Behind the Scenes at Hannah's Books [CC]
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2020
- In which I pull the curtain back on two aspects of my channel--and take you on a brief tour of my bookshelves.
2:16 The Bookcases Behind Me
7:03 My Other Bookshelves
12:56 Beneath My Headwrap
Buy me a coffee? ko-fi.com/hannahsbooks
Voxer: hannahsbooks
Goodreads: / hannahsbooks1
Twitter: / hannahsbooks1
Instagram: / hannahsbooks1
Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com
![The Dark Academia Book Tag [CC] #DarkAcademiaBookTag #DarkAcademia](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/12-CM7fALtY/mqdefault.jpg)
Love your hair and the real bookshelves of Hannah and family.
Thanks, Brian!
Heh, I love the dramatic music you used for the backdrop reveal! 😆
Thanks! That was my favorite part of making this video, actually!
Oh what a cool, confident video, Hannah! You look magnificent with or without your scarfs. This channel is a jewel.
What a kind comment! Thank you!
Thank you for your candidness and sharing your extensive book collection. Your hair looks amazing by the way and I find your voice so soothing.
Thank you very much for your kind words, Denice.
All those Oxford World Classic and Penguin classics had me gasping! I also love those Persephone’s. Just a remarkable collection. I see those lovely Proust’s as well. 😍 and I adore the hair! What a treat.
Thank you so much. As I scanned over the shelves with my camera, I realized that there are more books I have not read right there in a row in the Proust section than anywhere else on the shelves. I bought the boxed set, but I think all the other Proust books came from the same Little Free Library over the past few years. I am thinking I will get started possibly in late December or in January. How lovely it has been to get to follow the start of your Proust journey!
I somehow missed this video when you originally posted it. All these years I thought that the seemingly well organized material on the shelves behind you were either academic or medical journals. What a surprise!
Among the Penguins, Oxford World Classics and sundry others you have quite an enticing collection of books.
Thanks for the tour.
I so wish I had such a beautiful place to live and work! Now that I’m the only one in my house most of the time, I have considered choosing a “real” spot, but I have grown strangely attached to this set-up!
This is one of the most soothing videos I’ve ever watched. Love your hair! It’s just so cute! But I really admire your way with scarves as well.
Thank you so much, Gail. I appreciate your comment.
Your backdrop confession was the biggest news of my week.
Ha! I hope that was because you had a quiet and peaceful week, not because my fakery was too dramatically awful!
@@HannahsBooks oh definitely the former. I was a bit relieved that you don't formally classify and label each volume.
Oh my gosh, the emotions! The bitter disappointment that the "library" is just a backdrop, but then the elation during the bookshelf tour and then finally the envy creeping in! Hahaha! I never in a million years would have guessed that was a curtain - it looks so real! Love love love your book collection and would love to see the knitting books too someday. :) I think if my TBR ever gets blank I might come back here and watch the video again for inspiration.
Thank you so much, Katie! You are very kind-and I am so happy to have you here. Perhaps I should make a mostly-knitting video at some point and include the knitting books! What are you knitting these days?
@@HannahsBooks To be honest, I haven't much been in the headspace for knitting or quilting, my other crafty hobby, lately. I have dived in deeply to reading and I don't much like audiobooks. One of my favorite things to knit is either Fair Isle or lace. My last project was an Alice Starmore design "Elephants" that I made a throw pillow out of. I don't have much practical use for lace but I loved the Swallowtail shawl pattern and gave that to my Grandma. :) Maybe you sharing some of your knitting will give me the urge to make something. Just wish I had 4 hands instead of 2 so I could multitask.
@@katietatey I definitely read more than I knit these days, too. Swallowtail is such a lovely pattern and it is so much fun to make those nupps! Right now I am finishing up a warm shawl and will make a point to show it off after I block it. Take care!
Yessss! This video I’ve been waiting for
Ha! Did you realize beforehand that it was all fake?
@@HannahsBooks I did but I was scared to ask because if it wasn’t it would be really rude! ❤️😂
@@TheCodeXCantina Ha! I assumed you were one of the ones who knew, given your subtle question. (Actually, I did explain it in the video where I first used it, but I think that might have been before y'all even had a channel...?) Hope you are enjoying your quiet time this week!
