One in One Out/Sorting The Shelves #3 | 2021

hi and welcome to my channel i'm simon and today i'm back with a bumper one in one out video because i have not done one of these for march or for april and now we're in may and i need to get a wriggle on i need to sell the library it was looking like a bit of a state so these videos are a series of videos that i started back in january where i go through the books that have come in from publishers and i've bought myself every month and if they're from publishers there are special shelves that they go on for 2021 books but otherwise they have to go on these shelves in this room because this room is my tbr and i am not having any shelves anywhere else in the house for books that i have not read yet and i have the space but it just seems excessive and also i'm just really comfortable with it being around this size i made a whole video about that which i'll link down below where i talk about having such a big tbr it's not always about the size it's about moving on i've got in uh march and april 74 books from publishers now i don't need to go through many of them really because um you'll see them all hopefully in wrap-ups in your course and they have been in hall so here's one set of some proofs let's try not to make it fall over then we have some more here just so that i get to see them all i guess there's some more there i haven't planned this very well because i'm sort of now making a fortress of myself then we have some here a couple of which i need to talk about um and we have some more here um now there were an extra six books within this 74 that i have not held up and that's because and i think this is the first time this has happened this year i've read them already so i have read omelette by jessie ware i have read teeth in the back of my neck by monica rodriguez i have read after the storm by emma jane unsworth which is postnatal depression and the utter weirdness of new motherhood i have read sea change by alex nathan and i have read elizabeth mcneil's circus of wonders so there we go so i can take those off i don't need to put those anywhere else however actually i do because some of them are some of my favorite books of the year so when each other onto those shelves but the other the only three that i want to mention actually are these three that were sent to me from the lovely folk at certain tale and that and profile books and that's because these books came out originally before 2021 so these i need to put on my shelves in the relevant places so we have the seaweed collector's handbook we have a cheese mongers history of the british isles and we have man enough to be a woman by jane county so yeah those are gonna go on my non-fiction shelves when i come up to the books that are non-fiction that i bought myself that need to be put on the shelves i hope that made sense i'm now gonna move all of these books because one they go on their own special shelves two i need space to show you the books i bought myself and then we get to the sorting which i think is a bit you most enjoy i'm back and i haven't done a sort of scanning shot of my 2021 chills because they are overflowing and i need to sort them and that's something that i might tack on to the end of this video if i can get around to it in the time i've got before i go to london when this will go live the other thing i've got to mention is if i have books that i already have proofs of i do have some shelves outside so i just realized i've fibbed where i keep finished copies and i have uh proofs of all of these so these uh six books are going to go there i should say thank you very much to ellie um eaton who sent me this american edition of her book which i have the uk proof of i just love this cover and i was very very kind of her so and yeah i want to mention that so there we go those are going to go on another shelves and the other books that are going to go elsewhere in the house are two cookbooks i've got i actually got three um one is um salt heat fat acid fat acid salt heat one of those um which i bought for chris but also i really really want to read and these are all and he's actually reading at the moment so it's on his bedside table so these will also go um down into the dining room where we keep all of the cookbooks that's just the way that we roll onto the books that i bought myself some of which are here some of which are down there let's bring them together and let's get self shorten shorten no let's get shelf sorting not self shorting i mean they could be the same thing i could short at any point i'm back i have the um books that i bought myself so i have this stuck here this could be dangerous actually this stack here and i'll be going through them shortly in more detail and also this stack here which i've not put some really small books so i think i'm gonna have to use my chin to make sure it doesn't fall over that could go horribly wrong here we go so these are all the books that i bought myself in the last two months now there are some caveats to some of these because amazingly i've read some and i'll go through those first but also um some were books that i bought for my birthday but arrived relatedly so um i have i made a rule with birthday books that they go on to a separate pile books there um which will include one which arrived blatantly from one of you lovely doc which is um the undocumented americans by carla cornijo villaviciniosio just thought really badly i'm so sorry anyway and that is going to go on to the pile where do i start though let's go through the books that i have read because that's the easiest one so i bought myself a copy of elizabeth haynes human remains it's one of my favorite chrome books the reason i bought a second copy of it was i got this for pip for her birthday and um i didn't notice when i bought it for i promise but it's got a quote from me on the back on the new edition so i therefore bought myself one so i've read that one i can go on to my crime shelves