Ah, so many books in one video! I loved this video, made me want to pop onto book depository and buy a crateful, so I could have all my books for the year sorted, like you do!
Neverwhere and The Giver are great books. There's a series with The Giver. The next book is called Gathering Blue, then Messenger, which is finally ended with Son. All of them are great!!!
I'm at a lost for words. I'm so happy I found your channel. I've been looking for good books to read for about a year now. I always end up stumbling upon some good ones, but more so, not so good ones. Thank you for letting us see your Library!
@orangejeepgirl9328 It was for my BA in English Lit & Culture and I wrote about The Lady of Shalott and compared 'Song of the Sparrow' and 'Avalon High'. I mainly looked at the way the poem was incorporated in the books and the different ways the author's had interpreted it.
They were in the cupboard under the stairs. (No but really, they were in one of the compartments of my bed and I forgot to show them. I own the entire series in English and Dutch).
@jolikeshedgehogs Hahaha of course I do! But I completely forgot to show them. They're in a different cabinet above my bed. I own all of them in Dutch and English (and I have two French versions)
@AlecsandriaM Haha the books above my bed are the only ones that aren't really organized. Whenever I finish one it will move from there to my actual bookshelf.
I have a public library tab open alongside this one; i am searching and placing holds on the books I think are interesting. When they come in I will need to pull my over-sized book bag to get them home.
I spotted Beginning Theory by Peter Barry on the college shelf! He's one of my professors at Aberystwyth University. Seriously, that book was a godsend!
I really loved this. You have a lot books and I always find books incredibly interesting. I like snooping through people's books and media shelves and you took me on a tour of yours.
The old book that you pull out at 6:50, I have a book with a similar cover - I don't even know what it is but I bought it because of the inscription on the inside cover "from mother and father, Xmas 1914" - I was just amazed by the times that the book has lived through!
The Giver trilogy is amazing! One of my favorite ones:) it's so amazing and has a lot of very interesting concepts. I read it as a child and reread it and it was so different..
I love your bookshelves! We have such similar taste - but yours are all layed out nicely - mine are all piled up so I can never find the one I'm looking for. It's really cool that you're going to read Dracula soon - I finished it recently, it's awesome! Your videos always make me ahppy - thanks for shaing!
@ParaKimmyMore She does. If you saw her previous bookshelf tour video, you would see that she keeps her english and dutch copies of Harry Potter behind those blue cupboards.
I loved Eragon and Eldest but about half way through Brisingr I felt a bit bored of it... I'm going to have to read it and see if the break was enough to get back into it... also have Inheritance. Which of course I haven't read yet since i need to finish Brisingr first. I wish I had all your shelves! I would have more books! My to read list is huge!.
I love your books. I had to read A Marble Fawn for class too and I unfortunately don't think I finished it now that I'm thinking about it. Read Canterbury Tales in high school English...kind of want to reread it. Sherlock Homes is now on my (ever growing) to read list because I just finished watching the BBC version.
I love the vintage edition books!!! I always try and get vintage. I just bought To Kill a Mockingbird last weekend but they didn't have the vintage edition, but I still think I got a nice edition!
You have got some of my favourite books. So glad to see someone with a copy of maddigans fantasia by Margaret Mahy ( tv series maddigans quest is brilliant). The last books looked like they were Graceling and Fire, also great books.
So, it may seem really weird the amount of times I've watched this video, but I think I find something oddly soothing and still interesting about it. I really hope that you make an updated one soon! :)
Sometimes I get this need to reread books, but the amount of new and unread ones on my selves discourages me from rereading. Sometimes I fear that this will go on forever, because lately (on a large acount because of you!) I have become obsessed with buying new books. So thanks for mentioning the Book Depository, so much cheaper than any other side! :) - Chubsie
I appreciate your organization system. I've started watching Katytastic and I apprecaite her enthusiasm for books, but I would be afraid to touch anything if my shelves looked like they came straight from the bookstore.
