Yay!!! You read this month. Sometimes that’s all that matters. For about 2 months, I’ve only been reading mangas and just started reading the novel format again. I made myself feel guilty for only reading mangas but thought, “why?” I’m reading. So the short version is good job. :) The amount doesn’t matter and neither does the format.
You being real is exciting to me lol. It is one of the main reasons I watch you and have consistently for years on both channels. You don't pretend and make me feel normal 🙃 I have been in what seems like a never ending slump. I keep picking things up and never finishing. You are not alone and will get through it!
The point of the perspective in The Secret Life of Bees is to highlight the discomfort around racism, to highlight that, as white people, we could not possibly understand the true discrimination. By writing from Lily’s perspective of her time with incredible black women such as August and Rosaleen and the acts of discrimination and injustice that are done unto them, we’re made aware that, though we may witness them and be enraged by them, like Lily, we will never experience them and therefore can never /truly/ know just how abhorrent it is. Sue Monk Kidd, being a white woman, only knows how to write from a white perspective, but she used it to frame the racism of the 1960s without stepping on any toes or making any assumptions, and for that reason I really enjoy the perspective in the book!
The same thing happens to me with audiobooks through my library! They all come up and the same time. I recommend accepting them and then renewing them once they're up and try to get through them that way.
After a crappy day at work your videos makes me smile!!! I love your unpopular opinions because we have such a similar taste in books. I have been back into reading since June and had my biggest month with 14 books read in August - the majority being your recommendations! You make my little book nerd heart smile. Thank you for being fabulous!!
reading slumps are REAL! I might have a month like this one because I read so much last month, it was overwhelming towards the end. I mentioned in my Aug Wrap up that I enjoyed a handful of the books I read last month. All The Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood (Controversial book, tbh), Helium by Rudy Francisco & The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.
To All The Boy's I've Loved Before by Jenny Han. I read all 3 but didn't like the second or third much (they felt kind of bland compared to the first) But I loved the first book!!
Does re-reading Harry Potter count? :P If not probably All Systems Red! I totally agree with you and feel slightly awkward about how much I relate to Murderbot! 😂
Hello from Colombia ! . I read 5 books in August ( One in Spanish , 4 in English ) *El Prisionero del Cielo (The Prisoner of Heaven) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I strongly recommend The Cemetery of Forgotten Books saga. Soon I'll be starting the four and last installment. *First time reads: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix (*THE BEST I'VE READ*) , and the Half-Blood Prince. *Crazy Rich Asians.
Oh my God! The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books, ever! Definitely top when it comes down to Classics... I hope you'll like it in the end! It is a bit slow in the mid part as you already said but it's all worth it when things start to unfold ♥
What happened with Slaughterhouse 5?You started it during the readathon and have not mentioned it since . I only read 3 books in August mainly because my reading ground to a halt when I went on holiday The best was The Quiet Side of Passion by Alexander McCall Smith
Good luck getting out of your slump! One of my favorite books of August was The Truth Commission by Susan Juby--so funny and (for the most part) realistic teenagers, so much depth about friendship and family and the value of truth and how that relates to art. I feel like it was the perfect balance of page-turner, important topics, and great characters!
For The Count, the book ending and the movie ending are very different so actually you DON'T know what's going to happen which makes it so much more exciting! It's such a great book. I was entranced by it when I read it. (Also in the same edition as you. I just love the Folio books.)
I had a serious slump in the spring and have had brief run-ins with slumps for months after. The slump does pass, however. Definitely read what interests you in the moment and don’t worry about quotas. I try to read at least a few classics every year but this year I’ve yet to read any. I don’t want to risk the slump demon settling in again.
I loved The poppy war which I picked up after seeing your review on it and I am IN LOVE with it! I cannot wait for book 2. Kuang said she finished revisions on book 2, so soon I hope! Can't wait!!!!!
