I have remixed a video of a Tiktoker (@booksaresick) cracking the spine of a book and an iconic one-liner from Michael Scott from The Office.
P.S. I’m not targeting this Tiktoker, I absolutely love their other booktok content, just thought this was the best video I could find when it came to people breaking the spine of a book!
There are many different types of readers in the book community, readers who will only read a book once, readers who will read the book multiple times, ones who annotate, and ones who dog-ear the pages, just to name a few. I fall into many categories but some being the reader who re-reads books and one who annotates their books.
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Website: https://maltigrains.com/
Name: The Weekly Grain of Malt
Brief Description: Explore The Adventures of a Malt’s Life Through Writing and Media
With content learned from lectures and readings, I will analyze the overall design of The Weekly Grain of Malt using 5 design principles that were discussed in class (Balance, Rhythm, Proportion/Scale, Contrast/Point of Focus, Unity/Harmony)
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For a while BookTok (a community on TikTok that revolves around books) has been recommending Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson, understandably so as it’s an amazing story! But with what I’ve seen with readers in the comments, they are split into two different categories, one being that they loved the book, whereas the others think it’s confusing and not worth the hype. For a while, I wondered why people had found Dance of Thieves confusing and then I soon realized the cause of this confusion.
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I am not one to start multiple series at once, I am usually a person who needs to finish the book/series I am currently reading to be able to start a new book. However, I am interested in starting multiple books and reading them interchangeably.
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