Starting a Reading Journal

[seleneheart]

In 2024, I decided to start reading published books again, instead of long-form fanfic downloaded from AO3, because I needed more of a challenging read than fanfic provides. To stay motivated for 2025, I'm participating in a Book Bingo challenge. All of the above led me to decide that I want to start a journal dedicated to my reading.

And I don't want anything digital, otherwise, my Goodreads list would be adequate.

I've looked at some that people have posted here, and trying to figure out what I want to do. I think I want a bigger size that my A5 bullet journal, and I think I want to do less hand-drawn art that what I put in my bujo. Maybe more scrapbook-y and less time-consuming. I definitely want to do something like print out the book covers on sticker paper.

What type of information do you include? How do you sequence the books? Do you have a daily reading log or something similar?


Mods: could we get a style: reading journal tag?

Comments

[white_aster]

Gotcha. For that level of flexibility, a binder or discbound system is really ideal - whenever you start a book, you can fill out your "start page" format (giving details on it), and then just keep filling pages with discussion of that book as you'd like, adding them in after that start page until you're done. (This is assuming that you want to have all your discussion of one book together.) This would allow you to write about the books at different times, but order them manually so they're all together.