Bookshelf Tour!

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@babettesfeast6347 8 ай бұрын

I’m not in a good place, my wife died a year ago and the grief is terrible. I now live alone in a cold silent house and desperately miss her. To drown out the silence I have KZbin running in the background. I love the TV series The Prisoner and your review of the series came up on the algorithm. So I watched and listened and now enjoy your channel. Keep up all the reviews and to let you know you have brightened someone’s heart.

@Weiselberry 8 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. I hope that your memories bring you comfort as each day passes and that things will get easier in time. Thank you for your kind comments about enjoying the channel. I'm glad my videos can help fill some of the silence.

@babettesfeast6347 8 ай бұрын

@@Weiselberry thank you for your kind words

@scott09g96 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the book tour Jerome. You have a very tasteful variety. I've read a handful of them myself. Also, I think its admirable that you put out such fantastic material despite your shyness and feeling that your opinions arent so important. Looking forward to future videos.

@Weiselberry 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@wallywallace7410 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent tour. My favorites: Dickens, I especially liked how you pointed out how funny The Pickwick Papers is because that is one of my favorites and my entry point to becoming an unabashed fan of all of his work (other high school students my freshman year started calling me Pip when we had to read Great Expectations so I held a grudge against Dickens for years), the Three Investigator books are amazing especially if they have the introductions which feature Alfred Hitchcock, F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner are two of my most beloved authors also. I'm curious if you've ever read any of Flannery O'Connor's short stories as I would think you would enjoy them. Anyways, love your videos.

@Weiselberry 2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Nice to hear that The Pickwick Papers, which is pretty underrated Dickens, was your gateway to becoming a fan. I've read one or two Flannery O'Connor stories, but overall I'm not too familiar with her work. Thank you!

@clydehennessey1243 Жыл бұрын

You sold me, too, on, "The Pickwick Papers" ! I had never heard it described in any way as funny! Thank you. @@Weiselberry

@Samiurium 3 ай бұрын

I was surprised to see “Sarah’s Key” in your bookcase! I watched the movie adaptation many years ago and it remains one of my favorite international movies ever. Granted it is an incredibly heavy subject matter but I do hope you give the book a chance one day and possibly review it for us.

@Weiselberry 3 ай бұрын

All these years later, I still haven't read it! I was thinking I might get to it soon, though, and I appreciate your endorsement!

@caomhan84 5 жыл бұрын

Old video I know, but I'm just glad you actually did a shelf tour. I've got to say, some of those books on your "youth shelf" take me right back to elementary school in the early/mid 90's! Jeez what a blast from the past. As for the rest of them, I'm always jealous at the books people have. Your collection is amazing. I'm sure you'd disagree but you'd ALWAYS have something to read on a rainy day! Wow.

@Weiselberry 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Haha, you're right, there's always something there, whether it's a book I've had for ages that I've never read or an old favorite that I haven't revisited in a long time. :)

@caomhan84 5 жыл бұрын

There are far too many books on my shelf that I haven't read. Some are more than a decade old and I sometimes forget that I have them. The problem is I go through phases where I am consumed in a nonfiction topic, read a bunch of books on said topic until I'm intellectually tired, and then I say "*Sigh* I need a novel." As in, something not so taxing, or more escapist. But KZbin is dangerous because it gives me ideas of new things to read....instead of reading what I already have! In any case, I'm glad I found this channel. Your taste in books and movies is the right kind of eclectic. And y'know...best of all? You don't make me feel bad that I haven't read many of "the classics." :) I know them, of course.,,,I just haven't read them. And I always enjoy hearing people talk about them with enthusiasm. And then I say "One day, I will read that copy of Wives and Daughters! One day...." :)

@Weiselberry 5 жыл бұрын

Same, same, and same! It seems for every book I (somewhat smugly) cross off my to-read list, I add six more. The more the merrier, I guess, but I do feel bad for the ones that get neglected, whose "one day" never comes. Not that I give up on anything completely. If in 2018 I said, "This is the year I will read Little Dorrit!" and it doesn't happen, well, it's easy enough come 2019 to say, "Never mind what I said before; THIS will be the year I read Little Dorrit!" And, hey, I've still got six months, so it might actually happen. :)

@monicajardin5111 7 жыл бұрын

So nice that you have old books from your grandfather.

