I know, India how can you start a book club if you’re never even around! Well I’ve been around, just not over here. I’ve been putting up videos on my youtube channel which you can click on here, which is also where I talk about the new book club. It doesn’t have a special name for right now I supposed it will be Page Turning Book Club, or Page Turning Club… I don’t know. Any thoughts?!
To really be involved in the book club you need to be subscribed to my youtube channel and to get all of the perks you should check out my Patreon, here as well! I’m really excited and a bit nervous to be doing this book club because I’m always worried that people won’t participate, but I’ll deal with that later and I’ll have a book club by myself…what else is new lol. I’ve attached the video below, which talks more about it and I hope to see you there!!
The first two books are going to be:
Legendborn by Tracy Deon for our PG-13 book and Raze (Scarred Souls #1) by Tillie Cole for our R rated book. You can click on the titles to view them on Amazon or you can try and find them in your local bookstore. I know Raze is also on KU for those that have KU.
Anyways, I hope to see you all in the book club and in the chats!! Until next time,
All the time you can find posts of people saying that they don’t feel part of the bookish community, or how they don’t have friends and each time I see this I roll my eyes. Sorry, I do. I’m always left wondering what are you doing to garner friends in the bookish community. Are you expecting people to just “come up to you” on the internet and just be your friend? If so, you need to change your expectations. Also a lot of the friendships that you see happening on the internet did not happen overnight! They took months sometimes years to become what you see on the internet! It’s okay to be jealous, but it’s not okay to let it taint your view of the entire community. As a friend told me, find your tribe. They are there, but they’re just spread out a bit.
In order to have a friend, you have to be a friend. You have to be willing to put in the time to try and foster relationships and you also have to understand that not every person on the internet is meant to be your friend. Building platonic relationships take just as much work as building romantic relationships. Are you commenting on their content and doing it in such a way that leads to more discussion or is it just a “Love your video! New subscriber!”? Also, understand that it’s easy to get distracted on the internet and that just because it seems like people are ignoring doesn’t mean they are. They might have seen the notification and just forgot to respond to it. That happens! I do it all the time and then it’s like a week later I’m responding. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Sometimes I take a peek at something, but don’t have the time to respond right away and then because the notification is gone I forget about it.
You also can’t expect to be given everything and constantly take from others without giving something in return. That’s toxic. It’s hurtful plain and simple. Also, don’t try to become friends with someone in order to build yourself up. That’s rude. You also have to respect people’s boundaries! If people say they just can’t do it right now, let them have some space to breathe. The internet only shows so much of people’s lives, and sometimes we assume we know more when we really only know a fraction.
I posted a video on my youtube channel about this, that is not nearly as blunt as this post, but I felt like the blog needed some tough love and youtube needed something a little nicer. Feel free to watch! What have you done to build relationships in the book community? What is some of the advice that you have for others? Let’s talk down in the comments! Until next time,
It’s time for another tag! This time we’re talking about the honest booktuber and are you being truthful when you’re giving reviews and wrap-ups. I did this on my youtube channel and it was a lot of fun. I have put it down below, but I would love to see some bloggers answer the question as well as some other youtubers!! If you do the tag let me know! I want to see your answers!
–QUESTIONS–
1. Have you ever lied about reading a book?
2. Have you ever avoided a book because of controversy around the content/author?
3. Have you ever been sent a book for free and not disclosed it?
4. Have you ever bought a book with no intention of reading it?
5. Have you ever got caught up in booktube drama?
6. Have you ever had a hate comment, and did you respond?
7. Have you ever made a video just because you knew it would get views?
8. If you could go back to the beginning of your channel, would you do anything differently?
9. Are there any channels you wish you could be more like?
10. What’s something you love about your channel?
Let me know how you feel about some of these questions! Anything that you want to confess? Until next time,
Yes, I know I’m super late. I mean it’s October! A lot happened in September and it put me a little behind on sharing the content to all of the social media outlets. Instagram and Twitter are of course going to be the best places to see what I’m doing in real-time. So that brings me to *celebratory trumpet sounds* my August wrap up!!
I only read 4 books in August and one of those was a novella, sooooo yeah four books. My wrap up is up on my youtube channel and is linked down below to get complete thoughts and a short synopsis on each book.
If I have a review up on my youtube channel I will also link that down below! If you’re looking to get the books, click on the titles and it will bring you to Amazon. I read all of the books on my Kindle except for Amber and Dusk, which I got in an Owlcrate Box.
I’m genuinely trying to get back in blogging, so please tell me how I can improve and what you would like to see on my blog! My youtube channel gets updated more these days and I’m trying to coincide that with my blog, but social media takes a lot! You all who do it all are amazing! Anyway, that’s enough rambling for me until next time,
I can’t believe that there are only 2 months left in the year!! That’s crazy and it’s officially holiday season!! I know a lot of people are getting ready for Halloween and all of their spooky reads, but I’m not going that route. First, I don’t really do spooky reads and thrillers, the second I really need to read some books that I already own.
So, that is what I will be focusing on this month. I don’t really do TBRs as you know, but I do have some books on my physical shelves and my e-reader shelves.
Some of those books include
Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron
Crier’s War by Nina Varela
Guilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin
Slay by Britney Morris
I know I have more books that I need to read that you can see on my Instagram page, but these are some of the ones that I really want to get to next.
I’m trying really hard to not buy any books this month and prepare for the holidays!! What are some of the books that you have planned for this month?! Are you going spooky, participating in ReadAThons, or just keeping is business as usual? Until next time,
Life is a Page Turner 