what i read in march📚 

at this point i've learned a lot from her other than my literature teacher 😭😭😭😭

I don't know what it says about me, but No Longer Human is one of my favourite books from my recent reads. I kind of have a hard time saying that out loud because of how heavy the book is. I just love that it captures loneliness, isolation, social anxiety and depression so well. I'm also going through severe clinical depression, and although I couldn't relate to the main character, I could understand what it was like to see the world in a cynical and closed off mindset. I just love how devastating the book is. I also finished through it within two days because the way it was written is so captivating. It's even more sad when you learn that the book is semi-autobiographical by the author. It honestly just makes me think of how sad it is that people who were struggling with mental health were just seen as abnormal lunatics. Even though I read it while I am in depression, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is. When you think about this being one of the best-selling books in Japan, along with Kokoro (which is another book that's quite similarly harrowing and introspective), I just wonder if Japan is a really lonely country if this is what speaks to most of them. I also think the feeling of not fitting in with the rest of world and the quiet, impassive delivery of some of the most depressing details in the story, the feeling of hiding behind a facade of jocularity really resonates with me since I used to be kind of like that as well. I can understand that it's not a book for everyone though due to how intense it is. Although, I personally enjoyed, or rather found it fascinating to read because of how it left a lasting impression on me.

from an art therapist perspective, you are not bad at art! but also remember the creative expressions of art includes drama, dance, theater , music, which i have seen you engage with! so just wanted to saw you do have that artistic spirit, celebration and creative spirit

The 'Blue Period' anime doesn't dive too much into the nitty gritty of art creation throughout the show, so that's probably why you liked it more. Can't wait to hear your thoughts once you finish the first season!

I cannot believe it's already April! 🌿 And yes we just can't seem to get rid of the snow and it's SPRING LOL 🥰

march was definitely the longest month but also the blurriest - i totally feel you! hope april feels more normal and peaceful for you~

Spring hasn’t shown up here yet either but hopefully soon! 🌷 My March reads: -Passing by Nella Larsen -We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson -My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem -And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie -Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

is it just me or emma pulls off major dakota johnson vibes!! her peaceful and calm aura says it all

Haven't even started the video yet, but gotta say: the thumbnail gives me iconic librarian sass vibes and I love it.

emma that outfit fits you so well. I absolutely adore this color on you! Also happy April and I just want to say I'm proud of you for doing so much for school and yet you keep giving us all these videos. I really appreciate all the work, time, effort and energy you put into it. have a blessed month x

March was really hectic for me too but with a new month comes new opportunities to re-center! 💜 can’t wait for Aprils review ☺️

an upload from u brightened up my sad days 🥺 as someone who has to graduate school and take lots of exams very soon i felt so sad and anxious and overwhelmed about it recently …. ur channel is my comfort place , thank u so much for ur lovely videos 💗

I just finished Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney and loved it so much. I enjoyed it more than Normal People, I think because there was so much more relatable about the protagonist. Rooney does a really amazing job of depicting these thoughts and interactions in a real way. And I found the ending very satisfying. Would definitely recommend!

I was literally just wondering when you were going to post next because I’ve been obsessed with your videos, and then I got a notification!!

The idea that art is "right" or "wrong", is so outdated and ill considered - this pressure literally suffocates any creativity in someone who's just starting out and is totally self defeating. Sometimes we struggle with things because we're trying to do it like somebody else, in their style, instead of from our own soul and heart. I think that applies to art, writing, music, to all creativity. There are no rules.

No Longer Human is actually one of my favorite books of last year, but I can see why the title would be misleading if you don’t know anything going into it. I read the book during a low point in my life which somehow in a weird kind of way became a comfort to me because of how much I related with the feelings of the narrator. Also, the book is heavily inspired by the author’s own life which makes it more devastating. Definitely a book that one should research or look up the trigger warnings before reading though since it does leave a weird feeling after reading it.

I love the ambiance in this video. So cozy and relaxing with snow storms happening outside!

The moment I get the notification, instantly my serotonin boosts! I love your diversified/insightful thoughts on books. I get to learn a lot. So, thanks for that:)xx

The crazy relief I've felt when getting the notification... honestly I think I was getting proper withdrawal symptoms this week 😅 at this point I miss you like I'd miss a friend! Sending you best of luck and energy for the final stretch of your academic year 🥰

Your reorganized bookshelves look amazing

wow wow wow, ok! i have never felt SO understood when it comes to art and artistic abilities!! i personally cannot stand painting and drawing and any form of artistic expression, but when it comes to appreciating other people's art (filming, painting, etc) i find it so fascinating and think it's the coolest thing ever. when you said the thing about how it becomes a project in self-hatred, i totally felt that. i don't know why, i just can't bring myself to find any joy in being artistic! and it probably is because i never feel like what i "create" is "good enough" or "perfect enough." i feel like reading "the artist's way" would help me a lot; i've heard that the author makes the reader believe that truly anyone is an artist and can be a creator. thank you for sharing this emma!

