thank you!! i will be sure to check her outI think it's easy to fall in to "popular booktube", because they are the biggest channels.
I get you, I've tried a whole load of popular, hyped books that are so out of my genre choice, and truth is I hated them. I will just never like fantasy romance!
Hopefully you can find some channels to watch that inspire you and your reading. If you like Emmie I'd recommend CarolynMarieReads. I know they've done some videos together, and do similar content.
Add Colleen Hoover to this list. How any of them can enjoy her awful books is beyond me. Some have done excellent rants on them though - especially Caleb Joseph's videos a few years ago.The books Booktube loves I usually hate. Especially those fantasy romances like anything SJM, Cassandra Clare and Jennifer Armentrout. There are some great smaller booktubers on there that read a variety but they're harder to find.
Don't forget though that reading is like watching TV, you don't have to always push yourself- sometimes you just need that really trashy, awful book.It has encouraged me to explore my options more and try genres and books that i would never have tried before, but at the same time, it has kind of made me fall for this idea that it's okay not to challenge yourself with reading (which i totally agree with for some readers - like any hobby, it's all about what works for the individual), and so i've let so many classics fall by the wayside for me to pursue random fantasy and romance, which are great genres, but i feel i could be more enriched if i didn't fall into hype of good reviews on yt and just challenged myself a bit more. certainly an error on my part, but i'm gonna phase out some of the content to get back into pushing myself with reading.
I'm using this as my excuse to go on a rant, sorry.The books Booktube loves I usually hate. Especially those fantasy romances like anything SJM, Cassandra Clare and Jennifer Armentrout. There are some great smaller booktubers on there that read a variety but they're harder to find.
Mel is going in my camp of book collectors on youtube. She's another who reads a ton of middle grade and manga and I'm like 80% sure it's just for the numbers.Mel really takes any and every sponsorship thrown at her
Circle jerking is the perfect term for the UK booktuber group. They're such a Mean Girl clique who are constantly fapping each other offI don't know anything about booktuber gossip, and my curiosity made me go and search out some info on this, and my god..... these people are literally insufferable. i watched a couple Jess Owens Book CommuniTea videos, and it was all so insufferable, and the commenters were all the most irritating kind of people, biggest circlejerk stating the same opinions on the most insignificant ''''''''drama'''''''' i have ever seen....
for a community centred around reading, wherein you literally place yourself in the shoes of someone else for hundreds of pages, something that surely would foster empathy and thinking about things differently, there is roughly 1 (one) opinion and that's if I use the word 'opinion' loosely tbh
Unnecessary rant over~
I hadn't noticed it so much with the UK ones but maybe I'm watching the wrong ones!Circle jerking is the perfect term for the UK booktuber group. They're such a Mean Girl clique who are constantly fapping each other off
It's RG. I'm pretty sure his name is Ralph + middle name with G.It confuses me too and I am still not sure what her partner's name is. RJ? Archie? I don't know
Oh she's definitely a book collector. She'll grab any book. I can't buy her fake enthusiasm over Book of the Month when those books are always adult books from genres she doesn't read. And pubs really go out of their way to send her books they won't send other international booktubers and bookstagammers. She's a nice girl but between the sponsorships, patreon, and adsense she's bringing in enough money that she should take down her wishlist. She was talking about how admirable it is J Elle was giving back to the community donating books while having people buy books for her she can afford.Mel is going in my camp of book collectors on youtube. She's another who reads a ton of middle grade and manga and I'm like 80% sure it's just for the numbers.
Don't even get me started on how annoying Book of the Month and their four to five minute long adverts are. And I completely agree, after a certain point people who make Booktube (and even booktok!) content should not be asking their viewers to buy them books. I really want people who promote less consumption, libraries or E-Readers (without buying the physical book as well) to get a bit more attention on booktube, but that's not 'aesthetic'.Between the YA authors who most of also write MG now pushing adults to read MG and booktube following along I see the actual middle schoolers are getting pushed out of middle grade. I struggle finding books for my niece because most of these are not the books kids want but books the adults are vicariously living through.
Rae of Books is a booktube librarian who doesn't get enough attentionDon't even get me started on how annoying Book of the Month and their four to five minute long adverts are. And I completely agree, after a certain point people who make Booktube (and even booktok!) content should not be asking their viewers to buy them books. I really want people who promote less consumption, libraries or E-Readers (without buying the physical book as well) to get a bit more attention on booktube, but that's not 'aesthetic'.
And yeah that's a lot of the issues I have with YA as well. Because adults are becoming the main audience, it's written in such a way that appeals to adults- I read a YA Contemporary book recently and the whole time I was just sat there like "these are adult characters who have been aged down to appeal to the YA market". It defeats the point of the genre, and it's making me annoyed that YA and MG are so widely recommended online.
I've ordered from Ana Luisa before some of their earrings are a little overpriced for the size. It seems like if you have at least 1k following they'll send some free jewelry your way.Yes! Ana Luisa seem to sponsor almost anyone (Gabriella Lindley included!)
Some of their products look lovely but no way am I going to buy them. Over-exposed.
On YA and MG: I think it's fine for adults to read the genres. However the sheer amount of adults buying those books have definitely changed the market, and as you all have said, the content often isn't actually what children and teens want anymore. It feels like it is written for the adult readers a lot the time.
Then you go on Goodreads and it's been shelved as both YA and Adult and you get confused as to what category it actually is!!It's honestly shocking to me how many adults including authors refuse to read adult fiction and overly brag about only reading YA and MG. Like the only adult books they'll read are ones that have crossover appeal like The Year of the Witching or Ninth House. Booktubers have a bad habit of either calling the adult books like they new adult(which is a category that traditional publishing doesn't even recognize) or YA. And women authors already have a problem with people not taking their fantasy work serious and dubbing it YA even when the characters are mid to late 20s.
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