🍵📖 When it comes to a reading challenge, I have a different approach. Instead of "Read that many books", I go with certain themes and made a reading bingo, where I can cross out the theme I read. Examples: - read a book set in space, - read a book from your favourite author you haven't read yet, - read a book you picked out solely for the cover, - read a book where an animal is the main character, - read a book with a genre you'd normally not read etc. You can pick as many as you want with themes that are sure to fit your reading preferences but also broaden to other genres you'd normally not read!
If you want a way to like back up your tracking in case you go a while between logging your books, I’d really recommend signing up for Storygraph. As long as you keep the edition/format you’re reading accurate, it will keep track of the hours and pages completed and the stats are just available whenever you want to reference them
Audiobooks saved my sanity while recovering from eye surgery and I think they are a fun way to enhance listening skills for those, like myself, who are not English native speakers. Gorgeous set up, by the way. 😂 🍵📖📚
Beautiful! I have a few ideas for categories. 1 - Time a: Novel written 2 centuries ago, Novel written last century, Novel written this century. This opens you up to read a mix of modern novels and classics. Or you could do page #s 400+, 250+, and less than 200. There are a lot of neat novellas that have been written recently,, like the Monk and Robot series. I agree that broad goals are much easier to meet and more satisfying for an intuitive reader. You want a goal that nudges you into breaking away from your comfort zone but doesn't feel like you are trapped.
Recommendation: The House in the Cerulean Sea by Klune!!! sort of a mix between Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and 1984, easy and a fast read with a little magic :) 🍵📘
I recently went back to try and resurrect my old reading journals - the way i was doing it wasn't working (writing down everything I started on a page then going back and writing about it when I finished) because I start and don't finish so many books on top of the 150+ books I do finish per year. But I had all these matching journals I bought when they were being discontinued bc they were my "reading" journals....So i decided to do some collage spreads for books that I really liked or engaged with a lot since that won't be asking too much of myself and it's just for fun
🍵📘 I love how the colors for the themes shift as you go through the spreads. It feels gradual, like they're all different but none of the color changes are "surprising" if that makes sense. They flow so nicely :)
Your work is always really lovely! Very calming to watch your videos and I am so happy your videos helped me starting my own reading journal. I solved my reading tracker problem by putting it in my bullet journal as well (as a part of the habit tracker) as in my reading journal. Whenever I feel like it I transfer the dates to my reading journal. I know it's double work but I just like to have a complete picture of when I read throughout the year :) And listening definitely counts! It's just a different skill, but not less important. I try to vary in listening and reading and I like to note in my journal if I read or listened to the book. I have also differentiated in 'books to read' and 'books to listen', which I just find a fun thing to do.
This is a wonderful journal idea! I've been reading lots of cookbooks and sharing on Facebook, and I get groceries so I can make the yummy food, then I have to find which book it's in again! A spread for each book will allow me to note which recipes I'd like to shop for and make! ❤❤❤
🍵📚 I really love your reading journal style. I've only recently got into bullet journalling but I'm already itching to have a second journal for reading. I love the themes you've used and how you do your spreads for each book in your previous journal. Will definitely be keeping an eye out for your future reading journal pages ☺️
As someone with chronic illnesses- reading a physical book takes way more of my energy than listening to one so I also do more audible books than anything these days! If I don’t, I’d have 0 energy to spend on normal activities that others take for granted! ❤❤❤
🍵📚I used to read a lot when I was a teenager too and I’ve been trying to get back to that reading joy. Maybe I’ll try out a reading journal next year 😊 These spreads were all so very pretty and inspiring!
thanks for the inspo! I completely agree about the daily tracker, I did my first tracking spread this year and found I was only opening the journal when I started and finished books. Might do something similar to you tracking pages 🍵📖
An idea for a theme in your 2023 reading challenge: indie/self-pub books. It wouldn't restrict you in genre or theme you might not be interested in 12 months (quite a long period of time). But it will challenge you as you tend to gravitate towards books published in the US and there might already be books on your radar without the backing of a large corporation behind it. I did something similar this year and I found many great unique books. I know you like readable fun fantasy with a sprinkle of romance in it and you enjoy audiobooks as well. My recs for you fitting an indie/self-pub category (if you decide to choose it) are: Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent, Untainted by Lilian T. James (The Crystal Island trilogy), and maybe even Prince of Flowers by Nazri Noor. 😊
The best way to spend an evening off is with some tea and a journaling video 😊Your set-up looks absolutely amazing, I love how every page is a little bit different. Makes me so excited to work on my own book journal set-up the upcoming weeks! I'm so happy to see that you like using my stickers, thank you so much for mentioning me 💕
If you want some stuff that's really outside of most people's general reading sphere I'd highly suggest stuff from the This Podcast Will Kill You goodreads list! (it's called These Books Will Kill You) The podcast is about disease- mostly infectious, but they've been branching out into genetic conditions and all sorts of things, and both presenters are in the medical field and the goodreads list is an aggregate of a lot of their vetted sources. Obviously there's a lot of dry nonfiction but there's a lot that's written in a very comprehensible narrative style. I personally recommend the Plutonium Files and The Family That Couldn't Sleep!
