The Get To Know My Tastes Tag!

My email: st.donoghue [at] gmail My Substack: https://stevedonoghue.substack.com/ My Instagram: / stevesbookstagram My little Patreon, should you be feeling generous: / snappp My encouragement to write for: https://openlettersreview.com My BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/stdonoghue-1... Write for me at Open Letters:https://openlettersreview.com/ The “Get To Know My Tastes” Tag! The tag created by Samantha ‪@ThoughtsOnTomes‬ and by Mari ‪@mynameismarines‬ . I was tagged by Pat:    • "Get to Know My Taste" Tag   Tag Questions: 1. How do you rate books? Give a quick rundown of how you do your star ratings (or if you don’t use star ratings, how you evaluate books). 2. How do you approach reviewing books? What’s your review style? Are you analytical, emotional, casual, or structured? 3. What’s the book that made you a reader? Whether it was your first favorite or the one that got you hooked, what book started it all? 4. Do you have a genre niche? Are there certain genres you gravitate toward? Or do you read widely across genres? 5. Do you generally prefer character-driven or plot-driven stories? 6. What’s a book you love so much that you don’t care if others don’t like it? What’s that one book you love enough for everyone? 7. What’s a book you love so much that if someone doesn’t like it, you know your reading tastes don’t align? The book or books where a difference of opinion is a strong indicator of different reading preferences. 8. What’s in your “trash pocket”? What books, tropes, or themes that you know are bad but you love them anyway? 9. Do you have any dealbreakers in books? Something that, if present, immediately turns you off from a book. 10. What’s a strong opinion you have about a book released within the last year? Whether it’s overrated, underrated, or just a take you need to share. 11. What do you look for in writing? What makes a book stand out to you? Is it prose style, themes, voice, structure, or something else? 12. How do you decide what to read next? Do you plan ahead, mood read, or follow external factors (hype, recommendations, ARCs)? 13. Where do you get inspiration for your BookTube content? What sparks your video ideas—other creators, trends, personal reading experiences? 14. If you could make any book go viral right now, what would it be? A book you think deserves more attention and why. 15. Who are some BookTubers with reading tastes similar to yours? 16. Tag others.