2023 Reading Journal Setup | Reading Challenge, TBR pages, Trackers | ft. Notebook Therapy

[@Poucks]

🍵📖 When it comes to a reading challenge, I have a different approach. Instead of "Read that many books", I go with certain themes and made a reading bingo, where I can cross out the theme I read. Examples: - read a book set in space, - read a book from your favourite author you haven't read yet, - read a book you picked out solely for the cover, - read a book where an animal is the main character, - read a book with a genre you'd normally not read etc. You can pick as many as you want with themes that are sure to fit your reading preferences but also broaden to other genres you'd normally not read!

[@EvelineUK]

This is what I am planning on doing too. I will colour them in as I go, and see how far I'll get.

[@anbu1325]

I love these theme examples!

[@lilli3593]

Such a good idea!

[@NilaR93]

I do the same, it is much more motivating! 🥰

[@dollynhogelado]

I love this idea, I wanna do this next year

[@dgs788]

I literally just had a panic attack and this video is calming me down immensely. Thank you for posting this.

[@mochibujo]

I’m sorry you had a panic attack, that’s no fun😢 But happy I can contribute in a positive way❤️🥺

[@gabrielacanova4625]

Audiobooks saved my sanity while recovering from eye surgery and I think they are a fun way to enhance listening skills for those, like myself, who are not English native speakers. Gorgeous set up, by the way. 😂 🍵📖📚

[@alliberry]

Recommendation: The House in the Cerulean Sea by Klune!!! sort of a mix between Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and 1984, easy and a fast read with a little magic :) 🍵📘

[@libirose8357]

I've never seen it described like that but you've absolutely nailed the vibe. Will be using this comparison in future to recommend it

[@kimdaniel4539]

I am so happy to find your channel. Your pages are beautiful and your voice so soothing.

[@thiskindredspiritcozynook]

Yessssssss green is special indeed. My favorite color

[@RoxyRites]

Inspiration left and right, Hedda. I look forward to every one of your spreads. 🍵📚Thank you for all you do.

[@powerpuff4ever]

If you want a way to like back up your tracking in case you go a while between logging your books, I’d really recommend signing up for Storygraph. As long as you keep the edition/format you’re reading accurate, it will keep track of the hours and pages completed and the stats are just available whenever you want to reference them

[@daisyDee56]

I love you pages …… I will follow your pages is so simple it’s not overwhelming and not over flowing with a lot of stuffs

[@DEBSCRAFTINGROOM]

🍵 📚 I love listening to you with the piano in the background. I listen to Bible on You Tube and do movies instead of books, my old eyes now.

[@lafemmegvantsa8154]

I've never seen more beautiful reading journal 😧

[@mochibujo]

Oh that’s so nice of you!🥺❤️

[@lizzatkins4485]

🍵📚A very cozy reading journal set up

[@sylvied.7351]

🍵📚 I’m trying to find inspiration to start a reading journal and I’m happy I got to see your video 😊

[@ip3931]

To say I am in awe and envy is an understatement

[@steppy3736]

If you enjoy mysteries and a historical setting, I highly recommend the Shardlake series by CJ Sansom.

[@elizabethrauscher3660]

Beautiful! I have a few ideas for categories. 1 - Time a: Novel written 2 centuries ago, Novel written last century, Novel written this century. This opens you up to read a mix of modern novels and classics. Or you could do page #s 400+, 250+, and less than 200. There are a lot of neat novellas that have been written recently,, like the Monk and Robot series. I agree that broad goals are much easier to meet and more satisfying for an intuitive reader. You want a goal that nudges you into breaking away from your comfort zone but doesn't feel like you are trapped.

[@natashathomas3810]

🍵 📖 so beautiful and creative

[@miloejoanne6125]

The best way to spend an evening off is with some tea and a journaling video 😊Your set-up looks absolutely amazing, I love how every page is a little bit different. Makes me so excited to work on my own book journal set-up the upcoming weeks! I'm so happy to see that you like using my stickers, thank you so much for mentioning me 💕

[@AmazonianStar444]

It's official. I need a reading journal! I love books but never thought to have a journal. I can't wait to create one!

[@mochibujo]

I hope you’ll have fun with it!!🥰❤️

[@JanineMarieChrysler]

This is a wonderful journal idea! I've been reading lots of cookbooks and sharing on Facebook, and I get groceries so I can make the yummy food, then I have to find which book it's in again! A spread for each book will allow me to note which recipes I'd like to shop for and make! ❤❤❤

[@elaineb1336]

🍵📖 always enjoy your videos and your choices of themes and colors.

