book shopping in cambridge + 7 book haul
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2024
- it's nice to go visit oxbridge every time i need humbling... come book shopping in cambridge with me + a lil book haul :)
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'C'mon English degree. Serve me!' As an English teacher, I felt that in my soul
As a bookseller, chatting with excited customers is one of my favorite parts of the job!
Thank you for being so kind! 💛
that’s so cool to hear, i spend so much time in bookshops and libraries but always overthink talking to the booksellers/librarians! any tips for striking up a small conversation? :)
@@izzieh7335 Ask us what we're currently reading or what some of our favorites are! I'm currently reading Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, and had a great convo with a customer who had read it and was buying Circe. Some of us are more introverted than others, but most of us are working in bookstores because we love books, and books are often the topic that will bring us out of our shells!
me too!
@@izzieh7335 yes same! I just never want to be annoying, I also don’t know if they actually like books so I hesitate
Really loving this casual content,
it feels like chatting with a friend about their day and of course the books they've gotten
omg this is exactly the vibe i was hoping this channel would have!! you've made my day!!
@@jack_in_the_books AAahhhh!! I got a replyyy finally omg!! And you sir have made my day!!
Btw i cant wait for your podcast/bookclub mixture, sounds like a really good idea
ok jack with all these videos, now you're really spoiling us 🥺
Yeah he is 😊
Samee I’m so happy ♥️
Due to lockdown, it's been ages since I have been to a bookstores. I live for bookstore vlogs😭😭
Can we all agree his videos always provide the happiest comment section
That fact of how much I’m obsessed with “Help Myself” because of you is concerning....I’m not complaining tho
The title of the Hindi Poetry Book 'Kora Ghana Hai' translates to the Fog is Thick. really nice collection of poems
Yesss! I can't believe that he bought a Hindi poem book though 😆😂💗
"You know me, I will chat to anyone" Yes Jack, even the lady in the hummus section
Literally laughed out loud when I saw this comment, touché 😅😂
I have a book recommendation: “Mornings in Jenin”. It deals with the conflict in Palestine and is very eye-opening, but is also a beautiful, moving book that will break your heart. I think it’d be so interesting to review in light of the recent events.
I’ve only heard good things about it 🇵🇸🇵🇸
I second this suggestion! 🇵🇸
Not me going on a Jack videos binge while I'm supposed to be working... Friday funday?
ME😭
What I loved about living in the UK was the endless amount of bookstores, especially charity shop book stores. I absolutely loved them. This video brought back memories 🥰
have you ever considered doing a “bookshelf of my life” like “playlist of my life”? I love your videos so much! x
A playlist of his life would be interesting to watch
Great idea.... that will be something I'll like to watch....
Yes I love that idea! 😀
I literally just finished Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, and it was a rollercoaster, it made me feel so melancholic, but I did find myself rooting for Eleanor and her journey.
When he said "C'mon English degree serve me" I felt that 😂
I literally finished Eleanor Oliphant a few hour ago...you are not ready
I finished it last night and wow, I was not ready
finished it this morning…. not even close to being ready
I'm at uni in Scotland but Cambridge is my home town. This video was just like a hug from home for me.
I absolutely love the haunted bookshop but I really hope you visited the Indigo cafe next door (really lovely place). Thank you for the nostalgia
the peace and energy of exploring bookshops in a town outside your own is simply unmatched 🙌🏽
Every time I go to Cambridge I visit most of those bookshops! And yes, the city is really really beautiful, I absolutely love it.
Hamnet is such a fantastic book. One of the best fiction books I’ve ever read.
Find both of your channels really help me to fall in love again with reading.
Life can get a little difficult, and push you to say goodbye to little joys.
You make me to say hello to a old dear friend.
Thank you
Eleanor Oliphant is such a good book! I especially adored the friendship(s) in that one, but be prepared to be completely destroyed, because omg I was not okay. And Cambridge is beautiful as always 💛
I finished Such A Fun Age literally 15 minutes ago and it was amazing! Really great discussion of race, class, and gender!
Yes!! I read it recently and really enjoyed it
I finished it yesterday!
