Hiya! Welcome to Breathe and Read, where you can breathe and you can read. I am never
starting a video off like that ever again. That is not becoming a thing.
If you are a mouth-breather, then you are welcome here. If you are a nose-breather,
you are also welcome here. And if you use oxygen tanks and that's how you like to breathe
— don't worry. You're welcome here, where we can talk about reading. And to start us
off, we're going to do the Booktube Newbie Tag.
Why did you start this channel?
Well, interesting you asked. I have a written blog called 'Breathe and Read,' that I pay
eight euro a month for and I post like once a month, if even. I don't know why. At the
time, I was like "Yeah! This is going to do so well! I'm going to like, make the best
book blog ever!" That didn't happen. I probably posted like twelve times last year, if even,
from July to... December. December is the last month of the... year.
So I was like "You know what? I should make videos for the blog as well because it's not
like I have too many blogs to handle."
What are some fun and unique things you can bring to Booktube?
When I was seven or eight, I fell and a pencil went through my face. Right up there. And,
that's a unique experience. I doubt many people have experienced that the night before Halloween.
I can bring my weird fringe. My fringe that I cut myself, and I need my hairdresser back
in my life. Is that unique? I don't know. I'm sure lots of people have bad hair here
on Booktube, no offence. But... you know.
So, what are you most excited for about this channel? Oh! I'm so excited to build a channel
from scratch again! That was so much fun the first time, getting to see how like three
people watched each video. I loved that. It was so much fun.
Did I actually have an answer for that? I wrote things down but this was written like
three months ago when I was starting my channel back in like, December? So, what did I say?
I’m really excited about engaging with the Booktube community. I watch a few Booktubers
but I feel like I’m not really in that community because I don’t make videos about books,
and my friend Stephen seems to really love the community so I’m looking forward to
really feeling a part of it.
Well that was a nice answer, wasn't it? Right.
Why do you love reading?
Well, ehm. I like to write and obviously one of the best ways that you can learn to write
is first of all, through practice, and second of all through reading and being like "Yeah!
They did that good. I'm going to do it like that! I should remember that." And then if
you read something bad like, "Yeah, never going to write anything like that so you shoo.
Thanks for the learning experience." So that's why I like reading. I like to learn. And also,
I don't leave the house too much so it's a way to kind-of go on adventures without actually
having to go to much effort.
You don't even have to change out of your pyjamas. It's really, really handy I think.
What book or series got you into reading?
Hm. Dr. Seuss, I'd have to probably say. I remember reading him. I love him. Actually,
hold on a second.
A Classic Treasury. Dr. Seuss books. I love Dr. Seuss. I still read this sometimes. Like
Like I honestly, I love them. My favourite one is- My favourite one isn't listed here. Is my
favourite one not in this? I have a couple of Dr. Seuss books.
But ehm. I thought it was the one with the-?
No. No. No. Oh. Maybe I don't love this book as much as I thought.
What questions would you ask your favourite Booktubers? Right, ehm. I don't really have
a favourite Booktuber. I kind-of just watch people in general, whatever comes up in my
in my subscription box. So I'm going to probably go with, I'll say I'm asking my friend Stephen.
I'd ask Stephen what his- what are his goals- No! Is he coming to my birthday party later
this year? He's a mad thing. He's very interesting at parties so I'll ask him that. There you
go.
What challenges do you think starting a Booktube channel will be the hardest to overcome? Well,
as someone who already has a Booktube channel, I'd say that it's going to be pretty hard
to see that like, these videos will get five, ten views maybe and my normal ones will get
like a hundred and I'll be like "Aw, am I doing something wrong?" Not that it's all
about numbers. I know, I know. It's all about making things that make you feel creatively
fulfilled and being a part of a community and all of that, but it's going to be weird.
It's going to be weird and it's probably going to be really dissatisfying for a little while.
Like after a few weeks of this, if I can keep this up I'm probably going to be like
I've only ten subscribers?"
Ehm, when did you start reading? When I was very little. I don't know.
Where do you read? I read on the couch. I like to read on the bus, on my bed,
on other peoples beds.
What kind of books do you like to read?
I like to read all of the books. No, I don't really. I don't like anything scary. I can't
be dealing with that. I love feminist books, so I'm reading Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
at the moment. I'm reading something else but it's clearly not very interesting. Oh
my God, oh my God. I am going to get Blythe Baird's book shipped to me. Yeah, I ordered
it the other day so it'll be here soon. I'm so excited to be reading that so that is going
to be my everything for the next few weeks. I like to read poetry books and mental health
and that kind-of stuff, you know. I'm really into mental health, so. Did I have anything
else written? Romance! Yeah, and I like sci-fi.
I like all of the books really. I like young adult books. I've answered this enough. This
is probably twelve minutes long at least. God, I've just been rambling. Congratulations
if you've made it to the end of this video. Cheers to you for being able to ehm, handle
me for the last few minutes.
So I hope you enjoyed that. If you didn't, fine. Make sure to subscribe because everyone
deserves second chances and this is my first video so I know this is the first chance that
you've given me. So, press subscribe if you hate me. If you liked me, well then that's
an even better reason to subscribe because then you get to see more of me. Yay.
Anyway, thanks for watching. Ehm, slan.
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