REACTING TO YOUR BOOKISH PET PEEVES [CC]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2022
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Honestly my main pet peeve, and its mostly white, cishet booktubers, promoting books solely based on representation. Representation is absolutely important and good representation at that. But calling a book you didn't enjoy good because it had a trans character is ridiculous.
yeaa i agree
That’s called tokenism
Finally someone else who agrees that 3 stars isn’t a bad rating 🙌🏻 I can’t just be limited to a 4 or 5 star rating for books I enjoyed!!!
Right? For me, books I've rated 3 stars are usually "This is a book I enjoyed and it was nice" and "I didn't feel strongly about this book but I don't regret reading it." This means I still liked/loved the book, even if it didn't amaze or deeply moved me.
❤️ I’m currently reading a nine book series where I have rated the first 4 books 3 stars - I wouldn’t have continued reading them if I didn’t like the ones story.
I agree too!
Agreed! 5=loved, 4= liked, 3=okay, no strong feelings, 2=disliked, 1=loathed! Lol
@@rmkenny412 for me it's 5=favorite, 4= loved/enjoyed, 3 liked/okay. agree with the rest.
Happy someone agrees with the spoiler thing. I don’t care if the book came out a hundred years ago nobody has time to read every book. Spoiler warnings are just considerate
Same with TV shows and films.
I don't always mind them. But, I don't care when it was published or how much of a classic it is, don't, don't, don't spoil a mystery or thriller.
This!!!! People may have just gotten into reading , never heard of it, or they have recently become interested in the genre! 😤
@@b2ksflyhoney Someone I listen to once spoiled a classic Agatha Christie mystery and I still can't forget it, thus spoiling the story for me. I'm still upset about it.
And then they have the nerve to say “oh but it came out this long ago” as if it’s my fault for not reading it between then and now.
I hate it when people hate on others who like popular books, as though something being popular or liked by the masses makes it less valuable. It’s pretentious as f*ck.
Yes! It usually makes me roll my eyes when someone says they won't read new/popular books because they're too hyped. That person isn't special for waiting years to read it!
@@anne-marie339 true! And usually popular books are good, even if they’re not the BEST, hence why they’re popular.
The fact they always forget is the classic novels that we veiw as important works and they praise were when released just popular books housewives read garented a lot of people were complaining that Jane Austen was a menace and far too popular among the crowds. The classic books are just the lucky popular ones that we liked enough to keep reading
I give DNF'd books a rating and review. People need to know why it was worth putting down.
This is fair 👏
I completely agree! I think it could also explain why something might not be working for that specific reviewer, but it may appeal or may not appeal to others!
Same! If I DNF a book because it was poorly written, the characterizations were awful, or what have you...I will leave a review!
I've only dnf ed once. It was free on kindle but then mid book they expected me to pay. I couldn't pay so I couldn't finish it. It was good so I was disappointed.
i can’t even comprehend how people manage to read 10, 20, 30 books in a month and manage to remember what happened in each one and give reviews 😭😭😭i read like 3-5 books a month, 8 if i’m really pushing it and at that point they’re already get muddled together in my brain and I can barely discern what happened in which particular book😭😭😭
“Book Twitter is toxic”
ALL Twitter is toxic. Worst place on the internet.
I mean, I enjoy Twitter but it can be
Twitter and TikTok is just pure brain rot.
when people are on "book buying bans" but they get so many books from publishers/wish lists that they have an influx of books anyways?????
Mutual negative reviews give me validation, and I love looking at negative reviews on goodreads before reading a book I’m skeptical about bc it usually tells me if I should take the plunge or forget it completely.
And reading a book you hate for views, only really gets sticky if you’re not upfront about it. Like don’t tell me you thought you would like because we both know that is not the case.
Same! I’m a pessimist at heart and always look at negative reviews first (on books and any product really). And same! I feel validated by well-written, well-thought out negative reviews, JUST AS MUCH, IF NOT MORE, as I do with positive reviews as well.
Same. Most negative reviews are more nuanced and have more depth. I like to read what readers didn’t like about the book and it’s a good gauge of what I might not like or what I’m able to overlook.
I wouldn't mind permanent stickers if they were in the back.
Yes! Or inside the front flap! 🏵
Or on the spine
I hate it when people complain in their videos that they don't get enough views. Like girl, if I'm watching I'm not part of the problem, so why do I need to listen about it?
