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

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

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!

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 ❤

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! 💞

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!

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.

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

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 like that size of notebook, seems fun

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.

yes!! so excited for this 🫶🏼

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.

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.

📔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

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. 📚

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 ^^

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!

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

I'm halfway through Legends and Lattes and YES Thimble

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

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

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

📚 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 😊

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 🥰🥰

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 spreads are always so beautiful 🖤

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 😍

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.

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?

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!

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

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 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!

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

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

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!!

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!

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

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

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

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.😊

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!!

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!

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!😂

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

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

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. 📓

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

So beautiful your reading journal. Great video.

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

Thank u for this information and this a good ideas to organizing .....thank u so match

This is so cool!

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.

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?

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?

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.

aaah ive been looking forward to this video!!

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.

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!

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 agree with others Elizabeth. Please show us more how you accomplish such robust stats 🤩 never included so much detail about my reading and I KNOW I’d love looking back on it as you mentioned. Also sourcing all the artwork for your monthly covers and all the book artwork… swoon. Love it all! Thx for so much inspo for 2024 🫶🏽

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!

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

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 😅 📚

Yes please to the Canva stats video!

Please make a video about the book covers 😊

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

This is stunning

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

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

if you are interested in reading another Brazilian classic read Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, it is a very interesting book

in French : I loved Marianna Mazza's autobiography Montréal Nord.

if you read anything by alice oseman in 2022 (heartstopper) then you read from an aroace author ☺️ she mentions it from time to time, but i don’t think it’s in any of her social media bios or anything, so you may not have known

Is your last name Turnbull? My family went to Scotland to where William Rule saved King Robert the Bruce from a charging bull. The King changed Williams last name. Bedrule is the land the king gave him as a gift. It is worth the trip if you like your travel.

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

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

Hello!! Greetings from Egypt! I would recommend you read some of Naguib Mahfouz's books. He was the 1988 Nobel Prize winner for literature and he wrote many great books that are now considered classics. I'm sure you could easily find his translated works. Also another author that I'm sure is translated is Ahmed Mourad (a more modern author), he mainly writes mystery/thriller books.

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.