#2023 reading journal

[anyhoobooks]

Attempting a bullet journal style reading journal for this year. I don’t have neat enough handwriting and I want to invest in more supplies but this is what I have set up so far. I also gave myself a low goal because even though I read a lot last year, I’m still recovering from barely reading at all since high school.

#book journal #reading journal #2023 reading journal #2023 reading goals #bullet journal ish #book journal spreads #reading journal spreads #bookblr #booklr #my post

[nerdycozycaffeinated]

📚 Reading Update 📚

#reading #booklr #books #booksbooksbooks #bridgerton #romancing mr. bridgerton #shadow of night #all souls trilogy #kith and kin #critical role #vox machina #the mysterious affair at styles #agatha christie #siege and storm #leigh bargudo #2023 goals #2023 reading journal #2023 reads

[bordersbookthirst]

Happy 2023 epic readers. I have been noodling on and off on some books, and due to this, not completed a single one of them until now.

Finished the Night Circus at the request of a friend begging me to read it. I liked it. But there's something about it holding me at arms length. I think my favorite part was the stylistic choices Morganstern used, but I felt the story... The contest itself was a bit ephemeral. The whole thing was a bit ephemeral. Maybe it's like the French filmmakers inciting ennui in the viewer and we're just supposed to deal with it. Perhaps it's supposed to feel gossamer and like a dream, one that we could go to. Something more about the reader almost than the story?

Then the second is a graphic novel, Glass Town by Isabel Greensburg, which is a retelling of the Bronte sibling's juvenilia as it intersects with their real lives. I found this part was discussed in Glass Town particularly poignant.

The Wikipedia page on Glass Town is fascinating. Charlotte really thought she was going mad.

Also I find the art of Glass Town so simple but yet when you have these really complex human moments (like Charlotte taking off her glasses) you feel like you're there. I've never had that feeling more so than with this graphic novel specifically.

I've been reading Jane Eyre since December or so and I'd really like to finish that up. Additionally, for a total change in tone I'm reading Chelsea Manning's memoir and it's a fucking page turner. I'll have a LOT to say about that, I'd imagine.

#2023 reading journal #2023 reads #night circus #erin morgenstern #glass town #isabel greenburg

[paperprincessinspo]

2023 Reading Journal | Etsy Haul

Home | Etsy Store| Template Gallery| Portfolio| Mailing List| YouTube| Ko-fi Etsy Patreon YouTube Instagram Pinterest I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am to be starting a new reading journal. I was a bit ambitious with the size of my last one so it ended up lasting me two years. That’s not exactly a bad thing I just really enjoy making a new journal and feel like I missed out last…

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#2023 reading journal #Etsy #etsy finds #etsy haul #junk journal #reading journal #scrapbook

[why-the-heck-not]

it’s december !!!! the cozy factor upped 10x overnight

#it’s the best winter month #studyblr #bookblr #booklr #aesthetic #books #study #reading #read #book #bujo #bullet journal #dark academia #winter aesthetic #december 2023 #2023

[franticvampirereads]

I realized today as I was working on my reading journal that I haven’t shared any of my journal spreads or the journal that my sister and I made this year! So here’s some of my favorite pages/spreads (and my journal 🥰):

I wish tumblr allowed for more photos in one post. But these are some of my absolute favorites!

#booklr #reading journal #journaling #reading #books #book journal #journals #handmade journals #bookish #bookworm #books read in 2023 #book reviews #journal spreads

[thingsarentgreat]

I don't know how to tell you that you should care about other people.

I keep reflecting to determine if there's something more within me that's causing me to still feel so incredibly sick by it all. Really trying to expose the raw roots of the feeling to see if it stems from some kind of selfishness. And I suppose it does. But to reduce it to just that would also be lying, because it's a combination of poisons down in that soil. It's betrayal and a feeling of isolation amongst a group I thought I once knew, and then that selfish and bitter root grows in like a weed. I can only quietly observe to myself: "ah. this is where the radicalization and rampant nationalism come from. this is why I see it flowering in my family."

