Keep the good work that you do, Emily! I like your reviews because you don't give spoilers of the books that you like or don't like. Or at least you announce it before, so we could skip the part. Not like some ladies booktubers from your country does lol 😏 What is her and others like that, point? To spoil all the books? I just block whoever is doing that, I don't care. So, anyway 😅 I enjoy your content very much, thanks.
I've read 228 from the BookRiot site and was surprised we had so many in common. There are several on the list that I know I'll never be interested in reading. (Rory pronounced P.G. Wodehouse incorrectly in an episode, which makes me a little disappointed, as well.) I'm curious about a Jess reading list, too!
All the books in this list are ones I had to read in school (edit: I think I've only read ~10). Oddly enough, I read Anne Frank in grade school, I think it was around 3rd grade. I read it around the time we read Number the Stars by Lois Lowery. Anne Frank didn't really have an impact on my child brain, I think I might re-read it.
Was listening with the video offscreen and heard The Name of the Wind, only to go, "That's definitely not the plot of that book *looks at the video*... oh!"
@@BookswithEmilyFoxit’s okay Em! You definitely aren’t alone! Dysphasia/dysarthia is super common among chronic illnesses. I frequently forget words or misspeak (I often say left when I mean right etc, calling a race track a zoom zoom circle is still my husband’s favorite 😂😂)
NGL as someone who gets overly attsched emotionally to inanimate objects, the whole "thank the item and let ot go" thing helped me SOOOOO much when i watched the Marie Kondo special and had such a clear out of things i didnt wear or use but "couldn't" let go of because i felt bad to give away.
Very much enjoyed this video! „YESSS please!“ to another instalment of the Rory Gilmore challenge. I‘ll have to find the list to check how many I‘ve read, but I‘d guess around 70-80, since I‘ve read all the Shakespeare plays and all but two books from your video just now. I read Christine as a teenager and got so scared that I had to hide the book behind the desk in my room. Still couldn‘t sleep. Tried wrapping it in an old towel AND hiding it - no good. I had to give it to my friend because I could not be in the same room with that book. Now I don‘t even remember what it was about. But I haven‘t read a „typical“ Stephen King since then. Still scared decades later. Kafka‘s „Metamorphosis“ is an all time favorite of mine and I routinely re-read or listen to it during October. Always makes me terribly sad (the apple core scene…). There‘s an excellent audio version of it read by Benedict Cumberbatch. Gilmore Girls will forever be a favorite show of mine. To me a show is more than some lines in the story arch or a remark by its writer. But I understand that people might feel differently. Firmly team Jess and never ever a fan of Logan‘s. Nope. Should you want to give „The Great Gatsby“ a go there are two really great audio versions of it: One narrated by Tim Robbins, the other by Jake Gyllenhall. Both excellent narrations IMHO. Also, Maureen Corrigan has written a book on reading Gatsby and it‘s brilliant and widens your scope so much. Now to the really important question though: How are you now so fluent in English when you were not in high school?! I was so sure you grew up bilingual with your command of English! Seriously - how?! Love your cats, love your content, love your style. ❤ All the best from tiny town Austria - Monica Claudia (sooo tempted to spell that Clawdia from now on…☺️) UPDATE: Checked the list you linked and I‘ve actually read 164 of the titles (won‘t call them books, since there are a number of plays included). Feeling rather smug just now… 😉
@BookswithEmilyFox you could put your supplies in a locking plastic bin, and extra stuff in a bin, in a cupboard. That's what I did in when I had kittens and after a couple years they stopped bothering.
@@BookswithEmilyFoxnot to scare you but I have a 7 year old cat who is still manic and wants to play ALL. The. Time. Some things they don’t grow out of. 🥲
I am form Germany and Kafkas work is very important here. You will definitely read something by him in school here in Germany. (Kafka did write his stories in German.) We even have a word that is named after him ( “Kafkaesk”) which is used if you want to describe situations that are absurd or spooky mostly in the context of bureaucracy or law enforcement which both are often themes that he criticizes in his book. ( “the trial” is a good example and you should read this one because it is most famous story. It’s so good !!) Like you discovered the relationship to his father was estranged and difficult. His father was big influence so The Metamorphosis is definitely autobiographical like most of his work are. Interesting fact: Kafka died young (he had an illness) and he told his good friend that he should destroy all his work and not publish it because he thought it was not good enough. His friend published it anyway because he believed that he was wrong. Now he is one of the most famous author in Germany and around the world.
I use the term 'Kafkaesque' and read The Metamorphosis in school and it was so profound to me that I am always shocked when someone doesn't know the story or author. I need to read more of his works, it's just jumped up my TBR now.
