That annotating was so sweet. Someone maybe doing it for the first time or just enjoying the book. I hope they went on to enjoy many more books the same way

@gwifa64

7 күн бұрын

Indeed!

Big YES for a dedicated video for 1q84

Webster the Spider! That's my vote for his name since it's a dictionary to go with the bookshelf and has web in it to go with the spider. It's goofy 😂

In relation to what you said about the Murakami book, can I suggest that you start a series about specific authors that you enjoy, the books you love the best,why you love them and their writings...

Those annotations were not giving me little boy, but rather very old man. I love my grandma dearly, she is my favorite person and I love to hear about what she reads, but she is 87 and this is exactly her brand of commentary 😭

@hm7747

8 күн бұрын

For me it was giving teenage boy who had assigned reading for a class lol

@juanhernestogomez433

8 күн бұрын

maybe they had a quota of annotations for hw

@gwifa64

7 күн бұрын

@@hm7747 A lot of people also with the likes of ADHD are known to have messy handwriting! He could be any age.

theme song of this video should be "What's This" from the Nightmare before Christmas lol

I hope little Luke is still enjoying annotating to this day! It takes a lot of courage to mark a book with your own musings. Fair play to him for beginning the endeavour!

It's amazing that the pink marker on the counter survived a visit by two cats without taking a dive.

What a great pre-birthday gift to yourself! I know July will be a 5 star month and hope that I find some recommendations to read along the way.❤

On the theme of hotels I recommend the book The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden. Its about some siblings who end up spending a summer at a French Hotel alone because their mother gets sick as soon as they arrive. It was written in the 1950s so it feels like it should be middle grade or young adult fiction because of the age of the protagonists but is oddly not quite that.

LOVED "As long as the lemon trees grow"

I just opened KZread after studying the whole day, and the joy I felt (and feel) at seeing your new video is unreal

@emmiereads

8 күн бұрын

:’) hope it’s a bit of rest and break for you!