[@staciecrews9625]

I love love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 your journal. I wanted to try to do an actual journal like this on black paper. Just nervous to try. I love your ideas. Thank you for sharing. Tea time.

[@Katbee7944]

Hello from Colorado USA. I so admire your creativity if I tried this it would end up a hot mess! 😂❤❤

[@Karen_Tries]

As someone with chronic illnesses- reading a physical book takes way more of my energy than listening to one so I also do more audible books than anything these days! If I don’t, I’d have 0 energy to spend on normal activities that others take for granted! ❤❤❤

[@exploringmegan]

This is me, too!

[@DodgesAndDaisies]

I hear this 💛💛

[@sunflowerproductions8259]

Do you have POTS ?

[@exploringmegan]

@@sunflowerproductions8259I think this question was for the original poster, but I do!

[@kimdaniel4539]

This is my issue. Holding a book up to read takes so much out of me with my chronic neck pain. I love audio books

[@balletbookworm]

🍵📘 I love how the colors for the themes shift as you go through the spreads. It feels gradual, like they're all different but none of the color changes are "surprising" if that makes sense. They flow so nicely :)

[@kristiasilverwood4986]

🍵📚 I really love your reading journal style. I've only recently got into bullet journalling but I'm already itching to have a second journal for reading. I love the themes you've used and how you do your spreads for each book in your previous journal. Will definitely be keeping an eye out for your future reading journal pages ☺️

[@AileenTownsend]

🍵📖 i enjoyed this video so much. Peaceful, cozy and a celebration of journaling, stationary & reading!! Your creativity is inspiring as always!

[@VeganOrganizer]

🍵📘 Beautiful setup! Thanks for sharing! I always love seeing Notebook Therapy supplies in action 🥰

[@SallySueSaywhatagain]

🍵📚 lovely journal! Makes me want to try myself!

[@galileogalilei325]

Your work is always really lovely! Very calming to watch your videos and I am so happy your videos helped me starting my own reading journal. I solved my reading tracker problem by putting it in my bullet journal as well (as a part of the habit tracker) as in my reading journal. Whenever I feel like it I transfer the dates to my reading journal. I know it's double work but I just like to have a complete picture of when I read throughout the year :) And listening definitely counts! It's just a different skill, but not less important. I try to vary in listening and reading and I like to note in my journal if I read or listened to the book. I have also differentiated in 'books to read' and 'books to listen', which I just find a fun thing to do.

[@balletbookworm]

I recently went back to try and resurrect my old reading journals - the way i was doing it wasn't working (writing down everything I started on a page then going back and writing about it when I finished) because I start and don't finish so many books on top of the 150+ books I do finish per year. But I had all these matching journals I bought when they were being discontinued bc they were my "reading" journals....So i decided to do some collage spreads for books that I really liked or engaged with a lot since that won't be asking too much of myself and it's just for fun

[@MichaelaDrechselova]

An idea for a theme in your 2023 reading challenge: indie/self-pub books. It wouldn't restrict you in genre or theme you might not be interested in 12 months (quite a long period of time). But it will challenge you as you tend to gravitate towards books published in the US and there might already be books on your radar without the backing of a large corporation behind it. I did something similar this year and I found many great unique books. I know you like readable fun fantasy with a sprinkle of romance in it and you enjoy audiobooks as well. My recs for you fitting an indie/self-pub category (if you decide to choose it) are: Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent, Untainted by Lilian T. James (The Crystal Island trilogy), and maybe even Prince of Flowers by Nazri Noor. 😊

[@ekatherinah.lycael]

thx for the bingo idea and recommendations :)

[@rachelmaddison3681]

When I go to a new town, I look for local authors and have found some great books that way.

[@cozycursetea]

thanks for the inspo! I completely agree about the daily tracker, I did my first tracking spread this year and found I was only opening the journal when I started and finished books. Might do something similar to you tracking pages 🍵📖

[@-Kenzin-]

you know what... I prepared my reading journal by comparing your 2021-2022 journals probably 20 times xD and ordered fancy notebook therapy for bujo with your code for the first time... finding best solution for my need.. I wish waited 24 hours :( ohh well I love how it turned out anyways hehehe :D I was in severe depression then I discovered your content consumed all of it in couple of days and realized journaling and scrapbooking is extremely therapeutic i know you are in japan and you don't have po box as of now but is there a way for me to send you a snail mail :) hope u see my comment and have an amazing day thanks for inspiring an artblocked frustrated artist to start creating back again :) ps: i ordered cottage core set with its stamps and washies :D before your vid as much as i don't believe in superstition :D:D it's a lovely coincidence

