My sisters and I first discovered Alcott when we were at a secondhand shop so my parents could shop for furniture and my older sister started reading an old copy of Little Women while we waited. The lady who owned the store said that any girl her age who was interested in Alcott deserved her own set and so she GAVE them to us. Thats the same set we all read (it’s a blue set with the original woodcut illustrations) and we are forever indebted! Shout-out to the kind woman at Yesterday’s Treasures in Manchester Connecticut.
Yes! I have a video coming about habits to bring back in community, and this is one! I'm planning a Christmas evening for our co-op moms wherein we'll read aloud A Christmas Carol! I can't wait.
Love this! And my 11y old said, ‘I love to watch tours like this.’ And then proceeded to organize her personal bookshelf. I’ll have to post it in Common House haha ❤
My friend who is also my neighbour is Swedish and he always teases me (in good humour of course) about saying I (eye) kea and says that it is actually the pronunciation that you mentioned about being on the advertisements. Greetings from a future Catholic Classical Charlotte Mason educator from the land down under(Australia)! PS: I also majored in History at uni ☺️💐
I loved this! I greatly enjoy hearing people talk about their collections and seeing beautiful old books. There’s a library sale this weekend near me and now I’m even more excited. Library sales are great adventures! Can’t wait for the rest of these videos 👏🏻
Will have to watch after work stuff. But just as an opening comment, YAY, BOOK CABINETS WITH DOORS! I don't usually dream of particular house items. But if I ever found a full time job again, keeping my books from dust would be a #1 priority for me.
I agree! When we decided to get more shelves, I really wanted some doors. This set from Ikea has been great and we've also added an antique cabinet with glass doors and are hoping to find a barrister soon on FB Marketplace!
Thank you for making me feel like my book collecting (that's a polite way of saying obsession) is completely normal. 😂 **As an aside, I am thrilled to see Ikea put glass doors on their book cabinets! More places should do this since good books really need that extra protection.
Very curious if the Charlotte Mason arithmetic series made the cut in your curriculum overhaul for this year! Are you and your students still loving these, or did you go with something else? Really enjoyed your library tour video and look forward to more! 😁
@@thecommonplacehomeschool Can I ask a practical questions? What does your re-shelving process look like in your home? I'm thinking mainly books kids have taken out. Do they know how to put all the books back and where? Do you have a "to be re-shelved" location in your home where they put books and you re-shelve? Thanks!
Swooning, what beautiful shelves! Do you ever buy anthologies like Harvard Classics or Great Books? Our library has a set of Harvard Classics at a great price but trying to decide if they’re worth the shelf space in our tiny house or to just buy some of the works individually.
I haven't because I prefer individual copies of books but if I came across a beautiful set in good condition at a decent price, I'd definitely consider it. You never know in what form you might need those!
I always wish you lived by me when I watch these!😊 How have your older books done with your kids reading them? I have been building a library for 10+ years and found that my beautiful older hardbound books have not held up to my kids’ use, even when I’ve tried so hard to store them well and use good care habits. I’ve had to replace several “beautiful” books with basic new editions so my kids can actually read them. I finally just stopped trying to buy old ones. (Maybe that just means it’s less competition for people like you, ha!)
I think we'd have a great hang, Abby! This is a great question and something I should probably mention in one of these. So, I do keep certain treasures where the kids can't reach them if a book is very hard to find or really expensive. (I only have a handful for which I'm that protective.) Otherwise, the kids do pretty well with the books and I've wondered if it's because they've always been here. The kids have two cases upstairs that house most of their library, so that's still where they spend most of their time pulling/reshelving/hanging off bunks reading upside down. I include children's classics on those shelves but not the finer quality ones, which I keep downstairs on the black shelves. Basically, if I'm not willing to keep an eye on it, I have to be willing to let it be "damaged" a bit. My oldest helps me dust the shelves each week, so she's really good about book care from that chore. My youngest is the only danger risk but he can only reach the bottom two shelves at this point so we're still working on "gentle" and "bookmark, don't dog-ear" while he grows taller. Ha!
YAy! been waiting for this video for years haha! :-D Love this video, love you and your content and work (your loves haha) Autumn! Also had a laugh out loud at your husband's response to your Christmas book request ha! Looking forward to more in this series and the rest! Steph :-)
Oooo Autumn! A note on etiquette: I once attended a dinner that was meant to teach the guests etiquette around meals, especially related to job interviews and business dining. The leader was asked “what do you do if you see another person break this or that rule?” She said “You must NEVER publicly point out the mistakes of others. That is the pillar of all etiquette. We ALWAYS save face.” So according to the rules of etiquette, the worst thing someone could do would be to expose another to ridicule for breaking the rules of etiquette. That’s a kind and thoughtful set of rules if you ask me! It occurred to me that, although etiquette has been used as a tool for exclusion, the fact that “saving face” has remained so important speaks to a beautiful desire of the human heart. The desire to include, to have everyone know the rules of the game and then have everyone play the game TOGETHER…it’s really wonderful is it not? We never expose another to ridicule. We always save face. And if we teach the rules of etiquette to others, rather than locking them in an ivory tower, we get to share more joy and celebration with others. Here’s to etiquette and hand-written everything 🥹🥰🙌
This has little to do with what you said, but I'm one of those people who use my forefinger to push the last remaining bits of food onto my fork. I always announce that my mother did not teach me to do that. I guess that it is the etiquette of saving face for someone! (She really does disapprove of that habit.)
