June Reading Journal Spread Ideas + Everything I Read in May

[@theradical_reesie_d591]

Weird, embarrassing, and possibly creepy confession: last night I fell asleep binge watching your reading journal videos and then I had a dream that we were bullet journaling together 😬😂 I love all your journals but the reading journals are my favorite!❤️

[@ErinSmith]

Aww this is so sweet! I hope we made some pretty things in our dreaming journal session! 🥰 someone told me once they fall asleep to my livestream playlist so you may not have been alone!

[@JashiiCorrin]

Not sure if you gave yourself the bonus points, but every read that falls under our favourite genres gets you bonus points! 😄 So from a quick glance, any romance or fantasy book you read (and counted towards the Goober Readathon) gets you another point 👌 So glad that you got involved with it 🥳 thanks Erin!

[@ErinSmith]

OH I FORGOT! I might get to level up hahah thanks Jess!

[@fumiscorner3793]

I love that you track your reading duration for your own satisfaction at the end of the month. Journaling should be for ourselves and if it makes us happy at the end of the month. That's all that matters ❤❤❤

[@ErinSmith]

This is such a lovely comment, thank you! ❤❤❤

[@amandabrown9871]

When I read Caraval I didn't like Tella either, but liked her a lot as the series goes on. All your spreads are always so pretty!

[@kikiandshawn]

Turned out great you gave me a bunch of inspiration to do this. I love to read.

[@JanieMason-f7c]

I do not typically watch bullet journal videos...I am more a creative memory journal type gal but I absolutely love your videos. I haven't missed any since I started watching. From your lovely voice, beautiful hand lettering, gorgeous spreads to providing supplies you use. It ticks all of the boxes and I love everything! I am also a Neil Gaiman fan. I loved his book Neverwhere. I think you might as well!! Thanks for sharing your creative gift with us!🙂

[@ErinSmith]

Thank you so much for your support! I'm so glad you like my lil videos!

[@joniburke8005]

Also wanted to say I love your stickers. You relate them beautifully to each book.

[@avalonkerr8332]

Am currently looking for Shakespeare stickers- so, thank you! Also, Neil Gaiman is pretty much always magical 😄

[@MeowMyselfandI]

So happy that you liked Stardust, it's one of my favourites! I also love both the book and movie

[@ErinSmith]

It was positively enchanting! 😍

[@Daisyalleen]

I don't watch you for a long time yet but I really love your videos and your set ups so much and you inspired me to start a book journal myself❤❤ keep it going like this❤❤

[@Puffin-uf8qw]

I wish I could imitate the font on the cover as well as you did! My least favourite character was Donatella as well as I feel like she isn’t grateful enough for Scarlett. I would recommend the rest of the series and you should absolutely read Once Upon a Broken Heart because it is so much better. I actually prefer OUABH rather than Caraval.

[@ErinSmith]

Ooh thank you for this! I'll definitely soldier on!

[@Jeanny.Q]

All your videos bring me so much joy but it’s especially the reading journal videos that I love. I’ve just come back from travelling and I’m leaving again in a bit, so I have quite a lot of catching up to do in my own reading journal. Yesterday I felt very uninspired but today your video got me back into the mood. I think I’ll create a little summer book bingo for myself (Northern hemisphere here) 🌞

[@ErinSmith]

I’m so glad I could help you feel like journaling 😍

[@vivianwakoff]

Lovely spreads as always! I've read so many of Gaiman's works, but I have yet to read Stardust. It's sort of my security blanket book, vou know. "Oh, I can read this. I still have Stardust. I'm not running out of Gaiman stuff to read!"

[@megmorningstar4250]

I am at this point I have about 3 books of his to read, and a couple of comics and i don't want to finish them too fast too 😂

[@ErinSmith]

That makes so much sense to me!

[@kariikosmos3005]

Oh hey! I also read Stardust last month. It was my read a book book for the goober prompt 😅

[@KellyAK]

I had an incredible reading month thanks to the Goober Readathon, I completed the full bingo board with 25 books read - I'm normally at around 10 - 12 per month. Favourite was my LOTR re-read (for the Game of Tomes book club) but favourite first time read was Bookshops & Bonedust, which was just so lovely. Love your June spreads, such a pretty colour palette! I have also never done waterfal tabs or any kind of dutch doors in my reading journal, but you're tempting me...

[@ErinSmith]

That’s AMAZING Kelly! Finishing up that bingo board must have felt so good!

[@thenubianreview]

I love hope to start another reading journal in June I’ve procrastinated for-so long now after seeing this video I’m motivated to start my reading journal again.

[@ErinSmith]

I’m so glad! 😍 you’ve got this!

[@yoganisingh5051]

Really love the set-ups and the layouts. Love having two videos a week, your content is always so inspiring. 😍

[@ErinSmith]

I’m so glad you’re enjoying it! I’m dropping the ball on this immediately though haha - there should be a new video tonight but I’m going to have to skip this one 🥲 Friday video will go up as usual though!

