“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack” - Virginia Woolf
This was such a nice bookshelf tour only thing I would advise you to do is not to put ur book to tightly together in ur shelves when upright , give them some breathing space so this way the book won’t become old quickly and also just dust ur shelves likes 1 or 2 times a week well that’s just me cause I like to keep books in pristine condition , cause authors n illustrators and publishing companies take time to give us amazing looking books but other than that this was a great bookshelf tour , I watched right through the end n I’m giving u a big book 📚 stack like u asked for n this is the first video of urs I saw.
Was that Seven Gothic Tales on your classics shelf?! I love Dinesen/Blixen and never see her talked about on booktube 😭 Seven Gothic Tales is probably my favourite
What impresses me most in your videos like this is the depth of your sincere love of literature. I am so inspired by you. I love that your books are all for reading and so well loved. Such a variety! So many classics! You have such an education while still so young. I hope you continue to make videos for a long time so we can see how you continue to grow.
It takes a certain level of vulnerability to show your shelves, but to guide us through it is an even greater kindness. The visiting 'star', your cat, cracked me up. I appreciate all you do here. Read On, and continue to grace us all with the authenticity and intelligence and enthusiasm that only you can give us! Peace to your heart.
Oh my god I'm fully aware I'm going to sound like a millennial boomer here, but it's so refreshing to see such a unique spread of books, and not the same YA fantasy and romance books on the same looking IKEA shelves. Bookshelf tours are a comfort watch for me, but they've just gotten so monotonous lately! Your bookshelf feels more like mine, and I relate to it a lot. PS I love your cat.
I was thinking the same 😭.Her bookshelf tour is how I always imagine a persons at home library should be with well loved and read books.This video reminded me why I read and how we have turned reading into a trend and not a truly pure hobby.
I have many old books that have deckled edges. Apparently, you had to cut open the book in days of old, which is why many old books have deckled edges. I have an edition of The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins published in the early 20th century whose first owner clearly had to put some kind of letter knife through each page so that they could read the book. Love it. I get that many people don't like deckled edges because of the feel or the look of them, but they are supposed to resemble old books and I don't mind them.
The Series of Unfortunate Events books at the library I used to live near had them. I hated the edges so much in the beginning, but now every time I see them they remind me of that book series and the times in which I read it, and I can't help but love them :))
Hi Emma, I would like to request that you do another full video on Rilke. You have spoken of this author often, but it would be lovely to have an updated chat on your current collection of Rilke and your guidelines on a list of reading suggestions. Chronologically or by publication . . .
I literally just finished Orlando.... I loved it. I have a hard time "fitting in" anywhere in my life. Like, ever. Or anywhere.... I identified with this book so very much because of that very reason. I can't wait to see what you think about it.
Emmie! Wish you had soseki! I read sanshiro.. also. he is very handsome!! 😓 I'm reading the horn by john clellon Holmes! Feel at holm with beat stuff 😅.... 😖xo it's very coool and stuff 😓 i love you,emmie! 😙😖
I love to see how your bookshelves changed throughout the years❤ I remember that you used to have a section full of different editions of The Phantom of the Opera. Do you still have these?
I was going to ask the same thing! I had some Big Life Events happen and I stepped away from media for a bit. They may have gone into storage for her move but I’ve yet to find and answer while I catch up on videos. Emma please let us know about the Phantom Shrine 😂
Deckled edges are hands down the worst thing a book publisher could possibly do if they want me to purchase their books. There has been countless times where ive had an interest in a book at Chapters, etc and when I notice the deckled edges I immediately put it back. Awful awful awful
Calcifer Superket: Keeping the world safe from two inch alien life forms. Enjoyed seeing the show. Getting to know you through books these past few years has been one of the good points of my life. With luck you'll choose a continuing course of study with which you can continue to grow, particularly if it's in a direction consistent with your personal plans. Take care Emma, and thanks.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is one of my favorite things let alone one of my favorite reads. I don't read much these days so it the story really has to interest me for me to read it. This book I read then listened to dozens of times. I love getting lost in the world she wrote.
hi Emmie! do you know the MBTI personality quiz? It would be cool if you can take the test and share your MBTI with us as well as give recommendations on what you think each personality has on their bookshelves ❤ I'm a new subscriber here and I wanted to recommend you I am The Messenger by Markus Zusak and Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick which are two of my favorite books of all time
please read the winters promise its so good its my favourite book of all time, great world building the best vibe and huge slow burn. my favourite fantasy series.
