a good ol' comfy reading vlog: come book shopping & enjoy the sunshine ⛅

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welcome to another cozy long reading vlog, in which we go book shopping, stop by multiple bookstores, enjoy the sun, and read extasia and bell hooks!
00:00 intro
2:03 choosing an audiobook
5:30 a sunny sunday outside
8:44 book shopping with friends!
16:22 haul
18:49 going out????
21:34 getting productive
22:31 embroidery book chat
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Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 23 year old girl who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave). I live in the Netherlands and go to university, but make booktube videos in my spare time :)
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[@TheBookLeo]

Use my code (THEBOOKLEO) to get $15 off your first Bokksu Japanese snack box! partner.bokksu.com/thebookleo

[@fallisdying2077]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how nice Leo's style is

[@debanjana1838]

You don't know how much I was waiting for this. I just LOVE your reading vlogs!! 🌸

[@iuliac3087]

Me too

[@SaraSilva-mx3ej]

You: 11°C outside it's pretty decent ❤️ Me in Brazil when it's 17°C outside: 🥶 I love this difference

[@mac8697]

I'm from southern Spain and I had the same reaction you did hahahaha

[@suzy9323]

Love that! Here it really does feel amazing when we finally get 11 degrees again because honestly 4 degrees is normal from november through to march and it sUcks, I envy your 17 degrees being cold!

[@Danny-po5vp]

I live in Canada and anything above -5 feels like shorts weather

[@anythingbutcoffee5211]

Such a cozy video! I have a recommendation for you regarding "the sofa" (because you don't have "the chair" 😅) - I got a very simple coat stand for my room and it's life changing. You can throw clothes on it that would normally lay around on "the chair" - you don't even need to hang them, i got one from ikea for 15 euros that I can just pile onto (secondhand options on ebay marketplace are usually even cheaper). The room looks so much neater automatically and you don't have to sacrifice seating space 😅 Greetings from Germany 🥳

[@shrutighosh311]

Leonie and Emmie are the two aesthetic queens of booktube whom I wish to embody 💗🌸

[@caerrie]

Never seen those waterbottles in Germany! Here lots of people carry glass bottles (which seems like a desaster waiting to happen to me, and I have witnessed two actually happening lol).

[@leelyj.]

bell hook is one of my favorite non-fiction authors. I also started reading her in "feminism is for everybody" and I haven't stopped since. I really think you'll enjoy reading "all about love" (not sure about the English title because I'm brazilian), but it's a really amazing book. and also "teaching to transgress" is really good if you're interested in something more about education (against all forms of oppression). oh I could talk about bell hook's work forever. I really hope you enjoy :)

[@anikellermann2338]

As an American who studied in the UK and got to visit the Netherlands while I was there: that water bottle was so iconically Dutch, my hostel was selling them! I've never seen them anywhere else, but I did end up getting one as a keepsake!

[@sofiamilla7809]

The Virginia Woolf part really got to me, I'm EXACTLY like that lol

[@jus_sanguinis]

Virginia Woolf is a true feminist of the first wave feminism. P.S. Btw there is no direct ban of cannibalism in the Bible and in the Quran, as I know. You can find there a direct ban of the rabbit meat, but not the human flesh. Thats funny.

[@yusrababamia7382]

This was such a wondeful and comforting reading vlog and definitely made me want to pick up a new book to read. I really like these vlogs because they are always so relaxing and make me very happy!

[@jaswantee7132]

Hey Leone! Everything about you is aesthetically pleasing! I love you! ❤️

[@wandguardnoodle]

Bunny is a trip, I felt very unsettled most of the time as I was reading it, but I was into it at the same time xD

[@pendragon2012]

Always thrilled to see another Leonie VLOG. I know I'll be adding titles to my already-infinite TBR list. Currently reading "The Iron King"--my first foray into YA Fantasy in awhile, on your rec! Are bookstores fairly cheap in the Netherlands? I remember many moons ago living in London and being just amazed at how cheap it was to buy books! Have a great week, Leonie!

[@txdave]

You have the best vlogs!!! Aesthetically, editing wise, and just overall such a fun positive and relatable vibe!!!

