a ridiculously large book haul (45 books)

hello it's ruvi and today i'm going to be sharing a book haul with you i have never shared a book called before and i'm very excited to do this one i have bought quite a lot of books recently but this also is over quite a prolonged period period of time um these are all the books i've bought since mid-october i'm going to start with this one because it's the one i'm most excited about i bought this on oxfam and it is castle's household guide from 1912. so this is an etiquette guide for women on how to like run a house um written during the edwardian period and it's so interesting i haven't read it front to back yet i've just been dipping in but it's photographs in it and it just gives a really interesting insight into the daily lives of women i'm really fascinated by victorian and edwardian etiquette because there are just so many rules that can strain women i think etiquette guides can give us such a great understanding of daily life so um this is such a beautiful volume and i found it really really really affordably i think it was like 10 pounds 12 pounds it was i thought it was a really good deal because it can be really hard to find castle's household guides i also bought this etiquette guide from the 1920s this is called ascap women a book of modern manners and customs by irene davis and specifically this is about dances weddings dinners and all social occasions next i have this book this is how we learn by benedict carey and this is just a non-fiction book which basically runs through the psychology behind learning things it just it looks like a quite an interesting perspective on learning and education it says um benedict carey shows how some of the qualities we think of as our worst enemies laziness ignorance destruction can actually work in our favor when learning so i'm interested to learn from this the next book i have is one that i wanted to read for a long time and owning it hopefully now will finally give me the incentive to reading it which is war and peace by leo tolstoy obviously this is a massive volume um i think the cover is just stunning i am obsessed with these editions and i've seen them so many times in waterstones and i finally decided to buy one these are what are they called um the ax libris vintage classics i really like the font on the front it's it looks like it's handwritten and this and then just the cover is just so so pretty with this nice floral print it's really old-fashioned and i'm very excited for reading that one i think i might have to wait until like the easter holidays to read so i don't really have the time to do at the moment the next book is one that was actually sent to me which is dead famous by greg jenner this is an unexpected history of celebrity i met greg jenner at an event in 2018 and we were talking about this book that he was writing at the time and so he very kindly sent me the a copy of this i haven't read it yet but i'm really looking forward to it um especially because in our theatrical module last time we learned about edward allen who was a what was he he was kind of the first celebrity and i think he starts the book by talking about edward allen so this is really interesting really cool and it tracks to like edward allen who is a really famous shakespearean actor to influences and influence cultures so this should be really interesting the next book i have is a night to remember by walter lloyd this is one of my favorite books i got it out of my school library to read and i thought it was fantastic and i really wanted to own a coffee so this one was like two pounds i think on ebay and it's like really old and quite worn as you can see i think from the looks of it this is a book from like the 80s um it's not the most aesthetic thing ever but the story is there and it's got illustrations the next book i have is for the ruby reads book club which is norwegian wood by murakami which i'm actually reading at the moment and it's fantastic i'm not that far through i'm this far through it's just so sensory the narrative is so sensory i've never read murakami before and i've heard so many good things about him i don't know why i've never really picked up one of his books it's basically about the relationship between the narrator taru and um a girl called naoku um so i probably am saying that wrong and the narrator is looking back 20 years to his relationship with her it's just so sensory oh my gosh it's just it's so good okay this one is another of the ruby reads book club books uh this was for january on other briefly gorgeous by ocean wong which is a letter which a boy is writing to his mother only his mother can't read and so he knows she's never going to read this letter and it's like a memoir of his life and it's um basically a piece of poetry i reviewed this in my january reads video if you want to have an in-depth review and then the third book which i bought for the ruby reads book club is the midnight library by matt haig and um i haven't read this one yet i'm looking forward to it though i have heard so many good things about it this is about a library where you can see how your life would have been different if you've made different decisions and um you've kind of got this like massive catalog of all of the different variations and like roots that your life could have taken the next book i have oh my goodness i caved and bought this i wanted this book for like a year um i bought this gorgeous coffee of emma this is one of the penguin library classics and just oh my gosh it's got these beautiful regency chairs on it ah i'm just obsessed it's so pretty and um yeah this is cloth bound so so pretty and i'm trying to read all of the jane austen books so this is definitely an incentive to read emma because i cannot wait to read it now the next book i bought was the fourth book in the sinclair's mystery series this is a middle grade book series set in edwardian london