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake in storage. :( I think you'll really love it- gorgeous language, gothic and gloomy, atmosphere you can cut with a knife. I found the Atlas Six to be both be overhyped, but still good. It wasn't phenomenal or a genre-defining dark academia, but it was fun, and fast, and compelling to read.
I absolutely love your shelves, I hope mine look like that some day! Also I rarely leave comments but I wanted to say that you have been a big source of inspiration for me to pick up reading again, especially after experiencing a deep depression. And it has been such a joy watching your videos. You are a lovely person, and I want to thank you for spreading your love for books on this little corner of the internet. Much love from Portugal and take care!
Hey Emma, your videos are so relaxing to watch. I especially your bookshelf tour content because it has given me so much inspiration to read more and start collecting books. I’ve gotten quite a few books based off of your recommendations and I’m so glad I found your channel. Reading has helped me through some tough times and I’m so happy that I get to see others that love it as much as I do. 🙂
Oooh I hope you love Orlando as much as I did! I love deckled edges, they're so hard to find! Deckled edges, paper texture cover & french flaps is the best combination for me :) 📚
I miss having nice bookshelves. 😞Thought about you the other day, Emma. I was watching Mystery Science Theater 3000--a show where they watch bad movies and make fun of them. They were watching a movie set in Mexico and as the characters were driving through a desolate landscape, the people watching started singing, "100 years of solitude, 100 years of solitude, take one down, pass it around, 99 years of solitude!" I couldn't stop cackling. Hope you are doing well!
Hey, I think you'd like to know - there is a new book by Murakami coming out called Manga Stories 1. It's his short stories in graphic novel form. I'm not sure how new the book is, but it seems, it wasn't published in English before. So, I hope you'll enjoy it!
27:59 Just to say my local library had a display section recently dedicated to Japanese literature and some Murakami was there to get people's interest. When i saw it I thought of you. Right away!
ooh could you flip through one of the manuscript copies in a later vid? I'd love a glimpse of the pages! I didn't know those were a thing but that's so cool.
25:13 Okay so personally I like deckled edges, but it just depends on the book. Example: A Series of Unfortunate Events has them and I think it fits. It’s kind of mysterious and chaotic and honestly a vibe, and I’m here for it. But if Percy Jackson or Secret History had them…I would be more indifferent. I don’t love them but I don’t hate them…just what was the purpose?
I've got quite a collection of old books that have deckled edges. However, I heard that old books are like this because historically, readers had to cut the book open page by page. Personally, I don't mind modern books with deckled edges. I feel that they are supposed to mimic the old book feel- but I do understand why people don't like them, either. Also, I LOVE A Series of Unfortunate Events. Did you watch the Netflix series? Loved it!
Enjoy Fathers and Sons! Turgenev is one those writers who can so vividly create scenes that not only compel one to dive deep into the narrative, but make one feel that they have shared the same experience before, or at least closely. I remember parts from that book often when I go on walks.
For your latin american collection i recommend prohibited to commit suicide in spring by Alejandro Casona. I sadly don't know if it's been officially translated to english, but i read it in a literature course in college and had to get a copy for myself because of how interesting and entertaining it was🥰
My top 10 books 1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. The brothers or Karamazov by Dostoyevski 3. Last night in twisted River by John Irving 4. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 5. Moby dick by Herman melville(only half finished and it's already my favorite) 6. Maniac Magee 7. Bud not buddy 8. Holes 9. A prayer for Owen meany by John Irving 10. -everybody ever written-
I haven't even finished the video, but I just want to thank you so badly! For Ben Howard and your taste in books and music in general. I found a wonderful cover of It's Called: Freefall thanks to your videos and now I came across this song by Ben Howard called Old Pine. It reminds me so much of Fredrik Backman's novels. I think I will re-read happy and cosy chapters from The Winners listening to this song! It truly is like healing! Right now it is raining in my town, and the songs by your favourite artist add so much pleasure to such moments of tranquility and observing the nature Thank you! This is magical!
