i read Emma Watson's favourite books & nearly gave up

[@kirawasadiver]

heading back into the youtube world for 2022! finally done with my big break you will see my face a little more starting now :)

[@dariiofernando]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@kirawasadiver]

@@dariiofernando hello again my old friend!

[@dariiofernando]

@@kirawasadiver how are you kira 😄

[@kirawasadiver]

@@dariiofernando i am great! finally settled into my home for this year hopefully. i have a desk again that i can edit videos. i am ready!

[@dariiofernando]

@@kirawasadiver great!! maybe best formulated question would be How have you been during all this time ^^. Honestly without your appearance youtube would no longer make sense at all; thanks to your videos i started to like the color green, it will be cause of the way you dress hmm 🤔😄

[@aliceeex]

I don’t even read that much anymore but for some reason the way you talk about books with such excitement makes me want to start reading again! I really enjoyed this video ahh can’t wait for more

[@dariiofernando]

glad to see you alive 😆

[@kirawasadiver]

me too buddy, me too

[@metalheadindian9174]

Yay! Kira's back!!!!

[@kirawasadiver]

aw hello :)

[@kirawasadiver]

anyone LIKE the second half of Wuthering Heights? please explain D:

[@sawyerburns7387]

For me, the second half holds up to the first. I think it really shows how inescapable the cycle of abuse is, which was one of the main themes of the book, is. It's dark, and it's heartbreaking, and it shows just how haunting grief can be. The first half exists to show the making of two "despicable" people, and the second exists to show how Heathcliff goes on to spread those ideas to the next generation.

[@lilliedoubleyou3865]

Wow, Emma Watson, Brown-educated gal who's literary tastes are way more trad than I would have expected. Good on you, girl! Thanks to Kira, though, for doing the heavy lifting of reading & reviewing these novels and making me excited to read them (I Capture the Castle & Remains of the Day, especially).

[@stonefree67]

Oh,long time no see. My favourite aussie back in business again. Glad to have you back discussing books and all things great in life. Stockholm loves the Diver, well,this bloke anyways! Cheers and take care.

[@kirawasadiver]

Hahah 'The Diver' - i like that nickname!

[@noahvanbaar]

kira 😍 a new video of you always makes me so happy ! such a fun video too. you really got me into reading again with your video’s 📚

[@JoeThornhill]

Well I do know about the B.F.G movie from being a kid, and wuthering heights the song. Maybe you've just got to think of the B.F.G as a quick, easy read for really young kids, like a bedtime story maybe. I was actually an "only fools" fan way back then and I never realized it was voiced by David Jason lol. Also, funny you don't like wuthering heights because for years that was the only Kate Bush song I knew but didn't like, mostly because of her high voice though but for the last 5-10 years I *do* like that song as well as other Kate bush songs, maybe the book will grow on *you* to.

[@legendaryreader39]

This was a great video

[@mistery-ed7900]

Around here I'm currently reading "Strong Motion" by Jonathan Franzen. It was written in the 90's and worthwhile. It's almost a page turner except when it isn't. Does that make any sense? My next read will be an anthropologist's book concerning my wife's parents. She's reading it and learning stuff about them that she didn't know. I knew them but way past their prime. A poet and a writer of stories, novels and anything else he could write so he never had to have a job to go to. Time for breakfast!! See you next video!

[@kirawasadiver]

"It's almost a page turner except when it isn't." i feel like this about majority of the books i read! wow, your wife's parents sound quite interesting!!

[@mistery-ed7900]

@@kirawasadiver Her mother was Ruth Lechlitner, a poet. There's a video here of a reading of Lines For An Abortionists Office that she wrote in the 30's I think. My wife is 13 years older than I am and her parents were over 40 when she was born so much of what they wrote and did was way back.

[@Surfacenoise67]

I’m actually reading Just Kids right now .I listened to the audiobook before by I am getting more out of reading the physical book this time .

[@kirawasadiver]

it's been a moment but i remember doing a combination of audio + physical book. audiobooks help me get through non-fictions haha

[@mistery-ed7900]

I've decided that you must have a 100 gallon bucket to have that many books in it! Nice to see you again. It's been a while!

[@kirawasadiver]

Hi Ed it's nice to hear from you again!! excited to be back

[@oger927]

I don't even read books and I find this very interesting

[@kirawasadiver]

this is the best compliment i've gotten all day

[@oger927]

@@kirawasadiver My wife reads books so I will I probably surprise her with Dodie Smith capture the castle.. Thank you

[@kirawasadiver]

@@oger927 i definitely recommend it!

[@gfhncat]

Kira is still alive! 😂 I don't think you ever mentioned the dog before? 🐶

[@kirawasadiver]

The dog is new! and also not mine, i was dogsitting haha

[@mariawesley7583]

I'm just the opposite. I only enjoy non-fiction and have to work in a fiction book on occasion. This was such a great idea for a video! BTW "Just Kids" is one of my favorite books of all time. Reading about things that really happened blow my mind more than something that can be made up. Patti meeting Allen Ginsberg when he tried to pick her up for example.

[@kirawasadiver]

yes the Allen Ginsberg moment did wow me haha. i wish i could love non-fiction - teach me your ways! i'll keep trying non-fiction & hope one day a pick sticks. out of curiosity, is there a fiction book you really like?

[@mariawesley7583]

@@kirawasadiver I absolutely love Tom Robbins. Interesting characters (including inanimate ones), use of language...you'll find yourself learning about perfume making, belly dancing, religion... My 2 favorites are "Skinny Legs and All" and "Evrn Cowgirls Get the Blues"! Happy reading! I really love your channel.

[@chelseaamber3065]

I only just learnt it's Roald Dahl not Ronald through this video.. omg lol

[@kirawasadiver]

you probably learnt to say Ronald through me lol. Gab was the first one to correct me after 24 years of living

[@davidellis5141]

Hi Kira 👋 - I quite liked The Picture Of Dorian Gray back in my school days. I appreciate my fellow drinkers 🍻 - Nice to 👁 again my friend 😎

[@kirawasadiver]

Hi David so nice to read a comment from you, it's been a moment!

[@sputhoor96]

Omg blonde in feb

[@kirawasadiver]

yep i'm blonde now.. or i guess yellow

[@nonrevnosnibormetalbeerrev6251]

Hi kira hope you are well, 👌

[@kirawasadiver]

Hi Vernon, yes i am well rested! happy 2022. hope you are going good too!

[@nonrevnosnibormetalbeerrev6251]

@@kirawasadiver yes not bad and hope you are still rocking, did you ever get a chance to check out witchfinder general yet 😉👌

[@kirawasadiver]

@@nonrevnosnibormetalbeerrev6251 no, i haven't been watching too many movies over the summer. it looks good though

[@nonrevnosnibormetalbeerrev6251]

@@kirawasadiver the band I meant not the TV show 📺😁🤘

[@kirawasadiver]

@@nonrevnosnibormetalbeerrev6251 OH hahahaah

[@sputhoor96]

Hi Kira how have you been?

[@kirawasadiver]

hi Sharoop i am so good thanks!! how are you?

[@sputhoor96]

@@kirawasadiver I've been great too!