Every single pink/purple book I own · Bookshelf Tour

Time to haul out every book on my pink and purple shelf and show you the goodies.
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[@sammiebarker6217]

I broke up with a guy today for his sexist and classist jokes, and his mocking of activism. Watching this video and realising that if he were here I’d put in headphones so he didn’t make comments made me realise I definitely made the right decision...

[@Moistplinth]

hello to a stranger, from a stranger. definitely sounds like you made the right choice. but despite that, i hope you're okay and looking after yourself

[@hanzib31]

Go you!!! Breakups are tough but if a person does not align with your morals and beliefs, and you feel that you have to hide them, they are not for you. You'll find someone who is on the same page as you! 😊

[@minaermelyn]

Sending you lots of love. Sounds like you really made a great decision, as hurtful as it might be. You'll be better off without him. X

[@sammiebarker6217]

Melissa thanks so much for your reply aww I’m happy though!

[@sammiebarker6217]

hanzi31 i was definitely keeping secrets about him from my friends! Red flag!

[@amanirashed7149]

Leena should NEVER apologize for wanting to talk about books. We’re here for it :3

[@elizabethaman7]

"this is the ideal length of a book, I think. and the ideal amount of pictures." LOVE IT.

[@elizabethaman7]

the way that you store your books is the antithesis to the ~aesthetic booktube black ikea shelves~ and I am HERE FOR IT

[@julieannelovesbooks]

Elizabeth Aman it’s also so funny to me that they have to be color coded but then the shelves are also three rows of books deep. That seems counterintuitive to me 😂😂

[@elizabethaman7]

that is kinda hilarious/adorable. Maybe it’s so she can find books better? Like “I can’t see all of my books but I know this book is green so let me dig through my green shelf”

[@dr-pq2du]

I think the pen is supposed to also look like a woman's lower half. The heart in the nib could be the vagina/ womb

[@tiffbott41]

I saw that before I saw the pen nib 😂

[@vikki4367]

I saw that until she said it 😂

[@PCA05KAT]

Definitely the first thing I saw before I realised it was a fountain pen.

[@meremeth]

it honestly makes it even weirder.. why do people feel the need to make weird cartoon analogies for womens anatomy

[@Jen_Foster]

The amount of books I add to by TBR list during these bookshelf tours is out of this world

[@chloerixson7867]

I've come home from a long day at work and watched this with some cheesey garlic bread as a snack and I can't think of a better way to wind down! :) Love this series!!

[@suziejmm]

Love the idea of talking about "books that made me" as literal bricks building the walls of the house of my self aha, that's excellent

[@katarinakidd9450]

Always enjoy a Craig cameo. (And also a good color-themed bookshelf tour)

[@JessicaMiller-sd2uf]

Every time I watch a Leena video my TBR gets longer, this is unsustainable 😏 *clicks Want to Read*

[@leenanorms]

I regret nothing!

[@stardusstie]

Prisoner of Azkaban is also my favorite book in the HP series 😊

[@nursemain3174]

Also you’ve probably seen me comment a lot on ur videos, but I’m binge watching ur channel so much and ur literally such an inspirational woman to me.

[@josephhamilton6551]

Love that the Underground book has 'Tales for London' as the subtitle i.e. TfL

[@pisto30]

Your books look so nice! No battered torn book covers or stained pages. I'm envious!

[@basiakrzyzanska1620]

I agree the 3rd is the best and always gets the waterworks. I really want that version.

[@KsenyaTs]

“Angels in America” was one of the most heartbreaking, heartwarming and inspiring productions I’ve ever seen, and I too bought the script of course) And it’s amazing to read those words off the page - Kushner’s writing is astonishing.

[@julieannelovesbooks]

The new Iris Murdoch covers are BEAUTIFUL!!!

[@katietatey]

Well, I must commend KZbin because this video was in my "recommended" tonight and they basically nailed it. I love bookshelf tours, I love your sense of humor, and how was it 38 seconds in before I noticed your earrings? I also like to read academic books slowly because if I race through I never retain anything.

[@BreakingProtocol]

I think I needed the validation that reading a book slowly a sporadically is a valid way to read. I am a slave to the goodreads goal!

[@barefootpixie2809]

Oh my love, bless you, that's not just a nib..

