as a tropical born and raised kid, i'm about to spend my winter this year somewhere with full snow and i'm so excited -- carefully crafting my winter TBR now and this video came just in time!!!!
@@erikjohansson2703 hi! i have a flight to japan (kyoto, takayama, sapporo, and tokyo) next week before flying straight in for the new years in taiwan (taipei + a rural town i haven't decided on)
If you're going to Sapporo in the winter, i would recommend The Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki murakami, it is equal parts surrealism but also exploring the environment, geography and mood of Sapporo, it great
@@avni8277 have read (3x!! hahaha) and loved this book - considering bringing it with me once i decide which of the many japanese books i own i want to bring 😅
4:58 Icefields by Thomas Wharton 8:19 The Enchanted Sonata by Heather Dixon 10:25 The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann 11:38 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 13:09 Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik 15:07 Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson 18:00 The Blue Fox by Sjón 18:42 Christmas at The Island Hotel by Jenny Colgan 20:10 Kitchen Princess Vol1 by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi 22:31 Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that not all of those wintery clips were current... 😂 as a fellow SW Ontarian I was losing my mind thinking "what the hell is going on, we definitely haven't had this much snow yet right? There's no way I missed that much snow." I'm notoriously oblivious though so it wouldn't have been unprecedented. Winter is nice yes, I'll be much happier when it's finally here to stay 🌬️❄️⛄
Hi from Sweden. This winter has been absolutely FREEZING so far, with snow almost every day. Chopped down a christmas tree yesterday, was really getting into the Christmas feels, and here comes your magical video! Thank yoU!
OOH hope you see this, bc _Three Blind Mice_ by Agatha Christie is an amazing winter read - short story about a hotel/b&b that gets snowed in. A murder happens and ppl slowly start to unravel and go a bit crazy. It's very very wintery vibes and super cozy, plus it only takes like 15-30 minutes to read. Edit: just remembered another one! If anyone has read _Where The Mountain Meets the Moon_ by Grace Lin, the third and final installment of the series - _When The Sea Turned to Silver_ - is super wintery vibes too. So is _The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe_ by CS Lewis.
Yay for winter people! I think a lot of Russian literature fits into so much of a winter vibe. In "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown" film, the kids are assigned to read War and Peace and write a book report over their Christmas Break, which becomes a major plot point, lol. Great video, Emma! Stay warm up there!
omg I did not know that, we watched Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown every year but never the new year one! that's so funny, will definitely try to find it now!
I read The Enchanted Sonata after hearing you talk about it and it is the most whimsical, wonderful Christmas/wintery story ever! It really does feel like you are in a snow globe (with giant rats attacking, ha). I have to say the nuns were my absolute favorite part of the book, I loved them so much! I would read a spin-off entirely about them.
Wanted to give a couple winter manga recs: To Your Eternity is a very sad but moving story that is fantasy with a large world and many different characters, it will make you cry and is very good. Secondly, Land of the Lustrous has characters and relationships that reach you in such a way that is just great. The panels and art in that one is beyond amazing. Both of these have great anime adaptations too, and have parts set in winter with the perfect vibes for the season. Highly recommend!
In your video there are so many ghibli-like moments/vibes (especially in the beginning) ❤ I think because of this, I could even picture almost all of your book recommendations as potential ghibli adaptations.
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I loved The Enchated Sonata! It was such a whimsical, cozy read. Perfect for the winter season! 💙
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann is a great winter book! It's set in the Alps at a sanatorium and deals with lots of themes like life and death, philosophy etc. It's very dense but so worth it, especially the Snow chapter which is just perfect :)
Hercule Poirot's Christmas is the best! Easily top five for what Christie has to offer, you're gonna love it. Also there is lots of snow (which we sadly lack in my neck of the woods).
It gets dark at 3 pm here in Stockholm, and it will get even darker, but I'm always looking forward to the dark season because everything is decorated and life sort of slows down and it's very cosy. I've started The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin and it sounds like a very wintery book that you might be interested in! (unless you've already read it but I don't remember you mentioning it) Thanks for the video, it's a good day when you upload :)
I reread A Christmas Carol every year… except, I’m always seeing Alastair Sim as I read. 😅 I may not get to it this year though due to being in the middle of a few other books and having The Enchanted Sonata fresh on my shelf (just came in yesterday!), but, we’ll see. 🤞
I adore E.T.A. Hoffman's The Nutcracker! It's my absolute favourite Christmas story of all time. I read The Enchanted Sonata for the first time in November and it's now one of my favourite reads of the year!! Thank you so much for recommending it!
