00:00 If a pony only doing one trick
00:01 has become synonymous with failure,
00:03 perhaps we as a society have become
00:05 too demanding of our ponies.
00:07 Hello Marie Claire.
00:10 I am on a condor and I'm very excited
00:13 to show you guys my little library.
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00:19 This is my little library.
00:21 When I say little, it's little,
00:23 but she's growing, she's becoming a woman.
00:28 I recently moved to Seattle.
00:30 I'm still like, you know, kind of nesting,
00:33 trying to figure out different furniture pieces
00:35 and also where to put them.
00:36 This bookshelf, it's really special to me.
00:38 I've had it in my family for as long as I can remember
00:43 and my parents actually gave it to me.
00:46 These are my little guys.
00:49 They bring me a lot of peace and joy.
00:51 And this was my mom's childhood tea set
00:55 that she had when she was a little girl.
00:56 So she also gave that to me as a house warming gift,
00:59 which was very kind of her.
01:01 So these are a collection of books that I have.
01:04 I have a couple more strewn around the house
01:08 or I give some to my mom 'cause we share books
01:11 and go back and forth.
01:12 So some of them aren't here,
01:13 but these are kind of like some of my favorites.
01:15 So I'm gonna show you some of them.
01:17 My first ones I wanna show you
01:19 are my To All The Boys book set.
01:24 This one is the To All The Boys, PS I Still Love You,
01:28 movie tie-in, which is so cool, that's my face.
01:31 This one is the To All The Boys, I Love You,
01:33 first movie tie-in book.
01:36 And then this is the PS I Still Love You,
01:38 novel edition, I guess.
01:41 Movie tie-in for To All The Boys, Always and Forever,
01:45 Lara Jean, that is out.
01:48 I just haven't gotten a copy yet, which is crazy.
01:50 The majority of my books are thrillers.
01:53 When I say majority, I mean, like,
01:56 honestly, all of them are thrillers.
01:57 I'm a huge thriller fan.
01:59 I love thrillers, I love everything about them.
02:01 They make me so happy.
02:02 So you're gonna see quite a few thrillers in here.
02:05 This is a great one.
02:07 This is called Five Total Strangers.
02:10 I'd love for this to be made into a movie
02:12 and I would love to be in it.
02:14 It's incredible.
02:15 It's this really great thriller
02:16 about these five complete strangers
02:18 stuck in a car together on a snowstorm.
02:20 This is The Douche Journals by Schmidt,
02:24 a definitive account of one man's genius, Schmidt.
02:28 Madeline Arthur, one of my best friends,
02:30 she got it for me for my birthday
02:33 and it has all these great quotes from Schmidt.
02:36 I'm donating my kidneys to science and my heart to fashion.
02:39 This is a great little book that I oftentimes
02:41 will keep in my purse when I'm traveling.
02:44 It's called How to Love and it reminds me basically to love.
02:49 Often our pride stands in the way of our asking for help.
02:52 In true love, there is no place for pride.
02:55 To love each other means to trust each other.
02:57 If you don't tell the person you love of your suffering,
03:01 it means you don't love this person enough to trust.
03:04 You have to realize that this person
03:06 is the best person to help you.
03:08 We need to be able to get help from the person we love.
03:11 I am a big fan of Harlan Coben.
03:18 He is a great kind of thriller action writer
03:22 and my dad introduced me to him.
03:25 For my birthday, he got me this Harlan Coben's
03:30 The Boy from the Woods, which I believe recently came out
03:32 and it's divine.
03:34 And then immediately after I finished this,
03:36 I was like, "Dad, this is so good."
03:38 So I ran to the bookstore and got Harlan Coben's Promise Me.
03:41 If you wanna do like a father-daughter read, Harlan Coben.
03:44 It hits deep with the father-daughters.
03:47 We have like your classic AJ Finn's, which I love.
03:50 Oh, I just finished this thriller.
03:52 It's awesome.
03:53 It's called In Case of Emergencies by E.G. Scott.
03:58 And this is so good.
04:01 This is so, so good.
04:02 It's about deception and doubting your reality
04:07 and murder and the decay of the human brain.
04:12 So if that's your thing, this is a great one.
04:16 Definitely a page-tuner.
04:17 Loved it a lot.
04:18 It's so good.
04:19 I love Anthony Horowitz.
