BIG BOOKSHELF TOUR! MY VINTAGE BOOK COLLECTION 📚 ❤️
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- Happy Sunday! In today's video, I'm chatting about my recent reads (including some excellent seasonal Spring reads) and reorganizing my double bookcase downstairs with lots of vintage books. I share highlights of my vintage book collection in this big bookshelf tour.
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LINKS:
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FREE Spring Commonplace Book Guide: www.mirandajanemills.com/spri...
The Wind Boy by Ethel Cook Eliot (out of print)
Sinister Spring by Agatha Christie: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Audible version: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Sinister...
The Swallow - A Biography by Stephen Moss: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Homecoming by Kate Morton: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
A Wind is Blowing by Monica Edwards: www.ggbp.co.uk/product/me-a-w...
Girls Gone By Publishers: www.ggbp.co.uk/
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SOME FAVOURITE VINTAGE BOOK SERIES:
Elinor Brent-Dyer (Chalet School Books)
Elsie J Oxenham (Abbey Girls series)
Dorita Fairlie Bruce (Dimsie, Nancy and Springdale books)
M E Atkinson (Lockett family series)
Maud Hart Lovelace (Betsy-Tacy books)
Sylvia Waugh (Mennyms series)
Kitty Barne (Farrar family quartet)
Elfrida Vipont (Dowbiggins trilogy and Haverard family books)
Pamela Brown (Blue Door series)
Margaret Biggs (Melling books)
Lorna Hill (Sadler's Wells ballet stories)
Miss Read (Fairacre and Thrush Green series)
O Douglas (The Rutherford novels)
Angela Thirkell (Barsetshire books)
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Happy Sunday everyone! I've shared a tour of my vintage book collection in today's video. Please see the description box for relevant links and a list of some of my favourite vintage series that I collect. Here's the link for my Spring Commonplace Book Guide for those interested in seasonal journaling for bookish creatives: www.mirandajanemills.com/springcommonplacebook
Miranda, you don't know how validating it is for me to see otherd like you who read vintage children's novels. I'm in my 30s now but went to a very unhappy state school where my peers were reading Goosebumps and Jacqueline Wilson (if they were reading at all), meanwhile I was reading Malory Towers and the Ballet Family and the Chalet School etc etc- it was pure escapism for me as I felt like a fish out of water in real life. It's been so wonderful to know that others out there are equally as passionate about these types of stories. I wish I could tell my 14 year old self to hang in there- it gets better! Thank you for the joy your videos bring me.
Thanks so much for your kind comment! You're definitely not the only one who loves vintage children's books! ❤️📚
So nice to see a new upload and we’ll get a tour of the vintage book collection? YES! Sunday has been instantly made better.
Thank you! 📚😊
I have all my Miss Read books, the full sets and others! And all my Georgette Heyer books in my bedroom, by my bed, they are what I call my comfort books! The children's book that I have read the most, and have 4 copies of different prints and stages of wear is The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Gouge. I'm glad I'm not the only person who has Christmas reads, which come out every winter!!!
I’ve been watching your channel for quite a while now and I never thought of this, but my mom was born and raised in Scotland, but her dad was from England and his last name is Mills! We may be distantly related😀
I read my first La Comtesse de Ségur book when I was 7. I've been collecting this beloved French collection ever since. Although not having much money, whenever we were out shopping and near a bookshop, my dear mother always bought me a new book. I've been collecting them since and my girls have read them as well.
How lovely to have the same editions too to share with your own daughters 💕
Miranda, you create such a charming escape for me! You have such a warm literary heart-you have opened me up to many new authors and genres-many thanks!
Thanks so much! So glad you enjoyed the video! ❤️📚
Your dress looks beautiful on you!
Oh my goodness, Miranda, this reminded me that I read the Chalet School and the Abbey Girls when I was young. I think the books were my mum’s when she was a girl. I’ve no idea what happened to them. Like you, I’ve had books in storage for years - not wanting to part with them, so I’ve lost track of exactly what I own. One day I hope to have them all together again and beautifully arranged so that I can enjoy them.
Homecoming was SO good! First I’d ever read of hers.
