Hello everybody, my name is Cara, and today I am here to do the BookTube Watching Tag.
This tag was created by Harriet Rosie and I will link her original video down below.
I was tagged by the fabulous Aoife from Fred Weasley Died Laughing, and I will also link
her channel down below.
Question #1: How many channels are you subscribed to?
I want to say it's like around 200?
That could be completely wrong, but I think--I think it's probably around there.
Almost all of them are BookTube channels, and then I'm also subscribed to a few beauty
channels and a few like musical theatre-type performance things?
But it's almost all BookTube.
#2 is when do you normally watch BookTube?
Um a lot of times I will watch it in the morning before I go to work and I will also watch
it in the evening, kind of like right before or right after dinner like around then: I
will read hopefully, and I will also watch some BookTube then.
I also have to sometimes do a lot of catch-up on the weekends, um depending on how my schedule
is so yeah, sometimes like Saturday I will just like binge-watch a bunch of BookTube
so that my "watch later" list doesn't like completely stress me out!
#3 is how do you balance BookTube watching, reading, and making your own videos?
Good question, Harriet! *laughs* Um...for filming I don't find it TOO difficult, I just
make sure when I sit down to film I always film more than one video and I know which
days--usually I know which days I'm going to have the time like to film, so I plan--like
I kind of know what I'm gonna film, like I get things ready.
If I'm going to use notes, which I don't always then I will get those ready and everything
and I do all the prep.
BookTube watching versus like reading books is what I generally have a problem with or
I can sometimes, because it really stresses me out when I have a lot of unwatched like
videos, and I also feel bad 'cause it's like you want to support other people in the community
but you also like you're a BookTuber, you SHOULD be reading, and also...we're BookTubers,
we WANT to be reading, like we love--we love books, um...So I'm trying to get a little
bit better about like having specific times that I like only will read, like non-negotiable,
or like I will only catch up on BookTube.
Like just one or the other.
#4: Is there a difference between videos you like watching and videos you like making?
Not really, I would say overall the ones I enjoy filming are the ones I enjoy seeing
from other people, like especially things like wrap ups.
Wrap ups are probably my like favorite--favorite video to film and they're also some of my
favorite videos to watch.
For me it's fun because like I get to talk about like a lot of books at once you know,
especially if I have strong feelings on them.
And for watching other people's I just really like it because it's like the end result you
know, is like you get to see what somebody--like if they've been anticipating a book you actually
get to see them talk about it.
I don't know if that makes sense.
Something I have found kind of funny is before I started making BookTube videos, I almost
never watched TBRs.
Like they just didn't interest me, I kind of thought like why would I care what you're
planning to read, I want to see what you actually have read.
But since joining BookTube and actually starting to make my own videos I actually really like
watching TBRs because it's like now that I'm like friends with these people, you see a
book that you love that someone's talking about and you're like "oh you should read
that!" and it's really fun to like kind of cheer each other on, especially for like readathons
and like things like that.
I only do TBRs for readathons or particular challenges 'cause like that's the kind of
reader I am, is like I will pick books for specific challenges but I don't plan a whole
month in advance kinda thing.I also really like making review videos sometimes, also
rant videos...I just...I love 'em *laughs*.
#5 is who is the first BookTuber you subscribed to and do you still watch them?
So when I first discovered this wonderful--wonderful community of BookTube, it was pretty much
like the big BookTubers that I had discovered like, I think it might've been jessethereader.
I realized "oh my gosh, people talk about books on YouTube that's amazing."
It was him and like Christine from polandbananasbooks, Kat from katytastic.
I don't really watch them regularly anymore, like if they have a specific video that I
really like then I will watch it but, yeah.
#6 is who is the most recent BookTuber you've subscribed to?
And I'm pretty sure that was Jocelyn from yogi with a book.
She just did the like First Sentence Challenge with a friend I think, and it was so funny,
it was so much fun.
You guys should definitely check her out if you haven't already, she's got like a really
great like witty sense of humor.
Like it's very...I don't want to say highbrow because that sounds off-putting, but I just--I
don't know, I really click with her personality I think.
#7 is share an old favorite BookTuber.
[These are from] sort of like when I was making the switch from "oh my God, BookTube is a
thing" to like "ooh, I can actually like find different kinds of people to follow", some
of them are ones that I have mentioned quite a bit.
Like Sam from Thoughts on Tomes is one of the first channels--the first channels I found
when I was really starting to get like into BookTube in a big way, I guess.
I really like her fantasy and science fiction recommendations, I love her discussion videos.
And then there's also Misty from BookRatMisty who I mention all the time, who was actually
a recommendation from Sam.
Like I remember she mentioned her in like in a video at one point and said that like
she was one of the first ones she subscribed to and she still really loves her videos.
And I like clicked over and never looked back! *laughs* I love, love Misty's content; she's
the one who does the Backlist Recommendations videos that I love so much which by the way,
I think they've been like--3 for 3 at this point?
Like all the books I've tried from those I have absolutely adored so that was great.
And then another one is Trina from Between Chapters.
I just--I love her personality, I love the very concise way she can talk about books.