I love love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 your journal. I wanted to try to do an actual journal like this on black paper. Just nervous to try. I love your ideas. Thank you for sharing. Tea time.
This just came across my feed and I loved it! I would love to see a mid-year update, but I definitely subscribed so I don't miss the end of the year flip-through and next year's set up!
I print out my book covers, if you take the image from Goodreads they are generally all the same size for when you want to print them out. I print mine out in "index" form, so they are all the same size. Love your journal!
Lovely spreads! I think you might enjoy Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews - the protagonist Dina is also a small business owner, except for a magic Inn :) it's a fun read, lots of cultures and aliens and ultimately heartwarming. The first book is Clean Sweep and the stories just get better and better. Another recommendation would be Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison - it's a refreshing take on fantasy - no action, battles, and such - just a kind and gentle protagonist who has to adapt himself to palace life and intrigue when he becomes Emperor unexpectedly.
I bought the golden hour set from NT just for the tape😂😂 gave away the notebook! I love the tape so much and hope they offer it just as the tape in the future! It’s my favorite.
Just woke up from a migraine finally feeling better. Thanks for the video, I could watch your content for hours. 🍵 📖 wondering where you went to University and what you studied?
you know what... I prepared my reading journal by comparing your 2021-2022 journals probably 20 times xD and ordered fancy notebook therapy for bujo with your code for the first time... finding best solution for my need.. I wish waited 24 hours :( ohh well I love how it turned out anyways hehehe :D I was in severe depression then I discovered your content consumed all of it in couple of days and realized journaling and scrapbooking is extremely therapeutic i know you are in japan and you don't have po box as of now but is there a way for me to send you a snail mail :) hope u see my comment and have an amazing day thanks for inspiring an artblocked frustrated artist to start creating back again :) ps: i ordered cottage core set with its stamps and washies :D before your vid as much as i don't believe in superstition :D:D it's a lovely coincidence
This year was my first reading year with a reading journal and it really does help me find time to read - my goal was to read new books, because I re-read a lot, and making spreads just really motivates that! I'm doing something similar in a way to your yearly challenge: I'm picking books by theme - a book with space, a book with a specific type of narrator, a book with dragons and so on. Maybe something like that could work for you? I really liked the green theme you did here - next year's colour theme is green for me, so that gave me a few ideas for spreads! I'll be looking forward to your November/December reads video in January - I've come to really adore your monthly reads videos! Have a lovely break over Christmas! 🍵📖
🍵📖 There's a lot to rescue from your beautiful journal, is so warm and cozy I really get inspired by it. I personally use an agenda but with the structure of a bullet journal and this is wonderful to see. Love ya 💚
Loved hearing more about your reading! Making Booktube videos has been great for my reading because it helps me to remember books so much better lol. 2023 will be my second reading journal and I kind of use it like an excel spread sheet to track stats ect. I love it so much. Your spreads are always GORGEOUS. 🍵📚✨
🍵📕.. I loved this setup Hedda, you have inspired me to create my own. Like you, i used to read constantly as a child, and have rediscovered it as an adult. I might just have to create my own reading journal to track my books read for next year too.. Thanks
I have just gotten that same journal to use as my bujo for next year! 🍵📗It's gonna be my first one, moving on from planners that I've used for forever. Your videos are what inspired me to make the switch and I'm so excited/nervous to try out this new method. I also want to try out a reading journal after seeing all of your and other youtubers' beautiful spreads over the past year. Excited to see what next year brings in books and stationery ^^
For challenge categories, i think something to do with your birth year or hometown or similar would be nice. or something about self-published authors. or something about translations :) 🍵📘
You always have the loveliest journals 📚 🍵 ❤ I want to do a reading challenge next year with genres I typically wouldn’t read, like graphic novels, non fiction, biographies, etc. But also throw a few genres in that I read a lot like mystery and thriller so it doesn’t feel like a chore.
