The canva video is live 🎉 kzread.info/dash/bejne/n3WFxbxsg8rfds4.html check it out for the behind the scenes of my reading journal - all the prep work I do before I can sit down and start journaling! From finding images, to sizing book covers, to making stats charts - it’s all here ❤ I hope I answered all of your questions!!

@rakisk8r

3 ай бұрын

Thank you i shall do that!!

Yes, I would love to see your journal and how you put it together every other month…or more. I love seeing how different people showcase their books read and spreads. 😊

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I find it so interesting, too!

@musicandart78

3 ай бұрын

l loved it as well!! thks Elizabeth

Yes! more bookish journal content!

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Will do!

I really enjoy these reading journal videos and would love to have one every two months or so. Also, I would like a video on how you use Canva to print out the various images. Thank you.

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Noted!

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I’ve made the canva video and it’s now live on my channel! kzread.info/dash/bejne/n3WFxbxsg8rfds4.html

I love the square journal! I wish they'd restock, that is such a perfect size for a reading journal ❤ gonna get one for my next journal!

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I think I remember seeing that this design was intended to come back regularly- hopefully that’s still the case!

Yes please keep doing reading journal videos! I absolutely love them.

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Will do!!

Dear Elizabeth, thank you for another beautiful and thoughtful presentation! I absolutely love that you keep track of the diversity/representation and the different countries. I try to do this on a conscious level, to not only read stories written by or about people such as myself, where I was born, where/how I grew up, religion, education, sexual / gender, but i hadn’t considered tracking it. So cool! Having had to learn how to read again post-(minor) stroke I find it challenging enough just to read, but I really love that you care enough to do it! Thank you! I would deeply appreciate a PBB “how to” on how you access the images if your books (or anything you like to make prints of!) and how you do Canva to make it all so perfect! I’m 65 & have had a minor stroke and haven’t yet been able to grasp using Canva. I seem to recall that I’ve seen you do other “life journaling” but perhaps I have you confused with someone else. Thank you for your beautiful & inspiring videos, and your graciousness! 🥰 kari fox in Victoria, BC

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this lovely comment ❤ I’ve made the canva video and it’s live on my channel here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n3WFxbxsg8rfds4.html I sincerely hope it answers all of your questions!

Your journal videos are a delight ❤ so I for one appreciate whatever effort you can make to keep it regular 🥹

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Aw thank you 🥺❤️ I definitely want to be more consistent this year!

Yes deep dive into how you track your stats and design the stats page content 😊

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Your wish is my command! 😂 I’ve made the canva video and it’s live on my channel here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n3WFxbxsg8rfds4.html ❤ I hope it helps!

I find as I'm getting older, the more I feel like analyzing the book is the chief indicator of how high a rating I give it more and more (within reason). A book I found mediocre but it tickled all my "that was fascinating because of this one quote and the deep dive it made me go through" type brain muscles is likely to end up higher rated than one that was really good but also just sort of good in the way a lot of others are good. Note: this started out as my commenting how I feel my "full page review" would end up being 3-star weird books while my quarter page would be 5-star ones half the time. Then I edited that out, because welcome to Sunday night Doug brain.

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Haha I love this - completely relatable (both the comment and Sunday night brain 😂). I agree that I deeply value a book that can make me excited to analyze it extensively!

I love the Clan of the cave bear books and I agree, Plains of passage is... the whole book is a passage to the rest of the series. The one thing that brings it up are the meetings with people and the people themselves and the relationships. And yes, please kee inpsipring us with this type of video. It reminds me, and probably others as well, to keep up with my reading journal and gives wonderful inspiration for creativity. I almost never borrow anyone elses ideas, but they inspire me to think more freely and to let my own creativity floruish. 🙏

Yes, as much reading journal content as possible, please!

LOVE this take on a reading wrap up! Definitely inspired me to actually start a reading journal. I just finished Divine Rivals today, and I agree the ending was abrupt. It almost felt like maybe she had one long book and the publisher made her split it, considering how quickly the second one came out in comparison to the first.

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

That’s an interesting theory - you might be right!

And yes two months in one is a good format. The reading around the world page is one of my all time favorite. There is something really satisfying to travel around the world through books.❤

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I totally agree!

