I had a reading slump this month and was busy with Ramadan month but I read one book which is now on of favs of this year, it’s called piranesi you should read it if you didn’t already
"They're continually explosive...so that's Throne of A$$." -- That absolutely made my morning. I like the TOG series, but I love your assessment of the first book. I liked Chaol too (I kept hearing it as "caul" in my head). I want to do a re-read soon to see if I'd still enjoy it as much as I did years ago.
The way Emma's so sweet like even if she gives one star to your favourite book, you can't detest her in any way 😭 The first book review was just hilarious "felt like a joke"
Agree, but doesn't that throw a shadow of doubt on the other reviews she does? I'm totally new to the booktube thing and I haven't read books recommended by these people, but now that I have (the kingdom of little wounds) and seeing how they miss the point makes me doubt their judgment so much... ah well, I guess I'll have to try and read one of the books that they do like and see how it goes.
@@Hungarycloud Uf, I knew this was coming. Well, this may sound cheap, a cop out? as it comes from the author herself, but the tale is centered around actors and details and things that are not normally talked about but that do form part of a world, any world. Say, do you know who made harry potters wand? No (afaik), he just buys it. Here the queen's clothes break and there is a detailed description, relevant to the story on how that hole in her clothes is fixed. How many characters that you read go to the toilette? We have a story here where that is part of a character's fate or ending. And it's not to be gross just for the sake of it, and this is where Emma fails, the whole book revolves around the hidden, the not spoken about, the characters that in other stories are invisible. This is being coherent and is present in the whole book. It's so big that people don't see it? Did you read the book? I assume so, this comment won't make sense otherwise. The syphillis thing creates atmosphere and develops characters (using it as part of a court intrigue was brilliant; Robin Hobb should takes notes and not send Fitz off on zombie cleaning duty, ffs). Also, it has present time relevancy... remember hearing the words "chinese virus"? And it's a disease, I wouldn't talk about it in negative terms. Anyways, those are my thoughts. It sounds like I'm attacking Emma, but I'm kinda frustrated she doesn't value this type of stories that are, imo, different from the vast majority. I guess she could be described as a cottage core woman and this book is shitting yourself to death because you can't be gay.
I just checked your channel 5 minutes ago to make sure I didn’t miss any notifications for a new video. Then played some random video from another channel and a notification immediately popped up after some 2 minutes from your channel😃 got so happy.
I swear your aesthetic is like watching movies such as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, or Little Women. Seeing you being a woman with books enlightened and make me love literature even more.
I read One Hundred Years of Solitude in April bc you recommended it and it was stunning! My physical copy is on its way to me and I wanted to thank you for leading me to this gem.
I just finished Rebecca by Daphine Du Maurier for the first time yesterday. I loved it. I am going through that mourning of finishing a book right now over this book.
last month I read a single book (but LOVED it) so to anyone in a reading slump that loves dark academia/ reading about queer characters I recommend These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever (not to be confused with the book by Chloe Gong)
Your uploads are definitely are my favorite part of Sunday 💛 also I love hearing some of these recommendations! I’m actually reading And Then There Were None and I love it too
The name of the author of “Season of Migration to the North” is pronounced as “al-tay.yeb. Sa.leh” hopefully this helps! Thanks for including arab authors, I really appreciate our writers being talked about especially since you talked about khalil Gibran also !💖
OMG I HAVE to read the next great Canadian classic Molly of the Mall. 🤣🤣 Solar Bones sounds like it's right up my alley, too. I often think about the chain reaction of everything we do.
I haven’t picked up a book in about two months now (what a shame, I know)…I’m currently watching these to make myself read again so I can stop hating myself for not reading anything 🥲
so you don't feel force to read by your own guilt, try to find an easy short book that you don't need a lot of brain to finish. For me, bcuz my goal is to focus more on classics this year, after every thick classic i read, i sneak in one romace book or a poetry collection. It's like a break but my reading streak is still going. So i dont fall back into a long reading slump. even tho some books i found were really dumb lol. Find your comfort genre and use that.
@@ipig2379 that’s actually an awesome advice! I will definitely be trying it out soon. It’s also a great motivation to sort out my shelves, I’m sure it’ll spark the will to read as well 🌸 thank you so much for your reply ⭐️
@@ipig2379 I sort of do this too! Usually I am reading 2 or 3 books at once. Sometimes an audiobook (i listen during work lol), one easy read that will take a couple days, and one challenging read that will take a couple of weeks or even more. I found that this is my perfect recipe for avoiding slumps because even when I get into one, I have at least one book to fall back on
Read Paradise Lost four years ago and still identified the passage you read aloud right away. I think I read the whole thing in one weekend, and English is my second language. Granted, my class had been talking about it for two weeks by then so I had a good idea what it’s about, but man I felt like crying from the beauty of it by the end.
I understand the Scottish-Canadian thing not because I'm Scottish, but because I'm Irish-Canadian and growing up, my mother made me listen to Irish ballads *all the time.* The amount of times I've been forced to listen to Wild Rover is astounding.
My favorite book I read in April was The Book of Hours by Rilke ❤ I discovered your channel this month and immediately ordered my first piece of Rilke. It is one of my new favorites of all time, thank you!! ❤
Loved the video Emma! Glad to see you’re doing well! Absolutely looooove to hear you talking about how much you enjoyed Paradise Lost. It’s a personal favorite of mine. I really hope your summer course goes well!
