Last Book Haul of the Year + Unboxing! || December 2022
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- Hey Booktube, it’s Christmas early! I bought more books, it already feels like the Holidays! This is my last book haul of 2022 so you'll see reviews on these next year :D
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Which books are on your Christmas list?
Hilariously enough, I pretty much bought all the books I wanted before November...
The stone sky, Doctor Sleep and Hyperion. 😎
A Christmas Carol classic ❤
A Taste for Poison and Cleopatra & Frankenstein (specifically the pretty cover with the pink/blue letters and the white background :D)
Galatea by Madeline Miller
The Art of Showing Up looks like the cover of Women Don’t Owe You Pretty!
It is almost the same cover!
"I'm also hoarding- *collecting"
Oh I felt that
Everyone in this room was one of my favorite books of the year. As someone who dealt with death anxiety (but have successfully managed those thoughts) I highly related to the main character. I thought it was so dry and witty. The audiobook narrator did a fantastic job bringing her to life
omg yes and please to the time loops video. I really like that trope in movies/tv shows, so finding some books about it, it would be perfect
Yay Children of Memory! I got it a few days ago and I'm about 50 pages from finishing Children of Ruin. Very excited!
Also, to chime in with the other compliments: your background is indeed super lovely! And you did such a wonderful job with your new home library. And don't worry about keeping the Christmas tree for a bit longer... We had it up until April once 😂😂😂
Razorblade Tears is so good! I feel like it deserves so much more love! ❤️📚
I think the cover for the Art of Showing Up reminds me of Women Don't Owe You Pretty
I love you. It's been bugging me for dayyyyys XD
@@BookswithEmilyFox my way of saying thank you for the amount of videos you are posting ☺❤
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” is a must read. Some people think it to be confusing bc it has many characters and some of them even have the same name, since it’s a “family saga”, but once you get hooked , you can’t stop reading. Gabriel Garcia Marquez writing is enchanting. I always say people to read “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” first, since it’s a short story, just to have a first contact with his writing.
I didn't like that book. 😕
@@amritasengupta5251 yeah me neither I really enjoyed the author other book love in the time of cholera
I literally dnf’ed it cause there were at least 3 SA scenes before the hundred page mark
Why is this the first time I hear about this DX
@@BookswithEmilyFox Although, One Hundred Years of Solitude is magical realism (the author is credited with inventing it) and has some misogyny in it. It's very popular, but you might not like it
Your videos always brighten the day!
Lilith's Brood is so good, I only have Imago left and my mind is blown every time. The about of concepts Octavia E. Butler approaches through the Oankali is insane, one of my favourite trilogies
Omg I literally JUMPED when you took out EITRWSBD! I love that book!!!!!
I havent even finish my this year tbr and now my tbr keep piling up for next year because of Emily's books haul reallllly intrigued me to read 🥲😭👍
I adore Octavia E. Butler. "Xenogenesis" is on my 2023 TBR.
Related to Birth Strike, I can't recommend this book enough: Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom by Kathryn Kolbert and Julie Kay. It's fantastic, approachable, and written by legends. Kitty Kolbert argued Planned Parenthood v Casey before the supreme court in 1994, protecting a constitutional right to abortion in the US. Julie Kay was fundamental in the fight to legalize abortion in Ireland. Read it!!
Love time loops and time travel! Can’t wait for the video!
Looking forward to your time loops video! Whenever you get to that!! No pressure! ;) Loved this vid! =)
I just ordered the Children of Time series SEs from Broken Bindings! They are gorgeous and I’ve only just learned in the last couple of years that I love books set in space. My husband is a sci-fi fan too so he’s looking forward to reading them as well.
I wish I could share the "Dad books" with my dad. The closest I'll be able to do is tell you a book series that I told my uncle to read and he loved them. The Janitors of the Post Apocalypse series by Jim C Hines. It's about a group of janitors on a spaceship who end up way over their heads and having to take over a ship they were never taught how to drive. If's just so good. It defies any good description without potential spoilers. If you ever wanted to read something funny and unique, and absolutely never is sexist, read it.
If you like 100 Years, I can't recommend House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende enough. It is a similar premise of a Chilean familys saga but written from the perspective of the women. It is BEAUTIFUL and imo far more impactful than 100 Years!
100 years of solitude is one of my favorite books ever but definitely make sure you look up content warnings because there’s some messed up stuff that happens. Looking forward to an eventual time loop video!
