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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash
Yeah, he has a natural personality that I'm enjoying. What amused me about the first video wasn't any little disasters he ran into, but how much it reminds me of myself with these readathons. I get into them all gung-ho too, participating in the Reading Rush this year. With Dewey's 24 hour readathon, or 24in48, I get all into the prep for weeks with the instagram planned TBR tabs, spreadsheets, Twitter chats, website posts, even one year joining Dewey's groups to get into the recipes to prepare beforehand. What actually happens is I almost always oversleep, stumble out like a zombie hours late with an audiobook I listen to long while I do "other" stuff, while it seems like others have been reading steadily and without hiccup. His reading rush week reminded me of me in that he planned all this TBR, then would randomly admit, whoops, didn't read at all. I can sympathize
Also, I'm curious on the diversity as I'm sure he reads things I don't. I've seen about five videos of his now. He's male, I'm female. He's Caribbean, I'm American. He's Muslim, I'm Christian. He's gay, I'm straight. Definitely some new books for me with his recommendations and his discussion videos on diversity and booktube experience have been insightful
When searching on discussion videos, I've found two women I enjoy quite a bit and now subscribe to.
Bowties & Books - she's a fun personality who does read-a-thons and a variety, really like her personality.
Bookish Realm has great videos on discussions as well, including Book Twitter drama and her answers aren't drama seeking or cancel culture heavy, they're more common sense on human decency and everyone treating each other well. I like her personality and outlook.
On the negative side still not finding any strong, well done mystery channel. Where are the hardcore mystery fans at? It's such a massive genre, and I don't mean another thriller channel mixed with horror and fantasy, but the variety of mystery. I need to dig out more horror channels too. I read romance, but I'm not as interested in romance exclusive channels because the output of books put out monthly in that genre are so vast it's not as likely to be as interesting genre channel wise. |
Good point there. Mystery is the other genre I read a ton of and I have not found any channels for that at all. There are some good booktubes for romance. My wife reads more romance than I do, but I do dabble in some series -- sportsy ones like Chinooks Hockey Team Series by Rachel Gibson, Chicago Stars Series by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, and then historical type ones like the Girl Meets Duke series by Tessa Dare. Yeah yeah, I'm a guy. So what.
