My heart literally melted when you showed up the two books by Mahmoud Darwish. As a Palestinian it brings so much pride to my heart that the Palestinian literature is getting popularised nowadays, and especially the poems of Mahmoud Darwish which we absolutely cherish as Palestinians everywhere in the world. Happy reading Emmie💓🌱
I need 2-hour vlogs! You are my safe space on the internet, you bring me so much peace and comfort. I've been watching your videos since 2019 and I feel like you are a very close and dear friend of mine. You have a beautiful and unique soul Emmie.
The second book mark has an Arabic phrase on it that says “لغة القلب"، which translates to “the language of the heart” and I firmly believe it refers to the Arabic language. The minute you uttered the Arabic word ‘maktaba’ my heart just bloomed. So nice to hear you say even one word in the language of the heart. 🤍
Yes, really love the long vlogs! Also thank you for opening up about your mental health. Every time you speak about how living in the city affects you, I can relate so well and it just feels so good to hear somebody experience similar things to the ones I do. Especially because in my social circle there's hardly anyone who can fully understand why I struggle so much to live in a big city. Although of course I hope that you'll be able to ease into it again soon, at least as long as you have to live there.. Working out has also been something that really helped me a lot. For almost a year now the bouldering gym has been my safe and happy place in this crazy city. Sending best wishes from Austria :)
omg while I was watching the Canadian GP i thought to myself “I wonder if Emma got to go this year”, and you did!!! and what an amazing race to get to be at oh my gosh - so glad you had fun 🤩
Hi Emma, This notification was exactly what I needed tonight. I just had a day that felt like it would never end, and seeing this notification from you felt like a warm hug. You have a way of bringing so much light and positivity into the world, and tonight, that's exactly what my soul needed. Thank you for being you, Emma. You're a beacon of sunshine on even the cloudiest days. ❤️
I am so excited that you are picking up "Mahmoud Darwish" books he is my favorite author since childhood + the writing on the second bookmark is "The language of the heart"
I loooove the F1 content! I'm a Leclerc girlie so i was so happy when he won the Monaco grand prix but now i won't be keeping up with the races so much because the America cup began and well, cheering for Argentina takes a priority place in my life 😂
I cannot find your poll asking for favorites, so I will give you my top 3 favorite fiction here. 1. This is How You Lose the Time War 2. The Archive of Alternate Endings 3. The Cider House Rules Slaughterhouse-Five is in my top 5. I'm glad I didn't read it when I was a teen also. All the meaning would've been lost. My favorite part was the bomb reversal scene. I stopped after that scene and cried for about 30 minutes. It was so powerful to think of war in that way, and to see destruction backwards defamiliarized something that has become all too familiar. It drove the horror of it home. In closing, I love the furbabies ❤ they look so content. Hope you are feeling well, too.
I have had a rough week too... I gave extremely important exam to become Literature Professor and it got cancelled and now they will be taking a reexam and I am just so not ready for it mentally.... This video is exactly what I needed... Kinda reminded me why I love books! Seeing you, Calcifer and Grendel is much much relaxing!! Thanks so much, Emma! Hopefully you feel better soon and have a lovely day! ❤️❤️
Hi Emma. As an avid F1 history fan mostly I'll just offer a little fun fact. The only female driver to score points in F1 was back in the Spanish Grand Prix in 1975 a driver by the name of Lella Lombardi who scored 0.5 due to the fact that the race was cut short by a crash that killed 4 people and the drivers were awarded half the points they would get under normal circumstances as the race was finished in its 60%. Great video as always enjoyed it very much
I love your videos and your honesty. I feel you on the mental health struggles. Me too girl. Keep on doing what you’re doing to feel better. Little bits every day. And thank you for your channel, you uplift my day so much!!!
if you’re looking to read more palestinian literature, i highly recommend reading “i saw ramallah” by mourid barghouti (his writing reads as pure poetry, its beautiful), and ghassan kanafani is a well known palestinian writer with amazing books!
I started following you when I moved to Canada and I always love your excursion vlogs! I am out west (do *not* come to Calgary, the migraines would take you out hahah) so you often go places I wouldn’t otherwise experience! Thank you!
Well in that case, come visit and I’ll take you on a secondhand bookstore crawl haha! I am actually liking Calgary quite a lot, it’ll be a year in November and I’m grateful to finally be feeling more settled 😌 Alsooo just got to your teaser about the Newfoundland vid and already excited! Thank you!! 🖤
One thing I find useful for the post travel blues is to listen to music I heard during the trip. I like to create a unique playlist for each trip I go on. Hopefully it can help you bring back feelings from your adventures and make you feel more at peace!
my day gets 10 times better when you post and i needed that today your videos are litterly my comfort space. also i'm sooo happy you bought books by Darwish he's my favoutite poet and i consider myself lucky for reading his works in arabic he has beautiful writing style. i recommend trying Mourid Albarghothi, Radwa Ashour and Ghassan Kanafani too
your hair is so pretty! And I can’t believe it’s been 2 years since you got Calcifer 😮 I have been following you for so long and I still get just as excited as when I started watching when you post a video 🤍
I totally get what you mean about city life, I visited London recently for a week and I hated it 😢 but then I moved from a town to a village and my life brightened by 50% it really does make a huge difference to some people ❤
i feel like everyone is so afraid of being "controversial" but i deeply believe that we shouldn’t let that make us censore some parts of our opinions especially when it's so important to voice them. free Palestine🍉❤
I have just found you in the thicket of my interests. I did not expect F! as a topic! How awesome! Loved your stream, and yes, I am here for the books! Thank you! I will watch more.
