Debra, thanks so much for doing The Atwood Adventure Tag. Great to learn more about you. Love the distinction you made of having a personal assistant. That would be very handy. Atwood would love your themes! They fit right in with her work perfectly. 😊💙

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Hi - sorry for the delay in my reply. It was a great tag to do. Some really good questions. I am pleased you think Atwood would approve 😀

Thank you so much for tagging me! I hadn't seen it before but all of these questions seem right up my alley! I really resonate with feeling burned out on service work--I had a similar thing happen to me.

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome. I'm looking forward to watching your tag video. I am very behind on my booktube watching, after having to take time away due to health issues. Hence the delay in my reply to your comment. I still really miss the work I used to do. It was very fulfilling but I don't think I will be able to go back into frontline care work for the foreseeable future. I did it for 20yrs though and it was very rewarding.

@KetevanReads

Жыл бұрын

@@bookinwithdebra I also took a little hiatus for health issues (hence why I still haven’t done the tag!) I miss my work too sometimes, but I also don’t think I’ll go back either, which is a shame but it is what it is. Hope you’re feeling better! X

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

@@KetevanReads no pressure to do the tag. I have a big list of tag videos to do.

Hi Debra, I’m so glad this tag is going around again. I did it last year and it’s a lot of fun. I loved hearing your answers. Yes book tubers are creative I’m so little brave for putting ourselves out there. I wrote a memoir that deals with trauma and I’ve always worked in the field of social work so I understand getting burned out.Aloha

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Hi Marilyn - it's a great tag. Writing your memoir sounds like it might have been a difficult experience. It's a great achievement. I still really miss the work I used to do. It was very fulfilling, but I don't think I will be able to go back into frontline care work for the foreseeable future. I did it for 20yrs though and it was very rewarding.

I have come back to this tag again, to see if I could do it now - but I (a) don't read Margaret Atwood and (b) don't have great answers to many of the questions. However, you did well with it! And mentioning me in a tag has been great. I'll keep you in mind to tag for something interesting in due course. When you're least expecting it. When you're sitting with a coffee, relaxing. Bam!.....:-)

Ooh it was so nice to get to know more about you. I feel like the work you were talking about, it's so common for people to get burned out in. It's so overwhelming!

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Hi Sandra - thank you. Yes - very common to get burned out and I had been doing it for 20yrs. Sorry for the delay in replying to your comment. I've been away from Booktube for a while. I hope you are keeping okay. I am looking forward to catching up with your videos soon.

Great answers! I think one of the best debut novels I have read is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi; I loved that book! Yes, a personal assistant would be very handy, especially these days with more of my “senior moments”! 😂📚

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙂 I have Homegoing on my shelves to read. I might get to it in 2023. I really need the personal assistant - one that can edit videos would be good 😂

Thanks so much for doing this sweetie and it’s lovely to find out more about you 😊

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🙂

It was lovely to hear more about you, some really interesting questions 😊

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🙂

Great answers! Yes to the underfunded services here. My mum worked in a care home and I work in the NHS and worked in advocacy before that. I read books on these themes but sparingly as they leave me feeling wrung out.

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Hi Katja - how are you? Sorry for the delay in replying to your comment. I've been away from Booktube for a while. It sounds like you and your Mum will have had some similar experiences to me. It's hard going. After 20yrs, I just needed a break. I hope you are keeping well.

I'm glad you still like fish and chips. I meet sushi chefs now and then who no longer love fish, and that always strikes me as sad.

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Yes definitely still enjoy fish and chips. As a student I did a stint in a pizza factory, putting toppings on frozen pizzas going by on a conveyer belt. It was very grim job and put me off eating pizza for about 10yrs 😂Sorry for the delay in replying to your comment. I've been away from Booktube for a while. I hope you are keeping okay.

Thank you so much for tagging me! The British weather is indeed rubbish for filming in!x

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Hi Emma - you're welcome. Apologies for the delayed reply. I have been away from booktube for a while. We are back to that horrible weather stage again. I'm ready for spring again now. I hope you are keeping well.

Loved hearing your answers to these and getting to know you a bit more. Love your mug it looks the perfect size!!

