25 Bookish Facts About Me!
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100 pages an hour??? WHAAAT! Teach me!!
Me too, please. :))
***** same!
I would be happy to read 50 pages per hour. I top out around 30-35 pages per hour.
I can....
Natcat I'm very jealous!
I once recommended Outlander to a woman in a bookstore and just some weeks later, in the same bookstore, she came to me, somehow recognised me, and thanked me for that recommendation 😂 She bought book 2 and 3 immediately.
😂😂😂😂👌
Are the other books worth the read? I just finished Outlander and am very hesitant to start to next one.
+The Astonishing Ashley I'm in the middle of Outlander right now and it's kinda boring and the writing is very '90s bad.. if that makes sense.
I only read the first to but LOVED them
I adored the first one as well and I am content with the ending. I can understand why people wouldn't like it. It's essentially 850 pages of a developing relationship/romance.
Bookish facts:
• I am a sucker for anti-heroes. GIMME MY SCEWED UP CHARACTERS
+FluffyUnicorn If you like books with maps check out The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, you might found it interesting.
I am the same way with maps!!! I love having that added visual to build the world
+FluffyUnicorn I love anti-heroes too. In books, tv shows, and movies I absolutely adore them.
Love the anti heroes! But I think I'm the only person who gets so stressed when i see a map in a book. I feel like I now have to keep flipping back to find a city that's referred to!
Carolina Gonzalez thank you for the recommendation!
My bookish fact is I bring books everywhere when I go out even though I know I probably will never read them unless I'm at home.
I do exactly the same thing! I even carry them in school sometimes
I do the same thing. I just feel empty if I don't carry a book with me.
Social event I know I'll never need a book at? I will bring a bigger bag to bring a book I know I will not read
If anyone threw away my dust jackets I would F.R.E.A.K.!!!!!!!!!!
+Bre Faucheux Same!!!
+Bre Faucheux I'd force them to buy me a new book
my friend throws away her own and i just don't understand how she can be that insane
+Bre Faucheux My friend was moving, and said that I could take a go at whatever we wanted from their bookshelf, and I was tramatized when I learned that she threw away dust jackets right when she got the book. I have several jacketless books now.
I would too. I would probably buy the dust jackets off of eBay
You totalllyyy left us hanging with that Patrick Ness fact. How'd you embarrass yourself?
It's on her BEA vlog
Oh, I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
Idk if I can do 25 but I can do a few
1. I will spend the extra money on Hardbacks. THEY'RE SO NICE
2. I used to read really fast and it worked for me but teachers would always tell me I was skipping things and so I slowed down and now I Reread every line like 3 or 4 times
3. I just love the smell of old books
4. There is just something really nice about being near books, whether it be in my house, a library or a bookstore, it just soothes me.
5. I know I should be more careful, but I'm constantly eating while I read and as a result like 2 or 3 of my books have Pomegranate stains.
6. I accost people (in a friendly way) who I see reading a book I loved.
7. I actually really enjoyed Insurgent and Allegiant. I know most people didn't, but I did.
8. If a story is based off a fairy tale, I'm about 20x more likely to read it.
9. I used to read every night growing up. Now I don't have as much time, and I usually read while walking my dog (it's difficult)
10. Besides music classes, Language Arts is always my favorite class.
11. I know it's really stereotypical, but my favorite books always were and always will be Harry Potter. Always.
12. A lot of my books were bargain books, and they all work really well
13. I've only ever listened to 1 audiobook.
14. Bookcases are my aesthetic. Like idk I just love the organization and it makes me super happy. I love looking at other peoples bookshelves and shelfies and stuff.
15. Whenever I go to someone's house, I always spend a significant amount of time looking at their books.
16. I get along with librarians really well
17. Sometimes if I'm bored or sad or something, I take all the sleeves off my books, stack the books up, and put all the sleeves back on. Or I'll rearrange my bookshelf, or just take them all of and stack them.
18. My two favorite genres are Fantasy and Sci-Fy, specifically Supernatural/Fairy t and Dyst
19. I don't know why I never get tired of dystopia, but I jus don't.
I see what you did here with Always
And I relate to you so much! I eat while I'm reading all the time, my absolute favourite genre is fantasy (not a big fan of dystopia nad sci-fi though), I really like LA and my teacher this year was awesome (I usually like the required reads either), and when I go to someone's house I ALWAYS look at their books. There were times when I reorganized their bookshelves, too. And I love reorganizing my bookshelves. It's really pleasing to me and I can't wait to buy new bookshelves, because I have no space on the ones I currently have...