I loved Barnaby Rudge! I zoomed through it in a week because I couldn’t put it down. It ended up in my top 3 Dickens books, along with Bleak House and A Christmas Carol. Meanwhile, I’m currently trudging through War and Peace and feeling…..so little……..

It's always a shame when you don't get a great reading month, hopefully April is better for you 💚

Honestly at this point I’m in love

Although I personally don't mind reading about all the details on drawing and painiting in Blue Period, I can understand if that's just something that doesn't really interest you. Since you did like the overarching story though, I would definitely recommend continuing with the anime series. I found that it didn't lose out on the vibes of the story and the pace might be a bit more to your liking :)

Man I wish I had your reading ethic. I feel like since the pandemic hit my mind just got in a constant slump and I can't seem to breeze through books anymore.

Hello! Thanks for posting. We got snow here in Stuttgart, Germany this weekend also.

So close! Professor Lupin is actually David Thewlis :D Not much snow over here right now. But it has gotten cold again, so spring is definitely having its fun with us. Also, I tried watching the Anime for Blue Period and got 3 episodes in. The animation just really disappointed me. For a show about art it was surprisingly ugly outside of the paintings? Maybe that's just me. I'm curious what you'll think of it. Btw, I'm also terrible at drawing and painting! Ahhhhh, thank you for suffering with me 😭 Loved the video, as per usual. Hope you''re doing good, Emma 💜

wow blue period sounds so beautiful

a new emmie video on an insomnia filled sunday night warms the heart

i encourage you to continue blue period it only gets better

love samuel beckett ❤️ i'm currently going through the same essay-obsession phase you were going through last month and watching this is the best way to lay back and relax! i might be very passionate about the topic but it's taking over my life

i am so sad i just now discovered your channel in my final year of high school. i am in love with your videos and really could have used them when i was younger. thank you for creating

It's so nice to see you again Emma! Hope you are doing well. Sending lots of love

I prefer this to your black glasses ,this brings out your complexion

i loved the long way to a small angry planet!! its a good escape and maybe its because I've read it twice but I'm attached to the characters :D

I paused the video at 20:53 to say you have me laughing SO hard!!!!! Hahaha!!!!! "Dickens put down the pen! You're done!" LOL awesome! I feel you! I ADORE Dickens, Lord knows, but YES sometimes, Dickens....put down your pen!!!! Already! I felt that way reading Pickwick Papers. A little in Bleak House, although I love Bleak House. Anyway, thank you for the wonderful Sunday-morning laughter. 😊

Wonderful, I have been very much looking forward to a video. 🥰 I am increasingly intrigued by Memorial, the concept sounds incredibly cool. Also the anti-Catholic riots sound like a quite interesting historical rabbit hole, I've been taking a course on the Victorian period and it's pretty fascinating how Catholics become increasingly "othered" the further away from the Reformation you get. By a little into the nineteenth century of course Catholicism in England becomes more or less synonymous with the Irish, and so there's elements of xenophobia and classism that start to factor in on top of the existing religious disagreements and fears about Catholic loyalties. Then these multiple layers of dehumanization pave the way for the Malthusian logic and willful negligence on the part of English authorities that caused so many deaths during the Potato Famine. Anyway I guess what I'm saying is I gotta put Barnaby Rudge on my tbr now.

"When you're a child, you're in a world that's made by people who control you." That really rings true for me as someone who is passionate about children's rights and stopping child abuse. I've often thought how children are the most mistreated group of humans on the planet, but hardly anyone talks about it. Mistreating children in some form or another is just the norm. You're only a child for so long, unlike other groups. You get to a point when the injustice doesn't apply to you anymore, so people don't care. The injustice still affects them, though, whether they acknowledge it or not. Children are people too. Adults need to respect that. Most agree with the concept that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but they don't think about this when it comes to children. Children are literally at the complete mercy of their caretakers from conception through the first few years of life. That gets taken advantage of too much.