I love everything about this video. Thanks for sharing. 🦊📚😊💛
(Your family book collection is insanely impressive. I can't imagine being in a house with such an amazing collection. What a rich treasury of entertainment and knowledge 😊)
Now, I just need more hours in each day so I can actually read some of the many books which have not yet been read...
Your book collection is just my absolute life goal, it’s perfect!
Thank you so much! Having a couple of generations of bookish folks involved in its construction definitely helped.
Love💜Love💜Love💜!
Thank you for sharing.
Even fake books make me happy.
Loved this video. I kept wondering if you were actually living in a library 😂 It wouldn't be a bad place to hideout in the present situation! I really appreciate how genuine and honest you are. I think you're headscarves and your hair are gorgeous. Thank you for sharing 😀
Oh, to live in a beautiful old library right now! Fabulous.
Love the hair, love the scarves, they're kind of your trademark now. I was bald from chemo (ovarian cancer) a couple of years ago, too, and was perfectly content going around bald, so freeing. But you're right, it was a little drafty - I opted for hats. I'm keeping my hair short now too, it's so much easier! Thanks so much for the behind the scenes peek!
Several years ago my son told me that scarves were part of my "brand"--something that made me laugh at the time but now seems to have become true! Thank you for stopping by and sharing your own story, too. I love knowing how many sisters I have out in the world, even if it is for difficult reasons.
This was so fun! I love your hair and your library is amazing! Thank you for sharing :)
Thanks! I think I will be asking for my personal home barber to give me a touch-up next weekend!
You have beautiful hair and your son did a great job giving you a haircut. You look beautiful with or without the head wrap (you have some beautiful and colorful head wraps!). Your books are nicely organized and I was happy to recognize many of the books I own. ❤️
Thank you very much. I don't think he'd ever cut anyone's hair before that point, but now he is the main barber for my husband, too. And of course, our son is growing his hair out during the pandemic... What are some of your favorite books on your shelves?
@@HannahsBooks I love my old blue-clothed Yale Shakespeare set I got from a used book sale, even though they are not as helpful as the Folger edition. I love my collections of Lawrence Durrell, Umberto Eco, Thomas Hardy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Milan Kundera, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Arturo Perez-Reverte, and Agatha Christie. If I get to pick only 3 books from my library for a desert island, I’d pick The Name of the Rose, The Alexandria Quartet, and Gone With the Wind. From your shelves, I was envious of your Elizabeth Bowen collection. I have only The Last September and hope to collect and read more of Elizabeth Bowen novels. ❤️
I absolutely love your hair!!! Thank you for the reveals.....your book collection is wonderful 😊
First, I am so jealous of all those classics on your shelves! -- What a collection you and your family have!!! Second, I am incredibly jealous of how adorable a pixie cut is on you! I've tried it twice in my life, with horrible results. But you look beautiful with it! I so enjoyed watching this Behind the Scenes video! 🤗💜📚
Thank you! Short hair is definitely easier to take care of. I had hair halfway down my back for most of my life--and while I might grow it out longer than it is now, I will never go that long again.
Ha Ha! That backdrop has troubled me ever since I found your channel - I couldn't understand why anyone would stick labels on their own private collection and possibly damage them! I positively cheered when you revealed it is just a bit of jiggerypokery. That's made my evening!!!
Ha! Yes, at least one person asked me what I catalogued my books, and another person assumed I filmed in a library (but figured out when the pandemic hit that that could not be true). Thanks for your comment!
Wow that is some collection behind the scenes, and perfect music too. Ah your son does an excellent buzz cut, suits you, nice and easy too 🌞
Thank you! I often wish I could spend more of the day reading!
@@HannahsBooks yes I thoroughly agree with that myself. More time to lose oneself in literature x
What a wonderful book collection!
I somehow missed this when you first uploaded it.
Thank you so much. I don't have many fine fancy editions, but I really love having all these amazing texts surrounding me.
Love your hair, Hannah! What a treat to see your books.
Thank you! I never thought I would have a crew cut, but my oncologist was kind enough to share the joy of baldness with me and I don't think I will ever go back to long hair!
