I am really glad you’re giving RUclips a shot because I’ve been wanting longer form content from you and I’m realising it’s because I too am a fellow yapper and have so many thoughts on the things I consume and just want to monologue about it 😂
Eragon and Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus is also what got me into reading! Eragon particularly! I am dyslexic and Eragon was so easy to devour despite my dyslexia and it was the first time I read big chunky books all the way through by myself without help and gave me the confidence to read more! Owe those books so much!! I listened to the Alex Ryder books on audiobook when I was younger as well. I vividly remember listening to the CDs of the audiobook and switching to the next CD in the middle of the night even though I should have been asleep because I loved them so much! Audiobooks was how I read before Eragon because I couldn't do physical books!
Hello and welcome to book tube. I’m still pretty new to all this malarkey and finding my way around too. Look forward to hearing what you have to say. Best wishes with what you choose to read. Happy reading!
The fact that you thought that you would not have a long enough video despite the numerous times you have put out 7-minute tick tock videos after recording 30 minutes of footage... Honestly, that's so on brand.
it's so relatable that you hate video editing. i've wanted to make a booktube channel for YEARS but always struggle with the editing portion of making videos. i've been keeping up with your tiktok for awhile now, im definitely interested to see how you take to booktube! hopefully there will be many more videos to come!
Charlie Bone was my very first series!! I also have the same issue though where I don’t remember what happened XD I just remember how much I enjoyed the series.
I gab SO MUCH and always struggled to keep my rambling down for TikTok, so I am also excited to move over here in some capacity. Been wanting to do longer form book related content for my series for a while, this was the final push to do it. So glad you are here, too! You're one of my favorite Booktokers!
EMMA! Long time follower on Tiktok, first time follower on RUclips (SO stoked to see you here). I would absolutely love some recs on where to start with the Romance genre. I feel very much the same as you regarding romcoms, romance-fantasy, and The Office. I want to get into it but I don't know where to begin! You've never led me astray. TELL ME WHERE TO GO TELL ME WHAT TO DO! 🙏🏻 xoxo
ooooooooh I love this, will start marinating a beginner's guide to romance video in my mind BUT my quick recs for good starting points would be The Brown Sisters trilogy by Talia Hibbert (starts with Get A Life, Chloe Brown); Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood (she's hit or miss with people on her sense of humor I think, but I'm a big fan!); All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata for something long and sloooooowww burn; Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake for something sapphic; Marriage & Masti by Nisha Sharma (one of my absolute favorite romances of last year); and if you want to give Historical Romance a try I can't recommend enough The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
YES CHARLIE BONE. I ALSO feel like while reading them I wasn’t the only one picking them up but as an adult people act like they don’t known what I’m talking about!!!! Finally!!
Going off your second (I’m still in the middle watch at the time of writing) of you having interesting things today, I think so too. You would pop up on my fyp quite a lot and I enjoyed your takes that I followed you there and than to here. So if you do stick around booktube I’ll be looking forward to more!
i absolutely love your tiktoks and am so so so happy you're trying out youtube (for as long as you have motivation for which is so valid) i love all of your thoughts and i think this medium is very good for you and hope you continue, no pressure tho i completely understand the burnout
I hope I can keep it up too! After experiencing the brevity of tiktok for so long I'm really appreciating the space to actually talk the way I like to here :)
i also have strong memories of Charlie Bone but couldn’t tell you a single thing about it now!! and i will watch any sort of book videos you choose to post with whatever frequency. you are my favorite booktok creator because you’ve introduced me to so many great books!! i think i’ve been following you for pretty much as long as you have been making book content. and i totally have to agree about video editing. i’ve made about 8-10 videos for a different channel (not book content) and i gave up because it is just so much work. but just being a video consumer (youtube or tiktok) feels like standing on the edges of the book community sometimes so i wish it wasn’t so time consuming to make content.