I'll be honest, my goal for next year is to spend the least possible money on book. I pay for audible, that with a little luck, that SHOULD be my only spending. The rest will be libraries and gifts. I have a way to big physical TBR to justify buying more 🙈🙈
Check out your library! I have 2. One free and one I pay a yearly fee to have access to it. I never go in person, I simply use the app Libby!
@@BookswithEmilyFox can i ask you for which city library youre paying? Im living in Qc city and the audio offer... Well could be better 😂🙈 thinking about mtl but id like to know if its any good for audio book offer first 😅🙈
@@gabsalvas6975 Try out the BanQ library online! It's free and they have lots of English books. You can also request anything recent!
@@BookswithEmilyFox ill look them up, thank you 🥰
Well that added a couple to my TBR list! I was able to download both Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano from the library, so they're lined up after I finish Legends & Lattes, which is just as fun and wholesome as you said.
i liked 100 years of solitude, read it in spanish, i dont know if you will but it is totally worth the read. just try to read it with no expectations.
I love the character of Buddy Lee in Razorblade Tears.
I love your stack of new books. 🤩😍🥰📚📑📖
No matter if you liked or not 100YOS you definitely should try Recollections of Things to Come (Los Recuerdos del Porvenir) by Elena Garro. I do believe she was a pioneer in the MR literary movement in Latin America. Also, García Márquez read this book before writing 100YOS and got inspired by Garro and you can’t convince me otherwise.
Adding Recollections to my tbr now!
I still need to read Razorblade Tears as well as Children of ruin and Children of memory.
I definitely enjoyed Body Snatchers more then I thought I was going to! I also followed it up by watching the movie!
the cover for the art of showing up reminds me of the one for women don't own you pretty, so maybe you were thinking of that one!
The cover for The Art of Showing Up reminds me of the cover for Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given and I'm also looking for books about friendships so I'm excited to hear your thoughts on this one!!
The mystery 'self help' book really reminds me of woman don't owe you pretty, at least I thought it would be that one at first 😅
I was about to say Women Don't Owe You Pretty too. Definitely looks similar.
Yup it's the one!
Heads up GGM tends to write SA often, sometimes depicted as romantic.
The book that looks like the art of showing up is Women don't owe you pretty I guess. That's what it reminded me of. Same font and same colors
I remember liking the Body Snatchers, but I read it in high school so it's been almost 15 years.
You had me at "cowboy, pew pew" 🤣😂 I have so many books on my wishlist. I have books in like 5 or 6 different carts 🐸🍵
Children of memory was great. Surprising, wilde and great
SO EXCITED!!! 💚🎄💚💚💚🎅🏻🎄💚💚📚📚📙📙📖📙📚📚📙📖📙📚🥰📚💚🎅🏻🎄🎄💚❤️❤️💚🎄🎄💚❤️❤️🎅🏻🎄💚❤️📖📙📚📚📙📙
I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude until Love in the Time of Cholera was recommended to me, now that's my favorite.
So ready to read The Nine Lives 🎅🏻💚🎄💚🎅🏻❤️❤️❤️🎅🏻📖📙📙📖📖📖🎄💚🎅🏻📚📚❤️🎅🏻💚💚📖📙📙🎄🎄💚🎅🏻🎅🏻❤️❤️❤️🎅🏻💚💚🎅🏻📖📙📙🎄💚🎅🏻❤️📚📚
I loved The End of Men so much. I sobbed buckets. buckets! When I read the back I also thought of Sleeping Beauties but that one didn’t hit me as hard. This was brutal. I happen to have a son and husband so that definitely made me biased. I think what makes this so hard is that it is about a virus. The men don’t just drop dead. So the idea is holding your child or your spouse while they’re dying and being completely helpless… gah! I’m crying right now! And it tackles the problems that would arise, such as how do we keep going? How do we make babies? Who’s going to do the male dominated trades like plumbing and electrical work? One of my fave books of the year!
I absolutely LOVED Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead. It’s fantastic!
I’m a fan of Stephen King, but Sleeping Beauties isn’t one I particularly loved. Can’t wait to see what you think of all 3!
One Hundred Years of Solitude is SO WORTH IT! Don’t let the name confusion stop you!
Loved Rose Napolitano! Can’t wait for your review 🤓
I love 100 Years! GGM has such a beautiful writing style, even through translation. Be prepared for many characters to have the same iteration of name and the author playing with time and timelines!