Please please please keep making these videos!! Your reading journal was how I found your channel! I would love to see a vid on the prep for your pages too.

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Aw I love that! I promise to keep making them ❤ the canva video is up on my channel now if you want to see how I do all of the prep work! kzread.info/dash/bejne/n3WFxbxsg8rfds4.html

Thank you for the reading journal video would loved to see more. Yes, please make a Canva video for the book pictures and stats.

It’s actually because of you that I even get the inspiration to read. Never been much of a reader, but I know it’s a great way to calm down my ADHD brain. Also a great way to utilize the piles of A&O notebooks I have! 😅

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I love this! Reading to calm adhd brains & using up piles of notebooks for the win 😂❤

Great that spring is on the way. Lighter mornings and nights. Hope you get some great stories.

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Same to you!

I loved the Reading List!!! I think I may take on the challenge of reading them all, many not for the first time, in order to feel what they felt!

I really like your bookish content in general!! And I'm excited to see more. I feel like I get so many good recommendations from you!

Yes to Canva video!

I love your reading journal! You have inspired me to start my own and it brings me so much joy! I have started reading more and love your recommendations, thank you! Please keep making these video’s! ❤

This is incredibly inspiring. I'm also looking into having a reading journal where I map out my reads, I'm so glad I came cross this video. Thank you for sharing! ❤

yesss i love all reading journal content!!

Love these wrap-ups - Sooo relaxing!

Yes, please keep us updated :) How about instead of a video every two months you do a video about the books you've read every quarter? :) Sending you much love and creative vibes

I love the reading journal updates!

I love love love your reading journal videos!! Combined my two favorite things from your channel! Reading and journaling. 🥰🥰

Your Reading Journal videos are my absolute favorite and so inspiring for my own! And Divine Rivals was a favorite of last year and Ruthless Vows was a favorite of this year... so far!

This was a lovely video. I've been getting more into reading this year, so enjoying this video even more now❤

Adding The Reading List to my TBR.

I just love seeing bookish content from you I general. Reading journal content is cozy, and I would love some How To content too, but the books are really the important part for me ❤❤

TWO MONTHS for the price of one video??? Elizabeth has blessed us today (yesterday) with more fabulous book content 🙌🏼

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Haha I love this 😂❤️

Thank you this was brilliant. Would love to see more like this.

I really love these kind of videos, I always like your bookish content. But reading wrap up are the ones I loved te most last year! Also because it was an overview of al te books you read and what you tout about. And I just LOVE watching you reading journal. I would like to see a video about how you make prep everything for the making of, it were te things I mast struggled with when I ad my reading journal, so I am very curious :)

Your book journal content is literally my favourite! I love every video showcasing your reading journal🖤 (also will you be making a flip through video of your 2023 reading journal?)

Thank you for creating such beautiful content. I really enjoyed this type of video and would love to see more in the future!

I love the way you've added the kraft paper, it's so pretty!! ❤

I love your reading journal videos!

Yes, I would like to see it ❤ and to the technical details too😊

I bet there are typewriter enthusiast facebook groups and subreddits you could post a picture of the typewriter and get help identifying it. There’s a group for everything! 😂

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I’m in a few subreddits but always feel weird about posting and asking for help 😂 I suppose that’s partially what those groups are there for, so maybe I should just go for it!

Absolutely loved listening to this !! Thank u for making this video ❤️

Beautiful spreads! When will you be uploading your reading journal flipthrough of 2023? I rewatch those videos for comfort, as your voice is really soothing, your opinions eloquent and your spreads just very aesthetic ☺

Aaaaah this is so beautiful. Love your reading journal set ups, always so relaxing to watch.

Finally getting a chance to watch this video while I work. Moon of the Crusted Snow was so intense I actually had to take a break for a few days because the suspense was too much for me at the time. I'm really looking forward to reading Moon of the Falling Leaves. Have you read Never Whistle at Night? Wabaushig Rice is one of the contributors to that anthology and I absolutely loved it. I read at least some of the Clan of the Cave Bear series when I was in Middle School and forgot about it, but you talking about it brought it all back! I love these videos because not only are you really insightful, but I also end up with lots of books I want to read.

I read Reading Journal, too, and LOVED it!