Totally agree about liking the look of hardbacks better but like reading from paper backs more. Hardbacks are beautiful to admire and touch. Paper backs are lively to read, because they feel bookish and alive in your hands.
I'm so with you on mass market paperbacks! Not only is the type to small but the pages even have a different feel to them, more like a construction paper texture, and it drives me nuts!
I agree with the I love reading paper backs but love the look of hardcovers and I've also never gone thru the experience of an audio book.
I completely agree with you! I love the look of a hard back but reading from a paperback is so much better!!
Someone write this for Reagan!
We need a book set in Russia about this witch girl who goes to a magic school to train to kill monsters but her passion is cooking. The book would have the UK cover the the American paperback feeling. Noted.
I agree with you on so many of these. Especially on lending books to friends.
i feel you so much when it comes to eating/drinking while reading! i am so easily distracted anyway, and i don't need any more props to keep my attention away from the book!
I love when food is described in a book too! It makes me so happy :)
Sorry to be unoriginal, but I love The Fault In Our Stars.
+Pushon Bhattacharya I liked it too, though it's a bit too depressing for me. I really recommend watching Koizora if you liked TFIOS (though it's in Japanese lol. It's beautiful though!)
Same
+Pushon Bhattacharya I love it too!
+Pushon Bhattacharya Same! I hate YA with everything that's in me, but I adored TFIOS... I actually got kind of annoyed when the movie came out and every 12 yr. old girl in the country started bullying everyone who hadn't read it. X'D But for real, I basically read the same genres as Reagan and I think she would like it. :) If she liked Fangirl, she would loooove TFIOS. Fangirl sucked imho, haha.
The British paperback struggle though. SO REAL.
They have the prettiest covers but BECAUSE of that it's the saddest when you crack the spines!
Fact 16 (at 2.43): So true!
bookish fact about me is that I have to be under a blanket when I read at home
I'm not going to read The Fault in Our Stars either! FINALLY SOMEONE GETS ME!
I do the exact same thing with the dust jackets and not eating or drinking while I'm reading. Nice to know I'm not the only one! 👍
"I'm all about dem deals" sameeee
Fact number 21 is absolutely me & I have no shame. An interesting book cover will always draw me to read.
In middle school, my friends and I wrote a Harry Potter fanfiction featuring ourselves. It was before Deathly Hallows and Snape was Potions professor again. Hermione was the Transfiguration professor, Ron was the DADA professor, and Harry was the headmaster. He was ridiculous enough to make our airheaded characters his apprentices.
I read ebooks WAAAAY faster. I prefer reading ebooks now, but it's difficult to fight off the desire to have ALL the physical books!
Am I the only one that LOVES mass market paperbacks? Especially for fat fantasy books! They're easy to take around, and seeing the broken spines and weathered copies of the books that are 800+ pages makes me feel all proud and brings back memories. Iddlkkk I want a library, not a book store, you know?
Dude, I love when they cook/bake in books! It started with Like Water for Chocolate and now I can't get enough of it. Awesome video by the way :)
I agree with you about the dust jackets!
I ALWAYS take off the dust jacket of hard covers when I read them too!
I give book recommendations in public ALL THE TIME!!! I totally do the book jacket thing, too! haha
These type of videos are always so interesting and unique to the person; it's great to hear different opinions on things. Also, kudos the comment regarding the fault in our stars! Nothing is as refreshing as someone who has an opinion about something and doesnt even care that people will oppose it.
Audiobooks are great! It is so nice to do things that you hate while listening. It makes it so much more enjoyable
I AGREE if you so much about cooking/baking. It was one of the reasons I enjoyed twilight when I was younger, Stephanie Meyer writes a lot of sensory details! ALSO YESSS magical schools over anything >>
I can't stand dust jackets when I'm reading either. They drive me insane. And I go back and forth between wanting all my dust jackets to look pretty on my shelf and loving the look of naked hardbacks on my shelves. It's a serious dilemma.
I'm a deal hunter too! The used book store near me is usually pretty good at deals, so I get most of my books there.
The part about the dust jackets literally had me gasping with my hand over my mouth :')
lol your last fact cracked me up because it reminds me of two stories:
1. My mom never understood (and still doesn't understand) why my brother and I took off the dust jackets when we read. She says "Aren't they on there to protect the book?!" *facepalm*
2. I had a dream that mom cleaned my room and removed all of the dust jackets from my hard covers and flattened them up and put them on their own shelf to "save space" *cringes x1000000* (which, in hindsight, makes no sense at all, but you know... dreams.) I'm pretty sure I was so furious that I yelled at her like... a lot. And I NEVER yell at my mom.
