2021 Reading Journal Flip Thru | It's About Time Right? | Discussing What Worked and What Didn't 

There is a section on goodreads for upcoming releases. If you go to the "browse" drop-down menu there's a tab for new releases and you can look by genre or by author's you've read from before. They're typically separated by month.

I like both of them. If you love to do a full spread of the books you love. Do that! I don’t think you are wasting space doing both a full spread of a book and then doing the review on another page. Just as long you enjoy to create and using your reading journal. I love how beautiful all the spreads are in the journal. Thank you for sharing this with us. ❤

For me this reading journal is perfect. You do you. And the honesty, the missing pages, the mix are part of what makes this so good.

First of all I LOVE your watch band, second, People we meet on vacation is my favorite Emily Henry book! I loved it so much! I really like to watch reading journal videos of any kind, but I like the scrapbook type ones the best! Great video!!

I love seeing how others do their reading journal because everyone does theirs a little differently. Yours looks so organized and tidy! I think it's up to you, but I also love writing down my thoughts about a book because otherwise I'll forget everything. What you can do is use small cut out/inserts for your thoughts and paste it into the spread. That way, you get to have both an aesthetic spread and a place to write a review. I've used both a fold-out method and also pasting it in with a frame/border.

Love the illustration on the page where you write what you thought of it!!

Any reading journal content is amazing content! and I think it'd be great to do full page spreads of the books you read, especially the ones you love the most 😊

I love your flip throughs. The BUJO is effective and elegant. I am definitely going to use some of your spreads.

Love your videos Tracy! Keep up the good work :) there so enjoyable to watch and your organization is on point!! Very inspirational 😊

I do a spread (or single page) to write my thoughts and reflections about every book I read. My trick to use up space is to make a standard layout: 2"x3" cover; stats about the title, author, publisher, number of pages, and when I read it; and generous margins to keep the text together. If it's a book I absolutely adore, then I draw, doodle, or decorate in the margins to add some color to the spread. Or I fill space with a quote I enjoyed from the book. That's how I stay interested in my reading journal. Decorations are specific to books I enjoy, and I don't waste time expanding on books that were just okay. And I leave the habit tracking and calendars to my main planner.

I do more review type of spread. I can’t draw, so I use a lot of photos, papers, stamps and stickers. And I love anything you will do in your Reading Journal.

Thank you for a very informative video! Honestly, you can't do it wrong! I love all your spreads, and I don't believe that you have to be consistent or limit your style to one. For my reading journal, the more I loved the book, I gave more time, energy, and pages, but I always leave my thoughts and reviews somewhere so that I can revisit the book and feel them all over again. The purpose of my reading journal is memory keeping as well as to spend a little more time in that world after finishing a book. If it's easy to say good bye to, I just do half or third a page of rating and thoughts. Anyway, I'm already looking forward to your 2023 reading journal! 💖

Omg! We read the same books! This journal is so beautiful! I love your aesthetic! I will be pulling a lot of inspiration from your work!

I think you could do a mix of decorative and thoughts on the book spread. Something like mochibujo does, but themed around the book. If I start a reading BuJo, that's what I'll do. Either way, I'll watch anything you post!

I like the artistic spreads and then thoughts in the monthly pages. I think I'm going to do this next year. Thanks for the inspiration

look at the bright side! you now have a reason to read the books one more time 😃 Do love your reading log, quite amazing! Drawings or not, it's amazing. I am 50/50 creative with thoughts.

Love your watch band! I have the same one but in black! Gorgeous journal as always!

I just finished "People we meet on vacation" Loved loved loved it. 🥰

your journal layouts are always so pretty, I get so much inspiration 🥰.

Love the Lore and shadow & Bone spread

I do a mix of spreads for my book reviews. If it is a favorite or makes me feel something I will do a full scrapbook style spread with quotes, thoughts, images etc. If it was a good/decent or even not so good book I just do a smaller 1/2 page writeup just a blurb of my thoughts and the rating. Don't switch to a travelers size because it will limit what you can do for the full spreads you might want to create. Your journal work is beautiful!

