Reflecting on 7 Years on BookTube and Reading Goodreads Winners

[@Melanie_mood_reads]

Congrats on 7 years. I am so glad I found you. I would love to see a video on romantasy books better the Sjm.

[@KristinKravesBooks]

Congratulations on seven years! That's amazing! Loved hearing your reflections on every year ❤

[@AndyKC-nd8vf]

Happy Booktube Birthday! 🥳

[@dg_reads]

Happy BookTube-avrsary!

[@bethandherbooks]

Congrats on 7 years!!! The Avengers Initiative Reading Challenge was so much fun! I think a sit down video about Romantasy would be fantastic - I want to be a Romantasy girlie, but I think I need more of a fantasy plot than just straight spice. So a video that takes us through fantasy-heavy-and-spice-light to spice-heavy-and-fantasy-light would be so great!

[@FourPawsandaBook]

that's a great idea! I'll have to work on it, because there are definitely romantasy books that are more fantasy forward!

[@megansmiley9540]

Happy Booktube Anniversary!!! I enjoyed watching your journey throughout this video! Thanks for sharing!

[@FourPawsandaBook]

thank you!

[@MariaMightReadThat]

Congrats on 7 years! So happy you're here making videos. 💛 Aww puppy clips! Oh no about Check and Mate! I'm hoping my Queen's Gambit obsession carries over to this book but will temper my expectations a little

[@FourPawsandaBook]

You may enjoy it then! It did have contemporary Queen's Gambit vibes.

[@TheHexedLibrary]

Wait. How did I forget about the Avengers initiative reading challenge!!!! What a time to be alive. All I could think about while you were talking about SJM being the Godmother of Romantasy was me really wanting to say "She made 'Fetch' happen". and like... maybe I shouldn't be out here showing my age on the internet. You know what though, as someone who hasn't jumped into Romantasy yet (outside of SJM) a video like "Where to start with Romantasy if SJM doesn't work for you" would be a cool idea! "This doesn't need to be this big." - basically how I feel about the male anatomy in all the smutty books hahahahaha yesssss to the Skip The Line Gods coming through for you. I love that the title of this vides is "reading favorites" and you read a bunch of books that you didn't like. Ooops. So glad you were able to end it off with a book you loved though!

[@FourPawsandaBook]

"favorites" being the relative term here! haha yes Avengers felt like SO LONG ago! we were truly different people then...

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

Congratulations on seven years! I loved watching your little look back on how each year was ❤

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

Here's my Gilmore Girls hot take no one asked for. Teenage Jess didn't deserve Teenage Rory. Adult Rory didn't deserve Adult Jess.

[@danielletucker6527]

Awww loved this video, it was so cool to go back over your time. Not sure if I was in the first 100 but I’ve been watching you since the bullet journal days and remember your first book tube videos. I’m not big into book tube but have stuck with you for your insights and personality - plus a few great book recommendations along the way. Congratulations on your progress and growth and I wish you even more happiness in 2025.

[@FourPawsandaBook]

Aww thank you so much!! Appreciate you always!! 🩵🩵

[@WhatVictoriaRead]

Happy booktube birthday! 🥳🥳🥳

[@FourPawsandaBook]

thank you!

[@pucksandpaperbacks]

Happy Booktube Birthday!

[@FourPawsandaBook]

thank you!

[@kaitlynthrasher7801]

Congrats on 7 years! I joined right before the Avengers Readathon and so excited to see you continue to grow!

[@FourPawsandaBook]

wow that feels so long ago!

[@kaitlynthrasher7801]

@ right?!? I was shocked when you said how long ago that was

[@rainybluereads]

Congrats!!! I loved all of the reflections ❤

[@FourPawsandaBook]

thank you!

[@Nicolette_Thomas]

Happy Booktubeaversary!!!!!

[@FourPawsandaBook]

thank you!!

[@CoffeeOverApples]

congrats on 7 years!!

[@CoffeeOverApples]

elevation is so not horror. This is one of those situations where stephen king won because of name not because of quality of book. i will stand on this hill lol

[@FourPawsandaBook]

Thank you!! You’re so right. I would’ve been so upset if I was a big horror reader that year!

