winter reading vlog: snowy books, mental health chats & cozy days at home 

I've had so many conversations with a friend of mine who is recovering from a major surgery about how frustrating it is when our bodies don't or can't work the way we want them to. It's such a hard experience, but I'm sending positivity and comfort your way!

the snow is such a strong supporting character in this

a 40+ minute long vlog?? WE WERE BLESSED BY CHARITY QUEEN EMMA ‼️😭

Huhh, this video was actually a real masterpiece in my opinion. Snowy, movie-like clips and cozy reading scenes...and I have to say, it is really cool that you played the flute and the guitar and showed that too in this video! So excited for your further wintery vlogs/content! I have been here for a while but I've also been gone for short periods of times - especially when school and life got really busy - but I am really excited to be here with you again. And it's really great that when you are stressed you do not disappear, you just share that with us too and we can support you if only in the comments but we can and you help us too, so greatful for you emma.

I’m NOT a snow person at all but man you make me like it more. I love how we get to see the magic of the everyday through your eyes! I cry with you when you cry over things and laugh when you laugh!!!! Thank you for this!

Emma, I subscribed to your channel early 2021 and you make me happy throughout the year with your cheerful vlogs and bookish talks. Oh I also into classics and owning 40+ classic books because of you. You make us happy so please be happy too 🥲 Talking about your anxiety, please don't put pressure on yourself. Take a break if you really need too. Take a rest, you're doing great. I hope everything will be okay. You always there for us so we hope we can always there for you too.

The fact that I found you like 2 weeks ago and I just refresh your channel ever since.. I love your videos and your energy! Thank you!

Good Morning Emmie... I have been binging your channel for the last three ays and I adore all of your content. I m a 43 year old mom oof 4 and I just found out that I love to read. Your college and TBI story hits home and I adore that you are vulnerable enoughto share your journey. Sending love and positive vibes from Warren, Ohio. I am hoping you feel better as the days go by and things get better and brighter. Happy Holidays from us to you lovely

Brilliant, I walk out of my three-hour exam with no more stressful shit to do for a while and I am greeted by a lovely long video. I could not be more happy right now.

Don't be hard on yourself , your an amazing person who makes so many subscribers smile x

Hi Emmie! I'm María, a 25 year law student from Spain. I've been subscriber since few months ago and I'm literally in love with your channel content. I started watching your videos for improving my level of English comprehension and I rest here for your lovely way of being/personality/etc. Hope you keep uploading new videos in which I found peace and calm. Lots of love.

Hi Emmie! I found your channel this past summer and immediately subscribed. I have struggled with depression and anxiety my entire life and I am finally getting a grip on it and finding hobbies. I have found reading to be one of them! I love to watch your videos they are very relaxing. Congrats on 200k subscribers! Keep up the great work

This channel has become one of my favorites. It's so chill and comfy and easy to watch!

As a sufferer of chronic illness and am mostly housebound, your vlogs give me a sense of adventure and coziness that I don't typically get to feel.I hope your rough period of anxiety gets better and so do your aches/pains.Its the worst when your body just doesn't want to function the way it should.Just know you are not alone and I wish you and for family the happiest and healthiest of holidays! ❤

hi emma! introducing myself as requested 🥰 i’m Faye, i’m 18, live in the UK, and discovered your channel in what was i think early 2021. i have been the biggest bookworm all my life and have found such solace and companionship in your videos. how you talk about the nuances of language in books and take such pleasure in really zooming in and out and analysing and re-analysing is so thrilling and beautiful to me, and has led to me falling even deeper in love with books. i read war and peace alongside you and carolyn back in may, and have such happy memories of reading a section and diving headfirst into one of your Tolstoy Diaries videos for your thoughts. you feel like such a close friend, to the point where i don’t know how or why i’ve never commented before! ♡ you’re such a beautiful soul and bring such contentment and serenity to so many people. lots and lots of love xxx

I've been following your channel for a little bit, got back into reading a lot after losing my fiancé late last year. Looked through yt to find reading channels and found yours and it has been a blessing, you've introduced so many good books that I wouldn't have heard of or picked up, so thank you and keep doing what you're doing coz you're awesome

When I first started watching emma, her subscriber count was around at 7k, i think. Her describing Great Expectations so beautifully inside a car was more than enough to know that i'll be here for a long time! Watching from Bangladesh! Sending lots of love and thank you for introducing me to so many great books. Your taste in literature is kinda shaping mine and i'm so happy about it.

