Thank you everyone for enjoying this video! If you want more, be sure to check out the one where I actually try to get rid of and organize this chaos! Let me know if you think I succeed! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2aiGUvJ1YNU.html
I know it may not seem significant or meaningful for you, but I have watched your bookshelf tour several times and those are my favorite videos done by booktubers. I'm always on the lookout for new books, older books, series, authors...as I am currently curating my own collection. I would love if you would do more videos maybe taking one genre at a time and detailing your collection, the authors, the bookcovers, your favorites, how you acquired them (what you can recall, lol)... I would watch them alot!
I have to agree, used and worn out books are really one of the best things. Usually they're like that for a reason, which means they have a story you can share with others
Thank you so much for this wonderful library tour! I am so reminded of my own childhood home that was filled with books. Just wonderful!!! Did you tell us what is in the white binders on the bottom shelves?
Those are photo albums! Be sure and check out when we reorganized this space just a month or so after this video was taken, and I think the photo albums are for sure mentioned then. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2aiGUvJ1YNU.htmlsi=Plpt0sLgZConC-XK
I have LOTS of books, on three shelves and two book carts but this takes it to another level. I'm thinking of converting a spare room to look like this. Something you said, resonated with me, " I never had my own. I just got them from the library." I was the same and God Bless the library system, but I think those of us who haunted the library; as kids; always wanted our OWN libraries. I love that the room divider shelves are open. It keeps the entire space from feeling closed off. Also, you are lucky to have had the opportunity to go to book signings, with well known authors. No one ever comes to a town near me. Brigid Kemmerer once came to my state, but not close enough to me.
I made my siblings play "librarian" with me. And guess where I work now in real life?? A library! (Not as a librarian, but still!) And yes, I have been so lucky to meet so many amazing authors!
I AM SO JEALOUS!!!!!!!! And here I am, with my one measly bookshelf... I'm definitely going to use your video to guilt my husband into getting us at least one more bookshelf...
I enjoyed taking a peek at your bookshelves! If I may recommend a book for you to read from your TBR shelf..it would be Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly.
Loving the tour of your books! My picture book shelves are overflowing. So glad to hear you enjoy These Broken Stars series. I wish more people have heard/read the series. Lola and the Boy Next Door is my fav of the three. Even though Lola annoys me the most out of all the heroines of the trio. I wasn't aware Bree Despain is a local author. I enjoyed her books.
I love the stories behind the books - the 2 copies that you and your husband used in class and have marked up differently, will be a treasure for your children. And I laughed at that story of the binding of the Harry Potter copy. Great video!
I only read classics Dostoviesky is my favorite author and others like chejov, proust, Gogol, Emile Zola, Maupassant, Tolestoi, Nobokov, Clarín,Cervantes, Thomas Mann, Kafka, Herman Hess, Balzac, Victor Hugo......
I wish ive read even a fraction of the amount of books you had, ive been working on it though! I really want to get back into reading and try different genres this time 😆
I wish you all the luck! You got this! And remember, it doesn't really matter how MANY books you read, just that you read something and enjoy the journey. 🥰
when I saw those binders my first thought was are they kpop binders? 😭 collecting both kpop and books is expensive but its just soooo much fun like I love matching the pc in my phone case to the book im reading
Wah! I have lots of pcs, but I haven't put them in binders... yet. They just stay with their albums. Can you imagine having that many pcs??? I've never thought of matching a pc to a book! That sounds so intriguing!
@@sueysbookbanter To be fair, I haven't read it since the 9th grade when I fell in love with it and it was the only classic that I enjoyed and read to enjoy. Now with a matured mind, I wonder how I would feel about it.😬
I was so happy to not see any foxing! I lost 80% of my collection (3 Billy bookcases) this yr from foxing. So much empty space that I'm to scared to fill back up! Are the white folders home-schooling files? (My random guess from their names lol) I think your billy's could fit all the toppers/extensions? That would give you 3 more shelves? Your roof looks high enough?
You are right, I am not too old... I truly need to give them another chance. I just remember not really getting into that first one... but maybe now I would!
