Did I just read my best books of 2024? || Reading Vlog
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Hey Booktube, this has to be my best reading vlog of 2024! Started with two 5 star predictions and ended up reading some of the best books of the year!
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Listen, as someone who deals with high humidity and heat most of the year (north Carolina aka south United States) any extreme heat you are not used to is BRUTAL. Like it’s irrelevant if “my heat is worse” because I’m used to it. This is my normal. I’m sorry you’re dealing with such extremes. And man. Heat you can’t escape. You can only take off so many clothes and when you’re still hot it’s unbearable. I hope it cools down soon
We’re definitely not used to it! The same way if you were to experience -30C you’d have a rough time (although I don’t love that either lol)
Today it finally went down so we’re all good now!
Let’s take the step and plant trees. Going to share something soon.
I agree. Also, for some people, tolerance for heat is low. For example, I have lived in very hot and humid climate all my life in South Asia, and now have moved to Louisiana, but I never got used to this heat. I react badly to it and get extremely red and have all sorts of problems like extreme fatigue and increased heartrate. Hot weather is just not my thing!!
Uh oh time for Ice Planet Barbarians two to get you outta the 5-star book haze 🤣
I’m reading a different spicy book in July because of this actually haha
Hi, may i recommend a book for you. A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. It's slow to start but a wonderful semi biography.
watching this while it's 35 degrees and the humidity is high. I'm tired of summer already😅
My favorite season went from summer to fall in the last few years. I don’t like to breath my water 😭
Yesterday it was only 22°C here, but 80% humidity. I'm 6 months pregnant and I was so happy my husband took the toddler in the afternoon so I could nap😅 I'm feeling you, I would be starfishing in the bathtub with cold water...
@@BookswithEmilyFox hahaha where I live we breathe our water in every season
So refreshing to hear the temperature in celsius😂😂❤
Haha why aren't we all using that?
45C is like 113F!!! That's craaaaazy hot! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I'm dying when it's 90F (32C).
Right? The humidity is so bad here. This morning it was 100% humidity so even though it’s way cooler I’m still sweating 😂
Anything above 25C degrees is already nightmarish and unbearable for me. In the countryside or by the sea it’s still ok and bearable, but in a big city or in a city apartment….
I generally feel very bad in the heat. 🫠
I'm glad you are liking the Neapolitan series. It has become insanely famous here in Italy. I'm happy to know that is has been getting recognition abroad too ❤️
It deserves all the love! I'm so sad to be done
I really would like to know your opinion about "The Lost Bookshop" by Evie Woods! ☺️
The Tainted Cup is my first book I've read by that author and I ended up enjoying it so much I bought a physical copy of it (it was a library/libby read for me too).
I think I probably missed this update, but what happened to momma kitty? Love all the kitty content!!
What's the last book you gave 5 star to?
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence was worth 5⭐️ for sure!! Loved it and cannot wait for the next one.
Or the short novella When Among Crows by Veronica Roth (kind of wish it had been twice as long 🥲)
The Lions of Al Rassan by GGK. It was incredible!
The Tainted Cup!
The last book I gave five stars to was When in Rome by Sara Adams. I loved it! I don’t read a lot romance but it made me want to read more.
He who drowned the world by Shelley Parker-Chan
i finished the neapolitan novels earlier in the year and felt the exact same!! it was pure perfection.
also, if you do another of these vlogs, i think you'd really love betty by tiffany mcdaniel
I loved all the books in the Neapolitan series, and after the last one, I got her short book “ the lost daughter “ I kept it and didn’t read it till later because I love those books😃😃 it was really good too.
I’m like you, by the last book Lenu was not a favorite of mine, but when you think about it she’s the one that was able to get herself out of poverty somehow . They are such complex characters and you love them and hate them at the same time
So glad to see you enjoying those two books ! I've read and really enjoyed the Tainted Cup earlier this year and I am not surprised you liked it too !
I do want to start My Brilliant Friend but I want to challenge myself to read it in Italian and I am not at the right level yet. Having L'amica geniale staring at me from my TBR shelf keeps me motivated to learn so there is that !
🤞🤞 For more great books to come for you this summer !
