I just got the Official Artbook for The Untamed and OMG it's beautifull 😍 I feel like your shelves could be twins of mine 🤣. And I also got the first book for the Bone Season! Not sure when I'll be able to read it though. My TBR keeps getting bigger... 🌕

Thanks to you, I finally read His Majesty's Dragon, and now I'm hooked!

Nice haul! The Warm Hands of Ghosts was so good! (I cried.) I hope you like it too.

Well done, Aubrey. That was a very satisfying watch. I love how you take such care of each book, and also your precision when re-shelving. I got so excited when you placed that first book on your new shelf! Are the books on the floor your TBR? I want to live in your library room. Let me just grab this cot I have....... 🧝‍♀ 🧝 🧝‍♂ My book shelves are very loosely organized by the height of the book, but I do have all of my expensive collectors editions together, all of my Penguin black spines together, all of my art books together, and all of my Persephone books together. My current reads are in my bedroom on my nightstand (with my Kindle), and my Folio Society Editions are on a dresser in my bedroom as well, with the cutest black cat bookends. So glad I watched to the very, very end because of the sweet little cats. You can't have a library without cats.

So many beautiful books. It really is amazing just how much flourish special editions can have. Do you have regular versions for reading and keep them special editions for display? When I was rereading the Hobbit recently, I took the dusk jacket off, because it was coming loose as I read. The naked hardback is pure white, and all the text and a drawn frame are in a thin, dull gold leaf. I wasn't even halfway through when I noticed my hands were rubbing at the leaf, either turned it green or just smearing it off completely. So, I would be terrified to read one of those special editions. 😱 I got the Arslan novels recently. The series is comprised of 16 books! 😄I decided to get the novels instead of the manga, because the novel series is already finished and I'm wanting to read more novels relative to manga. Plus, I can enjoy reading the manga later and seeing how it compares to my vision of what the characters looked like, and what, if anything was changed in the story. Thanks for nerding out with your books! It was fun! 😁

I finished Voyage of The Damend a couple weeks ago.While not my favourite of the year, I really had a good time with it.

Wow you some really interesting books a couple I hope to get at some point nice video 👍

Love your channel I really enjoy it

I love reorganizing my bookshelves too! I love how you decorate yours :)

I wouldn't have thought your set up could look much nicer but it's even more amazing now! 😃I gather from what you said during the video that these shelves are restricted to books you have read. That really adds to the sense of self expression involved when they are all books that you have imbibed and have in a way become a part of you. So it makes so much sense that you would take the care to deck it out with things you enjoy. It's a genuine work of art. I especially enjoyed the big ring of keys. They are so mysterious to me, I want to believe they actually go to some huge lock, but also can't help but think they must be purely decorative. 😁And your fairy in the glass cuboid, I have a very similar rectangular glass prism that I got from my oldest friend from Japan inhabited by an Asian dragon surrounded by wispy stylized clouds. It is so richly detailed down to the tiny scales, coiling around filling out most of the space. I love it. It makes me suspect the fairy must look really great up close. I also like how you stack some of your series. It add variety and is space efficient all at the same time. As for my set up, it's the most boring thing in the world. Since the Japanese version of the mass market paperback has got to be the tiniest standardized book in the entire world, I just use media shelves as book shelves. They are very shallow, but if you have short books, you can really make a lot of columns since the shelves are so thin. Also, on my regular book shelves I keep the bindings up to the front edge of the shelves so they are all in a smooth line. Which I just think looks nice, but there is no room for decorations. I don't really collect figures and stuff, but I do have a few things like postcards that came with a book and such that I think look nice that I rest on the top of my media shelves. My second favorite decoration is a large quartz crystal. I got it from my great grandmother who collected rocks. It is so big that it could have been used to heal the Dark Crystal. I don't organize my books other than keeping series together. And even that is hard since I have a lot of manga. I have so many series where I have several volumes shelved with new volumes that are getting stacked on the floor. 😅I'm due for a new shelf. 🙃 I'm right in the middle of rereading LotR and I'm loving it. 🧝Thanks for the fun video! Looking forward to more.

I'm seeing Heaven Official's Blessing in the background (it's also in my shelf) 😍

Have a great summer 🧜‍♂ with plenty of fascinating reads 🧜‍♀

You have an impressive collection 🧝, thank yo for sharing it with everyone. Personally I organize by genres and publication companies {as they tend to have similar covers}, followed by names of authors {not alphabetically}.