Love seeing this flipthrough! I think you could do a mix of drawing and pasted items!

I read Home Before Dark a couple months ago (listened to it on the Libby app) and it turned out to be my favorite Riley Sager book. Highly recommend! It wasn’t too scary. You should be good!

They brought the fairy journal back. I just double checked lol I love it 🧚‍♀️

I don't actually keep a reading journal since I don't read nearly enough for that lol buuuut I really like your smaller columns with thoughts on the books, that seems more doable for someone like me who doesn't really have a page or two worth of thoughts on most books. You could always do a mix, do a big spread for books you super loved or maybe just one for your favourite books that month and do little thoughts for others? You could also use the spread to be both artsy and thoughtful, like have one of the pages just art and the other thoughts and quotes. At the end of the day I'd say whatever makes you the happiest since it's your journal ^^

I love your decorations and spreads, great book journal. For new releases I can recommend Goodreads although for me it's mostly for following my favourite authors to allways know their releases (but it can offer much more than this). The only thing I add to that is some of my favourite Booktubers when they are talking new releases. To be fair I don't have time for much more books with my love of rereads (high five!) and really long backlog... I love both your bookspreads and your booklists. For me the full spread is for the book I really want to stay with after reading. Spreads are helping with that sort of book hungover where one needs a bit more time with this story and characters before diving into another world. And I think that it can be anything ones want to do about a book and whatever gives most pleasure. On the other hand I wouldn't like ommiting in my mini reviews or other type of list any book only because it is done as a spread. The lists serve another purpose and I really like to have all books I read there.

I really like the creative spreads you make, but in general I just enjoy watching you create. I say do what you have time for and what works for you. I personally haven't figured out how to "review" my books in my journals yet. I can't draw to recreate scenes and I struggle to find awesome images. I also struggle for the words for reviews. I use my reading journal to track how long it took me to read a book (i just like the visual it creates the way I do it), my possible TBR, Days read, books hauled, and books read. My books read spread is a page with boxes with the title, author, format and star rating. I would really love to figure out how to do review spreads.

Shadow and bone spread! Thank you for your reading journal flip thru! Would definitely check those out :)

Individual spread. With thoughts n quotes. A review type. Like on Fabe and The Hawthornes.

I look up my fave authors and/or series on good reads and they usually have release dates on books that aren’t out yet.

you can use goodreads for new releases they do seasonal lists and stuff like that

Love the way your reading journal looks! Personally, I can‘t draw, so the spreads in my reading journal are just when I read x book, my rating, some genre information, a summary of the beginning, and my thoughts and comments on that book. I‘m using a B6 Stalogy and I don‘t make monthly sections - it‘s just book after book. I don‘t even change journals every year: Just going to fill that Stalogy up until I run out of pages. I‘d definitely be interested in more info about the content of the books you read!

Trace, I personally like the spread where you write down your thoughts but you should also go on doing your decorative stuff. I am sorry that you don’t draw anymore. It was so awesome! I am not good at drawing at all so I really envy you about your talent! I decorate my reading journal mainly, write down the titles one by one ( monthly) and comment on it and give a ranking. Sometimes I write down a quote… And I also take a photo of the title page… I understand that you have to try out something new once in a while. And you are right: it‘s time consuming!

I do more reviews than anything else in my reading journal but next year I want to do more spreads and make it pretty and fun.

I'm new here. My thoughts on the beautiful layouts is: Rate your monthly books and choose your favorite each month to create for. Your artwork is beautifuk!