Yes! Me too I always take the jacket off when I'm reading too. It's sooo annoying. Tnx Reagan for this video because most your facts are mine too!
24. YES!!!!! I'm not sure if this is an official tag, but this is my favorite video with this title. Seriously this was so much fun to watch!
Same for ALL of these except the mass market paperbacks. I actually kinda prefer them because they fit in all of my small purses!
Here are some facts that we have in common:
I don't finish series much either! Sometimes books just do NOT need to be continued. They're fine on their own!
I also cannot stand the tiny little paperbacks. It gives me a headache to even attempt to read those books.
I also ONLY read e-books when traveling. But only because I'm too horrified by the idea that physical books might be damaged during travel.
I also have not listened to an audio book but in all honestly, I have no interest.
I give everyone, everywhere, stranger or no, advice on what they should read.
And I've never got the "don't judge a book by its cover" mantra. How else would a book grab your attention? I always pick out books by first looking at the covers.
I used to throw the dust covers away when I was a child; but now I keep them on because I realize they're better on them. At least when I'm not reading them. I agree with you; they cannot be on the book while I'm reading.
Some facts of my own:
I don't really pay attention to or care about book genres. You could ask my favorite genre all day long and I'd have no idea what to tell you.
I have read 'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak a total of 47 times.
The first time I read the Harry Potter series it took me about 3 1/4 days to read; during finals week. I didn't study at all; I just read and read and read. I read the first 3 in one day, the next 2 on the second day, and the final 2 on the third day.
I also always take off the dust jackets when reading hardcover. I'm so afraid of ruining them!
BOOKISH FACTS:
1)High fantasy and NA contemporary are my favorite genres but it takes me ALOT longer to get into the fantasy/world building/system.
2) reading books without their dust jackets (clothes) aka nude, is a MUST.
3) Hardcover over paperbacks but paperbacks are easier to read....and ruin.
4) Everytime i DNF a book i feel so guilty i skim through the whole thing and read the ending :/
Totally agree with the conditions for borrowing books, I do the same! You are a great reader, by the way! :)
The fact I'm not a witch or wizard also upsets me whenever I think about it genuinely to the point of tears sometimes 🙈
Just wanted to say that I love most of your book recommendations and think you're actually hilarious! Great channel!
Same about eating while reading, imagery with food, and taking dust jackets off! Hahah. I always feel kinda weird when I see IG/Tumblr pictures from people with books and like tea or whatever, I feel like if you're really that into what you're reading you can't even be bothered to take sips from your drink/ eat
I also read ebooks a lot faster than physical books. I have no idea why, but I just do!
If you're looking to get into audiobooks, I highly recommend Thirteen Reasons Why on audiobook! One of the best ones I've ever listened too. Also, it's fun to listen to books you've read before on paper--makes it easier to pay attention I think because you already know the story!
I also love food mentions in books!
I live in the uk, and I agree with the stiff pages- I hate cracked spines and seeing a book with floppy pages excites me to no end.
But I feel sad because most of the time I like the US covers more! For example they've changed the covers for the magisterium series by cassandra clare and Holly black and had to go out of my way for the matching, nicer US version of the book, and A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E Schwab because our covers r okay but omg the US version is so gorgeous. I guess it's human nature to always see the other side of the rainbow before we notice our own.
I take the dust jacket off too! However I've lost quite many dust jackets that way
Omg can you make a video on the time you embarrassed yourself infront of Patrick Ness 👀
I like the looks of a hardcover book but I prefer reading from a paperback too! I'm definitely a deal hunter as well haha.
Most of them apply to me and don't even get me started about how I still am not at Hogwarts!Great video Regan
omg that dust jacket story got me curled up in a ball that is actually my nightmare
I didn't know that other people took of their book jackets to preserve them! I've found my person. Reagan, never change.
I always (unintentionally) end up reading multiple books at a time
I also take the dust jackets off! They always slide and annoy me so much 😂
I also haven't read The Fault in Our Stars...nor do I care to. And I completely agree that paperbacks are a better "user experience", though not as aesthetically pleasing on the shelf.
love your shirt/glasses combo!
I' m a deal hunter too! Pretty much all my books were bought online.
Great video!
The Fault in Our Stars fact made me laugh so hard XD
I don't lend out my books either girl, I feel you.
LOVE videos like this! So fun! I honestly related to half of these myself! XD
Fun fact- in Australia, hardcovers are like mythical creatures. Most books are only available in those annoyingly stiff paperbacks.
