Also I absolutely love it when you pick apart the technical writing and editing errors in books because I am like that too! I just can't get through poorly edited work, no matter how compelling the story is.
hey emma !! loved this video :) i just wanted to say you convinced me to finally read frankenstein and oh. my. god. it was so good thank you for consistently recommending it cant believe i didn’t read it sooner!!!
I wrote an essay on Zofloya or the Moor. Everyone I mention it to hasn't heard of it. I took a module in Women's Writing during the romantic era, and compared it to Joanna Baillie's Plays on the Passions. The language isn't too boggish, I found it quite readable.
funnily enough the only reason why it's on my bookshelf was because I saw it in Emma's book collection and it sounded interesting. I haven't heard anyone else talking about it either.
Emma, I recently read Even if this Love Disappears Tonight, and need I say more?! I sobbed for the first time in ages. Tooru Kamiya is one of the best characters I’ve ever met. In short, I just wanted to thank you, a million times over!!
Hi Emma! Your recommendations work so well for me ❤ I'm very grateful for many many beautiful books I picked up and LOVED thanks to you.. most recently I read The Ice Palace and it was so gorgeous and incredibly touching. I was teary all the way and eventually sobbed.. Loved it Thank you for being here and sharing with us your awesome taste!
Thx Emma. I didn't quite get why you had to read those books you obviously didn't like. The other day someone lent me a James Patterson paperback, and it was a pleasure - though a brief one seeing as I finished the two short novels in two days. By the way, loved the Agatha Christie video, and am proud of you for having solved the mystery! For next month I've three different versions of Eugene Onegin, and am looking at Advent calendars to send as gifts - take car.
ahhh so excited to watch this! i've been in a reading slump for a while now and i've only been reading comics or fanfiction so hopefully this will put me in more of a reading mood especially for spooky/ fall books!✨🎃
Emma, thank you for existing. Your channel has become my safe place over the past two years. After a whole day filled with grief and crying over the tragic loss of Matthew Perry, this video came as a much-needed source of comfort and solace. Sending you lots of love.🤍 (English is not my first language. I apologize for any mistakes.)
Listening you talk about A Wolf for a Spell it reminded me a lot of the movie Wolfwalkers, it has gorgeous art style and it can be very comforting, I think you would really like it :)
Hope everyone is having a great Sunday! Currently reading After Dark and Mrs. Dalloway. Also, super excited because next week the author Sandra Cisneros is coming to my hometown to talk about her new book of poems and other topics. I highly recommend for people to read her book "The House on Mango Street". I love that book because as a Latina, I can relate to it so much.
I agree and sometimes when I read it there are times when I feel like I am having a fever dream. Such a good book, I am a few chapters away from finishing. :)
thank emma! for reading "to be devoured" so i dont have to :D Because it sounded so good and the cover had me hooked, but you spared me of missery i guess! thanks alot for that! also.. the strawberry blouse? SO FREAKING CUTE~ you looked really pretty in it, fits you well also, to not having to read 24h-readathons alone again, maybe think about creating a discord server where we all can join you in and chat about what we read, finished and such :3 would totally be in on this!
Been looking forward to this since I saw the one star review pop up on Goodreads. Yep, a satisfying overview. (I will *never* be over the Kingdom of Little Wounds experience)
“Unfortunately in books you can only communicate in sentences” i felt that until i read A Story Without Words, The Sun, and The Idea made with woodcuts.
I'm reading City of Thieves right now, and it's sooo good. The author is the executive producer of game of thrones too. It's an adventure story about two young russian men during the seige of leningrad. The audiobook is so entrancing too.
Hi Emma. If you want books that talk about specific diet, I recommend reading Tokyo Ghoul. Tokyo Ghoul is a very famous manga that I reminded me of morkami's writting. If you had the time to pick it up, I would love to hear your thoughts. ❤
Hi Emma, sorry you didn't have a great reading time but glad you at least had one :) If you like cosy forest books with multiple perspectives and characters becoming intertwined, try Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, I really enjoyed it and the writing for me was soo gorgeous!
I love it when you break down the language in a book, both informative and hilarious. In terms of the interest surrounding eating and symbolism, 'Woman Eating' by Claire Kohda seems to pop up a lot and may be a good fit?
