Jay Shay | waffle # 3 @JayShayy | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
more waffling... and I didn't even get into feeling bad for publishing negative reviews, but at the same time needing to talk about books I didn't get along with.
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Steve Donoghue's 'Video Response: Is WANTING a Writing Career Enough?'
youtu.be/C3o7HLAHYvM
which responds to Cam Wolf's video 'is WANTING a writing career enough?? Discussion':
youtu.be/tEpyEaA77bo
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March of the Mammoths is a reading challenge hosted by Jason @Old Blue's Chapter and Verse , Lukas @A Cruel Reader's Thesis and Alex @bigalbooks. Read 800+ page books in the month, as many as you want! Or, like me and Jason, START reading a mammoth and finish later in the year.
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Book mentioned:
A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel
1992
872 pages
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
(The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
Marlon James
2019
640 pages
24hrs and some minutes long, with an amazing narrator, who sings the songs!
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I have closed my comments going forward because while I enjoy making videos, I find it difficult to communicate by text. This isn't a criticism of the many warm and welcoming interactions I've had with people on BookTube (this tiny corner of YouTube). I find social interactions very taxing, especially the tricky back and forth via text.
[I might also add that I'm trying to disrupt the addictive/damaging feedback loop of positive/negative reinforcement that large social media companies building into their platforms.]
Sorry if you wanted to leave a comment, but this is how I get to be on social media (by not being particularly social).
Here is a video of me reporting on my six-month trial without comments if you REALLY want to hear more about it:
youtu.be/g6mr4pyQ0Gg
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(Video 479)
more waffling... and I didn't even get into feeling bad for publishing negative reviews, but at the same time needing to talk about books I didn't get along with.
***
Steve Donoghue's 'Video Response: Is WANTING a Writing Career Enough?'
youtu.be/C3o7HLAHYvM
which responds to Cam Wolf's video 'is WANTING a writing career enough?? Discussion':
youtu.be/tEpyEaA77bo
***
March of the Mammoths is a reading challenge hosted by Jason @Old Blue's Chapter and Verse , Lukas @A Cruel Reader's Thesis and Alex @bigalbooks. Read 800+ page books in the month, as many as you want! Or, like me and Jason, START reading a mammoth and finish later in the year.
****
Book mentioned:
A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel
1992
872 pages
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
(The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
Marlon James
2019
640 pages
24hrs and some minutes long, with an amazing narrator, who sings the songs!
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I have closed my comments going forward because while I enjoy making videos, I find it difficult to communicate by text. This isn't a criticism of the many warm and welcoming interactions I've had with people on BookTube (this tiny corner of YouTube). I find social interactions very taxing, especially the tricky back and forth via text.
[I might also add that I'm trying to disrupt the addictive/damaging feedback loop of positive/negative reinforcement that large social media companies building into their platforms.]
Sorry if you wanted to leave a comment, but this is how I get to be on social media (by not being particularly social).
Here is a video of me reporting on my six-month trial without comments if you REALLY want to hear more about it:
youtu.be/g6mr4pyQ0Gg
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(Video 479)
