I'd really like to read James. I generally enjoy historical fiction (although I'm more of a medieval time period sort of girl lol). I'm really curious about James though. I haven't read Huckleberry Finn since my school days lol.
I adored God of the Woods and read it twice this year. Currently listening to James--the audiobook narrator is fabulous, but I may need to do a physical re-read at some point to really get everything. I guess I'll just follow the FOMO right to the Wedding People, since it sounds super short and readable.
Familiar was the most "couldn't care less" book I read in the last few years. I love Bardugo, but a jew magician and a demon love story set in some 14th century was a drag of a reading
Thanks for displaying an image of the book you're currently talking about in the corner of the screen. I often listen more than watch Booktube videos while doing other things, so I can figure out what you're talking about if I lose track with a quick glance at the screen.
After watching you read all these mid books in your read it or unhaul it (not always but a lot of the time), it's nice to see a vlog where you enjoyed ALL of them
@@BookswithEmilyFox Sometimes you just have a really good run--a month or two ago I was reading a bunch of books and they were all 4-5 star. It was the best, wish I could get that back 😅
I think that you should give The Women a chance. So that you know, I am a 70-something American male, so we could not be more different. I appreciate what you do. You're videos are smart and articulate even though we don't always like the same things. Yes, The Women is a war novel, specifically about the Vietnam war. But it is so much more than that. Perhaps I am biased since that war was central to my formative years. This novel is about the war but it is also about courage, love, relationships between women and yes a bit or romance. It is a riveting story and I hope that you will reconsider. And by the way, James was superb.
I will also never read about sports. I did buy The Boys of Riverside for my dad though 😂 Edit: I actually listened to an Amazon book editor who helps put together their best of book lists. She specifically mentioned they make their lists for readers rather than writers/critics. So that makes sense that it’s not just dark literary fiction. I find their list really enjoyable too. The interview was on Sarah’s Bookshelves Live if anyone is interested in listening to it. I found it really interesting
I am so happy that you enjoyed “The Wedding People” - it was one of my favorite books of the year and I was ✨stressed✨ about whether you were going to like it or tear it apart 😂
I’m so glad you loved all of these, what a good feeling!! Especially glad you loved The God of the Woods since I did too. Definitely want to pick up The Wedding People and James now! Also, your random observations of things that bother you while reading (like the steak from God of the Woods, the scents from Ember in the Ashes, etc) always crack me up 😂
I was thinking about you a few days ago. I am at the house of my boyfriend's parents for the holidays and they just adopted a cat. They assume a neighbor had kittens and threw some in people's yards. So this little black kitty found a home here. At first my "mother-in-law" (easier to say than "my boyfriend's mother") didn't know what to do with her. she wanted to give her to the neighbors, because she is allergic (not very much, but cat hair bothers her). But she sent us a picture and we talked her into adopting her. And now we have a very sweet cat here. But we saw that she is playing with another cat, identical, but is apparently a boy (probably her brother and it seems the neighbors don't let him inside the house). I said, they might adopt him too, but she doesn't want to. And that made me think of you. You didn't even have to think about adopting the 4th cat and that means so much. I can see it is not that easy in Canada to be a pet-owner, it is not easy to find a good vet, everything costs very much and 4 cats is a lot in any circumstance. But it is not that complicated for us (Romania). We have vets nearby, almost in every neighborhood, they don't cost that much, treatments, vaccines, even sterilization, but still, a lot of people don't want to adopt cats. So yes, you are my hero for adopting that 4th cat, because the other 3 were yours as soon as you adopted the mother, but I am so happy you adopted the 4th one. And don't listen to people who tell you 4 is too many or anything. I loved how you said: "was I supposed to leave him out in the cold, full of flees?" Absolutely not and I am glad you didn't.
I was absolutely convinced you’d hate the end of The Wedding People. I’m glad you had such a good reading week! God of the Woods and James are both on my TBR for next year, so I’m glad you gave them such good reviews!
Hell yeah! So glad you lo♡ed The Wedding People! It's my favorite literary fiction of the year. My second favorite was Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, and I think you'd really like that one too.
Wow, what a way to wrap up the year of reading!! All three of these are on my TBR, so I’m really looking forward to them. They are Libby holds & should be up in January.
All the Colors of the Dark was definitely a five star book for me. I am going to add The Wedding People to my list. I loved James. The audio is amazing.