I love this video. I’m team Jess and my husband is team Logan. Though we agree that the best character is Emily G, hands down. I want to do my own version of this video. Thank you Emily! Maybe all the great people are named Emily.
I would love a video of you talking about your favourite shows/movies. Recommendation: My Lady Jane PS: the baby looks more like Clawdia than her brothers 🥰
Yes, do it again!! But don’t wait a whole year! And what word about Rory are you saying while whispering? My two braincells didn’t catch that 😅 Aaanyway… Happy to hear you liked Kafka and Chopin, I love both of those books 😊
Never watched/interested in watching Gilmore Girls, but I've apparently read 92 of the ones she did. Of the books you picked up but didn't read, I'd most highly recommend Slaughterhouse Five (one of my favorite books of all time), but it does partially take place within the context of WWII so it may not be what you're wanting to read right now. I also love Oryx and Crake, as well as Middlesex, and would recommend them both!
Oryx and Crake is one of my favourite Margaret Atwood books. I couldn't get through the whole series (will be trying again at some point) but the first one is really interesting.
I knew you'd enjoy Metamorphosis! It's so deep and has so much to say. I'm also glad you liked Cujo, it's one of my favorites by SK and really to me it isn't scary, it's just so so sad
The movie Contact I loved and yes, no frikkin need for the romance, she was FINE on her own. The bets part of that movie is when she is saying, "Ok to go, im ok to go" and her best friend (blind) hears her and tells the team before they cancel the trip. So iconic. One of my favourite movies.
Emily, I'm sorry in advance. 😂 The count of monte Cristo is one of my all-time favorite books. I hated my brilliant friend and didn't complete the series. Madame Bovary, again, is one of my all-time favorites. lol I said sorry! ✋😂😂
Definitely team Jess. And come on, it is very clearly represented in the show itself why he is the way he is. He is not "troubled" because he is a person, it is because he is being abandoned by his family, who were already unreliable and has substance abuse issues. Also everyone treats him based on their own prejudices and he (very correctly) reacts with sarcasm and not submitting. Very good for him. And once he takes himself out of the situation his guardians put him in (yes, including Luke) then he gets better, and comes back being significantly more balances and mature than Rory. So no, out of all of the characters Jess is the most decent person. I would not want to be friends with either Lorelei, Luke, Rory, or any of her other boyfriends. But Jess? Hell yeah.
Not on IG but I would have voted for Christine. How many have I read from the list? I'll have to check this longer updated one...🤔 Burst out laughing because I once owned a thick sweater like hers. Comfy. Please do this again. Would also love to see a video on Jane Austen's books. ❤📚🐈⬛
Emily i have THE BOOK FOR YOU! Wifedom by Anna Funder, it’s a mix of biography of Orwell’s wife and a feminist critics of his biographies and it was SO FREAKING GOOD! I almost didn’t picked it up because I’m bored with biographies but a friend forced me and I kept thinking you’d LOVE IT
Phew thankfully I found this channel. Lately I was thinking of you that you haven’t been posting for some time now. I searched your other channel for new videos and the last video was 3 years ago! Girl you got me scared 🥲
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of my favorite books of all time so I'm excited for you whenever you decide to read it! Also I am so annoyed at myself because I follow you on Instagram but never saw your story. Oh well, next time.
Louder for the people at the back: Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are not romance books! (Neither are Jane Austen's books btw, probably that's why you mentioned a couple of times that the romance was not your thing or not the best part of the book. It's okay to not focus on the romance, the books are social commentary on people letting fiction walk away with them/the way women were treated by the social and inheritance rules/etc).
I love Gilmore girls and just like you, I have a hard times when Rory gets to Yale... Absolutely #teamJess! I feel like he gets her, he's smart and although he's an *ss, I feel like we all had someone like that in our love history who teaches us what we prefer afterwards! 😂
As you were pulling the books off the shelf, once you grabbed The Awakening, I thought, “oh, you’ll love that one!” Glad I was right. ❤ The Metamorphosis, on the other hand, I read in high school and remember it as the worst book I ever read. 😂 Not sure how I would feel now as an adult. I definitely think you should reread To Kill a Mockingbird. It seems like your kind of book.
