I'm honestly impressed that you even managed to keep a beautiful reading journal for this long, I could never do it. The halloween spread: absolutely gorgeous This makes me want to start a reading journal, although I'm not sure if have the energy 📖
The Halloween spread is my biggest achievement I will never top that 😂😂 I mean your reading journal doesn’t have to be a work of art at the end of the day you’re doing it to keep track of your reading but also…. My mind was just like if it’s not pretty what’s the point 🙃
i still fill out my reading journal even though im not artistic i kind of just write the month, the books that i read and thats pretty much it but it helps keep track of the books that i read
this was so fun, seeing you fill out the old journal spreads!! About the classics: I just finished wuthering heights (I read the first half, stopped, read a literature explanation guide for it, and started it all over again because I understood nothing for the first time...) and now I am reading Little Women and it's such an easy classic to read!! 📖 I love your reading journal!! Especially your Avatar and February spreads are amazing! I used to do a reading journal like this before but it was too exhausting for me, so I just did a much more simple spread: one page a month. Just a simple chart where I can write the title + author, page number/format and my star rating. And I literally only put a different washi tape each month as a header and maybe use a different pen color or font... but like that's it. Not very aesthetically pleasing but keeps track of everything I want to keep track of!
I’m happy you enjoyed :DD I’m really looking forward to reading Little Women so I can see the new movie adaptation 👉👈 And honestly I really enjoyed keeping track of my reading and specific details that websites like Goodreads and such don’t take into consideration but at one point I stopped enjoying it and it just stressed me out and made me feel bad whenever I didn’t fill it out 🥺
📖 I still keep my journal but is because I keep my spreads simple no matter what. Tho I have left things out as the months goes by, but I really like to see what I've read. But, I had one where I wrote mini reviews of my books, but sadly stopped doing it just because I always forgot to update it 🤦🏻♀️
THE HALLOWEEN SPREAD IS MY PRIDE AND JOY!!!! and that’s exactly hot it felt for me as well!! Seeing all the books I was excited for and my past ratings like 👁👄👁 it was so nostalgic ngl
Your journal was so beautiful, Isa! It's definitely hard to keep up with, though. I've started one recently, but I just write down the title of the book, the date I finished it in, ramble a bit about it and write some quotes! It's nice to have something to look back on to remember your opinions at the time 📖
I remember buying the supplies; the pens, highlighters, stickers, tacky tape and of course a well researched bullet journal, and then..... I went into a loooong reading slump, talk about timing. Looking back on it, I put to much pressure on myself to artistically build a reading journal and make weekly, monthly and yearly TBRs including seasonal books (spooky reads, Christmas romance), that I ran away from it all. I'm no longer in a reading slump that lasted a year and currently planning my reading journal since I bought all the stuff, but this time I'm not going to put so much pressure on myself to do it all.
I love that some people keep such beautiful creative reading journals. I have been keeping a (mostly barebones) reading log in compositions books since elementary school (15yrs) and am currently in my third. I love using Goodreads to track my read books, TBR, and find new ones, but have found that I don’t like “reviewing” most of them so I have just started putting some personal thoughts on each book in my paper log.
When I first started reading books for fun (and tears) back in 2019 I also started a reading Journal,📖that lasted from September 2019 to June 2020. I abandoned my reading journal back then, but then 2021 came and I started again. I sadly got into a big slump from June til August, but I did my October spread recently and will try to catch up on the months I missed and do the spreads for them. I remember picking up my old reading journal in December of 2020 and falling in love with the concept for real! I love having a reading journal and I will try to maintain one for the following years. It's really nice to look back at something like that, especially with a "thoughts" spread, cuz I can read my exact thoughts from past me, reading the Shadowhunter books for the first time and I'm like T⌵T
the looking back was honestly such an experience!! i would love to continue with my reading journal but i just don't find it fun anymore :( i'm happy that you've found what works for you though!! your reading journal must be stuunning!
I abandoned my reading journal in august because it took too much time and because I didn’t always have the inspiration. I also haven’t been reading as much as I used to. This year I got into kdramas (thanks to you) and kpop, so now I have other interests to fill my free time. I feel like turning my (deceased) reading journal into a general journal in which I can gush over any of my many interests when I feel artistically inclined. But now a non related question: who is your bias on bts? is it jimin? (mine is yoongi =D)
A YOONGI BIAS 🥺🥺🥺🥺 why are they the sweetest beans I swear we have to protect you 😂 mine is actually jungkook 👀 when I kept my reading journal it was jimin!! But recently, especially in 2021, I have been constantly bias wrecked by my boy JK 😔👉👈
Loved this flip through! ❤️ I have three reading journals, all for different purposes. One is a lot of all the books I read, my TBR (all the books I own) and a list of 100 books I want to read before I die. My second journal is for monthly spreads. I keep up with how many pages I read a day. It also contains a bookshelf like yours in the video, and goals I set for myself that year. (I can usually for 2 years in one notebook). My third journal is for reviews. I use one page to quickly write down my thoughts for a book. I can fit two years of reviews in a notebook as well. My first one can probably last me until 2030 😁 Of course my reading fluctuates throughout time. However, I've found that my mood to read goes hand in hand with the mood to journal about it ☺️
I LIKE your idea of all owned TBR in it's own book! I have hundreds of books in my collection - I inherited my mother's library and my grandfather's library [both English teachers] and my grandmother's library. So in addition to all the books and collections that I bought, my library is huge.....I don't think one reading journal could list them all and still have room for logs and stats and collage and washi (the fun bits) 😉
Great video! Also understand abandoning reading journals/bullet journals. Like, I love to get creative but, I am a perfectionist! No matter how many times I make the pages, I can find a tinie mistake and lose all my love toe the page! Sometimes, it's not meant to be but, it's still relaxing to watch videos of everyone else's! The important thing is the goal of being efficient! Still, clap-clap! 👏🏽
Truly!! Watching other people’s flip throughs is so entertaining but actually keeping one yourself (when you’re very particular about how you like things to look and sometimes the picture you have in your head doesn’t come out right) is a lot harder than it looks 🤡
I haven't abandoned mine yet but I did abandon the aesthetic... I just wanted to keep track of my reading and with work I don't really have patience for aesthetics oop. It's fine. Loved how yours was turning out, my favorite pages are always the ones that are fuller (which can look messy but for me that's *chefs kiss*) 😘 📖
again cannot put the emoji of the day but loved the content! I am a bit sad that you abandoned your reading journal 'cause it felt so personal and it was so pretty! but i understand the responsability and time that takes to create a reading journal. i've tried so many times to start one but i just knew it was not the right time. however, i see myself starting one next year haha.