[@ariannamartinez4437]

Your vlogs are always so lovely, the aesthetic is always on point but at the same time so calm and comforting 🤎

[@mark-breen]

Comfy?? Book shop?? Sunshine???? This sounds like an ideal video.

[@pearld1ver]

i love your aesthetic so much, your videos always make my day better

[@millieb3823]

So excited! I love these types of videos especially bookstores they always seem so magical! Thankyou leonie ♡ Also i have just seen the water bottle and i have never seen nor had one before as a student in the UK, although it does look really cool!

[@emmaopaline]

Just finished the duology of Six of Crows when you post it your video, what a coincidence ! Always a chill and cosy moment ! Thanks Leo !

[@fallisdying2077]

You're literally my favorite youtuber Leonie and your videos just bring me pure joy :) thanks for the amazing videos every week

[@ememememily]

I first found your channel through one of your reading vlogs a few years ago, and to this day it’s still my favorite type of content. These vlogs give off so much cozy and calm vibes, I just rewatch a bunch of your old ones whenever I need a serotonin boost.

[@scarletstevens]

I like this type of casual vlog and I really like monthly or quarterly TBR vlogs!

[@giodio4048]

hi! I really love your chill vlogs they make me much calmer and more relaxed

[@julieaguirre4649]

It's always fun to "hang out" with you, no matter what you're doing! Loved seeing Brit as well!!🤓🤓🤓

[@boryanatraycheva2618]

I love your vlogs, I've been watching them while having breakfast (or any meal, really) for a few days now and they've been a gorgeous mood setter ❤️❤️❤️

[@EmilyKathrynH]

ahhh I love all of the springtime visuals and energy in this vlog!

[@fallisdying2077]

I look up to every single of your uploads and then seeing the video notification just makes my day. Forever in love with your videos

[@__cutie14__]

I love your videos so much! When ever I need motivation to read, I come here! Keep on making videos I love them!

[@xena4792]

Ooh the bokksu box looks so fun! I also loved watching you and your friends speaking in the video in your native language and having English subtitles! That was just cool to see too lol

[@froeira]

Your reading vlogs always brigthen my day, fun and aesthetically pleasing as well, thank you for that ^^ Also, these water bottles!! I first saw these when I lived in Paris, every other student had one, and when I saw a Van Gogh themed one I had to get it and I've loved it ever since - but never seen anyone else with these here, in Hungary. On an other note: Bastille is amazing live! Saw them at Sziget Festival a couple of years ago and it was one of the best concert experiences I had there ^^ I hope you'll have a great time as well!

[@fortress6721]

Watching your videos feels reading a good book for the first time シ︎

[@kelleyiswriting]

Hii happy spring!! Damn the Netherlands is sooo beautiful 😭😭 thanks for sharing another vlog, I love this casual, non-themed style of reading and hanging out 💕

[@marisophi]

13:50 i just started reading (and listening simultaneously) to she who became the sun and so far im really enjoying it!

[@sophieriri2063]

what I needed on a sunday evening 🥰

[@jamesduggan7200]

Hey Leonie, hope your studies are going well. I too am very happy Spring is here. I remember really enjoying being out in the windy days of March/April trying to read but finding the breeze obnoxious. Thx

[@mattkean1128]

Will happily listen to any conversation about Virginia Woolf and Vita. Those bookstores looked so good!

[@annarmontanar]

Doppers are very much a thing in Germany, too. I love mine so much and when I was at uni, I would even get compliments on it which I found so random :D As always a lovely video

[@1nd1v]

I love this type of vlog Leo :) where you show us your days as they are. Hoping to see that embroidery work! I have thought many times to learn embroidery but I don't know how to start.

[@Fiona_Co]

That water bottle looks super cool! As far as I know we don’t have them in the US, but all of the students here seem to carry around hydro flask water bottles

[@michlalala]

Per the water bottle Q you posed: in the US (or at least, on the west coast and very specifically the Pacific Northwest lol) the classic college student water bottle is a hydro flask.

[@pearld1ver]

the bottles are a think in germany!

[@madeleineg.7161]

Was about to comment the same thing! I'm in the south, and it's a hydroflask here too.