A beautiful collection ❤️ very happy to see you back this Sunday. Wishing you a happy week
Thanks so much! Wishing you the same ❤️📚
Oh my god! I have been looking for a book vlogger like you! My bookshelf is primarily made up of secondhand books, its budget, most of them have great covers! And it's had some history; I don't have to be worrying about breaking the crisp clean spine of a book too.😂
What a delight Miranda! Saw many of my old favorites in your tour which brought back many fond memories. As always, your channel brings me so much joy - thank you!
Thanks so much, Judi! That's very kind ❤️📚
Sinister Spring! By AC the paperback edition just came out and I’m in a real predicament because the cover is also stunning!
You seem so at ease in front of the camera! Love your channel
Dear Miranda, what a wonderful treat this video was! I really love to see what kind of books you have and collect I always get a lot of inspiration of your bookshelf videos and I've already bought a huge amount of books which I came across on your bookshelf. So many authors I didn't know before and really like to read. Because of you I started to collect Alison Uttley's books because I so enjoyed reading 'the country child'. I started to dedicate one of my shelves to the Comfort Book Club. I haven't read all yet (because I only found your channel last December) but it already looks beautiful. By the way, you look radiant in that lovely dress! I am so glad that you posted your inspiring video today! Have a wonderful week with your mom. I loved her newsletter last week, thank you so much❤❤
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video Inga! Thank you for your lovely comment! I absolutely adore the idea of you having a Comfort Book Club shelf - that's so wonderful to read! 'The Country Child' is such a fabulous story, and I highly recommend AU's adult essay collections too; they're charming if you can track them down! Have a wonderful start of the week xxx
Miranda, what a lovely tour of your bookshelves, I've admired the look of them in your videos. You've definitely introduced me to many new authors! By the way, your home has so many charming vintage features.
Thanks so much!
So 🎉 HAPPY 🎉 you are back.
I cherish the Thornton W. Burgess series of “Mother West Wind” books for children that my mother read aloud to me as a child. As well as being entertaining stories, they contain immense amounts of natural history information on the wildlife of North America. Naughty Reddy Fox has always been my favourite. 🦊 🧡
What a lovely PDF you’ve created. I am new to commonplace books and this will be a valuable guide. Thank you for all your beautiful, soothing videos and the CBC. They are a balm in this chaotic world. Happy Spring to you and your mum. Cheers 😊
Thank you so much for your lovely support, Cori! It's very kind of you, and I really appreciate it. So glad you like the commonplace book guide. Happy spring to you too! ❤️
Lovely to see you again Thank you for encouraging my spirit to read again I'd forgotten how you can escape the world Only problem is where to start and when to stop I've recently put Winnie the pooh and wind in the willows on my wish list I have a yearning to read children's classics that escaped me in my child hood I spent my first 8 years in children's homes and Foster care My last Foster parents took me on as long term and adopted me at 17 At that age due to court difficulties I those days I am 69 My FM was a teacher She spent many hours of frustration as I couldn't read at 8 !!!!! in that first summer holiday I am so so grateful that she spent the time on me As I have recently renewed my reading it dawned on me I have her to thank so I sent her a thank you card and letter She is 92 and suffering with early dementia I needed to tell her and thank her whilst she can still recall Thank you also for the free spring guide It has been much enjoyed Looking forward to your next videos and seeing your mum on the monthly review Have a wonderful spring Take care 🙂
What a beautiful collection of vintage books!
Thanks so much, Sarah!
Thank you for taking us on a tour of your vintage children's books. It was both comforting and relaxing to look at the charming cover art and hear you talk a bit about both the characters and the authors. I bet your feel like you are surrounded by many "old friends" when you are in your living room. I also wanted to let you know how much I have been enjoying your email newsletters. 💕
Thanks so much Nancy! Glad you found this a relaxing watch, and I'm really pleased you're enjoying my newsletters 😊
It's wonderful to have you back! I hope your Easter holiday was restful. Looking forward to reading Kate Morton's book. I was hesitant at first but after hearing how you enjoyed it, I am ready to make the purchase. Have a wonderful week. It is so nice to see the birds again. They do make each day more enjoyable.
Thank you, Lynn! I really enjoyed Homecoming and hope you do too. The dawn and evening choruses are so cheering this time of year! Have a lovely week ❤️
OMG!!! Couldn’t believe you mentioned Elizabeth Goudge!! Don’t know anyone that knows that author! My mom introduced her books to me and my daughter grew up reading her! First time on your channel and enjoyed it! Thank you!
