#booktube recs

[staciass]

[aclockworkreader]

she’s backkkk 😌

[sarikathemango]

AGHHHHH GUYS IM LITERALLY SCREAMING VOMITING SOBBING I CANNOT RIGHT NOW WHY DOES IT HURT SO MUCH

[thebookcases]

New year, New Video!

Join us ( @mug-of-beans and @ironwoman359 ) as we subject one another to some of our favorite books (and comics and manga) for our 2025 TBRs.

[morverenmaybewrites]

I've hit a bit of a reading slump, on top of receiving my delayed-for-two-months salary, so I'm about to go book shopping in a few days.

Has anyone got any book recs for me? :D

[leftistfeminista]

The Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile

For those interested in the topic of my blog, this is one of the most powerful primary source memoirs on the experience of leftist women political prisoners under Pinochet's Junta.

Another book which might be easier to find online is Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence

    As a member of Salvador Allende’s Personal Guards (GAP), Luz Arce worked with leaders of the Socialist Party during the Popular Unity Government from 1971 to 1973. In the months following the coup, Arce served as a militant with others from the Left who opposed the military junta led by Augusto Pinochet, which controlled the country from 1973 to 1990. Along with thousands of others in Chile, Arce was detained and tortured by Chile’s military intelligence service, the DINA, in their attempt to eliminate alternative voices and ideologies in the country. Arce’s testimonial offers the harrowing story of the abuse she suffered and witnessed as a survivor of detention camps, such as the infamous Villa Grimaldi.

Despite the torments she endured and moral compromises she made, she concludes her memoirs on an optimistic note on the possibility of love-

While some judge Luz Arce harshly for her surrenders, her political exiling has allowed her to speak with total frankness about the tactics of the Junta regime. And the ways its methods of psychological torture specifically targeted the revolutionary women who threatened it. Capitalist patriarchy needed to bring the militant women who threatened it down to a state of complete helplessness in order to preserve its hegemony. In the latin machismo ideology, women's sexuality seen as inherently yielding and submissive was exploited as the weak link in the fierce defiance of Marxist women. Women like Luz Arce who served both in Allende's Socialist Presidential Guard, and the MIR underground after the coup. In the political prison the class and gender conflict between misogynist patriarchy and Marxist-Feminist revolution reached its sharpest heights. This is the gendered violence that all capitalist patriarchy is built on in its rawest most brutal form. Directly concentrated on the women who threatened to overthrow it.

But at times Luz was able to exploit the dialectical tension between being a helpless object of the male gaze, and a dangerous Marxist militant to secure a respite. Taking advantage of guards' rumors that she had special martial arts training in Cuba, she was able to defend herself even in the showers.

[floofysmallbob]

Book tumblr?

Is there such thing as book tumblr? Like ik booktok, booktube, bookstagram, etc, but is there a tumblr version? Bc my tumblr is mainly fandom stuff(toh, pjo, etc), and a bunch of chaos, but I need book recs, places to totally not find free ebooks, places to rant about good books, etc, so does anyone know how to find that side of tumblr?

[lilradridinghood]

finally got around to posting another BookTube video~

[lightyakami]

hiiiii! can I ask 38 and 39 pls

hello thank you!! 38. favourite song at the moment? is it cringe to say hazbin hotel poison. probably. i'll say it anyway. tbh i have mixed(tm) feelings on the show itself but i have an unhealthy relationship with this song specifically. 39. youtuber you've been obsessed with and why? okay so i've never been a big youtube person but i was so into the vlogbrothers when i was in high school fghjgf. currently i don't really watch anyone but i've been meaning to get more into booktube -- i followed bridgetish off tiktok bc i love her recs but i don't know if she's actually staying on youtube.

[staciass]

[samglyph]

If you’re a a film/book/art reviewer and all of your reviews are negative I don’t respect your opinion. Right off the bat you either don’t love the medium or you’re not making it clear what you actually like, so why would I trust your opinion about what not to enjoy?

[non-conventionnel]

“You must understand that all of us are in the same boat which, at times, can find itself in calm seas and at others in rough ones. Maybe you'll tell me that yours has only seen rough seas. But know this... that a boat inured in rough seas comes out stronger than one anchored in port. The latter, in the heaven it enjoys, becomes more susceptible to rot...” ― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

[maingh0st]

Are you into booktok or booktube? Any recommendations?

I'm not on booktok, but I love booktube! I prefer channels that tend to do book reviews in more of a video essay style (rather than like, book hauls and aesthetic reading vlogs—no shade, that's just not typically my thing!). some of my fav channels are:

Reads with Rachel

honestlysophie (she's a rant reviewer, so you need thick skin if she's talking about a book you love)

cari can read

JulianGreystoke (Julian has great, thorough read alongs where she talks through a book's craft; a lot of her insights have been helpful for my writing)

Don’t Fret Read Books

Unresolved Textual Tension (three pals in a book club; simultaneously hilarious and very insightful about why books do or don't work)

withcindy

Crow Caller (who is also a tumblr resident, I believe)

JemilaBeReadin

* e m m i e * (a booktube classic)

lou reading things

[alexandrian-archives]

Booktube channel!

I have a Booktube channel and since it's snowing, I figured I'd pop in my winter recs video for you all to watch :) If you enjoyed it, please consider subscribing! I'm trying to get to 1K before my 23rd birthday which is May 31st!

[lavenderhazelvr]

help a book girlie out

homegirls and boys if you have any good book recommendations tell your bookstarved girl some!

fav genres are: contemporary, low fantasy and romance

i kinda craving book series rn so recommend away!!!

at the end of the day i just want a good story and that’s enough for me<3

(i’ve read most of the mainstream booktok books so any other unheard book would be great)