Do you have a reading journal? If not, would you consider starting one? ❤

@GailB0707

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I am currently considering it but I am not sure if I could trust myself to follow through it the rest of the year 🙈

@brittanymiller3396

Жыл бұрын

Yes I am but I'm trying to figure out how to make the picture of the Books like you have at 2:28 in on the video.

@OlgaVasquez0420

Жыл бұрын

I started one this year and your spreads give me so much inspiration. Will you be able to share where you found your map for the Read around the world challenge? Sorry if you have already share that information.

@jessicaedwards2353

Жыл бұрын

I started one this year, and it's been so fun!!

@balletbookworm

Жыл бұрын

Sort of. I do most of my rating/my little bookshelf monthly for books I've read that month in my every day journal. It's easier to handle. I did try to restart my old book journal (which I kept until about 2012) since i bought those in bulk years ago, putting in only my favorites/most meaningful books and it's...fine...but the journal is lined and the lines are VERY WIDE and I don't write that big lol ETA: but I also keep a comprehensive Access database of all my reading that includes author identities etc. and that's kind of where the money shot is (if I ever remember to pull the stats from it...takes a bit)

Please, make a video on how you do your stats, I would love to see it. Also, I dig the overall vibe of your reading journal, and I must say, as I read some of your reviews in it, you´re a witty person

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Well thank you! I appreciate that ❤️ and good to know you’d be interested in a video showing how I make the graphs/charts for my stats!

@holly2585

4 ай бұрын

agreed!

Yes, please on the book covers, stats, images etc! It‘d not only be super interesting but also really helpful for us newbies to the world of reading journals. I love your content and „save“ your videos for moments when i can watch them without interruption. The beauty and creativity inspires me. Thank you ❤

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Aw thank you! I’m so glad you enjoy them and can get some ideas from them 🥰

This journal is beautiful, that's why! I have a far simpler reading journal but it is SO satisfying to look back over it. My reading journals are my favorite books!

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Aren’t they so amazing to look through? I wish I had reading journals going back through my whole life ❤️

the stats, color scheme, and consistency of your journal is so pleasing to my virgo soul. combined with your soothing voice and the execution of the whole video is just chefs kiss!

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Aw thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🥰❤️

I like that size of notebook, seems fun

I’m so happy you’ve read a book from Ukraine. I wish our books were translated into English more, especially ones from the last 5 years, they are sooooo good and omg I’ve read so much Ukrainian fantasy this year and it was actually fantastic. I adore your style for these reading journals and hyped to see how your 2023 one will look! 💞

@selinabock152

Жыл бұрын

Can you recommend a few that are translated into english? Last year I read one translated into german, it was already a older book but I loved it so much!

@katies3625

Жыл бұрын

I would love to hear your recommendations!

@Zoffy_UA

Жыл бұрын

@@selinabock152 Hi! Sorry it took me so long to answer. Though, i can't recommend anything recent cause literally nothing is translated. It is super upsetting that Ukrainian literature is so unpopular for translation. But I can still recommend some older novels i you interested :) the City by Valerian Pidmohylny (1920s, modernism, urban novel) Tango of Death by Yuri Vynnychuk (2012, two timelines: pre ww2 Lviv + our days, has a bit of magical realism) On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs by Olha Kobylianska - i haven't found anything else translated, but I like "the Princess" more, (1908, kind of about love although Kobylianska was big on feminism) +the one I've read recently and can't find the translation, but if it's translated in the future just know that I recommend Andriy Lagovsky by Ahatanhel Krymsky (1905, I guess its the first Ukrainian novel about a gay man, also now people think that it is autobiography)

@selinabock152

Жыл бұрын

@@Zoffy_UA thanks for your answer! I've read and loved The City so I will definetly check the others out as well. Maybe I will find some more favourites!

@dariali1768

8 ай бұрын

I was also so happy to see Ukrainian books in this video! Слава Україні!

Last year, when I saw your setup video for this reading journal, it inspired me to start a reading journal and try to read 100 books in 2023. I've never been able to read that many books in a year and so far I'm going strong with that goal and my reading journal is a big motivation.

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

That’s amazing! 🥹❤️

Literally starting a "reading journal" but based on physical albums since I buy so many thought the year! I think that I can take so much from this and make it fun! Also to track what I bought/spent and rate of the artist is still my liking or not.

I would love to see how you create the book pictures and stats. I would love to see your process. Your videos are always so calming and creative. Thank you so much for the content.

