Everything I Read in 2019

[@sarcastic_fish]

my goodreeeeeads www.goodreads.com/user/show/84099251-emma-angeline 💫💫

[@kalinkamenov9588]

Ahahaha "turbulence is safe" has to be a t-shirt lol

[@alicec8593]

Wonderful video, as per usual! But I can not stop adoring that blue eyeliner thing that is going on, I'm in love!

[@sarcastic_fish]

heheheh it’s so fun it’s like blue heheh

[@Song_about_a_girl]

I love your taste in literature, its a refreshing taste from harry potter, twilight, and YA in general

[@theismyorbit6165]

I know right! Sadly enough there is almost no focus on classics in booktube. And if there is, it's usually just 1984, GG or Animal Farm, not the larger or just OTHER classic books.

[@halliehurst4847]

Lovely Mirena I’m sorry but what parts of booktube are you on? I can think of plenty of people who read classics amongst other things, and even a few who (seem to) exclusively read classics. If you’re struggling to find booktubers with similar tastes to you try searching for people who haves reviewed your favourite books, then scroll through their channel and see if they’re a good fit.

[@halliehurst4847]

Lovely Mirena I didn’t mean to imply YA isn’t popular, just offer advice if you wanted to get away from it and find booktubers you have more in common with. There’s a lot of classics content you might be missing out on. YA might get the most focus (although to be fair, the big, old-time YA booktubers founded booktube and have been on it the longest) but other genres have substantial followings. Edit: Typo

[@popalice007007]

Been in a bit of a reading slump during January, thanks for the massive boost in motivation to read! Love the vid 💙

[@hannahspencer9857]

I love hearing about what you're reading! I also love how you organize your books.

[@tinakassebnicco2573]

Loved this video! Somehow I find it genuinely inspiring to hear you talk about books (and films). Also, I would highly recommend "the devil finds" work by James Baldwin since you're a film buff and all. It is the best piece of film criticism I have ever read.

[@LA-ue2ph]

baldwin is my favourite writer of all time, i feel like he doesn't get praised enough, more people need to read his work

[@tinakassebnicco2573]

@@LA-ue2ph I totally agree with that! He is one of the most brilliant writers I have ever read, both his essays and his fiction are fantastic, thought-provoking and moving pieces of art . I honestly think he is one of the greatest minds in modern literature.

[@fish-fingers_and_custard7685]

What a fantastic list of books!!!! Definitely found a few I want to read when my leaving cert is over (Irish eqivalent of the A Levels). Thank you so much for a fantastic video Emma!!! I was literally agreeing with you so much when you were taking about American Lit!!! I too have been struggling to find anything I like. And thank you for mentioning Joyce, love him or hate him--he was such a fantastic writer. Also, is there any chance you could do a video specifically on philosophy. I haven't read much yet but it sounds so fascinating and I would love to hear more of your recommendations.

[@Jacob-wy9zd]

Doing my LC too

[@fish-fingers_and_custard7685]

@@Jacob-wy9zd best of luck!!!

[@sarcastic_fish]

Good luck with your leaving cert! And yea I defo wanna do one on philosophy, I just gotta read a bit more and then have something useful to say other than “mind fuck” 😅😅

[@fish-fingers_and_custard7685]

@@sarcastic_fish hahaha looking forward to it. Thank you so much Emma! Best of Luck with your masters as well :)

[@daisyd581]

Awesome selection of books! Finally something other than YA fantasy! 👏 I’m definitely a non-fiction person and I love books that make me think like... a lot! So cool to find a kindred spirit! 😍

[@aininsabrina03]

oh my god your oxfords world's classics collection...... that's my dream bookshelf right there

[@lornatw]

Is it weird that I really want to read your essays you did on your course? Would you publicise any? Ly ❤

[@sarcastic_fish]

not really just because they’re student essays, but my disso is on my website! (by popular demand lol)

[@lornatw]

@@sarcastic_fish fair yeah, oh wow okay! Haha X

[@lfior]

