This is the year that I'm going to give exams, to go to the uni, I don't have any time to read books and when I do have time I am exhausted. Watching your videos makes me feel close to books ❤ I miss reading so much
Hi Emma, I am going to read Phantom of the Opera this month. Your passion about it has really sparked my interest for it since the last year when you read it in October. I am finally reading it this month and I am so excited for it, all thanks to you!🥀
My spooky/cozy TBR for the month: Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Cybernetic Tea Shop - Meredith Katz Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw Once Upon A River - Diane Setterfield Small Spaces - Katherine Arden The Bone Mother - David Demchuk Song for the Unraveling of the World - Brian Evenson
I'm reading Dracula currently. It's my 3rd book for October and it's just so atmospheric and amazing for this beautiful season. And it's my birthday in two days! 🍂🌟
Okay, now I feel like I have to write another comment... I highly appreciate your way of telling about books! It feels like talking to a friend. Your inner warmth and cosiness has been keeping me happy since this summer. It's such a blessing finding your channel randomly in "recommendations" section Thanks for being your wonderful self :"3 Have some awesome reads is SpOoKy SeAsOn🎃💜
I have never conformed to a strictly spooky theme for my October reading before, but I am trying to do so this year. So my current spooky TBR includes: -Mexican Gothic -Carmilla -The Vampyre -Frankenstein (reread) -The Turn of the Screw -Metamorphosis -Northanger Abbey (reread) -The Haunting of Hill House -Some more Edgar Allen Poe stories So far, I have also already read A Long Fatal Love Chase and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow this month. (By the way, I would highly recommend reading A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott. It is extremely underrated.) I hope your spooky reading goes well and you are having a wonderful week!
On my TBR this month: Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Tomie (manga), The Thief, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle which I've been saving for this month! I also read Sheets and I liked it. My heart feels for Wendell. I'm definitely going to read Delicates. Happy reading Emma :)
King Lear has moved up my list of favourite Shakespeare plays since I saw Frank Langella as Lear in Chichester and then Simon Russell-Beale as Lear at the National Theatre. The Langella was small, intimate and totally broke me. The Russell-Beale one was huge, director driven (it was a big play about big issues he thought and damn he was going to prove it)and really annoyed me. So, between the two of them I kind of found my way to a new appreciation for Lear as a play.
There are some other BookTubers who have BoMC as a sponsor. For me, the effect is after seeing the ad is a feeling of familiarity with the titles - something like "Oh, I've heard of that!" IMO that's a counterintuitive result, and impressive that the people there understand that BT's plugs can and do have a cumulative effect.
My TBR for october (spooky+dark academic+random): The Maidens - Alex Michaelides The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern The Turn of the Screw - Henry James Troy - Stephen Fry The Invisible Life of Addie Larue - V.E. Schwab The Graveyard Apartment - Mariko Koike Punk 57 - Penelope Douglas One of us is next - Karen M. McManus
I’m fully in the spoopy mood now. I just finished Dracula and now I’m reading Carmilla. I’ve also been listening to The Faerie Queen for some weeks now, I put it on whilst I clean and it makes the menial more fantastical. The Monk is incredible, I’ve not been the same since, and I highly recommend the audio cause the songs in it are performed beautifully
I don't have a set tbr, but I'm currently re-reading 1984 and I just started the magicians by Lev Grossman :) thank you for your videos they are so lovely and relaxing 😊
Now this is a treat! I’m already feeling festive, snuggled up inside, eating mini gingerbread men with hot milky tea, watching the grey clouds and flecks of rain on the windowpane 🤗
I'm currently reading Notre Dame de Paris and i rlly like it. On my october tbr are Dance Dance Dance, Carmilla, The Haunting of Hill House, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Bunny, and Things We Lost in the Fire
I read that last year. It's very good. Especially I like how sometimes Paris seems to be in the 15th cent. and sometimes the 19th. I believe that duality was intentional.
I've got a lot on my TBR this month. Mainly mysteries and gothic classics because that is 100% my mood at the moment. I'm actually reading Phantom of the Opera for the first time ever and I'm really excited about it!
I started The Hawthorne Legacy a few days ago, the second book to The Inherintance Games, and I must say I'm very hooked to it for now, as the plot, mysteries and puzzles are getting interesting. The first book was a huge let down for me, that I thought of DNF-ing the series. But I have already bought the second book during its preorder (before cracking the first book), so I'm giving a chance for it to redeem my disappointment and so far as I said, it does. I don't celebrate Halloween, and so I never really thought of October as a spooky month to read spooky books. But I'm very intrigued to see your TBR books. I hope you'll enjoy them all!
