Emmie I am amazed at the amount of books you read and how you describe them afterwards. You would be a great Professor.

I read two books in june: the secrets history by Donna Tartt which left my soul shattered (but I somehow fell in love with it) and Susanna Clarke's Piranesi (adored it even though it was bizarre and confusing at the beginning). I think that july will be my Agatha Christie month (I'm a big Poirot fan) and of course finishing Yellowface

I love the diversity of books you read each month - always keeps me glued to your videos!

I’ve read about 55 books this year and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches is my very favorite of the year so far! ❤

I've only recently discovered your channel, but just wanted to say that your videos are really relaxing, and I love your eloquence and quiet passion for the books you read :)

I really liked this video. The way you describe books in such a delicate and calming manner is so soothing. I want to read so many books you recommended in this video. Thank u so much for inspiration!

wow june has been such a weird reading month for me (three weeks of procrastinating and a week of reading non stop) I love watching your videos, it feels like reading through you, and I love your commentary on each book. Also your voice brings me peace. July is break up month so I 'm trying my best but not feeling like reading.. your videos are really helping me through this reading slump

The Motorcycle Diaries is on of my favourite books! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Che's writing is beautiful and being able to witness how and why his convictions developed in a coming of age story of a revolutionary, perhaps THE revolutionary, one who truly lived the revolution to his last breath, was a deeply profound experience for me. The movie adaptation is also really good! Would recommend!

I thought I'd see either The Stranger or The Brothers Karamazov in this wrap-up. I'm glad you got to have some chill holiday reads.

finally started reading drowry of blood (which i discovered through your youtube) and omg it’s SO GOODDDD tysm em for blessing me with this amazing rec

Wow you had quite the reading month! Thank you as always for sharing, listening to you describe books is inspiring. Happy Sunday to you. ❤

I read 15 books this month (mostly mangas😅) my favorite book was Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi and I discovered a really fun manga series, Bride Stories, that takes place in Central Asia 😊

Oh how i remember friendship bracelets, the safety pin on your jeans. The nostalgia is real. Also, imagining little emma hustling braclets on the playground and getting "busted" is heart warming 😂

All my fave books have been recommended from you. Thank u so much! I appreciate u and what you’re doing, keep it up! 🧡

June was the first month I was able to complete my new self-imposed reading quota of six books on time and I'm rather happy with myself 🙂 also in July I'm planning on reading The Turn of the Screw and Juan Rulfo's short story collection so I think this is also likely to be a good reading month

the ambience and aesthetic of the surrounding looks so cool

I just love the way you describe books 🩷

So happy whenever you uploaded, emma 💓 One of my best read in June was Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed. It's a graphic novel based on alternate world Egypt where wishes are commercialized. The art is so stunning and expressive, the plot and worldbuilding is well written too.

I read Wide Sargasso Sea for my ap lit class. Love her style and now I’ll definitely have to check out Good Morning, Midnight

Yay! My Sunday afternoon is saved! BTW, really digging your dark aesthetic you've embraced in this video. It suits you! :-) Hope all is well.

🌿timestamps 🌿 0:35 Captain of the Sleepers - Mayra Montero 4:01 Richard the Second - William Shakespeare 6:33 Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys 13:22 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna 18:22 The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han 21:26 The Summer Book - Tove Jansson 22:49 Monkey Beach - Edin Robinson 22:38 The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare 27:52 Every Summer After - Carley Fortune 32:19 The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Che Guevara 33:56 Hotel Life - Caroline Field Lavander and Matthew Pratt Guterl 34:34 The Lost Ryu - Emi Watanabe Cohen 🌿🌿🌿

Love to hear you discussing Jean Rhys! She's one of my favourite authors - such an interesting/subversive writer. I'd really recommend reading the others in her quartet (After Leaving Mr Mackenzie in particular). I focused my Master's thesis on her works (alongside Clarice Lispector's)✨🥀

❤❤❤ Always a pleasure to hear you talk about your reads

I haven’t read Richard II yet but ur description of how being king is all he has and he is just the title that has been given to him and without it he feels like nothing reminds me of Kendall roy from succession