The scene of you running in between the snow and the trees was just so “movie-like” vibes! 😍💙

I looooove the snow too ❄️ it’s so magical ✨ I love the silence snowfall brings. I live in Eastern Washington State so we get crazy winters here too 😊😌

Thank you for your cozy videos, as always :) Im going through so many major life changes right now and your videos always bring me so much comfort. Sending all the love from Montreal 🤗

"Like look at that; you can't even see; it's beautiful." Poetry! That went in my writer's commonplace book, right next to "This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine," from the Tempest.

I just want to say thank you so much for being so open about mental health in your videos. It always makes me feel less alone ♥️

emmie i suffered a traumatic event and now have to lie in bed for huge chunks of the day, and your videos have been bringing me so much joy while i rest!!!

Hi Emmie, I subscribed to this channel long ago but only recently started watching videos that I hadn't watched before. I am from India but I am currently living in New York. I am an acting student and I love reading. Apart from the book recs, I just find your videos very calming and peaceful. I recently met a person who also watches your videos and we literally spent the next hour talking about your videos. Love these frequent and quick uploads. These are my Netflix and chill videos. Whether I am eating, cooking, or cleaning, I just put on your videos. Thank you for everything that you do.

if this is any indication of what's coming up in the next few weeks on your channel, I know I'm going to be LOVING these snowy, winter vlogs! (as usual tbh)

my turtle loves your voice, she always puts her head above the water when i'm watching your videos jhckcxv

I have been watching for about 3 months and gradually working my way through all your episodes. I understand the anxiety I often feel anxious for no reason.

I love how she always uploads 🥺 She makes everyone's day better 🤍

Hey Emma, I discovered your channel this year, soon after I moved from Ontario to the US, and I immediately got the 'Canadian' vibes. Your channel made me feel like home right away (although I'm not originally from Canada). I love your thoughtful analyses, I was having a hard time finding a booktube channel that talks about more than the hype books of the season and I love you're also talking about classics. I feel for you and pain issues. For the past 2 years I've been hit by a severe form of IBS and this one is here to stay (associated with bacterial overgrowth). It's changed my life completely, it's altered my diet severely (plant-based ingredients were my favorite and now they're trying to kill me; I miss a big salad soooo much) and it came with a lot a lot of pain (and anxiety ). Mindfulness, a good doctor and lots and lots of books have helped. I hear you, I know how it's like to have a day when your productivity is low because the pain makes it hard to focus. And yet, with friends, family and books (lots of books) we manage. Oh, and walks. You make me miss snow, and I never thought I'd say that :D. Warm hugs from south of the border

ahh i love when you read snippets of the books you're reading, it makes me feel so cosy and warm!

Anxiety is difficult because, intellectually, you can know that there's nothing to worry about, but your emotions just don't follow that and you make mountains out of molehills even while you WATCH yourself do it....

‘’The trees literally want to drink your blood and it’s fantastic.’’❤️🤣 Also, thank you so much for raising awareness about mental health!

hi! been subscribed since mid-late 2020 and i never really comment, but shoutouts to the youtube recs for recommending me your channel. i'm a (still burnt out) nurse, and your channel came at a really pivotal time in my career. your videos (along w/ some other youtubers) have, and still are, my go to ways to destress after really hard shifts. so with that i just wanted to say congrats on the 200k!!! absolutely deserving, and can't wait to see your continued success!!

Hi Emmie! 49 year old nurse here from Iowa City, Iowa. We are a UNESCO City of Literature! Started following you a month or so ago when I got into classical literature and book tube.

I’ve recently discovered your channel and now watch your videos in the morning as part of my morning routine (gives me so much serotonin), I absolutely love how much effort you put into you’re videos!! They are honestly so beautiful and so comforting. So glad to be here!!

i cant stop thinking about one of your recent videos where you talked about get a life chloe brown and said something in the lines of "even if your body isnt fully functioning or healthy, you deserve love". it has been helping me so much these past few days and im going to pick up get a life chloe brown soon. i just want to say thank you.

I've been subcribed to you for AWHILE and you've been such a massive comfort. I've had a really awful year mentally and I always come to your channel when I'm not feeling great. Anyway, I'm from London and have always enjoyed reading. I'm currently reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari but it's taken me ages, yet I'm enjoying it. I hope you're okay, much love.

