Can't Say I Didn't Try... || Books with Emily Fox

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

What's a trope you can't stand?

[@beautywithemilie]

Totally average girl that everyone wants... 🙃

[@Morfeusm]

Movie tropes in books. Just nope...

[@trishnanamchoom7321]

Fantasy books which are actually romance 🤧 and like pairing of suuuuuuuper old male and an 18year old giril! Nooooooo

[@UzlZz]

Love triangles

[@Moon-tc3jb]

@@UzlZz I second this

[@shippingluvar13]

TOTALLY agree with you about the pointless sexual assault scenes. Sex scenes in general are cringe imo, but sexual assault just disturbs me. One exception I’ve found though is My Dark Vanessa. It’s written by a woman and I felt it handled the topic very realistically in a respectful way. Highly recommend. Very powerful story.

[@AMilli0NliGHTS]

The pretty cover of The Midnight Library is the U.S. edition, it’s available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon in the U.S. IDK if they ship to Canada though.

[@relishcake5413]

the selection is becoming a netflix movie 🤣

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Im getting the popcorn ready!!

[@animeeiradukunda1611]

@@BookswithEmilyFox Also, Nine Perfect Strangers was adapted into a TV series by Hulu! It's coming out this year.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Nooooo

[@animeeiradukunda1611]

@@BookswithEmilyFox I'm so sorry to break it to you 😅

[@mariac__as]

I don't think you're heartless for not liking wwII historical fiction, I personally hate them. I feel like the authors that write historical novels set in that time are not trying to raise awareness, at this point I think they're just kind of using people's suffering in order to get awards, because books (and movies ) that focus around that theme always get a lot of praise. And those books, that kind of constant exposure to suffering, I think it kinda numbs our empathy and majes us used to it. I think it's really important to be educated about history and about that period in particular, but for that there are a lot of memoirs and non fiction from and about survivors and witnesses. Don't get me wrong, fiction is a great way to get people to empathize and I think that's important too, but I just think that authors try to use that suffering and trauma for their own purposes and I hate it. I think it's kind of manipulative so I just don't care for fiction about wwII anymore.

[@barbara9315]

In Greek literature,a lot of Greek author focus on the catastrophe of Smyrna and minor Asia,and as a grandchild of survivors I can say it makes me sick to see them.some are historical,which I understand,but most are for sensationalism.

[@gambit613]

The hyped authors I can’t get along with are definitely Sarah J Maas and Cassandra Clare

[@CarolinaRodriguez-jj2hi]

For the longest time I thought they were the same person for some reason 😂

[@deelylife]

Same😂

[@jio5680]

Gahds I can relate to this so much! Add Holly Black too

[@jio5680]

@@CarolinaRodriguez-jj2hi well in your defense, their writing styles & stories are basically as if written by the same person so

[@lauramartinez-um4gm]

I read throne of glass and it was literally the first book I’ve ever hated. Her writing almost felt like a wattpad book, just very cliche and adolescent. I physically rolled my eyes when I read it…

[@skyenoelle5496]

Hear me out: the male love interest dying in the first chapter.

[@stained_edges]

I am here for this!!!! 🙌🙌🙌 #solo-yolo

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

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[@Tsunotarouu]

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[@katherine6107]

I want recommendations of books like that

[@margauxpillot4681]

Hall of Smoke H.M Long

[@rethabilemosia8200]

I never thought I'd find a booktuber with almost the exact reading taste as me and yet here you are

[@rethabilemosia8200]

Anyone know any other booktubers with this kind of taste??

[@cadencev5572]

@@rethabilemosia8200 I think Daniel Greene is the closest one for me

[@eeyoresballoon9886]

I'm the opposite, I love Emily so much but our reading tastes couldn't be more different ahaha

[@petitgarcon9675]

I got to believe there cannot be anyone with exact same tastes with any person in the world. When I dont share her preferences, I like, enjoy and respect Emily's,though.

[@SeanoDragon]

I can’t believe you did my tag! Low key freaking out!

[@gizmofox5995]

I LOVE historical fiction, but like you, I cannot stand reading about World War II. It's unfortunate that all the hyped books tend to be set in that era.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

any recommendations?

[@muskaan3711]

There's a book called The Twentieth Wife. It's based on Indian Mughal history and has a fierce female protagonist. Don't know any if it'll interest you or not.

