Somehow a girl named emma got me (A Freshman guy in College) from fake reading books in class my whole life to reading 4 books this month so far…preciate it
@@emmiereads We need to do something, Frankenstein, Great Gatsby (which was a required read in 10th grade, but I didn’t really read) and the Silent Patient which Im almost done with. Thinking about picture of dorian gray next
I'm not sure if I'm alone with this opinion but to me Pride and Prejudice is a book that reminds me of summer, not like a "hot summer day" vibe but more like a warm summer morning when the sun is just coming out and you can tell it's gonna be a hot and humid day, and you can smell the breath of the earth after it rained last night and you inhale the scent of the lightly burnt grass bathing in the morning sun, ugh! I guess I imagine it off of the scene where Darcy is walking towards Elizabeth and we can see the morning sun shining through the grass, and it probably isn't even that hot in England but my brain has it engraved like that 🌾
As I've grown fond of writing on BookTube, my first time with Jane was a two week vacation from a job counting money all night long in a windowless little room with four strangers who liked music I would never listen to when it was my turn to control the radio. The Book-of-the-Month club boxed set arrived right on time, and IIRC it was during the Martini period of my life. I don't remember much of the other ones, but P&P has been a favorite of mine ever since.
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury is my all time favourite summer book. Ray Bradbury's writing is the kind that makes you slow down and just bask in how beautiful it is. All the nostalgia and mystery vibes and I love it.
Tove Jansson is one of my favourite authors 🥰 I find her adult fiction feels so real because it is very unsentimental. The candidness with which she writes about everyday life is what makes her writing stand apart. For those who’ve already ready The Summer Book (I would recommend starting there), I’d recommend picking up her novel “Fair Play” which is my favourite romantic story. IRL Tove and her partner lived on two ends of an attic apartment with a connecting corridor in the center, and the two women artists in this story do as well, which is why it’s clear to modern audiences they are intended to be read as a lesbian couple. I really haven’t read many books about elderly couples, especially lgbt ones, just such a unique book. Certainly not a warm and fuzzy romantic story, but I found their deep bond and commitment beautiful.
Yes! "Your Name" the movie, is absolutely amazing! Sure the story is a little slow in starting buuuut, the overall storyline is amazing and it shows me that I am not the only one who feels the way the characters in the movie do.
I AM doing okay - thanks for asking. Also I love when summer recs aren't all just fluffy rom-coms. Not that there's anything wrong with those! But yeah. Some variety is nice.
Summer is often my rereading period. I am determined to finish One Hundred Years of Solitude today so what did I need? More Emma recommendations obviously! I’ll definitely check out Circe! I’ve been reading a lot of mythology lately. Thanks, Emma! :)
I get inordinately excited when you recommend books that I love. I agree with your Madeline Miller ranking. But for me it’s the endings that the myths created that she had to stick to. I just finished From Little Tokyo with Love (yes it’s set in LA). And I agree ❤️ Henry Chen.
I went to a 14-day trip far away from home and I also took a break from social media. I am now finally at home and I am binge watching your videos that I missed. I am happy you are doing fine in your new city!💖
When you mentioned hot and sticky atmosphere i actually thought it would be about untold night and day) i wanted to read leave the world behind maybe it's time 🤔 thank you for your recommendations! c:
I live for your recommendations; just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude (and I am obsessed) and before that I also picked up Great Expectations because of you and I loved that one too!)🖤 a book that will now always make me think of summer is Frenchmans Creek by Daphne du Maurier, it's about pirates and adventure and a little bit of romance too . Very fun read
Yeah, I too am one of several subs who did a read/reread of 100 Years recently. Hopefully we can get a live show for it, or at the very least a comfortable spot to chat. I very much enjoyed it the first time a read it, about 40 years ago, and I very much enjoyed it again this time around.
The Summer Book is one of my all time favorites! I read it about 10 years ago and I liked it so much that I started it over and read it again the second I finished it the first time. I've never done that before or since. Now I re-read it every June. It's fantastic. Absolute genius.