An ‘asmr’ vibe before I went to sleep 💕

omg emma. not super important but we’re using the same freaking phone case and thats so funny to me bc last year i bought and used (until i couldn’t anymore) a cute case just because it reminded me so much of you (it looked like something you’d like!!)… and now our cases are the same? crazy. anyways, super excited for the video, im not even a minute in🤭🤭🤭

I love being early here! I’m so happy you got to read that many books, Emmie! And I hope it continues like that, I would really like you to give us advice on being that organized and motivated to read, either for school or one’s pleasure. I love all witchy recommendations you give and I’ll always give them a try! ❤❤ love u! My favorite books were definitely Amora, a Mexican LGBT book and Las malas, about a trans woman from Argentina 🥰

Wow the passages you've read from Good Morning, Midnight were fantastic, I was really intimidated by that book but you've convinced me to finally pick it up! My favorite read of the month was Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. It's a classic fairy tale novella which also has some gothic elements, it's really gorgeous and atmospheric. I think you'd really like it actually❤✨

I just began rewatching Gilmore Girls, and I want to thank you Emma because for all the times i've seen the series i thought literature classes and exams and things you got quizzed on made no sense to me, and now, i'm understanding the relevance of knowing the "little facts" of this was inspired by thay and it was written in this way. I didn't know i was learning with you and can now appreciate much more all the interactions, story-telling and references within the series and hopefully in life. It has been an amazing experience. Thank you.

Loved all of these !! My favorite read in June was either Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes or Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor. Townsend Warner is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors, she’s so good, and I’m still confused and enthralled by Violent Bear It Away, such a strange book

Every single day i am waiting for emmie to start reading sally rooney books and give her opinions!!!

if you’re interested in another book that takes place in ontario with places you could probably place, the adult by bronwyn fischer is a new book, the protagonist is from northern ontario (can’t remember where exactly but it was north of north bay) and she goes to university in toronto and theres also mentions of waterloo and other places

honestly this was an awesome reading month, my lowest rating was 4 stars- i'm impressed. my favorite book of the month though has to be fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury. it's just so good and his writing- i am uncapable of articulating my thoughts every time i try to describe how much i adore this book. emma, you're such a motivation to keep reading more and honestly the way you talk about books is just so captivating. love your channel so much 💙

My best book of June was Summer in Baden-Baden which is a fictionalized biography of Dostoevsky written in the stream of consciousness technique. It was special.

Thank you so much for reminding me of the intrinsic and emotional of value of books!

Babel was my favourite book of June. Absolutely loved it.

Comfotr channel is comfort channelling

I love to watch your videos as I have my breakfast and tea ☺️What a peaceful and fun start to the morning, thank you Emma ☕️ Not finished with this video and not caught up with your most recent ones, but are you gonna do a thesis diary kind of vlog? ☺️ I just love your study content. Actually found you through your big essay writing vlog and watch it all the time for motivation, currently writing my thesis too 😌

You said "Mayra Montero" very well pronounced, dear Emma ❤ Thank you for respecting the Spanish language.

Thank you! I just ordered El capitán de los dormidos. I love finding books to add to my second language TBR.

I loved The Wide Sargasso Sea, such an amazing book, I need to try more of her works ♡

So glad you 've recommended Good Morning, Midnight and Icefields

finished the selected diaries of virginia woolf, carried over from may, and then four of the five a song of ice and fire books.. which are.. interesting

I learned about The Summer Book because my favorite musician, Laufey, recommended it. I loved it and would recommend it too!

Least favorite was probably The Stranger. Didn’t hate it or anything but I only read 4 books and something’s gotta be on the bottom of the list 😅

Good morning midnight sounds like I would enjoy it a lot! I got Monkey Beach from the library, as per your recommendation. My three favorite books (all 4☆ reads) in June were How we disappeared by Jing Jing Lee, The snow child by Eowyn Ivey and As long as the lemontrees grow by Zoulfah Katouh. If you haven't read The snow child yet, you might like it, a lot of Alaskan nature and winter descriptions...

