Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago

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Hi everyone! Today's tag was created by Sam @ThoughtsOnTomes and Mari @mynameismarines as a way for us to find new booktubers who have tastes similar to ours. If you've been watching me for a while, this will probably be familiar, but if not, welcome! I've been on BookTube for 8 years now (I said 7 in the video, whoops!), and I've gone through many phases of interest and growth as a reader during that time. If you want to do the tag, I've left the questions below, as well as the channels I think have similar taste to me.

Channels:
@ThoughtsOnTomes
@eclecticreads3
@genteelblackhole
@KathyTrithardt
@LiteratureScienceAlliance
@RobertGReaderofBooks-r3p
@ProblemsofaBookNerd
@jenvcampbell

Questions:

1. *How do you rate books?* Give a quick rundown of how you do your star ratings (or if you don’t use star ratings, how you evaluate books).
2. *How do you approach reviewing books?* What’s your review style? Are you analytical, emotional, casual, or structured?
3. *What’s the book that made you a reader?* Whether it was your first favorite or the one that got you hooked, what book started it all?
4. *Do you have a genre niche?* Are there certain genres you gravitate toward? Or do you read widely across genres?
5. *Do you generally prefer character-driven or plot-driven stories?*
6. *What’s a book you love so much that you don’t care if others don’t like it?* What’s that one book you love enough for everyone.
7. *What’s a book you love so much that if someone *doesn’t like it, you know your reading tastes don’t align?** The book or books where a difference of opinion is a strong indicator of different reading preferences.
8. *What’s in your “trash pocket”?* What books, tropes, or themes that you know are bad but you love them anyway?
9. *Do you have any dealbreakers in books?* Something that, if present, immediately turns you off from a book.
10. *What’s a strong opinion you have about a book released within the last year?* Whether it’s overrated, underrated, or just a take you need to share.
11. *What do you look for in writing?* What makes a book stand out to you? Is it prose style, themes, voice, structure, or something else?
12. *How do you decide what to read next?* Do you plan ahead, mood read, or follow external factors (hype, recommendations, ARCs)?
13. *Where do you get inspiration for your BookTube content?* What sparks your video ideas—other creators, trends, personal reading experiences?
14. *If you could make any book go viral right now, what would it be?* A book you think deserves more attention and why.
15. *Who are some BookTubers with reading tastes similar to yours?*

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