[@gizmofox5995]

@@BookswithEmilyFox I enjoyed The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu, The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange, and The Familiars by Stacey Halls.

[@elenichamou1791]

@@BookswithEmilyFox Shadow of The Wind & The Remains of The Day are excellent.

[@dailycarolina.]

@@BookswithEmilyFox Winter of the World by Ken Follett, the second book of The Century Trilogy. This one is different and so GOOD, it's more focused on the characters, include years prior, during and post WWII, Pearl Harbor, Spanish Civil war, and it's not set in Auschwitz. Fall of Giants, the first installment is awesome too.

[@hannahollihan]

Sabriel is one of my favorites! It's more of a classic adventure tale but I love it. I highly recommend the audiobook, narrated by Tim Curry!!!!

[@marek3505]

i loved Sabriel but i did not know the audiobook was narrated by Tim Curry! I am going to go get it now! XD

[@hannahollihan]

@@marek3505 He is PHENOMENAL. Especially his Mogget voice :D

[@IveyVideos]

Tim Curry does the first 3 books in this series...his pronunciation of words is just 🙌🏼 It will stick with you.

[@emmavanweert1013]

A tv series I´ve binged and enjoyed, but never read the books or will I read those books. Gossip Girl!

[@bhavyajinaraj3870]

same!

[@theodoralfred7]

I felt it so much when you held up the folio editions of those French classics! Those editions (and the fact that I've come to the conclusion that I don't trust any of the German or English translations of Les Misérables) are the reason I'm working on my French again. Tbh, I think what does it for me is that the design is pretty simple and uniform, and once you have a couple of them right next to each other, it's just so incredibly satisfying. xD

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

So true! They're also pretty floppy for mass market paperbacks!

[@MaryIsTired7]

Thank you for the video. Your content is so therapeutic and wholesome. ❤

[@Rabyyush]

A good historical fiction is The Homegoing by Yaa Gyaasi. It’s not about the world war 😉 It’s a family saga about generations of black people, starting off with two sisters in Ghana - one stayed in Ghana and one was sold into slavery. The book follows their families generations on and it’s amazing. This book is an amazing read, especially in the current circumstances, and I think you’ll enjoy! I also recommend Khaled Hosseini, a very good historical fiction author (A Thousand Splendid Suns is great).

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Its actually in the background! I need to get around to reading it!

[@kirihara120]

I second Hosseini’s books.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I think I have a book or two by him on my shelf... will have to try it!

[@Emmalovisa86]

I second Homegoing!

[@eduardoo31]

about wheel of time: if you're not a huge fan of classic fantasy you might not enjoy the first three books, especially eye of the world. in my opinion they're kind of formulaic and not really the best representatives of what wheel of time becomes. HOWEVER, (and i know it's kind of a meme to say shit like this nowadays), books 4-6 and 11-14 are indeed amazing, some of the best i've ever read, and they absolutely are worth the hype. i started reading them because i'd heard about the show and it was one of the best decision i ever made.

[@AwkardBookShenanigans]

I've become way more critical of everything I read in just the last few years. I think it also is because I've started noticing things like sexism, homophobia, racism, fatphobia, ableism etc. a LOT more, and I just CANNOT ignore it while reading. I try to overlook it when the book is very old, but in newer books it just makes me furious :')

[@SadieRuin]

With Robert Jordan I read the prequel novel for the wheel of time first and the strong women kicking ass helped me enjoy the series. I don’t know that I would have thought the women as important without the prequel.

[@san2709g]

I absolutely LOVED Les chevaliers d'Émeraude when I was a kid! I remember reading more than 10 but I had no idea there were 36...

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I had no idea there were that many! It’s crazy haha

[@Nixx0912]

I wonder if it was translated to Polish, we don't fet a lot of French language fantasy and sf.

[@meganeboulet4621]

You probably read 12 of them since the first series has 12 books. Honestly, it was very good at the time i read it and made me love fantasy :) i tried reading the second series and oh boy... it wasnt good

[@mariapuche5202]

Blindness is amazing!!! I absolutely loved it. Most of Saramago's works explore human nature in a really unique way.

[@iamawaffle4629]

I actually prefer the US cover of Skyward. I love it when characters are on covers.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Technically the character is there on the other one too but... I get it haha

[@cadencev5572]

The Girl and the Stars by Mark Lawrence's US cover is amazing 😍

[@iamawaffle4629]

@@cadencev5572 wait I haven’t heard if that book yet. I gotta look it up!

