a study day in my life | first week back to class, thesis, lots of reading
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 18. 03. 2023
- a bit of a tired-study-date-vlog
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I donât have the same exact interests, but this video makes me remember what it felt like to be excited to learn and pursue interests. I feel like Iâve been so dead inside the past 3 years. This video inspires me to focus on things that make me happy.
completely agree
I'm very sorry to hear that. People with whom you can chat help IMO. I like Emma's videos and sometimes there are actual discussions here in the comment section. I hope you feel better.
same, i just graduated from uni and I really miss studying and learning something
We all have moments more or less like that in life. Sucks to lose three years, but isnât it beautiful that youâve woken up before being yet three years deeper? What a wonderful and random moment this is. I believe in you and your ability to pursue your passions! Thereâs nothing more important.
God bless you sweetheart â€ïžâđ©č remember life is good and there is a hopeâš you are cared for
First time I'm so early. I love your videos so much. I've wanted to study English Literature since high school but I wasn't brave enough to take the plunge for what I wanted and went with a safe option cause of the insane employment crisis in my country. Anyway, watching you study and do these vlogs is comforting. And the reading. You have amazing taste in literature. â€ïž Have a good one
David Copperfield is one of the books that I'm actually in love with. Please please please do a complete detailed annotation showcase of it once you're done, I beg of you.
Matter of fact make a separate video on detailed annotations walkthrough of all the Dickens' works you read. Big fan lysm Em!â€
I'm loving it as well. They name "Peggoty" has earned a special place in my heart.
Hope everyone is having a great morning :)
I started reading âthe poetics of spaceâ for an art project I was working on, but it might be relevant to your hotel project. It basically just explores the significance of physical space in art and literature, but mostly poetry. It focuses on the home, but the theory of it can be applied to other things. Itâs kind of dense since itâs just theory/philosophy, but from the small bit Iâve read so far, the writing is often very poetic even though itâs non fiction.
That person jet-skiing in winter along with the iced coffee while out in the snow is literally Canada... we are the people who are like "it's minus 40 any one want ice cream for dessert?" and most people will accept it :D I love Canada, we are definitely an interesting group :P
Wow... the unexpected intertextuality btwn David Copperfield, Gun Island, and Dance Dance Dance is very cool. Your videos are an integral part of my Sunday late morning coffee ritual, and I needed this particular pick-me-up more than I thought I did. Merci beaucoup!
I absolutely did not expect that you would be reading Amitav Ghosh for your curriculum. But, honestly I am so glad â€
I read The Hungry Tide when I was 14 and it stuck with me so much that words fall short to describe what I feel.
I am really glad that his work is reaching international students and it is getting the due credit.
You should read The Shining, one of the most influential modern horror stories and it is all about a hotel
Iâve been a classic film fan my entire life and I legit squealed when you held up Hotel Lobbies and Lounges because the cover photograph is a still from Grand Hotel (1932). I recognized it right away â€
Hi, Emma. Dolphins were a common motif found in fountains and on many hotels and other structures during the Victorian era. Not sure what they symbolized but, as with pineapples, adopted by royals because they were rare, delicious, and costly, dolphins evoked if not a royal then perhaps an upper-class ambience. This could explain the interesting concordance among your books that somehow includes Dickens, yes, with whose work Murakami is likely conversant.
I was wondering if perhaps there was a connection to the French Dauphin - the heir to the throne - which in Shakespeare's English history plays was always derisively pronounced 'dolphin.'
Super cool that there's an ecological lit course, I'm doing a world religions minor and I took a course on religion and ecology a couple years ago that was one of the most fascinating courses I've ever taken - ecology in the humanities is just a lot of fun tbh đ
this was the perfect motivator to start a new week, thank you đ„čđ«¶
ariana what are you doing hereeeee
This was lovely, thank you for bringing us along on your day. Its great when connections between the books your reading come up, it adds to my reading enjoyment when it happens đ
The intersections between David Copperfield, Gun Island, and Dance Dance Dance! So freaky and so cool! I love when that happens when Iâm reading very different books simultaneously.