I really enjoyed this video! Beautiful reading journal

Loved this video! More please! Also, yes for info on how you prepare the book covers etc. I'm always looking for new tips on they.😊

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I just posted my video going through the prep work I do on my computer before setting up my reading journal! I hope it answers all your questions ❤️

So creative 😍

Absolutely love your journal pages!! I would love to know the sizes of your book covers! And I’d absolutely love a canva video!!

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I print them seven across on a standard 8x10 sheet of paper (with printing margins) and they’re approximately an inch by an inch and a half. If there’s general interest in a canva video I’ll add it to my calendar!

@inquisitivemindsacademy

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

I read Clan of the Cave Bear when I was 8, and I agree the first 2 are the best, after that it becomes a prehistoric bodice ripper. 😂😂😂

I would love to see your process on how you make your charts and graphs. I've been looking at ideas on how to setup my own

I will watch anything related to reading and bujos so please keep those videos coming!

I love this type of video 😊

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I'm so glad! 🥰

Love your reading journal-more please!!

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

You got it! 🥰

i wish i could see the setup and reading videos from you every month, but i know that would probably be exhausting for you!! instead i’ll just be incredibly grateful you’re thinking about going back to every other month, haha. while our tastes in books don’t always align, i’ve found some new favourites because of you. i’m always excited to see a bookish video!

Like this video; would love to see one every other month! Funny how you've completed 24 books in 20-24- in this video! ; I had a bit of a reversed world glitch in my system. I've written down many many books on my TBR that you talked about. And now you've read two books I had already read, books I'd recommend to anyone! In fact, bought my sister one of them in a "literary fruit basket" when she was very ill two months ago :)

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I love that! Which books were they? And the literary fruit basket is such an amazing and thoughtful gift. I’ll have to steal that idea! ❤

@lydiamodderman

2 ай бұрын

​@@PlantBasedBrideso sorry for the tardy reply! Please do steal it, it's so lovely to see others be happy with a new book :) The books I read are The Reading List & Deadly Education, I really enjoyed them! Have you read The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue? I loved it, maybe you will, too? Also: I had a mother, severely mentally ill. She went down Aiden's path. That's when I remembered your stance on trigger warnings, which I first thought unnecessary "takes the surprise factor away". I had already altered my stance to pro-warnings and this book confirmed it.

I really enjoy your reading journal content.

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I’m glad 🥰❤️

I don’t read enough to use Canvas but I also love data so it is a transferable skill so yes please do a Canvas video!😊

Yay! More reading journal content!!! I am also trying to strike a balance between reading more diversely and reading things I want to read. I really love a good witchy fiction book, something magical and cozy, maybe a bit historical (think Ami McKay or Louisa Morgan or Sarah Penner), but I also love to be touched by what I read, things that make me feel, and take me into the viewpoints of characters who have lived horrible things. Recently I finished the Last Heir to the Blackwood Library by Hester Fox, a great mystery set in Yorkshire, UK, and now I'm reading Five Little Indians by Michelle Good (which so far is SO GOOD and I recommend).

I really appreciate your book reviews and that you search out diversity. I always add to my tbr after watching your videos and want to read more so I can enjoy them all. And read and enjoyed Empire of Wild, Augustown, and Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead because of your videos. I really loved The Unwomanly Face of War.

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Oo three great picks! I’m so glad I could pass those gems along ❤️

More book journal content please! I'm also interested in seeing how you create your graphs and charts, and how you source that data.

I'm still interested in seeing how you source and size your images to print. Currently I just do it all in google docs, but I'm really curious how other people do it. You are one of the ones who inspired me to start my own reading journal, so I always enjoy seeing any reading journal content 🥰

I’m sending you love❤

PPS lol: omg thanks for the tea stained paper tutorial, I'm gonna do that so damn much. I've been buying papel madera (wood paper?? No idea what it's called in english). I like the texture, but it's very different. They might be good combined and adding a darker brown now that I think about it... huh. Well now I have some ideas. Anyway, thank you! (Yet another sidenote, I stole Auen's series from my mom when I was like 10 because they seemed really interesting, didn't manage to read them and they're still there in my bookshelf! Treasured because they're my mom's and have her name on them. I don't even remember what they're about, but I'll be checking them out!) (I say stole. I was 10. She probably knew and was really happy I was interested, knowing her 😂. Books always changed bookshelves magically in that household)