I can’t believe 2022 is almost over and I need to think about setting up journals for 2023! I love all the bunnies in your spread! Green is a great colour… 🍵📖
Your videos were a big reasons why I started a reading journal back in January, because I didn't read a lot in 2021 and wanted to get back into it. I loved the idea of just writing my thoughts when I was done, and getting to do a bit of decorating. It's been a full year and I've read and journalled nearly 50 books! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
🍵 📖 I love your reading journal videos and absolutely love this set up! I used to follow the Reading Women challenge. They’ve not got one for 2022 but I still go back and refer to the past challenges as I’ve never really completed it but it’s always nice to be intentional about reading books written by women and most of the time I find books that haven’t even crossed my mind!
📖 such a beautiful reading journal!! I haven't set mine up yet, but mine is pretty simple-I have a bookshelf of all the books I've read that year, then book series I need to get to and then a bit of a book challenge, like the Bridgerton Challenge, Dark Hunter Challenge, things like that to get me to read. In my current journal all I do is print out the cover and then print out the aesthetic photo of it, but next year I wanna create a spread for the books I've read, then look back and read them, even admire them if I can
🍵📗 these spreads are so beautiful! I like that every page is unique, yet they combine together so well. I’ll start my own, first - ever reading journal next year, too, and I’m very excited on how I’ll like it. Definitely will be coming back to your channel for some inspiration :D
Your 2022 journal is stunning. I am hoping to do creative/scrapbook reviews in 2023. Currently I do a monthly spread that just shows me how many days read, what books I read - but no reviews - a TBR a calendar and a haul page. I will still do that for 2023 but then do a seperate journal for the creative reviews.
For the categories I have a suggestion that I myself tried out and loved. So I call it the ‘Underrated ? Books’ and it is for book with not particularly bad but not great reviews that I want to give a go to, and I end up liking around 50% of book in that category so I don’t know if this is a thing for everyone or I just have an irregular taste in books… but if you want you should definitely try reading a book like that of any genre you feel like you will enjoy to be able to give your own honest rating to it❤
🍵 📚 This video came right in time! Halfway this year I started to keep track of the books I read, and make spreads for them to make it more of a ‘party’ for me to read books. Your reading journal videos really inspire me. And this year I am going to start a real reading journal. So this video and your spreads help me to get started. Books I want to read in 2023: heir of fire (and probably more of the throne of glass series) and I want to read mindset/business books as well.
I love this setup! Thank you for sharing this...excited to see it filled it throughout the year. 😍 All of your supplies brought it to life, I love the selections. Definitely taking notes for my next reading journal setup ... I just setup my second not so long ago. I have to have a minutes tracker, since I track it daily. I have moved on to add a monthly TBR before the books for that month, which has been a lifesaver. I have to have a series tracker too, since that makes most of my reads and I want to keep track of those. I included a bookshelf, and I love coloring it in! So I for sure will keep that. I also have to have a ebooks tracker, so that I can read the tons of books I download lol. I recently added a Wishlist, and for sure will keep that too. Will probably add more space for next time lol I am looking forward to a lot of books next year! If you ever need recommendations for a specific genre, you are free to message me on IG @goddess_eve21. Always looking for new book lovers to chat with. ✨️🖤
It’s fun to come across journalers who make content like this. Super happy to see how your new reading journal turned out! Super excited to check out this related journal with 160gsm pages. 🤯 I’ve been looking for cute bullet journals that have watercolor potential.
Wow! Your reading journal is astonishing! I've tried to do mine a bit more like yours in the begin of the year, but it ended up being tiresome for me because I wanted to write my "reviews" in both the notebook and goodreads. So, in the end, I decided to write my "reviews" only on goodreads and use my reading journal in a much more practical way. But I really liked how you did the collage in yours, so I'm now motivated on trying something new on my reading journal.
For book recommendations, I don't know if you have read these or not. But since you like fantasy, and I read these three books in my high school years and decided I want to read them again, thought it might be fun to see your thoughts on them as well. They are part of a larger series set in the same world I think, but I think they are their own story arch. They are written by Margaret Weis and they are titled Amber and Ash, Amber and Iron, Amber and Blood.
