Going Exploring for Books: I went to 10 little library boxes 📚📦 a city book tour vlog

[Music] oh my gosh you want to tell them why you had to get the exact same glasses as me today i drove through listen you have to be safe hello everyone hi welcome back well these are the first words i'm speaking today i'm so tired but i just woke up got ready and we're gonna go on a really fun adventure today because in about five minutes um my mom's coming to pick me up so because they don't have a car um well i don't have a driver's license actually so let's start with step one she's coming to pick me up and we are going to go all over the city on an adventure today visiting as many little library boxes as i physically can i have a stack of books here that i'm gonna unhaul and instead of just getting rid of them or putting them somewhere i thought i would drive around the city like a little book fairy and exchange them for other books that hopefully um i would love to read or perhaps love to give as a gift to someone and i think as well if i don't find a book i want to take from that little community library box i will simply just switch them around and then kind of be the little book fairy that goes around the city rotating the selection and the stock of books so that people get some new books in their life potentially so if you don't know what i'm talking about those little um library boxes like the community library boxes are very cute little libraries that people in their neighborhoods have built themselves honestly and painted and made to look so good and then filled with books that they don't want and then it's kind of a take one leave one sort of policy and then it's just this little fixture in the neighborhood full of light and warmth and there are so many in my city so the goal today is to hunt them down find them all actually there's a worldwide website i think if you are interested in finding any near you i just found out about it um and i just went on it a few minutes ago it's called littlefreelibrary.org and you can search like buy your city and stuff which is just so cool so anyway i thought it would very quickly run you down the books i'm going to be unhauling and then hopefully by the end of this we can finish up with a little book haul so the first book i'm going to be getting rid of is called the seventh sacrament by david hewson i've had this book on my shelves for years for years and years and years to be fair it didn't go completely unread because my dad did read this and he just said it was okay this book just definitely reminds me of kind of just a dan brown formula uh we're set in rome we're following a famous uh archaeologist i think and there's a string of murders that starts to happen like kind of underneath rome so that's kind of all we're following but i was just not super interested in reading this i don't think it's going to provide me with like any value in my life and i'm just really trying to read the books that like i want to read before i die so another book i thought i would swap around in our city's little libraries is called the sunlight pilgrims by jen fagan this one is really interesting it's set in 2020 and like the apocalypse has happened i don't know what year this was written but i just opened it up saw the synopsis that like it's 20 20 in the world has gone to pieces and i was like well you're not wrong this was written in 2016 and it's about like a freeze i mean jen jenny i think you went the wrong way with this one next up i am unhauling my copy of jane eyre by charlotte bronte because this novel is just awful no i'm just getting rid of this one because i found a much lovelier edition i recently got the penguin english library edition of jane eyre which is really nice because the text in this one yep i have read jane eyre absolutely love it but i don't need two copies of it so maybe this will provide someone with some nostalgia and remind them that they need to get their prescription checked next we have osprey island by frisbee nissan i have no idea really what this one is about very few people ever leave the tight knit community of year rounders on osprey island and fewer come back so it's kind of about people trapped on this island called osprey island and then i think maybe the last one here unless i decide to pull maybe one more off is early one morning by virginia bailey this is historical fiction i believe this is like a world war is it world war ii i think uh yeah in 1943 one young woman kiara revello is about to flee occupied rome for the safety of her grandparents house in the hills so and then kind of the snap decision happens and she ends up saving a child that isn't hers um from being taken away and now it's about like their story um and what they do and stuff like that so yeah i'm not the biggest fan of um world war novels like historical fiction just because i've also read so many of them so yeah maybe someone else will enjoy this but so those are all the books that i'm going to be swapping around today and yeah i'm just really excited to take you guys along with me and without further ado let's do it my mom is bringing me a coffee just really nice of her i'm very excited for this coffee [Music] what did we see oh it smells delicious what is this true blood texas the cowboy secret song no no no leo and juliet [Music] i don't okay you know what this one's a maybe because i don't have it the supreme the supreme macaroni company 36 questions that changed my mind about you okay what else is this oh i see the music of dolphins karen hesse oh my gosh look at this franken look at this it looks like sid's toys one might have to be like the one i take just because yeah just because just for this artwork look at this what is this about everyone knows the story of jack and the beanstalk okay i'm gonna put my book in here we go i really want to organize all of these by like organizing them but i think we're going to be here all day oh you're not taking the good one you're taking romeo and juliet all right so we're in the car yes maybe you should just introduce yourself really quickly hey guys for those of you who don't know me i'm a sister ben i was on it uh i wish and those of you that don't know me i was in her vlogs or whatever these are like a long time ago a long time ago those were cute and when we quarantined together oh that was bad yeah yeah tell them uh what what are you building uh i'm in construction class right now and we're building like a six foot tall book box which conveniently fits this video and if you'll notice all the ones have like posts yeah we're not doing posts it's top to bottom shelves shelves how many shelves i think we're fitting five in there so imagine