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Hello. I found your channel through @abookolive. "Rooted" is on my TBR. I'm looking forward to seeing more from you and talking about books and more.

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I ♥️ Holy Basil 🫖

Ah, there's another book about regenerative farming by Liz Carlyle that seems very similar. Found on SG. Both on the climathon list!

THinking of the labor that makes a garment makes me remember the historical US city relationships, now being reproduced globally: recent immigrants slaving away at exquisite haute-couture for a rich lady who wears it once or twice for status. Pretty sure several histfic books have been written with this as a topic. We need to treasure the products of labor better, for sure <3

The garbage bag thing, yeah...I suppose a smaller bag will work if you just leave it standing on its own, rather than in a bin that it can't cover, so that stuff falls into the gaps... I've tried many things for this and have a patchy strategy! But the cat litter garbage is the one I reeeeally don't want to break or have a new discovered hole lol

Ooh, a different "rooted"! That one looks good too <3

Yes, over halfway done! I had to check my cross over since I'm starting another year-long reading challenge (HRCYED!), and realized I'm only 4 prompts away from finishing Climathon!! 🤩

I haven't had a 5-star read yet this year so I'm still hoping for that. One of my best reads this year was The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan. All the chapters are really short so you fly through it. -Becks

"I don't even care what it's about." Yeah ngl, in regards to Kimmerer that's about accurate!

Veg nation ❤ get growing peeps

audiobook + biking it's THE BEST!

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I am just starting this book. My sister really liked it (not a mother) and I have tow kids. I couldn't tell based on the ratings where it was. I think you may have a point with the mom vs no mom opinionI am only a chapter in but it was a good first chapter!

Extraordinary novel. Thanks!!

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If I like a book I give it five stars and if I don’t like it I don’t rate it. With one exception! I went back and gave that one one star to keep other people from being tricked into reading it.

I 100% agree that Goodreads just doesn't care! I think it was a decent site before Amazon bought it, but they haven't made any real improvements in YEARS! I'd get off it completely, but I have a couple of groups that use it for their communication.

Thanks for doing the tag! Yeah I get the difference between real dnfs and kind of dnfs haha. Yeah I'm probably like super lenient with my rating where I feel like if I learned something new or whatever the book starts at like 3.5 or something and goes up from there lol

So happy I figured out how to keep up with you. 🎉🎉🎉😊 Please ask us followers to turn on the freaking bells 😂😂😂

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a new viiiideeeeeeooooo! whoop whoop!

I want this book. Is it available in pdf?

🙋‍♀️ Yes in a slump now! Haven’t read an amazing book all year. Last week finished The Three Body Problem (not generally a sci fi reader but was on board to try this). Then picked up the 2nd book in the series The Dark Forest. Got halfway and just hit a wall. Skimmed the rest of it and have no plans to read the third. They are big books (each bigger than the prior) and when you can only get through 30-50 pages M-F…. well that doesn’t help. I am also a mood reader and am going to be really selective about what I pick up next… 😫🤞

Yeah I try to only tbr a couple books ahead of time and then most mood read different nature things. I hardly have ever read Classics but Dickens is like at the bottom of the barrel of classics for me lol, I just don't like his stuff for whatever reason. When I'm in a slump I don't really stop reading but all my books seem to become really short haha like 200 or less pages until I'm out of it or something

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Last year I was in the same kind of slump of meh reads. My New Year’s resolution this year is to only read books by authors from countries I haven’t read yet. It has really gotten me out my meh book slump and I keep it fun by keeping track of the books on a map.

I am also in a slumpy-slump though now I am reading The God of Small Things and it's a magical book that slowly drags me out of this yucky, sticky slump. You must read it in paper though, the language is gorgeous, I underline full paragraphs ❤

My favorite person is baaaaaack! And we are both in a massive slump - great 😂

Shamteram!!💗💗

hi, this is my first time finding your channel and funnily enough i was here for another book and checking out your other videos. I'm from Turkiye and im so happy to find this video of yours. Hope you had a fun time in Turkiye. Thank you for sharing your opinions on Turkish literature! <3

Agree that booktubers are people outside the norm! On booktube people see my shelves and quantity of books and think it is normal. But if anyone I know IRL comes over for the first time they are always shocked. I agree its possible to see if someone has or hasn't read a book by their review at times, especially if you have read it yourself. I like watching wrap ups to learn about new books for my tbr or to avoid as well. And sometimes for personality as well. Wrap up videos and unhaul videos are my favourites to watch, so that is my opinion basically!