If you’re interested in books about diet, I was wondering if you’d read The Vegetarian by Han Kang? I read it earlier this year and found it really impactful. More importantly, I’m finally catching up on your videos after rough study months and it’s so calming and wonderful. Thank you for creating that kind of space on here, it’s so very lovely ♥️
RE using diet as a means of breaking the norm in fiction, I think you could enjoy Sayaka Murata's short story collection "Life Ceremony". It contains (among others) multiple stories that explore this topic in different ways, such as cannibalism as a funeral rite (titular story) or foraging in a Japanese metropolis ("Eating the City", I think it was called). The collection hasn't garnered nearly as much attention as her novels have, but there's some really interesting stuff in there. Liebe Grüße aus Österreich 😊
Considering you like books dealing with unusual diets, I think you’d like Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda. Basically it’s one of those “sad girl in her twenties” books, but the MC is a vampire who’s having trouble eating properly without harming people.
Hi Emma, when I saw calcifer towards the end of the video I immediately smiled: omg she’s woken up and so cute! I love all cats especially the orange ones but I have a special place in my heart for calcifer. Also I know that you’re not very into movies but there is this nerve wrecking horror movie called raw, it’s about a vegetarian girl who’s started her uni to become a veterinarian but she began to develop an obsession towards raw meet. I have found it thought provoking but it has very disturbing images I have to say. Maybe you’d wanna check it out :)
since you didn't enjoy the vampire manga you tried, I highly highly highly recommend The Case Study of Vanitas (or Vanitas no Carte) instead! it's a wonderful manga centering on a world with vampires starting a human who cheekily calls himself a doctor trying to heal a mysterious cure plaguing vampires and an unlikely vampire companion that travels with him. the story is so amazingly written, it's so engaging, the art is beautiful, I Adore the main cast, and it has very bisexual and very fleshed out love square between the four main characters who are all just the most messy (and adult,) idiots known to man. it's just spooky enough for the season but is overall just such a great manga, literally one of my few 10/10 series
Did you get To Be Devoured from Little Ghosts? I got a novella from there called Agony’s Lodestone and enjoyed it! It’s set in New Brunswick and focuses on sibling relationships and grief. I recommend.
I don't know if you've watched "Knives Out", but I was definitely expecting you to say "This is stoopid with two o's" when ranting about the language. 😂
This was the last weekend of the month - what about the Game of Tomes livestream? I might have missed the announcement or something but don't see it posted anywhere. Anyone know what is up?
So many bad vulture facts in that book. 😂 They actually will only eat freshly dead carrion and will reject rotting meat. Anyway, a book with some cool discussion of food and eating and tying all that to family and such is Women Eating by Claire Kohda.
Hi! First, I love the striped shirt. Second, I am sorry you are reading books that are so badly written. You are very courageous for reading them (so we don't have to). I am not as patient. Hope your next reads will be much better. Ciao!
EMMAAA!!! I recently came across a book called ‘Maddalena and the Dark’ which is a dark, gothic tale about violin music and the unbridled ambition of two women. It SCREAMED your name and I was waiting for a new video so I could recommend it. PLEASEEE READ IT!!!!
I'm so disappointed to hear that to be devoured sucks! I've also been meaning to read it forever but couldn't find it in any bookstores. Maybe I'll just give up on it now
Emmie did u watch the ‘Leave the world behind’s’ trailer. With a fantastic cast of Ethan Hawke, Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali I am just hoping it will be as good as your review or better
Am I missing something. 'If I eat a humans meat', this is correct. She's wondering what it would be like to eat a humans meat; you could put flesh I suppose, 'If I eat a humans flesh', but same thing different word, may be ate would be batter.
I'm so sorry you disliked "To Be Devoured." I picked it up when I saw it on your haul video and I loved it. I agree there were spelling issues but the story gripped me enough that I just jumped over them. I didn't expect our narrator to make as much grammatical sense, considering the state of mind she was in. It's also not a book about alternative diets, I interpreted it as a desperate attempt to keep the people we love close to us.
I love watching Emma bash this book that most amature readers would think is fancy writing. While she in all her educated glory is picking apart the normal simple Grammer mistakes 😂
To Be Devoured seems like a way worse version of Raw or Bones and All.. there’s so much good cannibalism in media, sucks that this novel does it unsuccessfully
LOL! So you won't be teaching, dyslexic students would grind your gears constantly. My daughter is an english teacher and has the same problem I worry she could damage students self-esteem with the attitude she has, I hope she is kinder to her students than she is in her venting to me.
Eating roadkill isn't the same as eating "regular" dead animals tho. Is not the same to kill an animal for consumption than an animal getting accidentally killed for being too near to the road and you decide to not "waste" it. I wish the book explored roadkill and feeling like a vulture more instead of taking cannibalism/murder route
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“are you getting the chicken thoughts ?? why did they cross the road ??” this is exactly the type of book analysis i subscribed for.