@susanbartone1347 Жыл бұрын

this is November 8 at 11 PM Eastern time and I just watched your bookshelf tour video and I enjoyed it very much. Many of the books I have also read, but of course some of the newer books, because I’m so much older than you are, like the babysitter club, and things like that I was never exposed to, but I love the phantom tollbooth, and read it in fourth grade. I also grew up on the Bob, see twins and the little house on the prairie books. I also loved the hobbit and the lord of the rings as a kid. Still love them today. I could go on and on about the books you have on your shelf, including into thin air, which is a fantastic book, although I just cannot wrap my head around it, people that put them selves through such agony for a few seconds on the top of a mountain. But fascinating nonetheless. so I decided to leave a comment based on two of the books you showed. Tomorrow, November 9 at 11:30 AM I will turn 60 years old. As I was growing up, my dad who died in 2015, always used tease me about never having been able to watch the end of the old movie: the hounds of the Baskerville’s by Sherlock Holmes. He used to complain and wine in Mont, and say: “Oh Sue! I just is so sad. I never got to see the end of the movie because I had to bring your mom to the hospital. Oh, I’m so so sad!” I think the main actor might’ve been an actor by the name of basil, Rathborne? I’m not sure. But my point? I now will go 1 mile up the street to a Catholic Church, where his ashes are interred, in a columbarium. I’m going to the library first to pick up a copy of the hounds of the Baskerville‘s. I will sit on the bench across from his columbarium at announce loudly,” hey Dad, are you listening? Here’s the end of the story I want you to know the end no more complaining - no more moaning!” the other book you showed was the father Brown mysteries. When my mom was a little girl, her parents took her and her one sister, when they were growing up in Detroit, across the Detroit river into Canada where her grandparents lived. They would take the train to Quebec where their grandparents lived on a farm. I think it was pretty boring and very hot , and of course, no air conditioning in the 40s. So my mom found a book called the father Brown mysteries. She read it a lot each time she went to Quebec. For the rest of her life until she died this past April mom loved fiction. Mystery books. Here’s a little tidbit about my mom who is a Librarian that is just comical: when she was a Librarian, in Troy, Michigan, she worked at the reference desk, so she always would get the new releases right away and get to take them home before they got put on the shelves. She was a very fast reader, so it was great. But my mom became a goofy snob. When I used to take her to the library in Raleigh NC, to pick out new books, in large print, of course, (which is so terrific, thank you for large print!) She would go to her favorite authors and she would pull book off the shelf and she wouldn’t look at the back for the summary plot of the book… no, no no! She would open the book, turn to the publication date. It didn’t matter if She had read the book or not. She s would look at a book’s publication date. if it was over a year old, she would snap the book closed, reject it, and say,”oh this is an old book!” I would ask her, “ have you read this book yet?” she most likely would say no. I would laugh and roll my eyes. I tried to explain to her that the new release books usually get checked out right away and there’s a long waiting list. Eventually, I was able to convince her to read books that she had not read i before even if they had older publication dates. in the last couple years as her atrial fibrillation made her so short of breath that walking and getting around, wore her out like she ran marathons, I will go to the library for her and pick out large books. Sadly, as we all age, our brain gets tired, and for her, she would begin to explain that there were too many characters in the book to keep track of everybody. So on the Internet, I discovered these lovely fun, fluffed books under the category of fluff, cozy mysteries. They were short with a few characters, she would read them, and then go onto the next one. And her memory began to fail even though she did not have dementia or Alzheimer’s. It’s just a fact of aging that will all experience I’m sure. so the nice thing that worked out for my mom would I buy a huge stack of these cozy mysteries and after she got through the stack she would start over again because she didn’t remember she had already read it. And it brought her joy. That was the most important thing that I brought her joy. By the time this past April came, my mom was 90 years old. She was a happy lady who still loves her life but her body was tired. So tired in fact that she didn’t even ever feel like reading. So I think God blessed her and took her home to heaven. We’re now she has heavens, newest librarian. In fact, when she passed away, I teased and told all my friends as she walked through the pearly gates, my dad would be waiting for her, but she would simply say, while holding up her hand to my dad. “Don ( his name), it’s great to see you, but it’s been a while since I’ve read a book, so can you just hold on for a minute. I’m going to go to the library in heaven, I really need to catch up on my reading!” so I share some memories with you and thanks for you showing your book shelves to all of us. Reading is great, but what I think is the best about your bookshelves, are the books you inherited from your family members. I think that as you get older and have a family of your own you will probably not need so much stuff as in dust collectors. your books may find a new home and you’ll learn to love the library and check out books from there. But don’t ever let go of those family inherited books. One of the first books of my moms that I read, because she was in a book club of the month, was the scarlet pimpernel. What a super fantastic book that I’ve read many many times. Well, your video may have been too long in your opinion, but I loved it. And if you’re still reading this comment, I guess this comment might qualify for a short novella! I am a little bit verbose, but, what the heck. Yes it’s past. My bedtime is an old person but I took tomorrow off work so I can go spend it with my mom and dad.

