I learned how important it is to hear people speak about books instead of just reading about them after I broke a shop assistant's brain by looking for "Yeah" books. After eventually working out what I was talking about they came to the conclusion that YA was too advanced for me.

@sararoza797

4 ай бұрын

im so sorry but this is hilarious 😭

@mollyoneill7109

4 ай бұрын

I've been that bookseller

@haerhawk

4 ай бұрын

Thank god you didn't ask for NAH books(new adult books)

@ReligionOfSacrifice

4 ай бұрын

Thinking about 2024, have no plan to read a specific number of books and wish to read slow. Yet my thoughts are always looking for books worth reading. I guess if you think there is one you'd want me to actually read on this list or one you'd like to recommend, do it under this post. “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder” by David Grann “The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World” by Anthony Biglan “Calculating God” by Robert Sawyer “Revelations of Divine Love” by Julian of Norwich “David: A Man After God's Own Heart” by J. Vernon McGee “The Pentateuch as Narrative: A Biblical-Theological Commentary” by John H. Sailhamer “The Path of Prayer” by Samuel Chadwick “The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine” by A. W. Tozer “The Enduring Voices Study Bible” by Barbour “CSB Ancient Faith Study Bible” by Holman “KJV, Archaeological Study Bible, Hardcover: An Illustrated Walk through Biblical history & culture Bible” “Small Things Like These” by Claire Keegan “The Iliac Crest” by Cristina Rivera Garza “Death and the Penguin” by Andrey Kurkov “Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory” by Chil Rajchman, with story by Vasily Grossman “Forever Flowing” by Vasily Grossman “Life and Fate” by Vasily Grossman “Three Questions” by Leo Tolstoy “Fables and Fairy Tales” by Leo Tolstoy “Family Happiness and Other Stories” by Leo Tolstoy “The Gospel in Brief” by Leo Tolstoy “The Forged Coupon” by Leo Tolstoy “God Sees the Truth, but Waits” by Leo Tolstoy “The Prisoner of the Caucasus” by Leo Tolstoy “The Egoist” by George Meredith “Vanity Fair” William Makepeace Thackeray “The Mill on the Floss” by George Eliot “The Woman in White” by Wilkie Collins “Ginza Rabba” “The Castle of Otranto” Horace Walpole “The Female Quixote” by Charlotte Lennox “Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas” by Gwyn Jones “Camilla” by Frances Burney - Illustrated by same “Evalina, or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World” by Frances Burney “A World Without Heroes” by Brandon Mull “The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices” by Xinran “Mortal Engines” by Philip Reeve “Two on a Tower” by Thomas Hardy “Youth” by Isaac Asimov “The Holly-Tree” by Charles Dickens “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass” by Douglass, Frederick “Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom” by Catherine Clinton “Satan's Diary” by Leonid Andreyev “From the Memoirs of Satan: Classic Horror Stories” by Wilhelm Hauff “Live Not By Lies” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories” by Ivan Turgenev “The District Doctor” by Ivan Turgenev “Ice” by Anna Kavan “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings” by Ferdowsi, Abolqasem “Tum Teav: A Translation and Analysis of a Cambodian Literary Classic” by Chigas, George “The Fisherman King” by Kathrina Mohd Daud “Anandamath” by Chattopadhyay, Bankim Chandra “La Regenta” by Leopoldo Alas “The Incredible Incas” by Terry Deary “Timeless” by Alexandra Monir “Dragons Wild” by Robert Lynn Asprin

@MsHorses2000

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

"Ben, stop dry heaving." Should be the first line in Emma's upcoming novel.

Always love the monthly wrap ups! Also, I absolutely loooooove the chaos Ben and Calcifer bring to the table 😂

Please continue with the wrap ups! I feel like they have fallen off somewhat recently but they're maybe my favorite type of booktube video to watch

@MsHorses2000

4 ай бұрын

I agree it’s so nice keeping up with what everyone’s reading and hearing their thoughts on it! They’re my favorite kind of book videos as well 😊

Your monthly wrap ups have been a great source of coziness for me… please do continue them

Please continue with the wrap-ups and I remember in one of the videos Benjamin wants to create his own channel. Please ask him to make one it will be fun watching him. It is always so nice to watch three of you (Calcifer has my heart) !!

