Hi everyone, welcome back. I'm going to
do a tag video today. I don't remember the
last time I did a tag video, I think I might
have only done one since the beginning of my channel.
I just want to do one, I saw Sophie Carlon
do the rapid fire book tag so I will link her
video down below but I believe the original
was created by GirlReading so I'll also
link that video below.
So I've got the questions here on my phone so I'll
just go through them. I think I want to
do a tag but I kind of liked the idea
of this one because it's rapid fire so
you're not supposed to prepare the
answers, you're supposed to just say what you think when
you read the questions. And videos that
involve no preparation are always my
favorite kind.The first question is "e- book
or physical book?" and I think it's pretty obvious,
I'm surrounded by quite a lot of physical books
right now.
I do have a kindle and I do like
reading e-books but I just really enjoy
physical books. I enjoy the feel of them,
I enjoy the experience of reading them,
I enjoy having them on my shelves and looking at them.
I just do so I do buy books on my
kindle and do read them on there but most
of the time I buy physical books.
"Paperback or hardback?" Paperback. I do
have quite a lot of hardbacks now but
I have always hated hardbacks and
actually until maybe two years ago,
I hardly had any and if I could avoid it, I
would not have a hardback. But since
I've got into buying new releases you don't always
have the choice so yeah paperback. "Online or
in-store book shopping?" I would love to
have really good bookshops near me but the
nearest good book is like an hour and a bit
more drive away and there are like no
independent bookshops around me. I think
the nearest one is around 50 miles
away so I would prefer to buy in-store
and I do whenever I can but I
probably buy more online. "Trilogies or
series?" I'm going to go with series because I think
trilogies often suffer with second book
syndrome and the second book sucks. So series but
then there's a lot more books to read and it's difficult
keeping up with the series. "Heroes or villains?"
Villains. Heroes, I think, are boring. I do quite
like an anti-hero but I tend to get more
emotion from a book if I'm hating on
someone. "A book you want everyone to read?"
Ooh I really should have prepared for this. I'm going to go
with Night Waking by Sarah Moss because that
that was my favourite book of last year. Granted, Sarah
Moss does not need any more promotion in
books spheres right now but
I think that is a really good book
and I think it has a lot of themes that can
appeal to a lot of different people so
I will say Nigh Waking. "Recommend an
underrated book" Erm The Garden of
Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng. I don't
think enough people talk about him
as an author and he's brilliant.
"The last book you finished?" Bird Box by Josh Malerman, it was excellent.
I'm going to have to insert all of these books as
like images because I literally didn't
read through these questions until I wassat
right here so it's still next to my bed in
the other room.
"The last book you bought?" I actually
have that one here because I just talked
about it in my January wrap up. That is the
Underground Railroad by Colson
Whitehead. I haven't bought any books
since I bought that in maybe the second week of
January because it's my birthday
coming up,
well it's my birthday tomorrow and I didn't
want to buy a books that someone else might buy me.
"The weirdest thing you've used as a bookmark?" I don't think I've used
any weird things as a bookmark. I read an article
and someone shared on twitter the other day that
was the wierdest things that librarians have
found inside books which I assume were things people used as
bookmarks and left them. An alarming
amount of meat! Like why would you use a piece
of bacon as a bookmark? So I've not used anything as
wierd as that but I did you use this
dinosaur as a bookmark,
sort of. I used his head to prop open Bird Box
yesterday when I needed to go and answer the phone.
So this is the weirdest thing I've used as a bookmark.
"Used books: Yes or no?" Yes! I tend to buy
most of my books new but
I do buy some used especially if I'm not sure if I'll
like it and it's quite expensive to buy new,
I'll buy it second hand. And generally I think
buying books second hand is a great idea.
One of the book shops in my local town
is actually an Oxfam second hand book
shop so I do get books from there sometimes.
"Top three favourite genres?" Erm.....
It's always difficult because literary
fiction makes up a lot of what I
read but it's not a genre as such. I would
say like magical realism/fabulist
fiction, fantasy and children books. I
don't read huge amount of children's books but the ones that I do read,
I tend to really enjoy. "Borrow or buy?" Buy
for me. I don't know anyone that lives even
close to me that has a physical collection of
books that I would be able to borrow from and
and I don't actually use my local library
that much which is quite bad but I do
tend to buy most of my books. "Characters
or plot?" That's really difficult because
it tends to depend on what kind of mood
I'm in. Sometimes I like a slow story
where nothing happens and you get to
really like the characters and the
development of them but if I want
something that's going to take my
attention, is going to keep you turning the
pages that it has to be plot. I constantly
oscillate between the two and obviously a
combination of both is the best but I think
that's kinda cheating. "Long or short books?" Short book?
