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[@martanuevofalguera2870]

I enjoyed very much your bookshelf tour!! It's a shame that we don't get to see more videos and channels talking about ancient classics... btw, Socrates looks pretty cool in his woollen hat!

[@MagicOfBooks]

Wow! I really love how diversely you read. So much about ancient Greece which is so cool. I like to think that I read a wide range of stuff, but I think you go a bit beyond me, haha! These are my favorite types of bookshelf tours where I've read a lot of the same things or I have a desire to read similar books.

[@JeansThoughts]

Thanks :) I love a bit of everything! Haha I'm sure you'll read more and more variety as time goes on, I love expanding my library. Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed.

[@booksandbabble6847]

You have no idea how happy I was to see this in my subs box, I ran and got a chunk of cake and a cuppa to make the most of it haha :D

[@JeansThoughts]

Yay I think that was the right decision, so long :) hope you enjoyed it.

[@RhiannonSkerrysloggett]

I love how all the spines of your books on you shelf look together!! I also think you have a wonderful collection of books and you are one of my favourite bookubers! :D

[@JeansThoughts]

Thank you so much :D.

[@KatieRuby]

You have a great collection! I love all the books you have on Greek myths, so different to what other booktubers collect! I didn't know you could speak French either, that's very cool :)

[@bibliophilebibliomaniac1519]

I enjoyed this video. I was glad to see some others books besides the typical books I usually see on other booktube channels. Soon I hope to start posting my own videos. Have a great day.

[@MariasJournal__]

What a beautiful collection of books!

[@ofbooksnmore]

What an amazing collection you have! The only thing that came to my mind when I watched the video was "God, I love books!" lol

[@JeansThoughts]

Haha I have done my job!

[@BooksAndTea58]

what an amazing bookshelf tour! It's just so interesting to look at!

[@JeansThoughts]

BooksAndTea58 Glad you enjoyed it :D

[@queenlucysroyalmaid1]

OH MY GOSH your Greek shelf is wow. your copy of The Basic Works of Aristotle is SO PRETTY. I want any and all of your books on Athens/Ancient philosophy (but I have some of them)/That Sokratic city one. JUST GIMMIE OKAY. :P

[@booksbears8041]

It's amazing to see that you have spontaneously read such a huge amount of all the ancient greek and latin authors I had to study in high school! I am impressed! I did read quite a few myself and never regretted doing so, but picking them out without having studied them first or without knowing that I would study them in the future is not something I would see myself doing. You even have an English-Ancient Greek dictionary! Does that mean you've been studying the grammar as well? I remember liking translating from latin but hating doing it from ancient greek :S

[@calypso518]

Thanks for the enjoyable bookshelf tour. I appreciated that you had several books that weren't on all the other bookshelf tours. I'm excited to read Shirley Jackson (I have a copy of We Have Always Lived in the Castle on order. Can't wait!).

[@Aisbalc]

I love your book selections!! You seem to love quite a lot of Greek Mythology and Culture in general. That's really amazing!

[@JeansThoughts]

Aisbalc Yeess it is my degree :). I love the ancient Greeks.

[@nazzaichwhy4326]

That was an amazing tour. Your shelves are beautiful and you inspired me to read the nonfiction that's intrigued me for awhile now but has been getting pushed to the background by all the fiction books. Thanks for sharing that :)

[@JeansThoughts]

Oh I am so glad :D thanks.

[@NEHOMAS2]

Such a brillo-pads collection of books you have! I too am planning to slowly build up my copies of the Canongate Myth series. At present I only have 'A Short History of Myth'

[@abookdoodle]

You have a beautiful collection!

[@thepaperdiaries3737]

YES YES YES. Finally the day has come. Beautiful, so beautiful :)

[@JeansThoughts]

Haha thanks a lot!

[@MoontyCrabNebula]

I've got the middle Liddell too! yay! Also, you can never have too many books .

[@JeansThoughts]

Haha, love that, the 'middle Liddell' can't knock a good rhyme. Its great isn't it, especially for the size :D. And thanks!

[@bibliophilereads]

What a lovely video! You've inspire me to read Daphnis and Chloe ! I've been meaning to for quite a while!

[@JeansThoughts]

It is wonderful I'm so glad you're going to read it :)!

[@imfuckedforever]

Thank you for sharing your bookshelf, I have been wanting to see it for a long time now :)

[@JeansThoughts]

That's alright :) glad you enjoyed it.

[@roxannedomingo3596]

finally, a bookshelf tour with some classics. =)

[@DemeliJones]

Amazing collection! I definitely got inspired to read some of the books you showed)

[@JeansThoughts]

Thanks :D.

[@k-m___]

lovely!

[@aleaanjanette9161]

love it!