Ahhhhhh, hearing that you also love Your Name has just totally made my day! That's one of my favorite movies of all time! I cry multiple times whenever I rewatch it. The manga has been sitting on my shelf for some time now and you just gave me the motivation to finally read it once I'm back home 🥰 Also, please watch/read the other works of Shinkai. He really is a masterful storyteller, especially of romances. Edit: I also adored Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop. Such a sweet, melancholic, but energetic film. Could relate to the main character a lot, because I also like to write Haiku.
With E. M. Forster I highly recommend A Passage to India, it has some beautifully written passages and it really makes you think about culture, class and colonialism, and it's set in India so it's hot and humid and in my view quite summery. I've read almost all of his books, and this is by far my favorite!
I want to recommend “100 Days of Sunlight” for a sweet summer read! I read it 2 days and then downloaded the audio book (read by the author Abbie Emmons) and enjoyed it all over again. Please read it! I’m sure you’ll love it too! 💛
I started "the song of achilles" in the summer of 2021 but have yet to finish it lmao I paused at chapter 16 because...well...I forgot why lol but I'm hoping to get back to it before the last rays of summer disappear >~
Emma, your videos are a joy to watch and have inspired me to film my first ever book haul and tour of the iconic The Iliad Bookshop in LA video!! Thank you for the recommendations.
Love your dress, Emma! Yes, Your Name is perfection. I love the manga and the movie. Circe is a great recommendation too. I really want to read A Room with a View and The Summer Book. Happy readings, sweetie! 💖📚✨
ahaha i don’t know if this is kinda obvious but call me by your name is a very good summer read, especially at end of the summer, when we all want to go back to the pool, or to a specific beach, restaurant... For me it is perfect, i think it captures perfectly summer love and nostalgia
Rather than a futuristic broken earth kind of book, I'd like to recommend a very different, unique and scary planet book, aka The Way of Kings, 1st book in the Stormlight Archieve and its absolutely my favourite fantasy book of all time, it tackles things like depression extremely well, TOP BOOK RECOMMENDATION!
I don’t know why but I always think of Summer as the books that have either have beaches (because duh)and also about super heroes and super powers (because I have always loved Summer Blockbusters at the theaters!) I would recommend to you My Hero Academia, A Man Called Ove, and also for a nonfiction book…House of Gucci! ILYSM and I hope you have such a great day! ❤️
I also have The Summer Book and Madeline Miller’s books on my personal summer reading list! I also have books that are set in the summer but perhaps not stereotypically summery, like 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth and The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. I recently finished The Iliad and will be re-reading The Odyssey: the characters are on the shore or at sea, where I’d like to be (albeit in different circumstances).
I think An Enchantment of Ravens is perfect for late summer/early fall. It has a fantasy version of those disgusting-hot-decay-icky summer vibes you talked about.
hey hey, not really leaving a summer book recommendation, but if you liked Your Name I highly recommend watching Weathering With You (currently on Netflix)!! Such a refreshing movie for hot summer days^^
My Dad (who doesn't read) was gifted the Stationery Shop so I'm hoping for the best with that one. You were pretty middle of the road with it in your last video but I have a faint memory that you had a positive initial reaction. Anyways, chill video, enjoyed the laid back nature of this one. Hope the summer isn't too bad, last time I was up in Toronto during August there was a heatwave that made walking outside impossible. Great excuse for reading though.
I am finally reading Untold Night and Day on your recommendation from a year ago !!! I have been waiting for August to get to it and I am so glad I did
I recently read 'The Psalm for the Wild-Built' by Becky Chambers is a comfort scifi and is probably one of my favorite all time books now. I highly recommend!! Its pretty short but so fulfilling
Reckless Girls is very much a summer book! It’s marketed as a modern retelling of Agatha Christie which I don’t think it really is but it’s still a great summer read.
