Unboxing All 1000+ of My Books
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
- Fun fact, I found another two boxes of books...
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My Books Coming Out in 2024...
All the Violet Tiaras (adult): www.404ink.com/store/inklings...
Dragons, Wyverns & Serpents (adult): www.waterstones.com/book/drag...
Witches, Wizards, & Sorcerers (adult): www.waterstones.com/book/witc...
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My Other Books:
Live Like a Goddess (young adult): tidd.ly/3qZJlTE
Goddesses and Heroines (middle grade): uk.bookshop.org/a/2086/978024...
Greek Myths (middle grade): amzn.to/3y4me9P
Egyptian Myths (middle grade): amzn.to/3dxcueF
The Flames of Albiyon (adult): amzn.to/3SfEvtP
Greek Myths: Gods and Goddesses (adult): uk.bookshop.org/a/2086/978152...
Greek Myths: Heroes and Heroines (adult): uk.bookshop.org/a/2086/978152...
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I went to the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in the Netherlands recently and your Macmillan Greek myths books were for sale at the museumshop! I was delighted to see you share a table with Mary Beard and Adrian Goldsworthy.
Omg that is incredible! Thank you so much for sharing!!!!
There is so much romance in other genres that I always use the other genre as it's primary and then maybe have a romance section within the primary genre depending on how many I have.
I am one of those people who derives a ridiculous amount of satisfaction seeing the colophons from various imprints lined up next to each other on the shelf - so I have a "shelve by imprint" and then "otherwise shelve by genre" (unless Austen, Shakespeare, Winnie-the-Pooh, or a signed edition - LOL, I am ridiculous) system
No I totally agree with this! For years my books were all arranged by publisher aha. And it does work with genre a lot too since imprints have trends in what they publish!!
My advice on organising when it comes to things like retelling/crossing genre stuff would be that findability is more important than accuracy. I'm a librarian and this has held true in the workplace (health and academic libraries) and at home. So for example at home I have a section for poetry that lives in one room, but my copy of the poetry collection Soho lives upstairs with my queer culture and history section, because if I want to read it I know where it is more easily than hauling through all the poetry shelves - which are already overcrowded.
For a work example in one place I worked used Dewey, but that meant the books on dementia ended up behind the paediatric section, in the hospital where I worked the Drs would be looming at general medicine for elderly medicine and not think to go all the way past paeds so we "adapted" the system to make sure the people who would want those books could find them
Congrats on your new home! May it bring you both immeasurable joy!
Can't wait for the office tour!
Aw thank you so so much!! ♥️
my head hurts from trying to figure out the perfect way to organize all those books 😅
I feel like it might actually be impossible and we book lovers will forever live in a state of perpetual book reorganising 😭
I have followed you since you began RUclips and I am crying I’m so glad I found your channel again after my hiatus 😭 I adore you and didn’t even know you wrote a book I’m purchasing it immediately !!
Just do what makes sense to you! ❤ for me, I'm always most happy with my shelves when their organization makes sense to me, even if other people don't get it, or isn't exactly perfect ❤
You saying you're merging your books with your partner's gave me anxiety, personally, but also, thAT'S SO CUTE ❤ that's love right there
yes please to organising/decorating office video! i had a stressful week and this was lovely and chill to relax my brain to 💜
Hi Jean, Well ... where you are now I will be in a months time as my husband and I are moving from a house to a condo. My library will no longer be in the basement but instead will take over the space that is meant to be the master bedroom. Above ground!!!! Plus the back wall of the dining room area, plus another wall in the living area, plus ... eh ... well ... you get the picture. Currently my library is taking up close to 60 boxes and that's just books! When it comes to unpacking, well I've always divided my books by my two main favourite genres which is fantasy and historical fiction but in our new place I may have to rethink that system. My plan for now is to just get the bookcases (old and new) in place and then empty those boxes!!! Oh how I am looking forward to emptying those boxes!! I miss my library so much!!!! Once that's done I can take my time and move things around as I see fit. I figure that that will be a nice project for the winter months. I look forward to seeing you stock your bookshelves and maybe even decorating your space as well. Note: I'm sure that our movers will love all those boxes marked BOOKS! Or, as we packed more and more boxes and began to get a little ... um ... punch drunk ... MORE BOOKS!!! LOOK< BOOKS!!! YES, IT's BOOKS!!! and of course inevitably ... BETCHA CAN'T GUESS WHAT'S IN HERE!!!! Sigh!!! Thanks for the inspiration Jean. And good luck!!!!