This is such a relatable video. I couldn’t finish this years reading journal as I just didn’t want to make time to write about a book I’ve already written onto goodreads. I have made one for 2022 but it’s going to be so much simpler. I really loved watching this video as I felt like I was the only one feeling this way.
I think your journal looks great! I'm thinking of making one myself and I am so hopeful I can mine looks as good as yours. I especially love how you drew in the book shelf and books.
this video is literally why i stopped trying to make beautiful reading spreads 😂😂 they were impractical to me in the long run -and i could make them prettier and useful in notion anyway- now I just keep track of the books i've read in the year and my thoughts about them, period. it has changed my life 😂
My journal is more like a logbook and I do monthly spreads but a bit different. I keep track of books I read, animes I watched, 5 fav songs each month, but I also make random not aesthetically pleasing lists with just a plain black fineliner. Sometimes I'm creative and other times I just do a washitape theme 🤷♀️ Also your journal is GORGEOUS
I think sometimes we lose ourselves in the “aesthetic” of it all and forget to make the journal useful 😔🪦 so sometimes even though it’s a “basic” spread, if it works, it’s already perfect!
Your journal is so stunning and i feel like this video put me in a reading mood! It was so fun listening to you talk about the Kdramas and books and it's also very interesting to see how your opinions on a lot of books changed over time! I personally never had a reading journal although I always really wanted to start one, but I'm often very busy and I stopped reading for a pretty long time so I always thought that i won't use my journal! I do have a journal to keep track of my general personal life though and it really helps me being motivated to get work done, so maybe I will start a reading journal in the future to make reading a regular thing for me again! 📖
You should definitely try making a reading journal someday but maybe also mix it in with some of your other interests like anime’s you’re watching or spreads on favorite characters; it’ll just become a journal of the things that make you happy and that’ll hopefully keep you more motivated to actually keep doing it 🤧
📖 I abandoned my bullet journal but it now functions as an art journal, a reading journal with way simpler layouts and for future plans, almost as a brain dump when my mood shifts. In yours, we could see so many pages on things you loved, friends you adore and favourite things and perhaps that is how your "bullet journal" could evolve. don't do it because you have to, do it when you are excited to do it !!!
Yes exactly!! Like flipping through my journal i was reminded of books that shaped who I am today, fond memories I made with friends and the birth of my love for kdramas 😭😭 just for that I would love to continue my journal, just maybe not try so hard to make it sooo aesthetic and focus more on jotting down the things I love!!
I *love* your reading journal! Now I feel a need to up my own... I write the book and chapters read each day on the left side (boring) and paint a watercolor image on the right side of the spread. The watercolor is always an image that represented something from the book.
With your book spreads, I fell in love with those beautiful drama spreads too! How simple yet beautiful! Also, do watch goblin, while you were sleeping and go ahead( mandarin drama) of you haven't! Those are gems!
I've stopped keeping a reading journal bc it was too much. I still track my reading, I have a regular Journal journal for my thoughts and just random things and I'll make very boring and normal list type wrap-ups at the end of the month, just to see if I'm reading and if so what I'm reading. I found that my reading just fluctuates too much to justify the time and effort a full on reading journal requires
1:06 te entiendo totalmente!! No es que sea muy dotada para las artes manuales como pintar y dibujar pero intento hacerlo lo mejor que puedo en mi Reading Journal y no compararlo (también tengo una amiga que siempre me pide que la mande vídeo enseñándola cómo ha quedado y me motiva muchísimo a seguir) pero esos días en los que no me apetece o estoy muy negativa y tengo que hacer las nuevas spreads, hago algo sencillo que no me pueda desmotivar más (aunque siempre empiezo a pensar: es que yo no tengo materiales tan buenos o tantos como para hacerlo mejor y demás 😅) Un beso preciosa 📖😘💜
Omg stooooooop I’m getting so emo thinking about our SJTR buddy read 😭 and i may have shed a tear when i saw the spreads you did w the gifts i got u uwu love uuuuuuuu. Also to answer your question i abandoned my 2020 reading journal and p much turned it into a kpop journal, but I’ve been keeping up with it in 2021 and am now on my second journal for the year :)
I still keep a reading journal, I was doing print-offs for them, but then I ran out of ink so I've been coming up with alternate drawings and things to keep up with my themes! Thanks for this video, I know a lot of people think they have to be perfect when it comes to reading journals but they don't!
