I just read to share my thoughts and spark discussions. Reading and reviewing books is not a popularity contest for me. I'm just documenting my thoughts and sharing my favorite quotes and moments.
@@bbg385 that I am learning , you had a lot of good advice and truth to this subject. I learned so much for the only two years of the community. I myself thought of leaving so many times .
It's funny I follow a few of the popular booktubers on goodreads and whenever I go read reviews on a good older released book it's always them saying it's boring, not enough romance bla bla bla. All the while regular people I follow and smaller booktubers have these beautiful and positive or insightful reviews. It makes me really think these people only raise up books if they get something out of it...
I'd be sad if you disappeared. I was thinking about high school... There was a table in study hall where the misfits sat... a table full of "Breakfast Club" riffraff... I loved it there... I miss those people. We're still in touch but sprinkled out over all the world. I don't want to fit a mold. That sounds like work. Hobbies aren't supposed to be "work." I'm too old to give a shit. A welcoming big "community" it is not. I'm too genX, I think, for some folks.
For me it's all just become very samey, and I don't really follow anyone anymore. I'll catch the occasional video but I don't even really like sharing my opinions online so much anymore. Funnily enough, it's actually not me disliking things but me LIKING things that has gotten people rankled up in recent years. There's this weird assumption that if you like or dislike something you're bandwagon hopping or trying to push an agenda or deliberately playing devil's advocate. I sort of feel that people can read way too much into another person's tastes and without really knowing that person they'll come to the most ridiculous conclusions. Nowadays I just discuss books with friends or poor unfortunate loved ones who probably don't give a crap but who will humour my ramblings on stuff I love talking about as I enjoy them talking about their passions.
It sounds to me like if you want to review books you like, especially in genres like fantasy or scifi, you might do better with lore overviews and some graphics. For example, if you want more people to know about and read Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga (I certainly do), doing lore videos on the Barrayaran Empire or the Haute culture of Cetaganda could do numbers. In that series alone you could do probably an hour-long lore video on how the recurring theme of reproduction intersects with different manifestations of transhumanism from Beta Colony to Athos and beyond.
It’s why I do my book reviews as written thing on my blog cowboy and his books links in the description Book reviews for me have never been particularly good with the algorithm and they always got the weirdest comments. It’s why my main channel just switched to media in general.
Booktube is just weird at times. I have no interest in joining a "community" who will be quick to go off on me because I don't recite booktube party lines. And what is this insanity of people reading hundred of books a year? Like hun, are you even enjoying and taking in what you are reading? I don't like politics in my books. I just roll my eyes when people try to preach to me. I'm just gonna do me. Love me or hate me.
I just read to share my thoughts and spark discussions. Reading and reviewing books is not a popularity contest for me. I'm just documenting my thoughts and sharing my favorite quotes and moments.
That’s how it should be
Oh definitely feels like high school, it has a good points and bad points. There is so much pressure and so much competition. 😢
Very much, so when it does bring out the worst in people
@@bbg385 that I am learning , you had a lot of good advice and truth to this subject. I learned so much for the only two years of the community. I myself thought of leaving so many times .
I like that you do these restored videos in a flashback format and you have fun with zoom edits ha.
I have some ideas for them. I’m still trying to find them then people are sending them to me. Some people save them.
@@bbg385 even if you do reaction to your old cringy ones it would be a laugh ha
@@KetwunsGamingPad I found some from the early days of TH-cam ... cringe is coming lol
It's funny I follow a few of the popular booktubers on goodreads and whenever I go read reviews on a good older released book it's always them saying it's boring, not enough romance bla bla bla. All the while regular people I follow and smaller booktubers have these beautiful and positive or insightful reviews. It makes me really think these people only raise up books if they get something out of it...
Honestly, you’re not the only one thinking that
I'd be sad if you disappeared.
I was thinking about high school...
There was a table in study hall where the misfits sat... a table full of "Breakfast Club" riffraff... I loved it there... I miss those people. We're still in touch but sprinkled out over all the world.
I don't want to fit a mold. That sounds like work. Hobbies aren't supposed to be "work."
I'm too old to give a shit. A welcoming big "community" it is not. I'm too genX, I think, for some folks.
Thank you
And I think you have a very healthy way of looking at things
For me it's all just become very samey, and I don't really follow anyone anymore. I'll catch the occasional video but I don't even really like sharing my opinions online so much anymore.
Funnily enough, it's actually not me disliking things but me LIKING things that has gotten people rankled up in recent years. There's this weird assumption that if you like or dislike something you're bandwagon hopping or trying to push an agenda or deliberately playing devil's advocate.
I sort of feel that people can read way too much into another person's tastes and without really knowing that person they'll come to the most ridiculous conclusions.
Nowadays I just discuss books with friends or poor unfortunate loved ones who probably don't give a crap but who will humour my ramblings on stuff I love talking about as I enjoy them talking about their passions.
You’ve honestly hit the nail on the head
It sounds to me like if you want to review books you like, especially in genres like fantasy or scifi, you might do better with lore overviews and some graphics. For example, if you want more people to know about and read Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga (I certainly do), doing lore videos on the Barrayaran Empire or the Haute culture of Cetaganda could do numbers.
In that series alone you could do probably an hour-long lore video on how the recurring theme of reproduction intersects with different manifestations of transhumanism from Beta Colony to Athos and beyond.
It’s why I do my book reviews as written thing on my blog cowboy and his books links in the description
Book reviews for me have never been particularly good with the algorithm and they always got the weirdest comments. It’s why my main channel just switched to media in general.
Booktube is just weird at times. I have no interest in joining a "community" who will be quick to go off on me because I don't recite booktube party lines. And what is this insanity of people reading hundred of books a year? Like hun, are you even enjoying and taking in what you are reading? I don't like politics in my books. I just roll my eyes when people try to preach to me. I'm just gonna do me. Love me or hate me.
That is the best way to be and a lot of stuff that happened in my experience I trusted the wrong people