Claudia is so funny and adorable she is such a momma’s girl so precious love how she can’t be away from you 📙📚📙📙🎄🎄🎄📖📚📚🎁🎁📚📙💚💚📚🎁🎁🎄🎄📖📖📖🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🌨️❤️☃️❄️❄️❄️❄️☃️☃️☃️📙📚📖
I read The God of the Woods. Yes, it is a family drama but the mystery is excellent as well. This one is one of my favorites for 2024. This is a slow drama, so, if you want a page turning thriller, you will be disappointed. If you want a beautifully written mystery \drama, this is for you.
I saw another comment saying a similar thing, but I wanted to say YAY! After meh books in your read it or unhaul it vlogs, you finally got some hits with these!!! Pity they didn't come sooner in the year, how rude, haha.
Not Oathbringer trying to grab your attention and failing. 13:02 Edit: Aww, poor Oathbringer. 16:37 😂 Edit 2: lol Oathbringer looked like it gave up on life 21:07
I bought "James" a few days ago but haven't read it yet. I will read "Huckleberry Finn" first because I read it a long time ago. I read "Trees" by Percival Everett this year and I can recommend it. It was great.
I really enjoyed James. I hadn't read Huck Finn since high school and wanted to read it beforehand, too, but got super turned off by the pervasive use of the n-word, which I don't remember being such an issue for me back then.
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I should stop watching because i dont have room for any more books on my TBR! hahaha, I enjoy your channel, and you always give good recommendations. Have you read Orbital by Samantha Harvey? I'm only 60 pages in and the writing is so lyrical. It feels like reading a poem or song lyrics. If you've already read it that means ive missed your video and I'll have to find it. Thanks for all your recommendations. Merry Christmas!
Oh my god I've always had the same question about frozen steaks! I have some in the freezer, but I would never use them in place of ice, it's absurd and always made me laugh 😅 very weird and you see it in every movie 😂
If i were you i would make an exception on the "no sports" rule and read Beartown by fredrik backman. Made me laugh, made me cry, made me care about a hockey team. It's amazing
@BookswithEmilyFox interesting! thought he would be a writer you'd be interested in! Thanks for replying :) i really enjoy your video's. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
I've read The Wedding People and The God of the Woods. The Wedding People I absolutely loved and was such a easy 5 stars. I liked The God Of The Woods gave it a 3.75, just thought it was a little too long and a little predictable at the end, but still very well written. I am interested in James, just haven't really read the genre. And I really do want to read The Women, and Kristin Hannah's writing is wonderful maybe you should give it a try??
I plan to eventually read James and The God of the Woods eventually. Had The Wedding People on my TBR but then saw the TWs/CWs and removed it because of the no longer wanting to live bit. Is that aspect heavy in the book?
I've heard so many good reviews of The Wedding People now but it's not available at my library or audiobook app 😩 The struggles of living in a non English speaking country
I don't read sports books either, I'm going to try making an exception for a soccer romance called Cleet Cute by Meryl Wilsner. Also is it me or whats up with the tiny amount of comments?
It’s only been up for an hour but… maybe everyone is busy Xmas shopping? Hopefully they’ll be back because this is my most successful vlog of the year lol
I mean it was steak because she’s a hunter, and I assumed it was wrapped in something? She wouldn’t toss a piece of raw meat in a freezer with everything else probably, I don’t know😅
Yeah, code-switching is a big, serious thing in the black community. When some black people are in a business/post secondary settings among white people or non-blacks, we will change our tone of voice and not use slang, for instance. We want to be seen as educated, taken seriously, and not seen as stereotypes and foremost to be treated with respect.
@BookswithEmilyFox My bad forgetting your French heritage and why American cooking shows might not be a priority. In South Africa, we had one guy (Keith Floyd), lol, so English and American cooking shows had to fill the gap.
Huckleberry Finn is about ignorance and bigotry. Huck knows nothing, because he's a kid and he's had no way to (or motivation to) question the status quo. Spending time with Jim leads him to slowly question his beliefs. It's an intellectual awakening for him, but the book is also an explanation of how bigotry gets embedded and passed down through the generations. So James is a great flip side of that coin.
The Ina Garten book you can skip. She is a chef and caterer who is married to a rich investment banker….The Women I am going to say is my book of year. I can read at work in between doing things and was ugly crying at times at work. I also work in a job where we have PTSD and it is often glossed over and to gear a story of women experiencing it was so moving. …Side note to you Emily I travelled to Quebec this summer and saw Montreal and Quebec City. Everyone was so lovely. Merci!
Oh my god I've always had the same question about frozen steaks! I have some in the freezer, but I would never use them in place of ice, it's absurd and always made me laugh 😅 very weird and you see it in every movie 😂
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Are any of these on your TBR?
If you’ve read any, what’s your review?