Metamorphosis was my Kafka choice this year (“Haven’t read Kafka… which should I read?”). Also gave it a 4. I have reflected back on it several times this year.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the definition of magical realism 🙂 and my favourite book ever 😄 Would like to see if you're enjoying it, I certainly did 🤩
I have so many things to discuss with you in this video. I never watched “Gilmore Girls” but I wanted to. I will try to find it. “Jane Eyre” is my favorite book and I felt offended 😅 In my favor I didn’t like they ended together. She was a feminist and only accepted him when was weak. I DNFed “Fahrenheit 451” and I loved “Brave New World”. They are not so similar as people say. I’m a mother of two girls and I love them but I have to be a mother. If I knew I wouldn’t have kids. I gifted, my husband is ADHD and my older daughter too. Is a lot neurodiversity in this house. I found an equilibrium but it was not easy. It envolves a lot more sleep when the youngest sleeps and the spend a lot more time in school than I would imagine but I can’t stand just taking care of them. I need my time alone. And I love my job.
i read 47 which is more than i expected! i read a lot of classics and shakespeare in high school (although i read a lot of classics now) and as much as i read everything begrudgingly as a teenager, i am grateful i read them in hindsight :) i always loved reading shakespeare bc my teachers had us act it out- a bunch of 14 year olds reciting macbeth was insane 😭
I think a lot of classics suffer by comparison to what comes out after they’ve perhaps set the bar. Reading The Lottery back when it was fairly current (I’m old!) was fairly shocking. After The Hunger Games? Not so much. The surprising twist of And Then There Were None- not so twisty after experiencing Gone Girl.
I had to check this out to make sure I think the anti-to Cujo is the Stephen King movie cats Eye, as I believe the cat in that one is what you said Cujo is definitely more sympathetic in the book than he has in the movie but you might want to watch cats eye
I suggest avoiding The Trial by Franz Kafka unless you want a frustrating reading experience. I love his collected short stories and think finishing the book you have will fully immerse you in his style/worlds.
I wrote my bachelors degree on Kafka, and he's such an interesting person! He is THE poet of shame and guilt. I would recommend Franz Kafka The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Saul Friedländer as a quick little book to get to know Kafka and his backstory better!
We had to read Metamorphosis in the 3rd grade of high school it felt jucky at the time... When Kafka died he gave a mission to his friend Max Brod to burn and destroy all his works in his will.
“Hopefully the dog thing goes well.” 😂 The dog thing NOT going well is a hallmark of his work at this point. As a cat person, you might wanna avoid Pet Cemetery!
I think we have similar taste; I really liked Salem's Lot by King. I could not put it down at times. It starts off a bit slow, but I thought the conclusion was good. I cannot remember too many things that put me off to this book, like The Shining, which I did not care for much. Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
I had a hunch that you would like Kafka. I'm glad you enjoyed it. What I hear and read the most about Kafka was that he was a bureaucrat. His didn't quite hated his job but he saw how it put ppl in these absurd situations that were out of their control. I really don't know if you would like 100 Years of Solitude. Maybe try The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende before. That book has always been acused of being "the lady version of 100 Years of Solitude." 😂😂😂 I have a hunch that if you hate The House of the Spirits, you probably are going to hate 100 Years too.
I agree later seasons after she goes to college are rough ang just get worse in A Year in the Life... 100000% TEAM JESS!! :D "I thought you said you didn't read much? - RG What is much? JM" :D
For Cujo, and the heels, late 70’s early 80’s had platform heels. Think stacked doc martens or really thick chunky heels. Not very popular, especially taller women didn’t normally wear them since they’d tower over most men then 😆
Yes!!! The ending of the Count of Monte Cristy is bad! And I never hear anyone say anything about it (did anyone actually finish it?😅) and the proof is that in all movies adaptations I have seen, they always change it. 🙈
I have read 48, I think. More than I thought since I’m not big on classics, but most of them were from school. I’ve also read excerpts from and discussed a lot of the other books on the list I didn’t count so I feel like I’ve read them. Sometimes it was hard to remember which books I actually read all the way through.
I’ve read 31. I had tbh. There’s at least another 50 that are classics I “skimmed deeply” because of school, and even had to write papers on them, so I KNOW the story but I can’t add them as a grownup just to flex. Oh well. Never playing catch up either, Kafka, Voltaife, Melville and me will never get along. Bought Thandie Newton’s reading of War and Peace on Audible recently, that’s definitely coming up soon (after I catch up on The Wandering Inn, a marathon in itself)…
The thing I struggle with when bingeing Gilmore Girls is (no spoilers, I'll be vague) when something nice they've been building up to for ages finally happens but is only allowed to last a few episodes before everything gets ruined, and that's how season 6 I think ends. I'm one of the few people who likes season 7 because they had to fix all that mess, and they also give Rory some more friends which she really needed imo.
I kind wanted to do this challenge too, but my reading in english is fairly recent as I went to a french canadian school. I tend to read mystery/thriller, horror, and fantasy more than classics, and I haven't read a lot on this list. Maybe i should just pick a couple and go from there.
