English Lit reading list & Uni TBR / what i'm studying this year

This just reminds me why I want to study english lit

We need to get you some good gel pens. Those bic crystals will not do.

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I am curious, how old are you? You tell me if you don’t mind!

This is wonderful! I had a graduate course on Milton and Spenser, and it was one of the best things ever. You’re in for such a treat. I firmly believe that Spenser is the greatest English language poet ever.
Oh, I’m jelly! I now want to go back to school and take more Lit classes, but college has gotten so expensive, and night classes while working are kind of a pain.

I have my own copy of Paridise Lost. I would love to do a buddy read on it sometime (as I know right now you're reading it for classes). What would you say to that? My copy isn't exactly your edition though.

Oo any "essay writing process" sounds interesting too!

An amazing journey awaits you.

“bible fanfiction” WHEN I TELL YOU I SCREAMED

I wish i could go back to uni and study literature, but i threw my life away and now i'm dying from cancer, so i'm living through you vicariously. Your videos bring me so much joy.

Ahhh i had to take a part of the faerie queene for my poetry up to 1750 class!! It's a very weird story lmao😭
Ohhhh and I also took Dr Faustus for my introduction to drama course it was soooo interesting I really recommend you read it even if you don't take it in class. Relating it all to the time period and contrasting it to morality plays was amaaazing

I'm loving the vibe here

If you enjoy reading Kings Lear I highly suggest you watch Ran by Akira kurosawa. It is an excellent live action japanese film wich brings Kings Lear but to japan during the middle ages (I don't know much about Japanese history idk if middle ages is the correct term). As well as Shakespeare it has some of the best cinematography I have ever seen.

Awww this warms my English major heart. Faerie Queen 👸 is massive! And I have that same copy but Way More beat up. We didn’t read it all either. It’s tough to impact but delicious

it may be cheesy, but sometimes i get insecure about wanting to pursue a degree in english/literature and whenever i watch your videos it reminds me why i picked it in the first place. your joy for reading is infectious and it makes me excited for my degree :))

9:13p.m.Sept.07.2021

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Marry me! We’ll get along perfectly, since I’m also a lover of books.

u are incredibly beautiful and have a beautiful soul !

Frankenstein <3 !!

AHH I’m so excited for you to go back. I hope you thrive! This semester I’m studying the Pentateuch as literature, with additional readings inspired by the Pentateuch. 💞

Endgame is amazing. See if you can find a version to watch once you have read it and made some beautiful notes.
Also loved Paradise Lost and Frankenstein.
I've read the whole of The Faerie Queene and it is so intense but really quite interesting once you break through understanding the language used.
Faustus and The Spanish Tragedy are two others you may enjoy.
Ooh I'm excited for you.
And you have such a beautiful aesthetic too 💞
Good Luck, you got this 🥰 xxx

Does anyone know what edition of Paradise Lost is this?

I'm so excited for you! Best of luck. Self-care first.

Hi! I m watching your channel from Russia and I want recommend to you gorgeous book ever - Demons by Dostoevsky. Pleeease focus your attention on it!

I'm absolutely living for your comment that Paradise Lost is Bible fanfiction - it's so true and every once in a while you run into professors who acknowledge it. There was nothing funnier that my professor who taught me Paradise Lost trying to explain that it was Bible fanfiction without using the words "Bible fanfiction" 😂

I really dig your soft voice and plants, you're like a magical cottagecore librarian. Subbed.

under 30 minutes?!?!?!

I'm going back to uni in October to study English and Communication Studies, 17 years after graduating for the first time. My first degree was in Stage Management and I was living in Scotland at the time. Now I'm in Germany, it's a totally different system and quite daunting! I'm really looking forward to it but I'm terrified at the same time. I look forward to your videos, can't wait to hear your opinions about those books! :)

Since you're reading Solar Bones and I know you also like literatura from around the world, there's this Brazilian novel written by Machado de Assis that's really similar to the plot you've described for solar bones. The main character is also dead. It's called The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. Let me know what you think of book after you read it. 😘

Comment sections of booktubers always make me smile. Especially videos like these. Just a bunch of wannabe literature majors (some are already literature majors) uniting because of their love of the subject 💗🥺like don't mind us we just crawled out of our cottagecore nooks stuffed with books and plants to meet other creatures of our species 🥺🥺

i'm going back to school for the first time in a long time as well (been out of school for two years for a couple of reasons, health issues surrounding brain damage being a big one--so your situation is surprisingly relatable haha) and i'm doing some kind of "prep" year so i can start studying english at uni in 2022 (the way this all works is kinda complicated cos i'm a special case, and because dutch school systems are weird lol). but i've been getting very excited about going back to school and about everything surrounding studying english, so this video couldn't have had a better timing for me! :)
hope you'll have a good year back at uni, wish u all the best of luck <3

Takes me back to university and how in love I was with books (still am). Ohh to study, what a priviledge.

hi emma i just got accepted to my dream uni, gonna be studying eng lit and i can’t be more excited, i still can’t believe it, it feels so surreal, just wanna say you’ve been a huge inspiration for me thank you for everything ✨🖤

I'm studying Dutch literature this semester. I can't wait to get into it. In the future I'd like to read the English classics as well. The English language is so beautiful.

What a unique keycap profile

I had a class that Mike McCormac taught last year in my English course in university. According to him he writes all of his books by lying down on the floor in an empty room and looking at the ceiling for hours on end lol. He's a very nice man.

hi emma, i just started my semester (as a literature major) and ive been feeling so demotivated both with coursework and reading in my free time. watching this video has given me some motivation again and i feel so antsy to get to my work. thank you so much!! also i had never heard of Memorial but it sounds so amazing and i need to read it!!!

Samuel Beckett is fantastic! I studied him for art history and a conv English class for uni and I truly enjoyed a lot of his works.

Solar Bones is one of my favourite books of all time, I read it a few years ago and it's stuck with me ever since

Just want to say your videos bring lots of joy and inspiration for me. You remind me so much of my younger self, like my alter ego. I recently showed a video of yours to a friend (specifically bc we'd both just picked up The Dark Interval by Rilke and I wanted her to hear your thoughts on it) and she said "whoa,
she reminds me a lot of you in your 20s. Her place even looks like our old apt!"
Thank you for putting your adorable, inspirational vibes out to the world. They are appreciated 💕

My son is in 8th grade and Utopia is one of the books he's reading this semester on his honors English class. We're excited to see your thoughts on it!
I think I might pick it up and read along with him.

I would love to see some back to uni content!

LOVE FROM INDIA EMMIE
I ALWAYS LIKED YOU VIDEOS SO MUCH
THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING US GREAT INFORMATIONS ABOUT BOOKS 📚

I would love some more school related content with how you are doing in the semester or any vlogs with homework. This is purely selfish as it motivates me to do homework!;3

Good luck to you with going back into study! I hope you enjoy it!
I'm excited for the vlogs. I'm not going into study but I've recently transitioned into a new job that's in education, so it's fun to see the student perspective again

I just read Beowulf for the first time! I adored it! It was so epic and amazing! I read the Seamus Heaney translation. I find it interesting that I never studied this at school (I'm from the UK), but maybe it's because they didn't do it at GCSE level... would have loved to though

Thanks for another great episode.

I'm SO excited for you!!!

I absolutely loved Dr Faustus. We had an absolutely brilliant professor who taught it to us as well and that makes the journey just so much better. He also taught us Conrad's Heart of Darkness another book I love unconditionally 😁

Bible fan fiction - LOL