0:01 This is the reason why I love watching her videos because there's no intro nothing....just starting the video with no context, talking about candles and winter. Just amazing
I have never really seen snow in my life but seeing you so relaxed and beautifully playing in snow made me so happy. I will also for sure experience that miracle one day!!!
i thought i should tell you this: in a recent video, i saw how you expressed your opinion of Dan Brown books as something like: “i’m a cool guy with a cool idea and i’ll write a book to make my idea look cool, but it’s not actually cool”. i told this comparison to my dad and he FULLY agreed (i have to read origin for school and it feels like an encyclopedia im dying)
Adding Moominland Midwinter to my TRB. I already pretty much have my cozy winter TBR for this year planned so maybe have to push it to next winter but nothing is set in stone. I get seasonal depression pretty bad in the winter and since 2018 I have lived in an old converted inn in northern New England (which yes is pretty cool) but one of the draws backs is I am over an hour away from family and friends with the only major highway getting shut down during bad storms. Also, since it is a rural small town, there is no downtown area and it is actually fairly dangerous to walk on the streets after dark due to poor lighting and minimal shoulder on the roads. The feelings of loneliness and isolation have increased since moving up here so I push all my heavy/deep reads until summer when I get to chill with all the loons (the birds, not the tourist).
emmie, thank you for this video and recommendations I like fairytales about moominland and the nutcracker so much too! also, you have a great voice, I'm pleasure hearing you
Hi Emma. Your snow footage had me tearing up!! You always have such beautiful outdoor footage but I LOVE watching you be so overjoyed by the snow😊 Also, during your book recs, Calcifer meowed and my cat, who’d been sleeping, whipped his head up and was looking around trying to find the cat 😂 Hope you are doing well and I wish you a great upcoming week❤️
I've spent my whole life in Canada, near the lake, winters and I have such a love hate relationship. So I am so glad I can watch this season pass through the eyes of someone who loves it.
Icefields sounds so good! Every year in winter I read "ireland" by Frank Delaney. It's about the history of Ireland, told through stories by an itinerant storyteller, sitting next to a cosy fire...i love the writing and it always feels like coming home, reading that book.
The snow, the books, the Calcifer chatter in the background ❤ Adding to the recs: The Bear & the Nightingale. (Picked up Enchanted Sonata & cannot wait to dive in)
Aah now I want to read Moominland this winter! It just sounds so wholesome and sweet and beautiful ❤️ can't wait to pick up next month. Loved the video btw❤️
I absolutely adore The Nutcracker so will definitely be reading those recs! I really want to start reading the Moomin books too so that’s going on the list for this Christmas (even though it’s summer for me).
I have a copy of War and Peace per your recommendation, but I am currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo for the first time! That's based around the end of the Napoleonic wars. It will be the biggest classic I've read so far! I'm over 55% of the way through according to Goodreads. I will feel so proud upon finishing it! x
Your love for winter makes me love it more ❤ I have such a hard time with seasonal depression in the winter AND summer but this year for some reason I’m so much more excited for the chilly season
Hii emma I am Monsoon and I have been here with you for over two years. But recently for some reason I couldn't bring myself to watch your videos and I guess because they are longer than the average videos that I watch. So I must have not watched for around three months. But the videos kept coming in and kept piling up and I was just having bad anxiety that you are uploading and I am not watching and it's getting piled up. So just a week ago I made my mind to sit down and watch the piled up ones. And once I started I remember that how much I enjoy watching you and how I feel so great when I watch your content. The nostalgia brimmed and I realised I really really find comfort in your videos Just wanted to let you know ❤️❤️❤️
just coincidentally spent the whole day reading the enchanted sonata (which i bought last year after you mentioned it in a different video) from start to finish and it was so charming!! im in maryland so it's still not cold here sadly, but this still got me in the holiday mood!! i'm gonna try to get my hands on the moominland midwinter, even though all the copies at my library have been taken out. thanks as always for your great recommendations!!