If you go back to Cambridge, I'd recommend G. David, another bookseller just around the corner from the haunted bookshop - it has very similar vibes, and quite good prices for the most part! (There's also a fabulous antique section that you can drool over)
seeing jack go around a place u live n saying how pretty it is n simply just seeing it from an outsider's perspective is AAAAA
I finished Eleanor Oliphant a couple weeks ago and I wasn’t expecting it to be SO GOOD. It’s definitely a new favorite
gosh your channel brings me so much comfort!!! i always come here whenever i want to feel safe & it’s like i’m just sitting & listening to a friend talk about books it’s veryveryvery comforting & warm & i love it :”-)
i hope one day i’ll find the Uni-verse and Unjaded Jade’s new book in a cute lil book shop🥺🥺
Yes, Eleanor. The good thing is you didn't start reading it in the train. You would have missed your stop! It's so captivating. And so heavy and easy at the same time. The end will knock you out.
Living my Cambridge book shopping dreams vicariously through you, I'm loving it!
My sister went to uni at Cambridge and I used to visit her there multiple times a year and I even lived there for one summer, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful little city I’ve ever visited! The city center is small and cozy, all the old buildings are beautiful and the surrounding “country side” around Cambridge is also so beautiful. There is an apple orchard not too far from Cambridge where you can get scones and tea and it’s such a wonderful place! I really miss Cambridge ❤️
I live just outside Cambridge and it is so so weird seeing you, one of my favourite TH-camrs, exploring Cambridge and going to places that I go to or walk past almost every single day ... So so weird
eleanor oliphant blew me away, the ending damn
yes i loved it
I didn't see it coming at all, and it was funning looking back and seeing all the clues.
i loved the whole book except for the ending! i thought it felt a bit cheap considering how magnificent the rest of the book was
This makes me want to pack my bags and fly to Cambridge. Vibes are immaculate
I can’t believe how cheap books can be there... Here in Brazil the books are getting more and more expensive!
If you can read in English I recommend ordering on book depository, I’m in the same situation where in Switzerland a book costs twice the usual price so I now order new releases online and shop classics secondhand
@@ola0915 I’ve heard about book depository and it seems nice because of the free ship but I never ordered anything there. I bought all my English books on amazon because of a sale where you buy 3 books and the cheapest one is for free.
A couple years ago having fun meant going out with my friends and drinking, now it's putting on my comfiest pj's and watching book hauls on TH-cam then getting the books and reading them. I'm 25 and proud of myself.
Eleanor Oliphant is one of my top fav books! (Along with where the crawdads sing)
I feel so satisfied when Jack recommends or buys a book I’ve read and liked 😌😌
Cambridge is one of my favourite cities, I love it - it's beautiful. I've missed it so much (and the bookstores!) so it was fun to watch this :)
I need to visit Cambridge one day!
Ah! I’ve been loving all your uploads! I have so many books on my tbr because of you 🤣🤣😭 excited to read some of these and see your reviews!
Whooa thanks Jack, really appreciate all of this Jonten you've been spoiling us. I love it ❤️
I need longer videos from you, you are helping me through the pandemic. I'm a healthcare worker and every day after work I binge your videos, sometimes the same one (what can I say, you're funny)
Just wanted to let you know that you're helping this one Pharmacist all the way in India
Me volunteering here to help Jack read "Kohra Ghana Hai" 🙊 ( p.s: Hindi is my native language so )
same ahah
Same here🤭
Same xD go ahead with it Jack, we'll help
same 🙃
@Piyush Gandhi lol yeah I'm currently reading "they both die at the end "
I really recommend ‘The Melting’ by a Belgian writer called Lize Spit! It’s the English translation of her debut novel ‘Het Smelt’. I thought it was a really captivating story and it’s one of my favourite books 🌼
Love this !! I'm currently reading Such A Fun Age and so far, so excellent. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine was one of my favourite books of last year so I hope you enjoy !! Also very pleased to hear that you are also someone who has a natter with everyone you come across, my friends absolutely rib me for it haha
Loved this video and the books! Would love to see you do this for other cities as well! I'm not from the UK and love anything that combines bookish content and little glimpses into new (to me) cities! 😍
this makes me want to visit a bookstore so bad :')
also, it makes me kinda proud that you have a collection of Indian poetry in Hindi ^yayyy^
these are always such cozy, fun videos. the perfect thing to watch as i lay on my floor after revising hahaha
Yayyy more jack!!!
Hamnet has been on my tbr forever! Can’t wait to hear your opinion on it! 🙏🏼
it‘s so great that you always feature poc authors! it helps me a lot to decolonize my bookshelf!!
Hamnet is so gorgeous and wonderful, I bawled my eyes out reading it, hope you'll enjoy it!
