i find it so inspiring that you keep such a consistent dark academia-ish vibe for your reading journal, yet you always manage to make it match a monthly seasonal mood! 🦋 i always felt afraid of committing to one theme for a whole journal, but your videos make me realize how versatile that can still be. happy reading for june! i'll be checking out the april livestream asap ✨📚

📚 I just finished 'The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea', which is a stunning YA retelling of classic Korean folklore. I loved it! Highly recommend!!

I've read 11 books in May and I just got done reading The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, which is a cozy read that made me want to live in the house because it was so cozy. 📚

📚 I always really enjoy your book videos. Reading Legends and Lattes and loving it! 😊

Love the division for the last spread. Totally logical to have more space for something you love against something that left you indifferent and yet still artistically beautiful.

Based on your recommendation I listens to The Collected Regrets of Clover and found it to be such a beautiful story! I’m a retired RN and have never heard of a death doula. My husband died at home with me at his side and it’s a really intense experience. Thanks for the recommendation 📚

Thanks for another reading journal video! Love these 😍

May was a “low battery” month for me and I almost didn’t read at all! Thanks for reviving my “urge” to read with this video! 📚

Beautiful spreads! 📖 Mine were all non-fiction. I listened to all of T. Colin Campbell’s books, and one by his son, Thomas Campbell, M.D. All were very good. The China Study is my favorite book of all time, across all genres. I read it years ago, and listened to the revised edition in May.

Your voice is just so soothing. I love watching your videos while working on my planner. 🥰 I read 6 books in May. It was a slower month for me, but I'm happy for the 6 I completed. 💜📚

May was very meh for me, thankfully with the exception of Project Hail Mary, which I LOVED. Absolutely fantastic sci-fi, so interesting. AND the audio is brilliant. Can't recommend it enough. Also how good are some of the Wayward Children books. I was so sad when I caught up. Lundy's book is my favourite (In an Absent Dream) as it was weirdly like reading about myself. 😅📚

10:19 cheeky playful paw action made me laugh, it was so wholesome 😂❤ - Also, unrelated to book content: since you've got it, I keep thinking how nice that pair of scissors must be to cut with lol - Book content related: I read The Reading List and am now reading all of the books on, you guessed it, the reading list (tho, I'm alternating between one book off of the list and one book off of my shelve - such as Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide 😊). Both The Reading List and the books on it I can higly recommend ❤

I'm definitely looking forward to more bookish content! I only read one book in May and didn't enjoy it too much. I'm kind in a reading slump. I hope to find another book that sparks my interest soon! Thanks for sharing! 📚📖

There was a lot about Hide that I didn’t like. But you may enjoy The Getaway by Lamar Giles which deals with social issues as well and takes place in a theme park.

📚 This is the first time I’ve watched regarding your book/reading journal. I thought about doing one myself so thank you for giving me some ideas. 📕

📖📚thank you for the cozy video, loved it as always ☺️

I’m a stat nerd. The thing I don’t like about pulling stats from such a small number of data points (in your case, 8 books), is the percentages don’t say much. (A 50% out of 2 data points say less than 50% out of 100 data points). So the graphs and percentages aren’t really ready for interpretation.

Finished The Silent Patient this month. Such a good story + an unexpected ending that I truly didn't see coming. Excited to read Hide, I just ordered it because of your description of it! Thanks for the recommendations.

I have read only 3 books in May, compared to my usual 12 or so. The highlight was How to be an Adult in Relationships, the 5 keys to mindful loving which was full of actionable advice to improve relationships

Oh rad, Entangled Life is on my TBR! I own it physically, haven't actually read it yet because my disabilities make it hard to hold a heavier book for a long time, so I may see if I can get an ebook copy as well. Still, fungi is cool as hell (and so is the name Merlin Sheldrake, seriously), it sounds super fun. And I actually liked Drowned Girls a bit better than Lost In The Moment (I rated Drowned Girls 8.5 and Lost in the Moment 8), but fair judgment! Thank you too for your Wayward Children reviews, too, you got me into the series in the first place :D Agreed on how important this series is! My favourite read in May was Space Opera by Catherynne M Valente. May is Eurovision month and Space Opera is Eurovision in SPACE!, so it was pretty perfect timing! It's so much fun, definitely recommend. (Book emoji!)

I really enjoy the spread + reading wrap-up combos. Thanks for doing them.

I want to make something like this, if only I have a printer! Also, Elizabeth, Storygraph has graphs about the books read embedded in the app. Are you on there? I love your spreads!

So cozy and aesthetic 🤎 you really inspire me

Don't wait to make writing a daily habit! Instead of doing it all in november, you could be finished BY november :)

I read 4 books in May and my two favorites were Everything I Never Told You and The Book Woman Of Troublesome Creek! I look forward to your next video! 📖📚

📖My favorite May read was Homecoming by Kate Morton! I love her books! Thank you for another lovely video! I enjoy hearing about the books you read and watching you decorate your pages. I would love to do the same but lack time and motivation! 😂

📚 I read four books in may! Just want to say that I really love your videos for years already. Your voice is so calming. I am a silent watcher (sounds creepy haha 😂), but just wanted to say that I love your content! Thank you for creating ❤

Please do more book review category videos - loved the female rage one!

