So, at the end of March, I set up spreads for the April…and didn’t touch my reading journal again until mid-May. I caught up through the end of April and set the journal down.
Although I set up spreads, I barely filled any out…so it is a very empty thing, even now.
It was this last week of May that I decided I might want to set May’s spreads.
So, I filled out the books I had read during April, which turned out to be more than I had thought. I didn’t think, come mid-May, that I had finished any at all.
I did not finish out the empty spreads (books purchased, gifts, subscription book club books, and so on…). I simply filled out the most basic information on the books I had read. I have yet to fill in what I thought about the books themselves. I haven’t gone through the reading challenges I have set up in my reading journal—which I typically do after every month to see if anything I read fits in with any challenge. If it does, it does. If it doesn’t, I am nonplussed.
I set up May the same way I initially set up April, the spreads are there, but nothing is filled in. I haven’t even filled out the spreads for the books I have read (or will read since there are still three days of the month left and I am nearly done with two different books.
I am already looking forward to getting back into the real flow of things come June.
I am lucky that I will randomly throw things into my Storygraph…and that whenever I read on my Kindle it automatically populates on Goodreads. I may not remember what I read otherwise. Sometimes once I put something down, it leaves my brain completely.
I will use my normal set up for June. The only thing I need to do is go back and fill in my thoughts on various books I read over the past few months. After that, I should be all caught up and ready to face the summer.
How is your reading going? Do you keep a log of what you read? Do you have a reading journal? Let me know in the comments.
Tabitha Low 