00:00Hi, I'm Madison Beer and today I'm going to be taking Marie Claire into my library for
00:04shelf portrait.
00:09So the first book that I want to showcase is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through
00:14the Looking Glass. I was very, very excited when I found this. I go to a lot of like vintage
00:18shops
00:18and markets specifically looking for books and collecting vintage books is only something that
00:22I've been doing for like probably two years now, but it's become like my favorite hobby.
00:27I walked over to this girl, Stan, who had so, so many and I was like, do you have any
00:30really rare ones
00:31or anything that's really special? And she was like, oh, I mean, yeah, I have the rarest and one
00:35of the most special books. And when she pulls it out and showed me that it was Alice in Wonderland,
00:39I freaked out because I'm a huge Alice in Wonderland fan. I have a song called Fall the White Rabbit
00:43that is regarding Alice in Wonderland. One of my favorite things about this book is obviously
00:47the book itself, but I love when in vintage old books, it's someone personalized this to someone.
00:54It says to Jack from Charles Dunn. And I think that's so cool that I now somehow have this book
00:59in my hands and Charles Dunn, if you're watching this, I'm sorry, I have your book. I feel like
01:05I have a piece of history in my hand and like the spine of the book is completely exposed and
01:10I don't
01:10know, just everything about it is really cool. And I feel really honored when I hold something like
01:14this in my hands. So yeah, this is one of my favorite and most prized possession books.
01:18The second book that I want to show is The Body Keeps the Score. This is one of my
01:22all-time favorite books. Specifically, I love reading mental health books and this book really
01:28was the catalyst for like getting me into this mental health journey of healing and understanding
01:33my trauma and like working through it in a proper way. And I actually discovered and started reading
01:37this book when I was on a bit of a mental health retreat. It made me feel really seen. So
01:42yeah, I
01:43really, really love this one. It impacted me a lot. So to sort of say on the same vein of
01:48mental health
01:48books, this is another one that I really, really love and swear by it's called Love Me, Don't Leave
01:52Me. And it's about overcoming fear of abandonment and building loving, lasting relationships. I was
01:57reading this at a time where I was really just trying to figure out how I can heal myself and
02:02better
02:03my life in ways that I felt like I was lacking. And this was something that I didn't even know
02:07that I
02:07needed, but I really, really needed. It just made me again, feel really seen, understood. It made me
02:12understand how to navigate life and relationships, friendships, romantic ones, whatever it is better.
02:18And yeah, how I can cope with my issues. The next book that I would like to talk about
02:25is The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. I think this was probably arguably the first ever book that
02:31impacted me in my life. I was just touched by the whole story and I felt like it was really
02:36important
02:36to learn about giving and what that means in return. And just, there were so many aspects and lessons
02:41that I feel like this book taught me super young and I actually have a tattoo, which is
02:44the little boy on my foot. I think it teaches us important lessons that we should carry out
02:49through adulthood. So the next book I want to talk about that really touched me was Conflicts PTSD
02:53from Surviving to Thriving. This is something that definitely changed my life because I think that
03:00as someone who struggled with mental health issues, I've never been someone who's wanted to say that I
03:04have PTSD because to me, that was always a term that was very serious. And I, I guess I guilt,
03:10shamed and victim shamed myself into thinking that what I had gone through wasn't serious enough to
03:14be called PTSD. But this book is so affirming in the sense that like, even if you grew up in
03:19a
03:19household that you didn't feel seen as a child and like that is traumatic and you can have PTSD from
03:24that, that lingers throughout your adult life. And this is just about like recovering those things,
03:29work with your inner child. I remember picking up this book and I loved reading that because I was like,
03:34I definitely felt really hated for a lot of my childhood, specifically on the internet. And I feel like,
03:39again, I was sort of in this like victim shaming, like, Oh, you, you aren't worthy of reading this
03:43book mentality. And then I was like, no, this is serious. And I think I do struggle with PTSD in
03:48a lot of ways. So this book changed my life. And if any of those things relate to you, you
03:51should
03:52read it. It's really helpful. So the final book I want to talk about is my book, The Half of
03:56It.
03:56This comes out on April 25th and I'm really, really excited about it. I'm really proud of it.
04:00I feel like all the books I had mentioned previously were actually the reason that I felt confident or
04:05capable enough to even write this in the first place because I'm unsure of the place that I
04:08would be in without those. So I felt like writing something that hopefully could make other people
04:12feel that same way that I felt reading those books. And I feel like as human beings, it's only our
04:17jobs
04:17to learn from each other's experiences and hear each other out and have empathy for one another,
04:22lend out a hand of kindness. And that's really what I want with this book is for everyone to just
04:27realize that everyone has a story you just haven't read yet. It's really important to me. It's very
04:31special. I talk about a lot in this book that I've never talked about before. So if you want to
04:35get
04:35your hands on it, April 25th and I hope you guys love it. My favorite genre of books would have
04:39to
04:40either be poetry books or mental health books. The last time I stayed up all night to finish a book
04:44would have to have been mine because I remember we were trying to reach a deadline and it wasn't
04:48finished yet. So I had to literally stay up all night and make sure it got done. I think that
04:52my fans
04:52would have to be the people who give me the best book recommendations. I feel like I can go online
04:56and I'll have a
04:57bunch of mentions just saying like, Hey, you should read this book. And they're always so spot on.
05:00Also at my concerts, a lot of my fans will bring me books in person for me to read. And
05:04it's so sweet.
05:05And I always read them. I think I like discussing books the most with my best friend, Luna. She
05:11has read most books. And so I like to talk to her in depth about the books that we've read
05:17together.
05:17I usually like to buy my books at vintage shops. There's actually one bookstore that if I can shout
05:22them out, David Kay's books in like Woodland Hills. If you live in the LA area and you want to
05:27go to the
05:27Valley to an amazing bookstore, I would say 85% of these books are from him. He just has an
05:33incredible
05:33collection that I love shopping from, but mainly vintage stores. The process of writing my book was
05:38really therapeutic for me. It was very telling. I feel like I learned a lot about myself that I didn't
05:42even know. And it was really fun. I have journal prompts in the book because in a lot of the
05:47mental
05:47health books that I like to read, it would have sort of this calm response thing in it. And I
05:52felt like that was really helpful for me as a reader to stay immersed in the book and be attentive
05:59with it. So I wanted to do that. It was really fun to sort of figure out what prompt I
06:03wanted to write
06:03after every story that I told. So that was, that was a really fun part of it. A book that
06:08I've never read
06:08is Harry Potter. And I think people find that to be simple. So yeah, sorry. My favorite place to read
06:16a book would definitely be in bed. I think it puts me to sleep nicely. I do sleep with the
06:19TV on. So
06:20if I'm trying to be good and not sleep with the TV on, I'll read a book. Okay guys, thank
06:24you so much
06:24for watching. I hope you enjoyed my video of shelf portrait. My book, the half of it is out everywhere
06:29on April 25th and don't forget to subscribe to Marie Claire.
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