04:20 He's the author.
04:21 This is called The Moonflower Murders.
04:24 It's delicious.
04:25 Delicious.
04:27 It looks daunting, but it's a very easy read
04:30 and you just like eat it up like a snack.
04:33 It's so good.
04:34 And it's, I love kind of like period piece,
04:37 like whodunits.
04:39 If you are a detective or you fancy yourself
04:44 to have detective skills, this is the one.
04:47 This is No Exit by Taylor Adams.
04:49 I wanna make a movie out of it so bad.
04:51 It says a full throttle thriller.
04:54 Swift, sharp, and relentless.
04:56 And that is the review by AJ Finn, who I love.
05:00 She did The Woman in the Window.
05:01 So as soon as I saw that, I was like, I trust AJ.
05:04 Let's read this book.
05:05 And I was not disappointed.
05:06 Calm the down.
05:12 It is how to control what you can
05:14 and accept what you can't so you can stop freaking out
05:16 and get on with your life.
05:18 This is a great book.
05:20 She has a bunch of really awesome books.
05:22 And this is my bookmark.
05:25 This is for Anthony and I.
05:26 And it basically tells you how to calm the down,
05:30 which I need.
05:32 I need desperately.
05:33 We have these incredible books that are amazing.
05:38 White Fragility.
05:41 Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together
05:44 in the Cafeteria?
05:46 And Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race.
05:50 These are books that have taught me a lot
05:54 and shared a lot of incredible perspective.
05:57 And I've learned quite a bit from these books.
06:00 And they were recommended to me
06:03 on pretty much all the reading lists
06:05 that we were given during the Black Lives Matter movements
06:11 earlier this year.
06:12 So these are incredible reads.
06:14 I highly, highly recommend.
06:16 This, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
06:20 is a really, really great one.
06:22 If you are just starting out, like, okay,
06:26 I wanna learn and I wanna be better.
06:28 I want a piece of literature that can help me.
06:30 Is educational, fun to read, well-researched,
06:35 but doesn't feel like wildly daunting.
06:38 This is a great one to start with.
06:40 One of my favorite books, The Murder of Harriet Monkton.
06:44 It's a whodunit, but in, like, old Victorian times.
06:49 Is shocking to read because it's shocking to see
06:52 the way that females were treated back then,
06:58 which was horribly.
07:01 So this one's a good one to read
07:04 to see how far we've come.
07:06 I, of course, have The Rise of Kiyoshi.
07:11 I love Kiyoshi.
07:12 So I have, like, all my collections
07:15 of the Deadly Class graphic novels.
07:18 I also have one in the big book.
07:20 This is a television show that I did a couple years back
07:25 based off of the graphic novels.
07:27 The illustrations are incredible.
07:28 I highly suggest if you like really, really dark,
07:31 dark graphic novels, this one is the one for you.
07:35 And I guess the last one that I'll show you,
07:37 which isn't really a book, but it's a scrapbook,
07:40 is My Makeup Artist on 12 Boys PS I Still Love You.
07:45 Made a scrapbook for me as my wrap gift,
07:47 and it's really, like, it's kind of my prized possession.
07:51 So there's a lot of, like, behind the scenes pictures,
07:54 cast and crew writing notes,
07:57 me and my makeup artist sleeping wherever we could.
08:02 Oh, this is a big letter the crew wrote and signed.
08:07 This is Noah.
08:10 He wrote me a letter.
08:11 It's very special.
08:12 So this is definitely, like,
08:15 one of my most prized possessions,
08:18 is my 12 Boys PS I Still Love You scrapbook.
08:21 I'll share one more.
08:22 This is The Good Mood Diet,
08:25 and this was written by my father, Bob Condor.
08:29 He wrote this book a while back,
08:31 and it's called The Good Mood Diet.
08:32 It's about a diet that helps you have a good mood,
08:36 and it's not about taking things away,
08:38 but adding things like joy to my amazing darling daughter,
08:42 who always puts me in a good mood.
08:44 I love you, for your sake, Daddy.
08:47 So these are just a couple of my absolute favorites
08:53 in my little tiny library.
08:55 I just love collecting books.
08:57 I'm going to find my Ruth Ware series from my mother.
09:01 Be like, "Mom, these are my friends."
09:04 Thank you so much Marie Claire,
09:06 and until next time, happy reading.
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