have a huge number of books. Good think you're starting to give them away. I want to put a Little Free Library in front of my home. I haven't bought the kit yet. I like the book with the painting for a cover!!
@@Eldertalk well, I was an English teacher for 40 years, so books were kind of my business! But yes, I’m downsizing considerably. I’ve done it before. I’m more than overdue. Luckily, my public library takes all that I can give, and we also have free little libraries all over town, which is really great.
@BookChatWithPat8668 You are blessed by all the Little Free Libraries! If I install one, it will be the only one here, though there is one about 30 miles down the river highway. There are also no used bookstores here, or bookstores of any kind. I think you were the kind of English teacher I wish my kids had in high school. You would be surprised what wasn't offered here. I don't remember them having English classes of any kind. As a parent I was shocked that high school education had devolved to that degree in my state, but it is a very small town. California.
Hi Linda. That makes me very sad that your kids didn't have a good experience or much of any experience in English classes. I was very fortunate throughout my career to work in two different schools that were very forward-thinking in terms of curriculum. My first seven years were actually in a wonderful private, Catholic school with the best English Department. I had a brilliant mentor who became my role model as a teacher. Then I spent the next 32 years in an excellent public school system where I eventually became the department leader. We revised and renewed our curriculum constantly and were always encouraged to keep it fresh. The books we wanted to teach went through a review process, of course, but we were given tremendous freedom to revise the curriculum and include not only classics but also the best of contemporary literature too. Our goal was to keep introducing challenging literature that would engage kids and to teach students to read it, to analyze it, to talk about it, and importantly, to write about it. I feel like I was blessed throughout most of my career to do this important work and to feel the respect of the community that acknowledged that we were professionals who "knew our stuff." I do not believe that this is always the case in school systems, and that makes me very sad.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Really, sounds like a wonderful way to spend your life. I got good English classes in the SF Bay Area where I was raised, with lots of reading of classic literature, but I was shocked when I found out my children didn't get anything like that in our local school district in the early 2000's. I read them lots of good literature earlier in their life... Newbery novels, etc.
I can't tell you how sad that makes me to hear that your kids' schools didn't have strong English departments with lots of great literature. I read an article recently that was getting a lot of attention about the fact that many college-aged kids are not readers because they never read whole books in elementary school and high school. They only read excerpts of books. That is very hard for me to imagine, especially after having spent my whole life teaching WHOLE novels and plays to kids. But maybe the schools where I taught were more the exception than the rule. Heartbreaking if that is really the case.
Another question to add to this tag could be: When you buy books now, what percentage of them are just to HAVE the books, and what percentage is to READ the books? 🙂
That might be interesting too. I don’t tend to buy books just to have them, although the Frankenstein edition with the beautiful cover, I suppose, is one I just wanted to have because it’s beautiful, though I have several other editions, which I have read and used for teaching as well.
Great video, Pat! Not surprised at all at the quantity of books you've got - I'd expect nothing less 😉 Thanks for the tag, this will be a fun one to do. Always lovely to consider my collection and pull out some favourite covers to enthuse over!😊
Thanks, Alex. This was a fun one. No pressure regarding these tags, though. I love to see people's responses, but I never want to pressure anyone!
I really enjoyed your video. I love seeing what other book lovers own and hearing about their reasons for collecting a certain series or why they like a particular book. Thanks you. 😊
Thank you! This one was really a lot of fun to do. I see that you've just done this tag too. I will check out your version as well!
WOW! I mostly read them and let them go! This is a great tag! I'll combine it with my End of Year Wrap Up video and my End of Year UN-haul!
@@BeyondBooks-wt5il I’m definitely inhaling more and more these days.
I love this tag--and your answers. I too am finding that books are taking over my house and so I'm trying to winnow things down a bit. (Even my e-reader needs a good clean out! The figurative weight of all those volumes is hard on me...)
Thanks, Hannah. This was a really fun one to do. You’re right about e-readers too! I have no idea how to organize that either!
This is a fun tag...I have to admit that I missed part of your video because my husband came and started talking to me, but I agree with your distaste for movie tie-in books. My husband bought me a copy of the The Art of French Cooking by Julia Child and it had a picture of Meryl Streep (as Julia Child) on it.
Oh my goodness! Why not a picture of Julia Child herself?!
It was interesting to hear about how your books are organized and stored. Thanks for tagging me. I will do this one at some point
Thanks, Stuart. No pressure ever.
I live with my sister-we have been planning on putting a little library somewhere near us-we both have so many books. She, like you, is a retired English teacher-our house is full of books and so is the garage (boxes and boxes). I volunteered with the Library Friends when I lived in Arizona-books for 50 cents and $1.00 are hard to resist.
Once, I decided after I read a book I would donate it. Well, I donated Maeve Binchy’s “Light a Penny Candle” but I missed the spine in my bookcase so much, I bought it back. Books, lps and yarn-my most prized possessions.
Great video!
