my new bookshelves!!!! 🥀 hello yes i am belle from beauty and the beast

what I want is when friends come over and they say no while I love romances what do you have to recommend I can literally go follow me you know what I mean follow me I'll show you I'll show you the way [Music] hello everyone welcome back to my channel if the thumbnail or the title of this video did not convince you surely the book shelves before me or behind me will because today's video is going to be a bookshelf tour now I'm not going to talk through every single book on the shelves this is more

of a grand overview right I'm going to talk about how I approached the organization I'm going to point out a couple of books that I really love I'm going to show some of the personal touches to these shelves but in general I'm just giving like an overview and then if you would like a more in-depth tour I I could do that although I'm hoping this video suffices I will also say that these shelves are not done there are a couple of bottom shelves that are not organized yet so I'm going to save those for an

updated tour in the future but I will be sharing the shelves that are done and I'm just really excited these are my bookshelf of dreams come true I really feel like Belle in the opening number of Beauty and the Beast where she's like swinging around in the library on her little ladder and although I do not have a ladder never say never my friends honestly it would be unnecessary to have a ladder in here but it would make for a pretty cool shot you know what I mean also uh if you haven't seen one of

my most recent videos we did move we moved like an hour away from where we were and so it took us a couple months to conceptualize how we wanted the shelves to look so we took advantage of this cool Arch and we just wanted to feel like a statement of the room like when you walk in the house you're like God damn she's a reader you know what I mean not so that's what we did for these shelves so before we actually get into each shelf the way that I approached organizing this them this time

around was to really focus on genre and to also alphabetize them I have never alphabetized a shelf in my entire stupid life and I don't know if I ever will again because it was a [ __ ] and a half to do it but at the end I was very satisfied so I probably will do it again honestly with how satisfied I feel um but and let me just disclaim her not every single shelf is alphabetized namely this one right next to me is not alphabetized but most of them are which was very hard to

do but I'm very glad I did it and if you see one out of place don't mention it okay because right now I did a Flawless job and I don't need the flaws pointed out okay save it for a future video not today today's about optimism and positivity okay excellent okay so we're going to start with the longest shelf the one that goes across the arch this is just alphabetized fiction and yes there are some like historical fictions that could be on a historical fiction Shelf the problem is I don't have enough historical fiction to

do that so I just kind of grouped all of the fiction together that didn't fit on any of these other shelves and just alphabetize them across I love it I think it looks amazing I love that it goes over the arch I love that it's a long ass shelf and I just think it looks really cool and again alphabetizing it was so annoying but I'm very proud of it in the end so it was worth the labor of love if you will now let's go to this side I'll show you some of these shelves and

then we'll go over to that side and I'll show you all those shelves but let's do it let's do a little bit of an angle change all right see you in a second all right this next shelf again is a little too tall so let me just insert some b-roll for you but this is my short Story collection and Memoir shelf it's a it's a mix of the two genres and the reason for this is that the Shelf does two things for me in my life number one it shows off a lot of my favorite

books right we have Memoirs like finding me and know my name each book I loved so much for different reasons they were both so brilliantly written and then we have some short story collections that I really love like let me get one for you the Secret Lives of church ladies not only is this one of my favorite short story collections it's also just one of my favorite books of all time peach cobbler is perfection give it a read you won't regret it but this is like both a shelf that shows off so many of my

favorite books but also gives me a little bit of guilt because there's a lot on this shelf I haven't read that I want to read but as much as I love short stories and as much as I love Memoirs I find that I always put them to the side right I always pick fiction over anything else and this shelf I think does a good job at like when I see it I'm like [ __ ] there's some books that you need to be reading and they're on that [ __ ] shelf so anyway I love

this shelf so much also on the end let me grab it for you by the way I no longer have a P.O box I've gotten some questions asking me about where it is and I no longer have one but when I did have one a subscriber sent me the hands from Pride and Prejudice yes my friends this is the scene when Darcy helps Lizzy out of the carriage or sorry into the carriage let's not get things confused but this is painted on a block of wood and it is seriously one of the coolest gifts anyone's

ever given me it was such like an act of love and I cherish it so much so I think it really complements the wood of the shelves themselves and I just think it's like super eye-catching and it obviously has to do with literature and I just love it so much now let's move on to this shelf let me change angles again hold on to your hats all right this shelf is one of my most aesthetically pleasing shelves it is my mythology shelf not just Greek mythology just mythology in general and I love this shelf so

