VISITING 9 BOOKSTORES IN ONE DAY!

[Music] [Music] [Music] okay I'm showered and I'm ready to go today we are going to be hitting all the bookstores in New York except not because that's kind of impossible it's not impossible it would just be a lot of work I'm gonna be first up hitting up the Strand which is kind of a basic bookstore here in New York City like if you come to New York City and you don't visit the Strand did you even come to New York City it's kind of the iconic bookstore here I don't have plans to buy all the books today but I'm definitely not gonna say no if I want to buy a book this year like any other year and trying to be more mindful about what I pick up and how much I'm spending on books just because I've gone crazy in the past so hopefully I don't go too crazy in the book buying department today I can't make any promises though it looks like it's cold outside so I'm gonna have to get bundled up which kind of makes me sad because I love this shirt that I'm wearing today it just says you are not alone which if you needed that reminder today reminder you are not alone okay if anything you've got me okay I've got your back I'm also meeting up with my friend Elena today we're gonna go and get some ramen I've never had ramen at a restaurant I've always wanted to have ramen at a restaurant because I love just the packet ramen so I'm imagining that I'll really like the restaurant ramen I don't know we'll see today I also have to brave the subway by myself today I've never ridden on the subway by myself so this will be a new experience and I'm kind of nervous about it I'm sure that you New Yorkers who are watching this are like it's easy-peasy but this boy right here is directionally challenged so we'll see how this goes [Music] I find it ironic that I'm staying right by Hamilton this would happen to me I [Music] did it I survived to the subway I figured out where I am now I have to get to the Strand so we'll see if I can walk there I think I can do it though I think I can do it we got this I'm also in the super nice park I think it's the Union Square part it's pretty nice it's a little wet it's raining today not super happy about it but we're just gonna roll with it you know you just kind of go with the unexpected right yeah yeah that's what we do [Music] [Music] probably need that probably that too and yeah I need help making decisions so [Music] okay I just did some damage I got some books at the Strand and I also got some books at Forbidden Planet and now I'm going to had two books of Wonder this book you should venture it's not over yet I'll be sure to show you guys what I got later but for now let's go to books of Wonder [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I just left books of wonder and surprise surprise I did not leave empty-handed I'll show you the book I got later books of wonder kind of specializes in children's books so they have a lot of picture books they have a nice middle grade selection but it's still a pretty solid bookstore and you can find a lot of signed books there a lot of why a author events take place that books have wonders so that's why you can often find a lot of sign of books there next up I'm going to alabaster bookshop and I've never been here before so this squirrel just came at me what's she doing I don't have anything for you okay please do not attack me please don't attack me I don't got no food for the squirrel next up I'm heading to alabaster bookshop I've never been to this one but I found it on Google and I was like let's go let's go to a book store I've never been to in New York because all the ones I've been to today so far I've already been to I just haven't been able to spend as much time there as I want to so it was nice to kind of take my time in these bookstores [Music] so I went to alabaster's and it's a pretty nice bookstore and had a really nice smell I know that sounds weird but it just smelt really good and now I'm in the housing works bookstore which I really like those books where I've never been here before I believe this bookstore actually specifically works with charity and they work with charities for the homeless and for AIDS which i think is pretty dope I'm currently waiting on Elena to get here something go get some ramen I am hungry and I'm also freezing cold so I need some ramen to warm me up I'm still really not used to this whole vlogging and public thing I'm not very good at it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we just got rum and it was my first time coming ramen at a restaurant I'm so happy it was delicious it's really good everyone that visits me this place what's it called again if the dough come to it the dough if you want Robin in New York I'm at shape I did that on purpose anyone was coming here so now we're going to focus our magic in Brooklyn let's go here we go [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so there is a high school where do we go which the Brooklyn Bridge yeah we went to Dumbo the dumpling area the Dumbo area got some matcha I don't know what I got vanilla much vanilla matcha thing is delicious yes cuz it's freezing cold it's cold it's so cold now and I'm just drinking it but it's by and now we're