i have um a set of hidden shelves actually in one of the spare rooms which is brimming with crime that i've read and then i also read these books so i read jess phillips mother which is a book by the pound project which is all about her relationship with her mum uh what it's like to be a mother and also a relationship with stepmoms and stuff she says around stuff mums is really really interesting i love this i read the hill we climb by amanda gorman um which is the poem obviously for the presidency and um was a real moment so it was that and then i bought myself four of the books that i did not have that were on the women's prize long list and so i could give away a set to one of you lovely lot instead of me having a set and um yeah read the long list so i've read all of these and we'll be talking about them or we'll have talked about them in um spring wrap-ups uh the reason i say willow is that one you won't have seen because it's unless you're a patreon so well done again actually quite a surprise i've read some of the books that came from publishers and some of the books that i bought myself and now i these three um are books that i bought as a birthday present to me from me because i wanted to support this publisher so they will go along with this onto my birthday shelves and then this one i'm not going to put on the shelves and the reason for that is it's a book club book and as i film this it's before book club and i haven't started this year but by the time this goes live it will be book club and i will have read it it's all got a bit tiny whiny and so yeah so that one for not including anywhere this i bought was a double so i will exchange this for the lovely beautiful finished copy that i have that i don't want to bat around i feel like i'm going to read this over the summer when i'm traveling to libraries around the um country and so i want something i don't mind sort of battering around and also i will say the font in this one is nicer than in the new one so we have that other than that though all of these need to go on the shelves behind me well done simon behind me there and the paperbacks up there and the hardbacks below so we will go and do those in a little bit in fact i'm going to leave them last because that's always the hardest bit so i don't know why i talked about it first never remember what order i'm going to do now in terms of nonfiction i'm gonna have to fit these on my non-fiction shells because once they were sent by publishers as i mentioned they're not books that um came out this year so they can't run my 2021 shelves in terms of other non-fiction i have inferno by catherine cho which um i got because sophie from portland pages was raving about the gillette prize and this is on that and she said it was phenomenal and then i bought myself from a charity shop rebecca sonnet's the far away nearby because after reading her picture book and fairy tale retelling for the vintage fairy tale revolution books i'm thinking it was so awful i felt like i really needed to work out why everyone raved about her writing so much and when i saw this in charity shop 50p i thought go on give it a whirl so those are the books i need to put on my non-fiction shelves um but there is one i'm currently reading and i've been dipping in and out of this for ages so i'm not going to include that i'm not going to put it on the shelves that can also go out of shots with standard deviation so we've got those let's go and do my non-fiction shelves now because i think i've got enough space for them so i'm feeling slightly smug it will mean i've got to move a knick-knack but uh yeah let's go so here we have my nonfiction shelves and as you can see there's a little bit of space there but also if we move my russian doll then i think we'll have space to fit everything on i have just remembered that i said i would listen to these um in the last one in one hour that i did i haven't done that yet i have three months to do so but because i'm traveling on trains again i think i'm going to get a rig along with these so i'll report back in well in wrap-ups or the next one and stuff but i don't need to think i've forgotten that i'd separated these from the other ones for those of you with those bdbd eyes all done sorry i've got such creepy floorboards and uh yeah officially now full next up we have poetry um and i got um four collections in uh march and april and two because of the uh julac prize one again because of sophie from portland the pages i don't know if this is on the gillette prize or not i feel like it might have been was it on the gillian thomas prize as well anyway and also um this because i really really loved uh ko's previous collection komacanda and now i have oh and also i got this which i'm currently reading a poem for every spring day even though when i mention this every time i talk about this series of books it's actually two poems every day and that bothers me because they don't say that on the cover but that's a fact anyway so yeah so i'm reading that on and off well daily on the daily on and off the daily on the daily talking rubbish these four i can pop on my post shelf now poetry i when i started this i said poetry didn't count because i had loads of space and i was trying to bulk up the amount of poetry i read and lots of you rightly said just because you've got the space and you want a book or the poetry that you read you know you have to read some of those collections i'm going to show you where we're at with the poetry shells because i'm going to have to start and i hate this term but it's only what i can think about for it reconciling that to now so let's go over there these are my poetry shelves they no longer have that much space ta-da so there was just enough space to fit those and actually a brian bilstein uh there um which was on my 2021 shelves up there which needed sorting as i said so that made the tiniest sliver of space but yeah we're almost at maximum capacity there's still a tiny bit of