Sometimes reading a small amount of books is a great thing! I participated in the N.E.W.T.s readathon that was going on all month long in August. I didn't get to all the books I had planned to but I read way more than I usually do a month- The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan (Listened) The Sky People (Lords of Creation, #1) by S.M. Stirling Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood (Monstress, #2) by Marjorie Liu The Lucky Dress by Aimee Brown No Mercy by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Listened) Doctor Strange, Vol. 4: Mr. Misery by Jason Aaron Memoirs of a Dragon Hunter by Katie MacAlister Retribution by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Listened) I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers by Guinevere de la Mare, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Listened) The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide (Pottermore Presents, #3) by J.K. Rowling Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2) by J.K. Rowling Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies (Pottermore Presents, #1) by J.K. Rowling My favorites were The Guernsey and Literary Potato Peel Pie Society, Retribution, I'd Rather Be Reading and the Hogwarts short stories.
finished a man called ove. it was very good. it's always impressive when an author can get you to love someone you wouldn't normally. Let alone do it without you realizing it.
I haven't read in over a month. I hope to soon but every time I think of it I kind of freeze up. I was almost finished my book too so I hope when I do pick it up again I'll remember what's happening!!! Even in your reading slump you did really well! I think you'll be out of it soon. The weather will start to cool and it will make for nice cozy reading ;)
Don't worry! I have also been in a slump all summer. I just feel a lot of what I am picking up is just ok and the most anticipated reads this summer have really let me down. I only read 6 this month, although I finished a Sanderson which is impressive in itself. I started another 8 and am quite far through them all but my slump has meant I am taking a long time to finish any of them. They are all good, but only the one 700+ page classic is wowing me so far. This is not what I need in a slump. Hopefully will finish them this month as well as the books on my September tbr :/ we will see.
I actually had quite a few 5 star books for August! "Firebolt" by Adrienne Woods, "Fata Morgana" by Steven R Boyett & Ken Mitchroney, "180 Seconds" by Jessica Park, "When" by Victoria Laurie, "In the Middle of Somewhere" by Roan Parrish, and the Audible Original version of "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. :)
Oooh I definitely had a slump this summer as well. Only read four books in August and six in July (normally I read 10+ books). The ones that stood out were Not That Bad (edited by Roxane Gay) and Blindness by José Saramago. I hope you’ll finish The Count in September, good luck!!
Ouf I'm glad I'm not alone. I know it wasn't going to be a popular opinion but damn I really wanted to know more about the three sisters or really anyone else lol
Hi! Not sure if your libary does this but there is a way for some library systems to pause holds. I do this a lot and I don't loose my place in line but it I want multiple books and them not to be checked out at the same time I'll put the second one on hold just so I have time to listen/read both. Love the wrap up!
It may be fun to do a video on your favorite audiobooks! I tend to love stories read by their authors, especially "Little Princes" about volunteering in Nepal, and Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air"
Reread the confessions of georgia nicholson books this past month, a rollicking ride, even if some parts haven’t aged as well as others (lesbophobia and sooooo much fatphobia); so I’m kind of out of my slump, but the second most light-hearted and fast-paced books I have are harry potter, so this month I’m rereading those and dipping my toes into sort of quirky essay collections on specific cultural periods/movements (60s and 70s los angeles with eve babitz’s slow days, fast company; also a compilation called goth: the undead subculture, which I semi-seriously picked up because it was on sale)
I was really surprised that I loooved Lady Susan that I read earlier this year. At first, I was kinda unimpressed by the letter style, but then it worked for me very fast.
I've been in a slump too and ugh it's the worst. I've started reading Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes and I'm really enjoying it! I was worried that picking up a classic would worsen my slump but I think in a weird twist of events it's going to pull me out! Hopefully September picks up for you
I've been reading Jane Eyre literally all summer long and it rarely takes me this long to finish a book (unless I'm in a reading slump) so I'm excited to read something else ^^ it's weird because I do enjoy it but the language is tedious and I kind of have to focus to read it. My first language is french and I also read in english most of the time but you know, classics haha
I just binged The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K.Jemisin. Loved the books. They were emotionally difficult books, but really good. I'm definitely going to read more by her.
I'm in a huge slump too! I only managed 4/5 books each in July and August but I picked up some new contemporary YA books which I KNEW were fast-paced and I would enjoy, so it seeeems to be lifting? I definitely recommend 'More Happy Than Not' by Adam Silvera! (Altho, I think this is only newly published in the UK, might have been out a couple years there!)