They crossed the road to get away from that awful book.
Also I absolutely love it when you pick apart the technical writing and editing errors in books because I am like that too! I just can't get through poorly edited work, no matter how compelling the story is.
It's cruel to ask you to read more bad books, but your reactions to shitty books are incredible. The Shatter Me vlog still gives me good laughs.
"While you're eating this rotisserie chicken, are you getting the chicken thoughts?"
This was unintentionally the funniest line here 😂
i am having a complicated relationship with the world right now, but then a notification from emmie comes up. i am feeling warm again
hey emma !! loved this video :) i just wanted to say you convinced me to finally read frankenstein and oh. my. god. it was so good thank you for consistently recommending it cant believe i didn’t read it sooner!!!
I’m so glad you overanalyze grammar in books bc SAME EMMIE SAME
I wrote an essay on Zofloya or the Moor. Everyone I mention it to hasn't heard of it. I took a module in Women's Writing during the romantic era, and compared it to Joanna Baillie's Plays on the Passions. The language isn't too boggish, I found it quite readable.
Ah cool! Definitely should have gone with Zofloya in this one 😅
funnily enough the only reason why it's on my bookshelf was because I saw it in Emma's book collection and it sounded interesting. I haven't heard anyone else talking about it either.
Emma, I recently read Even if this Love Disappears Tonight, and need I say more?! I sobbed for the first time in ages. Tooru Kamiya is one of the best characters I’ve ever met. In short, I just wanted to thank you, a million times over!!
My favorite Canadian bookaholic is back! You're a true inspiration, Emma! Keep up the good work! Happy Halloween! 🙂
Yay 🎉 new Emma video. Happy Sunday 🥰
My fellow struggling humans, if you find your therapy sessions aren't really working, stop and ask yourself "Am I confiding in a dead deer?"
Always a good question to ask yourself 😂
Hi Emma! Your recommendations work so well for me ❤ I'm very grateful for many many beautiful books I picked up and LOVED thanks to you.. most recently I read The Ice Palace and it was so gorgeous and incredibly touching. I was teary all the way and eventually sobbed.. Loved it
Thank you for being here and sharing with us your awesome taste!
I’m so happy to hear that!! 🩵✨
@@emmiereads hey when is Ann Rice vampire chronicles 2 book vampire lestat review comeing?
That moment when one of your favorite TH-camrs posts
Lovely to see you again! Hope you are doing ok and enjoying fall 😊
Solo readathon I can't wait 💗💗
this came at The perfect time, i just drove to a coffeeshop to read and see how much i could read today !!
Ah amazing, have the coziest day🩵
Thx Emma. I didn't quite get why you had to read those books you obviously didn't like. The other day someone lent me a James Patterson paperback, and it was a pleasure - though a brief one seeing as I finished the two short novels in two days. By the way, loved the Agatha Christie video, and am proud of you for having solved the mystery! For next month I've three different versions of Eugene Onegin, and am looking at Advent calendars to send as gifts - take car.
ahhh so excited to watch this! i've been in a reading slump for a while now and i've only been reading comics or fanfiction so hopefully this will put me in more of a reading mood especially for spooky/ fall books!✨🎃
Emma, thank you for existing. Your channel has become my safe place over the past two years. After a whole day filled with grief and crying over the tragic loss of Matthew Perry, this video came as a much-needed source of comfort and solace. Sending you lots of love.🤍 (English is not my first language. I apologize for any mistakes.)
Listening you talk about A Wolf for a Spell it reminded me a lot of the movie Wolfwalkers, it has gorgeous art style and it can be very comforting, I think you would really like it :)
Hope everyone is having a great Sunday! Currently reading After Dark and Mrs. Dalloway. Also, super excited because next week the author Sandra Cisneros is coming to my hometown to talk about her new book of poems and other topics. I highly recommend for people to read her book "The House on Mango Street". I love that book because as a Latina, I can relate to it so much.
After Dark is awesome! I thought it has a very magical and mystical vibe when I read it :)
I agree and sometimes when I read it there are times when I feel like I am having a fever dream. Such a good book, I am a few chapters away from finishing. :)
i read after dark a few weeks ago and i absolutely loved it! i hope you enjoy it too! :]
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thank emma! for reading "to be devoured" so i dont have to :D Because it sounded so good and the cover had me hooked, but you spared me of missery i guess! thanks alot for that!
also.. the strawberry blouse? SO FREAKING CUTE~ you looked really pretty in it, fits you well
also, to not having to read 24h-readathons alone again, maybe think about creating a discord server where we all can join you in and chat about what we read, finished and such :3 would totally be in on this!