Ive been waiting for this one!! never clicked so fast

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to make you wait 😅 I hope you enjoy it! ❤️❤️

I enjoy all your reading journal videos. I don’t have a separate reading journal, but I do have a reading collection section in my personal bujo. I would love to watch a video about your reading stats and how you create the book cover images. Thank you for the beauty, inspiration, book suggestions and thought-provoking content.❤

I'm halfway through Legends and Lattes and YES Thimble

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Thimble must be protected at all costs 😭❤️

This is stunning, I wish I had the willpower to actually stick to doing something like this

I love using Canva and would definitely be interested in a video about how you make your stats graphs (or anything else) using it.

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Noted! ❤️

yes!! so excited for this 🫶🏼

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoy it! 🥰

Favourite video of the year. I love your taste in books and i adore your journal 🤗

I loved this so much. 🥰🥰The lighting, background, and music give the video an added special touch. Thank you for sharing! 💗

Yay! I love seeing your completed reading journals, they’re so beautiful. I would be really interested in seeing a video of how you create your stats!

definitely interested in your process of printing the book covers and the stats. The question just started to form in my head and then just like that you asked if we were interested... funny

Loved the stats and honorifics at the end. 🥰 Also, yay for reading diversely.

Thanks to you I started a reading journal I'm so excited to share my spreads and talk about what I read soon ^^ seeing your spreads continues to inspire me to read and share my thoughts more ^^

thank you - for always inspiring me to take time and beautify my journals and to read more !

This is a piece of Art. Wow, Just wow. 😮

📔I don't even read that much books or have a reading journal. But I always enjoy your reading related videos. They're so relaxing and therapeutic. From the spreads itself to your explanations/voiceover. Love itt

So beautiful your reading journal. Great video.

This is so beautiful…I started a book journal this year. I love your idea of printing pictures that remind you of the book. There were definitely a few months where I fell behind so trying to catch up on old spreads

I am so glad you enjoyed Braiding Sweetgrass. It is a favorite of mine!

Your journal spreads are always so beautiful 🖤

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🥰

This is an awesome video. I've been wanting to make one as I read so much and want to keep track of it. I've seen a few reading journal by nothing like you'd . I absolutely love what you did. I would definitely be interested in seeing how you do your stats and book covers. Thank you so much for sharing 😍🥰💜💙❤️🧡💛

I've been following your videos for years now, and I am always stunned by the level of detail, imagination, and creativity that goes into your work. I love these reading journal videos in particular, and while the vintage vibes are lovely, I would love to see you take the reading journal in a whole different aesthetic direction at some point. There are so many directions you could go, and I'd love to see you keep pushing the boundaries of your creativity with your aesthetic. Regardless, tanks for sharing your lovely art and thoughts with the world!

This was really great! Your theme is soo lovely and soo you! I’m looking for inspiration to switch up some spreads in my reading journal for next year and this was really helpful! Also, I would love to see how you compile your stats to print.

📚 I only started bullet journaling this year so starting a reading journal as well seemed like a bit much, but I will definitely have one for 2024, the book logging part of my bujo is my favourite part! Taking lots of notes from your vids in preparation 😊

I just LOVE your videos! There is just something cozy and grounding about them! And your nails are also always gorgeous! Would you mind sharing what that beautiful slightly translucent red is you often wear?

I love everything about this but also that you put one of my favorite images of the woman in the tree with one of my favorite reads this year 😍

Yay!! So excited to watch! You convinced me to switch my reading journal to the archer and olive 8x8 and I’m obsessed with mine! Already loving all the spreads in this video 🥰🥰

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Ahh yay! I love my square reading journal ❤️❤️

So satisfying to watch! The tea stained paper give the spread so much life I love it! 📜📚📖

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! ❤️

I love this so much!! You've inspired me to start my own reading journal! I'd love to see the way you design the stats!!

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Ah amazing! I hope you’re loving keeping one🥰

I would love to see a video on how you do your stats and stuff. Thank you love this.

Lovely and such an inspiring journal! Thank you for sharing. This should really serve as encouragement to authors as well, because it just goes to show how there are different courses for different horses. I absolutely HATED On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - it was an early DNF for me - but I LOVED Project Hail Mary. 🤣📚

Your journal is so pretty! I wish I could make a journal as pretty as this.

I absolutely love your reading journal videos ❤ I started my own last year after seeing one of your videos and have been loving the process. I use a traveler’s notebook for journaling and added an insert for my reading journal. Thank you again for sharing and for the incredible attention to detail that is evident in all of your videos. 📚

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Aw I love this, thank you for sharing it with me! ❤️❤️

Yes please 🥹😻 could you do a video about how you do your stats and tea paper 📜👌

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

I have a video on tea stained paper! It’s linked in the description ❤️

very nice video its very appealing to the human eye love your videos and keep up the hard work!!!!!!!!