It's because I feel my trust breaking all over again each time I forget about it and try to go on with my business. I remember that I still can't mourn publicly without someone educating me on why obviously if I'm mourning, I must have Insert Political Alignment Here. I remember the utter silence and the downright celebration of more civilian deaths because "oh, fuckin Yaya or whatever deserved it after what Israel does."

For the record, Yaya-Or-Whatever didn't deserve it, and I still remember the lead dropping into my stomach upon hearing that from a friend. No one deserves it. No one ever deserves it.

I don't know how to tell you that you should care about other people.

Maybe that's a quote leftists recognize, but I realize now that few of them actually stick to it across the board. And I'm admittedly selfish, because I hoped that leftists could at least have a moment to care about my people suffering too before getting back to helping the people who currently need the most help. But instead we got "Yaya-Or-Whatever Deserved It." And I've been laying here for months watching everyone on the left just go back to the usual armchair activism as if they didn't just fucking say that, and when I do bring it up, suddenly I'm the problem for pointing out that it was fucked up.

You won't erase it, fyi. We saw you say it. Some of you said it with your full fucking chest. You were callous and let the antisemites into the bar by openly celebrating Jewish death. Then you pretended we were talking about Palestine when we pointed out your antisemitic actions. You know that's not what we were even pointing to as an example. But it's very convenient for you to pretend we don't know the difference, isn't it?

I don't know. It's just a reminder that most of you are actually all talk and virtue signals. There's no actual substance behind your ideals, you're just adhering to the party line, same as conservatives do. I guess I was naive to think otherwise. It's disingenuous for you to wonder why people leave the leftist movement as a whole and "suddenly" flip sides. You know why, and it's reasons like this - you're just covering it up and pretending it's a totally different, more convenient reason.

Tldr; you're hypocrite ass leftists and fuck you. You should be ashamed of how you acted.

#antisemitism #october 7 2023 #israel #mandatory disclaimer on the Cant Read Website that: #1) i dont condone israel's harsh response but also why the fuck do i have to even say this #2) actually you know what fuck this im tired of talking to you and justifying why i should be allowed to also exist #making me jump through hoops like your jewish street monkey #stop fucking excusing the death of civilians #civilian death is civilian death. full fucking stop. #neither Yaya-Or-Whatever or Muhammad-Or-Whatever deserve that. #you fucking lunatics. #things' stuff #basically a journal entry

[thecozybimbo]

divine rivals front page annotations 🤍

“ I think there is a magical link between you and me. A bond that not even distance can break. ” — rebecca ross

#divine rivals #rebecca ross #ruthless vows #book annotations #art of annotating #annotating books #fantasy books #2023 reads #book blog #stationery #journal #journaling #annotations #booklover #my desk

[tolive1000lives]

2023 reading wrap up through April!

#bookblr #books #reading wrap up #reading challenge 2023 #reading challenge #book blog #book stack #book stacks #book spines #book spine #reading list #reading journal #April wrap up #read in 2023 #april 2023 #2023 wrap up

[olameni]

I hated this book.

I mean that in positive way. The book is an excellent journey into spiraling madness but there is no neutral 3rd party distance and objectivity. Dazai pulls you into his own personal hell for you to live it with him.

It is an uncomfortable experience.

I found myself deeply empathizing with the protag, Oba who in the midst of alienation and inability to connect with/relate to family puts on a mask to make himself more palatable to others and is utterly consumed by it. Eventually he cannot discern a self outside of the mask and loses his sense of agency.

His behavior is vile and possibly evil but also deeply tragic as all his choices are attempts to escape his despair. I felt like i was to hate him but its difficult because Oba and his trainwreck of an existence is so relatable. In many ways i found Dazai reflecting my own anxieties and self loathing back at me. Relatable enough to be more annoyed at Oba for dragging down others than I was sad for his suffering or angry at a world that generates such alienation.