if you want to read the Witcher do not start with Blood of Elves. I know it says "1" on the spine but there are two short story books that are required reading before blood of elves, those being The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny. IMO you NEED to read these first, or so much of what is going on in Blood of Elves will make absolutely no sense or you just wont care. and, also IMO, the two short story books I just mentioned are the best in the whole series, so you should read them anyway! hope you enjoy them
Seeing big book shelfs always pulls my mind to seeing it collapsing under someone. I have to stop watching home video clips, my intrusive anxieties are getting out of hand.😭
I hate deckled edges. They just feel icky to me 😅 as always great bookshelves. I can only dream to one day have a collection like yours 😍 also the nails were really satisfying to look at although i am personally a short nail girly. One book you mention you haven‘t read yet that is a favourite of mine is Rebecca. i sure hope you get around to reading it soon. I would love to hear your thoughts.
I have a lot of old books that have deckled edges. Apparently, readers had to 'cut open the pages' of their books when they bought them back in the day, which is why many old books have that deckled look to them. I love deckled edges in old books and I don't mind them in new ones. I recently got a very old copy of 'The New Magdalen' by Wilkie Collins which was a 1908 reprint that clearly had to have all the pages painstakingly cut so that the original owner could read the book. Apparently, they couldn't be bothered with the table of contents which is annoying, but I'm too terrified to use a letter knife to separate the page from the other. I do understand why people don't like deckled edges, though, but I don't mind them. They are supposed to resemble old books.
I want a few of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions for my own personal shelves. However, I haven't gotten around to getting them because I have the attention span of a Labrador puppy and get distracted by other books. I heard that the translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables in this edition is really good, not to mention complete, but I am too scared to even look at the book. I've become really picky with my French to English translations ever since I discovered that a popular translation of Notre-Dame de Paris (Hunchback of Notre-Dame) refused to include entire sections of the book due to sexuality and other such taboos.
I dont like funko either, theyre too expensive for what they are and i can never find the one character i want. The only one i ever bought was a keychain that was severely discounted and it did not stand up and fell apart after a few months. Now i cant find the one i want unless i spend more than im willing to pay for on it. I wouldnt care so much if it was more like barbie sized and was an action figure so i didnt have to spend 300 plus dollars on a piece of plastic. But instead its like 30 dollars for a chibi.
That edition of War and Peace ruined the experience for me and I had to give up after 100 pages. Something like 20% of it is left in French to be true to the original work, but unfortunately I don't speak French and having to stop twice every page to read the small footnotes for the translations obliterated the pace. I don't see why it couldn't have just been translated and put in italics. Is it unreasonable to expect a translated work of fiction to be translated in full?
Yeah, it's a translator's choice; personally, I'd say it's a vestige of a past time when many educated people had French as a 2d language. Fortunately there are other translations and it seems you found one that suited you. However, consider the following: When you translate the spoken French written in Russian, do you translate as French to English, or as French to Russian to English; and do you call in a specialist to do that job, or just rely on your 3d language skill?
@@jamesduggan7200 The thing is, it's actually not 'a vestige of a last time', this was a relatively recent translation that breaks from the historical standard. Also obviously you'd translate straight to English as French is a lot closer the English than Russian, it would be far truer to the original language just translating directly.
@@alexjames7144 A new translation? Well, that's interesting. Tho possibly I didn't make my point on the other thing? The characters in the book don't speak and understand perfect French because they're affected Russians, so to truely get the effect of what Tolstoy was writing the translator of Russian English properly would try to find what those characters sounded like in Russian when they tried to spoke French and then render that experience to the reader in English. It's not very important tho. Generally, I agree with you that the translator should assume the readers' French is as bad as their Russian is.
