a bookshelf tour on a rainy spring day // classics, histories, biographies, contemporary fiction
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Hey friends! In this video I give you the ultimate tour of my bookshelf and take you around my house to see the many stacks of books that are piling up! Our tiny house is running out of book space, to say the least. I share my Oxford and Penguin classics collections, my favourite histories and biographies, the few contemporary fiction novels I enjoy (surprise!), and so much more.
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Beautiful book collection
Your book collection is very pretty indeed! Thank you so much for making this video :))
0:48 might I recommend the Catechism of the Catholic Church instead? ;) But seriously, loved the video! You have a wonderful collection of books!
Haha I appreciate the recommend ;) thank you!
Plenty there to keep you out of mischief. Best wishes with what you choose to read. I hope you get some great stories.
George Marsden is a very good writer. I learned about him through Sydney Ahlstrom.
Much like you, I love the Oxford World's Classics; they always have great introductions by scholars I always follow up on. I, however, prefer the older run of the Oxfords because they are small enough to fit in one's pocket. The same goes for Penguin's older paperback editions, though one must admit that recent books of theirs such as Eugene Sue's Mysteries of Paris are not only not available in the older runs of Penguin paperbacks, but even if it were it would not fit in one's pocket.
Charles Taylor's big book is very heavy reading; I spent more time on that book in its first go than any other book I have ever read; the reasons why are complicated. But it isa great book. And I do hope the interpretive book of Taylor's enticed you to one day tackle it. But you are wise to have waited.
I've read dozens of books on the Reformation and its legacy, and you seem interested in that history, especially since you are a Calvinist. There are lots of history books of that period I would love to share that were not mentioned here. Diarmaid MacCulloch's book "the Reformation" is amazing. So is Michael
Massing's Fatal Discord, which, features Calvin but is more focused on Luther and Erasmus. I think I have already recommended the latter to you before, but it is incredible.
Wow thank you for all the recommendations, it's very cool to hear from someone who has read Taylor and shares my historical interests! I do not own an Oxford classic small enough to fit in a pocket, but what a wonderful concept, to keep a book close at hand! Perhaps I should embark on a mission to collect older versions of my favourite books 📚
@@cleopatrickk Hi! It is likewise nice to talk to someone about these sorts of things on my end. The feeling is mutual, especially regarding the shared interest in history.
Taylor's big book really impressed me. I've read two other books by him since finishing A Secular Age: The Ethics of Authenticity, and Sources of the Self.
In the 70's and 80's, Oxford's line of classics were shorter in height, and physically more flexible, so those are the ones I tend to pick up. Also, they tend to have introductions by scholars and academics who aren't around anymore but who nonetheless wrote brilliantly about their subjects. In addition, I've found several books in that run that simply aren't printed by anyone else, such as Elizabeth Inchbald's "A Simple Story" and Edgeworth's "The Absentee," which I wanted to read because they are both writers Dickens admired and grew up reading, according to at least two of his biographers: Edgar Johnson and Peter Ackroyd. (Though, Dickens seems to have admired Inchbald specifically for her "stage farces," her plays; but those are impossible to find.)
I also really admire the Modern Library paperbacks, though one can hardly fit them in a pocket; but they do the editorial work of classics differently; the Introductions and notes tend to be written not by academics and scholars but instead by other writers who are expert readers on the work of literature at hand. I have a few, for example, with Introductions by Elizabeth Hardwick, and my Emerson has an Introduction by the late Mary Oliver.
Penguin, of course, also does a very good job at quality paperbacks and always has; my favorite copy of Gogol's Dead Souls is from 1961 and is holding together perfectly, despite having been carted around in pockets and leafed through since I finished high school and subsequently has spent a great deal of time with me in the heat.
Thank you for this tour 💐 I like your book collection & I hope to have so many books of literature one day ❤
I hope you get to!
Wow that's a wonderful collection! We share the same curse/blessing of being bookaholics. Btw congratulations on your publication offer!
Thanks Moriah!!
Oh, The Souls of China sounds especially intriguing!
If I visited your house, you'd have to kick me out because I'd be reading all the books. :)
Quite a few of these titles are unfamiliar to me. I'm going to have to bookmark this for future reference.
I also loved the Bonhoeffer biography by Metaxas! So much so that it's the first time in my life I was tempted to... not return a library book. I feel embarrassed saying that. (Yes, I did return it.)
Hehe that would be lovely to see! Yesss it's such a good bio haha! I see why you wanted to keep it ;)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is so good! Years ago, I found a used copy either online or in a thrift store. I took it on as a chore/project. "I SHOULD read this book." I could not put it down. It's history, but it reads like a novel. I didn't want to do anything else but read that book.
Those earrings are adorable! If I could still wear earrings, I'd get something like that. I grew up wearing earrings from childhood. But some years ago, I developed some sort of allergy. Now I cannot wear them at all. My ears immediately get red/swollen and it's so painful. It's the weirdest thing. I've tried real gold, sensitive, hypoallergenic. Nothing helps. I can wear them about an hour and then it hurts so bad I have to take them out. (Which is even more painful than putting them in, because by that time my ears all all swollen and burning and painful. I finally just gave up.
Yess it's one of those histories that everyone can get into because it's so interesting and well written! I definitely need to read it again soon! Aw that's too bad about the earrings, that condition doesn't sound fun. Hopefully you can find other ways to express yourself through jewelry!