I feel you, I've got the same problem with L'amica geniale 😂
I was a bit nervous after reading a few of his books so it was a nice surprise!
I feel like the vocabulary isn’t the easiest so I understand. I believe in you though ❤️
A book about a guy going around sniffing things sounds fantastic. It would be even funnier if no one knew why he was doing it, just a dude randomly smelling everything and then thinking about it 😆
LOL tbf to him he’s sniffing a jar from his pocket while people talk to him or while walking around trying to memorize the things he’s seeing… nvm that still sounds weird 💀
You guys should read perfume, it’s a French book where the main character is a murderer who is obsessed with specific people’s scent
I've heard Neapolitan fans love "The Forbidden Notebook" by Céspendes De Alba
The next book I have with a complex female friendship is "Ponti" by Sharlene Teo.
The brst female friendship book I've read this year was "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See.
Also heard The Copenhagen trilogy by Tove Ditlevson called the Danish Neapolitan series.
I am currently reading McMaster's Guide to Homicide and it's so good. I love that while the characters take the subject serious the book itself doesn't. It knows what it is.
I was dying in may with our Mexican (Mexico's City) heat waves too!!! since we are not in the coast here we don't have AC's so we we're having serious problems with the demand on AC's and fans. So totally understandable
My first 5⭐️ is Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepety
Your blouse from about min 2:50 is beautiful 😍 can you let me know from where you got it and also if you have tips what to wear underneath? I would like to have something which is not immediately noticeable so good to wear for work.
Thank you! I’ve had it for years unfortunately but it’s from Dabagirl!
@@BookswithEmilyFox still, thank you!
Emily!… I gather you’re feeling better? You’re killing it with the book content! 😍 Excited to watch this video 🫶🏻
Your cats are soooo pretty 😍 🤗
And they know it 😂
It's been around 35 degrees Celsius for a few weeks by me, I'm ready for summer to end, haha. Sorry to hear that Canada is also experiencing heatwaves. I always assume that Canada is a winter wonderland lol
A common misconception! Most of the Canadian population lives quite close to the US border. We have long winters (but they’re getting shorter!!) but have four very distinct seasons and warm summers! 😊
Thank you for uploading while I am waiting at the airport. 😂🎉
Also you’re right about City of Blades, I wasn’t emotionally invested either and I DNF’d it. I gave book one a 5-stars. 😢 Ooooo I am *really* hoping that I also enjoy The Tainted Cup!
Have a nice trip! 🎉
I love you talking about My Brilliant Friend because that whole series is huge where I live (Portugal), and I’m only missing the last one and you’ve made me even more excited!!! I love them both so much, but they’re also so awful and questioning what they do!!!
But I also wanted to recommend to you a very short book called, in English, Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy!!! It has a similar dynamic to Lenu and Lila, and it has the historical background, of being post war Europe
Really appreciate your videos and you sharing your thoughts!!
I hope you'll love the last one as much as I did!
I always thought that Canada wasn't that hot during summer... or is it rather a modern development?
For the past 20 years, winters in my country's becoming warmer and warmer, and I don't remember summers being this difficult when I was a kid😅
Some southern parts of Canada have always gotten super hot and humid in the summer!
Eu amo seu conteúdo, vc é p mim como a Clare é para vc. Qdo posta corro e venho assistir ❤❤❤
I definitely didnt look up what 40°c is in f° 😂
i would sell my soul to read the napolitean books for the first time again
I hated the last book in My Brilliant Friend. But not like in a “this is bad” way. I just really hated what they ended up going through. Like damn.
I’m so emotionally exhausted for them 😭
I had never heard The Tainted Cup and I'm a big fan of Holmes-Watson dynamic. a murder mystery set in a fantasy world with an eccentric female holmes-adjacent are you kidding me?! You didn't even finish describing it and I placed the order🤣 I'm so glad you gave it a 5 stars because I generally really love the books you love so I'm really excited!
Yay! You’ll have to let me know how you feel about it once you’re done!
I freaking love that shirt girl. We are in a heat wave here in the South of US. I've been avoiding the outdoors.
