Hello, old friend. Long time no see! Hey everybody, it's Anna,
and welcome back to my booktube channel. You might notice that I am in a
different location than I usually am. That is because it is a 100 percent
chance of rain right now in Seattle, and the clouds are totally blocking out the
natural light that I usually use to film, so I'm filming in the
office/bookshelf/game room. You can see the brand new bookshelves that my
husband and I just built. But yeah, I just wanted to check in with you guys before
the end of the year- say hello, welcome myself back to my own channel. I've been
a little bit absent between planning my wedding and having Hanukkah, Christmas,
Thanksgiving, husband's birthday... a bunch of major holiday celebration event-type
things going on. But yeah, I am back I am back to making
videos, and I just wanted to check in with you guys a little bit before the
end of the year. Wow, I am really out of practice! I feel so uncomfortable and
weird right now, sitting in front of a camera and just
talking. It'll take me some time to get used to this again, I think, but anyway, I
wanted to share a couple books that I got for various holidays.
I think all of these were actually Christmas gifts; we celebrate a lot of winter
holidays in my family, but I think all of these were gifted to me for
Christmas. Before we get into that, I wanted to give a little bit
of explanation, I guess, since some of you might be following me to this
channel from Twitter, where I am a lot more active and vocal in my love
for Dungeons and Dragons, RPGs, tabletop games, and stuff like that. I wanted
to incorporate a little bit more of my love for games into this channel as we
go forward, partially because it is related to books, since a lot of RPGs and
stuff like that are based off of science fiction and fantasy tropes or existing
structures from sci-fi and fantasy novels-- there are a lot of
RPGs that are actually based off of worlds like the Lord of the Rings, Game
of Thrones, etc-- but also just because that's an
interest and a passion that is really taking up a pretty significant
chunk of my time now, whether it's playing games,
RPGs, whether it's cosplay, whether it's going to conventions, different things
like that. So I just wanted to say hello if you followed me here because of all
of my Dungeons & Dragons tweets! I hope that you'll stick around and don't
find this to be too off-putting. Beginning with that then, I have a couple
of books that I was gifted for Christmas. One of those was "Waterdeep: Dungeon of
the Mad Mage," which is a D&D adventure for high level characters. This one I got
from Buddha, a Secret Santa that I matched up with online, so thank you so
much for that if by some slim chance you're watching this! And then from my
husband, I was also gifted "Pugmire" core rulebook,
which is an open gaming license D&D 5th edition book.
That allows you to play as a canine adventurer, and it's super fantastic.
I actually read through the entirety of this yesterday while I was just sitting
in a coffee shop. It lets you create a dog that's an adventurer character, and
you can go through all of these different types of classes similar to
Dungeons & Dragons, but adapted a little bit to fit the particular skill
sets and personalities of different dogs. I'm really impressed with what they
managed to do in such a relatively short book in terms of building the
mythology and the politics of the world of Pugmire, and I really cannot wait to
DM the game because I think it's going to be absolutely great.
Then from my extended family Secret Santa, one of my aunts got me "Becoming" by
Michelle Obama, which was one of the three books that I had specifically
requested to receive for Christmas. I have already started reading
this. I think it's really great. I'm enjoying it a lot so far, and I'm sure I
will have more fully formulated opinions after I've gotten further than this
amount into the book.
And then from two of our friends, I was gifted this book "Designs for the
Pluribus: Radical Interdependence Autonomy in the Making of Worlds" by
Arturo Escobar. This is the kind of book that, while I don't miss being in
graduate school and being in a ph.d program, I really do miss getting to sit
down and read this type of book. I'm just really happy that now I get to do it on
my own time, and I don't have to write any really long papers about it.
That would be a little bit more tedious than enjoyable. So those are all of the books
that I got for Christmas, winter holidays, etc. I usually don't receive too many
books as gifts either for Christmas or birthday or any other gift-giving
opportunity, mostly because people know how much I read, and they are like, well I
don't want to get you a book that you already have or that you've already read!
I can't blame them. I mean, I'm gonna post my end of year/best books of
2018 a little bit later, probably after we pass New Year's, but I read
186 books this year so far. I'm still probably going to finish a few
more before 2018 is fully over, so I totally understand why people don't want
to get me books as gifts. That's fine-- I am more than happy with these ones that
I have! And then I wanted to talk a little bit about some plans that I have
for the booktube channel in 2019. First of all, I wanted to thank all of you that
have stuck with me this far, that have been watching my consistent and then
somewhat inconsistent uploads with this channel throughout the year. There's now
138 of you subscribed to the channel at the time that I'm making this video-- wow!