the book storage imagine the amount of books do you get to keep it no it's for somebody in a different town oh yeah well that's good it's community give back oh no we missed it we missed the turn [Music] okay this one always has the best books i'm telling you this one always has the best books this one i've got like the bell jar night film uh a small town in germany it is also such a nice day oh my goodness wow no really oh my gosh this is what i mean dude i knew i knew they were gonna have good books oh my gosh i can't believe i literally just opened this and this is this is dostoevsky's the brothers karamazov i am so excited this is such a nice coffee too look at this i did not know this book was this long though to be honest wow okay i've wanted to read this book for forever so okay this one's definitely gonna be the one we take but we have a game of thrones uh the second one we also have this is in the percy jackson we have a rick riordan um what is this oh is that donald trump no no canadian architectural styles wow yup oh i love architectural styles we have the tea house fire this one looks really interesting i feel like i wanna want this one as well maybe this one sounds really interesting okay it says the story of two women whose lives intersect in late 19th century japan is a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of his history japan as it opens its doors to the west okay okay we have another genre but last time i was here i got a small town in germany which i think i showed you guys so maybe we'll leave this one here for now jane eyre here tess of the dubervilles but it's in like a very small coffee so maybe not hugs for scrapbooks uh we have looking for alaska which i've read um i did not know this was a book pinocchio by carlo colony really i did not know that was a book interesting okay and then we have whoa the grim files all right so i think in the end we're gonna go with um the tea house fire and also you want to say it you should don't think that that's not fair he's gonna go with this one the brother is karma zov excited [Music] oh my god let's go we got the start the car [Music] okay let's start at the top we have this book which looks really interesting a different life by derek hass how to raise entry in a rottweiler oh no this is all this is from like the 50s that's just the address damn 1964. 1964. oh oh hey okay so this is persuasion by jane austen i don't have perception oh actually i've also read this book this book was one of my favorite uh young adults when i was like in high school um i don't remember anything that it's about though it's like a very hard-hitting contemporary though as i remember but i don't really want to read it again [Music] um all right we're just slowly creeping down these people's streets like a scavenger hunt oh my goodness which one should i do oh i hated that movie really yeah oh there's so many of these i wanted to read i really want to read the clockmaker's daughter but also les mis obviously ah i don't know i know i'm kind of scared that i miss i think we're going to go with the clockmaker's daughter because i want to do this for whatever so wow this was a quick one eh this was so nice all right so this next box um what did i find here i found brian's head revisited so i have high hopes osprey island at this one even if we don't find one maybe i'll just take one to switch around the city and just sprinkle books you know all right here we are okay so oh look it's the magic tree house oh i have episode one number 24. okay truth be told are there any ones here that i know clive oh marley and me did you read marlene i watched it and cried let's see i'm not seeing i'm not seeing any today okay we're going to put ours in the devil's advice ralph let's move okay what is this the time traveler's wife sunshine state oh this looks cool whoa so this is all about florida and maybe it's animals and stuff like that which sounds cool okay there we go we left the book thank you all right now look at that one but that's okay i left i left a book anyway and uh yeah giving back we will go to the next one [Music] we have the post shadow oh matthew pearl yeah he wrote the donkey club which i have okay let's see it's about a ground po right okay so maybe probably this one march world [Music] fairest all right so we stopped at home you want to tell them why you had to get the exact same glasses as me because when i put yours on um they look good on me so of course i was gonna get them this just looks so weird though who wore the best dad come on dad who wore best god come on yeah please i love it you both look good yeah okay anyway as i was trying to say we stopped home we refueled we've got booth power and we're going back out on the road to the other side of town hi evie i'm why sorry that's a sound piece that's sad okay what are we looking for what do we want to see in these book boxes today i don't know i haven't read a book once last time i read a book grade 11. oh i'm pulling up with the books [Music] all right first up we have left to die by lisa jackson did you read this mom i can't remember but probably okay probably the infamous nora roberts remember when did not read that one okay very good and this was terrible terrible the pact by jennifer sterman what how many stars would you give this oh two two these are from my shells we're gonna get rid of the sea of monsters i'm sorry and then probably the kill order by james dashner which is part of the uh maze runner uh yeah so let's go guys i didn't cross safety first okay now i'm crossing listen you have to be safe there was a car i wasn't getting no no there was a car you got these things oh this is the cutest one [Music] that is literally beautiful okay okay yeah this was the um website i was telling you about this littlefreelibrary.org yeah so you can like go on there damn nonprofit there we go oh okay i would take this one but i already have it oh and i already have this one as well okay so we have these ones a slice of culinary life in up early at these weird canadian boxes oh [Applause] this one is nicholas nickleby this is like charles dickens but it must be for kids or something that is so fun interesting maybe i should send that to like carolyn or something gifts from your kitchen it's probably this coffee of the wind in the woods because it's so cute i mean look at that this puffin classics you have to watch your hair going when you cross the street look there's a quote from a little doll if you have good thoughts that will shine out of your face like some beans and you will always look lovely oh my goodness okay oh there's little look this one even has some bookmarks oh wow i really smell essential oils do