[@Louisa536]

How can anyone not love the book thief?!😱 I feel deeply offended...;)

[@alittlebitshelfish3984]

So, at the risk of someone saying something... I’m thinking you won’t like The Last Wish (Witcher series). I read the first paragraph, rolled my eyes, and put it away because of the description of the woman. Maybe that was just a bad day for me and I’d feel differently if I picked it up again, but I very rarely do this, so... beware. 😄

[@theresa4969]

Could you do a bookshelf tour? I would love to see your way of organizing the books

[@Bragi-uq6nc]

Actually I think Red Rising was the first and only book I read (at least I can't recall any other right now) that had the "female love interest dies to motivate the main character" trope, so I didn't really mind it at all. Regarding your statement on love triangles: YES, YES, a thousand times yes! I hate it even more when the two love interests are siblings/(best) friends and their relationship suffers or breaks because they love the same person. I get that people like love stories (althought I don't, but yeah, I know that people like them, so I get why they are often so prominent in books), but platonic love is also important and I love to read about great friendships and family dynamics, but it often seems that as soon as the main character falls in love, no other relationship counts anymore. And yes, male and female can be friends without falling in love; the word friendzone alone makes me go crazy sometimes....

[@TheBumblingBlogger]

Thank you so much for doing our tag Emily! 🥰

[@teezka]

I didn't like any of Gaiman's books, BUT I love Sabriel series :) So I hope you'll feel the same. Just give the first book a try. It's around 300 pages so not a huge commitment :)

[@charlicourt6391]

You just unlocked a memory for me of a group of people going to the movies to see Blindness after a highschool homecoming dance. My date hated it so much that we left halfway through the movie. I never could remember the movie until now.

[@dailycarolina.]

Favorite Historical Fiction books you might like : Haiti in the 1700s: Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende. Italy in the 1400s: The Borgias by Mario Puzo. Mexico in 1910: Isle of Passion by Laura Restrepo Spain/Morroco in th 1930s : The time in Between by María Dueñas

[@pinpilinpaux]

I actually found the paperback edition of Skyward with that cover instead of the ugly one and I was so happy, because I thought I would have to get the hardback one but no.

[@MissPuppyfluff]

Yessssss, life is far too short to waste your time on books you're not enjoying. Hugs from a fellow book addict who learned this lesson two years ago

[@elimalnar8262]

Haha I am the opposite considering the Midnight library covers, the one you said you liked was cheaper but I was like ew and waited for 3 weeks so I could get the other one cuz it is georgeus and it has a cute cat on it.🥰

[@violetparker7210]

I actually prefer the “ugly” midnight library cover

[@misspopcoin2204]

So do I. I think the other one is the "ugly" version.

[@lauramolina3337]

Agree, i prefer the ugly cover hahahaha.

[@juliettet.5133]

I also love the Folio Classiques, but I don’t know why🙈 Maybe because of the simple white spines that look so good together a shelf?

[@jessicagolden1631]

the cover of the Midnight Library that you want is available on the US amazon and its in stock!

[@manuelsilva9700]

Regarding José Saramago's works, such as Blindness, his concepts are incredible! But the thing that drives people crazy its his writing style - you either click with it or don't. And that can make you want or don't want to read anything else from him

[@dailycarolina.]

That is absolutely true. I started the book by reading it and I finished it with the audiobook. I struggled a lot with his style.

[@christinacampbellbooks]

I hated the TV show of Normal People so much. It was so slow and dull! There was no story at all, haha. Also, I love your red lipstick! :)

[@97bookworm97]

Love this entire video. Especially your championing of no longer dealing with sexist shit in books!

[@Erdnussbuttertoast]

i totally agree with you on world war 2 historical fiction! it's been beaten into my brain so much in school, that I'm honestly apathetic now to fictional characters in that situation. I read the least historical fiction, too, and what I do read is usually Shakespeare-related, lol. (also, I absolutely disagree on the Midnight Library - I think that the cover you hate is the better looking one and I absolutely despise the one you desire lol)

[@youmeandthedog.3138]

I’m so glad you didn’t like book thief or all the light we cannot see. I felt like they were a waste of time for me! This makes me want to read your recommendations even more

[@thefrenchbookdreamer7745]

The french covers for classics! Gosh, the nostalgia! And les chevaliers d'émeraude! I never finished the series either, WAYYY too long (and way too many characters). I just cannot connect with Neil Gaiman's books and I always felt so alone with that feeling, it was so nice hearing you don't either!