Emma!! I'm so glad you're doing study vlogs again!! Right now, I need to be disciplined and go back to writing my 25 pages long research paper before I watch this, but I'll be glad to come back to a new video, can't wait!
i was feeling very low today and cannot stop crying for hours really haivng a hard time coping with it and then you came đ„ș thank you emma !! every time i watch your videos it feel like having a friend, less alone. love you. hope you're having a pleasant day^^
What a beautiful community emmie has built filled with positivity an love.
Always a calm and comforting vibes.
Ty Emmieâ€
The timing couldn't have been better , i have been desperate for motivation. Never clicked a video that fast ! love how regular your posts have been đ.thank you
I love the weird intersection in books! Thatâs so cool that youâre getting so many right now. Iâm loving David Copperfield and I put Gun Island on my TBR. The cover makes me think of Ninth House which at first made me not interested at all so Iâm glad youâve talked about the book so much đ
This was so on time since I desperately needed motivation to keep on studying, Love ya! đ
i canât define the comfort you give me with your videos . I love you â€
Itâs so heartwarming to see you talk so happily and passionately about these books and classes đ
PLEASE do a thesis diaries series thing. I would love that!!!
It's so cozy when I see the vlog. Thank you for sharing your daily life today, emma:) đ
Your vlogs are always so incredibly calm, thank you for you efforts and continually putting out amazing content â€
you might find edith whartonâs short story âa cup of cold waterâ interesting for your thesis! a good chunk of it takes place in a nyc hotel
Emma, you are amazing! I love you talking about the intersections between the books and the ending with you pushing the huge snowball and all the nature ! đđđđ
Yes, that was a Calvinesque snowball, wasn't it?
I love every new video. Iâm going to start watching the old ones in between new ones. Thank you for sharing your day Emma.
aaa another vlog!! u inspire me so much, emma
Two of some of my favorite movies are Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime, based off the Eloise books. They are so comforting and pure, and I adore the community the movies set up within the Plaza Hotel. I think that's another aspect of hotels that is so interesting - all the moving parts that work together to create an imitation of life to become someone's home away from home, over and over with all different kinds of people. It's really interesting and comforting to think about!
Your handwriting is so aesthetically pleasing ugh â€
watching this while procrastinating on uni work as i've done the entire week...
intersections in books are funnn
opened the app praying to see a new video and here it isss, iâm so happy
your videos always remind me that i don't actually hate college. thank you so much
love today's video âĄ
a motivation to study as well!
You drinking cold coffee in that cold weather is such a mood!
thank you so much for your contentđ i feel like a content flower watching this, as if pure joy was always at our reach and we just have to let it come across us
Love this. I feel that too.
thank you, emma!!!! đ„șđ
in terms of ecological/climate lit (and also Indigenous Australian lit), I'd recommend checking out The Swan Book by Alexis Wright. It's probably one of the most difficult things you'll ever read, but it's utterly incredible. I genuinely don't know how to describe it, but once I'd figured out how to read it it was mind-blowing. She wrote it wanting to take a Western art form and make it "indigenous", using what she describes as "aboriginal realism" - sort of like magical realism, except an Indigenous world-view wouldn't necessary describe its events as "magical", so it's a novel but one which follows none of the rules or logic of the traditional Western novel. It centres an Indigenous world view which privileges the natural world over anthropocentrism and is just amazing. I suspect it might cover quite a lot of your interests at once.
In France, Carpentaria by the same author is one of the 5-7 books we have to study for a competitive exam which is supposed to allow us to become English teachers! And studying it was hard, and this is coming from someone who LOVED the book. But oh my god, it's not an easy read at all.
So glad to hear you're writing a thesis!! I just finished mine (I wrote about trauma in the haunted houses of horror literature) and I can't wait to hear more about your thesis writing :)
I am loving David Copperfield. The name "Peggoty" is now one of my favorite words. I almost want to take up knitting. Almost.
There's an entire tribe of indigenous people who bring on mystical experiences through Peggoty rituals.
You should start knitting because itâs really fun, well, at least it is to me. đ
I started reading Dance Dance Dance and Iâm loving it so far!