If you’re uncertain about magical realism, I really encourage you to explore more Latin American fiction - authors from this region originated the genre and are masterful in using magical realism!
Speaking of books focusing on friendship, I’m been recommended We Could be Heroes by Mike Chen because the MCs supposedly develop a really strong friendship instead of romance. It’s sitting on my shelf waiting for me 😅
These all sound really interesting I still need to finish Alloy of Law. I'm excited for Thistlefoot and I also loved Children of Time so I'll read the sequel next year as well.😁
Amazing! I'm currently reading 100 years of Solitude and tbh it has way less magical realism than I expected, which im not super happy about. I love magical realism (read a lot of it in HS) and as you said, 100 YoS is like the pillar of the genre and it's been underwhelming how little magical realism it actually has (emphasis on the magical, it feels way more like historical).
I just read Razorblade Tears and it was amazing. Can’t wait to read Blacktop Wasteland.
Just subscribed to your channel, because these sound like such interesting picks! I like the eclectic mix of genres, including some non-fiction, too.
And I also love it when I recommend books to my parents and they like them 😄
Edit: also here for friendships and time loops
If you like time travel and loops, it’s possible that you like “This Time Tomorrow” by Emma Straub. I think it was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards, if I’m not mistaken.
Thank you! Adding it to my TBR
@@BookswithEmilyFox I hope you like it. I found it endearing and I’m currently reading “What The Wind Knows” by Amy Harmon. Can’t fully recommend it yet bc I haven’t finished it, but I can say that I’m really enjoying it so far. The writing is beautiful.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a classic I would like to get to soon. I just listened to Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, that I believe is similar, and I loved that one! It was a great way to learn about Chile's 20th century history, through a family saga. 🙂 I just turned forty and I searched for books that did the same this year and House of the Spirits came up, which I'm very happy about, it was a great birthday week read. 😃
I literally just got a copy of everyone in this room will someday be dead too. Same cover but hardcover. Can't wait to hear your thoughts!
Wonderful video 💕 I love it.
The End of Men was a good time!
I just read The Body Snatchers a few weeks ago after watching two of the four movie versions of the story (I like the 1993 version best). It's a compelling story. A bit dated, but still fun.
100 years is amazing
This got me thinking of The Cat Who Saved Books. I'd love to see a booktuber review it 😁 it's kind of like The Cat Chronicles
I really hope you like A Hundred Years of Solitude!!
I hope so too :D
I feel like you’ll like One Hundred Years of Solitude! It does get confusing with all the names that become similar as the book progresses but it’s like no other.
At this point, I just want to know what it's about haha
@@BookswithEmilyFox think damnation that comes from not learning from past intergenerational mistakes mistakes. But beautifully written.
Hi! Emily! I've been watching your channel for a year and half (or something like that) and I enjoy your videos so so much! I never leave any comment (anxiety lol) because I never think that I can contribute to your perspectives and, also, English is not my first language. This time, giving your opinions, I must try to convey my opinions because I think (more like hope) that you can be interested in what I have to share. I studied Literature in college and I'm from the same country as Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia -South America-. In this circumstance, I have been able to read his work a lot and, gladly, I've loved it very much. One thing we did in the class in which I read Cien años de soledad -One hundred years of solitude- was to revise the critical reception of this novel, and we found that the term "magical realism" was vehemently rejected by Gabriel García Márquez himself: he repeatedly said that his book had nothing short of magic, that that was just the way things happened in Latin America -In the Caribbean region in Colombia, in particular-. Some critics have found that the term "magical realism" is, in fact, nothing more than a misguided category that helped the readers -particulary from Europe and the United States- to categorize a piece of work they could not or weren't willing to understand properly -On this extent is a very colonial category, because, instead of seeing the deep critic to the capitalist system and world order, they choose to minimize his job to some kind of "fantasy", a exotic view of the word. Later, and this is my conjecture, "magical realism" became a reality in the English book editorial industry, but it was never present in García Marquez's work, nor in Latin America. All of this just to say that if you are going to this book expecting "magical realism" you would be deeply disappointed. I think of this book as a profound reflexion of Latin America, a land in which we are never truly independent -specially, again, in Colombia-, of how the capitalist system isolates people and on how decisions always bite someone in the ass. Please don't think if anything in the book as "magical"... It's just not. I hope I was able to convey my point here! You are amazing and, really, thank you so much for making my days better with your content!
Thank you so much for leaving this comment! That was very enlightening and I had never heard anything about this. I had always heard he was basically the father of the genre. How would you label it instead?
@@BookswithEmilyFox Don't worry! It's pretty normal, for what I've seen in the BookTube world, that a lot of people are not aware of this issue (I would recommend, if u are interested and can spare a moment, to read Gerald Martin's "On 'magical' and social realism in García Márquez", it does a great job in explaining what I tried to)! I would simply categorize Cien años as a general fiction novel because it has a lot of themes and "tools" inside of it: it takes some episodes of Colombia's political and social life but these are sprinkled through the text, it also takes some things from the Bible, and it also is a family saga (like in the nordic sagas kind of way). So I just think is... a mix of a lot of things. lol.
@@valeriazapata7665 Wow, thanks for explaining all this so well!
Hey Emily have u heard of Y:The Last Man, a comic series by Bryan K. Vaughan where everything with a Y chromosome dies save for a man and his pet monkey. It's is very mature but I thought it was a great read.
I LOVE a timeloop story but the only one I’ve really enjoyed is Life After Life by Kate Morton. The rest have been disappointing and when I went to add this to my goodreads TBR list I saw it’s centered around motherhood. I too am child free by choice so this will be a touchy read for me. The second it mentions feeling complete by having a baby, I will eyeroll so hard while throwing the book across the room.
I look forward to your video on timeloop recommendations!
P.s. speaking of recommendations, Razorblade Tears just came in for me at the library.
Have you tried Replay? It's probably the best book I've read with that trope so far!
I looked Replay up on Goodreads and it’s been on my TBR since 2013…10 years! I just picked it up from the library and I see the summary on the back about the character who relives his life when he reaches age 43…which I’m going to turn on Saturday. Thought it was kinda wild, like I’m meant to read it right now.
Perfect timing! You'll have to let me know how it goes! Happy bday!
Thank you! Oh, how am I celebrating? With a book haul from the library book sale, all the books you can fit in a shopping bag for $5 (US).
End of Men is interesting. The snarky (and far from PC) views of one female scientist cracked me up (having been a female scientist myself, and having an idea where she was coming from), and I included a passage in my blog. But there is also the heartbreak of women losing loved ones, and the extremes people will go to to try and save themselves.
Another great pandemic book is Last One at the Party. This was one written after Covid (the other was written before), and references it. It triggered a lot of “what would I do” contemplation.
FINALLY I'LL GET THE MOTIVATION TO PICK UP THE BODY SNACTHERS lol, I've had that book for a year now and it never ceased to give me guilt
Happy Friday Emily Hope you have a cozy weekend xoxo 😘 🎅🏻💚🎄🎅🏻❤️❤️❤️🎅🏻🎅🏻🎄📚📖📖📚🎄💚🎅🏻❤️📙❤️🎅🏻💚🎄💚❤️📖📚📚🎄🎄🎄🎅🏻❤️📙📙❤️💚🎄💚📖📚📚
If you wanna read a time loop, that is also a romance try in a holidaze by Christina Loren. It’s literally a woman going through the same day.
I think she already read it like two years ago. 🙂
@@swedish_malin totally possible I have such bad memory 😂
I just bought The End of Men!
Oh no, is that the End of Men? Loved the title, haaaaated the book. Looking forward to seeing your opinion on it!
I love magical realism, but I hated 100 years of solitude for a lot of male reasons... very curious to see what you think!
Omg... I had never heard about the SA in this book until this video... well at least I'm prepared now lol
@@BookswithEmilyFox i never see people talking about it! the main complaint i see is the confusing names, which personally i didn't mind at all
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the only book i've been able to get my mom to read was Recursion and she thought it was just okay 😂
I would love to know the color green you used on your wall 😁
It’s called Deep Jade by Sico!
@@BookswithEmilyFox Thank you so much!!!!
I liked the Body Snatcher book but it was a bit disappointing
One hundred years of solitude is on my never-to-read list 😂
Hiiii! I don’t know if I miss it, but are you going to continue with the Two Friends series by Elena Ferrante? 👀♥️
Absolutely! It feels a bit like a summer book so I think I'll try to binge read it next summer
Speaking of Sci fi….ever read A Fire Upon The Deep? Currently halfway through it…
Not but I've been meaning to for years lol It's on my shelf so I'll get to it... eventually
The art of showing up color scheme reminds me of MilkFed!
