2019 READING CHALLENGES WRAP UP & 2020 READING GOALS! || Books with Emily Fox

[@claraesteve8335]

Thank you thank you thank you for making such a big effort to post every two days this month. You have no idea how much I appreciate it and how you light up my day everytime I see you’ve posted! Favourite youtuber ever. Huge hug and thankyou and admiration from Barcelona❤️

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Aw thank you! It's been a bit more challenging than planned but that's 2019 for you lol ❤️

[@lisabook4175]

So many cool Readathons! The Magical Readathon (OWLs and NEWTs) and the Bookie Trials are just very cool!

[@katerinateaser]

Can't wait for those!! G is awesome .

[@inksplat]

The Bookie Trials was my first readathon and it was SO FUN! I’m looking forward to it and attempting the Magical Readathon!

[@BookRoast]

I’m so excited for your reading vlogs if you decide to make them ♥️ 2019 has been a rotten year, here’s to a better 2020 for us both

[@bertfechner417]

My 2020 reading resolutions are Read 200 books, buy no more than 50, read my height in books, read my weight in books, read more non-fiction (at least 1 per month)

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Damn that's a lot of books! Those are awesome! I might have to try to read my height XD

[@desertrose0601]

Personally I usually have way too many challenges that I tell myself I need to do. For 2020, my goal is actually to make less reading goals and learn to embrace mood reading. 😆

[@picklejuice2]

desertrose0601 LOVE. THIS. 🙌🏻💛

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I was thinking about doing that... but then I went in the opposite direction lol We'll see XD

[@khalifaal-rowaiei4656]

Emily you should definitely do a reading challenge to read all your “pile of shame” books, that would be nice and funny to watch 🤣 I bet it’s gonna be a long year project 😂 But I know that you can do it 💪🏼💪🏼

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I definitely need to do another one... damn it lol

[@kingstoken]

Reading Challenge idea, reading books that are mentioned in other books, or reading books that your favourite tv/films characters have mentioned or been shown reading on screen

[@YeahThisIsLife]

Had to hold myself back from cheering out loud when you said more reading vlogs! So excited to read with you for another year!!

[@SprinGiddinessify]

Your reading big books challenge really motivated me to pick up more big books off my shelf this year. Thank You Emily !

[@pamelatarajcak5634]

I love the Popsugar and Reading Women challenges which take the form of reading scavenger hunts. I love finding a book for each prompt. I've found some favorite books and authors and diversified my reading tastes quite a bit.

[@olivia1910]

My 2020 reading goal is to try to accept the fact that I'm 26 years old and that I don't enjoy YA as much as I used to anymore xD I'm always tempted by the cool premise and the gorgeous cover but more often than not I end up disappointed, usually because of an unnecessary insta-love romance that takes over the interesting plot lol. Unless someone I trust specifically says that there's no romance or that it's exceptionally well done/not too cringe worthy I won't bother. I really want to read more adult fiction, non-fiction and sci-fi ! and I'm also definitely going to attempt the Magical Readathon this year, missed it last year but it sounds so so cool I'm excited !

[@MegaMind169]

Dude, same.

[@roksanaszulta5776]

Same here! 🙋🏻‍♀️ I give up on ya, don't have the time to stress about my disappointment towards it. I'll read the ones I already own, but I'm pretty sure I'll be unhauling them right after I finish them 😂

[@ACourtofHooksAndBooks]

My challenge this year will actually be to be LESS of a try hard. I'm tired of reading being a chore rather than something I enjoy doing. I set my goal this year to 100 books for the third year in a row and failed and realized its because half the time when I'm reading I dont really want to be. So despite the fact I know I will read more than this, I set my reading goal to 26 books for 2020 and I'm only setting a tbr for six books for the whole year - the rest will be spur of the moment reads which suits me well since I'm a mood reader

[@Readingwithabawse]

the jar is such a good idea!

[@nessrinelouati5518]

I really love your idea of reading 20 books that you were dying to read by picking one every month. I have the same problem where i have many books that i really want to read and i know that i'm going to love but i don't read them and tell myself that i should keep them for later. I'm really looking forward to this challenge and the other ones as well!! Wish you luck with all of the challenges and a good year weither with reading or in general!!! Love you

[@missburn]

Can't wait for your 2020 videos.

[@aless.andra9620]

Can you do a video (tag?), where you discuss books which were your favorites before Booktube? I saw it on the other channel recently and thought it may be fun!

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I honestly wasn't reading much before booktube because of university lol

[@Rickybobby1130]

I love reading vlogs!

[@jazmynesimington7773]

Your my favorite booktuber!! I get so happy when I get notifications that u posted a video!

