I Got All These Books For Less Than $5. 

In 2019, I went to New York for the first time to celebrate my 25th birthday and walking around Brooklyn with a friend I found a copy of Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Billy Goldberg and Mark Leyne. I remember I was so excited because it was the first time I found a book left there, alone. I still have it and cherish it so much. Like a gift from New York to me.

My local thrift store sells paperbacks for 33¢ and hard backs for like a 99¢. It’s unhinged and amazing.

i'm about to watch the whoke vid but girl you look criminally stunning today like omg??? lip colour and shirt combo?? GORGEOUS

I used to leave books I'd finished in the Paris subway, hoping someone would be happy to find it. I would love to find a book on the sidewalk, but living in Iceland I don't think it would be safe to leave books outside, since it can rain at any time.... at least I've never seen books out there.

a literal treat everytime she uploads

If you guys ever visit Maine, I feel like you'd love the book selection at Big Chicken Barn Books. The first floor is an antique store and the second floor is a HUGE used bookstore of varied rarities and subjects. I've found some amazing gems there. And yes, the building is an actual old chicken barn.

absolutely in love with your shirt!!

the way i screamed, the gold blouse is STUNNINGGGGG!! always looking forward to a new video from you babes 💕

Great haul! Trust is a phenomenal novel and it also won the Pulitzer. I’m sure you will love it! Love your hair and your top - you look beautiful as always! ☺️

I found Prozac Nation, Into the Wild and the complete short stories of Oscar Wilde in a free book thing by the side of beautiful houses in Yonkers last time I visited nyc 😊

also i am obsessed with you & your account and you are a fashion ICON

W.E.B. Du Bois said his name was pronounced Du as in Sue and Bois with the oi as in voice Trust is funny, I'm not sure I liked it while I was reading it, but now it lives in mind and pops up in weird ways.

Our local church used to have flea markets every other month. I always gravitated towards the smorgasbord of books piled six inches high, one on top of another with only their spines showing and all spread out across six tables. I was in literal heaven (pun). Hiding in a box on the floor between the other books the church deemed inappropriate to sell was my greatest find: a first edition paperback of "Pet Sematary" with its creepy cat cover. Price: $0.25.

I’d love a video on how you choose the books you want to read! I’m French and some of the books you mention i have never heard of (so watching you is one of the ways I find inspiration, thanks for that!). Do you read others’ reviews, just browse in libraries, are influenced by a beautiful book cover?

The film of Trial by Orson Wells is fantastic. Excellent special effects for its time. Effectively feels very confining & haunting.

Funnily enough, I found my copy of Kafka's "The Castle" on the side of the road! Also, at this point I get pretty much all of my books from Goodwill and a used bookstore run by my local library where most books are sold in the range of $1-$2 (and all profits go to the library!) I love book shopping this way because I end up finding really interesting niche books I would never have heard of otherwise.

I haven't read his writing yet but John Hodgeman is comedy gold in the short lived TV series, Bored To Death. Henry And June is a good read. I really like Anais. A life well lived as far as I can tell.

Great haul! A General Theory of Oblivion is one of my favorite books.

I nearly spat out my coffee when you read the Vacationland jacket. :D

I wish Seattle was a city like NYC where people leave books on their front stoop for any who shall want them ❤

AH i recently read a general theory of oblivion, it's such a great read, really beautifully written!

Perfect timing!! I have to do the disheeeeees✨

The book about a man on trial that you read may have been Albert Camus' The Stranger.

Keep us updated on Vacationland!!

Ha… ! 😊 yeah, I’ve found books in nyc a buncha times, here & there. I’ve even left books in places, sorta inconspicuously. The one I remember finding leaning against a subway pillar was Midnight’s Children. I didn’t know a lot of the books you mentioned. The Trial is a great romp that warrants revisiting cuz it’s so rich & puzzlingly mazy.

Off topic but Omg that shirt is stunning!

quick tip for new yorkers: not sure if that’s still a thing but last summer i got SO MANY books for $5 at out of the closet thrift store (a couple of blocks from atlantic terminal) because they had a deal where you’d pay for the bag and put as many books as you could in it for free. and also the profit went to HIV testing so that’s a slay.