I saw your books for sale today in London. Made me smile. Congrats on your new place!
Aaaah that's so cool - that makes me so happy!
I split my books up by genre but when books could fit in various sections I tend to just go by vibe, whatever place "feels right"for that particular book. I enjoy seeing all my oxford world classics together and all my penguins together even if it separate a book from its genre section and if you have a ton by one author i would just consider having a seperate devon just for them.
*section
Yeah I think I need to free flow a bit because I want all my penguin modern classics together even if it's not genre accurate!
Definitely a level up moment! Congrats
Thank you! I feel so happy about it 😊
I read some of the chapters in ‘Revisiting Rape in Antiquity’ a couple of weeks ago in preparation for my dissertation project before recognising your name! It’s so good (v. difficult to get access to but brilliant)- a year late but congratulations on it 😊
Congratulations on your new home! So excited to see how you organise them all💞
For me Romantasy definitely goes with Fantasy 😊
Congrats on the move! I can't wait to see your library once you have shelves
You have excellent taste ;)
I used to organise by genre and really struggled with catergorising books that are mixed genres because like you at 11:09, WHERE ON EARTH DO YOU PUT ROMANTASY?? So I decided controversially to do a rainbow shelf instead.
Oh my god, I'm watching your video after years! I'm so glad you popped back up in my home feed.
Funny message at the end! lol
I love how you're slowly losing your sanity because of all the book organisational questions. xD Trust me, it's a work in progress. Even if you sort something "wrong" you'll notice it not feeling quite right by living with the shelves for a few days or weeks and you can always reorganize. I know one wants to make it right the first time but sometimes you just don't know what feels right before trying it out. I cannot wait for an office- or house-tour once you're finished. I'm really excited for you! :)
I put Romantasy into fantasy, since i see it more of a subgenre of fantasy than romance (and then you don't have have to play the fun game, which you alluded to, of deciding How Much Romance tips a book from Fantasy with Romance to Romantasy. Gah!). For me, a Grace Draven book looks much better on a shelf next to my other fantasy books than it would, say, next to a Talia Hibbert book and a slew of contemporary romances. (But I also separate my historical romance from my contemporary romance)
My advice in general is to not get too hyper-specific with genres and dividing books into them, or you'll do your head in! The Vegetarian, for example, would just be contemporary or literary fiction, regardless of inspiration, UNLESS you are dead keen on a mythology-inspired shelf specifically. Keep your big classics collections together. I can't wait to see more of your house and the ways you two decorate it, whether with paint or your big gorgeous collection of books!
Honestly thinking about covers might be the best argument I’ve heard. Romantasy spines are going to fit better next to fantasy aha. I think that decides it thank you!
A new home and Full of books congratulations ❤️ 📚
this was a rly lovely way to look at ur books!!
On a sunbean is so so good! I loved it. Now I feel like reorganizing all of my books haha
I actually don’t have a romance section. I split my romance books between their other genres: romantasy in fantasy, sci-romance in sci-fi, contemporary romance in contemporary and historical romance in historical. My thinking is because romance can be in any genre.
1. I would put fantasy romance between fantasy and romance, so you get a nice transition from one genre to another.
2. Retellings are retellings. If you were to include every book that has drawn inspiration from myths or fairy tales you might as well just put all the books you own in one big pile. I would sort the retellings after myth/fairy tale. (Or maybe not, because Jennifer Saint's books look really good next to each other.)
3. You've done a PhD, written multiple books, and this is your first office. Did I hear that correctly? Like, HOW???
Might it be helpful to categorize be author rather than individual book? For example I would categorize Grace Draven as a fantasy author & place all of her books in a fantasy section. I would categorize Ali Smith as literary fiction author & place all of her books in that section.
This is actually such a good point! Jeanette Winterson too has done some genre blurring but I don't really want to separate her books so they'll stay in lit fic I think.
Congratulations on the new home 🏠 I can’t wait to see how you organise your home library 📚 new subscriber and I really enjoyed this video xx
We definitely need an office decoration video please!
I have to say I just discovered your channel and I absolutely love and am also surprised to see that you are into history! I’m am huge into history of all kinds especially medieval, colonial and victorian but really love all history! So it made me excited to watch your video! Not very many people into history these days sadly!
She's so cool 😎 she has a phd in history
I had a teacher who told me that anything post WWI is modern and anything before is a classic. Probably not very helpful but something you could consider if it is helpful in any way
Aha fair but does it change? Like ten, twenty years on from now is it everything after WWII?