@ReligionOfSacrifice

7 күн бұрын

@@emmiereads WHO CAN TELL OF THE END??? JESUS, my friend, knows all. Who witnesses that “Barack” or “Obama” is the Anti-Christ? We have twenty-nine (29) times an answer from sixteen (16) witnesses who are mainly writers of the Holy Bible (Zophar by speech in the Holy Bible), so reliable witnesses indeed. Thirteen (13) Old Testament writers in twenty-one (21) places witness that “Barack” is the Anti-Christ and one (1) Old Testament writer witnesses in two (2) locations that “Obama” is the Anti-Christ. 1) Job says, Zophar witnesses Job20:25-29 2) Job witnesses Job 26:13-14 (6, 13-14) 3) Job says, Yahweh, Himself, witnesses Job 38:35-36 4) Moses witnesses Deuteronomy 32:41 5) an unknown Jewish historian 2 Samuel 22:14-16 6) King David witnesses Psalms 18:13-15 & Psalms 57:4 & Psalms 97:1-6 & Psalms 144:4-6 7) Isaiah witnesses Isaiah 27:1 & Isaiah 30:30-33 ADDITIONALLY, Isaiah witnesses that “Obama” is the Anti-Christ Isaiah 14:14 & in Isaiah 66 😎 Habakkuk witnesses Habakkuk 3:11-13 9) Ezekiel witnesses Ezekiel 1:13-14, Ezekiel 21:9-12, Ezekiel 21:13-15, & Ezekiel 21:28 10) Daniel witnesses, but not clearly Daniel 10:6 11) Nahum witnesses Nahum 2:4 & Nahum 3:3 12) Asaph witnesses Psalms 77:16-20 13) Zechariah Zechariah 9:14 Three (3) New Testament writers in five (5) locations witness that “Barack” is the Anti-Christ. One (1) Old Testament writer witnesses that “Obama” is the Anti-Christ. 1) John, a disciple of Jesus witnesses Revelation 16:17-19 2) Matthew, a disciple of Jesus witnesses Matthew 24:27-28 3) Luke, a partner in missions work with Paul of Tarsus, witnesses Luke 10:18 & Luke 17:24 ADDITIONALLY, Luke witnesses that “Obama” is the Anti-Christ Luke 17:24 Do we know that upon the identification of Anti-Christ he is obliterated very soon after? Yes, four (4) witness, in five (5) locations, that upon a man obtaining prostration or worship in a temple he is immediately disposed. 1) Isaiah, a prophet Isaiah 14:27-31 2) Daniel, a prophet Daniel 7:25-26 & Daniel 12:7 3) John, a disciple of Jesus Revelation 12:12b-14 4) Paul of Tarsus 2 Thessalonians 2:8-9 Does Yahweh take a sword to “Barack” or “Obama” per the Scriptures? Yes. 1) Job declares it. Job 26:13-14 2) Moses declares it. Deuteronomy 32:41 3) Isaiah declares it about “Obama” Isaiah 14:18-19 4) Ezekiel declares it over and over. Ezekiel 21:9-12 & Ezekiel 21:13-15 & Ezekiel 21:28 5) Habakkuk declares it. Habakkuk 3:11-13 6) Zephaniah declares a black man of Cush (horn of Africa) is getting a sword, so not clear, but accurate. Zephaniah 2:12 So is there any man who had two times (a firm week) to cause WikiLeaks and an Arab Apology Tour with a finish of kissing the ring of the Saudi prince over the Ka’aba in Mecca? Is there any man who changed the region of the first (Sumer, Mesopotamia, the Middle East) by Arab Spring? Is there any man who removed three kings in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia in 29 days (less than a month) in 2011 during the Arab Spring? When Egypt declared the elections after were rigged and wanted to do re-election, but did they not do it as they were told, if they did all American monetary support would be taken away from Egypt? Was the desire of American women denied in the sense they never got Hillary Clinton and certainly if the world comes to a close in the next 7 months they won’t ever get a female President like Kamala Harris (and thank God for that)? Did he put a piece of paper into the Wailing Wall, so grain offering in the “wing” of the Jewish temple? Was he ruined to prosper in the sense hatred grew under the timeframe of Donald Trump? Did we make it through both his times and the cut off time with no serious issues for Jews in America or in Israel? Did Jacob’s trouble begin in the midst of a week of an image of his time? Is the world choosing to hate Israel after October 7th, 2023? Do people scream for peace when if it is achieved it is unlikely as West Bank and Gaza Strip have finally been shown how to have a Glory in Islam over Israel? If Gaza Strip gets peace would they attack again, and if they did would West Bank watch the second time and want no glory for themselves? 1) BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - (the firm week) of 8 years First time as 2009-2012 - Second time 2013-2016 2) DONALD TRUMP - The Cut-Off time 2017-2020 3) JOE BIDEN - an image of a beast time, in the midst of a week, of an image of his time, desolation in Jerusalem to spread to all the world - for then cometh Annihilation, the perishing of the end. SO WHAT IS THE STORY THAT PEOPLE OUGHT TO KNOW??? Amos 1:6-7 “For thus saith Yahweh, “for three transgressions of Gaza, four, I will not revoke being against: they capture people at peace with them (1) and bring them to be shut up (2), bloody (3). And send fire over the wall of Gaza (4), and consume all of the citadels.” Habakkuk 1:9-11 "All come, Hamas, assemble the horde of the east, gather the captives like sand. Mock the ruler, and their judgment a joke, laugh as all strongholds become rubble, seize them, then pass through like the wind, pass through guilty by the strength of your god.” Obadiah 1:10-11 “from out of Hamas, your brother, a deceiver, cover your shame, and you will be cut off forever. In that day you stood afar, on the day the strangers were carried away in strength. And the stranger entered to cast lots for Jerusalem, then you were one of them.” John 5:43 “I am come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.” Luke 10:18 “and He (Jesus) said, “I saw Satan as Barack Obama.” Micah 6:16 "It is owed unto America, and all who work the deed and the house Ahaz ("he has grasp the ten") and watch and keep you with their strange counsel. Walk in it for the purpose; I will give you up to desolation. And your inhabitants shall be a derision, for you will bear and be a reproach my people." Hosea 10:10 “It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows (West Bank and Gaza Strip).” Obadiah 1:12-13 “Do not gloat over your brother’s day of taking strangers captive, nor rejoice in the day the sons of Judah are destroyed, do not boast in the day of distress. You should never enter at the gate of My people, in the day of their distress. Moreover do not gloat over their calamity in the day of their disaster, sending wealth in the day of disaster.” Hosea 7:16 “Return ALLAH, deceive to ensnare their princes (the ten idiots from the remains of the Ottoman Empire who already had to deal with Arab Spring and the removal of kings in one month in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia), they shall fall by the sword of an insolent tongue, they mocking in the land of Egypt” Luke 17:24 “Only as Barack Obama exits heavens in one part and then thus exalts (Allah) Obama, then doeth the Son of man have His day.” Isaiah 14:14 "Allah Obama ab dama elyown." Habakkuk 3:11-13 "From the east the crescent stood at the heights, walking in the light of the weapons, the radiance of Barack (Husein Obama) from the thrust. There is indignation at his march on the Earth; in anger he trampled the nations. He went forth for the salvation of his people; for the salvation he's anointed. Now strike the head of the house of the wicked; lay him open from thigh to neck, commune with the Lifted High."

