Reading Your Favorite Historical Fiction Books || Reading Vlog 2021 

What are the best sci-fi books you've read? I'll pick 2 of the most popular ones and read them!

The snowing in Afghanistan realization is why reading is so amazing, it gives you an opportunity to walk in someone else’s shoes and experience a slice of their world! Would really recommend everyone to read more international and translated authors

I'm crying with you as you talk about The Kite Runner, because that book d e s t r o y e d me.

I saw Kite Runner and instant click, so ready for the emotional rollercoaster. I had been assigned to read Kite Runner in a college lit class and knew nothing about it and I ugly cried, and then immediately picked up A Thousand Splendid Suns by the same author.

I remember reading A Thousand Splendid Suns in high school and I loved it. Never read the Kite Runner but maybe it’s time to

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The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, or anything else! I know you had a hard time with her writing but for me it's hundred percent worth it!

I feel you girl, every moment with kite runner

I read The Kite Runner in one sitting cried my heart out, it was like 5 years ago and I still remember everything 😭😭

if you thought the kite runner was traumatic, wait until you read a thousand splendid suns! ATSS definitely feel into the “trauma porn” category for me

Emily you look so healthy and happy! 🖤 I’m so glad you’re feeling better!

Loving the new thumbnails😍 the flowery background is looking really pretty ❤❤

A thousand splendid suns has a female lead with sisterhood aspects from what I remember. It'll be sad too but I think you'll like it more than kite runner

Almost at 100k! Congratulations!

I’ve been waiting for this video for years 😂

The Kite Runner is such a beautifully written book. I'm hoping to read A Thousand Splendid Suns this year too. Keep it up with the great videos! We fellow bookworms truly appreciate it. :D

The kite runner is one of my favorite books ever, sooo I of course instantly clicked. Cool video, Emily

Emily, for sci-fi please read either Never Let Me Go or Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. They're soft sci-fi, so I think they're a bit different from your usual and I'd love to know what you think about either one :)

I'm so grateful that lately you've been reading and reminding me of books that I read and adored many years ago. I read The Kite Runner about 10 years ago when I was 16 and I remember that it destroyed me. I got so attached to the story and the characters that it took me months to stomach it and move on to another book. This being said, it might be about time I reread it because from your spoilers I realized that I only remember the most traumatic parts of the story... In conclusion, don't give such books to teenagers, no matter how mature they seem.

I have had the Kite Runner sitting on my shelf for forever! I will have to make sure I get to it now.

I just tweeted a photo of my cat watching your vlog, it was so cute😍 Loved this vlog, really excited to read The Kite Runner some day. Also didn't know about the snow thing.😊

I love the content of your channel so much! 💕

I haven't read The Huntress yet, but I just finished The Rose Code at the end of March and I can't stop thinking about it. So good!

Omg what a coincidence! I’m reading the Kite Runner too for the first time. I’ve had that book on my shelves forever. Like more than 10 years.....

Well first of all, your makeup in this video is fantastic! And I love your earrings - the hoops and the bears!!!! Second of all, I can't read any more WWII fiction either, for the exact same reasons you have. I've read enough. I know what happens. We get it. We got it. I enjoyed 'The Kite Runner' but not as much as 'One Thousand Splendid Suns' (if the title is off, I'm too lazy to go look at my shelves). That one is focused on three women and it was SAD but I loved it so much.

Old Man's War by John Scalzi, Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin. Grass by Sheri S Tepper, Long After Midnight, Ray Bradbury. Caveat that Mr Bradbury's audience found girls more of an icky unknown quantity than aliens and it kinda shows ☺️

Your bear earrings!!! Those are the best earrings I've ever seen!

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi They are all 5 star reads for me!

Oh good - someone using a Fiji Blue song in a video 😍 makes you and your channel even better! 🥰🙆🏻‍♀️

Omg watching your emotional roller coaster with The Kite Runner was like reliving my own when I read it! A Thousand Splendid Suns is as good if not better (in my opinion) but just as sad!

Kameron Hurley's The light brigade. I think a couple years ago you put another one of her books, stars are legion, on your worst books of the year. So if you want to give the author another try, I definitely think the light brigade is more up your ally. It's got sci-fi blockbuster edge of tomorrow vibes, I didn't want to put it down.