Have you ever heard of the spiraldex which allows you to track how you are using your time each day? I've created a year of monthly calendars with a spiral on each day for 2023 on which I hope to track the hours spent reading, gardening, watching RU-vid, movies, sleeping and other activities. My goal with the spiral dex tracking is to help me see where I'm wasting time and motivate me to spend my time on things I want to do more of. I may create a note pad with a draft spiral to work on each day (marking the date and start stop times) as I record my times and transpose the daily notes into my journal each week. I like to see your reactions to each book. And a personal affirmation or resolution that the book inspired. Maybe add a glossary of vocabulary words you learn from a book, words you may have been compelled to look up. I love to see challenges, like the A2Z, I have pasted world maps and USA states maps in my journal and am coloring in countries and states as I read books primarily set there. I also have a compass rose with lines to capture books I"ve read that contain a cardinal direction in the title. Maybe add a page with favorite authors of the year with a picture and short bio and list of books they've written that you'd like to read in the future with a tracker icon. I have a spread for birdwatching (books with birds in the title and as I read a bird book, I print a line drawn image of the bird and color it and paste it on my bird spread noting the name of the book. I do the same with a flower garden of books with flowers in the title. I have a Do the Dewey spread to encourage me to go to the library and read non fiction found on the Dewey shelves.

Love your reading log. Can you please tell me what size notebook you are using in this video? Thank you.

The app goodreads usually sends out an email at the beginning of each month with new releases!

Your reading journal is great! I absolutely love the book art type spreads spreads but based on what you said about not remembering the books I think leaving a space large or small to write something to jog your memory would be beneficial. I’d love to know more about your child’s readathon, are you just tracking the books read together? Or is there something more to it? I’m always looking for ways to encourage reading in our house.

I use Goodreads new releases by month to see what is coming out. Its a bit tedious because you have to scroll through a lot and cannot pick the genre, but it works for the most part! Love your journal setup, a lot!

You could do the Lore spread but instead of quotes behind the bookcover door you could write your review and other thoughts... Or in a spread use one side to be creative and the other for review/thoughts, so one book per spread like with Fable. Regardless, whatever you do it isn't wrong if it makes you happy and inspires you.

I love all of your spreads (and that watch band!) I set up my month but then I do the book spreads after I read them, so if I love a book it gets a huge 2 page spread with review and quotes and all the bells and whistles. If I don't love a book, I grab some scrap paper and write down title, author, rating, my thoughts, and quotes (even bad books have good quotes...sometimes) and then I stick that in the back pocket of my journal. Once I have enough ones I didn't love (or the month is coming to a close) I pull them out and do a 2 page spread with all those reviews, each one getting smaller page sections unless it upset me much that i need to vent and it becomes longer lol. I dont really want to determine how much space I "have to" fill for each book before I read them. Does that make sense? :) this way I'm not wasting too much creative energy on books I didn't like.

I love the creative spreads, but space is at a premium in my reading journal so I just write my thoughts...I like spreads that are a little creative but focus more on your thoughts, quotes and review of the book

We read a lot of the same romance books. Lovely journal.

I think you should decorate it the way you want.

Do you have a Goodreads? I'd love to follow!

I love your reading journal! But there is one thing I dont get...what is the difference between the book of the month and the favorite book? I think I would go on with the creative pages! I like them and you said you enjoyed making them...

Tracy, did you take a look at Plant based brides reading journal? Maybe you'll get some Inspiration from her spreads? I love all of your videos and wanna know a little bit more about your daily journal 😍

I love your book journal. I started one when we were all down with covid . Mostly a monthly list. How do you obtain the book cover’s? I would love to have an image rather than a list. Thanks!

Do you only use A5 bullet journals?

OMG Why aren't you drawing anymore? I like both ways but if I was as talented as you are, I would definitely be drawing. You are sooooooooooooooooooo talented. I think it's also great to do BOTH. Switch it up from month to month. It's makes it more interesting when you go back and re-read this journal years from now.........LOVE your channel, I just found you.......

Decorative tipe

I saw that you didn't read Crescent City. You MUST read that book!!!!!!

I love the arty stuff but I know what it's like to go through your reading journal & not be able to remember what it was about because you didn't write a review. So I think the very arty stuff can be for the month's cover page.