Haunting of the hill house series on Netflix is so scary but by the end it becomes so sad that I can't ----😭 (i wish you could've watched it it's actually pretty good)
There is a 1947 film *The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby* directed by Alberto Cavalcanti : so gritty and atmospheric you really do feel that you are in 19th Century England. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Cavalcanti came to Ealing Studios in England. He understood the soul of Dickens.
Your pile ended up being delightfully color coordinated. I've been craving gothic stories for this year's spooky reading, but so far I've been sidetracked by other themes. I just finished Small Favors which has an amazing slow burn of horror. Now I'm reading A Lesson in Vengeance and really enjoying the DA atmosphere. Next, two more library books - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager and Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson. I'm also reading In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. I'm waiting for a library copy of Bunny by Mona Awad. Books from my shelf I want to get to between now and midNovember - Northhanger Abbey, The Haunting of Hill House, Anne of Green Gables, Thus Were Their Faces, Monsters She Wrote by Lisa Kroger, several spooky middle grades, and two spooky middle grade graphic novels. And many many more, but I'll be lucky if I finish the ones I've already mentioned. Oh, and a book I stumbled upon at a local bookstore the other day - Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places by Robert MacFarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards.
Tbr for October: - What Remains- Christ Wolf -Luuanda- Jose Luandina Vieira -Boy erased- Garrard Conley (which has been finished) - Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov -Agua Viva- Clarice Lispector - All our yesterdays- Cristin Terrill -The rest of us just live here- Patrick Ness - Selected Writings, 1920-66: Ho Chi Minh on revolution. -Anne of green gables- L.M Montgomery -City of stairs- Robert Jackson Bennett Notes from the Underground- Dostoevsky - Speaking truth to power- Anita Hill (which I’m already almost done with)
I think you’ll love the haunting of hill house; great psychological horror. Also hurricane season is very good, although it is EXTREMELY obscene and disturbing.
I will having my birthday the end of this Spooktober and seeking through my shelves to find any spooky unread book and.. it's nothing 😂 Seems like i have to buy a spooky book as a gift for myself to celebrate this month 🎃(another reason to buy a book ehh)
Unrelated to the spooky season, but when I saw the big books you have to read, i though "those are huge, omg" and then i look over at my copy of "The three Musketeers" that I'm reading for my world lit class and am like "oh right." As for what else I'm planning to read this month (almost none are spooky tho) - hopefully I'll finish "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (I'm halfway through, it's amazing) - Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (required reading) - The Godfather by Mario Puzo - some short stories by Edgar Allan Poe (required reading, but I'm excited) - The Hobbit. (I'm trying to get into LOTR once and for all) - The Three Musketeers (already mentioned) - Ivanhoe by Walter Scott (required reading. I'm kinda dreading it)
@@jamesduggan7200 It's not my favorite either. I'm more partial to his non samurai movies like No Regrets for Our Youth, they just feel more personal than the glamorous samurai films he did.
Hurricane Season is INSANE. The narrative that Melchor weaves is *tight*. The never ending sentences leave you gasping for air, I could not put it down. All of the trigger warnings.
The reason your asterisks around "tight" didn't cause it to come out *bold* is that there has to be a space before the first asterisk and after the last one. You put a period right after. That ruined it. Either put the period within the asterisks or leave a space after the asterisk. It will look funny because there's so much space between the word and the period, but at least the word will be bold. I think the period will also be bold, if it's within the asterisks, and that might look odd, so maybe you'd consider making the word in _italics_ instead of bold. That way, the punctuation is not so noticeably bold, just italicized. You can Edit your comment with these changes.
Oh I was so excited for Titus Groan I didn't even share my spooky TBR. XD My October plans are *House of Leaves, Mexican Gothic, Bunny, and Mr. Fox* (the Helen Oyeyemi book).
Thank you, Emma. Apart from finishing some books I started in September, I'd really like to read some plays in October, like for instance Pygmalion, which I haven't yet read. My other picks for the month will depend much on time and feeling. Congratulations to 180 000!
Ah I've been waiting for my dose of coziness today. Just got into my bed, blankets on with a cup of coffee, and your video. Such a special little personal treat 💗 happy fall and spooktober everyone 🎃🍁🍂🕯📚
I’m currently reading goth by otsuichi. It’s seriously the creepiest story I’ve read in a long time. It’s gory and atmospheric and I’m fascinated by the characters. I would recommend. Happy October everyone 🎃
I love you! October is my favorite reading month, too!! Gothic novels are the best. I love to read seasonally. My second favorite reading time is spring.
It creeps me out just thinking about those books. I'm sure I couldn't read them. eeek. Anyway, I'm trying to work my way through Anna Karinina and Promised Land (Obama biography) this month. Spooky in their own ways. Happy reading.
I am currently reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and I am already getting the 5-star feeling as well! I've also started Frankenstein for the first time for a book club, and I'm almost finished with what I think will be a 3-star horror called The Book of Accidents. Once I get through that pile I hope to read Rebecca for the first time and Macbeth!
