2024 Reading Journal | My first time trying

[@juliangelus]

Gorgeous, I'm so in awe of your calligraphy

[@jessicamorales1556]

Beautiful Calligraphy 🖋❤

[@mothtotheflame13]

I love this setup!! I use an app called storygraph for my reading stats. It technically can be used alone but i use it alongside goodreads because i like the gr interface better, but sg shows you a bunch of cool stats monthly and yearly! I usually input all my books for the month at the end and then i get to look at cute pie charts every month and year! Hope this helps, new sub here to watch your bujo/readjo progress

[@Verobujo]

Ohh I like that approach a lot!!! You might have finally convinced me to give story graph a go hahaha thank you so so much 🥰

[@barbaracallwood9220]

I would suggest doing monthly stats. First, having monthly stats makes it much easier to collect annual stats. Second, seeing how you’re doing each month as far as your goal helps you to better select reads. For example, if a goal is to read a better variety of genres, seeing in, say August, that you’ve read no historical fiction, might encourage you to make a historical fiction novel your next read. Enjoyed your spreads!

[@Verobujo]

Thank you so much for the recommendation!! You’ve 100% convinced me 🥰

[@ninasbookishcorner]

Your reading journal spreads are so aesthetic 😍 and I love the idea of authors from around the world. My reading goal for 2024 is to read 50 books 😊

[@Verobujo]

Thank you so much!!! Such a great goal!! Good luck 📚🥰

[@ritamorris1175]

Beautiful!

[@Verobujo]

Thank you so much ✨

[@Gplancarte]

I think it looks great!! 👍🏻 would love to follow your monthly updates!

[@Verobujo]

Ahhh I think I've abandoned the idea, but I might do updates every 10 books, so I have more substance!

[@karenannemaddox5794]

Love your reading journal. Love the calligraphy. Monthly stats are easier to keep up with than yearly stats.

[@ChantelleArts]

This is gorgeous, I love the theme, watched and enjoyed until the end 😊😊

[@Verobujo]

Thank you so so much lovely 🥰

[@brigettemajor7946]

I tried as well ..no follow though …I may try again. Thanks for sharing.

[@marisolschielke5210]

Your set up looks so beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration! I would love to see more beginner videos if you have them.

[@Verobujo]

Ahh thank you so so much! I think my minimal bullet journal playlist could be up your alley, but I filmed those a while ago so the quality may not be as good !

[@Verobujo]

Here’s the link! kzbin.info/aero/PL8Q8NQDiDC9NvcPpoLlvfWxy5ejBEpN3i&si=N0enEYZn01IZm1YX Otherwise maybe my bullet journal 101 series can provide some inspiration that is easier to copy kzbin.info/aero/PL8Q8NQDiDC9MCk-BUiq25ZUhb0UiIsCKf&si=QkBJQQ49PWrs4GFb But I will endeavour to make some more beginner friendly videos in the new year !

[@MichaelaWagner]

I love the personality you put into your voice overs!! Also, if you're interested in Romance books - Sally Thorne is from Canberra!

[@Verobujo]

Thank you so much!! I haven’t heard of her I’ll definitely check her out !

[@megankelly5739]

So glad I found your channel! I love your journaling style. Would love to learn to write in the calligraphy style you do. How did you learn?

[@gailchu50]

I love how your reading journal turned out! Thank you for sharing your spreads 📔😊

[@Verobujo]

Thank you so much ✨

[@AWonderfulSheep]

I am also hoping to set up a reading journal for the first time so this video was so fun to watch. Loved those A and O book stamps!

[@Verobujo]

Ahh I’m so glad!! We can both be newbies together ! 🤩

[@ynetteaustin]

Love the theme and spreads! Thank you for sharing 📚

[@Verobujo]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@marilynsutherland5079]

I like to write short synopsis of each book it helps me remember them better but I love watching bj set ups and reading journal set ups to get ideas

[@Verobujo]

That’s a great idea! I do always forget what I’ve read 5 seconds after finishing a book 😂

[@jjharrison512]

Woahhh, your 24 books in 2024 list is so similar to my tbr list on Goodreads! I think that's a list I'll create as well. It's a good way to ensure I'm reading books on my tbr and not just adding to the list, month after month.

[@Verobujo]

Ooh that’s so exciting!!! I hope we both get through these books this coming year then!!!

[@burnedbooks]

On a monthly basis I track number of books, number of pages, format, author’s sex, number of new books purchased, rereads. Separately I track genres, language, if book is stand alone or part of the series, days it took to read a book and its rating.