Yes! Finally someone else mentioned how annoying the little girl in Jurassic Park was. I have a list now of most annoying characters in fiction and she is on the top, yet to be beaten
@@BookswithEmilyFox she is up there with another kid from a Nora Roberts release called Mind Games. If you haven't read that book, don't- or do if you want to laugh...
I’m late to the party but my total is 95! My classics game was strong in college and for a bunch of years after, but in case anyone feels intimidated, I haven’t read Pride and Prejudice but it’s on the list. Overall I think the Rory list is really good, I wonder who chose the books.
If you ever read A hundred years of solitude please make it a "I read books I'm gonna hate" video Honestly it was the book that made me realise I loathe magical realism and it's full of inc*st and such (not romanticised but still) I would love to hear your reaction tho
I haven’t read Cujo but I don’t think you’ll like Christine. Some of the language King uses. I listened to the audio and I actually had a few nightmares, which almost never happens
There are many books on that list that i actually want to read some day. I only read a few from the list (i'm also not a mostly classics type of person). Funny you have talked about Stiff by Mary Roach. Read that one, loved it. Currently reading other by the author - Bonk. That one you probably shouldn't read, only because of your second hand embarassment. It's about science and sex and many wacky experiments to learn about human sexuality. It has been very interesting and funny for me, but very descriptive, so... you see if your interested in the subject.
There's already an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, that came out in I think '09 or something. Ben Barnes plays Dorian Gray. I didn't know that a new one was being made.
How many books have you read on the Rory Gilmore List? Should I do this again?
Keep the good work that you do, Emily! I like your reviews because you don't give spoilers of the books that you like or don't like. Or at least you announce it before, so we could skip the part. Not like some ladies booktubers from your country does lol 😏 What is her and others like that, point? To spoil all the books? I just block whoever is doing that, I don't care. So, anyway 😅 I enjoy your content very much, thanks.
Yes please 😊 67 for me!
I've read 228 from the BookRiot site and was surprised we had so many in common.
There are several on the list that I know I'll never be interested in reading.
(Rory pronounced P.G. Wodehouse incorrectly in an episode, which makes me a little disappointed, as well.)
I'm curious about a Jess reading list, too!
I read 80, which is a lot more than I thought!
All the books in this list are ones I had to read in school (edit: I think I've only read ~10). Oddly enough, I read Anne Frank in grade school, I think it was around 3rd grade. I read it around the time we read Number the Stars by Lois Lowery. Anne Frank didn't really have an impact on my child brain, I think I might re-read it.
Women: We shared a bed and lived together
History: Friends 🎉❤
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Kind of off topic but I love that you put your lipstick in the description box because I absolutely needed to know 😆 it’s a stunning color on you!
Thank you! Can’t stop wearing it 👄
*shows 1984*
emily: 1989!! 🤠
LOL
I did that with more than one title 😂💀
To Kill a Mockingjay😉
I do things like that all the time and am glad to see I'm not the only one
Was listening with the video offscreen and heard The Name of the Wind, only to go, "That's definitely not the plot of that book *looks at the video*... oh!"
@@BookswithEmilyFoxit’s okay Em! You definitely aren’t alone! Dysphasia/dysarthia is super common among chronic illnesses. I frequently forget words or misspeak (I often say left when I mean right etc, calling a race track a zoom zoom circle is still my husband’s favorite 😂😂)
NGL as someone who gets overly attsched emotionally to inanimate objects, the whole "thank the item and let ot go" thing helped me SOOOOO much when i watched the Marie Kondo special and had such a clear out of things i didnt wear or use but "couldn't" let go of because i felt bad to give away.
It wasn't in a book but I did hear a fantastic quote yesterday.
" "No." Is a complete sentence."
Very much enjoyed this video!
„YESSS please!“ to another instalment of the Rory Gilmore challenge. I‘ll have to find the list to check how many I‘ve read, but I‘d guess around 70-80, since I‘ve read all the Shakespeare plays and all but two books from your video just now.
I read Christine as a teenager and got so scared that I had to hide the book behind the desk in my room. Still couldn‘t sleep. Tried wrapping it in an old towel AND hiding it - no good. I had to give it to my friend because I could not be in the same room with that book. Now I don‘t even remember what it was about.
But I haven‘t read a „typical“ Stephen King since then. Still scared decades later.
Kafka‘s „Metamorphosis“ is an all time favorite of mine and I routinely re-read or listen to it during October. Always makes me terribly sad (the apple core scene…). There‘s an excellent audio version of it read by Benedict Cumberbatch.
Gilmore Girls will forever be a favorite show of mine. To me a show is more than some lines in the story arch or a remark by its writer. But I understand that people might feel differently.