That was fabulous! What a wonderful collection, so much better than the polyester. I love your short hair, I have of late taken scissors to my own hair with much less success.
Thank you so much. The real books definitely bring me far more pleasure than the hanging sheet!
Oh my god, your haircut and hair color is so gorgeous!
Thank you very much. I am very honored that you complimented the color. There are not that many women my age who don't dye away the gray!
I want all the books! lol I saw a few editions that I have as well - but you definitely have more... lol
I really loved this video! Thank you so much for sharing!
You have quite a few years for playing catch-up!
beautiful with or without the wrap!!!!!!
Thank you very much!
Thank you so much in advance for thinking about making a video series about advice for introverted (future) booktubers. ❤
The background piano music is so wonderful 😍
Hahahahahahaha that reveal 😂😂😂 hillarious. So dramatic. It totally looks like library shelves. "I dislike it intensely" 😂 you are so polite.
Thank you so much! I hope I can get the series put together in December. (I know a lot of folks decide to start their channels in January.) I am so glad you've alread joined!
@@HannahsBooks :)
Great reveal, I think you are absolutely gorgeous! I agree that it does look like you have just been to the beach. I am in treatment and your spirit gives me joy and hope. Thank you for your videos!
Thank you so much for your comment. I will definitely be keeping you in my thoughts as you go through these difficult days. Please feel free to contact me if you ever want to chat. My email is near the bottom of the description box. ♥️
@@HannahsBooks ❤️
What an amazing book collection!
Thanks! Can you help me extend the day a bit so we can get more read? (Many of the books were acquired from my community's huge number of Little Free Libraries, from my father's old collection, from local used book stores and public library sales, etc. The results of collecting are more impressive for us old folks.... You'll get there.)
What a wonderful video!! Love the books and your hair is fabulous!!
Thanks! The hard thing about very short hair is that even a week can make the difference between too short and perfect, or between perfect and too long!
*slowly breaks down inside as he realizes that the books were a mere backdrop*
Just breath. Just breath.
My apologies! Wouldn't it be astoundingly lovely to have a cabin in the woods with bookcases as beautiful as these?
@@HannahsBooks I actually prefer your real ones. They don't have those little tags toward the bottom of the spines that make me hyperventilate. I don't remember if you said this was the majority of your books, but if it wasn't I wouldn't mind seeing the other stuff too. I'll speak up for the cohort who wants to see all the academic history you're hiding, but won't ask to see it.
@@NicholasOfAutrecourt If I don’t go back to teaching and the plague abates enough for my son’s college to invite him back, I might start filming in the study at least sometimes. There are a few more books that might appear at some point...
Oh Hannah. I Loved This! I always wondered why you catalogued your books☺️I was smiling as I saw so many of my friends on your bookshelves. I am an avid knitter too. I bought the RBG cowl pattern as I mentioned on Instagram because of her donation but have as yet to start. Mosaic knitting...Your hair is beautiful. Thanks for this fun video.
Thank you! The RBG cowl is so much fun to knit! It has been great to knit it this month during the VP debate and the confirmation hearings, except that when things get stressful, my knitting gets tighter and tighter! I am planning to wear it on Election Day. I can’t wait to see yours. What a great thing to donate the proceeds. To the ACLU. That was what made me buy the pattern to begin with (although I might have anyway...).
Oh, my gosh. I love your hair! I somehow missed this video when it came out, but finally got here from your 8th day of Bookukah (I think I probably misspelled that, didn't I) video. And I can now stop being jealous of your beautiful bookshelf backdrop. I admit that I kept trying to figure out if the open spaces changed so that I would know if it was real or not. For some reason it seemed rude to ask if you were lying to us. Ha! Thanks for the tour of your actual shelves. I like that you have books on top of books and little animals on the shelves. Me, too. Stay well. Happy reading.
Ha! Yes, I do so wish I had a such a beautiful bookshelf in reality...although it might be too intimating to actually take a book down from there. I usually have even more stuffed into my shelves, but since my son is using one of those rooms while he is home from college because of the pandemic, we did a bit of a straighten. We'll see how long that lasts...
