Sorting the Shelves & Sorting the Library | July 2023 

Hope we get a little look at the Persephone spare room - sounds like it’s going to be gorgeous Also your taste in furniture (and books obvs) is 👌🏻

Glad you're able to demonstrate so much shelf control. You're an inspiration to us all!

Hi Simon, Love that your resident plant doctor has the problem in his sights. Love watching old blogs of you two, so delightful together 💕

Everytime you do a shelf sort out of the library, I dream of it being an actual library where I can visit and lend books 😍

I'm in total awe of your management of your library!

Just pausing thirty seconds in to say.. that T shirt is absolute VIBES!

Your library/ reading space is so lovely. Inspiration for the future. Reading Kate Mosse this autumn sounds like a great idea!

A wildly overdue event chez moi! Excellent motivation and I’m glad to see someone else with multiple shelving options by category, even if this makes life complicated 💖

oyyy watching this video whilst sitting in my library after 6 weeks away makes me very much realize I need to reorganize my own shelves... I thank you for the inspiration but also ever so lightly damn you

This kind of video just makes me feel warm inside. And also tickles my neurotic bookshelf-organization-persona. That chaise longue is A-mazing!

Joyful to watch! I know that I would sound the same if I had to give voice to my thoughts when shelf sorting🌻

I love the idea about the Kate Mosse readathon.

I have Labyrinth and Sepulchre on the TBR so very much here for a readalong!!

While I think of it …… I luv that book trolley 🤓 & the wall paint colour 👍

Oh my gosh that pink chaise lounge! 😍 what a stunner! 🔥 oh Simon I absolutely loved this vlog, thanks for letting us have a nosey at your shelves! 😁 I adore how organised you are, and very envious. Can you please do another video chatting ideas about how to organise book shelves? I have no order and need help 😅 I have just piles of books 🙈 yes to trolley updates 🙌 x

I. Am. In. Love. With. That. Chaise.

This was a lovely video, the new chaise lounge is so beautiful😍 I would love to see your Persephone book room when it is finished and love the book trolley updates. Thank you❤️📚x

Great video, I love book sorting stuff! And now you really do have The Victorian Chaise - longue! 💕📚📚

Thank you Simon for making me think about my shelves in a new way. I will be spending part of my August reorganizing my shelves and and putting together the titles I would like to read before years end! I love the look of the library. I love a chaise so well done, and the colour is fabulous!❤

This was so fun as usual!

Well this was a pure joy to watch! Very cosy for this very soggy evening in Devon! 🤘🏻

Yes... trolly updates please!

I love your book trolley and would love updates!

O wow, I’ve never seen an overview of your library before. It’s beautiful 😍 And I loved the trilogy of Kate Mosse. Maybe I want to join you for my reread.

I love this type of video!!!! The fastest way for me not to read a book is putting it on a TBR lol

Loved the vlog. Just wanna come into your house and just gaze at all your amazing books and house. I love it, love it love it. Thansk so much for continually inspiring me. Xxxxx❤

There was an interesting podcast episode recently where Taylor Jenkins Reid chats with Elin Hilderbrand. TJR seems delightful.

Oh no! You must read "Mexican Gothic"--it's wonderful!

I really liked this video … thank you for sharing

I'm a big fan of both Kate Mosse and Taylor Jenkins Reid. Would like to see you blog about them just because it's interesting to compare impressions!

This was fun! And loved that you called it a ‘fizzy pop’! Made my heart smile ❤

Absolutely loved watching this 💜

Horse by Geraldine Brooks, one of my favorite reads this year, makes you cry. "Horses, they know too much," good trolley placement with the front of the book showing. Love the green bear. I thoroughly enjoyed your shelf sort. You can channel Madame Recamier.🐎

Finally read "The Essex Serpent" by Perry and loved it! Highly recommend.

I did have a giggle at the misbehaviour on the trolley. I would be overwhelmed if I had so many books to read. I panic if I have more than two waiting. Your crime shelf is a bit little! Mine's bigger than yours!!. LOL Hm White Teeth - read that ages ago. I enjoyed it very much. You have made me want to do a roomaround. I'm exhausted just watching. Gorgeous chaise longue.

love the idea of reading the Persephone books in order but personally i could never do it like that lol I have to know a bit about the book before I'm convinced to read it or be in the mood for it! Lovely video as always Simon!