@dyl5775 7 жыл бұрын

Well good to know I'm not the only one who hasn't finished 'Don Quixote'. I got through the ''first'' book and told myself 'I'll read something light then come back to Quixote'. That was a year ago. Very interesting book collection.

@Weiselberry 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think every time I see it I try to motivate myself to pick it up and just do it. And then I pick something else instead. Soon, Don Quixote. Soon.

@seanthacker4895 Жыл бұрын

I find bookshelf tours really interesting, and I’m glad to see you have one up. Thank you very much for taking the time to make it. I imagine your arm got tired after holding the camera up for so long, as mine would as well. I read mostly nonfiction myself, but I do read some fiction. As I said earlier in another comment I definitely want to return to reading classics more. I remember my favorite book I had to read for school was Oliver Twist. I loved it. It was one of the few that I read cover to cover. (I usually had to skim books because I had a hard time keeping up with my work in high school because I had a lot of homework most nights.)

@Weiselberry Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the tour! This video's pretty old now and I think I've reorganized the main shelf since then, but other than that, the set-up is mostly the same. I think "I want to read more classics" is a common refrain among many of us, haha. I used to read classics regularly as a kid, and I wish I could get back into the habit.

@TempusFugit78 3 жыл бұрын

Man, you are wonderful. Where I live, there used to be a weekly free book fair. You could walk in and take as many free books as you can carry. It's a blessing and a curse. I read The Brothers Karamazov for a psychology class a long time ago. I remember liking it, but now it's allllllll a big blur.

@Weiselberry 3 жыл бұрын

A weekly free book fair? That sounds amazing! But also dangerous. :)

@TempusFugit78 3 жыл бұрын

@@Weiselberry Extremely dangerous. :)

@bahadortanzif8932 Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@michaelpritz8189 2 ай бұрын

You are my favorite person on the internet

@rickzantua7 7 жыл бұрын

I don't know exactly what to tell you here, but I think you're doing all right. So far, you've produced interesting contents and you've expressed your candid opinions on various books and movies you had encountered; I very much welcome these perspectives for making me curious on titles I may be missing. I hope you would continue with this noble endeavor. Take care and God bless! Edit: I have to admit that the 30-minute length kind of scared me... Well, now that I finished watching, it wasn't that long after all! :D

@Weiselberry 7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks! I'm so glad you're enjoying my videos! :)

@olorcain 7 жыл бұрын

I loved Great Expectations! ... and so many others you mentioned, I have several of those books in my collection.