Firmly team Jess and never ever a fan of Logan‘s. Nope.
Should you want to give „The Great Gatsby“ a go there are two really great audio versions of it: One narrated by Tim Robbins, the other by Jake Gyllenhall. Both excellent narrations IMHO. Also, Maureen Corrigan has written a book on reading Gatsby and it‘s brilliant and widens your scope so much.
Now to the really important question though:
How are you now so fluent in English when you were not in high school?! I was so sure you grew up bilingual with your command of English! Seriously - how?!
Love your cats, love your content, love your style. ❤
All the best from tiny town Austria - Monica Claudia (sooo tempted to spell that Clawdia from now on…☺️)
UPDATE: Checked the list you linked and I‘ve actually read 164 of the titles (won‘t call them books, since there are a number of plays included). Feeling rather smug just now… 😉
I've been knitting the Rory sweater for the past few weeks and I was literally on the last stitches when you said you wanted it too :')
That’s awesome!! I’ve been wanting to start knitting but I feel like the cats would make me regret it… Charlie would 💀 himself 😂
@BookswithEmilyFox you could put your supplies in a locking plastic bin, and extra stuff in a bin, in a cupboard. That's what I did in when I had kittens and after a couple years they stopped bothering.
@@BookswithEmilyFox Yasss try it!! I mean yes it will be so chaotic with the cats but it would also be the cherry on top to the crazy cat lady life ✨😂
I think I’ll try it in a year or two. Hopefully they’ll have mostly calm down by then but I’m sure I’ll need to hide it in a container 😂
@@BookswithEmilyFoxnot to scare you but I have a 7 year old cat who is still manic and wants to play ALL. The. Time. Some things they don’t grow out of. 🥲
To kill a mockingjay 😂😂😂 i love it
Clearly fully awake there 😂
Somebody's got to have written a crossover.
Also opens saying 1989 instead of 1984 😂
The way I screamed when I saw the thumbnail, lol. So excited to watch❤
I am Team Jess 1000%, but I'm also Team What Lipstick is This Emily it's Perfection!
It's Maybelline Be Bold Be You amzn.to/4e4G8Wb
Emily always puts her lipstick shade in her description box, which is so helpful!!
@@caseyc2497 I'd looked in there and somehow completely missed it, thank you 😊
I've been trying to remember to do it! I keep wearing the same shade lately though so it's easy to copy paste lol
Oh dear, this made my day! Pleeeeeease do a Part 2 next month, Emily 😍
I'm team Jess to and you are right about him! He was the best for me!
I am form Germany and Kafkas work is very important here. You will definitely read something by him in school here in Germany. (Kafka did write his stories in German.) We even have a word that is named after him ( “Kafkaesk”) which is used if you want to describe situations that are absurd or spooky mostly in the context of bureaucracy or law enforcement which both are often themes that he criticizes in his book. ( “the trial” is a good example and you should read this one because it is most famous story. It’s so good !!)
Like you discovered the relationship to his father was estranged and difficult. His father was big influence so The Metamorphosis is definitely autobiographical like most of his work are.
Interesting fact: Kafka died young (he had an illness) and he told his good friend that he should destroy all his work and not publish it because he thought it was not good enough. His friend published it anyway because he believed that he was wrong. Now he is one of the most famous author in Germany and around the world.
In France we use the word "kafkaïen" too, for the exact same meaning.
We also use Kafkaesque in English but probably nowhere near as often
I use the term 'Kafkaesque' and read The Metamorphosis in school and it was so profound to me that I am always shocked when someone doesn't know the story or author. I need to read more of his works, it's just jumped up my TBR now.
Im from Germany too and I’m so sad none of our teachers ever read something from Kafka with us :,) still planning on eventually just doing it myself
I love this video. I’m team Jess and my husband is team Logan. Though we agree that the best character is Emily G, hands down. I want to do my own version of this video. Thank you Emily! Maybe all the great people are named Emily.
I would love a video of you talking about your favourite shows/movies.
Recommendation: My Lady Jane
PS: the baby looks more like Clawdia than her brothers 🥰
I can’t believe they won’t do a second season!
Yes, do it again!! But don’t wait a whole year! And what word about Rory are you saying while whispering? My two braincells didn’t catch that 😅
Aaanyway… Happy to hear you liked Kafka and Chopin, I love both of those books 😊
Annoying? I would have to see the timestamp, but I’m guessing I’m saying that I can’t stand when she gets really annoying 😂
@@BookswithEmilyFoxyeah, annoying makes sense 😅
So happy you liked The Awakening. It’s such an underrated classic!!
Never watched/interested in watching Gilmore Girls, but I've apparently read 92 of the ones she did.