My strictly bookish pet peeve is small, hard to read print.
Am I the only reader who rarely buys books? I read about 120 books a year and probably only purchase 10 and only after I read them. I love my library.
Same!
Me too! I grew up without money to buy books, and even when I have it now, I'll only purchase my favorites. Libraries for the win!!
I don’t read quite that much, but especially since my library has ebooks available now that they don’t have physical copies of it’s been an amazing resource.
nope me too i read books for free and buy only those that i love!
I’m so addicted to screens I can only focus and read ebooks🤦♀️ from my local library’s website
People who rate a book on good reads before it comes out AND when they haven't read it. Perfectly fine if you've had an ARC or whatever. But rating it 5 stars because you are excited and "know" it is going to be 5 stars just bugs me hahaha
And they’ll complain about low ratings before it comes out when they rate it high before it comes out. Just hypocritical
Honestly, they should put a code or something in the ARC and you can't submit a review about an unpublished book unless you enter it.
also rating a book one star when it's does not even have a confirmed title.
Book stickers! Ugh! I don’t mind the awards one, but the book club ones are trash! Or the “now a major motion picture” stickers that they PHOTOSHOPPED ON. I see you Netflix… get off of my books!
Another thing that wasn’t mentioned, but similar to both the stickers and the changing covers mid-series: RE-DOING BOOK COVERS WITH STILLS FROM THE MOVIE. I want the pretty original art and do not need you interrupting my theater of the mind time!
🙌🏽 Exactly!!!!! It’s annoying.
Yes
LISTEN.😂5% of a 900 page book is significant and I will update my Goodreads too, so everyone is aware of my accomplishment. I fully support you doing this. Also, I love rant reviews. I will watch these even for books I love because they're hilarious.
Yess updates for chonky tomes is extra satisfying
"When people update goodreads every 20 pages" I LOST MY BOOKMARK OKAY?? I'M SORRY!!! I don't like dogearing some of my books, so I do that so I don't lose my place.
lol this was so funny, i actually LOVE the height differences between books, i think it makes my bookshelf look much more alive and interesting! i didn't know this was something people are bothered by haha
tbh i think rating a book you dnf'd is okay if you got over half the way through it, cause at that point you should have a good grasp on the story structure, character writing and whether or not it's for you.
if i read fifty percent or more definitely will rate it.
I'm guilty of mostly 4 or 5 star reviews (with an occasional 3 star) just because anything that would score less usually gets DNF'd and I move on, and I don't generally rate books I DNF. I've hit that point in my life where I just can't waste it on books I'm not actively enjoying.
This! Who has the time to read books they don't enjoy, unless it's for class 😁
Yea but there people say the book was looking like a 2 or 5 star star in the beginning and then they get to the end the 2 star becomes a 4 or 5 or 5 star beginning becomes 1star be ause they hate the ending
I often feel like I'm the only one out here who isn't bothered by physical discrepancies in books - I have series that are all from different editions; I will pick up the tie-in cover if it's at the used book store for $1; a new-condition mass-market is just as good to me as a hard cover.
I prefer the mass-market paperback books to hard covers any day!
Nooooo 😉
I wish I could be this way 😫
As a broke college student I lately don't even have a choice in this matter... I'm like "if I like the blurb then I don't care even if the cover is torn apart" 😛
I unsubscribed from someone who only gave 4 (occasionally) and (mostly) 5 stars and they read like 10-15 books a month 😅 I mean, how can you read that much and not find a single book that you liked less than 4 stars? Every book was the best, fabulous, incredibly good etc etc
My friend's average Goodreads rating is 4.3! WHAT?! Mine is 3.5!
@@jkpiowa 4.3?! Dang that's high and I thought my 3.64 was relatively high.
I mostly read 4 stars books, but that is probably since I tend to stop reading anything I don't enjoy and I rate related to enjoyment. And I read around 140 books a year 😅
I'm pretty sure the Goodreads definition of 3⭐ is "I liked it" and I took that to heart ☝️
I DNF if I don't like it. So most of my ratings are 4&5 stars.
PT 2!! No one come for me, but people who read 400 books a year but they actually listened to most of them on 4x speed and can't tell you anything about the book literally right after they read it.