[@Verobujo]

Thank you for the tips! I will definitely be adding that, although I find it hard to track pages since I read on both physical books, e-reader and audio so it’s hard to determine the pages on the second two! How do you do it for those usually?

[@burnedbooks]

@@Verobujo for audiobooks i do not track hours cause i listen on speed 1.25 or 1.5 and it's hard to say how many hours it really was vs how many they declare by default, but i find equivalent book on goodreads and take number of pages from there, same with ebook/kindle really. I assume someone simply read me same number of pages :D

[@Verobujo]

@burnedbooks ahhh that makes sense !! Thank you!!

[@EvanLuke3]

I really loved your reading journal set-up. It turned out beautifully!! I cannot wait to see how you use it. I have one question. Can you explain how you use the brackets to pick your favorite book of the year? Do you pick your favorite book of the month and they go head to head? I would really like to do this in my reading journal this year. Thanks so much!!!❤❤❤

[@Verobujo]

Thank you !!! And yes the idea would be to pick a monthly favourite and they go head to head! I’ve never done this before so we’ll see how we go!!!

[@slastenushkaslast3402]

Loooove it. For the reviews I would limit one's self to a size. Fro example one page for a book or half a page for a book. Come up with the rating system. Very popular one is CAWPILE from Book Roast. Also my favorite spread is the one that's god all the book covers for the year. I usually do the tracker of how many books I read in a form of book covers, then it's a very colorful page to look back on. I'm sure you'll love it and with the goal of 70 books, you ARE an avid reader. :)

[@Verobujo]

Thank you so much! I’ve never heard of the cawpile system, so I’ll look into that! And i love the idea of having a monthly reading wrap up with the book covers (is that what you mean?) or do you mean like a yearly wrap up with all the book covers ?

[@slastenushkaslast3402]

So in my own journal I did yearly tracking of books I read, but instead of doing circles or little squares, I did 54 (that's my goal) spaces for book covers. So I have my entire year at a glance as my tracker with book covers. It's very very colorful already :) I started my year in December :) monthly one is also a great idea. It gives you such a colorful page to look at, especially if you also add like little stars at the bottom for your reviews so at a glance you'll see how entire month or year went :) I also did my TBR as a page that is constantly updatable. Cause I'm just like you hard to commit a year in advance. So I printed about 15 or so book covers in a form of stickers that I want to read, and I placed them on TBR page with like a little sticky dot. So when I read that book I take this little cover out of TBR page and place it in my tracker.. And that frees up a spot for new TBR. So when I'm done with the book and I want to read smth new, I go to my TBR page and choose a book cover I want :) I like interactivity of this

[@Verobujo]

Ahhh where were you before I set my reading journal up!! This is such a brilliant idea! I will have to try and remember this for next year!!!!

[@spencerjmt]

Ooh I see you want to read Cultish - have you read Wordslut? I think I liked Wordslut more than Cultish but they were both great. Also want to recommend "Because Internet" by Gretchen McCulloch if you're interested in linguistics :) If you like Babel, I'd also rec 'If We Were Villains'!

[@Verobujo]

Thank you so much for the recommendations !! I’ve heard of wordslut, but only by name so I’ll definitely check it out 😍

[@JulianaCavalcante26]

a book in portuguese, tudo é rio by carla madeira, and i think it have in spanish too

[@Verobujo]

Thank you so much for the recommendation! I will look it up !!

[@tungstensmum1491]

I’m doing a 24 in 24 this year but it’s mostly made up of the books I’ve had on my TBR the longest (digital and physical) and books a friend lent me last year that I didn’t get to.

[@Verobujo]

Such a great way to get through books that have been on your tbr forever !!! When I first started reading again I just read books on my bookshelves too!

[@thelibraryismyhappyplace1618]

I grew up in South Africa. If you need some ideas for African authors, the following books were set works for English literature in high school in the 1980s: Cry, the beloved country - Alan Paton (South Africa) The grass is singing - Doris Lessing (Zimbabwe) Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) If you only read one book by an African author, then it should be The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

[@Verobujo]

Thank you so much for the recommendations, I’ve added all of these to my TBR, I certainly aspire to read more than just one but I will start with Nelson Mandela’s !

[@giigiireadss]

Where did you get those washi tapes?😍😍😍😍

[@Verobujo]

They are all from Archer and Olive! www.archerandolive.com?aff=499 (This is an affiliate link!)

[@giigiireadss]

@@Verobujo thank youuuuuu🥰

[@PlanWithEmm]

What's your goodreads handle? I'd love to be friends on there!

[@Verobujo]

Sorry, it took me a hot minute to figure out to share my profile link haha!! It's: www.goodreads.com/verobujo