@@jamesduggan7200 Were they not speaking French fluently? I don't remember that being mentioned by the translator as a reason and I have no way of knowing as a non french
@@alexjames7144 well, I speak French. My French is better than some and worse than others. I never use it to impress because my grammar is atrocious, as a fluent speaker would recognize immediately. On the other hand, my comprehension is excellent. So, quickly I can distinguish between a string of fifty cent words and a well thought out expression of digested experience.
“and then there were none” was the first book of christie’s that I read. After that i got hooked onto her stories but sadly none of them really compared to it
📚📚I love the idea of deckled edges but reality not so much. Matilda by Mary Shelley is amazing and beauitfully melancholic. The Name of the Rose is on my tbr as well
Hi Emma. Great vid as always!! A little trivia for you. The man who wrote House of Leaves is the singer Poe's brother. Haven't read that book yet but looking forward to it. Look up Poe. She was big in the nineties and I think you'll like her songs. Hope you and your partner and your family are all well and kisses to Evie and Calcifer!! 🥰🥰🥰🐈🐈🐈🐕🐕🐕🧡🧡🧡 Ps. Reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Highly recommend!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🧡🧡🧡🧡🐛🐛🐛🐛📙📙📙📙
Wow... that was great... I am also a book lover, in fact some of mine go back to the first books I ever bought back in .. 1967 & 68 ! And just continued from there... oh you just mentioned Rebecca: you would absolutely love it. : so gothic, a classic.. a great story.. anyway I really loved your presentation! And I look forward to seeing you again, Al
Also Winterhouse by Ben Guterson (about an orphan living in a hotel), Winterfrost by Michelle Houts, The Ice House by Monica Sherwood, and The Woods in Winter by Stella Gibbons
“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack” - Virginia Woolf
Goodwill is the place for gently used / second hand books as well as thrift stores.
Posetivity. And books. Lots of them. All over the place. God bless you.
This was such a nice bookshelf tour only thing I would advise you to do is not to put ur book to tightly together in ur shelves when upright , give them some breathing space so this way the book won’t become old quickly and also just dust ur shelves likes 1 or 2 times a week well that’s just me cause I like to keep books in pristine condition , cause authors n illustrators and publishing companies take time to give us amazing looking books but other than that this was a great bookshelf tour , I watched right through the end n I’m giving u a big book 📚 stack like u asked for n this is the first video of urs I saw.
Was that Seven Gothic Tales on your classics shelf?! I love Dinesen/Blixen and never see her talked about on booktube 😭 Seven Gothic Tales is probably my favourite
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Your bookshelf tours always leave me with a mix of peace, happyness and envy so let's go! 😂😂😂
Gods have answered my prayers
exactly my toughts
@@sziakonyv 🙌
Gods?
What impresses me most in your videos like this is the depth of your sincere love of literature. I am so inspired by you. I love that your books are all for reading and so well loved. Such a variety! So many classics! You have such an education while still so young. I hope you continue to make videos for a long time so we can see how you continue to grow.
There is something so satisfying about that shelf of penguin classics - it's just giving me dark academia vibes 🖤
It takes a certain level of vulnerability to show your shelves, but to guide us through it is an even greater kindness. The visiting 'star', your cat, cracked me up. I appreciate all you do here. Read On, and continue to grace us all with the authenticity and intelligence and enthusiasm that only you can give us! Peace to your heart.
Oh my god I'm fully aware I'm going to sound like a millennial boomer here, but it's so refreshing to see such a unique spread of books, and not the same YA fantasy and romance books on the same looking IKEA shelves. Bookshelf tours are a comfort watch for me, but they've just gotten so monotonous lately! Your bookshelf feels more like mine, and I relate to it a lot. PS I love your cat.
I was thinking the same 😭.Her bookshelf tour is how I always imagine a persons at home library should be with well loved and read books.This video reminded me why I read and how we have turned reading into a trend and not a truly pure hobby.
Your copy of War and Peace looks like a bowl of fruity pebbles.
Love it! Thank you for the tour ❤
missing the phantom of the opera shelf😭🫶
I love deckled edges! They make it hard to flip through pages with your thumbs but I still love the aesthetic of them.
