Your dad really took “there is no such thing as too many books, only not enough bookcases” to heart.

Your dad seems like a man who just loved knowledge and learning new things! x

This video in short: I live in a library. Love it, and am very envious. I would love to have a house with 17 bookshelves. :)

Jean, it was so lovely to get to know your dad a little through this tour. I was born the same year as he was. What a treasure trove of memories he left for you and your mom! Take care! 🌸

How you speak about your dad fills me with such warmth. That is one impressive book collection! I could spend all day looking through them. I also love seeing that beautiful edition Dune on your dads fiction shelf too ^_^

I saw the length of this video and immediately made myself a cup of tea.

This was such a fun idea to do a tour of the different bookshelves around your home! 47 minutes what a treat!

I lost my Dad in 2014 and he left me a pretty big collection of books too for which I am grateful for every single day. I love this video so much 😍💕

I'd wish my family members were readers, it'd be lovely to be able to talk about books with someone special.. My friends, unfortunately, aren't readers either :-)

This video is such a treat omg

Your parents collection of political non-fiction is amazing 😍love the Peanuts collection too!! And that Terry Pratchett/Modern Classics bookcase is so satisfying because the books all fit so well! So many beautiful books and well done on the editing/filming of it all haha

Thank you, that was such a treat! I think it's really special and beautiful that you get to go through your dad's collection whenever you want. Oh and btw, I totally agree, most bookshelves are way too deep! I need some more shallow ones too, there's just too much wasted space on mine :D

Really enjoyed this. It's so nice that your parents and you are all book lovers and combining your books with theirs was a really nice touch!

you’ve been posting so much content during quarantine and tbh, I love it!! your videos give me joy 🌸

Idk if you have already done this, but I’d love to see a video of you going through all your classics/modern classics like you did with your Greek books! It might be tedious but I think it would be super cool. Especially because classics have so many editions it’s always cool to see what people have.

Yes. This is the content I neeeeed today!

Please don't feel that you have to apologize for your Harry Potter books as they have given so much happiness since their publication. My HP books are the pride of my book collection.

Your house is like a mini book store lol. O love it!

The amount of bookshelves you have is a DREAM! So nice to hear you talk about your dad, you can see how much his presence lives on ❤️ hope you’re keeping safe x

What an amazing book collection! And it was so interesting to hear about your dads background as well, I really do admire people that dare to go to uni a bit later in life! Also I would love to watch the reading vlog about your moms favourite feminist books from the 80s!

Probably the best 47 Minutes tea-break I had in a very long time, thank you so so much for this, Jean

First name I saw at the close up was Bertold Brecht and my heart sang 💕 (Your dad had great taste in general though, so I'm not surprised. Thank you for making this tour! 💛)

What a wonderful video Jean, and hearing how special it is to have your dad’s books made this a particularly beautiful video xx

Thanks for your video, I always appreciate watching them. I'd just like to say I was a bit surprised and also happy to see your father had a few books by Jorge Amado. I'm Brazilian and it's always nice to see how far some of our literature got to XD

I would love to be surrounded by so many books. You have your own library

I love the way you talk about your dad. It must bring so much comfort to have his books still around. I would absolutely love an in depth look at your political/feminist non fiction books!

This was such a fascinating video. It's a reader's paradise, truly. My favourite shelf is the first one (your father's collection of literary fiction?). I had read many from that. Thanks for sharing. Best, Rahul. :)

I have some of the same books in the same editions as your dad! That feels cool somehow :)

i quickly made myself lunch and sat down when i saw the video 😍😍 this is wonderful, thank you! 💟

Have you ever felt an urge to arrange your Dads' books in a way that's aesthetically pleasing to you? I visited Edinburgh last fall. Scotland is a gorgeous country and the people were so friendly and welcoming. My Dad was an electrician and we had his electrical manuals on our family bookshelf.

This was so delightful to watch! I've basically only read ebooks for the last 4 years, but this video is making it really hard not to go buy a physical copy of every book I've loved in that time, even if I live in a one bedroom apartment and have no room for more bookcases.

Yes to the mom's 80s reading list. I would love to do my mom's list. What a good idea:)

It's so lovely that you have access to all your Dad's books! :)

This was wonderful, so lovely to see the huge range of books. I absolutely love that your Dad loved Peanuts, he had great taste ❤️

I loved this video so so much! Books are such a great way to connect to people - even when they're no longer here, because they showcase what that person cared about and different aspects of what interested them. My granddad was a huge reader and after him and my grandmother passed away, their book collection was passed on to different members of the family, so now I own quite a few of his old books and they're all so special to me. Some of the books on your dad's shelves were even the exact same editions as the ones my granddad owned and I couldn't help but smile when I noticed them :)

This is so wonderful! I would love to see a TBR shelf tour :-)

This video is the most relaxing and comforting thing. Could watch it before bed every night.