[@victoriajohn3988]

Those Iris Murdoch covers 🤤 Speedy book reviews is the way forward. So much inspiration in such a short time! Oh, and yes to dipping in to books and that being an ok way to read.

[@whylal]

Plenty of really interesting sounding books to look into for future reading :)

[@leenanorms]

Aw I’m glad

[@jace_in_space]

My favorite pink cover is the Everyman's Pocket Poets version of Edna St. Vincent Millay's works! It's such a great edition!

[@ike5434]

I read Recipes for Sad Women per your recommendation years ago and it's still one of the books I go back to at least once a year, even to just dip into a few of my favourite parts. Absolutely adore that book (and in general really enjoyed pretty much all of the books in that breakup reads video, which have by now helped me through 2 difficult break ups. Much appreciated!).

[@mrd4518]

Watching this, I was not expecting to see a book (Writing and Selling Romantic Comedy Screenplays) written by a teacher I had in my creative writing degree many years ago, haha!! I didn't even know he wrote a book lol. What a weird coincidence!

[@maisiealewis]

I would highly recommend Zawe Ashton's 'Character Breakdown' - it's definitely a memoir, but also a massive reflection on sexism and class and race in the television and movie industries, working through her experiences in both beautiful prose and cleverly written screenplay style chapters. Plus it's a gorgeous pale dusty pink!!

[@mitzihenry]

I adored The Mars Room but i loved her other book The Flame Throwers even more. Another pink novel i recommend is Milkman by Anna Burns.

[@ElleEverhart]

Your bookshelf tour videos make me so happy and make me add so many books to my to-read list

[@booksandbroadway]

I also think PofA is the best Harry Potter book and was actually in the middle of a very comforting and nostalgic reread of the entire series and writing in depth analyses on my Goodreads account when JKR came along and lit a horribly offensive dumpster fire on twitter so... I feel you Leena. I really do.

[@jack.e_bee]

The 2007 Macmillan edition of "life on the refrigerator door" by Alice Kuipers is a light Barbie pink, so it would go perfectly on this shelf, and is about the evolving relationship of a mother and her teenage daughter, told via the notes they leave each other on the fridge door. It's short so I've read it about 20 times and might just read it again right now.

[@almazcavanagh7716]

love this 💜 and the old diary , would love another video looking through them

[@helloelin]

The Hercules Barefoot book’s original title is “Den vidunderliga kärlekens historia” (translates roughly to “The story of the monstrous love” they really went all in when translating 😅 Love the video!

[@katialucille]

LEENA YOU JUST NAMED A PERFECT IDEA FOR A VIDEO have you done this already? i can't remember but a books that built me / books that made me. books that made you who you are as literal bricks ahh how lovely. anyway this might be too big of a task but now that you said it i want to know about other books that built you :) ps thank you for this video and thank you very much for making it loud!

[@literature_geek]

I love tiny hardbacks.

[@daisyforster7046]

Mr Gallianos circus!!! i loved that book!

[@bell2638]

does this mean you havent read my year of rest and relaxation!!! incredible cover, bright pink spine, transcendent novel

[@Hillary429]

Beautiful cover! And I tore through it!

[@colecerys123]

Im so glad you’re continuing this, i didn’t know if you were!

[@fmarginalia]

Excited to see Blueberries!

[@ella5452]

so many gorgeous books. really enjoying this series 💜💜💜

[@lacec8983]

Living for the book content!!!

[@liisam26]

Love these videos! Definitely need to read The Virgin Suicides, really likes Middlesex. (:

[@rachelfeeney2991]

This is the second vid of yours that I've watched and I'm already obsessed!!

[@Harrison_J_T]

The heart in the bin - this may be my brain since I tend to see patterns, faces etc. where there are none but I thought as well as a fountain pen the image could be read at a silhouette of a the lower part body with the nib being the legs which then positions the heart as the vulva. I hope that's not the intention but that's how my eyes read it...

[@Lu02Indierevolution]

Absolutely love these bookshelf tour videos!

[@alexharvard154]

loveless is a great book!!

[@ivajaric39]

I have the same Pride and prejudice edition and weirdly I feel closer to you than ever before. :D I have the green Sense and sensibility one, and I plan to purchase their Anna Karenina, too!

[@Imallwrite212]

I also think the third harry potter is the best!