@peterconetta399 2 жыл бұрын

Nice tour. I mostly read non-fiction but have read a few of these. Most notably The Picture of Dorian Gray and Lord of the Flies.

@carybaxter274 5 жыл бұрын

That was exciting. That's an impressive collection. What caught my attention was "The Great Gatsby" and "Tess of the Durbervilles". I love those two books very much. Also "Great Expectations". May I suggest "Call It Sleep" by Henry Roth and "Humboldt's Gift" by Saul Bellow? "Under the Volcano" by Malcolm Lowery is brilliant, but you may find it disturbing. I am planning on reading "The Large Sargasso Sea". I bet you didn't know that Steinbeck wrote a funny novel. "Cannery Row" is a great novel by Steinbeck and very funny.

@HarryThomasPictures 7 жыл бұрын

Lovely book tour Jerome, you have an excellent taste in Novels😊. Have a lovely day and Happy Easter😘!

@Weiselberry 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@the_starsong 7 жыл бұрын

That Perkins book sounds so interesting! Apparently there was a movie called Genius, which is a biographical movie of him, last year. Never watched it though. And I just picked up an '80s copy of Wodehouse! Life with Jeeves. It sounded quite entertaining. Looking forward to read it sometime soon.

@Weiselberry 7 жыл бұрын

I think I saw an ad for that movie, but I haven't seen it yet. Oh, the Jeeves books are such fun. I hope you like it!

@chrisdigitalartist 5 жыл бұрын

Wow. So many classic books you. I have been wanting to make it a goal to read more fiction books. I seen a lot of books you shared that I wanna read. My bookshelf is full of non-fictional books like tutorials on cartooning (I am an aspiring caricature artist/cartoonist and illustrator). A lot of music books too. Tutorials and music appreciation. I have some books on mysteries and ancient civilizations. I have a couple astronomy books. Screenwriting books....maybe someday I will write a movie...haha...yeah right.😂 And a huge selection of spirtual books too. I have a lot of litature and plays too. College books I never got rid of! Haha. Oh I do have a collection of Edgar Allan Poe...maybe I should start there. I haven't really read much from it. Anyway, going through your videos is for some reason helping with my aniexty. Haha lol

@kevint486 5 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this ☺ Thank you.

@ronnieburton1312 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@mountainsoutofmolehills8352 7 жыл бұрын

very nice, weiselberry! one of these days i'll post a video of my bookshelf. all i have are startrek books.

@Weiselberry 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Haha! Hey, one of my reading goals this year is to read another Star Trek book. I just haven't decided which one.

@mountainsoutofmolehills8352 7 жыл бұрын

anything by peter david is great. vendetta is one of my favorites :)

@admiralhowdy Жыл бұрын

Wow, I didn't even know The African Queen was a novel. Shows how literate I am. You should do a review, and even of the movie some time (which is how I know it). I have that exact copy of Frankenstein, from Scholastic publishing I believe, bought at a school book sale.