Darling we have a heat wave which is hideous and it got so bad as to 50 degrees... It is soooooooo bad so bad... we can hardly eat anything in the mornings especially. It's killing meeeeee... also I was a katherine girly through and through..
@@BookswithEmilyFox nahhh
I think honestly you have one of the catchiest titles… you’re doing a good job Emily… 💜
Our heat index for the past months range from 40-43 degrees 😭 sucks to live right at the equator 😂 stay hydrated!
With the humidity that’s what it was like here… we’re not used to that!
I’ve always wanted to live somewhere nicer/warmer but humidity would make me reconsider lol
It’s hard to breathe sometimes 🤣🤣 and your hair would go back to factory settings 😭
It is extremely hot in South Asia.
Even my cats climb over my bookshelves and china cabinets. 🐈⬛🐈⬛
I can’t imagine! Stay safe!
I honestly didn’t like tainted cup that much. I rated it 3 stars. It was a fun enjoyable read but not one of my favorites. I’m glad you liked it though.
Sometimes I feel like when you read a book really affects your rating. After the grace of kings it was definitely a 5 star 😂
Woohoo! I was nervous for you to read The Tainted Cup because I feel like some of the things you've said you're not a fan of in this author's other books are here too, but I've really loved it and hoped you would too! And as a neurodivergent person, I've loved Ana's character and her being shown as someone atypical but badass!
I’m hoping she’ll stay interesting in book 2!
I really liked the book written by Rufi Thorpe
'The Girls from Corona del Mar' (it's a stand alone), which also coveres the topic of a complicated femal friendship. I highly recommend it! 📖
For anyone who has read more of Elena Ferrante. Did you enjoy any of her other books?
I have read "The lying lifes of adults" and "Troubling love" and they don't have the same magic for me as the series. Maybe I just don't get it. 🫠 Currently reading "The days of abandonmnet", which seems to be better.
I’m excited for your review of the Unmaking of June Farrow! I really enjoyed the book and the characters reminded me of river song and the doctor 😭💗 also i recommend you check out the show Outer Range!! It’s a mystery sci fi and I’m hooked!! Loved the video💗💗✨
I read book 1 of the Neapolitan novels & have acquired the rest of the series. Hoping to dive into book 2 soon. Preparing for devastation but more importantly know it will be worth the read.
Gurlllllll, we run our Acs at 27 and that too only for few hours coz electricity is too expensive here.
BTW, 40c is normal for us. We suffer this every year for like 3-4 months
You have to read “I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons” by Peter Beagle. Cozy fantasy that has made me LOL, pet dragons with cat attitude… you will love love love it.
one of my favourite sci-fi/fantasy books this year is the empire of silence by christopher ruocchio and funnily enough it’s also roman inspired 😂 I really recommend it nevertheless
I read foundryside in may and really didn’t enjoy it - the dialogue felt like a marvel movie and the characters were a bit too archetypal for me. I have been refusing to consider the tainted cup since then, but now I’m actually interested again 💛
Happy Saturday Emily hope you have a great weekend with ur kittens 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊📚📖📖📚📙📙📙📙📙📙📙📚📚📚📚📖📖📚📚📖📙📙📚📙📙📙📖📖📖📖📚📚📙📙📚📚📙📚
I highly recommend the adaptation of the Neapolitan series on Crave (My brilliant friend). It’s very done, and there was something special about experiencing this story in Italian.
-30 at night is insane. Hopefully that goes away and doesn't come back. Holy.
The heat wave was brutal! My house is almost 100 years old and it was 80 in the house with the AC on. Thank goodness it’s cooler again and only in the mid-eighties.
This week was literal hell. Like NEW JERSEY was hotter than TEXAS!! Glad yo see you survived too.
I'm on the same Robert Jackson Bennet dilemma: I've read and finished the City of Stairs trilogy, and I found the first pretty good, kinda didn't liked the second one but the third was an excellent conclusion, and I've really seen everyone recommending The Tainted Cup so I don't know.
I may trust you and finally read it 😹
its always funny watching people complain in summer about the temperature when in uae it's 80% humidity and 49 celsius (i know its hotter in other places) but also i have mad respect for how u guys survive the cold ass winter there
I pretty much never think about Rome but I did buy "The Emperor of Rome" by Mary Beard this year because I thought it would be nominated for the women's prize for nonfiction, but it wasn't and I haven't read it yet.