Loved the vid, loved the shirts ☀️🤌 And your library is looking an absolute dream 🍍

The new chaise lounge is absolutely amazing and looks as though it was meant to go in your library. I fell off my chair laughing when you said “Pray for Simon” before you began. Trolley updates would be excellent. And Miss Buncle’s Book is not only one of my favorite Persephone novels, it started me off on a DE Stevenson obsession.

I love the seating arrangement by the fireplace--I could really go through the books in that cozy spot! I also love the cat figurines on the shelves! Your fireplace looks Victorian--is your house from the Victorian age?

That pink chaise lounge is da bomb! Your library is da bomb! Beautiful! I'm a bit of a frustrated closet librarian (completely untrained and self-taught- a wicked combination), so I'm here for any and all bookish organisation. I weirdly have the Persephone Miss Buncle's Book borrowed from the local library at the moment (from an unusual library browsing moment) would be very keen to hear your thoughts on that one. It's the only Persephone I've ever had in my hot little hands, because the shipping is outrageous to Australia (otherwise they'd be as common, in my home library, as green spine Viragos are). I think that the Miles Franklin winner is a definite Simon book, I think you'll really enjoy it. It starts off cosy and then becomes something a bit more. It's been a very popular novel in Australia, even before it won. I don't want to give too much away better to discover it for yourself. Looking forward to hearing what you think about it. If you want next year's Miles Franklin winner, my feeling is that Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright will be up there with a good chance. It's still on my TBR, but Alexis Wright is an amazing indigenous writer (Nobel Prize level), so I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her to anyone who loves Literary Fiction. I'm hoping to read some of the Booker Longlist so I'm off to reorganise my Trolley in anticipation of that. Happy Reading.

I really like your shirt. ❤

I would love to join in if you do decide to read the Kate Mosse trilogy. I read them a few years ago and have been meaning to reread them. Loving the chaise longue, she's the perfect addition to your library.😊

Love it when I am first to like you video’s 😊😂 silly ? Yes ? But it makes me happy so I don’t care !

« I have the same trolley », she said childishly 😂 I loved the vlog thank you Simon!

Ooh beautiful chaise lounge 😌 Well done for super 📚 sorting 👏🏻 (it was good to see yourshelves 😉) Have you read “Eagle in the Sky”? (Wilbur Smith) - such a well written & emotional book imho that I’ve never forgotten 🙂 I’ve just started “Time Shelter” 👍 & have borrowed from the library “Sepulchre”; I read/enjoyed “Labyrinth” sooo long ago 😬 it’s well overdue that I read its sequel! Recently read/enjoyed “Daisy Jones & The Six” (my 1st by TJR).

I also need to read the books I buy or receive as gift.

Great video, I love your Once upon a time tattoo. What percentage of your library are tbr? x

Love this video concept!

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If you ever need a library assistant, I come cheap. I’d work for lots of tea & a soft boiled egg. ☘️👋🍀📖📚📕☕️🇮🇪💐

I love your library, can’t you move out the books you had as a child to make way for 2024 books?

About to try Going zero. High hopes!

Persephone vlog would be great. You need to get to young Mungo I read it after you mentioned it. Do you ever read fantasy/sci-fi? As a last thought bit of a Segway you recommended a cowboy book can you remember what it was please?

My boss asked me why I didnt response to his text ages ago. I said Simon is having a sort out of his shelves and I simply need to watch right now. Lol❤ ps" he didnt dare ask "who the h*ll is Simon!" 😅

See you have "Godshot". Really good, but you may need to be a Californian to fully understand the scary water situation which can dictate aspects of our lives.

I adore your videos but good grief, I would need to lock myself in a room with a bathroom attached; have food sent in and not speak to anyone for at least a year so I could make a decent dent in all those books. I’m retired and have found that normal life just keeps getting in the way of my reading. All I want to do is read. My family and friends despair of me. How do you find a proper balance?

Ive just finished reading happy head by josh sliver it was a y a it was great But don’t know what to read next have you any recommendations not horny or Sifi or fantasy

Where do folk get these trolleys from

so you are a book-hungry bear... sorry I just had to

After having watched and Enjoyed it all, I hope you do not feel hurt when I say I love the chaise long the best! Not true though got intrigued by the persephone series? Have to Google that.

I'm very excited that you have yet to enjoy The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Such a great read for me! And I would absolutely LOVE to binge on the Kate Mosse books with you! 😁 Commenting on this 2 days in a row as I got really hungry last night and had to pause halfway to eat ha!