This! I tried to do this after a Booktuber said she listed at some ridiculous speed like 3x. I couldn’t understand a word of what was going on. It sounded like chipmunks. That told me everything I needed to know. I unfollowed…
😬😬😬😬 some people really can read that many books and remember but some cannot
I literally cannot focus on a video or audiobook that's NOT sped up to at least 2x.
I love seeing someone who doesn't treat standard issue books like they're made of glass! I mean, the special ones, sure. But a trade paperback copy of Way of Kings is gonna look like trash after the first reading regardless!
I do the looking at lowest star reviews thing for literally everything 😂😂😂 like, I want to know what people didn’t like
SAME
YES! I'm more interested in what I won't like/make me put it down. I think what makes people "like" books tend to be particular to that person, and even people who both love specific tropes can disagree often, but if someone says "I didn't like it for xyz" and x is something I don't like... well. I'm probably not going to like it. So then I usually just keep that in mind when reading or just don't pick it up in the first place
I don't mind when books are different sizes, shapes, etc as I personally like eclectic style bookshelves (though I am not much of a series collector as I mainly read eBooks on my phone). The one thing that bothers me is this trend where paperbacks will have the front cover slightly shorter on the one side than the rest of the book. How much paper are you saving there?
Lmao at “how much paper are you saving”’🤣 I too hate the shorter cover ..it’s so messy
YES. I HATE
- I love deckled edges, too.
- Hauls of books they know nothing about 😂 yup agree
- I wish more people put the titles in the description, or do time stamps. Me trying to snap a screenshot with them flopping the book around is tiring!
Yes!! Give me a book list please!
Love your honesty about book care. Some books are meant to look like they've been loved!
Also, sometimes if I'm at a bookstore and I see a copy that's not in good shape (but not like, unreadable) and I want it: I'll pick it up and give it a home. Damaged books need homes too! :(
Yes, do another pet peeves video!
LOVE the idea of taking a damaged book home like a rescue dog.
Regarding pricing for shorter vs longer titles: I think the pricing is consistent-ish for longer and shorter books within the same genres because if authors were payed for length of novel, there would probably be a lot of unnecessary overwriting and filler in the books? I feel like if the story is amazing at 100 pages, we shouldn't push the author to add another 200 just to earn the same as their colleague that has a different, more overstated writing style.
I'm sure there are other reasons, but that's just my take on that. (Not that I wouldn't like cheaper books 😅)
That is a very fair argument, but I think you could have a problem in the other direction where you split up a story unnecessarily into more volumes because it will make more money that way. So I guess it's a case by case issue 🤷🏾♀️
@@priscilla.t.a oh, for sure! It really goes both ways - I'm sure they have a whooole complex system to determine these things 😊
I love updating my Goodreads percents too! It makes me happy to watch that bar move across the screen 😄😆
I admit there are certain booktubers that rarely can I watch their entire video, even at 2 speed so I will look for the books in the description to see what they are talking about. Such a time saver
Negative and low rated reviews MATTER! If I have similar reading tastes to someone and they were like “this book wasn’t all that” I’m like cool, now I know I can probably skip on it. Negative reviews exists for movies and shows, why wouldn’t I want them for books?!
I think my two biggest book pet peeves are:
-the scalpers of popular books/editions. For example, I saw one woman who bought a bunch (nearly 100) of remainder copies of one of Sarah J Mass’s books from book outlet and then was selling them for $50. Like you bought all of those for probably $5 so no one could get them at that price and then sold them for so much because that cover was discontinued. Another example would be the people who buy the special editions from fairy loot, illumicrate, etc. with the goal of selling them for profit. I see people selling book sets that cost $75 for $300 and it just seems like a giant scam
-How sometimes content creators decide to redo videos without new content to add. I see different people make videos for specific genres or specific tropes etc. and then remake the video a year or so later but don’t have any new (or only like one more) recommendations to add. Like one person I follow made an intro to science-fiction video for people new to the genre and then the very next year she made a new video but all of the books and recommendations were the same except for one more book was added. I get that it’s hard to come up with new ideas and new content when you’re limited by the books you are reading, but if someone has been following you for any amount of time then they’ve already seen that, and you could just link to that original video in your monthly wrapup or something.
Rant reviews are my favorite! I love to watch them--so entertaining--and it feels good to rant sometimes about books and things that just are bad or make you mad.
And I update my Goodreads progress ALL THE TIME. Sorry, but I love seeing how far along I am in what I'm reading.