Welcome, Dawn! Thanks so much for the lovely comment. I'm so happy you enjoyed seeing my Elizabeth Goudge books! Happy reading ❤️📚
Your books are gorgeous! Really enjoyed your bookcase tour! 😊
Thank you, Mary Anne!
Loved This Video Of Your Book Cases, I Love Miss Read, Thank You For Sharing
This video is a joy to behold. I love Miss Read books (many of my peers haven't heard of her!), and I am coveting those hardback editions. Also, I inherited three of my Mum's Lorna Hill Sadler's Wells books - again, I'm so pleased to see you have the whole set. Finally, I live in the town where O Douglas and her brother John Buchan lived as children and pass their former home on a daily basis. In our local park, there is a line of trees that O Douglas planted, so I remember her every time I walk along that path.
Thank you for this lovely video. It's so nice to see a kindred spirit on here.
May I ask for you to show us all of your nature books?
The wind boy seems lovely story, I added to my to read list💜🙏
Fabulous I collect vintage canal books children and adult.i noticed you have a few I have great collection
Hello I just discovered your videos on RUclips I do follow your Instagram. I collect vintage books and do read them all. I have a complete collection of Wilkie Collins who is my favorite author but I also have a complete collection of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Sir Walter Scott. I have a few Anthony Trollope also. One of my favorite authors is Catherine Cookson and I have a lot of her books also. I do like to collect vintage Gothic romance novels with lovely book jackets. I do have some Mrs. E.D E.N. Southworth books which are fun to read. Several other authors including Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters. Many other authors that are too numerous to list. I loved looking at your bookcase thank you for sharing it.
What an absolute treat to see your beautiful vintage book collection! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I love to collect vintage hardbacks too, both adult’s and children’s books. I see so many favourites on your shelves! I can only aspire to your beautiful collection…a true collector’s paradise! Wishing you a lovely day xxx
Hi Miranda, I always enjoy your you tubes and although I don't collect vintage books per se, Tasha Tudor is one of my favorites. A few years ago my husband bought me a first edition Edgar Allan Crow by Tasha. I wanted to share with you an exciting purchase I just made. I had watched one of your you tubes around the holiday's when you found an out of print book which I've been looking for ever since. It is called, THE BRONTE YEARBOOK and I finally found a copy through Abe books from a seller in the UK. Cannot wait to get my copy which the seller said is new and in unmarked condition. It's finally warming up here in Minnesota and I too am looking forward to the return of the swallows. Thank you for all your lovely you tubes. Sending love 🌻
That's wonderful, Belinda! ❤️
Beautiful books with a history, thank you for sharing so much joy and cosiness Miranda! Getting inspired to read some vintage 📖
Thank you very much, Caroline, for your kind support! I really appreciate it and am really happy I might have inspired you to read some vintage! 😊❤️📚
Really beautiful books 💞
But your dress!!! Love all the suggestions.
Miranda, I am so happy to discover your new video now. Sending lots of love to you and your mum ♥️
Seeing vintage Betsys Wedding was lovely.Enjoyed this video from beginning to end.When we built our home my husband surprised me with gorgeous book cases in several rooms including our bedroom& still they are bursting at the seams and I’m always reorganizing enjoyed seeing your reorganization the joys of a bookworm.
So glad you enjoyed it Rhonda! Your bookcases sound gorgeous, and I agree it’s always so fun to reorganise books!! 📚❤️
A simply lovely collection. I am collecting books illustrated by C F Tunnicliffe for my vintage room. I've just spent £30 (!) on one as I love as a treat. I saw it in perfect condition and it's my favourite one by H E Bates, in the Heart of the Country.
Tunnicliffe's illustrations are so special ❤️ It's such a joy to find a special book - how lovely you were able to find a copy to treasure for your collection 📚 ❤️
I need one of those lights. Always looking forward to your Vlogs. Happy Sunday!
They're wonderful lights, Mary! Thanks so much and Happy Sunday to you too! ❤️📚
I admire your library, lt is very good visually and in content, good reading ❤❤
Kate Morton’s “The Homecoming” was well worth reading. She has such a flair for describing houses and settings. I had to Google many of the flora and fauna she described in Australia so I learned something, too.
Yes, I so agree! I love the two house descriptions in Homecoming and so interesting to learn more with the Australian setting.
