June Reading Vlog 2020 || Books with Emily Fox

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Sorry the vlog cuts pretty abruptly but I'll be reviewing the books in my next video (June wrap up!) :)

[@anabelcimonetti4530]

Two videos in less than 24 hs.? I feel blessed ♥️

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

There might be another one coming tomorrow 🙈

[@idokken]

I will read anything Becky Chambers writes, and Im not usually a character driven person at all!

[@CaIIistocake]

I'm thrilled that you read This is How You Lose the Time War. It's one of my favorite recent reads.

[@aless.andra9620]

I'm with you on exercising! Surprisingly, because of quarantine I started to exercise more - biking daily, yoga, rolerskating, because (a) it helps me to keep my sanity and (b) it makes me feel like I'm in control - I can't go many places, meet my friends, travel, ect. But! I can exercise and strengthen my body and it feels nice!

[@fileanavailable]

Ok you’re spoiling us with all these videos ❤️

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

❤️

[@eileen9898]

I listened to the audio book of This Is How You Lose The Time War and it was just so utterly beautiful. I was lost at first because the writing style was so flowery and poetic, it took me a second to understand what was going on (I heard somewhere that it's actually a prose poem?). And suddenly I started bawling my eyes out 😂🤣. Every interaction is so full of passion and love and yearning, just wow. 100/10 🏳️‍🌈. It's definitely not for everyone, you probably would need to like weird / confusing / deep™️ (/ pretentious) books to enjoy it...

[@LittleLibrarian]

To be taught if fortunate was one of my favorite books in 2019! I even cried at the end I loved it so much. I felt the same way about This Is How You Lose the Time War. I really wish I liked it more, but I may reread it down the road.

[@aless.andra9620]

I finished "To Be Taught If Fortunate" last week and it was wonderful! It was what I wanted every fictional book about scientists to be - how they work, how they perceive the purpose of their work, humility and gratitude they feel about their mission and its role for humanity. I wish more authors wrote like that!

[@katiegrainger3589]

Just finished To be Taught If Fortunate and I really liked it too. The characters are wonderful and I loved the story. I thought the ending was fantastic and a very clever way to finish. I would love to read more find out what happens next but it was so good. I tend to enjoy character driven stories more and Becky Chambers characterisation is just so good!

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I didn't want it to end!

[@scottishbookworm8506]

I really love To Be Taught If Fortunate and also picked it up in June. It's just so i retesting and has a great focus on the science aspect which is something I love in sci-fi.

[@christinahasd]

How you lose the time war: DNF couldn't get into it the writing, maybe another time To be taught if fortunate: just great Walks: Everyday at 6a.m. anxiety hits I wake up and walk to the beach. I feel you!

[@stephanierenee7655]

I loved both of these books, though I think I loved To Be Taught, If Fortunate a little more. I love Chambers writing and especially the relationships between her characters!

[@marissaliskey6629]

I dread it when the time comes to re-organize my bookshelves 😅. I think cats have radar when someone is trying to read, they come around and want all the attention. 😻🐈

[@rudig5698]

I love your video background 😍 just all of the books with different colors 💕

[@miablazekovic1125]

Whenever I'm stressed I watch sad videos and break down crying which makes it a hundred times worst but afterwards I feel so much better actually it's really weird

[@nursyvibz3788]

Loved To Be Taught! So good! I honestly wasn't as crazy about her Wayfarer series, but I really loved To Be Taught

[@becklebooks]

To Be Taught if Fortunate is absolutely wonderful. Becky Chambers just keeps delivering favourites for me. She as a person must have boundless empathy to write such welcoming, beautiful stories.

[@xxLilRed56xx]

I love your recommendations I cannot wait to add Becky chambers book to my TBR

[@VKliman]

I’ve separated my shelves into sections - sci-fi, fantasy, general fiction (including contemporary, romance etc), YA (all genres), classics, foreign languages (in my case, all my Russian books; and you can do French for yours) and non-fiction. This way, it’s easy for me to find any book quickly. Maybe you can try it, if that helps? :) ❤️

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I definitely do the same! I think I have too many and not enough books to really fill my shelves properly... or maybe I just like my organized mess lol

[@404CarolineNotFound]

I'm so glad you liked To Be Taught If Fortunate so much! I read it in April and reviewed it right after and I'm pretty sure I made the same face you did when I had just finished it lol. I admire Becky Chambers so much, I don't know how she does it.. The worldbuilding? The science? The feels?? All extraordinary

[@lipstickandbourbon2027]

A Closed and Common Orbit is my favorite Becky Chambers, followed by To Be Taught If Fortunate.