I'm currently referring a lot to The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost for my thesis on Lewis because he was an English Lit scholar of the Renaissance period and particularly loved Milton and Spenser, and my thesis is due at the end of October but I haven't had time to read the Faerie Queene and it's been a while since I read Paradise Lost, and searching through the stanzas without context is a real pain because they're both so huge even though their so beautiful. SO I GET YOU! Will pray =) Love the October/spooky vibes of this video so much.
Hill House is one of my favorites. But I've also got to give some love to Ocampo. Those stories were so beautifully unsettling and surreal, exactly up my alley. If you like her writing, may I suggest the work of the director David Lynch.
I have been tired out of school, and despite having exams next week, I will still be reading. My list for October is: - Babysitter's Coven Book One (not enjoying it tbh) - The rest of the Villain's series by Serena Valentino
I'm so happy I've been following you since such a while and the way your video aesthetics and content delivery style has developed is so wonderful. You're doing a great job! Much love 💗
always love seeing your tbr planning videos, wish so badly bunny had made it onto the stack though!! one of my favs, think you'd love it. this month i've already read at night all blood is black and brood, and will be reading jane eyre, the iliac crest, the hearing trumpet, in cold blood, and never let me go. the very best of the spooky, disturbing, and bizarre on my shelves
Just so you know, angela carter's version of little red riding hood from the bloody chamber has a film adaption called " the company of wolves" It is one of my favorites and is amazingly beautiful and dark. Now it is a bit of a horror movie with some werewolf like transformations but it is played out like a beautiful dark fairytale with lots of animals and imagery.
Titus Groan, the first part of what ended up as a trilogy as he died before completing the fourth book in the series. Either you will love it or hate it. The author Mervyn Peake wrote a lot of children's books and was a well-known illustrator of books as well. Good luck with all your reading, if you get to Titus I would be interested in what you thought of it as it is a little dense, to say the least!
I’m about halfway through The Return of the King now. Plan to read Fingersmith and Letter’s to a Young Poet next, then reread Carmilla because it’s short and I love it, and Haunted by Palahniuk.
Hey Emma, Bloody chamber by Angela Carter is amazing pick for October. Honestly, her writing is so delectable and it's every aspiring writer's dream...I really hope you will pick up The monk too, its such an underrated classic. I like to think of it as a satire on hypocrisy that pompous people commit in the name of religion.
I actually wanna be in your library, you’ve a gorgeous collection 😍 for me I read nonfiction books more so I don’t have loads of novels. I hope you enjoy reading this month✨
I am so pleased to see young people reading the classics. Please try to read great expectations and David Copperfield. If you are into the French revolution the tale of two cities is excellent. I and at least twice a region I have found it so much easier to learn about history through books. This proved to be so true what I went to school.
My October TBR includes Carmilla, Dracula, Frankenstein, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Tender Is The Flesh, Horrorstör, Perfume, The Hole, The Yellow Wallpaper, and a reread of The Picture of Dorian Gray (aaand I already snuck in Forgotten in Death since I love the series and couldn't wait any longer to read the new book 😂). Hope you have a great reading month!
I started watching you around this time last year so these fall spooky videos feel so cozy and nostalgic to me! also as always i love your recommendations!
This cat actually do have a reading plan - sort of. Cats aren't very good at keeping to plans - something most Bipeds do comprehend I have Been told - it might, however, be lies! Nonetheless "The Monk" is part of it as is a number of books of weird fiction in the "British Library - Tales of The Weird" collections - "The Cheshire Library" is vast. This cat have read "The Bloody Chamber" and actually have a first edition hardcover copy somewhere well dusted and in excellent shape. Falling a sleep on books is a wonderful way to spend a rainy day as any cat would tell you unless they are already asleep of course - which is likely. Teeth and Mists Cheshire Cat
I started the Haunting of Hill House today! Lovinggg it so far! my fav Jackson is also We Have Always Lived in the Castle. I’m slowly getting through all her works.
The murder of Roger Ackroyd is a book which will make you read it twice to actually believe what happened... The ending completely changes all what you viewed or thought! A must really!!
omigosh omigosh yay!! I'm so excited for you try Titus Groan. :D It's so _deliciously_ Gothic, and the atmosphere is *chef's kiss*. It's got some of my favourite prose and imagery in any book too, and I love the characters. :) I'm so glad it got to you!!
I loved The murder of Roger Ackroyd! You make me want to pick up another Poirot! I've been reading Wuthering Heights and it's been slow for me. I know it's a very well loved classic so I'm pushing through to see if I get more into it as I read.
Melchor is an amazing writer, i'm very intrigued on the translation of her books. I'm super excited for you to read it, and for all the books in the list!