[@KevTheImpaler]

Arthur & George is worth reading. I have a couple of John Wynham books which he wrote under another pseudonym when he was younger. They were quite good, but I think he must have got better.

[@JeansThoughts]

I really need to get round to it! I love Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Ah yes, I've read up on some of those, I heard they weren't as good, I'd still be interested in checking them out though. His later stuff is great.

[@ShockingCore]

Beautiful bookshelf tour! It was also really helpful for me to hear how you pronounce the ancient names. Thank you! :)

[@JeansThoughts]

Haha that's ok I'm a lot better at ancient names than modern authors apparently :).

[@thrillingnovelties5124]

So many books! :D It makes me want to buy a ton of new books though... I like the fact that you have such a wide range of books in your collection :)

[@JeansThoughts]

Thanks :) I love a bit of everything, I just want to read all the books :).

[@flotocorazon]

I loved it! Such unique collection. You have awesome titles and so many beautiful editions. I have interest in classical literature (well, I study History) :)

[@JeansThoughts]

Thanks :) I don't know how I'm going to move them all come summer haha. Excellent choice :) always glad to know there are people watching interested in my eclectic tastes *high five*.

[@exlibris-fromthebooks]

Some lovely editions :)

[@JeansThoughts]

:) I don't think I can ever part from them.

[@LaPetiteMarianna]

Wow! You've got Harry potter in ancient greek? (there's been a latin harry potter version too if I remember correctly) I'm greek and I haven't thought of reading it in ancient greek, it would remind me so much of school to enjoy it properly I guess... Anyway, lovely collection of books there, I enjoy variety in someone's bookselves and you have some beautiful editions as well - this Folio edition is really stunning!- but then, all Folio books are so very well made in every aspect (even the paper quality is amazing!):)

[@mihaiioan443]

I got the same edition of "The Elder Edda". You should purchase "The Prose Edda" as well.

[@tessformosa]

You have Frog Music! I finished stir-fry and been saying I want to read that since it's her last book. The last days of Socrates is a very nice and enjoyable read (Philosophy student); the state of your edition is the same as my Republic;) I wish I had your classics collection! Since you have Icelandic, you should see if maybe ancient India texts would interest you, or do they already?

[@onesong89]

I saw in the comments on your most recent video that you film on your iPhone. How did you manage to keep it so steady for this, or did you use a different camera/tripod at this point? Love a good bookshelf tour!

[@cookilkenny]

I like these shelves! I just thought that you would probably enjoy 'Memoirs of Hadrian' by Marguerite Yourcenar. I haven't read it in a while but it was my favourite book at one point. It's a novel taking the form of the memoirs of the Roman emperor Hadrian, it's beautifully written (in French at least) and I remember it to be quite a page turner as well as being full of interesting thoughts. Above all, the love story in this book is absolutely beautiful, and I'm not a romance reader. I hope you will read this comment and be convinced ;)

[@bobjjjjj]

Great collection :D cool to see something a bit different. Got to say you have shamed me in to going and reading some of the classics from my shelf. Although I think I will stick to reading them in English! :)

[@jakobtvedeholgersen447]

Thanks for letting us see! It is really nice you got so much ancient greek prose and philosophy, seldom to see; are you going to study filology or philosophy? Cheers

[@abigailham7985]

Can you do a review on your foil hunger games books?? I'm torn on what editions to get... :/

[@GraemeBell9864]

Get a copy of DK's 'The Sherlock Holmes Book'. It is great.

[@pagestowrite]

I am totally in love with your little bust of Socrates. He looks so cool with his hat and necklaces. You make me really curious about classical literature. I realise how little I know about myths :). The Palace of Curiosities is gorgeous. You have beautiful books in your possession ;). I love how they needed to change the title of the first Harry Potter book in the USA and in France. I still don't understand why... I just wonder: do you study history, philosophy or literature? Or a mixture of the three? :). It is so good to see books we don't see anywhere else - I mean, not everyone has the complete works of Aristotle on one's shelves :).

[@JeansThoughts]

Haha thanks :D everyone always ponders over him when they first see him. Ah but that just gives you something new to discover, I really want to widen my knowledge beyond the Greek myths too :). I know I'm running out of room to display them though... :S Haha I know, that always gets me, why they changed the US title is completely beyond me as well. I like how its been adapted for so many different languages though. In the Ancient Greek version it opens with 'Dursley and his wife' rather than 'Mr and Mrs Dursley' because there is no equivalent for Mr and Mrs. I'm studying 'Classical Studies' so yeah essentially a mixture of Literature, philosophy and history :) I used to do a lot of archaeology but have moved into literature more and more as my degree went on. I've given up digging for reading :).

