Bookshelf Tour 2018
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2018
- Let me walk you through my fantastic new home library, some of my most treasured books and talk through my tips for an IKEA hack to turn billy bookshelves into ones that look custom made. Click ‘Show More’ for info.
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My 2017 bookshelf tour in my previous apartment:
• Bookshelf Tour
My Beginner’s Guide to Reading Joyce Carol Oates:
• A Beginner’s Guide to ...
Rakesh Satyal’s Lammy Acceptance Speech in the style of Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’
• Rakesh Satyal Goes Gag...
Articles about arranging bookshelves
The Virtues of Shelf-lessness by Sloane Crosley: www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/bo...
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books by Georges Perec:
monumenttotransformation.org/a...
On Bookshelves by Anne F. Garreta:
oulipo.net/fr/on-bookselves
Books & Authors discussed:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
George Eliot
The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
Vladimir Nabokov
Jean Rhys
Difficult Women by David Plante
Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal
The Day Communists Took Over by Isabel Moore
Sex by Madonna
Enough by Eric Karl Anderson
Ontario Review No 66
Ganymede Stories One
From Boys to Men edited by Ted Gideonse and Rob Williams
50 Gay & Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read by Richard Canning
Matchbook Stories Issue 4: www.bookexmachina.com/matchboo...
London by George Wharton Edwards
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
My Day by Jean Rhys
Austerlitz by WG Sebald
The Lost Ones by Samuel Beckett
Somerset House 1971 by Gilbert & George
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Soul at the White Heat by Joyce Carol Oates
The Alice B Toklas Cook Book
The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes for Life, Love & Art
Tequila Mockingbird by Tim Federle
Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi
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Oh man, this just popped up as a recommendation. ‘You never know, the apocalypse could happen’ to read all the books 😅
THIS!!
I am watching this video now and thinking: "Well, the 2020 was surely what he was talking about. Hope he had the chance to read those books" :)
That book dedication from Joyce Carol Oates took my breath away. Wow.
It was such an incredible honour! I'm still reeling.
So glad I found your channel. Adult bookshelf tour at last!!!!
Yes, book tube does seem short on those! 😄
Lol
Your first shelf tour was your best video you have done and you topped yourself with this one! Wonderful. What a joy to see your new shelves and like last time, you did a wonderful job of picking some choice books to spotlight among the many.. the only things missing is a portrait of ME right between Joan and JCO. We will work on that!
Thanks Adam. And I've kept a large section of wall space blank for that portrait of your face ringed by kittens.
You can never have too many books. Thank you for sharing your home library with us. :)
Thanks for watching! 📚
Wow what a glorious library! I love that you bought Billy bookcases and customised them - such a good idea!
Wonderful, Eric! So lovely!
I so enjoyed your tour, and learning the backstory behind some of your favorite items and special books, (especially the London book from your grandfather.) :)
Thank you for sharing!
Your library and shelving are wonderful. When you showed your novel "Enough" I admit I squealed! I danced around saying I have that book! LOL Have to say it is one of my prized books.
Awe, thank you Robin!
Your bookshelves and home are lovely! Thanks for sharing. 😊
Ooooo, I LOVE THIS VIDEO!! I'm all about the home library! I just recently did a video showing my newly remodeled library! I also love to just sit and look at my books.. it's what we do, right?? ☺️Your new shelves are amazing.. I think that a person must arrange to completely suit himself! I'm happy for you to finally have the library you wanted! It's a wonderful feeling! I still need one of those ladders! 😉📚📚📚
Your shelves look amazing what a great job your carpenter has done x
A fantastic book shelf tour Eric! You have many amazing books! But the love I have for this tour, is your history and memories of many of your books!
Thanks Donna!
Yes, Eric, do please do a video of your experiences as a judge of a literary contest. 7:10
SamuelDaram I agree, would love to hear about that too!
Hi Nancy! Let's hope Eric is paying attention to this demand. ;)
You are soo adorable! Love your bookcases, they came out great.
Love your ‘crib’ Eric! Thank for showing us your bookshelves and all the special books you have. I particularly liked the book your Grandfather bought in London which has the lines, ‘By this is not meant that London is being Americanized physically-far from it. Such could not be.’ 😆 I loved hearing all the stories behind the books and how you arrange your home. I’m waiting for my husband to make me book shelves -I might be waiting a while- so at the moment, books are just shoved on small shelves, however, I think when I get them I will arrange alphabetically but keep separate novels, short stories and non fiction to make mood reading easier.
