"Dead people aren't just going to come out of the grave and harass you." - Emma's Quote of the Year

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

it'd be kinda cool if they did though!

@rosethreewitt1672

4 жыл бұрын

@@emmiereads lol I would love that!

@billyalarie929

3 жыл бұрын

the context of this quote is 1,000,000x beyond what i already thought this could be about. i wish i could subscribe twice.

@billyalarie929

3 жыл бұрын

update to this comment i posted about 10 seconds ago: i just realized i hadn't hit the bell, so i did that, and now i feel like i actually DID subscribe twice. :)

"It's enough for me to know for sure that you and I exist at this moment." -One Hundred Years of Solitude

in a short matter of time, your channel has truly became my favourite. I always look forward to your videos.

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so so much, that's so kind

@ekoramm2189

4 жыл бұрын

Lol wtf you watch her too hahabec?

omg. Please do an annotation video! 💕

@brokenremedy7821

4 жыл бұрын

YES PLEASE!!

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

it's on the way!

@cookiejar.mp3

4 жыл бұрын

@@emmiereads aaa thank you!

The calm that is so overwhelming within your videos washes over me. Its such a strange feeling, its like i know i get a complete 30 minute break from life to immerse myself in yours. Thank you for the video Emmie!! :)

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

i'm so glad, awe thank you so much,

Oh my gosh, describing cliffhangers as a capitalist tactic to sell books was so funny and so accurate. Like how serialization affects plot structure in classic Doctor Who or Victorian novels published in parts-lots of little arcs and climaxes to keep you coming back. Lovely video as always!

If you're interested in more Magical Realism I'd recommend "Pedro Paramo" by Juan Rulfo, it's considered one of the original works of magical realism, it was loved by both Marquez and Borges, it also inspired Garcia Marquez writing (specifically during the writing of 100 Years of Solitude) he loved it so much that he claimed to have memorized it by heart. You can also check out "Recollection of things to Come" by Elena Garro it is a beautiful and brutal tale composed in vignettes and set during the infamous Mexican Cristero War (1926-1929) it is also a classic and is considered one of the original works of magical realism. Loving the combination of music and reading updates, great Vlog!

@estelarubin764

2 жыл бұрын

I read Pedro Paramo in high school. It is an excellent book. I recently listened to "the house of the spirits" by Isabel Allende. I absolutely loved it. It is another great example of Latin American magical realism

I think I can confidently say, after perusing the comment sections of your videos for a while now, that the majority of us viewers would absolutely love a video where you talk about 100 years. The way you talk about books is so beautiful and insightful, I think it would be awesome if you made such a video dedicated to this book. Also, thank you for putting out two videos a week instead of splicing the clips into one, truly thankful you take the time to make these videos ♡

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Aha awesome because I'd looooove to make one, and thank you so much! Some weeks honestly I feel like there could be 3 separate videos because they get so long but I fear that might be too many aha, hope you're well

I love it when you feature your brother in your vlogs. Would you both like doing a challenge in the next vlogs? Something like reading/listening to a book together, maybe poetry as it would be easier for him (and dead people won't have to come out of the grave to grab him😂😂)

There is nothing more beautiful that capturing the moment a person finishes a book that has touched their heart. ❤️ this vlog was so calming 😌

Oh my gosh this was so so calming! Loved the editing and everything about it. Makes me wanna grab a cup of tea and read.

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Awe that is my goal aha, thank you!

I love how much effort you put into your videos. They always put me in such a good mood.

Just finished the book tonight and I went to your channel to watch this. This book cut through me and I’m still crying because it ended. Everyone should read this masterpiece 😭😭

Emma's voice is so soothing to hear. If she ever create a podcast, I will literally listen to every episodes just like I binge watched all of her videos🙃

I have recently found your channel and love your videos! They are so relaxing and calm. Thank you so much!

your videos are so relaxing!!! i've been binging them over the past couple days and wow the serotonin also, i was LITERALLY just thinking about how i never hear anyone talking about the shades of london series, i felt like i just dreamed it up, so it was very vindicating to hear you mention it!!!

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Right? I loved it, totally need to do a re-read to see if it still stands up to my standards now but I remember adoring it!

Hey Emma, I am from the future and just dig into some of your old videos to binge. I am here now. I just wanna say that I am really grateful of meeting your channel and being able to witness another human being in another part of the world reading and enjoying my favorite book as much as I do (also during the same weird period of time). On top of all, I am grateful that a kind beautiful person like you exist in this world. Your words in the video caption (?) , whatever, find me well! Thank you. Sending it back to you :)

Thank you for reading my favourite book ever! García Marquez is everything.