I've abandoned 2 different styles of reading journals :( 1. because I kept hitting reading slumps and it made me sad to see them empty or lacking and 2. I couldn't keep up. Life was moving too fast for me to make these things as estchtically pleasing as I wanted. For now I keep track of them on Good reads and when I feel ambitious I add them to my calendar's note section and write awesome reviews 😂 I'm thinking of creating a "life" journal instead and my reading stuff get simplified and added to that so my calendar/brain dump/ reading/ k-drama watching / music thoughts can live together....that might be chaos, but that's my brain so it's fitting lol....this is why I have notion in the first place
No no but the life journal sounds amazing!! It doesn’t even have to be super elaborate you can just write down thoughts after you finish a kdrama or a book being like “I’m crying” or “i will never stop screaming” and add random spreads of favorite kdramas, favorite moments in your life, little mementos that you collect!!! Omg just imagining it makes me so excited especially if you rip through it at the end of the year because then you have such an amazing overview of your year!!
my reading journal that i havent even attempted a spread for yet crying in the corner like: 😭 i literally made a shelf like you did at the beginning of yours and that's all ive been doing RIP this made me want to actually work on mine tho, thanks for the inspo isa ✨📖
anything for you 💛👉👈 but also I feel like the bookshelf at the beginning looks so NICE and it’s also like a nice overview T__T too bad I couldn’t keep up with it 🤪😔
I started my reading journal in October of 2019 and am still going strong but it has changed a lot to suit my own needs and I'm only really artistic in the front page the rest is pretty utilitarian. 📖
Finally getting around watching this video after a major RUclips ban!!! I love you journal and it's aesthetic and omg each spread look so good...I am not even kidding and honestly as I creative person I get burned out a lot in terms of spreads and also having so less time to do everything u love is hard!!! I would definitely say the spreads are grt and loved the black spooky theme for october👻👻📖📖
Omg you make me want to pick up my reading journal again SO BADDDD. Legit havent used it since march or April of this year??? Sigh But urs is so beautiful I love it 😭🥺❤
your spreads are so pretty! i started a reading journal this year but gave up sometime in may... it was kind of hard to do themes when i'm not very good with calligraphy and don't have that many stickers LOL i'm thinking a fandom journal might be better-suited for me than a reading journal... since sometimes i'll go for months without reading and be more into anime or k-dramas instead. (i see that you watched her private life, it's one of my faves as well!)
I think that repurposing your reading journal into a more general one where you can include all of your tastes and interests is gonna be really fun!! And it’ll also make for a more interesting journal to flip through, seeing everything you loved and fangirled over when the year is over :’) also her private life >>>>
Omg this year is when I first got into kdramas and I am obsessed… I’ve combined my reading journal and a Kdrama journal into one now! I even have the Viki app cause ya girl has seen most of the good ones on Netflix already! 😂
Forget to read...become illiterate 🤣 reminds me of that scene in New Girl when Nick says he doesn't think he can read, he just memorised all the words. So freaking relatable
I've abandoned like 3 reading journals lol 😭 I just had to accept they aren't for me. I didn't ever want to dedicate the time to printing out images, collecting stickers, and making it look how I wanted. I'm planning to try aclockworkreader's reading journal because that's just fill in and not decorate yourself, I hope it works out 😂
Omg when she announced she was coming out with a reading journal I got SO EXCITED!! I cant wait to see more details of the inside and maybe even get a copy for myself 💛👀
Hey sis , it's only been few minutes that I found ur channel . It was the annotate video of yours . While watching that I thought why is it so comfortable to understand ur talks of course u did amazing making people understand that but still I was wondering where are these homie vibes coming from !. Now I now how and where I'm just like I girl I like to read , I like anime , I like BTS , I like kdrama some people say it's a weird combo but finally I've found another person with this combo as well. Totally loving ur videos 😘
lol i abandoned my reading journal too, now i just stick the covers of the books i read with the star rating below it in the back of my bullet journal😂💜📖
Honestly these past two years I feel like all of my artistic talent has oozed out of my body 🤡🤡 I flip through these pages and it’s like… I could never do this again
As someone who barely manages to finish a book a month these days your comment about " apparently I read 20 books that month, that sounds fake." was so real lol 📖 I just recently started a journal but I knew I could never make fancy spreads and definitely no shelves for what I read that month (since yeah, 1 book maybe) so I just made it a media journal in general and I've made spreads for only things I feel like making spreads about lol I have a physical tbr one of all the books I own that I haven't read yet and one for 2021 for everything I read that year and then just random video game spreads so far
sis you've lasted longer than me! I started my bujo January of this year and I'm behind on three months worth now aha ha omg it was so sad seeing your little note underneath ninth house. i'm so sorry baby :((
I totally abandoned my reading journal because I’m not that artistic or motivated. so I moved to notion so it looks more “professional”😂 12:20 I noticed you had Star Daughter on this list, I recently DNFed it👀 I don’t recommend it haha
I tried to keep a reading journal once and abandoned it like two days later because the spreads didn't turn out the way I had pictured them and that frustrated me 😂📖
I started a reading journal back in January and stopped filling it in May because each time I finish a book I forget to put it in the journal. Maybe I should change my tactics and plan better 😔📖
Yo amo usar mi reading journal 🥺💖 me gusta hacer los spreads 📖 Mi parte favorita es empezar el mes para hacer el calendario, casi no hago tbr porque soy a mood reader entonces normalmente no los sigo. Pero sí, definitivamente amo poner un concierto de Taylor Swift y empezar mi mes 🥺💖
The difference between this and other journals are the aesthetic, other people have aesthetic for all the pages or for every month (every book have the same aesthetic with pictures about the book obviously), like browns, pink, white or beige and green for example, it's most fast to do because do you have a "template". Xoxoxo
I suggest to do something simple or do what works for you that makes you enjoy it, so that you always look forward to updating it. For me, I don't track the days I read and I don't do tbr because I can't keep up with it.
i kinda want to make a combined reading, drawing, writing and normal journal in one but the last journal i tried to do i did not even finish february... XD
i started a reading journal this year but i only keep track of days read + a monthly wrap up and then reviews of the books i read that month (i tried doing something more fancy but got overwhelmed 💀). also the pink lips are jimin’s bratz doll lips right?
