reading for 24 cozy hours 💕 fantasy romance, spy family, bookshopping 

"She's not the brightest spoon in the fork" is now my new favorite saying. 🤣

I totally relate to sometimes wanting (or wanting to want) to live how i see others do, with their fast, eventful, loud lives full of big groups of friends etc. but i've realized that dwelling on that just makes me feel miserable for no good reason. I know my own heart and my own idea of a good, peaceful, life, so i shouldn't begrudge myself for choosing my comfort. It's okay to try new things every so often, but i tell myself it's okay if i simply don't want to constantly be moving or aspiring for something different. Honestly, watching content like yours has helped me ground myself a lot during times of self-doubt, and i've learned to unapologetically be more accepting towards MY idea of a good life - cozy, quiet, enriching - spent pursuing my interests. 🌷

I bought a vintage copy of dickens yesterday and this video opens up with "I dreamed of Charles Dickens Last Night" lmao

The booktuber with the finest mind, softest voice and cutest haircut strikes again.

Ah. I love whenever I’m depressed you upload a readathon. Btw Miyazaki’s How Do You Live already came out in 2023, but they changed the name in English to “The Boy and the Heron”

Love the massive sideways book stack 😆 honestly looks pretty nice, big overcrowded tiny old bookstore vibes 📚

Being obsessed with spy x family from the get go is so real. Randomly watched the first few episodes with my friend and fell in love IMMEDIATELY. Hope you continue to love it!!!!!

I love watching these readathons! Especially now that I’m in a reading mood it feels like we’re all reading together 🥰

Friday night at home with cats and books, sounds good to me !

The Power of Introverts resonated deeply with me and may be helpful for your feelings of otherness by wanting a quiet life. It was very validating for me and I wish it existed when I was younger when I was that person you saw dressed up on the streets but deep down inside I didn’t want to be there.

Spy x family is such a consistently good series I hope you continue reading it!

these videos are coming up so fast, thank u for feeding us this wonderful content!!

✂ your vlogs make me feel so calm and cozy every single time! and also friday nights spent in bed with cats and books sound more perfect than those spent dressed up outside so you're not alone in this feeling haha let's just all chill at home with our pets and stories to our hearts' content

You never fail to get me out of a reading slump :)) Love your content!

✂️✂️ loved how you grabbed Grendel's face - I have definitely also had those head grabbing moments when you want to explain something is forbidden to your cat 😂

✂️ I didn’t even know there was a scissors emoji 😅 I’ve read (and loved) all these picks. When Emma (and others who have it on their TBR) get the Grace of Wild Things, you’re all in for a treat!

✂️ loved the vlog. And Friday nights going out are over-rated! I used to love to snuggle and read on Friday nights with my older cat before he passed away. 🐈‍⬛❤ Now the 2 younger ladies I have don't want a bit of it! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

i really love this type of chatty, cozy videos from you, makes me feel like i'm hanging out with a friend :)

I love having a Sunday evening watching Booktube videos. This was so lovely! Happy reading ☺

Emma videos are always a day brightener. Just got my copy of the May book for book club. Made it through Beauty is a Wound, had a less visceral reaction than a lot of people, but understood it wasn't to everyone's taste. Am also reading Rain Birds from last month and finding that quite a bit less challenging. Have a great week, Emma! Keep up the good work!

Just Love your readathons Emma💞

"Welcome to my new obsession ☺️" -- this will be my new line for my friends, everytime i pick up a new book that i love 🤭

been having a blah day today but got myself to finally get out of bed and now i’m in a cafe watching this while enjoying warm soup. your videos bring me such comfort emmie :)

✂️✂️✂️ Great cozy 24 hour reading vlog Emmie 😊 Calcifer and Grendel just adorable !!!!

Yes! Half A Soul was so fun! I’m glad you read it! Her other books in this sort of genre are super fun!

Thank you for the cozy vibes in this video, it felt like a warm hug! I totally relate to this idea of "wanting to want" a more extroverted lifestyle but actually craving something different. Thank you for sharing it; it's made me feel less alone. And I'm so glad you discovered so many great reads in this video, I'll definitely check them out

Loved this so much!! So cozy and nice ❤✂️

A new video! Yay ✨absolutely love a readathon video 🤩❤

Loved this video, felt so cosy and comforting. You have also reminded me that I need to pick up Half A Soul. It’s been on my radar for years but I’ve never picked it up so this is an excellent reminder for me to do so. ✂️💙

✂SO GLAD YOU FOUND SPY X FAMILY!!! the anime has saved me from many many sad days. I have never loved a fictional character as I have loved our daughter Anya. Also Grendel is a VIBE! sending loads of love