[@Bonnie_Blues]

If you want to discover Garth Nix but you're not hypped by 'Sabrie'l, you could try 'Frogkisser!' instead. It's a oneshot and a lot of fun, deconstructing the classic tropes of fairytales. It was a cute and cozy read for me :)

[@ostrichreads7715]

Also are there any french-canadian books you can recommend? ☺️

[@debbiecane5660]

Yes would love some French Canadian recommendations also!

[@bluebrightstar1117]

Off topic but what's the lipstick you're wearing ?? 😍

[@LauraRose109]

As someone who really enjoys historical fiction, but is also very done with WWII (best book on WWII historical fiction for me was the Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff) I would recommend The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, and The Isle of Sea Women by Lisa See.

[@SewFun]

I'm reading Wheel of Time this year and I am actually enjoying it so far, but I'm only on the second book. I have a hard time seeing you reading it because of the length of the series. You know I'm with you on Neil Gamin. I want to like him, I really do... but I have such a hard time reading him. A genre I'm going to avoid from now on is Grim Dark. Don't care for it, I've tried it and read quite a few, but I really don't want to read any more. I know you are going to be doing The Blade Itself and I'm looking forward to your take on it.

[@normagruden]

Hey Emily :) I have a question about sexual assault scenes. What makes a scene like that pointless to you? I'm genuienly curious. Because I feel like in real life, there's no reason or point to a thing like that happening, it just happens because people are monsters. So sometimes in a book it just happens for no reason because that's how it is in real life? I do agree that male authors kinda get off on it, I get that feeling as well.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

In my opinion it's pointless 99% of the time. Like others mentioned, unless it's about the character's POV (like My Dark Vanessa) but overall... it's definitely overused and almost lazy when male authors use it to show that a certain character is "bad".

[@SolitudeDayys]

Can someone give me an example of a female character getting assaulted for the advancement of the plot? It sounds pretty bad but i feel like I haven’t encountered such plots? Or if i did the point might have went over my head

[@JudieTroy]

I think you will like Sabriel way more than anything by Neil Gaiman, badass female character with a sassy cat sidekick and death magic, it's awsome! I also think you shouldn't bother with the wheel of time books, I don't think they will be your cup of tea.

[@Nyazhr25]

that lip color is STUNNING on you

[@lemmy___]

Two of the tropes that you mentioned you would put a book down and/or dnf a book for are the reason that I'm mad I ever bothered finished the Mortal Instruments series... 🙃🙃

[@readswitherin5556]

Chapters has the nice midnight library cover!!!

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Really? Online they only have the other edition and it's sold out :(

[@readswitherin5556]

@@BookswithEmilyFox ah maybe only in Ontario then? I bought it from my chapters in the fall!

[@kathyk1148]

I totally agree with you on your thoughts of sexual assaults , especially when it is written by a male author and also on female deaths. Why, why why are these things such common tropes?

[@Katzukis27]

Interesting that people say the Witcher series is sexist... maybe there is a sentence here or there but overall I don't agree with that at all. If anything the show represented some of the women worse in its attempts to be "woke" by reducing them to stereotypes

[@katedim123]

I totally agree! Usually sexism really bothers me in books, but I can't really remember anything that stood out too much in the Witcher series

[@Morfeusm]

Exactly, but it’s also traditionally european and some readers view this type of narrative as sexist without reading between the lines and picking up on the nuances. Could be the translation? I am not sure... But I also view the series more feminist and genuine than modern woke movement.

[@wickedbookwitch]

Totally agree with you on the Skyward covers!

[@wickedbookwitch]

I have the ugly US covers 😔

[@pinkglittershoes]

Oh wow, hadn't thought of Les chevaliers d'Émeraude in years! I think I read about 6 or 7 of them? I didn't realize there were so many of them now though! On a completely different topic, I 100% agree about authors using SA as a turning point for female characters, I absolutely despise it.

[@sarahfolger5232]

Are you sure the ugly cover for The Midnight Library is a U.S. edition? I have the pretty one and purchased it in Ohio, USA.

