Reading Journal 2025

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Welcome to my 3rd annual reading journal post I started in 2023 and continued the tradition throughout 2024. This year many of the pages are the same but I have decided to make one change to the way I track audio books and physical books. The 1st year I kept them completely separate, having separate sections for reviews and trackers. Last year I kept the reviews together but tracked physical books and audiobooks separately.


I always felt that the way I relate to the story is different in audio form than it is when I read a physical book. I find audio books closer to movies because you don't have to imagine the voices, the narrators bring the characters to life in a unique way.  I am also less concentrated on audiobooks, I will rarely sit listening to a  audiobook without any other distractions, I multi-task while listening to audiobooks, cleaning or walking or driving, even Christmas shopping. The other side is that audiobooks are faster to listen to than to read (especially at this stage in life) and it happens that I re-listen to a lot of my audiobooks and I will get more out of them the second time around. All that being said, I have decided that I will join my two reading trackers into one this year and just track the total number of books and not separate them into categories.


I love how my tracker pages turned out. In the past I have gone with pictures of book shelves or a book case where I would draw on the books that I read. For audiobooks I would draw a cell phone and add a drawing of the app I used to listen to the audiobook. This year I went with Meaghan's Reading Garden  as a theme since my whole layout this year is more floral. I used a stamp to add stems to the page, I will add the flowers with the same stamp and different color ink each time I finish a book. 


The rest of my journal is pretty much the same. I do not add too many extra pages which makes it so that I have been able to use the same book for 3 years. I may choose a different note book next year. I think I would choose one with thickers paper since I tend to draw and decorate my pages. But, I have a whole year to think about that. 
Happy New Year, happy reading and as always happy crafting!

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