these are my ✨forever books✨

let's chat about those special books, the books you don't really finish but go through bit by bit, or those books you reread over and over again!

🌼 s o c i a l m e d i a
• twitter: @thebookleo
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).

🌹 m u s i c
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[lcast]

What I love most about your channel is this kind of conversations. The thoughts and ideas that you so eloquently put together, i feel like i’m having such and interesting discussion over coffee with you

[Wjyndigo]

This is totally me. Sometimes, I will get anxiety at the thought of finishing a book because I don't want it to end! Then it haunts my thoughts afterwards when I finally finish reading it!

[LeeraChan]

your point that booktube doesn't really talk about artbooks made me think that a collab between a booktuber and an arttuber would be super fun. Like, the booktuber recommending books that fit the vibe of the artist works and the artist recommending artbooks that fit with the booktubers interests. I think that would be really cool!

[SuperMeo]

"Neighbor ambience to study and read to" Had me rolling with laughter on a very difficult day, thanks a bunch Leonie, a much needed spark of joy :)

[sirbenticles]

Not a book I haven't finished, but rather a book I'm not finished with. I've read the Count of Monte Cristo repeatedly since the 8th grade. All those years ago, it was very much a different book for me. As I continue to read it, the Count of Monte Cristo reveals things to me that I never would have given a second thought to as a pre-teen. For the last couple years the chapter, The Past, has been stuck in my head. Sometimes I go back and just read that chapter and let it haunt my mind.

[paperairplanestudios]

The books
3:23 - The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
7:50 - The Tao Te Ching (aka Dao De Jing)
10:25 - The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
13:41 - The Wheel of the Year by Fiona Cook
15:49 - Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
17:47 - Sister Outsider by Audrey Lorde
19:18 - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
22:36 - Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales
24:11 - The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow
26:15 - Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Creating a Champion
28:15 - All About Love by Bell Hooks

[Meowmix]

My favorite coffee table photo book: I went to the Ghibli museum in Tokyo for my honeymoon. You’re not allowed to have phones or cameras or anything because Miyazaki wanted you to live in the moment. BUT they had a coffee table book with photos of everything at the museum as well as a couple interviews and drawings that he did. I HAD to buy it. I’ve actually read very little, but it’s one of my prized possessions and the photos take me back to a happy place.

[normmansor]

This year I've had two major surgeries since January. Am currently in the hospital post-op. One thing I do here is look for youtube videos. Leonie is definitely the bright spot in my day.

[HBLee-ds]

I feel so seen! I refused to read the last series of unfortunate events book for a full year as a child because I wasn't ready for it to be over.

[karendenning]

It’s so crazy you bring this up! I have about ten really good books going, but they’re “little bit at a time” books and I love them so much. But I found myself thinking “I need to finish these so I can count them towards my goodreads goal.” Thanks for bringing me back to a balanced perspective

[Miette-qcoe]

0:31 rereading books and finding new meaning always makes me think of the outsiders. First read it when I was twelve and it’s really carried me through growing up :)

[LouiseButterfly]

Omg this is so relatable! If I really really liked a book I honestly dread finishing it. Because even though I’m excited to know what happens next, I genuinely don’t want the story to end. That’s why I like series.

[AdamFishkin]

As soon as this video's title graced my eyeballs, it reminded me of Agatha Christie's novel Destination Unknown, and how I never finished it. The first half of the book is a masterpiece spy thriller, building up one of the most kickass locations ever created for that genre. So out of paralyzing fear that the second half would never live up to this, my procrastination kicked in. Someday, though, I'll have the guts.

[sierra]

I always return to Mary Oliver's poetry! For a long time I read one of her poems each morning as part of my routine. These days I return to her work less frequently but they'll always stay with me

[viktorsflowergarden]

as someone whose holy bible is the Arcane Art Book, i FELT your excitement over that Zelda book! those sorts of books are the BEST

[irispapyrus]

I have a selection of audiobooks I keep listening too before/while falling a sleep. I don't count these to my yearly total. I just hit the progress bar somewhere and start listening, rarely do I listen to them start to finish.

[sophiatortilla]

Spiderwick's Field Guide. I love the art, I love the notes and information on each creature. I've had it since I was in middle school and it gets pulled off the shelf all the time.

[habromaniakore]

Watching this in a coffee shop is the perfect environment…

[rossjennings]

One book that's like this for me is the short story collection "Changing Planes" by Ursula LeGuin. I picked it up for the first time many years ago in my local library, and there's certain stories in there that I keep coming back to over and over again.

[readwithhug]

My copy of Psalm for the Wild Built got wet from a plant on my bookshelf I’m gonna pretend that this book calls to nature and wants to connect in the physical realm 😂 (I did buy another copy though because I wanted to annotate it. I plan to put my “nature” copy in a Little Free Library.)