Lady Susan is not one of my favorites by Jane Austen, however I really liked that she tries to write a main character so different from the others. The Count is amazing (as I said before) ABS the revenge takes some time to take place, since it's slow but well thought. And although the books is amazing, it is not best choice when in a slump unfortunately.
The World's Largest Man is the funniest book I've possibly ever read! Touching memoir about a hopelessly nerdy son growing up with his burly father in the bizarre American south of Mississippi😂
I’m also going through a bit of a slump. Most of my books have been meh... with the GREAT exception of Circe by Madeline Miller. One of the best of the year and hands down the best of an otherwise very average month. THE SLUMP IS REAL!!!
I started reading so many books in August but only managed to finish The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo which I enjoyed very much. But I think I'm not going to finish another book anytime soon because I started reading Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo. In French. I haven't read anything in French since school and the only book I remember reading there is about a 12 year old girl who runs away from home, moves in with a drug addict and goes skinny-dipping with him. So Hugo is a whole other level :'D
I have just (literally today ) picked up Wild Embers by Nikita Gill. It's a poetry collection; poems of rebellion, fire and beauty . It's just so great already !!! You know when pick something up and it speaks to your heart ❤️...well this collection has been like that for me !! I normally like to take time over poetry to properly absorb and digest it .It's taking all my restraint not to sit and read it all in one sitting xx Definitely worth checking out ❤️❤️
I actually read 10 books in August! Ones of note were the first three Harry Potters, Record of a Spaceborn Few (which unfortunately I think was my least favorite of the three), and A Conjuring of Light which was also probably my least favorite in the trilogy. But I also read Lady Susan after you talked about it and really liked it and the first in the Murderbot Diaries. :)
@@BookswithEmilyFox I just felt like since her books are so character driven, there were too many characters' perspectives to ever really feel invested in any of them, and the people I liked the most seemed to get the least attention. The pace picked up in the second half, but I just didn't enjoy the characters as much as I did in the first (or especially) second book. I've seen reviews though where people didn't really like the second book, but loved this one, so it just depends what sort of characters you connect with I guess. In a series that has introduced such interesting aliens I wasn't as into a book that was, more or less, all about humans. :P
Honestly I was in a bit of a slump too. I read books that friends online and IRL recommended to me but honestly they all fell kind of flat for me. They weren’t bad per say but nowhere near as good as I was lead to believe. Honestly, I enjoyed a webcomic called “All That We Hope to Be” by It Sun the most. A physical book I liked was “You Will Know Me” by Megan Abbott, which you didn’t like. I felt it was mislabeled genre wise as it was more psychological thriller rather than a mystery. I’m going to give the author another go and see if a like another book of hers more.
I only read 2! I liked them both, though. Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly was just a smidge better, though. A bit surprising, too. Gotta love the book slumping.
This month I read only 2 books. Tarnished city whitch is a young adult dystopian. It's a page turner, I really like the political plot, but, may be because it's a YA novel I think things are coming a bit too fast and I have some troubles to get along with the caracters. But I really enjoyed it and will have troubles to wait for the 3rd book. Then I read my 1st Sanderson book: Warbreaker. I liked it a lot, it was really entertaining. I was thinking it was an epic fantasy but it's more an "initiatic" (is this word exists in english?) one. I loved seeing the caracters evolution, the world building is rich. Thank you for the recomandation (english word???).
Congrats! Even if The Count of Montecristo can be a deeply rewarding book, the transition between the first part, packed with adventure and emotions, and the big plot, super slow and meditative, is not very fluid, it feels disconnected. Still, a great story! I managed to read Matt Haig's How to stop time, because he is going to present his book near my city next week and I'm super excited about it, but the novel… I thought it was the bad copy of The Humans - same ideas, same protagonist. Is it part your future TBR?
I'm reading Poppy war right now and I need to vent about somethinf rwally random and you're the only person I fallow that read it sooo THERE IS A ROMANCE WTF. Okay thats it ahah sorry. I feel better. Everywhere it says there was no romance (and from the author) too and I had to scream it somewhere. Like its the same amount as darker shade book 1 had. Please dont have a love triangle please please. Alright. Back to the book in inly 3/5 in.
