10 Books I'd Save From A Fire / Bookshelf Tour

[@cafeaulivre]

Which book would you save from a fire? Is it your all time favorite, or perhaps one with a special memory attached to it? Let me know down below and we'll talk special books some more!

[@jessgimmebooks]

I’d save an old prayer book from my grandma; it’s worn out with yellowed pages but knowing it was hers will always make it special to me. Also, thanks to your video I’m going back to my parents later today to browse my childhood books & I’m sticking Amazon gift notes in the books (I already kept those but wasn’t sure what to do with them).

[@cafeaulivre]

I hope you find the most wonderful books and memories of your childhood 😊 and yes, I always Pritt-glue them in (minimal damage, if any) so I remember who gifted them and what their message was 😍

[@starlasell5698]

Wonderful book recommendations, and wow what a wonderful honeymoon!

[@cafeaulivre]

Thank you, and it truly was ☺️

[@leonkamitsis7167]

The Brothers Karamazov my all-time favorite book!!

[@shwetha9617]

I love your energy! This is good, let me stare at my bookshelf and decide my top 5( 10 would be too much to carry when escaping a burning place😅)

[@cafeaulivre]

Warning: I did the same exercise and you’ll be staring a lot longer at those shelves than expected 🤣

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Good way to think what books are important to you. Best wishes.

[@MyMessyBookshelf]

Such a lovely video… there are books I would save that mean nothing to other people and I love your choices. I didn’t even realize that was Terry Pratchett’s last book because I never finished the series! And a honeymoon in Antarctica?? You are officially the coolest couple ever!

[@cafeaulivre]

The books that mean nothing to others are the best choices: those are the ones with stories & memories attached 😊

[@vivacepianostudio]

In 1994 my house actually did burn. We lost so much which I still occasionally allow myself to mourn. Including the books: signed copies, my leather bound set of Oxford Classics etc. Being in a different part of the house, some of the children’s books miraculously survived. Including Mystery at Thunderbolt House which was my first introduction to historical fiction at age 14. Water damaged, smudged with soot and held together with a rubber band I couldn’t bear to part with it all these years. Recently I reread. (Spoiler alert but I doubt anyone here would be interested in reading this book even if it is available) When the main character loses his valuable book collection to the San Francisco fire he is reminded, “The value is not in the books themselves, it’s the messages and thoughts inside”. That has resonated with me.

[@cafeaulivre]

I’m so sorry to hear, I shudder at the thought 😥

[@susan3037]

Inspiring, enlightening, and surprising list. Thank you.

[@cafeaulivre]

Thank you 😊

[@PageTurnersWithKatja]

Oh the Calvin & hobbs! 🤩

[@cafeaulivre]

I love them 😍 I never grow tired of C&H

[@ReadtoFilth]

Thank you for giving me an idea!

[@aiscahill]

I love the idea of a 14 year old Bart choosing to spend his money on Dickens. Such a lovely story. Your honeymoon sounds like it was incredible! I’m quite similar to you - I don’t love writing in my books. I have my edition of Jane Eyre from school where you can see I wrote really lightly with pencil because our teacher made us write in the margins. I remember it breaking my heart 😅 I don’t have any real sentimental attachment to most of my books but there are a few that I’ve had since I was a small child and I’d hate to lose some of those ☺️

[@cafeaulivre]

Yeah, imagine how popular 14 yr old Bart was with his classmates 🤣 Antarctica was absolutely special…we try to do a special travel every ten years now

[@racheldrymon2091]

The only book I would save (for most I can rebuy) is Blood and Honor by Reinhold Kerstan. I believe it’s out of print and the copy I have was given to me by my favorite aunt. 💚💚

[@cafeaulivre]

Sounds indeed like one to hold on to!

[@lanaringoot2168]

I think I'd choose my paperback copy of a darker shade of magic. It's in fact my mom's, but she recommended it to me. And it's signed to both our names by VE Schwab herself. I love that story.

[@cafeaulivre]

Oh wow, that’s a keepsake right there!