and it's a mystery series so all of these mysteries revolve around this um massive department store called sinclair's which is a little bit like harrods or fortman mason in london yeah this one's the midnight peacock i've already read this i read it in a readathon and i enjoyed it i've also got this book this is anne of the island by ella montgomery the third book in the isle of green gables series again i've already read this one this month and it's so so good i think this might be my favorite of the anne of green gables books i never read it when i was young if you didn't know i'm doing a victoria module this time and one of the books we got to read was alice in wonderland we read it last week so i treated myself to this really really beautiful copy of alice in wonderland oh these are the wordsworth editions um and they've got a whole range of children's classics and they're all illustrated like this on the front and the great thing about it too is that it has got the original illustrations um from when it was published in 1865 which i very much appreciate especially because when we were studying it we were looking at the illustrations as part of the narrative then to go along with that too i bought alice underground which oh my goodness i was so so like sage have to be able to buy this because i really wanted it but i couldn't really justify it to myself because i didn't need it um it's a facility look it's basically before lewis carroll wrote alice in wonderland he wrote this book alice underground which is the one that he gave to the real alice little for christmas and um this is basically like a recreation like photocopies of his notebook and it's got different illustrations as well so i had so much fun comparing the illustrations in this one to that one yeah this is really cool i got the second hand and i also bought this one kind of like also in the alice in wonderland theme i bought this book which is dining with the victorians a delicious history by anna k and as you can see it has got alice the mad hatter tea party and i haven't started reading this one yet i'm planning on reading it next week i'm reading our mutual friend at the moment which is like a mammoth charles dickens book so i can't read it this week i'm looking for treating it next week and this just gives you an insight into dining etiquette and like foods in the victorian period um it looks like it's just quite an accessible introduction to food in the victorian period i've done a lot of re reading and research around food already but i think this might have some tidbits in it which will guide my learning and um also it looks like it's got like a good index list it could be useful for like doing further research most of my books i buy secondhand as you can see so this one is an old library book the next book i bought was frost in may by antonia white oh my gosh these editions are so pretty like it's um this kind of um stained glass window effect nanda gray is nine when she starts convent school and 13 when she is sent away in disgrace quick-witted resilient and eager to please she accepts the cloistered world with the enthusiasm of the convert her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes i read a few school books said in convents and i did really enjoy them like memoirs and so i don't think this one is a memoir but i'm looking forward to trying it and it's not very long as well this is one of the virago classics as well in 2018 they released a massive selection of beautiful like new ferrari classics and this is one of them and yeah i wanted it since i had like heard about it and like saw the leaflet and ratio with the um varago classics for the first time so very excited to have that but i haven't read it yet the next book i've got is a children's book this is winter tales um written by dawn casey and illustrated by zahna goathawk that isn't this just stunning like and all of the illustrations are beautiful like look basically um dawn casey uh rewrites some um classic winter fairy tales and she takes them from all over the world at the top of every story it will say the white bear king at folk tale from norway or like from japan it like rewrites the tale for you and i actually collect children's christmas books if you didn't know so this is a really nice addition to my collection and i've dipped into it a few times i haven't read it front to back because i don't think it's the kind of book that you read front to back but um it's so pretty and like really charming and just so perfect for sunday afternoons uh where it's dark and you'll sat by the fire with a cup of tea so the next book is bat wings and patty cakes by baking clark um i spoke about this in my january wrap up video this is a picture book one of my best friends blakeney wrote and it's just a really charming children's story about a girl in the victorian period who wakes up one morning to find that she has grown back wings and a tail and it's just such like a beautiful story of friendship and i really enjoyed it and the illustrations are so pretty so the next few books i actually got from a local bookshop way back in december i thought i'd include these clips just because they are so lovely to look back on and i am very much missing being in a bookshop [Music] okay i'm gonna get this book which is the illustrated ocean at the end of the lane which i have wanted for like a year and a half now and what better time to buy it um for christmas i don't want to get anything that's not on my tv all day because i've got like 500 books on my tbr so the next book i bought is child eye by steve tazzani and this book i have been so intrigued by for so long it starts on the cover so like this bit here is the beginning of the narrative and when you turn over like it's already started it's just so so clever and this is the story of the son of a refugee it is a middle grade book and i haven't like heard any details about the actual plot i