Enjoyed seeing your vintage books. I don’t have complete collections, but I collect Grace Livingston Hill, Elizabeth Goudge, some Von Arnie, all of Jan Karon, and James Herriot. Many others like Delderfield that I have some, but not an actual collection.
I read Sense and Sensibility during April!
Beautiful bookshelves! You do such a good job describing books without saying too much. The Persephone newsletter could learn from you. I just ordered a box of books - all based on your recommendation!
Oh thank you! So glad you enjoy my recommendations! xxx
Oh my, I see your Maud Hart Lovelace books. I was a young girl growing up in Santa Barbara, California in the 1950s. My first library card was my best friend and I’d read the Lovelace books. Good memories of those years and my time at the library. TY for sharing your books, stories and time with us.
I'm so happy the MHL books brought back happy memories for you. I so love the Betsy-Tacy books still! ❤️ 📚
Such beautiful vintage collection! It reminded me of O.Douglas books. I'm really looking forward to read her books!
Background music is just soooo LOVELY
What a beautiful vintage collection of the Betsy-Tacy books, my favorite series of all time ❤ And I love that you were moving them around to be in order. They were followed by Family Grandstand and Family Sabbatical, 2 more wonderful books.
Always so happy to find another Betsy-Tacy fan! I grew up reading them and still love them so much. Couldn't let them be out of order 😉 Mum and I are both big Carol Ryrie Brink fans too! xxx
I love how the spines of the dust jackets on your vintage books often are illustrated too.
Agree that Sinister Spring is a fun listen. For me it turned out to be the perfect Easter weekend book. I listened on a walk to the sea, enjoying the sunshine and guessing who did it :)
Looking forward to reading Kate Morton's new book. She is quite a new author to me, started with The Clockmaker's Daughter and continued with The House at Riverton. It's wonderful to discover an author and have a stack of books you know you'll have a lovely time diving into.
I love the illustrated spines too, Penny! So glad you enjoyed listening to Sinister Spring over Easter as well. I so agree: it's such a joy to discover a new author you can look forward to diving into their backlist, and, even better, if they're still writing! Have a lovely week! ❤️📚
Wow! I had to keep pausing the video to look at the covers - the illustrations are gorgeous! They don’t make books like that anymore. Such a beautiful collection ☺️
I LOVE the Wind Boy! That and The Return of the Twelves are my two most favorite children's books. I really enjoy your vlog so much.
Hi Miranda. I just want to say that I absolutely love your videos. You do such a wonderful job. Keep up the great work! Thank you thank you thank you! RB
tfs your beautiful collection of vintage books 📚 . . have a wonderful Sunday and week ahead take care ❤️🙋♀️💐🌻🦋🥰🌹🌺
Thank you so much, Ida! You too ❤️💐
I was so pleased that you pulled out The Growing Summer by Noel Streatfield. I have a very old library copy of the book with the wondrful illustratons by Edward Ardizzone. It is such a wonderful read and so very funny. I am always hoping that you might give it a two minute slot! Thanks for so much excellent content always!
Yes, it's a lovely book! I'm a big NS fan xxx
I also collect vintage books and love acquiring more quirky forgotten tomes. Enjoyed yours very much!
Greetings Miranda! Thank you so much for sharing your vintage books with us! I used to have quite a few books in my collection, but sadly I had to drastically downsize to a small apartment. Now I mostly rely on my Kindle app, but at least I can adjust the font, as I need large print! Love and blessings ♥️🙏
Miranda you might like this book:
British and American School Stories, 1910-1960: Fiction, Femininity, and Friendship Hardcover - 7 Mar. 2019
by Nancy G. Rosoff (Author), Stephanie Spencer (Author)
Thanks so much for the recommendation! I'll have to look for it ❤️📚
What a wonderful video! I have all the Miss Read books, but mostly in paperback. Seeing your wonderful vintage hardbacks - as well as all of your other beautiful hardbacks, gladdens the heart! Love to you and Donna x
Thanks so much, Jayne! x
Thanks for bringing back childhood memories Miranda.
I was also a bookworm and books wer almost better
companions to me than people.
To this day people sometimes take me for
a pushover because I'm not street-wise but then they're
astonished that l push back against dominant types.
I even pray for my literary friends Agatha, Enid, EM Forster,
Somerset Maugham,Hardy to mention but a few.