Since you mentioned ‘your name’, ‘a silent voice’ is another film/manga I absolutely recommend if you haven’t heard of it before. It’s about a boy who used to bully a deaf girl when he was younger, but deeply regrets it after growing up a bit and does his best to find her again and make amends. It’s a very heartbreaking but also heartwarming story and it’s a really wonderful experience that punched me in the heart and I’ll always hold onto.
I love that you are getting into manga! I'm going to pick up Your Name because the story sounds really lovely (and your book recs have never led me astray). I think you would really love 'Our Dining Table' by Mita Ori? It is so stinking cute and lovely!
Hey Emma! Thanks for all the recommendations. You should definitely give "5 centimeters per second" a try if you enjoyed "Your name". It is made by the same studio. I love the manga too. Also, Circe was my favorite read this year, great book!
A book that I think would be terrific for summer is Still Life by Sarah Winman. It's probably the best book I've read thus far this year. It's about a group of English people in Florence in the decades after WWII, and the story and her writing style are both incredibly beautiful. I highly highly recommend it! :)
Every Emma book rec video makes me descend into rabid consummerism but it makes me so happy lol. I'll be the lady living in a cardboard box by a bridge with a stack of books 🤣
my absolute favourite summer book recommendation is a bit weird, but it's The Boundless Sublime by Lili Wilkinson. Its about a cult and it really sucks you in. A very interesting commentary on cult psychology and the notion of 'self' versus 'group' thought. The only reason its a summer book to me is because they talk about gardening in one of the parts so I immediately associate it with summer hahaha
My favorite type of books to read during the summer are books by authors that were heavily influenced by the principles of transcendentalism. Wallace Stegner has some great books that feel like summer, my favorite probably being “Angle of Repose.”
Read the Go-Between by L.P. Hartley. It is the most perfect summer book. It is short, elegiac, filled with the oppressive heat of late summer. There is a wonderful audiobook narrated by Sean Barrett (only ten hours long). It begins with the famous line 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'. I have never forgotten this book and always associate it with high summer.
My summer books that have literally nothing in common with each other are The People in the Trees, Heaven Official's Blessing, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Convenience Store Woman (or Earthlings), and I plan to read The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Circe and One Hundred Years of Solitude too, hope you find something that you like :)
I think Maurice is widely considered Forster’s “worst novel” which isn’t surprising because he never planned to publish it. I love it because it perfectly captures a certain queer experience that I related to, and I love the boldness of the happy ending. I think a room with a view is probably much better written and edited since it went through a publisher in his lifetime! My summer read recommendation is Kiki’s Delivery Service, it’s sooo lovely to read, it’s got that hot summer plant magic feeling
Even if Maurice isn't his most polished novel, it's certainly an incredibly important one. It allowed for instance for a happy ending, as you mentioned, which was considered just outrageous even in the 70s (surely a homosexual romance could only end in a break up or murder-suicide!).
I am currently reading The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki and I am loving it! It discusses themes of chaos and order, the voices of inanimate objects and all that goes into the making of those objects, language play and comprehension, and of course form and emptiness. I am sure you would find it interesting, highly recommend! 😊
If you're looking for another audiobook recommendation, I think you would like "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society", about a London author who finds solace and solitude among a book-loving community on the Isle of Guernsey as Britain recovers from World War 2. Since it's an epistolary novel, every letter-writer in the production I heard has their own reader. It made the contrast in accents between the English main character, her Channel Island friends, and her American suitor SUPER enjoyable to experience. There was a movie of it, which was alright, but the audiobook was SO MUCH better!
