booktoks to get you back into reading 🎀📖

Book annotations are so aesthetic and they look so pretty but I could never write in my book. I also can't annotate but that's not the point

For the second tiktok, you could put just about any Colleen Hoover book in this because in her books the women characters are always mistreated, ALWAYS. I feel like she has severe internalized misogyny. Every woman character's personality is just their trauma or suffering. They have no real personality and it kills me how the women are represented. The character development sucks, she normalizes (if not romanticizes) the mistreatment of these girls, she gives them no real personality. I think it's harmful for anyone that reads her books because they might feel like it's normal to be heavily mistreated or treated like an object. A big example is her book November 9th, where the main character is a burn victim who meets a man who has a fucking fetish for burn scars. It would've been a whole other thing if it was the man trying to get the girl to love her scars and not feel so insecure, but it wasn't. Anyone real person in her situation would have felt awful. In other words we could put it like this; you do not need to be sexualized to be loved. I truly hate that that's how that story went when it could've been something with an actually good message.

4:57 To be it depends on how it’s done. The one in the video is awful bc it’s a bad font and too big. I’ve seen it done well to where it doesn’t bother me. I also don’t need to have the first letter of the chapter be bigger. It still works fine if it’s the same size and font as the rest

This compilation has convinced me to start annotating my books but in the neatest (emphasis on neat) way possible. i love the booktok community and the last bit of advice on writing enemies to lovers was 100% agreeable

3:35 I wouldn't open those wrapped books because they look so pretty

Okay the first one is relatable af tho

the perfect booktok compilation tbh

I can’t be the only one who mostly reads on my kindle

How do people read and watch stuff at the same time

Thanks for this, I really needed to start reading again <3

I would only use highlighters in my books to highlight my fave parts of the book. Other than that, annotations aren’t really my thing

2:48 lol that's what I always do as a book x F1 girly.

1:58 is so relatable

6:06 THATS A LOTTT OF BOOKS

2:51 what is going on here Heartless by Marissa Meyer is a Queen of Hearts origin story; I’m not getting anything she says the book references

Does anyone know where she got those tabs for the 3 video? I really like them 🥲

Just finished rereading a scene in my book and omfg I’m boutta cry again WHY MUST THE AUTHOR DO THIS TO ME

F1 mentioned!!!!

Y'all, I have an unhinged book recommendation for people who can't find new things to read in their comffort zone Read a fanfic for fandom you don't know You can find anything in fanfics, easily, at any time, for free I guarantee that if "I was screaming your name through the radio" wasn't a BSD fic, and the author changed the names, that book could've been a nyt bestseller And if you don't know the fandom and the characters, it'll be like the original to you Trust, I've done it like 5 times now

3:37 I CANT WAIT TO BE 70