[@abbywonder3825]

I’m rewatching this video, knowing how 2020 is going so far

[@DarkMistyDay]

A reading challenge I created for myself last year was to read one book per day for the first week of January, that way only 7 days into the new year I can already say I read 7 books! I either read a really short book or a manga/graphic novel and that makes it easy. And I usually pick one challenging book to read at some point during each year, one that takes a while and that I really research and explore. Lastly I choose one book per year to annotate/tab and I generally do that with a book I've already read and know I enjoy so it's not a chore to reread. You can use any of my challenges, I don't have a book channel so I'm the only person doing them currently haha! Love your channel, have a great 2020 :)

[@CassandraKarlberg]

For reading challenges I suggest borrowing readathon-concepts. E.g. do a month where you try to read as many books with numbers in the titles as possible.

[@charityyoder9028]

My general reading plan is to just read. Last year with my move I ended up not reading a lot. So this year I read whatever appealed to me, which allowed me to read some romance (which mostly angered me but it was also kind of fun). Next year I think will be redefining what I like reading, I thought I knew but apparently I was wrong. As for vlogging... I say keep going. ☺☺

[@aephiinguyen]

Love you Emily!!!! Love to see you recap the year to see how much you progressed and how you can improve!!!

[@victoria6641]

I’d love to see how you organise your reading challenges and everything you’re planning on reading in 2020 bc I find it so hard to keep track myself lol! Love your videos btw! X

[@Cassia_L]

I'm recommending books to my sister, so I've looked through all the books I've read this year and I'm blaming you for how much Sci-fi I've read! I usually read 60% Fantasy / 20% Sci-fi / 20%other This years it's 45 Fantasy / 35 Sci-fi / 20%other

[@aimee4895]

snow globe Emily needs her own channel lol!

[@celiap.7385]

OMG I am so excited for the monthly reading challenges ! 😍

[@Readingwithabawse]

yes! i love reading vlogs

[@seaoftigers]

For me it was also a crappy reading year. So I think we have to kick ass next year.

[@sarahs2951]

I’m so excited for all these changes in the new year!!!!!

[@thereadingrobin2191]

Looking forward to your videos in 2020! I'm doing the big book challenge next year, hope it goes well. Also doing a TBR jar for all my owned books to knock those down. I'm also going to do a monthly reading challenge with key words, for example in January one of them is water.

[@courtneyprovince]

Putting off books you want to read is the definition of mashed potato books, a phrase from the Books Abound podcast 😄😄

[@FromJessToYou]

I have a tendency to avoid the novels that I am most interested in reading too. **hahaa** Best of luck with your goals.

[@celina6259]

I am all about the reading vlogs 😍

[@momplans2read]

I’m doing an A to Z title challenge to work through my backlist. I’m also doing a big book challenge inspired by you.

[@AlliWolfe]

In 2019 i tried themed months and some went good. I did Middle Grade March and i read way too many middle grade. I then did ContemporApril where i read only contemporary. I got tired of Contemporary half way through the month. I want to do nonfiction November next year! I love those themed month readathons.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Themes are fun but yeah... some months are more fun than others haha

[@nataliavalenca9382]

I’m so excited to see this monthly challenges!!! I love your goodreads reading challenge, it’s so much fun.. about the readathon, there is the magical readathon hosted by book roast, it’s really creative and we do two readthons in the year: the owls and the newts (and sometimes a winter readathon) hahah you really should check that out ☺️☺️

[@cattyghostly7414]

God, she's out there reading 100 books a year and I'm here with a goal of 19!

[@livslibrary]

I always love hearing about your reading challenges! I don’t have any big challenges, other than try to read 100 books 👏🏻

[@b29491]

I'm also going to make a list of 10 or 20 Books I want to read in 2020 since I do have a lot of books on my shelves that I'm dying to read but love looking forward to (and then there are ones I know I'll like bc I loved previous installments in the serieses but they're just so damn long)!

[@Slowlivingminimalist]

I actually got the idea from you of doing the goodreads one this year

[@annamarkovic3752]

I love vlogs, I’d love to see you do more if you enjoy creating that kind of content

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I wish I had more time for more fun content lol I'm really hoping I'll be able to in 2020 :)

[@annamarkovic3752]

BookswithEmilyFox I hope so too💕 keep up the amazing work! You are my favourite KZbinr and you are doing amazing here 😊

[@stephanieeaves479]

For my personal reading I don’t do reading challenges. For videos I love watching any style of challenge!

[@egeozer9916]

just recommended. it's funny how wrong you're in the first 5 secs and snowglobe Emily knew it all along :D

[@hayleycochran5945]

Relaxed reading vlogs please!