🍵📚 I really enjoy your reading journal videos! They're like a never ending well of inspiration for me and the reason why I started a reading journal this may too. Keeping a reading journal totally helped me to get back into reading as well. The spreads I use are quite similar to the ones shown in the video except I don't do any challenges. Just reading whatever book I like to read, have fun and write down my thoughts about it. And I would totally recommend the Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers. Especially the first book. It was probably my favourite book I read this year.
🍵📖 I LOVE the spreads in your reading journal. I’m not much of a reader, but do love watching reading journal videos LoL doesn’t make any sense. I guess the creative process of it all is what brings me back to watching these videos. Looking forward to your spreads in 2023!
I see the appeal of audio books, but I personally can't do them. I listen to music and put on videos while doing something to tune them out so I can concentrate on what I'm doing. Also my attention span can be really bad sometimes so I'll be listening to something and I'll just want to watch something. Also my reason for my reading journal is kind of the opposite. I've loved reading for years and I go through books really fast, to the point where I forget what the main plot is. I also kind of lost interest in my creative outlet so the idea of making a spread around something that I love just sounded amazing. That was almost a year ago now and I love every second of it. I now remember more about the books and how I felt reading them and I don't regret any dollar that I spent on stationary and journals.
I’m so glad I found your channel 😊 love your aesthetic and calming voice. Yours is the second reading journal video I’ve watched and I’m thinking I need to start one for 2023! Thanks for a lovely video ❤
What a nice video, so relaxing as well as inspiring. And thank you for what you said about audiobooks, I too count them as 'reading', or rather 'consuming books'. It's an easy way to fit more books into my life.
🍵 📖 😊 I really enjoyed watching this video. I’m also having a Reading Journal. You gave me lots of news ideas for my journal 😍 thank you for inspiration ❤
🍵📖 When it comes to a reading challenge, I have a different approach. Instead of "Read that many books", I go with certain themes and made a reading bingo, where I can cross out the theme I read. Examples: - read a book set in space, - read a book from your favourite author you haven't read yet, - read a book you picked out solely for the cover, - read a book where an animal is the main character, - read a book with a genre you'd normally not read etc. You can pick as many as you want with themes that are sure to fit your reading preferences but also broaden to other genres you'd normally not read!
This is what I am planning on doing too. I will colour them in as I go, and see how far I'll get.
I love these theme examples!
Such a good idea!
I do the same, it is much more motivating! 🥰
I love this idea, I wanna do this next year
I literally just had a panic attack and this video is calming me down immensely. Thank you for posting this.
I’m sorry you had a panic attack, that’s no fun😢 But happy I can contribute in a positive way❤️🥺
If you want a way to like back up your tracking in case you go a while between logging your books, I’d really recommend signing up for Storygraph. As long as you keep the edition/format you’re reading accurate, it will keep track of the hours and pages completed and the stats are just available whenever you want to reference them
Audiobooks saved my sanity while recovering from eye surgery and I think they are a fun way to enhance listening skills for those, like myself, who are not English native speakers. Gorgeous set up, by the way. 😂 🍵📖📚
I am so happy to find your channel. Your pages are beautiful and your voice so soothing.
I love you pages …… I will follow your pages is so simple it’s not overwhelming and not over flowing with a lot of stuffs
Beautiful! I have a few ideas for categories. 1 - Time a: Novel written 2 centuries ago, Novel written last century, Novel written this century. This opens you up to read a mix of modern novels and classics. Or you could do page #s 400+, 250+, and less than 200. There are a lot of neat novellas that have been written recently,, like the Monk and Robot series. I agree that broad goals are much easier to meet and more satisfying for an intuitive reader. You want a goal that nudges you into breaking away from your comfort zone but doesn't feel like you are trapped.
Recommendation: The House in the Cerulean Sea by Klune!!! sort of a mix between Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and 1984, easy and a fast read with a little magic :) 🍵📘
I've never seen it described like that but you've absolutely nailed the vibe. Will be using this comparison in future to recommend it
I recently went back to try and resurrect my old reading journals - the way i was doing it wasn't working (writing down everything I started on a page then going back and writing about it when I finished) because I start and don't finish so many books on top of the 150+ books I do finish per year. But I had all these matching journals I bought when they were being discontinued bc they were my "reading" journals....So i decided to do some collage spreads for books that I really liked or engaged with a lot since that won't be asking too much of myself and it's just for fun
Inspiration left and right, Hedda. I look forward to every one of your spreads. 🍵📚Thank you for all you do.