I have many old books that have deckled edges. Apparently, you had to cut open the book in days of old, which is why many old books have deckled edges. I have an edition of The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins published in the early 20th century whose first owner clearly had to put some kind of letter knife through each page so that they could read the book.
Love it. I get that many people don't like deckled edges because of the feel or the look of them, but they are supposed to resemble old books and I don't mind them.
The Series of Unfortunate Events books at the library I used to live near had them. I hated the edges so much in the beginning, but now every time I see them they remind me of that book series and the times in which I read it, and I can't help but love them :))
Wow, what an impressive collection! Thanks for sharing this tour with us! 📚❤
Your bookshelf tours are always so soothing and calming! And they always make me want to rearrange my books too! Hope you have a great day! 📚📚
I've been waiting for a bookshelf tour bless you Emma ❤️
Emma this video is literally like crack cocaine for us you don’t get it
Oooh, please let us know when you are going to start Moby Dick! It is on my tbr and would love to finally read it alongside you!
Hi Emma, I would like to request that you do another full video on Rilke. You have spoken of this author often, but it would be lovely to have an updated chat on your current collection of Rilke and your guidelines on a list of reading suggestions. Chronologically or by publication . . .
Always incredibly happy to watch a bookshelf tour 💕📚
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I literally just finished Orlando.... I loved it. I have a hard time "fitting in" anywhere in my life. Like, ever. Or anywhere.... I identified with this book so very much because of that very reason. I can't wait to see what you think about it.
Emmie! Wish you had soseki! I read sanshiro.. also. he is very handsome!! 😓 I'm reading the horn by john clellon Holmes! Feel at holm with beat stuff 😅.... 😖xo it's very coool and stuff 😓 i love you,emmie! 😙😖
“This miserable font” I’m 100% adopting that when I don’t like a font.
I love to see how your bookshelves changed throughout the years❤ I remember that you used to have a section full of different editions of The Phantom of the Opera. Do you still have these?
I was going to ask the same thing! I had some Big Life Events happen and I stepped away from media for a bit. They may have gone into storage for her move but I’ve yet to find and answer while I catch up on videos. Emma please let us know about the Phantom Shrine 😂
Deckled edges are hands down the worst thing a book publisher could possibly do if they want me to purchase their books. There has been countless times where ive had an interest in a book at Chapters, etc and when I notice the deckled edges I immediately put it back. Awful awful awful
Deckled pages make me feel like the pages are stuck together. Am I skipping something? Check the page numbers. Get frustrated... Rinse, repeat.
Can someone pls answer this: I have a lot of books just like her but I haven’t read majority of them yet… is that normal? 😢
i can't wait to have a collection like yours once i move out. it's so beautiful and i'm so jealous
Beautiful collection 😍 you should have your own library like Jack
I am glad I found your channel, (most of my books are sadly also in storage).
Calcifer Superket: Keeping the world safe from two inch alien life forms. Enjoyed seeing the show. Getting to know you through books these past few years has been one of the good points of my life. With luck you'll choose a continuing course of study with which you can continue to grow, particularly if it's in a direction consistent with your personal plans. Take care Emma, and thanks.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is one of my favorite things let alone one of my favorite reads. I don't read much these days so it the story really has to interest me for me to read it. This book I read then listened to dozens of times. I love getting lost in the world she wrote.
Thank you so much for posting this, this was so fun to watch :) also a bit random but where are your rings from?? I'm obsessed!!
hi Emmie! do you know the MBTI personality quiz? It would be cool if you can take the test and share your MBTI with us as well as give recommendations on what you think each personality has on their bookshelves ❤ I'm a new subscriber here and I wanted to recommend you I am The Messenger by Markus Zusak and Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick which are two of my favorite books of all time
please read the winters promise its so good its my favourite book of all time, great world building the best vibe and huge slow burn. my favourite fantasy series.