I've randomly read Steppenwolf this year, and the whole experiment felt like a transformation. So many beautiful expressions, so many thoughts, a definite five star. Very excited to hear your thoughts!

1Q84 is a trip! I think it needs a full blog.

@soph3373

6 күн бұрын

yes! I have 100 pages left and I love it so much

Yes to the 1Q84 separate vlog!

"$2000 is a lot of money" 😂😂😂 the way I died 😆. Also happy birthday! 🎂

after i saw how much and how passionately you raved about the count of monte cristo, i have finally purchased it!!! i made sure to look for the robin buss translation, like you said. it sounds relight up my alley, so thank you emma !!

in the presence of absence by Mahmoud Darwish! Very excited to hear about your experience 🇵🇸🍉:]

Your book collection looks tense and dangerous and I love it

I have a family member, female age 23, who loves tarantulas, exotic spiders, scorpions, and has too many to count living in terrariums in her home. Also 2 cats, a bearded dragon, and a 12 foot boa constrictor. I love that she loves these creatures. I'm really more of a dog person.

1Q84 is such an easy read, it's his best work in my opinion :)

So glad that you’re planning so many rereads for July, i’m also revisiting some of my favorite series and giving second chances to some books!!

Hi, emmie! May july be a great month for you (and happy birthday 🎉). I bought a copy of cloud atlas because of the video you made last month and i'm so excited to read it! My tbr is brimming and delightful because of you.

Having a month dedicated to 5 star predictions is such a lovely idea. I hope you have a great birthday month😊

Happy Birthday, Emma! I hope you have a tremendous reading month. And by the way, you deserve ALL the good things! 🎉🎉💕💕 🎈🎈🎂

Watching you always makes me wish i could read faster and or just devote my every waking moment to books. As for 1Q84 please do a full on video. Of course ill need to read it before then...but thats what the rest of July and August are for. Also happy birthday...or birthday month!

Absolutely we want an 1q84 vlog not even a question

Always thrilled to see an Emma video. Happy Birthday Month, Dear Emma! You deserve all the good things! :-)

Hi Emmie, happy birthday month! I read Winterhouse, by Ben Guterson this winter. It's a middle-grade which happens in winter, in a hotel, and the main character investigates to discover the hotel and... her past. I think it clicks all your boxes! It's funny and there's a cute friendship between the main characters! Perfect if you feel down this december. In the meantime, have a fun summer!

