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June Wrap Up

Jul 4, 2015

I haven’t done this in a while but as I love reading everyone else’s wrap up’s I thought I would start doing my wrap ups again. June has been quite a good month; no uni, lots of reading and some tattoos!!

On the Reading Front, I read 10 books in June. I am pretty proud that I read that many books but when I don’t have any classes and all I am doing is sitting at home for a month.

I have also been going to the library a lot the past couple of months which is helping me read books that I have wanted to read for ages.

– A Court of Thrones and Roses by Sarah J Mass: I adored this books so much. I couldn’t put it down; just everyone read it. 4.5 Stars | Review
– The Potion Diaries by Amy Alward: I liked The Potion Diaries but didn’t love it. 3 Stars| Review
– 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher: It made my cry but it was also really beautiful. 4 Stars.
– What Lies Within by James Morris: A interesting YA thriller. 3.5 Stars | Review
– Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover: Not my favourite Colleen Hoover but I still really enjoyed it. 4 Stars
– Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell: I liked it but didn’t love it. 3.5 Stars
– Anya and the Shy Guy by Suzi Winegarnder: My favourite from the series, and I really enjoyed the writing style of Suzi Winegarnder. 3.5 Stars

I love posting photos of my books on Instagram. I may not be a fantastic photographer but it’s fun to take these photos. Here are some that I posted in June. You can follow me at angelreads.

Also I want to share my love for some of this lovely book lovers on Instagram.
Paperfury | The Bookish Girl | youngadultbookaddict

So as I said before I was on break from uni. It’s been so good, I was so exhausted from my first semester and it was so good to have a break. So yes I have finished my first semester of uni and I loved it so much. I love my course so much, I learnt so much and cannot wait to learn more.

I also did some brave at the end of the month, something that I have wanted to do since I was 12 years old and I am so glad that I did it. If you follow me on social media you know what I am talking about. I got two tattoos!! I am in love with them so much and they are healing up nicely.

Other than my books review that were posted in June I also re-started my Journey Through the Shelves and some discussions.

– Journey Through The Shelves – Week 1
– Journey Through The Shelves – Week 2
– Discussion: Bookbloggers vs Booktubers?

So that is it for June! What did you read it June? What was your favourite blog post from June? How was your June.

xx Angel

Discussion: Book Bloggers Vs Booktubers?

Jun 17, 2015

I have been wanting to talk about this for a while now as I could see it all coming to the surface and after the last few days I thought it was the perfect time to talk about. I don’t know much, with what has happened in the last few days between book bloggers and booktubers and what I am saying today is all my opinion.

I feel, personally that there is a big division between book bloggers and booktubers. I have been feeling about this for a while and I did briefly speak about it on twitter, I think.

There is rarely any interaction between the two forms of book lovers. Yes, there is some here and there, but it doesn’t go far. Before this year, I use to watch booktubers all the time. I loved hearing about books in a different form other than writing, (which I love obviously), but in the last couple of months I have felt this shift. I don’t know what it is.

From the booktubers that I watch, do you know that I have never heard them speak about any book bloggers? And I watch a fair few. It saddens me to think about it, why is there this division? Likewise, I haven’t read a lot of bloggers talk about them either.

I feel that booktubers have a watch wider audience, because well, someone can sit down and just watch. They can get non-readers to maybe start thinking about reading books more. And they can people who love to read to read more. While book bloggers have a specific audience – people who love to read.

I also think that booktubers acquire a lot more from the media in a sense that they get invited to a lot more events than those who write about books and I understand the logical. But if someone has been bloggers say the last three years, then some booktuber comes along who has only been making videos for a year at the most, while getting to go to a lot more things. You get where I am going here yer? Or even booktubers that get good opportunities. (And I am not saying that they don’t deserve it, because they do for sure.)

As I said before there is rarely any interaction between the two groups. Booktubers stick with booktubers and book bloggers stick with book bloggers. Don’t get me wrong, there are many book bloggers that watch and talk about booktubers, but I don’t know if there is many booktubers that read book blogs. Please if you are, I would love to know.

I also know that there are many people who cross over, that have book blogs and are booktubers. And I think that is great – because they are helping the community blend together. But I still think there is this division.

There is some booktubers out there, that are pretty big and have done so well and I wish that they can start with the integration of the two groups. Because in the end we all love books. It just frustrates me, that some people don’t care or that they light a fire.

The hashtag that was going around for booktubelove – that is what separates us from each other and it’s frustrating because we all love the same thing. I am not undermining anyone here, but like I said before booktubers have more of a voice with the bigger community and they can help unite us. But book bloggers have to let it happen.

We all work just as hard as each other. People think that blogging is easy, but it isn’t in any way, shape or form. We can spend hours writing posts, editing, taking photos, editing those, putting the post together etc. But so do booktubers, they have to film everything, edit it the videos etc. We all CREATE and we all work hard.

Furthermore, I hope that I have not offended anyone, and I am not having a go. I am just saying what I feel and how I see it, please don’t think that I am having a go at you. Sorry for this long ranty like post, but I felt that I had to say something.

Before I leave this, please don’t send hate to each other, we all love the same thing. We all care about the same thing. I don’t think we should define outselves as different, we are all book lovers. Yes, you can stick up for each other but sometimes we you do that, you shut people out.

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Discussion: Please STOP Hate Reviews

May 21, 2015

I am not one to give negative feedback. It is not sometime that I was made to do, I just cannot let myself write something that I don’t want to read myself.

Feedback is good, the good and the bad. But when someone bluntly reviews a book without any thoughts and just shams the book, makes me so frustrated.

Someone has spent year’s possible working on the book and to have someone just sham it like no tomorrow would tear this author to shreds. And yes, I understand that when you put your work out there in the work that it is open to criticism. But for someone to just tear your work to pieces isn’t right.

There is a way to go about. Criticism is good. Saying what you didn’t like what you read is perfectly fine. Saying that you didn’t like certain characters is fine as well, but saying that this author is horrible and that they should not be writing isn’t.

When you review books, there is some sort of professionalism about you. You may not be getting paid to review books, but there is some protocol to follow, it may be invisible but it is there.

I don’t know how people go be so hateful in their reviews, I am not even the author and I cringe at what I read sometimes. It’s horrible. How can people sit behind a computer screen and just let their fingers type such hate.

There is a difference between negative and hate reviews. Negative reviews say what THEY didn’t like about the book, and what THEY think could have worked better. While hate reviews, just pull the book and even the author to shreds.

I don’t like all the books I read, and there are certain aspects of books that I don’t like. But I say that I didn’t like it and what I think can be fixed I don’t say that because of this the book was horrible and never should have been published.

I don’t see much of this on blogs, but I defiantly see it in places like Goodreads and twitter. It’s fine to say that you didn’t like the book, I have no problem with that at all. But it’s when a review is hate driven and not constructive criticism.

Another factor is when a reader doesn’t like a particular author and they just read a book just so they can write a hateful review and you can tell when it’s those types of people. They don’t give the book a light of day, they simply don’t bother.

There are some authors that I personally don’t like, after I see them on twitter or interviews, but that doesn’t mean I will hate their books. It is simply wrong. Like I have said, I am not one to give a negative review and a hateful one at that.

I don’t know how people have the heart to hate on a book that an author has spent quite a bit of time on.

Nevertheless to the people that are giving hate reviews, please stop for a minute and think about what you are writing. You may not like the book and that is totally fine, write about what you didn’t like and what you think would be better don’t just write a review full of hate.