[@kaesinfinitelibrary]

love, love, love the 2022 flip through!!! the fact you learned a whole language by reading books is beyond amazing!!! 🍵📚

[@YourGirl_Nancyy]

🍵 📚 i miss reading! It’s what really got me through high school 😊 since I’ve had my kids and started working it’s hard to find the time😔

[@jnordfors]

📕 🍵 I love your videos! I giggled when you tried to describe why the color green is so special. I feel the same way! ❤

[@dakia.designs]

Thank you for the reading bujo inspiration.🍵📕

[@jessicaowens3458]

Your 14 month journal is beautiful and I love the chunky! It's a well read life. :)

[@evelynatcraneshearth]

🍵📚📖 That looks like it'll be fun to fill in. Happy Holidays!

[@bookhuggah]

🍵📖i appreciate you and your journey. Thank you for sharing.

[@ecr.7695]

Beautiful 🍵📚. A reading journal is another outlet for one's creativity, just like yours. TFS!

[@juliesimsandbooks]

🍵📗I love your spreads. I'm gonna be doing my spreads. A varied of them.

[@erinwolf1711]

I bought the golden hour set from NT just for the tape😂😂 gave away the notebook! I love the tape so much and hope they offer it just as the tape in the future! It’s my favorite.

[@ninnawiberg4772]

🍵📚I used to read a lot when I was a teenager too and I’ve been trying to get back to that reading joy. Maybe I’ll try out a reading journal next year 😊 These spreads were all so very pretty and inspiring!

[@daisyDee56]

Your voice is very calm very nice to hear

[@heabooktubes]

Loved hearing more about your reading! Making Booktube videos has been great for my reading because it helps me to remember books so much better lol. 2023 will be my second reading journal and I kind of use it like an excel spread sheet to track stats ect. I love it so much. Your spreads are always GORGEOUS. 🍵📚✨

[@exploringmegan]

Love your journal 🍵📚 My book recommendation would be How Dare the Sun Rise.

[@Elizabeth-hm3li]

You always have the loveliest journals 📚 🍵 ❤ I want to do a reading challenge next year with genres I typically wouldn’t read, like graphic novels, non fiction, biographies, etc. But also throw a few genres in that I read a lot like mystery and thriller so it doesn’t feel like a chore.

[@itsmesassy88]

🍵📚 This video has inspired me to start my own reading journal. I am trying to repurpose notebooks I already have for own. Love your videos!!!

[@pamelasmith7120]

🍵📕.. I loved this setup Hedda, you have inspired me to create my own. Like you, i used to read constantly as a child, and have rediscovered it as an adult. I might just have to create my own reading journal to track my books read for next year too.. Thanks

[@elizandranara3519]

🍵📚I gonna start a reading journal now, you inspired me 😊

[@annaarts23]

This year was my first reading year with a reading journal and it really does help me find time to read - my goal was to read new books, because I re-read a lot, and making spreads just really motivates that! I'm doing something similar in a way to your yearly challenge: I'm picking books by theme - a book with space, a book with a specific type of narrator, a book with dragons and so on. Maybe something like that could work for you? I really liked the green theme you did here - next year's colour theme is green for me, so that gave me a few ideas for spreads! I'll be looking forward to your November/December reads video in January - I've come to really adore your monthly reads videos! Have a lovely break over Christmas! 🍵📖

[@tick-tackgirl335]

l love your spread so much!! the creativity is breathtaking. l wish l was that craft.

[@Shaegeeksout]

🍵📚 My reading journal is an ever evolving progress. I'm trying out a new system this year, and I'm excited to try it!

[@leilamatthews376]

🍵📚 I'm a big reader I think 205 so far in 2022. I think any reading is amazing regardless of number, style etc

[@mochibujo]

Wow that’s amazing!🤯

[@maddiewood3281]

Just woke up from a migraine finally feeling better. Thanks for the video, I could watch your content for hours. 🍵 📖 wondering where you went to University and what you studied?

[@jeanrobinson6584]

Lovely as always. Exciting to start a new book…reading is such a joy 🍵📚

[@karakreativevlog]

🍵📗 Your journal spreads are so beautiful! I adore your style!!! One day I might have the patience and the stamina to do this in my reading journals!!!