It's so funny how you mention Tolstoy's authoritative voice trying to be preachy, because that's exactly what stopped me finishing Dorian Gray. The side character (I can't remember his name!) always has little quips of "wisdom" which I felt like was him trying to sound profound, and it annoyed me so much that I couldn't finish it. But I didn't feel this way with Tolstoy at all. Now I just wanna reread both !!
I have a really severe concussion and I’ve been listening to your videos to keep me sane. Your voice is so smooth and I love how calm your videos are❤️
I read Anne of green gables and it’s now one of my favorite books I have ever read. It’s just a beautiful book and Anne is my favorite character I have ever heard of. I started reading manga as well in April and it’s been a lot of fun. I finished hunterxhunter volume 3 yesterday and I hope the next volume arrives soon at my library. Anyways loved this video as always, had a great time sitting down with a cup of tea and listening to you talking about books!
Had a rough-ish reading month. Slowly making my way through the Odyssey and Black Queer Studies (which are both good but taking ages to finish). My favourite was probably Helen by Euripides or Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
For some reason or other I expected so much more from Rebecca. Something like Shirley Jackson ' s " Haunting of the Hill House" . Interesting to know how it was with you
You really made me wanna pick up that Agatha Christie book! I think my favourite book this month was "I'm thinking of ending things" by Iian Reid, it was honestly a wild ride but I think about this book ALL the time!
About Christie one of her best mysteries is 5 Little Pigs (which is to my knowledge her only cold-case), but some of her later books are more philosophical. The Hollow for example has some deep explorations into the psychology of its characters, but as a detective novel it is pretty weak. Mystery tends to be surprising when the full story is not yet unraveled, but then to fully overview the deeper implications the actual mystery needs to be pushed to the side so the actions and motives can take center stage. Its a great book, but not the type you would want to do the 'lets solve' mystery boards with since the book isn't focused too much on the evidence. Sleeping Murder was much the same but also probably the most depressing book I have read, and maybe it was because of the mindset I was in while reading it, but it left me in a rut for a few days. Peril at End House was the most 'shocking' experience but that is dependent on what your hit-miss ratio is for getting the right answer. I'm always wrong so that one blew my socks off, but then again I suck at guessing. The more you read Christie, the more you will see her stories repeat themselves. She recycles the same mystery every now and then while switching up the characters and settings, and those you'll figure out pretty quickly. But regardless the majority of her books before the 70s were all great.
For your reading around the world challenge I’d recommend The Knight In The Panther Skin by Shota Rustaveli (Georgia). Lyn Coffin’s version is considered to be the best translation of both Shota’s poetic rhythm and plot accuracy. It is an epic poem that is over 850 years old and for georgian people it’s what shaped our identity.This poem depicts heroism,friendship,love,psychology,astrology,philosophy and much more. All of the characters are really passionate and expressive, It’s also set in the 12th century and one of the main characters was inspired by King Tamar(she was crowned as a king regardless of her gender and it’s rumoured that Shota wrote the whole poem as a way of confessing his love for her). I think you would really like that book.
The book set in Edmonton sounded great! I'm also Canadian, in Uni, and my Dad's scottish so I was nodding along to basically everything you were saying in your review (haha)
Love curling up with a hot chocolate to watch these videos, so calming and you have 100% expanded my tbr... War and Peace is sat next to my bed staring at me lmao. Do you think there could be a discord server for anyone who wants to talk about our tbrs and stuff? Would love to have so much more in depth conversations in a more chat revolving space
I also just read Paradise Lost for my Renaissance class!! I'm so excited that you liked it :D I absolutely loved it, I took this class purely because we were reading PL at the end. As a non-English major, finishing up my last semester of college (!!!), I'm so happy I took this English class and got to have a really good professor to discuss and read the book through. It's almost finals so classes are over, and I was honestly so sad when I stepped out of that English class knowing it was probably the last English class I would ever take ... there's something so magical about reading literature and learning about it in class, I'm going to miss it so much. The plus is that once I'm out of school, I'll have way more time to read for fun :') As a graduating senior to you Emma, I hope you the best with your summer courses and the rest of your degree!
You have no idea how much I needed this video today. I ended up being taken to the emergency department by ambulance as I couldnt breath properly and have been diagnosed with long covid. You got me through a dark day you amazing person I hope you know how special you are 🥰🥰
Last month I read 2 books, The Poisonwood Bible and The Age of Innocence. This channel has been such a motivator for reading more and I’m so excited to attempt more difficult novels now.
My fave read of April was Rebecca! I had been eyeing it on my shelf for a few months and it was soo good! Her writing was so immersive, I felt like I could reach out and touch the grass and smell the rain.
After all that consumption of cheese I see you're rocking the dairy maid look.😁 I remember discovering a lovely traditional Scottish music band called Jock Tamson's Bairns,and if you are inclined to a more contemporary ethereal sound check out the Cocteau Twins!❤️
I read the first few books of throne of glass back in middle school (I’m in uni now) and LOVED them. I recently re-read the entire series, and while I think they get better, celeana definitely gets better, I dont know if it’s worth the read. It’s a LONG series and the execution is not perfect in my opinion.
one of my fav reads of this month was when we cease to understand the world by Benjamin Labatut! I dont know if you have read it but it is basically a fictional short stories on lives of the pioneers of modern science. Men like Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Schwarzschild etc. It was incredibly well written and constructed. i highly recommend it !!