The 3 most recent 'American lit' reads that I enjoyed: -Nemesis (P. Roth) -Play it as it Lays (Joan Didion) -The Bell Jar I feel like disliking American literature unless you've sampled all kinds and time periods is like saying you dislike desserts if you don't like chocolate 😂

[@sarcastic_fish]

haha very true ofc, but sampling isn’t going well, so I appreciate the recommendations

[@ASTARZ1]

@@sarcastic_fish moby dick? the Scarlett letter? the color purple? civil disobedience? Not american lit but mexican and latin american lit i would rec like water for chocolate(as a starter to the whole magical realism world) or the labyrinth of solitude(essays or ensayos really) even rayuela or I think its hopscotch in english but yeahhhh latin american lit is soooo underrated there are some jems tho and its always nice to read "classic" lit from "developing" worlds

[@LA-ue2ph]

if you like philosophy you should check out nietzsche, he's a great writer

[@sofialaranjeiro]

American literature recommendations: Steinbeck, obviously (given some of your reviews, you might find his writing a bit slow paced, but lots to think about when it comes to humankind, so...); Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar and Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. They're all very "americanly" written, as opposed to european literature that's in some way more insightful, but there's a lot to learn from these, past their lightness.

[@JulEnglefaris]

Steinbeck FOR SURE. I'm pretty sure Emma hates TKAM, I adore it though 😂

[@topgames1113]

You intellectual beast! 💪🏽😌📖

[@lornatw]

If you like regarding the pain of others maybe 'Fur' may be an interesting film to you?? It's an odd film with Robert DJ and not sure how obvious the meaning is but it made me curious about the photography aspect. X

[@JulEnglefaris]

Aahh the beginning was so pleasing to the ear.

[@user-pz3ni6xf3u]

following on that private self vs public self, I think you'd rather enjoy non-fiction: presentation of the everyday self by Erving Goffman

[@violetlun3550]

Emma your book videos are always so enjoyable!! I'd also love to watch a video on opera❤️ and that blue eyeliner😍😍

[@sergiopena3623]

This is such a late recomendation but if you enjoyed the discourse on the method, i cant recommend enough The meditations on First Philosohy

[@kaylynpederson4978]

I know you said you’re a big Voltaire fan, BUT Rousseau’s 2nd Discourse (and 1st but I’m biased because JJR is my boi) is similarly mind fucky. Made me think a lot about humanity and how society itself contributes to this immense dissatisfaction we feel in life.

[@sarcastic_fish]

I will from now on only accept philosophy recommendations on a scale of how mind fucky it is

[@amyamy1507]

That Susan Sontag book is great! Really, really interesting discussion points. In college we discussed it in relation to propaganda used by the British Army (we mostly talked about The Troubles in NI).

[@the-law5065]

As much as I like french litterature (I'm french) Russian litterature like pouchkine or dostoïevski are fire bruuu (or gabriel garcia marquez if you like some spanich taste)

[@lizzief4461]

I read like 3 books a year and it rlly pisses of my teacher so every library lesson I get told off for not reading enough

[@erikholmsten1451]

I was actually looking forward to this video a little bit ngl, haha. Frankly I was looking at your skin trying to see if the niacinamide has had any positive effects, and your skin really does look very smooth and shiny but not in an oily way. Especially on your cheek/cheekbone but also just underneath. I usually get pretty much the same results, smaller pores and just more luster in the skin, atleast in the face. I realise I do sound like a metrosexual god talking about this, but I really am just making observations haha. I love the opera! Have you been to see any performance? Which composers do you like? You should make a video about it! (Perhaps almost noone would watch it though 😬) I would really recommend you read Borges’ short stories, either The Fictions or The Aleph, it’s all very short and is very similar to If on a winters night a traveler. Hes a lover of books, epic poetry and is frankly some of the most thought provoking stuff I’ve read. Oh and also, as if this comment wasnt long enough. I loved your thoughts on Brideshead. I really think you should watch the TV-series, it really captures Charles’ hopeless love for Sebastian, his family and their life. It really shows that when you fall in love with someone you also fall in love with an idea, often a transformed idea of your own life, connected to the object of ones love.

