![]() These included a list of Star Wars books, essay collections, science fiction/fantasy, science/nature, and history. These included a medical/science book challenge, a Jewish reading challenge, and a homeschool/education reading challenge.Īnd speaking of unread books…I looked at the books that have been sitting for a while, and grouped them into piles based on topic, and then made lists of genres, with the books I haven’t read yet. Then I added some other challenges that I found from various websites and Instagram, and even added some of my own, especially on areas where I know I have a lot of unread books siting around. I started off with the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge (of course!) and wrote all those prompts down, with room to write in the books. So I wanted to push myself to try something different. I know I read widely and diversely, but there is always, always room for improvement. Then I thought, you know? Maybe 2022 is going to be the year I do some challenges. Because I also have an interview column, I added a page for that, too, with scheduling for each month and potential authors to interview and their books. (Plus, I just really like looking at the stacks.) I then added a tab and made pages for each month of 2022, with the ARCs I have that are being released each month, so that I can keep track of them, which ones I’ve read, and which ones I need to be reading that are coming up. I wasn’t sure where to start with the bujo, so the first thing I did was cut up my favorite Bibliophile: Diverse Spines notecards and tape the bookstack pictures into the back pages of the notebook, so I’d have the titles of books I want to eventually get to. I wanted my bujo to be approachable and basic so I wouldn’t feel bad marking it up. Because if something’s too pretty, I don’t want to mess it up. But that’s also not the point of my book bujo. ![]() I tried to do the fancy handwriting, but the best I can do is some sort of script, with some fun highlighting in various colors. I scrolled Instagram and immediately lost myself in the rabbit hole of bookish stickers, calligraphy, and beautiful spreads with fancy handwriting, washi tape, and colored printouts of book covers. I decided to make a book bullet journal, or book bujo. While I have yet to see if this notebook will do all of that, so far it’s been pretty good. You know the one: it will let the words flow, it’ll get you organized and basically solve your life problems and also make everything great. I’m a big notebook person - there’s nothing I love more than searching for the perfect notebook. This has always been the reason I never do any reading challenges, either - I love to read the prompts, but I always get sidetracked by the necessary reading I have to do, and it just feels like too much.īut in December, I decided to try something new. (This could also be the title of my life story I’m sure many of you can relate). ![]() It never used to bother me before, but in the last few months, it’s become a bit overwhelming. On any given day, I’m reading at least three books: for pleasure, for work, for homeschool, for interviews, etc. She is a new-ish mom, so the coffee comes in extra handy. She is a writer, editor, and book reviewer who drinks way too much coffee. Jaime Herndon finished her MFA in nonfiction writing at Columbia, after leaving a life of psychosocial oncology and maternal-child health work.
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