Non elles viennent de YesStyle! Ils vendent des boucles d'oreilles (et maquillage et produits pour la peau asiatiques) pour pas chers donc je me sens moins mal quand je les perds lol
Do you know what you could do??? Read a romance. But - not joking right now - I really wish we can get out of these slamps, otherwise I’m gonna have to use violence against them.
Yay!!! You read this month. Sometimes that’s all that matters. For about 2 months, I’ve only been reading mangas and just started reading the novel format again. I made myself feel guilty for only reading mangas but thought, “why?” I’m reading.
So the short version is good job. :) The amount doesn’t matter and neither does the format.
You being real is exciting to me lol. It is one of the main reasons I watch you and have consistently for years on both channels. You don't pretend and make me feel normal 🙃 I have been in what seems like a never ending slump. I keep picking things up and never finishing. You are not alone and will get through it!
The point of the perspective in The Secret Life of Bees is to highlight the discomfort around racism, to highlight that, as white people, we could not possibly understand the true discrimination. By writing from Lily’s perspective of her time with incredible black women such as August and Rosaleen and the acts of discrimination and injustice that are done unto them, we’re made aware that, though we may witness them and be enraged by them, like Lily, we will never experience them and therefore can never /truly/ know just how abhorrent it is. Sue Monk Kidd, being a white woman, only knows how to write from a white perspective, but she used it to frame the racism of the 1960s without stepping on any toes or making any assumptions, and for that reason I really enjoy the perspective in the book!
It's okay to be white. 😙
Hypnotica420x didn’t say it wasnt just that we can never truly experience racism but go off i guess😘
Loati nah this ain’t it sorry sis
Just finished your mascara video and now this one... I feel blessed💘💘💘💘💘💘
The same thing happens to me with audiobooks through my library! They all come up and the same time. I recommend accepting them and then renewing them once they're up and try to get through them that way.
After a crappy day at work your videos makes me smile!!! I love your unpopular opinions because we have such a similar taste in books. I have been back into reading since June and had my biggest month with 14 books read in August - the majority being your recommendations! You make my little book nerd heart smile. Thank you for being fabulous!!
We are so extremes cause August has been my best reading month so far. I hope you'll be in the mood for reading again cause I truly miss your reviews.
reading slumps are REAL! I might have a month like this one because I read so much last month, it was overwhelming towards the end.
I mentioned in my Aug Wrap up that I enjoyed a handful of the books I read last month. All The Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood (Controversial book, tbh), Helium by Rudy Francisco & The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.
What's the best book you've read in August? :)
To All The Boy's I've Loved Before by Jenny Han.
I read all 3 but didn't like the second or third much (they felt kind of bland compared to the first) But I loved the first book!!
Does re-reading Harry Potter count? :P If not probably All Systems Red! I totally agree with you and feel slightly awkward about how much I relate to Murderbot! 😂
Hello from Colombia ! . I read 5 books in August ( One in Spanish , 4 in English )
*El Prisionero del Cielo (The Prisoner of Heaven) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I strongly recommend The Cemetery of Forgotten Books saga. Soon I'll be starting the four and last installment.
*First time reads: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix (*THE BEST I'VE READ*) , and the Half-Blood Prince.
*Crazy Rich Asians.
I think.. Everything I Never Told You. It was a beautiful story. Painful, heart-wrenching but it's moving and the writing is beautiful.
My favourite read in August was Quiet girl in a noisy world: An introvert's story.
Oh my God! The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books, ever! Definitely top when it comes down to Classics... I hope you'll like it in the end! It is a bit slow in the mid part as you already said but it's all worth it when things start to unfold ♥
I've just finish A Man Called Ove and it has officially broke me! Such an amazing book.
What happened with Slaughterhouse 5?You started it during the readathon and have not mentioned it since . I only read 3 books in August mainly because my reading ground to a halt when I went on holiday The best was The Quiet Side of Passion by Alexander McCall Smith
Good luck getting out of your slump! One of my favorite books of August was The Truth Commission by Susan Juby--so funny and (for the most part) realistic teenagers, so much depth about friendship and family and the value of truth and how that relates to art. I feel like it was the perfect balance of page-turner, important topics, and great characters!