Hi Emma! Thank you for the amazing video. These are the books I read in March: Julius Caesar by Shakespeare Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the island and Anne's house of dreams by L.M. Montgomery The boy in the striped pajamas by John Boyne Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami Beach read by Emily Henry The secret history by Donna Tartt My stroke of inside by Jill Bolte Taylor My favorite ones were Kafka on the shore and the secret history

Yeah. Like that is a years reading for me. I have started on the Norton's Anthology. Got the whole set second hand. Have read , Dream of the Rood , Beowulf, Judith. Also got a history of English literature to go with it. Not having read very much literature I have the happy fortune of future discoveries laid out in front of me like a long glistening pink marble staircase beconing me to climb. Man , I feel all literary already !!!

Wow! You finally read Blue Period🥰 Im glad you checked out the show too😚🥰

Watching this on my work break lol Also u look adorable 👉👈

March was an odd reading month here as well. My TBR was Not respected haha! I had all these random books come in my hands and eat up my time. Im not disappointed, although some were not to my liking. I guess I just dont like starting April with a TBR that feels like deja vu . Have a great month and can't wait for you to show us what you will be reading

Great review of Barnaby Rudge! I gave it 4 stars. So glad you liked it as well as you did. I did not know what to expect and, like you, never had heard of the Gordon Riots. Pleasntly surprised, I loved his cast of characters and run on sentences😂

Personally, i loved No Longer Human. Even though it deals with such heavy topics, the way it is written is very captivating and i read it really quickly. Also, seeing the way the narrator thinks was very interesting to me. Generally, i found it to be a very thought provoking book, i was coming back to it for a while. And i love this edition with the typewriter font, it added a lot to the experience.

over here in England we've got a tonne of snow recently too. it's supposed to be Spring!

i felt the opposite about 'blue period!’ i think the manga is phenomenal, but the anime just felt flat and lacklustre for me. i'm not the biggest fan of drawing or painting either, but i still enjoyed the detailed explanations of the techniques and the art concepts itself. however, i'm glad you still enjoy the series in a different medium, because it's the actual story that matters, and the story itself is just amazing. yatora and ryuuji have my heart

I love the way you talk about books

Hey Emma, I have been wondering about this for a while but what would it take for you to rate a book with one star? Because most of the time even when you don't like a book you seem to be rating it with two stars...

What you feel for drawing I feel for singing.

i read the long way to a small angry planet in march too! i’m a huge sucker for domestic fluff and character development, so it was my favorite of my march reads.

your videos are so comforting and healing! I love to listen to you💚😊

If you liked Memorial then another good choice could be The Gododdin translated by Gillian Clarke. It's an epic Welsh poem about the casualties of a battle which took place somewhere in the north of England in roughly 600AD. Each verse is dedicated to describing an individual soldier who died in the battle. It's actually one of the oldest surviving works of British literature (older than Beowulf)!

Finallyyyyyy!! I have missed you A LOT !

Every time I watch your videos I get book recs so thank you. Here are the books I read in March. -The Mists of Avalon -Leviathan Wakes -Anna Karenina -Highland Blood -Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -Out of the Strange Planet I read a trilogy in one go here it is: -The Bone Witch -The Heart Forger -The Shadowglass

i felt the same exact way with blue period! on the surface, it seems like something i would really enjoy, but the fact that there was so much technical art talk when i don't enjoy the action of making art at all really made me not want to finish it.

Felt that art thing. Languages, sciences, maths, everything comes naturally. But ask me to find my way aroung a city or draw a cube and I break down.

Hi Emma! Your video made my day better! I read a play this month too: Dolls' House, by Ibsen. I really liked it. I am currently reading the second book from Becky Chambers' series. It's very entertaining indeed. Have a lovely Sunday, sweetheart! 🌻🦋

your voice is so calming ♥️

Throwback to me seeing Endgame at the theatre the weekend before lockdown started and me having a continuous breakdown over it for the next year and a half 🙃 love love love Beckett but wow what a time to see that play lol

March flew by so quick! Interesting selection of books, I have always wanted to read/watch something by Beckett so this has inspired me to check out Endgame!

Ive started saying “you’re done” so much because of your videos, it always makes me laugh when you say it

Vids since the last “Muffins for Puffins” shirt appearance: 8

I get the same feeling from Chekov and Dostoyevsky. Humor, tragedy, and empathy.

I gave Barnaby Rudge 4 stars! I really enjoyed it, but definitely liked the first half better like you said. I thought the split down the middle was awesome, and I loved how the book almost restarted, but repeated the same ideas and some events of the first chapter. I disagree a bit about the crowd being solely made up of criminals and anarchists. I might be reading into this too much, but I think that Dickens was using the people who participated in the riots to critique the political, prison, and legal systems that allowed these people to slip through the cracks and allowed this tragedy to happen in the first place as well as his critique of capital punishment. Really looking forward to the live show! It feels weird not carrying Barnaby around anymore!