[@madebyjulia1347]

🍵📚 loved your video so much, the spreads are so creative

[@sophiahodgson85]

I can’t believe 2022 is almost over and I need to think about setting up journals for 2023! I love all the bunnies in your spread! Green is a great colour… 🍵📖

[@mediabunny4016]

Lovely spreads! I think you might enjoy Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews - the protagonist Dina is also a small business owner, except for a magic Inn :) it's a fun read, lots of cultures and aliens and ultimately heartwarming. The first book is Clean Sweep and the stories just get better and better. Another recommendation would be Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison - it's a refreshing take on fantasy - no action, battles, and such - just a kind and gentle protagonist who has to adapt himself to palace life and intrigue when he becomes Emperor unexpectedly.

[@daisyDee56]

I love this so much the stickers 🎉 are awesome

[@carlos.quyllur]

🍵📖 There's a lot to rescue from your beautiful journal, is so warm and cozy I really get inspired by it. I personally use an agenda but with the structure of a bullet journal and this is wonderful to see. Love ya 💚

[@Beecof]

This just came across my feed and I loved it! I would love to see a mid-year update, but I definitely subscribed so I don't miss the end of the year flip-through and next year's set up!

[@GinaTln]

🍵 📖 😊 I really enjoyed watching this video. I’m also having a Reading Journal. You gave me lots of news ideas for my journal 😍 thank you for inspiration ❤

[@savannahscribbles]

Such a lovely setup 🤍🍵📚

[@alliberry]

For challenge categories, i think something to do with your birth year or hometown or similar would be nice. or something about self-published authors. or something about translations :) 🍵📘

[@MeowMyselfandI]

I have just gotten that same journal to use as my bujo for next year! 🍵📗It's gonna be my first one, moving on from planners that I've used for forever. Your videos are what inspired me to make the switch and I'm so excited/nervous to try out this new method. I also want to try out a reading journal after seeing all of your and other youtubers' beautiful spreads over the past year. Excited to see what next year brings in books and stationery ^^

[@itsmeLori]

Your spreads are so beautiful

[@whimziereads6190]

I'm going to start a reading journal for the first time this year 🍵📖

[@Condygurl]

I print out my book covers, if you take the image from Goodreads they are generally all the same size for when you want to print them out. I print mine out in "index" form, so they are all the same size. Love your journal!

[@kellya3769]

Beautiful setup. I used your idea of plastic cards to bring washi with me when I travel. Such a space saver. 🍵📚

[@TiniColibri87]

Oh girl your doing “k”s in your lettering, bravo 👏🏽

[@Soniawithani]

I am so excited to read Legends and Lattes. Have a Merry Christmas dear friend!

[@icarusdotexe]

🍵📚 I really enjoy your reading journal videos! They're like a never ending well of inspiration for me and the reason why I started a reading journal this may too. Keeping a reading journal totally helped me to get back into reading as well. The spreads I use are quite similar to the ones shown in the video except I don't do any challenges. Just reading whatever book I like to read, have fun and write down my thoughts about it. And I would totally recommend the Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers. Especially the first book. It was probably my favourite book I read this year.

[@dalvinachin4725]

🍵 📖 I love your reading journal videos and absolutely love this set up! I used to follow the Reading Women challenge. They’ve not got one for 2022 but I still go back and refer to the past challenges as I’ve never really completed it but it’s always nice to be intentional about reading books written by women and most of the time I find books that haven’t even crossed my mind!

[@missyjuju1697]

🍵📚 Love it! I used to read alot, but lately (past year or so) I've kinda went off the rails. However I still download books like an obsessed reader 😆 I remember the time when I went to the library every 3 weeks and brought home cca 5 books and read them all ...*le sigh"* 🙄 P.S.: there are plenty ebooks available to download for free 😉

[@tiantuatara]

🍵📖I haven't done a challenge but I like the idea of picking subjects.

[@margueritemitchell1829]

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[@BrittanyBWrites]

📖 such a beautiful reading journal!! I haven't set mine up yet, but mine is pretty simple-I have a bookshelf of all the books I've read that year, then book series I need to get to and then a bit of a book challenge, like the Bridgerton Challenge, Dark Hunter Challenge, things like that to get me to read. In my current journal all I do is print out the cover and then print out the aesthetic photo of it, but next year I wanna create a spread for the books I've read, then look back and read them, even admire them if I can

[@StarStuffer]

I am about to start my first reading journal. Thank you so much for sharing so many great ideas. 🍵📗

[@maritzelcastillon1969]

🍵📗 new subscriber here! This video was lovely and im more inspired to continue with my reading journal thank you!!

