Cleaning up & reorganizing my home library ft.

[@cosyreadingtimes8857]

Just here to say that I really like the look of your bookshelves, exactly because they look used and loved and lived in. They look like they have a soul.

[@bibliosophie]

awww thank you! 🥹

[@joelharris4399]

Perhaps more important than gobbling up book hauls is the noble art of de-cluttering one's oversaturated library bathed in dust and mold. I must commend you Sophie👏👏👏 🙃

[@bibliosophie]

well, i don’t think i’m admirably uncluttered, but my books are at least far from bathed in dust and mold, so i’m not in such bad shape

[@joelharris4399]

@@bibliosophie Yes Sophie. Making room for new ideas is a great move. Take out the material you don't see yourself reading any time soon and give it away.

[@Grandpasbookclub]

This brought me so much joy 💌

[@bibliosophie]

🦑

[@casskrug]

“i don’t know the alphabet very well” is cracking me UP

[@bibliosophie]

🙃 but it’s truuuue

[@mildrumpus]

Oh, gosh. I need to do the same exact thing but am DREADING IT. I did, however, really enjoy watching you two tackle the shelves. 😎📚👍

[@bibliosophie]

i wish you good courage and good luck!

[@rebareads]

This was a delight from top to bottom!

[@bibliosophie]

was not the most ~efficient~ way to clean up a bookcase, but it was massively fun

[@AthynVixen]

That was fun. Now I wanna hang out and drink wine with Ben and Ohad xx

[@bibliosophie]

i definitely recommend it!

[@thelefthandedreader6632]

So so fun! I hear you about either free books or very cheap books…having a look and deciding it wasn’t for you after all or not now anyway. I love an unhaul!! Friends talking…books…an unhaul. 🎉🎉🎉🎉. Btw the cigarette book…that’s SUCH a good example of…oh look at this. And then never thinking about it again. So funny and so relatable. 😅😅😅

[@bibliosophie]

@@thelefthandedreader6632 ha yes, that book is prime example of something that would in theory be interesting but that’s currently taking up too much shelf space. although i have to say that i’m getting more attached to it now that several people have commented about it… 🤔

[@clara_mars]

Just moved to NYC and am watching this while setting up my books for the first time - Nowhere near as beautiful as yours, but someday!

[@bibliosophie]

@@clara_mars 🤍 welcome to new york! may your unpacking go smoothly!

[@AlbertTheConjugator]

Salut, Sophie! Wine, books and friends are always a winning combination 😊 I haven't been to Brooklyn in years. Gonna visit Brooklyn College, my mother's alma mater. I'll remember to bring a tote bag in case I find books.📚 Happy reading ✌️😃

[@bibliosophie]

happy 📚 hunting!

[@nathansnook]

octopus hands to the history of olive oil had me SNORT semi-living organism surrounding books and the bookshelf is the way to gooo. getting rid of history of cigs and olive oil perhaps a good idea to feel a bit lighter 😭

[@bibliosophie]

long live the semi-organism of books!

[@theonlyrealproperty2567]

Seeing you with Ben and Ohad made me grin with delight! The Poetry Magazine issues looked so familiar, the covers are so pleasing and yet I too rarely read all of them. Don’t tell anyone 😉 but I am a hard-core declutterer and would have insisted you remove all the books from the shelves to start with… I would have been the biggest pain in the ass and you would have immediately regretted inviting me 😂

[@bibliosophie]

oyyy i definitely would not have had the courage to remove every book! you’re very much invited for wine or coffee or food if and when you’re in new york, but i might not call on you to watch me cull my books 😁

[@theknightssayme]

Your bookshelves are so beautiful and your collection looks amazing! I tend to go through my books once in a while, but I usually just move them around and never get rid of them, ahah Next time I think I will invite friends over, such a nice chill video

[@bibliosophie]

thank you! i definitely recommend a friend library session (only minimal organization/cleaning really needs to occur)

[@leslecturesdemarie7994]

Super vidéo, me donne envie de faire du tri dans les bouquins maintenant 😌👍 Les conversations sont très intéressantes, j'ai également remarqué que les années où je dépasse la centaine de livres lus ne sont pas les meilleures en terme de santé et autre...C'est néanmoins une échappatoire salutaire! J'ai 40 ans et je n'ai toujours pas lu The Secret History, j'espère apprécier. J'apprécie énormément ta chaîne, bonne continuation

[@bibliosophie]

bon, the secret history n’est quand même pas un livre incontournable mais l’atmosphère est riche et l’histoire envoûtante merci!! et bon tri !