was kind of i bought this for the form of it and i have a feeling it's going to be really striking it's like really short as well look at the font the next book i bought was the swans at 17 swan street the girls at 17 swan street i bought this one second hand and i think i put it for like five pounds so next i have a uh the house without windows by barbara new hall fullet and this looks a bit like um where the crawdad sing mixed with horatio claire's a winter journal mixed kind of with anne of green gables maybe asset is a girl with the wild in her heart she does not want to live locked up behind the walls of a house so she runs away first to the meadow then to the sea and finally to the mountain her heartbroken parents follow their daughter trying to bring her home safe but eric has other ideas discover a dazzling lost classic of nature writing and a visionary work of feminist empowerment written almost a century ago by a 12 year old child this book was written by a 12 year old and it's this love letter to nature and kind of the beauty of the seasons and i'm just kind of i'm so so excited for this i actually bought this book in person in a book shop and um before lockdown and [Music] i'd paid for the books i was going to buy and then i saw this one on the shelf and i picked it up and i had to i had to purchase it because i just knew it was going to be divine um this one i'm waiting till spring to read though i'm very excited to read it but i want to wait until spring the next book i bought is the kitchen boy novel of the last tsar by robert alexander so this is the story of the romanovs story is told from the perspective of a kitchen boy um in the palace it just seems like a really good premise for a book the next book i have got is ian foster's maurice which i am so excited to read again this is the story of maurice who is a privileged boy and gay and he is like coming to terms with the sexuality over the course of this book um i watched the film starring hugh grant and it's like from the 1980s and it's so so good it's like the epitome of dark academia and after watching that i realized there was a book and definitely had to go and buy it and so i'm really excited to read this and i haven't actually read any ian foster before so i'm excited for that especially the next book i have is uh eugenie grandat uh which is i've got the translation by sylvia raphael the granddad household oppressed by the exacting miserliness of granddad himself is jumped violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of eugenie's cousin charles recently orphaned and penniless this is set in the aftermath of the french revolution then the final book i've got up here i've got some more books downstairs which i'm going to go down and show you just because these are only the but these are the books i'm storing in my room in my bookshelf but i also have a space in the library downstairs for books and so some of the books are down there i'm going to go downstairs to show you those um i've also got here the truants by kate weinberg and this was not one that i bought this is one that my um a family friend of ours jo sent me and this is a thriller and i have heard good things about it so um jess walker is drawn into a tightly knit group of rule breakers in her first year at university and begins to experiment with a new version of herself but the dynamic between the friends and their maverick professor begins to darken as they share secrets lovers and finally a tragedy soon jess's face with the question she fears most what is the true cost of an extraordinary life it just looks really good and i'm excited to read this one okay i'm gonna go downstairs to show you the other books so i got this book the warlow experiment by alex nathan i've already read this and the premise of this is so interesting is that in the 18th century in america if this after class man decides to conduct this experiment about human solitude and seeing what humans do when they aren't allowed to talk with anybody he finds this poor farm labourer called john wallow and he locks him in a room underneath his house for seven years and observes him like a scientific experiment it's such a good premise for a book however i did not enjoy it massively it's a good premise so it's interesting to read but i just didn't really enjoy the writing style and then very excitingly my friend natasha her mum was an english literature student and was getting rid of some of her old books from when she studied undergraduate and so um she gave me some and these are the books she gave me so i've got elias grace by margaret atwood silas mana by george eliot evelyn vaughn scoop um i don't know what this is but this looks really good and i just love the cover the complete english poems of john dunn oh my goodness i love john john dan's poetry wuthering heights by emily bronte which i don't actually own a copy of the distracted preacher and other tales by thomas hardy budden brooks by thomas mann i read death in venice last year and really enjoyed it so i'm looking forward to reading this pillow man the pilgrims progress and this book of prose by sylvia and then she also gave me this collection of like loads of mini books which is really cool i love to bring out mini books like this on walks because they fit straight in my pocket we've got the kite flyer by rose tremaine the secret sharer at the bay will self-scale the black monk god's house the galapagos islands and finally dr jekyll and mr hyde which i have read but this is just such a cute addition anyway i hope you enjoyed watching this book haul video as i said i've never done one before i hope that it was interesting in some way i hope you got some books for your tbr and i hope that you have a productive [Music] week [Music] awesome

Channel: Ruby Granger

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Length: 18min 13sec (1093 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 24 2021