I love that you give a general overview of the book and not repeat the blurbs off the book. It feels more genuine and not repeat I’ve when you talk about the book in a later video.
I definitely do the same thing when I buy books from my library. I fall into "Well, it's only $0.25 or $1, so what can it hurt?" I feel your pain. But some of my favorite books I have stumbled across for exactly that reason.
I agree with everyone who’s said that Mieville’s work can be quite polarizing. He writes New Weird fiction (which I think is a sub-genre of sci-fi), and that’s a pretty apt description of his books! I personally adore Perdido Street Station - it’s such an interesting world, and the characters stick with you long after you’re done reading. I’ve read a few other works of his over the years, but that one’s still my favourite.
I have such bad fear of missing out at library sales! I always think it's the one book that I don't see in those buckets that will be my book soulmate!
Life made me miss my Emily Fox Fix.... so glad to be back to watching you. I've avoided Mark Lawrence because I was really not interested in some of what I'd heard about in Prince of Thorns, so I'll be really interested in your take on it.
I haven’t finished my second book this year. I started a new job and it requires a LOT of reading (I’m in research) that my eyes feel too tired to read for leisure. I almost want to cry watching these videos knowing I won’t be able to read for fun in a long time hahahaha
I’m really feeling like reading fantasy these days, I can’t even remember the last time I read one! So I made an order yesterday and got The Priory of The Orange Tree and also Foundryside. Sooooo excited to read those books!
I absolutely loved Prince of thorns (and the rest of the trilogy, for that matter). The main character makes for such a nice change from your usual heroes. Red Sister is up next for me
A classic scifi that needs a movie is The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg. The concept is wonderful. It was a fave of mine as a kid....geez I need to go re-read that lol.
China Miéville is a master at world-wuilding. Perdido Street Station is the first tome of the Bas-Lag trilogy. It belongs to the genre of "New Weird", a sort of mix of science-fiction and fantasy.
I think Perdido Street Station is a book people either love or hate, there's nothing in between. I personally loved it but it's definitely very unconventional! I hope you'll love it, too! Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne is also a pretty good series.
I bought The Binding- Bridget Collins, The Missing of Clairdelune- Christelle Dabos (lol), A Good Girl's Guide to Murder- Holly Jackson, The East End- Jason Allen, and the Tattooist of Auschwitz (already read) this month! Your haul has lots of scifi, looking forward to their reviews.
Not sure I'd say that A Deepness in the Sky is a classic as it's only 20 years old. Sorta halfway between modern sci-fi and the really old classics like Dune. It did win the Hugo for best novel though and there are elements of the book I think you will like. It's kind of a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, but yeah you can read them separately.
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I love picking up books I've never heard about because then I have 0 expectations!
Vernor Vinge is a professor and the originator of the technological singularity theory. His book made me think of The Expanse (with a lot more imagination). It was one of the best science-fiction to I've read in years. Plus, it's not that old. Think it was released in 93 or something. Give it a go! Have a nice day! 😘
I really liked The Fold, and technically it is book two yes, but the two books are pretty much companion novels as opposed to directly related, so you won't be lacking in context or anything. If you like it, check out the other one, "14". 😁
For an adult version of the scythe premise i would also recommend 'Future' by Dmitry Gluchowski. The world building is very good, defintily more thought through and realistic than scythe. Plot is very thrilling and action filled but it also is 'darker' i would not recommend it for younger audience.
Haven’t read Perdido Street Station yet but China Miéville is such a good author. And as for practicing your English - yes, he loves to use very obscure and little-known words 😂 I have a large English vocabulary (just bc I read a lot tbh) and I almost never see words I don’t know in books, but his books have me running to an online dictionary sometimes... it’s fun.
I bought Hag-Seed, Fool Moon, The Rohingyas, Record of a Spaceborn Few, The Winter People, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Road and The Talented Mr. Ripley in May 😊
I’m interested to see who you prefer out of Reynolds and Hamilton. I’ve found that people tend to much prefer one over the other. I personally much prefer Reynolds because his works are darker and have a sort of cyberpunk vibe with ancient alien civilisations and human modification. I read ‘Pandora’s Star’ by Hamilton and was really disappointed with the alien reveal. The build up was so good and I was ready to be spooked but they ended up more Futurama than I was looking for...
I am simple man, seeing doggo on the thumbnail I click... Now what is this reeding you talking about? And what are those fancy looking rectangles? Is it for eating?
I loved all the premises of the books you got! Definitely will be waiting your opinions on these. And I will try to catch up with you because damn I'm in a bad reading slump from last two months.
