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Off The Shelf with Morgann Book

#39: Bookish Hot Takes with CassiesBookTok

3/19/202651 min

This week on Off The Shelf, Morgann sits down with BookTok creator Cassie to talk about her journey from posting her first TikTok to building a dedicated reading community online. They also dive into Cassie’s reader personality: her love of romantasy, favourite tropes like second-chance romance, and auto-buy authors including Abby Jimenez and Mariana Zapata. Plus, the two play Buy It, Borrow It or Skip It featuring viral BookTok titles like Fourth Wing, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Throne of Glass, and more.

CHAPTERS: 

0:00 - Introduction

1:20 - S...

Clips

Creators’ Posting Superstitions
No Chance She Picks Jeremiah
I Don’t Like Emily Henry
Prime Video’s Niche Problem
Reading With Aphantasia
Shadow and Bone Ending Rant
Addicted Series: Buy vs Skip
Anxiety Representation That Hits
Did Daisy And Billy Kiss?

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:00

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  2. Cassie· Guest0:29

    Six of Crows was, like, a big hyper-fixation of mine. Like, I was obsessed at the time the show came out. But by the time the second season came out, I didn't care.

  3. Morgann Book· Host0:39

    I think they messed up the second season.

  4. Cassie· Guest0:41

    They should've started with Six of Crows.

  5. Morgann Book· Host0:42

    And I don't know why they didn't.

  6. Cassie· Guest0:44

    What do you think about how they ended the trilogy, though?

  7. Morgann Book· Host0:47

    Hated it.

  8. Cassie· Guest0:48

    So pissed.

  9. Morgann Book· Host0:49

    [laughs] I totally forgot about how it ended- Why- ... until right now ...

  10. Cassie· Guest0:50

    would she do that?

  11. Morgann Book· Host0:51

    Oh my God.

  12. Cassie· Guest0:52

    Yeah.

  13. Morgann Book· Host0:52

    I forgot about that.

  14. Cassie· Guest0:53

    I get angry every time I think about it.

  15. Morgann Book· Host0:54

    [laughs] We need to move on now.

  16. Cassie· Guest0:55

    [upbeat music] Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Off the Shelf. Today I'm sitting down with one of my friends from the social media and book talk world. She's known for content about books, pop culture, The Summer I Turned Pretty, and being relatable. She just kind of gets it, so Cassie, also known as Cassie's Book Talk. Yes.

  17. Morgann Book· Host1:15

    [laughs] Thank you for leaving your room.

  18. Cassie· Guest1:16

    Yes.

  19. Morgann Book· Host1:17

    [laughs] And welcome to Off the Shelf.

  20. Cassie· Guest1:19

    Thank you. Thank you for having me.

  21. Morgann Book· Host1:20

    Can I just ask, how did the, like, "I sometimes leave my room" come about? How did that start?

  22. Cassie· Guest1:25

    Um, I feel like I didn't start that. It was just the fact that I always filmed

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