Bookshelf Tour 2020 // Classics, Non-fiction & Essays 

Penguin is Dark Academia Oxford is Light Academia 😅😅

same i bought some 80 books in the past 2 months...it's actually out of control

@@sruthi195 you're living my dream life!

That makes me really glad!!!

man that's really one of life simple pleasures right, to be able to merge libraries with someone you love like aw damn

Yes, i like everything about them except the spine, i wish the small pic on the spine be a lil big imo but i feel thats just me.

I don't get why everyone hypes Hemmingway...I read both these books and I just didn't care...truly overrated and boring. I honestly think it might be a name where folk often hype without actually getting it themselves. I LOVED Yates and within a couple of say of starting my first Yates, I had bought all his books. Could be a taste/personal preferance thing.

In the Sun Also Rises Hemmingway mentioned "The Purple Land." I have a signed first edition of that.... and it's the very reason I read Sun Also Rises. It's (Purple Land) is so easy to read, despite being from 1885.

@@amandakate4951 I read 'The old man and the sea' and I loved it, found it so beautifull written - one of the most beautifully, fluently written things I've read, actually. :) - Honestly, not 'phony' :)) Also, while 'overrated' can be something more or less debatable, something can't just BE 'boring', that's strictly preference, yeah. I can't wait to read Yates, only got a glimpse of him and was captivated, but I want to buy a physical book ^^ edit: wait, I'm talking about the poet :))

I am really bad with spelling haha so the name is probably not written well, but you get the gist :)

THIS COMMENT HAS ME. CREASING. so she had it for like 2 years but I did get it back!!!! So I think my brother took it to uni

aw hunny

I have a special place in my heart for A Goodbye to Berlin, but, in my opinion, A Single Man is the best of his work. Just don't touch the movie.

You referring to the Tom Ford movie? I loved it!

@@Onmysheet Ruined the message of the book completely. It's about moving on and realizing that you will love again. George dying at the end of the movie felt completely tone deaf.

@@wormdoodles Never read the novel, so I saw the movie for what it was alone. The colour tone in the cinematography is what I liked about it.

THANK YOU LOVE YOU MISS YOU

Thank you so much for this recommendation I just watched it I am in love

Nooo, it looks horrid - I mean, ok, it's alright for a movie by itself, but the book is fantastic

bookshop.org and hive.co.uk !!!! we try not to give jeff lizard man money in this house!!

@@sarcastic_fish Don't worry the bookshops of Bath get my money, Amazon is purely for the lists x

20th century American literature is so good, probably because that's when America stopped trying to mimic European literature and started doing its own thing. Love me some Shirley Jackson, William S Burroughs, James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, etc. All radically different writers, and all wonderful.

Try an audiobook, there's one on youtube i think. It makes the boring things go faster

@Sabsile T I am not going to quit. I think maybe I got distracted by other books. I read usually five books at the same time. I always enjoy watching the movies based on Austen novels, so I will finish the book I am sure!

I found it very exciting :)) and she's funny, too Did you finish it in the meantime? :D

@@VampireHeart518 Nope! I had it for a year sitting as one of the unread books and I decluttered those. If I ever feel the urge to give it another shot at some point, I will get it from the library. Maybe one has to be in a right type of a mood to appreciate Jane Austen or sadly she might not be for me... I think the modern Jane Austen is Barbara Pym. She is delightful and very witty.

ooooooo good shout, and I haven’t yet!!! I’ve heard positive things tho so I’m looking forward to it

On the shelf in my bedroom!!

@@sarcastic_fish I discovered your RU-vid channel a few weeks ago when I saw your London bookshop tour -- I used to spend my summers in London and spent hours upon hours perusing the bookshops in Bloomsbury and along Charing Cross Road. I miss the city so much. As a fellow bibliophile with at least 10,000 books, your channel clears my skin, waters my crops, feeds my soul. When I was an undergrad (1995-1999), I was an English major because at the university I went to (Princeton), comp lit was hardcore and demanded not only proficiency in at least one foreign language but also coursework to develop proficiency in a second foreign language (and my foreign language skills were lousy). Hence, English for me! Anyway, I finally read Madame Bovary this summer and loved it, and part of the reason I read it was the fact that it was part of the required reading list for all comp lit majors when I was an undergrad. The list has changed dramatically (for example, there's now a whole film sub-list), but you might find the old required reading list from my time there to be interesting: Epic- Homer: The Iliad Homer: The Odyssey Vergil: The Aeneid Dante: The Divine Comedy: Inferno Milton: Paradise Lost Lyric- Sappho: Lyric Poems and Fragments Petrarch: Canzoniere: 1-5, 16, 23, 30, 35, 52, 126, 129, 189-190, 234, 264, 267, 281, 310, 323, 348, 359, 362, and 364-366 Milton: "Lycidas" Keats: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale" Baudelaire: Les fleurs du mal Rilke: Sonnets to Orpheus Yeats: Selected Poems: "The Secret Rose," "Easter 1916," "The Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," "Among School Children," "Byzantium," "Lapus Lazuli," "The Circus Animals' Desertion," "The Tower," "A Dialogue of Self and Soul," and the "Crazy Jane" poems Drama- Aeschylus: The Oresteia Sophocles: Oedipus Rex Euripides: The Bacchae Aristophanes: The Clouds Shakespeare: Hamlet and King Lear Molière: The Misanthrope Büchner: Woyzeck Ibsen: Hedda Gabler Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children Beckett: Waiting for Godot Novel- Cervantes: Don Quixote La Fayette: The Princess of Cleves Brontë: Wuthering Heights Melville: Moby Dick Flaubert: Madame Bovary Dostoevsky: The Idiot Proust: Swann's Way Joyce: Ulysses Woolf: Between the Acts Other- Old Testament: Genesis and Exodus New Testament: Matthew, Acts, Epistle to the Romans, and Revelation Plato: Symposium and Phaedrus Aristotle: The Poetics Augustine: Confessions Swift: Gulliver's Travels Voltaire: Candide Diderot: Rameau's Nephew Goethe: Faust Kafka: The Metamorphosis

this is such a comp lit list i love it thank you!!!!

@@sarcastic_fish Apparently, at Princeton, each comp lit major now basically creates herr own required reading list, which is the basis for the senior departmental exams that all students take before graduating. This link has the full range of choices for each genre, including film. It's pretty interesting and definitely shows that the department has tried to think beyond the Eurocentric canon: complit.princeton.edu/undergraduate-program/current-majors/reading-selection-list

Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood might appeal. My 18th century authorship class when I did my MA compared it to a period equivalent of a Harlequin / Mills and Boone but with much better plotting. It's not quite Gossip Girl but it's a lot of fun.

@@harperbredbere6322 oooh that sounds right up my alley, i'll definitely check it out. thank you so much!!

My English teacher compared 'Brideshead Revisited' to downtown Abbey. So you might like that:)