Shopping From My Bookshelves

hi everyone I'm Miranda and welcome to my youtube channel today I'm talking about shopping from my bookshelves I have so many books as you've probably gathered if you've been watching my channel for a while and although I've read loads of the books on my bookshelves I certainly haven't read them all and I was thinking that during this time of self isolating and social distancing it would be a great opportunity to shop from my bookshelves and to hopefully read a few more books that I already own of course I'm also doing my best to support independent book shops during this difficult time and I'm going to link as many of the books as I can to high schoo UK which is a website I discovered fairly recently and it's a great place to order books from because they support independent book shops so I love that however much as I love buying books I also do want to try and read more of the books I already own so this is an episode on shopping from my bookshelves I've pulled out the pile of books but I haven't my shelves but I haven't read yet and I really want to get to so let me show them all to you the first one is called fair girls and gray horses memories of a country childhood by Christine Dianna and Josephine Colin Thompson I loved the Pullen Thompson sisters when I was young they all wrote amazing Pony books and I was obsessed with ponies when I was little even though I I didn't ride at all I just loved reading about horses and some of my very favorite books were the Phantom Horse books which I think were by Christine Cullen Thompson but I read widely from all of the sisters they all wrote Pony books and this is actually a memoir about their childhood and presumably about how they all started writing and I really want to read it I love memoirs I loved these authors when I was young and I think it will be really fascinating it says I are twins normal mrs. Bowen Thompson was asked good god I hope not she retorted the twins were Diana and Christine who would their elder sister Josephine wrote more than a hundred and fifty books which have sold in their millions around the world fifty years after the joint publication of their first book the siblings wrote about their extraordinary childhood with lovable but often unreliable animals and unforgettable humans I think this sounds so good almost has a little bit over my family and other animals why I'm feeling from it already so hopefully it'll be a fun entertaining read so I want to get to this next I really would like to read good in a bed but good in a bed garden writings by Ursula buckin I assume a buckin was John buckins granddaughter and he wrote the thirty-nine steps which is one of my very favorite adventure stories and I heard her in conversation with Penelope lively a slightly Fox readers event I think it was last year and I really enjoyed their conversation they're both avid gardeners and it made me really want to read Ursula buqun's book about gardening and on the back it says Ursula buckin is one of those rare gardening writers who are read with pleasure by people will never picked up a trowel or pruned arose in fact by people who don't have gardens at all well that's me but for me because I am such an armchair gardener to say I love reading about gardens I love like going out and looking at captions but I don't have a gardener I don't have a garden and I also tend to kill any house plant I'm ever given so I don't think gardening is in my future but I do love reading about it so I'm looking forward to getting to this book and then a bit of connection I love the books by Oh Douglas and her real name was Anna Bakken and she was John buckins sister she lived in Scotland her writing is very similar to de Stevenson's books so if you love Dee Stephenson stories and you would really like Douglas I'm sure I adore her writing the REA quiet gentle charming tales and this is one I haven't read yet it's called Anna and her mother by Oh Douglas and I'm sure this will be just as charming a read as all her other books have been so far so I'm looking forward to reading this one myself and then this is a book I've wanted to read for ages it's the constant nymph by Margaret Kennedy this was such a popular book when it was first published I can't remember the exact date so it was first published in 1929 and it was extremely controversial at the time it says avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a round chuckle Chalet in the Swiss Alps I love anything set in Switzerland so one reason I want to read this surrounded by his circus of assorted children my own admirers and slightingly mistress the family in their home life may be chaotic but visitors fall into an enchantment and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away when Sangha dies his circus must break up and each find a more conventional way of life but 14 year old Teresa is already deeply in love but heard the outside world holds nothing but tragedy this sounds like such a curious book and I really am intrigued to read it and it's a and it's the sort of book that's mentioned in oh like classic school stories that I loved from the first half of the 20th century as the sort of like illicit books that the girls were trying to read and sort of risk expulsion if they were with so I really am intrigued to read the constant nymphs and this is a book I'm really looking forward to getting to it's a nonfiction book the easternmost house by Juliet Blaxland and it's about a house on the sort of easternmost corner of England and that's right on the cliff I think it says in June 2015 the house was 50 paces from the edge now it is 25 paces away and very sadly I recently read that the cliff underneath the house is now crumbled and the house isn't there anymore so that will make reading this book even more poignant and it's written by the woman that lived in this house and I've just heard that it's really brilliant so I'm looking forward to getting to this this is another nonfiction book that I picked up in Devon when I was in Devon last spring actually and it was fitting because it's set in Devon I think it's a blend of memoir and nature writing it's called the grass Ling by Elizabeth Jane Burnett and I've heard such good things about it I have to admit