I have never read any Terry Pratchett but when I see bookshelf tours, I often see rows and rows of his books. I guess he's like potato chips, once you start you can't stop. I will say that the Pratchett etc. shelves were SO pleasingly organized OMG. Can you come and help me with my bookshelves? They are a hot mess. Thank you soooo much for taking the time to do this long tour, it was so enjoyable and wow, what a home to be raised in where there is such a celebration of learning all around you. :)

Thanks for the tour. I am definitely interested in a video dedicated to your TBR bookcase.

it'd be fun to see you talk about your Terry Pratchett collection

This was such a satisfying video to watch! From you sharing memories about your parents, books and just random things, to the different organisation styles of the different bookcases. Also it's nice to see other people who have many books but also sort them. 😅

This was so soothing to watch 🥰

Oh my goodness, the WICCA books by Cate Tiernan! Such nostalgia! I have all of them up my parents loft along with many others but I loved that series. Seeing them had given me the urge to re-read ✨

What a lovely legacy left behind by your Da. So glad you enjoy it 😊

WOW! This was so amazing. That is a very fun house to be quarantined in LOLOL

My sister and I recently made a list of every book in our house and this very much reminds me of it.

I have that Once Upon a Time book too! A different edition (same illustration on the cover but different binding). I adore that book, the stories in it, the beautiful art and the way it smells. The bookcase the Pratchett and Walter Moers (my favourite German recluse) are in is absolutely gorgeous, it’s my favourite one too. 😍 I’m very envious of your Dad’s Peanuts collection, wonderful.

What a dreamy house with so many interesting books! Amazing you grew up with such bookish parents! 📚

Yesss the Magicians Guild, one of my absolute favourites! Can highly recommend (as it's on your tbr shelves ;))! The reading vlog with your moms books sounds great!

Your house is a treasure trove. Love this.

You live in a small library book store. I hope one day I could have that many bookcases. At the moment I have two large tubs with probably 130 books and other 50ish audible books spread over two accounts.

I'm in love with your and your family's book collection, and the stories and warmth associated with it. Thank you for making this video! I will probably be rewatching more than once in the future to get inspired. Random note: Russian souvenir matches (at 14:00) on a bookshelf might just be a bit of a fire hazard... Or maybe I just overthink stuff! lol

Love the white book cases

Also I love a good tbr video :), go for it

Love that your dad had some of Kazantzakis’ works

Goals. EDIT: I would have loved to have had a drink with your dad.

I love how you have Zola next to books about Celtic (I think my dad has that one as well!) XD Very similar to our bookshelves where you have books on the troubles in Ireland, Celtic, French classics and Jane Austen on the same shelf XD

Beautiful!!

Beautiful collection!!!! Treasure!!!!

This was a very extensive an illuminating tour. Well done. I do wonder, though, about a couple things. Firstly, what happened to the bulk of your father’s books by authors beginning with “A”? That section seems sparse - I spotted only 13 "A" books on those first three bookcases. Also, how well are you able to locate a given book among these 17 bookcases? If I may, I’d like to offer a “Find This Book In Your Own Home” Challenge: 1. Permission by Saska Vogel 2. The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges 3. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie All have appeared in this video. Good luck if you choose to go on this scavenger hunt. 😉

Wow. Just wow.

Perfectly arranged books.👌love this Video

Thank you for sharing. I've always wondered about your parents' books.

Oh my, feel like I've learnt we have a lot in common! All my dads family worked in the pits, all my boyfriends family support celtic (plus I did classics at uni) :P

Nice to see so many different kinds of shelves! also Last Unicorn is actually an adult fantasy not YA!

How did I not know about your book?! I will have to buy it for my daughter!

I LOVE this tour but I feel so conflicted now! On the one hand I want to start buying all the books I read to start an epic collection... But on the other hand, I don't like to buy/hold on to things that I likely won't use again (plus I live in an appartment...). Are other people watching this video collectors or give-awayers?

You said your Dad Held onto his books, your Mum got rid of most of hers. Are you like your Dad or Mum or somewhere between the two? Thanks for the tour

Took a break from reading The Penelopiad to watch this! 💙

I absolutely love this tour! I wish there was a way to see all the titles of all the books in the shelf (Would take ages, I know!). I've tried pausing the video a few times to get a glimpse at the book titles.