[@BreRomeda]

A romantic comedy by Leena? Um, yes please!!! Haha 😍

[@anyawillowfan]

Honestly I saw the Laurie Penny book and saw a woman's silhouette before I saw it as a nib, so the heart makes sense from that point of view.

[@SarahS-kf9it]

Love After Love is an absolutely incredible book, I would love to hear your thoughts on it once you read it. It would be great to hear you discuss a novel set in my region of the world - the Caribbean!

[@Rainingstars19]

Ahhh! I just read My Salinger Year and I’ve never heard anyone mention it. I loved it!

[@leenanorms]

I can’t wait to read it, it’s going to the top of the TBR

[@rainstorm1809]

If you read fantasy at all I recommend Seraphina by Rachel Hartman. There are a few different cover designs, but one of them is purple. Also The Strange And Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton... the cover is more blue (with an orange foil feather) but the spine is purpleish.

[@bookishshenanigans4769]

"I'm getting a book-production hard-on" is such a mood. Also, I would like you to know that I am a bigger Angels in America dickhead because I sat TWO rows from the front and cried my eyes out. Some pink recs: Black Flamingo, My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen.

[@mc63404]

Thanks for the video! I love this series.

[@emmaclark9080]

There I Am by Ruthie Lindsay. It's all poetic and beautiful 😍

[@lisajoyce9688]

Love the editing and new book recommendations :)

[@lilynxa1209]

I have the same edition of the Virgin suicides :) so exciting!

[@sisifyme]

Howl's Moving Castle is amaaaazing and one of my all time faves. Have yu read it, Leena? Craig's got solid taste. :P

[@leenanorms]

No I haven’t but I do mean to at some point - sounds like a trip! :)

[@cellotag]

Echoing this (tardy to the party) - So so good. I love Diana Wynne Jones anyway, but Howl's Moving Castle is fantastic! (It is not like the Ghibli film either, even though I also love it.)

[@oliviagiles]

I sung the womble song too...I love you for that :)

[@leenanorms]

It never fails to cheer me up!

[@mausihasizauberfee]

My copy of The Hate U Give has a pink spine.. so it might be a candidate for your pink shelf :)

[@dr-pq2du]

I haven't read the book and now I definitely think I'm going to

[@97dianad]

Leena - amazing as always

[@leenanorms]

Aw thank you!

[@elianaa.4375]

23:10 Soooo true! Preach Sista! Say it louder for the girls in the back 💯💥💥💥

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

I read Love After Love last month via audio.

[@elianaa.4375]

Book-self!! Nice one Leena. Grammar error? I doubt it. 😏

[@RunyaAikanaro]

Was about to put The Virgin Suicide on my 'want to read' list but then I saw it was actually already there hehe woops

[@leenanorms]

It’s a sign!

[@gabym5006]

I LOVE YOUR EARRINGS!! Where can i get them?

[@luisarombach683]

So basically I need to add all of these to my tbr now

[@Natilra]

I am going to at you about Prisoner of Azkaban but only to say it's my favourite, too. Although, yeah, I can't even with JKR Hope you don't mind but I have a few recommendations based on things you said in this video. First, books about the circus: Have you ever read the Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire series? The first book is called The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter. It's a really interesting alternate Britain and the main character is based in Leicester. She ends up joining the circus partway through. Second, books about London history I got the audiobook version of Craig Taylor's "Londoners: The Days and Nights of Now - as told by those who love it, hate it, live it, left it, and long for it" out of the library the other year and it's fascinating. I particularly remember the story of the woman who is the voice of the Tube. Lastly, books with fantastically tactile covers: I utterly adore Joe Abercrombie, who I discovered when looking for Fantasy with strong female characters. His women are brilliantly complex and the covers are this amazing textured parchment. I specifically recommend Best Served Cold but I haven't yet read anything by him that I don't like.

[@teganj9512]

What's your favorite austen? Mine is pride and prejudice so far but I haven't read them all, i was a little sad you said not the best lol!

[@adamsalyce]

Would recommend Turkish movie 'Mustang' if you loved Virgin Suicides like me. Is a great film and was compared to the novel/movie a lot.

[@Hillary429]

Not sure if you know about the new feature which can integrate time stamps into the progress bar, may be useful for trigger warnings ⚠️

[@elianaa.4375]

22:10 maybe because it s supposed to resemble a Vulva?. .sex/feminism.

