luke is going to build me a custom bookshelf next year but because we both don't have too
much time for a lot of more in-depth projects like that right now i decided to get some
temporary bookshelves just as a placeholder for now and so that i have somewhere to put my
books because they are just piled up around the windowsills right now and it's just um
very chaotic so i'm hoping this will help get them a little more organized thankfully these
bookshelves are very easy to put together i really am not someone who's comfortable building things
at all or reading instructions or doing any of that so um so far i've achieved two
so we're gonna try to do one more but i do hope you enjoy this because um
i don't think you will ever see me building anything again because this is not what i do
so i finally got the bookshelves built and now comes the monumental task
of bringing all my books down from the upstairs treehouse and organizing them
here so that's the next step books books books books
i thought perhaps that all my books would fill all the shelves but i actually have
three and a half shelves empty which is good because i work at a bookstore and i do bring
home quite a lot of free books a lot of the books behind me are secondhand books or free
books because i get advanced readers copies for working at a bookstore that is kind of a benefit
of working there you do get advanced releases of books that are not yet available to the public
so that you can read and review them however i do also have a lot of new books because i love
to support new authors and i myself have recently become an author so i did want to share with you
at least a few books that i'm currently reading or i've just recently read or i am excited to
try out i recently did re-read one of my favorite books from my childhood which is the apothecary
it is all about plant magic and these two uh children it feels very cozy and all about
nature and the wonder of nature not in necessarily realistic sense but it is a really really fun book
so i have reread that one recently i have not read this one yet but i'm very excited to read oak ash
and thor it was gifted to me by a viewer so thank you if that was you and it has a beautiful cover
it has all these little fairies on it so it just seems right up my alley i also recently reread
nevermore which is one of my all-time favorite children's books i always describe this book as
harry potter but with a female protagonist and a lot more emphasis on magical animals
which is everything i love i'm also rereading this one because the second one just came out
i also recently re-read the wolf and the whale which is also a favorite book of mine
i did not love the ending to be honest but all the way up until like the last 50 pages
it was just about one of my favorite books ever so i still reread it and enjoy it even though
i would have ended the book differently so yes i do get a lot of questions of kind of what books
i read and and i would say that it is a huge variety of books i'm just a little bunny half
the time so i can't really handle too scary a topic especially supernatural things are often a
bit too much for me if it's in a darker portrayal so i don't enjoy those types of books as much but
i do really try to read a little bit of everything for me reading is escapism and has a very positive
effect on my mental health because i can immerse myself in a kind of other reality so i really love
fantasy and all these books that really transport me to another world and entertain my imagination
of not just how the world is but how it could be some of my very favorite books are books that i
read a lot as a child and i still have today so one of them is the girls book of flower fairies
and it has a completely broken spine and you can tell that my seven-year-old self
wrote this very poorly i flipped through this book so many times i would take it out into the woods
i would bring it with me in case i needed to identify anything i found out there
another book that i've had since i was very young it is another field guide all about fairies
i would also bring this book out into the woods with me as a child so that i could
properly document anything i found i also have tasha tudor's book of fairy tales which i can't
really find this book out there that much anymore it is very old and tasha tutor is
if you do not know who she is she is a very well-known and admired children's author from
decades ago she has since passed away but i also got to write a letter to her when i was very young
and she was too ill at the time to write me back but she had her son help her write a letter back
to me while she was in bed not feeling well and she passed away shortly afterwards and
i think that for sure is one of my most special letters and treasures that i have in my house
because i still have that letter that her son wrote that she um was able to help out
in writing it was really really sweet with that being said i do have some space left on my shelf
so i thought i might go to the bookstore and pick up some more little things that i might be reading
pretty much everything behind me i have already read and so i definitely would like to get some
new books and also maybe in the future go through these and find which ones might be able to go to
a good home so yes again i have written a book i will leave the details down below in case you're
interested i'm sending you all my love i hope you enjoyed this this is definitely very very fun and
yeah always leave your book recommendations down below if you have any you particularly enjoy