Oh please please please give the Bear and the Nightingale another try! As someone from Eastern Europe who grew up on the fairytales that inspired the Winternight trilogy I feel like this book is a beautiful reflection of the culture and the rise of orthodox christianity over the older slavic pagan beliefs. One of my favourite books of all time and I will recommend it endlessly!! 🥰

Winter books are awesome. I recommend the poetry collection "Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season" by Farrokhzad. I have so many winter books on my TBR, including some of your recommendations, like Icefields. My TBR also includes Morvern Callar and Hercule Poirot's Christmas. ❄

omg nothing gets me in the winter mood like your annual winter recs video yayyy!! ❄💖❄

Love the coziness❤

Thank You So Much for These Wonderful Wintery Book Recommendations😊📚

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The hair is hair-ing!!!❤

i always love the mix of books i love so much with books ive never heard of when you recommend books <3

Also there is a more complete list on Pinterest. And it has the references that are actually talking about book. And I think there are 500 books on there. It’s because they aren’t just focused on references used by Rory

The books chosen to be shown in the film were chosen specifically by the Amy Sherman Palidino. They are frequently referenced. So I don’t think any of them were just prop books

I read “Heaven and Hell” last year based on your recommendation and loved it. I’m so excited for all the other cool books you mention here! Definitely want to get to “Icefields” this winter. Also I worked housekeeping at a hotel in a national park for one summer and it was genuinely one of the best periods of my life. There was almost no cell service and what little WiFi we had in the employee dorms was super slow, so I spent the majority of my time outdoors, reading, or both. I went to bed early, woke up early to either do yoga or study for grad school, had a day of busy physical work, then spent my free time hiking and exploring the park both alone and with new friends. There were some big downsides - the money was pitiful and there was lots of coworker drama (multiple people were either fired or quit in dramatic circumstances) but I’m so grateful I took the opportunity when I did.

Love the outfit! You look like the Snow Queen from the Nutcracker ballet! Speaking of which...every winter I read The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 happy

I love the cover for Divine Rivals but had to read it on my kindle because the size of the letter was TINY.

Today fell the first snow here,so cozy ❄😊 Thank you for your book recommendations.Greetings from Serbia.

You should read Princess Jellyfish🪼

"You like trains?" OH WOW

In south america its almost summer, but I love that this channel has so much love for winter! Even though I'm a spring person!

I really don’t need more books on my TBR but you are adding more.. so many more 🧊

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My winter reccomendation is definitely Devotion by Patti Smith. I’ll be thinking about the figure skating bit for awhile

I can add a name to the winter romance collection: Catherine Walsh. I've read her "Holiday Romance" and "Snowed In" last year. The first one was almost a 5* read--and usually romances do not get more then 3.5* from me. But maybe the winning factor was that I needed to watch someone else get even more stressed out and chaotic around Christmas than I was.

You just unlocked a huge childhood memory. I was OBSESSED with The Sight but completely forgot about it until post!! So many books that are forgotten in my memory, than you for helping me rediscover one!!! I also am now confused if I should wait until next halloween to read Frankenstein or read it this winter.. I thought it was a halloween/fall book for some reason. I feel lied to 🤣

Oh yes I was obsessed with A Series of Unfortunate Events when I was younger! There is a lot of snow in that one!

🎈... and it´s how autors, readers and viewers comes around same flare waiting winter 🌨🌨👥🔥👥🌨🌨 ❌depresive books, ✅promos!

I am ready for this!!! I’ve been getting more into winters stuff this year!!!

Emma looks like a character on a magical girl anime, like Sakura from Card Captor Sakura. Ready to fight evil! Well that beside main protagonist winter princess vibe!

Apart from you being a very lovely and clever person, you also make me appreciate nature with your amazing videos. Thank you so much! ❤

lol I’m definitely guilty of commenting to tell you read the left hand of darkness before, but you should reread it!! The kemmer stuff and genly & estraven’s relationship are both very interesting

Important question: Are you reading Rilke in GERMAN or in the largely mediocre English translations? If you claim to love Rilke and if you claim to love poetry, then you need to either BE German or LEARN German. Nothing else will do! If you read Rilke in English the poems may be nice but they do not sing in Rilke's voice. Understand how IMPORTANT the language is that he writes in! You can only understand Rilke if you understand his words, their shape and sound. Understand this basic paradigm!

So... you and Carolyn Marie don't quite agree on Anna Karenina... 😂 🚂

Today was the first snow of the year in mu hometown, so it's the perfect timing for this video 🩵

the sirius is prolly the mauraders era version, not the golden trio era

A book that got a lot of hype a few years ago in Quebec is "Le poids de la neige" by Christian Guay-Poliquin. Don't know if it's been translated...

Is Jack London not popular in the west anymore? I watch a lot of booktube videos and he is never even mentioned, he is very popular in eastern europe i think and especially in the balkans. People that love books about nature and adventure should check him out; my main recommedation is Martin Eden, everyone that loves reading books and maybe wants to become a writer someday should definitely read this one!

i immediately feel like you're about to give me a wry smile and speak to me in riddles

24:30 - Also adapted to a movie from the 80's

lovely video as always! The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne is set on St Petersburg's The Winter Palace and is a wintery read that I hold very dear in my heart - bear with me: I've read it some 10 years ago and have never reread it, so I'm not sure it's *that* good. but maybe it's worth a try?

Have you read the Snow Child?

you HAVE to finally read 'a winters promise' omg like it has snow, VERY unique characters and a very strange hotel

So much of what you read is in alignment with what I read. But ...The Bear and the Nightingale is a top favorite of mine! (The whole series is a favorite). I'm surprised that you didn't like it😱

WHITE FANG BY JACK LONDON. READ IT.

emmas fits give me life

Thank you for the recommendations - loved the winter theme! I would recommend "Once Upon a Wardrobe"; it is about a young woman studying at Oxford who befriends C.S. Lewis while he is working there as a professor. She has been begged by her little, sick brother to find out why he wrote the "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" because it is his favorite book. They form a friendship with Lewis and it is quite charming (plus most of the story takes place in winter).

First--this was fabulous! Second, Major Metcalf hid the skis. He was on alert omce Molly said the police called. Ms. Boyle was just being an ass, Mr. Paravacini dealt in black market stuff (why he he's able to send Molly the fois gras later)...but Metcalf got twitchy bc he immediately knew that Trotter was the murderer.

Emma, it makes me so sad that I know a book I'm sure you'd love, a middle-grade historical fantasy set in a luxurious hotel in St. Petersburg during a harsh winter with Snow Queen elements... but it's only available in German. 😥

''winter is death!'' 😊✨💖

BABY I AM HERE!!!

The Ice Palace is my favorite book, and Emmie recommended it. Icefields however was a 1 star, I had such high hopes for it, but found it actually vulgar, and the thing in the ice which is the interesting part is only briefly talked about, most of the book is a bunch of vulgar men talking about this dull woman.

Ooo I’ve had entwined on my TBR forever