I go through periods of slumps where I'll read a book a week, but when I'm in the zone I'll read up to four a week. I go through this cycle nearly every month :)
I'm late to the party for this video, but two bookish facts about me are direct opposites to your bookish facts yourself. 😁
1) I LOVE mass market paperbacks. I will read hardcovers thanks mostly to my library (it's the rare book I buy in hardcover), and when a hardcover book I adore and want to buy is released in *trade* paperback format, I sometimes will buy that edition, but I ALWAYS wish it had been released as a mass market paperback. 😊
2) I also LOVE Urban Fantasy books! I don't think I've read many that are true fantasy, though the ones that I know I've read are ones I've enjoyed. But *Urban* Fantasy is definitely in my wheelhouse. I was introduced to this genre before it was a genre when I read the first few books in the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton in 2004, give or take a year. And I've been reading Urban Fantasy books ever since. LOVE them. 😊❤
Some of my *most* favorite Urban Fantasy series include. . . A) the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton; B) the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews; and C) the Nightside series by Simon R. Green. 😍❤ Honorable mention goes to A) the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire; B) the Jane Yellowrock series by Faith Hunter; and C) the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. 😊❤
I love when books describe food as well! haha
No. 17 was a surprise - I fancied you an aspiring writer.
Nos. 18 and 24 were hilarious :D
With you on No. 25 - we don't need no stinking dust jacket.
Have An Amazing Weekend!
I like the bright red glasses! Very cute. Vampire Academy has a setting in Russia. It's in a later book in the series. I buy most of my books online. You can find better prices online then in bookstores, period. Ha, I give random people book recommendations too! Once I got a librarian to buy a book for the library (that very day) that I liked. She put the order in while I was there. ;)
I don't eat or drink while reading either! That would be too big of a distraction haha! I have too much to worry about while reading (dealing with pushing my cats off of me so they don't attack my book) to worry about a cup of tea/coffee.
i usually do most of my reading when im in bed as well its just so peacful with nobody bugging me like my brothers or sisters and i can just relax and not worry if somone is going to jump on me and break my back:p
Bookish facts about me:
1) I'm a sucker for books with pictures in it. It just adds to the reading experience and gives me a good idea of what's going on.
2) Like Reagan, I love the look of hardcovers, with it's cute little dust jacket and everything, but I prefer to read from a paperback (the dust jacket gets in the way sometimes)
3) About a week ago, my sister accidentally ripped the dust jacket from one of my hardcovers (it was from the book Unhooked, such a pretty jacket), and I totally freaked out XD It was really bad, I can't even put it back on the book anymore :(
4) I will never ever get tired of the bad boy/good girl trope, Idk why but I just really enjoy it. I also love the hate/love relationship trope XD
5) I don't like reading about older main characters (for example, I'm not into book with main characters that are like, 30,40 years old.) I guess since I'm only 17, I like reading about characters closer to my age that I could relate to. The oldest main character I've ever read about was 27-28 (the book was Outlander).
6) I used to be obsessed with books/stories about tornadoes, and tornado experiences. I've always been into weather, but I especially was fascinated with tornadoes. I remember when I was younger, I would google story after story about tornado experiences, and read them XD I don't really read tornado-related books anymore, but maybe I'll start getting into it again.
7) Spoilers (not tiny ones, but somewhat important ones) will completely ruin a book for me and I won't read them. I like to dive into the unknown ;)
8) I don't have a favorite genre of books. I just go through different phases. Like currently, I'm into historical fiction. Next month I'll probably be into fantasy or something. But I DO have a least favorite genre; non-fiction.
9) I DO NOT like love-triangles. At all. But there are a few rare cases that are an exception (like the infernal devices-I like love triangles like that).
10) The fastest amount of time I've ever finished a book (a decent sized book, not a picture book lol) was in a few hours. But that might be due to the fact that it was a book I read it on my computer, not an actual physical copy.
And one more fact: I've never read Harry Potter. And I've never seen the movies. Which is unusual since I've been such a bookworm my whole life. But I'm planning on reading them someday. So don't freak out :P
listened to my first audiobook this year (night circus!) and I enjoyed the experience more than I thought I would!
I take off dust jackets too. When I was younger I used to lose them and not care if they got back to me. The amount of naked books I have lying on my shelf... ugh! Why did I do that! (@ younger self: take care of your books!)