If you loved „And then there were none“ you should definitely check out the BBC adaptation from 2015. Absolutely amazing and very unsettling and creepy. 🖤
The best book of the month for me was After Dark by Haruki Murakami. It was SO GOOD omg i loved this one. I'm trying to finish all his work that was already translated to portuguese so it was awesome. I read this until 3 a.m and omg what an experience. And I just kept coming back to the storie of those characters and how their lives are intertwined in such weird but beautiful ways. And yes I picked up this one because of one of your videos about murakami. Thanks for all your videos they help me A LOT!!💜💜
i swear the throne of glass series gets sooo much better in book three! its definitely a guilty pleasure, but it really is a fun read after the first two books. i felt the exact same way and really didn't want to continue reading but i pushed through. id be so interested to hear ur thoughts on crescent city, another sjm book. the character is incredibly arrogant as well i feel like ur commentary would be so funny
Best books I read in April: A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske, fantasy; Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne Valente, a novella both satirical and elevating; and Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller, nonfiction about ichthyology, history, and her own awakening to a wider, deeper world.
omg emmie! i absolutely love your outfit in this video, the grape earrings, the sweater and bandana are all perfection. also, i always learn of an amazing new read through your videos. keep bein fantastic :)
It's great that you treat all authors, no matter how famous, with the same enthusiasm or disdain. Just the one for me last month Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall.
His name is “ طيب صلاح " Ta-yeb Sa-lih He’s pretty famous writer in Middle East but I’ve never read his books.(actually I lied we did read one of his short story in uni , oops )
I got through ten books in April, which is a new record for me! My favorite fiction this month was White Noise by Don Delillo and my favorite nonfiction was Border and Rule by Harsha Walia.
My sister married a Canadian and now lives in Edmonton. I’ve been to West Edmonton Mall several times when visiting her so I’ll definitely have to read Molly of the Mall! :)
Solar bones sounds interesting, and since I liked Mrs. Dalloway, which is also a stream of consciousness, I've put it in my tbr. I read East of Eden (surprised me in a good way with wonderful sayings and interesting characters, loved it) and Lolita (one of the most difficult, wicked, and witty things I've ever encountered, all in such a short book) in April^^
I got Season Of Migration To The North as an interlibrary loan upon your recommendation. Can't wait to read it! Thank you for sharing so many golden nuggets that I would have otherwise never discovered. Love you, Emma!
Great wrap up! I need to read that Migrations book. Sounds amazing! I was doing the Orillium readathon this month by Book Roast, and I read a bunch of stuff, but the standout winners were the first two books in the Broken Earth trilogy, The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, which I suppose is not a shocking book recommendation to anyone at this point.
my favorite read of this month was probably people of the book by geraldine brooks. it’s great historical fiction about an art conservator who’s called to work on an ancient jewish prayer book. it’s so good, like i-gave-it-five-stars good. 100% recommend.
I adored that book as well! All of the bits of the past of the book interspersed with her conservation was fascinating. It was so beautifully written as well. Afterwards I passed it around to my granny and my auntie, great family book club. It's great to hear of someone else who loved it as well.
It is funny you chose that quote from Milton - Darkness Visible is a 1990 award winning memoir by American writer William Styron about his descent into depression and his recovery - No light; but rather darkness visible / Served only to discover sights of woe - you should check it out - a super short read but amazing in its power.
you blew my mind... you read ELEVEN books in April, including Paradise Lost... I'm at a loss for words EDIT: You read 13 books in January... what am I doing with my time Jesus
I did read 'Casual Vacancy' by J K Rowling. This was the first novel of hers that I have read since reading the Harry Potter books and world stuff. It started slow but I was drawn into the characters especially the youth/teenagers. I really loved Krystal, even though her life was so fraught with danger and poverty. She was so tough and such a fighter. Overall I gave the novel 4 stars, I think. I'm grateful that JKR gave us this one, her writing seems to go from strength to strength. Reading this one gives a reason to look for some of her recent works outside of HP.
I read TOG when I was 12 and would probably hate it if I read it now, but I've gotta say, it really picks up later on when the whole 'fantasy' part of this fantasy world kicks in. Imo.
I don't think I've ever seen someone so perfectly mirror my thoughts on Throne of Ass before. I've only read the first book, also because it was blowing up everywhere, and when I was a teenager to boot, so at an age when I was primed to like it, and I was so confused as to how such a popular book contained absolutely no substance. Caelena never does anything, she just keeps yapping on about how awesome she is while doing nothing to prove it, and everyone somehow still falls all over themselves as soon as she walks into the room. If a character who is supposed to be the prettiest, deadliest, most aWeSome person ever wasn't an annoying enough trope on its own, a character who is all of that purely in her own head is worse. There was a sample chapter for book 2 at the end of my copy in which you find out that Caelena, despite apparently having been ruthlessly killing people for a living before, has suddenly developed a problem with this and for some reason refuses to murder anyone now, at which point I just gave up. Also, Chaol was the only character I liked, too.
I HATED Throne of Glass and Assassins blade (the first 2 books). But l will say once you start reading the 3rd book it gets SO GOOD. The whole plot takes a surprising supernatural twist revealing more about Celeana and the world in general. I found myself understanding that l had to endure the pain that was the first two books to be able to really enjoy the others. I finished the 4th book Hier of Fire last week and it was AMAZING. Celeana's character development is great. The new 'bad guys' that emerge are really well written. So far in my reading of the series there has been imperfections in every book. It's definitely not worth the read if you cant borrow the books from a library or a friend.. specifically the first 2. I'm rlly loving the series but HATED the first 2 books so l feel you on this one.