heading to McNally Jack so we just went to books are magic - which was such a magical bookstore I've seen all the instagrams from there and I finally got to visit it so that's good it's agreeable alright now we're heading to McNally Jackson let's go we just went to McNally Jackson books and we had dinner we had pizza it was delicious Elena keeps saying that all these places are gonna be packed and nobody is in the middle we're going in the middle of the week where no it's really cool they're not busy at all he places and he doesn't believe don't believe her so right now we're getting boba yeah which I also say is usually it's super crowded but the line is usually out the door yeah this place is that's true I'd rather be like this anyways I'm glad that you were wrong okay guys I am back in my hotel room holy crap it was a long day I went to all the bookstores I went to probably eight or nine bookstores today I think eight or nine I could be wrong I didn't even really get to talk about all of the bookstores I went to today I only ended up buying books from three different bookstores I didn't like go crazy today thankfully I kind of held myself back a little bit but I did get some books so I will share those books with you now let's start with what I got at the Strand first up I got these postcards and not because I'm going to be sending postcards to anybody but because I really like the designs on them and I'm gonna use them as bookmarks so that's why I got these I really like them they had a nice selection of postcards surprisingly at the Strand and they had a lot of bookish ones so that was kind of cool and unexpected but I got this pin that has a typewriter on it that says create something new they had so many enabled pins I was really surprised by their enable pin selection and this one really stuck out to me and I decided that I just had to have it hopefully it inspires me to create something new we'll see about that and the book that I got is miss peregrine's home for peculiar children I know you're probably going what why did you get that you already have like three copies of miss Peregrine's well you're gonna have to tune in to the next vlog to find out why I picked this up look at me building up suspense but there is a specific reason why I got another copy of miss Peregrine's so tune into the next vlog so that's all I got from the strand now I will share with you what I got at Forbidden Planet I thought it was really cool that this store kind of had a section for independent artists and creators and so I decided to pick up something by an independent creator and that's this little comic called run boys run now I don't know anything about this story like it doesn't have a description as to what this story is about anywhere but I really liked the art style and that was kind of a deciding factor on me picking this up so the story itself is going to be a surprise but I'm okay with that I just really wanted to support an independent and this wasn't too costly I decided that I would just throw my money at it because I know it can be really really difficult for independent artists especially in these times so I just decided to support one so that's how I got it Forbidden Planet and lastly I got a book from books of wonder honestly this is a super random book but I just saw it and I was like I think I need to have you even though I don't really need to have you but I also really want you because you're beautiful and you need to be a part of my collection notices hands Christians Andersen's fairy tales selected and illustrated by Elizabeth this worker I totally just butchered that pronunciation I've only read a few of these fairy tales in my time so I figured that this would be nice to pick up and read some more of these stories plus I love the illustrations and that was honestly the selling point for me like the illustrations are lit and I needed them in my life I had no self-control I was really trying but honestly I knew deep down I was gonna walk out of the store with this book and that's what happened okay it was honestly such a fun day I'm glad that I got to hang out with my friend Elena and it was just nice to kind of explore some of the different bookstores throughout New York I hope that you guys enjoyed kind of seeing the different bookstores that New York has to offer there's still a lot more that I've yet to explore and I'm going to explore some more of them in the next vlog so stay tuned for that that's it for this video I'm now going to be going to sleep because your boy is exhausted he's been walking around in a cold all day and it's time for bed okay if you like this video be sure to go and hit that like button or go and hit subscribe if you want to see more 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Channel: jessethereader

Views: 238,053

Rating: 4.9695091 out of 5

Keywords: booktube, books, reading, read, literature

Id: H9TL_qMeoEE

Length: 17min 2sec (1022 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 03 2019

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Are all New Yorkers like this 🤔?

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terrible remake of the intro to the music video for man’s not hot