Titus Groan! It can get a bit slow at times, but the Gormenghast Trilogy is fabulous! I think the first book was my favourite. I am about to start a reread of Dracula. Already finished The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Mercies, some Bradbury and a few works by Dahl, plus The Woman in Black, by Susan Hill, which is fantastic.
Update on The House on the Borderland book I was reading. Last I was about half way through and I said I loved it. it was still good, but I thought this one section went on for too long and that it got a bit confusing. It is one of the stories where you aren't supposed to know everything that is going on, but it still was a little hard to follow at times, though my mind wasn't really focusing as much those days. Anyway, it was still an interesting read and great for Halloween. I got a second book when I got that one that I'm reading now, and coincidently it is by the same author. I didn't even realize it when I first picked it. LOL. This book is a short story collection called The Complete Stories of Carnacki the Ghost Finder ,and I'm really enjoying it. Just heads up for both books, there is some violence against animals. I wish there was less of that.
That pile of books is like an obelisk!If you get through them you are the infant phenomenon (all growed up).I've picked up Titus Groan,it will have to wait till November.I love your outfit,it reminds me of the child's in Dali's surrealist painting The Spectre Of Sex Appeal.❤️
I love watching your TBRs, they give me so many classics recommendations. I'm new to classics but just started my BA in English Lit so I'm hoping, by the end, to be slightly more well versed in the classics.
Im literally STUCK in a reading slump, couldnt get rid of it since 2019 :( So my list is kinda short and small - Things have gotten worse since we last spoke by Eric LaRocca (already read it 4/5) - The Iliac Crest - Untold night and day last two were recommended by u obviously 🥰
This is the year that I'm going to give exams, to go to the uni, I don't have any time to read books and when I do have time I am exhausted. Watching your videos makes me feel close to books ❤ I miss reading so much
I feel the same way. Trying to get tons of reading before uni 😭
i relate this so much🥺😭
Omg! Same!! Let’s try to keep each other accountable somrhow
Me also, just graduated today but having my exams in a couple of weeks...
Same situation. im so exhausted, but i still have to go for 4-5 months.
Ooh wishing Emma and everyone here the best autumn this year! Have lots of hot chocolate , coffee and an overall cozy reading season. 🍂🌟
Same to you!💖🤗🌷🦋
You too!! ,🎃🐛📙🧡
I love ur pfp
@@elisazouza Thank you sm I agree Sophie is such a delicate beauty ❤️
I just read The Haunting of Hill House yesterday and ADORED it! I think you will love it if you have an appreciation for psychological horror
Hi Emma, I am going to read Phantom of the Opera this month. Your passion about it has really sparked my interest for it since the last year when you read it in October. I am finally reading it this month and I am so excited for it, all thanks to you!🥀
omg me too! happy reading ✨
Omgg same, I saw it the other day in my library and I pick it!! happy reading
I think we all are going to have a blast reading it and maybe it can become a new favorite... 💗
You're absolutely going to love it! It's such a cozy/spooky story!
My spooky/cozy TBR for the month:
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Cybernetic Tea Shop - Meredith Katz
Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw
Once Upon A River - Diane Setterfield
Small Spaces - Katherine Arden
The Bone Mother - David Demchuk
Song for the Unraveling of the World - Brian Evenson
The cybernetic teashop is SO good and cozy!
Ooh I have Mexican Gothic on my shelves as well! I think I'll also add that one
I've had good things about Mexican gothic. thank you!
Ooh. I read Mexican Gothic. I really really liked it!
I'm reading Dracula currently. It's my 3rd book for October and it's just so atmospheric and amazing for this beautiful season. And it's my birthday in two days! 🍂🌟
Happy Birthday in advance 🎉
Happy early birthday , may all your wishes come true!🎊
Happy early birthday to you!! 💛💛
happy early birthday! 🤍
Is your birthday on october 9th?! Happy early bday
Okay, now I feel like I have to write another comment... I highly appreciate your way of telling about books! It feels like talking to a friend. Your inner warmth and cosiness has been keeping me happy since this summer. It's such a blessing finding your channel randomly in "recommendations" section
Thanks for being your wonderful self :"3
Have some awesome reads is SpOoKy SeAsOn🎃💜
That makes me so happy so glad you found your way here💕 wishing you the most wonderful spooky season too!!
I have never conformed to a strictly spooky theme for my October reading before, but I am trying to do so this year. So my current spooky TBR includes:
-Mexican Gothic
-Carmilla
-The Vampyre
-Frankenstein (reread)
-The Turn of the Screw
-Metamorphosis
-Northanger Abbey (reread)
-The Haunting of Hill House
-Some more Edgar Allen Poe stories
So far, I have also already read A Long Fatal Love Chase and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow this month. (By the way, I would highly recommend reading A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott. It is extremely underrated.)