Oh, I love that story about your buying back Maeve Binchy! It's simply a book you are meant to have!
Thanks for the tag, Pat. I probably won't get around to this one but may provide some of the answers in a different tag I have planned for the end of the year. Cheers!
That works. No pressure ever on any of these.
Hi Pat, great video , I always like to see how others shelve their collections. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
A basement filled with books...and I thought I had too many books before my move!
Who writes prices in their books? Madness.
Due to space, very few new books are coming in, but I have many unread which at last I'm getting to.
I do miss the bookshelves I left behind and gave away though. They were loyal to the end.
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt I remember your preparations for the move! I really have to start going through all of the books stored in the basement. Most of them will be ones I’ll give away, I suspect. Hope you’re doing well!
I like learning the ways people sort their books. There are so many variations.
Mine nonfiction that is not about literature, cooking, or gardening is upstairs. These upstairs nonfiction books are sorted into read and unread, and those two categories are organized into general topics such as health, nature, faith, etc. Most of the read books about faith, the Bible, etc. are in my bedroom. Exceptions - The art books are in the living room; the cookbooks are in the kitchen,. The gardening books are in the downstairs room until I don’t need a toy shelf in the kitchen.
Prose fiction, plays, poetry and books about literature are in the downstairs room. They are also sorted into read and not read , and then into those three categories. Read fiction is alphabetized by author. The unread fiction is shelved in the settings’ chronological order.
These are just my books. My husband has his books in another bedroom, the downstairs room, and the office.
Books are everywhere but the bathrooms.
Wow! You have quite a system! It sounds very organized.
I really enjoyed this Pat, it was fun to hear more about your book collection. I’m with you on movie book covers, The Hours is one of my favourite films but I still don’t want it on the cover of my book!
Exactly! I loved the film, but I don't want it on the book, which I also adored.
Another great tag, Pat!
Thanks, Meg. This was another fun one to do--and one that made clear to me that I need to get my books in a better state of organization!
I find it fascinating that you kept and marked all of your college books. I don’t do that, but I do hold onto most of them after the course ends. For example, with my Harlem Renaissance class, we read Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (a book I’ve seen on your channel!), and it was so good, I wouldn’t want to throw it away.
Hi Josh. I always took notes inside my college texts--at least inside my literature texts. The notations wouldn't mean much to anyone else, probably. I don't seem to have my college texts from other courses. I saved only the English books, but that made sense as I referred to them throughout the years as a teacher of literature myself. Most of them are not in great condition now--as they are all more than 45 years old. My copies of Their Eyes Were Watching God are more recent acquisitions. Although I did first read it in graduate school, I also taught it for many years, so those are newer copies.
Great to see more of your collection Pat. Does anyone like movie covers? Geez
Hi James. I guess it's another marketing ploy. Nowadays, I really resist buying a book with a movie cover, but I imagine when I bought The Hours, I didn't have much of a choice. That's not even a really bad one as far as movie covers go. I just don't like them at all. I wonder if anyone IS actually drawn to a book because of a TV or movie cover? They must be....But I guess we don't know those people.
Really cool tag. We all have our quirks about our shelves and what put on them. The SF Masterworks are great even though I don’t have many.
Thanks, Greg. I don't have many SF Masterworks--only maybe 15 in total. But I do really like that series.
Great tour and answers Pat! Thanks for the tag, already thinking of some answers. Oh, to keep or give away books - that must be Catch 22!!!
@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk hi Nigel! It really is. I will look forward to your responses.
Wow, you have collected alot of books. I bet those books you taught have some fantastic notes throughout. I am not surprised you donate books, your love of reading is evident. Built your own bookcases, you are quite the human domino Pat. Phenomenal insight and answers!
Well, I didn't build them from scratch! My idea of "building" book cases is that I was able to put them together and they remain standing! I'm definitely not a wood-worker. But I have very vivid memories of buying them, having them arrive, and then wondering, "What on earth am I going to do with these?" And then I set about putting them together, very slowly at first. This old friend of mine just happened to show up in the middle of the production, and she helped immensely. It remains a source of great pride that we were able to accomplish this feat! But that room is still in a state of chaos now. I had an older brother living with me for a while as he was going through a bad divorce, and he lived in that room. He's back out on his own now, but a lot of his stuff is still here, and I haven't really done the work I need to do in there to reclaim the room as a library. One of these days....
I’m really enjoying this tag, Pat. Thank you for doing it and for such great answers. As an inveterate horizontal book stacker, I say solidarity! And you reminded me that I should be looking at my collection and doing some weeding. All the best! ❤️📚
It can be hard to part with books, but the reality of the situation is that I have many books that I will probably never look at again. They might as well be put to some good use, especially since I really don't have the space for them. I'm glad you're enjoying this tag. It was a good one to do.
Three to four bags to your library weekly, plus contributions to your nearby little free library? The bookish folks in your part of town are very lucky!