@yearofbeingbrilliant I haven't read a Dutch YA book in quite a while, but I might do one one my favorite Dutch childhood books (which includes a lot of YA, even though that genre didn't exist yet back then).
@philophos Not really, but sometimes it happens. I can't stop in the middle of a Sherlock story, so I'll usually keep reading until I get to the end of a chapter.
You have "The book of disquiet"? Now I really love you! I'm portuguese, so it's really good to see that you've got something from a portuguese author to read. And it's such an incredibly amazing book!
I feel so understood when you mentioned you "bookshelf of shame - well not really"! I have one too :) And the "not really"-part is so important, as I like those books more than I would admit to anyone :-D
@jullachris90 The only anthology I own is the one in my video (the Norton one). There are different volumes (with 2000 super thin pages each) and they have lotttttts of poetry, but also essays and info on authors etc. Maybe if you already know which poet/time period you like, you could start searching for a collection based on that. And yes, of course you can count them in the challenge :)
Oh ok, thanks for your reply I've only recently found your videos but I really enjoy them and you seem like a lovely girl! I had to read the great gatsby in school yrs ago and it felt like a chore so hopefully ill enjoy it more this time. I have a bit of an obsession with flapper/20's style (theDiviners,GreatGatsby) lately so that's why I picked that edition. Keep up the great vids xxx
You have quite a few books that I own, and books that I would like to read. I organize my bookshelves like a bookstore; so by genre and then by author. Which sometimes put a tiny book beside a large book, and that annoys my symmetry focused mind.
You're like me - so many books still unread, but we love them so we keep buying more! Now I have kids it is even harder to find time to read... So I listen to vlogs while I clean out their toys :)
Hi, remarkable library, indeed, but I haven't seen any Italian book! I suggest you for example Buzzati (the tartar Steppe , not sure about the english title), Pavese (anything), Calvino (The Baron on the trees), Fenoglio (A private affair)... in their books they describe mostly the post-war scenario, but they wrote such great books!
It encourages me that other people have collections of books that they haven't read. Sometimes I get over-whelmed by the unfinished/unstarted books on my shelf and just read my favourites over and over and over again.
Did you like 'The Book of Disquiet'? I have yet to dig in to it. The cover and everything looked so amazing that I bought it then and there in the book shop! (usually am cheap and amazon things)
This might sound extremely childish but I would recommend to try Cherub. It's quite a fast pace book series.If you read the Alex Ryder series, you would love the Cherub series. Also, try the Percy Jackson series.If it wasn't for these two series,I would have never started reading.
I just saw that one of your great ideas books was Utopia. I just finished my module on early modern utopian writing for university and I highly recommend the book. But I think the reading experience would be really helped if you had some background knowledge on humanism and Thomas More's life. It's kind of a tough book to get through, not exactly light reading. But it really does deal with some interesting questions, made even more fascinating in the context of early modern philosophy.
Love this vid! halfway through sherlock holmes too, but i find a lot harder to read old fashioned books even if they're really amusing - eg Jeeves. Have you read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli? The Phantom Tollboth by Norton Juster? Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card? Summer land orThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon? ...yeah I could go on....
Most of Austen's novels are also in my "to-read" bookshelf, as are Neverwhere and 1984 (same editions as yours :P) . I've read The Glass Books of the Dream Eathers a couple of years ago and I really liked it. I loved the setting and characters in it. I have seen the movie of Never Let Me Go and I really want to read the book, but I haven't found a cheap enough edition yet. And... I also have the Twilight series in my Shelf of Shame :P
Have you read Into the Wild yet? I watched the movie and was ABSOLUTELY in love with the story. Wow. So tell me, have you read it since this video? hm hm?
Ah, so many books in one video! I loved this video, made me want to pop onto book depository and buy a crateful, so I could have all my books for the year sorted, like you do!
Neverwhere and The Giver are great books. There's a series with The Giver. The next book is called Gathering Blue, then Messenger, which is finally ended with Son. All of them are great!!!
@wintersfire Yes, I'm a pretty big fan of that show. It's kind of the reason I wanted to read Sherlock Holmes in the first place.