Happy Birthday/Reading month Emma! July is also my birthday month and every video from you is like a treat for me.

Best bookshelf video EVER 🙌🏼

I only know Eva Ibbotson from her children's book. I did a book presentation in school about The Beasts of Clawstone Castle. Her books were quite popular in Germany it seems. Or just my mother liked them, who knows haha

Happy birthday month to you and me! 💖 Love the idea of reading only books that I have high hopes for as a present to myself, will do this from now on xxx

Your enthusiasm is so infectious! I need and app where I just stand back and take pictures of all my shelves and then AI reads the spines and catalogs them for me.

1Q84 feels like a stepping stone in my journey through literature, having read and enjoyed many of Murakami's books, none of them prepared me for the beauty of this immense novel.

Happy birthday month Emma I wish you a wonderful month and also a happy belated Canada day too

1Q84 IS AMAAAZING

I just started watching ur vids and thyre so comforting to watch😭😭❤️❤️ we have the same taste in booksss, i really hope u make a video about 1q84 i loved itt❤️

I absolutely thought Steppenwolf was going to win for World Tour too! I’m tempted to join you and add it to my TBR for this month anyways too 😊 as always, love the casual, TBR chat videos!

Since I started watching your videos I've been sooo excited for you to read 1Q84!!

I loved Eva Ibbotson’s novels growing up, both her middle grade and her adult novels. I haven’t read A Company of Swans since I was about 16, and I have no idea how I would feel about it now! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts. Loved the video as always ❤

I'm really looking forward to reading Steppenwolf this month, as I (not so secretly) hoped it would win the poll too :) Hope you have the best reading month Emma!

Was that a "Välkommen" I heard at the start? 😂That's a lot of cool reading you have for the month. As for my TBR I'm probably finishing House of Leaves pretty soon and after that I'm going to start Solaris for the first time. So excited to finally be reading it! And happy birthday month! 🥳

Just finished Hard boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.Soooooo good!

Yes for the 1q84 vlog!!!!

great video, Emma! Happy birth month! Have a good one! Also, I had to stop the video multiple times because I keep thinking it's my cats that are meowing and since they usually don't meow a lot I was super confused(and concerned a bit) because I never caught them meowing but I kept hearing it p.s cant wait to hear an opinion on 1q84 :)

Happy birthday! 🥳 Oh and what a great idea, I will do the same with my tbr for my birthday month!

@emmiereads

8 күн бұрын

Yess highly recommend!!❤

@ReligionOfSacrifice

7 күн бұрын

@@emmiereads, "Even if these tears disappear tonight" is not nearly as powerful as "Even if this love disappears tonight" but if you love the characters you'll appreciate reading more about them, and in the end the girl with complete memory is an interesting girl. What is it like to love someone with a wall? That is a question. Climbers are...

Happy Birthday! Was wondering if Ice by Anna Kavan is on your radar, a cold kafkaesque nightmare sounds like something you’d dig!

emma! I've read most of murakami and 1q84 is my favourite along with dance dance dance. I think you will love it

Yess please I would love a full vlog on 1Q84 by Murakami 🤩✨

You should pick up Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir. The author is Icelandic and it’s set at a somewhat dilapidated hotel. The hotel really features in the book and I love Ólafsdóttir’s work.

