{"id":3832,"date":"2024-03-06T19:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T19:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intheskye.com\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2024-03-06T19:40:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T19:40:49","slug":"kiana-wing-and-her-booksta-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intheskye.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/kiana-wing-and-her-booksta-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiana Wing and her Booksta journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3832\" class=\"elementor elementor-3832\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d5881f6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d5881f6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-118927f sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left\" data-id=\"118927f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e82136d elementor-widget elementor-widget-audio\" data-id=\"e82136d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-soundcloud-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=false&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1767239937&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=1170&#038;auto_play=false&#038;buying=true&#038;liking=true&#038;download=true&#038;sharing=true&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_playcount=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;color\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f4e5856 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f4e5856\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-aa105ff sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left\" data-id=\"aa105ff\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea87558 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ea87558\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spending the majority of her time working through pre-med courses, Kiana Wing who is a 22-year-old attending UCLA, reads over 100 books a year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram, a social media platform for uncovering relations, forging contents, and content sharing that allows for free reign of creativity, has opened a domain for book lovers. We call this \u2018Bookstagram\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kiana has been on Instagram for about 9 months now and garnered a following of over 1,200 bookworms under the tag: @kianasbooks. Over the span of these many months, she has posted book reviews, coffee shop tours that are ideal for studying, and photo dumps of her current week. She averages 200-300 likes per post and Kiana\u2019s comment section is full of book readers admiring her opinions and story intellect all the while giving their own short word reviews in tangent.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And you\u2019d think, being a pre-med biology major at UCLA, Kiana would be spending 80 hours mulling over textbooks, homework, and notes. Rather and more shockingly, my interviewee<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0says \u2018efficiency\u2019 has given way to her reading goals reaching well over a hundred. However, it mustn&#8217;t be solely her efficiency but both her intelligence and quick wit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this interview you\u2019ll hear Kiana talk about her sparked interest in reading once high school ended. She believes due to the forced reading in school curriculum, books for leisure were out of the question and thrown out of the window of her interests. Yet after four years of reading absences, college commenced and she found herself picking up her first fiction novel since she was 14.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reading fantasy, romance, and ya books, Kiana Wing has built a palace of stories around herself. She believes she\u2019s lived a hundred lives, traveled to thousands of fictional and fantastical places, and met many people through pages, who some she\u2019ll love forever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When looking at her shelves, Kiana guesses she has at the very least 150 physical books, and over 100 downloaded on her kindle. Not limited to physical copies, Kiana is an avid fan of audio books when she is on the road or e-books when class is in session and her book cannot wait.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bookstagram is a niche group on the internet where Kiana has never felt more welcome and close to people who live across the world. 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