For The Count, the book ending and the movie ending are very different so actually you DON'T know what's going to happen which makes it so much more exciting! It's such a great book. I was entranced by it when I read it. (Also in the same edition as you. I just love the Folio books.)
I'm halfway through the Mistborn trilogy based on your recommendation and I'm LOVING it!
Yesss, there is a movie after The Life of the Bees! I actually only saw the movie, but now I'm interested in the book as well! 😊
I had a serious slump in the spring and have had brief run-ins with slumps for months after. The slump does pass, however. Definitely read what interests you in the moment and don’t worry about quotas. I try to read at least a few classics every year but this year I’ve yet to read any. I don’t want to risk the slump demon settling in again.
I loved The poppy war which I picked up after seeing your review on it and I am IN LOVE with it! I cannot wait for book 2. Kuang said she finished revisions on book 2, so soon I hope! Can't wait!!!!!
Sometimes reading a small amount of books is a great thing! I participated in the N.E.W.T.s readathon that was going on all month long in August. I didn't get to all the books I had planned to but I read way more than I usually do a month-
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan (Listened)
The Sky People (Lords of Creation, #1) by S.M. Stirling
Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood (Monstress, #2) by Marjorie Liu
The Lucky Dress by Aimee Brown
No Mercy by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Listened)
Doctor Strange, Vol. 4: Mr. Misery by Jason Aaron
Memoirs of a Dragon Hunter by Katie MacAlister
Retribution by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Listened)
I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers by Guinevere de la Mare,
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Listened)
The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide (Pottermore Presents, #3) by J.K. Rowling
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2) by J.K. Rowling
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies (Pottermore Presents, #1) by J.K. Rowling
My favorites were The Guernsey and Literary Potato Peel Pie Society, Retribution, I'd Rather Be Reading and the Hogwarts short stories.
August is usually a funky month , most people are over Summer by then but its still too early for Fall !
finished a man called ove. it was very good. it's always impressive when an author can get you to love someone you wouldn't normally. Let alone do it without you realizing it.
I haven't read in over a month. I hope to soon but every time I think of it I kind of freeze up. I was almost finished my book too so I hope when I do pick it up again I'll remember what's happening!!!
Even in your reading slump you did really well! I think you'll be out of it soon. The weather will start to cool and it will make for nice cozy reading ;)
Don't worry! I have also been in a slump all summer. I just feel a lot of what I am picking up is just ok and the most anticipated reads this summer have really let me down. I only read 6 this month, although I finished a Sanderson which is impressive in itself. I started another 8 and am quite far through them all but my slump has meant I am taking a long time to finish any of them. They are all good, but only the one 700+ page classic is wowing me so far. This is not what I need in a slump. Hopefully will finish them this month as well as the books on my September tbr :/ we will see.
I actually had quite a few 5 star books for August! "Firebolt" by Adrienne Woods, "Fata Morgana" by Steven R Boyett & Ken Mitchroney, "180 Seconds" by Jessica Park, "When" by Victoria Laurie, "In the Middle of Somewhere" by Roan Parrish, and the Audible Original version of "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. :)
Oooh I definitely had a slump this summer as well. Only read four books in August and six in July (normally I read 10+ books). The ones that stood out were Not That Bad (edited by Roxane Gay) and Blindness by José Saramago. I hope you’ll finish The Count in September, good luck!!
Thank goodness you said that about the secret life of bees. I completely agree with you.
Ouf I'm glad I'm not alone. I know it wasn't going to be a popular opinion but damn I really wanted to know more about the three sisters or really anyone else lol
@@BookswithEmilyFox yeah! A little more on how the business was built, early struggles of August would've been nice to read about.
Totly agree with everything you say about The Count of Montecristo! The part set in Rome was soooo slow
I read around 15 books this month, I could recommend the Queen of the Tearling series.
Hi! Not sure if your libary does this but there is a way for some library systems to pause holds. I do this a lot and I don't loose my place in line but it I want multiple books and them not to be checked out at the same time I'll put the second one on hold just so I have time to listen/read both. Love the wrap up!
Hi Emily!!
My favorite read the Agust was To all boys I've love before.