Obsessed!!! This is making me want to try to do the 24hr challenge! I feel like I would get so many headaches though🫠
Been looking forward to this since I saw the one star review pop up on Goodreads. Yep, a satisfying overview. (I will *never* be over the Kingdom of Little Wounds experience)
Trying to read as much of Gorillas in the Mist that I can today - read-a-thons inspire me. Thanks!
Thank you for calling me a beautiful little bookworm 🥲
Any time💙💙
“Unfortunately in books you can only communicate in sentences” i felt that until i read A Story Without Words, The Sun, and The Idea made with woodcuts.
I’ve started reading the phantom of the opera bc u recommended it, and oh my god I already love it even tho I’m only 86 pages in
Same here 💞
I'm reading City of Thieves right now, and it's sooo good. The author is the executive producer of game of thrones too. It's an adventure story about two young russian men during the seige of leningrad. The audiobook is so entrancing too.
Hi Emma. If you want books that talk about specific diet, I recommend reading Tokyo Ghoul. Tokyo Ghoul is a very famous manga that I reminded me of morkami's writting. If you had the time to pick it up, I would love to hear your thoughts. ❤
Cool I use those relaxing rain things.
Gonna read while this plays in the background. I'm reading Paradise Rot, What Moves the Dead, and Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird.
Dear Emma, i'm glad you found joy in your last reading. I like middle grade books too.
Hi Emma, sorry you didn't have a great reading time but glad you at least had one :) If you like cosy forest books with multiple perspectives and characters becoming intertwined, try Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, I really enjoyed it and the writing for me was soo gorgeous!
Yay!! Good morning Emma! Have been patiently waiting for your next video and it’s here! 😊
The first review was hilarious. And such a lovely top!
I need this chair/sofa it looks so comfy
I love it when you break down the language in a book, both informative and hilarious. In terms of the interest surrounding eating and symbolism, 'Woman Eating' by Claire Kohda seems to pop up a lot and may be a good fit?
If you’re interested in books about diet, I was wondering if you’d read The Vegetarian by Han Kang? I read it earlier this year and found it really impactful.
More importantly, I’m finally catching up on your videos after rough study months and it’s so calming and wonderful. Thank you for creating that kind of space on here, it’s so very lovely ♥️
Honestly im impressed you even finished To Be Devoured. I would not have bothered to finish it 😅
RE using diet as a means of breaking the norm in fiction, I think you could enjoy Sayaka Murata's short story collection "Life Ceremony". It contains (among others) multiple stories that explore this topic in different ways, such as cannibalism as a funeral rite (titular story) or foraging in a Japanese metropolis ("Eating the City", I think it was called). The collection hasn't garnered nearly as much attention as her novels have, but there's some really interesting stuff in there.
Liebe Grüße aus Österreich 😊
Currently reading The Phantom of the Opera and Wuthering Hights for spooky season :)
Around the 7min mark, that was the most Canadian sorry I've ever heard in my life 😂
Oh my god!! new readathon vedio❤❤❤❤🎉
Considering you like books dealing with unusual diets, I think you’d like Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda. Basically it’s one of those “sad girl in her twenties” books, but the MC is a vampire who’s having trouble eating properly without harming people.
If only I had the energy to stay relatively focussed for this long - I might be able to finish my monthly reading goals on time for once 🙂
Hi Emma, when I saw calcifer towards the end of the video I immediately smiled: omg she’s woken up and so cute! I love all cats especially the orange ones but I have a special place in my heart for calcifer. Also I know that you’re not very into movies but there is this nerve wrecking horror movie called raw, it’s about a vegetarian girl who’s started her uni to become a veterinarian but she began to develop an obsession towards raw meet. I have found it thought provoking but it has very disturbing images I have to say. Maybe you’d wanna check it out :)
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since you didn't enjoy the vampire manga you tried, I highly highly highly recommend The Case Study of Vanitas (or Vanitas no Carte) instead! it's a wonderful manga centering on a world with vampires starting a human who cheekily calls himself a doctor trying to heal a mysterious cure plaguing vampires and an unlikely vampire companion that travels with him. the story is so amazingly written, it's so engaging, the art is beautiful, I Adore the main cast, and it has very bisexual and very fleshed out love square between the four main characters who are all just the most messy (and adult,) idiots known to man. it's just spooky enough for the season but is overall just such a great manga, literally one of my few 10/10 series
TH-cam is trying so hard to hide this channel from my recommends and I won't let them win
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Did you get To Be Devoured from Little Ghosts? I got a novella from there called Agony’s Lodestone and enjoyed it! It’s set in New Brunswick and focuses on sibling relationships and grief. I recommend.