I’m starting to recover from the flu today (it started at the beginning of December) and this video got me back into the Christmas spirit. I love how you talked about the Moomins, your videos are a big comfort to me, thank you for what you do! I’m also about to read Enchanted Sonata, I think it’ll be just what I need right now:)
Lovely recommendations, Emma, and as always, appreciate your channel so much! is perfect for winter, it was my first Tolstoy 😊 Also, I'd recommend Simon Van Booy's . Gorgeous five short stories you may like! "Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves. -Love begins in winter, Simon Van Booy"
The snow footage is so grounding and peaceful; it made me lachrymose! We rarely get heavy snow where I live, if any, so it’s a real joy to see fairytale-esque landscapes of never-ending snow. Also, thank you for rekindling my love for the moomins (earlier this year). You’ve also made me appreciate winter in a way I never thought I could. So, I’m short, thank you Emmie ❄️🥰
I picked up The Enchanted Sonata last December and I fell in love with it! It was the perfect Christmas read. Thank you so much for the recommendation!😍 My other absolute favorite read from last December was A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood, it's set in the 1930's and it's about this young girl who dreams of becoming an actress and goes on tour with a theatrical company. There is a particular scene where they become snowbound in an old theatre and it's one of the coziest, most magical scenes I've ever read. I think you would really enjoy that book.💫
10 minutes in, already added this gorgeous edition of The Snow Queen to my wish list 🙈 Moominland Midwinter & Moominvalley in November are hands down my favourite books of the year or maybe of all time? I read the winter one in February when I was sick with Covid and it was just so hard hitting... I used to love Moomins TV show as a child, but the books are something else, especially when you read them as an adult. Great recommendations as always 🙂 Happy Winter! 💙
I'm still reading Frankenstein, but I was surprised at how many Winter vibes it gave me. Love the importance of the seasons in that book and in literature in general. Also, I hope you have the best of times seeing the Nutcracker! I got to see it in St. Petersburg in 2019 and seeing a Russian ballet ensemble do it was just so magical. Enjoy it
Your winter videos are my favourite especially as someone who doesn't live in a country with a lot of snow so i get to live it through you!!❄️ Also random fact about me: i did ballet when i was little and we put on a performance for the nutcracker and i was one of Clara's friends and it's one of the most memorable things about my time doing ballet!
This makes me long for snow so much!!! In the desert our winters are more like your Springs. It's still beautiful and I love the rainy "cold" days we get, but one day I hope to live in a place that gets the kind of cold you feel when you breathe in and the land silently turns white 🤍🐻❄️
I would love to recommend you a winter book in return; the poetry collection ‘Ice’ by Gillian Clarke. This book communicates so superbly the bite and kiss of winter. Clarke is from my country (Wales) and there are lovely references to Welsh mythology and language in here, too. Thank you for all that you do, your videos have helped me more than I can express!🤍🤍☕️🫖
coming back to this video and wanna share a very clean elegant short story I loved recently - cold enough for snow by Jessica Au. In Australia winter is coming and I'm watching this video again. Thank you for making it.
Almost let out a squeal when you held up The Enchanted Sonata because I just started reading it and I picked it up because you mentioned it once in a previous video so this just solidifies that recommendation 😌
i live in wisconsin and we literally have no snow. normally this time of year we have at least like 2 feet of snow. this made me miss snow in december so much 😢
Hi Emma, Your videos bring peace to my mind. I love the cinematography of all your outdoor/snow videos. Besides sharing the same Birthday,I think you are the only other person that has expressed their love of Winter as much as mine. I see the Season as a time to relax,rest, and enjoy the beauty of the calm, and stillness of Nature. The Nutcracker is my very favorite ballet. I was lucky enough to see a live performance with a very dear friend who is no longer with us. I have that magical memory of her gifting me that ballet. Calcifer was in a talkative mood...I didn't know cats like avocados ! Please film more snowy /outdoor scenes, I love them. I keep hoping for a "White Christmas" but, I fear it will be in the 50's again like last year ! Cindy
You should totally check out «The Good Sheperd» by Gunnar Gunnarsson. An Icelandic classic from the 1930s about a shepherd who helps stranded sheep in the snowy mountains, a task nobody else in his community cares to do. Bleak and cold, set in December, but also warm and hopeful.
I miss snow at Christmas…only got to experience it once but it was special. Here in Australia we are about to go through summer. Last year it was a stinker (a week over days over 40C between Christmas and New Year). Calcipher meowing in the background.
Emmie, the perfect manga to read in winter is hands down, Gakuen Alice, please pick it up sometime 🥰 I actually finished Kitchen Princess thanks to your rec (and also it reminds me of Gakuen Alice somehow) p/s: yayyy to Moomin recommentions, it looks amazing, definitely found smt to read this winter
You know, I always always conflate Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening with The Road not Taken. Anyway, I do so enjoy that image, where the horse stops to give his mane, and the attached tiny bells a shake. I hear the jingle and see the trail of the sled and hooves. The only other Frost line that hits me on a gut level is the one wherein he describes seeing in the aquarium the "fast fish". Thx Emmie, I hope you're enjoying your life because sometimes I worry you're a bit of a workaholic.