I feel like we're returning very much to classic Emma content & I'm so here for it ❤❤❤

I would LOVE for you to continue doing the following videos: Monthly TBRs Monthly Wrap Ups Annual Best Books Annual Worst Books Calcifer Videos Ben Videos Everything that you do and enjoy in your videos, a good day or a bad one, we are here for it and support your journey. BTW, my cat loves watching your videos. She hears your voice on the TV and runs into the room and jumps on the couch and watches til the end. I have pictures! 😊

I appreciate you including fanfic in this because honestly (and this might be a hot take) not enough people do.

My best reads in 2023 were Fathers and Sons: Ivan Turgenev The murder of Mr Wickham by Claudia Gray and A thousand moons by Sebastian Barry. Thanks for all your podcasts during the year. A very enjoyable watch 💕

The first third of this video is so chaotic, I love it 😂 I really like the wrap-ups, I always find new picks for my to-read (and know what to avoid as well - very valuable).

Appreciation post for the mushroom echoing the Emily Wilde cover in the background. *Aesthetic*

Ben is the perfect younger brother. He always makes me laugh. December was a lackluster reading month for me. I am reading/listening to Count of Monte Cristo. I like it, but I am bogged down in the middle slow part right now.

I really like watching wrap-ups, I usually get many recs from these kind of videos (:

Yay, I have now two (lengthly) Emma videos to cozy up to with a nice cuppa

Congrats in advance, Emma, for the 400K sub mark. Sorry to hear Twelfth Night didn't rub you the right way. I had it in 9th grade English too, and because of where I was in my life, the characters were so odd and did such amusingly stupid things that I related to them immediately. The opening chapter of Eugene Onegin is still one of my favorite openings to a book. For similar reasons to Twelfth Night ... the fact that Evgeny is such an over-the-top weirdo.

Please continue with the wrap ups emma . Love you so much 💛

I definitely love the wrap ups!! Love hearing what you read, Emma ❤

We love the wrap ups! Those and the Tbr videos are some of my faves

wrap ups are my favourite videos ever!!

Thank you so much for spoiling us with so much content, Emma❤ Also, I absolutely love the cute mushroom sitting behind you! To answer your question about whether or not you should continue filming wrap ups: your vlogs are my favourite videos in all KZread to watch so when I come to the wrap ups I already know how you felt about the books, but they are good videos to just have everything in one single place. At the end of the day I think you should do what feels best to you as a creator. I'm sure it will be great anyway.

I personally love watching wrap-ups, I was just thinking today if you would post a December wrap-up, and you delivered! 😀

wrap ups are my favorite videos from you!! I hope you'll continue filming them (I also really like videos with reading plans for the month)

Love the wrap ups!! Glad you are able to spend some time recharging from the city and with your family!😊

Love the consistency of the monthly wrap ups. Looking forward to hearing about your reads in 2024

I always enjoy a wrap up, love hearing your thoughts on the books you read ❤

I enjoy the wrap-ups but I also enjoy everything else you upload. Hope you get to enjoy the snow.❄❄❄❄

yesss please continue the wrap-ups!!! i love these videos from you

I was never really captivated by Eugene Onegin's plot when we read and discussed it at school, but - oh my god, Pushkin's poetry! That language, that vibe, those moments when the author communicates with the reader directly - that's what I liked the most. There's a tradition in Russian schools for girls to memorize and recite Tatiana's letter, while the boys do Onegin's one (although the teacher kindly let us switch the roles, and I memorized Onegin's). That was great fun. P. S. I love your brother's cameos so much! He radiates a very cozy energy.

Hi Emma! This video made me smile a lot. I dearly love your monthly wrap-ups!!

i love the wrap-ups! they're probably my favourite kinds of videos to watch on booktube, so i'll be stoked if you decide to keep making them :)

I really want to read The Thing in the Snow now, I also enjoy reading about mundane things, routines, and processes. 🙂 Yes, please keep the monthly wrap ups. Happy reading Emma!

I love the monthly wrap-ups! They are probably my favourite videos of yours and always bring me joyous calm and coziness. I love watching them whilst enjoying my dinner after work days, they have become part of my self-care routine.

i love love your monthly wrap-ups and most of the time i get the next book i'm going to read for the month from it! i always look forward to it. it's like a mini best/worst books of the year wrap-ups to me but keep doing it if you just feel like doing it.

I am learning a lot from you. I have always been looking for something to motivate me to read classics. Thanks to you, i enjoy reading Tolstoy and Charles Dickens etc. I really appreciate you, and am very looking forward to watching next episode every moment.