I read Leave the World Behind last year in a summer rental and couldn't put it down. We had a brush with first world problems on the way up to this mountain home and we were left without a car when we got there. It was the perfect anxiety-provoking read on a weekend filled with actual anxiety. I'll never forget the weekend or the book. I'm so glad you loved the book, too. Another booktuber I watch didn't get it. What's not to get? Oh, race relations, class struggles, our reliance on technology, our inability to trust in each other, how humans are impacting nature, etc., etc., is all.
i have the perfect book for your summer, My Year of Rest and Relaxation from Ottessa Moshfegh, is just so cleverly annoying and depressing, you'll love it
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my good!! your name manga is exquisite!! And can we please take a look of that cottage outfit!! ohhh yes i saw the haiku movie it´s so pretty. Thamk you for the recomendations
There's a nice movie biopic on the life of Tove,and yes Leave The World Behind was an enjoyable read.When a flock of flamingos show up in your holiday swimming pool it's time to kiss your derriere goodbye.😂❤️
Do you ever read on Kindle? I read on it because I can get so many books included in Amazon Prime, it sucks that paper books are such an expensive hobby, especially when you don't have the best library selections or thrift stores.
The only “Summer book recommendations” video where “Book Lovers” and “Beach read” are not mentioned. Gotta love Emma! 🫶🏽
Emmie's outfit is giving Swiss farm girl who milks cows and churns butter 🥰
Thats facts
💯.....and the sunkissed hair💁🏻♀️! Happy Bookish Thursday 🤙🏽
she is vegan so she would not exploit a cow lol
I feel like that’s not the compliment you think it is lol, but it is a very pretty outfit.
Does anyone know where she gets these outfits/dresses!
Somehow a girl named emma got me (A Freshman guy in College) from fake reading books in class my whole life to reading 4 books this month so far…preciate it
I LOVE THIS
ah so cool what were the books?!
@@emmiereads We need to do something, Frankenstein, Great Gatsby (which was a required read in 10th grade, but I didn’t really read) and the Silent Patient which Im almost done with. Thinking about picture of dorian gray next
Update, dorian gray is an all time favorite now…crazy good
@@AdrianCip77 damn guys who read??? Do you need a girlfriend
I'm not sure if I'm alone with this opinion but to me Pride and Prejudice is a book that reminds me of summer, not like a "hot summer day" vibe but more like a warm summer morning when the sun is just coming out and you can tell it's gonna be a hot and humid day, and you can smell the breath of the earth after it rained last night and you inhale the scent of the lightly burnt grass bathing in the morning sun, ugh! I guess I imagine it off of the scene where Darcy is walking towards Elizabeth and we can see the morning sun shining through the grass, and it probably isn't even that hot in England but my brain has it engraved like that 🌾
i totally get it! Pride and Prejudice is a nice spring/ summer read
I’m currently reading P&P for the first time. And I totally get it.
yes totally agree!!
As I've grown fond of writing on BookTube, my first time with Jane was a two week vacation from a job counting money all night long in a windowless little room with four strangers who liked music I would never listen to when it was my turn to control the radio. The Book-of-the-Month club boxed set arrived right on time, and IIRC it was during the Martini period of my life. I don't remember much of the other ones, but P&P has been a favorite of mine ever since.
What a beautiful and perfect description of it :)) 🤍
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury is my all time favourite summer book. Ray Bradbury's writing is the kind that makes you slow down and just bask in how beautiful it is. All the nostalgia and mystery vibes and I love it.
I've never read that one, I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip 😀
Agree! this is the book I want to re-read every beginning of summer.
Yeah, as a pure make-a-circle around me storyteller Ray Bradbury can't be beat.
✨OMG! Your hair is growing so much! It’s gotten so darn long! 🥹🤭🌙
haha I have to fight the urge to cut it every week
@@emmiereads 😂
circe is fantastic!!
i'm also doing summer reading until summer ''officially'' ends haha, a room with a view is also on my tbr
room with a view was so good, just got around to it and loved it:')
Tove Jansson is one of my favourite authors 🥰 I find her adult fiction feels so real because it is very unsentimental. The candidness with which she writes about everyday life is what makes her writing stand apart. For those who’ve already ready The Summer Book (I would recommend starting there), I’d recommend picking up her novel “Fair Play” which is my favourite romantic story. IRL Tove and her partner lived on two ends of an attic apartment with a connecting corridor in the center, and the two women artists in this story do as well, which is why it’s clear to modern audiences they are intended to be read as a lesbian couple. I really haven’t read many books about elderly couples, especially lgbt ones, just such a unique book. Certainly not a warm and fuzzy romantic story, but I found their deep bond and commitment beautiful.