Happy new shelves...or happy new library! I LOVE a bookshelf tour. And what a fabulous job your chippy did fixing them to look built in and your desk - wow. I dream of a ladder too! I didn't know you had written a novel - how interesting. I've hardly written a word in the last year or so but I'm just getting back into my third novel, and I think a break and time spent 'just' reading is immensely valuable. Your Grandfather's books is beautiful. How wonderful when books can connect us through the generations like that. It's a special thing. My grandfather had a wonderful library of his own that I remember from when I was a child but since he's died I've not been able to revisit it as an adult (families, hey!) and see what he enjoyed, which is a real shame. I've no idea if it even still exists. Thank you for sharing this. A great video.
Thanks! So good you're getting back into writing.
I feel like even if we don't have the physical books our grandparents or other relatives had, we can still read the same stories. My grandmother loved Anthony Trollope and now I couldn't read his novels without thinking about her and wondering how she felt about or connected with the story.
Was lovely to have a nosey through your bookshelves so thank you for sharing. I also love your custom shelves ikea hack- they look awesome!
Thanks!
This is great! I'm passing on that floating desk idea to our carpenter. Redoing an office next spring, which will be not as wide as my current office, so that desk is perfect.
And super unique finds! Love that matchbook lit (ha!) and flipbook...
O my what an excellent collection you have!
I had no idea that anybody else had "modified Billy" bookcases! Ours are DIY and (sadly, if unsurprisingly) still unfinished, lacking the planned upper molding which will conceal additional lighting. The shelves themselves and the books upon them have been in place for about 5 years. So far so pretty-good. They seem to withstand the weight of most books, including an exultation of novels, my modest 'collections,' and many musical scores/songbooks, but the multi-volume OED has bowed its shelf. Brilliant idea (or you'd not have thought the same!) but over time it might need a few tweaks if not an upgrade, imo.
Loved hearing about how you organized your books. + I hope the pepper tofu was as good as it sounds!
Amazing library, Eric. Pure pleasure to watch it! Also, a fantastic job done by a person who did your shelving🙂
Thank you!
O m g ! AMAZING BOOKS !!! AND LOVE THE WAY THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE IS INTEGRATED !
It's fun to see another book lover's shelves - and an especial thrill to see you have a number of the same books I treasure. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! 📚
I love, love, love this video. I've been looking forward to it for a long time and I wasn't disappointed. Your new place looks fantastic and the way you had the shelves created is so clever. Your Joyce Carol Oates video was not only the first video of yours that I saw, but my first booktube video. It was my gateway video and I don't regret a thing. Thank you so much for all that you have contributed to the reading community.
Awe, you're making me tear up. Thanks so much, Amy!
"You never know, the apocalypse could happen any day, and I might have to barricade myself in ... and then I can spend day after day doing nothing but reading"
I had a laugh when l heard this too! I’m never going to question this, if anyone were to say it again ;)
Very nice work with these shelves.
Nice! Your book collection must have grown enormously by now ☺️ The hack for the built-in shelves worked beautifully. I used to have a semi-custom made library in my previous life, now I have IKEA, and double rows (front and behind) of books on every shelf… things are getting out of control 🤣 So I am leaning more towards checking books out from the library. I have all books in Spanish on one side, alphabetically, all books in translation alphabetically by country on other side, all professional development books on another side (in no order) and books in English (in no order), newer ones to the front, older ones in the back😊 Love our worlds of books ❤️📚❤️
Thank you and it has! I really need double the shelf space. 😅📚 That sounds like a great set up for your books.
Your new shelves look fabulous! It's brilliant to see how your carpenter was able to transform those Billy shelves. Thanks for sharing the details! :)
Thanks!
Wow!! What a fabulous video. Thanks for all the tips and inspiration. 😊 And yes, PLEASE share more about being a judge for a literary prize. 😜
Gosh, this was so relaxing to watch! I personally arrange my book shelves by genre and mood - books that would make happy “neighbours” to each other. The IKEA tip was wonderful - thank you! And for the quiz, I only managed to spy Joyce Carol Oates and Virginia Woolf.
I love this video so much. Your smile is so contagious!!!
Thank you! 📚
Oh man, these legitimately beautiful. Would love to have floor to ceiling shelves built into the wall one day. Congrats! Nice to see a Sculptor sighting. Love that book 😊
Thanks! A friend gave me Sculptor ages ago and ridiculously I've still not read it. I should have a graphic novel reading binge.
