reading 4 books in a day | 24 HOUR READATHON 

I love how Carolyn can sense when you’re crying straight away

I love y’all discussing the book that one person loves and the other doesn’t, really puts our tastes as readers into perspective!

"calcifer, what if I forget him someday" really hit me. my baby kitty and friend of 14 years just passed away at the beginning of the month, and everyday I worry I'll forget what his fur felt like, or his purrs sounded like, or his little adorable face looked like. everyday I remind myself that just loving him is enough, even if my brain can't recreate every moment, I am still more whole as a human being for having loved him.

I actually teared up when Emma cried. I feel like forgetting is a universal human fear, like I know I won’t remember this moment, but what if I forget the important moments 😭😭

As a sympathetic cryer and laugher, this was a wild ride 😂

carolyn's little face over your shoulder when you finish Never Let Me Go is my favourite thing ever

I am so sorry for laughing at Emma's misery, but the sob city is the funniest yet the most wholesome part of the video. i love youu guyss! Oh, and I remember just last week a book did that to me, Anne of green gables. I cannot believe i sob to Anne of Green Gables for two straight hours!

Oh God When Emma started crying and listing all the consequences of memory loss, I cried as well...that just touched so many hidden fears, I guess Even if This Love Disappears Tonight is so high up on my TBR right now. It sounds like something I would adore...after the whole summer of watching anime with light-novel-like vibes Thank you so much for sharing the book as well as your emotions! Inlove you, I love your friendship with Caroline and I love your collabs🥺🥺🥺

I totally agree with Carolyn on Never Let Me Go. I've read it four times in my life and continue to go back to it. I found it massively moving and impactful.

Carolyn is the sweetest and kindest soul I have ever seen 🥹

40 minutes of pure joy! 💛

I was having a cry session before playing the video and started smiling listening to your Irish accents. Thanks to you and Carolyn for bringing some much-needed joy ❤❤❤

Never Let Me Go is one of my favourite books ever and made me fall in love with Ishiguro's writing. I just love how he plays with the unreliability of the narrator. It is not that the narrator is deliberately unreliable, but the way they (are forced to) experience the world around them is incomplete or completely different from how other characters in their world are experiencing it. As a reader you are forced to pick up on how their world really works through the reactions of the characters around the narrator and that is such a unique reading experience. It was for me in Never let me go, Klara and the Sun and The Remains of the Days anyway :)

Wonderful, something to be excited for when I'm done my 5-hour workathon 🙂

I literally cried because of Emma 😭 So sweet ❣️

this has to be my favorite video from your channel 🥺❣️

my adoration for the both of you only grows stronger with each upload :,) and emma you’re editing is stunning, the shots in the park brought me so much comfort. this is a video i will come back to for some time. thank you ❤️

It's so much fun watching both of your videos back to back. Same events, different author.

A book that can cause that sort of emotional response is amazing. Lovely video as always

This video was so lovely. I love your energies and how they complement each other. It is so sweet to just see you together but watching a vlog is even more comforting

I need your playlist emma!!!

I already mentioned this in Carolyn's video, but I wanted to say again that I love it when you two are together. I like watching the videos on the same subject from both channels so I can see both points of view! 🥰

love spending time w u guys via videos 🥲

i've been waiting for this all week!!!

Seeing you cry like this brought me back to the day I finished The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo. This book broke me to pieces, I just couldn't stop crying because it made me reflect on life and on so many other things. I'm definitely gonna give Even If This Love Disappears Tonight a go.

Love your videos huge inspiration

This feels like a facetime and I was experiencing life with you both 💕

What a wholesome vlog xx ❤

you crying about possibly forgetting the people and creatures you love, had me crying too. I had to send a snap to my best friend telling her I love her so much. you got me in my feels Emma! ❤❤

I love the movie Your Name. The creator of the film, Makoto Shinkai, is probably my favourite animator. The way he does water and light is so beautiful. I highly recommend checking out a lot of his other films. I love Studio Ghibli films, and I know they're different, but I prefer the animation style from Makoto Shinkai. I love his film Weathering With You.

Not having a great day at all and seeing an Emmie upload right away made my day. Thank you.