I hope your spooky reading goes well and you are having a wonderful week!
On my TBR this month: Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Tomie (manga), The Thief, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle which I've been saving for this month! I also read Sheets and I liked it. My heart feels for Wendell. I'm definitely going to read Delicates. Happy reading Emma :)
oo! I'm also doing Paradise Lost this term :D university is definitely the spookiest thing this season
these monthly planning videos are my absolute favourite!! 🥺
King Lear has moved up my list of favourite Shakespeare plays since I saw Frank Langella as Lear in Chichester and then Simon Russell-Beale as Lear at the National Theatre. The Langella was small, intimate and totally broke me. The Russell-Beale one was huge, director driven (it was a big play about big issues he thought and damn he was going to prove it)and really annoyed me. So, between the two of them I kind of found my way to a new appreciation for Lear as a play.
There are some other BookTubers who have BoMC as a sponsor. For me, the effect is after seeing the ad is a feeling of familiarity with the titles - something like "Oh, I've heard of that!" IMO that's a counterintuitive result, and impressive that the people there understand that BT's plugs can and do have a cumulative effect.
My TBR for october (spooky+dark academic+random):
The Maidens - Alex Michaelides
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Troy - Stephen Fry
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue - V.E. Schwab
The Graveyard Apartment - Mariko Koike
Punk 57 - Penelope Douglas
One of us is next - Karen M. McManus
I’m fully in the spoopy mood now. I just finished Dracula and now I’m reading Carmilla. I’ve also been listening to The Faerie Queen for some weeks now, I put it on whilst I clean and it makes the menial more fantastical. The Monk is incredible, I’ve not been the same since, and I highly recommend the audio cause the songs in it are performed beautifully
I don't have a set tbr, but I'm currently re-reading 1984 and I just started the magicians by Lev Grossman :) thank you for your videos they are so lovely and relaxing 😊
Now this is a treat! I’m already feeling festive, snuggled up inside, eating mini gingerbread men with hot milky tea, watching the grey clouds and flecks of rain on the windowpane 🤗
I'm currently reading Notre Dame de Paris and i rlly like it. On my october tbr are Dance Dance Dance, Carmilla, The Haunting of Hill House, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Bunny, and Things We Lost in the Fire
I read that last year. It's very good. Especially I like how sometimes Paris seems to be in the 15th cent. and sometimes the 19th. I believe that duality was intentional.
I've got a lot on my TBR this month. Mainly mysteries and gothic classics because that is 100% my mood at the moment. I'm actually reading Phantom of the Opera for the first time ever and I'm really excited about it!
I felt it when you said the scariest thing this term is uni work , hope it all goes well, uni work is very spooky indeed.
Hoping to read Haunting of Hill House as well this month. The series scared me so much.
Series? There are two movies based on this book, one old black and white one, and one modern one. What series?
@@floogelhornzzz4770 the netflix one…
@@MilenaReads: How many seasons are there of that series?
My Dark Vanessa is literally perfecttt to read this month !!
I started The Hawthorne Legacy a few days ago, the second book to The Inherintance Games, and I must say I'm very hooked to it for now, as the plot, mysteries and puzzles are getting interesting. The first book was a huge let down for me, that I thought of DNF-ing the series. But I have already bought the second book during its preorder (before cracking the first book), so I'm giving a chance for it to redeem my disappointment and so far as I said, it does.
I don't celebrate Halloween, and so I never really thought of October as a spooky month to read spooky books. But I'm very intrigued to see your TBR books. I hope you'll enjoy them all!
The scarecrow and his servant was one of my favourite books as a child 🥲
Haunting of the hill house series on Netflix is so scary but by the end it becomes so sad that I can't ----😭 (i wish you could've watched it it's actually pretty good)
Glad to see you're enjoying Nevernight, definitely one of the best trilogies I've ever read 📚 ❤
Not better than _Lord of the Rings._
@@floogelhornzzz4770 which is why I said "one of the best"
There is a 1947 film *The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby* directed by Alberto Cavalcanti : so gritty and atmospheric you really do feel that you are in 19th Century England. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Cavalcanti came to Ealing Studios in England. He understood the soul of Dickens.
I adore Red Riding Hood. For me, it's the dark woods and the wolf. I'll have to check out Red Wolf
Your pile ended up being delightfully color coordinated. I've been craving gothic stories for this year's spooky reading, but so far I've been sidetracked by other themes. I just finished Small Favors which has an amazing slow burn of horror. Now I'm reading A Lesson in Vengeance and really enjoying the DA atmosphere. Next, two more library books - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager and Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson. I'm also reading In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. I'm waiting for a library copy of Bunny by Mona Awad. Books from my shelf I want to get to between now and midNovember - Northhanger Abbey, The Haunting of Hill House, Anne of Green Gables, Thus Were Their Faces, Monsters She Wrote by Lisa Kroger, several spooky middle grades, and two spooky middle grade graphic novels. And many many more, but I'll be lucky if I finish the ones I've already mentioned. Oh, and a book I stumbled upon at a local bookstore the other day - Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places by Robert MacFarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards.