Kisses💋💋
Em! Have you read The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein? It's so good! It's from the point of view of a dog, so obviously a great one.
It may be fun to do a video on your favorite audiobooks! I tend to love stories read by their authors, especially "Little Princes" about volunteering in Nepal, and Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air"
I love The Storied Life of AJ Fickery 🌹💕
I read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and it was amazing! Definitely one of the best books I've enjoyed this year.
Yay!! So happy you love it too :D
Reread the confessions of georgia nicholson books this past month, a rollicking ride, even if some parts haven’t aged as well as others (lesbophobia and sooooo much fatphobia); so I’m kind of out of my slump, but the second most light-hearted and fast-paced books I have are harry potter, so this month I’m rereading those and dipping my toes into sort of quirky essay collections on specific cultural periods/movements (60s and 70s los angeles with eve babitz’s slow days, fast company; also a compilation called goth: the undead subculture, which I semi-seriously picked up because it was on sale)
I was really surprised that I loooved Lady Susan that I read earlier this year. At first, I was kinda unimpressed by the letter style, but then it worked for me very fast.
I'm just wondering have you read "crime and punishment "and if so what you think of it, i personally liked it .❤
I've been in a slump too and ugh it's the worst. I've started reading Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes and I'm really enjoying it! I was worried that picking up a classic would worsen my slump but I think in a weird twist of events it's going to pull me out! Hopefully September picks up for you
I've been reading Jane Eyre literally all summer long and it rarely takes me this long to finish a book (unless I'm in a reading slump) so I'm excited to read something else ^^ it's weird because I do enjoy it but the language is tedious and I kind of have to focus to read it. My first language is french and I also read in english most of the time but you know, classics haha
Reading slump sucks 😭😭😭 I hope you get your reading pace back ❤️
I just binged The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K.Jemisin. Loved the books. They were emotionally difficult books, but really good. I'm definitely going to read more by her.
Dry Lands by Trent Mills. Would be a good Halloween read for October.
I completely agree with your assessment. And happy that you picked up that racial nuance regarding "Bees".
Based on you opinion of The Secret Life of Bees, you should read The Help if you haven’t. It has better perspectives!
I'm in a huge slump too! I only managed 4/5 books each in July and August but I picked up some new contemporary YA books which I KNEW were fast-paced and I would enjoy, so it seeeems to be lifting? I definitely recommend 'More Happy Than Not' by Adam Silvera! (Altho, I think this is only newly published in the UK, might have been out a couple years there!)
Lady Susan is not one of my favorites by Jane Austen, however I really liked that she tries to write a main character so different from the others.
The Count is amazing (as I said before) ABS the revenge takes some time to take place, since it's slow but well thought.
And although the books is amazing, it is not best choice when in a slump unfortunately.
My library is the same way! I also get allll the books at once and then I feel rushed because they are then all due at the same time
The World's Largest Man is the funniest book I've possibly ever read! Touching memoir about a hopelessly nerdy son growing up with his burly father in the bizarre American south of Mississippi😂
Read Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. It's not very long and there is a part about reading that never fails to get me out of a reading slump.
I read The Secret Life of Bees in August also... I gave it 5 stars
I’m also going through a bit of a slump. Most of my books have been meh... with the GREAT exception of Circe by Madeline Miller. One of the best of the year and hands down the best of an otherwise very average month. THE SLUMP IS REAL!!!