Oh gosh, where to start with favourite sci fi!? Seeing as you've just finished some Octavia Butler I think continuing with more female classic-sci fi authors would be awesome especially Le Guin. I don't recall if you've started any of her Hanish Cycle books yet but The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed are two of her most praised works; can't really go wrong with either. Wouldn't be right without throwing some first contact books in the mix either. Dragon's Egg is quite similar to Children of Time following the evolution of an alien society over eons but the aliens here are even more imaginative than the spiders and have characters that are just as easy to cheer for. Another great one is Blindsight which plays with some really unique concepts that flips some alien tropes on their head. Both should definitely be appreciated for their concepts rather than their writing though. Also can't leave off without reminding you of that Hyperion read we're still waiting for 🙃

OMG The Kite Runner is one of my favorite books , I’ve read it almost 10 years ago ... I need a reread cuz I don’t remember a lot of thing that you talked about lol 😂

Amazing! 😍 You will inspire me more to read 🤗

I read all Hosseini's books and I loved this one and A Thousand Splendid Suns the most, but oh man they were heartbreaking... I also want to reread them, because it's been more than 10 years and I don't remember them that well anymore.

The Kite Runner definitely gave me A Little Life vibes!

You can rise up from anything. You can completely recreate yourself. Nothing is permanent.

I haven't read that much sci-fi, but recently I've read both The dispossessed, by Ursula k. Le Guin, and the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov, and I enjoyed both of them immensely!

My fave sci-fi books are Parable of the Sower and the Lilith's Brood series both by Octavia Butler!! I'm interested in your thoughts on Lilith's Brood because it's first contact with aliens and I know you like that trope!

The Maze Runner is a great Triliogie, I would recommend it to you. Especially if you like SCI-FI and Storys that arent all about a romance

Audiobook is def the way to go with The Huntress, Saskia Maarlaveld one of my favorite narrators. As for a sci fi recommendation, I read The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach and was really taken by surprise how much I enjoyed it. A little strange, but a good strange.

The Kite Runner made me feel like I was reading a movie instead of a book

The kitty is so cute!!! 😭

My favourite sci-fi books that you haven't read yet (afaik) are A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (post-apocalyptic with religious themes) and Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer (easy, light-hearted read with some philosophical elements)

Happy Birthday :)

Sci-fi recs: Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky and anything by Ray Bradbury! The Illustrated Man has some great sci-fi stories.

OMG I LOVE HIM AND THIS BOOK AND A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS!

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi A Maze of Death by Philip K Dick The City & The City by China Mieville

The Kite Runner is 😭😭😭. For sci-fi, I have not read many at all. I just finished Escaping Exodus which was very good and the concept is extremely creative. I'm currently reading The House Of Styx. It might interest you because the family we follow is Québécois! 😁

I haven't read that many sci fi but I think you might like the space between worlds and it's one of my faves in the genre. My favorite in sci fi is children of time which I know you already read

I remembered the cat from Kafka on the shore😅😅

It's hard for me to recommend Sci-fi books to you, since I usually read the books you recommend in this genre. My favorite you haven't read yet is We Are the Ants, but I'd consider it Contemporary with a Sci-fi twist.

I'm gonna put both of these on my list. I'm intrigued to read them although will buy plenty of tissues before reading The Kite Runner 😂😂

Sci- fi- I recommend Joel Dane's Cry Pilot, it's a bit like a sci- fi version of Nevernight or like Skyward on steroids :D Military, sassy rollercoaster; the main character is in a kind of training; made me feel like I know all the characters personally. For me, it was a hard read, because English is not my native language and it had a lot of military and technology words, but totally worth it!!! I feel like it doesn't have the popularity it should have, and also- doesn't it sound like something you might love?! :D

you and bean are so cute!!!

S I-fi: anything by Robert Heinlein. They are old, but I have fond memories of reading those books.

I spent a few weeks after finishing The Kite Runner learning all about Afghanistan...for that, I'm grateful. I actually preferred A Thousand Splendid Suns.

The kite runner was just 🥺🥺🥺

Sci fi by Jules Verne and H G Wells!

For the Huntress, it's kind of funny because according to the reviews, most people don't seem to care about Nina! I just read it too and gave it a 4.5 stars. I didn't think the Huntresses identify was a mystery, but the back of the book has some book club questions which make me think otherwise. It was pretty clear! The part I didn't like (apart from multiple POV books in general), was that once all in the same city, the chase too way way too long! It was maddening!

