TikTok boosts sales of Mills and Boon
According to The Times, TikTok has “rekindled the passion for romance novels.” According to industry data, the genre’s sales grew by 110% in three years to around £53 million. Publishers attribute the rise to the #romancebooks hashtag on TikTok, which has racked up billions of views on the platform, making it the biggest subgenre in the BookTok community. The romance “used to be tucked away, almost shamefaced,” HarperFiction’s Maddy Marshall said, but now there are desktop displays that say “BookTok recommends” and “BookTok made me buy this.”
Did Mystic Meg predict her own death?
Mystical Meg’s final horoscope “eerily” predicted her own death, Metro reports. Her agent confirmed on Wednesday that “the most famous British astrologer in a million miles” has died at the age of 80 after being hospitalized with the flu. In her latest horoscope, Meg predicted that she would “make a journey to her soul mate”, which was “creepy reading considering that Nigel Moores, the man who was considered the ‘love of her life’, died over 40 years ago”. the paper said.
The youngest yoga teacher is seven years old
A 7-year-old girl from India has entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s youngest certified yoga instructor. Praanvi Gupta was seven years and 165 days old when she was recognized as the world’s youngest female yoga instructor, the record keeping organization said. Gupta, who started yoga with her mother when she was three and a half years old, talks about yoga on her YouTube channel Learning with Praanvi.
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