TikTok, YouTube and an update on my blog | 04.02.2024
Welcome to the first newsletter of 2024! This week I've got two book reviews for you!
👋 Hello
Welcome back to another bookish newsletter you bookish dweebs! What have you been reading this week? Have you finished a book in February already? Let me know by responding to this newsletter, mentioning me on social media or however else you can find my details!
This week has been a week where I’ve dedicated a lot of it to promoting my TikTok. After getting a ring light for Christmas, I knew I wanted to up my social media game and thought that TikTok would be the best place to do this. It’s a great platform because you can combine genuinely good videos (talking about books etc) with some more easy, silly memes about books to keep audience coming to your page to follow.
It’s been so good i fact that I’ve more than doubled my followers over the past week, so if you’re not yet following me on there, make sure you head on over and do!
Also, if you’re looking for more long-form stuff, I did start my YouTube going recently and recently uploaded a video of all of the books I read in January, so make sure to Subscribe there too.
👨🏻💻 Latest on the website
With the focus being on TikTok this week, I’ve not focused on the blog quite so much. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be working on balancing my time between my social media platforms and my blog more. I still very much like writing but I’m also enjoying the interactivity of YouTube and TikTok and my other platforms too!
However, I did manage to get up a written article on all of the books I read in January as well as a review of Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kayson, a memoir of her time in the ‘60s when she was admitted to a hospital after attempting suicide.
Scroll for both of these as well as an update on what I’ve been reading this week and some book deals!!
✍️ What I’ve posted this week
All 9 books I read in January and what I thought of them
As I’ve stated a couple of times already, January was such a good reading month for me. Not only did I read some really brilliant books but I managed to find my reading form again.
Now I know it’s not all about how many books you read, but the fact that I rated six of these nine books 4.25/5 or higher this month shows that there have been some bangers in here too!
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen book review
Girl, Interrupted covers an interesting topic on mental health. It tells a story of a time when mental health was dealt with vastly differently to today's far more mature and sensitive methods. However, some of the topics discussed and views taken could still be considered today. Despite the interesting ideas and the more interesting characters Kaysen met throughout her life, it's not a memoir that's going to stay with me for very long as I just didn't find it that fascinating.
📖 What I’ve been reading this week
Golden Son by Pierce Brown
Golden Son is the second book in the Red Rising series that I started in January and was very impressed by. Golden Son is supposed to take things up a notch, expanding the world, introducing higher stakes and killing off every and their nan.
I’m about halfway through right now and so far it’s been…ok. I haven’t been blown away by it yet. Though I have been listening to the audiobook quite passively, so I’m going to sit down and read the physical book at some point this week.
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
One of the books you all suggested on social media that I should read this year what The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey. I’m about halfway through so far and loving it.
It tells the story of Miv and her friend Sharon and their attempts to find out who the real Yorkshire Ripper might be. They use the form of a list to write down reasons as to why their suspects and suspicious places might be possible.
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I saw a video from Jack Edwards on TikTok where he stated he’d read a tweet that said “you don’t know love until you’ve read White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky” so I thought I’d pick it up and give it a read.
It’s only about 90 pages long so I read it quite quickly. It does cover some fantastic elements of love and what it means to be in love. The story itself is absurd but also manages to capture the essence behind love - sometimes how instant it is, how it can blind you to everything else around you and how true love can make you feel both the highest and lowest you’ve ever felt. I’ll probably review it and respond to my own video on TikTok too!
📚 Book deal
A new month means new Amazon book deals! As always, I’ve quickly gone and had a look to see some great deals in the list. 99p for all of these ebooks is an absolute bargain.
You could click, buy and be reading them within less than a minute! Let know if you pick any up via my social media channels.
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