Yees, just finished The Summer Book yesterday and it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever read...
Yes! "Your Name" the movie, is absolutely amazing! Sure the story is a little slow in starting buuuut, the overall storyline is amazing and it shows me that I am not the only one who feels the way the characters in the movie do.
I AM doing okay - thanks for asking.
Also I love when summer recs aren't all just fluffy rom-coms. Not that there's anything wrong with those! But yeah. Some variety is nice.
Ahhh! I missed your recommendation videos!!! I always look you up whenever I want to a specific recommendation. Thank you Emma 🥰
Can I ask Kate something please
Me too only 4 shelf's of books and about 2 are books i discovered from her recs 🙂
I looooooveeeee "Your name"!!!!!! I was so happy whenI find out there is a book,not just manga and anime.🥰🥰🥰🥰
i love words bubble up like soda pop! it’s so cute and it’s definitely perfect for summer
Btw, thanks Emma for introducing me to one hundred years of solitude. I just finished the book and I love it so much it hurts!
you are so so welcome, that is fantastic :')
yeees i totally agree about a room with a view ❤ i was really excited when i saw on your stories today that you were reading it!!!
Summer is often my rereading period. I am determined to finish One Hundred Years of Solitude today so what did I need? More Emma recommendations obviously! I’ll definitely check out Circe! I’ve been reading a lot of mythology lately. Thanks, Emma! :)
I get inordinately excited when you recommend books that I love.
I agree with your Madeline Miller ranking. But for me it’s the endings that the myths created that she had to stick to.
I just finished From Little Tokyo with Love (yes it’s set in LA). And I agree ❤️ Henry Chen.
I read Circe this month and I loved it. Madeline Miller has become one of my most favourite authors and now I want to read Galatea too!
Madeline Miller literally became my fav author when I read The Song of Achilles and read Circe last month and ugh it’s beautiful 🤩
@@Seolhwaneul YESS
I went to a 14-day trip far away from home and I also took a break from social media. I am now finally at home and I am binge watching your videos that I missed. I am happy you are doing fine in your new city!💖
ooh where did you visit? thank you so much lovely
@@emmiereads I visited the coldest place in my country. I am from the Philippines btw, it was Baguio City that I visited. 💖
When you mentioned hot and sticky atmosphere i actually thought it would be about untold night and day) i wanted to read leave the world behind maybe it's time 🤔
thank you for your recommendations! c:
I live for your recommendations; just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude (and I am obsessed) and before that I also picked up Great Expectations because of you and I loved that one too!)🖤 a book that will now always make me think of summer is Frenchmans Creek by Daphne du Maurier, it's about pirates and adventure and a little bit of romance too . Very fun read
Yeah, I too am one of several subs who did a read/reread of 100 Years recently. Hopefully we can get a live show for it, or at the very least a comfortable spot to chat. I very much enjoyed it the first time a read it, about 40 years ago, and I very much enjoyed it again this time around.
The Summer Book is one of my all time favorites! I read it about 10 years ago and I liked it so much that I started it over and read it again the second I finished it the first time. I've never done that before or since. Now I re-read it every June. It's fantastic. Absolute genius.
I read a Room with A View this summer and it was the perfect vacation read! I love E.M Forster’s writing
Ahhhhhh, hearing that you also love Your Name has just totally made my day! That's one of my favorite movies of all time! I cry multiple times whenever I rewatch it. The manga has been sitting on my shelf for some time now and you just gave me the motivation to finally read it once I'm back home 🥰
Also, please watch/read the other works of Shinkai. He really is a masterful storyteller, especially of romances.
Edit: I also adored Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop. Such a sweet, melancholic, but energetic film. Could relate to the main character a lot, because I also like to write Haiku.