[@yerawizurdhairy]

same, i also live in ohio and i have the one that she wants. i would gladly get rid of it tho lol

[@sarahfolger5232]

@@yerawizurdhairy Yeah, it wasn't that great for me either. This book was completely overhyped.

[@yerawizurdhairy]

@@sarahfolger5232 i agree. i thought it was boring and i truly didn’t care what happened to nora, maybe that makes me a terrible person haha

[@sarahfolger5232]

@@yerawizurdhairy Same!

[@insanebutterfly3439]

I just bought An absolutely remarkable thing. Please tell me it was a good thing

[@Beccasawrus]

Have you tried Abebooks for The Midnight Library?

[@im4evatapin12]

That cover of the Midnight Library is the one they sent me when I preordered. I see it available on Amazon with my US address maybe if you switch to the US version of the websites?

[@stardroplet9499]

I think you should give Sabriel a chance. I liked that book but I was meh in the two after that one.

[@Elif-pc8lx]

Omg! I so agree with you on hating Normal People

[@amaresuify]

I got about a 3rd of the way through before deciding that I've read that fanfic and the fanfic was better.

[@encyclopediaofelizabeth]

Those French classic remind me of the Barnes and noble classics editions that I like. I don't know what it is either, but they do it for me. 😁

[@urfatneighbor6037]

A book edition that I cannot get my hands on is the Recursion with yellow packaging!!!

[@adebison]

Girl YES. I love Skyward, but the UK cover is so much nicer than the US one! Where do you order UK books for Canada? I was actually looking at options last night.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Book depository!

[@MKTraxel]

I would definitely recommend the audiobooks for WoT. EotW is very much a "LOTR if..." story. I can't decide if the commentary on sexism in the series will drive you nuts or be a positive point. 😂

[@jimieaddy814]

Try Blackwells for UK editions

[@densilhmay8262]

Funnily enough "blindness" as a book was also something I could not forget! Something about it just really stuck with me...

[@peeling25]

Nine perfect strangers! Uugghh! What is the point of this book even existing?

[@MrGreyseptember]

I think anybody couldn't forget 'Blindness'. I read it eight years ago and still can get it out of my mind...

[@inessantos4918]

Im from Portugal and José Saramago was portuguese and our only Nobel prize in literature so he is a big deal for us! I read Blindness last year and it was absolutely amazing. I think you will enjoy it very much!

[@palanirajan2261]

Sister would you review NORTH SUNSET by TENDOLLOR available from amazon

[@DufortIsa]

I am curious. Have you ever read anything by Terry Goodkind? That could be fun, I think you would absolutely have an opinion about that one.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Not yet but I have one of his books on my shelf!

[@DufortIsa]

@@BookswithEmilyFox That's great. Which one is it?

[@thusharaelizabethtom8575]

Omg. I have the same feeling about normal people. I forced myself to finish it. Should have stopped 🙄

[@stephanieparnell8454]

I can't get into Neil Gaiman books but i did love the Garth Nix Sabriel series when i read it as a teenager. To afraid to re read it just incase it doesn't stand the test of time.

[@mandiecollins1556]

Do u have a po box we have it at the BAM here in Alabama the midnight library one

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

That's so sweet but I don't have one anymore!

[@marek3505]

I really love Garth Nix. Sabriel was my first book by him and I LOVED it and the rest of the Abhorsen series was just ok. You may be interested in his Keys to the Kingdom series which i loved all of! I think you might like it! I would highly recommend both.

[@erikakozlowski5060]

I'm so glad you said it! I love historical fiction, but I cannot possibly read one more WWII novel!!!

[@TamilaSushkova]

I can NOT stand WWII historical fiction. It's great because it brings awareness to the awful events that happened but I always try to find outside of Europe in WWII. I recommend Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, it's so beautiful. Anything by Janie Chang (one of my fave authors). I'm planning on reading the Kite Runner (not sure if it's historical fiction but kinda seems like it)

[@beatriztavares7070]

Historical fiction is a lot more than WWII :D it's one of my two favourite genres, but I rarely read WWII books. I prefer older periods of history, like medieval, renaissance, Mediterranean civilizations, south American civilizations, the Scandinavian kingdoms in the 1600s... WWII books pretty much always end up being generalist books, with some exceptions maybe.

