What’s the last book you’ve bought?

57 Seconds ago? I'm gonna take that as a sign to watch the video instead of going on my run now :D Edit: Happy Birthday Emily ❤️

Happy Birthday! 🎊 Thank you for bringing so much joy into our lives ❤️

Where is snowglobe Emily? Did the cats killed her? 😂

You should do a read or Unhaul video for fantasy and dystopian.

About the Stormlight Archive, I definitly recommend reading the two that you have left before the next one comes out. Realistically you probably won't be able to read the fifth book this year as it comes out only in December, but you could try to get up to date before the end of the year. I also recommend reading or watching a recap of the previous two books otherwise you'll be lost when you start Oathbringer.

Thank you for this video! I've been so stressed lately and have hardly been able to pick up a book in the past month. This haul made me finally feel excited about my books again - think I'll put my phone down and do a bit of reading now :)

I liked Starter villain, it was kinda sweet (I really liked how it ended), it's short and fun, but just go with right expectations: it's not supervillains in a fantasy way, more like real-life politics lol

Forty rules of love is one of all time fav books. I read 8 years ago and now i reread it every single year. Hope you enjoy it.

Loved Starter Villian, so fast paced and funny! And Happy Birthday!

Your shelves look so organized behind you! Great job ❤

Joyeux Anniversaire Emily 🌷 Thank you for being such a light in the booktube community.

Book haul, so fun!! I find Scalzi books lightly amusing rather than funny, but I generally enjoy them. 😊

I just finished Starter Villain last week. I too was intrigued by the cover, and it was my first John Scalzi book. It wasn’t ground breaking, but it was cute, and it’s made me want to read more of his work. A fun, quick read!

Happy birthday!!!! 🙌🎉🍾🎂🥂

BEST FIRST BOOK HAUL OF 2024! Amazing and beautiful 🌈📚📚🌈🪷📙🌼💛💓💛💛❣️🌼💓💓💜🌺🌷🪻🌷❤️❤️🌺💜💓💘💜🪷📙📙❣️💚💘💜💚💛💛🩵💙💙🌞🌞❤️❤️💙💙🌻🌸🩵💜💘💘💜🩵

Happy Birthday, Emily! You've helped me to get out of my year old reading slump, I with you the same! ♥🎀

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY! You are so special unbelievable most sweetest hard working devoted and amazing inspiring KZfaqr. So proud of you of everything sending positive energy vibes xoxo 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉📙📚🌈🪷🌹❣️💓💚💚🥀🥀🥀🌼💛🪷📖📖📖🌺🌻🪷🪷🌷❣️🌼💚💚🥀🌸🌸🌸🪷🌈🩵📚📚📚🩵💜🪻💘🌹🌼🥀🌼🌹❣️💓💚🥀🥀🥀💛💛🪷🌈📚📚📚📙

If you want to read about villains, I 100% recommend Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots. It's so much more than Starter Villain. Instead of inheriting the villain role, the main character is a temp data analyst working for a villain who gets seriously injured by a superhero. She does the numbers and finds that superheros are doing more harm than good in the world... so who is the real villain? It's the start of a series and the next book is coming out this year I believe.

Happy Birthday Emily 🎂

These all sound really good, and now I want to read them too. 😄

I mean I knew you wouldn't like Divine Rivals bc of the romance and the "fantasy" 😁 Happy birthday! 🥳 Hope you have a good one! My birthday is also in a few days and I'll be getting books too 😊

Happy birthday Emily! I hope these books bring you joy!

It makes me feel so much better that you were also frustrated by the end of Divine Rivals! I felt so alone because I’ve only heard positive things but it’s been frustrating me so so much, I have 30 pages left and I don’t even want to finish it because I just don’t care anymore. I loved the beginning of the book though

Happy birthday, Emily!!!

Happy Birthday Emily! 🎉

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Had to come here immediately to recommend after finishing Elif Shafak’s last book, The Island of Missing Trees. Another one you won’t want to miss, after finishing the one you’re reading now. The last pages!!!😭😭😭 Her stories are SO GOOD!

Happy Birthday Emily 🎂🥂

Happy Birthday Emily!! 🎉🥳

Happy birthday 🎉 I’m reading Glen T Ryan’s Last Dragon Home and I’m loving it. I got the rec from your comments section in another vid, so now I’m passing it on 😊

Oooh I just purchased The Will of the Many; but I’m in a reading sluuuump, and it’s so big!

