Hi, everyone! This is Symone from Symone Books
and today I'm going to be doing a book
tag and the tag that I'm going to be
doing is The Sisterhood of the World
Book tag.
I'm not sure who the original creator of
this tag is. I tried to look around and
find out but it seems to be a mystery so
if I do find out who created it I will
leave a link to the original video in
the description. But I was tagged by Javiera
B. and I'm going to be answering her
questions today. The way this tag works
is that you will answer the questions
that the person who tagged you created
and then whenever you tag new people you
will make a new set of 10 questions that
they have to answer and so on and so
forth. So let's go ahead and start with
Javiera's first question which is: What
book are you currently reading and what
do you think of it? I'm actually in
between books right now. I'm about to
start reading Rebecca by Daphne du
Maurier and I'm really excited about it.
Everyone raves about it and I feel like
it's a book that I'm going to like as
well so I can't wait to get into it. What
book did you last purchase simply
because you liked the look of the cover?
It's been awhile since I've had a pure
cover buy. I usually know at least a
little bit of something about it but the
last book I can remember is Wolf in White
Van by John Darnielle and I didn't like it
which serves me right. What time of day
do you usually get most of your reading
done? Definitely in the morning after I
wake up or at night before I go to bed.
I have a full-time job where I work from
8am to 5pm... sometimes the hours can be more
extreme if i'm doing overtime so I
really only have time to read during
those times if I'm not reading an
audiobook. If your favorite book was
turning into a movie who would you cast
as the leading roles? This is something
that I've actually thought about quite a bit
and if you're new here, my favorite book
is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. I'm
not sure who I would want to play every
main character but I do know who I would
want to play Jude, who is really the
center character and the one that
everything in this book revolves around.
Out of famous actors there's really
only one person I think fits and that is
Rami Malek who is known for Mr. Robot. I
feel like he would be a really good Jude
and if he couldn't do it then
I feel like they pretty much just need
to cast and unknown actor to play him
because I can't think of anyone
currently in that the industry aside
from Rami Malek who would really fit and the
characters of A Little Life are really
pertinent to the story and they really
make the story so you have to get the
casting of the characters right or else the
whole thing is pretty much screwed. Out
of all the books you read in 2016
name three of your favorite villain
characters? I don't really read books
that have villains in them and I
generally don't like villains so I wouldn't
have a favorite so I'm just going to
say that I don't have an answer for this
question. If you didn't have a booktube
channel what other type of channel would
you have on Youtube? That would
definitely be a K-Pop, K-Drama, Korean
language learning channel because aside
from books those are all things I'm really
interested in and they all kind of go
together.
I also feel like I'd be able to make
consistent content in those areas
because there's always something going
on in the world of K-Pop and K-Dramas so
that would definitely be what I did if
I didn't have a booktube channel.
Did you always enjoy reading? When I was
in school I really focused on my grades
so I didn't do much reading for pleasure.
Only during this summers I would read
whatever I wanted.
But even though I couldn't do it all the
time I did always enjoy reading. What is
one book release you're really excited
for in 2017? I think I'm going to do a
whole video about what books I'm
anticipating in 2017 so this is gonna
be a little teaser but one of the books
that I'm really looking forward to is
The Leavers by Lisa Ko. This book is
about an 11-year old Chinese boy named
Deming Guo and his mother basically
goes to work one day and never comes
back so he ends up being adopted by
these two white college professors and
they change his name to Daniel and they
try to make him into their version of an
"all-american boy". So I feel like it's
going to be a really interesting book
that explores, like, cultural erasure,
cultural identity and things of that
nature so I'm really looking forward to
that book. If you were able to have
coffee with three authors, dead or alive,
who would you choose? I would choose
Hanya Yanagihara, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Donna
Tartt. These are all
three incredibly interesting and
intelligent women and I feel like that
would be the greatest meeting of the
minds -- just to be, like, in their presence...
I feel like there's so much I could
learn from all three of them. What is one
piece of advice you have for someone
whose new to Booktube?
It's not really a piece of advice as
much as it's like a reminder because I
think people know this but it's just the
act of doing it. It's really important to
engage with other people. When most
people join Booktube they say that the
reason they want to join is to talk
about books with other people. Sometimes
when I'm watching a video, I'll look in the
comment section and there will be a good
amount of comments there but I won't
see that the person who made the
original video has replied to anyone and
I get confused in those instances
because if you're not really replying
back or engaging with anyone, you're really
having a one-way conversation and I know
that if I see a comment section where
the person who made the video is really
active I'm more likely to want to leave
a comment, myself. I definitely understand
that the more subscribers you have, the more
comments you get, the harder it is to
reply back to everyone but if your
channel isn't growing in the way you
would like it to, definitely take a step
back and look at how much you engage
with other people and you might find a
correlation and you might not... but I think
you will find a correlation. So those are
all the questions from Javiera and now
it's time for me to tag some people and I
have three people who I want to tag. The
first person I want to tag is Jaz from
Dope Librarian.
She's a newer booktuber whose channel I have
found recently and I've really been
enjoying her videos. Definitely check out
her channel. I'm going to be leaving the
links to all of these people in the
description. I also want to tag Tori
from ThatCozyBookNook and
Samantha Leighanne from Leighanne's Lit. I'm
going to leave my ten questions in the
description so if you decide that you
want to do this tag those are the
questions that you should answer and
whenever you do your video you should
also make your own set of 10 questions
and tag other people to do your questions>
That's about all I have for this video.
Thank you so much for watching, make sure
you subscribe and I'll see you in my next
video. BYE~
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