[@neeonexy]

So pretty ✨ About Caraval: I only liked the first book and kinda hated Tella as well, but read the second book about her and suddenly loved it! Somehow I ended up even liking her more than Scarlett haha. The third book has both perspectives and was very good as well!

[@ErinSmith]

You’ve got me curious now! Off to check the library availability 😉

[@solar1913]

The colors in the June calendar are really muted and are found in the very pretty washi so I think it will stay pretty even with the color added for the tracking. But maybe in person the colors are more noticeable than on film? Still I would take your « not perfect » layout over my « best I can »😁

[@hillarybigham5872]

Evelyn Hugo was a good listen! It was a little slow start, but the story really progressed well. Got me it hit some deep feels and a one read only type book for me.

[@trehs98]

I love this set-up! Thanks for sharing ❤

[@GailB0707]

You can use big clips to hold the pages down

[@ErinSmith]

The issue is more that the extra stuff I have stuck in makes the whole book bulge, it’s a little convex now 😅 just a sign of being well-loved!

[@TundraEmpress]

Hi Erin! Long time lurker, first time commenter... We generally have little to no overlap in our reading tastes, but I enjoy your content so much I don't even care and I love to see your setups and hear your commentary. Just wanted to pop in and offer perhaps an unusual recommendation--if you loved Stardust by Neil Gaiman and you want to try another *amazing* audiobook by him that is a bit of a departure, I can't recommend Coraline enough. The audiobook has creepy, haunting music that accompanies chapter changes and it is a truly magical journey that is so well told and well-narrated. It's also super short, so it's easy to get through without too much investment of time. Happy reading!

[@ErinSmith]

Thank you for this! I’m so keen 😍

[@RusKms]

So pretty!!! Love the new stats page. My fave book of the month was the complete poems of Sylvia Plath. I’m still working on one book though, so depending on the rating that could change! I’m hoping to read Annihilation today. I’ve heard incredible stuff, so it might bump Sylvia out of the top spot.

[@ErinSmith]

Thanks Leah! You've got me wanting to read a poetry book too!

[@annag8448]

My favourite book in May was 'Erebus: The Story of a Ship' by Michael Palin, it's a non-fiction (hear me out,) about the British 18th-century sailing ship that discovered the Antarctic continent and then sunk and was lost in the Arctic for 200 years. I have to admit it was my 'book that intimidates you' prompt for the Goober readathon as I'm more of a fiction gal but it was so captivating and descriptive that I couldn't put it down for three days straight until I finished it! I'd definitely recommend it if you're wanting something a little different to read to cleanse your reading palette or however people describe it! I'm really into my reading journalling at the moment too but I'm having issues choosing bullet journal themes- I don't want to use my stickers & stationary up because 'what if I read a book that then needs these really specific stickers for its review page?!'

[@paginator]

If you like Jacks from the Caraval series, he has a spin-off trilogy starting with Once Upon a Broken Heart.

[@Haffina]

I didn't read anything in May, probably because I was doing assignments for uni. Hopefully I will get more read in June, especially as you picked my suggestion for the page mages LOL

[@ErinSmith]

No pressure Jen! I probably could have times that better 😅

[@MysteriousMind91]

Wow, I adore those June pages! So pretty! My favorite book I read in May was The Deal by Elle Kennedy, just a really fun college romance that just hit all the right warm and fuzzy places, and can't wait to continue the series! ^_^ (Please check trigger warnings tho.) Honorable mention to Twisted Lies by Ana Huang, she finished out that series with my favorite of the four! Your Reading Journal videos have become my absolute favorite and I love watching them every month, thank you so much for taking us along

[@ErinSmith]

Oooh the Deal sounds right up my alley! Thank you for being here!

[@Bookbonkers8439]

The Book of Life (which is the 3rd in the All Souls series) is my favorite of the series. I also didn’t love Shadow of Night. I did like Heartless, but Reckless was my favorite of that series! The Rule Book by Sarah Adams was my favorite of May! I was laughing out loud while reading that one!

[@planningwithcaroline]

About you filling up your books I´ve read this year. Just insert a new page next to the other before you start on the right page - problem solved 💕Really love your videos. Keep being creative

[@ErinSmith]

I think it might come to that! Haha!

[@vnya_verbena]

I love your Reading Journal and Bullet Journal videos! I've been wondering for a while, do you plan what you write for your book reviews?

[@ErinSmith]

I really don’t 🤣 I make some notes in my phone as I go sometimes, or highlight passages on my Kindle, but I really just jump in and write whatever comes to mind!

[@sofiewauters7539]

So pretty!!! ♥

[@margaretefreund8958]

I just finished A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. The first of a trilogy. I highly recommend if you haven't read it yet.

[@draganascrafts]

I’m ashamed to admit that I only read 5 books in May and 4 of them I read last week 😅 hopefully June will be better 🤗 love your pages! Everything is just so stunning 🥰

[@megmorningstar4250]

i just hope all of them were good reads 😁

[@draganascrafts]

@@megmorningstar4250 They were though A cat who caught the killer could’ve been better. I enjoyed reading it cause the mood was right but the book is bad 😅

[@ErinSmith]

Reading 5 books is still an accomplishment! I read zero books for a solid decade at one point so I reckon 4 in a week is pretty amazing!