Omg 🎉 I was just watching your old bookself today afternoon and then you decided to upload another one .Emma you made my day 🤗
as an indonesian, beauty is a wound is a must read :))
Please read Open Water! It’s one of my favorite books of all time and I would love to hear your thoughts on the melodic writing and heavy themes
your bookshelf tours are such comfort videos for me! my fav part each time is you complaining about arcturus editions haha
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake in storage. :( I think you'll really love it- gorgeous language, gothic and gloomy, atmosphere you can cut with a knife.
I found the Atlas Six to be both be overhyped, but still good. It wasn't phenomenal or a genre-defining dark academia, but it was fun, and fast, and compelling to read.
Titus groan is amazing
I absolutely love your shelves, I hope mine look like that some day! Also I rarely leave comments but I wanted to say that you have been a big source of inspiration for me to pick up reading again, especially after experiencing a deep depression. And it has been such a joy watching your videos. You are a lovely person, and I want to thank you for spreading your love for books on this little corner of the internet. Much love from Portugal and take care!
Whoa, I’m also portuguese and recovering from a depression in the company of books & Emma. how special is that ❤️
@@maria.rioperes Sending you big hugs 💛
I feel very alone in loving deckled edges😅
I must have a dirty mind, but when you said "my big Dickens collection" I lost it. 😅
That's okay, as likely Charles himself would have chuckled over it too.
The most waited video! Loved it! Thank you, Emma, you made my day! 💖📚✨
So happy you did this! Ill have so many books to look up by the end!
Hi Emmie,
I've read pretty much all of the books from your Christmas book shelf, and "Winter's Promise" is by far the best! Please, read it!!
Hey Emma, your videos are so relaxing to watch. I especially your bookshelf tour content because it has given me so much inspiration to read more and start collecting books. I’ve gotten quite a few books based off of your recommendations and I’m so glad I found your channel. Reading has helped me through some tough times and I’m so happy that I get to see others that love it as much as I do. 🙂
Oooh I hope you love Orlando as much as I did!
I love deckled edges, they're so hard to find! Deckled edges, paper texture cover & french flaps is the best combination for me :) 📚
I miss having nice bookshelves. 😞Thought about you the other day, Emma. I was watching Mystery Science Theater 3000--a show where they watch bad movies and make fun of them. They were watching a movie set in Mexico and as the characters were driving through a desolate landscape, the people watching started singing, "100 years of solitude, 100 years of solitude, take one down, pass it around, 99 years of solitude!" I couldn't stop cackling. Hope you are doing well!
oohh i read the exact same version of the master and margarita, soo soo gorgeous 🥺
Hey, I think you'd like to know - there is a new book by Murakami coming out called Manga Stories 1. It's his short stories in graphic novel form. I'm not sure how new the book is, but it seems, it wasn't published in English before. So, I hope you'll enjoy it!
those poor snails 😆
27:59 Just to say my local library had a display section recently dedicated to Japanese literature and some Murakami was there to get people's interest. When i saw it I thought of you. Right away!
ooh could you flip through one of the manuscript copies in a later vid? I'd love a glimpse of the pages! I didn't know those were a thing but that's so cool.
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Okay so personally I like deckled edges, but it just depends on the book.
Example: A Series of Unfortunate Events has them and I think it fits. It’s kind of mysterious and chaotic and honestly a vibe, and I’m here for it.
But if Percy Jackson or Secret History had them…I would be more indifferent. I don’t love them but I don’t hate them…just what was the purpose?
I've got quite a collection of old books that have deckled edges. However, I heard that old books are like this because historically, readers had to cut the book open page by page. Personally, I don't mind modern books with deckled edges. I feel that they are supposed to mimic the old book feel- but I do understand why people don't like them, either.
Also, I LOVE A Series of Unfortunate Events. Did you watch the Netflix series? Loved it!
Enjoy Fathers and Sons! Turgenev is one those writers who can so vividly create scenes that not only compel one to dive deep into the narrative, but make one feel that they have shared the same experience before, or at least closely. I remember parts from that book often when I go on walks.
oh lemme snuggle in
For your latin american collection i recommend prohibited to commit suicide in spring by Alejandro Casona. I sadly don't know if it's been officially translated to english, but i read it in a literature course in college and had to get a copy for myself because of how interesting and entertaining it was🥰
Fun tour! I'd recommend Rebecca!
finally!!!!!! updated bookshelf tour!