@@patriciah8579 there is just no more space here. Eventually, I’ll tackle the basement. 😳
The Simak _Worlds Without End_ struck a major (and distant) chord with me. That takes me back to primary school... I'm glad you liked the tag. Almost instantly, within 4-5 videos there are evident differences but also similarities. with warm regards,
Hi Richard. I really enjoyed this tag. I am relatively new to science fiction, but I’ve been trying to catch up by reading a lot of the classics. I’ve loved discovering Clifford D. Simak. Thanks for creating a great tag.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 It's a pleasure.
Wow! You are the local library.👍
@@siobhancondon8109 I’m certainly doing my part to support it! 😉
This was great! I have a few of my childhood books and wish I had more and inherited a few of mum's books too - all very special to me. I agree on film tie-in covers. I adore the vintage style. I collect Agatha Christie ones and I also try to find Penguin black classics and I really like the pale blue Penguin modern classics, too. I am fine having lots of books but they need to be read ones and part of my collection. I don't want too many unread books, something I need to rectify. Great answers to this and I hope you're well ❤
Thanks, Helen. I hope you're doing well, too. I love all of the Penguin Classics--the black ones, the newer Deluxe ones, the old orange ones (I have lots and lots of old orange ones from my college days). I enjoyed putting this one together. It has made me more determined to continue the weeding process and get things in a better state of organization.
@BookChatWithPat8668 Me too. I have a lot to sort out. Little and often, is my mantra.
Yes, exactly!
Love this tag because I have been thinking for some time how much my books need sorting and I am struggling! Great answers Pat. It’s interesting that we’ve just been discussing those Pineiro covers. Thanks for the tag. I shall look forward to this 😊
@@RaynorReadsStuff it’s a good tag. I just have no space at all, and I’ve made a lot of decisions about books I probably won’t read again.
Thank you, Pat. 😊
@@LauraRodriguez-Peace Hi Laura! I hope you’re doing well.
Excellent. Can I pick just five bad covers though? Thanks Pat
You have my vote on that score.
You have so many books--science fiction especially--with the most interesting covers!
Hi Pat, you seem to have a huge number of books. Good think you're starting to give them away. I want to put a Little Free Library in front of my home. I haven't bought the kit yet. I like the book with the painting for a cover!!
@@Eldertalk well, I was an English teacher for 40 years, so books were kind of my business! But yes, I’m downsizing considerably. I’ve done it before. I’m more than overdue. Luckily, my public library takes all that I can give, and we also have free little libraries all over town, which is really great.
@BookChatWithPat8668 You are blessed by all the Little Free Libraries! If I install one, it will be the only one here, though there is one about 30 miles down the river highway. There are also no used bookstores here, or bookstores of any kind. I think you were the kind of English teacher I wish my kids had in high school. You would be surprised what wasn't offered here. I don't remember them having English classes of any kind. As a parent I was shocked that high school education had devolved to that degree in my state, but it is a very small town. California.
Hi Linda. That makes me very sad that your kids didn't have a good experience or much of any experience in English classes. I was very fortunate throughout my career to work in two different schools that were very forward-thinking in terms of curriculum. My first seven years were actually in a wonderful private, Catholic school with the best English Department. I had a brilliant mentor who became my role model as a teacher. Then I spent the next 32 years in an excellent public school system where I eventually became the department leader. We revised and renewed our curriculum constantly and were always encouraged to keep it fresh. The books we wanted to teach went through a review process, of course, but we were given tremendous freedom to revise the curriculum and include not only classics but also the best of contemporary literature too. Our goal was to keep introducing challenging literature that would engage kids and to teach students to read it, to analyze it, to talk about it, and importantly, to write about it. I feel like I was blessed throughout most of my career to do this important work and to feel the respect of the community that acknowledged that we were professionals who "knew our stuff." I do not believe that this is always the case in school systems, and that makes me very sad.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Really, sounds like a wonderful way to spend your life. I got good English classes in the SF Bay Area where I was raised, with lots of reading of classic literature, but I was shocked when I found out my children didn't get anything like that in our local school district in the early 2000's. I read them lots of good literature earlier in their life... Newbery novels, etc.
I can't tell you how sad that makes me to hear that your kids' schools didn't have strong English departments with lots of great literature. I read an article recently that was getting a lot of attention about the fact that many college-aged kids are not readers because they never read whole books in elementary school and high school. They only read excerpts of books. That is very hard for me to imagine, especially after having spent my whole life teaching WHOLE novels and plays to kids. But maybe the schools where I taught were more the exception than the rule. Heartbreaking if that is really the case.
Another question to add to this tag could be: When you buy books now, what percentage of them are just to HAVE the books, and what percentage is to READ the books? 🙂
That might be interesting too. I don’t tend to buy books just to have them, although the Frankenstein edition with the beautiful cover, I suppose, is one I just wanted to have because it’s beautiful, though I have several other editions, which I have read and used for teaching as well.