you smell that yeah wow travel guide to a lab that's bad that that is a lot wow okay what do we have the couple next door oh ready player one i've read really didn't like it that much the movie is good what what no it is not you didn't like the movie are you kidding me oh oh oh it's okay it's okay it's just a bee i think he's on your leg please that little adventure i think i've heard of this one set on stormy cape breton island off nova scotia that's where my friend lives oh really yeah oh ding it's a multi-generational saga that chronicles the lives of four sisters i think i've heard of this one so we might go with this one the griffin's like oh he's back oh scary and then i think revolutionary road starring leonardo dicaprio kate winslet there they are oh and look they have are you my mother oh you remember the classic yeah i think we have that still oh my gosh okay here we go all right this one we're kind of lost oh boy um there's a lot of weird not now we're going not roundabouts news all right take two we're going down this way yeah we're driving in circles okay we have located nothing we have a missing box who knows this one's another turret instead of oh oh my gosh that is so funny to be fair it was like kind of hidden under this tree oh wow this is a really cute one wow oh please latch guys this is a big one oh my gosh i love these things okay we have a lot let's start on the top we have the girl with all the gifts which i've heard of um and then up here oh we have moby dick which i have so we'll leave that guy here this one's called me my goat and my sister's wedding oh wow it's not easy to hide a goat what okay the lion the witch in the wardrobe very battered copy oh wow just abused wow okay down here oh look joseph conrad's heart of darkness that is a gorgeous coffee and oh highlighting in notes yes okay we're gonna take this one for sure we might leave a couple books here today will be different i've heard of the scientific uh sherlock holmes which sounds really interesting this looks beautiful what is this what does that say dissonance okay what is this the hunchback of notre dame wow okay how is this right look this is the complete works of william shakespeare um i think someone messed up where's the rest of it okay i have tuck everlasting at home and i've read it that's really sweet oh whoa the book of mormon wait am i stupid this whole time i thought this was just a musical there's actually a book of mormon okay we have north america an introduction sure oh this one's cool it says el dorado and paradise okay so i think we're just we're definitely going to take heart of darkness because i've read a heart of darkness i had to read it for uni but the copy i have it in is like my like norton anthology which weighs like 10 000 pounds and i would never want to read it out of there again because that was just an experience so i think we're gonna take this i definitely want to reread this and this is just isn't this a nice copy so nice thank you okay wow this one was nice look at the handle the handle has like little vines on it that is so cute all right there we go thank you look everyone has like three shingles [Music] crying [Music] no way oh we're finding so many good looks like this one has little pinecone lights okay wow this is the one that i just saw i wanted to read this for forever this is amazing okay let's see what else is in here i have a feeling there's gonna be a few okay it should be right oh no no guys this is my worst book from last year oh that is so funny i would love to have this because this was just like so bad so bad okay let's see masquerade de la cruz this looks interesting oh mysterious deaths of young vampires with her best friend she travels to italy in the hope of finding the one man who can help her grandfather that's going to be a no from me oh does anyone remember this the ugly series by scott westerfield this is like one of the first young adult series i ever read all the neighbors are talking landscaping okay alice monroe is someone everyone's recommended me for a canadian uh literature this one these 2009 man booker prize we're in like the very um kind of artsy neighborhood like there's a lot would you say like there's a lot of festivals and music and stuff like that so there's a little anita rob adami i love her book um guys what are the coincidences this is so weird these two if you know these two are like like two worst books of 2020 and they're both in this box this was god awful my gosh that was so bad okay but these two yes we're gonna need to get some more books for this box i think let's see look gulliver's travels have you read this i watched it oh you watched it yeah that's cool oh no really look the whole story the cossacks happy ever after in the death of yvonne eliot do you need to go make a book run i think i might because i might be taking a lot of books out of here so we're gonna have to fill it back up so far these are the four we've got okay now let's grab some more books to put back this one was good okay we're gonna grab maybe let's grab three more put them [Music] back [Music] all right it's 2 30. we started this journey at what no no like 11 11 yeah we covered some good ground today when we get home i guess i will do a little book haul all right so i'm home now did you miss it okay please talk as you can see yeah we're home now yes we're home i know you're so needy you missed us so i thought i would show you guys um all the books that i got because i got a huge bag full of them all um and evie is here it's just gorgeous send me the bag oh my gosh okay so i managed to get rid of all the books that i showed you guys this morning they're all gone all the books that um me and my family wanted to unhaul are gone i don't know how many of them i got but there is a lot wanna see all these [Music] oh i bet they all smell so different [Music] thank you guys so much for coming along this was such a wild ride thank you for watching if you enjoyed this episode let me know i honestly had such a fun day it was just such a gorgeous day to do this and to drive all over the city so if you'd like to see like a part two or part three because believe it or not we actually have so many more book boxes than the ones that i went to which is crazy there were so many i didn't get to go to today because they're quite spread out so if you'd like to see more episodes in the future definitely let me know but yeah i'm gonna go organize all these i think and have some lunch and i'll see you so soon in my next video i hope you had fun thank you for coming along with me on this wild ride and until next time ciao

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Published: Sat Mar 27 2021