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Towards Booktok Canon’s grand unified theory
Alyssa Morris is as close as the scholars of Booktok Studies, and her attempts to establish Booktok Canon are a gift to readers and industry experts. Working from the combination of atmosphere and observations gathered from deep engagement with the platform, Morris identifies the most popular subgenres among Tiktok users. Yes, there is romance and romance, but there are also “The Strange Girl Lighting” (Big Switzerland, Bunny), “The Crying Book” (Nightingale, Evelyn Hugo’s Seven Husbands), thrillers, new adult, sci-fi and fantasy. Morris said, “Booktok Canon has been influencing increased diversity in publications since 2020,” and hopes that describing “a wide audience on a platform that goes beyond mere romance and romance” will help contribute to the efforts of writers and Creators of Color workers to increase work visibility. May her efforts succeed.
These books may change your life
How would you respond when a friend or colleague asks you to name a book that changed your life? For staff of Bargeresponses ranged from books for children to classics, self-help, and even cookbooks. I’ve been able to see Oliver Berkman screaming as 4,000 weeks changed my life.
There is a flow chart for that
We are now in the thickness of a big book season and there are too many ways to choose. Let it be good people Light Hub Help you choose your next read with our fun vibe-based flowchart. fwiw, the Recon that it chose me was already high on my list in the fall. The method is healthy!
The book behind I’ll fight one after another
Did you know about Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film? I’ll fight one after anotherwhich theaters will be hit this week, based on books? Vineland is one of Thomas Pynchon’s more accessible novels, but since it is Pynchon, the accessible meaning is relative. Jeff and I went over our brains to decode this fascinating postmodern classic in the latest episode of Zero to Well Read.
