Fable app reading vlog | is it the next Goodreads?

[@zoobee]

another great reading. you really embody it when you like the writing.

[@mouseymouse.scw1977]

🎉🎉🎉🎉Happy Birthday🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ChanelChapters]

@@mouseymouse.scw1977 Thankyou!!!!

[@SamusStories]

Just started the video, but that first outfit on you!🤩

[@ChanelChapters]

☺️ I wish it hadn’t shrunk but imma still try to keep wearing it

[@AmethystAscensionTarot]

That Fable seems like a whole new social media platform for book lovers....wowza. So many options for people. I'm happy that you got at least one 4 star book. 💖

[@ChanelChapters]

Yep I still think I will stick with Goodreads but I might use it for the graphics

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

⚛❤

[@zoobee]

oh your videos are like a structurally innovative novel with recursive time frames where you celebrate your birthday one day and then in the future you're discussing a novel just before going out for your birthday its like a Christopher Nolan movie

[@zoobee]

btw happy recursive birthday

[@ChanelChapters]

Hahahahahah I did not notice that

[@ioanax3421]

Have you tried Storygraph? How would you compare them? Personally I find that Storygraph really excels at insights and suggestions, but misses that community feel of Goodreads with collaborative lists, immediately seeing what your friends are reading/rating/TBRing. Edit: On your question regarding Nobel prize winners, I have similarly not been super impressed, but I did REALLY enjoy Orhan Pamuk, especially 'Snow' and 'My Name Is Red'. His topics are often West-East cultural differences, religion, woman's rights paired with mysteries. They also take place in Turkey, a place I didn't know too much about beforehand. On your question regarding the title 'The Vegetarian' - some languages do not distinguish between the terms of 'vegan' and 'vegetarian'. I am not sure about Korean, but Chinese only has one word that can mean both, and then there is another word that would translate as 'pure vegan' which means vegan without the 5 pungents (leek, onion, garlic, chives, spring onion). But there isn't a term for vegan as in no animal products only like in the West, so often translations are iffy.

[@ChanelChapters]

@@ioanax3421 yes I have. I just use it for monthly stats

[@TheBeeesKnees]

happy belated birthday!! ♥I'm also a scorpio I have owned Some Kind of Happiness for years and never gotten to it and i think it's about time I unhaul thank you lmao sounds triggering af and i need the shelf space

[@ChanelChapters]

lol glad I could help you make room

[@zoobee]

Japanese cosy core novels are huge in the UK now every time I go into a bookshop there's a new novel published it seems about a small book shop in small town Japan and a lady who talks to cats or something

[@ChanelChapters]

I wish I liked them because there are so many - glad they have their audience

[@zoobee]

I used to read so intensively and would have loved Goodreads but then I became a mellow reader and I eventually found book culture on youtube and like this best, it allows me to keep in touch with literary culture and I love listening to people debating novels.

[@ChanelChapters]

@@zoobee what do you use to track your reading? Spreadsheets?

[@zoobee]

@@ChanelChapters am very old fashioned. I have notebooks and write in them.

[@Tetsujin-28]

Fable: I've been on the app for 6 months (RobLovesBooks), but rarely used it. You did a great job with the review and I'll look over Fable app again and find all the things you listed. The Vegetarian : vegan aspect was just a vehicle for the author to write about family dynamics and social standing. How the wife "made" the husband look in the workplace. Her dad and the family: Respect. "Listen to your elders". Brother in Law: You were just waiting for "it to happen". Sister: Goes on the journey with her.

[@ChanelChapters]

Yep I can see how she touched on those things in the book, I just did not enjoy the reading existence of it I wonder if fable has changed since you first joined?

[@Tetsujin-28]

@ChanelChapters Currently: I had to tap "follow" 3 times to get "following" and with We Used To Live Here, I'm now getting a lot of *likes* for my review. Not sure if I'll update 3 different reading apps for every book I read.

[@ChanelChapters]

@ yeah it can be a bit time consuming

[@zoobee]

on the one hand, misery literature like the Vegetarian, about the dark grim darkness of existence and some lives is just reflective of reality but life is too short to stare into some representations of darkness especially if you've been through some things yourself. It becomes deadening without any sense of end. I do think we need to be in touch with the darkness, but maybe its also an artistic thing, maybe misery and darkness needs the redemptive touch of good literary writing and engagement

[@ChanelChapters]

@@zoobee I think too the kind of mood/headspace you are in where picking up a book can heavily affect your experience of it

[@thatwitchisfelt]

Oh my gosh "Some Kind of Happiness" would have made me absolutely RAGE. Nope nope nope. That is an awful middle grade.

[@ChanelChapters]

Exactly

[@zachreads]

I've read The Vegetarian and Te Memory Police, and agree with your opinions. The endings were awful and made me resent them for wasting my time. A couple Japanese translated books I have liked were "Earthlings" by sayaka Murata and "Penance" by Kanae Minato, those are on the heavier side (especially Earthlings), but on the lighter side "Where the Wild Ladies zare" by Ayoko Matsuda was good! (I typed the names from memory they might be slightly off) I get the best recs from small booktubers. They tend to find hidden gems. A lot of the channels dont last long, so I'm always looking for more. "vanessa gamoo reads" is one that you might like, and I hope it hasn't stopped making content. A 1☆ book for me that I would like your opinion on would be "Girls Against God" by Jenny Hval, it's not a rec but ypu would pbly have some valuable thoughts.

[@ChanelChapters]

Thanks for the recs and I will see if that booktuber is still active x

[@zachreads]

Its only been 3 weeks, which is enough to make me optimistcally nervous, espetially with all the termoil over here.

[@thatwitchisfelt]

You should be able to click, "don't show me this book again" if you click on the "..." on someone's book post

[@thatwitchisfelt]

Also yeah, not a fan of the ai book recs. Just doesn't work for me at all.

[@ChanelChapters]

Yep - the AI doesn’t work for that yet