what I want to read in May | a chunky TBR list

[@gabooshi]

at this rate, your Book of the Month intros are going to win you an Oscar !!

[@Nour-qr8wm]

I'm already subscribed and I already know the picks of the month but the skits are so entertaining I cant skip them 😂

[@stellasreadingagainohno]

Emma’s Book of the Month sponsorships are literally the only sponsorship sections that I don’t skip past 😭

[@pendragon2012]

It's always a good day when Mustachioed Emma makes an appearance!

[@bellah4327]

Wdym??? All I see is book of the month guy… 🤨🤔

[@ileanaaaaa]

The best! Lol

[@Sara-kq8qb]

book man!

[@kylahhmariee]

Emma’s Book of the Month sponsors are the only ones I watch😂 they’re so entertaining

[@danielleg9834]

Emma: I don’t want to read about existential crises before bed Also Emma: Let me read this incredibly sad and depressing love story before bed

[@blackheartbooks]

The effort you put into Book of the Month is unmatched

[@mollybrewer8098]

I took a Shakespeare class during my undergrad, and even though he's still not my favorite, that class helped me appreciate his work more and I got to read more of his non-mainstream plays, which was exciting. Would love a week by week update l, might even read along!

[@Marcela.Isabel]

My anxiety has been off the roof lately and your videos are seriously what’s keeping me sane, not to forget also reading Brothers Karamazov. Thank you Emmie.

[@elichaitman3294]

Brothers Karamazov may resurrect your anxiety tbh

[@Marcela.Isabel]

@@elichaitman3294 Seriously lol

[@kaeh7332]

BOOK MAN!!!!!! book man goes through so much and we are SO THANKFUL

[@Torsee]

Love Calcifer surveilling the chenangins! 1:23

[@Torsee]

My owner is losing her mind again!

[@Faye_L]

I really struggled with H is for Hawk, being a vegan who loves rodents and birds. 😳 Got a good paper out of it, though! The child in How I Became a Nun is biologically a boy but always refers to him/her/themself as a girl. A lot of people don't seem to think it's consistent, but it is. Any boy references come from other characters. I got a great paper out of that book on the symbolism of the colour pink in a story of a secretly transgender child.

[@july3817]

oh wait that sounds super interesting! Thanks for providing more insight on that :)

[@lavan6298]

Emma PLEASE do a video on fantasy book recommendations!!

[@pamelatarajcak5634]

Audible has this series called the Arkangel Shakespeare which are full cast unabridged audio recordings of his plays done by the Royal Shakespeare Company. It may help with the enjoyment of your class.

[@Reveriecrux]

Finally reading LotR and I've just started Return of the King. This series is like 70% nature poetry 🌳 Might join your book club after!

[@Harmosaurus]

Samesies! Reading the hobbit!

[@sapphrodite.1201]

I'm reading the two towers rn!

[@melissanorrbom4734]

I’ve read more these past 6 months than I’ve read in many years thanks to you and Carolyn. I just started 100 Years of Solitude thanks to your recommendations. I tried it many years ago but probably only got a few pages in before giving up. This time I committed to focus and get a solid chunk in and give it a chance. I’m only 3 chapters in but by the end of the first chapter, I was hooked.

[@kels..]

The Brothers Karamazov is one of my all time fav classics! Enjoy!

[@leoreads420]

I've been averaging 2-3 books a month but hopefully this video is going to be the thing that gives me the motivation to tackle my 8 book may tbr! :,) Also Richard the 3rd was my favourite Shakespeare play I read in school really excited to see if you will like it!

[@mirandy03]

Shakespeare is soooo fun when you dig in. I hope you love it💜

[@anastasiamalikova]

I finished Brothers Karamazov (I started it a while ago) and now I'm reading the Stranger. (Low-key coincidentally, they were both on my TBR and just fit with GOT book club). I'm half way through Frankenstein as a part of my uni course! And I'm listening to the audiobook for Neon Gods. Also it's worth noting that the Stranger is also called The Outsider as well in certain translations. I also plan on reading Franny and Zooey and Master and Margarita next.

