8 perfect murders was meh. I really enjoyed love Theoretically

love Karen McManus books it got me back into reading and murder mysteries/thriller( i reread alot of her books) Two can keep a secret is my favorite and so is one of is lying

I've actually seen some books that do have an age warning, I remember being 13 and about to buy Wolfsong before seeing the +16 in the back

I hated the coworker. It made me watch to put my head through a wall. 🤣😂. If I hear another fact about f🙄cking turtle will lose it lol😬😬.

This is my first video of yours that I am watching. Let me just say, you are super funny and glad you came up as a recommended ✨

What's the name of the song when you are painting the pot around 2:55 minute?

IT IS FINALLY HERE OMGG!! (have been waiting for this for so long!!!!!!)

love your editing so much!

I love McFadden however I do agree that they aren’t anything groundbreaking, however I’ve read her whole back list !

Yess! Finally!

the thanksgiving message was so sweet! you know we'll always be happy to gobble up your book thoughts and cozy vibes 🦃🫶🏻✨ and wow they were salty about you thinking that cat was pepper! 🤭 also there's something really satisfying about the big fluffy snowflakes on the throw blanket❄️😌 sorry the books were such brain rot but we understand your need for thrill and hope the rest of your year is full of more nourishing reads! ☃️🩷

Love your videos!! 😊

I liked that you mixed other things into the video, not just those books. 😊

I was just thinking about your videos this week! Love your videos and love how they aren't cookie cutter like other book tubers (many of which i enjoy listening to as well). The difference? Many pump out the same info over and over and over again. You always have something creative with it, and it seems like you put thought into your editing. Keep it up! I'm not a McF girl either. I tried 3 (same with Hoover) to give it a fair shake. I like ACOTAR but lost interest in the beginning of the 3rd book I may pick it up again. I'd love to see your creative side with that series.

Freida Mcfadden was not put on this earth to tell us stories that have any moral thread. She tells us stories about terrible people doing terrible things and maybe they will get theirs or they will get away. I have read most of her books and i dont even know why i like them, no scratch that i dont like them, but i dont know why i need to read the next one. i dont even tell people they are good. If someone sees me reading them and ask me about them i just tell them, they are messed up. if you like that kinda thing.

Pleaseeee do the acotar reading vlog

I feel we are in for an interesting ride

Outstanding reading vlog 👍. Your voice is my favorite sound🤗

The best line in this video is: Not only are we getting the police involved, but now HR.

books by TJ Klune have in all caps on the back "this book is for adults" but they don't have any spicy and it because they have LGBTQ+ content with no spicy. but books like ice breaker does not have the disclaimer.

I don’t really like the cartoon covers because they all are just so similar. If there was more variation in the art styles I’d feel differently. I do get annoyed at people who want them to cease to exist because ‘it’s too appealing to children!’. I 100% agree that they appeal to kids but I think parents need to be more involved. Should books have a little warning on the back with a ‘18+’ or ‘explicit’ sign on? Yes, but they don’t so it’s up to you as a parent to search up the books your kids are consuming. I’m sick of people blaming the publishing industry when parents just simply need to be more involved and check what their kids are reading. For example, Icebreaker sparked a lot of anger because people said it was far too childish and didn’t reflect the explicit content inside but a simple Google search ‘What Age Range is Icebreaker for?’ would quickly tell parents that it’s not for children. Even on the cover it has a quote from another author saying it’s ‘sizzling’ or something along those lines which clearly hint at the x rated content. I just think parents need to monitor the media their children consume more.

I disagree on the topic of half-star ratings. There is already a huge issue of the 'positivity problem' in online reviews with over 80% of ratings being 4 or 5 stars as people do not want to be perceived as negative. Instead of making the rating system more complex it should be the weight of reviews that is adjusted dynamically on the site.

Thank you for this video. I was trying to understand a lot of what I see from other writers. I mostly only read Christian thought which honestly doesn't matter, but the cover for the most part. All those certain covers definitely can be off-putting for instance, if the cover has a picture of the author and it's not an author who's been dead for a hundred plus years. Lol. However, I've been seeing all these cartoon covers and they're super off-putting to me. I'm confused me how somebody would actually feel comfortable having a book like that in their hands in public? Am I odd I don't think I am. Personally, I prefer minimalist covers extreme minimalist covers. With simple covers. But that is me i guess idk? And I don't like covers that feature people. Yuck

They all look the same. Must be all computer generated with no human touch or imagination

My first thought was "not all parants have time to read a book front to back just because they are thinking about gifting it to their child" And my second thought was "no, they can just google it and sceem over a few reviews, and in most cases at the top of the review there will be an indication of who the book is for" I guess that i can see why some parant wont think to do this, if they are from an older genoraton that didnt grow up with the internate, or are just in general not very tech savy, or arent familier with the current book sphere like booktok and wouldnt know that a book with a cover that cartoony can contain such explicit content.