👋 hi from Dallas Tx- am feeling mellow and am a little stressed, but love hearing about what books are good. Loved the specific book recommendations, please do a part III! 💙💙💜💕🥰 hope you feel better…Don’t work too hard! I find meditation, a rest and recovery day every week, and warm lavender epsom salt baths work well for my anxiety. Love ur channel. Love how quirky you are, it’s a breath of fresh air and I love that you live literally in a forest! Yes 🙌🏽

It is Sunday morning around 9. I woke to watch Emma again. Well, I am Lewis and I love snow and winter. The snow was up to my knee height when I was at college in the UK. I had a head injury when I was very small, but I don’t attach anything to it now as it was just so long ago. Perhaps my ultra sense of optimism has something to do with it. I was first drawn to your channel when I was randomly searching for Agatha Christie not long ago. There you are…Emma the sleuth. Watching your vlog is becoming part of my routine. Keep it up girl, love to hear your voice. More of Agatha Christie please.

It's nice to see you playing instruments and using yourself as your own insert music. I'm glad you are enjoying getting back into music :)

Emma, I've been here for a while, since maybe 34k and I'm so grateful for your channel! I've always been reading classics and literary fiction, and had a hard time finding people who had read the same things, so thank you for being that book friend to me! I also struggled this past year with my body and mind not working properly (found the reason and I'm much better now!) and had to reduce the amount of classes I could take at university, which I took very hard, but you were part of the reason that made me be okay with it and be patient with my body, so thank you!

hi there. been watching your videos for a little while and have found them so comforting

Hi, Emma. Im so glad you talked about this issues of mental health on your vídeo because i struggle really Hard with the same problems, having panic attacks for no "apparent reason" and sometimes i feel so guilty for it cause i have no reason to feel this way. Anyway thank you só much for being this amazing person and making your channel a safe space for everyone! Big kisses from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Hey Emma :) My name is Bo and I'm from belgium (not really sure why I wanted to metion that but anyways)Thank you for being so open about your struggles. I have been here for a while and I have always really admired that about you. For a couple of years I have also been struggling with being very hard on myself and fearing a bad grade even though I know those thoughts are not reality. It can feel numbing, painful and it's often a period with loss of hope. I wish you the very best of days, your videos sure make mine better :) I also wanted to tell you that it is so courageous to open up and tell people about your chalenges. In the light of everything that we do "wrong", we often forget to praise ourselves for the things we find normal but which are actually very rare. You seem like one of those rare souls you come accros every so often who makes people feel heard, seen and cared for just by being. So thank you thank you thank you Emma

I love how happy you get when it snows🥺 Sending a big hug xxx

Perfect ramblings. I don’t believe I could catch your video so early in its release - it just so happens I have to stay up late tonite. I do remember I read the 2 quotes you had on Scrooge, but they didn’t do me anything. I actually found the short discussion on the “door nail” very funny…well, maybe I just a very simple person.

I live in California and I just have to say I’m insanely jealous of your weather and I’m living the winter wonderland vicariously through your vids. This week has only been the second week we haven’t had 80deg weather.

Hi Emma! You're starting to become one of my favorite creators. I also have a lot of anxiety and you and your videos are so calm and peaceful; they have been helping a lot. Hope you are doing well!

Hi Emma!! I'm from the states, going back and forth between home (Indiana) and school (Michigan). I've been watching your videos for a few months now, starting over the summer. I have you and your content to thank for inspiring me to get back into reading regularly again, which has been so wonderful and inspiring. I read One Hundred Years of Solitude over the summer because of how highly you spoke of it and it left me in awe and wanting to read more magical realism. Thanks so much for your lovely, calming videos and deeply inspiring content about reading. Hope the rest of this winter treats you well

Hi Emma! I actually found your channel only a few weeks ago and have absolutely loved getting to know you through your videos. I love how open and honest you are about your opinions on books and classics , but also just with life. I’ve really gotten back into reading recently, especially trying to read more classics since Im exposed to them so often through my job at a bookstore, and just having someone to relate with is super inspiring and heart warming on these colder days. Love you 💛 keep being honestly you.

Hi Emmie & and her fellow subscribers/friends ;) I am a uni student in NZ, I'm about to start the final week of my whole undergraduate degree! I study Japanese and Asian Studies, but I'm taking an English paper to finish off my degree (it's called "Postcolonial Literature" with a focus on the Korean peninsula, so we're reading books like Pachinko which you mentioned recently in one of your videos). I am a bit stressed and anxious because of all the work I need to do in this final week of study...But it is nice to visit your channel to relax. I found your channel exactly three months ago today! It was the "I asked 1,000 people what their favourite book is 👀 here are the top 20 novels!" video. Since then, I have been subscribed, have loved watching your videos, they're so calming :) Also, I have definitely added a lot of books to my TBR because of you haha It was cool to find out that you play the flute, I really enjoyed listening to your practice. I hope you're having a great day and that you keep enjoying your winter reads! (I, on the other hand, am dying in the 28C weather here in NZ and can't quite get into the wintry mood haha :)