Just finished Marriage Portrait by O Farrell and like it. This is a story of how horrific women been treat true history. To be honest, in that time was the same for many people, it is a renascence Italy.

This is actually really good. I think I’m going to start paying attention to the seasonal themes. I currently happen to be reading two books, which have some strong winter vibes and I thought to myself, man! these are so out of place when it’s hot and muggy outside! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ (books in question are American Gods and Melancholy of Resistance).

Definitely going to try The Lost Ryū and see how I feel about it and try to remember to come back and tell you how I felt about it

You are taking “Merchant of Venice” completely out of historical context. Shylock was the most sympathetic and three dimensional Jewish character created by a non-Jewish writer up to that point. He gets to talk about how he is treated by the Christians, how he mourns his wife. And there wouldn’t be one near that for a couple centuries. Normally Jewish “villains” would be killed at the end as in Marlowe’s “Jew of Malta”. So in historical context, the play is philo-Semitic. The trial is one of the greatest scenes all of Shakespeare. Think about how little attention Shakespeare pays to the villains in other comedies. Don John, Duke Frederick etc. Shakespeare made an effort to make Shylock a much fuller character.

I only read one book. Rabbits by Terry Miles. I loved it!

expunging is my favorite word now

AAHHHH YOU READ MY FAVOURITE BOOK!!! (monkey beach slay). So glad you liked it :')

I love Jansson’s Summer Book, too!

1. Captain of the sleepers 2. Richard the second by William Shakespeare 3. Good morning midnight 4. The very secret society of irregular witches 5. The summer I turned pretty 6. The summer book

I haven't read much in June but i finally got around to picking up I'm glad my mom died by Jennette McCurdy and while i really liked it i think it's a bit overated (hot take lol) I'm so glad you enjoyed the motorcycle diaries (i strongly recommend the movie too), i live 40 minutes away from his family's summer house which has been turned into a museum and visiting it after reading the book is an amazing experience. To this day i'm very conflicted about his legacy but my God, what a fascinating man!

Crazy, I was reading an article on Electric Literature this morning, The Top 10 Party Girls in Literature, when I came across a book mention that sounded like something you'd talked about recently. Sure enough, Good Morning, Midnight! Never heard of this book but now twice in a week. Pretty sure I need to try it.

I've been shifting books over and over again not being able to finish one , but still trying to find a book to break my reading slump

My favorite book in June was the graphic novel Everything is OK by Debbie Tung. It’s based on her experience with anxiety and depression - it’s so good but SO EMO and accurate too. I shed many tears. My least favorite was Siege and Storm; I found it to be disappointing actually compared to Shadow and Bone. It felt like a different iteration of the same plot mostly. But I enjoyed the last 100 pages! It needed more revisions.

Henry Bolingbroke likely had Chaucer killed. The latter disappears from the historical record in 1400 when Henry became King. Chaucer was a courtier/diplomat in the court of Richard II. The Lancastrians brought a level of brutality to their reign that wasn't there under Richard II; he had banned Burning for Heresy but Henry brought it back. In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc was burned under this revised policy.

You should read some Kurt Vonnegut novels I just read The Sirens of Titan and it was great !

sorry but i read no books in june because of semester exams 😢, but seeing your june read books makes me feel happy. wish me luck for results (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)...

I read 2 books this month because I'm taking summer classes at uni, but my favorite was the Kukotsky enigma by Ludmila Ulitskaya, though I also loved chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Every Summer After sounds a lot like one I read in June as well. Mine was If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh. It was set in Nantucket and the live interest was even named Sam. Lol

I've added Monkey Beach to my tbr now! Hadn't even heard of it before you mentioned it in a previous vlog. Hope you're well, emma 🐙

Emma have you read any books by T. J. Klune? I love his books so so much, they definitely give the most comforting vibe ever! If you haven't the you should give his book House on the Cerulean sea a go. It definitely is the comfiest book I have ever read, it has found family, finding yorself and finding love. Reading that book feels like a warm hug

Hello! First of all, I love your videos! :) I would love to also read the books from your South America Uni course. Can you tell us the list? Trank you!