I bought an 8x8 bullet journal because I absolutely love the way yours look. The overall « esthétique » is so beautiful and something I associate with reading/library. I am still deciding on the spread I want to include. Around the World challenge map and the accompanying spread is my favorite. I don’t read enough for monthly spread and I don’t plan on doing stats but concentrating more on yearly reading goals and long term challenges like classics, different continents, countries, alphabet (author’s name), diversity, genre…. So may possibilities! But around the world will be included! Going to the tea staining video now.😊

This journal is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing. I clearly need to up my reading journal game :)

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

All reading journals are awesome! If yours fits your needs it’s doing its job ❤️❤️

I love your reading journals, especially this one! I love the themes ❤ I was inspired to start one that was illustrated but my reading dropped off sharply soon after I started. I’m working on reading more intentionally so I should be able to fill in more pages soon!

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I hope you get your hands on some awesome books that get you going again ❤️

aaah ive been looking forward to this video!!

Ooh, that journal is THICC. Every page is such a gorgeous piece of art! And yeah, would love that stats video! Thinking of starting reading pages in my main bujo, I don't read quite enough to justify a whole journal. Any ideas for condensed reading spreads, maybe a double-page spread a month, reading 3-5 books?

Would LOVE to see a video of how you map out your stats!!

I LOVED the best of/ worst of stats! I went and got my own reading journal for 2022 out immediately, and to my joy I discovered I have three pages left at the end to do my own version. Yay! And I 100% agree on the twist in The Last House on Needless Strett. Wow! It's one of those things that makes you want to go back and read the book again, right away.

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Aw yay I love that! It was fun to make those final spreads 🥰 yeah, that twist was something else! That book was so intense 😳

The shadow of the wind serie is one of my favourites from spanish authors (Im from Spain), i LOVE it, and its great to see you read and enjoyed it to

This is so cool!

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks for sharing your lovely journal. I love the dark academia style. I need to make some tea stained paper, so I will check out your video. The last time I messed around, I did some turmeric stained pages that were pretty. I just added ground turmeric to hot water and steeped it before straining. Two Canadian recs for you in case you haven't read them. Both are all-time favorite books. Born Naked, an autobiography by Farley Mowat Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

this was such a beautiful and oh so comprehensive tour of your book journal, i have picked up some new ideas! i would personally love to see more info on how you create your stats.. i am also so pleased to see someone else dislike 'my year of rest and relaxation' as much as me.. reading that has caused such booktok trust issues for me.

I would definitely love to see a video on how you do the stats

Please, make a video on how you do your stats. I have a Notion that is use to keep track of some things but I would love to have graphs too!

Another good one, "Do They Hear You When You Cry" by Fauziya Kassindja. She is from Burkina Faso

This is stunning

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I would love to see how you do the stats! :) love your reading journal videos its so like calming lol

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Aw haha thank you! ❤️

Thank you so much for this video! I always love seeing your reading journals, and I would absolutely love a detailed video on making the tiny book covers and tracking stats. A quick rec if you’re looking for disabled authors: Ryan O’Connell’s ‘Just By Looking at Him.’ We both have cerebral palsy, and I just loved the humour and having a fully-rounded, very flawed disabled protagonist. 📚

I finally finished reading, “the body keeps score”. I definitely had to space it out as well. I agree with you it kind of a lot at times. But it’s worth it!

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

I do want to get back to it eventually 😅 just needed more time than I expected

Hi! Could you maybe do another video about the Around the world Challenge? I absolutely loved your recommendations. And what you said about them. So maybe another TBR for it? Or an update on what you have read so far?

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Oh, that would be fun! I’ve been meaning to update the blog post on my website with all the books I’ve read so far since I’m a bit behind. But it would be great to do another video reading from some more countries ❤️

Hi ! Thank you for sharing. I do have a Reading Journal in an Archer and Olive Bujo as well (A5). I would be interested if you showed us how you do your stats. I do them by hand with acrylograph but that is soooo long. 📓

I realize I'm very late to commenting on this -- but regarding your reading through history challenge -- I propose to you that if you go by the publication date of the particular imprint of a work that you read you'll never fill that tracker in unless you're reading cuneiform tablets in the British Museum. The original copyright date (or writing date for things that predate copyright) is more significant to my mind as far as understanding the context in which the work was produced anyway. Just a thought. Thank you so much for this video -- you've totally inspired me! I want to go back through in slow motion and see if there are any books you liked that I want to add to my list.

