RAD Reading Podcast
Episode # 3
Episode Title: Making Your Own Reading Journal (AKA Fun with Office Supplies)
Release Date: October 15, 2021
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Episode Summary:
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 led her to get grounded--unnecessarily! 
- The one journal Roni’s been able to stick with 
- The basics of a reading/book journal 
- Private reading journals vs. Goodreads 
- Roni avoiding awkward book signings 
- What Dawn said that made Roni clutch her pearls 
- The unexpected benefits of a reading journal 
- Dawn’s epiphany about stencils 
- The nuts & bolts of putting together your own journal 
- What Roni wishes she’d been putting in her journal from the start 
- Rating systems - Roni’s highly detailed one & Dawn’s low-key method 
- Documenting reading challenges 
- Finding your journaling style - decorative, bare bones, etc. 
- Digital options for journaling 
- Dawn’s signal that she’s been kidnapped 
- Journaling tips 
- Instagram perfect journals are not necessary 
- Our favorite journaling supplies 
- Our RAD Reading Recs of the Week 
*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 by Roni:
- Staedtler Template, Geometric Shapes & Symbols to draw boxes and circles 
Supplies recommended by Dawn:
Other resources mentioned:
- Roni’s free downloadable Romance Reading Journal 
- Rock Your Reading Tracker by Sarah’s Bookshelves 
- My Reading Journal by Anne Bogel (Modern Mrs. Darcy) 
Dawn’s Reading Journal
Roni’s Reading Journal
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:
Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram
Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram
 
             
             
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                