I waited to subscribe until you did a second video as I know you were debating and unsure. But it sounds like you're finding your stride already so I'm subbing. Again, welcome to Booktube! Take your time to get yourself with the feeling of it as it will take time. Hopefully this also means that you get to play around what you like about the platform more and get into the groove where you're enjoying the content you're creating. I would say that I was a voracious reader when I was younger and even still in collage, but for me it was the time a little before the pandemic as well during the pandemic that killed my reading as I was depressed due to dealing with some shitty people. I also had stopped doing my art around the same time. It wasn't until I stopped really interacting with those people and was like "Let me go to the library and pick out books outside of my comfortzone" that got me back into reading again. I still picked up authors I knew I liked, but they weren't books I normally read. The two that really got me out of my reading slump was "Gwenyhfar: the White Spirit" by Mercades Lackey and "The Exchanges of Gifts" by Anne McCaffery that got me wanting to read again. Books I didn't know existed and outside of what I read of them in the past. I also became more likely to get a feel of reading more when I started storygraph after talking to my aunt about it and she pointed out that it may help me get back into engaging with the works again like I did in the past, and first time reading the Wizard of Earthsea with that. I need to read His Dark Materials and that is on my TBR but first I have to go through a lot of the books I collected too much from the "Stuff my Kindle" days.... This year's goal is not to do any more of those and instead read what I already have first, as well just work on the TBR I have now over time. Also work on series I've started and read the first (or first two books) of and continue on with them. (At least this year I'm doing pretty good I think as I'm getting a feel what I'm feeling for book wise already at the beginning of the year.)
i've never heard anyone else talk about septimus heap!!! that series was my absolute favourite as a kid, i would re read darke over and over and over 😂 i've been meaning to re read them in adulthood as well but my copy of magyk is falling apart and i need to find another copy
I don't think I even knew until the last coouple years that the series continued past Queste! And I have absolutely zero memory of what they're actually about (I wanna say....alchemy??) so it seems ripe for a nostalgia reread
glad to see longer stuff from you!! as someone who only reads queer fiction I feel you on sci fi. it may be my fave genre but there's so little queer sci fi out there
I think my next queer sci-fi is going to be The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis. If any of these haven't made your list already, some of my personal favorites in queer sci-fi are Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell Anything by Becky Chambers The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells (genuinely one of my favorite series of all time at this point) Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Your conversation about reading for escapism really made me think about how we see that terminology used vs how I think about it personally. I use it to mean (similarly to what you were saying) that I read romance and fantasy and other genres to approach the evils and traumas in the word safely, process them, and then partake in a power fantasy where the bad guys ( ie, fascists, racists, misogynists, etc) are dealt with and get their due while the people we love (hopefully) are able to get what they’re seeking in the end. I love the catharsis of dealing with real world issues blown up on a larger scale and then finding a way for the protagonists to win out in the end. Maybe it’s that I read for understanding and inspiration rather than “escapism.” Love the conversation and I’m so happy I was able to follow this line of thinking. That phrase has always bothered me but hopefully it makes some sense now why reading with a critical lense is not the antithesis to reading for escapism. Also I love your content and work on TikTok and I hope you’re able to find joy on RUclips. I’m super bummed to lose that platform but I for sure will still be locked into your content on here. You helped me find Little Thieves and that’s an all time top-tier favorite for me ❤❤❤
26:56 oh wow so it not for all reader but I sit next to my partner and ready while his watching tv or playing my favorite place to read. I think because I’m next to them.
I also haven't read the Septimus Heap series since I was probably in middle school but I have them all and also want to reread them to see if they live up to my love for them. Same with the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke!
It’s funny cause 2020 my reading took a nosedive. Despite being a healthcare worker and needing to disassociate from life- I could not focus on anything.
Talking about this made me want to get the first charlie bone book on my kindle or something to awaken the memories I know must exist somewhere in my brain lmao
😂😂 You already could start with rambling longer than your TikToks. That’s something. Have to agree about why do I read part. Get back to sci-fi! 😂 Romance… yes, it’s cringe. 😂😂
glad to see longer stuff from you!! as someone who only reads queer fiction I feel you on sci fi. it may be my fave genre but there's so little queer sci fi out there
it’s SO delightful to see you here! so excited to see what you do with the space longer form videos give you!
