- Hello! Welcome to my bookshelf.
Yes, this is a bookshelf tour video.
Finally doing it.
I get a lot of compliments on my bookshelf.
I did recently colour coordinate it.
But before we get into it,
I feel like I have to say a few things.
I am a collector of books.
I am an aspiring reader of books.
I do read quite a lot but by no means
have I read all of these.
This bookshelf is basically a visual to-be-read list.
Also, I very much want to have a personal library.
I like having a bookshelf and a display of books
because I like it when people come here
and they're like, oh, she's a reader.
This is very much tied to my identity.
Or my aspiring identity.
I just like owning books, okay?
So bottom shelf here we have some books
but this is more of the miscellaneous.
Over here is my immediate TBR, and also my book.
I just keep my book here.
The ones behind it are priority reads.
So we've got, Man Up, which is the next
Banging Book Club book.
Americanah, actually kinda been on my
priority list for forever.
But it's fine.
Then we get to the yellow section.
We'll go through how many I've read.
One, two, three, four.
I've read an abridged version of that when I was a kid,
so four and a half, five and a half, six and a half,
seven and a half, eight and a half.
Seen the film, so nine.
This here is the Harry Potter section.
We've got my, I solemnly swear
that I'm up to no good, poster.
This was a birthday present from another old colleague
which is like a wine bottle that's like Hufflepuff.
Ahhhhh!
There's a wand.
I think this one's Newt Scamander's that I got from
The Fantastic Beast's all Pottermore people.
This is a love potion.
They had them at this Pottermore event.
And it's actually filled with alcohol
and I haven't drunk it yet but I just thought I'd keep it.
I'm sure it's still okay because alcohol keeps for ages.
Then over here we've got some weird books.
Like, Five on Brexit Island and old Ladybird books
and then some parody ones.
And then this book has got my initials on it
and it is my lending library where I keep note of
all of the books that I have lent to people
and who has them because I forget.
Lucy has, The Life-Changing Magic of not Giving a Fuck.
This is a book that my sister designed and made.
It's like our family book with photographs.
All the family members.
It's kind of adorable.
That's me and my sister.
(laughs)
Hogwarts library.
Haven't actually read any of these.
Fake fan.
Hufflepuff edition of the Philosopher's Stone, Cursed Child.
I do actually own all of the Harry Potter books,
they're just in my parent's house.
Then, kind of creeping into the Harry Potter section,
we have Lord of the Rings.
Only read, The Hobbit.
I haven't read these.
Not sure if I ever will.
But I like the set.
It looks pretty.
Then we've got Queenie.
Got all four of the Hogwarts Founders.
Definitely did some trading and bartering with friends.
They come in Chocolate Frog packets
and I just kept one because why not?
And two Instax cameras that don't even
have any film in them.
Let's move up.
We have the red section.
Three have been read out of that.
I can't remember if I've read, Life of Pi, or not.
I feel like I have but I don't think I have.
I will say, doing the job that I do in talking about books,
I do get sent a lot of books.
I even got sent, today, got sent one, two, three.
So those are three new additions
to the shelf just from today.
Obviously have not read yet.
What's significant in this section?
Lena and Lucy are coming over later to record
the Bang Book Club episode about this one
so I should probably take this out 'cause it's got all of
my turned over corners and notes in it.
So we'll need that for reference.
Over here is what I like to call the white feminism section.
Because for some reason a lot of books by women
who are feminists and just happen to be white,
publishing likes to put them with white covers on.
Few examples. (grunts)
Ooo, that one as well.
Part of me wants to return to a bit more of an
organised by genre kind of thing
because when I'm looking for a book I'm like,
I don't remember what colour the spine is.
There's the gray-ey, browny...
I don't even know what to say about some of these.
And we've got the pink, greeny blue and then blue.
And then Connie's book is purple so I was like,
I don't know where the hell to put that.
Connie!
Over here is the big, big books.
I somehow have two editions of, Alice in Wonderland.
This is one that I had when I was a kid
and then this is a new edition for
the 150th anniversary or something.
That's Charlie's Fun Science book.
I think this is like a massive graphic novel.
I should probably read that.
This is The Institute of Sexology book
that the Welcome Collection did.
Oh my god, come on.
We've got this.
It was an exhibit they had and this is the book
that goes along with the exhibit.
There's probably stuff in here
that can't be shown on YouTube.
Ooo, yep, there's a dick.
Lot's of cool stuff from the exhibit.
I don't know what I can show you.
That looks like some sex toys, the oldie sex toys.
Collection of sexual aids in a wooden box,
Japanese, 1930-'39, ooohhh.
Finally, we have the party book.
Now if you know me, I like planning and I also like planning
my birthday about six months in advance and this was my book
when I was a kid that I would plan my party from.
And there's loads of different themed parties you can have.
There are probably, now that I think about it,
really culturally appropriative.
There's a treasure chest cake in here
and the reason why I have this is
because it was still at home and I just want to do a video
where I remake this treasure chest cake.
Oh, also, when I first got this from home,
I was showing it to this guy that I was dating at the time.
I was like, look, look, this is my party book when I was
a kid and he was like, fuck 'cause he's afraid of clowns.
Ooo, it's not funny.
Take your phobias very seriously.
My favourite book on here, Jesus,
I was going to say, The Martian,
but I realise I don't own, The Martian,
'cause when I read, The Martian, I borrowed it from Liam.
Perhaps, Trumpet, by Jackie Kay.
Vivian Versus the Apocalypse as a YA fun novel.
What else have we got, what else have we got.
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.
This is Sarah Knight's other book, Get your Shit Together,
but, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving Fuck,
which is currently on loan to Lucy.
Would recommend, The Good Immigrant, is amazing.
21 Black, Asian and Minority ethnic writers and they
talk about what it means to be BAME in Britain today.
Oohhh, Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.
That is a good book.
The book I've read the most times here is probably
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
And I've read that three times.
I don't re-read.
Not a re-reader.
There is a very quick tour of my bookshelf.
Hope you enjoyed.
If you spotted anything on here,
please let me know if I should read it.
If you're like, that one.
That one you should read next.
Maybe I will bump it to the priority pile down here.
Hope you enjoyed this video.
Please give it a thumbs up if you did.
Yeah, let me know in the comments your recommendations.
Preferably something that I already own
so I don't have to go out and buy new books.
That would be great.
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