Hello, I’m not sure if you’ve received this question before. But how do you read your books? And by that I mean what do you annotate, do you write in them? What are the tabs for? You are truly inspiring and I just found the most beautiful copy of world and peace( Simon and Schuster) from 1949 and you were the first person I wanted to show! Thank you so much!

I read No Longer Human 8 years ago. It's so good and psyhcologigal to the core. It's like Dazai's semi autobiography.

I understand one thing today and that is high school sucks. It's so true, I can't agree more.

I am so jealous of your snow. Here in eastern Oregon we are in a drought and I miss my snow. Don't judge yourself so harshly around art, it is so subjective.

Blizarding in April. I guess that's Canadian living. I remember in the U.S. in the state of New Jersey having a freak snow event in mid-April once.

You should really pick up A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. Lots of people seem to like the first book the most, but my favorite in the series is book two. It has a very clear plot thread throughout the book and explored its themes better. I also got really emotional.

I also read Sleepwalking in March and i think i would have loved it if i had read it at fifteen. Twenty-six years-old me thought it was very meh. I loved A long way to a small angry planet! It's such a romp 😊

i promise blue period only gets more interesting if u want to continue!!! especially after volume 6 is when it picks up

Sometimes people who feel that way find that using the eraser when they draw improves their satisfaction.

It snowed in Germany on April 1 too xD Like a straight-up snowstorm. I couldn't believe my eyes lol

I'm envious of your lightning and thunder.

Waiting for Godot by Beckett is an amazing play that sits really close to me. There's another play that is highly influenced by Waiting for Godot called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Dickens was paid by the word for most of his career, and sometimes it SHOWS. Unfortunate in retrospect. But, I think it kind of makes sense when I can remember that a lot of his work was originally published as serials, rather than novel form

she really reminds me of daisy edgar jones.The first time I watched her videos I immediately thought of marianne

I have always found that I enjoyed reading about the authors lives, Beckett, Dickens, more than their actual works....I enjoyed their stories, plays.....but their lives where more interesting to me.

I'm literally waiting for this another video from you.❤❤❤

Hi Emma, great video! I actually just saw a live show of Endgame in mid December of last year! I agree it's a fantastic show that benefits from a live audience!

re the weather: Southern Hemisphere (I'm in New Zealand) is hogging summer and not letting it go lol. It's several degrees warmer than it should be, daylight saving has ended, and we are still in tshirts and shorts and grilling outside for dinner. It's so weird.

yay..... My Fav Booktuber ever.

We're in the middle of a drought here in the Southwest US. Please send us your snow. I'm going through a weak reading month myself, but I have hope in my new book haul.

I’m shocked it’s already April I thought we’ll never get here (senior year workload really got me) Surprisingly I managed reading ,I’m happy you did too . I hope everyone seeing this comment would have an amazing April💕🌼

Thank you so much for a much needed video at a much needed time! 😃🌿

Congrats to you on your reading 📖 for the last month of March please stay safe and enjoy your reading 📖 love you and your amazing channel love your friend John xxxx

Hey Emma! Idk if you've talk about this somewhere before but have you ever listened to one of vashti Bunyan songs? She sounds so much like you in my opinion!! The vibes are the same. Especially in "I'd like to walk around in your mind some day" I think

I love your outfit Emma, it gives me strong Edwardian vibes.

Our erudite and pretty host always delivers the great reviews.

my march reads: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid The Beginning Woods by Malcolm McNeill Jamaica Inn by Daphne DuMaurier Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh Three Sisters by Heather Morris The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

emma should be a literature cult leader

I have an exam tomorrow and here I am watching your video . Love you 😍 💗

If it makes you feel any better, no one is good at drawing right away. It's very much a learned skill lol. I was horrible when I started

Yay an Emmie video!! Hey girl in a reading slump lately and getting distracted too easily. Any tips or tricks you can share to help me out? Hugs!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️🧡🧡🧡📚📚📚📚🐛🐛🐛🐛

Regarding the part of the video about art: (this is something I think about a lot!) I honestly believe we all start off terrible at art and that anyone can become good at it. Sure there are some folks who are slightly more inclined but I think a lot boils down to being told you're good or bad when you're young. Or being intelligent enough to realize that your work wasn't good yet (which is normal). I'm pretty sure a lot of us who ended up artists were just too ignorant and full of ourselves to see how bad our art really was at the time, and stuck with it, haha. Not saying you have to learn to love it, (disclaimer/etc.) Just thought it might help to reframe it as "My wasn't good yet, and that's totally normal."

help i just got goodreads (i use storygraph usually) and i can’t find emma, even with the link

Very GRIPping!Emma put the kettle on,we'll all have tea!❤️