Gah too many of these piqued my interest!! Just put Icefields, Enchanted Sonata and Christmas at Island Hotel on order. Thanks much, and I am most excited to have some cosy books to read this January/February! Thanks much for sharing!
I've probably commented this before in a previous year but I'm living vicariously through your winter videos & vlogs. I live in California but I grew up in Michigan and miss the snow sooo much!! the change of seasons overall, but Christmastime and Winter is not the same without the snow! ❄❄❄ The Nutcracker is also one of my favorite things. The music, the ballet, the Barbie movie!! I recently got the Hoffmann and Dumas stories and plan on reading them this month! (okay why is there no nutcracker emoji?!) Awww, I need to pick up the Moomin books. The show is adorable, sweet, and cozy! That light switch could be connected to one of the outlets in the room, btw.
Prefect cozy winter recs! I have been looking for people to talk more about the Enchanted Sonata more, as it definitely deserves more hype! Also, if you like the allure of a Russian winter and charismas vibes, then I recommend the movie Silver Skates. It's not a book, but regardless it's so good and fits perfectly with the whole coziness aesthetic!
Oh, how I miss Christmas in winter. I live in the summer hemisphere now and Christmas in the summer just feels so wrong. I know I’m going to have find ways to make the most of it, but I just find myself pining for the cold & cosy season ❄️
Emma, there's two Christmas traditions for me: watch A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Nutcracker (book, ballet,...). I love The Enchanted Sonata too, one of the best recs you gave me! Your list is amazing! 💖✨🎄
as a tropical born and raised kid, i'm about to spend my winter this year somewhere with full snow and i'm so excited -- carefully crafting my winter TBR now and this video came just in time!!!!
Hope you enjoy it. May i ask, wherell you be staying and where are you from?
@@erikjohansson2703 hi! i have a flight to japan (kyoto, takayama, sapporo, and tokyo) next week before flying straight in for the new years in taiwan (taipei + a rural town i haven't decided on)
If you're going to Sapporo in the winter, i would recommend The Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki murakami, it is equal parts surrealism but also exploring the environment, geography and mood of Sapporo, it great
@@avni8277 have read (3x!! hahaha) and loved this book - considering bringing it with me once i decide which of the many japanese books i own i want to bring 😅
@@seigfread that's so great 😃, another suggestion would be snow country by Yasunari Kawabata
with the first semester ending this week, i’m ready to spend my break reading books 😮💨
Amen to that
hope you have the most relaxing time!!
Hope you enjoy the Nutcracker! My sister was a ballerina so growing up it was definitely a staple of winter. Super cozy vibes
4:58 Icefields by Thomas Wharton
8:19 The Enchanted Sonata by Heather Dixon
10:25 The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann
11:38 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
13:09 Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
15:07 Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
18:00 The Blue Fox by Sjón
18:42 Christmas at The Island Hotel by Jenny Colgan
20:10 Kitchen Princess Vol1 by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi
22:31 Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that not all of those wintery clips were current... 😂 as a fellow SW Ontarian I was losing my mind thinking "what the hell is going on, we definitely haven't had this much snow yet right? There's no way I missed that much snow." I'm notoriously oblivious though so it wouldn't have been unprecedented.
Winter is nice yes, I'll be much happier when it's finally here to stay 🌬️❄️⛄
haha I wish that was the case, hope our snow comes back soon!
Omg samee
watching your winter books recommendations during the summer every december feels like ✨snow on the beach ✨
Girl, if winter doesn't come to you, you have to bring it somehow 😂
The aesthetic, the auraa, the comfort watching your videos Emma ♥️♥️🤌🤌
Hi from Sweden.
This winter has been absolutely FREEZING so far, with snow almost every day. Chopped down a christmas tree yesterday, was really getting into the Christmas feels, and here comes your magical video! Thank yoU!
I loooove how you romanticize winter! I've been trying to do the same and it's helped tremendously in preventing the winter blues! ❄
We appreciate all of the dedication and effort on this channel. May God bless you, Emmie.
OOH hope you see this, bc _Three Blind Mice_ by Agatha Christie is an amazing winter read - short story about a hotel/b&b that gets snowed in. A murder happens and ppl slowly start to unravel and go a bit crazy. It's very very wintery vibes and super cozy, plus it only takes like 15-30 minutes to read.
