March & April Reading Wrap Up & Reading Journal Spreads 📚 reviews & stats 📈

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Today I'm setting up all of my March & April spreads in my reading journal, including reviews and stats for the 16 books I read in the past 2 months! I had a lot of 5 star reads so I'm excited to share my thoughts with you 🥰
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📚BOOKS READ
- Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
- The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
- The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
- She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
- Let Us Descend b Jasmyn Ward
- The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell
- A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
- Little Eve by Catriona Ward
- Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
- Wool by Hugh Howey
- Shift by Hugh Howey
- Dust by Hugh Howey
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Пікірлер: 63

@balletbookworm Ай бұрын

Agree so much about She is a Haunting - so many good elements and then it’s like the author couldn’t quite get the very end to work right. Awww hey again Chewy 💖

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

It’s too bad because the book was so well done otherwise! Still definitely worth the read in my book. Chewy wanted to get involved as per usual 😂❤️

@iheartwalle Ай бұрын

Parable of the Talents was life-changing. I wish she could have written even more.

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

I know what you mean ❤️ I don’t want to read through her oeuvre too quickly and be left with no new Butler 😔

@BrittWarren201 Ай бұрын

LOVE the Chewy content 😭😂❤️

@samileigh2370 Ай бұрын

Watching these videos always inspires me to do better about journaling! Maybe I will tackle that goal by the end of 2024 😅

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

Haha it’s hard to stay consistent when life gets busy, I get it!

@blackhairedtree Ай бұрын

I’m so glad that you brought up crediting artists whose artwork you use! I’ve been wondering about that. I use a lot of fanart in my book spreads and I always try to get the artist’s permission to have their art visible if I post the spreads on Instagram or on my KZfaq channel. This may be quite a lot of work and has included making accounts on various social media I normally don’t use, but it is also an amazing way to connect with the artists who love the same books, and sometimes the authors if they hold the right to the image! They appreciate it sooo much and I’ve had some fun chats. Sometimes they have even sent me pictures previously not posted by them! No one has ever said no and only rarely have I not been able to reach the artist. Then I usually mention them in the voiceover and tag them in the description.

@marvin5624 Ай бұрын

so glad to have found this channel! i love your eloquent, objective and well-thought out critiques!!

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

Aw thank you! Welcome 🥰

@HeyLady08 Ай бұрын

I love your cat too!

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

Haha aw, Chewy and Yoda would love to know they have friends all over the world I bet 😂❤️

@army_marlene Ай бұрын

Your videos are always so aesthetically pleasing with a cozy vibe. You can tell the time and effort you put into them and it’s so very appreciated! Happy to have found you here on BookTube!

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

Aw thank you! I appreciate it 🥺❤️

@Aviplotbunny Ай бұрын

Perfect relaxing vibes to end my day off with!

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

I love this ❤️

@leslieyudman3156 Ай бұрын

Great video! I really enjoy listening to you talk about books - love your thoughtful reviews. And watching you work in your reading journal is kind of mesmerizing. LOL I'm so sorry about the loss of your uncle. May his memory always be a blessing.

@Emily-zn4ri Ай бұрын

I always love these videos so much, it's such a cosy vibe and it's great to hear you talk about the books you're reading! Thank-you :)

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

I’m so glad you enjoy them! ❤️❤️

@MemphisJones Ай бұрын

I love annotation videos, I can't wait for your next one.

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

It’s in the works! Currently editing it ❤️

@rainsepol745 Ай бұрын

I always enjoy your content is very artistic and structured and detailed its warm cozy 🥰🤣🤣🤣Thanx.

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

Thank you ❤️

@bondwitch4258 16 күн бұрын

More please! I would love to hear your take on Daughter of the Forest-not sure if it’s true romantasy, but it was a book that sparked my love of romance in fantasy settings. 😂🙄😊🤗

@thefairylibrarian3282 Ай бұрын

I have a book recommendation for you: It's called Orpheus Builds a Girl by Heather Parry. It's a literary historical gothic psychological thriller sci-fi retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice meets Frankenstein (and i guess there's some Hades and Persephone, but not the romanticized version). I thought it was incredible and i think that this could be a you-book

@heabooktubes Ай бұрын

Loved it

@tirarosaurioreads Ай бұрын

Chewy content is the added value to these kind of videos in your channel

@joannievh2071 Ай бұрын

I love the piano melody that played during your March month! This is so soothing and inspiring ho watch! ❤️

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

@rosarodriguez8984 Ай бұрын

First of all, I’m sorry for your loss. Second, an excellent bookish video as always, Elizabeth. ❤❤❤ I could listen to you talking about books for hours😊

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

Thank you and thank you ❤️ I’m glad you enjoyed the video!