🍵📘 I love how the colors for the themes shift as you go through the spreads. It feels gradual, like they're all different but none of the color changes are "surprising" if that makes sense. They flow so nicely :)
Yessssssss green is special indeed.
My favorite color
Your work is always really lovely! Very calming to watch your videos and I am so happy your videos helped me starting my own reading journal.
I solved my reading tracker problem by putting it in my bullet journal as well (as a part of the habit tracker) as in my reading journal. Whenever I feel like it I transfer the dates to my reading journal. I know it's double work but I just like to have a complete picture of when I read throughout the year :)
And listening definitely counts! It's just a different skill, but not less important. I try to vary in listening and reading and I like to note in my journal if I read or listened to the book. I have also differentiated in 'books to read' and 'books to listen', which I just find a fun thing to do.
This is a wonderful journal idea! I've been reading lots of cookbooks and sharing on Facebook, and I get groceries so I can make the yummy food, then I have to find which book it's in again! A spread for each book will allow me to note which recipes I'd like to shop for and make! ❤❤❤
🍵📚 I really love your reading journal style. I've only recently got into bullet journalling but I'm already itching to have a second journal for reading. I love the themes you've used and how you do your spreads for each book in your previous journal. Will definitely be keeping an eye out for your future reading journal pages ☺️
If you enjoy mysteries and a historical setting, I highly recommend the Shardlake series by CJ Sansom.
As someone with chronic illnesses- reading a physical book takes way more of my energy than listening to one so I also do more audible books than anything these days! If I don’t, I’d have 0 energy to spend on normal activities that others take for granted! ❤❤❤
This is me, too!
I hear this 💛💛
Do you have POTS ?
@@sunflowerproductions8259I think this question was for the original poster, but I do!
This is my issue. Holding a book up to read takes so much out of me with my chronic neck pain. I love audio books
🍵📚I used to read a lot when I was a teenager too and I’ve been trying to get back to that reading joy. Maybe I’ll try out a reading journal next year 😊 These spreads were all so very pretty and inspiring!
thanks for the inspo! I completely agree about the daily tracker, I did my first tracking spread this year and found I was only opening the journal when I started and finished books. Might do something similar to you tracking pages 🍵📖
An idea for a theme in your 2023 reading challenge: indie/self-pub books. It wouldn't restrict you in genre or theme you might not be interested in 12 months (quite a long period of time). But it will challenge you as you tend to gravitate towards books published in the US and there might already be books on your radar without the backing of a large corporation behind it. I did something similar this year and I found many great unique books.
I know you like readable fun fantasy with a sprinkle of romance in it and you enjoy audiobooks as well. My recs for you fitting an indie/self-pub category (if you decide to choose it) are: Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent, Untainted by Lilian T. James (The Crystal Island trilogy), and maybe even Prince of Flowers by Nazri Noor. 😊
thx for the bingo idea and recommendations :)
When I go to a new town, I look for local authors and have found some great books that way.
The best way to spend an evening off is with some tea and a journaling video 😊Your set-up looks absolutely amazing, I love how every page is a little bit different. Makes me so excited to work on my own book journal set-up the upcoming weeks! I'm so happy to see that you like using my stickers, thank you so much for mentioning me 💕
🍵📖 i enjoyed this video so much. Peaceful, cozy and a celebration of journaling, stationary & reading!! Your creativity is inspiring as always!
If you want some stuff that's really outside of most people's general reading sphere I'd highly suggest stuff from the This Podcast Will Kill You goodreads list! (it's called These Books Will Kill You) The podcast is about disease- mostly infectious, but they've been branching out into genetic conditions and all sorts of things, and both presenters are in the medical field and the goodreads list is an aggregate of a lot of their vetted sources. Obviously there's a lot of dry nonfiction but there's a lot that's written in a very comprehensible narrative style. I personally recommend the Plutonium Files and The Family That Couldn't Sleep!
It's official. I need a reading journal! I love books but never thought to have a journal. I can't wait to create one!
I hope you’ll have fun with it!!🥰❤️
love, love, love the 2022 flip through!!!
the fact you learned a whole language by reading books is beyond amazing!!! 🍵📚
🍵 📚 I love listening to you with the piano in the background. I listen to Bible on You Tube and do movies instead of books, my old eyes now.