Spring/summer just feels like the right weather to read Anne. I just finished The Grace of Wild Things and currently reading the third book of the Anne series, Anne of the Island.
love your vlogs, Emmie! I would not recommend you start reading Butler with "Wild Seed"! if I had started with that one, I would never have picked up anything from her ever again. Considering what you said about it, it is not really about that at all. I actually found the main character incredibly frustrating because she was SO passive throughout everything. I highly recommend starting with "Kindred" or "Parable of the Sower"
That song you put on the background always makes me so homesick… for my house in my hometown, my backyard and garden. Now I live in a big city too. 🥺 I tear up every time
I just finished a short story collection called 'Gaza Writes Back' by Refaat Alareer and several other extremely talented Palestinian writers from Gaza. I don't usually like short stories and certainly not as much as novels but every short story in this collection is incredible. They brimmed with so much promise, warmth, loss, love, exile, nature and beauty. More and more people need to check out this book.
@@emmiereads In all honesty, Mosab Hassan Yousef is not an author I would recommend at all when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is the son of one the founders of Hamas, but switched sides in the conflict to become an Israeli informant. Although his story could be interpreted as a rejection of Hamas' radicalism, he has unfortunately become an extremist for the other side of the conflict in recent years, and has made statements calling all Palestinians as terrorists, saying that they don't deserve to have their own country, claiming that anyone who supports the two state solution is a loser, etc. I think it would be more valuable to get to know the Israeli perspective on the conflict through a humanist lens, that acknowledges the tragic nature of war and imagines a future of peace and justice for both peoples. My recommendations: A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz - Autobiographic novel by the great Israeli author and peace activist Amos Oz, that portrays his childhood in Jerusalem, presenting his personal experiences from the loss of his mother and the founding of the State of Israel. To The End of the Land by David Grossman - A novel about the experiences of Israeli families who lose their loved ones in war. Grossman is considered one of the finest Israeli writers and is known for his peace activism. During the writing the book, Grossman lost his son, who was serving in the military during the 2006 Lebanon War. Apeirogon by Colum McCann - Tells the true story of the friendship between Israeli and Palestinian fathers Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin, who are united by grief after the loss of each of their daughters in the conflict. All the Rivers by Dorit Rabinyan - A story about the forbidden love affair between a Palestinian painter and a Israeli translator.
I'm having trouble with where I live as well (upstairs neighbours and sleeping) and it's true what you say about leaving, because when I visit my mom I don't want to come back, and when I come back I'm so stressed for about a week or two.
omgg Emma, I started watching F1 last year and always thought you were Oscar in a different font, I'm so happy that you got to experience that live and love that you are a 81 girlie
Oh my gosh the same thing happened to me!! I bought a Fenty lipgloss from Sephora, not realizing that it was a “plumping” lip gloss.. I was so confused when my lips started burning 😂😭 I thought I was having an allergic reaction
You saying that you feel caged reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from Much Ado About Nothing. "I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore, I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me."
Tu devrais revenir à Montréal quand ce n'est pas la F1, peut-être à l'automne ou à l'hiver ? Je comprends ton anxiété. Je ne sors pas pendant les grands événements et il faisait encore plus chaud cette semaine (felt like 43°C). Bon anniversaire à toi et Calcifer. Déjà 2 ans?! Wow. 🧡🐈 Bonne semaine !
How does my brain know the days you’re going to post? 😂 also recently you asked for cozy sci-fi recs. If you haven’t read The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury yet, I would HIGHLY recommend. I feel like you’d love it! Might not be categorized as cozy to some, but it felt that way to me, and the writing was just sooo glorious.
Hi Emma. I feel you with the migraines. They can be wicked. Stay cool and hydrated and hope you feel better. Hey you convinced me to get Icefields! Will be starting it soon! Sending hugs 🤗📚🐛❤️💚 ps. Know how Grendel is. Our kitten Pumpkin stole the chicken off my son's plate the other night! Lol!
As a Dutch F1 fan, I'm obviously ignoring what you said at 1:15 and going to pretend you're here to cheer Max on. Kind of the opposite of what Lando says about seas of orange :P Also: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
I sure wish you had a PO Box again, Emma! Your birthday is coming up and I've got bookish cards. You could specify "No Books Please," until you get into a place with the infinite library of Jorge Luis Borges.
I'm just happy to see you today, Emma. I want to suggest that you read Slaughterhouse 5 again. It's a deceptively simple book, even for a highly skilled and discerning reader like you. But if you decide once is enough, so it goes. You have read it in this moment, but there are many moments in which you're still reading it and more in which you haven't yet. 🙂
For lonely immortal beings and their daily struggles, I highly recommend Angels Before Man by Rafael Nicolás. It’s a queer retelling of the downfall of Lucifer. The writing style is so poetic and unique!!
Plumping lip products are supposed to be painful. That's how they make your lips swell. 😁 I love Grendel's little ears in that frame. Too cute. Also, applying sunscreen to a sunburn can help it heal faster
Emma, I think living alone in a big city like you do takes a lot of courage. I'm sure having pets helps. I can't have pets where I live - HOA rules - but my parents and I share a dog, who lives with them. So I go over every day and play with her, pet and feed her. And when I'm ready I'm going to get an Emotional Support Pet letter from my doctor and a dog of my own.
Love your channel. I look and watch every day. You might like Written on the Body by JW. It is one of my favorites of hers. I really enjoy your music selections and your love of nature. Thank you!