I've wanted to read The Hike for a while! I don't go to the mega library book sales because they are stressful and don't offer much, so they aren't worth it for me. BUT each library branch in Ottawa usually has a little book store or sale section open nearly all the time, and you can get some good gems for 2$ without all the stress :)
Your video's just always make me so happy :D I would LOVEEEEEEE if you did like a time-travel books recommendations video and adding some books in it that you hope to read with that thrope as well
Thank you for the video. Prince of Thorns did not work for me I hope you like it more than I did :) Perdido Street Station is very interesting and I appreciated it more than I liked it. I liked the prose and the ideas but I could not connect with the characters. I'm looking forward to your take on Brian Staveley novels, this author is on my radar but never purchased anything written by him so far.
All these books seem so interesting, I can't wait to hear your thoughts about them. I recently bought 'The Test' by Sylvain Neuvel and 'Shift' by Hugh Howey. 😊
Excellent haul. Not often I see a haul where I want to read 90% of books. I haven't read any of these. Plan on checking out abominable and several of the sci fi. Any chance you recommend any sci fi space opera saga (besides Asimov which I've read all 10-15 of those)?
It would be very interesting if you did videos like "Best post apocalyptic books", "Best first contacts with aliens books" and, eventually, "Best time travels books" recommendations videos ! I'd be really curious comparing them to each other's, which ones you preferred, etc.
Emily, have you ever read The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel? It’s one of the best books I finished reading lately and I thought of it bc you mention first contact with aliens. It’s one of the best first-contact stories I’ve ever read- the author was an anthropologist so she put a ton of thought into the alien culture and it comes off so realistic while making you question the morals of society. Also, the main character is a Catholic priest, and it deals with religion in a very interesting way (I feel like you never read religious characters in sci-fi so that was unique). Just a random recommendation for an older SF book (it’s from 1990) that I think you would find interesting 😊
Ooh, I haven’t heard of any books you bought this month! Wild. I’m excited for your video on first contact with aliens. This month I bought Red Sister and Dune, inspired by you! I also got The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson and If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio.
Have you read "Have Spacesuit- Will Travel" by Robert A Heinlein? Cause I think that would be right up your alley, in terms of "old scifi". And it's a short and sweet book, so hopefully not intimidating to read.
I read Simmons' Terror while laying on a beach in summer. My brain almost exploded, I swear to gods. I was sooo cold on the inside and so hot on the outside. So yeah,leaving Abominable for the winter is probs for the best :P
Well that's a bunch of books I haven't read that can get added to my TBR, so that's nice. Since it's my first time commenting on one of your videos, I'll just make my obligatory recommendation of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It's my favorite book, so I recommend it whenever I can. Anyways, great work, love the content.
This might sound silly but could you do a video on how you find books that interest you? You seem to know about sooo many more than I do and I’m wondering if you just see something and look it up on goodreads or if you google concepts or what. 😊 okay thanks lol
Personally I liked Prince of Thorns, the main character can't even be considered morally gray anymore, he straight up is a villain 🤷♀️ but I love my little murder child 😂😂😂
I heard about some of these books, but you still introduced new books to me!! Love this!! Thank you!! (super interested by your opinion about Prince of Thorns because I also heard that I wouldn't like it ^^')
I don't think I've seen you talk about The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch. It's a good time travel book you might want to try. I hope you read The Hike soon. I'd love to know you thoughts since it's been sitting in my shelf for a year know and I'm still unsure if I should read it. Also, The Postmortal sounds interest (and I also loved Scythe so I'd love to know if it's any good).
The only China Mieville I have read is about half of The City and the City and I don’t know if it’s just me but I find it very hard to read. I don’t know if all of his books are written the same but there is just something about that book that I am having a lot of problems with.
Maybe you could read Andrzej Sapkowski The Witcher books? They are great fantasy! There will be netflix adaptation of those books so it could be one more reason to read them :D
Prince of thorns not as good as the ancestor trilogy imo. Pity because the ancestor trilogy was so good (with slight reservations about holy sister - i still dont know how i feel about it a week later)
I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Prince of Thorns. Some reviews say it's incredible, others say they stopped reading because of misogyny and how sexual assault is presented. I always trust your opinions on things like this, so I really look forward to hearing your perspective :)
Your thumbnails are only getting better 😂
I love that you give a general overview of the book and not repeat the blurbs off the book. It feels more genuine and not repeat I’ve when you talk about the book in a later video.
