Booktuber

Personally, I’m too old school for BookTubing, but if I had to say what is considered a good bookTube, it is a person who tells a little about the book/film and if they know, anything about the author/director like the AmirasBookRviews does. I rather have a physical peice of paper in my hands and read reviews that way. I guess I'm not too hip on the 21 century new waywaves of things.

BookTuber is a website that everyone can record themselves talking about books or films they like and suggest books to their veiwers.


I like AmirasbookReviews because she seems like she is up with the latest books and seems to like many different genres, which is good for her audience to become more knowledgeable of books in general. Here is one review she does that I personally like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWTUfzXzvbo


When it comes to technical quality, I like to see a clean image of the person, not too close up or too far back with the camera showing from the waist up. With film editing, I do not like seeing many jump cuts or cut aways like some people have on their BookTuber, it is somewhat distracting and it makes it hard for me to focus on what the person is talking about. Production quality, I want a clear shot of the person and the background can be either clear or blurry. Though clear, enough so one can tell its book/film etc. on the shelf, so the audience can see the object is a bookshelf and what is on it. 


I think having pretty bookshelves or at least a bookshelf, which is well organized and connects to the subject, is important. Having a shelf behind the person who is speaking can help the audience connect to the topic. Even having a nice background that does not have bright colors or crazy designs on it can draw more people to your Booktuber site.


In all honesty, I have never thought about doing BookTuber. I’m not one who likes talking to a camera as it records me or being recorded.


I think when it comes to how blunt a book/film review should be is one should be careful on what one says because this is something that anyone can access. You do not want to come across as rude or  insulting. There is a difference in stating you did not care for a book versus I just hated the book etc.

People who have BookTube say, “I just finished reading,”  “I would like to talk about,” “This book is so amazing,” “I have so much reading to do etc.”


Though this type of reviewing books is not my preference, I think many people would like BookTuber, I would recommend it to my friends who love to read, and looking for some new books to read.

Darkness Then a Blown Kiss by Golda Fried

Darkness Then a Blown Kiss was Golda Fried’s premier book. This book is a collection of short stories.

This book shows the genius and creative mind of Golda Fried, and how effortless she can flow from telling one story to another. Her Darkness Then a Blown Kiss book draws her readers in quickly. The words in the story will mesmerize and entice the reader to want to read more.

In addition, there are drawings that help capture and enhance the stories Golda is telling and brings the stories that much more closer to life for the reader.


This book anyone can connect to from having crazy grandparents to having a friend that one will have for life. Also people who enjoy being able to pick up and read a short story will gravitate to this book. Though I must warn the readers Golda has such a rhythmic way of writing words, phrases, sentences, and flowing from one story to another that the reader will find themselves so entranced that they will keep reading until the book is finished.


Darkness Then a Blown Kiss shows the many dimensions that Golda Fried writes in from the more playful side of what best friends talk about to a darker and mysterious side of darkness that the subconscious veils one as they sleep.


Darkness Then a Blown Kiss is one of those books that I would recommend to anyone who likes reading short stories or stories that have many dimensions to them and like the emotional turmoil that everyone goes through at some point of life.   

Nellcott Is My Darling by Golda Fried

One novel that I personally like is Golda Fried’s Nellcott Is My Darling. She is a very amazing writer, who knows how to weave words, sentences, and phrases together to cast a vivid picture of the world she places her main character Alice Charles in.

Nellcott Is My Darling is an amazingly crafted story that takes a reader through a journey of a young adult's milestone of life, with the main character Alice Charles, who is off to McGill College in Montreal from the one she is acculturated to in Toronto.

This shows Alice's true ingenuous beauty and the feeling of being set free for the first time. Alice meets new people like Allegra an arty young lady that seems to have an appeal for hip fresh Montreal guys, engrosses herself in her art projects, and is addicted to coffee.

After Alice gets involved with The Film Society, she seems more comfortable with her new surroundings. Followed by meeting the mysterious Nellcott Ragland, who seems to have a little bit of a dangerous edgy side to him is when Alice's world seems to be swept away and she learns the true reality of the "real world," from the sheltered world she knew and understood before going to school in Montreal.

While one is going along reading the marvelous narrative one may feel like they are physically in the story watching all the action that Alice is doing or feel like they are passing Alice on the street as she goes along in her own quiet way.

The characters, that Golda creates from Allegra, Nellcott, and Alice etc. are well crafted and seem like real people that one would meet in real life. Golda has an astonishing imagination that she can formulate characters that people can relate to and create an emotional bond. When one character feels happy or sad so does the reader.

This novel is a very good representation of what a young person, who is leaving home for the first time, and going away to college has to face, with all the life experiences that they learn from. I highly recommend that people pick up this novel and read it.

I'm also intrigued about Nellcott Is My Darling that at this time is in the beginning stages of becoming a movie.

I hope one day +Golda Fried, writes another world-winning novel that her readers can be swept away into a world that is not so far from their dreams.


 

Goodreads

Goodreads is an online database where one can find books they have read, would like to read, and suggest books to reads to read.

+Golda Fried was the one who explained what Goodreads was and suggested this website as a good resource to find authors and books one has read or want to read.

She is doing a Goodreads giveaway with her book Nellcott Is My Darling book. She has 261 people who are trying to win 1 of the 10 copies of her amazing book.

I have found many of my favorite authors on Goodreads such as

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee

author of

Neela: Victory Song 

There is a cool way of organizing books by creating shelves. Right now I have shelves called historical fiction, high fantasy, and young adult. 

Shelfari looks very similar. 

To find book clubs that you may want to join you have to go under the groups tab. The book club that seems interesting to me is The Penguin Press. 

Goodreads is a website I would suggest to all my friends and family.