[@BrewsandReviews]

Taking away goals that stress you out is the best idea! :)

[@samuelm2989]

Will you make reading clubs or whatever they're called on goodreads? So people who join can discuss the book

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I have one I've neglected a bit towards the end of 2019 lol I want to just give myself January to finish unpacking after the move and I'll announce what happens after :)

[@Earendil1992]

Do a video/challenge where you read classic sci-fi and maybe give us your top 5 recommendations! Give yourself a break with the big book challenge, just read them as and when you really want to! :)

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Did you see my notebook?! :P I do think a year off will be nice, I'm sure I'll still end up reading quite a few big books anyway!

[@kiraironskin]

All the ideas for next year Sound so motivating! You will make 2020 awesome! Join u in a few reads/ challenges would be nice ^^ And I'd love to join your big books challenge in 2020. I love this challenge! If it weren't for audiobooks I wouldn't even have read 15 books. (13 books, 34 audiobooks) So I wasn't very productive with actuall reading this year. Hope I can establish a 50-50 relation next year gggg

[@nochumlevi4585]

I was literally looking up your possible upload for 2020 reading goals and this just came out WAHOOO!!!

[@cakes_lollies9948]

Your English accent is sounding so fluent these days! Go you! Also, you did so much in 2019, don't kick your butt too much. You should be proud of how much you accomplished.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Thank you! I basically had to relearn how to speak after my surgery and it's been a journey XD

[@404CarolineNotFound]

Yess, I would love to see more Sci Fi recommendations! An intermediate one would be super cool, but a specific concept at the center (such as first contact) would be amazing aswell! Clearly, for me you could just do them all haha

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

2020... all the sci-fi for sure :D

[@Books_BrewsandBeyond]

Hi Emily. I have taken part in the Reading Challenge on Goodreads for the last couple of years and it has been really fun so far. My goal this year was to read 130 books which I managed to do which was lucky.

[@LiliOV]

I think that a monthly challenge will be kinda the one big book by month, I love the idea I think that it gives more interaction with us!! and maybe at the end of the month we could have a live in KZbin to comment the challenge and of course the book or books, instead of a wrap up monthly... what do you think Idk it just occurs to me...

[@beepboop9976]

Looking forwards to your 2020 reading vlogs!!

[@fileanavailable]

Yessss I love your vlogs so much looking forward to those!!! 😍 and also can’t wait for 2/week woot woot

[@LadyCroft86]

I love the End of the year-series! :D Are you going to do a statistic-video of what you read in 2019?

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Yup! :)

[@LadyCroft86]

@@BookswithEmilyFox Awsome!! :D

[@rebeccawhite2582]

I don't do challenges, reading is fun and relaxing- it shouldn't be a chore.

[@purplepothos5794]

3:30 [Cough] Children of Ruin [Cough]

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

XD

[@Nastya-uj9bg]

Love you hair btw. Very french "charlotte gainsbourg" vibe

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Thank you! I've been enjoying it... might change my mind when the warm weather comes back tho but it's great for winter lol

[@abbywonder3825]

One of my reading challenges is to read some of the oldest books on my shelves by a certain time. If I don’t read them, I unhaul them

[@picklejuice2]

Here for encouragement - I’ve been in a reading slump for about 3 months... I’m feeling guilty for it but more than anything I’m feeling anxious that I’ll never want to read again😔 [i know that’s dramatic but I have an anxiety disorder and I’m genuinely anxious about it😔] Anyway, anyone that wants to send encouragement/positive vibes/self acceptance tips.. ya know I’m open to it💛

[@mariannellp]

Hey! I've recently come out of a ~3 years reading slump. HOPEFULLY, yours won't be as long, but remember books have been here for a long time and will still be there for you when you're ready for them. In the meantime, try something new! Movies, tv, art, any new hobby might help you discover something new and make you want to read something about the subject. Also, maybe give audiobooks a try? Whatever you do, don't pressure yourself. You'll be okay, and books will be there for you when you're ready for them.

[@picklejuice2]

mai pouliot thank you💛 I appreciate it📚

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I feel you! 2019 has been a rough year for me too! If you can, I would recommend giving audiobook a chance. They've really help me continue reading while I didn't have time/energy to sit down :)

[@picklejuice2]

BookswithEmilyFox I’ve been re-listening to The Martian and I’m loving it. As always🙌🏻 but I keep trying to physically read and my brain is like ... nah

[@courtneyprovince]

Hey! I also went through quite a long reading slump. Went a few years reading 0, 1, or 2 books. I slowly started reading again the past couple years and I finished 27 books this year!! Take it slow and don’t put pressure on yourself :)

[@amandajbxoxo]

Maybe you could do a video where you read the highest rated book on your the and the lowest rated and make it a vlog!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

“2019 kicked my ass” RT

[@insanebutterfly3439]

I would like to see your favourite books of all time.