Edit: just remembered another one! If anyone has read _Where The Mountain Meets the Moon_ by Grace Lin, the third and final installment of the series - _When The Sea Turned to Silver_ - is super wintery vibes too. So is _The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe_ by CS Lewis.
Yay for winter people! I think a lot of Russian literature fits into so much of a winter vibe. In "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown" film, the kids are assigned to read War and Peace and write a book report over their Christmas Break, which becomes a major plot point, lol. Great video, Emma! Stay warm up there!
omg I did not know that, we watched Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown every year but never the new year one! that's so funny, will definitely try to find it now!
@@emmiereads Sadly that one is a little harder to find--I watched it because my parents taped it off TV when I was young. Maybe Apple TV I don't know.
Apple TV has it! Watched it last year.
@@Craspcrisper Not all heroes wear capes! Thanks very much!
@@emmiereads This is out of context. But there's a song called Charlie Brown, and that is a delight to the ears.
I read The Enchanted Sonata after hearing you talk about it and it is the most whimsical, wonderful Christmas/wintery story ever! It really does feel like you are in a snow globe (with giant rats attacking, ha). I have to say the nuns were my absolute favorite part of the book, I loved them so much! I would read a spin-off entirely about them.
Icefields, The Enchanted Sonata, and Kitchen Princess are on my TBR - they sound so perfect for this time of year.
Wanted to give a couple winter manga recs: To Your Eternity is a very sad but moving story that is fantasy with a large world and many different characters, it will make you cry and is very good. Secondly, Land of the Lustrous has characters and relationships that reach you in such a way that is just great. The panels and art in that one is beyond amazing. Both of these have great anime adaptations too, and have parts set in winter with the perfect vibes for the season. Highly recommend!
Highly recommend Land of the Lustrous, leans towards existential dread for even more fun!
In your video there are so many ghibli-like moments/vibes (especially in the beginning) ❤ I think because of this, I could even picture almost all of your book recommendations as potential ghibli adaptations.
I loved The Enchated Sonata! It was such a whimsical, cozy read. Perfect for the winter season! 💙
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann is a great winter book! It's set in the Alps at a sanatorium and deals with lots of themes like life and death, philosophy etc. It's very dense but so worth it, especially the Snow chapter which is just perfect :)
Prosaic words can't express the experience of watching your videos; it very much feels like having tea with a close friend 🥰
:')
Hercule Poirot's Christmas is the best! Easily top five for what Christie has to offer, you're gonna love it. Also there is lots of snow (which we sadly lack in my neck of the woods).
I can't wait for term to end so I can catch up on my winter reading!!!
hope you have the best end of term
I love listening to the Nutcracker ballet during winter time!
Calcifer is so vocal in the background 🤣🥰 love the recs Emma! 💓
he wanted to steal the avocados off of the counter lol and so glad!!
It gets dark at 3 pm here in Stockholm, and it will get even darker, but I'm always looking forward to the dark season because everything is decorated and life sort of slows down and it's very cosy.
I've started The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin and it sounds like a very wintery book that you might be interested in! (unless you've already read it but I don't remember you mentioning it)
Thanks for the video, it's a good day when you upload :)
I already read A Christmas Carol and it was my first time ever reading it! ❤
ah I have to hold myself back from rereading it again, did you love it?!
@@emmiereads Uh, YEAH?! I swear to God I was just visualizing the Jim Carrey Disney movie as I was reading it.
I reread A Christmas Carol every year… except, I’m always seeing Alastair Sim as I read. 😅 I may not get to it this year though due to being in the middle of a few other books and having The Enchanted Sonata fresh on my shelf (just came in yesterday!), but, we’ll see. 🤞
@@wmd8840 How can anyone not see Alastair Sim? The film is holiday perfection.
It's actually hot as Hades here in Argentina but i love watching your vlogs and pretending i need to wear cosy sweaters 😂😂😂
Last week I borrowed War and Peace from my school library and now I'm hooked!
I adore E.T.A. Hoffman's The Nutcracker! It's my absolute favourite Christmas story of all time. I read The Enchanted Sonata for the first time in November and it's now one of my favourite reads of the year!! Thank you so much for recommending it!
0:01 This is the reason why I love watching her videos because there's no intro nothing....just starting the video with no context, talking about candles and winter. Just amazing
You could also read "The Story of a Nutcracker" by Alexandre Dumas.