Emma and Carolyn, you guys have my heart

So sweet. The friendship you two have . I have only ever sobbed over one true loves by tjr

Just got a new book for my TBR because of this video (:

Thank you for the amazing video☺. It's so beautiful how Carolyn and you post your videos at the same time😘🥰😍

I need videos of you two together everyday please❤

cried so much when emma was crying omg i feel you girl

Now I really want to read Never Let Me Go to see what I’ll think about it. It was very interesting to hear your different opinions on the book

just lost my mother a month ago and you crying over your fear of forgetting the people (and cats) you love was a punch in the gut but muchly needed, thank you

Carolyn have a healing ability 💖

You guys are the cuttiest friendship ever ❤ and i really enjoyed the video also it was sad and funny at the same time 😂

omggg i also need sobbing subtitles so this so valid

I'm so sad to see you cry I hope everything went well with your post concussion syndrome & you're alright now. also thank you for all that you've done to inspire me to become a novelist I am eternally grateful to you

Friend goals 🥺 also you inspired me to do a 24 hour readathon since I have the opposite problem and can’t sleep sometimes 😭

im leaving in 40 so this is perfect to get ready w, thank you miss Emma and miss Carolyn ❤

Omg, Emma's reaction when finishing Never let me go was just like mine when i read it last month haha! It's nice to hear the different opinions you two have on the same book.

Have to add Even if this Love Disappears Tonight to my TBR. Your reaction and thoughts of not being able to remember your loved ones after they pass 😢 Love your friendship with Carolyn. Hope to one day have someone I can bond with books like this.

As an Irish person, this video was an experience 😂🙈

What a wonderful video❤❤❤❤ perfect!!

I need you to know that I paused your video and went to watch the adaptation of *Even if this Love Disappears Tonight* because I needed to understand. I cried so much my eyes hurt, so I bought the book immediately after that. Thank you for this discovery, it hurts in a wonderful way.

reading date with bestie>>> you guys are so cute ❤🥺

Emma cried, I cried, we all cried

The part where you were crying and telling Carolyn I love you so much made me almost cry 😢

Lakeshore is my favourite reading spot too ❤

You're reading Even if this love disappears tonight also got me in tears😭 because it reminds me of a book that I've read that has same vibes with that book. It's called I want to eat your pancreas by Sumino yoru. This book also got me in tears, it’s YA and has Japanese background. I recommend you reading that!❤

why did i start crying with you i was literally minding my own business

The reaction to reading Even if this Love Disappears Tonight makes that an automatic buy must read that was great

whatta wow video again ✨🤌 . Your channel embibes what a peaceful yet so giving video can have the power to impact you in so many wonderful ways 🤍 eagerly waiting for your next ones. Also shoutout to Carolyn Marie Reads ! You were amazing🫶 new videos soon you guys!

hey that irish accent honestly was really good!

When you said you might forget Calcifer when he's gone bestie I teared up😭🥺 I lost three cats within 2 years some time ago and oh boy, that hit hard.

Best video ever! 🥰

I loved this video :D Sob city, haha, what a rollercoaster of emotions

I cried seeing you cry 🥲 ❤

Oh to have a friend you could read 4 books in a day with! 🫰

I really liked Never Let Me Go, although I didn’t think the characters were particularly memorable. It was very melancholic to me, and the fact that not much of note happened really added to the theme/concept. In many ways these characters led very ordinary lives which makes it interesting to liken to real life and to the secret revealed at the end.

Regarding my reading marathon, I managed to complete just three books in a span of one day and seven hours. These books were "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg, "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt, and "Flowers for Algernon" (the novel) by Daniel Keyes. I had to revisit "Stone Butch Blues" later though.

“The fact that you’re here right now but won’t be forever.”