I love your reading journal! I totally understand why you abandoned it tho, I LOVE creative journaling but I knew making artsy spreads in a reading journal just wouldn't work out for me. Instead I just write down which books I read each month, when I started & finished reading them and what I thought abt them. It's very simple but this way I can see what I read and if I liked it🤷🏽♀️ Also, you talked abt Addie LaRue; I've been thinking abt buying it for so long but I've heard ppl say it was boring and I get bored by books easily if there's not a lot of stuff going on + I don't normally like fantasy and I've never read a book by V.E. Schwab and now idk what to do lmao What did you like (and maybe dislike) about the book?
the way you do your reading journal feels like it would work for me as well!! maybe i can pick it back up in 2022 🤞 for addie larue, if you're not a fan of slow-paced, character driven books then you should probably skip this one! it's a very introspective book that focuses a lot on the internal struggles of the characters so you might find it boring and hard to get through!
@@throneofpages Ok thank you, that really sounds like smth I would find boring😅 And I hope you'll enjoy working on your reading journal if you decide to pick it back up next year!
Oof, I've tried keeping up with different kinds of journals and I always forget about them after 1 month... Yours looks really good!! Also, question: Is there a way to join your discord?
He has very problematic portrayals of Asian characters (hyper-sexualized and fetishized) as well as antisemitism content; the problem is bigger than that but that’s the base of it 😔
People who can maintain aesthetic reading journals are amazing honestly. I could never 😂📖
Me neither 🙃🙃🙃
I can't even think abt making one- just thinking abt it make me not do it 😅
Sameeee hahaha
It's the opposite for me haha. I rush to my journal right after finishing a book :)
I'm honestly impressed that you even managed to keep a beautiful reading journal for this long, I could never do it. The halloween spread: absolutely gorgeous
This makes me want to start a reading journal, although I'm not sure if have the energy 📖
The Halloween spread is my biggest achievement I will never top that 😂😂 I mean your reading journal doesn’t have to be a work of art at the end of the day you’re doing it to keep track of your reading but also…. My mind was just like if it’s not pretty what’s the point 🙃
📖This whole video felt like a nostalgic goodbye letter to your reading journal and yet somehow motivated me to start one of my own😆✨
“Nostalgic goodbye letter” 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
Okay but like right off the bat I'm already loving that nightmare before Christmas spread
i still fill out my reading journal even though im not artistic i kind of just write the month, the books that i read and thats pretty much it but it helps keep track of the books that i read
this was so fun, seeing you fill out the old journal spreads!!
About the classics: I just finished wuthering heights (I read the first half, stopped, read a literature explanation guide for it, and started it all over again because I understood nothing for the first time...) and now I am reading Little Women and it's such an easy classic to read!! 📖
I love your reading journal!! Especially your Avatar and February spreads are amazing!
I used to do a reading journal like this before but it was too exhausting for me, so I just did a much more simple spread: one page a month. Just a simple chart where I can write the title + author, page number/format and my star rating. And I literally only put a different washi tape each month as a header and maybe use a different pen color or font... but like that's it. Not very aesthetically pleasing but keeps track of everything I want to keep track of!
I’m happy you enjoyed :DD I’m really looking forward to reading Little Women so I can see the new movie adaptation 👉👈
And honestly I really enjoyed keeping track of my reading and specific details that websites like Goodreads and such don’t take into consideration but at one point I stopped enjoying it and it just stressed me out and made me feel bad whenever I didn’t fill it out 🥺
📖 I still keep my journal but is because I keep my spreads simple no matter what. Tho I have left things out as the months goes by, but I really like to see what I've read. But, I had one where I wrote mini reviews of my books, but sadly stopped doing it just because I always forgot to update it 🤦🏻♀️
📖 I love when people read old entries of their reading journals, it feels like a small time machine full of memories
THE HALLOWEEN SPREAD IS MY PRIDE AND JOY!!!! and that’s exactly hot it felt for me as well!! Seeing all the books I was excited for and my past ratings like 👁👄👁 it was so nostalgic ngl
Your journal was so beautiful, Isa! It's definitely hard to keep up with, though. I've started one recently, but I just write down the title of the book, the date I finished it in, ramble a bit about it and write some quotes! It's nice to have something to look back on to remember your opinions at the time 📖
I agree 1000%!!! seeing books that have become a part of my personality is so nostalgic I’m- (ಥ﹏ಥ)
ahh yes! i love seeing aesthetic journals and yours is just soo pretty!!💖
I remember buying the supplies; the pens, highlighters, stickers, tacky tape and of course a well researched bullet journal, and then..... I went into a loooong reading slump, talk about timing. Looking back on it, I put to much pressure on myself to artistically build a reading journal and make weekly, monthly and yearly TBRs including seasonal books (spooky reads, Christmas romance), that I ran away from it all. I'm no longer in a reading slump that lasted a year and currently planning my reading journal since I bought all the stuff, but this time I'm not going to put so much pressure on myself to do it all.
I love that some people keep such beautiful creative reading journals. I have been keeping a (mostly barebones) reading log in compositions books since elementary school (15yrs) and am currently in my third. I love using Goodreads to track my read books, TBR, and find new ones, but have found that I don’t like “reviewing” most of them so I have just started putting some personal thoughts on each book in my paper log.
