Hey guys, it's Emily! For today's video I am finally answering the questions that
you guys asked on my 1000 subscribers Q&A announcement thing... I'm answering
questions. I'm gonna be answering some questions! I figured I should finally get
off my lazy ass and film this video and then I hit 2,000 subscribers, which is
also like mind-boggling to me. So I thought this would be a good kind of
milestone video thing! Also I'm about to hit my one-year anniversary on booktube!
My booktube-versary! So just, stars are aligning guys. The stars are aligning! And
now I'm gonna get to questions. So I basically compiled a list of the
questions that everyone asked me. I noticed a bunch of questions were asked
repeatedly. And I'm also going to be doing bookish stuff first and then other
miscellaneous questions after that. Okay so I'm finally finally starting. Favorite
sci-fi fantasy books? Sci-fi it's probably Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
and fantasy is The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. If I'm like looking
down it's because I have my phone with all the questions listed out, that's what's
going on there. So next one is what is one thing that makes you pick up a book,
like an appeal factor, thing that you see and you're like oh it's up my alley? Some
things I love matriarchal societies and heist books.
I love heist books! fFvorite first lines in books? Top three are probably Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Pride and Prejudice, and The Gunslinger, which
is book one of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I did not actually like The
Gunslinger. I liked most of the other books in the series, but I really didn't like
The Gunslinger, which as I said is book one. But man, that's a good first line!
I'm probably gonna get like a couple words wrong here but the general effect
is: "The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed." I've
had two questions kind of about authors. So an author I want to have lunch with
and also who I want to write my life. And it's the same author and that is Neil
Gaiman. I'm a huge Neil Gaiman fan. I just love his books, I think they're
beautifully written and funny and weird in the best way. I just I love Neil
Gaiman. favorite genre definitely fantasy definitely fans a favorite bookstore in
San Francisco I really like green apple books which is a very cool used a
bookstore if you're in Simon just go gotta check it out it's one of the most
bookstores in the city but that's kind of a cop-out answer if that or city
lights or the two bookstores that you would say if you're a San Franciscan I
also really love isotope comic lounge which is where I tend to buy my comic
books really cool store and the bookstore that's not my favorite that
I've ever been to is the last bookstore in LA I went to college in LA so I went
there many times it's beautiful it's such a cool bookstore if you're in LA
gotta check it out Chinese one thing from your favorite book or series
canonically black crying I think that's it should be that that's the thing that
should be in the books explicitly books on right you avoid I don't know that I
like actively avoid any genres but I don't read a lot of romance and I don't
read a lot of like Chiclets so that's a dumb genre title but like you know what
I mean I've never read Jodi Picoult coke cult I don't know I also don't really
read a lot of mysteries and thrillers I don't like this because I dislike any of
those genres it's just because you get a little set in your ways
let's book that had the biggest impact on your life this obvious answer is
Harry Potter it had a huge huge impact on my life also really helped me with
learning languages so I studied Spanish in high school and a little bit in
college and one of the best experiences for understanding kind of more complex
grammar structures was reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in
Spanish and I think like I easily flipped through it this was like heavily
heavily annotated it was not an easy process
having that context of like understanding what is supposed to be
said here and then seeing how a grammar structure is then reflected that was
really helpful to me and then I did the same thing with French I studied French
at college and then spent the summer living in burgundy I lived in the city
of Dijon and it's just super helpful so it's shaped my life in terms of what
I like as a reader and then other things that I've done in my life
looks like you're afraid to reread I feel like no no I don't think there's
any business in regards to like oh that's something that I didn't realize
was not good when I was younger when I read this and as an adult I'm picking up
on it I feel like I've kind of had the Epiphany of oh I I just don't want to
reread them like I'm not gonna reread Twilight even though I loved it in high
school I think I'm gonna get annoyed with the characters and with the
style but at the same time something like Harry Potter I can read as an adult
and be like hey probably shouldn't have named a Chinese character Cho Chang
which are two Korean last names like that's not a good thing I am personally
of the opinion that you can love a book the long as you do admit it's false
someone asked if I ever read playlist or if I liked to read in silence or
whatever I can't do two word things at once if that makes sense
so I can't listen to a song with lyrics and like kind of pay attention to song
and like talk to someone or read I prefer to read in silence sometimes if I
want some music I'll listen to like movie scores and soundtracks and that
kind of thing favorite trope enemies lovers I'm a sucker I love that most