Any updates on the sept-oct game of tomes live show?
To Be Devoured was a disturbing, horrific book... Grammatically speaking 😂
I don't know if you've watched "Knives Out", but I was definitely expecting you to say "This is stoopid with two o's" when ranting about the language. 😂
This was the last weekend of the month - what about the Game of Tomes livestream? I might have missed the announcement or something but don't see it posted anywhere. Anyone know what is up?
Where is your shirt from in the second half? 😮
To be devoured sounds very “I’m 14 and this is deep” 😅
Would you consider making a "read with me video"?
32:29 easter egg on the right side of the screen
You should become an editor! You would make authors’ writings way better!
If you would like another vampire manga, Owari no seraph is a popular one :)
Aw for the sponsor, you were talking about cooking mama in the last video.
So many bad vulture facts in that book. 😂 They actually will only eat freshly dead carrion and will reject rotting meat.
Anyway, a book with some cool discussion of food and eating and tying all that to family and such is Women Eating by Claire Kohda.
Fun fact "Zima" translates as winter from Russian
Hi! First, I love the striped shirt. Second, I am sorry you are reading books that are so badly written. You are very courageous for reading them (so we don't have to). I am not as patient. Hope your next reads will be much better. Ciao!
EMMAAA!!! I recently came across a book called ‘Maddalena and the Dark’ which is a dark, gothic tale about violin music and the unbridled ambition of two women. It SCREAMED your name and I was waiting for a new video so I could recommend it. PLEASEEE READ IT!!!!
I'm so disappointed to hear that to be devoured sucks! I've also been meaning to read it forever but couldn't find it in any bookstores. Maybe I'll just give up on it now
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I just downloaded the game.
Emmie did u watch the ‘Leave the world behind’s’ trailer. With a fantastic cast of Ethan Hawke, Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali
I am just hoping it will be as good as your review or better
Am I missing something. 'If I eat a humans meat', this is correct. She's wondering what it would be like to eat a humans meat; you could put flesh I suppose, 'If I eat a humans flesh', but same thing different word, may be ate would be batter.
Just want to tell that Zima means winter in Russian
it's fun when emma starts getting mad at awkwardly written books
At least on Kingdom of Little Wounds we had a bit of fun. Here you're just angry. 😅
Probably because I bought this one full price😂
Misread as big bed in french 😂
I'm so sorry you disliked "To Be Devoured." I picked it up when I saw it on your haul video and I loved it. I agree there were spelling issues but the story gripped me enough that I just jumped over them. I didn't expect our narrator to make as much grammatical sense, considering the state of mind she was in. It's also not a book about alternative diets, I interpreted it as a desperate attempt to keep the people we love close to us.
are you getting the chicken thoughts? 🤣🤣🤣
Oop second 🫢🌸
But number one to me😎
I thought moth wings were stronger than butterfly wings?
I love watching Emma bash this book that most amature readers would think is fancy writing. While she in all her educated glory is picking apart the normal simple Grammer mistakes 😂
To Be Devoured seems like a way worse version of Raw or Bones and All.. there’s so much good cannibalism in media, sucks that this novel does it unsuccessfully
first!!
your books looks colorful in the past not today. by the way knowledge is power
LOL! So you won't be teaching, dyslexic students would grind your gears constantly. My daughter is an english teacher and has the same problem I worry she could damage students self-esteem with the attitude she has, I hope she is kinder to her students than she is in her venting to me.
This book sounds awful. Glad you read so we don't have to. Thank you!! Lol.
To Be Devoured sounds like it was written by an overly emotional, pretentious, junior high, goth kid.
don't disrespect the goths like this
Eating roadkill isn't the same as eating "regular" dead animals tho. Is not the same to kill an animal for consumption than an animal getting accidentally killed for being too near to the road and you decide to not "waste" it. I wish the book explored roadkill and feeling like a vulture more instead of taking cannibalism/murder route
How to marry with me?
Why am I so attracted to this woman? Im drawn in everytime
That is not good for young free women!? Only prisoner do that!? 😱
Please dont hurt your brain my love!!! 🤪