Read the Hudson and Holmes Mysteries series by Martin Davies. (Not Sci Fi) But is the series I'm currently almost finished. If I'm reading Sci Fi, I read the Star Trek novels from Enterprise and Voyager. Oh and Doctor Who novels.

I love this video already 5 seconds into it.

I 1000% vote for The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney for a sci-fi read. I won’t even make a suggestion for a second, I just need more people to read this one

I would love for you to read Departure by A.G.Riddle which is a standalone novel or Winter World which is the first novel in the Long Winter trilogy also by this author.

I haven’t read Kite Runner, but A Thousand Splendid Suns was a great (but sad) novel. Not many novels make me feel emotional years later...

For sci-fi: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (warning: I cried...)

The Kite Runner is the first book that made me cry so badly I made myself sick, to this day just thinking about it makes me tear up and this RARELY ever happens to me with any other book

For Sci-Fi, try reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov. It's really interesting, where you don't really follow characters, but you follow a society as it develops culturally, politically and scientifically (forward or backward...)

Sci-fi Rec: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie!

You live in a beautiful country Emily.

next KH book you read should defo be thousand splendid suns!

Agency!!! UNISS IS WAITING

I first read the kite runner when I was like 13 or 14 and I still haven't had a book hit me that hard. Its such a great story about redemption. I really want to reread it but idk if I can stomach it :(

Favorite sci-fis that I think you have not read: Embassytown by China Mieville, All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (not sure if this is strictly sci fi - maybe more science fantasy?) and The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal.

Not sure what you've already read; I'll throw out a few favorites... Left Hand of Darkness or The Dispossessed by UK LeGuin Ancillary Justice & sequels by Ann Leckie New favorites - A Memory Called Empire and sequel just out (I'm reading now) by Arkady Martine I think you've already read The Sparrow and sequel and the Murderbots?

I thought you'd love The Huntress 🥺 I feel kinda bad now for recommending it

Im a big fan of "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I'm currently reading Kite Runner at the suggestion of my boyfriend. I ended up taking a break pretty early on due to the trauma that occurs early on and switching to The Secret Garden. I'm picking it back up today to see if I can get through a little more of it today. It is really good so far, but I didn't check TW/CW before picking the book up, and I think I should have done that.

A long way to a small angry planet or Red Rising please!

I love false hearts by Laura lam

The Kite Runner is one of the best books I’ll never reread. I was sad for weeks after I finished. 😭

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, better than Kite Runner in my opinion! Huge recommendation

Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio is my favorite sci-fi

I'm currently reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and can tell this will be sad too!

I LOVE Kate Quinn, but The Huntress is my least favorite. I recommend either The Rose Code of The Alice Network over The Huntress.

Omg. Read a thousand splendid suns by Khalid hosseini too

For Sci-fi: So I really really liked Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

I did read thousand splendid suns from Khalid Husseini, oh man it's a heartbreaking book but worth every moment of reading . The kite runner is on my list for years bc I'm not ready to feel sad again specially I come from a similar background the author comes from so it hits so close to home .every word and situation I know it's real and happened it not imagination 🥺🥺🥺 .

Empire of silence by christopher ruocchio for sci-fi

Spoilers: Emily: Hassan better have the best ending ever... Me: Oh dear stop reading..

I did the audiobook of The Huntress as well, but I'm pretty sure the identity of the villainess was not meant to be a mystery. That threw me off a bit at first, but then the suspense vibe in Jordan's story kicked in and it didn't bother me. I generally like multiple POV books, and I think I did give this one 4 stars, but there was something about how it was handled here that felt a little unbalanced.

Not only we have squirrels, we have foxes too.

Sirens of titan by Kurt Vonnegut!!!!

If anyone is interested in sci fi horror, Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo is good and creepy! Has Event Horizon vibes but different plot

For sci fi please read something from Michael Crichton

Ever read Kristin Lavrandsdatter, 3 books? Historical fic. Also, Blue Adept.

Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster-Bujold

So many great people in real life don’t have the happy endings that they deserve. I get more annoyed when books wrap up happily and tidy when it doesn’t feel natural.

Some sci-fi recommendations: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

For sci-fi: something sci-fi by Neal Stephenson or the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois Bujold McMaster