This month I read Great Expectations which was in my bookshelf for years. I didn’t like the edition because the font was too small. So I’ve never read the story until you recommended it in one of your videos. And then I liked it so much that I forgot about the font size. 😍😍😍 However some of the parts of the story were difficult to understand because of Victorian English. So l looked up chapter summaries online. But that aside the plot is unusual it’s nothing like I’ve read before. Thanks for recommending 😊
My favourite read this april was " a psalm of storms and silence" the sequal to "a song of wraiths and ruin" , whicg you inspired me to read 🌙🌷 its so good!!
@@emmiereads Adrift on the Nile for Naguib Mahfouz The cave for José Sarmago Sayyidina Al Farouq Omar for Mohammed Hussien Hiekal And the last one was "Kalila and Dimna". All was in Arabic.✨❤️
I read kafka on the shore back in 2019, on the new year's eve and I remember by the time I finished reading it was 5am in the morning, it was that gripping and good to me, after that Murakami falls under one of my favorite author. 😊
@@toliyeptho3313 Murakami is just exceptional. I have only read Norwegian Wood and Kafka, his taste of music, Greek allegory and the subject with cat always intrigued me. This April reads for me is just perfect.
I'm always so happy to hear your opinions on any book because you're the person I trust most for recommendations 💞 I've bought like an entire stack of books you've praised so far and I can't wait to try more of what you like (and maybe ones that you don't as well hehe) OH BTW love love loooooooovvvveeeeeeee your earrings !!! i'm gonna make it my life goal to buy myself a pair omg 😩😩😩
I started reading again in April but I only read three books two of them I reread because it had been five years since I read them. I reread the notebook and a walk to remember and then I read for the first time the midnight library. All of them I thought were very good.
my fav book this month was probably 'this is how you lose the time war '. It is a short book, but it was written beautifully. Also, I'm so happy that you liked season of migration to the north. The author's name is pronounced with an "El" before each word .so it's El-Tayeb El-Salih.(الطيب الصالح )
You might love Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf. I'm not sure whether you have or have not heard about it, but it's a tragedy of a Sri Lankan family (not a Sri Lankan book). Personally, it gave me SLIGHT 100YOS vibes for some odd reason, maybe my perspective! I actually read it for a class, but ended up adding it to my favorite books; made me sob unlike anything in the last bit. If you haven't heard of it, check it out. It can be really tedious and bizarre at times, and I'm so sorry if you end up not liking it. But I just thought you might like certain things about it :)
There's something about watching people talk about books that brings comfort in me
I had a reading slump this month and was busy with Ramadan month but I read one book which is now on of favs of this year, it’s called piranesi you should read it if you didn’t already
Piranesi is the best!!!!
Eid Mubarak 💞
Eid mubarak to you brother
Piranesi is AMAZING. It's the most mind-twisting book I've ever read. I can't stop thinking about it.
Piranesi is my favorite book so far too. 📖❤️
"They're continually explosive...so that's Throne of A$$." -- That absolutely made my morning. I like the TOG series, but I love your assessment of the first book. I liked Chaol too (I kept hearing it as "caul" in my head). I want to do a re-read soon to see if I'd still enjoy it as much as I did years ago.
I legit laughed out loud…. “My main problem with this book was, all of it” 😂😂👌🏻
"And then there were none" is my favourite Agatha Christie book. I've read 18 of her books so far.
Do try Thirteen Problems...I'm saying this because I've never heard from someone who's read it and I really loved it 🖤
The way Emma's so sweet like even if she gives one star to your favourite book, you can't detest her in any way 😭 The first book review was just hilarious "felt like a joke"
Agree, but doesn't that throw a shadow of doubt on the other reviews she does? I'm totally new to the booktube thing and I haven't read books recommended by these people, but now that I have (the kingdom of little wounds) and seeing how they miss the point makes me doubt their judgment so much... ah well, I guess I'll have to try and read one of the books that they do like and see how it goes.
@@Liriodelagua If you don't mind, what was the point of that book?
@@Hungarycloud Uf, I knew this was coming. Well, this may sound cheap, a cop out? as it comes from the author herself, but the tale is centered around actors and details and things that are not normally talked about but that do form part of a world, any world. Say, do you know who made harry potters wand? No (afaik), he just buys it. Here the queen's clothes break and there is a detailed description, relevant to the story on how that hole in her clothes is fixed.
How many characters that you read go to the toilette? We have a story here where that is part of a character's fate or ending. And it's not to be gross just for the sake of it, and this is where Emma fails, the whole book revolves around the hidden, the not spoken about, the characters that in other stories are invisible. This is being coherent and is present in the whole book. It's so big that people don't see it? Did you read the book? I assume so, this comment won't make sense otherwise.
The syphillis thing creates atmosphere and develops characters (using it as part of a court intrigue was brilliant; Robin Hobb should takes notes and not send Fitz off on zombie cleaning duty, ffs). Also, it has present time relevancy... remember hearing the words "chinese virus"? And it's a disease, I wouldn't talk about it in negative terms.
Anyways, those are my thoughts. It sounds like I'm attacking Emma, but I'm kinda frustrated she doesn't value this type of stories that are, imo, different from the vast majority. I guess she could be described as a cottage core woman and this book is shitting yourself to death because you can't be gay.
@@Liriodelagua girl wtf
@@selina6107 The comment won't make sense unless you've read the book. Also, I'm a dude.
I just checked your channel 5 minutes ago to make sure I didn’t miss any notifications for a new video. Then played some random video from another channel and a notification immediately popped up after some 2 minutes from your channel😃 got so happy.