[@th-px3bg]

I will be finishing my school exams in early June so i will not able to read anything for this month but during the summer i am going to read Cruyff's autobiography,Catch-22,Papillon both books,Don Quixote and a greek book about some football stories at least i hope so.

[@kutaymuratkasman4141]

I am reading Two Towers from Lord of the Rings and it is amazing. All place description, development of characters and of course wars and events are amazing. Such a complete universe. I would like to one of the lotr character

[@elizabethquintana5637]

This is the perfect pause to writing my essay, it keeps me motivated and entertained at the same time ✨✨✨

[@aye.p]

Hi! I really enjoyed The brothers Karamazov. Even more than Crime and Punishment. I even cried! I hope you enjoy it!🤗

[@yahiko-thedevapath5049]

Will I be able to understand Brothers Karamazov? I'm 18. Have just read Crime And Punishment

[@Sara-kq8qb]

@@yahiko-thedevapath5049 how was your reading experience with crime and punishment?

[@deblawrence8341]

For my Shakespeare college class, I remember getting audio versions then following along with the text (play). It was so much more enjoyable that way! I agree - plays weren't written to be read. I got my audio from the library which had different actors, background sounds and music. It turned out to be a really good class. 🙂

[@goreadyreader]

I’d be super interested in a video about like a regular day in your life and how much time you spend reading!! The amount you read is enviable. Love your content always 🫶

[@MarisaAndChew]

I live for the book of the month skits. They are amazing and must take you so much time. Every single month I click and look but I haven't signed up simply bc I don't have much of a budget (they do have great prices though) so I try to use kindle unlimited as much as possible! I do love that it looks easy to pause though!

[@kimb884]

I loved H is for Hawk. This month I’m going to read Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. So excited she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! Emma, you have a lot on your plate this month!

[@chuucake]

these ads are getting more creative everytime 😂✨ i love it emma !

[@Read2live]

I have almost all of Shakespeare's plays in these larger Folger (Updated Editions). One of the Barnes & Nobles bookstore near me closed to relocate in a different shopping center and it had a sale every book 50% OFF plus an additional 10% OFF from the membership. I got each one of these Folger editions for a total of $4.95 each book with tax included in that price (normally they are $9.99 each and tax has to be added separately, so makes them well over $10.00 each), so I got almost every one they had on the shelf. I already read 4 of them, and I'm starting a 5th play this weekend. I love them.

[@lizzie-kl4us]

I'm pretty sure "goshawk" is literally pronounced gos-hawk! It started as goose hawk and then I guess got shortened. Also it's kinda fascinating to me that it feels intense to read a Shakespeare text a week - at my uni in the UK it was pretty standard for undergrad and postgrad to read a text a week plus extra reading per module for 11 weeks - everybody was basically dead by the time we got to exams lmao. It's really interesting to see how different people's courses are structured

[@lostingothicmusic]

Yes to Gos-hawk and its Gos like the UK pronunciation of 'hop' with a short 'o' sound. :)

[@fmarginalia]

Yup I only know this because of my daughter’s soccer team name but it’s Gos-hawk like a compound word and gos like in gosling

[@asmrbuddha9033]

Gos hawk like gossip hawk?

[@fmarginalia]

@@asmrbuddha9033 more of a z s goz

[@peanutbutterjellyt1me]

i’m in love with book of the month guy

[@rainmwhop]

I recommend “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”, especially since you loved The Catcher in the Rye

[@vickymaldonado7761]

Hi Emma and everyone in the comment section! This month I'm reading The Eternaut and House of the Spirits! Pretty excited about both. I'm also listening to the Anxious People audiobook and I have to say it's phenomenal so far, very funny. Happy reading!

[@Andrea-rj7lp]

I loved Anxious People! Such a smart and tender book

[@ReneeHarveyDuh]

Brothers is on my top 10 of all time. SO many things about it just stuck and I think about it regularly decades after I first encountered these three.