Bookshelves like these look attractive, and I have seen shelves with more overspill than yours. Have you noticed how often glossy home magazines like *Interiors* and *Period Living* feature rooms with exquisite books on white shelves? The current issue of *25 Beautiful Homes* (February 2021) has a cover of bookshelves stacked with old Penguins. I like the way your books range from Brecht to Broch's The Death of Virgil and Charlotte Bronte's Villete to George Mackay Brown, Lenny Bruce, John Buchan's Prester John and Charles Bukowski whom my late brother knew in his years in Los Angeles. My book-haunted imagination is such that I just went into Google and typed in *Books in a room on bookshelves* which led me here. Recently I have started buying Edwardian books with embossed covers and spines such as an abridged *Don Quixote* and GA Henty's *The Lion of the North: A Tale of Gustavus Adolphus and the Wars of Religion* and Henty's *Saint Bartholomew's Eve*. Graham Greene, who read Henty as a boy, said he often dreamed of second hand bookshops. Two of my favourites shops are Voltaire and Rousseau's and Caledonia Books in Glasgow and Moss Books in Henrietta Street, Cheltenham. Don't miss *Allan Massie: Toast to Sir Walter Scott 1990* KZfaq, the best thing I have heard in a year.

Amazing! I hit about 2,200 and then realised that because I want to move at some point, I probably ought to downsize ^_^

What's worrying is that I recognised the Electrical Mining Books from listing them for work, I have very niche book knowledge!

You have Tieta by Jorge Amado!! Did your father read in Portuguese ? It’s a great book. It’s on top left corner. Your father had great taste. What an amazing library .

I loved this!!

It's so nice that you're surrounded by all these books and that you share your parents' taste to some extent. My parents have always encouraged my reading but they don't read a lot themselves, and unfortunately our tastes are vastly different. My mum reads exclusively chick lit and trashy erotica (I like some chick lit every now and then but most of hers are mildly misogynistic) and my dad mostly reads economical politics and I'm interested in politics but not the economy. When they die pretty much all of their books will go, I think.

i would love a video where u read ur mum's faves! that would be so cool!! my fabourite bookshelf is def the one with all the discworld & women's press books! would you mind saying which of them are there? it's quite hard to make out for me but i collect them (alongside my parents actually!) which is fun!!

ahh this is wonderful 😍

Yeeeesss 47 minutes, let me get comfortable.

Do you, Jean or anyone else, catalogue your books? I use LibraryThing. I'd be lost without my catalogue.

Have you ever read The List of 7 by Mark Frost which is a fictional novel about Doyle getting his inspiration for Holmes?

There's something wonderfully ironic about someone (jokingly) saying they don't listen to physical music anymore because of course they don't this is the digital age, while also purportedly owning over 3,000 books because of course they do, when most books can be owned digitally as well now. I know they're not actually the same and maybe it's because it's just so early for me but the apparent disconnect there was just hilarious. Maybe that was the point and I missed the intent but still got the joke, all I know for sure right now is that the more I think about it the funnier it is to me and that alone makes me happy this video exists

I also in a family of reader as well

I would feel so safe in this house

Damn, i wish i could live in this house! :o i would love to peek into some of the books too, 47 minutes wasn't enough! :3

You could open a library thats an impressive collection your family has built though I do not envy your mum and you if your mum ever decides to move I found packing and moving one argos shelf bad enough!

I don't wish to disturb you but I'm starting my BA degree in Classical Studies in a month, and I was wondering whether you would possibly do a video about "classical studies" books you'd recommend for a first year to bring to university? Great collection, by the way :)

OK you need to move YOUR book to either standing up displayed on top of your Greek Classics shelf downstairs (on the right side it would fit) or on the coffee table, girl! It can't go in the spare bedroom, unless you're having a guest spend the night tonight and want them to have something to look at!

Folio editions are delightful but DAMN they're expensive. I wanted their HP Lovecraft limited edition cos it looked like a thing of wonder but I couldn't justify spending *that* sort of money on it. Especially since I've owned so many editions of Lovecraft as it is...

Love the Richard Dawkins books

maybe I just misheard but did your dad read all of his books? :O great collection you have at home! (also love your mum's art collection)

Does anyone knows what edition of Yeats poems we see around 6:29 ? The big white book on the left. Thanks?

Love the Scottish history books. I would love to get my hands on them.

Love From India. ❤️

Ahhh Linlithgow is my home! Have you lived there did you just visit?

Goals😍

Feminist crime novels??? Yes, please!💜💟🙋🏻‍♀️

all of your parents' marxist texts! we have no choice but to stan. were your parents involved with any socialist organisations? xx

my mom has a huge collection of books as well. gives me anxiety, really. I mean, 3000 books... I don't even read 100 books a year. That would take me 30 years to read. xD

You should definitely do a feminist crime reading vlog!