Hi. Welcome back. My name is Michelle and
you're watching Michellislife.
Today's video is yet another book haul.
I have a serious serious problem.
Um, after stalking bookstagram for a
while, and seeing all of the beautiful
pictures with everyone's classic
collections
I had all my own set. You know? So if
you've seen my mother's day haul you'll
have seen that I got a whole bunch of
these classics.
They're mostly the children's classics,
and they are the Puffin classics.
So I now own Anne of Green Gables, The
Little Princess, Wizard of Oz,  Peter Pan,
Black Beauty and Secret Garden in this
edition. But I needed more so I got more.
I picked up two more Puffin in Bloom editions because along with the Puffin
classics I also picked up Alice in
Wonderland and Heidi and the Puffin
in Bloom editions so I picked up A Little
Princess in this edition. (So yes, now I
have two copies of this book) and I also
picked up this beautiful edition of
Little Women. And then the endpapers I
think they're so pretty.
They're the same in all of them but
there's still really pretty. And look
look at that thickness. It's a thick book. But it didn't stop there.
No I didn't just get two books. Let me
give a little back story here, I know
that a lot of people are sympathetic
towards books when they feel sad or they
have been having a bad day and they tend
to go book shopping. So I hope you
understand where i'm coming from. Where
my husband went on a 26 day TDY trip
for his job and I was dealing with a
toddler who is teething and has growing
pains and doesn't want to sleep at night,
isn't taking naps and is throwing
constant tantrums. So  bought books. And no
I didn't just buy two. I really love the
aesthetic to the Knickerbocker classics,
so I picked up a whole bunch of those as
well.
The first one that I picked up is
Dante's Inferno. My husband already owned
and has read the mass-market paperbacks
of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradisio but
I wanted a pretty version. So I picked up this one and I just love that comes with
these elastic, you know bands, like their
journals. And I just love that they're
floppy and the pages are soft and
there's pictures and I'm just excited to
read this vision.
The one thing about the these editions
though is that they kind of stink.
Yeah, it's kinda like a skunky skunky smell
to it.
So they're really pretty but they don't
have that normal book smell that we all love.
The next one I picked up and put into
my cart is The Picture of Dorian Gray by
Oscar Wilde. I have been wanting to read
this for a while.
Just the whole league of Extraordinary
Gentlemen sounds really fascinating
and I really want to learn more about
Dorian Gray.
So I picked it up and I will be reading
this next month with my book buddy friend
Jody (book buddy friend, that's kind of
redundant).
And we're really looking forward to it.
This is so gorgeous and again the
elastic and the floppiness and it's so
so pretty. I also picked up The Essential
Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe in
this beautiful purple Knickerbocker
classic. And so I've actually read
some of these, so that was really cool
and I look forward to reading more of them. Because I actually really enjoyed what I
read while i attended school.
So really cool. Next is Dracula and this
probably is my favorite.
It's just so stunning and so beautiful.
I actually already owned an ugly mass
market paperback of this book but yeah
vanity reasons I needed a prettier
version so i probably will be more
likely to read the pretty version. So
definitely definitely my favorite cover
out of all of them.
Next I really love Great Expectations by
Charles Dickens and unfortunately that
is the only thing I've read by him.
I have tried a Tale of Two Cities and I
wasn't a huge fan, but then again it was
many years ago, so I will have to try
that again sometime.
But I always wanted to read this
classic children's story by him and that
is Oliver Twist.
I have never read Oliver Twist but now
I own it
so hopefully I'll be more likely to read it.
Then I picked up
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. And
out of all of Austin's works I have read
Pride and Prejudice but that's it.
So this one does intrigue me and I'm
looking forward to getting to it. Plus I
just finished the Lizzie Bennet Diaries
and I really want to get back into
Austin. And then the last Knickerbocker
classics that I picked up is the Odyssey
by Homer. And that this is probably my
second favorite cover it's just really
pretty. (sighs) Um,
I've never read The Odyssey and i would
like to give it a go.
I also like that these are very like not
threatening. You know? They're like, this
one 300 pages, so I feel like I can
manage that.
You know? I don't know They  just feel
small and manageable. I just really like
these additions other than their smell.
Next time you go to a bookstore pick one
of these up.
They have a very very unique smell to
them. Then I picked up three other books,
and that are not classics. But yeah,
the last book that I picked up from Book Outlet,
while I was picking up all of those classics,
was Did You Ever Have a Family by
Bill Clegg. And I cannot remember if I
did a review video for this book; Which
is really sad. I was looking at it and I
have only been on YouTube for about
eight months now, and I think I just made
too many damn videos, because I don't
remember what I have or have not filmed.
But if I did do a review video for this
book I link it down below.
I really enjoyed this book. I listened to
it via audio book on the way to SEYA
fest, back in March, and it was really
really good.
All the characters are so real and
fleshed out.  I loved that there was
a diverse cast of characters in this
book that didn't feel forced.
It felt very real. I felt like very much like something that you would
actually see and experience in the real
world. And every character felt like
somebody that I knew. And I did... I didn't
really find myself in this book, as a
character, but I did find my mother in
one of the characters, so I thought that
was really interesting. And kind of
haunting. This is a really really great
debut novel from Bill Clegg into adult
fiction. And I highly recommend it, but
that's no what this video is. But anyway
I bought the book. It was $5.99. Then i was
perusing the shelves at the Dollar Tree,
(which if you haven't done, I would
definitely check out their book section
because: one they have fantastic board books
for children. My
daughter is obsessed with board books.
She loves to read them in the car. And by
read I mean look at the pictures. She's one and
a half. But so I picked up a ton of those
for her. But then I also found another book by
Orhan Pamuk. So now I have two in my TBR
pile to read. But this one is called
Silent House. And again this is the
author of A Strangers in My Mind, who was
shortlisted, this year, for the
International Man Booker Prize. I
absolutely loved his book and I loved
experiencing Turkey through his words.
So I am looking forward to picking up
these two books that I physically own
in the future so I can learn more about
Turkey through his perspective. Then
we have this establishment on the Air
Force Base called Airmen's Attic which
is a really really cool thing where
people donate things
that they would to a thrift store, but
instead of paying when you go to the
thrift store, everything is free.
They're are only open certain days of the
week and there are limits on everything.
And you have to be a certain rank or
lower to be able to shop there. And my
husband is in that range so I usually go
every Tuesday and that's where I find a
lot of my daughter's clothing and stuff.
And it's just a really nice place. They
don't take anything that's like too
damaged or too gross.
So it's it's just a really great
organization to help out military
families. And I've also enjoyed
volunteering there while I've been on this
base. Anyway, they also have books
there because, they have everything there
and I was able to pick up
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides. And I
actually owned this several years back. But
when i moved I got rid of it. And I think I even owned this copy with this
sticker. Not...
I don't think this is my a copy but I
got rid of it for some reason. I just
didn't think I was going to get to it.
But now that I've been enjoying more
queer fiction lately
I really wanted to give this one another
shot. So I picked it up for free. Anyway,
that is yet another book haul.
I can't seem to control myself and Book
Outlet is pretty much the devil.
They really are.
Do you see their emails? They really are.
Anyway, that's it for this video. Thank
you so much for watching, and let me know
below, if you also enjoy the
Knickerbocker classics or or what kind
of edition is your favorite to collect
classics in. And i'll see you guys next
time. Thank you so much for watching,
liking, subscribing and commenting. And
I'll see you guys next time. Bye.
