Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Scott!!! @GunpowderFictionPlot
His review of 'Hello Friend We Missed You':
youtu.be/udoGvTKbLWQ
The Books Mentioned:
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (Cat Sebastian - historical romance)
Winter’s Orbit (Everina Maxwell - space opera)
The White Rose, 3rd in the Chronicles of the Black Company (Glen Cook)
Hello Friend We Missed You (Richard Owain Roberts)
Hostage, Non-Fiction Comic (Guy Delisle)
The Haunting of House Hill (Shirley Jackson)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi German (William L. Shirer) (1960)
The Need for Words: Voice and the Text (Patsy Rodenburg)
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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. 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 500)
(And trust me, you may not have noticed, but there was QUITE the extravaganza in this video celebrating the momentous event of me having cranked out 500 videos. Not all of those videos are public any more, but the grand majority, enough for you to get the idea. Happy 500 videos to me... Take my 'Thank you' video as my actual celebration.)
Scott!!! @GunpowderFictionPlot
His review of 'Hello Friend We Missed You':
youtu.be/udoGvTKbLWQ
The Books Mentioned:
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (Cat Sebastian - historical romance)
Winter’s Orbit (Everina Maxwell - space opera)
The White Rose, 3rd in the Chronicles of the Black Company (Glen Cook)
Hello Friend We Missed You (Richard Owain Roberts)
Hostage, Non-Fiction Comic (Guy Delisle)
The Haunting of House Hill (Shirley Jackson)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi German (William L. Shirer) (1960)
The Need for Words: Voice and the Text (Patsy Rodenburg)
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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. 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 500)
(And trust me, you may not have noticed, but there was QUITE the extravaganza in this video celebrating the momentous event of me having cranked out 500 videos. Not all of those videos are public any more, but the grand majority, enough for you to get the idea. Happy 500 videos to me... Take my 'Thank you' video as my actual celebration.)




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more waffling... and I didnt even get into feeling bad for publishing negative reviews, but at the same time needing to talk about books I didnt get along with.
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Steve Donoghues Video Response: Is WANTING a Writing Career Enough?
https://youtu.be/C3o7HLAHYvM
which responds to Cam Wolfs video is WANTING a writing career enough?? Discussion:
https://youtu.be/tEpyEaA77bo
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March of the Mammoths is a reading challenge hosted by Jason @Old Blues Chapter and Verse , Lukas @A Cruel Readers 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!
I have closed my comments going forward because while I enjoy making videos, I find it difficult to communicate by text. This isnt a criticism of the many warm and welcoming interactions Ive 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 Im 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:
https://youtu.be/g6mr4pyQ0Gg
(Video 479) waffle # 3](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JRbopJ69G6s/mqdefault.jpg)





