book haul and unhaul!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Donating my books to make room on my shelves and rewarding myself by buying new ones... :P
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Sending my warmest wishes,
Carolyn Marie
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Just shows you're a real pro: you brought back home less books than you had taken to the library. I have to do some unhauling of my own.🤞
@@bethmcmullan7686 English is my second language. I'm always learning. Thank you.
Yes hahaha quite proud of my *shelf* control :) Best of luck with your own unhauling!
Raise your hand if you don't like the books with the movie tie-in covers ✋️😂
I love the shots of tree tops rolling by. ❤
The Little Women edition is gorgeous! You are very kind in donating your books. Loved the haul too. 😍
It is! Aw thank you :) Hopefully they'll find a new loving home! I'm so glad you enjoyed it
"We're going on an adventure!!"
So refreshing to see fellow book dragons donate books as well and always a joy to find a new tome to bring home. Lovely as always... enjoy your new treasures!
Omgsh Another Country is a wonderful entry! His writing is so raw and gripping yet eloquently told ❤
@@IV-Star_Dust-IVmay i ask you something? how did you feel after you read Giovanni's Room?
"Book dragon"... I love that! Thank you :)
@@jmsl_910 I confess I haven't read it though I want to so badly. It is on my TBR. This one was my first entry for him, but I want to read all of his works. 🖤
Ahhh the little women edition you've is so beautiful 🤓🥺
I like how you're donating books that are in their best condition and always mentioning how the other person will find it ❤❤❤
You're sweet and a very kind person
It is!!
Absolutely
The General in his Labyrinth is such a good book!! It also plays a big role in Looking for Alaska by John Green and in the series they have the exact same edition that you just got! It looks so beautiful
I think it's great that your library does that. I wish the New York Public Library did it. This year I unhauled over 200 books. I realized what I truly want is to only have books I absolutely love, and would read again.
Me too :) Oh wow, that's very impressive! Yes, I completely agree with you on that!
I am really enjoying your videos and get a lot of book reading tips from your collections. God bless and happy reading of you too😊
Libraries are the best ❤
They really are :)
I love picking up secondhand books, I haven't read these but they sound great
Recently I’ve read Tess of the D’Ubervilles by T.Hardy, it reallly shook me. Great book! Currently I’m reading Perfume by P.Suskind. My nose tells me this is going to be a great read as well. Let’s not forget about non-fiction: I recommend anything from Yuval Noah Harari! Man, can his books ground you! Happy reading Carolyn! ❤
Ooo Tess is one of my favorites! Also Perfume... the perfect book for this time of year! Thank you for the recommendation as well :)
Happy reading to you too
Perfume is enrapturing....eloquent and artistic in the way Hannibal Lecter is...beautiful IMO, but disturbing for most. There is another entry as well as a film adaptation!
Lots of love
Its always a good day when there i a new upload on your channel! I have just recently bought everything i know about love and a dowry of blood and have really been curating my own library with a lot of love
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Aw I'm so glad you feel that way :) Ooo such lovely books
anw this kind of vlogs suits you well, Carolyn! i mean you going somewhere and talking about books 🥰 hope you will have more time to do this kind of videos
If you want to listen to blues that go with _If Beale Street Could Talk,_ I highly recommend “Beale Street Blues”, which is the song that the book title comes from. I like the Eartha Kitt performance the best.
Thank you so much for the great recommendation! I'll definitely do that :)
I’ve been loving your channel recently! Thank you so much for your videos! They bring a bit calmness to my life
I'm so glad!! Thank *you* for your kind words and support
I absolutely loved The General in his Labyrinth; a great book; Simón Bolivar is the main character. I never thought I would like it so much and I have read all his works.
extremely loud and incredibly close is one of my fave books of all time!! 🤩 so glad to know that you liked it as well. hope you consider rereading it someday ❤
I highly recommend reading CRANFORD ! It’s such a heartwarming and charming story. With lots of humor. 😍
I really like the music you picked. They sound so soothing and therapeutic. Have a great day! (Thanks for listing the music sources)
I too got your transformation this month and gave away my other edition books to my students 😊
I would love to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez's work. I hear great things from other BookTubers about Marquez. I'd love to read The General in this Labyrinth too, as well as One Hundred Years of Solitude by him. Great video as usual!
those are lovely editions to donate!