[@Camille-tm6jr]

I walked the kilometers for the date in June (1 km on June 1 and 30 km on June 30). Needless to say, I will be walking a bit less in July. Thanks for the reading vlog.

[@nico.robint]

Hope you're doing ok. ILY Emily ❤

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Doing great thank you ❤️

[@Juli6SS]

I loved To be taught if fortunate! It was small, but so interesting and unique!

[@bencia6111]

I've never seen you without makeup and you're so cute! P. S. Love the vlogs

[@heathermalmal9943]

I’m SO HAPPY you were confused with How to Lose the Time War. I know that sounds bad, but I was so CONFUSED reading it and it made me feel so dumb. So I’m happy someone who actually reads hard sci-fi was confused too.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Haha I feel you! I can see the beauty in it (especially as an audiobook!) but it’s definitely confusing :/

[@MissEllolisoss]

yay! love your reading vlogs💖☕️

[@belencampos341]

17:00 hahaha i read Winter this week and more than once it was mentioned a pandemic or quarantine and I was laughing and in pain at the same time haha

[@markchelle1748]

Lovely 😁

[@jocelyn8849]

This is How You Lose the Time War is beautiful but weird. I loved the concept of that one. The audiobook of Gideon the Ninth is fantastic but I suggest that you look a list with all the characters of each house because it can be confusing.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I think I'm on the list for the ebook... I might just pick up the physical copy since the reviews are so positive!

[@beemax2014]

I’ve been waiting on this one! 😍 🌈

[@jelatinosa]

You are so naturally pretty! I'm so used to seeing you with makeup but, you look like my cousin without makeup. She's gorgeous like you.

[@jelatinosa]

Coincidentally, my aunt(specific cousin I mentioned's mom) just called me. Lol

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

You’re too nice! I swear every time I feel like I don’t look great in a video, everyone is so nice 🥺

[@anjamelnjak3636]

I think This Is How You Lose The Time War is a really special book. It's definetly not for everybody. If you're looking for a love story, sci-fi, time travelling, a tragedy, you've come to the right book. But if you're looking for world building, satisfying relationships, any explanations or just... structure, you won't be satisfied. I think when you finish the book, you need to understand that it was meant to be the way it is. Anything is possible in love and war ...and sci-fi and time travelling. The fact is, books don't have to have rules or limits. And this one has none; it is just something that is not describable, but rather consumable. And when you put it like that, I think we can all picture it as a speck of gold amongst million grains of sand in a beach called literature.

[@benjaminsparrow8016]

I felt much the same about Lose the Time War. A lot of people seem to like so whatever.

[@CharissaMurrayFilms]

Gideon is on Scribd in eBook format if you can't wait for your library :)

[@useformiscuseformisc380]

Your book chaos is what i wish to have

[@bookishpothos7649]

This is How You Lose the Time War went on my TBR after scooping up the Nebula, Hugo and Locus awards this year for best novella but now I'm thinking maybe I should read To Be Taught, If Fortunate first. Decisions, decisions... well they're both short so probably shouldn't think too much into it and just pick one at random. Gideon was my in my June reads, I thought it was an absolute blast, so much fun, though in retrospect I probably should have put it off till August so I didn't have to kill myself waiting for the sequel to come out. 😣 I hear quite a few reviewers bring up comparisons with Nevernight which you're nuts over so I'm eager to hear what you make of Gideon. Also, my heart goes out for Steve, I hope the cat hasn't got him!

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Becky Chambers first for sure! I'm so happy to hear about Gideon, I need to get to it this year! I haven't seen much of Steve lately... probably too warm for him

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

YAY RW&RB!!

[@starry_worlds]

I need to reorganise my shelves as well. They are a mess atm xD.

[@aliexpress.official]

Get the Graphic Audio production of the The Way of Kings. Its amazing, you'll finish it in like 3 days

[@JesusGonzalez-pg9mp]

Red White and Royal Blue is a great book. The sex scenes aren't that explicit. Not much details they're just steamy. Also, Amazon is developing a movie adaptation for the book.

[@dragonlibrary7268]

Like your bookcases they look like your an active reader mine are in boxes mostly till we move🤗🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🏴‍☠️

[@suddalavijay6930]

I think you should read "The heroes of Olympus".

[@elenaj6134]

I also so need to reorganize my shelves. Hopefully it'll happen for me soon 😅

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

I swear it's a never ending process!