I don't yet have a reading journal. I would like to start one I think but I'm not sure where to begin. So your video would probably be a tipping point for me! Would love to see it.

A recommendation for a translated portuguese book is Blindness by Jose Saramago. Saramago is, to this day, the only portuguese author to have ever earned a nobel literature prize (with this work, which has also gained an adaptation), and his writting has a very unique characteristic (won't say what cause you understand what it is as soon as you open a book, it does take some getting used to, but after a bit it just feels very natural)

Your best audiobook being Legends & Lattes is funny knowing the author, Travis Baldree is a well-known audiobook narrator by trade so it’s sooo fitting!😂

Hi! Will you be doing more book reviews soon? I’ve watched some of your older videos and really enjoyed your articulate reviews ❤

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I’m making monthly wrap ups as I work on spreads in my reading journal (March’s video will be coming out in the next couple weeks) and will still be doing reading vlog/reading challenge videos! ❤️

Where did you get your map for the Read Around the World challenge? Your reading journal is awesome! Blessings.

Love this!!! I'm starting a reading journal!! I want vintagy supplies. Where do you get yours? In particular, stickers and ephemera?

I really love your vids, watched you since i was 16 and had my 1st bujo. Please please please make a tutorial for the stats i need that in my life sobadly!!

Your journal is so lovely. Brava. I think its interesting that Braiding Sweetgrass won your Best Read of 2022 and yet it didn't place at all on your Favorites page (quote, character, scene, etc.) I just finished Braiding Sweetgrass and enjoyed it very much but it wouldn't have won the best of the year for me. But its definitely poetic, memorable, and important. I also recently attended an in-person lecture with Robin Wall Kimmerer which disappointed me. She didn't tell any of the stories from her book but rather ranted about social justice and land-back efforts. I'm not in disagreement with her position, and I agree with the idea that her gift is her ability to communicate to wide audiences through writing and lectures, but believe that telling her lived stories will change behavior in small and important ways. Most recently I read Hamnet (which I loved, 4 stars) and I'm a day away from finishing The Hobbit, my first Tolkien. In answer to your question below, yes, I have a Reading and Writing Journal but its not a work of art like yours. In it I track when I start a book and when I finish one. I also type and stick in the bookcover and my own comments about it. I want to handwrite it but I know I'll never go back and read it again if I handwrite it. So I type it. I do have a 23 in 2023 TBR and so far I'm doing okay with that list. I don't think I'll get to all of them. There are a couple on the list I've already lost interest in (Count of Monte Cristo, for example). I also keep a list of all poems, essays, or stories I write, where I've submitted and when, and how many words I've added to my journal on what days. Hopefully your writing project/s are progressing, too.

What polish is on your nails? I'm obsessed!!!!

I would like to see a video of you doing stats! You don't even need to do a separate video - maybe you could incorporate a short segment in your next monthly reading wrap-up that shows you creating the figures and graphs Recommendation for a spread: This year I added a spread to my reading journal where I track how many books I bring in each month (buy, gifted, etc.) and how many books I read that I own. I am trying to make sure I either read more books that I own than I buy, or at least read an equal number of owned books as I buy. I'm definitely guilty of buying books and then reading a bunch of library books instead! Also - Deep Vellum is a great small publisher in Dallas if you're looking for translated works from different countries. There are several books that I've only ever seen translated into English by them. Might help with reading around the world.

I do not have a reading journal yet. I would like to start one, though, when I have more time. Maybe I’ll start in January of next year. I would enjoy any video about the process that you decide to put out. Btw, I enjoyed Project Hail Mary. I read it as a sci-fi comedy. I thought it was hilarious! Don’t hold it against me. Lol. I would recommend The Rosie Project for a quick, fun, comical read. I think the author is Aussie. I also like The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, a bit of a murder mystery.

If not a video on stats I would love to see a monthly Instagram post showcasing your reading stats! 💜💜

Yes yes please do make a video on all the 💻 staffs

Oh no! I have a copy of Project Hail Mary sitting on my TBR shelf. I hadn't heard anything negative on it yet, now I'm SUPER interested😅 I would love to see a process video about how you make the images used here.

@wowkir

8 ай бұрын

I LOVED it! PBB is just crazy. Jk she’s ofc allowed to have a different opinion from me… maybe. Not really.

Yes please to the Canva stats video!