I let go a lot of books and it was possible once it's a
conscious uncoupling besides the fact that all my Thomas
Hardy books were cheap penguin classics . I felt l could
them again if l changed my mind.
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Lovely books - i really enjoyed seeing them. I noticed that you have the facsimile edition of the Kelmscott william morris news from nowhere - a great favourite of mine. Do you have the Kelmscott Chaucer facsimile? I'm reading the Rosemary Tree by Elisabeth Goudge at the moment - i have also just read the bird in the tree and the herb of grace by her - both brilliant reads. It was you that put me onto how wonderful her books are.
Oh so glad to hear you're enjoying your Elizabeth Goudge books! 📚 ❤️
Love seeing this book organisation and tour! 'That Imp Miranda', too funny! I just started reading Homecoming, which I've been looking forward to so much as I loved The Forgotten Garden. Great video!
I enjoy seeing your vintage book collection Miranda thank you! Love seeing all of them! ❤
So happy you enjoyed it, Grace! Thank you! ❤️📚
I really enjoyed watching you rearrange your bookshelf with your vintage books. You have a wonderful collection. I have a small collection of wonderful old books too. I finally found a vintage book that I read as a child that was the first book I remember reading that I loved. It was called “Five little Peppers and how they grew” by Margaret Sidney dated 1938. It was a old book even when I read it but i remember that I loved reading about the Pepper family. I will try to find the “Wind Boy”, the illustration on the cover is beautiful. I remember you saying you were hoping to read it soon in your last video. I am loving your spring commonplace book I signed up for as soon as you posted it. I have my own that I have been adding to over the years. I never knew what to call it since it wasn’t a diary or journal, but now I know. Thank you. 💕
Thanks so much for your very kind words, Patti! I hope you're able to find a copy of The Wind Boy - it really is such a charming read, and I remember reading the Margaret Sidney Pepper series when I was little too! ❤️📚
I've just read your latest newsletter and forgot to mention in my earlier comment (because I was blown away by your collection of vintage books, many of which took me down a wonderful memory lane, lol) that I'm thoroughly enjoying them! My weekly "comfort read"... Wonderful and beautiful work, Miranda! I hope subscribers here will also subscribe to them; they're in for a treat if they do.
Thank you, Grace! I'm so glad you're enjoying my newsletters ❤️
I grew up on my mother’s books, so subsequently read whatever books I could find in her shelves, including Monica Edwards who is one of my favourite authors. I did collect them a little just to find the ones my mother didn’t have, but they were hard to find and expensive in Australia. I was so happy when I discovered Girls Gone By Publishers. I can now say I have the fully set of Romney and Punchbowl books from GGBP! I would say they were the ones I focused my main collecting on, although I have many more books now by other authors.
I so enjoy the Monica Edwards as well, and have collected the GGBP reprints too! ❤️📚
I was delighted to see that you have a copy of Mirror of Danger by Pamela Sykes. One of my all-time favorites as a teenager!
Such a fab timeslip! ❤️📚
So lovely to have you back! I hope your Easter holidays were restful and restorative. I adore your shelves and find the sight so soothing. What a beautiful vintage book collection. There’s something about those spines and illustrations that are really special. I felt very seen as you organized them just so, keeping series together. The conundrum of many a fellow bookworm. Thank you for sharing your favourites with us xx
Thanks so much for your lovely comment, Antoniette! Yes, us bookworms have the same problems 😂. Have a lovely week xx
Miranda, did I really see a book entitled ‘Cut off from Crumpets’, or am I hallucinating? If real, what a calamity!
Yes, a calamity indeed 😂😂! it's the second title in Margaret J Baker's charming children's series. The first one is easy to find as it was published as a Puffin (Castaway Christmas). Highly recommended if you enjoy vintage children's stories too ❤️ 📚 P.S. You can read more about it on this blog post I wrote a couple years ago: mirandasnotebook.com/blog/cut-off-from-crumpets
Oh what a pleasure to see some of your collection! I was pleased that the Betsy Tacy books and the Miss Read were highlighted...cherished part of my collection! Thank you for your delightful content. From Sue in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Cherished here too! So glad you enjoyed the video, Sue! ❤️📚
Forgot to say i do enjoy your videos, 😊
Thank you so much! ❤️📚
Wow, such a great collection of vintage books! Quite a few I remember from my younger days... Very nostalgic and beautiful!
Thank you, Grace!