Like I said, it is an uncomfortable experience.

Ultimately this a book about social death. It is about man who is drowning in misery that you cannot save because he will drag you to death along with him

#books i read in 2023 #no longer human #black dark academia #dark academia #poc dark academia #noir library #books #journaling #bibliophile #book review #book cover #osamu dazai

[popchyk-oui]

[07.24.23] Currently doing a midyear check in of my reading goals. I've been on a slump since last year and have only read 4 books this 2023. My goal is to finish 15 books (including rereads) this year and so I'm planning which books I want to read for the next 5 months and some other specific game plan for each book. ☁️

#own #journaling #books and literature #book annotations #commonplace journal #journalph #journal #bullet journal #reading journal #book journal #reading goals #tbr #physical tbr #books to read #bookblr #currently reading #bookish #book recommendations #reading 2023

[oneidiotwithasword]

spent most of today copying one of my favourite scenes from emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries into my reading journal

#it ended up taking 8 pages so this is just an excerpt #read this book for the first time in 2023 but now i’m reading it again and i can’t think of anything else #my roommate and i went on a spontaneous trip to the sticker shop to get bits and bobs for this cos i was running out of mushrooms #emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries #emily wilde series #emily wilde #reading journal

[pluggedintosaverockandroll]

Some of my favorite pages from this year's journal and reading journal!

#journaling #reading journal #journal #2023 #kj post #sappho #star wars #fob #iron widow

[milumis]

finished half of my to-do list, so I gifted myself a few minutes to update my reading journal 🫒

#aesthetic #studyinspo #studyblr #stem dark academia #dark academic aesthetic #study blog #study notes #college student #student life #study desk #study aesthetic #student #uni life #university #reading #read in 2023 #reading journal

[wecandoit]

what i read | aug-sep

notes: (1) '*' indicates a content warning for references to death, abuse, violence, obvious triggers for mental illnesses (2) bolded links show sources that i found super interesting or introduced me to a new/profound concept

Books

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

Articles/Essays

Revisiting the Languages of Love: An Empirical Test of the Validity Assumptions Underlying Chapman’s (2015) Five Love Languages Typology

Topical treatments for acne

The True Story of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond—and Why the British Won’t Give It Back

Repatriation of the Kohinoor Diamond: Expanding the Legal Paradigm for Cultural Heritage

Challenging the colonisation of birth: Koori women's birthing knowledge and practice

A cognitive developmental approach to understanding how children cope with disasters

Nature-Based Early Childhood Education and Children's Social, Emotional and Cognitive Development: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review.

Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological model: a theoretical framework to explore the forest school approach?

How AI Generates Images from Text

Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy Urban 'Heat Islands'

A Newly Discovered Brain Signal Marks Recovery from Depression

Poems

Message to My Beloved Sibling

Movies/Videos

The Kingmaker by Lauren Greenfield

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem by Jeff Rowe

#what i read #aug-sep 2023 #resources #reading #research #articles #journal articles #news #current affairs #history #general knowledge #studyblr #productivity #motivation #studyspo #roundups

[why-the-heck-not]

24.08.23, thursday

I’ve been treating my journal like a podcast where I just keep rambling while doing things that give me anxiety. Getting the anxieties out right away and feels like I have some emotional support there even tho it’s just me & my journal. Sure it takes a bit longer bc u’re basically doing 2 things, but at least something’s getting done u know?

#got that idea from my fave podcast where he was doing that podcast while packing etc bc he didn’t want to back so helped to have #another side project there so u’re not just doing the thing u don’t want to do #and like I don’t and will never have a podcast bc ew can not talk for thr life of me so journaling is it for me #bookblr #studyblr #booklr #aesthetic #study #books #reading #read #book #studyspo #dark academia #chaotic academia #august 2023 #2023