THAT DRESS THO 😭♥️♥️♥️
I read A Room With a View this summer and loved it!
emmie's vibe is just so soothing, plus i love these book recs oml
My favorite summer read is The Great Gatsby!
Yeah, it really is a windows-open, cool breeze kind of one-day summer read, right up there with Breakfast of Champions, a personal favorite of mine.
this is a good day because emmie uploaded a new video
This really helps people like me from the southern hemisphere who are just about to welcome summer! Cannot wait to get to these! :)
Your Name gets even better on the rewatches!!
With E. M. Forster I highly recommend A Passage to India, it has some beautifully written passages and it really makes you think about culture, class and colonialism, and it's set in India so it's hot and humid and in my view quite summery. I've read almost all of his books, and this is by far my favorite!
I loooved the song of achilles and as an impulse purchase I bought circe, but I was hesitant to start reading it until this video 😊😊 thank you!!
my first time in a while watching a new video of urs as soon as it's posted 🐰
I want to recommend “100 Days of Sunlight” for a sweet summer read! I read it 2 days and then downloaded the audio book (read by the author Abbie Emmons) and enjoyed it all over again. Please read it! I’m sure you’ll love it too! 💛
I started "the song of achilles" in the summer of 2021 but have yet to finish it lmao I paused at chapter 16 because...well...I forgot why lol but I'm hoping to get back to it before the last rays of summer disappear >~
Emma, your videos are a joy to watch and have inspired me to film my first ever book haul and tour of the iconic The Iliad Bookshop in LA video!! Thank you for the recommendations.
I'm literally compiling a book list for my holiday and I've been struggling so thank you for your perfect timing
Love your dress, Emma! Yes, Your Name is perfection. I love the manga and the movie. Circe is a great recommendation too. I really want to read A Room with a View and The Summer Book. Happy readings, sweetie! 💖📚✨
I can always count on you to give recommendations that expand my horizon. Ordered some using your link, hope it works. ❤🐾📚
Looking GOOD Emmie, hope Ottawa is good for you both. Thank you for your very interesting books.
This video was so appropiate! I'll finally start Leave the World Behind this weekend.
ahaha i don’t know if this is kinda obvious but call me by your name is a very good summer read, especially at end of the summer, when we all want to go back to the pool, or to a specific beach, restaurant... For me it is perfect, i think it captures perfectly summer love and nostalgia
I’m currently reading Neuromancer and loving it. 👌🏻
i JUST thought “i wish there was a new emma video for me to watch while im in lunch time” 🤯🤯🤯
I read the summer book this year, both me and my grandma loved it!❤️ I hope you like it too, love from Sweden!
Yay, Stray love! 🤩🐱Can't wait to read Neuromancer. I'm on my Dune reread atm 🤓
Thanks for the recs! Hope you are enjoying the summer!!
Rather than a futuristic broken earth kind of book, I'd like to recommend a very different, unique and scary planet book, aka The Way of Kings, 1st book in the Stormlight Archieve and its absolutely my favourite fantasy book of all time, it tackles things like depression extremely well, TOP BOOK RECOMMENDATION!
ah I just started my first Sanderson but am so excited to get into his adult fantasy too
Yay Tove Jansson! I'm practically collecting NYRB Classics at this point.
Meet me at Midnight is a great summer romance novel. It’s hate to love with a touch of forced proximity! I would definitely check it out
I love your outfit!!
Thanks for the update
ADORED Leave the World Behind! 5/5 read for me
I don’t know why but I always think of Summer as the books that have either have beaches (because duh)and also about super heroes and super powers (because I have always loved Summer Blockbusters at the theaters!)
I would recommend to you My Hero Academia, A Man Called Ove, and also for a nonfiction book…House of Gucci!
ILYSM and I hope you have such a great day! ❤️
A Man Called Ove is impossibly good
I also have The Summer Book and Madeline Miller’s books on my personal summer reading list! I also have books that are set in the summer but perhaps not stereotypically summery, like 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth and The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. I recently finished The Iliad and will be re-reading The Odyssey: the characters are on the shore or at sea, where I’d like to be (albeit in different circumstances).
