BOOKTUBE NEWBIE TAG | What am I doing here?

[@emoverhere]

it’s SO delightful to see you here! so excited to see what you do with the space longer form videos give you!

[@EmmaSkies]

Thank you! I have a feeling I'm gonna love not being tied to a tiny time limit

[@kristinambarbee]

I gab SO MUCH and always struggled to keep my rambling down for TikTok, so I am also excited to move over here in some capacity. Been wanting to do longer form book related content for my series for a while, this was the final push to do it. So glad you are here, too! You're one of my favorite Booktokers!

[@stephaniecutting9223]

I am really glad you’re giving KZbin a shot because I’ve been wanting longer form content from you and I’m realising it’s because I too am a fellow yapper and have so many thoughts on the things I consume and just want to monologue about it 😂

[@Missy_Reading89]

Welcome to booktube. I followed you over from TikTok. I loved the Charlie Bone books too. I want to go back a reread them.

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Hello and welcome to book tube. I’m still pretty new to all this malarkey and finding my way around too. Look forward to hearing what you have to say. Best wishes with what you choose to read. Happy reading!

[@wizard6498]

it's so relatable that you hate video editing. i've wanted to make a booktube channel for YEARS but always struggle with the editing portion of making videos. i've been keeping up with your tiktok for awhile now, im definitely interested to see how you take to booktube! hopefully there will be many more videos to come!

[@vanessa6526]

i absolutely love your tiktoks and am so so so happy you're trying out youtube (for as long as you have motivation for which is so valid) i love all of your thoughts and i think this medium is very good for you and hope you continue, no pressure tho i completely understand the burnout

[@EmmaSkies]

I hope I can keep it up too! After experiencing the brevity of tiktok for so long I'm really appreciating the space to actually talk the way I like to here :)

[@gracerempp228]

YES CHARLIE BONE. I ALSO feel like while reading them I wasn’t the only one picking them up but as an adult people act like they don’t known what I’m talking about!!!! Finally!!

[@gracerempp228]

FUCK and Septimus Heap?! My experiences are not unique???

[@EmmaSkies]

Time for a societal re-read of Charlie Bone

[@kathgreen385]

Yay! You are one of the first booktokers I ever followed and your suggestions got me back into reading! I’m glad you’re still making videos! ❤❤❤

[@aaronharvey5625]

14:49 Oh my gosh!!! Ive been trying to remember what the series i loved as a child was for months and it was Charlie Bone!!!

[@maddieaf1216]

i also have strong memories of Charlie Bone but couldn’t tell you a single thing about it now!! and i will watch any sort of book videos you choose to post with whatever frequency. you are my favorite booktok creator because you’ve introduced me to so many great books!! i think i’ve been following you for pretty much as long as you have been making book content. and i totally have to agree about video editing. i’ve made about 8-10 videos for a different channel (not book content) and i gave up because it is just so much work. but just being a video consumer (youtube or tiktok) feels like standing on the edges of the book community sometimes so i wish it wasn’t so time consuming to make content.

[@NicholasOfAutrecourt]

Hi, Emma! Nice to see an older booktuber who does a newbie tag. I love those! Glad to have found your channel!

[@anticap_replyguy]

Love your content on Tiktok and lo and behold, love your content on KZbin. Keep going!!

[@tiernandegnan8056]

I was also VERY into the Septimus Heap books! Reread the first one a few months ago and its very worth the time! They have so much charm

[@Merdragoon]

I waited to subscribe until you did a second video as I know you were debating and unsure. But it sounds like you're finding your stride already so I'm subbing. Again, welcome to Booktube! Take your time to get yourself with the feeling of it as it will take time. Hopefully this also means that you get to play around what you like about the platform more and get into the groove where you're enjoying the content you're creating. I would say that I was a voracious reader when I was younger and even still in collage, but for me it was the time a little before the pandemic as well during the pandemic that killed my reading as I was depressed due to dealing with some shitty people. I also had stopped doing my art around the same time. It wasn't until I stopped really interacting with those people and was like "Let me go to the library and pick out books outside of my comfortzone" that got me back into reading again. I still picked up authors I knew I liked, but they weren't books I normally read. The two that really got me out of my reading slump was "Gwenyhfar: the White Spirit" by Mercades Lackey and "The Exchanges of Gifts" by Anne McCaffery that got me wanting to read again. Books I didn't know existed and outside of what I read of them in the past. I also became more likely to get a feel of reading more when I started storygraph after talking to my aunt about it and she pointed out that it may help me get back into engaging with the works again like I did in the past, and first time reading the Wizard of Earthsea with that. I need to read His Dark Materials and that is on my TBR but first I have to go through a lot of the books I collected too much from the "Stuff my Kindle" days.... This year's goal is not to do any more of those and instead read what I already have first, as well just work on the TBR I have now over time. Also work on series I've started and read the first (or first two books) of and continue on with them. (At least this year I'm doing pretty good I think as I'm getting a feel what I'm feeling for book wise already at the beginning of the year.)