It was such a nice surprise to see you with an Eva Ibbotson! My mum once read Journey to the River Sea to us over a hot Easter when i was really young, later I read 4 of her other books including a company of swans and loved them. I recently found my old copies and was planning on reading her again. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Another hotel novel recommendation; "Hotel 21" by Senta Rich. This novel is not groundbreaking, or beautifully written, but just a fun time. A popcorn read, that might be too much on the nose with its messages. But it is set in multiple hotels. Sometimes all you want is just an easy, fast-paced book. "Noelle is an efficient and friendly hotel cleaner, a model employee. Or so she'd have you think. The trouble is that she can't help taking a little 'souvenir' as she cleans. Nothing of value, just tokens of happy, normal lives: a lipstick, a hair clip, some tweezers. And by the time the guest has noticed, she's long gone. As she starts at her 21st hotel, she's determined to beat her record of one month in a five star hotel before suspicion falls on her. But when she meets her new colleagues, her plans are complicated. These women aren't just hands pushing carts down lonely hotel corridors: they are women with lives full of happiness and worry, pain and joy. The kind of lives Noelle has never known how to live. They make her wonder what it might be like to have real friends, people to stick around for."

Im almost done with 1q84 and I am so excited to see how you perceive it!

My birthday is also July 24th (and it's the same as yours if I'm not mistaken...?), and I saw some comments saying their birthday is also July so happy birthday to all of us, summer girlies🎉🥰

Your videos are literally the highlight of my day❤️ you are so amazing and wonderful I sincerely wish you the best🤩🤩🤩

Happy Birthday Month, Emma! 😂 🍰 🎈 🎈 🎊

@emmiereads

8 күн бұрын

Thank you!!!!😊😊😊

Happy birthday! My birthday is also in July and I'm so excited to read 1Q84 for my birthday 🥰 hoping it will be a 5 star for sure

Ibbotson was a huge childhood favorite of mine! Her children’s books especially are so magical! I don’t remember much about A Company of Swans but I remember loving it as a teen

@bujobyfilo

8 күн бұрын

I didn't know she had written middlegrade! I read the morning gift, a company of swans, the secret countess and another one (don't remember the title) and it was such sweet cute innocent romance, truly YA, not like what's labeled YA today 😊

@lydiafrost8769

8 күн бұрын

@@bujobyfilo Yes, she wrote many! The Secret of Platform 13 was one of my favorites - very young Harry Potteresque but written earlier

whole vlog for 1q84 plsss!!!

You should know that the dream thieves is set in the summer and has such a sticky hot summer vibe if you want to continue with the series soon!

1Q84 will be my first Murakami and I am sweating (I haven't finished either of last month's book club picks yet so I'm probably doomed but that's ok lol)

Lost so many and Getting read to serve an indefinite amount of of time, your videos keep me sane. Thank you 🫰🏼

@QuinnValetine

7 күн бұрын

Picked up a copy of wuthering heights and someone had annotated with colored highlighter just about every single letter in some color in only the first 5 pages of the introduction and not once after 😭😭

Yes!!!! A vlog just for 1Q84❤

Two things 1) the cats are catting in the background, love to see it ; and 2) i'm reading Hesse's Siddhartha in July and obviously Steppenwolf is next on the list Happy birthday !

pleaseeee do a separate vlog for 1Q84!!!!

Yay for picking up Ali Smith! I hope you enjoy Hotel World.

1Q84 was my first Murakami and I loved it so much! Still one of my fav reads ever

oOooh I’m reading Floating Hotel right now and it’s getting so good! it’s such a fun world, I think you would enjoy it… it started out very cozy sci-fi but ramps up quick! 🚀❤

Omg july is my birth month too and i love making this month magical for myself so much🍀🪄✨

7:02 ooh ,The Birds, would love a review

Finally, someone else who hates their summer birthday! I was born in June, and heat and I do NOT get along. I wish I was born in the autumn, honestly. Hope that you have an amazing reading month, all these books sound so good! I also need to do something like this because working on my thesis has been making reading hard and I have nine books I've been trying to finish for months.

@QuestionsIAskMyself

3 күн бұрын

SAME!! Always hated my summer birthday. Good luck on your thesis

@Littlerose8

3 күн бұрын

@@QuestionsIAskMyself Thank you 😭 I'm dying from both the work and the heat and need all the encouragement I can get

Hope you enjoy your reads 📚🥤

As you like sci-fi and poetry, I would like to recommend to you one of the most poetic classical "hard" sci-fi books I have read: Poul Anderson's Tau Zero.