I'd really like to read James. I generally enjoy historical fiction (although I'm more of a medieval time period sort of girl lol). I'm really curious about James though. I haven't read Huckleberry Finn since my school days lol.
All the Colors of the Dark is tied for my favourite book of the year with Demon Copperhead
I adored God of the Woods and read it twice this year.
Currently listening to James--the audiobook narrator is fabulous, but I may need to do a physical re-read at some point to really get everything.
I guess I'll just follow the FOMO right to the Wedding People, since it sounds super short and readable.
Familiar was the most "couldn't care less" book I read in the last few years. I love Bardugo, but a jew magician and a demon love story set in some 14th century was a drag of a reading
James is very good!! And I also enjoyed the Wedding People and The Women and The God of the Woods.
Thanks for displaying an image of the book you're currently talking about in the corner of the screen. I often listen more than watch Booktube videos while doing other things, so I can figure out what you're talking about if I lose track with a quick glance at the screen.
No worries I realized while I was editing that it wasn’t clear without the dust jacket! I’ll definitely make sure to do that from now on
The fact that my last reading vlog of the year is my best reading vlog of the year 😂🤌
i think you will really enjoy bandit queens by Parini Shroff cant wait to hear you thoughts on it!
I’m glad you found a lot of good books
After watching you read all these mid books in your read it or unhaul it (not always but a lot of the time), it's nice to see a vlog where you enjoyed ALL of them
All 4!! That's so refreshing lol
@@BookswithEmilyFox Sometimes you just have a really good run--a month or two ago I was reading a bunch of books and they were all 4-5 star. It was the best, wish I could get that back 😅
I wish we could predict it! So many times this year I went into a book thinking I was going to give it five star and then I was disappointed 🥲
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Also - looking forward to "Hi everyone it's Emily Fox, this video is brought to you by SPORTS" 🤣
I have 4 mouths to feed so you gotta do what you gotta do… go sports!!
I finished James this morning, I went in with high expectations and it exceeded them. I loved it.
Yay, I'm glad you had such a great time! I'm adding all of these to my never-ending TBR.
I think that you should give The Women a chance. So that you know, I am a 70-something American male, so we could not be more different. I appreciate what you do. You're videos are smart and articulate even though we don't always like the same things. Yes, The Women is a war novel, specifically about the Vietnam war. But it is so much more than that. Perhaps I am biased since that war was central to my formative years. This novel is about the war but it is also about courage, love, relationships between women and yes a bit or romance. It is a riveting story and I hope that you will reconsider. And by the way, James was superb.
Agree about The Women. Emily if you read this I really think you should give more historical fiction books a try. Some are really excellent!
I will also never read about sports. I did buy The Boys of Riverside for my dad though 😂
Edit: I actually listened to an Amazon book editor who helps put together their best of book lists. She specifically mentioned they make their lists for readers rather than writers/critics. So that makes sense that it’s not just dark literary fiction. I find their list really enjoyable too. The interview was on Sarah’s Bookshelves Live if anyone is interested in listening to it. I found it really interesting
I am so happy that you enjoyed “The Wedding People” - it was one of my favorite books of the year and I was ✨stressed✨ about whether you were going to like it or tear it apart 😂
I'm glad I loved it too!
I’m so glad you loved all of these, what a good feeling!! Especially glad you loved The God of the Woods since I did too. Definitely want to pick up The Wedding People and James now! Also, your random observations of things that bother you while reading (like the steak from God of the Woods, the scents from Ember in the Ashes, etc) always crack me up 😂
I bought the ebook of James and I'm planning to read it soon, in the next few weeks I'd say. I'm so excited!
I was thinking about you a few days ago. I am at the house of my boyfriend's parents for the holidays and they just adopted a cat. They assume a neighbor had kittens and threw some in people's yards. So this little black kitty found a home here. At first my "mother-in-law" (easier to say than "my boyfriend's mother") didn't know what to do with her. she wanted to give her to the neighbors, because she is allergic (not very much, but cat hair bothers her). But she sent us a picture and we talked her into adopting her. And now we have a very sweet cat here. But we saw that she is playing with another cat, identical, but is apparently a boy (probably her brother and it seems the neighbors don't let him inside the house). I said, they might adopt him too, but she doesn't want to. And that made me think of you. You didn't even have to think about adopting the 4th cat and that means so much. I can see it is not that easy in Canada to be a pet-owner, it is not easy to find a good vet, everything costs very much and 4 cats is a lot in any circumstance. But it is not that complicated for us (Romania). We have vets nearby, almost in every neighborhood, they don't cost that much, treatments, vaccines, even sterilization, but still, a lot of people don't want to adopt cats. So yes, you are my hero for adopting that 4th cat, because the other 3 were yours as soon as you adopted the mother, but I am so happy you adopted the 4th one. And don't listen to people who tell you 4 is too many or anything. I loved how you said: "was I supposed to leave him out in the cold, full of flees?" Absolutely not and I am glad you didn't.