[@BemuzedBookworm]

will say that I also don't like Neil Gaiman, but I did like Sabriel. However, I read Sabriel as a teenager, so who knows how I would feel now

[@lisalajmo597]

Ugh! Same with Normal People! Why why did I waste time finishing that!? 😩

[@jamiemayfield3151]

Well now I feel bad about immediately donating my copy of Midnight Library to Goodwill, I squandered it. Wasn't a fan of it. I was super excited for it but felt a huge disconnect and a good amount of annoyance with it. It is probably because my personal experience with chronic depression and suicide has been completely different from that described in the book. I know a lot of people praised it because they felt it was dead on in depicting their experience with mental illness but I think if you have gone through depression and suicide attempts, then read a book where that experience is not relatable to your own then you are left with a greater divide and inability to connect. People experience mental illness differently so I am sure many people did connect with it because of their own experiences, I just didn't. You know, there are not a lot of tropes in books that anger or upset me. I think it is because I don't encounter a ton of them. Or when I do, I have a degree of detachment from it. So I have heard you talk about the sexual assault trope a lot and a big part of my focus when I was in graduate school is studying things like genocidal rape, rape used as a tool of demoralizing a culture and soiling it through the sexual assault of a particular race. I read about rape on a weekly basis for 3 years. That and war, genocide, inequality, oppression, exploitation, etc. I can be hyper aware of these topics, but I have a rather large degree of detachment from them as well. Like in horror when a woman is killed right after sex based on the slut trope, I don't get offended, I just think about the arguments people have made that they shouldn't have someone being killed violently for their sexuality and then about the suggestion that movie makers and authors wait longer than 5 seconds to kill someone after they have had sex to remove the fetish of violent sex. I read Carl Schmitt and was more offended by his lack luster writing style that made fascism week boring than I was at his Nazi theories. All that being said, as a victim of rape myself, I would greatly appreciate reading sexual assault in books that is meaningful. More than just a footnote and more about the impact. I obviously don't have issues with the topic being discussed but it would be nice if it was discussed in a useful damn way. Both my sister and I were raped as children and we sure as hell didn't rise from the ashes. I was too young to even know what happened to me, I was 17 and thinking back on it like "Oh shit, I was raped when I was 4...how did it take me this long to figure that out." I never even told anyone because all the adults say if someone touches you 'down there' it is bad and I thought I would get in trouble, especially given the extent of the 'touching'. My sister was raped by a close family member at 12 and then told to apologize for embarrassing him or she would not be allowed back at the house, the house she was staying at after being kicked out of our house by my step-father. The woman was fucked up over that for the remainder of her childhood and well into her adult life. Still impacts her. So yeah, should fight to make it standard that if you talk about sexual assault in your books then you should deal with the topic in a real way. Sexual abuse doesn't make you a stronger person. It makes you a person that has to compensate for that trauma throughout your entire life.

[@liljenred1344]

The uk midnight library is the one you don’t like unfortunately. Don’t know where the pretty edition is from x

[@Pearlinwonderland]

The UK skyward books are much prettier ! (And all the white sanderson books too ) I agree with u for last one so much ! I hate the trope of the the death or rape of the girl to advance the story of the main character ... it’s got to a point that I want to throw the book on my wall. The author that people always tell me I should read but I feel I won’t like would be either Alain Damasio or Jean Phillips Jaworski (french authors )

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Oh yes I totally forgot to mention the white UK editions... so much prettier. They're mass market paperback (ish) for me tho :/

[@Pearlinwonderland]

@@BookswithEmilyFox yeah that’s why I took the US floppy paperback for the stormlight archive ^^ even if I prefer the white ones the US floppy one are easier to read.

[@Icibigmama]

It's funny because the french paperback are mass market paperback for you. Do you have the difference between paperback and mass market in canadian publishing houses? (the english ones or the Québécoises?) Because in the French and French speaking Belgian book market, you have kinda like the Paperback for a new books, which acts a bit like the hardcover in the US/UK (because we almost never have harcover books, at least in literature, we do hardcover for comics or coffee table books/artbooks) and then what you call the mass market paperback we have as the "paperback" so like a year later. But the (mass market) paperback is so prevalent that it became the standard format. It's not thought out as the mass market or event paperback but as The Book, the norm. I find the difference pretty interesting. Altought yes, the French mm paperback tend to be floppier with a paper that's not as rigid as in the us/uk mm paperback. Same goes for the covers and the spine. Well... I rambled XD I hope I make sense.