I love love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 your journal. I wanted to try to do an actual journal like this on black paper. Just nervous to try. I love your ideas. Thank you for sharing. Tea time.
This just came across my feed and I loved it! I would love to see a mid-year update, but I definitely subscribed so I don't miss the end of the year flip-through and next year's set up!
🍵📚 I’m trying to find inspiration to start a reading journal and I’m happy I got to see your video 😊
📕 🍵 I love your videos! I giggled when you tried to describe why the color green is so special. I feel the same way! ❤
🍵 📖 so beautiful and creative
I print out my book covers, if you take the image from Goodreads they are generally all the same size for when you want to print them out. I print mine out in "index" form, so they are all the same size. Love your journal!
Lovely spreads! I think you might enjoy Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews - the protagonist Dina is also a small business owner, except for a magic Inn :) it's a fun read, lots of cultures and aliens and ultimately heartwarming. The first book is Clean Sweep and the stories just get better and better. Another recommendation would be Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison - it's a refreshing take on fantasy - no action, battles, and such - just a kind and gentle protagonist who has to adapt himself to palace life and intrigue when he becomes Emperor unexpectedly.
I bought the golden hour set from NT just for the tape😂😂 gave away the notebook! I love the tape so much and hope they offer it just as the tape in the future! It’s my favorite.
Just woke up from a migraine finally feeling better. Thanks for the video, I could watch your content for hours. 🍵 📖 wondering where you went to University and what you studied?
you know what... I prepared my reading journal by comparing your 2021-2022 journals probably 20 times xD and ordered fancy notebook therapy for bujo with your code for the first time... finding best solution for my need.. I wish waited 24 hours :( ohh well I love how it turned out anyways hehehe :D I was in severe depression then I discovered your content consumed all of it in couple of days and realized journaling and scrapbooking is extremely therapeutic i know you are in japan and you don't have po box as of now but is there a way for me to send you a snail mail :) hope u see my comment and have an amazing day
thanks for inspiring an artblocked frustrated artist to start creating back again :)
ps: i ordered cottage core set with its stamps and washies :D before your vid as much as i don't believe in superstition :D:D it's a lovely coincidence
This year was my first reading year with a reading journal and it really does help me find time to read - my goal was to read new books, because I re-read a lot, and making spreads just really motivates that! I'm doing something similar in a way to your yearly challenge: I'm picking books by theme - a book with space, a book with a specific type of narrator, a book with dragons and so on. Maybe something like that could work for you? I really liked the green theme you did here - next year's colour theme is green for me, so that gave me a few ideas for spreads! I'll be looking forward to your November/December reads video in January - I've come to really adore your monthly reads videos! Have a lovely break over Christmas! 🍵📖
Your 14 month journal is beautiful and I love the chunky! It's a well read life. :)
🍵📖 There's a lot to rescue from your beautiful journal, is so warm and cozy I really get inspired by it. I personally use an agenda but with the structure of a bullet journal and this is wonderful to see. Love ya 💚
🍵📚 lovely journal! Makes me want to try myself!
I've never seen more beautiful reading journal 😧
Oh that’s so nice of you!🥺❤️
Loved hearing more about your reading! Making Booktube videos has been great for my reading because it helps me to remember books so much better lol. 2023 will be my second reading journal and I kind of use it like an excel spread sheet to track stats ect. I love it so much. Your spreads are always GORGEOUS. 🍵📚✨
To say I am in awe and envy is an understatement
Beautiful 🍵📚. A reading journal is another outlet for one's creativity, just like yours. TFS!
Instead of cutting the middle page of the signature, you can rip the next one, that's so much healthier for the binding ;)
🍵📕.. I loved this setup Hedda, you have inspired me to create my own. Like you, i used to read constantly as a child, and have rediscovered it as an adult. I might just have to create my own reading journal to track my books read for next year too.. Thanks
I have just gotten that same journal to use as my bujo for next year! 🍵📗It's gonna be my first one, moving on from planners that I've used for forever. Your videos are what inspired me to make the switch and I'm so excited/nervous to try out this new method. I also want to try out a reading journal after seeing all of your and other youtubers' beautiful spreads over the past year. Excited to see what next year brings in books and stationery ^^
🍵📖 always enjoy your videos and your choices of themes and colors.