Updating Goodreads makes me feel good 😌
Re: Award Stickers on books. During my stint working in a bookstore, I was SHOCKED at the roll of Newberry Award Stickers the Children's section kept behind the counter. I thought the books came that way from the publisher, but no. It's a power that lowly store employees are granted. Imagine. They can bestow a Newberry Award on ANY BOOK they want to. Like a Newberry Award fairy.
It's probably a good thing that I was just a sub in the children's section and they never asked me to again.
Part II please. I’m going to submit Hades and Persephone retellings and people acting like they are super original. They get hyped up so much as if there aren’t several published every year and they are all the same. 🙄
I haven't felt this validated in so long, thank you for making this comment. I hate Hades - Persephone retellings so much
the three star rating has the largest range of books. from those i hated but they were objectively solid so it's like a 2.5 rounded up to this was actually really good but for reasons it's 3.5 rated down lol
That super slow zoom in about judging books you haven’t read 😂😂😂😂
I too……enjoy being a hater 😂😂😂 it’s so much fun lol
What??? How do people NOT like sprayed edges 😳
My bookish pet peeve is people who keep asking booktubers to read a certain book. NO let them read what they want. They know what they like or what topics they are not in the mood for.
“Ebooks are not real book” i get that all the time or “you are not a real book lover because you only read electronic” 🥺🥺🙄🙄
Yeah, that's dumb. Just because my book is e-ink, I didn't read the book you read on paper? Is that like, you didn't actually get the news because you watched it on TV instead of in the newspaper. 😑🤦♀️
I had to delete my booktok account cause I was so tired of the repetitive recs, amongst other things. The community was getting too annoying for me. I'm just happy to find a book tuber who is honest in their reviews! Keep up the good work!
I work at a library, and I can't tell you how many times I've had to look up the series order of books because it wasn't on the spine and a patron wanted to make sure they checked out the right one first. I obviously don't mind helping them out, but it would be way easier / faster for everyone if it was on the book somewhere.
I hate wrap ups with 20 books and they say "I've already talk about this one in my vlog, so skip to next"
I don't watch that many vlogs.
I feel overwelmed by the number of books. I have to listen it in 2-3 parts otherwise all books starts to mixed up in my head.
LOL
Pet peeves is when someone say a book started off like a 5 star but because they hate the ending they give it 1 star. Lol or the other way around.
I love sprayed edges, but I can also understand not liking them when I look at a row of my books and the colour pops out
The shock at the sprayed edges 😂😂
On deckled (sp?) edges, I once had a customer bring up a book with them thinking it was damaged, haha. It took me a while to get used to them once I discovered them, but now I kinda like them. But to each their own, always.
ALSO! My largest pet peeve as a bookseller, especially recently, is the resizing of mass markets, or the “pocket” sized books. They don’t fit in any fixture! It makes them look so messy! 😤
Honestly for me, the default was three stars. It goes higher or lower as I go along.
Also this: Title of the 📖 is All the Romantic Ways He Loved Her. Blurb on the back of the book very clearly describes a Romance. Queue to Review: 1 🌟 This book was a Romance. What?! How is it the book's fault that you're too stupid to realize that a Romance book is going to contain a Romance? 🤦♀️ Also people who review a book before it comes out, and I don't mean they received an ARC. I'm talking about people with " hurt feelings" or whatever because an author had to change the date the book comes out so all of a sudden they get a 1 🌟 waterfall because of it. Sorry cry 👶, but Life happens. Authors aren't accountable to you. So very sorry their death of a family member or whatever has caused the delay that they most likely aren't happy about either has "inconvenienced" you.
LISTEN, some of us have to learn the “book buying ban” lesson the hard way okay?! 😅
I also love deckled edges
I don’t understand people who don’t like rants about books lol I live for it.
Sprayed edges are g-d tier and art! Agreed. You don’t have to buy them but don’t hate on the gorgeous special editions 😂 Gilded edges and foredge painting is an old, respected practice for valued books.