I love your uni videos. I've had my eye on Gun Island for a while and this has made me want to pick it up đ Your ecological lit course sounds really interesting. I did a uni course that was all about the Global South and it was one of my favourite courses. We read a lot of really interesting texts for it and had great in-class discussions too đ„°âš
Hi Emmie, I'm in the process of ordering all of Murakami's books, due to your influence as well as to Carolyn's and I just ordered Wild Sheep Chase, as I have his first 2 books you mentioned already.
It's so thrilling to vicariously be a student at uni again THROUGH YOU and not worry about writing papers or taking exams!(đ)
Happy start of the semester! Seems like you have such interesting assigned reading to get you started at least :)
As for the weird coincidences, I had one recently. Iâm rereading Hamlet for fun, and reading Vonnegutâs bibliography.
The book I was on, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, features Hamlet prominently as a theme. So now I gotta reread and unpack that đ stuff like that is fun, but weird
the thing about intersection in books is so real!
Love your videos so much as always, Emmie †Iâm thinking about doing a theses too because Iâm closer to graduate from my Hispanic literature degree! So watching you starting yours really makes me feel so excited â€
I wrote a paper on Gun Island, there's so much good stuff in there! But yeah, I agree about the dialogue.
Speaking of freaky links between things, I wrote my first paper in the Indigenous lit class about my grandmother just after her 100th bday, and I titled it "One Hundred Years of Fortitude." đ
I read David Copperfield a couple months back and absolutely loved it.
I m from India and Amitav Gosh is one of my favorite Indian authors.. I love his Hungry Tide.. Really happy to see his book included in your curriculum â€
I am also a Murakami fan and read a lot of his stories for my literary translation class, if you are interested, one of his short stories titled "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" (2020) takes place nearly entirely in a hot springs inn. It stands alone in the New Yorker Fiction podcast series but is also in his First Person Singular (2020)~ good luck on your thesis! Finishing up my linguistics thesis currently đ
Love your videos as always! Esp the music for this video ⊠excellent choices !!
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel is a great hotel book! đ
I thought the research on hotels was for your book. Would love to see how you're going to connect English lit and hotels, bit of an odd choice. Nice video as always. Loved those dancing waves, nicely captured.
I miss school and my stydies, I love this videos becoue they make me remember how amazing experience it was for me.
the chances murakami took the hotel name from dickens's novel are high, but the chances of you reading both books at the same time?? that was such a cool little coincidence! as a fellow english (and portuguese) language and literature student i always love watching the videos where you talk about uni đ„°
I live in NH and the historical grand hotels are a huge thing up here! Iâm sure thereâs so much literature about them⊠wanted to mention in case it helps with your thesis!
Todd here. Dear Emma, Thank you for making another nice and relaxing video! When I was 18 I thought I wanted to be a legal assistant, I took a few semesters of college, but stopped going after that. I always new college could be fun, and is an important part of life, but wanted a break and had my mind on other things. I have my own booktube channel that is still growing. I'm a published poet and plan on publishing all of my poems into one collection, I have to remind myself to never give up and keep trying. I might go back to college and take a few classes, I would love to work as a poetry editor for poetry magazine out of chicago. Peace.
I'm currently rewriting my phd proposal and it's just so good seeing how academic writing is different for each country. I am from Brazil and I'm in a Media Studies phD writing about techno-orientalism in cyberpunk â€
Wasn't feeling my best today, and I was watching your old videos.
An essay that you might like and/or find useful for your thesis : Marc AugĂ© - âNon-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernityâ đ€âš
Ahh Iâm so pleased you picked up Dance Dance Dance, really looking forward to hearing your thoughts. One of my favourites of Murakami đ„°
Ikr? This happens to me as well. It's like the books "KNOW"đđ
The same thing happened to me recently where I just read two books that happened to be about food and memory. Ghosts by Dolly Alderton and Natalie Tanâs Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim. Very interesting synchronicity!
Hi Emma, I love the swans, and sea glass........great title for a story !
David Copperfield is my favorite novel of all time!