I'm currently reading For the Wolf and gosh, thank you so much for letting me know that book existed, because i'm loving it! 😊😊😊

Emma, the snow queen: thanks for the beautiful and fresh snow! In Rio, we have this heat and sometimes a storm. Love to know you play guitar and flute. ❄❄❄❄❄❄☕💖

hi emma

Before your video i haven't understood that i truly love vlogs! Thank you so much for your work, videos, thoughts about books and much more! I'm from Russia. I'm fond of literature, photography, chess, etc. I'm gonna study philology or journalism huh. So it's not a surprise i'm here:) Learning foreign languages and literature are my the most favourite things on the world! In fact, i'm so tired and i guess i have a burnout, studying is quite exhausting. I suppose you all know that. However i'm trying to stay positive. Love you to the moon and back ❤️ P. S as a russian, i don't understand everything you say but i keep trying. Thanks to your videos i can reach highest level!

Ah ("ugh"), the irony of not allowing yourself to feel or recognize the good hours or longer stretches of time except for in hindsight, and the moment you herald the contentment of the present, something happens from without or within and enter anxiety or frustration or pain. Congratulations on your now almost 210K friends. I've read so many good books b/c of you. Merci beaucoup!

Emma saying my mother "TAYLOR SWIFT" is the best thing to happen to me this month bye

Je suis si heureuse de voir que le livre te plaît ! 🥰 je n’ai plus qu’à le lire à mon tour ! I meant every single word I write, even if this Amazon paper is way too small ! You help me in my everyday life even if you don’t know it, and thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️ Love from France 🇫🇷 Morgane 🌻✨

Hi Emma, it's Klara from Germany. I'm 23 and study musicology. I really like your channel and watched every video. Thank you for your greaat content. :)

hi, emmie! im from moscow, russia. i have found your channel just recently. i adore these wintery videos. btw today we have -16 degrees here❄️

Nice nails. My wife is deeply into doing her nails and I have come to appreciate an artistic nail job.

You play the flute so beautifully I really felt that 🎵

I've been watching your videos for about three weeks(?) now and i love your videos, they're so cozy and nice to watch, you have been one of the inspirations for getting back into reading after like 5 years of not reading anything for myself. Your videos recommending videos are some of my favorite. And thank you so much for getting me back into reading!! also, i live in norway so we have a bunch of snow and it gets really dark in the wintertimes so it's really nice to watch your videos with my fairy lights on while looking at the snow outside my window :))

Emmie, thank you for sharing who you are with us. It's great that you were able to recognize that your mental health needed to move up on your priority list. It can only get better from here. There may be setbacks bc that's just life, but you will continue to gain the tools to push through. I wrestle with anxiety myself and I want to say you got this!

so great to see you playing!! love to see more of that

i love your chanel so much, emmie! you're definitely one of my favorite booktubers and 200k is all you deserved :D this vlog was so nice and cozy, the mental health talk felt like a warm hug, thanks for that! hope you will be better soon :) and actually, For the Wolf is on my TBR so it's probably one of my next reads and I'm quite excited about it. loved your flute and guitar. love from France!

Ahhh Emma this vlog made me son happy.

hi Emmie... i have discovered your channel this summer and i'm so glad that i did. you really have an inspiring aura and not just on books, you inspire me for a lot of things. i just love your content. sending you lots of love from Azerbaijan

You have been such a joy to accompany since I found you two weeks ago! I am an avid reader and writer from Michigan! Psyched you play the flute too💛 might have to pull mine out! I want more snow, but it’s supposed to rain all night, so that’s a close second for digging into a long book. Hope your brain gives you a break soon, friend! 💛

Hi from Florida! I recently subscribed and already binged watched almost all your videos! They are so soothing. As someone who has never seen snow, I love watching it on your videos. ❤

you’re voice is the most calming i’ve ever heard, it’s so good to hear!

thanks for all the content em, your vids are so calm and vibey

this made me feel even mooooreee cozy 😭❤️

Hey Emma! I've been loving your videos for a year now and I want to say thank you for creating such a cozy, relaxing space! I'm from Oregon:) Hope you're feeling better!

i found your channel last year with the phantom vids and since then i have gone back to finish the requirements to enter english at a university level while working part time :) thank u for ur content its like a warm hug at the end of a long week.

I subscribed to you in early 2021! At the time I was living in Ontario but I've since moved to Denmark. I love your videos and they always give me some nostalgia for home! Your videos are so cozy and comforting keep being you my love, becasue you are amazing.