Also, the quote on the candle is from the poem "In Memoriam A.H.H." (Canto 78)
I have never really seen snow in my life but seeing you so relaxed and beautifully playing in snow made me so happy. I will also for sure experience that miracle one day!!!
i thought i should tell you this: in a recent video, i saw how you expressed your opinion of Dan Brown books as something like: “i’m a cool guy with a cool idea and i’ll write a book to make my idea look cool, but it’s not actually cool”. i told this comparison to my dad and he FULLY agreed (i have to read origin for school and it feels like an encyclopedia im dying)
Adding Moominland Midwinter to my TRB. I already pretty much have my cozy winter TBR for this year planned so maybe have to push it to next winter but nothing is set in stone. I get seasonal depression pretty bad in the winter and since 2018 I have lived in an old converted inn in northern New England (which yes is pretty cool) but one of the draws backs is I am over an hour away from family and friends with the only major highway getting shut down during bad storms. Also, since it is a rural small town, there is no downtown area and it is actually fairly dangerous to walk on the streets after dark due to poor lighting and minimal shoulder on the roads. The feelings of loneliness and isolation have increased since moving up here so I push all my heavy/deep reads until summer when I get to chill with all the loons (the birds, not the tourist).
It is summer where I live, watching clips of snow makes me so happy!!! I want winter to come back… it is hot as hell in here
emmie, thank you for this video and recommendations
I like fairytales about moominland and the nutcracker so much too!
also, you have a great voice, I'm pleasure hearing you
I bought The Enchanted Sonata because of you and I plan on reading it the week leading up to Christmas. I can't wait!
Hi Emma. Your snow footage had me tearing up!! You always have such beautiful outdoor footage but I LOVE watching you be so overjoyed by the snow😊
Also, during your book recs, Calcifer meowed and my cat, who’d been sleeping, whipped his head up and was looking around trying to find the cat 😂
Hope you are doing well and I wish you a great upcoming week❤️
My cat did the same thing, lol!
I've spent my whole life in Canada, near the lake, winters and I have such a love hate relationship. So I am so glad I can watch this season pass through the eyes of someone who loves it.
16:56 - One of my favorite books years ago. Like waking up in the middle of the night when all are asleep.
Icefields sounds so good!
Every year in winter I read "ireland" by Frank Delaney. It's about the history of Ireland, told through stories by an itinerant storyteller, sitting next to a cosy fire...i love the writing and it always feels like coming home, reading that book.
The snow, the books, the Calcifer chatter in the background ❤
Adding to the recs: The Bear & the Nightingale. (Picked up Enchanted Sonata & cannot wait to dive in)
i‘m not much of a winter person but seeing you so happy and magical in the snow is making me look at my current winter landscape with a bit more awe 💙
Aah now I want to read Moominland this winter! It just sounds so wholesome and sweet and beautiful ❤️ can't wait to pick up next month. Loved the video btw❤️
I absolutely adore The Nutcracker so will definitely be reading those recs! I really want to start reading the Moomin books too so that’s going on the list for this Christmas (even though it’s summer for me).
I have a copy of War and Peace per your recommendation, but I am currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo for the first time! That's based around the end of the Napoleonic wars. It will be the biggest classic I've read so far! I'm over 55% of the way through according to Goodreads. I will feel so proud upon finishing it! x
Your love for winter makes me love it more ❤ I have such a hard time with seasonal depression in the winter AND summer but this year for some reason I’m so much more excited for the chilly season
Hii emma
I am Monsoon and I have been here with you for over two years.
But recently for some reason I couldn't bring myself to watch your videos and I guess because they are longer than the average videos that I watch. So I must have not watched for around three months. But the videos kept coming in and kept piling up and I was just having bad anxiety that you are uploading and I am not watching and it's getting piled up. So just a week ago I made my mind to sit down and watch the piled up ones. And once I started I remember that how much I enjoy watching you and how I feel so great when I watch your content. The nostalgia brimmed and I realised I really really find comfort in your videos
Just wanted to let you know ❤️❤️❤️
I love when you post because it’s ALWAYS right when I need it
just coincidentally spent the whole day reading the enchanted sonata (which i bought last year after you mentioned it in a different video) from start to finish and it was so charming!! im in maryland so it's still not cold here sadly, but this still got me in the holiday mood!! i'm gonna try to get my hands on the moominland midwinter, even though all the copies at my library have been taken out. thanks as always for your great recommendations!!