Your book shelves look great😃

You're joy for the artwork on your books is fantastic. 😀While I have seen a few special editions of popular manga, I've never come across a special edition of a Japanese novel. They might well exist, but if so, it seems to be at no where near the scale they are produced in the west. Also, there isn't much fore-edge painting, and what I have seen has always been a simple single color. I bet the special editions can add some pressure to purchase with there probably being limited printings of them. Especially if you are getting them from the UK or some other foreign country. I know I worry about books I really want going out of print because, while it isn't impossible, there are a lot of added steps where something could go wrong, and costs that can't be perfectly calculated until you are further along the process and well on the hook when purchasing used items from Japan. Also, you seem to worry about pronouncing author/character names. Maybe it would help to take a second to search google to find an audio clip with the pronunciation, so you don't have to worry about it so much? I just thought something like that might help you be able to be more at ease. And, your doggie is so cute! I love cats too, but dogs have always been special to me! 😍 Thanks for the fun video and hope you are enjoying your summer reading!

I just bought Where the Dark Stands Still as well. I'm going to be 100% honest. I just bought it because of the cover lol

Thank you so much! Your comments are always so wonderful to read! 😊 My favorite biological subject is zoology (with a side of a&p & genetics). I love animals so much and find it so fascinating to learn about how they live and operate and about their anatomical and physiological structures and processes. I will admit that I don't know a lot about plants - such as how to identify or care for them - besides how they function on a cellular level, but I am trying to learn some! And I agree, having a diverse yard and garden is so beautiful, not to mention environmentally friendly. (Also, I think it's nice when people get excited about their interests and talk about what they love!) I tend to only buy editions of books in English, since that's currently the only language that I'm fluent in, but I have made some exceptions with Mandarin because I am attempting to learn it. Let me tell you, though, the different cover illustrations are very tempting!! 😅 Maybe one day!

What a coincidence! I just got Elantris in the mail a couple of days ago! There's always a lot of hype around Sanderson, and I ran into an article about getting into his writing, and decided to dip my toe in. It's so cool that you got your degree in biology. I actually wanted to be a evolutionary biologist, but got derailed when I took my mandatory language classes. I still love the subject though. So much so that a big hobby of mine, besides books, is landscaping with native plants. If I see an unfamiliar butterfly in my yard, I look it up and find out what its host plant(s) are and try to get some planted somewhere. The relationship between the plants and animals is always amazing. You also get a landscape that transforms with the seasons because of the shorter bloom times of a large variety of flowers. I need to pull the horse reigns back here before geeking out completely. I had an electrician come to my house and he made the mistake of asking me about some oak saplings I had in containers and got a foamy mouth rant about how amazing oaks are. His regret was very visible. Poor guy. 😅 By the way, yes, this type of video will, by it's very nature, have a pattern of "I'm so excited about this book! I'm so excited about this book!" But you do a good job of keeping it fresh by reading the synapses, talking about why you are excited, and adding in personal anecdotes about your copies of the books (when they exist.) As long as you keep conscious of it, I think you will do fine with it. Also, you need to not stop with English version of LotR. Do the right thing and collect every release in every language. If you are going to do something, might as well go all the way in. You will probably have enough books to use as bricks to build an estate house... 🤣 Thanks for the fun video! Good luck with your reading!🚣🏽‍♂

Some great books there. Best wishes with what you choose to read. I hope you get some great stories. Good luck with your channel too!

Lots of interesting picks! I love fantasy. I had heard that Howl's Moving Castle was originally an English novel, but had forgotten about looking into it more. Thanks for putting it back on my radar! Also, if you get around to reading The Devil And The Dark Water, I would love to hear what you think about it. (I found a Japanese translation. But, it's a bit expensive, making me a bit cautious to dive in. I am tottering clumsily up and down on a wobbling diving board.) I'm fairly new to booktube, so I've only recently heard of seasonal reading. I live in Missouri, so the seasons are very pronounced, almost ideally so, I would go as far to say. While I haven't decided want to read according the seasons, they do affect my reading experience. In spring and autumn I can read on the porch, thus being surrounded by a cool breezes, birdsong and various little critters. And there are plenty of rainy days. While in summer and winter, I am indoors, in silence, in a space designed to avoid distractions. So, it's interesting to think about. I looked at my bookshelves but was hard-pressed to find a book/series that really felt connected to a season to me personally. I have a book of manga shorts that all take place in ancient Egypt. So, maybe the hot desert is summer-like... I have a manga series that takes place in Iceland, with a detective who can talk to cars. I thought for sure it would have some nice wintery vibes, but as I flipped through the first volume, the main character was driving in his jeep with the windows down and sunglasses on. Then he went swimming in the sea. I feel betrayed. 🤣 Anyhow, thanks for the fun video! 🐳

great books!!! thank you for sharing 😊 these videos are so calming and friendly to watch!

Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read - Isaiah 34:16

Sorry to hear you are suffering from migraines. Hopefully they subside or you find an effective way to deal with them so they don't get in the way of your enjoyment of doing the things you love. As far as vices go, I think collecting books is just about the best one a person could have. I understand your feelings about having lots of unread books. I do too, but probably anyone that collects books does as well. I think part of the fun is collecting the books in and of itself, finding new and interesting things via KZbin or some other means, having hundreds of adventures at the tips of your fingers, supporting our favorite authors/artists, and enjoying the artwork. We live in an age overloaded with amazing media and we will never be able to experience it all. As long as you aren't putting yourself in debt, keeping yourself from saving for retirement or doing other things you would like to do, I don't see the harm. Maybe just take a breath, not worry so much about it, find a book you are interested in the moment and let it sweep you away. No reason to put pressure on yourself or stress, because this is about enjoyment and your personal pleasure. I hope you have a great summer and go on many adventures with your books whittling away at a comfortable pace! 😁👍

That was a lot of fun. My favorite part was when your mom told you there weren't any pictures on the Bradbury book and you kind of panicked and said, "What!?" 🐱

I greatly appreciate that your channel covers a genre of books not covered by all the big book channels on KZbin. Your channel helps me add real diversity to my tbr list. I've been needing to break out and try other genres. I look forward to adding some of these to my own reading list. I hope you keep the channel going... I'll probably wait until you've read some of these are give a review. In the mean time, I'll have to try out Heroic Legend of Arslan.

I've been eyeing His Majesty's Dragon because I very much enjoyed Naomi Novik's books Uprooted and her Scholomance series. I'd recommend two series, but I don't know if these would be considered underrated. The first would be Dungeon Crawler Carl. In the beginning, the series can feel like a joke, and I think the whole series is technically satire, but as you progress through the books, you find yourself getting way too invested in these characters. For a series that started off like a joke, it can really pull on the emotions. If you try Dungeon Crawler Carl, you have to try the Audiobook version because Jeff Hays is a master voice actor that really brings the books to life. The series I'd recommend is Beware of Chicken. I love that series too, but I this message is already to long, so I'll stop there. Thanks for all the recommendations.

Thank you for sharing this list of lesser known genre books. The only one that I have read and enjoyed is the series by Naomi Novik 🐉 Are you familiar with The Sparrow ? 🐦🐦🐦

I actually had three of these on my radar. I've been wanting to try Arslan because the novels were written by the same author as Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which I really enjoy. I have the first novel of the Temeraire series, but I bought it in a big bulk order (if I don't order in bulk the shipping per book is crazy from Japan.) And, I wishlisted The Goblin Emperor a while ago when I was looking for fantasy/sci-fi books that won or were nominated for certain awards that seemed interesting. I like your shirt, btw. Riding the cat bus would be amazing, right? 😄I need to rewatch Totoro at some point. 🐦

Hi I agree with you about The Bartimaes Trilogy loved it so much. Then I found The Ring of Soloman, it's the prequel and is hilarious, with the sassy footnotes😊

Wow cool stuff l love your channel its always interesting to see what you have love it can't wait for more

I love Jonathan Stroud books.😊

You seem to like a lot of Japanese books! 😀 If you haven't read Ascendance of a Bookworm, I would highly recommend it! It seems like a series you would like a lot. As for my Spring reading, I'm reading Japanese translations of a few old western fantasy classics. Right now I am on the first three books in the Dragon Lance series, which, I've never read before. Afterwards, I am going to re-read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit was the first real novel I read as a child and it had a huge impact on me, so I thought it would be fun to go through it in Japanese to see what it reads like. Same with the LotR. Thanks for the fun videos.

I appreciate you giving the publisher for the books.

I discovered your channel through this video. What a wonderful library you have - now I have to watching Part 1. Happy Reading! 😎📚👍

ooh I need to get to The Angel's Game too! Great video!

I recommend adding a profile picture, write an about section and possibly putting social links. It'll look better for newcomers.

Love your channel

the demon slayer box set is to die for! and so many good books im gonna add to my tbr!

love the collection! mxtx is my fave author + you're so gorgeous this was calming to watch ❤