12:45 - oh no 😭😭😭😭 that must have felt like such a disappointment. I am enjoying Tori the Camera controller's comments too. I love a reading family 😍📚💜
We do our other channel together (well, we used to anyway) and she pushed me to get going on this booktube one, so she will most likely be quite involved here too.
A book aficionado myself, I'm so in awe with your not so little book den. Would really love to see it in real. Its now become my obsession and also therapeutic just watching it!
LOL! I love this therapeutic! I hope you catch the one I just uploaded where I reorganized everything. It stressed me out so much, but video is sort of soothing I think! Let me know!
@@sueysbookbanter can you give tips on how people like me with small bookshelf can accommodate more books? I'm really interested in how the books can be stored and maintained.
I love your bookshelves! I think I have about as many books as you do, but mine are a bit more chaotic. I still have my copy of Mr. Pine's Mixed-Up Signs and I've read it to my daughter now too. My late mom kept all of my childhood books and it was amazing to be able to give my daughter my old book collection.
I truly do love a bit of chaotic-ness with bookshelves. I think it goes with the territory, you know what I mean? And guess what? I FOUND MY MR. PINE BOOK! It was on a different shelf with the old falling apart books! LOL!
@@sueysbookbanter Yay, I'm so glad you found it! And yes, I too enjoy a certain amount of chaos with the books. The most chaotic ones are my 7 year old's books, of course, but my non-fiction shelves are almost as bad. 😂
You felt like your were "too old" for Percy Jackson!?!?!? I love well loved beat up books as long as I'm the one that overly loved it. How do you find a book you are looking for? Do you re-read? Do you have a master list of everything you own?
When I read Percy, I didn't connect with it, and so I assumed it was too "kiddish" for me I guess. I should give it more of a chance, yes? As far as finding books, we are organizing them like a library, so by authors and categories. So it's pretty easy to find stuff if it's where it's supposed to be. Tori is cataloging them into goodreads so that's another way to remember if we actually have a book. But we still have a long way to go with that project. Do I re-read? Yes! But not a ton...
Subscribed!!!! Your video was suggested on my feed and I intended it to be background watch I would like and not comment on...but I can't help it! 2:27 - I LOVE usbourn books! I grew up with them, I bought them for my children and they now publish middlegrade book too! I also clocked the Inkheart Trilogy hardback spines! And Dragon Rider 😍 Your Bookshelves are about the sane ages as my oldest child 😍 And lol to your kids "you'll never fill that" "Watch me!" 😉😆🤣
I cringed when I edited and "heard" myself say that because I often get on a soap box about things we think are for a certain age only... what the heck was I even thinking? So yes, I should totally try them again! Prove myself wrong absolutely!
The first time I started reading Harry Potter I was bored and not connecting with the story. When I returned the book to my father in law he asked how I liked it. I told him it wasn't for me. At this time bk4 was already out. He was a little confused, thinking this series was perfect for my reading tests. He explained some of the magic and friendships that where yet to come if I have the book a second try.Trying the book again with some foreknowledge of how the hp world worked I feel in love with it. I read all four within a month and became a fan who anxiously awaited each of the next big releases.
Fun video. So many YA books I've read. I love that Starbound series (These Broken Stars, etc.) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner. Also loved the Lunar Chronicles series. And the Leviathan books by Scott Westerfeld. I've loved his other books I've read. Also enjoyed Graceling by Kristin Cashore that's on Tori's TBR shelf. I'm reading Bill Bryson's At Home: A Short History of Private Life right now.
The Books of Pellinor series by Alison Croggon is one of my favorites. I still have my collection from my childhood and I'm trying to get my husband to read them.
I haven't actually truly counted, but my daughter has logged many of them into a Goodreads account we just call our library... and she is around 1700 there and has a TON more to log, so we are guessing well over 2000. It's crazy. I keep thinking I'll get rid of some, but I can never manage to do it!
Honestly I have never really cared much wether a book was an award winner. Being an award winning book doesn't automatically make it good. Plus many awards for things like books, movies etc... tend to be decided by a small group of people.