For challenge categories, i think something to do with your birth year or hometown or similar would be nice. or something about self-published authors. or something about translations :) 🍵📘
🍵 📚 i miss reading! It’s what really got me through high school 😊 since I’ve had my kids and started working it’s hard to find the time😔
You always have the loveliest journals 📚 🍵 ❤ I want to do a reading challenge next year with genres I typically wouldn’t read, like graphic novels, non fiction, biographies, etc. But also throw a few genres in that I read a lot like mystery and thriller so it doesn’t feel like a chore.
I can’t believe 2022 is almost over and I need to think about setting up journals for 2023! I love all the bunnies in your spread! Green is a great colour… 🍵📖
Your voice is very calm very nice to hear
Your videos were a big reasons why I started a reading journal back in January, because I didn't read a lot in 2021 and wanted to get back into it. I loved the idea of just writing my thoughts when I was done, and getting to do a bit of decorating. It's been a full year and I've read and journalled nearly 50 books! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
🍵 📖 I love your reading journal videos and absolutely love this set up! I used to follow the Reading Women challenge. They’ve not got one for 2022 but I still go back and refer to the past challenges as I’ve never really completed it but it’s always nice to be intentional about reading books written by women and most of the time I find books that haven’t even crossed my mind!
Lovely as always. Exciting to start a new book…reading is such a joy 🍵📚
📖 such a beautiful reading journal!! I haven't set mine up yet, but mine is pretty simple-I have a bookshelf of all the books I've read that year, then book series I need to get to and then a bit of a book challenge, like the Bridgerton Challenge, Dark Hunter Challenge, things like that to get me to read. In my current journal all I do is print out the cover and then print out the aesthetic photo of it, but next year I wanna create a spread for the books I've read, then look back and read them, even admire them if I can
🍵📚A very cozy reading journal set up
🍵📚 This video has inspired me to start my own reading journal. I am trying to repurpose notebooks I already have for own. Love your videos!!!
🍵📗 these spreads are so beautiful! I like that every page is unique, yet they combine together so well. I’ll start my own, first - ever reading journal next year, too, and I’m very excited on how I’ll like it. Definitely will be coming back to your channel for some inspiration :D
I love this so much the stickers 🎉 are awesome
🍵📗 Your journal spreads are so beautiful! I adore your style!!! One day I might have the patience and the stamina to do this in my reading journals!!!
Oh girl your doing “k”s in your lettering, bravo 👏🏽
Your 2022 journal is stunning. I am hoping to do creative/scrapbook reviews in 2023. Currently I do a monthly spread that just shows me how many days read, what books I read - but no reviews - a TBR a calendar and a haul page. I will still do that for 2023 but then do a seperate journal for the creative reviews.
For the categories I have a suggestion that I myself tried out and loved. So I call it the ‘Underrated ? Books’ and it is for book with not particularly bad but not great reviews that I want to give a go to, and I end up liking around 50% of book in that category so I don’t know if this is a thing for everyone or I just have an irregular taste in books… but if you want you should definitely try reading a book like that of any genre you feel like you will enjoy to be able to give your own honest rating to it❤
🍵 📚 This video came right in time! Halfway this year I started to keep track of the books I read, and make spreads for them to make it more of a ‘party’ for me to read books. Your reading journal videos really inspire me. And this year I am going to start a real reading journal. So this video and your spreads help me to get started.
Books I want to read in 2023: heir of fire (and probably more of the throne of glass series) and I want to read mindset/business books as well.
I recommend using ring notebook if u mind the notebook being chunky
I love this setup! Thank you for sharing this...excited to see it filled it throughout the year. 😍 All of your supplies brought it to life, I love the selections. Definitely taking notes for my next reading journal setup ... I just setup my second not so long ago.
I have to have a minutes tracker, since I track it daily. I have moved on to add a monthly TBR before the books for that month, which has been a lifesaver. I have to have a series tracker too, since that makes most of my reads and I want to keep track of those. I included a bookshelf, and I love coloring it in! So I for sure will keep that. I also have to have a ebooks tracker, so that I can read the tons of books I download lol. I recently added a Wishlist, and for sure will keep that too. Will probably add more space for next time lol
I am looking forward to a lot of books next year! If you ever need recommendations for a specific genre, you are free to message me on IG @goddess_eve21. Always looking for new book lovers to chat with. ✨️🖤
🍵📚 My reading journal is an ever evolving progress. I'm trying out a new system this year, and I'm excited to try it!