I definitely do the same thing when I buy books from my library. I fall into "Well, it's only $0.25 or $1, so what can it hurt?" I feel your pain. But some of my favorite books I have stumbled across for exactly that reason.
That thumbnail though!! 😂😂😂
I love that you pick up books I’ve never heard of before! opens my eyes to new books.
I agree with everyone who’s said that Mieville’s work can be quite polarizing. He writes New Weird fiction (which I think is a sub-genre of sci-fi), and that’s a pretty apt description of his books! I personally adore Perdido Street Station - it’s such an interesting world, and the characters stick with you long after you’re done reading. I’ve read a few other works of his over the years, but that one’s still my favourite.
I have such bad fear of missing out at library sales! I always think it's the one book that I don't see in those buckets that will be my book soulmate!
Cover buys are my guilty pleasure.
Life made me miss my Emily Fox Fix.... so glad to be back to watching you. I've avoided Mark Lawrence because I was really not interested in some of what I'd heard about in Prince of Thorns, so I'll be really interested in your take on it.
I’ve always described The Hike as a choose your own adventure book that someone else chose for you and they picked the most messed up choices.
I haven’t finished my second book this year. I started a new job and it requires a LOT of reading (I’m in research) that my eyes feel too tired to read for leisure. I almost want to cry watching these videos knowing I won’t be able to read for fun in a long time hahahaha
I’m really feeling like reading fantasy these days, I can’t even remember the last time I read one! So I made an order yesterday and got The Priory of The Orange Tree and also Foundryside. Sooooo excited to read those books!
YAY Priory!!! I am reading it right now and it is amazing!
I absolutely loved Prince of thorns (and the rest of the trilogy, for that matter). The main character makes for such a nice change from your usual heroes. Red Sister is up next for me
A classic scifi that needs a movie is The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg. The concept is wonderful. It was a fave of mine as a kid....geez I need to go re-read that lol.
I freaked out over Prince of Thorns (i absolutely love it)
I didn't really buy any books lately, but my preorder of Children of Ruin arrived, can't wait to read it 😊
China Miéville is a master at world-wuilding. Perdido Street Station is the first tome of the Bas-Lag trilogy. It belongs to the genre of "New Weird", a sort of mix of science-fiction and fantasy.
You can absolutely read "The Fold" as a standalone!
I think Perdido Street Station is a book people either love or hate, there's nothing in between. I personally loved it but it's definitely very unconventional! I hope you'll love it, too!
Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne is also a pretty good series.
I would say Mieville in general is something that people definitely love or hate. He has a style that's pretty unique.
I bought The Binding- Bridget Collins, The Missing of Clairdelune- Christelle Dabos (lol), A Good Girl's Guide to Murder- Holly Jackson, The East End- Jason Allen, and the Tattooist of Auschwitz (already read) this month! Your haul has lots of scifi, looking forward to their reviews.
I love your hauls, you always make me discover new books no one talks about on booktube 😁
Oh I got the Abominable too! Buddy read!
The Fold and Paradox Bound were both so good!
Those SF Masterworks editions are just stunning 😍😍
Not sure I'd say that A Deepness in the Sky is a classic as it's only 20 years old. Sorta halfway between modern sci-fi and the really old classics like Dune. It did win the Hugo for best novel though and there are elements of the book I think you will like. It's kind of a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, but yeah you can read them separately.
I love picking up books I've never heard about because then I have 0 expectations!
I read The Hike last year! I was unsure of how I felt about it until the last bit. It got better. I ended up really liking it! I hope you do too.
I had to pause because 4 books in and Emily ALREADY has my wallet crying with these books. Dang my new found love of Sci-fi !!
Vernor Vinge is a professor and the originator of the technological singularity theory. His book made me think of The Expanse (with a lot more imagination). It was one of the best science-fiction to I've read in years. Plus, it's not that old. Think it was released in 93 or something. Give it a go! Have a nice day! 😘
Perdido Street Station! I LOVE THAT BOOK
Always appreciate your variety of reads. Accounts for men and women of all ages, keep doin yo thang
I get so happy when you upload one of my favorite youtubers and i just bought 10 books soo excited to read over the summer
I really liked The Fold, and technically it is book two yes, but the two books are pretty much companion novels as opposed to directly related, so you won't be lacking in context or anything. If you like it, check out the other one, "14". 😁
For an adult version of the scythe premise i would also recommend 'Future' by Dmitry Gluchowski. The world building is very good, defintily more thought through and realistic than scythe. Plot is very thrilling and action filled but it also is 'darker' i would not recommend it for younger audience.