I'm at a lost for words. I'm so happy I found your channel. I've been looking for good books to read for about a year now. I always end up stumbling upon some good ones, but more so, not so good ones. Thank you for letting us see your Library!
In love with your copy of Will Grayson Will Grayson
Never Let Me Go and Shades of Grey are two of my favourite books! You will definitely enjoy them!
I'm now rewatching this, just because I think your books are awesome!
I love Vintage! such a fabulous publishing house!
I can't remember how much of it I've read, but I did really enjoy the story. It's one of those really tragic books (which I'm a big fan of).
Your "to read" shelf has SO many books I love. I'm just sitting here getting so excited for you to read them.
Slaughterhouse Five! It's been sitting on my desk for a while now. I'm very excited to read it!
Oh how I love bookshelf collections! I love it.
@orangejeepgirl9328 It was for my BA in English Lit & Culture and I wrote about The Lady of Shalott and compared 'Song of the Sparrow' and 'Avalon High'. I mainly looked at the way the poem was incorporated in the books and the different ways the author's had interpreted it.
They were in the cupboard under the stairs. (No but really, they were in one of the compartments of my bed and I forgot to show them. I own the entire series in English and Dutch).
@jolikeshedgehogs Hahaha of course I do! But I completely forgot to show them. They're in a different cabinet above my bed. I own all of them in Dutch and English (and I have two French versions)
I'm impressed by your selection of books. Makes a change from bookshelves full of YA novels.
@AlecsandriaM Haha the books above my bed are the only ones that aren't really organized. Whenever I finish one it will move from there to my actual bookshelf.
I have a public library tab open alongside this one; i am searching and placing holds on the books I think are interesting. When they come in I will need to pull my over-sized book bag to get them home.
@Mistsuki Well the Twilight books are English and the Artemis Fowl ones are Dutch, so I'm sure they won't talk to each other anyway.
I spotted Beginning Theory by Peter Barry on the college shelf! He's one of my professors at Aberystwyth University. Seriously, that book was a godsend!
I really loved this. You have a lot books and I always find books incredibly interesting. I like snooping through people's books and media shelves and you took me on a tour of yours.
I haven't yet!
@charlieisazombie Yup, the second option. Or maybe I'll just add them all when I'm bored one day.
OMG your penguin classics collection. I love the design of the penguin books so much.
The old book that you pull out at 6:50, I have a book with a similar cover - I don't even know what it is but I bought it because of the inscription on the inside cover "from mother and father, Xmas 1914" - I was just amazed by the times that the book has lived through!
Your book collection is one of the greatest I have ever seen!
@nicoleloves27 I wasn't a big fan when I read it for the first time (about two years ago), but I'm willing to try it again.
You have some lovely books, and some fantastic classics!
I usually have a read and unread section and then it goes by color/series or just the way it looks good.
I wish you could have spend some more time on your classic shelf, but it was a cool tour. Nice books!
The Giver trilogy is amazing! One of my favorite ones:) it's so amazing and has a lot of very interesting concepts. I read it as a child and reread it and it was so different..
The Shiver Trilogy is so good. I loved it.
Yup!
Finally, I found this video. I was dying to see your bookshelf. x
Ehmmm, yeah I guess. I had to buy all of them for uni. My favorite is probably the Romantic Period, so I would recommend that one :)
I love your bookshelves! We have such similar taste - but yours are all layed out nicely - mine are all piled up so I can never find the one I'm looking for. It's really cool that you're going to read Dracula soon - I finished it recently, it's awesome! Your videos always make me ahppy - thanks for shaing!
I have the same Old and Middle English Anthology. I'm using it right now. Yay.
@ParaKimmyMore She does. If you saw her previous bookshelf tour video, you would see that she keeps her english and dutch copies of Harry Potter behind those blue cupboards.
@Yvaia bookdepository has NO shipping costs. And I also buy a lot of books at bookstores.