[@lfior]

Wow what a thoughtful comment 👏👏

[@sarcastic_fish]

honestly the niacinamde has been doing it’s thing it’s been great AND YES WE RECENTLY SAW LA TRAVIATA AND IT WAS AMAZING and oh my god I’ve actually been meaning to watch the brideshead tv series for a while I really need to see it like my love of Sebastian needs a place to go

[@erikholmsten1451]

Emma Angeline Emma Angeline Oh I love la Traviata! I saw it at la Fenice in Venice a few years ago, it was utterly beautiful. I’d really like to see Turandot aswell, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to go abroad to see it though.. Opera is a really nice way of learning italian by the way, it really helped me back when I started. I might be wrong but I think you might’ve mentioned wanting to learn it in some video, I’m not sure, heh.

[@gracekr5136]

i’m so late to this but brideshead is my favourite book!! YES, sebastian and charles deserved a better story! the first 200 pages are a book in itself

[@sumitgupta900]

i love your all video.how do i connect you in instagram?

[@starlight.9307]

I love your shelves! They make my obsessive-compulsive brain really happy LOL

[@georgeb.3292]

I love your accent!!

[@andrewrussell2845]

Another interesting video Emma! American literature - Carson McCullers The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter or Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina are both excellent works of contemporary American literature. Major trigger warnings for sexual abuse, child abuse, domestic abuse and violence for Bastard Out of Carolina though. If you're looking for something more 19th Century, Moby Dick, Edgar Allan Poe, or Mark Twain spring to mind.

[@felicitasm.3856]

Loads of good things to keep in mind when browsing tmr..Not totally sure if it's a fit for your taste, anyhow I more than adored/recommend "the Journey to the end of the night" by louis-ferdinand Celine! Magnificent, just how he describes, it grabs you and you are left astonished, how can someone use words like that...

[@ellencgalindo]

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, my favourite book ever! I think u might enjoy as well based on what you read

[@223raulh]

I loved it. Good show!

[@kaleestallings6839]

I have learned more from you than my four year English Lit degree LOL

[@sarcastic_fish]

😘😘

[@JulEnglefaris]

I always recommend John Steinbeck. He's the best-of-the-best of America (which is hard to do, honestly). He captures what's so harsh and also what's so innately GOOD about america. And I never find his stories boring because they're actually stories, and stuff actually happens.

[@nicoleperry1923]

We Have Always Lived In The Castle (Shirley Jackson) and The Postman Always Rings Twice (James Cain) are both a little outside your usual genre I think but they're short, fast paced, and have that Americanness. Vonnegut is up his own ass but usually a good time too

[@adammontero2198]

Hello dear Emma! Please answer me, is it true that modern Englishmen do not understand the old, English language of Shakespeare (partially, completely, or do they understand it as modern)?

[@dokidoki719]

They understand it 🤨

[@soundslikeknee]

Not the point but Korra had some highlights. Like if they expanded on the concept of evil avatar. The white lotus finding a child destined for chaos. ( this works well with King Louis 15) Nothing could eclipse aang’s narrative.

[@kaleestallings6839]

Also Henry James is SO overrated. I don’t understand his “classic” standing. But Charles Dickens is one of my favorite authors so maybe I don’t know anything because that seems to make people think I’m a boring ol bitch

[@JulEnglefaris]

People who don't like Dickens are boring bitches ✌️

[@kalinkamenov9588]

35 mins is gonna be hard to watch when I'm that high, but let's give it a go!

[@kalinkamenov9588]

Descartes, A Discourse on the Method, my brain was like: "fuck"

[@kalinkamenov9588]

@@romm9160 weed

[@danialtanvir]

hey there it danial tanvir i am from pakistan and am 26. i liked your video. i suggest you read moth smoke by mohsin hamid. a long way gone : memories of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah. not my fathers son by alan cumming. icy sparks by gwyn hymon rubio.

[@VictorAugustus]

recommendation for 2020: Epitaph of a small winner

[@thetruthfacts9267]

That’s my babe

[@mariatrinacassandramoran1416]

You look like Samantha Boscarino

[@zaftra]

People are talking about books and stuff, I saw arse.