[@annabelkok3662]

But what IS your favourite Austen book??

[@leenanorms]

It’s Persuasion :)

[@MGthief26]

leena norms a video ranking the Austen novels you've read would be fun 😉💜

[@sarahkelly6024]

Love the video! Just an FYI, using the term “commit suicide” can be quite triggering for people who have experienced suicide in any form because it perpetuates the idea that suicide is a crime or a sin and harkens back to when it was against the law. Saying “died by suicide” is a much less condemning phrase :)

[@mariaarbelaez8570]

Lenna, you should read oblivion: a memoir by Héctor Abad

[@lauramurphy8989]

My favourite Harry Potter too :)

[@readingwithlaurane2490]

I dont have a been bag :'( Ugh, I swear vintage classics just make beautiful covers because they know we will buy books solely for the cover... I feel like they are misusing me (is that a word?) That pride and prejudice edition! Pretty! The beautiful dark pink book I have that I have and really liked is Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. But I need my books from the same author to sit together so she is with the white-covered Amerikanah

[@gingirl101]

I'm bingeing this series this evening because I'm sad and, my god, this is resulting in an assault on my bank account

[@ЛизаФуртатова]

I signed up for your emails. How do I get the book list?

[@mawkernewek]

21:10 the error sound from Windows 95! (or maybe even Windows 3.1?)

[@Upinthetrees4095]

Are there going to be any more copies of "Doom Rolled in Glitter" available? I only just recently found this channel and now that you've made me want to read poetry(for the first time in my life) they're all sold out. :(

[@leenanorms]

Yes :) I’m just avoiding the post office RN :)

[@kaitlinberanek4539]

I've been hoping for a small restock as well!

[@sarahhanks2303]

finally someone else who thinks the prisoner of azkaban is the best hp book

[@abgeweit]

what I already hate about this series is that most of the books that sound interesting to me are not published in my country, or even available because of brexit. IDK if I can continue with this freshly brewed urge to read them :D

[@jesshoney4463]

Leena, I love you, but the dissing of Pride and Prejudice made me sad 💔

[@BookNomming]

The unspeakable things cover, I now see a pair of legs where the heart is in the pen nib

[@vikki4367]

My ad was a guy yelling at me saying its my fault I'm not wealthy like no you've got wrong ppl I'm to commie for your bs

[@taylacollins764]

Mine was one trying to sell me vag wash😣

[@jessicaballard3261]

the title card at the start says 'bookself' - was that intentional? or is Leena tired haha

[@laintrain]

v good

[@melanierichardson2304]

Stupid fact when I was kid I called Enid Blyton Grid Blyton because the font confused me haha

[@Anna-jd7fd]

To be honest I don't quite understand why you would separate books of the same author or even of the same series, just so everything can be color coded?! This is challenging me, haha! I would not find a thing if I needed it... enjoyed the video anyway!!

[@leenanorms]

Maybe I'm just a visual learner but that's how I can find books easiest? I can always picture the colour instantly when I'm looking for a book.

[@Anna-jd7fd]

@@leenanorms different approach than me, a great deal prettier - that's for sure! ;)

[@cheeruppirate]

Prisoner of Azkaban is the BEST HP book, obviously. (and JKR is the literal worst human on twitter that I used to follow)

[@LienVNDL]

Where is the Color Purple??

[@rosepetal34]

yayyyyy

[@karin8378]

How have I lived 23 years, read Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft but not known they’re RELATED? Nevermind PARENT and CHILD???

[@laura__5544]

Ugh it doesn't seem right that I'm getting Trump ads on Leena's lovely videos. (I know creators don't have control over this)

[@leenanorms]

Ugh NOOOO SERIOUSLY????

[@RukayaCesar]

@@leenanorms SimplyNailogical was tweeting about this recently, and showed how you can block certain advertisers - I think you need the URL of the ad to do so though... twitter.com/nailogical/status/1267262841360392192?s=20

[@laura__5544]

@@leenanorms his horrid ads are popping up everywhere :( and one of his organizers even knocked on my door on 4th of July, which never happened to me in 2016. Ugh

[@MGthief26]

When you zoomed in the pen on Unspeakable Things looked a bit like a woman's legs so the heart would be her crotch... anyone else see it or just me...

[@katietatey]

Definitely, but we can't speak of it.