Thank you! I have a feeling I'm gonna love not being tied to a tiny time limit
I am really glad you’re giving RUclips a shot because I’ve been wanting longer form content from you and I’m realising it’s because I too am a fellow yapper and have so many thoughts on the things I consume and just want to monologue about it 😂
THE CHARLIE BONE BOOKS. NO ONE KNOWS THEM. OH MY GLOB I LOVED THOSE WHEN I WAS A KID.
Eragon and Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus is also what got me into reading! Eragon particularly! I am dyslexic and Eragon was so easy to devour despite my dyslexia and it was the first time I read big chunky books all the way through by myself without help and gave me the confidence to read more! Owe those books so much!! I listened to the Alex Ryder books on audiobook when I was younger as well. I vividly remember listening to the CDs of the audiobook and switching to the next CD in the middle of the night even though I should have been asleep because I loved them so much! Audiobooks was how I read before Eragon because I couldn't do physical books!
I’ve always thought your TikTok topics needed more time so I hope you will continue on here.
Be careful what you wish for, the universe may regret presenting me with the chance to talk and not stop…
14:49 Oh my gosh!!! Ive been trying to remember what the series i loved as a child was for months and it was Charlie Bone!!!
Hello and welcome to book tube. I’m still pretty new to all this malarkey and finding my way around too. Look forward to hearing what you have to say. Best wishes with what you choose to read. Happy reading!
The fact that you thought that you would not have a long enough video despite the numerous times you have put out 7-minute tick tock videos after recording 30 minutes of footage... Honestly, that's so on brand.
Welcome to booktube. I followed you over from TikTok. I loved the Charlie Bone books too. I want to go back a reread them.
it's so relatable that you hate video editing. i've wanted to make a booktube channel for YEARS but always struggle with the editing portion of making videos. i've been keeping up with your tiktok for awhile now, im definitely interested to see how you take to booktube! hopefully there will be many more videos to come!
Charlie Bone was my very first series!! I also have the same issue though where I don’t remember what happened XD I just remember how much I enjoyed the series.
I gab SO MUCH and always struggled to keep my rambling down for TikTok, so I am also excited to move over here in some capacity. Been wanting to do longer form book related content for my series for a while, this was the final push to do it. So glad you are here, too! You're one of my favorite Booktokers!
EMMA! Long time follower on Tiktok, first time follower on RUclips (SO stoked to see you here). I would absolutely love some recs on where to start with the Romance genre. I feel very much the same as you regarding romcoms, romance-fantasy, and The Office. I want to get into it but I don't know where to begin! You've never led me astray. TELL ME WHERE TO GO TELL ME WHAT TO DO! 🙏🏻 xoxo
ooooooooh I love this, will start marinating a beginner's guide to romance video in my mind BUT my quick recs for good starting points would be The Brown Sisters trilogy by Talia Hibbert (starts with Get A Life, Chloe Brown); Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood (she's hit or miss with people on her sense of humor I think, but I'm a big fan!); All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata for something long and sloooooowww burn; Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake for something sapphic; Marriage & Masti by Nisha Sharma (one of my absolute favorite romances of last year); and if you want to give Historical Romance a try I can't recommend enough The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
@ Thank you so so much!!! I’ll get on it. 🫡
YES CHARLIE BONE. I ALSO feel like while reading them I wasn’t the only one picking them up but as an adult people act like they don’t known what I’m talking about!!!! Finally!!
FUCK and Septimus Heap?! My experiences are not unique???