Isn’t that the best feeling? 💛
@@khalilahd. It really is😄. Okay shshsh🤫 I’m reading broken wings by Gibran Khalil Gibran lol
I swear your aesthetic is like watching movies such as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, or Little Women. Seeing you being a woman with books enlightened and make me love literature even more.
I read One Hundred Years of Solitude in April bc you recommended it and it was stunning! My physical copy is on its way to me and I wanted to thank you for leading me to this gem.
I just finished Rebecca by Daphine Du Maurier for the first time yesterday. I loved it. I am going through that mourning of finishing a book right now over this book.
emma you have definitely become part of my Sunday routine! 🥰 xoxo
Same 💛
@@khalilahd. hey Khalilah good to see you again! 🥰
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The parallels between you and Molly honestly kind of freaked me out😅 It’s like that book was made for you💜
last month I read a single book (but LOVED it) so to anyone in a reading slump that loves dark academia/ reading about queer characters I recommend These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever (not to be confused with the book by Chloe Gong)
Your uploads are definitely are my favorite part of Sunday 💛 also I love hearing some of these recommendations! I’m actually reading And Then There Were None and I love it too
The syphilis book looks hilarious 😂 I read 100 Years Of Solitude, and it might be my new favorite book! Thanks for recommending it.
The name of the author of “Season of Migration to the North” is pronounced as “al-tay.yeb. Sa.leh” hopefully this helps! Thanks for including arab authors, I really appreciate our writers being talked about especially since you talked about khalil Gibran also !💖
OMG I HAVE to read the next great Canadian classic Molly of the Mall. 🤣🤣
Solar Bones sounds like it's right up my alley, too. I often think about the chain reaction of everything we do.
I haven’t picked up a book in about two months now (what a shame, I know)…I’m currently watching these to make myself read again so I can stop hating myself for not reading anything 🥲
Oh my god same 🥲
so you don't feel force to read by your own guilt, try to find an easy short book that you don't need a lot of brain to finish.
For me, bcuz my goal is to focus more on classics this year, after every thick classic i read, i sneak in one romace book or a poetry collection. It's like a break but my reading streak is still going. So i dont fall back into a long reading slump. even tho some books i found were really dumb lol.
Find your comfort genre and use that.
@@ipig2379 that’s such a good suggestion, i was going to say something similar !!
@@ipig2379 that’s actually an awesome advice! I will definitely be trying it out soon. It’s also a great motivation to sort out my shelves, I’m sure it’ll spark the will to read as well 🌸 thank you so much for your reply ⭐️
@@ipig2379 I sort of do this too! Usually I am reading 2 or 3 books at once. Sometimes an audiobook (i listen during work lol), one easy read that will take a couple days, and one challenging read that will take a couple of weeks or even more. I found that this is my perfect recipe for avoiding slumps because even when I get into one, I have at least one book to fall back on
ah yes, the kingdom of little wounds, our favourite love story between humanity and syphilis :)
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Read Paradise Lost four years ago and still identified the passage you read aloud right away. I think I read the whole thing in one weekend, and English is my second language. Granted, my class had been talking about it for two weeks by then so I had a good idea what it’s about, but man I felt like crying from the beauty of it by the end.
"The next ones I really like and then we get to the ones that I loved"
*picks up next book*
"Oh I love this!" 😂😂😍
I understand the Scottish-Canadian thing not because I'm Scottish, but because I'm Irish-Canadian and growing up, my mother made me listen to Irish ballads *all the time.* The amount of times I've been forced to listen to Wild Rover is astounding.
My favorite book I read in April was The Book of Hours by Rilke ❤ I discovered your channel this month and immediately ordered my first piece of Rilke. It is one of my new favorites of all time, thank you!! ❤
so happy to hear that, so glad you found a new fave!!
Loved the video Emma! Glad to see you’re doing well! Absolutely looooove to hear you talking about how much you enjoyed Paradise Lost. It’s a personal favorite of mine. I really hope your summer course goes well!
I can't even begin to describe how much i love your sweater Emma! 😂
thank you!! (it's very cozy)
The "Cheese Poet" lived in Ingersoll, which is not far from where you live. You could visit the Ingersoll Cheese Museum.
I had NO IDEA he lived that close, maybe I'll consider finding this museum haha, thank you for telling me!
Hi Emma,
I just found your channel a few weeks ago and your content made me fall in love with books again! Greetings from Germany!
It's so funny how you mention Tolstoy's authoritative voice trying to be preachy, because that's exactly what stopped me finishing Dorian Gray. The side character (I can't remember his name!) always has little quips of "wisdom" which I felt like was him trying to sound profound, and it annoyed me so much that I couldn't finish it. But I didn't feel this way with Tolstoy at all. Now I just wanna reread both !!
Stories that impressed me lately: Poe' s " The Pit and the Pendulum", Shirley Jackson's " The Lottery", " We have always lived in a castle"
My favorite book I read this month was Little Women! I cannot put into words how much I loved this book. It made me cry.
I have a really severe concussion and I’ve been listening to your videos to keep me sane. Your voice is so smooth and I love how calm your videos are❤️
I read Anne of green gables and it’s now one of my favorite books I have ever read. It’s just a beautiful book and Anne is my favorite character I have ever heard of. I started reading manga as well in April and it’s been a lot of fun. I finished hunterxhunter volume 3 yesterday and I hope the next volume arrives soon at my library. Anyways loved this video as always, had a great time sitting down with a cup of tea and listening to you talking about books!
you, your personality, and your videos release a different level of serotonin in my brain that i have yet to experience with anything else.
