Pile of Shame Reading Vlog || Books with Emily Fox

[@becklebooks]

Your saltiness over misogyny in books/sci-fi and calling it 'mm, a little spice' = my angst, also. Solidarity, buddy. I will forgive any brain fart you have over words cos I only speak one language and not always very well bahahaha! :P

[@darknessdescends6701]

Oh, no. The one sequel which shall not be named will be missed from the Pile of Shame. 💔

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

One down... one more to go :P

[@katietatey]

Ohhh please finish Count of Monte Cristo! I can't wait to hear your thoughts. I just finished and I loved it.

[@SalemsL0t]

We don’t talk about the pile around these parts

[@americanbookdragon]

Good lord, my pile would be huge. 😳

[@amelianewton817]

Same😂

[@ericarobbin]

Hooray for Children of Ruin! 🎉 Sad it was less enjoyable for you. I have 933 on my GR TBR, about 20 of them are on my physical shelf waiting for me... and I have 531 books downloaded on digital not listed on my GR TBR. I’d have to read just over 120 books/year for the next 10 years to catch up! 😳

[@nistha9953]

Good luck with your tbr 👍🏻

[@leenox23]

when i'm in a slump reading stand alone short books helps . read stuff you know you gonna like.

[@EndlessLaymon]

My pile of shame is so huge and has been festering since my teens. It has taken on it's own sentient life now.

[@HeyMarysh]

Love your expressive little post-it’s 😊

[@myribstellmesheslying]

My pile of shame was so heavy it probably reached hell by now.

[@joannapats6843]

The day you pick up City of Brass, should be the same do I do that 😂

[@jelatinosa]

I read half of The Toll and then I stopped. I just get into slumps and I stop reading and it just happened to happen while I was mid book. Thanks for reminding me I have to finish reading it. I have a couple other books I should finish, but I wasn't very into them, and it's been longer since I read them.

[@mcdoobies7328]

I needed 3 attempts to get to the end of this video because each time I saw you reading Children Of Ruin I fainted. 😱

[@oatmeal4020]

Love the editing in this one! I recommend City of Brass on audio, because you don't get stuck on the foreign names and such. Loved it, such exotic fantasy

[@Iamkristenmarie]

Spiders -> octopuses is an interesting transition. P.S. Your fringe is giving me intense Charlotte Gainsbourg vibes and I’m here for it.

[@locutusdborg126]

Gainsborg's Jane Eyre was genius.

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

My pile of shame is 60 thousand books long...

[@tappkalina]

Same

[@rebeccavaughan9913]

this has encouraged me to deal with my own pile of shame (which is from an almost two-year-long reading slump RIP) so thank you !!!

[@justice777ism]

More vlogs, the world needs more reading vlogs 😍

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Next video is a vlog :)

[@rebeccamedusasrockgarden4781]

Children of Time is my favourite book so far this year and I have been putting off reading Ruin because I am so scared it will disappoint me. And now you've made me even more scared, oh no. Maybe I will be lucky and still love it though. Eeek.

[@cristinapetcu9491]

I would like to see in a video what movies/tv series you like/love. I'm very curios what you like (as you're my favourite booktuber)❤

[@scottishbookworm8506]

I have such a pile of shame. I call it 'on pause' to make it seem deliberate. I just find it so hard to pick them back up. I've found that I can sit down and read 100-200 pages and once I put it back down (even though I'm enjoying it) my brain just shuts it away

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

On pause definitely sounds better... but I need to shame myself in order to actually come back and finish them haha

[@caroliinalopes]

I call mine "on hold" as well 😅

[@cat.book.nook.]

Hi! I just watched some of your old videos and you recommended The Test as the book that fans of Black Mirror might like. I thought that you might want to check out QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling! It's by german author and not that popular, there are some weird parts that weren't perfect for me, but overall it's a fun view on the life with technology- as in Black Mirror, sometimes it's really scary that the scenarios are not that unbelievable.. Also, I am in a reading slump and that was a book that made it a bit better!