Love ur bookshelves looks amazing pretty and organized keep up the good work well done 💜🌈🌼🌼🪻🌈💜💜💜🌈🌼🩵🩵🌹💛💛🫶🏻🥀🥀🌞🌞🌸❤️💙💙🧡📖📙📙🩵📚🌈🪻🌼🌼🌼🪻🌈💜❣️❣️🪷🥀📚📚📚🌹🪷💘💘❤️🧡💓💙💚💚💚

Happy Birthday, Emily! I have Tom Lake too to read.

happy belated birthday Emily!

Really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on The Forty Rules of Love. That's going to be my next read by her too ☺

Happy birthday, Emily! 🎉

Elif Shafak is my favorite author! Her non-fiction book "Staying sane in an age of division" is also really interesting and a pretty quick read since its quite a short book (maybe 50-60 pages).

Happy Birthday!!🎉🎉

For stormlight archive. Definitely take it slowly. They're long and slow (in the theres a lot of pages and info way). Im on book 4 right now. It usually takes me a couple months to finish.. I only read one book in this series a year bc theyre so long. 😆 the good thing I notice is.. he has shorten each chapter, in terms of pages/chapter, so it feels like you're making more progress 😆

I am a quiet viewer but just want to say Happy Birthday!!! I’ll be turning 30 April 20😅 hoping to buy more books on my day off tomorrow.

I really want to read Starter Villain. It looks funny.

I was going to read a Stormlight book every 3 months so I could read 5 when it comes out. But I'm now binge reading it and can't stop till I have nothing left but book 5. I didn't want to binge read it, but it's so good

Happy Birthday 🎉🎉

Happy birthday Emily ❤

The only book I’ve read that you have is Starter Villain. It was fun! I would say I think it’s sort of more sci fi than fantasy.

Happy Birthday 🎉 📖

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday!!

You should definitely finish the Stormlight archive series it is so good! I’m on book 2 and love it so far. My dad has read all 4 and loved them! He says anyone and everyone should definitely read them! They are his favorite that he has read in a long time! If you want another villain book you should also read the assistant to the villain it’s a really good story about the villain and his assistant. It’s super good and funny NA book! You should totally give it a try!

Happy birthday 🎉🎉🎉

Happy Birthday !! 🎉🎂

Happy late birthday!!🎉🎉

Happy birthday! :D I googled the chainsaw...thanks 😂

Happy birthday! 🥳

I have zero interest also in super hero movies, books etc. Enjoyed your recs!

Happy Birthday 🎉

Yeees it’s about hoarding the books 🤍 😆 I’ve been in this really bad reading slum for a couple of months now… I do go to the library and get books, I even bought new books but somehow when I sit down to read… I feel so overwhelmed… even Audiobooks aren’t chatching me right now. So as of now, just hoping for the best… because I do miss reading

I had literally asked myself this morning if you had posted your Birthday video lol. Also Happy Birthday 💜🥳

Joyeux Anniversaire, Emily 🥳🥳

Happy birthday 🥳

I feel you on the ending to Divine Rivals. I actually enjoyed the book, but the ending was….abrupt? One thing I learned though, is that the series is just two books, and honestly the two together are still shorter than one Sanderson, so I guess I’m more forgiving? I dunno. I’m in the middle of the sequel now. Side note: The sequel also has a typewriter on the cover, but this time it says “Dear Roman”. If you’re the type of person to buy books for the pretty factor then it may be worth it. 😂

Starter villain is scifi. It's kinda funny and it's being adapted into a movie by ryan ranolds. It's so on brand from him. I enjoyed the book and it halped me come out of my reading slump.

Im on a book buying ban, I've already bought 45 books this year (including the one for you) My most recent purcase was A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L Jensen, and its on the TBR this month! Sunbringer by Hanna Kaner is my most hyped one for next month. Ngl the movie novelization of Godzilla x Kong was my fav new book, it was everyting Kaiju Preservation Society should have been and is a lot better than the movie itself. Ps i did already know the chainsaw thing, it's nowhere near as bad but check out the origins of the word robot

the bastard of istanbul is also a very famous book by elif shafak. i havent read it yet though but a friend of mine highly recommended it and so i added it to my tbr

Happy birthday emily🎉 I heard there was some controversy with the last hugo award winners & i thought i'd let you know in case you hadn't heard. It's kinda sucky but shouldn't affect your challenge? Also 2 of the stuff your kindle events are in a couple of days so just letting everybody know!