Haven’t read Perdido Street Station yet but China Miéville is such a good author. And as for practicing your English - yes, he loves to use very obscure and little-known words 😂 I have a large English vocabulary (just bc I read a lot tbh) and I almost never see words I don’t know in books, but his books have me running to an online dictionary sometimes... it’s fun.
That thumbnail was just 👏🏻😂 I haven’t been able to read much at all with my upcoming finals. But booktube makes me want to readdd!
Yay time travel! 😍 Long time obsession of mine (pun intended).
Yes ! 👍👍👍👏
I bought Hag-Seed, Fool Moon, The Rohingyas, Record of a Spaceborn Few, The Winter People, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Road and The Talented Mr. Ripley in May 😊
Tellement de livres ont rejoint ma wishlist suite à ta vidéo... 😄
J'adore les livres de SF que tu présentes ! Ils ont tous l'air hyper intéressant 😯
I read the postmortal and it was interesting, especially the parts about the cure for me personally being in a biology field
I have the Fold! So excited we can be reading this book at the same time😍
I’m interested to see who you prefer out of Reynolds and Hamilton. I’ve found that people tend to much prefer one over the other. I personally much prefer Reynolds because his works are darker and have a sort of cyberpunk vibe with ancient alien civilisations and human modification. I read ‘Pandora’s Star’ by Hamilton and was really disappointed with the alien reveal. The build up was so good and I was ready to be spooked but they ended up more Futurama than I was looking for...
I am simple man, seeing doggo on the thumbnail I click...
Now what is this reeding you talking about? And what are those fancy looking rectangles?
Is it for eating?
I loved all the premises of the books you got! Definitely will be waiting your opinions on these. And I will try to catch up with you because damn I'm in a bad reading slump from last two months.
I'm excited you are trying Prince of Thorns. Hope you don't hate it.
I love your hauls because you recommend some amazing sounding books.
I’d recommend the Terror by Dan Simmons over the abominable!! It’s based off of the Franklin expedition, and the miniseries is amazing.
i need those sci-fi recommendations!!!
The Hike was SO bizarre, I had no idea what was going on but I liked it. 4⭐️
I've wanted to read The Hike for a while! I don't go to the mega library book sales because they are stressful and don't offer much, so they aren't worth it for me. BUT each library branch in Ottawa usually has a little book store or sale section open nearly all the time, and you can get some good gems for 2$ without all the stress :)
Your video's just always make me so happy :D I would LOVEEEEEEE if you did like a time-travel books recommendations video and adding some books in it that you hope to read with that thrope as well
Oh I absolutely adore House Of Suns. Such a good book!
Pushing Ice by the same author is fantastic as well.
That "Perdido Street Station" looks interesting! Perdido means "lost" in Portuguese btw :)
So stoked for your first contact with aliens video! 😍
Thank you for the video. Prince of Thorns did not work for me I hope you like it more than I did :) Perdido Street Station is very interesting and I appreciated it more than I liked it. I liked the prose and the ideas but I could not connect with the characters. I'm looking forward to your take on Brian Staveley novels, this author is on my radar but never purchased anything written by him so far.
All these books seem so interesting, I can't wait to hear your thoughts about them.
I recently bought 'The Test' by Sylvain Neuvel and 'Shift' by Hugh Howey. 😊
I was sure that I will read Hyperion very slwly, and at the end I ended up reading it in 2 days! Really really good! :)
If you want a Dan Simmons for summer, Summer of Night is so good!
Excellent haul. Not often I see a haul where I want to read 90% of books. I haven't read any of these. Plan on checking out abominable and several of the sci fi. Any chance you recommend any sci fi space opera saga (besides Asimov which I've read all 10-15 of those)?
I add to the recommendations of the Brian Staveley series. I wish I could forget it just to go in blind again! :D
It would be very interesting if you did videos like "Best post apocalyptic books", "Best first contacts with aliens books" and, eventually, "Best time travels books" recommendations videos ! I'd be really curious comparing them to each other's, which ones you preferred, etc.
Emily, have you ever read The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel? It’s one of the best books I finished reading lately and I thought of it bc you mention first contact with aliens. It’s one of the best first-contact stories I’ve ever read- the author was an anthropologist so she put a ton of thought into the alien culture and it comes off so realistic while making you question the morals of society. Also, the main character is a Catholic priest, and it deals with religion in a very interesting way (I feel like you never read religious characters in sci-fi so that was unique). Just a random recommendation for an older SF book (it’s from 1990) that I think you would find interesting 😊
That thumbnail 👌👌 Paradox Bound has been added to my wish list. I’m obsessed with time travel too!