[@ReadingNymph]

My Gently Raised Beast sounds so wholesome ❤ Your book of the month ads are the best 👌🏻

[@tarad.9192]

I am so glad that you are reading The brothers Karamazov, the book is amazing, i am sure that you will love it 😁😁

[@m.6448]

when your comfort youtuber posts on a rainy cozy daaay 😫🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🩷

[@chelleandpoppy6379]

This month I graduated from law school! 🎉

[@jamesduggan7200]

Congratulations, and good luck on the bar. On my 2d day someone I met at the motel offered me a ride to the testing center, so I was in a bit of a rush and I left my glasses in my room! I looked like such a poor tard holding the booklet up to my nose and squinting at it. Anyway, I passed, but only just barely.

[@iamrjdennis]

I am LIVING for these skits you're doing, Emma! 😂

[@dianemartinez3637]

I would love to see a wholesome book recommendations! I feel like every single book I’ve read this year made me sad.

[@smoking_sulfur]

currently reading The Brothers Karamazov for GoT, liking it so far💕

[@halloweenatnumber1]

I just found you and omg I love you! Your sketch at the beginning was so cool and your cat sitting majestically in the back ground… I love him!!

[@razakhan9796]

Keep these videos of TBR coming.( Or any thing i just love watching you) 💞

[@burmajones803]

I took a Shakespeare class in college and loved it despite not really knowing or caring much about him before taking the class. My prof made us read and watch the plays. I highly recommend that approach. The plays were meant to be performed. Anyway, I am a new subscriber and this is the 1st video I've watched. Enjoyed it! Thx for sharing.

[@abbietabby]

The second I see a book of the month sponsorship, I know it's gunna slap 😤

[@aliceguimaraes8359]

My tbr is never certain but I know I want to start crime and punishment and the great gatsby. And I'm glad you're about to post the brothers karamazov vlog cause it's in my reading list of the year :D

[@Rosa-bb5hi]

Something that saved me when studying shakespeare was the free audiobooks you can get on KZbin - there’s a small cast of actors to play the roles, and I would listen to them at the same time as reading … just made it feel so much more alive 😊

[@hpph1744]

Book man is an amazing character.

[@oliversolar3504]

THANK GOD I GOT AN EMMIE VIDEO ON MY BIRTHDAY!!! THIS IS THE BEST PRESENT EVER

[@caitlin1008]

Happy birthday 🥳

[@Kyle4k9]

Happy birthday

[@jygordon]

Reading for May: Hardy's "Return of the Native." I just finished "Tess" and "Far from the Madding Crowd" and loved them.

[@rosearan8788]

I have an awful flu and Im in bed. A new video by queen Emma is all I needed to feel better.

[@hyemiyah]

calcifer and you should be nominated for an academy award for that botm ad.

[@theolivecompany]

I llllllove this adds, so creative and fun that you wanna see them till the end, the exact thing adds might be 😂

[@cambrimorris9544]

Hotel World by Ali Smith---I just started watching you and you said in a video like a year ago that you love books set in hotels and I haven't heard you mention Ali Smith at all who's one of my favorite all time writers! She's a modern day Scottish author writing much in the tradition of the Modernists, but with a relatable sense of hope that none of them could muster. Hotel World is told in 5 parts, each by a different female narrator who are all somehow connected to this hotel. Each section is titled and written in a different verb tense.. very experimental, and it works so well.

[@jamgart6880]

I seem to be on a poetry kick. I read a book of war poems, then The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S Eliot, then selected poems of Emily Dickinson and now I am (finally!) getting round to reading a couple of Rainer Marie Rilke’s books of poetry. Although, I now want to read The Brothers Karamazov! I read The Stranger/The Outsider last year, so this might be my chance to get a big Russian book under my belt. 🤔

[@laviestbelle3760]

0:15 HAHAHAHA the video just started and I'm dying!!!