That tree trunk figure with the pumpkins is adorable 🥰
Tbr for October:
- What Remains- Christ Wolf
-Luuanda- Jose Luandina Vieira
-Boy erased- Garrard Conley (which has been finished)
- Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
-Agua Viva- Clarice Lispector
- All our yesterdays- Cristin Terrill
-The rest of us just live here- Patrick Ness
- Selected Writings, 1920-66: Ho Chi Minh on revolution.
-Anne of green gables- L.M Montgomery
-City of stairs- Robert Jackson Bennett
Notes from the Underground- Dostoevsky
- Speaking truth to power- Anita Hill (which I’m already almost done with)
what a way to start the day! a cozy video and a cup of tea
Murder of roger Ackroyd is legit my fav Agatha Christie novel .... I'm so excited for you to read it and come back here with your reviews!!!! 🤌💞
Bloody Chamber is amazing. Glad you are enjoying Nicholas Nickelbey as well. I think Dickens really steps into gear from this book onwards.
I think you’ll love the haunting of hill house; great psychological horror. Also hurricane season is very good, although it is EXTREMELY obscene and disturbing.
Ps. Roger ackroyd is amazing , it’s unputdownable
I will having my birthday the end of this Spooktober and seeking through my shelves to find any spooky unread book and.. it's nothing 😂 Seems like i have to buy a spooky book as a gift for myself to celebrate this month 🎃(another reason to buy a book ehh)
Your videos are always full of warmth and comfort. My dark Venessa truly gave me the creeps! Thank you for your recommendations!
The immense amounts of joy and happiness I feel when I watch your videos, just.. thank you for existing💛
my (overly ambitious) scary TBR is The Haunting of Hill House, The Amityville Horror, Ghostland, The Only Good Indians, and Pet Semetary!
Unrelated to the spooky season, but when I saw the big books you have to read, i though "those are huge, omg" and then i look over at my copy of "The three Musketeers" that I'm reading for my world lit class and am like "oh right."
As for what else I'm planning to read this month (almost none are spooky tho)
- hopefully I'll finish "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (I'm halfway through, it's amazing)
- Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (required reading)
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- some short stories by Edgar Allan Poe (required reading, but I'm excited)
- The Hobbit. (I'm trying to get into LOTR once and for all)
- The Three Musketeers (already mentioned)
- Ivanhoe by Walter Scott (required reading. I'm kinda dreading it)
You should watch Akira Kurosawa's film Ran, it's based off of King Lear and it's a really good film.
I love Ran! Very good stuff.
Kurosawa was a genius.
Glad you liked it; not my favorite. tbh Have yet to see a production of Lear I've enjoyed: much prefer reading it.
@@jamesduggan7200 It's not my favorite either. I'm more partial to his non samurai movies like No Regrets for Our Youth, they just feel more personal than the glamorous samurai films he did.
you genuinely have the most soothing voice
You should keep some of those books close to you. In the event you have a burglar, you can just chuck them at them. I'd knock them right out.
Hurricane Season is INSANE. The narrative that Melchor weaves is *tight*. The never ending sentences leave you gasping for air, I could not put it down. All of the trigger warnings.
The reason your asterisks around "tight" didn't cause it to come out *bold* is that there has to be a space before the first asterisk and after the last one. You put a period right after. That ruined it. Either put the period within the asterisks or leave a space after the asterisk. It will look funny because there's so much space between the word and the period, but at least the word will be bold. I think the period will also be bold, if it's within the asterisks, and that might look odd, so maybe you'd consider making the word in _italics_ instead of bold. That way, the punctuation is not so noticeably bold, just italicized. You can Edit your comment with these changes.
my spooky reading tbr included Phantom of the Opera and i loved it!! 👻
Oh I was so excited for Titus Groan I didn't even share my spooky TBR. XD My October plans are *House of Leaves, Mexican Gothic, Bunny, and Mr. Fox* (the Helen Oyeyemi book).
Thank you, Emma. Apart from finishing some books I started in September, I'd really like to read some plays in October, like for instance Pygmalion, which I haven't yet read. My other picks for the month will depend much on time and feeling. Congratulations to 180 000!
My tbr I already strayed off and now re-reading Carrie
Definitely read Bunny when you've got a chance. It's one of my favourites :)
I am reading Dracula, very slowly. I started reading it in the beginning of September, so yeah. I'm enjoying it so far.
Hurracaine Season is definitely the best book I’ve read this year. I wish everyone could read this in spanish. It’s beyond words.