[@ILoveJahangeer]

Loved the video, it was so much fun to watch! Continue being amazing!

[@annj6616]

I love casual reading vlogs don’t worry! ♥️ 💜

[@holy_marijuana]

The only place where I wasn't supposed to check all the boxes, but I did. The thoughts are becoming urges and the internal screaming is deafening, sleep is the only way out even when I have exams 2 weeks after and haven't been unable to study because of little to no motivation. Eating too much is the only relaxing thing left for me. Yet I still want to be out of this everyday hell, I hope to have motivation the next day but it's the same, have been same for about 4 months and increased a lot in 1.5 year. My will to live and the people who needs me are the only thing constantly keeping me alive

[@merin7286]

Loved this! Your vlogs always make me want to move to the Netherlands 😍

[@doloresockeloen1425]

It's fun here:)

[@Hillary429]

I read Tender is the Flesh (my favorite book of late), then watched Fresh (absolutely loved it), and now I’m dying to pick up A Certain Hunger after seeing you read it.. idk what’s going on either 🍖🤤

[@Danny-po5vp]

You should watch the tv show hannibal!

[@Supperrman]

Thanks for the vlog, always brings up my mood^^

[@SkimwithSteph]

The views and music in this video are gorgeous. Love the video!

[@edenplw]

heyyy!! very random but thought it would be nice for you to know that my depression was really hitting today and watching this video was so comforting and cheered me up a bit :) sending love xx

[@ChrisDailyReading]

Loved the vibe of this Reading vlog!

[@LauraJayneCakeee]

I absolutely love and missed your videoa like this 🥰 Wonderful! Have a great week! 🌞

[@__cutie14__]

Your videos are always just the best!

[@KeiraAndGeo]

casual and cosy is very much appreciated, especially when you enjoy making them a lot as well :) hope you love bunny! I have added a certain hunger to my tbr list, as my favorite tv show is hannibal!

[@emiliabugueiromeyer8166]

BUNNY IS SO GOODDD

[@monica.laurette]

Don't know if anyone else commented but for water bottles, here in the US I think the most common bottle name you hear is Hydro Flask but many also have those Starbucks tumblers now too.

[@libraryofkitties5968]

Such a cozy fun vlog!

[@skyhideaway]

I feel like you live in an old classic novel or short story. All of the shots you show of the surroundings and streets are so vintage and mundane, and yet so magical in an odd way.

[@Lenyondra]

As an expat in the Netherlands I can tell you that YES, this bottle is totally Dutch. :)

[@dianapreisser2146]

I feel I went book shopping with friends!

[@charlotteivy2591]

i cant wait to hear more of your thoughts on bunny!! :)

[@MyPinkZebras]

It’s common for US students carry water bottles too, but HydroFlask is probably the most popular brand

[@guzalriskulova]

I’ve never seen that type of water bottle, it’s so pretty!

[@lynnm6611]

Thank you for the spring vibe!!! You really ‘ve cheered me up after the fact that I realized I stopped reading an actual book because I have found huge starwars fan fiction. Somehow my brain considers readings fics as non-reading activity at all. I hope i’m not the only one struggling with that😹

[@dryadknight07]

I enjoy the casual vlogs

[@limeparticle]

I’ve been getting Bokksu since December and I love it so, so much! The sakura box was really superb (and I may or may not have ordered some extras…!) Also omg I’m so excited that you’re liking Bunny!

[@redwinepinkhair]

OMG that ASMR moment was so unexpected and beautiful.

[@emilyrose728]

I’m in Australia and I have the same drink bottle! I’ve been working my way through your book recommendations. Loved Piranesi, Night Circus, Red White Royal Blue, and am currently on Uprooted. I would never have come across these books otherwise. Thank you so much!

[@theodorapantelich2535]

Omg could you tell me where you found yours? I'm in Australia too and desperately searching for a cute water bottle!

[@judeconradfrancis]

nothing more cozy than watching your videos and eating ontbijtkoek met boterrrr

[@dee1661]

LOVE your videos! And in Canada I have never seen those kinds of water bottles lol

[@Lunaebnermuc]

Yes the bottles are a Dutch thing. I remember I had so many of them when I lived there and when I travelled around and moved to Italy, I found that no one has them there, or anywhere else.

