 Hi there, I'm Lydia and on typical books today we're going to do part eight of the bookshelf tour, the weirdo pile. Now as you can see this pile of books that is featured in most of my videos because it's to the side of me and it's not, I'm not in front of it so you may have looked at some of these tiles before. I'm going to quickly go through them. I'm not going to pull every single book out because it's a lot of miscellaneous, sex stuff, garbage books and how to write things for journalism, non-fiction and fiction too and just general grammar rules and garbage like that. Not very interesting so I'm going to rip through these two and this little stack here with a little bit of like TBR actually on that. My books are a mess. I admit it and then when we're done all this we're going to head upstairs and do some more miscellaneous stuff. I really need to organize my books. Okay you will notice a little bit of books up top. I'm going to see if I can tilt back here that have changed. It's a little bit of my TBR up there and stuff that I've just read and I neglected to mention my VC Andrews collection. That's one shelf that I forgot so that will be the next bookshelf tour video before we head upstairs as a matter of fact. So these are some more miscellaneous. I know I've had a lot of miscellaneous shelves. It seems all my shelves are kind of miscellaneous so if you're a better bookshelf arranger than I am just leave me some tips. No one has yet and believe me I'm open to it unless you really don't mind this sort of mess right? So we're going to take everything out first and then I'm going to pile everything back in. That was a chore. Okay so standing on the shoulders of Giants History of Statistics Canada 1978 to 2008 it is a book from my workplace. So it's not really a typical book but I mean if someone was really interested in the nonfiction of Statistics Canada it's a wonderful coffee table book quite honestly. So if you're interested in this sort of thing I believe it's only available by contacting Statistics Canada but it is a beautiful book nevertheless. And continuing for power nerds only prescription for nutritional healing it's a textbook that I refer to over web MD quite honestly multiple sclerosis poisoning shingles stress. They've got herbal remedies for pretty much everything it is maybe an outdated version of this book if you're interested in this sort of thing this is the bible as far as health food homeopathy things like that. Horror hospital it's actually confused in more than a little lost Trevor machine teenage frontman for the up-and-coming indie rockers horror hospital walks a rocky road toward fame and fortune. It is a dirty little book the art is fantastic like I truly love this story and I love the artwork within it because it goes between so many styles depending on the psyche of Trevor machine and yeah wonderful funny profane and touching that's pretty much it this has any good lady screw the roses send me the thorns romance and sexual sorcery of seida maschism this is more sort of I'd say reference reading than anything and this is in there only because it's really about the same size as the previous book hint and bergen mechanics fell this is an area that I used to live with in Ottawa and this is a wonderful history book that was compiled by a local about that particular part of town how to be kinky or more adventures in adult playtime by morpheus this is the second book in a series I went to us a talk that morpheus gave very intelligent individual this is his first book how to be kinky by morpheus beginner's guide another signed edition a friend of mine has her photo in this a few locals have their photos in this wonderful book this is tax money and I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right in you it myths and legends and this is a borrowed book from Steven Lowe I need to return this quite badly but he had lent it to me it's in I guess an Inuk to tuck I'm not sure what of the two languages that are predominant in Inuk but it is a beautiful storybook of all the different legends and the art is amazing you can get at a lot of these stories online as well jame vu this is I'm published alongside Harlan Ellison which will always kind of freak me out a little bit Matt Moore Stephanie Vitavich other names Jessica McHugh that you may uh under that you may recognize from post mortem press which is recently defunct I got a biohazard specimen bag in here I'm not sure why or from where it came but there's me the medium as a mirror that's a non-fiction piece that I wrote that is in here another edition of takes too many and you at myths and legends and it has some beautiful beautiful art in this and this was all just fodder for some stories that I want to write dealing with not necessarily these myths and legends but drawing on the monster pool a copy of black static another copy of black static and that rounds out this pile I was doing a little straightening to start because this is just rickety I'm in it by James Newman fantastic book if you're looking for a summer read that has to do with boys in camp this has something to do with that it is very heavy though I will say a little a little brutal Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe the play it is a fantastic little copy and I have read and reread this a couple times you feel like going to the cafe to read and reread this a small strange little book called the animal kingdom and it is falling apart it is a weird little illustrated pocket book that just detailed some random animals the zoological text and let's see the date it is by an LSA Davidson October 1869 and when I first picked this up it had 40 scribbled in there and I was like oh god please tell me this isn't 40 dollars it was 40 cents because it is so beat up and I don't know if it's worth much more than that I really don't know much about old books but that is very old so if anyone knows anything about the shilling books then let me know Castle Peter and Galpin London and New York zoology especially classified and arranged for the use of science classes schools and colleges this is an elementary textbook at this size like it is literally a pocket book a book that looks a