I watched this at the gym and then went home to do some journal updates...and Shakespeare stole a sticker right off the page while i was getting my tea! Why are cats!? Luckily, he didn't actually eat it and it was still useable after I'd let it dry a bit. What a sneak!😹

If you haven't found a book in Finnish yet (I am not from there but it is a neigbouring contry so we read a lot of finnish lit) I at first wanted to recommend anything about Moomin because it is so classic to Finland, so any book by Tove Jansson about the Moomin, BUT its is catered to a younger audience. So instead I would like to recommend "The year of the Hare" by Arto Paasilinna or "When the doves disapperead" by Sofi Oksanen. I looked them up and they are translated and these are the english titles, and they are on good reads. (Not all books from Scandinavia or northern Europe are to be found there I have found).

I was named after the female main character of the Clan of the Cavebear series, but I have yet to read the books. I haven't heard many people mention the series. I might need to finally read the series.

Recently found your channel and absolutely love it. I am not sure if you have ever heard this before, but I am so happy that you are a long-term vegan. I feel icky following a creator I like and then randomly seeing them eating animals and showcasing that. I am glad I do not have to get those moments of disappointment with your content and can freely enjoy it!

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Welcome! I celebrated 10 years vegan a couple years ago and it felt amazing ❤️

It is very interesting to see how the Goodreads awards books lack diversity in representation, huh? So cool of you to keep track of these stats, I love it!

I'd love to see more bookish and bookish journal videos! Whatever you find both doable and enjoyable! I'm trying to start my own first reading journal, and hopefully if I can handle my classes and work this year without collapsing write the occasional review like I used to in my blogspot days. I think this is something I would really love doing and it might give me a place that feels safe enough to draw or collage or whatever I feel like doing without needing it to be perfect, thanks to it being about reading and books I love. I read so much and I love stats and graphs too! Most things you track are also very important to me. When I watched a reading journal video for the first time in your channel you talked about Love After The End. I immediately went to try and find it. Just the prologue left me sobbing, so it was a slow, very emotional 5 star read. It meant the world to me and made me so happy seeing you take all those things into account and use trigger warnings and just being generally inclusive of all sorts of communities, and reading all sorts of stories from all sorts of peoples and cultures. The Around the world challenge? I'd love to hear you talk some more about it, no matter how much or how little you read. I found out about its existence in your video and I really love it. I just love the goal of reading books from all around the world, even if it isn't so structured or meticulous or demanding regular reports on progress (which I feel is a good way to make people hate the experience and stay as far from it as they can, personally, but some people find it motivational). I am absolutely stealing some of your ideas for these spreads btw, like the space to rating ratio, which as like a guideline I find really smart. And these are always just so gorgeous, as always. I know the channel is about journaling and not books, in theory, but any and all bookish discussions would be most welcome too. Much love from Neuquén! 🖤

@tywinderbaum5283

3 ай бұрын

P.S.: I kind of do/study graphic design so I can somewhat handle myself on canva, but I'd still love to see your ideas and what you like doing and I think it could be extremely useful for a lot of people!

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Aw thank you! This is such a kind comment and I really appreciate that you took the time to share it with me. Love After the End had some of the most gorgeous short speculative fiction I’ve ever read! I’m so glad I could turn you on to it ❤️

New follower here. It's apparent how time-consuming a video like this is, but it's a treat to watch and enjoy!

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I seem incapable of making quick videos so I’ve just accepted my fate 😂❤

I would love to see how you resize and prepare the book images for your journal. I've been struggling with mine and retaining image quality

Clan of the cave bear and outlander by Diana Gabaldon are two book series that I got from the library as audio cassette audiobooks when I was in seventh grade. Apparently my mom didn't vet anything I read 😂 they are both in the comfort book category for me.

Yessssss please

LOVE the reading journal content! Fable does stats now, which might be easier for people who want an app to do it automatically for them.

the “just my typewriter” youtube channel has so much information about them and i’m sure she would be able to help you find it if you asked!