[@legumesss]

I love Qualityland! But I think a huge part is his narration, I don't know how it would be as a translated book or narrated by someone else

[@cecirapalini]

OMG She read Children of ruin!! Bravo!! Sorry it was a dissapointment :(

[@nocturnus009]

Apologies for getting hyped because I see book one of William Gibson's Jackpot Trilogy, The Peripheral in the background. Glad little Em is Masked.

[@DamnableReverend]

The "up and down" nature of 2001 is probably largely due to it being a sort of "fix-up novel"...with elements taken from older Clarke short stories. Although you could say the film is equally disjointed in a sense, I feel that may be a rare case of a film outdoing its literary source in many ways -- though as book and film were developed together, this is a different case than usual. I just discovered your channel. I recently discovered there's a wealth of book-talk content on youtube and it's been an interesting journey so far. I have not read many of the books I've heard you talk about so far, but I enjoy your relaxed and thoughtful style of presentation.

[@aracelisalazar5419]

I LOVED ELEONOR OLIPHAN IS COMPLETELY FINE!! I think you're going to enjoy it!! Though I would say that I found it a bit slow at the beginning and if you have from second-hand embarrassment easily you're going to suffer a lot haha

[@annikatc]

Where did you get the book markers with the reaction faces?! They are so cute!!

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Here: bit.ly/3aVSe4b

[@sonyadanailova9537]

I would like to recommend John Marrs as a thriller author. So far I have read 3 of his books and they were amazing. I think you would enjoy his storytelling style. I liked your vlog a lot. I am sorry that you didn't enjoy Children of Ruin as much as you hoped.

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

I am totally the same as you and when 2021 stars i am going to get started with finishing it love you and your beautiful channel love John from Australia xx

[@rosieringlet1]

Can you tell me the name of the lipstick you’re wearing when you have the blue dress on? I used to wear a similar shade and have never successfully replaced it when they stopped making it.

[@megh6578]

Also the lipstick when you're wearing the NASA sweater please? I really love that color

[@karamarie6781]

Hated Imaginary Friend. I was thinking, what the he’ll did I just read?🤨

[@0p0a0s4]

I am literally the same way. I start books all the time and am enjoying them but for some reason I stop. I've got over 50% through The City of Brass in like June and just haven't picked it back up

[@gerarddonohoe5806]

Brain fart?...😂😂😂haha love it...

[@Lisa130799]

wow I really can't believe the book that shall not be named running joke ended, in honor of that someone should make a compilation of all the times Emily said she was going to read it

[@stormingjales]

well, at least you read it. tension is gone, but sad it ended up like that. also, le comte de monte-cristo, it's been a while.

[@joannawarrens5117]

I am loving The Calculating Stars the first book in the Lady Astronaut series. I’m having a reading slump too but the advantage is I’m more open to trying new things. I have read both NK Jamison and Becky Chambers thanks to you but I love this book! Any recommendations for similar authors?

[@neet3691]

My pile of shame is -Atlas shrugged -Homo sapiens Though I read 200 and 100 pages respectively and really enjoyed it but couldn't convince myself to pick them again due to their huge size .I have Mass market paperback of Atlas shrugged . The font is so small which is enough for demotivation.

[@LilTheLah]

I love all of your challenge videos, such a fun time! :D

[@clarkkentnaruto4322]

I know exactly how you feel about reading multiple books at the same time. I am currently reading and listening to Son of A Witch, the Wicked Years book 2, by Gregory MaGuire, the Auth Method forearm massage techniques for a massage therapy Continuuing Education class, Traitors Blade by Sebastien De Castell, and the Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan. I also have over 2,000 audiobooks in my digital library.

[@starry_worlds]

My pile of shame is like 9/10 books long and I keep adding to it xD.

[@karamarie6781]

May I ask what your accent is? Love your channel. New subscriber!

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I'm French Canadian!