Hi Carolyn, love your taste 🫶 I currently battling the 2nd Tom of Chekhov stories, there’s a lot of fun there 😂
I just found James Baldwins Another Country yesterday! It was on a charity book table at my local supermarket. I’m looking forward to reading it (eventually, as I have a stack of tbr’s for the rest of this year already) 😊
omg, The general in his labirynth is one of my favorite Garcia Marquez books. I hope you like it when you read it!!
It made me smile to see you pull the General in his labyrinth from the shelf. It’s a wonderful book. I sent a copy to Emma for her birthday last year, and I tried to find it for her with that beautiful original dust jacket. I couldn’t. But I hope you will both read the novel when you want to. Highly recommend it!
I'm very glad you think so highly of the book :)
thank you for your work! you inspired me to write down some of my thoughts while i read something, thank you so much for it :)
i am a native russian speaker, and what amazes me is how people who read russian literature overlook brothers strugatsky. i guess they just not as popular outside of russia as some other russian writers. i highly recommend you to read their works, especially "hard to be a god", "monday begins at saturday" and "the dead mountaineer's hotel" (i believe it is how they called in english). i hope you enjoy it as much as i did :)
I still want to read If Beale Street Could Talk. I have seen the film, which is stunning. It's sparse and beautiful, and the soundtrack is fantastic. 10 out of 10 and highly recommend.
Thank you for this reminder. I’m currently trying to decide which books to keep and not to keep in my own library as well, it is very difficult, lol. I have also been collecting children’s books for the past 32 years, since my first born. I just love the stories and esp the illustrations. Currently I am reading Letter from New York and Marple.
It is quite the challenge!
Oh i can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the general in his labyrinth
if you are familiar with john green's looking for Alaska, the general in his labyrinth is the female protagonist's fave book. its concept was the central theme of LFA :)
I read If Beale Street Could Talk and absolutely loved it! It's a book of love and rage and typically Baldwin, I think. I'm still on the fence whether I liked Giovanni's Room or this one best, but that alone says enough already :D
Hii, I’m doing okay! I’m currently reading Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes and I recently have been loving, The Starless Sea and Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett, and the dreamland billionaire book series, omg I read the first book only so far and I loved it so much. But yeah there’s a few! I could go on forever about what I’ve been loving lol
Well, hello
That edition of The General is beautiful, but I wouldn't recommend that particular novel. It's probably the only boring book García Márquez wrote. Also, if you don't know already about Simón Bolivar, it can be even worse.
Just finished Never Let Me Go and I’m so heartbroken 💔 I really liked it though
yay james baldwin! those are lovely editions as well, happy reading
That's wonderful! I hope you continue to enjoy Orlando! Happy reading :)
Loved this video! Very fun! I actually just hauled 4 books from my local library's little donation store.
The Prank by L.V Matthews
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
and Flashback by Michael Palmer
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Ooo such wonderful books :)
Hey, loved the video (as usual). I was wondering if you'd do a video on the multiple editions of books you own - just a thought :)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin was really good.
I'm very glad you think so! I'll have to prioritize that one as well :)
@@CarolynMarieReads I highly recommend it too. The Fire Next Time is brilliant and very relevant to our current times.
About Balzac: everything he wrote meant to be Human Comedy and that includes almost all his books. And there is more than 90 titles. He is one of the most important French classic and those books are all connected in a delicate way. Since you have read tha Russians so seriously, maybe it works for you. Of course, nobody I know read all those books, but i think the minimal is 20 and solid 30.
“another country” is such a good novel oh my god. no one does it like james baldwin. i just got “go tell it on the mountain” by him and i can not WAIT to get into it
I'm very glad you think so! Ooo I'll have to check that one out as well! I hope you enjoy it :)
@@CarolynMarieReads can’t wait to see your review of it!!!
Lost Illusions? Great novel, which I'd guess was modeled on the ups and downs of the young Victor Hugo.
Oooh, I would've traded you a box of books for that Dr Zhivago, ... and the Lost Illusions (which I have not seen in my used book stores (5) or multiple library sales for the past 6 years).