Oh I don't know! I like short books
because I like that feeling of
completion and of getting through them and
when an author can pack a good
well-rounded story or whatever is they're trying to
accomplished in to a short book format,
I'm always really impressed. But I do really
enjoy really sinking into a long book
but then I feel intimidated by long books
because I feel like they'll take me a long time to read and then I don't read them
as much. So if I had to pick what I read the most,
it would be short books. A few years
ago I was disappointed if a book was
less than a thousand pages because I used
to read just epic fantasy and a lot of the
books I read were very long. So if it was like
less than a thousand pages
I was like quite disappointed but now
probably say short books but a mix of the two.
"Long or short chapters?" Short chapters.
I hate long chapters, sometimes I just
need a marker of like where I'm up to with
reading, it gives me the feeling that I want to
carry on reading. So if you've got a
chapter that's like fifty pages long,
I just get really annoyed. "Name the first three books
you think of" Erm... [stumbles over book name]
The Girl Who Circumnavigated
Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M.
Valente because I just looked at that over there,
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas
King because that's what I'm reading at the moment and..
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobbs because
that just came to my mind. "Books that make you laugh
or cry?" Books that make me cry. I don't really
like humorous books, I don't mind a bit of humour
but I just, I don't know if sometimes it
just doesn't come across in a written format to
me but I often just sit there like
why iis this supposed to be funny?
Where as if anything is even remotely sad, I will
probably cry. "Our world or fictional
worlds?" That's another difficult one.
Ultimately I'll probably have to say fictional worlds
because I just love the creativity of
people thinking up alternative worlds and
being able to write them in a full and
descriptive way but sometimes books
set in our world have more impact. But
fictional worlds give you more escapism
so I would go with fictional worlds.
"Audiobooks: Yes or no?" Yes. I sometimes read audio
books I haven't been reading or listening to
a lot at the moment because the things I
used to do when I was listening to
audiobooks, I've not had to do as much so
I used to commute a lot and I've not had to do
that as much recently so I've not been listening to them
as much. But generally, I really like having
an alternative format in which to consume
books and it really annoys me when people say that
audiobooks don't count as reading real books.
If somebody else wants to listen to
audiobooks instead of read it, like everyone
consumes media differently so why does it
bother you? I don't know but yes
audiobooks, yes. "Do you ever judge a book by
it's cover?"
Not really, I will always look at what
the story is like but if the book has a
beautiful cover
it might catch my eye and make me
want to look into it more, I do enjoy
really beautiful covers. But ultimately it's
always the story inside that matters. Sorry
if you can hear like noise over there, it's my cat
letting himself into the room. He can
open doors. "Book to movie or book to TV
adaptations?" Book to TV definitely. I don't
really watch a lot of films and I'm always
very interested when I hear people
talking about all the films that they
like and how it compares to the books
they enjoy. But if something's a
TV adaptation, I'll probably watch it but if its
a film I'm likely not to. I also think the
scope for adapting books into TV
series is better whereas if you try to
adapt a book into a film you've got a
quite short timeframe to pack it all into so I
would go for TV adaptation. "A movie or
TV show you preferred to it's book?"
The Hunger Games... is that sacriligeous to say? I quite
liked the films of The hunger Games but I thought
the books were quite forgettable.
I don't hate them but I would watch the films again
again but I probably wouldn't
re-read the book. And the last
question is "Series or standalones?" I'll
probably go for standalones. Again if you'd asked me a
few years ago, I never read standalones, if it was just
a standalone book, I wouldn't have read it
because all of things I read were epic fantasy
series. But now I would probably say
standalones.
That's what I read the most of and I find it
difficult to keep up with a series now because I
read more books and more variety of
different books but I do enjoy being
able to really... I do enjoy that feeling of
being able to get attached to worlds or
characters and stories and being able to follow
them on that you get from series. But I read
a lot more standalones so yeah standalones.
So thosee were all the questions, I don't know how
well I'm answered any of them because I
didn't prepare.
But that was the whole point of the tag so it's
alright... it's ok that I haven't done my homework.
I'm not going to tag anyone specific because I'm crap
at tagging people and I always worry that I'll be
bugging people that don't want to do it or
whatever but if you want to do this
tag or you just want to do any tag then consider
yourself tagged by me. Thank you for
watching and I'll see you in the next
video. Bye!
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