When I first started reading books for fun (and tears) back in 2019 I also started a reading Journal,📖that lasted from September 2019 to June 2020. I abandoned my reading journal back then, but then 2021 came and I started again. I sadly got into a big slump from June til August, but I did my October spread recently and will try to catch up on the months I missed and do the spreads for them. I remember picking up my old reading journal in December of 2020 and falling in love with the concept for real! I love having a reading journal and I will try to maintain one for the following years. It's really nice to look back at something like that, especially with a "thoughts" spread, cuz I can read my exact thoughts from past me, reading the Shadowhunter books for the first time and I'm like T⌵T
the looking back was honestly such an experience!! i would love to continue with my reading journal but i just don't find it fun anymore :( i'm happy that you've found what works for you though!! your reading journal must be stuunning!
I abandoned my reading journal in august because it took too much time and because I didn’t always have the inspiration. I also haven’t been reading as much as I used to. This year I got into kdramas (thanks to you) and kpop, so now I have other interests to fill my free time. I feel like turning my (deceased) reading journal into a general journal in which I can gush over any of my many interests when I feel artistically inclined.
But now a non related question: who is your bias on bts? is it jimin? (mine is yoongi =D)
A YOONGI BIAS 🥺🥺🥺🥺 why are they the sweetest beans I swear we have to protect you 😂 mine is actually jungkook 👀 when I kept my reading journal it was jimin!! But recently, especially in 2021, I have been constantly bias wrecked by my boy JK 😔👉👈
LOLLL “is it Jimin?” literally everytime I ask it’s always Jimin
Jungkook for me :)
Loved this flip through! ❤️ I have three reading journals, all for different purposes. One is a lot of all the books I read, my TBR (all the books I own) and a list of 100 books I want to read before I die. My second journal is for monthly spreads. I keep up with how many pages I read a day. It also contains a bookshelf like yours in the video, and goals I set for myself that year. (I can usually for 2 years in one notebook). My third journal is for reviews. I use one page to quickly write down my thoughts for a book. I can fit two years of reviews in a notebook as well. My first one can probably last me until 2030 😁 Of course my reading fluctuates throughout time. However, I've found that my mood to read goes hand in hand with the mood to journal about it ☺️
Wow that’s amazing!!! I could barely keep up with one journal I can’t even imagine having three 🤯
I LIKE your idea of all owned TBR in it's own book! I have hundreds of books in my collection - I inherited my mother's library and my grandfather's library [both English teachers] and my grandmother's library. So in addition to all the books and collections that I bought, my library is huge.....I don't think one reading journal could list them all and still have room for logs and stats and collage and washi (the fun bits) 😉
coincidentally i was looking for reading journal, and your video popped out now.
I hope you enjoyed!
Great video! Also understand abandoning reading journals/bullet journals. Like, I love to get creative but, I am a perfectionist! No matter how many times I make the pages, I can find a tinie mistake and lose all my love toe the page!
Sometimes, it's not meant to be but, it's still relaxing to watch videos of everyone else's! The important thing is the goal of being efficient! Still, clap-clap! 👏🏽
Truly!! Watching other people’s flip throughs is so entertaining but actually keeping one yourself (when you’re very particular about how you like things to look and sometimes the picture you have in your head doesn’t come out right) is a lot harder than it looks 🤡
I love this. Its so relatable for ppl (me) who are not the best at drawing and art in general
I haven't abandoned mine yet but I did abandon the aesthetic... I just wanted to keep track of my reading and with work I don't really have patience for aesthetics oop. It's fine. Loved how yours was turning out, my favorite pages are always the ones that are fuller (which can look messy but for me that's *chefs kiss*) 😘 📖
messier pages feel more loved for some reason ✧٩(•́⌄•́๑)
you were the one, way back in 2019, who inspired me to start a reading journal... let's just say I didn't even get past the first month oop 📖
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again cannot put the emoji of the day but loved the content! I am a bit sad that you abandoned your reading journal 'cause it felt so personal and it was so pretty! but i understand the responsability and time that takes to create a reading journal.
i've tried so many times to start one but i just knew it was not the right time. however, i see myself starting one next year haha.
i'm so happy you enjoyed 🥺
The aggressive cutting of empire of vampire was so satisfying😭
This is such a relatable video. I couldn’t finish this years reading journal as I just didn’t want to make time to write about a book I’ve already written onto goodreads. I have made one for 2022 but it’s going to be so much simpler. I really loved watching this video as I felt like I was the only one feeling this way.
You’re definitely not the only one (T___T)
I think your journal looks great! I'm thinking of making one myself and I am so hopeful I can mine looks as good as yours. I especially love how you drew in the book shelf and books.
if i can do it so can you! 🥰
this video is literally why i stopped trying to make beautiful reading spreads 😂😂 they were impractical to me in the long run -and i could make them prettier and useful in notion anyway- now I just keep track of the books i've read in the year and my thoughts about them, period. it has changed my life 😂
Such dedications!! Your spreads are amaaaaazingggg!!!
Thank you so much!!! 💖✨
My journal is more like a logbook and I do monthly spreads but a bit different. I keep track of books I read, animes I watched, 5 fav songs each month, but I also make random not aesthetically pleasing lists with just a plain black fineliner. Sometimes I'm creative and other times I just do a washitape theme 🤷♀️ Also your journal is GORGEOUS
I think sometimes we lose ourselves in the “aesthetic” of it all and forget to make the journal useful 😔🪦 so sometimes even though it’s a “basic” spread, if it works, it’s already perfect!