Ahh I went to Cambridge with my Dutch high school like two or three years ago. This video made me fall in love with the city all over again! It’s just so cute
i just love how supportive you are of your roomate Adum's music 🥺 he's really great! :)
Some great finds! Really enjoying your vids. Fun to me when someone picks up a book I've read and loved!
Although your taste in books isn't really my cup of tea, I do really enjoy watching your videos. The passion you show for your subject gives me that bit of extra motivation to keep on pursuing my own passion, even when things seam a bit bleak in my head. :)
jack, rn at my place the weather's like it's gonna rain and you just showed me 8 minutes of places filled with books. THE UNIVERSE WANTS ME TO HOARD BOOKS THE LONGING IS KILLING ME
What a dream it would be to visit those bookshops one day!!
you're such a fun person. I love watching your vids!
Just about to finish Such A Fun Age and it’s amazing! Definitely would recommend.
This vlog made me miss going to bookshops more. 😢
Looking forward to a your Hamnet review!!
this got me excited ab a whole new aspect of being a cambridge student omg
you cannot imagine how much I want to go to Cambridge! Thanks for these gorgeous insights!
I just finished Hamnet and WOW. It's an emotional but lovely read - hope you enjoy it x
Jack your aesthetic is ✨exquisite✨
This book shops....! Oh my goodness, that's when the heart of a book lover goes crazy 💓
I live very near Cambridge so this made me happy. The book shops really are *chefs kiss*👌🏻
your gray sweater is so cute!!!
With everything that is happening in India at the moment, I have no idea when I can visit a bookstore again. So watching this video made me happy. I am now interested in Kohra Ghana and as I can read Hindi, I will try to pick it up sometime.
we love the "help myself" intro 😌
Loved ur book haul.. u inspired me well☺️
Eleanor is as great as my year of relaxation 😂 no joke I liked both! Curious to hear your thoughts! I loved visiting Cambridge with you 🧡
Such perfect timing-just finished Julia Whelan’s My Oxford Year, so your blog shots are especially captivating. Also reading Hamnet now. Synchronicity from the weird land of the US.
I love the door stop
Essays on love has been on my reading list for a while now because I noticed a few kpop artists I like reading it. And Eleonor Oliphant was amazing, really glad my friend forced it upon me!
such a fun age and eleanor oliphant are so good!! two of my faves
‘Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine’ IS AMAZING ,!!!!
As a Cambridge English reject this is difficult to watch but I'm here for the Jack content!
This video is great. Thank you Jack 🙏😊
This video really contented my bookish heart!!!!
wow i just finished reading nocturnes and here you are with it, mental😄 it's a really nice collection of stories, i think you're gonna like them
Ohhh everything looks so aesthetic x would love to visit the UK someday!
The amount of times I’ve been to Cambridge and I’ve never even been to half of these places 😭😅 definitely need to make another visit soon! Great video ☺️
*The aesthetic of a bookshop is ---- chefs kiss*
Great timing! I also went to Oxfam bookshop this afternoon
You are going to love Nocturnes!! I read it in my creative writing class and it was so lovely!
Hamnet, Such a Fun Age, and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine are all such wonderful books!
Gotta say, Hamnet is a truly spectacular book. I sobbed through the middle section. It reads very similarly to a Shakespearean tragedy (no surprise there, it's immaculately researched and structured) so you get that wonderful surge of catharsis at the end of the book as well. Can't wait to see what you think of it!
I really like the atmosphere you created with your channel. I feel better after watching your videos. Thank you.
Thank you for taking us along, I’m dying with envy though 😂
I just picked up Hamnet from Morrison’s of all places yesterday and am super excited to read it! Currently most of the way through Such a Fun Age and it is marvellous. And Eleanor Oliphant is 👌🏻
Cambridge looks really beautiful. And such lovely book shops!
highly recommend the antiquarian book shop too !! shame you missed it, they're doing books for like a quid each & have the cutest little basement of books - the entrance is hidden behind a church near king's parade
Absolutely loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. My favourite book of 2020!
I am (fingers crossed) potentially going to uni in Cambridge, at Girton, in October and omg this makes me so excited it is so beautiful!!
Such a fun age was so good and realistic! I can’t wait to hear your review on it!
I’d love to see you do a video where you do judge a book by it’s cover, ie, go shopping for books with beautiful covers and then rating whether they hold up!
Such a fun age is such a good book! I read it last year during the reading rush and couldn‘t put it down. I‘m so excited to hear your thoughts on it!
I really miss those second hand book shop tables when traveling to the UK. Hope I can get back to it soon ❤️