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Book Reviews!

Hi everyone!!!! As my bio says, I'm a huge bookworm, and read about fifteen books a month, sometimes more. I love reading, and I love making little reviews for them in a creative way. I used to bullet journal a few years ago, and my favorite part about bullet journaling was writing down reviews for every book I read in there, but eventually it was too much for me to keep up with, so I decided to do it digitally! I got an iPad about a year ago, and started making my reviews this way, and it made it so much easier, more fun, and more visually appealing. Here's an example of one:

I'm going to be using this to upload all the books I've read so far this year, along with a typed up version of the review along with it. In case anyone wants a template of what I'm doing here you go:

I've been doing these for a little over a year now, so I've tweaked it a lot along the way, and the template I have now is just what works best for me. You're absolutely more than welcome to switch things out for whatever fits what you read best. For instance, I read a lot of romance and fantasy books, so I have a spice rating on mine, but if you read mainly horror books you could do like scare factor, or something!

What I Use

Goodreads (I use this mainly just because it's so common and popular, and I love the reading challenge feature, my goal is 100 this year!) feel free to follow me on there!

StoryGraph- I heavily recommend this app. It's kind of like good reads, but honestly, infinitely better. It gives you graphs to help you better understand like the statistics of what you're reading, and it also has a really cool buddy read feature where you can buddy read with someone, and add comments, and they won't unlock for the other person until they've gotten to that point in the book. Love this app so much

Goodnotes - This is what I use to make my book review journal pages! This app unfortunately not free, so do with that information what you will, but when I originally got this app, I got it for college, and it's just a one-time purchase unless you want to upgrade, but I really don't think it's necessary. I think I paid like $8, but that's honestly less than a regular journal and it comes with pens, stickers, and a bunch of amazing features!

Thank you everyone for reading! I understand this is a lot of info here, but it's just an introduction to what's to come on this page! Thanks for reading :)