I am jealous of your library book store. Ours only has about 10-15 Classics in any given month, and then they are usually only the very well known classics that everyone already owns (eg. Jane Eyre, Jane Austen, popular Dickens).
Aw, yes, they're quite lovely editions :)
I hope you're able to find some classics you're excited about (and don't already own)!
Thank you for this calming video 🙏 I would like to ask you, where your glasses from?
Thank you for watching 😊 My glasses are from Warby Parker (they’re my favorite glasses brand ever)!
CarolynMarieReads, Thanks Much !.......
Loved this! I went to a pop up bookstore that is second hand and got 4 books for £9 so i was soo happy, one of them was the origin of species but an updated version that i knew to be £25 but i got it for £3 so i was rather excited ahah
I'm so glad! Ooo sounds lovely :)
@@CarolynMarieReads thank you!
I travel to Long Island often to visit my mom. Can you tell me where that library is? I'd love to stop in....
You can never go wrong with James Baldwin.
You should do a video about classic books you really enjoyed but also won’t ever reread.
Ooo that's a great idea :)
Is the Marques book connected to the movie The Labyrinth?
I buy multiple editions of Jane Eyre (5-6 currently) and want to do that with Phantom of the Opera too.
I read Giovanni’s Room years ago and loved it too! 5/5⭐️ I always wanted to read more of his work but haven’t yet. AC and IBSCT both sound good. I never realized how short IBSCT was. I put that on hold on Libby. Not sure when I’ll read AC. I know they made IBSCT into a movie though. Are you planning on watching it?
I’m currently reading Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. I’m really liking it. I started it four years ago. Lol But didn’t continue it until this week.
Amazing!!!
Yes, it's such a great read :) Ooo I didn't know it was turned into a movie, but I'll definitely look into watching it!
I'm so glad you're enjoying Picnic at Hanging Rock! I've actually been meaning to read it for quite a while. It's never too late to continue reading a book :)
that Marquez is beautiful!
That's a nice collection! New subscriber. So glad I found your channel. Can relate to several recommendations. Tried writing you a note by email, not sure if it went through.
here favorite is anna karenina
she also really likes never let me go & catcher in the rye
im doing poorly :( i just lot my work today... but there is howls moving castle to keep me safe in my dreans
I hope you feel better very soon! Happy reading :)
“Oh, they have robbed me of the hope, my spirit held so dear; they will not let me hear the voice, my soul delights to hear.
They will not let me see the face, I so delight to see; and they have taken all thy smiles, and all thy love from me.
Well, let them seize on all they can: one treasure still is mine, a heart that loves to think on thee, and feels the worth of thine.” - by Ann Brontë
Ann Brontë was the most surprising find for the year introducing me to her poetry in “Agnes Grey” by having her main character write the poem above, while Ann Brontë is the actual author of it. I searched and searched and finding two more poems I was determined to read all of her poems as any one of those three poems was more beautiful and important to me than all the poems of both her sisters. I would rather all the works of poems of her sisters disappear from the Earth than even one poem of Ann’s be lost. I can say this now that I have read all her poems. Well worth it. A better poet than LRJ who I have quoted in my Facebook feed before and was a personal friend in college. Sorry Lynette, Ann Brontë is the better poet.
“They say such tears as children weep, will soon be dried away, that childish grief however strong is only for a day, and parted friends how dear soe’er will soon forgotten be; it may be so with other hearts, it is not thus with me.” - “an orphan’s lament” by Ann Brontë
“A dreadful darkness closes in, on my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, be tortured yet resigned.
Through all this world of whelming mist, still let me look to thee, and give me courage to resist, the tempter till he flee.
Weary I am - O give me strength, and leave me not to faint; say thou wilt comfort me at length, and pity my complaint.” - “Last Lines” by Ann Brontë
“Mexico” was a good book. It made it on to my top 200 favorite books list, but it did not help Michener gain ground against other great authors. Leo Tolstoy meanwhile with his first two books he ever wrote went up two spots to be my favorite author of all time.