I just started War and Piece because of your vehement recommendation, I am so excited for this journey!
Had a rough-ish reading month. Slowly making my way through the Odyssey and Black Queer Studies (which are both good but taking ages to finish). My favourite was probably Helen by Euripides or Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
For some reason or other I expected so much more from Rebecca. Something like Shirley Jackson ' s " Haunting of the Hill House" . Interesting to know how it was with you
You really made me wanna pick up that Agatha Christie book!
I think my favourite book this month was "I'm thinking of ending things" by Iian Reid, it was honestly a wild ride but I think about this book ALL the time!
I'm reading Paradise Lost and I'm always ready to highlight something, it's so good
About Christie one of her best mysteries is 5 Little Pigs (which is to my knowledge her only cold-case), but some of her later books are more philosophical. The Hollow for example has some deep explorations into the psychology of its characters, but as a detective novel it is pretty weak. Mystery tends to be surprising when the full story is not yet unraveled, but then to fully overview the deeper implications the actual mystery needs to be pushed to the side so the actions and motives can take center stage.
Its a great book, but not the type you would want to do the 'lets solve' mystery boards with since the book isn't focused too much on the evidence. Sleeping Murder was much the same but also probably the most depressing book I have read, and maybe it was because of the mindset I was in while reading it, but it left me in a rut for a few days.
Peril at End House was the most 'shocking' experience but that is dependent on what your hit-miss ratio is for getting the right answer. I'm always wrong so that one blew my socks off, but then again I suck at guessing. The more you read Christie, the more you will see her stories repeat themselves. She recycles the same mystery every now and then while switching up the characters and settings, and those you'll figure out pretty quickly. But regardless the majority of her books before the 70s were all great.
For your reading around the world challenge I’d recommend The Knight In The Panther Skin by Shota Rustaveli (Georgia). Lyn Coffin’s version is considered to be the best translation of both Shota’s poetic rhythm and plot accuracy. It is an epic poem that is over 850 years old and for georgian people it’s what shaped our identity.This poem depicts heroism,friendship,love,psychology,astrology,philosophy and much more. All of the characters are really passionate and expressive, It’s also set in the 12th century and one of the main characters was inspired by King Tamar(she was crowned as a king regardless of her gender and it’s rumoured that Shota wrote the whole poem as a way of confessing his love for her). I think you would really like that book.
My favourite read when I was at school
The book set in Edmonton sounded great! I'm also Canadian, in Uni, and my Dad's scottish so I was nodding along to basically everything you were saying in your review (haha)
Another calming upload. I just finished The Book of Longings, which I noticed right behind you on your shelf. I cannot recommend it more highly!
the how much I was desperate for a new video from Emmie is poignant. now I'm happy *:,)*
also EMMA your grapes earrings!! omg your outfit is cute
Love curling up with a hot chocolate to watch these videos, so calming and you have 100% expanded my tbr... War and Peace is sat next to my bed staring at me lmao. Do you think there could be a discord server for anyone who wants to talk about our tbrs and stuff? Would love to have so much more in depth conversations in a more chat revolving space
I also just read Paradise Lost for my Renaissance class!! I'm so excited that you liked it :D I absolutely loved it, I took this class purely because we were reading PL at the end. As a non-English major, finishing up my last semester of college (!!!), I'm so happy I took this English class and got to have a really good professor to discuss and read the book through. It's almost finals so classes are over, and I was honestly so sad when I stepped out of that English class knowing it was probably the last English class I would ever take ... there's something so magical about reading literature and learning about it in class, I'm going to miss it so much. The plus is that once I'm out of school, I'll have way more time to read for fun :') As a graduating senior to you Emma, I hope you the best with your summer courses and the rest of your degree!
I love your outfit. The light purple is so soothing, and the sweater poncho looks so cozy
The April fool joke fits perfectly with the book
You have no idea how much I needed this video today. I ended up being taken to the emergency department by ambulance as I couldnt breath properly and have been diagnosed with long covid. You got me through a dark day you amazing person I hope you know how special you are 🥰🥰
Last month I read 2 books, The Poisonwood Bible and The Age of Innocence. This channel has been such a motivator for reading more and I’m so excited to attempt more difficult novels now.
those earrings omg i just fell in love
Esse é exatamente o tipo de pessoa que eu gosto de ser amigo. Seus vídeos são incríveis e ainda por cima você passa uma vibe surreal. Beijooss🇧🇷💕
My fave read of April was Rebecca! I had been eyeing it on my shelf for a few months and it was soo good! Her writing was so immersive, I felt like I could reach out and touch the grass and smell the rain.
The grape earrings are amazing 😍 My favourite read of April was definitely Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson!
After all that consumption of cheese I see you're rocking the dairy maid look.😁 I remember discovering a lovely traditional Scottish music band called Jock Tamson's Bairns,and if you are inclined to a more contemporary ethereal sound check out the Cocteau Twins!❤️
I'm so glad you loved and then there were none, I read it recently and I just loved it so very much it's so incredible
I've only read one book this month because i just started college and I'm a little overwhelmed
loved the video as usual
ah that's amazing, what are you studying? I hope everything goes wonderfully for you, you've got this
I read the first few books of throne of glass back in middle school (I’m in uni now) and LOVED them. I recently re-read the entire series, and while I think they get better, celeana definitely gets better, I dont know if it’s worth the read. It’s a LONG series and the execution is not perfect in my opinion.
one of my fav reads of this month was when we cease to understand the world by Benjamin Labatut! I dont know if you have read it but it is basically a fictional short stories on lives of the pioneers of modern science. Men like Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Schwarzschild etc. It was incredibly well written and constructed. i highly recommend it !!