She is so great at addressing like representation and like problematic elements and everything.
And she's also really good at like the--I don't know, talking about the enjoyment-level
stuff.
I really like channels that have a good balance of like articulate discussion and just like
fangirling and having fun, and I feel like Trina does that brilliantly.
Also her wrap ups are just so well-edited and like put together and I don't know, I
just love all her content so much.
Also she's a big user of her library, which I also love.
#8 is share a new favorite BookTuber.
And there are so many that I could talk about, I'm actually--I'm currently working on my
next BookTuber shout-outs video because it's been WAY too long since I did one.
But I'm gonna mention Hana from Linh Hermione.
And she is just so lovely and her personality is so like friendly and kind and we have a
lot of the same tastes in books I think, so I really trust her recommendations.
And she's just got like this very like personable feeling and she definitely deserves so many
more subscribers so please go check her out.
I will link her channel of course down below as well; all of the people I talk about I'm
gonna link below.
#9 is what is one of your BookTube pet peeves?
Okay...*laughs* Any variation on the sentence "I'm sure it's fine for the target audience."
And I run into it most with middle grade and YA books, but I'm specifically gonna talk
about middle grade because that's--that's kinda what I've been noticing happening more.
What makes me so upset about this is people act like age ranges are like their own genre?
And that all books in that category are the same.
And like I said, this happens a lot with YA and I know it happens with Adult too, but
what I really have been noticing most recently is with middle grade because there's been
a couple of like really popular middle grade books which is wonderful, it makes me so happy,
middle grade is such an underappreciated kind of grouping of books in publishing in general
I feel like.
And like the number of times that I have been watching somebody talk about a middle grade
book and they say something like "the writing felt very middle grade" and I just like--it
really, really bothers me because it's imprecise and it's misleading.
And you're also kind of feeding into this stereotype that all middle grade books read
the exact same way and that they're all about the exact same kinds of stories and that's
simply not true.
So when somebody says "the writing felt very middle grade" it's like okay, do you mean
the writing felt very bland?
You know like there wasn't a lot of description, you couldn't picture the world.
Is that what you meant, or did you mean like the writing was very confusing, you know you
couldn't--you couldn't really imagine what was going on because of the way the plot was
laid out.
Those are valid complaints!
Say that, instead of saying "the writing felt like a middle grade book" because it's just
like--it's so insulting to anybody who reads that book or like who enjoys it, it's insulting
to like an entire range of readers and of--of published novels, it's just like...It really
burns me up because the standards for good literature are the same across all--all target
audiences.
Like yes, there may be a difference in content or sometimes in the complexity of the vocabulary...
sometimes, not always, but bad writing is bad writing.
Bad characterization is bad characterization.
The standards are the same, so if you didn't like the book that is absolutely 100% fine,
but say why you didn't like it instead of just writing it off as this like preconceived
notion of what like a middle grade book is.
Okay, getting off my soapbox now but...*laughs self-consciously* can you tell that that's--that's
been driving me crazy for a while?
I did like a whole discussion video that kind of touches on this topic, among others.
I will link that down below in case you guys are interested.
I'm very passionate about this topic, as you guys can tell!
#10 is what have you learned from watching other BookTubers?
And probably the biggest thing is just...like it takes all kinds?
I mean, not that that's a newsflash but something that has really been really wonderful about
getting involved with the community and with you know with making friends here, it's so
exciting to me that everybody's perspective and everybody's content is so varied.
Maybe somebody does really concise, like few-minute reviews, and I love that, and maybe another
person does really lengthy, in-depth discussions on books, and I love that.
Like they can be like two completely opposite things, but people value them both and you
can--you can be like the same person and love both of those things, like I'm subscribed
to people for different reasons.
And I just--I don't know if I'm explaining this well at all, but like that has honestly
been the most exciting thing that I've like experiences or discovered since being here,
is just like we're all so different and like everybody has niche.
Like even if you're--if you're struggling to find it at the time, it's like...there
are people out there who specifically are looking for what you have to say and I think
that's wonderful.
It's great to follow people who have very similar tastes to you, who have very like
similar channels to you, but it's also great to follow people where it's like "wow I could--I
could never like do this kind of video as well as they do, and like that's why I love
them."
Variety is the spice of life, to sum it up in a cliche *laughs*.
And finally, #11 is tag some of your favorite BookTubers.
So I'm not really sure who has done this because I know it's been going around for a while.
I'm gonna tag a couple of the people I mentioned, so I'm tagging Jocelyn from yogi with a book
and I'm also gonna tag Hana from Linh Hermione, if you two haven't done it yet...hopefully
you haven't, I should've checked.
Um, I might--I might tag a couple other people in the description so check that, but also
if you have not--if you have not done this tag yet and you've been wanting to, then I
am officially tagging you so you may now go and do it if you would like.
Thank you guys so much for watching, I will see you soon with another video, and I hope
you love the next book you read.
Bye!
For more infomation >> Cooking with biscuit! : 200 subscribers request → [ Live ] ● - Duration: 1:16:12. 
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét