everyone, gather your purses, the best video of (every) january* has dropped!! 🥰 *january being a relative term used for the month emma's "what i read this year" makes its appearance. the fact that this year that month was indeed january (per oxford dictionary definition) has made january (for definition, see above) even better than the brilliance it by definition includes.
Eugenides... Ewe-gen-ah-deez? Love your videos, homegirl. And your style, your taste, your spicy, sort of adventuresome energy when you talk about reading. It's like you have little love affairs with your books and their authors. Kinda hot, shit! 🔥 I def sub for your awesome energy as much as your great book takes and recommends. Thanks for the mood again. Stay up, queen 👑 💜👏🏾
I just love watching your videos So good to meet someone who's also in love with french literature (i'm french by the way) We Are wainting for the part 2
One of my goals for this year is to read 12 comic/graphic novel adaptations of books (it's just easier on my perpetually tired brain, your tips for dyslexic readers have really helped me read with my developmental disability) and now you've got me super excited about the graphic novel adaptation of The Princess of Cleves!
I’ve been looking at If We Were Villains but I have been thinking that it tries too hard to be The Secret History and that’s why I never started it. Good to know that you didn’t like it and that it pales in comparison to The Secret History!
If you like Jeffery Eugenides (I pronounce it You-gen-eh-deez) check out “the marriage plot” I feel like it’d be up your alley w your whole dissertation theme and mental health and stuff ❤
I'm the one who recommended Venus in furs, based only on the synopsis because I thought the book was all about the power struggle between sexes etc. Also it's a pretty cover, but I'm sorry the book didn't deliver. I kinda wanted you to read it, so you could tell me if it's worth a read 😅😂❤
I haven't read Venus in Furs but it is a classic, which means old. Stuff we talk about every day in public was never even whispered in confidence depending on the time. Maybe what you found meh the people of the time it was published found scandalizing?
Emma, I need your help. Inspired by your channel and my own obsession with ✨sexuality ✨I am starting a bit of a challenge for myself. I want to read classics about sex. Books where sex and preferably the female sexuality is somehow a central theme and as I am doing research for this project I am mostly confronted with a lot of nothingness (and also Lolita, which is giving me the ick on so many levels). I have already read Roxana on your recommendation and I am currently reading Dangerous Liaisons (I am absolutely obsessed with it) but that's about the extend of the titles under my belt. So yeah, I am basically just begging for recommendations (a video about this would be incredible, but I would also be very glad about an answer to the comment from you or anyone else with recommendations) Also, I could literally listen to your book reviews all day, they make me want to be analytical and critical in my own reading and I also feel reminded to pick up books that will require me to think critically, so thank you for your videos!!
I hope it's okay to come with recommendations Have you read Fanny Hill? Or Moll Flanders? I have read Fanny Hill and it's sex upon sex. I haven't read Moll Flanders, but I bought it because it have some of the same themes as Roxanna. You could also read Anna Karenina, for the high society affairs etc. And I believe Lady Chatterley's lover would also fit what you described above (again I haven't read it but I bought it because of its themes on women and sex) Sorry this got a bit long, but I hope it gives you a little inspiration
@@eventyrlaeseren thank you I already have Lady Chatterley's lover and Fanny hill on the list but didn't know Moll Flanders also had such a focus on sexuality I've already read Anna Karenina (it's one of my favorite books) but I do think it's also a great recommendation!!
@@pretentioussunshine i believe Moll Flanders is married a couple of times but also lived as a prostitute for a period. As I said I have not read it, but I bought it because in the synopsis of the book Moll fits a more scandalous female arch that I thought would be interesting
re 1:40: have you read walter benjamin's essay "unpacking my library: a talk about bookcollecting"? benjamin relates an anecdote of anatole france (a well known man of letters and bibliophile in his day) where a visiter to his personal library asks if him has read all of his books, and in reply france says, "not one-tenth of them. i don't suppose you use your sèvres china every day?'"
I don’t know if you have read any Agatha Christie but when you were describing the name of the rose and I don’t know if this is a fair assumption, but it kind of sounded in away like and then there were none where different characters are suddenly killed off leaving the remaining scrambling for answers as to why. I have been obsessed with the movie clue for decades, and I know it loosely based on themes from that Agatha Christie novel so anytime I hear about a book that even remotely has those themes I have to run out and get it.
(sidenote but) your hair looks amazing
everyone, gather your purses, the best video of (every) january* has dropped!! 🥰
*january being a relative term used for the month emma's "what i read this year" makes its appearance. the fact that this year that month was indeed january (per oxford dictionary definition) has made january (for definition, see above) even better than the brilliance it by definition includes.
Eugenides... Ewe-gen-ah-deez?
Love your videos, homegirl. And your style, your taste, your spicy, sort of adventuresome energy when you talk about reading. It's like you have little love affairs with your books and their authors. Kinda hot, shit! 🔥 I def sub for your awesome energy as much as your great book takes and recommends.
Thanks for the mood again. Stay up, queen 👑 💜👏🏾
I just love watching your videos
So good to meet someone who's also in love with french literature (i'm french by the way)
We Are wainting for the part 2
I love how you talk about these books. I bought some of them immediately
Emma, you look great! We miss you over here on UA-cam....thank you for filming this video. lol
One of my goals for this year is to read 12 comic/graphic novel adaptations of books (it's just easier on my perpetually tired brain, your tips for dyslexic readers have really helped me read with my developmental disability) and now you've got me super excited about the graphic novel adaptation of The Princess of Cleves!
I have been jonesing for a new video of yours for days. I am so glad you posted.
I just started watching the video but i have to say. You are sooooooooooo pretty. Plus the aesthetic. The candles, the warmth, the mirror. Like GOD ❤
What great books! Glad to hear your reading year was a success 😊
I’ve been looking at If We Were Villains but I have been thinking that it tries too hard to be The Secret History and that’s why I never started it. Good to know that you didn’t like it and that it pales in comparison to The Secret History!
How do you suit every single hairstyle??? Not paying attention to a single title, just staring at your curls tbh😍😍😍
THANK YOU FOR POSTING EMMA!😍
If you like Jeffery Eugenides (I pronounce it You-gen-eh-deez) check out “the marriage plot” I feel like it’d be up your alley w your whole dissertation theme and mental health and stuff ❤
Yesss book video
I'm the one who recommended Venus in furs, based only on the synopsis because I thought the book was all about the power struggle between sexes etc.
Also it's a pretty cover, but I'm sorry the book didn't deliver. I kinda wanted you to read it, so you could tell me if it's worth a read 😅😂❤
I haven't read Venus in Furs but it is a classic, which means old. Stuff we talk about every day in public was never even whispered in confidence depending on the time. Maybe what you found meh the people of the time it was published found scandalizing?
Once you read Sade a lot of things seem tame
wait i’m curious, which one came first, the song by the velvet underground or the book
Emma, I need your help.
Inspired by your channel and my own obsession with ✨sexuality ✨I am starting a bit of a challenge for myself. I want to read classics about sex. Books where sex and preferably the female sexuality is somehow a central theme and as I am doing research for this project I am mostly confronted with a lot of nothingness (and also Lolita, which is giving me the ick on so many levels).
I have already read Roxana on your recommendation and I am currently reading Dangerous Liaisons (I am absolutely obsessed with it) but that's about the extend of the titles under my belt.
So yeah, I am basically just begging for recommendations (a video about this would be incredible, but I would also be very glad about an answer to the comment from you or anyone else with recommendations)
Also, I could literally listen to your book reviews all day, they make me want to be analytical and critical in my own reading and I also feel reminded to pick up books that will require me to think critically, so thank you for your videos!!
I hope it's okay to come with recommendations
Have you read Fanny Hill? Or Moll Flanders?
I have read Fanny Hill and it's sex upon sex.
I haven't read Moll Flanders, but I bought it because it have some of the same themes as Roxanna.
You could also read Anna Karenina, for the high society affairs etc.
And I believe Lady Chatterley's lover would also fit what you described above (again I haven't read it but I bought it because of its themes on women and sex)
Sorry this got a bit long, but I hope it gives you a little inspiration
@@eventyrlaeseren thank you
I already have Lady Chatterley's lover and Fanny hill on the list but didn't know Moll Flanders also had such a focus on sexuality
I've already read Anna Karenina (it's one of my favorite books) but I do think it's also a great recommendation!!
@@pretentioussunshine i believe Moll Flanders is married a couple of times but also lived as a prostitute for a period. As I said I have not read it, but I bought it because in the synopsis of the book Moll fits a more scandalous female arch that I thought would be interesting
re 1:40: have you read walter benjamin's essay "unpacking my library: a talk about bookcollecting"? benjamin relates an anecdote of anatole france (a well known man of letters and bibliophile in his day) where a visiter to his personal library asks if him has read all of his books, and in reply france says, "not one-tenth of them. i don't suppose you use your sèvres china every day?'"
Yay !!!!
I don’t know if you have read any Agatha Christie but when you were describing the name of the rose and I don’t know if this is a fair assumption, but it kind of sounded in away like and then there were none where different characters are suddenly killed off leaving the remaining scrambling for answers as to why. I have been obsessed with the movie clue for decades, and I know it loosely based on themes from that Agatha Christie novel so anytime I hear about a book that even remotely has those themes I have to run out and get it.
important question: are you team dean, team jess or team jacob?🥰
***team logan
Hi Emma, Cléves (Marie Darrieussecq) review please 😊
Please don’t put Carver in the same column as Kerouac!!! Carver is not a beatnik!! And much more of realist
Yesss book video