That's really incredible! I did not ever think that this many people would care
what I had to say about books, especially because I don't really feel like I stand
out that differently from people that are already doing this on the internet.
I'm still trying to figure out what it is that really makes me *me*
online, if that makes sense. I'm really trying to figure out my my voice and
my position when it comes to making these type of videos, so thank you to all
of the people that have joined this little community, whether you've been
here since I first started uploading, or whether you just joined, or whether you
found this channel by accident and now you want to stay for some reason-- thanks a lot!
So I guess without any further ado I'll
go ahead and talk about some of my goals for the channel for 2019. I would like to
keep my uploads very consistent. I set myself a goal when I started the channel
that I wanted to make four videos a month, and I just checked: I made 50
videos--It'll be 51 after I make this one-- this entire year. However, a bunch of
those were actually spread out. I think there's a few videos where there's
a month gap or a two month gap between videos, and while some of that is
unavoidable just because life happens, and I have multiple jobs outside of this,
and other things going on, I would like to set myself a challenge to be more
consistent with uploading. Second thing that I would like to do with this
channel is more readathons. I really enjoyed the readathons that I did this
past year. I love the Tome Topple read-a-thon so much. It is my favorite
read-a-thon. I wasn't able to do it this year because it was happening right when
I was getting married, so I did not have time, but I would like to do that.
I know I'd like to do the Read Yo' Shelves read-a-thon that Kathy Trithardt and...
I'm forgetting [the co-host's] name, but I'll post it in the description, are hosting at the
beginning of 2019. I know I'd like to do the Queer Lit read-a-thon when it
comes back in the new year. That's hosted by Kathy and Rogan; I will link them as
well down in the description. I think I'd like to just participate in
other readathons as I'm able to and as I find out about them. Another thing that
is a little bit more experimental for the channel is that I
might like to start making some videos about storytelling via games, especially
with a lot of the conventions that I attended this year, a lot of the panels
I went to discussed storytelling via games as being a really important
component of playing games. I think that there's more to be explored on this
topic that I would like to dive into, so I was thinking about making some
more chat videos that are specific to that topic, just so I can keep
them separate and more focused from the stuff that is more book related.
Is that anything that you guys would even be interested in watching? I'll probably
still make them because I want to, but I'm curious just to see how much
interest is out there for something like that. The next goal is
something that's pretty much entirely on my end: I'd like to make some technical
improvements to the channe. l I'd like to get better editing software. Right now
I'm just using what comes with YouTube. I'd like to invest in some quality
lighting so that I'm a little bit less dependent on the great outdoors, fickle
as it is six months out of the year here, and that way I don't have this weird
ghostly light in the ceiling casting strange shadows on me when I
have to film not in natural light. That's a little bit more on my end, but
I'm giving myself a year to figure out what I'm gonna do about those things.
The last goal that I have for the channel is that I would like to post a
few vlogs this year. I think I posted I posted one vlog in 2018. I had a second
one filmed, and then some disaster happened to the files and it wasn't
actually able to be recovered in order to be uploaded, so that was kind of sad.
But I would like to make a few vlogs of different fun things that I do
throughout the year. I'd like to make some readathon vlogs, maybe vlog a couple
conventions that I have coming up. That way you guys would get to see a little
bit more of that storytelling via games, cosplay, RPGs,
stuff like that that I'm interested in related to books
and geekiness, but outside of. I don't have any specific bookish events
that I can vlog coming up right now. I might see about getting permission to do
that from the event organizers, so we will see if I am able to do that.
Is that something you guys would be interested in watching? I'm pretty
interested in filming vlogs just because the last time I did that I had a super
fun time with it. I had fun playing around with music. I had fun filming
outdoors, trying different things out with different cameras:
the one that I use here or the camera on my phone.
It was just interesting to do something different. I enjoyed that aspect of it.
Is that something that you guys are interested in at all, or is nobody
gonna watch those? Let me know in the comments because I would really like to
have your input on that. So as always, thank you all so much for watching, thank
you for sticking with me through the craziness of the year that has been 2018,
and I will see you in the next one in 2019. Bye!
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