Haha, I do not know what it is but if I am forced to read something for school, any negative feelings I have when reading are super multiplied. I still enjoy those works, but if I don't I will REALLY not like them. Must be some psychology thing 😅 For June I just read books I was really interested in (pride and prejudice, dorian grey, some short stories). In July I mainly want to try and finish Don Quixote. We read parts of it in school but I was not able to approach it. It's a bit scary and intimidating book but I'm really loving it so far so I hope my motivation doesn't wane. Is there anything specific you do when you have to read such massive monumental books, both to not forget the details from the beginning and to not get intimidated by the page count and dense paragraphs?

My favorite book of the month was «Jamaica inn» by Daphne du Maurier.

I recommend hotel world by Ali Smith if your looking for more hotels in literature vibes

if there's one person who could convince me to buy a new book after a book buying ban, it's gotta be emma. The Summer Book: ordered.

Thank you so much for sharing all the books you read Emmie. Two of the books you read were also on my list for school. Good Morning Midnight and The Merchant Of Venice, I would love to reread these at some point to see if my opinion changes as we had to read them quote quickly, too quickly in my opinion. I'm on Winter Break from school so I'm free to read what I want to. So far I've read On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong and Girl In A Pink Dress by Kylie Needham. Currently I'm reading Scribbles, Sorrows and Russet Leather Boots by Liz Rosenberg and Time Is A Mother by Ocean Vuong. 📚

Wow that is a lot of interesting Books. Like a Movie review.

Hi Emmie hope you had a nice Canada Day

i only finished one this month damn

I just Merchant of Venice too. I want to read Shakespeare's less talked about plays and I wanted to know why this one wasn't talked about, now I know. I enjoy how you talk about what you read.

What happened to your reading The Brothers Karamasov together with Carolyn Marie through May and June? You never spoke of it anymore in your last videos. Been very curious what you thought about it.

I'm so excited about the very secret society of irregular witches 😢❤

Emma! I feel like you’d adore “the hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet” by jamie ford

Great job on lighting in this video

Great readings, Emma! I really want read The Motorcycle Diaries. This month i've reread Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, and i've read The Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery, and Anne of Windy Poplars, by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Finished Every Summer After in June too. For me it was good -ish but certainly not a highlight. 🤣

I have ember and the ice dragons on the way. ❤❤

I’m in such a reading slump. Max 2 per month 😢 Hold me 😆

Have you ever read Ilkka Remes books? They are super good very political but not in the boring way. Very fast to read even though they are over 500 pages imo. Ilkka Remes is a Finnish author.

I have various problems with English degrees, and being forced to read books against your will is one of them.

my fav book i read this month of june was delilah doesnt care, im a sucker for a good saphic romance book with layers and my least fav book was fight club, hated every single thing about it

Noice. I read some JoJo. That's it. Best manga.

I know you’re hesitant to recommend The Lost Ryu, but I want to give it a go. The execution may not be perfect but the concept sounds so good.

How much longer do you have to go for your degree? I love the content associated with your major in terms of book recommendations!

You pronounce things in spanish very well🤚🏼

Emmie! Have you read Ice by Anna Kavan? I really think you would love it if you have not.

The premise of The Lost Ryui sounds so amazing but it's too bad that it didn't live it up to it :( Does anyone have book recommendations similar to Kiki's delivery service or this book??

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Where is A thousand steps into night😢?I'm waiting for that🙃

R II is a good play but only a bore would place it in front of R III, which has always attracted the best actors. I especially like the speech Old John of Gaunt gives on his deathbed, wherein he describes England as a pearl set in the sea etc. The rest of the play is good, tho I can't say I like the way he used the French women as chattel to pay off royals. Henry IV part 1, Henry V, and Henry VI part 3 are the best in the series between the two Richards. When you get a chance watch some of the movie versions: They're the best in Shakespeare.