I was absolutely convinced you’d hate the end of The Wedding People. I’m glad you had such a good reading week! God of the Woods and James are both on my TBR for next year, so I’m glad you gave them such good reviews!
Hell yeah! So glad you lo♡ed The Wedding People! It's my favorite literary fiction of the year.
My second favorite was Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, and I think you'd really like that one too.
I'm glad you loved it too!
Sadly I couldn't finish it :/
Wow, what a way to wrap up the year of reading!! All three of these are on my TBR, so I’m really looking forward to them. They are Libby holds & should be up in January.
Right? One favorite after the other, if only all my vlogs were like this lol
Hope you'll enjoy them too!
I highly recommend the audio of James. It’s soo good!❤
All the Colors of the Dark was definitely a five star book for me. I am going to add The Wedding People to my list. I loved James. The audio is amazing.
I have the books you read on my want to read list as well. This makes me even more curious about them. I'll read them for sure.😁
So happy you had such a great reading week!
The Wedding People by Alison Espach is on my shopping wishlist. Glad you enjoyed it.
Claudia is so funny and adorable she is such a momma’s girl so precious love how she can’t be away from you 📙📚📙📙🎄🎄🎄📖📚📚🎁🎁📚📙💚💚📚🎁🎁🎄🎄📖📖📖🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🌨️❤️☃️❄️❄️❄️❄️☃️☃️☃️📙📚📖
I read The God of the Woods. Yes, it is a family drama but the mystery is excellent as well. This one is one of my favorites for 2024. This is a slow drama, so, if you want a page turning thriller, you will be disappointed. If you want a beautifully written mystery \drama, this is for you.
Going to add them to my tbr. Reading God of the woods soon, got it from the library
Wedding people is one of my fav books of the year. You will love it!!!
I have never read anything like The Women and never had much of an interest but I picked it up and could not put it down. Highly recommend
Yessss I loved The Wedding People!! 🥹😍
I saw another comment saying a similar thing, but I wanted to say YAY! After meh books in your read it or unhaul it vlogs, you finally got some hits with these!!! Pity they didn't come sooner in the year, how rude, haha.
Better late than never!
Not Oathbringer trying to grab your attention and failing. 13:02
Edit: Aww, poor Oathbringer. 16:37 😂
Edit 2: lol Oathbringer looked like it gave up on life 21:07
I bought "James" a few days ago but haven't read it yet. I will read "Huckleberry Finn" first because I read it a long time ago. I read "Trees" by Percival Everett this year and I can recommend it. It was great.
I really enjoyed James. I hadn't read Huck Finn since high school and wanted to read it beforehand, too, but got super turned off by the pervasive use of the n-word, which I don't remember being such an issue for me back then.
“Please stop not washing your back.” I’m💀.
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Omg! I didn’t the Riverside School for the Deaf had a book about it!! My hometown!
I didn’t love the god of the woods at all but I’m very excited to go into the other two ! I have them on holds in my library
I should stop watching because i dont have room for any more books on my TBR! hahaha, I enjoy your channel, and you always give good recommendations.
Have you read Orbital by Samantha Harvey? I'm only 60 pages in and the writing is so lyrical. It feels like reading a poem or song lyrics.
If you've already read it that means ive missed your video and I'll have to find it.
Thanks for all your recommendations. Merry Christmas!
Hi Emily, I recommend reading Natalie Haynes book A thousand ship and Divine Might. I think you might love it.. ❤.
I read The trees maybe a year ago and I really liked it ❤
I cheerfully refuse is beautiful, a very last minute and unexpected favorite of the year for me
I'll try and get to it next year!
You can read Rewitched by Lucy Wood cozy witchy vibe.
I read James this year and I loved it!
Oh my god I've always had the same question about frozen steaks! I have some in the freezer, but I would never use them in place of ice, it's absurd and always made me laugh 😅 very weird and you see it in every movie 😂
And Chunky. I enjoyed The Wedding People. It's being made into a movie. Can't wait to see that.
Oh, I’m curious if I’ll enjoy the movie too!
The only 2024(i think, i never check) book i read was Ruth Ware One Perfect Couple. I l8ked it. I like her.