[@AmandasBooktopia]

Happy booktube anniversary! It’s also my 3 year anniversary this month. It’s crazy how time just flies. It’s too bad you didn’t like CC2. I actually liked it better than CC3. I would love to hear your thoughts on the last book if you plan on continuing the series.

[@FourPawsandaBook]

@@AmandasBooktopia my thoughts for flame and shadow are in the Goodreads romantasy vlog!

[@AmandasBooktopia]

@ Oh I must have forgotten about it. My bad. I’ll have to go back and watch it again.

[@thefairylibrarian3282]

The best of the best category is so weird. Also, there were 3 SJM books in that category and then a fouth on in YA fantasy. So that means that in that year SJM had 4 chances to win an award. I was interested in The Five, but i'm now taking it off my TBR. Yikes! Yes to your SJM rant. I feel like that happens a lot though. Like, the other day my cousin was panicking that her daughter who is starting to get into middle grade age, didn't want to read Harry Potter. As if there are no other and no better middle grade books out there

[@FourPawsandaBook]

it's so interesting how the wider book world gets fixated on one series or fandom like there isn't so much more out there! I guarantee it's better!

[@TheWordN3rd]

Lol, we also started running out of Marvel stuff 😂😂😂 I can't imagine doing all that work now.

[@FourPawsandaBook]

@@TheWordN3rd oh my god that sounds exhausting 😂😂

[@TheWordN3rd]

@FourPawsandaBook We all had cabin fever SO bad

[@TheWordN3rd]

So, the point that she was trying to prove in The Five was that the women died, not through any perceived fault of their own, but because they lived in a society that did not care about them bc they were poor and they were vulnerable and didnt fit the Victorian ideal of womanhood (tho, we know that wasnt much protection either). That said, and this is something she corrected in the podcast iirc, I do think the book comes across as a bit condescending to s*x work. That was the one gripe I remember having with the book.

[@FourPawsandaBook]

It really did and it read very puritanical. It's as if her biases came through and it irked me that she made leaps from her sources to her thesis and it felt like the reader was being led to that assumption, rather than given the information because she didn't trust the source material to prove it on its own. Hopefully there's some clarification in the podcast.

[@TheWordN3rd]

@FourPawsandaBook All history is interpreted through the lens of the historian writing about it. They're supposed to be using the primary and secondary source material along w historical context to prove their point. This is very much in the vein of a lot of other historical non-fiction out there.

[@avsambart]

Catching Fire was 2018?! It feels like it came out WAY earlier. The Five is SO GOOD, it was my only 5 star book last year (2024). "You don't get to assume things" you mean like the people and the police during the Ripper time who all assumed they were poor drunkard s/x workers and therefore were deemed not good enough to bother to find the culprit properly? And that this assumption has remained officially across all history books the entire time. It's because the only thing about these women in history books IS their assumed job, that people (until more recently) focused way more and are more interested in the Ripper and who he is, than the victims themselves. Especially because of the misogony and classism (in the 19th Century and the Police Force at the time etc.) and the negative connotation of s/x work. She wanted to give these women an actual story and a probable story so people would stop assuming just based on a possible occupation, stop underplaying their murd/rs, and actually finally have sympathy for them! 23:03 Prohibition movement? We never had prohibition in the UK. They tried but there were never any official nation wide laws.

[@FourPawsandaBook]

See I thought it was way earlier too? Maybe that category had different rules? Glad that the book worked for you! That’s the cool thing about reading!

[@bethanygilbertson]

I hate when King books get classified as horror just because of who the author is. He does psychological thrillers really well and other genres too including literary fiction that sometimes happen to include horror and magical realism and just general paranormal elements. I know he's known for horror but it bugs me because he does so much more than just that!!

[@FourPawsandaBook]

right?! For as prolific of a writer as he is, he gets pigeon holed a lot

[@bethanygilbertson]

Let the dudebros be mad that marketing towards women was effective when a fantasy book marketed towards women wins Goodreads. They can change that if they want.

[@FourPawsandaBook]

true facts!

[@jamieplans2read]

I wanna fight hands with you for saying Logan was good for her - because he totallllllllllly wasn't. But that's allllllllll I'm saying lmao.

[@FourPawsandaBook]

The biggest debate on the internet! 😂😂