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📖 very beautiful journal. I think I might add one or two books to my tbr list 😊 thanks

I managed 8 books in May despite it being a very busy month for me so I was very happy with that! I thoroughly enjoyed 7 out of 8 books so that's a great track record! 😅

📚 Loved these spreads, and looking forward to the 'behind the scenes' video in due course, the stats page is fab. May was my slowest reading month so far this year as I focused on my physical tbr, some of which I've owned for years and found I wasnt really that into now I've finally got around to them! I finished 6 and honestly 3 of them were super short so I feel a bit like I was cheating (2 were 500+ pages though). The best was The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton, beautiful writing, I highlighted a bunch of quotes which I dont often do ❤

re nanowrimo: there's a campnano in july, where i think you set your own goal, if the timing's better for you i somehow managed to read (finish) 10 books in may? my favourite was probably This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne, which i read as an eARC, and just, very good.:) 📚

📚 currently reading Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett, the third and I think last in his Founders series and enjoying it but having a hard time with time jump from the last book.

I listed to Victoria City this month. I really enjoyed it. I also read Through a glass, obscure. Inspiring but it may have gone deeper for me.

📚You could do Camp NaNoWriMo instead-it happens in April and July and allows you to set your own goals!

📚 May is typically a busy month for me so my time to read is greatly reduced. However I did read a book I won’t soon forget called Things Past Telling by Sheila Williams. This historical fiction novel focuses on the journey of a 112 year old main character whose life from Africa to America brings about all of the feelings while reading. I highly recommend this book.

📖📚 I loved listening to your review and seeing your spreads. The Bloody Chamber has been on my TBR for a while. I really enjoyed your previous video with the in depth discussion of that book. What books in French would you recommend?

I would love to start tracking some stats and including them into my reading journal, maybe every 6 months, so I would love to know how do you keep tracks of all those stats…an excel shift or…how? 😅

Always love your reading journal videos, they’re so relaxing! May I ask what pen you’re using to write your text with? In the description I only see the micron ones and I’ve been looking for a new pen for mine ☺️

📚 I am listening to Dave Grohl's memoir, "The Storyteller" and it is surprisingly poignant for a story that centers around rock and roll. There's a chapter where he explores the feeling of grief and loss and it really resonated with me during my drive home. And I keep wanting to try nanowrimo but it's so intimidating to me!

Just found you and am enjoying watching do your reading books. ❤. Where do you find all of your beautiful pictures you use in your spreads?

I read 7 books in May and by far the one that stood out was Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa!! Highly highly recommend. (I know you’ve spoken a bit about not connecting with YA as much presently, but I really feel so passionate about this book and I hope you’ll check it out!) 📚

You mention in the video how long it takes you to gather your stats after you transfer them out of a spreadsheet. May I ask why you don't create the graphs in your spreadsheet program? I would be curious to know the reasoning if it could be included in your upcoming video. I created a template for this so I can filter by time periods which allows me to look at the year as a whole or specific quarters. Your spreads are beautiful and I love the pictures you've added. 📖

I don’t have a favorite book out of the two that I read in May. They were both “meh”, but I have much higher hopes for June 📖📚

my friend’s dad is friends with merlín sheldrake!

I read 32 (1 was a duology so 33 I guess) in May. Was a good reading month

📖🐉 I'm working on my first Brandon Sanderson book, Mistborn and a reread of Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Your reading journal makes me want to do a better reading journal. Mine is just simple so far. Your’s is so beautiful. I too, hated Lute. It was not… good. The romance got me in the ick factor too! Hide was not for me, so it’s interesting to see what other people think. I gave it one star. 🙈 I’m surprised you didn’t care for where the drowned girls go. But Lost in the Moment and Found might be my favorite in the whole Weyward children series too.

My May reading was all over the place, in a good way. Pretty diverse but not a single five stars unfortunately.

I love your reading vlogs. I began May finishing up Picasso's War (non-fiction), which I loved. Not as great as Ninth Street Women or Out of this Century but still very good. Then I re-read Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1921 Pulitzer). It was a 5-star read for me. Then I read Trust and while Age of Innocence and Trust are different, they make good companions. I liked Trust for the craft experiments in the book. I didn't find it super-interesting nor the kind of prose I want to bathe in. But it deserved the co-Pulitzer position and my 4-stars. Then I read Saving Italy (also non-fiction) which is art-nerdy and dry but fascinating. Now, I'm trying to read Demon Copperhead but I might DNF it despite its co-Pulitzer and Women's Prize. I really want to finish it but I'm wimpy and I find it to gratuitously violent to be a place I want to spend a week or two.

I think Nanowrimo does something in July. If November is a bad month for you maybe aim to do Camp Nanowrimo next summer instead

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What do you use to print out the book covers? Do you just get all the images and then print them via regular printer or do you have a portable printer you would recommend? Thank you! 🙏

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Hi! I have been wondering where you're reading e-book? Do you own a kindle or do you read it in your ipad? I have been rewatching your reading journal updates but couldn't find anything related to my question. Thank you so much 🫶🏻

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I’m not sure why NANOWRIMO is in November but I’ve always thought that was a poor choice…

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I enjoyed The Collected Regrets of Clover too! The only thing I didn’t like was Clover’s overreactions to every thing Slyvie and Sebastian do 🙈

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