Your journal is so stunning and i feel like this video put me in a reading mood! It was so fun listening to you talk about the Kdramas and books and it's also very interesting to see how your opinions on a lot of books changed over time! I personally never had a reading journal although I always really wanted to start one, but I'm often very busy and I stopped reading for a pretty long time so I always thought that i won't use my journal! I do have a journal to keep track of my general personal life though and it really helps me being motivated to get work done, so maybe I will start a reading journal in the future to make reading a regular thing for me again! 📖
You should definitely try making a reading journal someday but maybe also mix it in with some of your other interests like anime’s you’re watching or spreads on favorite characters; it’ll just become a journal of the things that make you happy and that’ll hopefully keep you more motivated to actually keep doing it 🤧
I still keep a reading journal and I love it. I keep my simple and sweet
You are the cutest in this video 😍 The artistic vibe of your journal is immaculate tho, it flows really well together and looks so good ! 📖📖
thank you so much Astrid 🥺👉👈
the fact that i planned to have one cuz of you and now, i won't cuz you don't do it anymore.. i follow the queen 🤞✨
I- 👁👄👁
I absolutely love what you did with the cover! It is so beautiful!!!
thank you so much!
📖 I abandoned my bullet journal but it now functions as an art journal, a reading journal with way simpler layouts and for future plans, almost as a brain dump when my mood shifts. In yours, we could see so many pages on things you loved, friends you adore and favourite things and perhaps that is how your "bullet journal" could evolve. don't do it because you have to, do it when you are excited to do it !!!
Yes exactly!! Like flipping through my journal i was reminded of books that shaped who I am today, fond memories I made with friends and the birth of my love for kdramas 😭😭 just for that I would love to continue my journal, just maybe not try so hard to make it sooo aesthetic and focus more on jotting down the things I love!!
I *love* your reading journal! Now I feel a need to up my own... I write the book and chapters read each day on the left side (boring) and paint a watercolor image on the right side of the spread. The watercolor is always an image that represented something from the book.
The watercolor sounds amazing!!!
With your book spreads, I fell in love with those beautiful drama spreads too! How simple yet beautiful! Also, do watch goblin, while you were sleeping and go ahead( mandarin drama) of you haven't! Those are gems!
thank you so much! goblin is one of my all time favorites 💓✨
I've stopped keeping a reading journal bc it was too much. I still track my reading, I have a regular Journal journal for my thoughts and just random things and I'll make very boring and normal list type wrap-ups at the end of the month, just to see if I'm reading and if so what I'm reading. I found that my reading just fluctuates too much to justify the time and effort a full on reading journal requires
1:06 te entiendo totalmente!! No es que sea muy dotada para las artes manuales como pintar y dibujar pero intento hacerlo lo mejor que puedo en mi Reading Journal y no compararlo (también tengo una amiga que siempre me pide que la mande vídeo enseñándola cómo ha quedado y me motiva muchísimo a seguir) pero esos días en los que no me apetece o estoy muy negativa y tengo que hacer las nuevas spreads, hago algo sencillo que no me pueda desmotivar más (aunque siempre empiezo a pensar: es que yo no tengo materiales tan buenos o tantos como para hacerlo mejor y demás 😅)
Un beso preciosa 📖😘💜
Thanks for sharing! 📖 I keep wanting to start a reading journal and I keep abandoning it before I start it 🤣
I’m so happy you enjoyed!! 💖🙇♀️
I still keep my journal it kinded of motivates me to read 💕📖📖 also love the flip through 💕💕
Same though!! Im so happy you enjoyed 💖👉👈
Omg stooooooop I’m getting so emo thinking about our SJTR buddy read 😭 and i may have shed a tear when i saw the spreads you did w the gifts i got u uwu love uuuuuuuu. Also to answer your question i abandoned my 2020 reading journal and p much turned it into a kpop journal, but I’ve been keeping up with it in 2021 and am now on my second journal for the year :)
I still keep a reading journal, I was doing print-offs for them, but then I ran out of ink so I've been coming up with alternate drawings and things to keep up with my themes! Thanks for this video, I know a lot of people think they have to be perfect when it comes to reading journals but they don't!
The invisible expectation of your reading journal needing to be perfect is real!! 😔
@@throneofpages for reals, I feel this way with watercolor!!
I've abandoned 2 different styles of reading journals :( 1. because I kept hitting reading slumps and it made me sad to see them empty or lacking and 2. I couldn't keep up. Life was moving too fast for me to make these things as estchtically pleasing as I wanted. For now I keep track of them on Good reads and when I feel ambitious I add them to my calendar's note section and write awesome reviews 😂 I'm thinking of creating a "life" journal instead and my reading stuff get simplified and added to that so my calendar/brain dump/ reading/ k-drama watching / music thoughts can live together....that might be chaos, but that's my brain so it's fitting lol....this is why I have notion in the first place
No no but the life journal sounds amazing!! It doesn’t even have to be super elaborate you can just write down thoughts after you finish a kdrama or a book being like “I’m crying” or “i will never stop screaming” and add random spreads of favorite kdramas, favorite moments in your life, little mementos that you collect!!!
