April Wrap Up + Reading Journal Spreads!🌷📖✨ monthly stats, book spreads, and cottagecore reads

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Hey friends and welcome to my April reading journal set up! We'll talk all about the 8 books I read last month while creating some cozy, vintage book spreads😊 I went with a cottagecore aesthetic for this journal set up since that reflects the vibes of a lot of books I read in April🧺🌱 I also found some new favorites and 5 star reads this month so hopefully you'll get some good book recs! Let me know if you've read any of these yourself - I'd love to hear your thoughts and talk about any of these stories in the comments! As always, thank you so much for watching!!💖
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@MeowMyselfandI Ай бұрын

Great cozy vibes💚 I'm still waiting for my library to get the second Emily Wilde book, I absolutely adored the first one and it was truly the perfect cozy story. It was also a lot of fun for me since the town they were in and all the people had Icelandic names, which is where I'm from, and the faeries discussed were all nordic ones I'm familiar with so it was almost like it was set here and I loved that.

@anabruns Ай бұрын

Yes the Emily Wilde series feels like the epitome of a perfect cozy story🥰 yay I’m so excited for you to read the second one, I hope you enjoy it! That’s SO cool that you have Icelandic roots and had a special connection with the setting and fairy lore! It definitely made me excited to visit - I actually have a trip to Iceland planned this summer and I absolutely can’t wait😍✨

@MeowMyselfandI Ай бұрын

@anabruns omg, I hope you like it here when you visit! If you have any questions feel free to send them my way, I'm both a local and used to work for a bus tour travel agency so I'm fairly knowledgeable about tourist spots😊

@paginator 28 күн бұрын

I love both Little Women and all of Austen’s books. I don’t think they are in the same category , other than being classics. They’re from completely different time periods and places.

@anabruns 26 күн бұрын

Yep they definitely have a lot of different qualities even while both being 19th century period pieces!

@aarfyie8481 Ай бұрын

I really loved reading Emily Wilde, just like you I gave the first book 5 stars and the second 4 stars. The first one was my absolute favorite, the pacing, the characters, the story line and plot of faeries - JUST LOVED IT ^^!

@anabruns Ай бұрын

Aw yay I’m so happy to find someone else to share my love of that series with!! It’s such a rare treat when the characters, story, setting, AND writing are all amazing🙌🏼💞🧚🏼 just so good

@kalenamitchell150 Ай бұрын

Love this April theme! So springy! 🌷 The washi tape in the photo frames is a great idea. Little Women is also one of my favorites! 🥰

@anabruns Ай бұрын

Thank you!! I had such a fun time with this theme☺️ And YES Little Women is amazing I could rave on it forever❤️

@charlottemalone7375 Ай бұрын

I need to read Tom Lake. Little Women is a delight. As usual, I love the aesthetic you chose!

@anabruns Ай бұрын

Aw thank you! Yes I can’t believe it took me so long to discover the joy of Little Women. I hope you can get to Tom Lake and enjoy it as much as I did!!

@rebeccaaguilar3361 Ай бұрын

I am glad I am not the only one who sometimes can't rate books! I recently read The Hobbit for the first time and was also surprised in a good way. Not what I expected :) Fellowship of the Ring is now in my TBR list. Also, I wanted to tell you I read Remarkably Bright Creatures! So good, 5 stars for me.

@anabruns Ай бұрын

Glad you understand the struggle too! Rating is hard🙈 but yay I’m so happy you read remarkably bright creatures and loved it!! And had a similar experience with the hobbit too. Seems like we have similar taste!☺️

@YumiYarns Ай бұрын

100% agree with you on The Maidens... I read it shortly after it came out & just couldn't believe how disappointing it was at so many turns. I'm really glad that you had some great books to make up for this one in April. Thanks for the video! 💕

@anabruns Ай бұрын

Yes, glad to hear we’re not the only ones with that experience! A disappointing follow up to the silent patient. But I’m glad too about the other books from last month! 5 stars is rare so two back to back was amazing🙈💞