My top 10 books
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The brothers or Karamazov by Dostoyevski
3. Last night in twisted River by John Irving
4. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
5. Moby dick by Herman melville(only half finished and it's already my favorite)
6. Maniac Magee
7. Bud not buddy
8. Holes
9. A prayer for Owen meany by John Irving
10. -everybody ever written-
I haven't even finished the video, but I just want to thank you so badly! For Ben Howard and your taste in books and music in general. I found a wonderful cover of It's Called: Freefall thanks to your videos and now I came across this song by Ben Howard called Old Pine. It reminds me so much of Fredrik Backman's novels. I think I will re-read happy and cosy chapters from The Winners listening to this song! It truly is like healing! Right now it is raining in my town, and the songs by your favourite artist add so much pleasure to such moments of tranquility and observing the nature
Thank you! This is magical!
Please do a Haruki Murakami video. 🥹
This was sooo satisfying💓 I can't wait for an unhaul someday, I still love the one from a year ago
if you want to read the Witcher do not start with Blood of Elves. I know it says "1" on the spine but there are two short story books that are required reading before blood of elves, those being The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny. IMO you NEED to read these first, or so much of what is going on in Blood of Elves will make absolutely no sense or you just wont care. and, also IMO, the two short story books I just mentioned are the best in the whole series, so you should read them anyway! hope you enjoy them
Seeing big book shelfs always pulls my mind to seeing it collapsing under someone. I have to stop watching home video clips, my intrusive anxieties are getting out of hand.😭
📚📚 love this and I am really jealous of your edition of The Book of Disquiet!
I hate deckled edges. They just feel icky to me 😅 as always great bookshelves. I can only dream to one day have a collection like yours 😍 also the nails were really satisfying to look at although i am personally a short nail girly. One book you mention you haven‘t read yet that is a favourite of mine is Rebecca. i sure hope you get around to reading it soon. I would love to hear your thoughts.
I have a lot of old books that have deckled edges. Apparently, readers had to 'cut open the pages' of their books when they bought them back in the day, which is why many old books have that deckled look to them. I love deckled edges in old books and I don't mind them in new ones. I recently got a very old copy of 'The New Magdalen' by Wilkie Collins which was a 1908 reprint that clearly had to have all the pages painstakingly cut so that the original owner could read the book. Apparently, they couldn't be bothered with the table of contents which is annoying, but I'm too terrified to use a letter knife to separate the page from the other.
I do understand why people don't like deckled edges, though, but I don't mind them. They are supposed to resemble old books.
📚 looking forward to your opinion of "Bunny". I quite enjoyed it. Merci pour le tour guidé. Intéressant comme toujours. 🐌 🐈
I collect the Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions and like the quality. The covers are all so weird and unique too.
I want a few of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions for my own personal shelves. However, I haven't gotten around to getting them because I have the attention span of a Labrador puppy and get distracted by other books. I heard that the translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables in this edition is really good, not to mention complete, but I am too scared to even look at the book. I've become really picky with my French to English translations ever since I discovered that a popular translation of Notre-Dame de Paris (Hunchback of Notre-Dame) refused to include entire sections of the book due to sexuality and other such taboos.
Omg, my prayers have been answered, thank you, Emma!!!
Great video, btw is one of those weird/unusual book recommendations videos coming in the near future please? 😇📚
I dont like funko either, theyre too expensive for what they are and i can never find the one character i want. The only one i ever bought was a keychain that was severely discounted and it did not stand up and fell apart after a few months. Now i cant find the one i want unless i spend more than im willing to pay for on it. I wouldnt care so much if it was more like barbie sized and was an action figure so i didnt have to spend 300 plus dollars on a piece of plastic. But instead its like 30 dollars for a chibi.
I have 600+ read books that you're not going to read again. You have a small fortune there.
i hope you read The Tunnel soon, actually because I completely disliked it... i hope i will hear your opinion soon c:
This is my favourite type of videos ever😍 thanks for the update Emmie! ❤
That edition of War and Peace ruined the experience for me and I had to give up after 100 pages.
