 Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel. I hope you're good. My name is Megan, if you are new here. Now, I don't have TikTok. Likey now. I've always resisted TikTok out of fear that I will become addicted. However, I wanna know what everyone's talking about with book talk. This week TikTok has been blowing up for making We Were Liars a best seller again, which like, the book ain't that good, so like. There's nothing wrong with my views or beliefs because I have freedom of speech and everything I'm saying is true. And I've had a lot of critique of book talk, but also people becoming addicted and loving it. So I wanna investigate this to myself. So we're gonna go and watch book talk for the first time. We're gonna react to book talks. I know that Hailey came up with this idea. She originally did like the reacting to book talk videos. So this is by no means an original video. I will link that and also Brittany just did it and she was also watching book talk for the first time and that gave me like the final push to finally do this video. So I will link by those videos and I'm not gonna lie, like I'm kind of like nervous. Like I don't wanna trash it if I don't get it, you know? I asked on Twitter for some of your favorite book talkers, people from book talk. How do you do, fellow kids? What? And again, if there's any like music in this, it could be copyrighted. I'm either gonna have to put some weird like vocal effect on it or just mute it. So we shall see. I'm gonna share with you some of my favorite books. I wish I could read for the first time again. Oh. Profit by Khalil Gibran. Oh. The Scarlet Sky by Moxler then. This is... By Clarissa Pinkola Estes. There's You Are, teachings by Shreve. Okay, that's a different type of book talk. Brings up an interesting point, right? Where I feel like if you search books on YouTube, the most popular videos are gonna be YouTubers who don't typically read. Like they're just doing this one video on books and it's all self-help spiritual books, which is interesting. Like it's interesting that that's what those type of creators gravitate towards. And it's obviously something on TikTok as well, where those kind of spiritual books are something that are super popular by creators on the internet. And I used to read a lot of them when I was like 40, not a lot, but I read like four maybe when I was about 14, because that's what all the people I watched were recommending. And it's weird. Like if you search book recommendations on YouTube, that's kind of what's gonna come up first is those kind of books. What is this? Okay, I'm looking alive. We are three, five minutes into this and I've already been influenced into buying something. What is that? I need to know more about that book now because it looks very interesting. How are we like two minutes in, I already have been influenced by a book. This is what I was scared of. This is why I've never downloaded this because I'm already becoming a sucker for it. It only took us, it only took us, it only took us a couple of tiktoks till we came across We Were Liars. I- The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity and the gumption. Having read that when I was like 14, it was fine, but I don't understand why it suddenly had this massive resurgence. And like it was big on Booktube and then Booktube has only just let it go and now suddenly we're all obsessed with it again. I don't understand like what is it about this book that like has teenagers in a chokehold. Like I don't understand. Like I don't, why is it something like so popular again? That is beautiful. Oh my God, no. Oh my God. That is actually beautiful. So this is the thing, TikTok is making me want things I don't need to want. If I'm really like a mystery or a thriller and you just had the plot twist, I will close it. And do you like look around as if there's cameras? Like as if there's like, you're on the office or something and I'm like, there's like a whole cast of cameras. There's not one. I've got like a whole crew on me and I'm like, girls. What? She's a fucking good actress. My God, I'll give her that. Look, our souls were bound together because we were destined to meet. I just, this is your therapy session. Now, do you like the idea of soulmates because most days you just think you're so unlovable and the fact that someone's destined to love you regardless of any flaw reassures you? I'm just talking being cold out. Like. I found out recently that our brains can't tell the difference between fictional characters and real people. Meaning that when we're using somebody in a book whether because they die or because you finished the book. Wow, that's deep. Your brain doesn't understand that that's not real and that you didn't know those people and you didn't fall in love with them or whatever. And so our natural response when finishing a book or going through fictional heartbreak is to mourn. I don't know that emotionally attached to characters. Like sometimes, like if it's like a five star book then yeah. But like, sometimes you're not mourning. You're like, yeah, I'm out of here when you finish a book. It's another thing as well. I feel like book talk is like deep. Like I feel like they really like the book characters are everything. I don't know if I'm that deep. I think some people get super attached to characters and that's so cool. I just read to like, let's have a bit of fun, then on to the next, you know? I think I'm a bit more flippant than some readers but love that for them. Ooh. I miss the girl you were. Many will. I've always liked to play with life. She was easy to kill. Funny knees funny. Really, really sorry, Nicky. I'm really, really, really sorry. I didn't realise that it was, I'm sorry. Why are you laughing? Can you imagine me doing that? I would never get away with it. Everyone would take the piss out of me. Imagine me dressing up like that and be like, can you imagine? I'd never get away with it. A fun fact about me is I've never been relaxed ever. Relax. Oh no, the thing is that's me. I feel like I've got a pretty good grip on it this year but just like receive like buying books. There's just a certain, there's just a certain like serotonin that releases in the brain that I, that I also, I'm finding it a bit overwhelming with how many books I own. So I do need to just like try and get through them a bit and like get back on my reading game. Yeah, yeah, that's me, that's me. Like sometimes I'm like, I actually need to be cheered up so I'm just gonna buy a book. I know I'm not gonna read that book. Maybe a year. Like it's gonna be a while till I read that book but it just releases some kind of joy in me. But I recognize I need to get under control and read some of the books I already own. Someone who reads too much tells you what books I own. Okay, let's see. Let's see what books it has. Okay. Never even heard of that. True, that was good. Ooh, okay. Ooh, I wanna read that as well. It doesn't surprise me that Cinder is a TikTok fave. Like, why is book talk kind of a little bit? I'm not gonna like completely say it but like a little bit stuck in like 2013, 2014. Like just a little bit. Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave? Like why? Is it because the pandemic has revitalized reading for people who may be read when they were like 40, you were like my age, or read when they were like 12 to 15 years ago. And it's like revitalized reading for them and they're going back to those old favorites or the books they would hear about at that time. That's my theory. That's my working theory because it's kind of a little bit like the books it recommends are like the books that are older, like not usually new releases. So that's really interesting. We have to start making books. True. It's so true. No lies. I have to equals one episode. It's so simple. Right? And especially when there's like, it just makes so much more sense. It just makes so much more sense because you get so much more time to tell the story. Now actually, hang on, let me collect myself. There are some books that I think have a simple enough plot for it to be a film. Actually, I was gonna say some thrillers. I can't really carry a series but actually I think you see more thriller series than you do films. I don't think you get so much more time to explore the characters, to explore the world, to explore like the underlying issues throughout the book if it's in a series. That's why I was so happy that Shadow and Bone is gonna be a series. Hopefully with like multiple, multiple seasons because it's just so much better. No lies were told. Oh my God, these vibes. I constantly aspire to like have dark academic vibes in my life one day and it's never gonna happen but these, oh my God. Immaculate. Look at how well they did that. Okay, let's see what they're gonna say. Okay, I really love The Kite Runner and the other book. What's the other book? Oh, I'm never gonna read that. I've never heard of that. Okay. Oh, I still wanna read Ruchisapetes. I have The Fountains of Silence by Ruchisapetes which is I think her newest book. My it is pretty big so it does intimidate me. Why did If We Relious make you cry? Is it sad? I don't remember it being sad. Why is TikTok in If We Relious pocket? I don't understand. I don't understand. It's a conspiracy theory that I'm actually interested in. What's made me cry the most? Oh, the one that sticks in my head is All The Light We Cannot See. I read that years and years ago but I remember I had to like stay up to finish it and I was sobbing the entire time. The book that's made me cry most in the world is a middle grade called Love Aubrey which I haven't spoken about in a while but it's probably my favorite middle grade ever. It was one of my favorite books when I was a kid and I reread it which I have like an old, old video which was kind of like a big video for me at the time where I read it and I sobbed and I sobbed and I sobbed and I sobbed. Oh my God, oh my God. Okay, I finished it. Oh my God, I need to calm down. Oh. But why is If We Relious like it apparently? I don't understand. I am so fucking excited. Yes! But you haven't heard already. Artstopper is getting a live action show on Netflix. This is everything I've ever wanted. Oh my God, I'm so, so, so, so, so excited. I am so excited for Artstopper to come out. I don't think I've actually spoken about it on my channel but I am so excited for Artstopper to be made into a show. Oh my God, it's gonna be like the best thing ever. It's like my favorite graphic novel series ever. It's one of the best things you can ever read in the world, like Instant Five Star. I don't even need to read The Last Two that are gonna come out in the future to know they're gonna be five stars. Like there's no way it's not. I just feel so emotionally connected to it. Oh my God, I'm so excited for that. Yeah, no, I don't really do that. You neither. But you're a garden fairy. I'm on a kidnap. Yeah, I definitely feel like that being on Booktube, like not having read Sarah J Mass ever or Holly Black. I definitely feel like I'm not a proper Booktube or sometimes having not read Sarah J Mass which obviously is bullshit because like you can read whatever you want. But sometimes I feel like, well, I should know what it's like to read Sarah J Mass, you know? Like I feel, I feel really left out. I feel really left out. I got sick of my story. I do own a Court of Thorns and Roses but I've owned it for a long time and I'm in, I'm terribly scared to read it. But I think I know a video that I'm actually gonna read this in so we shall see what I think of it and whether I like it. But now I have an old cover and the new ones are ugly so I don't know what I'm gonna do about that if I do like it and wanna read the rest of the series. You have to admire it, that's really funny. Who am I mostly in the pocket of? Wear rules, what's CEO? Emotionally complicated, bad boy, probably. I mean, I'm kind of like a vampire and mortals kind of girl. All right, I'll be back tonight, love you. Okay, love you, bye. Hello, I'm home. Did you forget your keys? What? Did you forget something? Honey, it is 7 p.m. I have to pee. This needs to be my life in the summer. I'm just holding out for those days when I can just read and not give a shit, you know? Oh my God. Those are the days, those are the days. I'm gonna end it there. Book talk is interesting. There was definitely, the book selection it has is very strange to me. Like the kind of books it pulls. Like it being a lot of like literary fiction or like old YA. I think it's really, really interesting that that's kind of the books that it focuses on. But there's definitely some funny stuff on there as well. I think I like the comedic stuff from there more than I like the dramatic stuff, you know? I don't think that's my vibe. I think like the comedic stuff is where I'm at. The dramatic stuff, I just find it hard to take seriously. But like all the bad people making it, I'm not taking to make, but like, it's just me. It's just me and my inability to take anything seriously. Let me know if you like book talk and what your favorite things to watch on there are. Maybe like I need to do another one of these when you guys have told me more of what you guys watch. If you've gone to the end of this video, comment the musical note emoji because that's like the TikTok logo. So comment that and you've gone to the end. Let me know what you like watching on book talk and I will see you very soon in another video. Bye.