I loved Eragon and Eldest but about half way through Brisingr I felt a bit bored of it... I'm going to have to read it and see if the break was enough to get back into it... also have Inheritance. Which of course I haven't read yet since i need to finish Brisingr first.
I wish I had all your shelves! I would have more books! My to read list is huge!.
I love your books. I had to read A Marble Fawn for class too and I unfortunately don't think I finished it now that I'm thinking about it. Read Canterbury Tales in high school English...kind of want to reread it. Sherlock Homes is now on my (ever growing) to read list because I just finished watching the BBC version.
Drooling. SO MANY BOOKS! I want them all.
I love your collection of books! The organization is really lovely and you have great taste :) x
I love the vintage edition books!!! I always try and get vintage. I just bought To Kill a Mockingbird last weekend but they didn't have the vintage edition, but I still think I got a nice edition!
You have the most beautiful copies of books!
You have got some of my favourite books. So glad to see someone with a copy of maddigans fantasia by Margaret Mahy ( tv series maddigans quest is brilliant). The last books looked like they were Graceling and Fire, also great books.
Great bookshelf tour! You have a lot of books! :) Love your book collection and your videos
@NatalieZenaLouise Not really, but I don't think I have a system. It's kind of based on size, color, series, preference.
I love that you have a variety of books (from classics, to twilight!). What a great collection :)
You have a lot of favorite childhood books.
@MidnightThief15 Avalon High, Song of the Sparrow and The Lady of Shalott.
I'm going to Amsterdam on an exchange program in April. Maybe I'll get to see you!
You can go thebookdepository and look for Alice's Adventures. It will be the the second search result if you scroll down a bit.
I have! And I also have an interview with Ruta up on my channel if you want to check it out.
So, it may seem really weird the amount of times I've watched this video, but I think I find something oddly soothing and still interesting about it. I really hope that you make an updated one soon! :)
a series of unfortunate events one of the best seires i have ever read.
I have a tiny green Penguin edition of some short stories.
Sometimes I get this need to reread books, but the amount of new and unread ones on my selves discourages me from rereading. Sometimes I fear that this will go on forever, because lately (on a large acount because of you!) I have become obsessed with buying new books. So thanks for mentioning the Book Depository, so much cheaper than any other side! :)
- Chubsie
I appreciate your organization system. I've started watching Katytastic and I apprecaite her enthusiasm for books, but I would be afraid to touch anything if my shelves looked like they came straight from the bookstore.
@yearofbeingbrilliant I haven't read a Dutch YA book in quite a while, but I might do one one my favorite Dutch childhood books (which includes a lot of YA, even though that genre didn't exist yet back then).
Yeah, the TFIOS one was for my MA in Translation :)
i like your teapot and flower box's. Nice collection mines very small
the giver is really good i read at school last year. i didn't get time to finish it. another book you might like is wind singer
@philophos Not really, but sometimes it happens. I can't stop in the middle of a Sherlock story, so I'll usually keep reading until I get to the end of a chapter.
You have "The book of disquiet"? Now I really love you! I'm portuguese, so it's really good to see that you've got something from a portuguese author to read. And it's such an incredibly amazing book!
If you are still interested in Bryan Talbot, his Adventures of Luther Arkwright is mind-blowing and his Grandville series is amazing!!
I feel so understood when you mentioned you "bookshelf of shame - well not really"! I have one too :) And the "not really"-part is so important, as I like those books more than I would admit to anyone :-D
The BBC has an amazing tv series adaptation of Sherlock!! Follows the stories fairly accurately~
@jullachris90 The only anthology I own is the one in my video (the Norton one). There are different volumes (with 2000 super thin pages each) and they have lotttttts of poetry, but also essays and info on authors etc. Maybe if you already know which poet/time period you like, you could start searching for a collection based on that. And yes, of course you can count them in the challenge :)
@TheRHExperience Haha awesome :D let me know if you missed any titles!
& I love the Vintage Editions too!