Emma, don't even worry about the noise in the background. A city is never completely quiet!
I think An Enchantment of Ravens is perfect for late summer/early fall. It has a fantasy version of those disgusting-hot-decay-icky summer vibes you talked about.
hey hey, not really leaving a summer book recommendation, but if you liked Your Name I highly recommend watching Weathering With You (currently on Netflix)!! Such a refreshing movie for hot summer days^^
Weathering With You had me in tears
My Dad (who doesn't read) was gifted the Stationery Shop so I'm hoping for the best with that one. You were pretty middle of the road with it in your last video but I have a faint memory that you had a positive initial reaction. Anyways, chill video, enjoyed the laid back nature of this one.
Hope the summer isn't too bad, last time I was up in Toronto during August there was a heatwave that made walking outside impossible. Great excuse for reading though.
I am finally reading Untold Night and Day on your recommendation from a year ago !!! I have been waiting for August to get to it and I am so glad I did
I recently read 'The Psalm for the Wild-Built' by Becky Chambers is a comfort scifi and is probably one of my favorite all time books now. I highly recommend!! Its pretty short but so fulfilling
Man, this is such a great episode! Thanks a lot!! A lot of recommendations I am going to check out! :)
Reckless Girls is very much a summer book! It’s marketed as a modern retelling of Agatha Christie which I don’t think it really is but it’s still a great summer read.
Since you mentioned ‘your name’, ‘a silent voice’ is another film/manga I absolutely recommend if you haven’t heard of it before. It’s about a boy who used to bully a deaf girl when he was younger, but deeply regrets it after growing up a bit and does his best to find her again and make amends. It’s a very heartbreaking but also heartwarming story and it’s a really wonderful experience that punched me in the heart and I’ll always hold onto.
I love that you are getting into manga! I'm going to pick up Your Name because the story sounds really lovely (and your book recs have never led me astray). I think you would really love 'Our Dining Table' by Mita Ori? It is so stinking cute and lovely!
Hey Emma! Thanks for all the recommendations. You should definitely give "5 centimeters per second" a try if you enjoyed "Your name". It is made by the same studio. I love the manga too. Also, Circe was my favorite read this year, great book!
ooh will definitely add that one to my list!!
I have a lot of these on my TBR but haven’t been convinced to read them until this video 🌞 also, outfit? Slay 🐄
I really reading dark SF book during the summer. I recommend the first tome of Sweet Tooth Thank you Emma 🥰for this video !
Nice summer reading recommendations in mid august
A book that I think would be terrific for summer is Still Life by Sarah Winman. It's probably the best book I've read thus far this year. It's about a group of English people in Florence in the decades after WWII, and the story and her writing style are both incredibly beautiful. I highly highly recommend it! :)
Every Emma book rec video makes me descend into rabid consummerism but it makes me so happy lol. I'll be the lady living in a cardboard box by a bridge with a stack of books 🤣
Girl...the way you just described yourself cracked me up.
Love love love 😂🥺🤍🦋
my absolute favourite summer book recommendation is a bit weird, but it's The Boundless Sublime by Lili Wilkinson. Its about a cult and it really sucks you in. A very interesting commentary on cult psychology and the notion of 'self' versus 'group' thought. The only reason its a summer book to me is because they talk about gardening in one of the parts so I immediately associate it with summer hahaha
First of all love your screen name crazy llama and I am definitely gonna jot this title down. It sounds a lot like Midsommar! Yikes! 😬
@@Tania.atlasinajar oo very much so! thank you for the compliment as well hehehe Atlas in a Jar is incredible,, sounds like a band name!❤
My favorite type of books to read during the summer are books by authors that were heavily influenced by the principles of transcendentalism. Wallace Stegner has some great books that feel like summer, my favorite probably being “Angle of Repose.”