I also went years with my books in storage in various places, including a very humid and damp container in Brittany (guess what happened), as we moved around eight countries,, so I appreciate very much your struggle.
Understand completely! Many of my childhood books are still in storage in New York, but you can imagine how happy I am to have these ❤️📚
I was looking so forward to this video today. Miranda it is always such a nice escape to watch .
What beautiful vintage book collection you have. Thanks for sharing everything.
You're so welcome! I'm very happy you enjoyed the video ❤️
What a wonderful collection of vintage books, also adored those covers! Hope you had a lovely break and a fab video as always 💛
Thanks so much, Sophie! The dust wrappers add so much delight.❤️📚
Yay! A new Miranda video ❤
Enjoy! ❤️
Hi Miranda, this is one of my very favorite book videos of all time. I added the books you mentioned in the beginning to my tbr, especially for spring reading. I like how you rearranged your bookcases. It makes more sense to have the old books together plus it looks very pleasing to see. While there are some current authors I do like, such as Kate Morton, I find I enjoy the older books more. I have several book shelves of older books (published before 1950), which are mostly children’s collections and I have all of Charles Dickens but 2 books which were lost in a fire. I have some random older books too, with some inscriptions to my Grandma and Grandfather when they were young, and even a little old book dated 1860 to my Great Grandfather when he was a child. Im about your Mom’’s age and feel the older stories suit my reading tastes better. I greatly admire your book collection. I would like to add more vintage and old books to my collection too. So I will be rewatching your video about a hundred times for suggestions. Thank you!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for the very kind words! How wonderful to have some of your Grandparents books, and even one from 1860 which was your Great Grandfather's! ❤️📚
This is my first video of yours to watch and I really enjoyed it! Your voice is so pleasant! I love all your books and found so much inspiration there.❤ do you have a good reads account? I know that I would love the inspiration from your reads. I love the Miss reed books but I don’t own any as yet. I grew up reading lots of old classics on my paper white kindle because they were free and i grew to love them so much! I never really read children’s series though aside from those written by Louisa may Alcott and G. A. Henty because I just never came across them! But no I so enjoy them. Some of my favorites series are the Ruth Fielding series, Betty Gordon, Annette, the Radio boys, the Rover boys, the areoplane girls, the areoplane boys, the Boy Scouts, and the campfire girls.❤
Hi Maranda I have books by Elinor.m.bren-dyer , E.J.Oxenham and Dorita Farlie Bruce I find it hard to get all of them in Australia also due to being on a pension. I also have the Donna Parker series by Marcia Levin
Thanks Miranda, loved this video and it inspired me to finally get a move on and get some of my lovely library moved over to my flat (which I’ve lived in for over a year!)
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and that it inspired you! Enjoy sorting your own books and making a cosy library in your new home 📚 ❤️
Hi Miranda,
I am really impressed with your book collections and the awesome organisation of your books. I did start collections of childrens books but my mother took them away:( However, I have started to hunt them down and start up my collections again. I love the school stories, as well as Enid Blyton, I liked the Sue Barton Nurse series to name a few. My uncle used to give me books for Christmas and I also used to get books for Christmas from Sunday school:) They were always loved and cherished.
Omigosh - I loved the Sue Barton nurse books as well.
That's lovely you're starting up your own collections again! Good luck tracking down your favourites! 💕 📚
It is so satisfying rearranging & tidying bookshelves, I love it. I may have to go to mine & make some changes. You have a terrific collection of old favourites.
Thanks so much, Marty! 📚 ❤️
Very glad to see a new vlog from you! Thank you for the vintage children book collection. Best wishes to you and your mother.
Thanks so much! ❤️📚
Absolutely loved todays vlog, just watching the children's books, I remember so many of them but read them mostly through the library so do not have copies. I have been meaning to sort out my books and you have definitely motivated me. Also about to start a commonplace book. Thank you.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it and recognised some childhood favourites of your own, Clare, thank you! Enjoy starting your commonplace book! xxx
I absolutely loved the book tour. Its a beautiful collection. I'm curious, how many books live in your house? I used to have a large collection of vintage books, but over the years have had to downsize. I have all of Miss Read books but mostly in paperback because over here in the states she's not readly available. The same goes for Elizabeth Goudge. But I treasure the ones I have. Anyways, it was so interesting to see yours. Thank you! 📚🤗💕💕
So happy you enjoyed it, Diane! Too many books to count by now! 😂 It's so lovely to have special collections like your Elizabeth Goudge and Miss Read that you've treasured over the years ❤️ 📚
Such a lovely treat to see your beautiful bookshelves, Miranda. I've just finished Pink Sugar and adored it so am really keen to read more O Douglas novels! I'm glad you had a restful Easter break and so pleased you're back :)
Thank you, Emma! I'm so happy you enjoyed Pink Sugar! xxx
What a beautiful collection, Miranda. You must love going through those shelves.
