Hello friends it's Tamsien from Babbling Books and I'm super excited
because I am finally finally ready to share with you my bookshelves in my new
home. I have lived here for an entire year and I am so sorry that has taken me
this long to get around to filming this video, but life has happened. This is not
the first time I have taken you on a tour of my bookshelves. In fact I have
had at least two of these bookshelf tour videos, which I will link to in the
description box below. If you'd like to check those out
please do, and then come back and watch this one because I think this is the
biggest and the best bookshelf tour yet. If you've watched any of my previous
bookshelf tours you'll know that I am not in the habit of pulling out each
book, reading you the spine and then putting it back in. I just find those
videos really boring. So this tour is just a general overview of the types of
books that I have in each area and why I put them the way that I have put them.
Hopefully you'll enjoy it, hopefully it might inspire you to
rearrange your bookshelf a little bit or perhaps you will bunker down into your
own style of rearranging your bookshelf. So this video is going to be divided into
two parts. The first part is a sort of time-lapse of me assembling my
bookshelves and filling them all up. I've taken photos periodically over the
entire year to give you a sense of how my bookshelves have evolved, when I wasn't
able to actually film this particular video and show you the whole thing in
one go. So the first section will be a time-lapse so you can see all the books
and then the second section is going to be me taking you on a guided journey around
all of my shelves. Which are divided very strictly into unread and read.
Let's get started.
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So here they are, here are my bookshelves. Now the ceiling in this room is quite
steeply sloped, so my shelves had to be an unusual shape compared to previous
houses. But let's get started. So over here is my unread bookshelf above it I
have this beautiful print of Bast which is from the Neverwear shop. And on top
section here I've got some of my bookmarks and these two stacks here are
in the center and on the right are actually my 30 before 30 unread books.
So these are the books that I'm challenging myself to read before I turn 30 and
there's a link to the blog post that features all of those in the description
box below. This is the rest of my TBR shelf which is getting a little bit out
of control I'll be honest and these books are divided roughly in
alphabetical order. Not perfectly because I did need to make room for some books.
And over here on the floor I have a pile of books I've recently received from
publishers and one that I bought which is The Vegetarian, which will be going on
to my shelves very soon. This narrow bookshelf over here, which we'll start
from the bottom and go up, has all of my coffee table books and then, arranged by
color, some of my non-fiction books.
In this section I have illustrated books, a lot of them are by Neil Gaiman but
some of them are just some old fairy tales. I have my Alice in Wonderland
collection from a few different countries and at the top here I have two
Folio Society books and my collections of children's classics.
In the center I have my Harry Potter collection of which I have so many books
that it had to be spread over two shelves. And then coming down here in the
center I have my YA novels organized by color, because why not. And they spread
over here and down onto this shelf. Second from the bottom here I have all of my
Japanese translated books and actually I have so many that they've spilled over
into a couple of other shelves but I need to do a bit of rearranging. And this
bottom shelf down here is just various classics. Moving over to the final
section. So down here on the bottom shelf
I have sci-fi. And in this shelf I have literary novels, various historical
fiction, a little bit of translated fiction, some thrillers, all kind of
jumbled in together. Here I have my Neil Gaiman collection
and some fantasy and horror. Moving up I have my vintage red spines, various
different Penguin editions, more Penguins, more Penguins and of course my
fabulous collection of vintage Penguins. This is the only section on the right-hand
side of my bookshelf which is mostly unread. I haven't read all of my vintage
penguins but they just look so nice all together that I couldn't separate them.
So that's it, those are my bookshelves. I'm really happy with how they are, I'm
sure that I'm going to change them as I get new books and I just have new ideas or
inspiration and hopefully if I get a new skylight in here there will be enough
light that I can have my beloved plants back on my shelves. But for now this is
how it is and thank you very much for watching.