convention there's not much give there at all and this certainly isn't in that one so i need to get a wriggle on with my poetry so poetry corner is full and that means that from now on there's no excuse for poetry it's got to be the same as all the other shelves including the 2021 shells which i feel like i'm at a point that well at turning point slash panic point but let's move on so then in terms of other books for the genres that i have separate shells for i have a crime there and then up there i have y i only have one y book to put on those shelves and i thought i had two to put on my crown shelves however this i got in a charity shop and i already had it so that's going to go to a different home but i do need to get sherry lapina's book on that shelf so let's go and do those two shelves in terms of why a i can't work out when that's nearly chrome um i can't work out why i've got a space up there but i have so i'm not going to have to get rid of anything i'm just going to get my chair and move everything around because they're really high up so weirdly having a uh jiggle around the books there's now more space than there was before but hey ho that's a good thing for future where there's not space is on my crime shelves so i need to find one book that i'm happy to swap for the new cherry lapina okay so they are all sorted now in the book that i took off the shelves was the mitford murders by jessica fellows which i've had on my shelves for ages i love the mittvid sisters these are murders with i can't remember whether it's nancy who's heading up yeah nancy when she's 16 years old i've meant to read them for ages haven't got around to it so i think this is going to be one of my try a chapter before i potentially either read it or get rid of it in the next three months books and everyone's talking about the movies at the moment because um the pursuit of love is on the telly but why is bloody lily james in bloody everything that's what i want to know i'm not a fan anyway um yeah so one off the shelves for try chapstick which i might not have explained that i do that every month like if i'm allowed i think i've managed up to five every month so far books that i'm allowed to try a chapter of see how i feel about them and either get rid of them straight away or i have three months to read them if i like them very quickly before i get onto the penultimate section before i then head back to literary fiction and those shells which are the ones that made me the most nervous and i got myself plants i got myself in the face then this book would knock you out which is um a book all about well it's the definitive guide to house plants and i've been buying more house plants and trying to learn about them so this is a coffee table book so this is going to go on my coffee table there with some of said house plans so this is exempt from anything onto books that are imported now this caused a bit of like why do you have a set of shelves that are for imported books i don't mean that all of my because basically i described important books as books that have come from other countries now what i don't mean is books set in other countries i mingle all books from wherever in the world they are or where they're set together but if i've ordered books from australia or america or canada or anywhere else i do keep them separately in my imported books and i got quite a few imported books in the last month but there are exceptions and that is because these were bought was it just these yeah these were bought oh no these i knew i was missing one i bought myself these as a birthday present they didn't arrive until april because they're from australia now i have read the prophets by uh robert jones jr but i had to get this pink edition i just needed it so that's fine that can go with the other books that i've read these ones though i'm gonna put uh with the other books that i bought myself these i am going to put on my birthday stack behind me that does however leave likes uh by sarah shumlin bynum which i bought because matthew rapper raved about it and the frangipani hotel by violet cooper smith which i bought because the publishers sent me a proof of her novel which is coming out later this year and then i saw um she'd already got a short story collection out and they sounded so good i just wanted them and then three books that i bought because they were up for the um bokeh prize which is for caribbean literature and so i have oh actually this is poetry so this could technically go on my poetry shows actually um or it's a poem apparently and it's the dis graphist uh by canisia lubrin and then i have some essays because i really want to get into more essays by andrei baghu this is the undiscovered country which looks at being queer in um the caribbean but also just general thoughts on life and stuff so i'm looking forward to that and then this novel which is these ghosts of family by maisie card which i love that cover ridiculously so actually i only have i thought i had five that i need to fill on the shelves but i have four [Music] there we go seven four and i do include non-fiction that's important so therefore i should include poetry and like oh five i've got five that i've gotta film the shells now they're full this is gonna be really hard these are my imported books shelves oh we carry on you have a little bit of nonfiction here and there is gap there so that's good but i'm going to have to get rid of smothers and i find this not also my squeaky floor and i find this quite tricky but one thing that is interesting is that what i've been doing this this year hang on let me turn around and see me sorry as i was saying one of the things that i find really interesting is that as between doing the one in one hours when i'm looking around my shelves and deciding what to read next i do start to pick books that i would not mind taking off the shelves if i needed to make space so there's a couple here that i feel like that's about um but not masses