30:08 I love this part 😅 both reactions are great 🥲

Recently found you. I'm in New Zealand. I'm in my sixties. I often spend too much time bumming through you tube. Periodically I search for books. And low and behold i came across a font of information amongst the rabble of "READ A HUNDRED BOOKS A YEAR!" (More like the synopsis ifn y'ask me) Im getting away from trying to read more, by reading faster, and not understanding, or retaining a damn word i just read. Having been around a while, I tend to get bored with the whole pattern of boy meets girl etc, someone gets shot, disappears or they have affairs. Or both. Anyway, I usually go for thrillers, psycho. Bored with police procedural. I sometimes feel, if i could have my life over again, I'd have taken a lit degree. Problem is, knowing what i know now, and appreciate about what i should have done, well anyway, it's too damn late now im retired. Life was more about working and paying the bills and women and children etc. This in mind, i find myself going to the classics. Wanting to read something that works the old grey matter. Just wanted to say, i really get a lot out of your sitdown hauls, bookshelf clearing, unboxing etc. Books that tend to be a little weighter than the fluff you see on some "book hauls". Btw, we live mobile. Living the dream. We bought a NZD100,000 caravan three years ago and much as id love to get another book shelf, it's not a good idea as you have to haul those books around. That said, i keep a box on the back of my truck. Has around 50 books in it. When we come across a book swap camp ground, or thrift shop, charity etc, we leave a couple, take a couple. Given the weight of carrying books around, i have a couple of kindles, one very new oasis, and one very old faithful Paperwhite three, as well as the kobo libra 2 and a clara 2e. Main reason being, sometimes one's deals can be better the other. Between those and audible, i have a couple of thousand ebooks and about 200 audible books. As well as kobo audio books and audible. Anyhow, enough. Back to Virginia wolf. Anyway, keep going...

Emma, sleeping a lot is good! I recommend you read Why We Sleep and then you'll never feel shame about napping or sleeping too much ever again:)

Loveddddd❤

the irish accents i’m dying you gotta hiT the consonanTs i love it

I feel so similarly about Never Let Me Go. I was so bored!!

Why the hell am ‘I’ crying??!! 😭🥹

watching this while annotating my current read ♡♡

cried with emma….😭

the song fest made me laugh and cry at the same time I was right there with you

Not me crying when you cried and then laughing when you said "I think 5 stars"

When Emma started crying I was laughing but then suddenly I was sobbing along like??????

You two ladies are adorable and badass readers!

WHY IS EMMIE CRYING MAKING ME CRY HELP

their friendship is the best 😭

Also, I wanted to know your thoughts on Half a soul, hope you can read it soon, I loved it and I think you will too!

I felt exactly like you did Emma about “Never Let Me Go.” I was surprised because I went into the book with high expectations because the book is so loved. I liked the concept but not the execution. I couldn’t connect to the characters at all either. Sorry Carolyn! Love you both ❤❤❤

Now I am crying...😭😭😭

You almost made me want to pick up this book, crying as hard as you did. I'll abstain though cause I know it'll wreck my soul and I'm scared lol

Not Emma making us all cry

Even if thses tears disappear tonight is the sequel❤ sending hugs xx

Thank you for some amazing and brilliant books 📚 prayers and blessings to you both love your Aussie family friend John

I almost cried with you

plan a trip soon you both ! Up and up for more content with you guys . Soothing videos both on emmie and Carolyn's channel✨👍

When I tell you I started crying when Emma lost it…YOU TWO ARE MY IDEAL FOR FRIENDSHIP 🫶😭

Love the cat!

Love the cool videos that you both are putting up ! Hey Emma Why don't you vlog with your camera ? The quality is super awesome And it really enhances the experience too ! P.S. have a beautiful day ❤❤

Hello lovely ladies. I did an Ishiguro marathon during the pandemic & if u are puzzled by NLMG then u should read his The Unconsoled. It’s so bizarre. My faves of his writings are A Pale View of Hills, TRotD. Least faves would be NLMG and An Artist of the Floating World. Do try The Unconsoled. Do a buddy read and then a review. I would love to see your reactions 😆.

Hi @Emmie, I am here to support you

This video was so cute , first of all you guys start it off with trying to imitate my accent , which was adorable to say the least 😂😂 I do possess a rather thick Dublin accent and sound a bit like Colin Farrell or Imelda may. When you said about school feeling like it goes on forever , brought me straight back to how I felt back in my days of school being the “red brick slaughter house”. when it ends though and you blink the years go by so fast that you think to yourself , that was an entirely different lifetime. Its so weird and also I’m 37 and still need to have pimple patches in my life 😂😂😂 ❤ two of you guys have beautiful skin! It’s lovely to see two friends being so comfortable in each others presence and just enjoying time together x All the best ❤

I'm so sorry for Emma. Her sorrow was so real, but she tried to attenuate it with laughter. I'm glad Carolyn was there to offer support.

For a short cry, I suggest "Letter from an unknown woman" by Stefan Zweig. ❤ (Have to admit I was tearing up watching Emma cry.😢)

The way I am crying on my couch watching this video….