Booktube Newbie Tag!

[@crumbs.carrots]

I’m thinking of joining booktube but it feels so daunting, congrats on starting your channel!

[@zoenorman9846]

You should do! 😃 I'm sure you would create a wonderful channel and would be a fabulous addition to the book tube community!!! 🤗

[@Claire_Fenby]

Belated welcome to booktube 💓 I'm really enjoying your videos!

[@EvesBookNook]

@Claire_Fenby oh my gosh a booktube ICON. You’re the reason I first learned about the Penguin English Library editions like a decade ago! Thanks for watching!

[@hopefullybooks]

I’m a newbie, too! Thanks for your video! I think I’m going to record one of these soon ❤ looking forward to more videos!

[@RicksReads]

Congrats on starting your channel! I'm a newbie too and videos like this encouraged me to start :) Looking forward to following your videos!

[@EvesBookNook]

Yay, thank you! So glad to have you as a fellow booktube newbie!

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Hello and welcome to book tube Eve. I’m still pretty new to all this malarkey and finding my way around. Look forward to hearing what you have to say. Best wishes with what you choose to read. I hope you get some great stories.

[@EvesBookNook]

Thank you! Hope the channel continues to reach fellow readers!

[@KaviCollins]

congrats on starting out a booktube! as a vast genre reader, im very excited to tune into your recs and thoughts on books. Good luck!! Can't wait to follow along!

[@EvesBookNook]

Yay, thank you!

[@ArtBookshelfOdyssey]

Welcome to Booktube! I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos. I started 2 years ago, and it was one of the best things I did. My daughter also loved Junie B. Jones! She's 14 now, and unfortunately hasn't found a book or series that captured her like Junie or Pinkalicious lol I always recommend Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell for classics, and some modern writers I love include Louise Penny, Ray Bradbury, and Brendan Slocumb.

[@ellenmadebookclub]

Hi Eve! Welcome to booktube! Just came across your channel. Totally agree about feeling like you’re in the story and like a spell has been broken when you have to look up from the book! I’ve just gotten back into reading this year and loving it. I read pretty varied too, I think, not a lot of romance or horror but I’m open to trying most things, as long as the premise intrigues me.

[@EvesBookNook]

Thank you so much!! And I hear you on the horror genre especially (I do enjoy romance!). I’m afraid of my own shadow so horror ain’t happenin’ for me!

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@ Haha I’m sure your shadow is a nice person though 😄

[@mhkmouse4646]

This video was just a lovely surprise. Thank you for being approachable and funny and authentic. I'm pretty sure given physical F2F proximity we would become friends - although we are MANY decades apart in age your life is very relatable...married to a college prof...reading being an activity that brings you great joy...a baby in the house...even separate bookcases for the same reason! I wish you every success and that creating videos will become as joyful a passion as reading obviously already is.

[@EvesBookNook]

@@mhkmouse4646 this is so lovely ♥️ Thank you for this comment it made my day!

[@BonnieNicoleWrites]

Welcome to BookTube! I am a massive mood reader as well and I like to change my genres up. I have a few I tend to gravitate towards, but I try to throw other genres in every now and then as well!

[@EvesBookNook]

Yay, thank you! And same - the only genre I really don’t read anything from is horror and that’s just because I’m a huge fraidy cat, otherwise I totally would!

[@BonnieNicoleWrites]

@@EvesBookNook SAME!! haha I don't like anything very dark or scary.

[@LauraRodriguez-Peace]

Welcome, Eve! ☮️🩵📚

[@EvesBookNook]

Thanks! Looking forward to sharing more in the coming days.

[@ughmady]

listening to your take on fantasy, i feel like magical realism might be up your alley! underrated genre

[@EvesBookNook]

I really haven’t explored it much, though I think you’re totally right. I know Allende and Marquez are the main magical realism Latin American authors- any others you recommend?

[@ughmady]

@@EvesBookNook yeah i loved one hundred years of solitude by marquez! also haruki murakami (and a lot of japanese authors tbh) does magical realism really well but the way he writes women is....something

[@EvesBookNook]

lol I didn’t realize he was magical realism but I’ve heard some other booktube commentary on him and am a bit wary!!😂

[@tibbarasden]

Love how thoughtful you were with your answers. Welcome to the creator side of the community.

[@EvesBookNook]

Thank you so much! Looking forward to sharing more.

[@Amysdustybookshelf]

Hi Eve, and welcome to the community!

[@EvesBookNook]

Thanks Amy!

[@TimeTravelReads]

Welcome! I've been reading a lot of history but lately I've been taking a break from that and reading fantasy.

[@EvesBookNook]

I don’t know if you ever watched (the late) Jennifer Brooks’s channel, but history and fantasy were her 2 main genres. Sadly she passed earlier this year, but I still cherish her recommendations! You might find some shared interests there :) Thank you for watching!

[@TimeTravelReads]

@@EvesBookNook Yes. I dedicated a reading project to Jennifer's memory. She was amazing.

[@EvesBookNook]

Glad to know how broad her reach was. That sounds like a worthwhile project. ♥️

[@RafBlutaxt]

Haha, Billy, the king of bookshelves! Welcome to booktube! Broad tastes are good as they can bridge the gap between the different sub-communities on booktube.

[@EvesBookNook]

😂they’ve lasted 3 years so far with 0 sagging so hopefully it stays that way!