Read the Go-Between by L.P. Hartley. It is the most perfect summer book. It is short, elegiac, filled with the oppressive heat of late summer. There is a wonderful audiobook narrated by Sean Barrett (only ten hours long). It begins with the famous line 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'. I have never forgotten this book and always associate it with high summer.
How amazing!!
Also where did you get that shirt from it looks divine!
thrifted and there's no tag:( thank you though!!
My summer books that have literally nothing in common with each other are The People in the Trees, Heaven Official's Blessing, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Convenience Store Woman (or Earthlings), and I plan to read The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Circe and One Hundred Years of Solitude too, hope you find something that you like :)
I think Maurice is widely considered Forster’s “worst novel” which isn’t surprising because he never planned to publish it. I love it because it perfectly captures a certain queer experience that I related to, and I love the boldness of the happy ending. I think a room with a view is probably much better written and edited since it went through a publisher in his lifetime!
My summer read recommendation is Kiki’s Delivery Service, it’s sooo lovely to read, it’s got that hot summer plant magic feeling
Even if Maurice isn't his most polished novel, it's certainly an incredibly important one. It allowed for instance for a happy ending, as you mentioned, which was considered just outrageous even in the 70s (surely a homosexual romance could only end in a break up or murder-suicide!).
I love this your beautiful outfit
I am currently reading The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki and I am loving it! It discusses themes of chaos and order, the voices of inanimate objects and all that goes into the making of those objects, language play and comprehension, and of course form and emptiness. I am sure you would find it interesting, highly recommend! 😊
Just finished The summer book. It was wonderful!
i love this because everyone reccomends romance in the summer
Thank you for always showing great contents.🙏
If you're looking for another audiobook recommendation, I think you would like "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society", about a London author who finds solace and solitude among a book-loving community on the Isle of Guernsey as Britain recovers from World War 2. Since it's an epistolary novel, every letter-writer in the production I heard has their own reader. It made the contrast in accents between the English main character, her Channel Island friends, and her American suitor SUPER enjoyable to experience. There was a movie of it, which was alright, but the audiobook was SO MUCH better!
Im hoping to read A Room With A View when i go to Rome!
ugh perfect
The Summer Book is amazing. Highly recommend!
The first line of Neuromancer is interesting, when the book was written a dead channel was black and white noise, now it's pure blue.
when you said "sick, twisted, dystopian" I immediately thought of Shatter Me series🤣
I read Leave the World Behind last year in a summer rental and couldn't put it down. We had a brush with first world problems on the way up to this mountain home and we were left without a car when we got there. It was the perfect anxiety-provoking read on a weekend filled with actual anxiety. I'll never forget the weekend or the book. I'm so glad you loved the book, too. Another booktuber I watch didn't get it. What's not to get? Oh, race relations, class struggles, our reliance on technology, our inability to trust in each other, how humans are impacting nature, etc., etc., is all.
Hiii, I was just thinking of you and you dropped this
Yeah me too ^_^
i have the perfect book for your summer, My Year of Rest and Relaxation from Ottessa Moshfegh, is just so cleverly annoying and depressing, you'll love it
my good!! your name manga is exquisite!! And can we please take a look of that cottage outfit!! ohhh yes i saw the haiku movie it´s so pretty. Thamk you for the recomendations
Neuromancer is the first book in the Sprawl trilogy, followed by Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
There's a nice movie biopic on the life of Tove,and yes Leave The World Behind was an enjoyable read.When a flock of flamingos show up in your holiday swimming pool it's time to kiss your derriere goodbye.😂❤️
Emma, have you read "The Machine Stops" by E M Forster? It's a novella that packs a wallop even now.
Do you ever read on Kindle? I read on it because I can get so many books included in Amazon Prime, it sucks that paper books are such an expensive hobby, especially when you don't have the best library selections or thrift stores.
I do! there's so many on kindle I want to get to but currently trying to narrow down what I own haha
Do Not Become Alarmed is all about a vacation gone horribly wrong!
Looking happier Emma. 👍
your name is sooooo good i love the movie
Just noticed Tov Jansson also has “The Winter Book”!