much I didn't realize how much myth I had and then when I was separating all of these books into different categories I was like that is a tall stack my friends so I have a little dedicated shelf to mythology I also have this beautiful candle and then also this beautiful candle which is this like veiled woman and she is definitely leaning against the books because here's what happened it got far too hot in our last house and she melted she melted so her base cracked and now she can't stand on her own but sometimes you

don't have to in life I've learned sometimes you gotta lean on someone and that's what this candle is doing so that's my mythology shelf I'd say my favorite books on this shelf are my pocket French editions of song of Achilles and seriously these were gifts from my aunt and it's just so sweet and I love that they're like foiled and they're just so cool no I can't read a word in French but it was very thoughtful and again I just love this shelf okay this is where the angles get a little weird because you're still

seeing this last shelf but this shelf now is my used pocketbook Shelf here's the thing about me big secret and when I say it's a big secret I mean I've talked about this a lot so bear with me if you're bored of hearing about it I love used books cracked spines water damage annotations dog eared Pages all of it is my favorite thing in the world and I especially love it when it's from a book I didn't read myself when I'm picking up a book like Jurassic Park I haven't read this book yet but this

book was clearly cherished by someone right someone devoured this book and loved it and cracked the spine someone clearly shoved this into a bag or a backpack because of how destroyed the coveress this was someone's treasure and now it's in my Trove you know what I mean that's probably not not a not a good use of that expression but you know what you know what I mean it's just you feel the love you feel the history you feel this shelf itself feels like it's breathing and that's what I love so anyway one other funny book

on this Shelf I am terrified of submarines I've mentioned this before they are literally my worst nightmare but another thing is that I'm fascinated by them I want to know everything about them I am so intrigued by them and so I picked up the Hunt for Red October but I had to cover the submarine on the book itself so I like taped some cardstock down so I don't have to see it um it's honestly an innocent submarine it's like a little like cartoon but I couldn't take any chances this incredibly cool hold on let's not

have the books fall this incredibly cool snow globe it's of the Golden Gate Bridge but when you shake it it fogs up like the fog of San Francisco hi I'm from the Bay Area and I'd like you all to know that so I have a snow globe to prove it hi welcome to the worst filming angle because I am balancing on the balls of my feet for this shot anyway this is my non-fiction shelf this is my learning shelf we have books about the Lusitania again submarine Fiction it's not even fiction because that's a non-fiction

story that's that's real history but it's called Dead wake and it's one of my favorite books um whether it's that like learning about a single event in time or it's learning about anxiety or it's learning about social issues social justice this is my shelf that is just the learning shelf you know what I mean there are books that have been gifted to me they're books that I've found they're books that have been recommended to me by therapists it's my non-fiction shelf and I'm very proud of this one although I do need to buy bookends because

I can't just make stacks of book like the books like that on all my shelves so that's that now the bottom two shelves are the disorganized shelves so I'm not even going to put you through that let's move over to the next side see you in a second okay welcome to the other side of the wall this next Shelf I'm out of breath from getting this angle right anyway uh this first shelf right here on this side again we have the general fiction up top hope you didn't forget already because if you did I am

not nearly as engaging as I thought I was anyway this next shelf is my romance shelf and this shelf to me really proves how inspired I've been by bookstores what I want is when friends come over and they say no while I love romances what do you have to recommend I can literally go follow me you know what I mean follow me I'll show you I'll show you the way so this is my romance Shelf one of my most cherished shelves it's all my beautiful beloved romances I've read most of the books on this shelf

and some of my very favorite books are on the Shelf not to not to pull one out at random but it was Book Lovers if you couldn't see it I'm not sure I'm not even sure if that was in Focus one more thing about this Shelf an incredible subscriber sent me this like a year and a half ago or two years and I have cherished it ever since they sent it to me these two lovely ladies in their bat wings and their butterfly wings oh my God it's just it's just so cute it's the cutest

thing ever and they stand high that came apart um don't worry it does it all the time but they're on like a little strawberry base and it's so cute so let me let me fix that all right next my mythology shelf is one of the most aesthetically pleasing to look at for me because I love the candles and I just think it like intuitively makes a lot of sense I just think aesthetically it looks really cool but this is one of the shelves that draws my eye the most and I call this my mood board

shelf because it's a combination of two types of books first it has some of my favorite books of all time so we have books like the vanishing half we have books like ready player one we have everything I never told you a little life isn't one of my favorite books but I feel like it defines part of 2020 for me on YouTube because I read the book and I made a video and I think people liked it I hope you did anyway I put books on this shelf that felt both representative of me as a

