2021 Bookshelf Tour! // a scientist's home library (120+ books)

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Tour of my entire bookshelf as a scientist! My home library has a bunch of books organized in the general themes of fiction, science, ecology and environment, Latin American literature, Indigenous literature, memoirs, feminism, witchcraft books, Greek mythology classics and more! I can't seem to pick a favourite genre and love reading about places and people all around the world.
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0:00 Introduction
02:13 Tolkien
02:55 Greek mythology
4:05 Random fiction
05:25 Memoirs
06:10 Americana
07:38 Indigenous literature
08:48 Latin American / Spanish
10:43 Ecology & environment
13:53 feminism
14:35 science reference
15:45 random non fiction
16:13 witchy books
16:30 random non-fiction
17:00 more fiction

Пікірлер: 50

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

What books out of my collection have you read or caught your eye? Any suggestions? Let me know :) also, I forgot to talk about where I've sourced my books. Probably 90% of my books are from used bookstores that I've visited throughout my travels and at home, along with thrift stores - they're only $2 each at my thriftstore! I feel the most comfortable sustainability-wise buying used. Some have been gifted too and bought new to support the author.

@uuuyeee2084 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, I think you would enjoy „This changes everything” by Noemi Klein. Btw thanks for your recommendations, I’ll check out if some of the books are available in my country :)

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the suggestion - that title has been on my list for a long time!

@brotherjay9744 3 жыл бұрын

I love the one about trauma. Psychology would be my second love behind the study of life itself. Also love indigenous literature.

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I love psychology books too, I read a lot on my e-reader so I don't have too many physical books but I love reading about brains

@emmanuelrodriguez2139 3 жыл бұрын

I have read several books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I think he is one of my favorite authors. Also I bought the power of now by Eckhart Tolle but I haven't read it yet 😅. The last book I bought was "blonde indian" I felt inspired to buy it after reading a paragraph you posted on instagram stories

@cezza100 2 жыл бұрын

Yay for science reference and ecology books - thanks!

@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor 2 жыл бұрын

Snow falling on cedars 💛💛💛

@empress_craft Жыл бұрын

Wrote down so many suggestions from your shelves! Thank you so much for sharing your library! Some additions you might want to consider in the coming year: Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram, Becoming Animal by David Abram, Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta, Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism by Daniel Schulke, Under the Bramble Arch by Corinne Boyer, Under the Witching Tree by Corinne Boyer, A Branch from the Lightning Tree by Martin Shaw, Scatterlings by Martin Shaw, and The Earthsea Omnibus by Ursula K Le Guin. Based on what you liked in this video, all of these will be along those same lines!

@rebeccaromig9610 Жыл бұрын

Crow Lake is amazing!

@margotl9756 3 жыл бұрын

Your bookshelves are fantastic

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@TaylorJPage 3 жыл бұрын

I loved The Odessey! Read it last year. Would love to read A Lab of One’s Own by Rita Colwell.

@chickenmom1022 3 жыл бұрын

Would highly recommend “Fever Dream” by Samanta Schweblin. It’s a novella, I read it in one sitting, it’s an amazing story. Don’t want to spoil it but it does sort of have an environmental warning to it

@amber965 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVED the Annihilation series! It's such a good bio-horror series(my favorite sub-genre of horror lol). I also recently read Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut and I feel like you'd enjoy that book.

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

ohh good suggestion, thanks - I love Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse five so I'll have to check that one out

@solarpunkalana 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love both Circe and The Silence of the Girls

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

Circe is so good! The Silence of the Girls I liked less but maybe because it was like my third Iliad retelling I read so maybe it was getting a little old lol

@solarpunkalana 3 жыл бұрын

@@kristina_lynn Would you recommend Eckhart Tolle?

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

I actually really like the Power of Now if I go into it with a really open mind. I read it sometimes before bed if I am stressed out. It can get a bit woo-woo at times but my woo-woo tolerance is pretty high before I put down a book LOL

@solarpunkalana 3 жыл бұрын

@@kristina_lynn Haha I like a bit of woo woo sometimes, helps to fend off the existential dread

@renhartmann6249 3 жыл бұрын

I have a great book to recommend it’s called reason for hope and it’s an autobiography of Jabs Goodall’s life it’s very good.

@whatabouttheearth 3 жыл бұрын

Indigenous and Witches both respect nature and live in North and South America and some read greek mythology, bam, they do connect. Im current studying 'History of Life' by Richard Cowen and 'Vertebrate Palaeontology' by Machael J. Benton and using the series 'Systematic Classification of Life' on Aron Ra's You Tube channel as a guide, this will continue until I have learned everything Aron Ra is saying.

@JosephLuigi 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, how are you? Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian author, he speaks portuguese. 😁 I liked your video! 🖤

@envionrnya1488 3 жыл бұрын

That's great dear I haven't read any of the book in your shelf coz I get bored soon after opening the book I wanna study these books it will be great for me. right now I am reading a book you have recommended in a video I wanna become an environmental scientist.

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

Haha yes it can be a bit of a challenge in the digital age to focus on a book. I tuck away my devices and get a nice tea and pick something really interesting. Sometimes I have trouble focusing on non-fiction so I get lost in a good fantasy book

@envionrnya1488 3 жыл бұрын

@@kristina_lynn so what should I do to be in focus while reading a book I am reading Becoming by Michele.