Something like 20% of it is left in French to be true to the original work, but unfortunately I don't speak French and having to stop twice every page to read the small footnotes for the translations obliterated the pace. I don't see why it couldn't have just been translated and put in italics. Is it unreasonable to expect a translated work of fiction to be translated in full?
Yeah, it's a translator's choice; personally, I'd say it's a vestige of a past time when many educated people had French as a 2d language. Fortunately there are other translations and it seems you found one that suited you. However, consider the following: When you translate the spoken French written in Russian, do you translate as French to English, or as French to Russian to English; and do you call in a specialist to do that job, or just rely on your 3d language skill?
@@jamesduggan7200 The thing is, it's actually not 'a vestige of a last time', this was a relatively recent translation that breaks from the historical standard.
Also obviously you'd translate straight to English as French is a lot closer the English than Russian, it would be far truer to the original language just translating directly.
@@alexjames7144 A new translation? Well, that's interesting. Tho possibly I didn't make my point on the other thing? The characters in the book don't speak and understand perfect French because they're affected Russians, so to truely get the effect of what Tolstoy was writing the translator of Russian English properly would try to find what those characters sounded like in Russian when they tried to spoke French and then render that experience to the reader in English. It's not very important tho. Generally, I agree with you that the translator should assume the readers' French is as bad as their Russian is.
@@jamesduggan7200 Were they not speaking French fluently? I don't remember that being mentioned by the translator as a reason and I have no way of knowing as a non french
@@alexjames7144 well, I speak French. My French is better than some and worse than others. I never use it to impress because my grammar is atrocious, as a fluent speaker would recognize immediately. On the other hand, my comprehension is excellent. So, quickly I can distinguish between a string of fifty cent words and a well thought out expression of digested experience.
“and then there were none” was the first book of christie’s that I read. After that i got hooked onto her stories but sadly none of them really compared to it
I love watching your videos but I have to say those nails are distracting😕
i always look forward to the annual emmie bookshelf tour
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"can you hear the nightbird call"? no, but i hear a sweet kitty voice
Does anyone know which translation of The Count of Monte Cristo is best to read?
for a winter book your should read East by Edith Pattou if i can find it at the bookstore today i will send it!!
It was ironic when you said you should make an amsr with those nails when your videos as are, are already literally asmr
I know you hated those nails but they were really suit on you❤
Suicide postponed!!!❤
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📚📚I love the idea of deckled edges but reality not so much.
Matilda by Mary Shelley is amazing and beauitfully melancholic.
The Name of the Rose is on my tbr as well
I love the way you discuss books! 📚
I’m sorry, its RilkE not RilkA 🙈😙
There's No Science Book in There Like The Origin Of Species By Darwin, Cosmos By Sagan, The Science Delusion By Sheldrake And Son On....
You have to read Red Rising !!!
I Think Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Is Wonderfully Brilliant❤🎉
Hi Emma. Great vid as always!! A little trivia for you. The man who wrote House of Leaves is the singer Poe's brother. Haven't read that book yet but looking forward to it. Look up Poe. She was big in the nineties and I think you'll like her songs. Hope you and your partner and your family are all well and kisses to Evie and Calcifer!! 🥰🥰🥰🐈🐈🐈🐕🐕🐕🧡🧡🧡 Ps. Reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Highly recommend!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🧡🧡🧡🧡🐛🐛🐛🐛📙📙📙📙
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Emma Read Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra its All Wisdom.
Wow... that was great... I am also a book lover, in fact some of mine go back to the first books I ever bought back in .. 1967 & 68 ! And just continued from there... oh you just mentioned Rebecca: you would absolutely love it. : so gothic, a classic.. a great story.. anyway I really loved your presentation! And I look forward to seeing you again, Al
Also Winterhouse by Ben Guterson (about an orphan living in a hotel), Winterfrost by Michelle Houts, The Ice House by Monica Sherwood, and The Woods in Winter by Stella Gibbons
read the remains of the day pleasse