Dear Emma I am not commenting on many videos but yours are so wonderful to watch in these difficult times! So thank you! You're having such a wonderful voice and I am really enjoying you reading to us. Thanks to you I ordered "If not, Winter" and two Marquez books because I fell in love with the first line of "love in the time of cholera". I would also love to see a video about how you're annotating your books! Have a great day!

Your video’s are so relaxing, i love them 😍😍

Hello from France. T'entendre parler de 100 ans de Solitude avec tant de passion, m'a donné envie de le lire à mon tour. Et je ne regrette pas du tout de l'avoir fait. Ce livre est un vrai bijou. ça faisait longtemps que je n'avais pas lu un livre qui me donnait envie de le recommencer dès la dernière page atteinte. Le seul autre livre qui m’ait laissé dans un état aussi méditatif, où on aimerai ne jamais sortir de l'ambiance du livre pour la garder avec soit un peu plus longtemps, c'est Les Cavaliers de Joseph Kessel. Fun fact, the sentences of the book you have read, there are the same I have noted. And I just love so much the moment with the yellow flowers and when he lost himself in his loneliness. This book is just so great. And I like so much your vlogs ; ).

hello! first of all, I recently found your channel and it's quicky become one of my favourites. in a time filled with anxiety and despair, I find your vlogs very calming. thank you for letting us into your life. and if you enjoyed one hundred years of solitude I'm sure you'll love of love and other demons. it's also by garcía marquez and it's my personal favourite of his. hope you're having a lovely day!

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

awe no thank you for being here, I hope things are calm and peaceful and bright for you wherever you are - ooh just added that to my TBR thank you!!

Damn, you just made me order 100 years of solitude right at this moment 😆 I can't wait to get my hands on it!

I would be definitely interested in the video about One Hundred Years of Solitude! It is beside me right now, and I think I will finally start it.. but it would be helpful and even more encouraging to watch a whole video about it ;) I really love your vlogs, I have found your channel a month ago probably but love it from the moment :)

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

oh my gosh amazing! I'd love to make a video all about it - hope you love it when you pick it up!

@mariannkomlos8513

4 жыл бұрын

@@emmiereads I've already did ;) I am around the 50 pagemark, and I like it already :) My brother is also a big fan, and he was really happy when I told him. Waiting for the video really much! Take care!

watching this video was such a fantastic and enchanting experience.

Your videos make me so happy. I literally teared up because you're just the best. I love you

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Ah that's so sweet, all the love

this vlog is making me pick up Pedro Paramo and then 100 yrs of Solitude! I am so excited

emma! thanks to you i just ordered 100 years of solitude and i can’t wait to read this book. i live in poland and fortunetly it’s translated in polish like many other his works☺️ your booktube channel is my favorite. ps: Greetings from Poland to you and your family! 💕

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Oh wow you have such a treat ahead of you - can't wait to hear your thoughts!! Awe and hi, thank you so much, sending love all the way to Poland

OMG YEEEEEES I TOTALLY NEED AN ANNOTATION VIDEO

So glad you loved One Hundred Years of Solitude! I've got a magic realism book rec for you! I don't read a ton of YA anymore but about a year ago I picked up a book called Bone Gap by Laura Ruby. It was an incredible YA stand alone, and it was made of everything that makes YA a likable genre. Strange, wonderful characters, an incredibly imaginative plot, and beautiful, personal writing.

Please make a separate video about One Hundred Years of Solitude! I'm about halfway through and totally obsessed. And if you love magical realism, you should deffinitely read The Master and Margarita

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Ooh yes I've had my eye on The Master and Margarita for a while - can't wait to read it!

Pleaaaaaase make a video about One Hundred Years of Solitude, or about Phantom, or Rilke, or any other book you want....because whathever you post we're all going to be super happy and relaxed while we listen to you. I'm also drinking pepermint tea at the moment. Waiting for that other vlog this week.

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

A whole video about Phantom is such a good idea, also will start thinking about just one for Rilke, that means so much thank you!

My favorite KZreadr 😌

when one of your fav booktubers and one of your fav authors meet 🥰 oohh and the way you pronunce all the spanish names is soooo cute. 🐣

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Eep so glad I finally got acquainted with Márquez, and haha I try my best!