Oh ok, thanks for your reply I've only recently found your videos but I really enjoy them and you seem like a lovely girl! I had to read the great gatsby in school yrs ago and it felt like a chore so hopefully ill enjoy it more this time. I have a bit of an obsession with flapper/20's style (theDiviners,GreatGatsby) lately so that's why I picked that edition. Keep up the great vids xxx
You have quite a few books that I own, and books that I would like to read. I organize my bookshelves like a bookstore; so by genre and then by author. Which sometimes put a tiny book beside a large book, and that annoys my symmetry focused mind.
You're like me - so many books still unread, but we love them so we keep buying more! Now I have kids it is even harder to find time to read... So I listen to vlogs while I clean out their toys :)
You need to read the Wake series! It's absolutely amazing.
Hi, remarkable library, indeed, but I haven't seen any Italian book! I suggest you for example Buzzati (the tartar Steppe , not sure about the english title), Pavese (anything), Calvino (The Baron on the trees), Fenoglio (A private affair)... in their books they describe mostly the post-war scenario, but they wrote such great books!
I haven't read it yet! But I've heard so many good things :)
It encourages me that other people have collections of books that they haven't read. Sometimes I get over-whelmed by the unfinished/unstarted books on my shelf and just read my favourites over and over and over again.
Did you like 'The Book of Disquiet'? I have yet to dig in to it. The cover and everything looked so amazing that I bought it then and there in the book shop! (usually am cheap and amazon things)
Oh Norton Anthologies... I've got those on my shelf as well from a British Lit class.
I've only read the first part (and I really didn't like it). There should be a review up somewhere on my channel :)
This might sound extremely childish but I would recommend to try Cherub. It's quite a fast pace book series.If you read the Alex Ryder series, you would love the Cherub series.
Also, try the Percy Jackson series.If it wasn't for these two series,I would have never started reading.
You should read ' The Six Bullerby Children' by Astrid Lindgren. It's actually a children's book but it's one of the best books I have ever read!
the giver is a book i just finished today it was amazing and i did love it
I just saw that one of your great ideas books was Utopia. I just finished my module on early modern utopian writing for university and I highly recommend the book. But I think the reading experience would be really helped if you had some background knowledge on humanism and Thomas More's life. It's kind of a tough book to get through, not exactly light reading. But it really does deal with some interesting questions, made even more fascinating in the context of early modern philosophy.
Brisingr is my favorite from the Inheritance series. You should read it soon! I've just started the last one :)
Love this vid! halfway through sherlock holmes too, but i find a lot harder to read old fashioned books even if they're really amusing - eg Jeeves. Have you read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli? The Phantom Tollboth by Norton Juster? Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card? Summer land orThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon? ...yeah I could go on....
I have that Norton anthology too! We just started the Victorian Age in my class :)
@alexisrivard I got it a second hand bookstore. Maybe you can find it online.
The "Fowl" in Artemis Fowl is pronounced like "foul". I'm Irish, so I grew up living around most of Eoin Colfer's books.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles is my favourite book. Beyond belief.
Love your room! VA 4ever
Most of Austen's novels are also in my "to-read" bookshelf, as are Neverwhere and 1984 (same editions as yours :P) . I've read The Glass Books of the Dream Eathers a couple of years ago and I really liked it. I loved the setting and characters in it. I have seen the movie of Never Let Me Go and I really want to read the book, but I haven't found a cheap enough edition yet. And... I also have the Twilight series in my Shelf of Shame :P
heat wave ! haha yeah i own it too, i feel embarrassed sometimes but i love castle.
Sanne, you have an awesome bookshelf!! -Luke
Have you read Into the Wild yet? I watched the movie and was ABSOLUTELY in love with the story. Wow.
So tell me, have you read it since this video? hm hm?
They were hiding in a drawer and I forgot to show them!
Please show that enormous Shakespeare you have. I'm looking for a new collected works; been thinking of buying the RSC edition.
Kinderen van Moeder Aarde!! I love Thea Beckman! I read and own ten of her books (two trilogies and four individual works)
Rebel Angels! Have you read the first one- A Great and Terrible Beauty- yet? I read all three, they are good. all i'm saying.