I was also really attracted by a beautiful cover I mean it is just stunning but I picked it up in Devon because it's sorry because it's set in Devon it's written about it's all about Devon so I am intrigued to read this one okay another book that I bought fairly recently but haven't got to yet is in love with George Eliot and it's by Cathy Oh Shanna see I hope that's how you say her last name and this is fiction but I think that Cathy O'Shaughnessy has really researched a lot about George Eliot's life and part of it is written from George Eliot's perspective and then I think it also swaps to a present-day setting so it just sounds like a really interesting read I love books but to teach you a bit more about classic writers and I think that like I said this one is meant to have been really well researched I've picked it up a few times and at first I wasn't too sure about it but then I read a really good review of the book and that's what made me finally buy it but I'm yet to read it so I really want to get to this one and see what I think of it myself another memoir I picked up his the way to the sea The Forgotten histories of the terms estuary by Caroline Crompton this one sounded really good it says raised on its banks so on the banks of the Thames and an avid sailor Caroline Crampton sets out to rediscover the enigmatic pull of the Thames by following its course from the rivers source in a small village in Gloucestershire through the short central stretch beloved of Londoners and tourists alike to the point where it merges with the North Sea as she navigates the rivers ever shifting tidal waters she seeks out the stories behind its unique landmarks from the vast Victorian pumping stations that carried away the Capitals waste and the shiny barrier that holds the sea at bay to the Napoleonic era forts that stand on marshy ground as eerie relics of past invasions it sounds really interesting and I really loved the book mark Mudd Larkin that came out last year and I think I thought that this would be quite a nice companion read to that book in a way because reading mud Larkin made me even more interested in the history of the Thames so I'm looking forward to getting to this one and in this book a friend of mine recommended to me it's called kitchen by banana Yoshimoto and apparently this has been made an IB text the International Baccalaureate I mean I did the IB in my school when I was young so I'm always quite interested in what new texts come on their curriculum and apparently this is a book that's been introduced to the curriculum and it's meant to be really really good and sort of Japanese classic so I'm looking forward to reading this - those are nice and slim so I should be able to read this quickly and then yes I'm really excited to read this it's I'll never be young again by Daphne du Maurier I've never read this Daphne du Maurier and I really don't know much about it I think it's about um a man and his father by the sound of it and it's partly set in bohemian Paris which I always love books set in Paris so I'm interested to read this for that reason but I also love Daphne du Maurier Rebecca my cousin Rachel - my very favorite novels I think this must be quite an early novel so I'm not sure if it will really stand up as well as the others and some of her books do get very strange so I'm just intrigued to read this one and see what it's like this one I really want to get to soon because it's actually set during Lent so it would be a really great read for right now it's called the western wind by Samantha Harvey and it's a mystery set in medieval England and I've read some really rave reviews about this book again it's quite slim so it shouldn't take me too long to read it so I really want to settle down with this very soon I'm a member of the London library and in the London library and one of the entrances they display books but some of their members have written and I'm pretty sure this is how I heard about this book I think it was one of the ones displayed it's the garden of lost and found by Harriet Evans and and I was also really taken with the attractive cover and it sounds really interesting it sounds a bit like a Kate Morton book to me part of it is set I thinking like 1919 yes 1919 and the sort of large house in the English countryside and liddie liddie Horner discovers her husband world-famous artist Sir Edward Horner burning his best-known painting the garden of lost and found days before his sudden death and then I think part the novel is set in the present day or the fairly present day and it's about solving this mystery of why this famous artist burnt his painting before dying so I just thought that sounded like a really intriguing premise and it reminded me a bit of the Kate Morton sort of style book I love Kate Moulton so I thought this sounds like it could be my cup of tea so I picked it up I still haven't read it and I do want to read it yes so hopefully I'll get that one soon this is a biography I really want to read the life and loves of Ynez but also of the railway children by owner Fitzsimmons um I love the Ynez but books I mean I adored the railway children I adored five children in it when I was young so I can't wait to read this I already know that she had in some was a very difficult life and yeah I think that this will make such a fascinating read and I can't wait to find out more about her because I know she had a really really interesting life so I can't wait to get to this biography but anyway those are some of the books that I've shopped from my shelves do let me know if you've read any of these or if you're tempted to read any of these also let me know if you'd like to join me in shopping from your bookshelves and what books you might pull off and be inspired to read for those of us who are home a bit more at the moment but I hope you enjoy this video do give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and you can subscribe to my channel by clicking my face that pops up around here on the screen but thanks so much for watching and I'll be back again soon with another video bye

Channel: Miranda Mills

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Length: 15min 56sec (956 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 24 2020