Hey! I know this video is super old now but I watched your vlogs on 100 years of solitude and just wanted to say that I loooved this, as a colombian girl I grew up with lots of teachers and older people referencing Gabo’s books and the beauty of Macondo, and it was very beautiful to see your journey reading this book and investing ur time in trying to understand it all, even more so as an ‘outsider’ of my culture. (Idk if you’ve watched Disney’s Encanto but omg the yellow butterflies). If you’re interested in reading more of his works I’d personally suggest No One Writes to the Colonel , it’s not as famous nor as magical and beautiful as this one, but it depicts the sad truths and the history of my country in a short amount of pages, so it makes a great 2-3 hour read or less. Also if I remember correctly I think it is also set in Macondo, but anyways I loved watching your journey with the book! Hope ur doing great c:

You and your brother are so different, it's fun to watch. I had A hundred years of solitude in my tbr for so long, i see beautiful copies of it every time i go to the bookstore because it is pretty known here in Brazil. Hopefully i'll have my own copy soon. Edit: Please do the video about annotations, i love watching them and finding ways to improve what i already do.

As always love your videos, so calming and relaxing. I also love magical realism and I really recommend one called “The murmur of Bees” by Sofia Segovia. It’s a beautiful story that also follows a family and has magical realism. It was originally in Spanish but has now been translated into English. It’s one of my all time favorite books! & yes a video about one hundred years of solitude would be awesome. ☺️

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the rec!! And definitely will start researching more for the video aha I'm so excited about it!!

Also, it's true what you said about Rilke making up new words and using a quirky language; my native is German and I just read a collection of his poetry, and he made up so many extraordinary words I was blown away

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Ooh so envious, I would love to learn German just for his sake, hope you loved them!!

@arlena3297

4 жыл бұрын

@@emmiereads I did! My favourite German word is of his creation: "die Götterbildermarmorweiße" which translates roughly to "the marble whiteness of statues of Gods". Hope you enjoy the rest of his works :)

Your brother is just ♥♥

OH yes, pleeease tell us how you annotate! :D

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

it's currently in the works!

You should definitely do a how I annotate video!

waittt was the yellow flower in the title intentional?? i just finished the book and i've been staring at the ceiling thinking about the whole thing, also please do a full review/video about this insane piece of literature that is this book oh my god, this was a rideee

I just completed ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE ...never related so much to a book ...may be it's the pandemic ...and this choice of mine had a huge impact on me ...I relate to this book on a different level... You should definetly do a video on it ...

I love your videos, you really inspire me 💕 greetings from Uruguay ☺️

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Awe hi! Thank you so much, hope you're doing well

I really love your channel ! ❤️❤️ i found it few weeks ago and it has really became my favorite, it makes me feel so comfortable. Could i know which audiobook app do you listen to? Thnx

FYI The K in Rilke is just a k and not a throat sound (velar fricative to be technical). What I find so interesting about him is that he is not talked about here in Germany. I learned about his existance in American media. He's not even on the sylabus for high school here.

"Dead people aren't just going to come out of the grave and harass you" is the most ironic thing that could be said in a video primarily about One Hundred Years of Solitude

you could recite a grocery list and it would still sound so amazing and profound, Emma!!!! You're so inspiring, the way you look at the world and are able to find beauty in just about anything. I love all your content ❤ Hope you're doing well And omg!! i'd love to know how you annotate your books, and I'm just getting into poetry so do you have any recommendations for begginers like me?

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

That means the world, thank you so much

Another vlog that made me smile :) please do an annotations video I’d love to see it!!

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Will do!

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Gabriel García Márquez is one of my favorite authors. It's always nice to see other people fall in love with his work. You should definitely order El amor en los tiempos del cólera. I actually liked this one better than 100 años de soledad (although my favorite by Márquez is Crónica de una muerte anunciada) which is quite an unpopular opinion. The latter would deserve a re-read, though.

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely going to, I want to read all his work so badly!

I haven't read that much magical realism books, but I really liked Primeval and other times by Olga Tokarczuk, a Polish writer who won the Nobel Prize this year. I would heavily recommend it! I'm also reading One Hundred Years of Solitude right now and I'm enjoying it a lot.

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Ah amazing I actually have Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by her on hold for audiobook and I am very excited and THATS AMAZING AH WHAT PART ARE YOU AT

@zofiar4753

4 жыл бұрын

@@emmiereads The seventeen sons of Aureliano Buendia arrived at Macondo and one of them built a railroad. I haven't read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead yet, but I hope you'll like it!

Love your freckles! haha

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Aha thank you, a lot of them have popped up!