Also, you’ve definitely opened my interest in sci-fi books. I just started the Lilith’s Brood series 🤩
What Ursula Le Guin books do you recommend?
All of Ursula K Le Guin! My favorite fiction author. I recommend Earthsea if you want a fantasy classic that's more approachable for younger readers (but I honestly prefer its sequels). Lavinia if you like myth retellings focused on the experiences of women (based on The Aeneid). The Wind's Twelve Quarters or the Compass Rose if you want a collection of SFF short stories. The Dispossessed if you want some speculative utopian fiction about capitalism, socialism, revolution, and anarchy (it's a great book, it's quite cerebral, so probably not the best one to start with)
I personally didn't care for Earthsea but I liked The Lathe of Heaven
@@stellaisteeth thanks for all the info!! Definitely helps :)
So my Fleabag story-- I accidentally watched Season 2 first and after loving what I thought were the first couple episodes I recommended it to my work colleague who I knew would love the wittiness of the humour and characters. She is 10 years older than me and is from a rather conservative Islamic country. I went back to finish the series when I ran out of episodes and I was really confused because I had heard there were two seasons. So realizing my mistake I went to the beginning. My horror when I realized I had recommended a show that starts with an an*l s*x scene! I immediately messaged her to explain and to make sure she didn't watch it with her kid...
Thankfully she thought it was funny and ended up really enjoying the show. But it really is not one to lightly recommend.
OMG noooo lol
i really enjoyed these two- everyone in this room will someday be dead and razorblade tears.
I DNFd The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano. I am also a woman who does not want children. I found the book triggering. Every time she said "baby" I got a physical reaction. I couldn't do it. I'm curious what you will think.
Hi Emily! You should read The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley, all the women died and mushrooms start to grow in their graves, very good book, is not long! Kisses
Does ‘The Art of Showing Up’ remind you of Florence Given’s ‘Women Don’t Owe You Pretty?’
The irony calling a friend a doo doo head for buying a book in the middle of her haul for books she bought herself. I may have chuckled lol
I think instead of reading "The End of Men" you're better off reading the graphic novel "Y: The Last Man: Book One" by Brian K. Vaughan. There was a tv series but it didn't survive pass the first season.
I'm kind of surprise you didn't watch any of the four old "The Body Snatcher" movies. They were made in 1956, 1978. 1993 and 2007.
i wanna get into octavia butler but im not sure which series i should start with so if anybody can recommend me one you would make me really happyy
The cover seemed very 60s vibe.
Not book-related but I’d love to know where your sweater is from please? 😊
It was from the men section on YesStyle but like 4-5yrs ago
I hated One Hundred Years of Solitude
I feel like you are going to hate One Year of Solitude. I actually liked that book but i have also read negative reviews and i get it why they dont like the book
If you are looking for more books along the lines of showing how a women led society could be there is a book called Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which focuses on a triad of sociologists looking for a hidden society that is only compromised of women.
Everyone in this room will someday be dead. It’s completely hilarious you’ll love it
Oh that's good to hear! Not enough funny books!
Everyone is this room will someday be dead was a 4.5* read for me. Just started RBTears and I’m surprised you didn’t flag page 31 segment for the names called and way a female character was treated by male. (To be fair she was just as bad to him , so maybe that evened it out and made them both toxic lol😂)
It looks just like a Chicken Soup book imo.
You so nicest
I don’t want kids either 👍🏻
Emily i beg you please don't bother with The End of Men. It relies heavily on the whole 'women are meant to be mothers and only exist to give birth and repopulate the earth' bs and it just made me feel so icky. As someone who is also child-free, whenever there was a section about motherhood and women not having a purpose if they aren't mothers anymore just pulled me right out of the story and made me want to DNF. At least 3 POVs are pregnant women/mothers and i just gave 0 fucks the whole time. I was so excited for the book because it was written before the pandemic and just so happened to be published around the same time so i was interested in seeing the parallels but i was just so disappointed because it reduced women to being baby factories.
Why do you volunteerily want to experience existential crisis????? 😮
I did voluntarily read everyone’s saddest book recommendations to cry a few weeks ago so might as well keep going lol
@@BookswithEmilyFox lol 😆
I love a good old book haul 😁❤️ The Lost Metal was really good. I hope you love it too.
I rarely read non-fiction 🥲