@HWPcville 2 жыл бұрын

I've just found your channel and happened upon it while looking for Erle Stanley Gardner (author of the Perry Mason books). I've read lots of the Perry Mason books but don't own any and I hope to find some used copies. Given your obvious love of books I have a recommendation for you. The title is 'The Riddle of the Sands' by Erskine Childers, originally published in 1903. It is credited as being one of the first modern spy novels and has been reprinted a number of times and can be found on Amazon books. The book concerns 2 individuals. Davies, a seasoned sailor with rough clothes and tar & paint on his hands in the sturdy little sailboat the Dulcibella. The other, Carruthers, a fair weather yachting type who has never gotten his sailing whites dirty, never mind hauling in a wet, muddy anchor rope. He is a bored civil servant with a month to kill who accepts an invitation to go sailing in the north sea with an old college acquaintance. The story is told from Carruthers perspective. When I first read the book, over 40 years ago, it was an original 1903 version checked out from the library and it wasn't clear to me at that time it wasn't based on real events as it is told in such a compelling manner. It is replete with maps to show paths taken among the many North Sea islands. Subsequent publishings have prefaces that explains the basis of the fictional story. The author, Erskine Childers, truly suspected Germany of planning an invasion of a woefully unprepared British Maritime fleet and wrote the book to awaken the Admiralty to that possibility. It is so plausible the Admiralty did beef up its preparedness of its North Fleet for any incursion. That this was written in 1903 years ahead of World War I is incredible to me. I've read it several times since and I love the writing style of that period. It has long sentences with frequent uses of commas & semicolons to tie the thought together. It covers sailing along clear, cold fiords, being lost in dense fog in a row boat, tossing unopened bottles of beer into the bilge to keep them cold, to suspecting German naval officials are mapping shallow waters (known as the "Sands", hence the title) for nefarious reasons. It is not a sailing book as such but has some sailing elements. It has adventure ashore, a bit of romantic elements and an awakening for a stodgy British office worker of what is possible in less than ideal surroundings. It is a bit slow going in the first chapter but picks up and moves along with descriptive detail of what the reader would see if they were there which draws you into the story. I would highly recommend this to anyone who has an inclination toward small boats, adventure, detective work and early 1900 writing techniques. It was made into a movie by the same name in 1979 with Michael York as the story teller but I think the book is heads above the movie. I apologize for the long narrative but wanted to give a good description for anyone interested in pursuing this book.

@bradleypence5715 3 жыл бұрын

New subscriber here! I'm pleased to see The Bell Jar in your collection; it seems to be a sort of sore thumb among the rest, but maybe that's just me. It remains my personal favorite book (strange, I know) as it was one of the first books I read out of pleasure and thoroughly enjoyed. I was in such a place mentally at the time of reading it that I connected with it on a massive level. It's not the most well-written novel in existence, but I think her style of writing and her personal thoughts and ideas beyond the novel mirror my own more than any other author I have read. It may just be a nostalgia thing for me at this point as I haven't read it in a while. I apologize in advance if you have mentioned it in a past video, but I'm curious to your personal thoughts and feelings on it?

@Weiselberry 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for subscribing! Interesting question. I read The Bell Jar as a 9th grade summer reading book. We were given a list of options, and I chose that one because it sounded interesting. I ended up really liking it, although looking back now I wonder if there were things about it I didn't or couldn't fully understand at the time. My main takeaway, which I found difficult to articulate, was that the main character did not strike me as *that* unstable mentally. I didn't relate to her on every point, but I didn't find it too difficult to get her. Her struggles were perfectly understandable to me, and I found her observations honest and even humorous. I eventually wondered what all this said about me: was I just a sympathetic reader, or was my response to the character indicative of something about my own mind? I think it's too bad that I was reading it completely on my own, with no guide and no one to discuss it with. (I didn't even know about its semi-autobiographical nature when I was reading it.) I did have a couple friends who also read it that summer, and when school started again I tentatively tried to figure out if they had thought as I did. I probably said, "I didn't think she sounded crazy; did you?" We had to write an essay about the books we read that summer (to prove we read them), and if I remember correctly that was the gist of what I wrote. Unfortunately, compared to how thought-provoking I found the book, the responses I got from my friends and even my teacher were vague. That was disappointing and discouraging, and so I moved on. Still, the book stuck with me. It's been several years now, but I suspect that if I read the book again today I'd have a similar reaction. I suspect now that's why The Bell Jar continues to be a powerful read. The protagonist struggling to maintain her mental balance doesn't come across as totally bonkers. She's relatable, and that makes the reader pause. As a teen, I wondered if my response meant there was something askew with my own mental health. Now I see what an illuminating depiction it was, showing the inner workings of a person struggling and not even fully aware of it, the point being that, in contrast to more extreme depictions of the mentally ill, she's not so different from you and me.