The section with your brother's poem was hilarious :'D I don't know much poetry, but one of my favourites is An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by Yeats, it ends: "... I balanced all, brought all to mind The years to come seemed waste of breath A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death" You've definitely made me want to read 100 years of solitude - previously the Marquez book I was most interested in was the story of a shipwrecked sailor (that seems less magic realism, more realistic though(?)) Have you read The Unconsoled by Ishiguro? If not I would recommend it :)

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

yessss Yeats, love it, and oh my goodness whenever you get around to picking it up you've got a world of magic in store for you! That's so funny I'm actually reading When We Were Orphans by Ishiguro right now and loving it but haven't read that one of his yet!

okay so i just video and when you said "blown away" and then "if you've read this book" hahaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Hey Emma, can you please name the song you have used at 9:23 of this video?

I love your videos! I would like to rec you a book: The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. It's not magical realism per se, but it's a great piece of Brazilian literature ❤️

Recommending you to try Sufi literature/Islamic mystical poetry!

what is the song playing while you're sitting outside? it's so beautiful

Qué poema es el censurado? No lo encuentro.

also! can we get a playlist of songs featured in this vid, pls???

I don't wanna be a know-it-all but you seem like you'd like to know this: the pronunciation of Rilke is literally just a light l and a k, none of that “ch” noise you keep making. Love your vlogs, you inspire me. I hope I get to a read a book again someday that I love as much as you love One hundred years of solitude.

@thekerfuffle9415

4 жыл бұрын

Also (sorry about my nagging), it's a misconception that you can make words up easily in German. It's just the way that compound words are structured (and printed). There isn't much difference between saying “strawberry ice cream” and “strawberryicecream”, or “application form” and “applicationform”. English actually has lots of creativity with words, for instance, you can take any noun and turn it into a very expressive adjective by adding -y. Science-fiction-y, magical-realism-y. That doesn't really work in German, at least it's more complicated.

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Aha I do know, I think most of the time I manage to do away with the aspirated [k] or the "ch" sound, but I believe what's actually happening is the rolled [r] sliding too far and wanting to produce the same effect in what should essentially be the correct voiceless stop [c] but oh well, and ah thank you - I really hope you do too!!

@thekerfuffle9415

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I see, I didn‘t consider it might just be hard to pronounce, sorry. It seemed more difficult to me :) And you definitely know more phonetics than I do ...

I read this book a couple of years back and I didn’t understand a lot of it. Because of the magical realism, I couldn’t get into it. I like to read more realistic fiction.

Can anyone please tell me the name of the song which starts at 9:22 . I come here often just to listen it

@mmedoe

Жыл бұрын

Hanu Dixit - Requiem In Cello :)

@pragatisingh2884

10 ай бұрын

​@@mmedoeI just found it from Google assistant 😂 but thankyou!. Should've read this reply

Hi Emma :) I want to know if you ever considered becoming an audiobook narrator ? I just love listening to your voice when you read.

it'd be lovely ifyou could do a video on Rilke, which of his works should one start with, your fav poem of his...

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

That's so funny in part 2 of this week's vlog I start planning a whole video about him!! :)

@ziadirayene9879

4 жыл бұрын

@@emmiereads that's amazing! I'm so eager to see it. And keep up, your videos are little pockets of sunshine in these gloomy times ❤️

im also interested in magical realism ...can you make a video.. in which you talk yout your perspective of magical realism and whats special about it???

16:50

thats crazy, im drinking peppermint tea rn! ( lol not actually crazy at all, its 2 yrs later)

you and your brother look so alike!

Hey emmie whats Caroline's yt channel?

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

thowaiba ben slema it’s in the description!💕 It’s CarolynMarieReads 🥰

@thowaibabenslema1811

4 жыл бұрын

@@emmiereads awww thank you

I think Im in love with your brother

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

baha I send my condolences

I feel like the Lana Del Rey song you’re talking about is Body Electric. I guess?

@emmiereads

4 жыл бұрын

Murielle Azzi hmm it’s actually called Burnt Norton - Interlude! But Body Electric is amazing too🥰

Marquez explained Magical Realism as realism where the author of fiction takes advantage of the medium to do what is ordinarily not possible. Predetermination is something associated more Presbyterianism that Catholicism, but hey not all Latins are Catholics, who are big on free will, but not every Latino is Catholic. good abstract, thx

Did anyone else not understand a single word of Little Brother's poem? #feelingold

please do a whole video review and reaction to the AHYOS!!!