My Favorite Book Youtubers
Youtube
It and Netflix are the future of
television. People around the world watch a billion hours of youtube every
single day (1). Also impressive is the fact that 400
hours of video is uploaded every single minute as of 2015 and that number is only going up (2). With all that content, it can be
difficult to find some new great channels to watch. I’ve mentioned a couple
before in some of my previous posts like: the Vlogbrothers and Crashcourse in my post "Languages" to Jordan Peterson in this post.
Here are a couple more youtubers
that I haven’t brought up before, but I just had to mention.*
Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
I’m going to go in alphabetical order and
that means the first one is the “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows”. Whil you probably haven’t heard of this
channel before, you might actually be familiar with the creator’s work channel
without knowing it. Often on Pinterest you’ll see pins with picturesque
backgrounds that have a single word and a definition. You would never imagine
there was a word for “The realization that everyone has a story,” but there is and it’s “Sonder”. This channel
is the origin of those words. In his channel description, John Koenig, the
author of the dictionary, wrote, that through these invented words, “[he] aims
to fill holes in the language—to give a name to emotions we all feel but don't
have a word for” (3). Soft piano music playing in the
background, with each new word he introduces, John Koenig writes a story around
them and explains the emotion the word is supposed to convey more fully. For
each word he introduces, Koenig makes a compelling argument for why the word is
needed through how prevalent the emotion is. Although his channel isn’t
strictly book related, he still in a way writes a powerful story for each word.
Laughing Jay
The next channel in the list is in my
opinion the best one. Now I’m probably a little (maybe a lot) biased, because
the creator of this channel is the eldest of my youngest siblings. While she
originally started the channel to talk about the book series Warriors by Erin
Hunter, she has expanded it to include other book reviews. This part is
definitely objective: while I might not have the exact same taste in books as
my sister, I still watch her videos because she is hilarious. Case in point, in
her video “The Warrior Cats HUNGER GAMES!” video game me some much-needed
relaxation and laughs as the semester was ending. Go check out her channel.**
Nerdwriter1
The last youtuber in this post I am going
to mention is Nerdwriter1. Since I want to be a writer, I need to learn
from masters of the trade. When I read books, I try to see what the authors can
teach me about writing (See: The Last Three Sci-Fi Books I Read). Nerdwriter1’s channel is based off
of the same idea. But instead of just looking at people who write books, he
also examines movies, graphic novels, and public speakers in order to extract a
lesson from their work. Previously, I mentioned the first video of his that I
found, “How to Design a Comic Book Page” which introduced me to the graphic
novel Maus and how I used it toconnect with the student I tutor.
That’s all for this bonus post, but let
me know in the comments what youtubers you like to watch book, writing,
teaching, or just life related. Regular
post schedule will resume on Monday. See you then!
Notes:
*Am
not paid, but full disclosure Laughing Jay is the eldest of my two awesome
younger sisters.
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