[@normmansor1313]

Love Rotterdam. Anyway, enjoy the Spring and never stop blossoming.

[@salomeophelie3040]

A very relaxing vlog 😍

[@lisabrooks178]

i feel llike a video all about must-see/must-visit bookstores in amsterdam would be a good idea! that city is on top of my bucketlist of places i'd like to visit post-COVID!

[@mrodriguez377]

Loved the long vlog

[@Marit_vD]

Loved this vlog !

[@BooksMichelle]

Yass I loved our bookstore adventures! 😍❤️

[@TheBookLeo]

it was so fun to see donner again!

[@evngprimrose_]

I really love Leonie's aesthetic. I think it matches mine very well haha. My go to colors are rust, emerald green, navy blue, maroon, and mustard 🤣🤣🤣

[@AR-yi4qn]

The Doppers bottle are very much Dutch :) I never see them anywhere outside NL, but got one when I lived in Leiden, I love it!

[@Stonedead1991]

Saw Bastille about 8 years ago, they were cool, really liked it

[@snakeplissken1752]

Hey!! Loved the vlog but I really want to see the completed bee t-shirt!!

[@dudamartins1245]

I just started reading Bunny and I'm only 2 chapters in and it's so intriguing

[@booksnstarz]

omgggg stopp i just finished reading bunny and it was the weirdest book i have ever read. it's literally regina george from mean girls x falling down the rabbit hole, it felt like a fever dream the entire time i was reading it.

[@didreams1]

I loved this style of video! So cosy and relaxing :) have you ever considered doing a bookshop/bookish meet-up in the Netherlands? I went to one a couple of years ago that Sanne from booksandquills set up and it was lovely! It was great to be able to recommend books and get recommendations from bookish peers that weren't in my immediate circle of friends

[@gpettey19]

bell hooks sadly passed at the end of last year ❤️ She made incredible contributions to society through her work!

[@ellaswerts3921]

ahh yeah i love doppers !! i’m from belgium and nearly everyone here has them too

[@booklovershourya1046]

You're going to love the ⭐

[@bookthoughtswitheilish]

The embroidery ASMR was 🤌

[@azenaazi2063]

I love your tote bags 😍

[@Lea-dc5dq]

In Switzerland you find this kind of bottle in every classroom too! Not just a Netherland thing😃

[@muttmania]

I'm planning on reading Bunny soon too :) It will be my first Mona Awad, I'm so looking forward to it!

[@JolienReads]

That bookstore! I live in Belgium but the only English bookstore we have is Waterstones... I might need to plan a trip to Amsterdam with my unsuspecting husband. 😅 'just a fun trip for the two of us' and once we're there it's bookshopping time 😎

[@sarahkendall5714]

The last section of this video I initially thought you were doing a review of this new book called 'The Embroidered Book' I haven't read it but it looks interesting. Anyway great vlog, enjoying the chill vibe :)

[@danielapiovesan3791]

I also watched Fresh with my housemate and I loved it! We also found it quite funny at times which idk if it was intended that way or we are just a bit sick in the head hahahah 😅

[@JessicaNicoleDickerson]

Most people I know in the US have a water bottle called hydro flask AND 😂 in high school whenever someone dropped one, it'd be so loud because it's made with aluminum, we'd all yell HYRO DOWN! 😂

[@JessicaNicoleDickerson]

Girl SAME I'm struggling to socialize hahaha

[@TheBookLeo]

ahah what if every country just has their own signature water bottle

[@BemuzedBookworm]

the dopper is also a thing in Belgium 😉

[@thewitchyreader6131]

Great vlog!

[@storiesofwonderland8900]

I want to know about the Doppers too!

[@masa59125656]

There are many kinds of Japanese sweets! I want to eat 😊

[@hernanmejia3554]

cool shot the one from the bicycle in the dark. 👌🏽

[@hernanmejia3554]

actually the needle part was dope too. good editing and sound. 👌🏽

[@r4.v3n]

I love thay you're also a bastille fan ❤