LOVED the living room. Would love to see a video on all your signed editions are stories behind them!
Yeah, I'd like to make a video about that someday. Thanks Jay
Ohhhh😍 This is so lovely, Eric, absolutely gorgeous. What a wonderful room. And such a satisfying video to watch! The effort that went into this did not go unnoticed.
Those Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie books are beautiful.
Once again, this was so great. I cannot wait until I have my own library! (And I want a ladder so bad haha!)
Thanks! It was a tricky time-consuming one to edit.
Ladder lust for readers is real! 😂
I love your apartment and your book collection is truly amazing !😍
Thanks!
Lovely tour! So exciting. And we’ve got Jane Bowles, Susan Sontag, JCO and Virginia Woolf.
I haven't even finished watching yet, I just had to say wow those bookshelves are stunning!! What an excellent idea. I am going to do the same!! I have the wood effect Billy bookcases which I don't like anymore & want the white ones. We've also moved & have an office now, so great timing. Will get a new reading chair too :) Thanks for the solution.
Thank you and glad I could tip you off! Hope it goes well. Of course it's not exactly the same as custom made shelves but it's about one tenth of the price! :)
Thanks for sharing your wonderful books 📚 Wow you have fabulous book shelves, I love the way you customised your billy bookcases. I would love to have my books in alphabetical order however they are all different heights which drives me crazy! My living room shelves are more decorative and I have pretty books which match my colour scheme. You have just reminded me that I need to get floating shelves in my kitchen to display my cook books.
Thanks! It is troublesome trying to get differently sized books all together. Having shelves in the kitchen is great - it reminds me to try new recipes more often.
Omg, what a fabulous book shelf porn video! I loved the shelving idea, the literary gossip, everything: it was just fantastic! I shall be watching this one again anytime I need a bookish pick-me-up.
I have so much I could say that I feel like making a response video! LOL. For now, I’ll just say that I started reading a David Plante novel years ago, for pleasure when I was a grad student, loved the first 10 pages so much, but because of all my academic commitments, never ever got back to it.
Coasters: Jane Bowles, Susan Sontag, Eric Karl-I mean, Joyce Carol Oates, Virginia Woolf.
Thanks Shawn, glad it brightened your day. I've actually not even read Plante's main cycle of novels although I did read American Ghosts and his absolutely beautiful memoir The Pure Lover. But, I don't feel inclined to read much more by him. Difficult Women is hilarious though.
And well done getting all the authors! Full marks!
They look amazing Eric! Well made!
Thanks!
Absolutely loved how you structured this Eric! I wish I had so many signed editions as you too! I am a JCO virgin and I’ll put that to rights very soon and after watching your video of course 👏
Thank you so much. When you get to read Oates please let me know what you think!
This video gave me such a warm, happy, but also hopeful feeling!
It is my dream to move to London and be involved in everything literary and bookish, so hearing your experiences through the books that you chose to share was incredibly inspiring to me!
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Also, I would love to hear your experience as a book prize judge!
Thanks so much! I feel so lucky to be able to live in London and have this space.
Your new library looks wonderful!
Thank you!
Your library looks gorgeous, Eric! Congrats ❤️
Thanks Helene! ☺️
Love it!!!!!
Wow 😮 I’m very impressed with your beautiful shelves and collection 📚such a great video
Thanks!
this video made me smile :) i am a bookworm n love booky vids ! hugs great tour
Thank you!
Wonderful setup Eric, thank you for sharing with us. I like Joan Crawford. I saw the book Educated on your bookshelf. It is wonderful, I hope you enjoy it too if not read yet
Thanks! Educated is a book I've been really wanting to get to since I've heard so many good things from friends and from booktube in general.
To see Aravind Adiga next to Edward Albee on your bookshelf is a joyful thing to see! 4:11 Eric, you have an amazing collection.
Thank you!
What an interesting and well-done bookshelf tour!! :)
Thank you!
Eric, your home library is dreamy!!! I’m looking to purchase some bookshelves for our home in the US so I will definitely keep your ikea hack in mind!
Thank you! And it's a great thing to keep in mind if budgets get tight.
