hi guys so I'm here today to do an on my shelf video if you haven't seen one of
these before essentially i asked on twitter for some sets of numbers one
between one and 15 which is number of bookshelves I want to pick from and one
number between 1and 40 which is the largest number of books i have on any one given
shelf so with those sets i then pick out a random selection of books that i
may not have talked about otherwise and it just makes for an interesting
collection and talk to you about them all so I have eight books which is
quite a lot so I'm not going to dilly-dally too much here and i'm going to get into
the books the first book was picked by nicola over at Robotnic and that is the satyricon by
Petronius and very glad she picked this one because i love this book so i'm
happy to share with you guys again this is a piece of Latin literature it is a
romen novel and it is one of the only two Roman novels to survive i think
of the top of my head the other one being Apulies' the golden ass this one however did survive
fragmentary so this isn't actually the entire novel bits of it are missing and I
think if it had survived it its entirety it would have been absolutely huge
so it's a much more consumable size which it has come down to us in but i would still
highly recommend anybody read this it's absolutely hilarious it's very very crude
very rude very sexually explicit and just kind of everything that might
offend some people is probably in this but it's also quite interesting
commentary on the romen elite during the time of the Emperor nero so it's crude
but clever and I would really recommend this really good the next set of
numbers from Joe and that is the last unicorn by peter s beagle
and i haven't read this one yet so I can't really comment on the book i
did see the film when I was a lot younger and I picked this up when i was
with taylor from leather bound and we were book shopping we both decided to finally
read the book not that i have yet but I am really looking
forward to reading the original tale given the movie and it's such a cult
classic i have heard mixed things about it though next was Maria
from bookish wordings and she picked shelf seven book 22 and that was mansfield park by
Jane Austen i have read this one I've talked about it a little bit more detail
in a separate video i really enjoyed this I didn't start Jane Austin's work
with the most popular ones like pride and prejudice and sense and sensibility I
went for Northanger Abbey and then Mansfield Park and perhaps cause Ididn't have
anything to compare them to the both absolutely blew me away i loved this tale
for being a really chunky book i found it really engaging i felt like i zoomed
through quite quickly it didn't feel like a slog at all and never felt too long
it's about our protagonist fanny price however whose family have too many children than
they can't handle and is taken in by her wealthy aunt and uncle to grow up with
them and it's about her experience kind of somewhat as an outsider of this family
somewhat of an insider first romances and relationships and witnessing other
people's relationships it's just a lot of good fun
it's just very Jane Austen i'm really loving Jane Austen so far so I really
need to get another one funnily enough Liz actually picked the book next
to Mansfield Park which is Emma I have not read Emma I here mixed things about Emma
some people seem to love Emma some people just don't I know Leena from justkissmyfrog
loves Emma I know my mum adores Emma and other people really
don't like it so it's obviously a bit of a marmite Jane Austin but I'm actually really looking forward to it
it sounds like it's one of them was deliberately comical novels and it's about Emma who
considers herself a matchmaker but shuns any idea of a love life for
herself and yeah i have seen the film adaptation so I know the entire plot
line and i will get to it at some point these lovely editions by the way are
published by vintage jeremy from Jersings
then picked 40 sonnets by don patterson which is a collection of poetry and if
it isn't up already this is actually going to be in an up and coming poetry video
Don Patterson is one of my absolute favourite poets this is his most recent collection it's
published by Faber & Faber and he writes a real wide variety of poetry I
feel like he deals with all of the things he deals with the small things the big
things the personal things the bigger world things and he does it all with some
really beautiful prose then his poetry can be quite experimental also quite
traditional at the same time like I feel like he does it all and I always really
enjoy reading his stuff
alexandra picked numbers 39 and 12 and
the next three books are all actually from shelf 12 because apparently people love
shelf 12 which is actually full of children's book mainly the book that Alexandra
picked is the magician's nephew by CS Lewis
this is actually the first in the chronicles of narnia if you're not aware
which is the series in which the lion the the witch and the wardrobe is from but the lion the witch
the wardrobe is actually the second in the series and this is one comes before it
so this is about two children who travel into narnia and essentially witness aslan
creating Narnia I mean a lot of this is kind of metaphors for Christianity CS lewis was
very religious and Aslan kind of represents I don't know God Jesus one of them
it's basically about the creation of narnia the naming of all the different animals we
meet the White Witch for the first time we meet the original Adam and Eve it's
it's it's very good i definitely prefer the lion the witch and the wardrobe but i would
recommend this especially if you've already read the lion the witch and the
wardrobe this book will teach you so many things so many things will know
make so much more sense about the lion the witch and the wardrobe if you read this for
example why that lamp post is there all in here but Danielle then picked The Girl
With All the Gifts by m r carrey which you probably heard me mention quite recently because
i read it quite recently it's been in a couple of
videos I really enjoyed this though i think it's worth the hype actually um I went
into a little bit dubious because it's so popular but i did really enjoy it
more than i thought i was going to it is a bit of a zombie apocalypse book in essence but it's
got a really creative twist it focuses mainly on a child protagonist and narrator
but it does have an eclectic cast of characters and it's very well written
and I i really enjoyed it Thought it was very creative
so would highly recommend this one but lastly the maitrezebra picked benjamin
zephaniah's Terror Kid I have a weird feeling this is actually been it on my
shelf video before because I've done these twice before I think and I just
feel like maybe this was in one that could be completely wrong and I can't go
and check right now so it's just going to be in this one too anyway this is a young adult
book by Benjamin Zephaniah about a young boy who is quite disillusioned with
what's going on in the world wants to make the world a better place wants to be
politically active but he is a teenager and he's not sure how to get involved in
making the world better and because of that naivety and also just passion
for the world he gets tricked by a terror organization to help them
hack into the system at a police station if i remember correctly it's all just a
terrible terrible mistake
it's such an interesting book nobody writes young adult books like Benjamin
Zephaniah I don't think he hasn't actually written any for years except for this
one I wish more people wrote young adult books on the topic like Benjamin Zephaniah does
this one does also touch on racism and prejudices that can exist in the police
force and justice system as well it is very good though and despite the heaviness of the
topic is a very easy read and I i would recommend it to lots of people so yeah
those are all the books though so thank you everybody for sending me in some numbers
if you fancy doing one of these videos then i will give you some numbers to
start you off i'll give you five and
and 10 hopefully that will apply to your bookshelves and until next time
guys happy reading and I'll see you all again soon bye