Do we still need bookshops?

[@Yesica1993]

(Will watch later, doing work stuff now.) But I saw the tittle and my brain instantly screamed, "YES!"

[@mirenda2754]

Same! haha

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

Your collection of Dante seems to be my collection of Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo! ;) I worry about the future of bookshops, and I believe I will one day utter the words: I remember the times when there were still bookstores. I hope I am wrong - it would break my heart. My publisher says that the bookstores are struggling. Great video!

[@mademoiselleeugenie]

As an Italian graduated in Italian literature, I really appreciated that you mentioned Eco and Dante. Dante is the most important poet of the Italian literature and the founder of our actual language without any doubt. I suggest you to search for Mimesis by Auerbach, too, and I really do hope you can read Dante in Italian, even if it's just a little bunch of verses, reading Dante in Italian is an unbelievable experience. I agree with you about bookshops. I think the bookshops of used, old, out of catalogue books are the best ones. Loved this video and the natural setting. Greetings ❤

[@matthieujoly]

Bookshops and library are my favorite places. I'm a volunteer at our local library, and I just do enjoy that. Not really the administrative part, but to discuss. Your reading spot is really great !! Thanks to share with us, I will look for the Umberto Eco book, really like the author.

[@GypsyRoSesx]

Nice video & the location did add beauty to the video 🦋

[@joemountains1539]

I just had this serendipitous bookshop experience, looking for one book, not getting it, then buying four books on three subjects, none of them fiction-which is rare for me, and leaving one behind for another day. And this bookstore discovery is an act of beauty. Good spot, btw, the crows had their say, too, which I appreciate.

[@dqan7372]

Sadly, between lack of personal space and COVID, I've only seen fit to stop in a physical bookstore once in the past five years, and that was to buy a new B&N Nook. Thus, while I am 'familiar' with Eco's novels, that particular non-fiction book by him looks totally unfamiliar and utterly fantastic. Loved that Tarkovsky quote.

[@andrewhoulihan7940]

Keep the great work up Vashik. Love from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@ReadJournalLove]

Lovely spot! Book serendipity has happens for me. I will find books that I had no idea I wanted to read. For instance I saw a book with a sea cover and picked it up. It was about cave diving and it was one of the best adventure biographies I’ve read. Very random, but allowed me to learn all about cave diving. I’m so thankful for bookstores and so many have been closing where I live.

[@JonStallings]

Gorgeous location Vashik. Seems like bookstores are getting harder to find here in the U.S. Just last week another store close to me closed. I buy a lot from Amazon but love the stores to explore and find something unexpected

[@Skavop]

There are good bookshops and bad. The bigger the bookshop, I find, the more chance I have of finding things I would read, but sometimes the smaller ones just have the titles they think their customers will want, as is often the case with libraries as well. This leads to acres of "Staff Picks" and "Summer Reading" tables, with a lot of similar, rubbishy reads on offer, and the discerning reader has to search online for what they want instead. I think if I could chose one book from your reading list it might be the Eco one, but you seem to always be able to get your hands on good books for us to look at, and what a nice spot to present them from! I'm an artist and I would say that personally I don't feel I have any kind of special access to a supernatural or divine source for my art, but I do very much draw on my strong sense of being me, in the moment, to stay "in the flow" of making art, and I think from discussion with, and watching other artists at work, it is this presence with what is happening, and the ability to be totally in it, that helps create a good artwork. Arts function, of course, is not just to be beautiful, and it doesn't have to be that, or convey that, to be good art. It can just be thought provoking, although it has to have something tying it all together; sadly these day, often a long essay (a bit like this comment) which isn't the artwork, but legitimises it, since getting a thought out and calling it art are now labelled as a reasonable measure of what is art, since Duchamp really, with his urinal, and satirised so well by Warhol's copies of copies. Arts are often a bit philosophising, in their thought processes, and I've never met an artist who I thought was any good who wasn't also very well read. To get the good stuff to output, you've got to also input good stuff; sensory perceptions, books, friends or acquaintances, environment etc.

[@mirenda2754]

I totally agree with you on contemporary, modern art, I feel the same. And I love what you said: "self-expression is not necessarily art"! This sentence struck me, it hits the nail on the head! I personally think and feel that for something to be truly beautiful, it has to remind us of the good. If it brings us down, it's not beauty

[@arlenehutchinson9259]

Setting is a perfect 'Darling Buds of May' I recommended the Soul's Code with respect to your recommendation of the book on genius. Mozart was in full contact with the divine as far as I can see for his Requiem Mass ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL from beginning to end. What is beauty? I too am not a fan of modern art. Beauty is truth and Truth is beauty according to the quote. I agree with this, beauty answers a question that we didn't know we were asking.

[@aliceroseduerr3089]

Recommendations for bookshops in London greatly appreciated. I will be visiting later this year.

[@mirenda2754]

The spot is beautiful! 😁☘️🍃🌳🌞

[@pamherman6363]

I also have various editions of the same works, primarily Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde.

[@JackRatcliffe-ze9jw]

First, the backdrop is wonderful for recording and reading, except for the occasional helicopter or strolling couple. 😉 Next, it would take me 10 minutes to get into your sitting position - and at least twice that time to get up. Next, I agree that the Latham book is terrific and the serendipity of the used book store is a wonder. My favorite is only 20 minute drive away. I would seriously be lost without it. Next, I have put the McMahan, Anderson, and Wood books in my shopping cart for a June 1 buy. I am seriously overextended for May. Finally, I would like to pose a question if I may: what are the best movies about books. Not movies based upon a book, but ones where the book features prominently in the tale. My favorites are 84 Charing Cross Road, The Neverending Story, The Dead Poets’ Society, and The Holdovers. My son in law likes The Ninth Gate. I am too old to do the HP experience, so I can’t vote on them. Thoroughly enjoyed this video.

[@CristinaDias7]

Don’t take modern art so serious: it’s more about an intellectual exercise between a group of friends. Or a intelectual group, or a pseudo-elite one. The group itself is not that important: just another influence circle. About the meaning of modern art: it doesn’t have any, and doesn’t need any. And also don’t need our appreciation or love. I even think is quite suitable to the movement to give it our heartfelt disdain. Love your content. 🤩 cheers from Lisbon, from an art critic and art theory masters student.

[@nysunra]

Can you do a video on how to retain the books we read. I feel like I'll be engrossed in a book and when it's done I have no idea what I just read. 😵‍💫