[@elenaj6134]

@BookswithEmilyFox I wished I had any suggestions for you but my shelves only make sense to my brain too. 😅

[@elenaj6134]

@@BookswithEmilyFox It is. I mean it's our fault too bc we keep getting more books 🤣 Keeping my fingers crossed for your reorganization and really looking forward to seeing it. Go, Emily!

[@Diana-sp3rq]

Emily- did you get Home Before Dark? I'm assuming you remove items from your wish list if you get them on netgalley or PR. thought I would double check first tho

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Hi Diana! I had removed it because I thought I had the ARC but I double checked and I was wrong!

[@ham5097]

In the third book of the Stormlight Archive there is a gay side character, so the Way of Kings counts!!

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Oh good to know!

[@KirstySciberras]

I spotted Still Alice on your shelves by Lisa Genova. Have you read it? What are your thoughts about it? Highly recommend the movie too!

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Not yet but I want to soon!

[@Juli6SS]

You must be in great shape with all that walking! : D

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

A few years ago I was so sick I could barely walk so I’m pretty proud of my 25k steps actually lol

[@missburn]

@@BookswithEmilyFox How are you now, I remember I watched your video about your birth control messing with your body? It was so fucked up and I had never heard about such a situation before so I hope you are feeling fine now.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

It's been a slow and long process to get back in shape (jaw surgery definitely made it harder) but I'm almost back to normal!

[@missburn]

@@BookswithEmilyFox That is great to hear, Emily! Have a nice day. 💕

[@deniseprior2432]

Same...averaging 20k steps a day

[@JennV-B]

You need a doggie to bring on your walks!

[@SuperStrangSshadow]

I have started reading The Way of Kings Part One and find it a bit confusing so far. Hope it gets easier.

[@photojunkie86]

I struggled to get through The Way of Kings in the beginning but it definitely gets better. So glad I didn't give up on it. I'm on book 2 atm and I really love the characters and the world. Good luck!

[@betheltorres2550]

Maybe the cat wants to be adopted by you. 😻

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Every time I open the door, the cats run away :(

[@lourday7003]

so many videos! feeling spoiled c:

[@_girl_in_a_book_1213]

First!!! (Sorry, I had to say it)

[@noemialvarez2769]

This video is such a nice way of inclusivity and awareness. & What a nice community you have! It'd be awesome to see my husband's followers grow. He is a new youtuber, check out his channel for more book videos! @Maza Book Tuber

[@oohfancypants]

Books with sex scenes as an audiobook… brave, haha. I don't know why, but I much prefer to read them, not listen. It just increases the cringe-factor by so much.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

It was... a choice for sure lol

[@katietatey]

I'm in an exercise slump and have read a lot of books instead. :) I loved this video and I started giggling when you were giggling. When you were rearranging and showed Dune I was thinking of how you didn't like it but you have such a nice copy. Maybe you could do a giveaway of it, some type of contest like best comment regarding Dune, or "why I should get the copy of Dune." I bet you could get some funny replies for that. I haven't read it and always thought I should, but probably wouldn't like it. After your review I feel like I probably will skip it. I think I'll read 2001 instead, which I've seen the film of about 8 times and LOVE it. Have you ever watched it? The cinematography is amazing although the pace is a bit slow.

[@ammalyrical5646]

There is actually a gay character in The Way of Kings, but you won't know until Oathbringer who it is. So I guess there's no rep that's blatant on the page. I don't consider this a spoiler, sorry if anyone does, but this tells you nothing. Now that I start talking and thinking more about Sanderson's books I do feel like he includes sexual and genders things outside of sis + straight simply because he knows people want it. He said he can't write a homoromantic relationship because he doesn't know how it feels, which seems like such a cop-out, especially with the way he world-builds in his books and especially Stormlight.

[@stormingjales]

About The Way of Kings, I honestly feel Jasnah is at least Bi. I can sense it, she screams lesbian/bi energy.

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

Oh I can see that! Idk if it will be the case or if it’s on purpose but I approve!

[@subscriberswithnovideos-ve6zw]

Legow

[@CamilaGo]

Marry me Emily. I have the biggest crush on you. ♡

[@BookswithEmilyFox]

As long as we live in a cottage in the south of france and spend our days reading, going on walks and gardening with our dogs.... yes!

[@CamilaGo]

@@BookswithEmilyFox with those clauses, of course.

[@anna.and8]

Emily, I spotted 1Q84 on one of your shelves! Some people don’t like Murakami’s books for obvious reasons, but still I remember enjoying his works a lot. The man has talent, you have to give him that. Looking forward to hearing what you have to say about it!

[@lilithcarter]

Anna A. I would like to know those obvious reasons, would you mind explaining those to me? Thank you x