Time for a societal re-read of Charlie Bone
SEPTIMUS HEAP MENTION WOOOOOOO
Going off your second (I’m still in the middle watch at the time of writing) of you having interesting things today, I think so too. You would pop up on my fyp quite a lot and I enjoyed your takes that I followed you there and than to here. So if you do stick around booktube I’ll be looking forward to more!
i absolutely love your tiktoks and am so so so happy you're trying out youtube (for as long as you have motivation for which is so valid) i love all of your thoughts and i think this medium is very good for you and hope you continue, no pressure tho i completely understand the burnout
I hope I can keep it up too! After experiencing the brevity of tiktok for so long I'm really appreciating the space to actually talk the way I like to here :)
23:43 I remember I started reading shades of grey and my teacher thought it was 50 shades of grey 😂
Love your content on Tiktok and lo and behold, love your content on RUclips. Keep going!!
In the longer videos we get to know you better
Hi, Emma! Nice to see an older booktuber who does a newbie tag. I love those! Glad to have found your channel!
I was also VERY into the Septimus Heap books! Reread the first one a few months ago and its very worth the time! They have so much charm
Okay I’m so excited 0:50
31:28 well I mean I follow on twitch so I know but I love it and it’s the whole reason I’m here❤
Yay! Someone else who doesn’t like watching romcoms but loves reading them!
Truly the shock of my life. Did not see that one coming
Yay! You are one of the first booktokers I ever followed and your suggestions got me back into reading! I’m glad you’re still making videos! ❤❤❤
Glad to hear that you are reading Percy Jackson now. I love them. I read them to my children.
I’m so sad about the TikTok ban
15:58 I really didn’t really read anything of those … I was a slow reader so I remember reading Judy b. Jones and Harry Potter
i also have strong memories of Charlie Bone but couldn’t tell you a single thing about it now!!
and i will watch any sort of book videos you choose to post with whatever frequency. you are my favorite booktok creator because you’ve introduced me to so many great books!! i think i’ve been following you for pretty much as long as you have been making book content.
and i totally have to agree about video editing. i’ve made about 8-10 videos for a different channel (not book content) and i gave up because it is just so much work. but just being a video consumer (youtube or tiktok) feels like standing on the edges of the book community sometimes so i wish it wasn’t so time consuming to make content.
i am glad you're here!
Thanks!
I waited to subscribe until you did a second video as I know you were debating and unsure. But it sounds like you're finding your stride already so I'm subbing. Again, welcome to Booktube! Take your time to get yourself with the feeling of it as it will take time. Hopefully this also means that you get to play around what you like about the platform more and get into the groove where you're enjoying the content you're creating.
I would say that I was a voracious reader when I was younger and even still in collage, but for me it was the time a little before the pandemic as well during the pandemic that killed my reading as I was depressed due to dealing with some shitty people. I also had stopped doing my art around the same time. It wasn't until I stopped really interacting with those people and was like "Let me go to the library and pick out books outside of my comfortzone" that got me back into reading again. I still picked up authors I knew I liked, but they weren't books I normally read. The two that really got me out of my reading slump was "Gwenyhfar: the White Spirit" by Mercades Lackey and "The Exchanges of Gifts" by Anne McCaffery that got me wanting to read again. Books I didn't know existed and outside of what I read of them in the past. I also became more likely to get a feel of reading more when I started storygraph after talking to my aunt about it and she pointed out that it may help me get back into engaging with the works again like I did in the past, and first time reading the Wizard of Earthsea with that.
I need to read His Dark Materials and that is on my TBR but first I have to go through a lot of the books I collected too much from the "Stuff my Kindle" days.... This year's goal is not to do any more of those and instead read what I already have first, as well just work on the TBR I have now over time. Also work on series I've started and read the first (or first two books) of and continue on with them. (At least this year I'm doing pretty good I think as I'm getting a feel what I'm feeling for book wise already at the beginning of the year.)
i've never heard anyone else talk about septimus heap!!! that series was my absolute favourite as a kid, i would re read darke over and over and over 😂 i've been meaning to re read them in adulthood as well but my copy of magyk is falling apart and i need to find another copy
I don't think I even knew until the last coouple years that the series continued past Queste! And I have absolutely zero memory of what they're actually about (I wanna say....alchemy??) so it seems ripe for a nostalgia reread
glad to see longer stuff from you!! as someone who only reads queer fiction I feel you on sci fi. it may be my fave genre but there's so little queer sci fi out there
I think my next queer sci-fi is going to be The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis.