@itsJA97 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, You have so many books!! How do you bring all of those with you when you’re moving around? Wildlife biologists usually move from one company to another every few years after the contract ends, right?

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

I have had a permanent job for awhile but when I've moved I just pack them like everything else!

@isabel_nogaf 3 жыл бұрын

I recommended you to read: Women Race & Class - Angela Davies e Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano 💕

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

Adding them to my TBR list!

@useyourillusion6996 3 жыл бұрын

I don't read much fiction but I have to recommend the classic The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. So well written. My non fiction stuff is controversial to many so might not fit your taste although I think you would enjoy Death in Yosemite and Death in Grand Canyon books if you haven't read already. I can't forget the Missing 411 series. Strange but factual disappearances of people (also found alive or dead under mysterious circumstances) in national parks and other rural areas.

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

Oooh those stories sound spooky and interesting but maybe hit a bit too close to home.... ! Thanks for the suggestions :)

@irfansafi865 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you mam 🌹 I already

@TaylorJPage 3 жыл бұрын

o what are some good field guide or survival skill. Books?

@tillycat3062 3 жыл бұрын

👍🏻📚📖🤓🧐

@floofcorgi 3 жыл бұрын

you should definitely invest in a thousand splendid suns! it’s such a great book :) it focuses on women against the Taliban like Malala

@ShyamSharma-gs8tt 3 жыл бұрын

How do you retain all the information by reading that many books?

@abhijayarjunan1080 3 жыл бұрын

Notes bruh. Also it's not necessary to retain all the information of a book. You can keep revisiting the information.

@brotherjay9744 3 жыл бұрын

Not to cross and boundaries or anything, I’m just curious as one who has pursued science and has personally discovered all religion & spirituality to be a hoax. How do you balance such beliefs of magic while being grounded in science? Knowing that the laws of thermodynamics basically unravel any idea of “healing energy” or power. From a thermodynamic perspective, all energy is already within or will be traded off via digestion (plant dies, consuming species uses former living organism’s energy).

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

Im not really sure what I believe yet but I enjoy reading about how people connect to nature and the planet on a spiritual level. I don't always see spirituality as always counter to science. it's what many cultures choose to believe to help us wrap our heads around why we exist on the planet and manage hardships. In some cultures nature is a key part of spirituality and folks have been purposely separated from the land (forced relocation of Indigenous people) so traditional nature based rituals can be a way to reconnect with their culture. I think that's fascinating. It can be a way to meditate and reflect on our connection with the planet outside of a purely resource-based/capitalist viewpoint of natural spaces, and something that humans have been doing for eons before organized religion came into the mix. I read a lot of environmental books about how harmful humans are to the planet, all the places we've destroyed, so it's refreshing to read about people who are connecting to the planet again, rediscovering old traditions and embracing their love of the earth

@matic3460 3 жыл бұрын

Big fan mam........

@sudhaparmar6231 3 жыл бұрын

Your discord link gone

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

Whoops thanks for letting me know! This should work discord.gg/8TmZPDZp

@washerr186 3 жыл бұрын

Do you read any political theory or anything?

@kristina_lynn 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think I've read too much political theory, any suggestions for the genre?

@whatabouttheearth 3 жыл бұрын

@@kristina_lynn '33 Lessons on Capital' by Harry Cleaver 'The Conquest of Bread' by Peter Kropotkin 'Memoirs of Revolutionist' by Peter Kropotkin (I bet its on You Tube, Anarchists love this guy) 'Kropotkin was no crackpot' an article by the one and only, Stephen Jay Gould (on the internet) 'Darwins Malthusian Metaphore and Russian Evolutionary Thought, 1859 - 1917' by Daniel P. Todes (same subject as Goulds article above but more detail) (internet article) --'Against History, Against Leviathan' by Freddy Pearlman (part of it is on You Tube) -'The Myth of Human Supremacy' by Derrick Jensen -'A Peoples History of Civilization' by John Zerzan --'The Revolt of the Angels' by Anatole France --'The History of the Devil: The Horned God of the West - Magic and worship' by R. Thompson (archaic magic, cave art, development of horned gods, retention of horned practices in festival and some of the xtian concept of the drivel) (great old book, highly recommend) --'Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History of Woman Healers' Barbara Ehrenreich --'Burning Women: The European Witch Hunts, Enclosure and The Rise of Capitalism' By Lady Stardust --'Caliban and the Witch: Women, Body and Primitive Accumulation' by Sylvia Federici --'The Migration of Symbols' by Goblet D'Alviella (can be found online. Maybe at 'Library Genesis') --'The Golden Bough (of redundancy)' Frazer (ok Frazer we get it, stop beating a dead horse) --'Venus: An Archeological Study of Women" by Paul Carus (orig 1916 w Venus statue on cover highly recommended) -'The Nature of Magic' by Susan Greenwood --'Pomo Bear Doctors' by S.A. Barrett --'Animals and the Origins of Dance' by Steven Lonsdale --'The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and tje Science Behind its Lost Secrets' by William J. Broad