Very late watching this, but I thought the exact same thing as soon as Jack said that line (I watch probably 75% of his videos). A classic Booktube statement that has been made in one form or another for ages. -Becks

My grandad being of Spanish origin gave me this book shortly before he died, having read this book I honestly was taken aback by how immersive the story is and it is my all time favourite book. One that will be passed down my family for generations to come!

Thanks for tagging! Love these questions, I need to get back to doing some tags here soon.

Really?! 😮 do you love to receive comments?! 😊😊😊 so it'll be my first comment 😂😂😂 well... I've never commented, but im always here watching all your videos. Btw, now that we are "talking," it reminds me that i should send you the bill of the books that you have been making me buy... forcing me, manipulating me 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤

“We expect infinite growth not just from the economy but from ourselves”

Great check in!

It's my first year participating and I'm so excited! The God of Small Things is among the books I recommended in my video about the Readathon, so I'm excited to see someone will be picking it up and I'm curious to know your thoughts. I would just advise checking the TW for this one though because it touches on very difficult topics.

Really interesting points, especially the escapism element.

I love wrap up videos (from booktubers I know well) because I get to add books to my TBR that I'm interested in, and also know what books to stay away from or avoid.

I think wrap ups are actually the most valuable part of booktube. I dont watch booktube to study literature but to be entertained 😂 And also I think this is a very similar topic to the booktok one. If you want a specific type of content, it is out there. Just stop watching stuff you dont enjoy and let others have fun 🤷🏼‍♀️

I agree with just about all of your points. I watch wrap-ups rather than single book reviews because I don’t want to know much about the plot of a book before I read it. I do enjoy knowing if a book is more character or plot-focused and if the pacing is fast or slow as that can tell me if I’m likely to enjoy it or help me adjust my expectations, and wrap-ups usually offer that kind of info. I believe most BookTubers are being honest about what/how much they read. People read at very different paces and have varying amounts of free time, not to mention those who listen to audiobooks while doing other things. Good for them if they’re reading thirty books a month. That doesn’t make me feel any kind of pressure. Everyone just needs to focus on what works best for them.

Theres nothing entertaining avout wrap-up videos.

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Nice discussion. Will have to watch the original video now. When I watch wrap ups it's mostly just because I'm watching the channel I'm subbed to. I don't really seek out wrap ups per se. Since I read mostly nonfiction I always choose quality over quantity lol (sometimes you have to take what you can get on niche topics haha) but I can see how others might be pressured to read more with the fiction genres. Still haven't figured out how some people average 300+ pages a day over months tho. I haven't done any wrap ups yet since returning though I've been trying to think pf how to do my March one. I think I'm going to use them as my nature walk type video that I keep saying I'll do. Usually in mine I also only focus on the highlight reads of the month

12:04 - This moment should be instated into the Booktube Hall of Fame 😂

“vague banalities” (Evans, K (2024) qtd in; Books, W T. (2024) [online])

I stirred the pot, so all could drink tea

Chileeeeeeee this was some educashnl content for me 😮 because a) I didn't even know people might have issues with wrap up videos out of all things! I understand beef with hauls but wrap ups??? What should books tubers post then? Aesthetic bookshops??? utter confoosion 😮 and b)people lie about books they read???? Why? It makes zero sense to me. It's like lying about movies you've watched. Why would one invest in such bizarre loss of breath and time 🤨 Wrap ups is my favorite type of content because it's speed reviews of books actually read rather than look at this pretty thing I am adding to my collection. Now what I can't stand are Friday or weekly reads format where people either gonna tell me how they read 5 books in a week (how bro? Do you have a job?) or discuss the same books they read throughout the month and it's just boring