Show notes
We love upgrading our reading lives, so this week we’re talking about one of our favorite ways to enhance the reading experience--creating our own reading journals! Plus, as always, we’re giving our RAD Reading Recs of the week.
Highlights:
- Why Dawn’s teen journals got her grounded
- The basics of a reading/book journal
- Private journals vs. Goodreads
- Roni avoiding awkward book signings
- What Dawn said that made Roni clutch her pearls
- Unexpected benefits of a reading journal
- Dawn’s epiphany about stencils
- Putting together your journal
- What Roni wishes she’d put in her journal from the start
- Rating systems
- Finding your style
- Digital options
- Dawn’s signal that she’s been kidnapped
- Journaling tips
- Our favorite supplies
- Our RAD Reading Recs
*Note: all book/product links are affiliate links which means the podcast makes a small commission if you make a purchase, but there is no extra cost to you!
Supplies recommended;
- Leuchtturm1917 Journal
- Stabilo Fineliner Pens
- Zebra Mildliner highlighters
- Staedtler Ergosoft colored pencils
- Staedtler Template, Geometric Shapes & Symbols
- Plum Paper Notebook
- Frixion pens
- Prisma Color Pencils
Other resources mentioned:
- Roni’s free Romance Reading Journal
- Rock Your Reading Tracker by Sarah’s Bookshelves
- My Reading Journal by Anne Bogel
- Pensieve app
- Book of the Month club
RAD Reading Recs of the Week:
- Dear Writer, Are You In Burnout? by Becca Syme (Dawn’s rec)
- Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (Roni’s rec)
Find us online:
Find Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram
Find Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram
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