I usually don't comment but I just wanted to say how much I love your videos and how much they help me calm down ❤ I also love Calcifer and Grendel; my boyfriend and I adopted a kitten last december and it has been so wonderful and we're so happy with him. He's fully black and does the blep thing with his tongue and he's such a sweetheart and sits on my lap all the time. I remember in one of your videos when you just had Calcifer that the vet had told you he'd become a big boy; our vet told us the same thing about our boy hahah! 😺

i'm also in the mood for some easy fun romance/fantasy books these days so this came at the right time !

im happy you decided to continue with The Ballad of Never After! i really loved it, and i hope you'll like it too~

AHHHHHH YOU HAVE BLESSED US AGAIN ✂️

Very fun video. Loved seeing the Indigo you go to. The place, the trees, all look amazing. What's your favourite thai food? ✂️

I absolutely love the cozy vibe of the video! The part where you mentioned dreaming about Charles Dickens really resonated with me. I try to infuse my waking life with a bit of Dickensian charm too. For instance, I named my motorcycle Estella, inspired by one of his characters with a name that I love. Great video Emmie! Love it! ❤

What you said is so true!! I also feel that same way frequently, feeling like maybe i should be more extroverted and stuff, even though i know it will make me uncomfortable.

SPY FAMILY LET'S GOOOO !!!!

✂️ this video came at the perfect time. Great recs ! ❤

I love your content it's make give a peace of mind!❤

I absolutely loved Half a Soul ❤️

✂ Scissors emoji as requested - can't wait to read Half a Soul! It sounds so good 😊📚

Hi emmie, I have a question. How do you star your books? Based on what criteria?

i have always had that thing where people don't get why i don't care about the dressy rat race, i prefer the woods , jeans, dogs and my books. i read Midnight Sun to get out of a reading slump LOL! I read Atwaters 3 books , they were cute.

Loved this video! ✂️

I want to read The Grace of Wild Things as well. Thanks for another great video! ✂

✂️ love your videos and your cats! 🫶🏻😅

✂️✂️ loved half a soul! Honestly reminded me so much of my own self.

Really enjoying all the content lately!

Great vlog 📚☕

Finally someone who feels the same way for Once Upon a Broken Heart. I still can't believe people compare it with The Night Circus.

Oh my god I'm so happy you like spy x family ❤😭😭 It's one of my fave series

With regards to the book prices I was told by the lady in Waterstones in England that the publishers put all their prices up but if the book had a lower printed price they were honouring the price printed but when they get new stock they will be at the more expensive price.

just when I needed a pick up, you posted! ☺

Ok so if you think you love historical fantasy I CANNOT WAIT for you to read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. It’s a lot of info dump but the big picture is SO impressive and a friend compared it to Jane Austen if she wrote Harry Potter for grownups and tossed in fairies and foundational fantasy concepts.

I saw your burst of successive goodreads ratings and was hoping it was the result of a 24 hour readathon ❤

“Simultaneously good and bad at the same time” - YES that’s exactly how I feel about OUABH, and now I’m on the second one and I’m like, whyyyyy am I spending my time reading this but I have to know what happens😅

The new Miyazaki film has actually been out since last year, it's called The Boy and the Heron. It is only loosely based on How Do You Live though, the central theme is the same and the book has a cameo in the movie, but the plot is completely different. Wonderful movie all the same, highly recommend.

SHES NOT THE BRIGHTEST SPOON IN THE FORK 😂😂 subscribed 😂

omggggg my fave person posted a new vid 🥲❤️

✂️ Love you, Emma! Thanks for your video!

Reqlly cool to see you pick up Spy x Family. I've only watched the anime, but it's been consistently a feel good, cozy series despite all the action. ✂️

Loved your vlog! It's a great mix of cozy, and you really cheered me up. Getting all dressed up is way overrated! I'll take cozy comfy fur babies, books, or watching booktube over being in crowded loud places in uncomfortable clothes any day!

Emma.. Please recommend me an audiobook that you loved listening to. I love your videos so much. Have been a fan since emmie was at 30k subscribers. Sending you hugs from India.

The Miyazaki film is out by the way!! The Boy and the Heron, it's so so good...

the peace that I get from watching your videos AAAh! I love you Emma ! But The way now that you discovered your love for Historical Fantasy, could you pick up The familiar by Leigh Bardugo; I think you may like that one too

Hi Emmie, can you please make a romance recommendation video? I want to start reading romance but don't know where to start. Thank you!