I love this but as a native NY'er I would say that the books being left on the street, thrift book etc. tend to be in hipster, transplant heavy, gentrified areas. There's not even one bookstore in walking distance of where I live.

a general theory of oblivion sounds sooo good, immediately added that one to my tbr

The only reason I read one of my favorite novels was because my husband was once assigned it in college, then he never read it, but it somehow stayed in his shelves, and I came along, merged our libraries, and unearthed the lil book hiding beneath barcode stickers and scuff marks. The Grass Dancer by Susan Power! Highly recommend

I loved The Trial, but I read it 40 years ago, and I don't remember a thing. LOL. Read Trust in January and loved it. I didn't know anything about it going in and to see how the 4 parts relate to each other. The others sound fascinating, and some will end up on my TBR.

I'm from London UK and all the books that I thrift are at least £2 idk how people find books for free/worth literal pennies!😭

What a find…Trust! I really enjoyed that one.

I TOO LOVE A DEAL!!! I’m going to adopt your motto 🤝

i have been unfamiliar with archipelago books but happened to pick up my first (kibogo by scholastique mukasonga) at the library yesterday! excited to read ^_^

I have spotify premium and they recently added on 15hrs a month of audiobook listening time for peeps with the premium account and let me tell you it has quadrupled the number of books Ive been able to read 😭😭😭❤️The past couple books have consisted of Motherhood by Sheila Heti, Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober by Catherine Gray, and currently Death Valley by Melissa Broder. ALL!!! INCREDIBLE!!!! Exceptional and stylish content as always!!!!

Eustace Conway has been on the Mountain Men TV series on the History Channel for several years. The Last American Man was really fascinating. He and his crew teach bushcrafting on his land in NC, Turtle Island Preserve, if you ever have the urge to try your hand at that again.

looking gorrrgeous today queen!!

Where I live in Brooklyn , we have roads but no free books? LoL.

Damn, I'm reading the trial right now :O

I saw Fred Ward at a mall in Atlanta in the early 2000s. Had I not recognized him from films, I would have thought he was any other guy at a mall. He was walking and looked very much on his way somewhere. I pretend I'm the only person in that place who knew who he was.

Can't wait for the Lispector taughts Inspector. Let's inspect her together.

I like to give books away for free. I have a small free library in my garden where people can pick out a book for free and take it with them. I always look in other small free libraries to see if there is anything I like. Many people in the Netherlands have such a library in their garden. there are five in my neighborhood. I check them out weekly for new books.

I loved Trust. Enjoy.

I thought I would love trust and I did not! Will be interested to hear your thoughts

What?! You didn't read "Eat Pray Love" ? Shocking. You should get on that one. Great read.

Just put down 'The Trial' 2 minutes ago to watch this video. Have to read it for school.....scary, creepy moment.

Family saga recommendation: “The Buddenbrooks” by Thomas Mann. The rise and fate of an upper middle class German family in late 19th C.

Yet another banger

I love family sagas too! Could you recommend some?

please read Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, a family story, sisterhood and Little Women all over the story

You look gorgeous❤❤❤❤❤

I go to the 14 little free library book boxes regularly❤. Do you have these too? They look like woodwn mailboxes with free books❤

reading Trust right meow

I've read some of Kafka, that being said, I bought a book of Kafka's diaries, and couldnt finish it, mostly because it was the rambling rantings of a lunitic.

7:20 RIP headphone users

thank you for not forgetting about South Dakota :) Do New Yorkers really come here? lol

Hi

I need a tutorial for that hair, stunning!

jsyk du bois pronounced his name “du boys” !

You are Jan from the office

I have the very same top

Welcome back to the only real city 😏😸 Anais Nin has gotten a lot of hate for no good reason, her "sexy" stuff is really not and there is much more to her writing than just that. She is an acquired taste because of her oddball style but hardly an "erotic writer" as we understand the term nowadays. Her and Miller did actually attempt a cockamamie business of writing pornography at one point but it went nowhere. Miller, the Ed Wood of American letters, himself repudiated "erotica" and wrote none of it in his later decades, not even in his infamous love letter collection to the 50 year younger Brenda Venus 😐😼 "The Last American Man," wow, dramatic, I guess it's all over for the other hundreds of millions of us, oh wait a minute hasn't the "last American man" cashed his very pedestrian checks thanks to Gilbert's book? I don't know, not very Grizzly Adams of him 😸😁

I cannot believe you’ve never read trust