so anyway let's give it a whirl okay done they're very full though so which did i take off and the answer is that i took off these two first of which is the bridge by enzo gandolfo now this is based on a real um incident that happened in melbourne i think in the 19 i was going to say 20s but 1970s where a bridge that was being built collapsed and killed 35. um i am going to add this to my tri chapter tag pile i am just i've heard really mixed things i think kim gave me this after she'd read it and she wasn't sure about it so yeah we've got that one and then the camera maybe kim gave him this as well we have um weimera by mark brandy which won the crime association debut duggar award so i think i will try this and probably finish it within the next three months so that's what i'm doing with those two i'm just double checking because if one of those big ones could go i could then just do one that was off my shelves but i don't think i have one of those that i'm happy to give up i'd forgotten this one whoops okay so possibly an unpopular choice i've taken heads of the colored people off my shelves by um thompson spyers because i've tried to read this short story collection a couple of times and i have always kind of given up around the third story so i'm not going to have this is one of my try a chapter or short story choices i just have to read this in the next three months or it goes that is the rule best but by no means least i need to do my fiction shelves all those there i've got to try and swap out stuff for all of these this is gonna be quite tough i think although as i mentioned there's a few that i've looked at and thought you know what they might be right for going or trying a chapter of although that said if i have a rule of five per month that i'm allowed oh but this is two months so therefore i'm allowed ten and i will do that try a chapter tag and i'll put that on my patreon so that people can see i'm getting ones if you'd like to be a patreon it's linked down below anyway right let's go and sort these shelves out and um these shelves out those shelves out these books out i will say there are a few spaces on these shelves although i am trying to leave that one free just because because i have actually read quite a few books off them so i am doing better it is making me read off the shelves i have a lot more sorry i just went and swapped out the poison with bible um the older edition in exchange for this one which i want to keep nice and pristine to be on my shelves and i realized that i hadn't actually shown you um the books i bought myself from the fiction selection like i heard everything else so let's go through one actually let's go through the whole box first um two besides a pair of talking heads by alan bennett i bought when i went to lingam's it was the first book shop i went to after lockdown and this was one of the ones that i instantly grabbed and the absolute book i ordered because it looks amazing it sounds bonkers it's a book about books and everyone i know has read it just said it's insane plus also i mean stunning so that was my fault those two and then in terms of the paperbacks monica ali's brick lane i've mentored for ages and ben dumanted told me that i should give it a whirl so i'm going to um helen dunmore is an author that i um had a bit of a uh wrong footage to start off with because i read her poetry collection that was published post humorously is that how you say it when someone's died and that won the costa and i didn't really get it um but i then read a spell of winter and so it was amazing so i wanted to get all of her books and i found this in a chat shop um house of glass loads of you recommended to me a cranberry and watch video it was like it was a ghost i think it's just dust people compared it to rebecca which is a bit of a dangerous game because rebecca is rebecca and that's in my head but i'm going to give it a whirl um i spotted this in a secondhand shop leslie glaster who is one of those authors that i think i'm gonna love everything she's ever written i've never read anything but it's really hard to get her books now so i picked that one up uh last night at the telegraph club by melinda lowe is about um a lesbian relationship in the 1950s i want to say in america one of the couple i think is chinese-american uh lily and um so it looks at race relations at that time which i think are kind of quite disturbingly a bit like they are now though for derrick for different um reasons there should never be a reason for any racism whatsoever i just want to add but for people who stupidly are racist um they're two different reasons for that if that makes sense not that i'm condoning or saying what they're doing is acceptable and are we there yet no we're not because it's are we home yet okay messi i bought it's on the uh gelack prize shortlist and um sophie from portland pages you just may want to read everything on there including this one which is about a girl who discovers that her mother is a sex worker and is running her business from home and that's what happens to their relationship kai miller's um the same earth i read open water and this was mentioned by one of the characters in open water um and just this the way it was described i was like i have to read that book so i got it and then stephanie scott's uh what's left of me is yours was on the july prize long list i don't know if it's on the shortlist i can't remember right now because i'm hungry and my brain's not thinking properly um but um this is based all around um a japanese covert industry called the wakareasea and which is someone who is hired by one spouse to try and make their other spouse cheat and then they can leave them and i just thought that sounded amazing the joy uh look club by amy tan actually that's one thing i've got to say about brick lane i did a list of 40 books i would like to read by 40 and um that was brick lane was one of them and another was the joy look club so i bought myself that