✂ I've came back to the 32"53 mark a few times, not gonna lie. edit: thanks for talking about Half a Soul! I'm 72% in and I'm IN LOVE 💚 it's soooo good

My phone battery is at 4% but I have priorities

if historical fantasy turns out to be your thing you will LOVE your game of tomes pick for november (?) jonathan strange and mr norrell love love love

✂️✂️ I’m gonna put “not the brightest spoon in the fork” on a shirt ❤ I adore you Emmie lol

Have you read The Travelling Cat Chronicles? It was one of my best reads laat year. You'll like that a LOT!

I picked up Bel Canto by Ann Patchett a week ago. It sounds like something you would like. An opera soprano is one of the characters. It gave a hint of Phantom of the Opera.✂🐈🐈‍⬛

✂️ I have had Once Upon a Broken Heart and Half a Soul on my bookshelf for months now. Hopefully one of them will get me out of a reading slump.

✂✂✂ Thank you! Have a nice upcoming week!

So happy you like Half a soul! You'll have more of the faerie land in book 2 which is the best imo, and more balls and romance in the 3rd, which is not the best imo lol And I agree, it's very reminiscent of Dickens' Oliver Twist and very well written ✂️

could it be Little Dorrit by Dickens, the one you've dreamed? I LOVE THAT BOOK

I read Bewitched by Laura Thalassa last year and i can't remember a single thing about the book except that there's a creepy sleeping beauty-like guy. So take from that what you will 😂Great video as always Emmie!

I felt the exact same about the Stephanie Garber trilogy lmaoo and yet I ate it all up

Emma you should post more on ur asmr channel 😭😭 ever since i saw ur channel i was like i love asmr she would be so good at some soft spoken stuff AND THEN I FOUND IT but then i realized you hadnt posted on it in a year and then i went thru the 5 stages of grief

More signs to read Half a Soul lol. Its high on my list for sure. If ur still in the mood for silly goofy books I will continue to recommend Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger. It’s a chaotic historical fantasy (1860s I think) middle grade and I think u would either love or hate it. Either way I’d love to know ur opinion on it.

Oh no sorry to hear that you didnt like Middlemarch! I grew to love the novel and now think of it as a work as epic in scale as War and Peace, cutting across so many disciplines like politics, psychology, philosophy, sociology.

There's already an "adaptation" of the book How Do You Live. It's called The Boy and the Heron. It won an oscar. I'm not sure about the extent of it being an adaptaton because they said it was loosely based or inspired by.

✂️ (appropriate, I've been sewing thru this vid) ✨📖📚

✂️✂️ i would love to see a How Do You Live review and a comparison with Miyazaki’s movie The Boy and the Heron

She wanted to read half a soul for a longest time now she finally read it I also have soo manyy I want to read just sitting on my shelf hopefully I'll be able to read after my exams

Emma, you should do a vid on how to get out of a reading slump caused by ✨️technology✨️ thanks n bye queen

Emma, I'm also in the later half of my twenties, fluctuating in and out of loneliness and wondering if I'm taking enough time to be "out in the world". If it helps, I went on a rare out on the town night out with some friends this past weekend, and I have to admit that yes I could see why some people did that kind of thing, but that's just not me. I find joy in reading, one to one interactions, and settling in to slower moments. And that's just what brings me joy, which is what we think we might get from attaching ourselves to other kinds of finding joy that may not be suited to our sense of selves. Who knows. Highly recommend joining community groups like crafting or book clubs in your community. That's been much more my vibe, and helps me leave my cave and feel connected to the place I'm in. 🍄🌻

9:56 cursed with the Tisms 😂

"I´m in the mood for brain dead protagonists"...hhahahayou are the best

Recommend me a book that will make me fall in love. 🥺🙏

"She's not the brightest spoon in the fork" does that mean she's a spork?

Can you try the book seris from laini taylor:strange the dreamer? I‘m looking for a well-set world with beautiful writing style and this is on my tbr list..I’m curious how you’d think of this!!😢😢 (You were the only booktuber that had the same opinion on the once upon a broken heart series..

lmao Grendel at the end ✂️

✂️ can you pick up Nettle and Bone next????

✂🥄 In German, we say someone's "not the brightest candle on the cake", but I might switch out candles for spoons and forks now 😃

Tea is ready, blanket as well: time to get cozy! ☕

omg same...I feel that way all the time like theese people know something that I don't and like i'm wasting my youth but then I just feel dumb about it... so I really related and then realized that maybe I could offer you a portion of that maybe: so all this to say SAME GIRL

jsyk the boy and the heron (the book based on how do you live by miyazaki) has already been released

i was listening to this in the background and "she's not the brightest spoon in the fork" took me by surprise bro 😭 i died