Hello, lovely people. New framing! [theme tune plays]
[theme tune plays: Sophie Vlogs!] Essentially, someone who
watches my videos, Tarrell Bellinger,
asked if I could do the 'Do I Have
That Book' challenge tag thing. I'm gonna
try! It's very hard to get my bookcases
framed because I don't have a tripod, I
just stacked up some shoeboxes onto
books, so we're gonna do this the best I
can. I don't know what you can see ,I'll
probably be cut off at some point, but I'm gonna give it a crack! First
of all, I should specify: this bookcase
belongs to my boyfriend. This is all my
boyfriend's books. These are all of mine!
You might also be able to tell, it's also
just a storage unit for a lot of
trinkets, which might slow me down in
this challenge but we'll see. As
far as I'm aware, I haven't looked at the
list of questions, but I have a list of
questions and I have to see how quickly
I can find books that match the question?
I think that's what I'm doing. We're just gonna go with it. I really hope you
can both hear and see me throughout.
Starting with question number one: do you
have a book with deckled edges? Yes I
do. Deckled edges is here. This is Rumi,  The Book of
Love, translated by Coleman Barks. It has some lovely deckled edges. It's Rumi poetry!
Question number two: do you have a book with
three or more people on the cover? Do I? I
think Edge Chronicles might help me out.
Yes! Curse of the Gloamglozer by Chris Stewart and whatshisface.. Paul
no. Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. There's
like four people on here. Question number
three: do you have a book based on
another fictional story? What does that
mean... I'm gonna go with Circe by
Madeline Miller cuz it's based on a myth
which we're gonna say this fiction cuz I don't think there's really a goddess
out there. Do you have a book with a title ten letters long? You want me to do math on
the spot while I'm trying to be quick? Exactly ten letters long?
[she counts and grumbles] This one's bloody hard!
Yes! I've gone for Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Really hope I
counted that correctly, if it's wrong I'm
sorry.
Number four: do you have.. oh no that is
number four. Number five: do you have a book
with a title that starts and ends with
the same letter?
Oh lords above! Do I? [laughs] Yes I do!
I've got Nation by Terry Pratchett. Both
begins and ends with an N. Also very
good book. Standalone - good Pratchett to start
with if you'd like one that's not a
Discworld book. Do you have a mass-market
paperback book? I don't really know what a mass-market paperback book is. What does that entail?
Bloody hell!
 
I realise this shoot is just my arse as
I browse, but what you gonna do, hey?
Mass-market paperback cover...
I don't know know what a mass-market paperback cover is!
Is this a mass-market paperback cover?
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
I'm gonna guess that that's what that is.
Is it not just a cover?
I work in magazine publishing, I don't
know what book publishing words are! Do
you have a book written by an author
using a pen name? Yes I do! Oh whether or
not I can get it out without
everything falling on me is a different
matter.
This is what I mean, my bookshelves are a mess!
Also this might also work for the
previous one I now realize. This is The
Silk Vendetta by Victoria Holt. I don't
know if I would like it if I reread it
now but I was really into it when I was
a child and it's like murder,
silk, betrayal, sexual violence I now
realize that! As a child I was like 'drama'.
Problems, I tell you. Do you have a book
with a character's name in the title? Yes,
obviously,
hello Harry Potter! Let's just take out
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Boom, done. Do you have a book with two maps in it?
Yeah this is The Murderer's Ape by
Jakob Wegelius. I'm wrapping it up in a
book chat very soon that may or may not
be posted, but it has a map at the front and then it has a map at the back!
On the endpapers. Isn't that lovely? Don't know how well you can
see it, but it's real.
Do you have a
book that was turned into a TV show? Oh yeah
another Neil Gaiman. This is American
Gods by Neil Gaiman which was turned into
a TV show. I haven't watched the TV show,
I know there's been some kerfuffle with
the TV show. I don't know any of that, I
just read the book. Do you have a book
written by someone who was originally
famous for something else?
Yes I do! oh I can do these ones. Up here is my
biography shelf. It's also got a lot of rubbish.
 
This is Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming who is a
famous actor. It's a really good memoir
about his relationship with his father
that was very troubled and then also his
mother's lost father. It is a good read.
Do you have a book with a clock on the
cover? oh yes I do! Here we go.
I didn't think through
how much this would destroy my bookshelves, but I
need to do a reorganization anyway but
this is: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley, which is a
beautiful book and also inside and out,
words are also good in it.
"Words are also good in it". Yes. Do I have a poetry book? Yes I have a poetry shelf.
Let's get up and get one. One of my
favourite poets CP Cavafy's Collected Poems.
He's cracking, great Greek poet. Do you
have a book with an award stamp on it?
Do I? Let's find out!
Yes! Please forgive that this is just the
dust jacket. I leant the book to my
friend.
I didn't want her to ruin the
dust jacket so I took it off before I
lent it. But it has Costa Book Awards
short list on it and Silence of the Girls
by Pat Barker. I'm gonna claim it
even though the book itself is currently
in Manchester. What can you do?
Do you have a book written by an author
with the same initials as you?
Crikey, do I? SP are my initials. Let's
have a look!
I don't think I do. I think the answer's going
to be no.
I found one! This is Spectacles by
Sue Perkins which is Sue Perkin's memoir
which made me cry on a train. When she talked
about her dog and her dad. Both dog and
dad made me cry on the train, so you know,
that's good. Do you have a book of short stories?
Do I? Yes I do! We Were Always Here a Queer Words
anthology. This is one of the
best anthologies I've ever read and it
has some great short stories in it and I
would definitely recommend it if you
want to find up-and-coming Scottish
LGBTQI+ writers, yes. Do you have a
book that is between 500 to 510 pages
long? Does it have to be exactly that
length? Good Christ!
You know what, no! No I don't! I don't know...
I'm not gonna get every big book I own
off of my shelves, it's a deathtrap. They'll
fall and crush me. I'm just gonna say no
I don't. Do you have a book that was
turned into a movie? Yes. I'm gonna go
with Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
even though I did not like that movie
but I did like the TV show version. Do I
have a graphic novel?
I also have a graphic novel shelf!
I'm pulling out the top graphic novel
which is Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave
Gibbons. That's also coming to a Book Chat
near you you very soon! Do I have a
book written by two or more authors? Yes I do! How To Lose The Time War by Amal Al-Mohtar and
Max Gladstone. It was one of the best books
I read last year when I read it at the
very end of the year and I liked it a
lot.
That's it! How do I do? Did I do
okay? I know I skipped a question, I'm
sorry, I'm not competing with people, I'm
very hot. I'm not competing with people
and I didn't want to deconstruct all my
shelves. They need a re-working anyway
but like, what can you do. I've got
limited space. That's it innit!
That was that. I don't know if this
was interesting, I don't know if this was enjoyable.
However, if anyone else has any videos
they would like to request that I do, do
let me know. I will file them away in
my little brain and do them eventually,
just like I've done this one. I'm
gonna go and put all of these books back
on my shelves now. I hope you have a
lovely day and I will see you next time
for our usual arrangement of being sat
somewhere so I don't have to run around
in.