[@Rec426]

Awesome bookshelf! I love how you are in ancient history cos its interesting to see different books than the usual YA. Haha, I love the book that says 'Basic in Aristotle' and it was massive xD I studied Socraties, Plato and Aristotle cos I did Philosophy for a couple of years in sixth form. It was interesting but I have to say it was my least favourite subject :/

[@JeansThoughts]

Thanks :D. Haha fair enough, I'm not a big fan of Aristotle myself you just can't really get away from him when you're studying Ancient Greece :(. It's a difficult topic to teach I'd say :).

[@RocketRoketto]

Where is that elephant bag from at the end?

[@JeansThoughts]

Urban Outfitters :)

[@RocketRoketto]

aww thanks!! :)

[@misskfb]

where do you get your penguin classics and modern classics? :)

[@JeansThoughts]

Usually Blackwells :) they always have great deals and my local has an excellent classical literature selection because it's our University's stockist :).

[@misskfb]

You lucky girl, thank you for replying :)

[@RocketRoketto]

You didnt show the one book next to metamophoses

[@JeansThoughts]

Ah that was just a freebie I got at a Book Festival of some short stories, I don't think you can buy it :).

[@POTSandcrosses]

You have Tribute! :D Are you currently reading it? (maybe a silly question)

[@JeansThoughts]

Haha not at all, I am :D I have maybe 70 pages to go, it's very good :).

[@POTSandcrosses]

Glad you're enjoying it. I got my copy from Goodreads to review and I loved it! :D

[@mentatphilosopher]

You forgot the 2-volume Reading Greek on your desk. Your father surely slants his reading to the political. Of all of Balzac's La Comédie Humaine, Les Chouans would probably not even make my top 10 list to be recommended.

[@JeansThoughts]

Haha I know I realised that after I'd uploaded it. They are from the JACT, they are really good. He likes buying second hand books and I don't think they have a huge selection of French language books in Scottish second hand bookstores, he just knows I'm trying to improve so gets me things originally in french when he comes across them, I also have the 3 Musketeers :).

[@Xenu]

Wow. You are about as gigantic of a geek as I am! My hat is off to you. HOLY CRAP!!! G.E.M. DE STE CROIX!!!!! One of my all-time favorite books. I've read tons of his work over the years. I was not expecting to see find that tome of your shelf. I've never read Robert Graves' "Mythology" actually, I am sorry to say. I grew up on Edith Hamilton's book but I wish I had known both. If you're interested in ancient literature you really need to go farther back in time and explore the Mesopotamians if you haven't already. "The Descent of Inanna" and "Gilgamesh" are masterpieces. -- If you're going to read Marx you really need to move beyond overrated juvenalia like the "Manifesto." The essays he and Engels wrote as older men are far deeper and more nuanced. I am trying my best to avoid commenting on more of your books because I could be here all day. -- You have a beautiful library.

[@JeansThoughts]

It's amazing book isn't it, I do study Greek politics etc as well as literature haha, I think everyone was surprised by all of my Greek history books. My parents own all of Marx's works (and Lenin etc.) I just loved that edition of the Communist Manifesto and known a lot of people who have started there and been intrigued to continue on with his economics and philosophy, I wouldn't completely knock it haha. Thank you :D.

[@beckez]

Don't suppose you like Ancient Greece do you? 😉 I was going to ask would you say that Aristotle and Plato and Socrates can be read by someone with no philosophical knowledge? I'm really interested in them but I don't know if I will understand them Also have you read any Nietzsche? 😊

[@JeansThoughts]

Just a tad haha :). Yeah of course. Socrates didn't write anything down so anything we have that was supposedly said by him is usually written by Plato :). I have to be honest though (and I am definitely not speaking for everyone) I don't enjoy reading Aristotle. It is useful and everything but all three works of his I have read I found dry. Plato is a bit more pleasurable in his writing style. I'd really recommend the Symposium to start with! Easy to read and incredibly interesting (also reasonably short). Also, as for understanding them, it is somewhat a matter of interpretation, sometimes they are straight up unclear and scholars have been debating for decades over what they mean on certain topics. For reading though don't worry about that too much, just enjoy them. The writing is clear enough.You'll be able to understand them as well as any I promise :) don't be scared off. If you like though, get an edition with an introduction and notes because that will clarify everything you're unsure about. Gosh I hope that was in someway helpful. :)

[@beckez]

It was incredibly helpful thank you!

[@queenlucysroyalmaid1]

Nietzsche is my man, I did my dissertation on his Birth of Tragedy! do you like him?

[@beckez]

I've not read anything of his but I have learnt about him in University and i'd love to give something a go! Suggestions as to where to start?

[@queenlucysroyalmaid1]

beckez errrrrrrm, traditionally I think people start with the Genealogy of Morals... but The Birth of Tragedy is pretty spectacular and batshit crazy xD it's a philosophy of art, though. plus, it's relatively short. :)

[@Decarock10]

Pengulish!

[@athinaxra8881]

im greek