Of the books you picked up but didn't read, I'd most highly recommend Slaughterhouse Five (one of my favorite books of all time), but it does partially take place within the context of WWII so it may not be what you're wanting to read right now. I also love Oryx and Crake, as well as Middlesex, and would recommend them both!
I JUST CLICKED BUT HELL YESSSSS I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS VIDEOOOO
Yey! I knew there was a new Emily video coming!😊
No fighting from me - Sam is the absolute best.
I recommend you re-read To Kill a Mockingbird. I think you'll really enjoy it
Yes please do this next year 😊
Oryx and Crake is one of my favourite Margaret Atwood books. I couldn't get through the whole series (will be trying again at some point) but the first one is really interesting.
Never clicked so fast 😅 vlog plus reviews? Sold 🎉
I've managed to read 171/339 as I've focused very heavily on this lost the last year! ❤
I just read Mrs. Dalloway and I'd be really interested in hearing your review! I read it with a friend and neither of us liked or appreciated it much
I knew you'd enjoy Metamorphosis! It's so deep and has so much to say. I'm also glad you liked Cujo, it's one of my favorites by SK and really to me it isn't scary, it's just so so sad
The movie Contact I loved and yes, no frikkin need for the romance, she was FINE on her own. The bets part of that movie is when she is saying, "Ok to go, im ok to go" and her best friend (blind) hears her and tells the team before they cancel the trip. So iconic. One of my favourite movies.
What a fun video! I love it when you do list challenges. It's very motivating. I will go pick up some classics now
Emily, I'm sorry in advance. 😂 The count of monte Cristo is one of my all-time favorite books. I hated my brilliant friend and didn't complete the series. Madame Bovary, again, is one of my all-time favorites. lol
I said sorry! ✋😂😂
Definitely team Jess. And come on, it is very clearly represented in the show itself why he is the way he is. He is not "troubled" because he is a person, it is because he is being abandoned by his family, who were already unreliable and has substance abuse issues. Also everyone treats him based on their own prejudices and he (very correctly) reacts with sarcasm and not submitting. Very good for him. And once he takes himself out of the situation his guardians put him in (yes, including Luke) then he gets better, and comes back being significantly more balances and mature than Rory. So no, out of all of the characters Jess is the most decent person. I would not want to be friends with either Lorelei, Luke, Rory, or any of her other boyfriends. But Jess? Hell yeah.
Not on IG but I would have voted for Christine. How many have I read from the list? I'll have to check this longer updated one...🤔
Burst out laughing because I once owned a thick sweater like hers. Comfy.
Please do this again. Would also love to see a video on Jane Austen's books. ❤📚🐈⬛
I read "The Awakening" in college and I looooved it.
Emily i have THE BOOK FOR YOU! Wifedom by Anna Funder, it’s a mix of biography of Orwell’s wife and a feminist critics of his biographies and it was SO FREAKING GOOD! I almost didn’t picked it up because I’m bored with biographies but a friend forced me and I kept thinking you’d LOVE IT
Phew thankfully I found this channel. Lately I was thinking of you that you haven’t been posting for some time now. I searched your other channel for new videos and the last video was 3 years ago! Girl you got me scared 🥲
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of my favorite books of all time so I'm excited for you whenever you decide to read it! Also I am so annoyed at myself because I follow you on Instagram but never saw your story. Oh well, next time.
I would love to see another one of these! If you made it a series of videos even better!
Definitely do this again 👍 Gilmore Girls was one of my favourite shows.
And yes, once you read the book you realise that Sam is the true hero.
But like… which team are you on? Dean, Jess or Logan?
Jess. Then Logan, then Dean. I never liked Dean.
I've always been team Logan. But Jess gets a lot of points for supporting Yale 🌿🍂
Dean sucks and Jess is a close second. So Logan by default 😅
Jess
Jess minus his asshole attitude sometimes 😂
Notification, open the video, instant like ❤
This was so fun! It made me happy that you actually enjoyed the books you read this time lol
Can’t wait for next near for another Gilmore reading vlog
What a fun video! So cozy. ❤
my favorite show and chai yessss!!!!!
Louder for the people at the back: Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are not romance books! (Neither are Jane Austen's books btw, probably that's why you mentioned a couple of times that the romance was not your thing or not the best part of the book. It's okay to not focus on the romance, the books are social commentary on people letting fiction walk away with them/the way women were treated by the social and inheritance rules/etc).
I love Gilmore girls and just like you, I have a hard times when Rory gets to Yale...