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

Oo thank you so much for the recommendation! I’ll check them out ❤️

@boots-94

3 ай бұрын

@@PlantBasedBride you’re welcome! 💜

I would still love the video on the charts and canva☺️

You should visit a library with the serial number and see if a reference librarian could help you. Also depending on where you are there might be an online ask the librarian chat and you could inquire through there to see if they have any luck finding your manual

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I’m not sure if my tiny local library would be able to help me with it but that’s a great idea!

Love yr journal work! Do you read physical copies and annotate all these books? Or do you keep a curated bookshelf? 💚💙💜

We need a Notion turorial ❤

oh…I also try reverse image searches with pictures of stuff I’m trying to identify!!!!!!

Recommendation for a book from Germany: The German House by Annette Hess :)

I just finished another book about Palestine which you might enjoy--Against The Loveless World, by Susan Abulhawa. We discussed it for my intersectional book club last week. I really enjoy all your book content, as well as your bullet journal content. And even your house/decorating content.

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

It’s on my TBR! I should see if I can borrow it from the library. Thank you for the reminder ❤️

Read House of the Spirits if you haven’t already.

18:31 These were my thoughts exactly about The Companion! Like don't get me wrong I am always down for well-written 3r0t1ca but that is not at all the vibe I got from the information I had about the book and I feel like the historical fiction setting kind of fell flat and was just a means to put everyone in the same room.

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I’d be curious to read more from the author, because there was definitely potential! We just needed the relationships to breathe a bit more, I think.

28:43 love the video but I’m not sure if I saw it correctly but New Zealand was taken off the map with your updated map? I’m from nz and a book I read recently which I really liked was better the blood by Michael Bennett :)

sorry to ask but what is that pen you were using to write your thoughts about the books? i couldn’t find it in your description 😅

Hi, have you tried reading ebooks/on the kindle? what are your thoughts? I want to get back into reading... but i have been holding back on buying books because i don't want to exactly build a huge collection, but I LOVE reading and holding a physical book. Maybe I'll get a kindle and only buy books I know I love??

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I just got my first Kobo and am really excited to start reading on it! I think it makes sense to build a physical library of your favourites ❤️

I have a reading tracking question for you (and everyone else)! If you read graphic novels do you track page count the same way? I was thinking about it the other day and graphic novel pages are obviously very different than a novel page and graphic novels *are reading* but should i track them the same?! Should i add tracking time spent reading with page count? should i just track them separately? what are your thoughts?

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I track them the same because at the end of the day I’m not too picky about it, and many other books I own are formatted differently with different sized text, some with illustrated pages, or weird formatting like in something like house of leaves. It’s just easier for me to count the total pages! ❤️

Is it not more important to read good books rather than diverse books? Books that can break open our souls n help us understand it n each other? Like if I had to pick btw say Gogol n a neurodivergent romance, id pick the former anyday. I understand the importance of perspectives and reading around the world but to read a book just because it has representation n to check off that box seems like a waste of time.

@PlantBasedBride

3 ай бұрын

I think the two coexist very well! Some of the best books I’ve ever read started as an attempt to read more diversely in one way or another.

@rileyroseinabox6754

3 ай бұрын

But how would you know that the "diverse" book *isn't* a good book? Do you assume that intentionally choosing to read things you wouldn't otherwise encounter would lead to reading mostly bad books?

@tywinderbaum5283

3 ай бұрын

I agree with both previous replies very much, and wanted to add that doing it performatively and to check a box is very different from doing it out of genuine interest. The first very often leads to the latter, thankfully, and it's a start, but it is different. And another thing: why would you pick a genre you know you usually dislike? You can find a book that aligns more or less with your usual taste (don't really wanna read the sameish book over and over again either, do we) and that has good rep in it. I usually like epic fantasy, and so I'll go (for example) look up some Igbo epic fantasy, especially if it was written by an Igbo person (as opposed to a person from the US who comes from an Igbo family, which is also awesome but different, or god forbid someone who knows nothing about the people they are talking about). I VERY rarely enjoy contemporary romances. If it seems interesting I'd check it out of course. And just to emphasize, diversity absolutely does not equal bad quality. Books and stories by and starring people from absolutely anywhere and from any background can be amazing. The same way we have all had to struggle through really shitty books written and/or protagonized by the same old western white men.

the one star for emily henry is so real