Pls! Post the divine rivals vlog! We will like it anyway :)

Happy birthday

Happy birthday Emily! I’m curious what your thoughts are on Outlawed by Anna North (feminist old west retelling - the cover is pink) if you’ve read it. I just finished it and I feel like you would vibe with it

Happy Birthday

Uhhh, it's kind of crazy, but I want to reread ALL of the Stormlight books before the fifth one releases. I'd say try to read them if you can, but you've really got to feel the vibe or it's going to be a giant 1,000 page hill to climb each time hahaha. I hope you do get to them, if the mood hits! :)

Bonne fête Émily🥳

Emily Henry Funny Story love her books so much and I have it on my TBR so pumped to read it! 🌺💛💙📙📙📙💘💘💙💛🌺🪻🌹💚🌹🪻🌈🌷🥀❤️❤️📚📚💜💜🪷📚💙💘💚💚🥀🥀❤️💓🧡🌸🌞❣️❣️💛🌺🫶🏻💜💜🪷📚📚💜💜🩵🩵🌷🌈🌈🌈🌷🪻🪻🌹🌼🌼

Happy birthday 🎂🥳. Looking forward to your Funny Story vlog since it is on my TBR list. Since you didn't like the ending of Divine Rivals, you won't read the sequel?

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CHAINSAWS????? I’m gonna pass away 😱

Starter Villain is very comfortably my worst book of 2024, no other books even come close 😌 There's a scene about 80 pages in that I think is a great test for if you'll like the humor or not. It's hella marmite: either you find it funny and it makes you want to read the book, or it's cringey af and makes you DNF.

No thrifting or library sales?

I just got a couple books from the library sale and a LFL. I immediately read Orange is the New Black and I thought it was written in a way that was hard to put down. I think it struck a good balance of the author's experiences in prison, but also the author's good fortune for being white, had supportive family and friends, having people who can give her money for commissary, being able to afford a good lawyer, etc. She also strikes a good balance between the fact that she did harm people with her actions and deserves to be legally punished, but also the prison system in the US being awful and so many people who don't deserve to be there (or don't deserve to be there for so long). They could pay their debts to society in other ways, but prisons are such good sources of free/cheap labor, of course the government is gonna toss people in there. And how prisons need huge reforms in conditions, how they treat people, etc. And I finally read Invisible Women that I bought years ago, and I'm glad I read it even if it made me really mad. Thanks for the recommendation, from a long time ago.

There is a nice interview with Emily Henry talking about her new book. It is on the You Tube channel ..Friends and Fiction.....Happy Birthday.

The only thing that keeps me from feeling too guilty about not reading the books I already own is that I read more books from the library than I buy. Most years I don't even buy new books, I just read books through the library.

Don't know when your birthday is but Bonne fête !! 🎂

Try the Architect's Apprentice - by Elif Shafak.

Oh boy... I am waiting for One dark window to get out in my language TODAY and there are discounts because of the World book day and you saying INSTALOVE I was OH NO 😢. This was awful sentence 😂

I am curious. What do u do for work?

i wish i could go back in time to when i didnt look up the primary reason why chainsaws were invented 🙃

So this might be an unpopular opinion, but i personally really didn't like Tom Lake (i found it really boring) and Starter Villain (writing felt a bit juvenile and cringy to me) 🙈

Emily, I googled chainsaws. WTF???

OMG! J'viens de googler l'origine de la chainsaw... je suis sans mots... merci de partager ton trauma avec nous!

Omg j Googled... 😮I am traumatized 😫

Divine Rivals annoyed me so badly. Him keeping it a secret that he knew who she was... big ick

Regarding Divine Rivals, as someone who has some experience working for a newspaper, description of the job in the book made me cringe more than the cheesy romance. It’s not like I expect realistic portrayal of different occupations in a fantasy novel, but make it less „this Barbie is a journalist”. That being said, the cheesy romance was the right kind of cheese for me 🧀 Second book is not worth reading anyway IMO.

Starter Villain is funny. It's a fantastic premise and the audiobook narrator was enjoyable. I dnfed Tom Lake as it was intentionally emotionally manipulative in a way I couldn't stand. I don't think you will like it.

omg I just googled chainsaw invention and yep you were right it was horrifying lol

HBD to you!! 🎉🎉🎉 Aries ♈️?

I had an idea that chainsaws would be bone related but the reality is still worse lol, thank you for that cursed information

You're not enjoying readinng 6:39

I love Divine Rivals and I am so sorry you didn’t like it Emily 💙🩵💘💜💜🩵💙💙💙🩵💘🩵💘💜💜🩵💙🌸🌸💙🌻📚🌈🌼🥀🧡🌷🪻🌹💕💕🪻🌹📖🌺📚📙📙💛💛💛🩵💘💜💜💘🩵💙💚🪷📚📙📙📚🪷🫶🏻🌺

Elif Shafak is my favorite author! Her non-fiction book "Staying sane in an age of division" was also really interesting and a pretty quick read as it is a quite short book (maybe 50-60 pages).

Happy birthday!