Omg just imagining it makes me so excited especially if you rip through it at the end of the year because then you have such an amazing overview of your year!!
my reading journal that i havent even attempted a spread for yet crying in the corner like: 😭
i literally made a shelf like you did at the beginning of yours and that's all ive been doing RIP
this made me want to actually work on mine tho, thanks for the inspo isa ✨📖
anything for you 💛👉👈 but also I feel like the bookshelf at the beginning looks so NICE and it’s also like a nice overview T__T too bad I couldn’t keep up with it 🤪😔
I can't even maintain a clean room.... I can't even imagine how to maintain a beautiful reading journal 🥺
You’re too kind 🥺👉👈
I started my reading journal in October of 2019 and am still going strong but it has changed a lot to suit my own needs and I'm only really artistic in the front page the rest is pretty utilitarian. 📖
Hey I really love your videos and I never get board❤️📖
thank you so much 💛✨
Finally getting around watching this video after a major RUclips ban!!! I love you journal and it's aesthetic and omg each spread look so good...I am not even kidding and honestly as I creative person I get burned out a lot in terms of spreads and also having so less time to do everything u love is hard!!! I would definitely say the spreads are grt and loved the black spooky theme for october👻👻📖📖
RUclips ban???? 😔😔👉👈 my October spread is honesty my pride and joy I will always boast about it and show it off it’s **chef’s kiss**
Omg you make me want to pick up my reading journal again SO BADDDD.
Legit havent used it since march or April of this year??? Sigh
But urs is so beautiful I love it 😭🥺❤
i love you 🥺👉👈
📖 The spreads are soooooo cute 😍
thank you!!
Your reading journal looks like a cw vampire 🤌🏻
I actually got inspired to continue with my own which also was abandoned after a year x 📖
A CW VAMPIRE DKDJCH 💀💀😂
your spreads are so pretty! i started a reading journal this year but gave up sometime in may... it was kind of hard to do themes when i'm not very good with calligraphy and don't have that many stickers LOL
i'm thinking a fandom journal might be better-suited for me than a reading journal... since sometimes i'll go for months without reading and be more into anime or k-dramas instead. (i see that you watched her private life, it's one of my faves as well!)
I think that repurposing your reading journal into a more general one where you can include all of your tastes and interests is gonna be really fun!! And it’ll also make for a more interesting journal to flip through, seeing everything you loved and fangirled over when the year is over :’)
also her private life >>>>
Omg this year is when I first got into kdramas and I am obsessed… I’ve combined my reading journal and a Kdrama journal into one now! I even have the Viki app cause ya girl has seen most of the good ones on Netflix already! 😂
that's so cool!! :')
Here isn't wifi connection in my house. And I'm watching your video with my phone plan. And it's definitely worth it.
i appreciate that so much 💖💖
Forget to read...become illiterate 🤣 reminds me of that scene in New Girl when Nick says he doesn't think he can read, he just memorised all the words. So freaking relatable
I FELT THAT
I've abandoned like 3 reading journals lol 😭 I just had to accept they aren't for me. I didn't ever want to dedicate the time to printing out images, collecting stickers, and making it look how I wanted. I'm planning to try aclockworkreader's reading journal because that's just fill in and not decorate yourself, I hope it works out 😂
Omg when she announced she was coming out with a reading journal I got SO EXCITED!! I cant wait to see more details of the inside and maybe even get a copy for myself 💛👀
Hey sis , it's only been few minutes that I found ur channel . It was the annotate video of yours . While watching that I thought why is it so comfortable to understand ur talks of course u did amazing making people understand that but still I was wondering where are these homie vibes coming from !. Now I now how and where I'm just like I girl I like to read , I like anime , I like BTS , I like kdrama some people say it's a weird combo but finally I've found another person with this combo as well. Totally loving ur videos 😘
Ahh I’m so happy you found my channel!! i hope you enjoy your stay 🥺💓🥺
That’s why I rely on a whole bunch of stickers!!!!
lol i abandoned my reading journal too, now i just stick the covers of the books i read with the star rating below it in the back of my bullet journal😂💜📖
Okay but printing each book cover out is already so much work 😳🤡
@@throneofpages true true haha
Your journal is so stunning! Wish I could be this artistic 😂
Honestly these past two years I feel like all of my artistic talent has oozed out of my body 🤡🤡 I flip through these pages and it’s like… I could never do this again
As someone who barely manages to finish a book a month these days your comment about " apparently I read 20 books that month, that sounds fake." was so real lol 📖
I just recently started a journal but I knew I could never make fancy spreads and definitely no shelves for what I read that month (since yeah, 1 book maybe) so I just made it a media journal in general and I've made spreads for only things I feel like making spreads about lol I have a physical tbr one of all the books I own that I haven't read yet and one for 2021 for everything I read that year and then just random video game spreads so far
media journal sounds so FUN THOUGH
sis you've lasted longer than me! I started my bujo January of this year and I'm behind on three months worth now aha ha
omg it was so sad seeing your little note underneath ninth house. i'm so sorry baby :((
Maintaining a bujo is HAAARD I don’t blame you (T___T) also you don’t have to be sorry it’s completely fine 😭💖
I totally abandoned my reading journal because I’m not that artistic or motivated. so I moved to notion so it looks more “professional”😂
12:20 I noticed you had Star Daughter on this list, I recently DNFed it👀 I don’t recommend it haha
YES NOTION!!! (Which I’ve also sort of abandoned 💀💀💀) also thank you for the heads up 👁👄👁
I should count webtoons as well! I read more webtoons than books at this point 😂 (also, ur journal is amazing! So pretty! 📖)
you should definitely count webtoons! they're like graphic novels but.... online......
I tried to keep a reading journal once and abandoned it like two days later because the spreads didn't turn out the way I had pictured them and that frustrated me 😂📖
THAT'S IT THAT'S THE REASON
@@throneofpages the reason TM
This is so cute but I prefer Notion 😅❤️
That’s fair!! I’ve also moved on to Notion to keep track of my reading 💖
You keep questioning your spreads, but sis you are TALENTED! 📖
Thank you so much!!