[@andreeablaj3414]

Wonderful recommendations! ❤❤

[@cafeaulivre]

Thank you 😊

[@zetectic7968]

Not my favourite book but a lot in there to think about that is beyond the familiar legend: it is The Once & Future King by T.H.White.. The book is actually in 4 volumes: The sword in the stone; The witch in the wood; The ill-made knight & The candle in the wind. Familiar characters but not how you might think & many others.

[@cafeaulivre]

I think I read the first part, although I might be mistaken it for something else. I’ll have to look into that series then. Thanks for the recommendation!

[@michaeldornan7737]

I would save Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky as it taught me about the past in another country and that the world was bigger and much more exciting (maybe not better) than I had thought at the age of 16. Great video, thanks!

[@cafeaulivre]

Love that!

[@AlbertGauche]

My ten books I’d save first are: “The Anarchist Tool Chest” by Chris Schwarz “The Ashley Book of Knots” by Clifford Ashley “The Green Mysteries” by Daniel Schulke “Three Books of Occult Philosophy” Cornelius Agrippa “Oregon Geographic Names” 6th edition by Lewis L McArthur “Lord of the Rings” by JRR Tolkien “Dune” by Frank Herbert “ A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates” by Captain Charles Johnson “Phillip K Dick: Four novels of the 1960s” Library of America press “Vonnegut: Novels and Stories 1963-1973” Library of America press “The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian” by Robert E Howard.

[@cafeaulivre]

Love that list!

[@shisharma]

I would save jane eyre ,pride and prejudice,the count of monte Cristo,tess of the d'urbervilles ,the night circus,and then there were none,and to kill a mockingbird. (I have special connection with all my books I'll be bowling my eyes out except for Colleen hoover's book i regret buying them so I'll only think about those tress which got sacrificed for these books )

[@cafeaulivre]

Colleen Hoover is an acceptable sacrifice 😉

[@VTimmoni]

You have great taste in books.

[@Bamz0rsOnline]

I honestly would not save any book, I have a hard time getting rid of books anyway 😅😅 itd be a breath of fresh air to have room for new books

[@cafeaulivre]

You don't need less books, you need more shelves!

[@Bamz0rsOnline]

Its okay, there are still copies of my book left 😏

[@cafeaulivre]

That's why I wasn't going to include books that can still easily be replaced ;)

[@amysmith1044]

I would save my facsimile editions of Agatha Christie, I have 5 Death on the Nile Murder on the Orient Express The Murder of Roger Ackroyd And Then There Were None Pale Horse😂😂😂

[@cafeaulivre]

I’d help you save those! 😍

[@amysmith1044]

@@cafeaulivre thank you! And I love your videos! I was just telling my hubby about how I love your content and that you are criminally underrated

[@cafeaulivre]

Thank you, that’s too kind 😊

[@VTimmoni]

Only ten? I might burn with my books like the old woman from Fahrenheit 451. Kidding. The Lord of the Rings My collectors edition of the Trinity core rule book The Odyssey The Illiad Santa Olivia and Saints Astray by Jacqueline Carey My copy of Kipling's complete poems that my grandfather gave me My copy of the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge that my grandfather gave me The folder with the RPG my wife and I are trying to write My copy of the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe This is assuming my wife and daughter will get their own ten and my wife would definitely save our Calvin and Hobbs.

[@cafeaulivre]

There is actually an edition of Fahrenheit that doesn’t burn 😋 it was made a few years ago in protest against the book burning. Also, tell me everything about this RPG!!! 😍

[@VTimmoni]

@@cafeaulivre It's a generic system designed to be used in any setting like GURPS but more streamlined and based around 2d12

[@cafeaulivre]

Fantasy? Scifi? Gothic horror?

[@VTimmoni]

@@cafeaulivre It's just a rules framework that you can slot any setting into. No world associated with it.

[@cafeaulivre]

Cool, I’ve always been a fan of generic systems 😋

[@PlumasCountyCalif]

Can I be the Devil's Advocate: 10 Books That I'd Throw In The Fire! The first is obvious: the Bible! (Wait.. It has the Old and New Testament. Does that count as one book? Or two?)

[@cafeaulivre]

You can, although every book can teach us something. Here, I have the bible next to the Quran and the kamasutra 😋

[@vivacepianostudio]

Maybe you should read The Bible before you judge it. Not just about religion, there’s a lot of wisdom too.