[@the_eerie_faerie_tales]

I have The Brothers Karamazov to read. oh good idea to split it over May and June.. I am way behind, haven't even started yet, been finishing another book first. Can't wait to read The Stranger too!

[@ParadoxKismet]

I agree with everyone - love the Book of the Month skits! I really enjoyed the Stardust Thief. So much going on in it. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series. I just read Strange the Dreamer. I enjoyed most of it despite a bit in it I didn't care for. I still want to know what's going to happen & yesterday started the Muse of Nightmares. I'm also reading Written in Red in between and The Hurting Kind (poetry) by Ada Limon. In between everything I am slowly reading the Dragonbone Chair. Thanks for your videos! 📚

[@irislovesreading]

I'm reading Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, The Whispering Skull (Lockwood and Co.) And Borges Profesor (basically a book that compiles a bunch of recorded English Lit. Lectures given by Borges at the UBA.

[@ursula1716]

Since being a new mom, my reading goals for a month usually mean one or two books a month; for May I am reading Satantango by László Krasznahorkai. If I manage to read that before the end of the month, I'll probably read another book that I'll randomly choose at the library.

[@mimiana]

omg so many books to read this month ~ I hope they're good reads nonetheless! I am joining a game of tomes for the first time, I'm already reading The Brothers Karamazov and very surprised at how easy of a read it's been. I've also been reading Sherlock Holmes, Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors and Temporary by Hilary Leichter :) I love watching your videos, they make me motivated to keep reading

[@diego-dias]

Shakespeare is a bit uphill until it clicks... but when it does everything he ever wrote for the stage becomes unputdownable, I swear. Hope you enjoy it!

[@vitareads]

Just started Great Expectations, hoping to read a couple more Dickens afterwards, some Lewis Carroll, Giovanni's Room, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, AND Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries. I'll never get through them all in May but a girl can dream.

[@july3817]

who knows a girl might go down a rabbit hole ;)

[@mrodriguez377]

I love your tbr planning videos, and i love botm guy as well

[@nancy4853]

Yes, I love your TBR videos! Especially ones where you browse your bookshelf with us.

[@meg.5.7]

i wasn’t excited for my shakespeare course at uni, but once i started i was absolutely hooked! i hope you can find ways to enjoy the course emma, not all of his plays are amazing but there are good bits in all of them!! :)

[@offline._archive]

I read a bit of The Brothers Karamazov (like 70 pages or so), but now everything's on pause because i'm addicted to Honkai Star Rail

[@mlleChesca]

I love the book of the month’s addddd 😂❤

[@denisefreitas6727]

I really love the book man's appearences! 😂

[@NatalyaVins-blueflower775]

I’m participating in a really fun group readathon this month. So far I read: The Hollow Boy ( Third book in Lockwood and Co. Series) Kilmeny of the Orchard by L.M. Montgomery Curtain by Agatha Christie Currently reading Legends and Lattes and listening to The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern.

[@fish9409]

Your videos always cure my boredom, thank you

[@sziakonyv]

your book of the month ads are so funny i can’t

[@marywong9976]

I liked Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald a lot more! It's a collection of essays on the interplay between man and nature, on how we relate to it and how our actions impact nature which then in turn affects our relation to it. McDonald's deep understanding and love for nature is clear and she has a really insightful perspective into this liminal space between us and nature.

[@Hablenator]

Emma has the absolute best ad reads of all time without a doubt

[@kanak4405]

hi Emma 🤍 you always make my day with that charming smile of yours!!!

[@MojiiOkay]

I'm trying to get through Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I'm a little over a hundred pages in and it's been something of a weird struggle. I love what I'm reading, I find it really impressive and funny, but also the purposefully dry writing style makes it feel like nothing is happening even when things are happening. I feel like I should be incredibly hooked but I'm not yet. Maybe because of the daunting length I am not being as patient with it as I should be.