[@anacatarinasimoes3653]

Oh I'm so sad you were disappointed with Children of Ruin. I loved it but I can totally see why you wouldn't like it... It's very similar to book one and I thought it lacked action, it was almost always on the same speed. I literally gasped when you said a book 3 is coming out and, even tho I didn't love book 2 as much as book 1, I'll definitely pick it up.

[@imaginarycosmetics]

I just finished Children of Ruin today. I definitely enjoyed it, but I still think the first book is better. I gave it 4 stars, my only problem is that the ending felt pretty rushed & convenient, I didn't mind that it was very similar to book one just with octopuses instead of spiders.

[@aoi6075]

My pile of shame is neverending 😅

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I remove 3 in one video... only to add 20 within the next couple months XD

[@nijinoshita3301]

My Pile of Shame consists of the priory of the orange tree, which I started back in March and stopped for a readathon and never picked it back up again but I did enjoy it, though I think at this point I need to start over again because I forgot like everything... and Wheel of Time Book 7, but I needed something that wouldn't infuriate me with its bad relationships all the time so I stopped for a while, will pick it back up soon. I think that is still ok.

[@alb0zfinest]

Having just finished the last book of The Wheel of Time, I genuinely advise you to stop reading it. The writing quality only gets worse and worse to the point where it feels like a stockholm syndrome relationship. I only continued because I was promised a fantastic and amazing ending and honestly it was just ok. Sanderson’s writing style is so cringe and YA that it ruined so much. Every character practically is s shadow of his/her former self, and there are 4 books where absolutely nothing happens (8-11). Please, spare yourself all that time. I literally listened to it on audiobook (when I typically like to take my time on a paperback) and I had to continue forcing myself.

[@junechevalier]

I love this pile of shame documentary, I honestly thought you're one who would love kings of the wyld tbh xD and btw, are you interested in reading an early copy of a renaissance fantasy/gothic novel that I'm planning on releasing later this year? Thanks in advance! Looking forward to more of your content :)

[@mizandricripps7432]

This is so sad. I love Children of Ruin not as much as Children of Time but Still very interesting and I only hope that if there is going to be a third book that it will be better.

[@SZ-bb7ji]

My pile of shame: sapiens a brief history of humankind, kingdom of copper, old man's war, prisoners of geography, a man called ove, arcanum unbounded and kings of the wyld (most recent addition). The absolutely best part is that I'm not hating any of them, at all, I'm just not finishing them

[@biankatoth1786]

Ohhh I moving so slow with Sapiens, I expected something else.

[@SZ-bb7ji]

@@biankatoth1786 I started it more than a year ago 💀 So yep, slow over here as well

[@jennawar13]

I just cleared my pile of shame. It was a pile of one and it took me over a year to finish it lol I swear I’m not going to do this again! Finish or DNF only!

[@avrilgloworm518]

your hair is really cute

[@dahakhamoontouched4133]

Dammit I shouldn't have watched this yet, I just started Children of Ruin yesterday and I didn't actually think you'd get to it this month! Plus I was sure you'd love it so seeing your reaction seemed like a safe bet. *sad trombone* Ah well, congratulations on lifting that shameful weight from your shoulders~!

[@bookishpothos7649]

Woohoo, you _finally_ went on an adventure! Shame it ended in disappointment for you. I'm one of the weird ones who liked Ruin more than Time. There are dozens of us! While Time was overall the much more polished book I was never enamoured with the human perspective (and I had previously read Dragon's Egg which has the same concept so CoT's premise wasn't all that novel for me going in) so the much darker atmosphere that Ruin gave the human side made it a much more engaging read for me, enough to forgive the issues it had and prefer it over the original. Stories aside which did you end up liking more; 🕷️ or 🐙?

[@biankatoth1786]

I probably didn't like because of this. I hate spiders but I got to love them in the first book, it was an interesting concept about their evolution. I didn't really care about the octopuses though and I got confused sometimes about the timeline.

[@anddestroyit2654]

My half-read pile of shame is empty because I got rid of the only book on it, my “been on my TBR for too long” pile of shame is a different story...