lot older than it is Shakespeare sonnets my sister had got me this ages ago I don't know if it was a I forget what this was this is when I moved here she got me another small book so it's just a cute little addition to the sonnets if you ever want to go on a picnic and read some poetry to someone this is a easy little book to carry and I really enjoy the binding because it goes well with my textbook on zoology this is another cute little book it's very hard to make out what looks like the Taj Mahal on the front so it's a beautiful work of embossing and it is to Christopher on his 30th birthday not my Christopher a different one with love from Michael so it's a beautiful book that was once a gift oh it's st. Peter's Cathedral that's what's on the front oh it looks so much like the Taj Mahal oh my gosh modern architecture this book is 1866 and it's in very good condition if it wasn't some scuffing here and there you know what I mean it definitely probably would be worth more than I paid for it and I believe I paid a dollar for this and it was just to get it off of the stack in the bookstore from whence it came so there yeah beautiful little book okay and this loosey-goosey little shelf is again not quite as much miscellaneous although you well notice this is not a book at all but a collection a VHS collection at that of the Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Videos okay we're gonna go kind of quickly here because I'm not gonna pull all these out now that I've put some of them around the CP style book that is for journalists in Canada as opposed to the American press style this is psychological measures and emotion from a developmental perspective state of the science it is a very dry thesis about what that just said using alternative therapies these are reference books entirely if I ever need to write about a doctor that is dealing with abnormal psychology I suppose character emotion and viewpoint this is a book from the great fiction series or write great fiction series and it has been kind of indispensable because I myself don't have a big a big range of emotion and I'm not very emotive so in my writing I try and elicit a bit of that this is slow reading by John Madema and I have loved this book I've read it a couple times I was just thinking of John today in fact because I'm going to be doing a video on editing and it made me think of him this is about reading analog reading slowly and reading in a way that we purely digest what we're reading understand what we're reading and feel what we're reading his small book on this topic has been in my thoughts since I picked it up and since I've met John so I mean this was a fantastic idea and I wish that more thinking would go into you know this the slow food movement the buy local movement those sorts of things this goes right part and parcel with that so if you're interested in getting more of what you read maybe take a look at slow reading as a movement or slow reading this particular book art the art community and on the law that was a textbook when I took graphic design so it's very old kind of updated but it gave me a real idea of how I ought to be operating in meat space first aid book handy for horror writers caps and spelling this goes along with the Canadian press star guide it's more of a quick reference do good design now this is about accessibility in design which is something that I think my website is lacking and I feel kind of badly about because there is a huge movement to not only do this when you're mandated to but to do this for the betterment of all and yeah do good design as a David B. Berman book very good book what was I on writing and struck and white the elements of style now Zinsher's book on writing well is indispensable what was I as a grammar book that is I'd say indispensable but if you're going to pick one of the two up Zinsher's book on writing well and struck and white the elements of style anyone writing nonfiction just better write the pick this up let alone fiction you know it's all helpful the DIY newsroom is a interesting book and it's really topical I think if you are doing stuff like we are here on YouTube making channels and being a brand and all of those buzzwords that people love or hate this kind of helps distill all of that especially if you are somebody who is doing your own promotions marketing things like that whether you're doing this for an artistic reason or purely business reason this is a really good book to sort of have the touchstone for all of that and a touchstone for me no matter how un-PC this is I think that it has some very good etiquette for humans in it the book of modern manners and customs this is an ancient book with ancient ideas but some things just never get old the most vital point of etiquette concerning a dinner party is over and out of the way before the dinner begins it is this be punctual etiquette for humans okay I'm just going to show off some of these as they fall over the book of American types as you would guess it is American type faces I use this in teaching and I also just collected this book because I love it it's from 1934 so yeah it cost me five whole dollars and it is a fantastic fantastic little book scary stories to tell in the dark more scary stories to tell in the dark this was a gift and that's wonderful I'm still always grateful the revised edition I've got some movies here page one inside the New York Times old farmers almanac a lovely collection of Shirley Jackson and of course my joe hill full throttle book which I it's gotta be read so there you have it every single one of the books in my office oh and shadows and tall trees I just got that I don't know where to put it I have to read it and then make room for it so there you have it a miscellaneous stack of stuff and more things I hope you enjoyed this part of the bookshelf tour it took us eight videos to get through just the books that are in my office it won't be that long when we move upstairs and maybe creep some of Chris's books too we shall see so thank you very much for watching and if there's anything here that piqued your interest that you've picked up and added to your shelf let me know and have an icky spooky day