The reading ebooks faster than physical ones is my problem, I don't know why it's like that lol. I rarely read ebooks also but I have noticed I get through it quicker. Nice to know in not the only one
Omg I'm the same with I like reading paperbacks but prefer the looks of hardcovers
if you like food in books, I recommend a middle grade book called Listen, Slowly. There isn't a lot of cooking but the one of the feelings I had immediately after reading the book is I NEED some Vietnamese food right now. (the book is set in Vietnam)
Girl we all will be forever sad that no one's saying "yer a wizard" to us. I can read 100 pages in one hour too! I also take off the dust jackets because I want them to stay pretty, but I'm a little rough shoving my book into my backpack each day. You should see my copy of City of Bones. On the physical book it has paint splatters, worn out edges, and even fingerprints, but once I slip that dust jacket back on, it's beautiful! Lol
I definitely judge a book by its cover, I don't pick up plain books! A book has to catch me visually - I have been like this forever not going to change now. P.S. I love your channel! Thank you for sharing!
Lol I love your videos!! Same i wrote a story when I was little, with the plot from one of the Goosebumps books.
same on the hardback look/paperback read thing! I'm rough on my books
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS IS BEAUTIFUL 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
YOU HAVE TO READ THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, REGAN!!!! I promise you will NOT be disapointed!!!
I love reading but hate starting books. I don't know why
I do the same thing with my dust jackets! And I always get so nervous that they are going to be thrown away by an accident! I can say I've hidden them a few times to avoid that
Regan, you are my spirit animal.
There are so many booktubers who are writing books. I am happy for them and excited to read what they come up with (except autobiographies which I have little interest in), but I have just never had any desire to write a book. I have no creativity to speak of and am perfectly content just to be a reader.
I give book recommendations at work all the time! And I don't work in a bookstore or anything.... so that's where the awkwardness comes in... ;)
I have to finish any book or series that I start, even if I hate it! I just read through the whole thing, looking forward to the end where it's over, I don't have to read it again, and I can move onto something I actually enjoy
Well, this are my random reading facts about me:
1- I used to read insanely fast when I was younger! I could read the first five Harry Potter books in three days. Book one was gone in only one hour hahaha. Now I still read fast, around 100-150 pages for hour, but not that crazy.
2- I re-read a lot. I still read more new books, but I like to dive in a story that I love or makes me happy.
3- Most of the books I read are en e-book (I don't have the money to buy all of them D:!).
4- I never really like Snape, not even after book 7, because I couldn´t forget all the things he did to Harry.
5- I do believe some book adaptations are better (like in The Hunger Games).
6- Percy Jackson is my top boyfriend. I have loved so many male protagonist in so many series, but I can't help to choose Percy over all of them :P.
7. My favourite book is Persuasion by Jane Austen (and I was so happy when you read it hahaha).
And, well thats all I can think of right now.
Kisses!
Audiobook recommendation: The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher! I know you loved his Codex Alera series and this book is so good as well! I have been listening to the audiobook and the narrator is probably one of the best I've heard + one of the viewpoint in the book is a cat's (his name is Rowl and he is perfection) and when the narrator does the cat's voice and his expressions I simply die. Yep.
I always take off the dust jackets when I'm reading hardcovers too. I'm terrified they'll get messed up.
Thanks for all your reviews, seriously, I depend on recommendations to make future decisions concerning reading.
I also read before bed! And I usually snack while I read because when I read, it's like I'm watching a movie and that compels me to eat... I'm usually eating haha (:
I buy books based on covers too. And cooking books are my jam. Barbara Samuels has some nice books like that (how to bake a perfect life is one).
I love mass market paperbacks because they are so cute and chubby and fit nicely into my bags, but sometimes with fantasy novels they get almost as wide as they are tall and reading them in basically impossible (I'm looking at you, Brandon Sanderson books!!)
I haven't read the fault in our stars and i don't care PREACH.
Great Video Regan.
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A Few Bookish Facts
I really like it when books in a series can double as standalone's.
Contempery isn't my fave genre, i prefer fantasy or historical fiction.
While i don't want to write my own book i do write short scenes or stories.
If you are a fan of *Veronica Mars*, I suggest listening to the audio book of those spinoff books, particularly the first which is narrated by Kristen Bell and is AMAZING. Or *Inkheart* by Cornelia Funke and *Harry Potter*/ *The Night Circus* which are both narrated by Jim Dale and are beyond life.. I'm pretty sure he even won a Grammy for his narration. Happy Reading!
This is scary how many of these fit me perfectly as well haha
in love with you glasses 😻
If you haven't yet, I recommend listening to Illuminae on audible. It is such a great experience!