You crack me up!

let's not forget about the people who would want to put a 18+ sticker just because the main couple is LGBTQ+, regardless of if there are any scenes that would actually "require" the "warning"

Update: i just deleted my Goodreads today and I feel amazing. I will not be getting on Storygraph as I feel that the same issues exist with that site. I read for myself, no one else. Reading is a solo activity. It is very easy to track reading with something like Google Sheets, which can also compile data and create pretty charts.

Crazy how cartoons have skyrocketed in popularity in 2024

book uas

Social media is not the answer and your know too

This was the first time that I listened to something wile doing another, it was amazing, sarahs voice is so soothing and the subject was full of information and so nice!! PS: i listened to this while designing my book cover lol

Please, stop saying "the Ukraine". There's no need to use an article with it.

im tired of pretending the art is even good too - they look so bad bro ive never seen them cutsie cartoon covers and thought "wow these look cool!" they look like they spent 10 minutes in canva. and i hate the whole minimalist vector art thing too , i hated it when it boomed in 2010s, and ill hate it forever

I've literally only seen one book in my life that had a eighteen plus sticker on it (american psycho) was like wrapped so you couldn't look inside or anything which i can understand because the movies r rated however other books ive read that are graphic for the explicit content haven't theyve just had a little footnote on the bottom of the cover saying its adult which ive never seen on books like icebreaker the love hypothesis etc so i don't see why we haven't moved to including footnotes like that on the back as a sort of standard thing

Deleted my goodreads account a couple months ago, no regrets. I now keep a physical book journal to track the books I read, and then I use the Fable app to keep track of my tbr list.

You know... It's so surprising to hear about the problem of the lack of an 18+ sticker in books that actually contain 18+ scenes, after books from Russian publishers where the 18+ sticker is on the front cover, and the book itself is wrapped in film, although in fact the audience for this story is teenagers 13-14 years old, and all this is only because there is a homosexual love story. ;-;

It's like listening to my inner thoughts, on you tube😅

AI is for pathetic losers

Im absolutely OVER the damn cartoon covers. Can a Book reflect the content wtf

24:51 Though I’m not a little kid I have a route I like to go on at my local mall where I go to Sephora and then books a million 😭

I’m sorry but adults don’t need to constantly adjust themselves for kids. I don’t care about covers either way, however I do kinda prefer the cartoony ones as they look cuter. When I was 12 I was reading my mom’s cheap erotica novels that had real people in lewd positions on covers. Why? Because I wanted to read them. Children still have Wattpad, Episode, AO3, Tumblr etc, so if they want smut they will get it.

I just keep my own reading list and log, and then talk to real life people about the books we read. Way more enjoyable than looking at somebody’s goodreads page. Social media makes almost everything worse

6 months late, but I use Fable instead of Storygraph and Goodreads. Used GR since 2016, but found it boring and suffocating. The integration of too many ads made me deviate from it, because I personally do not want to support Amaz0n. I found Fable to be more exciting than Storygraph earlier this year. Incredible community, lovely app, and has a very cute "reader summary." Importing GR data is easy too!

I clicked this because I have been grumbling as I scroll through audible for the last year about all the dumb cartoon covers! Nice video.

they should put the "parental advisory" sticker that they put on cd´s

What about Reado?

It feels like a major backlash against the old "bodice ripper" type covers, but it's veered too far into generic and "wholesome" that I can hardly tell what the story is by looking at it. I miss painted cover designs that weren't afraid to be a bit tacky, but got the point across (particularly for horror and romance genre books).

Would you say people are more sensitive to explicit content these days (as oppesed fo 80s and 90s, let's say)? In my day, fairly explicit content seemed pretty acceptable and expected for books aimed at people 16 and up. My high school classes always had someone carrying around Interview with the Vampire or Flowers in the Attic LOL.

No matter the cover it’s our job as parents to make sure our children are not accidentally picking up smut or books that are not age appropriate. Anyway I LOVE the romance book covers from the 80s 😅😂 these new covers got nothing on the baddies that live on those book covers