Haven book this is a book that has recently been dragged on the bookish
internet community and I'm living for it because I read it and I hated it and I
was like why is this so beloved why does this have such a good ratings the book
I'm talking about is the Bronze Horseman by pulling the assignment I've been
taking renamed falling of Simmons I've noticed I've corrected myself I've been
saying wrong it's Polina Simons bronze horseman don't read it the discussion
right now is focused on the toxic problematic relationship that was only
one aspect of why I hated this book I thought the characters were extremely
poorly developed the character relationships not simply the romantic
one but across the board made me just extremely angry
as someone who's studied history in an academic scholarly setting and who
continues to do so after I'm out of school it seems like a lot of the
discussion around why this relationship and these characters the characters
behavior is okay is rooted in like oh it's a war-torn time period and I'm just
like okay first of all don't get me started
there's nobody books set in war periods and are not trash fires just don't talk
to me about history here just don't do it this is the that's the wrong are you
to take oh and the plot is recycled over and over and over you know sometimes you
read a book and you really don't like it and you're like you know what I get why
people like it for me with the Bronze Horseman I do not get why people like it
I get why people like Twilight I was one of them I can't when people like a lot
of controversial books the bronze horse would just baffled me I don't get it if
you love the bronze horseman totally cool
Oh in your opinions it's wonderful I love people who have strong opinions
because clearly I do but you gotta you gotta be able to acknowledge its flaws
like you just you gotta be able to do that favorite magic system probably the
magic system in Mistborn the rules are firmly laid out and what brandon
sanderson does with them is so brilliant I just I love that magic system I think
it's so so cool and original someone asks for sci-fi fantasy books for people
who are not into the genre even because they think they don't like it or they
just haven't read it before and i'ma hold off on this because I'm planning on
doing a whole video about this I'll recommend one and that is Neverwhere by
Neil Gaiman I love this book it's one of my favorites of all time and I think
it's a great kind of intro to fantasy so I'm gonna ask what fictional character
is most like myself and I I had no idea I really didn't know what to do here I
feel like the default answer for anyone who's kind of nerdy and a know-it-all
like myself is reminding Granger but I also think I'm a little bit more lucky
than she is and also a lot more sarcastic and my sense of humor so I had
to reach out to some people my friend Madeleine over at novel Inc she said
that I reminded her of Lizzie Bennet which like I will take and then my
oldest oldest friend in the world I asked him and Hugh said that I most like
Scully from the x-files Gillian Anderson is I I love her I am such a fan girl for
Gillian Anderson so obviously Scully I was like this is
so those are some fictional characters that I am apparently like favorite Harry
Potter character Oh what this is really tough I think Hermione probably has the
most meetings me but I'm also I do love Ron he kind of shit on because they
didn't do a great job of bringing him to life in the movies I also love Neville I
just I love them all they're all the babies I love them all okay so now we're
getting into personal questions and continuing with a little Harry Potter
theme someone asked what my Hogwarts house is maybe I could put this under
put your stuff whatever but anyway my Hogwarts house is Slytherin I'm linked
to the court Slytherin I've taken the quiz multiple times because I kept
forgetting the password to my account and having to retake the quiz and yeah
it's it's pretty pretty solid guys it's pretty solid in there and quite frankly
if someone asked what I studied in school
as I mentioned a little bit earlier I studied history in school at the
university that I went to you had to pick a focus it could be temporal or
regional or thematic I had a going with a regional selection I technically
focused in German history but that was really a result of the fact that I lived
in Prague for a year and most of the classes there are rooted in German
expansionism into Central Europe and in World War one and World War two but I
also studied kind of all over the place there were some amazing teachers at USD
I went to at University of Southern California there are some absolutely
amazing history professors there and I always chose my classes based on the
professors themselves so I was kind of all over the place when it came to my
studies I've mentioned before I took a class with Deborah Harkness who wrote
the All Souls trilogy the first book is a discovery which is she is so cool her
class was amazing and that book series is super super fun I study in history
kind of all over the place I also worked for a few professors helping them with
academic research one of them focused on african-american history in the South
specifically legal history in Louisiana during the late 19th and early 20th
century and my other research assistant position was focusing on the
archaeological and anthropological history of the northeastern coast of
North America so studying the native peoples and not area and everybody says
you can't study the humanities and get a job you need to do stem whatever do stem
if you want to do stem that's amazing if you want to study the humanities that