I remember enjoying all Eva Ibbotson's books many years ago. They're cute innocent YA romances.

Happy Birthday Dear Emma!! The best of everything to you. !!🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

emma pls read The Book of Disquiet pleaseeeeee❤❤

Oh my gosh, Hotel World! As a fellow lover of hotel literature, I think you will love that book. I read it during a very emotionally turbulent time in 2022 and there were a few lines that stole my breath away and genuinely felt healing. I hope you love it

@emmiereads

8 күн бұрын

Ahhhh amazing to hear, cannot wait🥹🥰

@wallfloweresque

8 күн бұрын

Ali Smith is the best

I started 1Q84 3 days ago . I am about to finish 2nd book. It is amazing. Cant wait to hear your opinions about it❤.

Emma you should definitely read Divine Rivals!

"This mean businesses" AHHAHA that killed me 🤣🤣

please please please please do a whole vlog on 1Q84 it’s one of my favorite books of all time

My sister born on January and she loves summer more than winter how funny is that 😂

I personally thought steppenwolf was a little underwhelming, but maybe it was just the wrong book at the wrong time for me… however, I would highly recommend Narziß und Goldmund from Hesse!! Absolute babe of a book

Aww I was really hoping you’d pick To the lighthouse, maybe next month :)

You should go to the southern hemisphere for your birthday some year! It would be winter!

Also Happy Birthday Emma 🎂❤️

Pls a dedicated video for 1Q84!!!!!

Hi Emmie. I love your channel. Your style is very real and down to earth so it is easy for me to watch, even your longer videos. Question: Have you ever read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke??? I don't recall you ever mentioning it. I highly recommend this book to you. I'm pretty sure you will love it!!!

Solaris is a wonderful read

1Q84 is soooo good! If anyone struggles with reading it I HIGHLY recommend the audiobook (english version). It's excellent!

I just love the way you speak.❤

Return of the King has a great structure: You know that Sauron will fall but you cannot guess what the effect will be on Sam and Frodo nor which heroes will survive. Then when you discover the answer to those questions (What will happen? What must happen?) you realize there is still quite a lot left to read! Personally, I very much liked the Sharkey story, even if it does seem somewhat contrived and twisted. A good twist is very hard to foresee but after it's revealed you think 'O yeah, that makes sense.' Thanks Emma, enjoyed - happy birthday.

I absolutely love your channel, and find I share a deep love of some of your favorite books--especially Anne of Green Gables and War and Peace. But how is it possible that I haven't heard you mention Wind in the Willows? In the unabridged form, this is so much more than a children's book. The writing is absolutely gorgeous, and you will especially love the cozy winter scene at the badger's house. Someone (wish I remembered who) wrote that The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the most beautiful chapter ever written in the English language, and I couldn't agree more. If you've covered this book, please tell me where, and if you haven't, hope you will do yourself a favor and read it. It will make you happy.

I'm about to start reading the picture of dorian gray, so excited

EMMMAAA!! I recently stumbled upon a rather obscure title which SCREAMED your name because it had two of your favourite elements: hotels and snow! It also has the dead haunting the living, a theme I’ve seen you explore in your reading. It’s called “The Children of the Dead” by Elfriede Jelinek

Omg your hair 😍😍😍

Is the GoT fable club still active? I've finally got time for joining again and I'm soo excited to read and discuss 1Q84! Also big yes for a whole vlog dedicated to this tome 🙏

Hi Emma! I saw it in one of your stacks and I BEG you to read Ladies' Paradise by Zola! It's one of my favourite classics and an incredibly descriptive book about 19th cent Paris

You should absolutely read Ubik, I loved Solaris and I really like Philip Dick's works, I think Ubik is the best one for me ❤