Love your library-fake and real. You are beautiful with or without your wrap. One southerner to another.
So glad to have more southerners on board! Thank you very much for your kind words.
I don't know if you added the clips of you without the head wrap at another time, but you look like you've just enjoyed a relaxing day on the beach with a maitai. Even more peachy and glowy-skinned than usual! Absolutely stunning, no matter the presentation.
Thank you! I filmed it a week earlier than the rest of the video, actually--when I was planning to film the rest but didn't actually get the rest done. The sunlight was better, and it was moments before my weekly online happy hour with my best local pals. I was definitely feeling relaxed!
I love this video. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I have been so thrilled that no one seems to be furious with me!
Thank you so much for sharing!
It took me a week to get brave enough to drop the veil...
NOT silly at all! Fun and honest. Brava!
Thank you so much. "Honest" is not exactly how I feel, given that I have been consciously deceiving some of you (although I did in fact come clean in the very first video I made using the tapestry).
🤯🤯 mind blown on the background!!! This was fun! :)
I hope you'll forgive me! I SO wish I had a book collection as beautiful as the one on the polyester!
@@HannahsBooks forgive you?! I'm going to use the idea!! It was brilliant 😃
@@carolynmorgan6033 Wonderful!
@@carolynmorgan6033 Does that mean you are thinking of making videos again?
@@HannahsBooks I've been thinking about it. I started Instagram for now as it's much easier and faster. I loved making the 4 videos I made but it took a lot of brain power and time. One a month could be doable with mt current job and responsibilities.
Thanks for the behind the scenes look! I figured your background was a backdrop since I could tell those were library books (can't get that past us old librarians). I love your haircut and frankly when I started watching your channel I thought you were Frum and kept your head covered for religious reasons. LOL, never thought it might be the air conditioner.
I don't have any great answers for why I initially started wrapping. Although I am not religious at all, Jewish tradition is definitely meaningful to me. Loss of hair from chemo made me cover more seriously, but I wrapped a lot beforehand. The LACK of air conditioner is what led to my summer pandemic buzz cut. Thanks so much for watching, and for your great comments here.
Love the bookshelf tapestry reveal! Didn't expect it.
Also loved the library tour. Perfect pacing to get a look at the titles. Such am impressive Shakespeare library!
You rock the headwear and the hair!
If I could only convince some beautiful old lbrary to let me move in... Thank you for the comment about pacing. My tech-savvy son suggested I slow it down from the footage I had taken, and it definitely made it more watchable. May I also say that I am thrilled at how many people (including you) have said positive things about the hair but have also been positive about the headwraps? I very much appreciate the acceptance of whichever I do.
The big reveal! Ha! So awesome!
Thanks, Doris. I know a lot of viewers were very aware of the lie (and I had in fact said it in the first video I ever made with the tapestry), so I do feel just a bit guilty... But knowing that it amused so many people definitely makes it much better.
Great video! I like the dramatic background music and the library wow fantastic!
Thanks! I wish I had many more hours per day to read!
I love your hair, Hannah. And also thanks for letting us peek at your books.
Thank you so much! I am just loving the super-short hair!
Love this video!!!
Thanks!
What a fantastic collection of books! I love a good home library stocked with classics. I grew up with one of those, my parents had a wonderful collection of books and I'll never forget the look, feel, and smell of them as well as the joy of reading them. Or running to get one for them, lol. I really like your hair, this grown out buzz cut really suits you, but the scarves are nice, too. Thanks for letting us get to know you better. And I grew up in DC, so I know all about the hot, humid, muggy summers.
Another DC person! I am thrilled to hear that you have fond memories of growing up with books everywhere! I certainly do as well, and I hope my son will have some of that feeling. I'm afraid during much of his life, there were mostly stacks of books in various corners...
@@HannahsBooks My parents were both orderly people and mom kept a super clean house. Like next level, nothing out of place, no dust, no mess ever. I didn't inherit that gene from her, so we have bookcases full of books and then stacks of books, too. Pretty much in every room. I think my 15-year-old son, despite our mess, has a positive relationship to books and reading. Which will hopefully carry over til adulthood.
Haha I always thought was a fake background. But I love the story behind it. I just thought it was choice for atmosphere.
