Hey guys, Katie here, how's it going?
I have not done on my shelf video on a
in a long time, so I thought now was the
perfect time to take a look at some of
the books on my shelf. And even though I
haven't been buying a lot of books in the
last year or so, I still feel like I've
acquired books and there are books on my
shelf that hopefully you guys haven't
seen before. So I asked on Twitter the
other night for some coordinates, and I
got a lot of responses, and I decided
just to try to quickly go over all the
books that I picked out because I wanted
to be sure to get everybody's picks. And
I'll leave all the names below.
I just want to say thank you because I
was about to like, ask my boyfriend and
it would have been fine, but not
as fun. So thanks to everybody who gave
me those numbers. The first book that I
got off of my shelf was 2 A.M. AT THE CAT'S PAJAMAS by Marie-Helene Bertino.
I absolutely adore this book. It is such a
cute, magical realism read and it's about
a young woman who kind of has a tragic
family story and is just trying to
figure out where she's at and what she's
doing. And she loves to sing but weird
things happen when she sings! What
happens next?? So, it's kind of weird and I
think I remember hearing some
complaints about this, but she's like,
really young and kind of acts like a
grown-up, which is a little bit
disturbing. So if that's not something
you're into, probably don't read this.
This book was recommended to me by
Amanda Egle, she was on the Marvelous Reading Room,
which is kind of on hiatus right now, but she also has her
own channel where she talks about comics she is
wonderful, so please check her out.
The next book on my shelf was NORTHANGER ABBEY by Jane Austen.
And I thought this was really great because I really wanted
to read this for #victober, and I
also wanted to read THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO,
which, if you haven't read NORTHANGER ABBEY, it is something that the main
character reads, and that kind of fuels
her crazy dreams that she thinks are
becoming a reality. Unfortunately I'm
reading so many books right now and I
have so much to read like I really don't
know if I'm going to get to this in
October but it's definitely something I
want to reread soon. If you don't know or
haven't read NORTHANGER ABBEY, it's
about a young woman named Catherine, who
goes on a little trip with her family
friends to Bath to spend some time and
do social things, like they did back then.
And she ends up meeting this guy, and she
goes to his home, which is
Northanger Abbey. And she thinks it's
haunted, and she makes up all these
stories, and there's drama.
I got this beautiful copy of NORTHANGER ABBEY
from my friend Heather, who used to Booktube,
but doesn't anymore, and she's so
good to me. She finds me the prettiest
books, so I will definitely love this
forever, and maybe never actually read
out of it, because I hear they don't wear
well. So the next book on my shelf was
TALES OF THE CITY by Armistead Maupin.
I read this book--partially because it's a
book and a TV series that my Dad really
loves, and it's in San Francisco where I
used to live. In the seventies, I believe,
and it's the story of this young woman
who leaves her home in the Midwest and moves to San Francisco.
She finds this place to live, and it's kind of a weird
place and the landlord is an interesting,
sort of, mysterious person. And it tells
the story of a lot of different people
in San Francisco. Very interesting, very
dated, so fun to read something from that
time period, because I just don't usually
do that. And I really enjoyed it, and it
was great to read something that I know
my dad loves. I haven't read any more in
the series but I'm definitely looking
forward to doing that someday soon.
The next book on my shelf is STARDUST by Neil Gaiman.
I find it really difficult to talk about Neil Gaiman, because
people are really polarized about his
books. I love STARDUST, the book; I enjoy
the cheesy movie, just for fun, But I know
that there are people who absolutely
hate the book, and I definitely think
that's the case with a lot of his books.
Like, I didn't love AMERICAN GODS, but
people that I read it with were like
crazy for it. But I think STARDUST is a really fun,
kind of-- you know--it's the heroes journey and
I love the idea of kind of a magical
world within our world, that's always fun.
Which is in this book! So this is a lot
of fun, but you might not like it I don't
know. People just don't like it!
Let me know in the comments how you feel
about STARDUST, I would love to talk about it.
The next book on my shelf was, like,
the last book on my last shelf of "read"
books, and it is the French version of
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I
took French all through high school and
all through college, and I stupidly
thought in my third year of college
French that I could read Harry Potter... I
was wrong. It's very difficult! I did read
the first chapter, but I had to use a
dictionary, it took a very long time. I
really enjoy owning it; I love French and
there's always that chance that maybe
someday I will get back into it and
learn enough to be able to read this
book. If not that's okay, too! It's a fun
book to own, you know. The next two books
are off of my unread shelf, which I
included because I have some books on
there that I've never talked about
before. This one is NW by Zadie Smith, and
I think it takes place in London, and is
about, like, four people in London
and their lives in the city. I read WHITE
TEETH by Zadie Smith a long time ago in
school, and I really liked it! It was slow
to get through, but I remember really
enjoying it. I think this will be great
and I would love to read it, and then I
would also love to read her new book
coming out, which is SWING TIME. And the
last book from my unread shelf is
coincidentally PURPLE HIBISCUS by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which Max at
Well Done Books is doing a read-along for
right now, and I did plan to join in
and read with him, but no... I don't think
that's going to happen right now! And I'm
still hoping to read it while he's doing this
read along, because he has some, like,
forums up on Goodreads that will be open
the whole time. So, if you are interested
in reading this, I will link his video
and the Goodreads group below, because
Max is great, and you should get involved
with his stuff, because he's awesome.
My friend Heather that I mentioned earlier really love PURPLE HIBISCUS, and
I really loved AMERICANAH, so I think this is gonna be a
really good read and I'm very much
looking forward to reading more Adichie.
So anyway, those are some books on my shelf!
I hope that you enjoyed this. Let's talk
below about these books, if you have any
recommendations based off of them or if
you have any thoughts about them, I would
love to hear them. I hope to do
another one in a couple of months,
because I used to, kind of, do it every
couple of months, and then I stopped
doing these videos--I don't know why! I
really don't, because I love it, it's very
fun to just pull books and talk about
them. So if you want to leave me some
coords for next time, go ahead! I have
four shelves, and there are about 30 to
40 books on each shelf, but I would err
closer to 30. That might be safer! And I
guess that's it, I will see you guys next time. Bye!