does not mean you can only go to grad school or teach high school or something
like that you've got options because this is talking to another question
someone asked me what I do for my job I work in marketing for a software company
and I work on basically program management and execution of marketing
programs and it's great doesn't really have much to do with history but a lot
of the critical thinking and analysis and writing skills that you've gained in
the humanities studying environment you can translate to a million different
jobs if you just like know how to sell it right that's what I study that's what
I do now someone asks like go to coffee order I love a flat white but if a
coffee place doesn't have that I'll go with either a latte or a cappuccino I
got a lot of questions about traveling and where I want to travel my
favorite places that I've been to all that kind of stuff I am very very lucky
and very privileged and that I've been able to travel and live all over the
world my favorite place is Prague I just Oh God like Odin's my heart I love that
city so much I spent all my junior year in college living abroad and Prague it's
just an amazing wonderful weird beautiful city and the history is
fascinating and literature coming out of there is amazing and the film is
incredible - I love Prague so much one place that I want to go back to someone
asked that specifically I have two answers for this one is just like a
generic I love this place I had so much fun and that's Zanzibar that's an island
off the coast of Tanzania another place I want to go to for a very different
reason is China specifically I think I want to go to Shanghai I went there when
I was fourteen - is it my uncle who was living there I got incredibly incredibly
sick I was hospitalized in the city of kweilyn and that kind of put a damper on
that trip I want to go back and kind of reset my memories of that place with a
great experience one place that I really want to go to that I have not been to
like top of my travel bucket list is Iceland I've heard amazing things about
Iceland I just want to go so badly someone also asked specifically about
Latin American countries and I'm going in April I'm so excited I know the clock
goes so obviously going to Ecuador and then maybe traveling around other South
American countries we shall see I am so so excited someone asked the best things
to do in San Francisco there's so much good food so much good food also I would
say if you can go to Crissy Field and then the beach there because there's
just dogs everywhere it's amazing also Lands End is a hike that takes you
around to the Pacific Ocean side of things there's a time really cool
microbreweries my personal favorite thing to do in San Francisco is to just
get some food and you can't little something to drink
grab a blanket and go to one of the parks there's a million really cool
parks here that you can just post up in hang out and they're always busy and
stuffs going on and so you can people watch really really fun someone has my
favorite food I love dumplings
how long about all day forever are so many great dumpling places in San
Francisco it's so easy to get them now long bao are my favorite kind of
dumplings and they're so good I just love them somebody asked how I am and I
am tall I'm pretty tall I am 5 foot 10 which is fairly tall for a lady and then
someone asked my favorite places to shop / where I get my clothes I think I've
mentioned once or twice every channel I'm trying to be a little more
sustainable in my choices when it comes to fashion after the oil industry the
fashion industry is like the number one most polluting industry that there is so
not great also a lot of people particularly women are really mistreated
within a fashion industry and the like the garment side of making things so try
to be a little more conscious than that and some of my new favorite place it is
I love ever Lane they're all about what they call radical transparency and not
marking up their prices ridiculously so you can buy really high quality nice
basics in kind of neutral colors which I'm all about all of my like
tight-fitting jumpers are from there I have some loafers from them that I love
I really like menswear inspired shapes and pieces and that kind of thing
another store that I love is called amour ver they are Sam Sisko based
company for every t-shirt you buy from that they plan a tree and they also use
generally more sustainable materials within their stores they have other
brands that have the same core ethos that they do this shirt here is from
another San Francisco company called marine layer their t-shirts are so soft
and they're made out of a material called moon modal mo doll it's basically
recycled beechwood as a fabric it's much easier to produce it requires fewer
resources so it's generally considered a pretty green fabric and another clothing
store that I'm so excited about I just bought a couple things from there is one
called olive they are a British company all about supply chain transparency
you'll be seeing some things from them on the channel well see how soon because
they're shipping from the UK so may take a while before you get them but I'm so
pumped someone asked my favorite music and I love like lady rock I'm big on it
so I just went to a wax a hacci concert that was so much fun seriously so much
fun I love flirtin the Machine lately I've been listening to a lot of
old-school Lucius their song Genevieve is just like
puts me it's such a good mood love that and I'm also really big fan of daughter
I loved their last album thanks so much for watching if you like this video give
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