[@jenniferrux7722]

Your 2022 journal is stunning. I am hoping to do creative/scrapbook reviews in 2023. Currently I do a monthly spread that just shows me how many days read, what books I read - but no reviews - a TBR a calendar and a haul page. I will still do that for 2023 but then do a seperate journal for the creative reviews.

[@heabooktubes]

Ugh. Love this so much. ✨📚✨

[@mariad4183]

Loving this girl!

[@rosemaryortega9879]

Love this video ❤ very enjoyable 😊😊😊

[@xkorita05x]

🍵📖 I LOVE the spreads in your reading journal. I’m not much of a reader, but do love watching reading journal videos LoL doesn’t make any sense. I guess the creative process of it all is what brings me back to watching these videos. Looking forward to your spreads in 2023!

[@peanutprintz4099]

🍵📚 Always love watching/listening to your process!

[@jaedd_plans]

I love watching you create, your spreads are always so gorgeous!🍵📖

[@goddess_eve21]

I love this setup! Thank you for sharing this...excited to see it filled it throughout the year. 😍 All of your supplies brought it to life, I love the selections. Definitely taking notes for my next reading journal setup ... I just setup my second not so long ago. I have to have a minutes tracker, since I track it daily. I have moved on to add a monthly TBR before the books for that month, which has been a lifesaver. I have to have a series tracker too, since that makes most of my reads and I want to keep track of those. I included a bookshelf, and I love coloring it in! So I for sure will keep that. I also have to have a ebooks tracker, so that I can read the tons of books I download lol. I recently added a Wishlist, and for sure will keep that too. Will probably add more space for next time lol I am looking forward to a lot of books next year! If you ever need recommendations for a specific genre, you are free to message me on IG @goddess_eve21. Always looking for new book lovers to chat with. ✨️🖤

[@ambargonzalez8862]

📚🍵 loooooved the spreads!

[@bienna8109]

🍵📗 these spreads are so beautiful! I like that every page is unique, yet they combine together so well. I’ll start my own, first - ever reading journal next year, too, and I’m very excited on how I’ll like it. Definitely will be coming back to your channel for some inspiration :D

[@christopherkunigk9108]

If you want some stuff that's really outside of most people's general reading sphere I'd highly suggest stuff from the This Podcast Will Kill You goodreads list! (it's called These Books Will Kill You) The podcast is about disease- mostly infectious, but they've been branching out into genetic conditions and all sorts of things, and both presenters are in the medical field and the goodreads list is an aggregate of a lot of their vetted sources. Obviously there's a lot of dry nonfiction but there's a lot that's written in a very comprehensible narrative style. I personally recommend the Plutonium Files and The Family That Couldn't Sleep!

[@alet7430]

🍵 📚 This video came right in time! Halfway this year I started to keep track of the books I read, and make spreads for them to make it more of a ‘party’ for me to read books. Your reading journal videos really inspire me. And this year I am going to start a real reading journal. So this video and your spreads help me to get started. Books I want to read in 2023: heir of fire (and probably more of the throne of glass series) and I want to read mindset/business books as well.

[@sugaryxegnirys]

It’s fun to come across journalers who make content like this. Super happy to see how your new reading journal turned out! Super excited to check out this related journal with 160gsm pages. 🤯 I’ve been looking for cute bullet journals that have watercolor potential.

[@Tarmachan]

Your videos were a big reasons why I started a reading journal back in January, because I didn't read a lot in 2021 and wanted to get back into it. I loved the idea of just writing my thoughts when I was done, and getting to do a bit of decorating. It's been a full year and I've read and journalled nearly 50 books! Thanks so much for the inspiration!

[@penpal_katrine]

🍵📚 Endelig hadde eg tid til å sjå denne videoen! Elska alle dekorasjonane 🥰 Grunna ein heftig samsynsfeil på auga mine har eg ingen leseglede, så det var kjekt at du slo eit slag for lydbøker 👌 om eg skulle anbefale ei bok eg faktisk har lest er det Juraparken (jurassic park) den er veldig undervurdert og faktisk utruleg bra! Ellers vil eg ønske deg og dine God Jul! 🎄⭐🎀✨

[@elinalovescats]

I recommend using ring notebook if u mind the notebook being chunky

[@madebyjulia1347]

For the categories I have a suggestion that I myself tried out and loved. So I call it the ‘Underrated ? Books’ and it is for book with not particularly bad but not great reviews that I want to give a go to, and I end up liking around 50% of book in that category so I don’t know if this is a thing for everyone or I just have an irregular taste in books… but if you want you should definitely try reading a book like that of any genre you feel like you will enjoy to be able to give your own honest rating to it❤