@@mutahmarriagecounselor2272 😂 I have caught myself reminding my children “we don’t stick our hands in the serving bowl” many times… only to stick my hand in the serving bowl 5 seconds later 👀🙃😆
One time I was chatting with someone and mentioned a literary fun fact but referenced the wrong author. I later realized my error and went back to correct myself. She sweetly said, "I knew who you meant." And I said "You should have corrected me!" To which she replied that they have a family rule to not do so as it kills the conversation and isn't very humble. That stuck with me and made me think quite fondly of her.
@@RosieJ7223 I really loved your note. Is this not the heartbeat for all the goodness we gift our children? That they may bless and love others humbly and well? Thank you for this happy thought!
Thought I could watch this while folding laundry, but I'm having to pause every couple seconds to jot down book recommendations or look things up on eBay 😅
I loved every minute of this video! Thank you so much for taking the time to make it. I look forward to the next one! I have a question about the St. Nicholas Magazine that you mentioned and linked. I couldn't really tell from the website; what ages do you think this is best for? I have a 12-year-old, and I am wondering if it is too young for him. Many thanks!
A few years ago I finally decided to actually make a separate account in my homemakers fund ( envelope style) for books; with subcategories for treasures/ collectibles.
Let’s make home library tours and adult read-a-louds a normal thing 😄 This video was just pure fun and I loved it. Just finished The Last Battle and Narnia for the very first time 🥹 Immediately dove into “The Narnian” Lewis biography by Alan Jacobs and I’m loving it!
Thank you so much for this tour! The stories about your acquisitions were fun to hear. Not that you need another one to chase but I was curious if you have The Book of Cowboys in your HCH collection?
Someone else asked me this but I thought they were joking about Book of Indians needing a cowboy version too. I didn’t realise HCH had one but now that you mention it, it sounds like a good one to nab for our Bookmas celebrations. (We gift 12 days of books to each child through Christmastide!)
I don't know if it's collected anywhere but I do know Karen Glass has worked on (still working on?) making a list of every book Mason mentions or alludes to (but doesn't footnote or specify) in her volumes! I think The Literary Life has an episode about it. Something like "The Literary Life of Charlotte Mason".
Did notice on your Ikea shelves the blue Cambridge Modern History (did my eyes play me false), the one for which Geoffrey Elton wrote the Reformation to 1559 volume. Of course, you were a history major.
@@thecommonplacehomeschool Yes, on the right on the shelf about door knob high. Couldn't distinguish the Oxford from the Cambridge device. Very good video.
Hi Autumn, hope you're well. I loved this video- hopefully my own bookshelves will look like this one day. I was wondering if you remember which interview you did where you discussed a year long curriculum a classical style educator used for university students who hadn't had the chance to be in the 'poetic mode' before? I've been combing through your videos but haven't managed to find it for some reason, and I'm completely blanking on the name of the educator and the university they were teaching at.
Ok. I'm an accountant. I would love to do your taxes... You know all these books are tax deductions??? Like my brain is just itching to deduct all there books for you. 😅 ( Ok please ignore unless you want my help )
Please tell us all how hun. Homeschooling in my state isn't tax deductible, I can't use my children's school savings accounts for it either. I'm getting extremely frustrated at the lack of any income check every year because the government says I owe them money despite me not making enough for even a minimum wage job at full time.
Oh hun, please list the books and authors somewhere. I can't read all of them, and you're not naming them all. 😅 You seem to be jumping around all over, I'm becoming very lost.
Ah, sorry about that! I don't have the time to add those notes (right now but maybe one day!) but I will remember to say the full title/author in the next video!
I had the time because I was keeping notes to start my collection. Here’s a list of books that were pulled out (not every book mentioned) Maria Edgeworths Pilgrims Progress Nathanial Hawthornes Twice Told Tales Plutarch Holling Clancy Holling Books Paddle to the Sea, Seabird, Tree in the Trail Star Lore Field Book of the Stars The Burgess Book Set Arabella Buckley Pamphlets Charlotte Mason Volumes In Memoriam Charlotte Mason Chronicles of Narnia Discarded Image CS Lewis Little Men Poetic Knowledge James Taylor Climbing Parnassus Norms and Nobility The Great Tradition Richard Gamble Joshua Gibbs’s, something they will not forget & Love what lasts Bio of CS Lewis Harry Lee Poe Liberal Arts Tradition John Senior the Restoration of Realism Paideia Stories of the Painters The Book Of Indians The Blue Fairy Book Andrew Lang Plutarch for Boys and Girls Countryside Rambles The Morning Hour Beacon Readers