[@mahritty]

can we all appriciate the first 2 minutes of this video...? man emma and her book of the month add... I LOVE IT xD

[@chaptersofkat]

you've inspired me and continue to do so every day, i love how comforting your videos are and i'm so happy i started reading more diversely and more classics because of you, thank you. have a lovely may emma 🤍

[@johannapflug881]

I started reading my gently raised beast on WEBTOON and it’s adorable!!! Their friendship is so sweet and wholesome.

[@sofiamoreirafernandes6203]

I am reading the collection of stories by stefan zweig (I am loving it even though I am not a huge short stories fan), and the body keeps the score. P.S.: The outrooooo!! 😄

[@megancooper7086]

I love your book of the month content! 😂

[@Julianaabn]

Hello Emmie, cheers from Santa Catarina, Brazil 😊 At the moment i´m reading Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, it is... interesting and very intense. Past books of this month, include Midnight Library by Matt Haig and the classic Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a book that made me cry and feel like a child. Love your videos, always a great time watching them. Thank you and be safe 🌸💓

[@Larats03]

Omg "How I Became a Nun" takes place in my city, that's so fun. Can't wait to hear your review It's strange how i consider Emma a friend and she's reading something from my city in Argentina? Btw I DNFed If on a winter's night a traveler. I want to see what you think about it, cause idk if i should give it a second chance or not...

[@Ellie-K.the-nerd]

I am so excited for you to read Richard the Third，he is a huge villain but so complicated and attractive

[@zoedupreez6404]

Oh my gosh, the timing for Brothers Karamazov is absolutely perfect! I started it a while ago but lost the will to finish this mammoth (even though I loved it) ... This is just the motivation I needed to pull me through, can't wait for the live show!

[@camscornerbooks]

I started The Brothers Karamazov last night. It’s a reread for me but I’m excited. The rest of my reads will be random

[@eduardojefferson8736]

i'm also reading the brothers karamazov oof

[@edwardleecaliforniausa]

Hi emmie happy Thursday morning and I loved your vlogs and your book vlogs is sooo good

[@nishthagupta1357]

I'm so glad to have found your channel❤ the things you recommend are absolutely amazing ❤

[@nishthagupta1357]

No one suggests books like the ones you do

[@mmepoulain8035]

I didn’t expect you to had read Aira! I thought he was mostly praised in Argentina. And yes, he has a very peculiar way of narrating and of constructing stories in general. “You like it or not like it” we use to say when talking about him. I hope you get to read more Argentinian literature

[@addy8641]

i’m so excited for you to start the brothers karamazov!!! i’ve had my copy for years but didn’t pick it up until this year

[@quinntessentialreads6496]

I listened to H is for Hawk on audio and the narrator pronounced goshawk like goss-hawk, like first syllable rhymed with gloss. Also I loved TBK-- it had more humor it in than I'd expected!

[@learner1680]

Love your videos, especially this book man character of yours. You are awesome♡.

[@d3ppy_1n_w0nderl4nd]

no because the book man😀 i love him so much these sponsors are so entertaining pls- your videos never fail to make my day, love u sm emma💙

[@MartinDSmith]

Eevee and Calcifer looked like they were having fun,as if to say life isn't just about books.Although just having watched a documentary about J D Salinger I'm not quite sure...

[@leeridling]

omg i missed Book Man so much!

[@sarahs6048]

So excited for your Brothers Karamazov vlogs! I have been reading it since March, so I’m almost done, and there’s so much packed into a simple framework/story !! Im also reading all of Shakespeare this year, which is about one play a week, so I’m eager to hear what you think! I loved Richard II and Richard III out of the plays I’ve read so far (reading in order of when Shakespeare wrote them). watch the hollow crown as you read, they are wonderful in my opinion!

[@yw1971]

15:26 - There was such episode on the TV show 'The Blacklist'. One of their best (also the movie 'Memento')

[@clarissaposirilova899]

The sad romance reminds me of film called 50 first dates

[@tiararene]

would you be able to make a video describing ur reading schedule and how u read so many books at the same time for different purposes!!