🍵📚 loved your video so much, the spreads are so creative
Hello from Colorado USA. I so admire your creativity if I tried this it would end up a hot mess! 😂❤❤
Beautiful setup. I used your idea of plastic cards to bring washi with me when I travel. Such a space saver. 🍵📚
It’s fun to come across journalers who make content like this. Super happy to see how your new reading journal turned out! Super excited to check out this related journal with 160gsm pages. 🤯 I’ve been looking for cute bullet journals that have watercolor potential.
Wow! Your reading journal is astonishing! I've tried to do mine a bit more like yours in the begin of the year, but it ended up being tiresome for me because I wanted to write my "reviews" in both the notebook and goodreads. So, in the end, I decided to write my "reviews" only on goodreads and use my reading journal in a much more practical way. But I really liked how you did the collage in yours, so I'm now motivated on trying something new on my reading journal.
For book recommendations, I don't know if you have read these or not. But since you like fantasy, and I read these three books in my high school years and decided I want to read them again, thought it might be fun to see your thoughts on them as well. They are part of a larger series set in the same world I think, but I think they are their own story arch. They are written by Margaret Weis and they are titled Amber and Ash, Amber and Iron, Amber and Blood.
🍵📗I love your spreads. I'm gonna be doing my spreads. A varied of them.
Love this video ❤ very enjoyable 😊😊😊
I am so excited to read Legends and Lattes. Have a Merry Christmas dear friend!
this is gorgeous! it makes me excited to set up mine!!
Loving this girl!
🍵📚 I really enjoy your reading journal videos! They're like a never ending well of inspiration for me and the reason why I started a reading journal this may too.
Keeping a reading journal totally helped me to get back into reading as well. The spreads I use are quite similar to the ones shown in the video except I don't do any challenges. Just reading whatever book I like to read, have fun and write down my thoughts about it.
And I would totally recommend the Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers. Especially the first book. It was probably my favourite book I read this year.
I am about to start my first reading journal. Thank you so much for sharing so many great ideas. 🍵📗
🍵📚I gonna start a reading journal now, you inspired me 😊
🍵📖 I LOVE the spreads in your reading journal. I’m not much of a reader, but do love watching reading journal videos LoL doesn’t make any sense. I guess the creative process of it all is what brings me back to watching these videos. Looking forward to your spreads in 2023!
Thank you for the reading bujo inspiration.🍵📕
I see the appeal of audio books, but I personally can't do them. I listen to music and put on videos while doing something to tune them out so I can concentrate on what I'm doing. Also my attention span can be really bad sometimes so I'll be listening to something and I'll just want to watch something. Also my reason for my reading journal is kind of the opposite. I've loved reading for years and I go through books really fast, to the point where I forget what the main plot is. I also kind of lost interest in my creative outlet so the idea of making a spread around something that I love just sounded amazing. That was almost a year ago now and I love every second of it. I now remember more about the books and how I felt reading them and I don't regret any dollar that I spent on stationary and journals.
l love your spread so much!! the creativity is breathtaking. l wish l was that craft.
🍵📘 Beautiful setup! Thanks for sharing! I always love seeing Notebook Therapy supplies in action 🥰
I'm going to start a reading journal for the first time this year 🍵📖
🍵📚 I'm a big reader I think 205 so far in 2022. I think any reading is amazing regardless of number, style etc
Wow that’s amazing!🤯
this is gorgeous, this year I am starting my first reading journal, you have really inspired me :)
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That looks like it'll be fun to fill in. Happy Holidays!
I’m so glad I found your channel 😊 love your aesthetic and calming voice. Yours is the second reading journal video I’ve watched and I’m thinking I need to start one for 2023!
Thanks for a lovely video ❤
📚🍵 loooooved the spreads!
Your pages are always so beautiful!
What a nice video, so relaxing as well as inspiring. And thank you for what you said about audiobooks, I too count them as 'reading', or rather 'consuming books'. It's an easy way to fit more books into my life.
I love watching you create, your spreads are always so gorgeous!🍵📖
🍵📚 another beautiful set up! I love how every spread in your reading journal looks so different
🍵📖i appreciate you and your journey. Thank you for sharing.
🍵 📖 😊 I really enjoyed watching this video. I’m also having a Reading Journal. You gave me lots of news ideas for my journal 😍 thank you for inspiration ❤