I am sitting here where it's 17 degrees celsius I am in BC and omg I feel for you I hope it has cooled down! And two 5 stars damn I think you need some cheesy romance or something like a good manga or middle grade to get you through the depression and the feels after that! I just finished two books and both were good as well and the book hangover is real!
I just finished The Tainted Cup and I loved it so much!! The Unmaking of June Farrow was the first book I read this year and I really enjoyed it and how twisty it was. 😊
I'm glad we finally Unmasked June Farrow 😂😂😂
I am rereading the Neapolitan Series and love it just as much as the first time! I have been dying to hear your thoughts on the last one!
I haven’t read the tainted cup but from the sound of it it might have been inspired by agatha christie’s ms marple
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There is a theory that My Brilliant Friend was actually written by a group of authors.
I hadn’t heard of that one… I’m still cackling at the rumour that it was an older man 😂
@@BookswithEmilyFox 🤣 yeah that's a good one 🤣 While Domenico Starnone could have been one of the potential collaborators, I think this screams female voice. I think it is more likely collaborative effort that included Anita Raja. Of course there is possibly that Elena Ferrante remained an independent female author hidden behind that pseudonym.
😂 you look devastated that's a book thanks for the recommendation 😊 I have two 5 star recs for you from the last month or so thornhedge by t. kingfisher and on my own by Florence falk🎉
Hope the heatwave goes away soon❤ And this really makes me more and more intrigued to read that series. 👀
Yay! The Tainted Cup was my first Robert Jackson Bennett and I gave it 5 stars.
I'm sooo glad the heat wave is breaking today. I'm over it!
I'm on the third book of the Neapolitan novels. But I reread the second half of the first novel, I'll eventually re-read them too.
I'm glad you enjoyed your books , albeit the book hangover you seem to be in. The heat wave in the week before La St-Jean Baptiste is becoming a pattern. I have taken the week off at work this year and plan to do the same next year. Best decision ever! We don't have A/C at work. It's cooled down a bit too much to my liking now. It's 17°C and rainy. Have a good one!
As long as it's not 40C again I won't complain too much lol
I’m in such a slump and want that staring at the wall feeling so much 😫
I love The Tainted cup so much hope you love and enjoy it I love the cover so beautiful Emily 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊📙📙📚📚📖📖📚📖📖📚📖📖📖📙📙📙📚📚📖📖📚📚📖📖📖📖📖📙📙📙📙📚📚📖📖📚📖📖📚📚📙📙📚📖📙📚
Bridgerton was such a disappointment I actually think I am not going to watch the next couple seasons. What was that? We were supposed to be rooting for Pen and yet... It was very lazy writing and editing and even colour grading.
Why did she have smokey eyes??
Like we’re not watching for historical accuracy but the smokey eyes were too much 😭
I've been following you for a very long time and I can attest that this book series wrecked you.
I know this feeling of reading something so good you don't know what to do afterwards. I hope you're feeling better.
I’m going to need something light after this 😭💔
I mean, I’ve just started the video but yey to forest green❤
🙋♀️ I also survived the heatwave. But I'll wait before reading Elena Ferrante. Not ready yet.
It’s a lot emotionally but it was worth it!
Girl I get you I'm currently watching you from Basra, where it is 51°C i'm dying
I can’t imagine! Stay safe and hydrated ❤️
I want to read tainted cup so bad 😭
You should!
Its 104f where im at and my house is about 80f with ac on so i feel you. Its disgusting 😭😭😭
Central AC sounds real good 😭
Luckily it went back down today so I’ll be oky
I see Emily’s video and I go “yess”
i want to watch this soooo bad but i can't watch past 17:17, haven't finish the book yet!!!
Haha that’s totally fair! I’m careful with spoilers but I’d do the same ❤️
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The Tainted Cup is definitely Asian-inspired, I'm not sure what felt Roman, lol.
The bamboo, the paper walls, even the hats and plants on the US and UK covers...
Haha in my défense in the beginning the names were definitely giving me Roman vibes 😂