If you loved „And then there were none“ you should definitely check out the BBC adaptation from 2015. Absolutely amazing and very unsettling and creepy. 🖤
ah is that the one with Charles Dance?
@@emmiereads yes! It’s got the most star-studded cast basically, almost all of them are very renowned British actors and did a phantastic job 👌🏻
Yesss! I’ve never liked any of the adaptations of Christie’s books since Suchet’s series but I gotta admit, that one’s solid
The best book of the month for me was After Dark by Haruki Murakami. It was SO GOOD omg i loved this one. I'm trying to finish all his work that was already translated to portuguese so it was awesome. I read this until 3 a.m and omg what an experience. And I just kept coming back to the storie of those characters and how their lives are intertwined in such weird but beautiful ways. And yes I picked up this one because of one of your videos about murakami. Thanks for all your videos they help me A LOT!!💜💜
i swear the throne of glass series gets sooo much better in book three! its definitely a guilty pleasure, but it really is a fun read after the first two books. i felt the exact same way and really didn't want to continue reading but i pushed through. id be so interested to hear ur thoughts on crescent city, another sjm book. the character is incredibly arrogant as well i feel like ur commentary would be so funny
Best books I read in April: A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske, fantasy; Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne Valente, a novella both satirical and elevating; and Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller, nonfiction about ichthyology, history, and her own awakening to a wider, deeper world.
omg emmie! i absolutely love your outfit in this video, the grape earrings, the sweater and bandana are all perfection. also, i always learn of an amazing new read through your videos. keep bein fantastic :)
I also read And Then There We’re None in April and I absolutely loved it! It felt so different to the previous Agatha Christie books I have read.
It's great that you treat all authors, no matter how famous, with the same enthusiasm or disdain. Just the one for me last month Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall.
His name is “ طيب صلاح " Ta-yeb Sa-lih
He’s pretty famous writer in Middle East but I’ve never read his books.(actually I lied we did read one of his short story in uni , oops )
I got through ten books in April, which is a new record for me! My favorite fiction this month was White Noise by Don Delillo and my favorite nonfiction was Border and Rule by Harsha Walia.
My sister married a Canadian and now lives in Edmonton. I’ve been to West Edmonton Mall several times when visiting her so I’ll definitely have to read Molly of the Mall! :)
Solar bones sounds interesting, and since I liked Mrs. Dalloway, which is also a stream of consciousness, I've put it in my tbr.
I read East of Eden (surprised me in a good way with wonderful sayings and interesting characters, loved it) and Lolita (one of the most difficult, wicked, and witty things I've ever encountered, all in such a short book) in April^^
I got Season Of Migration To The North as an interlibrary loan upon your recommendation. Can't wait to read it! Thank you for sharing so many golden nuggets that I would have otherwise never discovered. Love you, Emma!
Crooked house by agatha christie is also based on a nursery rhyme which is great. One of my favourite Agatha christie novels is ordeal of innocence.
Great wrap up! I need to read that Migrations book. Sounds amazing! I was doing the Orillium readathon this month by Book Roast, and I read a bunch of stuff, but the standout winners were the first two books in the Broken Earth trilogy, The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, which I suppose is not a shocking book recommendation to anyone at this point.
You actually started talking fast when describing Molly of the Mall. It was really adorable.
my favorite read of this month was probably people of the book by geraldine brooks. it’s great historical fiction about an art conservator who’s called to work on an ancient jewish prayer book. it’s so good, like i-gave-it-five-stars good. 100% recommend.
This has been on my TBR for a while, time to pick it up!
I adored that book as well! All of the bits of the past of the book interspersed with her conservation was fascinating. It was so beautifully written as well. Afterwards I passed it around to my granny and my auntie, great family book club. It's great to hear of someone else who loved it as well.
It is funny you chose that quote from Milton - Darkness Visible is a 1990 award winning memoir by American writer William Styron about his descent into depression and his recovery - No light; but rather darkness visible
/ Served only to discover sights of woe - you should check it out - a super short read but amazing in its power.
you blew my mind... you read ELEVEN books in April, including Paradise Lost... I'm at a loss for words
EDIT: You read 13 books in January... what am I doing with my time Jesus
I read 28 Lol, i thought this was normal, guess i should get a life
@@johanliebert375 you read almost a book per day... How many pages were the books on average?
i was literally just saying this to myself i really need to make more time for myself
@@sen7826 on average I'd say around 250 pages
@@johanliebert375 I’m really sorry if this sounds rude but where do you get that time from????
Always such a relaxing video, your thoughts in TOG still crack me up. My favourite read in April would have to be Emma or maybe Mask of Mirrors
Paradise lost is amazing. I can't get over it no matter how many books I read😭
I did read 'Casual Vacancy' by J K Rowling. This was the first novel of hers that I have read since reading the Harry Potter books and world stuff. It started slow but I was drawn into the characters especially the youth/teenagers. I really loved Krystal, even though her life was so fraught with danger and poverty. She was so tough and such a fighter. Overall I gave the novel 4 stars, I think. I'm grateful that JKR gave us this one, her writing seems to go from strength to strength. Reading this one gives a reason to look for some of her recent works outside of HP.
everytime you talk about the little kingdom of little wounds my curiosity increases more and more. i think i want to read it.