All my books are alphabetized by author in four categories: hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, paper fiction and paper non-fiction. When a shelf gets too crowded then I have to move books down to make room for the new one. Sometimes I think I should stop alphabetizing and just arrange them by order of reading them, but so far I haven't succumbed to that. Oh, and I have a shelf of signed books. Love the way your apartment looks.
Thanks! I know it's such a headache how you have to shift all the books when adding anything new to alphabetized shelves. Sounds like a good system segmenting them like that.
👍@ glimpse of Ben Lerner's novel and the reference to the Huchette
Love the shelves!!! I'll have to have my husband customize them like that thanks for the ikea hack idea! Ok I need those Adichie editions in my life. And when you said Jean Rhys is one of your favorite authors, I got excited because I just read Wide Sargasso Sea in July and loved it and her writing so much that I bought a book that houses all of her novels in one, plus a biography of her life. I would LOVE if you did a repeat of Jean Rhys Week, I would totally participate!!
Thank you and so glad you've discovered a passion for Jean Rhys! Her life and writing career are so fascinating. Although Wide Sargasso Sea is a great book and so fascinating in how she created a dialogue with Jane Eyre, I think I prefer Rhys' earlier novels.
I don't have immediate plans to have another Jean Rhys Reading Week but if you want to catch up on books and issues we talked about I posted a roundup here: lonesomereader.com/blog/2016/9/21/jean-rhys-reading-week-roundup
@@EricKarlAnderson thanks I've seen snippets of other quotes and I have a book with all of her works in it and I think they are chronological so I'm going to read just not sure when was hoping for an event. I have a biography too so im.excited
Oh Eric, I wish that we were friends. So that we could sip some tea while you give me a in personal tour of your amazing bookshelves. LOL However, I live in Alabama, so i'll just re watch this video whenever I want to see some amazingness. I enjoyed it & Happy Reading! You know that you have arrived when an author dedicates a book to you siiigggh. :)
Awe, tea and book chats with you would be lovely.
Thanks for letting us see your bookshelf tour! So for the coasters -- I'm guessing the least well-known would be the one on the left, Jane Bowles. Two Serious Ladies is one of my all-time favorite novels. And then it would be Susan Sontag, JCO, and V. Woolf.
Well done, Matt! You aced that quiz. Two Serious Ladies is extraordinary. I think of that scene of the zealous girl acting out her religious fantasies on another girl so often.
Thank you. This was wonderful.
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Absolutely loved this video, your bookshelves are stunning and there are so many treasures in there! I am actually moving TODAY and am very excited about combining mine and my girlfriend's book collections, haha. In the past I've always organized my books by (sub)genre (literary fiction, dystopian fiction, mystery, commercial fiction, etc) and then alphabetically within those, so we'll see if I keep that system or not ;).
Good luck with the move! It's such a hassle but worth it in the end and exciting to combine book collections with your partner. That does sound like a good system.
Yeah, watching this in 2020 when I've read triple the number of books I'd usually read in a year because basically the apocalypse... 😂
Wow! loved all of this!! I am in awe of your dedication to JCO, I have wondered over the years if there is anyone who has managed to read them all - like have even her publishers/book reviewers? I have my doubts lol. My gateway to JCO was Black Water, a slight novel - or even a novella maybe? Loved the reading experience of it, a girl drowning and the chapters getting shorter and faster, creepy as that sounds. Then afterwards I realised that it was based on a real story and reading up on it (wikipedia) getting so unspeakably angry (at the Kennedy's not JCO). A memorable reading experience and have loved JCO ever since :D
Thanks! I've not read all of JCO's books. Black Water is an incredible novel. It was made into an opera as well!
So many amazing books -- ah, its so beautiful!! haha
Thanks
They look so amazing, he did a really good job. Me, my books are all out in the garden shed (small London house) and I've noticed creeping mold on the ceiling, ulp...
Thanks! Eek, better get that shed water proofed!
Wow Eric Amazing! I am so jealous.. I am afraid you didn't leave much room for new books! Thank you for the tour!
Thanks! I know, I meant to point out that I've already started hiding some books behind others on the shelves. Luckily the bookshelves are fairly deep so I can do that. :)
This is a wonderful video. I especially loved seeing the book dedicated to you. How many books would you estimate that you have?
Great video! Lovely shelves....
Thank you!