Absolutely #teamJess! I feel like he gets her, he's smart and although he's an *ss, I feel like we all had someone like that in our love history who teaches us what we prefer afterwards! 😂
As you were pulling the books off the shelf, once you grabbed The Awakening, I thought, “oh, you’ll love that one!” Glad I was right. ❤
The Metamorphosis, on the other hand, I read in high school and remember it as the worst book I ever read. 😂 Not sure how I would feel now as an adult.
I definitely think you should reread To Kill a Mockingbird. It seems like your kind of book.
Metamorphosis was my Kafka choice this year (“Haven’t read Kafka… which should I read?”). Also gave it a 4. I have reflected back on it several times this year.
I've read only 20 but have many on my own tbr 🤔 Feeling inspired!
Team Jess here too!
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the definition of magical realism 🙂 and my favourite book ever 😄
Would like to see if you're enjoying it, I certainly did 🤩
I never saw The Gilmore Girls when it ran. It didn’t grab me in reruns either. Cool video anyway
I have so many things to discuss with you in this video.
I never watched “Gilmore Girls” but I wanted to. I will try to find it.
“Jane Eyre” is my favorite book and I felt offended 😅 In my favor I didn’t like they ended together. She was a feminist and only accepted him when was weak.
I DNFed “Fahrenheit 451” and I loved “Brave New World”. They are not so similar as people say.
I’m a mother of two girls and I love them but I have to be a mother. If I knew I wouldn’t have kids. I gifted, my husband is ADHD and my older daughter too. Is a lot neurodiversity in this house. I found an equilibrium but it was not easy. It envolves a lot more sleep when the youngest sleeps and the spend a lot more time in school than I would imagine but I can’t stand just taking care of them. I need my time alone. And I love my job.
Team Jess! Jess is definitely Rory's Luke ❤️
I always was team Jess. The guy who always has a book in his back pocket (quite literally) easily wins my heart. His reading list is interesting too.
i read 47 which is more than i expected! i read a lot of classics and shakespeare in high school (although i read a lot of classics now) and as much as i read everything begrudgingly as a teenager, i am grateful i read them in hindsight :) i always loved reading shakespeare bc my teachers had us act it out- a bunch of 14 year olds reciting macbeth was insane 😭
I’ve read 23, and found the list on StoryGraph as well, so easy way to keep track!
I think a lot of classics suffer by comparison to what comes out after they’ve perhaps set the bar. Reading The Lottery back when it was fairly current (I’m old!) was fairly shocking. After The Hunger Games? Not so much. The surprising twist of And Then There Were None- not so twisty after experiencing Gone Girl.
I had to check this out to make sure I think the anti-to Cujo is the Stephen King movie cats Eye, as I believe the cat in that one is what you said Cujo is definitely more sympathetic in the book than he has in the movie but you might want to watch cats eye
I suggest avoiding The Trial by Franz Kafka unless you want a frustrating reading experience. I love his collected short stories and think finishing the book you have will fully immerse you in his style/worlds.
I wrote my bachelors degree on Kafka, and he's such an interesting person! He is THE poet of shame and guilt. I would recommend Franz Kafka The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Saul Friedländer as a quick little book to get to know Kafka and his backstory better!
At 3:57 agree, also my high school we did play basse on that book
We had to read Metamorphosis in the 3rd grade of high school it felt jucky at the time... When Kafka died he gave a mission to his friend Max Brod to burn and destroy all his works in his will.
It's crazy how many books people had to read in school that my school didn't have to
I am 100% team Jess and he got so much unnecessary hate from everyone in that town. I like the show best when he's in it.
“Hopefully the dog thing goes well.” 😂
The dog thing NOT going well is a hallmark of his work at this point. As a cat person, you might wanna avoid Pet Cemetery!
I think we have similar taste; I really liked Salem's Lot by King. I could not put it down at times. It starts off a bit slow, but I thought the conclusion was good. I cannot remember too many things that put me off to this book, like The Shining, which I did not care for much. Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
Team Jess 100% (adult Jess preferred)
I think you’d really like to Kill a Mockingbird and Middlesex.
I love Never Let Me Go, but don’t think you’d be into that very moody dystopian vibe.
Loved the movie version of Never Let Me Go, so quietly disturbing but quite profound for me 😊
I had a hunch that you would like Kafka. I'm glad you enjoyed it. What I hear and read the most about Kafka was that he was a bureaucrat. His didn't quite hated his job but he saw how it put ppl in these absurd situations that were out of their control. I really don't know if you would like 100 Years of Solitude. Maybe try The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende before. That book has always been acused of being "the lady version of 100 Years of Solitude." 😂😂😂 I have a hunch that if you hate The House of the Spirits, you probably are going to hate 100 Years too.