I have been rewatching all your winter book recs and vlogs from the past 2 years to get in the spirit so I’m so happy to have a new one to watch ❄️ 💙
also, i love your love for winter!!!! the second-hand happiness crosses over all the way to the Philippines
Snow, coffee, and books. You're living my dream. ❤
I’m starting to recover from the flu today (it started at the beginning of December) and this video got me back into the Christmas spirit. I love how you talked about the Moomins, your videos are a big comfort to me, thank you for what you do! I’m also about to read Enchanted Sonata, I think it’ll be just what I need right now:)
Barbie and the nutcracker is everything, I definitely own a copy as an adult 😅
Lovely recommendations, Emma, and as always, appreciate your channel so much! is perfect for winter, it was my first Tolstoy 😊 Also, I'd recommend Simon Van Booy's . Gorgeous five short stories you may like!
"Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves. -Love begins in winter, Simon Van Booy"
I ABSOLUTELY ADORED "The Enchanted Sonata" 💖 It is definitely my favorite book of the year 😍💕
I just checked out The Enchanted Sonata from my library. Can't wait!
The snow footage is so grounding and peaceful; it made me lachrymose! We rarely get heavy snow where I live, if any, so it’s a real joy to see fairytale-esque landscapes of never-ending snow. Also, thank you for rekindling my love for the moomins (earlier this year). You’ve also made me appreciate winter in a way I never thought I could. So, I’m short, thank you Emmie ❄️🥰
I picked up The Enchanted Sonata last December and I fell in love with it! It was the perfect Christmas read. Thank you so much for the recommendation!😍 My other absolute favorite read from last December was A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood, it's set in the 1930's and it's about this young girl who dreams of becoming an actress and goes on tour with a theatrical company. There is a particular scene where they become snowbound in an old theatre and it's one of the coziest, most magical scenes I've ever read. I think you would really enjoy that book.💫
This is the coziest and most beautiful video wow, really needed this today❤
I adore these. Can't wait to put like half of these on my tbr this season. Also so happy I found someone else who has winter as their favorite season.
I'm reading the classic A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, it’s a pity cause it's so short but I really enjoy it and don't want it to end 😭❤💚
the beginning is just so cute and beautiful i can't
the montage in the beginning is so calming!
10 minutes in, already added this gorgeous edition of The Snow Queen to my wish list 🙈
Moominland Midwinter & Moominvalley in November are hands down my favourite books of the year or maybe of all time? I read the winter one in February when I was sick with Covid and it was just so hard hitting... I used to love Moomins TV show as a child, but the books are something else, especially when you read them as an adult. Great recommendations as always 🙂 Happy Winter! 💙
Your videos make me so happy! 😁 Just finished Entwined by Heather Dixon Wallwork, really enjoyed it.
Thanks for the recommendations!
So beautiful. The snow falling in the cemetery made me choke up, which I rarely do.
I've never seen snow in real life :( i'm so envious lol. At least I get these wintery book recs :')
I have waited almost a full year for this video, I’m so excited! ❄️⛄️🧣🛷⛸️
I remember watching the Moomin cartoons when I was little, it was so cute!
I'm still reading Frankenstein, but I was surprised at how many Winter vibes it gave me. Love the importance of the seasons in that book and in literature in general.
Also, I hope you have the best of times seeing the Nutcracker! I got to see it in St. Petersburg in 2019 and seeing a Russian ballet ensemble do it was just so magical. Enjoy it
the snow clips really made me miss canada & hearing your cat meow when you were speaking about icefields was so cute 🥺
I so appreciate your utter love for winter- it’s very contagious, and I look forward to reading some of these!!
Your winter videos are my favourite especially as someone who doesn't live in a country with a lot of snow so i get to live it through you!!❄️ Also random fact about me: i did ballet when i was little and we put on a performance for the nutcracker and i was one of Clara's friends and it's one of the most memorable things about my time doing ballet!
Happy December indeed,and love that footage of you and Eevee in the snow!❤️
This makes me long for snow so much!!! In the desert our winters are more like your Springs. It's still beautiful and I love the rainy "cold" days we get, but one day I hope to live in a place that gets the kind of cold you feel when you breathe in and the land silently turns white 🤍🐻❄️
I would love to recommend you a winter book in return; the poetry collection ‘Ice’ by Gillian Clarke. This book communicates so superbly the bite and kiss of winter. Clarke is from my country (Wales) and there are lovely references to Welsh mythology and language in here, too.
Thank you for all that you do, your videos have helped me more than I can express!🤍🤍☕️🫖
spinning silver has been sitting on my to be read list for sometime now. the rest sound intriguing too.
coming back to this video and wanna share a very clean elegant short story I loved recently - cold enough for snow by Jessica Au. In Australia winter is coming and I'm watching this video again. Thank you for making it.