If any of these haven't made your list already, some of my personal favorites in queer sci-fi are
Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
Anything by Becky Chambers
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells (genuinely one of my favorite series of all time at this point)
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
21:38 my dad would get mad because he would ground me and he couldn’t tell me to stop reading .
I got back into reading the exact same way.
My intro on my booktube channel is "welcome back to TheBookCases, we still don't have an intro" XD so I feel you here
I feel so seen ;___; Why is it so hard???
Your conversation about reading for escapism really made me think about how we see that terminology used vs how I think about it personally. I use it to mean (similarly to what you were saying) that I read romance and fantasy and other genres to approach the evils and traumas in the word safely, process them, and then partake in a power fantasy where the bad guys ( ie, fascists, racists, misogynists, etc) are dealt with and get their due while the people we love (hopefully) are able to get what they’re seeking in the end. I love the catharsis of dealing with real world issues blown up on a larger scale and then finding a way for the protagonists to win out in the end. Maybe it’s that I read for understanding and inspiration rather than “escapism.” Love the conversation and I’m so happy I was able to follow this line of thinking. That phrase has always bothered me but hopefully it makes some sense now why reading with a critical lense is not the antithesis to reading for escapism.
Also I love your content and work on TikTok and I hope you’re able to find joy on RUclips. I’m super bummed to lose that platform but I for sure will still be locked into your content on here. You helped me find Little Thieves and that’s an all time top-tier favorite for me ❤❤❤
I loved to sleep in a sea of stars! I haven’t heard many others talk about it. I read that book in like 3 days lol
I DEVOURED that book I love it so much. I'm so excited to see what he does next in that universe
@ same! I want more, lol
I have to have white noise or quiet when I read too or I’m picking up the sounds going on around me and it pulls me out of the book. 26:46
26:56 oh wow so it not for all reader but I sit next to my partner and ready while his watching tv or playing my favorite place to read. I think because I’m next to them.
About to do a re read of Eragon. Alao, welcome to Booktube. I hope you stick around
I also haven't read the Septimus Heap series since I was probably in middle school but I have them all and also want to reread them to see if they live up to my love for them. Same with the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke!
Honestly, seeing that you also have just stacks of books around the room makes me feel better about my random stacks 😅
Additionally, I also struggle with Fantasy Romance novels because I feel like they aren't good fantasy or good romance so why bother?
OMG Charlie Bone mentioned!!!!! This series WAS my harry potter. No one else has read it haha
I have a degree in Ancient History and it genuinely felt like a sin admitting to people on my course that I'd never read Percy Jackson 😂😭
Welcome to booktube officially 🎉
Hello and welcome. I am also new to the community. I started in 2023
I’d love to hear about your favorite romances!!
It’s funny cause 2020 my reading took a nosedive. Despite being a healthcare worker and needing to disassociate from life- I could not focus on anything.
I can understand that.
I think you are the only other person I've met that has also loved Lemony Snicket and Charlie Bone!
Talking about this made me want to get the first charlie bone book on my kindle or something to awaken the memories I know must exist somewhere in my brain lmao
lemony snicket is the goat!! i’m shocked you don’t know more people who like him 😢
Welcome to booktube 📚
One thing you're gonna need for Booktube is the gift of gab.......oh, ok, never mind!! hahaha
I’m hope you stay even tho tik tok is back or what ever it is really … 😅
Hiiii❤
😂😂 You already could start with rambling longer than your TikToks. That’s something.
Have to agree about why do I read part.
Get back to sci-fi! 😂
Romance… yes, it’s cringe. 😂😂
"internalized misogyny" because you didn't wanna read romance? my god...
glad to see longer stuff from you!! as someone who only reads queer fiction I feel you on sci fi. it may be my fave genre but there's so little queer sci fi out there