Eric, this was such a wonderful video and I am quite jealous - my goal is to have something similar installed one day. Actually, I just ordered two additional Billy bookcases so now I need to figure out how to organize my shelves. I'm thinking alphabetically, but with some exceptions; In theory, I would like to keep my Penguin Classics, Barnes & Noble Classics, and New Your Review Books together; however, that might end up being a big unorganized mess in practice. Also, I do have some nice first edition and signed copies I might keep separate from the rest. Maybe...we shall see. Anyways, always fun to see how other book lovers shelves look like, so thanks again for this inspiring video :-)
Thanks! It is a dilemma. Although I find that however we arrange our books we inevitably end up just knowing where things are whether they are alphabetical or not so I say go with how you find them most aesthetically pleasing. :)
Beautiful bookshelves and what a great collection of books. What a pleasant surprise to discover you like Ionesco, not many do. I should read more by him, especially since I'm Romanian. I'm much more familiar with Emil Cioran and Mircea Eliade, two of his best friends.
Thank you! Those are writers I've not read so I'll look them up.
Love your home and bookshelves! Thank you for making this video. I sometimes dream of a zombie invasion so I can stay at home and read...😝
Thanks! Bring on the zombies! I reckon I can read most of my TBR list before they eat my brain. :)
My favorite among the words I learned last year: Tsundoku ;^)
Adam of mementomori brought me here. Nice book tour
I'm jealous of all that space you've got, and I'm such a snoop, as I love looking at other people's choice of reading, which is why I hate it when people read on electronic devices on public transport, as I can't sneak a look. Unfortunately, I've had to pinch room for my bookshelves, for example one wall of the bedroom is a bookshelf, meaning that things are a bit tight! I built it myself, so it can accommodate all the different sizes. I also built a room divider in the lounge with books on one side, DVDs on the other, but I'd love to have the space to have a proper library.
Re the coaster authors :
The rather Mediterranean background made me think immediately of Jane Bowles, and the next, I'm guessing, is Susan Sontag without the streak of white, then, of course JCO and Virginia Woolf. I adore quizzes, which often (but not always) helps.
Thank you, I know I'm lucky to have so much space - especially in London. That sounds like a great set up. If I were more crafty I would have liked to build shelves myself.
And yes, all those authors are correct. Well done!
Great hack! Thank you :)
Love this vid
Your bookshelves look great! :)
Thanks!
Your house is incredible Eric! You are making me excited to move out and set up my own library! You have also made me really excited to get started on Joyce Carol Oats, I have A Book Of American Martyrs and The Female Of The Species, would you recommend starting one over the other?
Thank you, Rene!
Hmm, depends whether you're in the mood for a long novel or short stories. But I'd say A Book of American Martyrs because then you can get a sense of how good she is at conveying a sense of the passage of time and how ideas filter down through generations. I'd love to know what you think of either book once you get a chance to read them.
Really beautiful!
Thanks!
Best book tour on booktube.
I went phase about collecting autographs
Total of 15.
Only have one bookshelf. Last count I have 300 books. Had to put a lot of books into gray tubes.
Actually helps. Because it comes to a tbr I can't see the books so they don't exist.
Thank you! 📚
Amazing, I have two Billy bookcases filled, one of literary fiction organised chronologically by publication date starting with Goethe, and the other with non-fiction, poetry, sci-fi, and LPs on the bottom.
Nice!
I love this! (:
Would we like you to make a video about your judging experiences and other awkward author encounters? Would we? Come on Eric, you know the answer to that!
Thanks for this video. Love the bookshelf tour and all the stories.
Haha, yeah I guess I knew the answer would be yes. :)
A house-warming gift from _Ali Smith_ ? Consider me jealous. Your shelves are all wonderful.
I know I feel so honoured and she is the sweetest person. Have you ever met her or seen her speak at an event? She's so infectiously wonderful.
No I haven't. I wish! I often dream about encountering her just walking about in Cambridge, or going to the Picturehouse on a Monday afternoon and having her plonk down into the seat beside me.
It could happen!
Looks beautiful. I have a library too!. But its more hodgepodge than your sleek design but I love my office/library. I have a vintage 1926 Royal typewriter that I use.
Thanks! I’d love an old typewriter like that.
I just newly discovered this channel. I really enjoy the content. Although this video was posted a year ago, I would like to try and guess all four women-authors on the coasters: (right to left) Maya Angelou, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oats, and Virginia Wolf.