In September, I read some good books: “Bottle of Lies” Katherine Eban; “The Kreutzer Sonata” by Leo Tolstoy “Childhood, Boyhood, Youth” by Leo Tolstoy (three books in a series) but I only add the first two on my favorite books list in one place as they were ranked high and are a series, but I don’t honor the third as at that level; “Mexico” by James A. Michener; "The Vanished Bride" by Bella Ellis (a Brontë Sisters Mystery); “Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart” by Claire Harman, “Summer's End” by Danielle Steel, and “The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte” by Anne Brontë.
Next month I plan to read “The Insulted and Humiliated” by Fyodor Dostoevsky as I wish to give Dostoevsky the chance to pass up Solzhenitsyn.
Ivan Turgenev stated, after reading the first two books of Leo Tolstoy (“Childhood” and “Boyhood”) as that was all he had written at the time, “one day all authors will sit under the shade of Leo Tolstoy.” I must thank Ivan Turgenev for insisting Leo Tolstoy write again on his death bed as that made Leo Tolstoy write my favorite story of all time (“Resurrection”) which in reality of history made Ivan Turgenev no longer my favorite author, though that book I did not read this year, but last year.
FAVORITE AUTHORS
1st) Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection)
2) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
8) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
15) “Childhood, Boyhood” by Leo Tolstoy
59) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
86) "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy
2nd) Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons) seven more books in the top 200 not shown here
4) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev
10) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev
21) "Virgin Soil" by Ivan Turgenev
38) "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev
61) "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev
3rd) James A. Michener (Chesapeake)
11) "Chesapeake" by James A. Michener
12) "Poland" by James A. Michener
33) "Caribbean" by James A. Michener
34) "Hawaii" by James A. Michener
190) “Mexico” by James A. Michener
4th) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich)
9) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
26) "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
41) "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
74) "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an Experiment in Literary Investigation" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5th) Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Idiot)
3) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
18) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
110) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
137) "The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
145) "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Here are future desired reads:
“The Insulted and Humiliated” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The Covenant” by James A. Michener
“Recessional” by James A. Michener
“Kent State: What Happened and Why” by James A. Michener
“Centennial” by James A. Michener
“Dead Souls” by Nikolai Gogol
The 2nd in the series of the Brontë Sisters Mystery called "The Diabolical Bones" by Bella Ellis (I'm really enjoying the three sisters alive, with their brother)
Oh, so I'm not the only person who collects multiple editions of my favorites! I have probably four or five copies of The Hobbit, but my collection of copies of The Iliad is getting ridiculous... at least eight, probably ten. But they're all different translations and I like comparing them!
Ahh, different translations... then it is okay. They are different books then. I, too, collect different translations from ancient Greek and Russian authors. Getting time to read them, well,... one can only hope for more time in the day.
You're definitely not alone in collecting multiple editions :) The Hobbit is such a special book! Ooo The Iliad is also stunning!! Yes, that's why I love collecting different translations of Anna Karenina :) It's so fun!
giovanni's room absolutely left me numb
i'm not sure i can read anymore JB
let us know how it goes
(what was your reaction to GR? did you make a video on it?)
Yesss, it's such an affecting read!
I will :)
I've definitely spoken about GR before, though I'm not sure exactly when or which video(s)
Hey Carolyn! I‘ve recently read „Either/Or“ by Elif Batuman, which is the second part of a series, and am now reading the first part called „The Idiot“. Have you checked out the authors work? Because I think you could enjoy it! Batuman also has a book named „The Possessed“ where she writes about classics and their authors, apparently mostly russian ones.
Love your videos! :)
Ooo I've heard great things about that series, but I haven't read from the author yet! I'll definitely consider checking them out! Thank you for the great recommendation :)
I'm so glad to hear that
I have The Bee Sting by Paul Murray,
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix and Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner on hold.
I should ask if I can donate to the library near me.
Great content . Enjoy the day.
Marquez!
loved the video BUT it´s mArquez not marquEz 😃
Love the video but no Emma lol 😂😂😂😂
I know... it's not to same without her :')
@@CarolynMarieReads you said it and I totally agree with you 100percent love it when you two are together doing videos 🧡🧡🧡
Another Country is gonna wreck you; it’s even more emotional than the rest of his work.
I'm ready for it to wreck me hahaha