I feel the same way about thrillers! I just end up going through Libby for all my thrillers lol
Maybe if you have more retellings you could do a shelf of just those?
I think I would give romantacy it’s own section if you have enough books for that and otherwise make it a subsection of romance. I’m a strong supporter of organisation systems that only make sense to you though
(I don’t own any though and my bookshelves are mostly organised by where the author is from)
I put romantacy in fantasy, and keep romance for contemporary or historical romance. I organise bookcase by genre, and then go by shelf as sub genre. I also have a bookcases for favourite authors/series.
For me I organised by genre but my fairytale retellings are separated in own section, my genres are also 'Greek, demons, witch's, elves, historical, thriller, dark academia, vampires, and a few others 😅... so I go by what's in the books along side genres lol
For romantacy what I would recommend is to consider which of the two genres you like and read the most and put it there
I'd put romantasy with the romance - where it used to be shelved in bookshops and how it used to be labelled in libraries. Remove the romance and you don't have much book left. The fantasy world is just a setting, like the modern day or historical real world. Whereas romance subplots in fantasy novels just add realism, like romance in thrillers (note, romantic suspense would also be put into the romance section for me)
Congratulations on your new home! I loved this video! Thank you for sharing! ❤️🌈📚🏠
Thank you so much!!
When you think of a book, what category comes to mind first? That’s what I would go with, because when you are looking for that particular book in the future, that’s likely to be the first place you check.
I think this is definitly the best plan!
Put your books in the first place you would look for them. Dating Dr. Dil might be a retelling, but I'd look for it in Romance because it's not obviously Shakesphere at a glance.
On romantasy, I have fantasy, contemporary romance/historical romance, urban fantasy and speculative romance shelves. If it's more fantasy forward it goes in fantasy. Spec romance is all romantasy and sci-fi rom.
Also I have a myth and retelling section, but not usually inspo books in there
Excited for you as you enter the new chapter of your life! Do you still have The Joy of Tax unread? I remember a few messages back and forth quite a few years ago and my copy is still unread 🤓 Such is the life of a bookworm whose eyes view far more than she can ever read x
I love Sherlock Holmes books too. I got the complete works given to me by my Mum.
John Wyndham! I used to have all those, hope I still have (not sure).
Aah fingers crossed they're still somewhere!
Before you try to paint over the scuffs get 91% rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball and very gently dab-wipe over the scuff only. In many cases it will remove scuffs and not harm the paint. If it does smear the paint just paint over it. No worse off.
If I am undecided where a book should go category and genre I check on my library website. Just see what they classified it as and I go with that. I try to follow the Library system as much as possible or just makes things easier.
I recently separated my sci-fi and fantasy from my literary/historical/etc books, and honestly I had the same struggles hahaha. In the end I've put retellings in with the fantasy, partly because there was space over there?? But then I've put Outlander in the other one because yes there's time travel, but it's mostly historical romance to me?? So hard hahah
For me when it comes to books like Romantacy I tend to go with the main genre which would be fantasy.
Yeah I think that's where I've settled I'll go with them ^_^
Jean: "...a big step towards being a professional" also Jean: *is a doctor*
😂 I legit still feel like a new uni grad in my teenage bedroom half the time
Have you considered having your romance and fantasy shelves blend into each other by putting the romantasy in between them e.g romance into romantasy into fantasy?
You should create a section dedicated to "retellings". On another note, how about a feminist critique of Disney animated movies in chronology?🧡
I put my romantasy books to my fantasy books. Otherwise my romance section would be overflowing 😅
Ahahaha strategic! Maybe I should go the reverse since my fantasy is overflowing aha
This may be why I sort my books by author 😂
6:00 you're swinging that boxcutter all willy nilly is giving me pretty bad anxiety!! Please be careful with very sharp objects!!!
Oh god I see that way that looked. It’s a sliding up Stanley knife. So the knife part was actually slid into the sheath and the silver part you’re seeing isn’t sharp I promise!!!
My books are just in Fiction and Non-Fiction and alphabetical by Author.
Aha tbs this was my dad through and through.
I sort my books by the author and within the author, they are sorted by height. 📚
Please do an office decorating video.
The correct answer to how to organize your books is also the answer to: where would YOU first go looking for that book?
This is VERY true!
I think you look a lot like Karen Gillan!
Aha I've had that a few times.