[@draganascrafts]

@@ErinSmith Yeah it’s pretty good if you look at it like that 😁

[@jenmoore5563]

Love your videos, creative and fun. Can I ask what kind of fountain pen and ink you are using? Thanks!

[@ErinSmith]

This one is a Lamy fountain pen - I don’t know anything further about it though sorry, I stole it off my boyfriend 🤣

[@joniburke8005]

Erin watching your video and it looks like you read multiple books at one time. Don’t you get confused.? 😊 Also what is the app that you are using to select books or can you recommend one? Love your set up on the reading journal. I have decided that this is my year to get back into reading and excited to make my own reading journal. Thanks for sharing.

[@ErinSmith]

When I’m reading more than one book at once, it’s usually one on audio and one on ebook - that helps me keep them straight! I mostly get my book recommendations from friends and from commenters here, but I believe StoryGraph has a recommendations section! Could be worth a try! 🥰

[@robertapappagallo4267]

Hi Erin, your videos are so entertaining I like the way you track what you read and I will surely copy some of your spread in my reading journal. Could you please tell me the brand of the fountain pen that you use at the beginning of the video ? Thank you

[@ErinSmith]

It’s from Lamy! 🥰 I don’t actually know any more about it though, it technically belongs to my boyfriend - I’m just borrowing it!

[@robertapappagallo4267]

@@ErinSmith thank you so much

[@nourin_siddique]

Ooh I love your thumbnail

[@mooncraftbujo]

I loved the first Discovery Of Witches book but oh my god I HATED Shadow Of Night. It took me months to finish and then even more months to finally read the third book 😅

[@ErinSmith]

This makes me feel a lot better 🤣 I liked the first one a lot more too!

[@archiva1112]

Hi Erin! I doubt you'll still answer this after all this time, but where did you get the clear stamps you used as the title for your On the Jellicoe Road spread as well as your June statistics spread? I'm absolutely in love with them. Always love your videos!

[@ErinSmith]

I got them in-store at Spotlight here in Australia - but there are similar ones around on Amazon if you’re not down under like me! ✨

[@archiva1112]

@@ErinSmith Oh my gosh, I really wasn't expecting a reply lol. Thank you!!

[@margaret-annirvine9622]

Hi Erin love these video they have been so helpful in helping me set my first ever reading journal up, but i am a little confused how u determine the 1/2 1/4 stars u get. i know how to use the cawpile method but that just shows u how to get a full star

[@ErinSmith]

I just worked out what the midpoint of each CAWPILE range is and I use that as my half star benchmark. If it’s very close to the next tier up or down, then I get into the quarter stars!

[@margaret-annirvine9622]

@@ErinSmith aw perfect thank you

[@melizzavelez6823]

I’m curious as to where those sticker books can be found. I think they are lovely. ???

[@ErinSmith]

They’re from Journalsay! Linked under the Jellicoe Road section 🥰

[@ChantelleArts]

This is so good , what wonderful spreads ☺☺

[@daphnevanvegchel8093]

Regarding your stats... You track your page numbers and your format, but I would really like to know how many pages you read (e-book) vs how many you listen to (on audio book). Or is that just me? Loved your video, as always 😊

[@ErinSmith]

I specifically don’t track hours listened because I think they’d be wrong 🥲 I never listen to audiobooks on regular speed, it’s usually 1.3-1.7x so if it calculates the total run time of the book as hours read it’s going to be more than I actually spent on it 🤣

[@daphnevanvegchel8093]

And if you count them as pages instead of hours?

[@ErinSmith]

@@daphnevanvegchel8093 Storygraph converts it for me, I assume based on the equivalent edition of the book - it's just for funsies though, it's not something I spend much time thinking about 😅

[@cheriewheatley8442]

Hi there! I really enjoy your channel and I'm wanting to start a reading journal. Could you please tell me app you use to list the books you read that you come back to at the end of the month to update your journal? Thanks so much for your help.

[@ErinSmith]

I use StoryGraph! It’s a bit of a learning curve to make sure you’re tracking the right version of the books but there are some videos out there on how to use it! 🥰

[@cheriewheatley8442]

@@ErinSmith Thanks so much Erin for getting back with me. I really appreciate it. I will be checking StoryGraph out. Have a great day!

[@rabarella]

sorry if i missed it, but may i know where did you get the big alphabet stamps that you used for On the Jellicoe Road?

[@ErinSmith]

I got them in store at Spotlight here in Australia 🥲 you can find some similar ones on Amazon though!

[@YellowChick-rp1ef]

I m early ❤❤ love the spreads as always

[@ErinSmith]

You’re a speedy bean! 🥰

[@dr.janaleewagner1177]

There is a great Cat Who series where the cats help solve cases. They are funny and suspenseful. By Lillian Jackson Braun.