[@zauren8998]

I got back into reading the exact same way.

[@nolifebutbooks]

Yay! Someone else who doesn’t like watching romcoms but loves reading them!

[@EmmaSkies]

Truly the shock of my life. Did not see that one coming

[@madisonhansen4931]

Your conversation about reading for escapism really made me think about how we see that terminology used vs how I think about it personally. I use it to mean (similarly to what you were saying) that I read romance and fantasy and other genres to approach the evils and traumas in the word safely, process them, and then partake in a power fantasy where the bad guys ( ie, fascists, racists, misogynists, etc) are dealt with and get their due while the people we love (hopefully) are able to get what they’re seeking in the end. I love the catharsis of dealing with real world issues blown up on a larger scale and then finding a way for the protagonists to win out in the end. Maybe it’s that I read for understanding and inspiration rather than “escapism.” Love the conversation and I’m so happy I was able to follow this line of thinking. That phrase has always bothered me but hopefully it makes some sense now why reading with a critical lense is not the antithesis to reading for escapism. Also I love your content and work on TikTok and I hope you’re able to find joy on KZbin. I’m super bummed to lose that platform but I for sure will still be locked into your content on here. You helped me find Little Thieves and that’s an all time top-tier favorite for me ❤❤❤

[@artemis3den]

glad to see longer stuff from you!! as someone who only reads queer fiction I feel you on sci fi. it may be my fave genre but there's so little queer sci fi out there

[@EmmaSkies]

I think my next queer sci-fi is going to be The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis. If any of these haven't made your list already, some of my personal favorites in queer sci-fi are Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell Anything by Becky Chambers The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells (genuinely one of my favorite series of all time at this point) Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

[@Isabel-zi6xx]

i've never heard anyone else talk about septimus heap!!! that series was my absolute favourite as a kid, i would re read darke over and over and over 😂 i've been meaning to re read them in adulthood as well but my copy of magyk is falling apart and i need to find another copy

[@EmmaSkies]

I don't think I even knew until the last coouple years that the series continued past Queste! And I have absolutely zero memory of what they're actually about (I wanna say....alchemy??) so it seems ripe for a nostalgia reread

[@Kaivalry]

The fact that you thought that you would not have a long enough video despite the numerous times you have put out 7-minute tick tock videos after recording 30 minutes of footage... Honestly, that's so on brand.

[@Meesh.reads94]

I loved to sleep in a sea of stars! I haven’t heard many others talk about it. I read that book in like 3 days lol

[@EmmaSkies]

I DEVOURED that book I love it so much. I'm so excited to see what he does next in that universe

[@Des_Diane]

Okay I’m so excited 0:50

[@badwitchbooks6892]

Welcome to booktube officially 🎉

[@ironwoman3592]

My intro on my booktube channel is "welcome back to TheBookCases, we still don't have an intro" XD so I feel you here

[@EmmaSkies]

I feel so seen ;___; Why is it so hard???

[@Ms.SpookyNerd]

Welcome to booktube 📚

[@amandanotecreate]

SEPTIMUS HEAP MENTION WOOOOOOO

[@Taysbookbabel]

I’m so sad about the TikTok ban

[@andrew119]

In the longer videos we get to know you better

[@angiemarquez06]

Hello and welcome. I am also new to the community. I started in 2023

[@emkatreads]

I think you are the only other person I've met that has also loved Lemony Snicket and Charlie Bone!

[@EmmaSkies]

Talking about this made me want to get the first charlie bone book on my kindle or something to awaken the memories I know must exist somewhere in my brain lmao

[@jmc4029]

lemony snicket is the goat!! i’m shocked you don’t know more people who like him 😢

[@sharxboy]

One thing you're gonna need for Booktube is the gift of gab.......oh, ok, never mind!! hahaha

[@caitlinl2750]

Hiiii❤

[@nazimelmardi]

😂😂 You already could start with rambling longer than your TikToks. That’s something. Have to agree about why do I read part. Get back to sci-fi! 😂 Romance… yes, it’s cringe. 😂😂

[@artemis3den]

glad to see longer stuff from you!! as someone who only reads queer fiction I feel you on sci fi. it may be my fave genre but there's so little queer sci fi out there