[@NicholasOfAutrecourt]

Hi, Eve! I'm looking forward to hearing about all bookish things you want to share with us. From an oldie content creator to a newbie, welcome aboard. We're so glad to have you here!

[@EvesBookNook]

Thanks John David. To paraphrase what they always said on call-in radio shows, “First time filmer, long time viewer!” Can’t wait to share my book passion with others!

[@adarkcornerofthelibrary]

Hi Eve, welcome to booktube!! I am relatively new as well 😊 I have a broad taste as well so we probably have some overlap. I loved one tree hill as well! I see Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell on your shelves and that's my current #1 😅 I'm excited to see more from you!

[@EvesBookNook]

lol I feel like the venn diagram of OTH/jonathan strange lovers has to be a verrryyy minimal overlap! That’s why I needed to make this channel haha!

[@NicolesBookishNook]

Hello and welcome to the community, Eve! I love your bookcases 👀 ❤

[@EvesBookNook]

Thank you! They’re just 2 IKEA Billy bookcases next to each other!

[@NicolesBookishNook]

@@EvesBookNook oh, love that! They’re soooo pretty 🤩

[@joelharris4399]

Yes owning books is nice. Welcome to the literary superhighway known as BookTube

[@MyGrannyEra]

Welcome to BookTube! Hope you love it here!

[@EvesBookNook]

Thank you!! 😊

[@CaffeinatedTReads]

Welcome to booktube 💗! From one newbie to another, you got my support and a sub ! Can’t wait to see more content from you !

[@mariah8595]

Hi 🎉 love the shelves! Welcome to the community 😊

[@cheekychapters]

Your set up is so cozy and I love how you display your books! ☺️ can’t wait to see your reading recommendations! Welcome to booktube ☺️🙏🏼

[@EvesBookNook]

Thank you! I’m excited to grow the channel and share my love of books with the world!

[@RachelB.BookReferences]

Welcome to BookTube! I love channels with a wide variety of books, so I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos. ☺

[@EvesBookNook]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@HannahsBooks]

Welcome to booktube! I’m looking forward to hearing more about your thoughts on your reading!

[@dqan7372]

Welcome to BookTube! Great start. Looking forward to hearing more, especially your thoughts on Eighth Life and Ducks, Newburyport. No rush though. Any chance your husband will start a channel? I've been meaning to start one for about seven years now. One day!

[@EvesBookNook]

Those are two of my longest tbr books so it may take awhile! 😂 and honestly on my husband’s front I doubt he’ll make a channel of his own but maybe one day I can convince him to make a few videos with me!

[@0Catbee]

What a lovely video I am looking forward for more of your videos and books recommendations

[@TedReadInstead]

Hello Eve! :) I'm also a new Booktuber, so you're quite a veteran in my book! (pardon the pun) I look forward to following your journey and perhaps learn some things about books I never knew! :)

[@scoutdarpy4465]

Enjoyed the video. My reading isn't too broad. I usually just stick to classics and philosophy, but I am well read in them. Occasionally I'll read a contemporary book, but usually I find their themes rather like beating a dead horse or beating me over the head, and the general style is usually pretty weak with its effort toward "descriptive" language and so on. I'm far from a minimalist, and maybe it's due to my background in philosophy, but descriptive imagery does not strike me as something important. I prefer the interior stuff or the discussions about the abstracts: what I call the "minerals" of literature; the monologues, the sorta epics of speculation - whatever broadened seeds might be planted there. I do like things of a religious nature. My own writing often reflects the religiosity of my thoughts. As long as it is done well of course. This lends well to my Latin studies. I look forward to your future vids!

[@EvesBookNook]

Haha! I feel similarly about long swaths of imagery. I don’t mind a bit to get the gist of the setting, but usually I find myself bored and imagining the setting based on the main descriptors and glazing over the minutia. I also enjoy reading about religion, but seemingly for opposite reasons! I find myself being very critical of theism (though that position has ebbed and flowed over the years). I really haven’t read super broadly as a sceptic but it’s one of the many “big questions” I enjoy reading about when I do carve out time. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@scoutdarpy4465]

@@EvesBookNook I typically take theism in broad strokes: it is on account of my personal biases as a religious-minded person - but regardless the brush I use to paint it with has long bristles. There is that quality of mystery in a lot of theological works from the past, which I'm looking particularly at Lutheranism. I feel a lot of literature now has lost that sense of the elusive: the goal ahead is so clearly defined and will come to heel beneath whatever current model we have constructed, be it in the subjects themselves - as experience -, or as an objective reality centered on specific qualities and in logical terms propositions. A lot of contemporary lit isn't very concerned with actually teaching us how to think, because the term "think" has been reductively bamboozled to the point of a perfect distinction between the concepts and themes and the language used in things like fiction, and I'd even say a lot of literary studies fall into this trap. It's why I don't take most standards of research and their bloated digestion too seriously. Lol. But that's going too deep for a KZbin comment. Haha. Forgive me.

[@anneroy4560]

I am an adult so do not read Young Adult books or fantasy books ... what is it with those? They are everywhere ...

[@EvesBookNook]

They’ve definitely become a trend! I love fantasy books but don’t enjoy most Young Adult books anymore- probably because I’m no longer in their target audience’s age range! Part of the massive uptick in popularity is thanks to social media- with teens connecting all across the globe there’s more awareness of particular books than ever before