Would love a video on your rankings of Brian Sanderson books! I want to read his books but don’t know where to start
I just got “The Hike” too! I feel like you’re getting me into genres I used to hate 😂
This one, however, sounds surreal and I love that.
China Mieville writes in a genre called new wired, you’ll either love it or hate it
The first book in that fantasy series is $2.99 on kindle! It's called The Emperor's Blades
Your best thumbnail yet 😂😂😂😂
Hey emily!! Do you have any non-fiction book recommendations?
Ooh, I haven’t heard of any books you bought this month! Wild. I’m excited for your video on first contact with aliens.
This month I bought Red Sister and Dune, inspired by you! I also got The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson and If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio.
Have you read "Have Spacesuit- Will Travel" by Robert A Heinlein? Cause I think that would be right up your alley, in terms of "old scifi". And it's a short and sweet book, so hopefully not intimidating to read.
I read Simmons' Terror while laying on a beach in summer. My brain almost exploded, I swear to gods. I was sooo cold on the inside and so hot on the outside. So yeah,leaving Abominable for the winter is probs for the best :P
Niki Dramatika but then you’d be cold on the inside AND the outside!
I like to read "winter" books in the summer, it gets my mind off the heat. (Good job pronouncing Abominable.)
Historical fiction and horror? Sold!😁
Well that's a bunch of books I haven't read that can get added to my TBR, so that's nice. Since it's my first time commenting on one of your videos, I'll just make my obligatory recommendation of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It's my favorite book, so I recommend it whenever I can. Anyways, great work, love the content.
I think she's read it! It's a great book 😊
Ah Excellent! I might have to try doing some digging to see where it comes up
I also like the ancestor trilogy, however I found Prince of Thorns very dark, The sci-fi looks interesting I mostly read fantasy.
I dont understand english very well but I love listen to you
This might sound silly but could you do a video on how you find books that interest you?
You seem to know about sooo many more than I do and I’m wondering if you just see something and look it up on goodreads or if you google concepts or what. 😊 okay thanks lol
I really loved The Terror by Dan Simmons so I'm definitely going to have to check out Abominable.
Personally I liked Prince of Thorns, the main character can't even be considered morally gray anymore, he straight up is a villain 🤷♀️ but I love my little murder child 😂😂😂
Haha still waiting for you to continue
@@aflowerthatcannotbebloomed me too 😂
I bought Nevernight because of you
Read 14 by peter clines. I really enjoyed that one. I’m in the middle of paradox as well. It has a great premise.
I heard about some of these books, but you still introduced new books to me!! Love this!! Thank you!! (super interested by your opinion about Prince of Thorns because I also heard that I wouldn't like it ^^')
I don't think I've seen you talk about The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch. It's a good time travel book you might want to try.
I hope you read The Hike soon. I'd love to know you thoughts since it's been sitting in my shelf for a year know and I'm still unsure if I should read it. Also, The Postmortal sounds interest (and I also loved Scythe so I'd love to know if it's any good).
Czarina Abogado the gone world had me effed up in the best way. It was so good
This is the best thumbnail I’ve ever seen 👏🏻😆
The only China Mieville I have read is about half of The City and the City and I don’t know if it’s just me but I find it very hard to read. I don’t know if all of his books are written the same but there is just something about that book that I am having a lot of problems with.
Maybe you could read Andrzej Sapkowski The Witcher books? They are great fantasy! There will be netflix adaptation of those books so it could be one more reason to read them :D
my day has just become a good day ❣
I'm reading The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling. It's the first in a fantasy trilogy and it's so good. Check out the premise.
I just ordered Exhalation by Ted Chiang and I'm pretty excited about it!
Prince of thorns not as good as the ancestor trilogy imo. Pity because the ancestor trilogy was so good (with slight reservations about holy sister - i still dont know how i feel about it a week later)
I read The Fold by Peter Cline. I really enjoyed it.
"The Terror" by Dan Simmons is his best work. ☺️
I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Prince of Thorns. Some reviews say it's incredible, others say they stopped reading because of misogyny and how sexual assault is presented. I always trust your opinions on things like this, so I really look forward to hearing your perspective :)
Well, now I need to rewatch and add to my Goodreads. 😂
I want every book you got!
Oh, "Perdido" means Lost in Portuguese, it kinda makes sence the name
Classic stand alone scifi: Philip K Dick.
Brian Staveley did a good job with his first book but the rest are going down one by one.
I liked the thumbnail very much. And yes, you said abominable right. Love your accent.