[@patricijabiskup948]

Yeah, most fantasy is over 500 pages, so you could go with that challenge, but not have a tbr. Tbr for the year could khm be stressful. Hahah 😊😊📚

[@kimf7606]

Do the Magical Readathon by G Its amazing and I think you would really like it. Its 2 a year OWLS and NEWTS

[@abibliophobe2731]

My goal for 2020 is to try and read bigger books. I want to read at least six big books but more would be nice.

[@Elizabeth-uu5tv]

I am doing 2 year long challenges: The #ReadingWomenChallenge hosted by Kendra Winchester and #ClassicsCommunity with Lucy the Reader. I would also like to do read-a-thons for Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, International Women's Month and Pan Asian American Heritage Month. I will be doing Victober and Tis the Season, Oh What Fun and Reindeer-a-thon next Christmas. Two other personal goals are to read The Iliad and at least attempt Proust's Swann's Way. Not really concerned with how many books I read next year. I would just like to enjoy the ones I get to. Happy Reading in 2020!

[@rs.rc1679]

How about setting a book/challenge for the month and live show at the end of it for discussions ? I think live discussions would be a nice addition to the fox book club. Is it still ongoing by the way if you are planning on starting a patreon one?

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I just want to give myself a bit more time to get my things together (I had to stop unpacking in December because of the crazy schedule) but I'll announce what happens once things are a bit more under control :)

[@maartjedegroot9598]

My 2020 plans are: Participate in the Pop Sugar reading challenge and finish all of the prompts Participate in a Dutch fantasy challenge with 25 prompts and another Dutch one with 24 prompts. Finish 20 series I’ve started and reading as many backlist titles as possible. I also want to read a couple of books from the top tens of the Goodreads awards: ya sci-fi and fantasy, fiction, mystery thriller, historical, romance, fantasy, sci-fi and debut novel. Oh, and I’m making an effort to read the favorites of 2019 of my favorite booktubers. A lot of challenges, but I do read a lot of books.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Damn you're going to be busy! Best of luck :)

[@lenani9143]

My reading goal for 2020 is reading 52 books. That number seems small? Well, I read 19 books this year and 18 books last year and even less in 2017...

[@mejustine2424]

You can do it. My goal for this year was 50 and I read 54. Also 19 books is super good!!!!!

[@tpstps85]

1 book a week sounds doable, you can help yourself with audiobooks and graphic novels 😊

[@rimrockshadows]

This is my pace as well for my lifestyle. I can to at most 55-60 per year, and a bad year will be around 20. But 20 is better than none!

[@cattyghostly7414]

Im at 20 as well. Don't worry about it, it's not a race, it's just a hobby.

[@Lady_S]

That's my goal as well!!

[@ELVIS58687]

You are so beatifull!!!

[@Brendawwg86]

Yayyyy!!!!!

[@williamstewart6454]

Could you have as one of your challenges to read 2001 : A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke

[@alyssablunt7014]

My reading goal is to read at least 30 books and 10 big books (more than 600 pages). We'll see but seems a good start

[@Books_BrewsandBeyond]

For 2020 I'm going to drop the amount down to 50 books.

[@christiangiovannihermosill2514]

Stephen king reading month, or only read sf.

[@storytime-teacherteresagen1809]

Hello! How many books do you own in your library collection now?

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I counted them in my last vlog but added a few in my last haul so... just under 700!

[@storytime-teacherteresagen1809]

@@BookswithEmilyFox Wow!!!

[@biaguiar]

0:01 this didn't age well now did it?

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

LOL seriously

[@rimrockshadows]

My 2020 goal is to see if I can read 50 books but buy none of them. Library and borrowing from people and free libraries. We'll see if it's possible!

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

That's a good goal!

[@happydij]

My 2020 resolution is reading books that interest me instead of reading books because of the hype on booktube.

[@jazmynesimington7773]

I messaged you on Twitter 😀

[@ayyitsginaprice]

I'm bad, I start books and never finish them and then start new books 😭

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I've done that a lot... I've been calling it my "pile of shame" XD

[@Hammished7]

I avoid certain books too! I’m afraid there won’t be replacement goodness, which is silly, right? But that was my single reading goal, read all the “good books” I’ve been avoiding. Get out of my head, Emily.

[@israaahmed7168]

Reading Vlogs with Sarah J. Maas’s books!!!!!!!!

[@michele1283]

This intro didn't age well 😂