Ah I've been waiting for my dose of coziness today. Just got into my bed, blankets on with a cup of coffee, and your video. Such a special little personal treat 💗 happy fall and spooktober everyone 🎃🍁🍂🕯📚
I AM STRUGGLING WITH DEADLINE NOW BUT I CAN'T NOT HELP NEGLECTING IT TO WATCH YOUR VIDEO 😭😭😭
I am not a big spooky book person but I picked up The Haunting of Hill House at my local book shop yesterday to maybe scare myself silly this month
the monk is an interesting read from what I remember.
I’m currently reading goth by otsuichi. It’s seriously the creepiest story I’ve read in a long time. It’s gory and atmospheric and I’m fascinated by the characters. I would recommend. Happy October everyone 🎃
I love you! October is my favorite reading month, too!! Gothic novels are the best. I love to read seasonally. My second favorite reading time is spring.
Good luck with The Fairy Queen. It's a challenge. But you can do it!
It creeps me out just thinking about those books. I'm sure I couldn't read them. eeek. Anyway, I'm trying to work my way through Anna Karinina and Promised Land (Obama biography) this month. Spooky in their own ways. Happy reading.
I am starting off October with A Clockwork Orange as well as continuing to read my collection of stories from Poe.
I am currently reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and I am already getting the 5-star feeling as well! I've also started Frankenstein for the first time for a book club, and I'm almost finished with what I think will be a 3-star horror called The Book of Accidents. Once I get through that pile I hope to read Rebecca for the first time and Macbeth!
Update: We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a new all time favorite 😍
@@elegance1717: It's also a movie.
OMG OMG OMG - Hill House is literally my favorite book in existence. Followed by every other Shirley Jackson book...
I'm currently referring a lot to The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost for my thesis on Lewis because he was an English Lit scholar of the Renaissance period and particularly loved Milton and Spenser, and my thesis is due at the end of October but I haven't had time to read the Faerie Queene and it's been a while since I read Paradise Lost, and searching through the stanzas without context is a real pain because they're both so huge even though their so beautiful. SO I GET YOU! Will pray =) Love the October/spooky vibes of this video so much.
also absolutely love The Murder of Roger Ackroyd!
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE FOREVER YESSSSSSS
reading we have always lived in the castle this month! glad to hear you speak highly of it, makes me even more excited to read it
Hill House is one of my favorites. But I've also got to give some love to Ocampo. Those stories were so beautifully unsettling and surreal, exactly up my alley.
If you like her writing, may I suggest the work of the director David Lynch.
I have been tired out of school, and despite having exams next week, I will still be reading.
My list for October is:
- Babysitter's Coven Book One (not enjoying it tbh)
- The rest of the Villain's series by Serena Valentino
Titus Groan is soooooo good!! I’m on the second book now. The audiobooks narrated by Simon Vance are great. Also loved the Agatha Christie book
I'm so happy I've been following you since such a while and the way your video aesthetics and content delivery style has developed is so wonderful. You're doing a great job! Much love 💗
always love seeing your tbr planning videos, wish so badly bunny had made it onto the stack though!! one of my favs, think you'd love it. this month i've already read at night all blood is black and brood, and will be reading jane eyre, the iliac crest, the hearing trumpet, in cold blood, and never let me go. the very best of the spooky, disturbing, and bizarre on my shelves
Just so you know, angela carter's version of little red riding hood from the bloody chamber has a film adaption called " the company of wolves" It is one of my favorites and is amazingly beautiful and dark. Now it is a bit of a horror movie with some werewolf like transformations but it is played out like a beautiful dark fairytale with lots of animals and imagery.
I just finished paradise lost, it was very good!
Titus Groan, the first part of what ended up as a trilogy as he died before completing the fourth book in the series. Either you will love it or hate it. The author Mervyn Peake wrote a lot of children's books and was a well-known illustrator of books as well. Good luck with all your reading, if you get to Titus I would be interested in what you thought of it as it is a little dense, to say the least!
I’m about halfway through The Return of the King now. Plan to read Fingersmith and Letter’s to a Young Poet next, then reread Carmilla because it’s short and I love it, and Haunted by Palahniuk.
Hey Emma, Bloody chamber by Angela Carter is amazing pick for October. Honestly, her writing is so delectable and it's every aspiring writer's dream...I really hope you will pick up The monk too, its such an underrated classic. I like to think of it as a satire on hypocrisy that pompous people commit in the name of religion.
I need spooky reads cos I’m not a big fan of autumn apart from halloween 🎃💚
popping in just to say i hope you like the maidens more than i did because i hated it and gave it 1 star 😬. wishing you a great reading month!
Great list! Assuming my library holds come through, my Oct TBR should include The Picture of Dorian Gray, Morvern Callar, and Bewilderment!
