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Hello Everyone!
Welcome to what't already my 3rd video here!
Because, I don't know, I'm still a bit in an introduction mood,
it seemed like a nice idea to show you my book case.
I really enjoy that type of video myself, sooo... let's go!
This is my book case.
As you can see it's a Billy from Ikea
and there is so much in it that I've resorted to put things in piles.
It's quite a cheap case, so I don't know how much it can handle,
weight wise, but ehm... so far so good.
Here on the top sheld we start with the books I have read this year,
which are these two piles.
This entire stack are books that I am currently reading.
Ehm.. there are quire a lot of them, I know.
I often read a little in a book and then I find another one,
which I am very enthousiastic about, so start in that one
and then I sort of read them together or I leave one for a while.
This is the entire series of George Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire
also known for the tv show, Game of Thrones.
This is a good book about modern philosophie; Mijn Tafelheer is Plato,
a little bit based on De Wereld Draait Door, and is written by the editor in chief of the
NRC Next
Here we have mainly Young Adult novels,
The hungergames, the fault in our stars....
And on the second shelf we find all the books I haven't started yet.
Not sure if you can see it, but there is quite a wide range of books,
a stack that happily continues over here by the way.
These are actually all books I have collecting over the past years,
. but I just didn't get around to reading them
yet,
or books that I would like to read, but are just not that easy to read.
And in that case it really depends on my mood.
Often I just like to read something nice and easy and not really
to read Crime and Punishment for example.
And here we have two piles,
1 here and....
1 over there,
with young adult books.
This is a really nice one, the curious incident of the dog in the night,
this is the sisterhood of the traveling pants,
which also has been made into a really nice movie,
and it are all the books written by John Green.
As you can see, I am quite a fan.
By the way, he also makes youtube videos,
he is one of the best know youtubers on this site I believe,
link to his channel
and over here, the last part of the hunger games, mockingjay,
called Spotgaai in Dutch.
This is the extra book to the Hitchhiker's Quide to the Galaxy,
and..
I ehm... own all the Twilight books, some are here and some are at my parent's place,
I know they are very bad and I read them with my eyebrows being raised very often,
But I liked the story enough to really want to know how it ended,
so I eventually bought them all.
The other book by Stephanie Meyer, The Host,
I actually like much better.
So if you haven't read that one yet, but you did read Twilight, I can definitely recommend
this one.
Over here we have in my opinion the most important stack
The Harry Potter Stack.
If there is one book, or series, that influenced my life its Harry Potter.
I can't even explain.
I've read them so many times, especially the first book,
maybe even 50 times.
I've read the first book when I was 11 and the last one came out after my high school
graduation
so I really grew up with these books
and I still read them at least once a year.
Underneath that, there are a few books just reagularly standing up.
Which is basically where my normal, adult fiction book start,
they are sorted in alphabetical order and,
it continues right here.
So I have a few books by Dan Brown.
I really like them, they are very intense,
The journey of Theo,
its obviously a bit less known, but its kind of a sequal to Sophie's World,
which is about philoSOPHY and the journey of theo is about THEOlogy.
Yeah... I emm... I am not a big fan of this naming idea, but the book was very educational.
As you can see, I have a bit of a strange collection,
This is the original story of the 3 musqeteers, by Alexandre Dumas,
I read this at the beach once, when I had a lot of time,
because its a pretty big book, But I really liked to read the original story,
because I knda only knew the cartoon,
Albert, number 5 of the 4 musqeteers, and this is just sort of the more justifiable
version of that.
For such an old book is was suprisingly easy to read and also suprisingly enjoyable.
The great Gatsby...
This is a book by Jonathan Safran Four,
I read all of his books, this is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, \
He also wrote everything is illuminated and eating animals.
This is a book by Marianne Frederikson,
Marianne Frederikson is a Swedish author and definitely one of my favorite,
I've read all of her books, but most of them through the library.
Soo.... another tip from me.
Memoirs of a Geisha, Chocolat, this is also an amzing movie, with Johnny Depp.
This is the series North and South by John Jakes.
It takes place around the Civil War in the US
and it has also been made into a really cool tv-show,
which is also called North and South.
Moulin Rouge, Which is about the life of Toulouse Loutrec, which is also in the movie,
This is Watchmen.
It's the only comic like/ graphic novel I own
and though I really enjoyed it, its not really my type of read,
though if you know a really good one that I actually can't mis, please let me know!
Under this we continue with fiction, This is the Assault by Harry Mulisch,
which is of couse pretty well known in the Netherlands,
Gerard Reve... well... you have to be into that I guess.
Sarah's Key, This is one of the saddest books I have ever read.
It made me cry so much!
Especially about the end, but I won't tell anything else about it,
but it's awesome.
The Timetravelers wife, which is also incredibly sad,
I kind of like sad books.
It's been made into a movie too, called the timetravels wife, so you could also watch
that,
but it's about a guy who is a timetraveler, but can't control it,
so he can't really help it.
and it's about how his wife deals with that and the end... is...
it broke my heart.
The perfune, for if you are more into gruesome stories,
and next to that is the Hobbit.
I am so looking forward to this movie, I am really waiting for it!
I want to read it again before the movie comes out,
so I might make a more elaborate video about it sometimes.
Here are some other Dutch books by Tommy Wieringa, which is a very good author, and Leon de Winter.
Arthur Japin, Lucia's Eyes, I really love this book as well.
It is set in the time of Casanova, It's also a bit about Casanova's story,
but told from the perspective of his first love.
And it is said that it's actually true love and that he only became such a ladiesman after
this failed.
It is also beautifully writte, I really like Arthur Japin's writing style.
This is a boxset with a few English Classics,
Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations,
Dorean Grey and Jane Eyre.
Here in the corder I have 3 books with poetry.
This one I got for free once, The waste land by TS Eliot,
but it's really complicated so I can't really get through it.
Then next to that I have this,
The complete workd of William Shakesprear,
no, I did not read the entire thing.
I bought it once at the Slechte, for something around 4 or 5 euro
There are several plays that I read;
Veel gedoe om niks, which is much ado about nothing,
Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
Especially much ado about nothing is... hilarious.
Eventuelly overe here are the non-fiction books.
This is a series by the Volskrant,
This is also a great book, the ascend of money by Neil Ferguson,
It's basically about the development of money and how it came into existence,
and what the good and bad things about it are.
I thought it was very interesting and it gave a lot of insight in how the
economy works in general and explained a lot of the strange terms
you hear in the news constantly now with the crises and all.
People like us, misrepresenting the middle east, by Joris Luyendijk,
this book is about his time as a new correspondent in the middle east,
and it tells a lot about the way news is made and how it is presented to us,
and how that is often not the complete picture.
This is a realy nice way to learn about that, its very well written
and is quite easy to read, even though is deals with very serious issues
and ehm.... I liked it.
the consolations of philosophy, by Alain de Botton, which is a really nice book.
It's basically about the more practical side of philosophy and
about how we could use it in our modern lives,
and it's written in a really nice way and is very funny.
These are the two books by Paulien Cornelissen, about language
and if you're into that, they're really funny.
Here are all the cookbooks I own
and other books related to food
and...
these are all books that are about religion.
Soo... that were all the books I currently have here in Maastricht with me
and ehm...
that was it, see you next time.
By!