Hi Emma, you said introduce yourselves, so I'll do just that. I'm not sure how long I've been subscribed to you for. You're one of my favourite booktubers (autocorrect changed book tubers to two words, so I saw you growing beneath the earth like a tuber). I live in Queensland, Australia. I'm chronically ill with a slew of very rare diseases and other conditions. My healthcare is my full time job. I average several medical appointments every week (I have a huge team), lots of hospital time, and it's been that way for many years. I'm in pain from multiple sources all day every day. "Book" was the first word I spoke as a baby. I love reading, writing, science illustration (though I haven't done any SI stuff for awhile because of symptoms). Before I was ill I was really involved in permaculture, gardening, bush regeneration and circus training/teaching. I'm a nature nerd. I lived in the UK for 18 mths, and have technically been to 16 countries (though a few of those were just stopovers, passing through). I love playing backgammon, and I do a cryptic crossword with my coffee every morning. I'm Autistic but wasn't diagnosed until I was in my 30's (common for women). My favourite writers are Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, Eleanor Dark, Michael Cunningham, Becky Chambers and a few others.

We definitely need a full version of that merry go round in flute 😭

Sending you love and hugs!!!! I hope your anxiety melts away and your pain ebbs away and doesn't return. Wishing you the very best for the rest of this holiday season. 🥰🎄🌻💖

Wow, I feel this so hard (regarding school and mental health). I just wanted to say you are not alone in that. I have been struggling to juggle school/finals, my mental health, and physical health, all while transferring to UW. It's exhausting, and I hope that you are getting lots of time to relax during your break

My literal favourite youtuber, I've recommended this channel to everyone I talk about books with ! The cozy, calm, and warm energy in all the videos is just too good to miss out on !!

The vibes here are so cozy and the aesthetic in these videos makes Emma just radiate "best friend" energy if that makes sense. Love these videos so much.

Ive never loved anyones videos as much as i love yours

It's like you and your videos are the elixir of happiness. Thank you 😊

i love watching the snowy content and the joy it brings you! As someone who lives in deep south louisiana i haven't seen real snow in so so long but i love it so much. getting to watch it from your point of view just makes me smile

these videos are so good for getting into a wintery vibe! hope your mental health gets better soon, your content helps me and so many others with their own mental health issues. taking care of yourself is super important and i'm pretty sure most people would agree to not ever push yourself for content or anything of the like. hope the winter break takes a lot of the academic stress off too

If finally snowed here in Denver Colorado today and your magical video came out! Couldn’t have been more perfect timing!!!!

This is the loveliest vlog, thank you. x

hi emma hope you’re having a good day/night! i watched this vlog while relaxing after a long week of work and it was such a pleasure 😊 time to spend the weekend bundled up with hot chocolate and a good book!

girl now you definitely made my whole day better. my day wasn't so ad but i wake up so late and i almost did nothing productive and it's already 7pm! put now i feel so much better and i hope i can finish some studying and reading. The whole vlog was so lovely, it could be my very favorite!!! Especially the "mental health chats" part, it was so warm and i can relate to most of it, the anxiety because of studying and exams.. so, I REALLY LOVE YOU SO MUCH

Your videos are such a comfort zone for me. I've been watching you for a couple of months now (Think I started when you started your War & Peace diary) and been watching a lot of your content since. It just gets me into the cozy reading mood. :)

IT'S LITERALLY MY FAVOURITE VIDEO OF YOURS ! ❤❤❤😭 I'VE WATCHED IT SO SO MANY TIMES THAT IVE LOST THE COUNT !

this vlog put me in the best winter mood!!!!

love that you’re uploading more frequently but please also take a good care of your own health !! we love u ❤️

I just read A Dowry of Blood recently and loved it! This vlog was lovely. I’m also a big snow fan and I’m just waiting for that perfect first snowy walk of the season to come for me

I found you almost 3 months ago and I just love your videos ( content and aesthetic) and and your energy ! Thank you!

Hi, I'm from South Korea...I love your story... Good Luck 💜

Emma, I was in your place about a year and a half ago with guitar, and I must say, it is better to play about 10 or 20 minutes a day consistently, even when it hurts, than trying to play for hours a night, and I would say in 2-3 weeks your fingers won’t have that trouble! But consistency is key, and eventually you’ll be able to play for hours without your fingers hurting. Good luck and I’m looking forward to seeing your progress!

I was in kind of an editing slump today but watching this gorgeouuus video gave me all my motivation back ! The scene in the snowy woods was incredible, it looked like a movie 😍

We are so similar when it comes to enjoying the winter. It's my favorite season but the lowest temperature it goes where I live is just 24 degree Celsius and am yet to see a snowfall. My love for this season never stops despite getting a runny nose and cold.