Wow. So prettyyyyy!! 21 books in January alone!? Wow

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

It was a busy month for sure! I usually can’t manage quite that many 😂❤️

This is such an extensive reading journal! So many ideas, I'm looking to set one up for 2024 and this is really helpful. Do you preplan all the stats and "most/worst" for books at the start of the year when you're setting your reading journal up? Or do you come up with this more toward the end of the year? I'm wondering if you fill some of those in as you read them or wait till the end?

Please, make a video on how you do your stats and the right size for the small book covers , I would love to see it.

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

It seems like there’s more interest than I’d realized! Thanks for letting me know you’d want to see it ❤️

Very nice. How did you get the book images so small?

Please make a video about the book covers 😊

Recommendation for Philippine classic for reading around the world, Noli Me Tangere and, its sequel, El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal. Both are required reading for highschool and college.

Can I ask, where are you finding/getting the vintage-inspired, dark academia-esque images you put in your reading journal? It's exactly my vibe, but I don't see it on your supply list. Much thanks, what a wonderful video, you've given me so many ideas for my own journal!

Your reading journal is the prettiest! ❤ I have one but it's not as aesthetic as yours

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure yours is wonderful! ❤️

Hey, I like your video. Your spreads look really nice and gave me some ideas of what I might read next. In case you want any sugestions for Swiss (I am from Switzerland) classics for your reading around the world challenge: The physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt The black spider by Jeremias Gotthelf are two books I enjoyed reading.

Compliments, I love your Reading Journal and your work. It's beautiful. May I ask how you organize the World Challenge? Do you mark the nationally of the author or where the novel is set? ☺

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

I’ve only been counting books where the author’s nationality matches the main setting of the novel! There are so many ways to do it, but this is what I’ve decided to try ❤️

If you're going to continue your Read around the world challenge, then for Hungary, you NEED to read the Boys of Paul Street. It is just a heart wrenching story about school age boys who pretty much act out their own version of the communist situation their parents are in and that the country was in at the time. They take it a little too far and seriously and it's devastating and haunting, but at the same time a page turner. It's a study in childhood traumas, the country's bitter history, and family dynamics. It's an awesome story. I never read it translated as I'm Hungarian but I do hope it does it justice

I havent been tracking my stats apart from a rough genre and my audio/ebook/treebook break down as it seemed too hard to do. A video would show me its not as complex as my head insists lol

How do you get the small book covers that you put in your journal?

Where do you get copies of the book covers

I did start a reading journal last year. My favorite book ended up being A Man Called Ove. Have you read that one? SO Good!❤

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

I haven’t! I’ve read a couple of his other books but that one is on my TBR ❤️

Hi, I remember seeing a video which she painted bujo cover page in gold paint, I can’t seem to find it now. Does anyone have any idea which video it is?

Where did you get all your butterfly, moth, and mushroom stickers

@PlantBasedBride

Жыл бұрын

They’re not stickers! I just print out images smaller to use as little decorative filler on my spreads and glue them in 🥰

My reading journal isn't like the "normal" ones.... I have a list of series I want to go through, the "master list" of books I want to read this year, the "extra books" that I read but are not part of the master list, a monthly spread with books from the "master list" for that month and the Angie way to get through them, and lastly stats from the month. And then it goes on with the monthly spreads, if it makes sense 😅 📚

That’s a lovely video. If you are ever interested in Brazilian classics (my culture), you should look for Clarice Lispector :) she’s amazing.

@clarissemariaguida

6 ай бұрын

I made this comment before finishing the video, and I see you read from Brazil :) we are living in a world that’s afraid of the world and most people are only interested in their our nation. As a person who loves the world it makes me very happy to find someone who is interested in other cultures, and not by traveling (which can me more of a display of materialism than actual interest, and cause more damage to the people than do any good) but by our thoughts and intellect :) you gained a new subscriber ❤

Sorry for bringing politics here (even though it's not even politics, it is just our culture), but you can't even imagine how heartwarming it was to see Ukraine filled in on the map instead of the t*rrorists. Our literature is often overlooked/not translated and it creates an impression that we do not have any, or we don't have any worth reading, which is simply not true. Even after millennia of trying to erase our language and steal our creations we have still managed to save incredible things. I have a lot to say about this, but I'll contain myself. One of my favourite works from our literature is "Intermezzo" by M.Kotsiubynsky. The imagery and symbolism never seize to make me feel at peace. Also your setup is incredibly detailed, it is so thought out and just very pretty. Thank you for sharing it!