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

Big YES for a dedicated video for 1q84

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOVED "As long as the lemon trees grow"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes to the 1Q84 separate vlog!

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

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

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

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

omg you just unlocked a memory with eva ibbotson!! i remember loving her books when i was younger- i think i read 'the dragonfly pool' and other books years ago??... i think youll love the one youve got!!

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

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

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

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

Your book collection looks tense and dangerous and I love it

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1Q84 IS AMAAAZING

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Absolutely we want an 1q84 vlog not even a question

emma pls read The Book of Disquiet pleaseeeeee❤❤

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

Best bookshelf video EVER 🙌🏼

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

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

Happy Birthday Month, Emma! 😂 🍰 🎈 🎈 🎊

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

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

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

Have you talked about the Gentleman in Moscow on your channel? I couldn’t find it. Hotel is one of the main characters in that book

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"This mean businesses" AHHAHA that killed me 🤣🤣

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

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

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

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

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

whole vlog for 1q84 plsss!!!

3:06 The Resident Bookshelf Spider does have a title and a distinguished taste in books 📚 😊

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

Emma, your mess shelves look amazing! My first three readings of July are: A Little Princess, by Frances H. Burnett (rereading); Carmilla, by Sheridan Le Fanu; and Near to the Wild Heart, by Clarice Lispector.

Yes!!!! A vlog just for 1Q84❤

Solaris is a wonderful read

Ok so Totally counting on u to Review The seven year slip novel for us And recommend some cute soft novels set in rain and they should be like clean romance ❤ xoxo

I loved Eva Ibbotson books when I was in my teens! I wonder if they hold up now

Recs for hotel books with winter/snow/ice: The Shining by Stephen King The Maid by Nita Prose (idk bout snow but hotel) Grand Budapest Hotel

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

happy early birthday fellow july bday haver and vegan book reader! whenever you get around to "how do you live" would be keen to get your thoughts as i am unsure if i like it. would also recommend for snowy reading "miss iceland" by audur ava olafsdottir and for spring reading "swanfolk" by kristin omarsdottir (admittedly being in sydney means a colder birthday rather than a hot one like in canda!)

Emmaaa you haven't been born in the wrong month, only in the wrong place haha come to the South of Brazil! Here, July is our winter time ❤

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

Rebecca is soooo good❤

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

How do you manage to have so much time without stress to read so much??? Wish I could finish a book in a sitting or two days.

You have to read the book of disquiet. It’s honestly one of the best books I have ever read

July is my birthday month too! Which day is ur birthday? Honestly its such a good idea to only read good books in this month as ur gift to urself, maybe i should do that too but im quite slow at reading lol

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