Canât wait for your thesis videos!
i'm also taking an ecological lit course right now! we're reading ghosh in it as well, but the hungry tide instead of gun island
10:02 side note, I like the frames in the back
A hotel lobby in the book I've just read is described as "a parking garage designed for human beings instead of cars"
HII!!!! I'M A BIG FAN I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS IT'S SO SATISFYING
I just want to say I read Wild Sheep Chase because of you and I love itâ€Thank you Emmie
x2, it was AMAzING!
your handwriting is so pretty :p
the hotel in the shinning would be great
I give you MASSIVE respect for throwing in David Copperfield along with your school reads. Charles Dickens isnât exactly an author who has any light reads. đ
i stan Like Water for Chocolate!! it's so fun!!
DC is a surprisingly quick read. it's pretty much oliver twist for at least the first half... that said: snoozeville
If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend A Gentleman in Moscow! It's a historical fiction set in Russia and takes place entirely in a hotel. The protagonist is actually exiled and confined to the hotel so it really demonstrates how the hotel becomes his entire world while he's completely oblivious to the happenings of the outside world.
I'd love a round the world challenge update!
In an earlier video, you mentioned you would be reading Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh. I just finished it. Great book!! I think you should read or listen to the Hunguy Tide first. The characters, as well as the islands, are better explained in Hungry Tide.
I'm reading David Copperfield and I cant help relating! I am greatful your recommending! đ enjoying it alot sofar! Anyway. đ
"Gun Island" arrived for me at the library Monday.... The first twenty or thirty pages are excellent so far...
I've heard that the dolphins of Alderaan come out only when the weather is wet. You agree, n'est pas? It's nice to see you, and I'm glad you're finding your métier if not your niche.
omg⊠Iâm suffering my thesis for english degree too⊠thatâs so tough especially design questionnaire for my researchđą hope i can get through it asap
yayy
If lovehotels would also count as hotels. You could also maybe look at one of your favorites of Murakami After Dark??
Amitav ghosh is a great writer in Indian literature in English....If you are interested in literature during Indian partition...try out Ghosh's THE SHADOW LINES. A fantastic postmodern outlook on India's turbulent times.
Hello EmmieâŠ.Love your videos. Where did you purchase the gray and white stand/dresser beside you? Iâm looking for something similar. Thanks in advance
Hey Emma! I've been struggling to get back into the reading and writing of my English-major heyday. I contracted Lyme disease in 2010 and, although it's long gone now, it's left me with a mild cognitive impairment and a few chronic illnesses. I know you deal with post-concussion syndrome, so I was wondering if you had any advice for drumming up the mental energy it takes to read and write (especially reading the classics)? It feels like my brain just won't boot up properly.
It's the middle of March and it's still snowing?!
Guess I'll know what that feels like when I move to Greenland next year.
I wish I had notes as neat as yours đ
Wishing you the best of luck with your course and your reading đ prayers and thoughts for you and your family love your Aussie family friend John â€â€â€
Nice one â„ïžđ
"I really look like a sick Victorian child" đ
One of my profs recently talked about a book called Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor. It takes place in a hotel too and (apparently) really ties this into the themes. I have not read it yet, but it sounds really good and like something you might enjoy?
I picked up 'A wild Sheep chase' from your recommendation which led me to Dance Dance Dance despite--yes few of the part were unsettling--I cannot thank you enough for leading me to it...which also left me asking is it the work of Murakami I am in love with it or the translators
You have the best handwriting
If you're looking for more hotel novels, Temptation by Jånos Székely is a Hungarian classic and an absolute masterpiece. Follows a boy living in poverty during the early twentieth century who grows up to work in a Budapest hotel. One of the best novels I've ever read, even if it's just to tick Hungary off the list it's beyond worth the read
Hi Emma ! Love your videos as always. Sorry I donât Know if you already said it in another video but what is your graduate school major ? Best â€
After the Oscars they might make one of those Murakami novels into a film.
Hii. Iâm new to your channel but I absolutely love the spooky books/cozy vibe. Where do you go to school? If you canât say for private reasons just at least tell me where all the mushrooms are please đ
i think she goes to University of TOrronto