I think i am i love with you bookself and room💞 ohh yeahh m definetly am😻 and 'The Books' just gave me #goal feeling🌟💜 btw new subscriber here hii😁
I didn’t see anyone guessing the writers on the coaster, so I’ll try. 1. Jean Rhys, 2 she looks to me like Willa Cather, 3. I know to be JCO 😀. 4. I know to be Virginia Woolf. How did do? I just discovered your channel, and I’m glad you did this tour. Whenever you filmed in front of the shelves, I was always looking behind you trying to see what you had, and then I would have to watch again to hear what you were saying. It is for me the most interesting book tour I have seen on TH-cam. Thank you for showing. ~Eileen
Thank you! 📚 And oh you are close but the second one is Jane Bowles.
So jealous of your library. My flat is so small without much storage space.
I know I'm really lucky to have been able to move to a bigger place.
great library eric...i hope you enjoy many an hour there.
Thank you!
Wonderful video Eric. Such an inspiring library. Serious question: do you rent the property or have you bought it? I admire people greatly who spend money freely on a property that they rent. All the best.
You're amazing !
Thank you! ☺️
@@EricKarlAnderson OMG 😮😍
Thoroughly enjoyed going through your books. Alan Hollinghurst is a particular favourite of mine as is Edmund White. Saw you had both. But, if you allow me, I'd like to suggest something. I have lived in Portugal for a long time and have fallen in love with its literature. I am sure you can find loads of names on the internet but my favourites are the classic 19th century writer Eça de Queiroz, the great Nobel prize winner José Saramago and an author from the north of Portugal called Valter Hugo Mãe who wrote a tremendous book called Filho de Mil Homens (Son of a Thousand Men), among others. Sorry, I have tried to find if it's translated into English but I am not sure...
Thank you. I talked in my first bookshelf tour about Edmund White more, but I remember when Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty came out and I saw him in a great event with Colm Toibin.
I'm afraid I've only read José Saramago and love Blindness & All the Names. There's a bookseller at Foyles on Charing Cross Road who has a particular passion for Portuguese lit and makes recommendations for it all the time. I'll look up the authors you mention.
I have never complimented a shelf but daaaaamn your shelves looks great! I don’t think I’ve heard you talk about Jean Rhys? I always suspected you might bring her up. I love her so much. I read Difficult Women last year and I kept having to explain to people that it was not the Roxane gay book, lol. I’ve been meaning to checkout David plante’s fiction.
Thanks! Yeah it's been a couple years since I talked about Rhys but she's a longtime favourite of mine. Such fascinating and a fascinating writing career! I don't think Plante's books are that well known anymore which is a shame. I think I like his memoir The Pure Lover the best.
My dream!!!
Superenvious, that you have a dedication from JCO. Small consolation though, The Selecter dedicated a song to me, when they played here last week. And I believe the authors on the coasters are; Carson McCullers, JCO and Virginia Woolf. I miss out on the second one though. Part of me wanna say Patricia Highsmith or Susann Sontag 🤔
That's cool!
3 of those 5 names are right. :)
@@EricKarlAnderson The one that's wrong is gonna bug me 🐞
I love the way you aproached the bookshelf tour, very interesting! And oh my god, I'd cry every day if my favourite author put my name on the dedication page, you're very lucky :)
Thanks! I know I'm really luck and it's a wonderful thing to be able to go look at that dedication page if I'm feeling blue. A great way to perk up! :)
This library is incredible!
Thank you!
This just came in as a recommendation. Loved it. Can you tell me where I can get JCO's biography? I found one copy but it was astronomically priced.
Thank you! I don't think the biography is in print anymore and I'm hoping Johnson will do an updated version at some point. I do see there are a number of used copies available for a reasonable price on abebooks here: www.abebooks.co.uk if you search for the title Invisible Writer and author Greg Johnson
@@EricKarlAnderson Thank you so much!
@@EricKarlAnderson Hi, I just sent you an email. Hope it reaches you!
Good taste 😘 (no Twilight? Just kidding, of course)
Are these bookshelves made of plywood or laminate wood ????
Hello, I’ve just come across this fab video. I’m thinking of obtaining the billy shelves, do you happen to still have your builder contact? I simply love the way your shelves were customised. Thanks for your time.
Thanks! The carpenter I used was Oliver Stacey and his email is oda.stacey@gmail.com - good luck with your shelves! 📚
@@EricKarlAnderson wow thank you for your prompt response, it’s appreciated. Best regards.
I love your book shelfs are you Swedish by the way I am thinking about your names