Thanks for sharing! This was great and I love the hair!
Thanks, Josh! I was pretty sure you were one of the people who figured it out quickly. When I first started using it, I explained why I was doing it and thought no one would actually think they were real books. Of course, now I REALLY want books like that...
@@HannahsBooks I'm always very curious about people's choice of backgrounds, and I thought yours worked well to set a consistent feel to your videos that is bookish but less distracting than most (I'm always reading what books are on people's shelves haha).
I will say, when you were revealing that it was a cloth, for a second the camera angle had me convinced I was wrong and that it was infact real.
Now THAT was a Shakespeare collection! My eyes were glued to the screen trying to catch every title 😜 This was a fun video Hannah, thanks for sharing! I echo the admiration for the hairdo too, très chic 😍
Thank you! I love spending my days in my son's room, with its enormous collections of Shakespeare and Ancients!
This was so fun Hannah! I laughed, I cried, was shocked! Haha too cool! Thank you for sharing 😊
Ha! Yes, I have been faking it all this time... Actually, I realize now that there is a book I should have shown that you might have appreciated. One of my old students (from a Southern Literature class I taught for high school students one summer) lived in Senegal when he was 17 and apprenticed himself to a book binder there. He came home with a copy of the paperback Flannery O'Connor complete stories rebound with a lovely leather casement. One of my favorite books.
@@HannahsBooks omg 😍📚😍
Awesome ... you've shot up in my respect, by admitting this... Even I was wondering why there were white labels on... I really liked the sunlight shining off the old polished woodwork of that posh 'backdrop'. Anyway, most interesting, especially your toying with different channel name ideas. Nice one
Thanks! I never thought people would think it was real, and I did explain what it was and why I was using it when I used it the first time-but it has become clear that only a few people knew the story at this point!
That was wonderful. Thanks for the intimate look. (I shudder at the thought of my own "reveal"). Your books are so organized! I don't know if you've ever discussed it before, but I see you have the same set of Proust as I do. I've never heard you speak about Proust before, so I'd love to her about it in a video. It wasn't--one might say--"my cup of tea," but I'm always curious to know why I'm wrong. Your hair looks great!
Ha! Your reveal might be a lot more fun that mine! I just mentioned in response to another comment that as I filmed, that group of Proust really stuck out as the longest stretch of books where I have not read a single one. I am thinking that I might read the first volume in December or January, depending on how things are going. Thanks for the compliment about my hair. I think even when it was long, it was a lot easier to take care of than your hairdos--but it is spectacularly easy now.
Your collection of Penguin classics is second only to Steve Donoghue's!
I think I have a long way to go! And half my Penguin-like books are actually white Oxfords. Part of me wants to pull them all together and alternate black and white...
@@HannahsBooks The Oxford editions are my favorites. Alternating black and white would be comical.
You look stunning - I love your short hair!
Thank you very much!
You're simply beautiful with or without the headscarf. More importantly, I can see you're beautiful inside which is more important, I didn't even know there were that many many books about Shakespeare. 😆 I do hope you share some of your Judaica. I only have a tiny collection but I would love some suggestions. Aloha
Thank you so much! Yes, I will share some of my books about Judaism at some point, perhaps connected with the reading of some Jewish books? I have a handful in mind for "Maybe Midrash" (in May of next year)! And I have a Hanukkah project I think I want to do for Booktube as well...
@@HannahsBooks That’s a good idea for Hanukkah. Besides my memoirs about the holocaust, I have a small collection of Jewish books. Have you read Chaim Potok body of work? Aloha
@@MarilynMayaMendoza Yes-but it has been a very long time. The Chosen is a book that my brother says changed his life. Are you a Potok fan?
@@HannahsBooks Yes, the Chosen changed my life as well. I went on to read most of his books. It brought me back to my mother's tradition and faith. Aloha
Love your hair!
Thank you!
Loved seeing all your bookshelves. It was very relaxing. Love your hair too. Mine gets shorter and shorter every time I go see the hairdresser. 😁
I was 50yo before I went super-short, but I love the feeling!
Haha I knew your books were fake but I thought it was a digital backdrop. I like the unique style of the wrap but your hair is so pretty too!