This has made me literally lol so many times 🤣 thanks for the laughs. Definitely would want a part 2
🥳
sprayed edges ✨ARE GOD TIER✨
5:38 Same! That frustrates me so much! when people don't use the full rating scale. 3 doesn't mean terrible! 1 is the bottom! 🙄
These are hilarious pet peeves, some of which I have. Gatekeeping, genre snobbery, and long chapters are my main ones. I hope you do another video on this topic. Bring on the bookish the drama! 😂
I like deckled edges, but I have so many series where the first one has deckled edges but the others don't and it drives me nuts. 😒 My main book related pet peeve are the tweets and videos of people complaining about dumpsters full of books and "why can't we just donate them". I collect books and I love them but I've worked with donated books for years and let me tell you it gives me great joy to recycle and get rid of a lot of them. If you see a dumpster full of books I promise they're there for a reason either they're ancient and outdated or disgusting and you don't want them in your house. There are plenty of books in the world and sometimes they've lived their life and it's time to say goodbye.
I loooove deckled edges 😍😍😍
As do I 🥰
Your face every time you were called out lol 😭
It hurt, a little 😆
Those Reese's book club permanent stickers are the bane of my existence! Also I just found your channel and subscribed! :)
11:48 thats why I organize my books based on height. the differences drive me insane if I have to look at it
I recently watched a review of a novella that the BTer was raving about: loved the characters, the world, the writing style. Everything was A+. Rated it 2 stars because 'I don't like novellas'. 🙄😆
Series should have numbers - but you can always check publication dates on the info page at the front of the book if you need to figure out the order in the store.
I have successfully completed a 6 month book buying ban- I succeeded because I had packed my books before a move and after the move I was too broke to justify buying non-necessities 😂😂😂
Yesss we need a part two !! This was super fun to watch
I've seen someone review a book on Goodreads that hadn't come out yet saying "Omg!!! I can't wait for this! It's pre-ordered and I'm gonna get it at midnight, whooo!! 😍😍😍" ... 1-star. Ma'am, what are you doing? 🤣
We desperately need a part 2!! Also I was out here cackling and making the same face you made for some of these! lol 😂
Love your response to the sprayed edges one! Sprayed edges are the best
Yes, definitely a part 2 please! This was great! And I'm right there with you, Jess, with updating my pages read on Goodreads daily. I didn't know that bothered people. 😄 And thank you for the tip about listing the books in the description box. Will do that moving forward. 😁
this was one of my fave videos of yours ever. part 2 pls!! also i agree it's annoying changing the height of the book mid series or smth but i like having books that are different heights in general it makes my bookshelf look more interesting 😭😭
I’m so glad I found your channel. You’re so funnn. I’m binging all the videos lol
A New pet peeve of mine is a book review where it’s obvious the writer of the review did NOT read the book 🤨 A perfect example: I read the book “Calm the F*ck Down”. I personally, did NOT like the book. I only read it because a really good friend of mine was reading it and told me, “the humor in this book reminded me of you! I think you’d like it!” That was such a sweet thought, I immediately got the book and read it......and disliked it. 😑 IMMENSELY. The writer has had other best selling books and even this one was rated pretty good, overall. I looked over to the negative reviews to see if anyone felt like I did AND MOST OF THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS (on Amazon anyway) were writing by angry Trump-supporters who wrote “This book is awful. The author hates MY PRESIDENT and this terrible book is obviously anti-Patriotic. Throw this book away blah blah blah”. 😨🤭 first of all, yeah, the author wrote a few jokes about Trump but I read the entire book and there were, at most, maybe 3 jokes about him in 1-blurb lines that weren’t even that funny. I barely even remembered they were there; I had to look back through the book to remember if that’s where I had read those jokes. All the negative reviews were negative BECAUSE of that alone. Nothing else! I personally didn’t like the book cuz I couldn’t relate to it, the advice was very superficial, very don’t-think-about-it-too-deeply, and the advice would only be practical if you are childless and have a fat bank account to fall back on. But do any of the negative reviews mention any criticism of substance?! Nope; not a single one! At least not when I last read them. 👋🏼😑
That book is staring me down from my bookshelf as I type.🤣
Enjoyed this vid! Keep 'em coming!
Chapter ending is my peeve...lengthy ones make it more dragging and lose me.
Book sizes ... yes! Crazy!
Sprayed edges are awesome but definitely not something you re-read so I have it on ebook. Hahaha I collect the ones that have a nice one AND something I read and love.
i rate books i dnf-ed (and just mark it as read lmao) and i update every time i make progress no matter how much so i might be annoying to be friends w on goodreads! i love spoiler reviews for books ik i won't read which is how i found ur channel. also i'm jealous of ppl who make great rant reviews bc they actually get something out of shit books, i just waste my time
Part 2 for sure. That rant about mix matchy book covers...I felt that!