I agree later seasons after she goes to college are rough ang just get worse in A Year in the Life... 100000% TEAM JESS!! :D "I thought you said you didn't read much? - RG What is much? JM" :D
I ended up really looking the Bell Jar but there's definitely some parts that you have to read with some grace for how it has aged
For Cujo, and the heels, late 70’s early 80’s had platform heels. Think stacked doc martens or really thick chunky heels. Not very popular, especially taller women didn’t normally wear them since they’d tower over most men then 😆
We’re all looking for “quality old man” sweaters! They don’t make em like they used to
Yes!!! The ending of the Count of Monte Cristy is bad! And I never hear anyone say anything about it (did anyone actually finish it?😅) and the proof is that in all movies adaptations I have seen, they always change it. 🙈
I’ve definitely wondered if they had finished it 😂💀
I do prefer the movie ending too!
I’m right there with you on Jane Eyre.
After having a look at this more elaborate list, I read 40. 🙄 Will have to read more in the coming months.
The outsiders was so good 🥹
I have read 48, I think. More than I thought since I’m not big on classics, but most of them were from school. I’ve also read excerpts from and discussed a lot of the other books on the list I didn’t count so I feel like I’ve read them. Sometimes it was hard to remember which books I actually read all the way through.
7:18 i love your accent when you say that name😍
Gotta use my French when I can lol
Cujo was way too depressing for me to get to. I really like Christine though! A lot of high school nostalgia feels in that book which I really enjoyed
I’ve read 31. I had tbh. There’s at least another 50 that are classics I “skimmed deeply” because of school, and even had to write papers on them, so I KNOW the story but I can’t add them as a grownup just to flex. Oh well. Never playing catch up either, Kafka, Voltaife, Melville and me will never get along. Bought Thandie Newton’s reading of War and Peace on Audible recently, that’s definitely coming up soon (after I catch up on The Wandering Inn, a marathon in itself)…
The thing I struggle with when bingeing Gilmore Girls is (no spoilers, I'll be vague) when something nice they've been building up to for ages finally happens but is only allowed to last a few episodes before everything gets ruined, and that's how season 6 I think ends. I'm one of the few people who likes season 7 because they had to fix all that mess, and they also give Rory some more friends which she really needed imo.
I definitely need to look at this list because I have an English degree so it would be interesting to see.
I kind wanted to do this challenge too, but my reading in english is fairly recent as I went to a french canadian school. I tend to read mystery/thriller, horror, and fantasy more than classics, and I haven't read a lot on this list. Maybe i should just pick a couple and go from there.
“To Kill a MockingJay” 😂😂😂
I've read 61 books on the list, but to be fair I read a lot of them for university (I've read a lot of the Shakespeare, haha)
Yes! Finally someone else mentioned how annoying the little girl in Jurassic Park was. I have a list now of most annoying characters in fiction and she is on the top, yet to be beaten
What about Lydia from Pride and Prejudice though? 🤔
@@BookswithEmilyFox she is up there with another kid from a Nora Roberts release called Mind Games. If you haven't read that book, don't- or do if you want to laugh...
Can we get if is possible a hole cats vlog? I love your cats a lot. Claudia is so pritty
I have this video all about them ua-cam.com/video/Xs-h2tn5XD4/v-deo.html
I’m late to the party but my total is 95! My classics game was strong in college and for a bunch of years after, but in case anyone feels intimidated, I haven’t read Pride and Prejudice but it’s on the list. Overall I think the Rory list is really good, I wonder who chose the books.
I am Team Logan and that’s that on that. 😂
Anna karennina’s ending left me in shock for like week
I have read 28 which is impressive for me!
If you ever read A hundred years of solitude please make it a "I read books I'm gonna hate" video
Honestly it was the book that made me realise I loathe magical realism and it's full of inc*st and such (not romanticised but still)
I would love to hear your reaction tho
I haven’t read Cujo but I don’t think you’ll like Christine. Some of the language King uses. I listened to the audio and I actually had a few nightmares, which almost never happens
There are many books on that list that i actually want to read some day. I only read a few from the list (i'm also not a mostly classics type of person). Funny you have talked about Stiff by Mary Roach. Read that one, loved it. Currently reading other by the author - Bonk. That one you probably shouldn't read, only because of your second hand embarassment. It's about science and sex and many wacky experiments to learn about human sexuality. It has been very interesting and funny for me, but very descriptive, so... you see if your interested in the subject.
colin firth best darcy for me x
My hubris... I went in to cocky... I have a degree in English Literature so I was prepared! Yeah... um... I've only read 51 😅
There's already an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, that came out in I think '09 or something. Ben Barnes plays Dorian Gray. I didn't know that a new one was being made.