I love the monthly wrap ups but I also love all your videos!

Please continue the wrap-ups! They're my favourite type of booktube video.

whatever video you upload, we will definitely watch it 😊❤

I love the sheer chaos of this video!

Emma, i loved the cameos of your brother and Calcifer on the video! 😅😺

I just love it when emma’s other personalities pops up in her videos bring her stuff

This video is so chaotic I love it sm

Please continue with the wrap they are so fun

Emmie these glasses suit you amazingly, like they were made for you!

I can’t express how much the clips in which Ben appeared made me giggle

I know if nobody's there to cheer me up Emma's book of the month sponsor ad is there to do so

Please don't stop making those monthly wrap ups, they're just the best & I'm always waiting for them. Happy New year & keep going with your amazing videos🩷

I enjoy the wrap ups!

Please continue with the wrap ups! I love to see what everyone else has been reading

Fun video 😅 Please continue with the wrap up videos... I like the idea of the video drawing a line under each month.

i personally really like your wrap-ups! i found that i have somewhat similar to yours taste in lit and i always look forward to your opinions even when you don't like something, i really care why it is so, and then based off this i make a decision for myself to read the book or not

Emma please don't stop the monthly wrap ups cuz i live for them 🫶

I enjoy your wrap-up videos and I appreciate how they summarize your reviews and give me quick recommendations or reminders about books I'm interested in picking up, but I absolutely love your reading vlogs!! Your real-time reactions and reviews are very compelling to me and make me really want to add stuff to my TBR. Maybe you could incorporate your wrap-up reviews within the vlogs or vice versa? Basically I'm a sucker for cozy vibes and some lifestyle content so even with these videos, it's really fun to have your cat or your family pop in with little personal snippets and character. Quarterly or seasonal wrap-ups may also be a more sustainable practice for you. 🌸

There is 1999 movie with Ralph Fiennes as Eugeny and Liv Tyler as Tatiana on youtube. It deviates from book a little but not much and is still good!

I love the little mushroom person plush in the background

i cant ever skip emma's skit it's so entertaining to watch

Side note, I love your little crochet mushy friend!!

Please continue the wrap ups.

Twelfth Night is my favourite Shakespeare play after A Midsummer Night's Dream, but I don't think it's one that works when you read it quietly on your own. And that's fine, because it wasn't made to be read, after all.

2 uploads within 24 hours?! Seems christmas came late today 😂 love it tho ❤

It's great that you get to spend so much time with your brother! I'm glad you have him. I am jealous because my brother lives far away.

Emma (and anyone else reading this) please try out the series Heaven Official’s Blessing! It will change your life, trust me.

@akhila.s.sudhakar3797

4 ай бұрын

❤ Finally someone said it! Thank you. Chinese name of the novel: Tian Guan Ci Fu

@idkvalen

4 ай бұрын

i love that you're recommending it with zero context 😂 but yeah definitely ❤

@bloodyrain100

4 ай бұрын

Totally agree. I would also recommend The Untamed (and the live-action and audio book and animation series from the same story). They have the same author. It was Mo Xiang Tong Xiu.

The last line of Manacled absolutely ruined me!!!

Oo I woke up and saw emma the day is made

immediately became interested when i saw "fanfic" in the title

@cadthesecretmariolad9472

4 ай бұрын

Same 😂

@anantamc

4 ай бұрын

​@@cadthesecretmariolad9472Didn't expect it to be HP after so many years, but still pleasant to hear Emma include fanfics ☺️

you inspired me to pick up manacled and i had exactly the same reaction. sooo many interesting ideas in there, but the ending totally lost me. still glad i checked it out though

at this point Ben should start his own bookish channel 😂

I also read Onegin in December because of Game of Tomes. I also had the audiobook but it was a different translation. I was surprised by how much i preferred the other translation better for its flow. I ended up listening to it mostly and loving it. I felt it was easier to get into it. And that ending eh! Loved it

I look SO forward to these and they always make my weeks the vibes are always immaculate and I honestly could listen to you talk about books for hours!!!

The Thing in the Snow: It's at the library, I'll pick it up soon. Great content.