I started reading so many books in August but only managed to finish The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo which I enjoyed very much. But I think I'm not going to finish another book anytime soon because I started reading Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo. In French. I haven't read anything in French since school and the only book I remember reading there is about a 12 year old girl who runs away from home, moves in with a drug addict and goes skinny-dipping with him. So Hugo is a whole other level :'D
I have just (literally today ) picked up Wild Embers by Nikita Gill. It's a poetry collection; poems of rebellion, fire and beauty . It's just so great already !!! You know when pick something up and it speaks to your heart ❤️...well this collection has been like that for me !! I normally like to take time over poetry to properly absorb and digest it .It's taking all my restraint not to sit and read it all in one sitting xx Definitely worth checking out ❤️❤️
I actually read 10 books in August! Ones of note were the first three Harry Potters, Record of a Spaceborn Few (which unfortunately I think was my least favorite of the three), and A Conjuring of Light which was also probably my least favorite in the trilogy. But I also read Lady Susan after you talked about it and really liked it and the first in the Murderbot Diaries. :)
Oh I need to read the last Chambers book! I'm a bit nervous I won't like it lol
@@BookswithEmilyFox I just felt like since her books are so character driven, there were too many characters' perspectives to ever really feel invested in any of them, and the people I liked the most seemed to get the least attention. The pace picked up in the second half, but I just didn't enjoy the characters as much as I did in the first (or especially) second book. I've seen reviews though where people didn't really like the second book, but loved this one, so it just depends what sort of characters you connect with I guess. In a series that has introduced such interesting aliens I wasn't as into a book that was, more or less, all about humans. :P
Honestly I was in a bit of a slump too. I read books that friends online and IRL recommended to me but honestly they all fell kind of flat for me. They weren’t bad per say but nowhere near as good as I was lead to believe. Honestly, I enjoyed a webcomic called “All That We Hope to Be” by It Sun the most.
A physical book I liked was “You Will Know Me” by Megan Abbott, which you didn’t like. I felt it was mislabeled genre wise as it was more psychological thriller rather than a mystery. I’m going to give the author another go and see if a like another book of hers more.
What your are doing in your life Emily other than reading?
I've read the book of One Thousand and One Nights. Don't know what to say about it. It was ok.
You totally made me want to continue the count of monte cristo!!! (in english) lol
I only read 2! I liked them both, though.
Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly was just a smidge better, though. A bit surprising, too.
Gotta love the book slumping.
Liking the books you read in a slump is very helpful at least :)
When I’m in a slump I always read Terry Pratchett.
First day of school has just become *a lot* better
Yay! :D
This month I read only 2 books. Tarnished city whitch is a young adult dystopian. It's a page turner, I really like the political plot, but, may be because it's a YA novel I think things are coming a bit too fast and I have some troubles to get along with the caracters. But I really enjoyed it and will have troubles to wait for the 3rd book. Then I read my 1st Sanderson book: Warbreaker. I liked it a lot, it was really entertaining. I was thinking it was an epic fantasy but it's more an "initiatic" (is this word exists in english?) one. I loved seeing the caracters evolution, the world building is rich. Thank you for the recomandation (english word???).
I didnt read any books in August. So you did better than I did. Busy life.
Congrats! Even if The Count of Montecristo can be a deeply rewarding book, the transition between the first part, packed with adventure and emotions, and the big plot, super slow and meditative, is not very fluid, it feels disconnected. Still, a great story! I managed to read Matt Haig's How to stop time, because he is going to present his book near my city next week and I'm super excited about it, but the novel… I thought it was the bad copy of The Humans - same ideas, same protagonist. Is it part your future TBR?
Yes! I picked it up a few months ago and have been meaning to read it! Reviews don't seem super positive though :/
I really want to read the storied life of A.J.Fry but I have so many books already on my TBR 😂
At least you’re still reading. During my slumps I read NOTHING. So, bravo 👏👍
Oh gosh, I could not get into any Jane Austen AT ALL. But that’s probably cause I had to read it for school
you should use scribd.com instead of your library.
I'm reading Poppy war right now and I need to vent about somethinf rwally random and you're the only person I fallow that read it sooo
THERE IS A ROMANCE WTF. Okay thats it ahah sorry. I feel better. Everywhere it says there was no romance (and from the author) too and I had to scream it somewhere. Like its the same amount as darker shade book 1 had. Please dont have a love triangle please please.
Alright. Back to the book in inly 3/5 in.
Shout out to your bra strap!!! 😂😂😂 (my bra strap is always showing!!!)
The real star of the show 😂
est-ce que tes boucles d'oreilles viennent du simons?
Non elles viennent de YesStyle!
Ils vendent des boucles d'oreilles (et maquillage et produits pour la peau asiatiques) pour pas chers donc je me sens moins mal quand je les perds lol
Do you know what you could do??? Read a romance.
But - not joking right now - I really wish we can get out of these slamps, otherwise I’m gonna have to use violence against them.
At Least you read more than me.
Ps: I always read less than you.