You are so passionate about the topics and people you discuss. That's why I adore your videos. Thank you so much for another great one!

Hi! I love your video! I also get old books from second hand book shops but not as rare as yours. I'm kinda getting discouraged recently to treasure hunt since I keep witnessing my old books deteriorating (I live in a pretty humid country) and I'm worried that physical books might die on me at one point so I was amazed to see that there are opportunities to see rare treasures like these in pretty amazing condition and I'm kinda getting encouraged again. Anyways, I would like to ask. How do you store your rare books? Aside from the spine cushion, do you do anything else to preserve these? Thank you!

Love love love this video! Thank you!

Great insight as always!

Two of my favorite topics together!

I just added these books to my shopping cart and I'm looking forward to reading them. Thank you for sharing, these sound really interesting.

It is vital to have leadership that is anti-hierarchical. I don't know about "Leave the Bibles, bring the banjo" for morale, but maybe! Keeping a good outlook no matter what reminds me of this little book I read last year about Dipa Ma, a Buddhist saint from the far east, who had a prayer that asked, "Let us pass through our while of time, with Good Body and Happy Mind."

I'm in LOVE with your channel, you always blow up my mind. I'm still in awe of how you can take such an advantage of a simple ad

You are on the Mystic path of the Paired Reader! Very cool how the Little Library system paired you up there.

Thanks for sharing! After just reading just 2 of lovecraft's stories so far, I got chills at the end of both! 😅

I read a couple of Lovecraft's stories several years ago and ultimately decided that he's not the author for me, but I loooove Shackleton, so this pairing has inspired me to give Lovecraft another chance Thank you for these recommendations, looking forward to new videos in this series!

Great topic! Thank you for sharing.

Really loved this! Hearing your learned insight and deep observations of a pulp story is wonderful. I’ve just started reading some pulp works in the last year and they are fascinating. Years ago I wrote a short story set in Antarctica and as I always do I immersed myself in research about the continent and its history and it was so compelling. Another great review/visual essay, Andrea! Thanks! ❤

I’ve been watching your book reviews, and I love how insightful and engaging they are. You’ve got a great way of bringing books to life! I’m new to the KZbin book review scene and don’t have many people around me who are into reading-or who aren’t camera-shy! It can feel a bit awkward doing it solo, so I thought it might be fun and helpful to collaborate with someone experienced like you. Would you be interested in teaming up for a video or two? Even if you’re not up for a collab, any advice you have for a newbie would be awesome. Thanks a lot for considering it!

Hi Andrea! I am fascinated by Antarctica! I hope you are well!

I forget most of what I read and I'm ok with that. I find that one thing that makes something stick for me is telling it to someone else. I read the Helen Scales book Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashell. I remember I like it a lot but very little of what was in it. But the fact that there is a blind mathematician who studies seashell by touch and math was so interesting that I told someone about it. Now that fact is cemented in my head. The memory is reinforced by the addition of another memory of me telling some specific person in a place and time.

I think I've seen the covers of these books but had never picked them up to find out more. They sound so interesting.

I love Anne of Green Gables and have read the first 3 or 4 books in the series..plan to one day get back to it and finish the series. Thanks for sharing about the biography! I didn't know those facts about L.M. Montgomery's life. 😊

I've been using this method to read Moby Dick :)

Great suggestions. I really enjoy your approach to reading.

I have been reading a book daily called Delight by J.B. Priestley. It was written in 1949 and it's a collection of things the author finds delightful. The essays are very short, just a page or two. There are 114 altogether. There is one about detective fiction in bed that I loved lol.

I think a good way to start each day would be to watch an Infinite Text video! I am a hopeless mystic when it comes to books and I just have let the book I read at the moment lead me to the next book, for the most part. Then, there are the Andreea recommendations . . . And if I find an author I like, I'll get more of his or her books or at least another couple. It's a kind of hunting instinct that hunts authors, not so much topics.

I was at one of our botanical gardens here in SW Florida and they were featuring the bunya-bunya pine and the plaque said it was classified as a FL state champion tree in the registry of state champion trees. I'd never heard that term before and sure enough there is a registry you can Google to get to know these trees a bit better. You can even search your area. I have a lot of trees books. I think one is called Meetings With Renarkable Trees. It's a stunning book, lots of photos and the write-ups are gorgeous. Most of them are British or Asian trees (so, not by me at all) but it's my go-to book to get myself in a calmer state of mind, bring down the old anxiety level. And I learn somehow new each time because it's so engrossing.

ive had a non-fic called "the gray lady winked" about the new york times going for over a month now and ive barely made a dent, it actually is interesting but i just never feel the desire to pick it up. might start aiming for even just 5-10 pages a day as a rule.