"Tolstoy, why are your right there?!" 😭💀
I have finished my exams for now and now I'm ready to get comfy and catch up on Emma's vids❤️✨
I read TOG when I was 12 and would probably hate it if I read it now, but I've gotta say, it really picks up later on when the whole 'fantasy' part of this fantasy world kicks in. Imo.
I don't think I've ever seen someone so perfectly mirror my thoughts on Throne of Ass before. I've only read the first book, also because it was blowing up everywhere, and when I was a teenager to boot, so at an age when I was primed to like it, and I was so confused as to how such a popular book contained absolutely no substance. Caelena never does anything, she just keeps yapping on about how awesome she is while doing nothing to prove it, and everyone somehow still falls all over themselves as soon as she walks into the room. If a character who is supposed to be the prettiest, deadliest, most aWeSome person ever wasn't an annoying enough trope on its own, a character who is all of that purely in her own head is worse. There was a sample chapter for book 2 at the end of my copy in which you find out that Caelena, despite apparently having been ruthlessly killing people for a living before, has suddenly developed a problem with this and for some reason refuses to murder anyone now, at which point I just gave up. Also, Chaol was the only character I liked, too.
I HATED Throne of Glass and Assassins blade (the first 2 books). But l will say once you start reading the 3rd book it gets SO GOOD. The whole plot takes a surprising supernatural twist revealing more about Celeana and the world in general. I found myself understanding that l had to endure the pain that was the first two books to be able to really enjoy the others. I finished the 4th book Hier of Fire last week and it was AMAZING. Celeana's character development is great. The new 'bad guys' that emerge are really well written. So far in my reading of the series there has been imperfections in every book. It's definitely not worth the read if you cant borrow the books from a library or a friend.. specifically the first 2. I'm rlly loving the series but HATED the first 2 books so l feel you on this one.
Emma you have rekindled my love of reading, thank you for this channel!
This month I read Great Expectations which was in my bookshelf for years. I didn’t like the edition because the font was too small. So I’ve never read the story until you recommended it in one of your videos. And then I liked it so much that I forgot about the font size. 😍😍😍
However some of the parts of the story were difficult to understand because of Victorian English. So l looked up chapter summaries online. But that aside the plot is unusual it’s nothing like I’ve read before. Thanks for recommending 😊
Grapy 🍇 and purple, and gorgeous Emma. My fav color ❤️
i saw your new agatha video went up so i quick read it on a couple flights this weekend. can't wait to watch that vid now 😆
My favourite read this april was " a psalm of storms and silence" the sequal to "a song of wraiths and ruin" , whicg you inspired me to read 🌙🌷 its so good!!
ah I read the first one so long ago but I still can't wait to get to the second one - of the best YA I've read in so long!!
I've read four books this month and i'm so proud and happy about them 💗
amazing!! what were they??
@@emmiereads Adrift on the Nile for Naguib Mahfouz
The cave for José Sarmago
Sayyidina Al Farouq Omar for Mohammed Hussien Hiekal
And the last one was "Kalila and Dimna". All was in Arabic.✨❤️
I have only read 2 books: ` Kafka on the shore' and my own local book. Wow... Kafka left me so much thoughts and become one of my fav.
I read kafka on the shore back in 2019, on the new year's eve and I remember by the time I finished reading it was 5am in the morning, it was that gripping and good to me, after that Murakami falls under one of my favorite author. 😊
@@toliyeptho3313 Murakami is just exceptional. I have only read Norwegian Wood and Kafka, his taste of music, Greek allegory and the subject with cat always intrigued me. This April reads for me is just perfect.
So different for me. Used to read every Murakami book that came out. Stopped reading him after his Kafka.
My book of the month was Daughters of War by Dinah Jefferies set in France in WW2. Loved it!
Omg Emma, you are so inspiring and I love you so much! Thank you for your reviews and suggestions!
Thank you for introducing various books! Everything is fresh and helpful 😊
awe no thank you for watching!
I'm always so happy to hear your opinions on any book because you're the person I trust most for recommendations 💞 I've bought like an entire stack of books you've praised so far and I can't wait to try more of what you like (and maybe ones that you don't as well hehe) OH BTW love love loooooooovvvveeeeeeee your earrings !!! i'm gonna make it my life goal to buy myself a pair omg 😩😩😩
in April I actually read Cloud Atlas, and absolutely loved it!
ah amazing, I was just considering giving it a reread!
The cottagecore aesthetic is strong in this one 🥺🥺🥺
I started reading again in April but I only read three books two of them I reread because it had been five years since I read them. I reread the notebook and a walk to remember and then I read for the first time the midnight library. All of them I thought were very good.
my fav book this month was probably 'this is how you lose the time war '. It is a short book, but it was written beautifully.
Also, I'm so happy that you liked season of migration to the north. The author's name is pronounced with an "El" before each word .so it's El-Tayeb El-Salih.(الطيب الصالح )
ur content is just amazing and honestly most of the books i'm reading are the ones u recommend in ur videos! 🫶🏻
thank you so much
You might love Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf. I'm not sure whether you have or have not heard about it, but it's a tragedy of a Sri Lankan family (not a Sri Lankan book). Personally, it gave me SLIGHT 100YOS vibes for some odd reason, maybe my perspective! I actually read it for a class, but ended up adding it to my favorite books; made me sob unlike anything in the last bit. If you haven't heard of it, check it out. It can be really tedious and bizarre at times, and I'm so sorry if you end up not liking it. But I just thought you might like certain things about it :)