@banaa9463 Ай бұрын

I really like this type of video. I love books and I like looking at pretty reading journals (but I don't make my own) and I especially love seeing how the journal setups are used!

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

Oh good, I’m glad you enjoy this format! ❤️❤️

@tywinderbaum5283 Ай бұрын

Hey there! I'm still watching, but I just wanted to pause before I forget and recommend Liliana Bodoc's Saga de los Confines. I don't know what the translation is like, but they are three amazing, moving, heart-wrenching, stunning books with really gorgeous prose. If I'm not mistaken the english titles are The Days of the Deer, The Days of Shadows and The Days of Fire. It's a very poetic, painful take on precolombine america and the very beginning of colonization from the perspective of the native peoples, in the form of an epic with lots of fantasy elements. The native peoples in this series are not at all a 1-to-1 of the nations that existed and still exist today, I should clarify. It is fiction, and fantasy. Liliana Bodoc is from Mendoza, Argentina. I feel particularly close to these books considering I am from the "Confines", but for a lot of other reasons too I just think you'd really enjoy it, from what I've seen of your wrap ups. I do hope the translation does the prose justice, insofar as that is possible. On a very different note, have you read The Expanse? I'm currently reading book three and loving it (especially book one)

@Heothbremel Ай бұрын

so soothing and also now I want to start doiing this

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

It’s a really calming activity ❤️ I love updating my reading journal!

@ChantelleArts Ай бұрын

Wow your journal is stunning!!! 😍😍

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@BookNerdQueen Ай бұрын

😍😍

@AnaReads19 Ай бұрын

Great video

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

@HeyLady08 Ай бұрын

I love your videos

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

@marijevanderveen0504 Ай бұрын

Love the spreads! I hope to read A Day of Fallen Night this summer. 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 😊

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

Thank you! I didn’t have time to finish my reading journal spreads at the end of last year so I need to try to find time to slowly get those finished in between current projects before I can share it ❤️

@marijevanderveen0504 Ай бұрын

@@PlantBasedBride Looking forward to it! Take your time, I haven't finished mine as well haha

@annalockwood3021 Ай бұрын

Got some gentle exercise on my rebounder and mixed up some flatbread dough as I listened. Sorry I missed the visuals, but still really enjoyed this talk. Glad you had so many satisfying reads to enjoy!

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

I use KZfaq videos as podcasts all the time! I’m glad I could keep you company ❤️

@lieved530 Ай бұрын

For anyone who's interested in reading a Chinese classic, Family by Ba Jin is a great book imo. It's set in early 1920s Chengdu and follows the generational conflicts in a wealthy family. Ba Jin's portrayal of women is actually not bad considering the time period. The second book in the series is actually more focused on how society treats women, with a focus on arranged marriages. I can't vouch for the English translation since I read it in Chinese, but either way it's an interesting look at the ideological conflicts that were arising in early 20th century China. It's also apparently semi-autobiographical!

@bekbannister Ай бұрын

Thanks for all the book suggestions. Just a quick note that it is Jesmyn Ward. I put the book on my ever growing list. And too bad about the sequels to Wool being bland, I'll probably just read the first one.

@chocolateoreo6489 Ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@TheAlobear Ай бұрын

I felt exactly the same way about Wool, Shift and Dust. I'm interested in how your annotation process feeds into writing your reviews - wouldn't it mean you have to go through the whole book again afterwards to collect your thoughts/notes, or do you also write notes outside the book as you go? If the latter, what purpose do the annotations serve, other than highlighting quotes to collect? Thanks!

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

I find the process of annotating as I read makes my thoughts on a book stick better in my brain, so I usually don’t have to go back in refer to them to write my review! But if I do you want to look up something it’s easy to find ☺️

@marjoriedybec3450 Ай бұрын

I think its time to read a collection of Alice Munro short stories. ;)

@olgastanford6813 Ай бұрын

I love the Archer & Olive notebooks that you use. How do you manage to buy them? I tried several times, and they always seem to be out of stock.

@PlantBasedBride Ай бұрын

I try to share launches when they happen over on my Instagram if that helps!

@olgastanford6813 Ай бұрын

@PlantBasedBride too easy! Thanks!

@purplexzombie3371 Ай бұрын

Tracking my stats monthly helps me too.i realize im not being as mindful as i want to be. I adored the descriptirs in She is a Haunting. I almost feel it would have been better as general not YA cause i wonder how much was edited out.