I love your channel so much!

Nice that this booktube channel is back. It's rich in food-for-thought material.

Three books come to my mind even if the entries are 1-3 pages long. 1) The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature by Clifton Fadiman, John S Major. 2) How to Sound Cultured: Master The 250 Names That Intellectuals Love To Drop Into Conversation by Thomas W. Hodgkinson, Hubert van den Bergh. 3)The Map and the Clock by Carol Ann Duffy (Contributor).

That's an interesting habit.

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What a fascinating topic for a video! So happy to have stumbled upon your channel :) You mentioned reading Camus while doing your undergrad, do you mind my asking what you studied? Or maybe you have a video/post talking about it? Sorry if I'm being too nosy

I think about Camus at least once a week. Thanks for this

I resonate with Zadie Smith on writing notebooks. I've tried to keep a notebook many times, and always feel so fake and embarrassed by seeing my thoughts written out as if for consumption by some unseen audience. It's nice to get some validation on that; I've never seen anyone else mention it. Have you read some of the published commonplace books by various authors? Are there any you would recommend?

Thanks for introducing this trilogy to us!

I have written notebooks of my thoughts since sometime in the late 90s, when my wife started doing it after reading The Artist's Way. So I found Zadie Smith's challenges to the whole idea of diaries to be something I avoid asking myself. I write in bed, as a rule, at the end of the day. I have ideas I want to discuss but no one to discuss with, or I want to just apply that extra strength of writing to my understanding of what happened or what I wish could happen. And I've written hundreds of poems that just started up from my diaries. These are a mess, all scratched out and rewritten at weird angles on the page. No one will ever read them, but they've been a big help to me through the many ups and downs of a none-too-stable mind and personality. BTW, I know you live with cats, so I was amused at hearing your pronunciation of Ca-mieuw!

Such an interesting video! I loved your take on it ❤

Very happy to see Bradbury here. I'll be curious to see more videos on this subject.

Very net testing. Thanks for this.

I look forward to seeing the reactions when the movie arrives; the books sound pretty stimulating. I'm pretty sure I would have loved them as a 7 to 10 year old. I envy you zipping through a book a day - I got a very academic book on John Milton, one of the Harold Bloom collections, and I'm crawling along through it. But I admire the precision of these PhD minds, and Milton, a mountain in the Literature Range.

the film looks great, i love the animation style and the story sounds lovely. glad to hear that the books were good too

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I have and read with The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet! I enjoyed both but remember The Tao of Pooh more... it came into my life when I was in a very stressful time in my life and it really helped me! 😊

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You are a value-adding person! Free is perfect for any limited budget.

Oh dear - you make these sound so interesting! Every day I tell myself No More Books (till I get some more finished) but then friends and relatives foist more irresistible books on me, like The Dawn Of Everything, etc. The fact that you have plans AND the books to read about Dinosaurs years from now is sort of encouraging. Book-maniac support!

Skull and Saltire is a awesome book about Scottish pirate's.

so many cats! theres a bookstore in glasgow with a cat called voltaire and rousseau, please google it and see it for yourself. ive used it for thumbnails twice i think, its very visually jarring.

Great recommendations, as always! Conan Doyle's The Lost World is one of my favorites. It's just a good, fun adventure book. I also enjoyed The Paleontologist, but I do think his previous novel (A History of Fear) was much stronger. I'm planning to read more nonfiction books about dinosaurs after reading The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs, and I've put a few of your selections on my list!

the sherlock holmes room is very fun and i love the rare books library, so cool and different. the rare childrens books collection especially sounds like it would be incredibly interesting to see. the peter pan statue is lovely, reminds me of the alice statue in NYC's central park.

Thanks for all this info and the links!! I'm in northern Ontario, but will have to be in Toronto probably within the next few months. I'll have to check some of these out😁

If you can find anything by Loren Eisley, get it. He was an anthropologist, philosopher and natural science writer probsbly most know for his essay How Flowers Changed The World. I first learned of him from Rebecca Solnit's writings. I became engrossed with the origins of plants and, well, all life. I'm in the middle of Brusatte's book right now and am excited by your dino haul & project. Will totally be following along.