If i were you i would make an exception on the "no sports" rule and read Beartown by fredrik backman. Made me laugh, made me cry, made me care about a hockey team. It's amazing
Sadly, I couldn’t finish it. I found it really triggering :/
@BookswithEmilyFox oh okay, i understand! Will you give his other books a try? Anxious people or a man called ove?
I liked a man called ove but didn't care much for anxious people
@BookswithEmilyFox interesting! thought he would be a writer you'd be interested in! Thanks for replying :) i really enjoy your video's. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Aw, Clawdia!
I've read The Wedding People and The God of the Woods. The Wedding People I absolutely loved and was such a easy 5 stars. I liked The God Of The Woods gave it a 3.75, just thought it was a little too long and a little predictable at the end, but still very well written. I am interested in James, just haven't really read the genre. And I really do want to read The Women, and Kristin Hannah's writing is wonderful maybe you should give it a try??
Congrats on win after win!
I agree with you on both the shower thing and the frozen steak. As a vegetarian, that just sounds disgusting. What is so wrong about an ice pack?
Recommend The Women - my only five star this year.
I plan to eventually read James and The God of the Woods eventually.
Had The Wedding People on my TBR but then saw the TWs/CWs and removed it because of the no longer wanting to live bit. Is that aspect heavy in the book?
James is excellent. Highly recommended! I did not care for The Women. Reading her books always makes me feel vaguely manipulated.
I want to read the wedding people so bad
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I've heard so many good reviews of The Wedding People now but it's not available at my library or audiobook app 😩 The struggles of living in a non English speaking country
I don't read sports books either, I'm going to try making an exception for a soccer romance called Cleet Cute by Meryl Wilsner.
Also is it me or whats up with the tiny amount of comments?
It’s only been up for an hour but… maybe everyone is busy Xmas shopping?
Hopefully they’ll be back because this is my most successful vlog of the year lol
The way I look into my room everytime a cat meows, then remember I'm watching your videos 😂
They are everyone’s cats at this point 😂
Nowadays these bestseller lists have very few books I really want to read.
I usually feel like that, but this turned out really good!
I mean it was steak because she’s a hunter, and I assumed it was wrapped in something? She wouldn’t toss a piece of raw meat in a freezer with everything else probably, I don’t know😅
Yeah, code-switching is a big, serious thing in the black community. When some black people are in a business/post secondary settings among white people or non-blacks, we will change our tone of voice and not use slang, for instance. We want to be seen as educated, taken seriously, and not seen as stereotypes and foremost to be treated with respect.
I'm assuming you were never into watching cooking shows 😅 Ina Garten is a much loved American cook.
We had our own in Quebec so no 😂
@BookswithEmilyFox My bad forgetting your French heritage and why American cooking shows might not be a priority. In South Africa, we had one guy (Keith Floyd), lol, so English and American cooking shows had to fill the gap.
Huckleberry Finn is about ignorance and bigotry. Huck knows nothing, because he's a kid and he's had no way to (or motivation to) question the status quo. Spending time with Jim leads him to slowly question his beliefs. It's an intellectual awakening for him, but the book is also an explanation of how bigotry gets embedded and passed down through the generations. So James is a great flip side of that coin.
You mentioned you learned English a few years ago. What made you learn it? Did you move from France?
She's French Canadian. 🇨🇦
Don't worry. I don't mind cat/books vlog..😻
Meanwhile: me watching people buying new books and Im still broke. so jealous.
I buy most of my books used and I use my library a ton!
I'm quite surprised that you didn't have a problem with the way women were represented in James.
Did you like the ending of The God of the Woods ? It kind of loss me there.
It was okay. I definitely feel like it's a "the journey is what was enjoyable". That's why calling it a mystery gives the wrong expectations!
Who’s Jenna? Lol
😂 I keep wondering the same thing
I think it's a book club but idk either lol
In the 1950’s they would definitely eat the steak after they used it on their face 😂
You know what? The character that did that probably would lol
Ooh I’m excited by your reviews of James and I the God of the Woods. I was unsure if James as I’m not into slavery books.
The Ina Garten book you can skip. She is a chef and caterer who is married to a rich investment banker….The Women I am going to say is my book of year. I can read at work in between doing things and was ugly crying at times at work. I also work in a job where we have PTSD and it is often glossed over and to gear a story of women experiencing it was so moving. …Side note to you Emily I travelled to Quebec this summer and saw Montreal and Quebec City. Everyone was so lovely. Merci!
I read The Women and I wouldn't recommend it. Felt like a cheesy soap opera.
Oh my god I've always had the same question about frozen steaks! I have some in the freezer, but I would never use them in place of ice, it's absurd and always made me laugh 😅 very weird and you see it in every movie 😂