I actually wanna be in your library, you’ve a gorgeous collection 😍 for me I read nonfiction books more so I don’t have loads of novels.
I hope you enjoy reading this month✨
I am so pleased to see young people reading the classics. Please try to read great expectations and David Copperfield. If you are into the French revolution the tale of two cities is excellent. I and at least twice a region I have found it so much easier to learn about history through books. This proved to be so true what I went to school.
My October TBR includes Carmilla, Dracula, Frankenstein, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Tender Is The Flesh, Horrorstör, Perfume, The Hole, The Yellow Wallpaper, and a reread of The Picture of Dorian Gray (aaand I already snuck in Forgotten in Death since I love the series and couldn't wait any longer to read the new book 😂). Hope you have a great reading month!
I started watching you around this time last year so these fall spooky videos feel so cozy and nostalgic to me! also as always i love your recommendations!
I really love having Kindle unlimited.
This cat actually do have a reading plan - sort of. Cats aren't very good at keeping to plans - something most Bipeds do comprehend I have Been told - it might, however, be lies!
Nonetheless "The Monk" is part of it as is a number of books of weird fiction in the "British Library - Tales of The Weird" collections - "The Cheshire Library" is vast.
This cat have read "The Bloody Chamber" and actually have a first edition hardcover copy somewhere well dusted and in excellent shape. Falling a sleep on books is a wonderful way to spend a rainy day as any cat would tell you unless they are already asleep of course - which is likely.
Teeth and Mists
Cheshire Cat
I started the Haunting of Hill House today! Lovinggg it so far! my fav Jackson is also We Have Always Lived in the Castle. I’m slowly getting through all her works.
The murder of Roger Ackroyd is a book which will make you read it twice to actually believe what happened...
The ending completely changes all what you viewed or thought!
A must really!!
I totally agree with this, It was one of my favorite agatha Christie books and had me so genuinely shocked
@@katrinavangrouw8843 I know right!! She is really a wizard of thrillers
Mysterious affairs at style and orient express were marvelous too!!
omigosh omigosh yay!! I'm so excited for you try Titus Groan. :D It's so _deliciously_ Gothic, and the atmosphere is *chef's kiss*. It's got some of my favourite prose and imagery in any book too, and I love the characters. :) I'm so glad it got to you!!
I loved The murder of Roger Ackroyd! You make me want to pick up another Poirot! I've been reading Wuthering Heights and it's been slow for me. I know it's a very well loved classic so I'm pushing through to see if I get more into it as I read.
Why don't you just listen to the Kate Bush song?
It's also a William Wyler movie with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier.
Melchor is an amazing writer, i'm very intrigued on the translation of her books. I'm super excited for you to read it, and for all the books in the list!
Hurricane season is AMAZING. I read it in Spanish but I’m very curious about the English translation. Looking forward to seeing you talk about it
Titus Groan! It can get a bit slow at times, but the Gormenghast Trilogy is fabulous! I think the first book was my favourite. I am about to start a reread of Dracula. Already finished The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Mercies, some Bradbury and a few works by Dahl, plus The Woman in Black, by Susan Hill, which is fantastic.
ohh you have picked THE BEST novel of Agatha's 😍😍
I love your creative intros. It sort of pulls you in in a way 😊❤️
Update on The House on the Borderland book I was reading. Last I was about half way through and I said I loved it. it was still good, but I thought this one section went on for too long and that it got a bit confusing. It is one of the stories where you aren't supposed to know everything that is going on, but it still was a little hard to follow at times, though my mind wasn't really focusing as much those days. Anyway, it was still an interesting read and great for Halloween. I got a second book when I got that one that I'm reading now, and coincidently it is by the same author. I didn't even realize it when I first picked it. LOL. This book is a short story collection called The Complete Stories of Carnacki the Ghost Finder ,and I'm really enjoying it. Just heads up for both books, there is some violence against animals. I wish there was less of that.
That pile of books is like an obelisk!If you get through them you are the infant phenomenon (all growed up).I've picked up Titus Groan,it will have to wait till November.I love your outfit,it reminds me of the child's in Dali's surrealist painting The Spectre Of Sex Appeal.❤️
Yay! You'll finally read The Monk! I read it last October and while it wasn't an all time favourite, it was pretty cool.
I love watching your TBRs, they give me so many classics recommendations. I'm new to classics but just started my BA in English Lit so I'm hoping, by the end, to be slightly more well versed in the classics.
13:35 is giving cozy berries and cream 😁 love your videos Emma!
emmie. Or * e m m i e *
Your planning videos are amazing and so cozy!
Im literally STUCK in a reading slump, couldnt get rid of it since 2019 :(
So my list is kinda short and small
- Things have gotten worse since we last spoke by Eric LaRocca (already read it 4/5)
- The Iliac Crest
- Untold night and day
last two were recommended by u obviously 🥰