Thank you! When I chose to use the background, I didn't even know a normal person could use digital backgrounds!
I’m loving this video so much. All of it!!! Your collection is magnificent. I’m almost drooling with book lust!!! 🤣 I appreciate your transparency in revealing your hairstyle!!! I had alopecia for a year and ended up completely shaving my head - AND LOVING IT! Isn’t it wonderful? Either way you are a beautiful human. Thank you so much for this video. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much. I really was planning to show my buzzed haircut at its shortest, right after you made that spectacular video about the connections between your experience of alopecia and LGBTQ+ issues. I had a double mastectomy three years ago and live flat--and I was really moved by your discussion. (I have been in a straight marriage for 25 years, but take great courage and freedom from the LGBTQ+ community.)
("Live flat" meaning that I did not have reconstructive surgery and do not wear breast protheses of any kind. I realize now that might be an unclear phrase. My apologies.)
Thanks Hannah. I’ve always felt like the best way to live is transparently and honestly. I’ve also been very inspired by LGBTQ+ people and the bravery they display.
@@HannahsBooks I actually had heard that before and knew what you meant. And good for you. It’s such a personal and individual decision for women who have experienced it. 🤓💕
@@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH Indeed. I am sometimes reluctant to mention my own personal choice because I know it can sound judgemental, which is absolutely not my intention. Thank you again.
“I dislike it intensely” 😆😆 Fun video!
Heh heh. Thanks!
ooooh, I really like the "Fabric of Words". =) You look great with or without the scarves. Fun video Hannah. So just how many books do you own? "enough real books to see me and my neighbors through the coming apocolypse..." LOL
I need to figure out how to real more quickly while still getting as much pleasure as I do from the books. SO many more books to read... That Proust is really jumping out at me as a bunch of books in a row that I have not read at all...
Oh my gosh! Are you a knitter!! Me, too. Show us some...I always wondered about those books mostly because of the little labels on each of them. This was a fun interesting video.
Knitters unite! Right now I am knitting an RBG cowl, and I recently finished a cotton “Shakespeare in the Park” shawl in honor of Shaketube September. Actually, I did a video called Nerdy Knitting last year that showed a couple of projects and talked about my knitting history. I will go find a link. What do you like to knit?
ruclips.net/video/TnrzFQ-K8-4/видео.html
@@HannahsBooks I have just got back into knitting recently. We live in an old two-story house which needed to be completely rewired. Hannah, I cannot describe the utter chaos that created in every single nook and cranny-and we have lots of those. I still have three rooms to CLEAN thoroughly. I was also having my kitchen and sunroom remodeled. I just couldn’t seem to read. That is so so unlike me. But I turned to knitting and that seemed to soothe the stress. I am currently knitting a baby sweater for my son-in-law’s niece who is expecting. I’m also working on my first top down sweater, actually my first real sweater, for me. I just ordered a shawl from The Woolly Thistle on line knit shop. It involves lace...another first. I must have missed your yarn video. I’d enjoy checking it out. That Shakespeare shawl sounds intriguing...I’m off to Ravelry to check it out. (I love Shakespeare.)
@@cherylclough4309 Actually, I am just calling it after Shakespeare. I think the pattern is Over the Sea to Skye-and it is a great relaxing knit.
Redoing that much of a house seems like an amazing undertaking! Yikes!
Great haircut!
Thank you very much!
Wonderful! :-)
Thanks, Marc. I decided if I was going to come clean about being such a faker, I needed to prove I actually have some real books. Upcoming: a video pulling the curtain on those shelves, too...
@@HannahsBooks ha ha ha!
_my My MY_ you _are_ busy, Hannah! Loved this! OMG Good & _SPOOKY!_ cool! Wanna read _Invisable Man_ next February, Black History Month? Hope so. 😁
I would love that! Perfect!
@@HannahsBooks Great!
Oh, by the way, the hair is CUTE!
:)
I don't know if you'll see this message or not, but I'd love to know the name of the music playing during the book shelf tour. Thanks.
Please, Hannah, you must show the history books as well.
Definitely a few recent highlights, at least-perhaps during Nonfiction November?