Book Chats with Shelley
Hiii 🖖🏾I'm Shelley! Welcome to my little corner of YouTube. If you want book moves, reviews, and news, then you've come to the right place.
The goal is to have a fun space where we can discuss our favourite (or not so favourite) reads and anything related!
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Luke Bateman booktok drama: a book deal with no manuscript, pretty privilege, and publishing

This author scammed $95K from her fans - Britt Andrews kickstarter book drama

How Reading Affects You: the Science of Deep Reading

why some readers still struggle with books about non-white characters

are we creating an echo chamber on booktok?

the mess of A Million Lives book festival drama: booktok's fyre festival

how the internet, social media - yes booktok - changed reading (aka my brain won’t sit still)

more book drama: meta used a BOOK PIRACY DATABASE to steal books to train AI, and authors are suing!

booktok and the resurgence of interest in classic literature among genZ

Tori Woods booktok and book threads drama - the author who got arrested

booktok and the tropification of books: book tropes that need to DIE for crimes against fiction

who gets to decide what we read?: book bans, censorship, and their impact

this isn’t booktok drama… it’s better - books, chaos charity? let’s begin.

Rina Kent, booktok author drama, & the problem with diversity expectations

'Til Death by Busayo Matuluko was drama, mess and all the stress…I LOVED IT! Book rant/review

reading and intellectualism: the death of long-form literature in the booktok era

another day, another author behaving badly | the Sophie Lark booktok drama explained

why does Avatar Korra get so much hate—and is it justified?

the power of booktok influencers – are they now more important than literary critics?

author Raven Hill's meltdown brings new booktok drama | BlackBooktok was not having it

every book I'm reading in March

the privilege of reading: who can afford to be a bookworm?

all the books I read in February 📚

let's rant about the new amazon kindle policy and its implications for reading

booktubers got it wrong: the Naomi King & Daniel Greene situation and dangers of reactive culture

is there such a thing as “Too Much Representation” in books?

genre wars and literary elitism: why are some genres still looked down on?

why do we romanticize toxic relationships in books? (yes, we're talking about it!)

the booktok drama around the children of blood and bone movie casting and Tomi Adeyemi

the ethics of AI in book publishing, its impact on literature, AI book scandals, Amazon fraud + more