Oo a journal I see, that is one thing that is hard to maintain I've tried this some time back and... Let's just say it's probably in a box
I started a reading journal back in January and stopped filling it in May because each time I finish a book I forget to put it in the journal. Maybe I should change my tactics and plan better 😔📖
I felt that 😔😔😔😔 I felt so guilty whenever I forgot to update it and that’s a major reason as to why I stopped using my reading journal as well 😭
Yo amo usar mi reading journal 🥺💖 me gusta hacer los spreads 📖
Mi parte favorita es empezar el mes para hacer el calendario, casi no hago tbr porque soy a mood reader entonces normalmente no los sigo.
Pero sí, definitivamente amo poner un concierto de Taylor Swift y empezar mi mes 🥺💖
I started a reading journal in January, this video made me realize I totally forgot about it 😂 I just write all my books in my notes app.
NOT THISS 💀💀😂😂😂
I wanted to start a reading journal but I'm too lazy lol so I started a journal where I'll make a spread off my favorite books instead
That sounds a lot more fun and more sustainable to be honest 👉👈
The difference between this and other journals are the aesthetic, other people have aesthetic for all the pages or for every month (every book have the same aesthetic with pictures about the book obviously), like browns, pink, white or beige and green for example, it's most fast to do because do you have a "template". Xoxoxo
I always say I’m going to start one and then I never do 😩
Me with most things in my life 🤡🤡
I suggest to do something simple or do what works for you that makes you enjoy it, so that you always look forward to updating it. For me, I don't track the days I read and I don't do tbr because I can't keep up with it.
Did you draw that drawing with Hermione and her cat?? I love it!
it’s actually a sticker!! 💛✨
Oh okay thanks! I will be looking for these stickers now 💛
Omg what markers are these?? Need them in My life
✨Tanmit Fine Tip Dual Brush Marker Pens✨
i kinda want to make a combined reading, drawing, writing and normal journal in one but the last journal i tried to do i did not even finish february... XD
2022 is about second chances 😤
Why don't you like nevernight anymore? I've been wanting to start it. Is it not worth it?
The book itself is really good and I used to talk about it all the time but the author is very problematic so :(
Its so nice makes me want to do a reading journal too
i started a reading journal this year but i only keep track of days read + a monthly wrap up and then reviews of the books i read that month (i tried doing something more fancy but got overwhelmed 💀). also the pink lips are jimin’s bratz doll lips right?
JIMINS BRATZ DOLL LIPS DING DING DING!!!! we have a winner 💛🧡❤️❤️💛🧡❤️💛💛❤️
goodreads is my reading journal 😔 though I wish goodreads too, was covered in BTS pics (also ur spreads were so cute!) 📖
If goodreads were full of bts pics I would never look at another reading journal ever again 😔😔😔😔
@@throneofpages amen
I bought a reading journal and wrote like one list on it and never looked at it again 🙈
Subscribed, cuz u’ve the same taste as me, even my k-pop bias “queen joyyyyyyy”
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I love your reading journal!
I totally understand why you abandoned it tho, I LOVE creative journaling but I knew making artsy spreads in a reading journal just wouldn't work out for me.
Instead I just write down which books I read each month, when I started & finished reading them and what I thought abt them.
It's very simple but this way I can see what I read and if I liked it🤷🏽♀️
Also, you talked abt Addie LaRue; I've been thinking abt buying it for so long but I've heard ppl say it was boring and I get bored by books easily if there's not a lot of stuff going on + I don't normally like fantasy and I've never read a book by V.E. Schwab and now idk what to do lmao
What did you like (and maybe dislike) about the book?
the way you do your reading journal feels like it would work for me as well!! maybe i can pick it back up in 2022 🤞
for addie larue, if you're not a fan of slow-paced, character driven books then you should probably skip this one! it's a very introspective book that focuses a lot on the internal struggles of the characters so you might find it boring and hard to get through!
@@throneofpages Ok thank you, that really sounds like smth I would find boring😅 And I hope you'll enjoy working on your reading journal if you decide to pick it back up next year!
📖 !!❤️❤️
Oof, I've tried keeping up with different kinds of journals and I always forget about them after 1 month... Yours looks really good!!
Also, question: Is there a way to join your discord?
Thank you 🥺👉👈 also here’s the link to join my discord 🪄 discord.gg/Xp468uaa
I still keep my reading journal, but I don't keep up with it that much anymore.
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I always wanted to do a reading journal, and every time I see notebooks I just think of making one myself, but they look so tiring to make 😭📖
From an insider point of view the answer is: yes, it is tiring 😭😭😭
How is your old journal prettier than my current one.... life is unfair... Lol jk, great video!
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I finally realized that the song was from Genshin Impact!! I never listen to it while I play...
The genshin OST is literally so beautiful how can you not listen 😭😭
@@throneofpages I usually listen to audiobooks or watch booktube!
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📖I’m curious about your reactions to Nevernight and that vampire one
I tried to keep a reading journal like that once, but it ended pretty much straight away 😂📖📖
I felt that 😭
@@throneofpages it also happened when I tried to keep a bullet journal, and every time I've tried to keep a diary 😭😭😂😂
Yay ARMY!
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Are they Jimin's lips? 😂 It must have felt so good to look back at all those pages filled with memories 😊
Also are u having fun with Jade City?🙂
YOU GET 500 BROWNIE POINTS!! 💜💜💜
Also….. don’t talk to me about jade city pls 😔😭
What did the author of nevernight? I read a long ago that he defended a racist friend? Is that? I wanna know!!
He has very problematic portrayals of Asian characters (hyper-sexualized and fetishized) as well as antisemitism content; the problem is bigger than that but that’s the base of it 😔
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