Would love a part two!
This is totally random, but just wanted to say I love the way you style your hair Jess. It's very classy 40s movie star. Probably my fave fashion era.
You have such a wonderful personality. I'm so happy I found your channel.
Hey Jess....thanks for uploading...I had a good time tonight listening to you. I am glad TH-cam recommended you, as your wonderful, amazing, interesting, love your vibes and love your laugh....I can't wait for the next video...keep it up.
Yes, please. Would love a part 2! Also, I am one of those people with lots of 4- & 5-star ratings. I just have a hard time giving bad reviews. So if I don't like a book, I typically don't review it. 🤷🏻♀
My average rating increased too when I refined my taste and know what I like to read. Not everything will be 4 or 5 stars for me but a lot is because of that plus rounding up those half ratings since goodreads sucks and won’t let us have half ratings.
You are so fun to watch, love hearing your opinions. You did read out my personal biggest pet peeve which is booktubers flinging their books around like a volleyball. Love the lists in the description or images so thank you for that! 📚👍
when it comes to the tbrs i feel like people just do them to have secured content every month lol which is fine (esp cause i haven't really been seeing people stress over it - booktubers i watch always say that it's 1) ambitious and 2) just a general idea bc everyone a mood reader)
True. I occasionally make one and maybe read 25% of those books 😂
@@JessOwens personally i think making a tbr is great bc sometimes if i don't have a clear idea of what to read next i end up in a slump, but i find it so funny when creators who i know read maybe 4-10 books a month (which to make myself clear reading ANYTHING AT ALL even just a page is amazing!! everyone do your own pace!!) make a 20 book tbr like honey we all know you won't read that, you'll just stress out/be disappointed when books and reading are meant to be fun!
Loved this video! I def update my goodreads often. I like to give myself credit. It helps me read more. I don’t add a book to my “currently reading “ list until I’m a good ways in, though. I want to make sure I read it all the way through.
Would absolutely love a Part II! This was hilarious!
Your videos are always really fun to watch!
🥰🥰 thank you
I always try and put spoiler warnings! It's just awful when you're spoiled for something, I was spoiled for Crooked Kingdom a year after it came out which was shitty
you're hilarious!!! Great video, I'd love a part 2
Your face when you read the comment about sprayed edges... :). Also, yes to a part 2!
Oh no, now I'll have NEW pet peeves. LOL .
I loved this! I totally agree with you on putting books in the description box
omg i just found your channel, and im already in love 😂 youre hilarious!!
Oh my god I just found out about this channel and I’m completely IN LOVE with your videos!!! 😭 looooove your excitement!!
Also I didn’t know you could track your progress on goodreads?? I legit thought it was just a random website with synopsis and book covers 😅
This motivated me to create an account there!!
I think the thing with old book spoilers is that if a book is like 70+ years old, and still talked about today (like, if you've already heard of it even not having read), then I don't think spoilers are bad because that book and its plot are probably already woven into our society and like, we know the story without even reading it- it's like Jekyll and Hyde, the Great Gatsby and Wuthering Heights
This was so much fun just for your reactions to everything 😂🙌
Hahaha! "I'm not gonna do anything but I'll be silently judging you" YES! Hahaha!
Part Two definitely needed! I love these types of videos lol. And I have seen reviews of people be like “omg such a good book” and rate it two stars🙃
This is my first time watching you. Love your personality. :)
I mean, _technically_ an audiobook isn’t reading since you’re not using your eyeballs but at the end of the day I know the story! I’m in a book group on fb that has this argument every month and one person said they don’t put it on Goodreads if they listened to the audiobook. Like, ma’am who hurt you?!?
Yeah, I've met people like that. It's not even worth calling them ableist because you then usually have to explain what that means.
I love this video, it was so much fun to watch. 😂 I always look up reviews before reading a book, and I pay more attention to the lower ratings just to get a sense of what I might encounter in the book. I've never been someone who would avoid ranting or posting "negative" reviews as long as I keep it professional and not attack the author (or other readers). I've given up trying to keep up with the hype, I just read what I like and let others do the same, I don't even care if we share the same opinion on the books/genres or not. Too much stress for a hobby that's supposed to be fun and entertaining. 😅
Love this video!
me just finding you and binging all your vids. you have me cracking up 😂😂
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