[@jazmynesimington7773]

Have you watched the “you” tv show? I know u didn’t like the book but the tv show is good

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Only a couple episodes (I rarely finish tv shows lol)

[@jazmynesimington7773]

@@BookswithEmilyFox did u like the couple of episodes that u did watch?

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Yeah! I didnt love it as much as others seem to but it was okay!

[@jazmynesimington7773]

@@BookswithEmilyFox do you have a Hulu account? I’ve been watching this space show about astronauts exploring other planets to see if there is life. It’s actually really interesting.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I don't but that sounds fun!

[@Emmareads15]

I'm in the UK, The Midnight Library edition you dislike is our edition too.

[@MsWaterMusic]

I started laughing so hard when you mentioned Les Chevaliers d'Emeraulde. I recently read the first two books because I thought a YA Fantasy would be a great way to practice reading in French. If you read them as a kid and can't really remember the story, I am here to tell you they are so much worse than you probably remember. I had to stop, which is such a bummer because I was really happy to be reading a fantasy series by a Canadian author, and the reading level is perfect for my skill level right now. So much sexually bizarre stuff, like the protagonist loses his virginity to a ghost? And then later has sex with a much younger person who was his squire, who he basically raised for almost a decade? It's so gross. I could go on about how problematic those books are, it's awful.

[@xnyyxx4593]

Haha, when you said a Québécois series I immediately knew it would be Les Chevaliers d'Émeraude. Read the whole first series when I was younger and just remember there being more and more pages, in the beginning, listing aaaaaall the characters by generation... there were so many at some point it was ridiculous.

[@TVB_K]

I love your lipstic color❤

[@mamuchaexpress]

I actually loved Good Omens (the book). Still loved the video!

[@teresaw9865]

I'm sooo over The Secret Heir or the Lucky Novice trope. No, thank you, goodbye. Especially regarding the latter one: I'd rather you show me struggle, blood/sweat/tears and perseverance. Luckily, I've never had a problem with DNFing books. I approx, DNF around 1/3 of all the books I start in a year. Unpopular behaviour? :D

[@erikapatterson484]

If you are going to read another Leanne Moriarty try What Alice Forgot. 😊 I have read a few of hers and I really liked that one, on audio!

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

What about "Husband's secret" (I think?)? Thats the one I own

[@erikapatterson484]

@@BookswithEmilyFox That is a good one too. I may be biased because What Alice Forgot was the first one that I read by the author. I gave them both 4 stars on goodreads.

[@AvestaGhazal]

Omg, why do they advertise that cover for Midnight Library but you get a different one. So confusing, I totally get your cover thing. I got Addie Larue but i want the other editions...:/

[@tiakivla]

I *just* read Red Rising yesterday and was so wildly frustrated after that character death. I loved the book but, like. How tired and boring. On top of the trope of just female characters dying/being traumatized to advance the journey of a male character, it was also very much a ✨too pure and good for this world✨ moment.

[@autumnbachhofer5177]

Oh don't worry the females in the book series actually get stronger and actually one of the favorites people ever.

[@clairehanna4785]

After reading the whole series, there are definitely some well written female characters later in the series but the author never gives up on using female pain as a plot point to further Darrow's character development. That's why I don't understand why so many people love that series

[@michellesmirnova4471]

I am SO glad that you’re over WWII historical fiction because SO AM I. I’ve read several for school (thanks school) and I’ve loved one of them but the rest I didn’t like or felt meh about, and I’m just SO tired of it. At this point there’s not much new that can be said honestly.

[@siriuslylostwerewolf]

I'm glad you agree Neil Gaiman's books aren't as great as everyone hypes them up to be. You hear so many people say they love an author as if it's impossible NOT to and you start to think you're crazy. I've only read The Ocean at the End of the Lane by him and it was ok but not amazing. 🤷‍♀️

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Same! It was the first I've read by him and everyone was telling me it was his best and... not impressed lol

[@lifeonabudget8513]

The way u feel about normal people is the way I feel about behind her eyes by sarah pinborough and the third wife by lisa jewell. Forced my way through them and both were meh. I can't read historical fiction, either. And I don't read historical romance. The US edition of Skyward makes the main character look demonic😄. I didn't enjoy The Witcher tv show. Henry Cavill could not make me stay😄 I would say that the bachelorette and the bachelor are basically televised versions of The Selection series. I only got half way through season one of YOU back in 2018! I won't go back lol