[@teanlit2949]

i think a pile of shame is a great idea!

[@malenelumentxaka7370]

Do you think Children Of Time has a high english level ? I really wanna read it but english it’s not my first language and thick sci-fi books kinda scare me.

[@oonam3519]

English isn’t my first language either and I would say it was like medium level english? Definitely not over complicated tho!

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I would also say it's at medium level!

[@missburn]

Check out 'Murderbot Diaries', they are about 150 pages long. And also, the 'Themis Files' trilogy by Sylvain Neuvel is easy to read as it is in interview style so there are not huge amounts of text.

[@biankatoth1786]

Children of ruin wasn't as good as the Children of Time, I didn't really care about the octopuses (octopi, not one octopus, but more :D ), I got sometimes a little confused about the timeline but it's still enjoyable and readable.

[@BookTubewithAmy]

I'm truly ashamed to admit I didn't get to the end of the third Song of Ice and Fire book. They're brilliant, but so heavy and dense that they need you to be off work and able to properly immerse.

[@Gostpepperchicken]

But the third book is the best one 🙂

[@BookTubewithAmy]

@@Gostpepperchicken I'm definitely going to read it but I want to give it the attention it deserves. A few days off work and a big mug of tea ☕ Have you read them all?

[@Gostpepperchicken]

@@BookTubewithAmy yes I have . The so called red wedding part happens in this book and Joffrey? It was soooo satisfying. I hope you enjoy it.

[@astellus]

Glad you DNF'D Imaginary Friend. It was soo bad and only got worse as it went on.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Once I saw reviews saying that I just couldn't keep going lol

[@astellus]

@@BookswithEmilyFox it had such promise that by the time I realized I didn't like it, I had put in too much time so I hate read the rest.

[@jamielou81]

I wish I had DNF-d Imaginary Friend. I was sorely disappointed in the ending.

[@SuavisTea]

Congratulations ❤📚

[@samuelm2989]

If I dont finish a book I never pick it up again. No pile of shame in my life 😌✌

[@shmizzleshmazzle9830]

French: Saturn English: Saturn?

[@thelifeofmiranda]

love this video :D

[@ashleyerin7348]

❤️

[@CananS]

cute vlog :)

[@sarahfolger5232]

The Wanderers gets religious. DNF immediately! It's truly not worth it.

[@williamstewart6454]

Congrats on finishing 2001

[@glacecoco]

je trouve ça marrant quand tu dis "pile" parce que j'ai l'impression d'entendre PAL (pile à lire), mais en vrai les deux marchent alors bon.. xD

[@willlexie]

"YOU" is really rubbish, I rated it 1.7.

[@yanagoldman5525]

Thank you for shaming me into reading!

[@nursyvibz3788]

I DNF'd A Curse So Dark and Lonely this week. It was just boring. If it isn't working for you, I think it isn't worth forcing yourself....

[@kseniyab2901]

Hello Emily, kinda personal question: are your teeth whitened?

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Since I have little hooks on my teeth for my Invisalign I can’t whiten my teeth so it’s been a year and a half since I’ve been able to do any whitening!

[@kseniyab2901]

@@BookswithEmilyFox I see. 😀

[@valentinabunnell1862]

If you didn’t like the beginning of imaginary friend you deeefinitely wouldn’t have liked the last half. I really liked the atmosphere of the first half but the twist lost me and everything I liked about the beginning 😢

[@jenniferjones2863]

The movie version of books are never as good but Kubrik's idea of 2001 absolutely sucks. I wouldn't watch it until after you finish the book.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I try to watch it... is there only the old movie? I thought there was a more recent version so I didn't bother lol

[@katietatey]

Really? I love 2001 the movie and haven't read the book yet but I want to. Did you really not like the movie? If you liked the book more it must be amazing.

[@jenniferjones2863]

Actually Clark and Kubrick worked on the book together before the movie, although the movie came out before the book was officially published, even though it was written.