[@jameskatie]

delightful x

[@bibliosophie]

🐝 🐝

[@ebonykenae]

the way i clicked so fast!!

[@bibliosophie]

a trio of cuties getting increasingly drunk while talking through books :)

[@NeilBruder]

I heard mention of Lincoln in the Bardo. If you’re not inclined to sit down and read the physical book (I wasn’t) I would highly recommend the audio book instead. It has a huge cast of incredible voice actors. It’s magnificently done. And while we’re on the subject the audio book for his more recent book A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is also exceptional.

[@bibliosophie]

i read and liked a swim in a pond in the rain when it came out! it’s actually the only saunders i’ve read thanks for the tip re lincoln in the bardo audiobook. i tend to prefer audiobooks with only one narrator, who doesn’t do voices - basically i don’t like when there’s too much theatrical production. but! i can evolve!

[@NeilBruder]

@@bibliosophie I agree a single narrator who does multiple voices are often bad. These two audio books not that, they have different voice actors for each character. In a swim in a pond each of the short stories is read by a separate cast of actors. Very well done!

[@bibliosophie]

@@NeilBruder i’m not really keen on multiple voice actors, either!

[@NeilBruder]

@@bibliosophie ahh haha ok well then rather than a recommendation, consider this a warning against George Saunders audio books! 😅

[@bibliosophie]

@@NeilBruder 🤣👼

[@Nastya-readsandlifts]

You know that a book critic or booktuber lives close by, when ARCs appear in stacks inside Little Libraries around you 😂 (there is one, or two, in the Brooklyn area I live in 😅).

[@bibliosophie]

ha ha yep!!

[@MJ-in-Canada]

At 600 pages, I would probably unhaul “The Cigarette Century” too although the topic is of interest to me. I see that the author, Allan M. Brandt wrote another book on the history of venereal disease. At just 304 pages, I would be more likely to read that.😁

[@bibliosophie]

lol i like to imagine that you knew these facts off the top of yr head! the cigarette century i think would make an excellent library book for me

[@MJ-in-Canada]

@@bibliosophie 😆

[@Slothreadersclub]

I got one Zadie Smith last year but since her whitewashing op-ed I am reluctant to pick it up.

[@bibliosophie]

that vaguely strikes a bell for me - i didn’t read it, but i remember something or other. anyway, if it’s turned you off her, so be it! there are so many excellent authors in the world that i don’t really see the point in trying to stomach ones you don’t get along with. i like several of her books a great deal and recommend her to people, but you’ve got plenty of reading material ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Slothreadersclub]

@@bibliosophie If you read it you will understand that her work and themes she deals with, don't mean anything. For me Palestine and the current genocide in Gaza which is spilling over into West Bank is a litmus test for every single person's moral and humanity. She failed it big time.

[@bibliosophie]

@@Slothreadersclub i’ll go seek it out

[@bibliosophie]

@@Slothreadersclub i imagine you mean the new yorker article about student protests? i understand why it turns you off her actually, your comment reminds me of another thing she wrote less recently that sat badly, too. it’s a good example of how i can sand off aspects of people in my memory - i think i tend not to do it too much, but obviously i’m not immune i imagine you’ve read andrea long chu’s article on smith from last september? www.vulture.com/article/zadie-smith-the-fraud-review.html

[@nataliezementbeisser1492]

did you read any of these books?

[@bibliosophie]

you mean the books i’m getting rid of? i would say about 1/3 or so of them, most of them are long time ago; the rest are mostly books i found and thought i might read

[@nataliezementbeisser1492]

@@bibliosophie thank you for your answer and have a nice day!!