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Aw thank you so much. A good mug is always important 😉

£1.75/hr - I am often shocked by UK salaries, especially in Scotland and the North where the cost of living is lower; but that's absurd!

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Hey Scott - how are you? Apologies for the delay. I've been on a reading and booktube break (health issues). The £1.75/hr was in my first ever job. It was a very long time ago. I was only 13yrs old when I first started working weekends and getting paid that. It was about 35yrs ago👵😀 I hope you are keeping well

@GunpowderFictionPlot

Жыл бұрын

@@bookinwithdebra great to see you back, I hope you're okay now! Looking forward to seeing more videos from you. 🙂

A different, but still very interesting, video this week. Ahh, fish and chips - definitely one of the great English meals. My wife got a taste for it when she lived in England for a few years before dragging me over to Florida in 2006. We still have it regularly over here but, guess what, America hasn't heard of mushy peas! So we have to order tins of Bachelors mushy peas in 6-packs through Amazon marketplace every so often. Thankfully we're able to source our cups of tea and bread & butter locally. Thanks for putting this video together for us all. Best wishes, Brian.

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Hi Brian - the fish and chop shop was like a dream first job for me when I was 13yrs old because I got to eat them at weekends at work 😀 The novelty quickly wore off though. I am sorry to have to tell you this Brian but I really, really don't like mushy peas 🤢🤮 But I am pleased that you are able to still enjoy them in Florida. Wishing you all the best. Take care

@btwilks

Жыл бұрын

Oh no! A northern lass who doesn't like mushy peas! How can this be? 🙂 It's really just as well that we all have different tastes, though, otherwise there would only ever be one meal put on the table, I guess.

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

@@btwilks I know I've let you down 😂 The only peas I used to eat were the ones my Nanna used to grew in her garden in Scotland. I ate them straight from the pod. All other peas are evil and not to be touched 😂😂 Lovely to hear from you Brian.

Sensible + Noncomforming + Belonging + Resistant = On board! 🤗

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Yay - I am so glad you are with me on these😀

I loved learning more about you, thank you for sharing 🤗

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Hi Randi-Lynn - thank you so much. I hope you are keeping well. Sorry for the delay in replying. I have been away from booktube for a while. I am looking forward to catching up with your videos when I can.

Yaaay such a lovely video, glad you did the tag 🥰 Great answers. Haha haven´t had fish&chips for ages time to visit some restaurant 😏

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Becki 😀 I hope you managed to enjoy some fish and chips

Lovely getting to know you a little bit more.

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Hi Demelda - sorry for the delayed reply. Thank you so much. I hope you are keeping well.

This is such a fun way to get to know you! I fully agree that booktube counts as a creative outlet ^_^ I recently finished Small Favors which is a Rumpelstiltskin-inspired fantasy? Might want to check it out. It was really enjoyable!

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. It's a great tag. I think having a Booktube channel requires creativity 😀 Glad to hear you enjoyed Small Favours. I am very behind on all my Booktube video watching. I am looking forward to catching up with some of your videos soon.

Haha glad that working in a fish and chips shop hasn't put you off it. Nice to learn a bit more about you!

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Hello - sorry for the delayed reply. Thank you so much. I still enjoy fish and chips. I hope you are keeping well.

So YOU haven't fallen down the Madeline Miller rabbit hole yet either?? There are few of us left! lol

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Hi Margaret - how are you? Sorry for the delay in replying to your comment. I've been away from Booktube for a while. No, I have not yet fallen down that hole. I really know very little about Greek Myths. I think I would like to have a better idea of the original myths before heading into any retellings. I hope you are keeping okay. I am looking forward to catching up with your videos soon.

Wow, that's a lot of heavy experience caring for exploited populations. I hope it's a break you're on, and you're able to fill your own well and feel buoyed up again soon! (And that they get more funding again)

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

I stepped away from my career about 4yrs ago after 20yrs. It was just supposed to be a break for a couple of years, then 2020 happened 😑 A lot of the services I worked in or with, are either closed or running mostly on volunteers with very little funding. It's a sad situation.