I collect vintage Penguins, Puffins, and Armada Lions. Makes searching used book stores and charity shops a lot faster when looking out for those easily identifiable icons.
Thank you! I collect vintage Puffins too - and am also always hoping to find some in a charity shop, although sadly this rarely happens anymore! xxx
Lovely collection Miranda. I try to get my favorite ”old”books in vintage or special edition. They are hard to come by where I live😏 but when I found one….🍾 The problem is, as for all collectors, ROOM!! We have books everywhere it feels like and looks like.😅 O well one of this days I will have a big house for my books🤣 I can always dream!!!!
Thank you, Ingert! I so agree - us bookworms nearly always suffer from lack of space 😂❤️📚
I would love to have a good browse of your collection. Mind you it may well encourage me to spend so much money again😊
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Miranda, great to have you back! And what better than to have you organizing your books! 📚 I feel like I am always moving my books around, trying to find space for new books, which I don't have. I will be looking at the commonplace book guide you offered us, thank you! 🌸🥀🌼🌷
Thank you, Teresa! Oh yes, the continual hunt for more book space - I know it too well!! I think fitting more books than you'd possibly imagine into shelves is my actual super power 😂 xxx
I love going to second hand bookshops and explore them to find treasures. And I'm not picky about the state of the book except when the pages fall out, but I'm willing to make an exception whenever I find a vintage book of a title that I love regardless of its state, I always hope that I will magically find some professional who could restore it.
I understand exactly what you mean! I love finding bookish treasure! ❤️📚
What an inspiring vlog, Miranda! After watching it I decided to move my mini-collection of vintage books to my living-room bookcase where I can see them. As you said, it is such a pleasure to look at them … they bring back so many sweet memories. So grateful for this wonderful idea! 😊
That's lovely, Laura! Really happy to have inspired you: I'm so enjoying looking at my vintage books too! 😊❤️
Welcome back, Miranda! I hope you had a nice Easter break 🐣 Thank you for the tour, so many books that I don't know of! 🙂 Have a lovely week ahead, Vanessa 🌸
Thanks so much, Vanessa!
Wow! What a fabulous collection. I collect books that I loved as a little girl. I also collect Gone With the Wind in different languages. I’ve always loved reading stories about girls and their school adventures. Living in the states, boarding school life wasn’t something to read about very much, so I’m intrigued by the authors you mentioned. Your recommendations are so perfect. Thanks for your lovely videos, and happy reading!
Thanks so much for your kind comment, Natalie! Happy reading to you too! ❤️ 📚
Wonderful!
Great video Miranda, really enjoyed your tour as well as hearing about recent reads. I'm currently reading Homecoming and it's transported me to Australia. The Miss Read books are on my long list to collect too ❤️📚
Thanks so much, Lisa!
So lovely to see you 💕 your indie edition of Homecoming is beautiful. I’m looking forward to reading this book, I love Kate Morton so much. Your bookcase and all of the wonderful books are heaven to look at. I love the story of the correspondence with the author when you were just a child.
Thanks so much, Sandy! I was so happy to receive the cards and letters from her! She was so kind, and she made me love reading her books all the more ❤️📚
Thank you Miranda for sharing your book shelf shuffle. I collect O Douglas books but also cookery/home making and gardening books as well as Girls Own Annuals going back to the 1800s. I am happy that you inspire me to add to my range of vintage book collecting. Happy reading, Teresa
Thanks so much Teresa for your kind words and support! I so appreciate your generosity and also love hearing that you too collect O Douglas! I have many cookery books too and a few Girls Own Annuals, but only to the 1920s so nowhere near as vintage as your lovely sounding collection! ❤️📚
I so enjoyed the tour of your vintage books.
Thanks so much, Sandra!❤️📚
A wonderful video - loved getting to see your vintage book display.
Thanks so much!