@bradleypence5715 3 жыл бұрын

@@Weiselberry Thank you for your response! I really appreciate that very much. I suppose she wasn't necessarily "crazy" as much as she was just depressed. Which can certainly drive individuals to act irrationally in certain situations, but I think you hit the nail on the head when you said that she was a person living her life completely unaware of her own suffering; there is a certain realness to that concept that breaks me. Whether a person suffers a lot or a little, I think it a tragedy. 😂 I learned more about her life and the similarities between her and the protagonist as I was reading the novel which made it all the more dismal. There is a chapter with a character named Marco that I would imagine would cause any woman extreme distress, changing not only who they are mentally, but how they view the world as a whole as well. What I related with most in the novel was the character study aspect of it; a person trying to find their way in the world and figuring out who they are. The dream where she is standing at a fig tree, each fig representing a different life path, she fears choosing the wrong path, or better yet not choosing the best possible path, she doesn't choose any and the figs fall and wilt at her feet I relate to tremendously. It's one of my greatest fears actually. I can go on and on, but will spare you the trouble. 😂 Hope you find the time to revisit it sometime. Revisiting Jane Eyre currently for the first time in three years from your inadvertent persuasion. Thank you for that. I just finished the chapter where she finds that she has came into a family fortune and that St. John and his sisters are actually her cousins. I got emotional at her being much more excited about her learning of having family than her inheritance. Beautiful storytelling!

@user-fx9jj2xh1n 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tour. It was interesting and kind of charming. The time length was fine. (Also looking forward to your next book review.) Just had a thought: wouldn't it be interesting for there to be a series of KZbin videos on famous people's bookshelves? Nah, probably not; most famous people probably don't read much!

@Weiselberry 7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it. Not sure what the next book review will be, since I'm choosy about what I review and my reading habits lately have been kind of disjointed, but hopefully I'll have something in that department soonish!

@Cletus_the_Elder Жыл бұрын

At first glance, your movie reviews gave me the impression you worked at a Half-Priced Books. If you don't have one in your city, there might be similar stores near you. It's not quite a used bookstore. In addition to second-hand books and videos, they sell reprinted books and videos and remainders. Old B movies and black-and-white films not picked up by Criterion seem to have settled in this particular niche in the market.

@feslenraster 4 жыл бұрын

You have a great collection Jerome :). I wish mine were as cultured lol...mostly just fantasy and sci-fi stuff hah! I do love me some Bradbury though. UGH I might be a blasphemer, but I dislike The Great Gastby intensely! have you read the Man in the Iron Mask? And Count of Monte Crisco? They are two of my favorite non-fantasy books :) along with Don Quixote. loved Roald Dahl as a kid :)

@Weiselberry 4 жыл бұрын

I read about half of The Count of Monte Cristo, and I was liking it, but the timing wasn't good; I ended up not finishing it and never got back to it. That shouldn't be a reflection on the book, though, which I know has a great story. I did read The Three Musketeers and loved it. Don Quixote's another giant classic that has sat on my shelf for many years. I did read the first few chapters but, again, set it aside and didn't get back to it. One of these days...

@andylikesstuffchannel 2 жыл бұрын

Great video

@MarkAS56 2 жыл бұрын

Hey I had that Frankenstein paperback too!! I haven't thought about it in years. What the heck happen to that book, I wonder? I don't have Instagram, Facebook, etc. either. I'm really not interested at all. Don't know if you watch silent era films, but Lillian Gish is great in The Scarlet Letter.

@Weiselberry 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the Gish version of The Scarlet Letter is very good.

@MarkAS56 2 жыл бұрын

@@Weiselberry Good to hear you like it also, thanks. I haven't read it since higg school and wanted your opinion as someone surely more familiar with the original than me. The scene when they' try to take her kid...her face in the one shot is gut wrenching.