Every time you wave around Eugene Onegin I’m waiting for it to line up so you’re wearing the tuxedo 😂❤

I don't think that you need even more recommendations but I would urge you to check out Lermontov's work (Hero of our time to be specific but poems are great too) I love him and I think it would fit your personality type as well, and also Turgenev's Fathers and sons. These two (beside Crime and punishment and Master and Margarita) are my favourite from our high school program, I definitely need to reread them but I'm sure they hold up. ah and my recent favourite russian novel is In front of the mirror by Kaverin, it is so good, I think you would've loved it but as far as I know it is not translated officially:(((

@bronteide6052

4 ай бұрын

omg I think Emma's going to love Bazarov from Fathers and sons, if she ever reads it!

Ah I love the snap-on shirt! My fiancé has tons of merch, because of tool debt

PLEASE ALWAYS DO WRAP UPS; they’re my favorite videos

love the cozy comfy vibe of this video! but kindof missed the HD camera

idk if you’ve talked about this already but you should look into nocturne by alyssa weiss - it’s very much wintery and phantom of the opera vibes i think it would be right up your alley!

It's amazing how the messenger had the same nail-polish as you

I always look forward to the "Book of the Month" ads by emmie 😂

@MusicBlik

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Some of the few ads I don't skip.

Lol at Ben dry heaving in the background

I love all your videos. Please, though, take care of yourself. It seems you are in a transition, and I am sending you good vibes. Your brother is hilarious. Let him know if he doesn't know already, he has gorgeous hair.

Emmie, have you ever considered reading Faulkner? We have a similar taste in books and you have, in my opinion, matured as a reader. Therefore I highly recommend trying Faulkner. It’s complex, rich and definitely worth the challenge! I recommend starting with Light in August. If you enjoy this you might get hooked and want to move on up the ladder to the more challenging books. 📚 ❤

"..slap me in the face with joy." My new favorite quote.

"book man you have new drip" 😂😂😂

Hi Emma, I just wanted to let you know that I recently finished House of Leaves and Even if this Love Disappears Tonight (on audiobook). It was the perfect light/shadow double feature and I wouldn't have found out about either book if not for you. Thank you for helping us all find some meaning in the void. I hope you gain a lot of energy from knowing that your work makes a big difference in the world and that it does so much good!

G'day from the GOT bookclub. I agree about both books. Twelfth Night is one of my least Shakespeare plays to date, and I definitely felt Eugene Onegin pick up a lot more towards the end. One of my favourite passages from Eugene Onegin: How sad, however, if we're given Our youth as something to betray, And what if youth in turn is driven To cheat on us, each hour, each day, If our most precious aspirations, Our freshest dreams, imaginations In fast succession have decayed, As leaves, in putrid autumn, fade. It is too much to see before one Nothing but dinners in a row, Behind the seemly crowd to go, Regarding life as mere decorum, Having no common views to share, Nor passions that one might declare.

Hi Emmie! I recommend reading The Arabian Nights and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.📚🌸💕 They're great books!📚📚🌸🌺 Also, for Winter 2024, I'm gonna be reading some winter-themed fantasy books.❤❤❤❄️❄️❄️📚📚📖📖🌟🌟🌟⭐️⭐️⭐️

More wrap ups !!

I hope you visit Al-Farjani Library in Britain, London This library contains some Arabic books and novels.

you should read All the young dudes on ao3!! it's a marauders harry potter fanfiction and it's really good

I enjoy the wrap ups. It’s like a googlebox situation, watching to see if you like what I like (or not as the case may be) or finding out about books that I haven’t heard of before. So please continue, even if it is every other month 😊

Where are your eyeglasses from? They look sooo good on you!

Beartown trilogy , Sweden, small town, snow, multi POV, all of the human condition. book 1. one box tissue, book 2 one box of tissue, book 3 two boxes of tissue and a bath towel. I also have a younger brother LOL!

When are you writing your own book Ms Emma?

this video is so relaxing i loveee

@choiyena2216

4 ай бұрын

oh my god you have an asmr channel

I found James E Falen's translation a better fit for Eugene Onegin, also this version was narrated by Stephen Fry making it one of my favorites.

Hahaha I love your brother 💕

Yayyy ✨

I have had to start actively avoiding fanfic, because I will read it to the exclusion of all other reading, housework, family time, sleep... It went beyond "Read what you like" all the way to "This is an unhealthy obsession." I'm now happily reading books again.

Please continue with the monthly wrap ups! I adore this type of videos

I was really bored with Twelfth Night but very much enjoyed Eugene Onegin. Kudos to the translator Stanley Mitchell because the writing was flowing and beautiful.