for that the color by rose tremaine her books have been republished by vintage with these gorgeous new additions it's one that i didn't have it was the other book that i bought in lingam's because what i'm trying to do when i go into bookshops is um buy a new book but also a backlist book so it's not just constantly buying new new even though technically it is new because i didn't have it but you know what i mean and then sally vickers dancing backwards i've loved the two books of hers that i've read i would like to read more in a charity shop they're brilliant for backlog books backlog books backlisted books back catalogues and so that's why i got those now i'm gonna go and sort them on the shelves surprisingly there's actually more space on the shelves now that i've done that and i shall show you for why that's all done now and we're at the final bit and so we have um already three try chapter tag books plus a short story collection i need to read in the next three months now i have taken some books off the shelves that i just don't think i'm gonna read a book that um i asked actually the american publisher of this for a copy of because the american edition is so beautiful i haven't really read what it was about they asked me if i wanted to copy and then the english publisher got in touch they're like oh um this is the cop we'll send you it and this arrived and then i looked into what it was about and it's about um a writer who's got a secret lover and i just looked at the blurb and i was like i don't think i'm ever realistically going to read that so i need to read but i know i don't like reading a blurb but when publishers email me i need to read and think am i definitely going to read that i need to say yes with intention and the same applies to this trilogy actually which i was sent as olivia manning's um three and what part of the series they are the balkan trilogy and which is set over quite a few years i just don't think i am in the mood to start a literary trilogy for the foreseeable and if i am i can borrow them from the library which is where these will probably end up being donated or i can buy them myself i say probably they're going to end up in the library because i don't know what the situation is with libraries and donations at the moment but i'm going to message my mates at liverpool where i used to work at the library and ask them then i did something which surprised me because i decided that i was gonna so i didn't need to take these off the shelves but actually they're books by authors that i have meant to read for a while and i would just like to see if i'm actually going to enjoy these authors or not so probably the um let's go through them in sort of orders how much you might have heard of them or not i don't know how many of you have heard of um uh henrietta rose inez and this is nivena and i think it's kind of a it's set in cape town and it's i thought it had some sort of um other worldliness and i'm not sure it does but i've got a couple of her books on the shelves i thought right they've been sat there for ages i haven't read them i'm going to try them into course i might actually do a video possibly after may maybe in june of my thoughts on these four books and do like a reading vlog of them the other one is sarah taylor's the shaw i've heard some people really love sarah taylor's work some people aren't so keen and i have two of her books so i'd like to find out i should have actually this would have been perfect to take to read when i was uh by the sea reading books by the same but i didn't so there we go everybody has had quite a lot of seaside-based books and then we have um louisa sawma and flesh and bone and water and um she i believe is an um brazilian writer i want to say she's born in rio de janeiro and brought up in the uk and and i have previous links to brazil because my first husband was from brazil and i loved it as a country and i love reading about it and i don't know if this is about brazil but um it might be about um one of my favorite things which is a culture you know way where different cultures merge and where the clash and where they um combine and all those kind of things as i think it's about a woman who moves from brazil to london which makes me think of a book i absolutely loved which i can see the cover of now have is a woman diving into the water i'll write it under here because i've forgotten but i bloody loved it and so i think i'm hoping that this will be the same and then miriam i think you say toes is that right correct me if i'm wrong this is all my puny sorrows i've got a few of hers on the shelves including her latest one and then one it might even be her debut but this is the one that i've kind of felt is gonna give me almost the measure of miriam and it's about i think um sisters which is something that i love reading about i love reading about sisters and siblings i've talked about that a lot and this is about two sisters one of whom um has on many different occasions tried to um commit suicide and so this looks at that and i think it's going to be quite incredible so yeah this is the one i'm going to give away so maybe should i do a reading vlog some point in june where i try these authors maybe that's something i need to do going forward where i just sort of it's not even try a chapter it's just i'm going to read these books and see how i get on with them so yeah maybe they'll try chapters maybe they'll be let me just read them and see how i get on i don't know which would you rather let me know in the comments down below and let me know any of your thoughts on any of the books that i've mentioned so we now leave these shelves with some spaces will that be the same at the end of may this month who knows but uh hopefully you'll join me to find out and i will see you all soon any comments on anything down below let's have a chat bye

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Length: 30min 31sec (1831 seconds)

Published: Tue May 18 2021