I started Poirot's Christmas today actually. Already love it! So glad to know we'll be reading it together hehe
Almost let out a squeal when you held up The Enchanted Sonata because I just started reading it and I picked it up because you mentioned it once in a previous video so this just solidifies that recommendation 😌
I‘ve been looking forward to the festive videos, the way that your videos make me feel is indescribable, love you so much ❤️
that makes me so happy - all the love to you!
i live in wisconsin and we literally have no snow. normally this time of year we have at least like 2 feet of snow. this made me miss snow in december so much 😢
please make an updated version for this winter!! 🙏❄️
Hi Emma, Your videos bring peace to my mind. I love the cinematography of all your outdoor/snow videos. Besides sharing the same Birthday,I think you are the only other person that has expressed their love of Winter as much as mine. I see the Season as a time to relax,rest, and enjoy the beauty of the calm, and stillness of Nature. The Nutcracker is my very favorite ballet. I was lucky enough to see a live performance with a very dear friend who is no longer with us. I have that magical memory of her gifting me that ballet. Calcifer was in a talkative mood...I didn't know cats like avocados ! Please film more snowy /outdoor scenes, I love them. I keep hoping for a "White Christmas" but, I fear it will be in the 50's again like last year ! Cindy
This was just lovely! I am not a winter person, but your intro made me love winter just a little more. Loved your book recs, too.
You should totally check out «The Good Sheperd» by Gunnar Gunnarsson. An Icelandic classic from the 1930s about a shepherd who helps stranded sheep in the snowy mountains, a task nobody else in his community cares to do. Bleak and cold, set in December, but also warm and hopeful.
i haven’t read the moomin books yet but ive watched the 90s show. the episodes that are the plot of moomin midwinter are some of my favorites ❄️🧣🌬
I miss snow at Christmas…only got to experience it once but it was special. Here in Australia we are about to go through summer. Last year it was a stinker (a week over days over 40C between Christmas and New Year). Calcipher meowing in the background.
Emmie, the perfect manga to read in winter is hands down, Gakuen Alice, please pick it up sometime 🥰
I actually finished Kitchen Princess thanks to your rec (and also it reminds me of Gakuen Alice somehow)
p/s: yayyy to Moomin recommentions, it looks amazing, definitely found smt to read this winter
OMG exactly what I was looking for. Classics lover myself, it's an absolute treat that my favourite booktuber posted this!
Much love! ❤️
You know, I always always conflate Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening with The Road not Taken. Anyway, I do so enjoy that image, where the horse stops to give his mane, and the attached tiny bells a shake. I hear the jingle and see the trail of the sled and hooves. The only other Frost line that hits me on a gut level is the one wherein he describes seeing in the aquarium the "fast fish". Thx Emmie, I hope you're enjoying your life because sometimes I worry you're a bit of a workaholic.
Gah too many of these piqued my interest!! Just put Icefields, Enchanted Sonata and Christmas at Island Hotel on order. Thanks much, and I am most excited to have some cosy books to read this January/February! Thanks much for sharing!
I've probably commented this before in a previous year but I'm living vicariously through your winter videos & vlogs. I live in California but I grew up in Michigan and miss the snow sooo much!! the change of seasons overall, but Christmastime and Winter is not the same without the snow! ❄❄❄
The Nutcracker is also one of my favorite things. The music, the ballet, the Barbie movie!! I recently got the Hoffmann and Dumas stories and plan on reading them this month! (okay why is there no nutcracker emoji?!) Awww, I need to pick up the Moomin books. The show is adorable, sweet, and cozy!
That light switch could be connected to one of the outlets in the room, btw.
Prefect cozy winter recs! I have been looking for people to talk more about the Enchanted Sonata more, as it definitely deserves more hype!
Also, if you like the allure of a Russian winter and charismas vibes, then I recommend the movie Silver Skates. It's not a book, but regardless it's so good and fits perfectly with the whole coziness aesthetic!
i love how much you love winter because i love you both so much ♡
A dolls house is also a great christmas themed books with strong themes that transcend time
Oh, how I miss Christmas in winter. I live in the summer hemisphere now and Christmas in the summer just feels so wrong. I know I’m going to have find ways to make the most of it, but I just find myself pining for the cold & cosy season ❄️
Emma, there's two Christmas traditions for me: watch A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Nutcracker (book, ballet,...). I love The Enchanted Sonata too, one of the best recs you gave me! Your list is amazing! 💖✨🎄
for the kitchen princess recco,, i feel like you'll enjoy reading yumeiro patissiere !