reader but then also a lot of books I haven't read yet but I'm very excited to get to so it's a little bit of like favorites and immediate TBR you know what I mean and I call it a mood board because I want it to be inspiring to look at I want to see it and to go oh yes she has books to read and that's why I keep it at eye level I set it up because I was like I want to be able to see this right away I want to be walking past

the shelves and to go oh God you still haven't read sorrow and Bliss or our share of night all of these books mean something to me and I feel like that that's me as a reader we've got some favorites tried and true favorites as well as new releases and I'm not ashamed to say that I'm a new release type of [ __ ] you know what I mean I'm influenced by a new release shelf and I kind of have that now and I love it something to say just from an aesthetic place this is an

ornament that is the pages of The Hobbit folded together and instead of hanging it on the tree nay I keep it on the Shelf so let's hide that little ribbon and there you have it all right so the last shelf you just saw felt representative to me as a reader right like some of my favorite books but then some books that intrigue me that interest me genres that I'm very very drawn to at all times so that's just like my reading preference when it comes to reading for pleasure these two shelves I'm the most proud

of because these are the books that I read for school I'd say 95 of the books on these shelves are ones that I studied for either classes or for my final exam to get my Master's Degree so I'm incredibly proud of these shelves because when I look at these books I remember how hard I [ __ ] studied for that exam and for just general classes but I also wrote a lot of papers on these books I read a lot of criticism around these books I read a lot about each individual author for my exam

so it's like you can almost choose any book off these shelves and I could give you a full lecture on them I didn't love all of them I'm gonna be honest I didn't I do love them in fact there's a few that I desperately did not like for example just just calling one out at random Bleak House by Charles Dickens not a favorite of mine far from it in fact then we have books like North and South A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man two books that I wrote some of my favorite papers

about hands and fruit hi so when I look at these I'm so excited I'm so inspired and I'm so proud of myself anyway yeah uh just to call out a couple things because it is a tour we have all my Penguins Classics yes before you ask I wish it went all the way to the end I wish unfortunately I don't have enough did I consider buying more just for this shelf tour absolutely absolutely but I'm gonna let those copies find me in the right moment at the right time right over here we have a couple

of Norton critical editions these are the additions that my professors salivate over I it's an awful way to put that but these were often not recommended they were required right these were the books that like everyone in class had so that everyone knew where to turn a page to and what quotes people were referencing but so I have a soft spot for Norton critical editions they are both annoying because they were required but then also I spent a lot of time with these editions because of how much my professors loved them and how much my

professors had to say about them so please hold while I shelved that the last thing I'll say about these shelves these are Broadview editions I had one Professor who swore by Broadview editions so I have a lot of them number one they're expensive number two and more importantly I hate them I hate them because first of all they're very slippery they are like laminated almost but also you can't crease these spines and I tried I tried these books do not want to stay open and oftentimes I would close them because I didn't want to be

reading and also because if if you don't want a cracked spine then you're flopping closed and that's on you that's on you Broadview now we're getting to the final shelf let me let me move you okay now we've reached the final shelf I feel oddly casual with you right now hello this final shelf I'm gonna enter some b-roll of but this is my Thriller detective mystery horror shelf we have this beautiful edition of The Maltese Falcon this was also a gift from a subscriber and it's one of the best and favorite books that I have

on my shelf it is an incredible Edition like this is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life I cherish it but hold on let me fix my shelf for a second I mean let me grab one of my favorite books of all time sharp objects I live and breathe for Gillian Flynn absolutely Gone Girl is one of my most quoted movies and that might be weird to say but it's absolutely absolutely true I quote that at least once a day but sharp objects was just Brilliance personified on the page so um that's one

that I loved yeah I'd say that one of my favorite books of this year so far has been a certain hunger this is a brilliant book and not everyone loves it and that's okay I think it is absolutely brilliant it is both terrifying and also in the style of a memoir from a woman in prison after she has been caught in a murder so it is so good it is seriously so good that's the final shelf there is another shelf below but again disorganized you keep them at the bottom so that no one really notices

that's a pro tip from yours truly anyway let me pivot you that is the bookshelf tour my friends those are my books those are my shelves again these shelves are a dream come true for me they are everything I could have ever wanted and I'm just so happy with them so once I finish the the last few shelves I'll make sure to share them maybe do an updated tour in a couple months once I've added more to them or added lights to them because right now there is no lighting um but yeah I just love

them so much and I'm very proud of them and I hope you'll enjoy this video so love you all hope to see in the next one bye