September Reading Journal Setup + Everything I Read in August ✨📚

August was a month of great books for me! Let's take a look at what I read, give, and set up some exciting new tracking pages for my September reads. Grab your journal and join me if you like!

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0:00 Updating August trackers
• Journal: no longer available

01:48 Lonely Harts Radio - Adeline Knight

03:29 A Tempest of Tea _ Hafsah Faizal

07:33 Updating monthly & yearly trackers

08:56 Better Left Unsent - Lia Louis

12:13 The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

15:11 Ask for Andrea - Noelle W. Ihli

18:03 Done & Dusted - Lyla Sage

20:56 September reading stats & cover

23:47 Progress & Maybe Next spread

28:21 Page Mages book club spread

30:12 Yours Truly - Abby Jimenez
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32:25 Tracker updates & August reading stats

34:39 Flip through

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[erinwolf]

My reading goal was initially 24, I bumped it to 30 around March, and I’ve just hit 32 so far for the year!

[cvvzdesigns]

As another human servant to a Tuxedo, I get the biggest smile when I see the "loading" gif. 🥰

[tarakanebrookshire]

Barrel racing is when 3 barrels are set up in a large triangle. Rider runs in around 1st barrel on right, then left, then the barrel at the top of the triangle and then they run straight back out. The fastest rider wins. It was never my thing but I had friends who did it.

[sofiewauters]

I adore Mitsu just sitting there, watching you. ♥ Also, beautiful! I love your reading journal!

[koibarnes]

Just wanna thank you, Erin, for introducing me to the concept of Maybe Next?. As a mood reader, it totally helps me pick out possible books to read without feeling pressured to read them. So thank you! As always, your spreads look so good! x

[suista]

Oooohhh love the CAWPILE sticker, great idea! The monthly calendar with visual of books read is also great. My reading spreads are in amongst my other journal but now it looks like I need to buy another journal (hahaha) any excuse!

[LiteratureLindsi]

Glad to see you enjoyed The Night Circus!! It's my all-time favorite book and one of the only I've reread (multiple times..) ❤️🖤✨️
The way all the plotlines tie-in together and the overall aesthetic of the book is super well-executed in my opinion. The opening and ending also remain forever iconic to me.

[jennypenny]

Gorgeous spreads as always! 😍 I discovered T. Kingfisher in August and read 7 of her books in a month! I think Swordheart or Paladins grace were my stand out read! It started me on a romatasy kick!

[brooke]

I love your reading journal so much! You have inspired me to start my own.

[luxxltyd]

i look forward to these videos every month!

[hazelmorera]

Such lovely spreads as always! A few weeks ago, I was 6 books behind on my reading goal (52 books in the year), so I picked up the Lore Olympus graphic novels which are quick reads for me and that helped me catch up on my goal and thankfully took me out of a bit of slump that I was in, so now I'm more motivated to pick up a full book :) A Tempest of Tea is on my "Reading Hopefuls" list - my version of your Maybe Next ;) - for next month so I'm happy to hear you enjoyed it!

[abigail]

I graduated from my graduate degree last year and started getting back into reading afterwards (school kept me occupied so much I basically took a 6 year break from reading). So I went into this year thinking "oh! 24 books for the whole year sounds good. That's 2 a month", but it's September and I'm already at 47 books. So next year I'll probably have to up that number quite a bit.

[xnuttyhheadx]

Haha if you're coming to the UK in October, make sure you dress warm! I live 20 minutes from central London on the train and come mid-october it's fairly chilly. Make sure you pack a warm coat that covers your back and bum (so that you can sit down outside if it has been raining), bring a scarf and a hat, and definitely make sure you bring some waterproof shoes. I have some suede boots which look cute with autumnal outfits but they're not practical when it has been raining, so bring some trainers that you don't mind getting muddy. If you're going further up north, you may wanna pack extra coats and whatnot so that while one coat is drying (cause it will most likely rain), you can wear a different one.

I hope you have a good time visiting! And I apologise for all the rain 😂

[irishdayzee]

I love the idea of reading journals. It encourages people to actually read even if it's audiobooks. Growing up I didn't care for reading and when I did read it was the Saddle Club book series or the Love Stories book series. Now that I'm an adult and mother, I enjoy reading and try to encourage my children to read as well. You mentioned barrell racing from one of your books; barrell racing is where the rider has the horse go as fast as they can around 3 or more barrels depending on the race they have entered. They are judged on their time and whomever can do it the fastest wins. I used to ride equestrian, Hunter/jumper class. You find barrel racing at a lot of rodeos. Happy journaling my dear friend!

[kytten]

((the ending of A Tempest of Tea made me absolutely scream and i can't wait for the sequel >_<!!)) i love your spreads, your journal is so gorgeous ♡
ETA: Also in regards to CAWPILE - i like SusanLynKnits' tweaks to the ratings, it's only a tiny bit of tweaking, but it gives a bit more leeway. And also there's a little 'define the ratings' section in the tweaking wordpress page that really helps me think about how i feel about things and how i want to number things.

[SusanYeske]

Came to the comments to explain barrel racing, saw someone already did, lol. I had cousins who did rodeo, but I never had a horse for it. Looked like fun though. It's more often girls who do the barrel racing. Teenage boys always seem to want to do the bull riding. My cousins did that until one broke his leg and then their mom made them stop. Sounds like an interesting book.

[TheConsultingReader]

I’ve surprised myself by how many books I’ve read this month. And I was also surprised how fast the very end of August has all of a sudden crept up, and I agree with you, I won’t finish another book this month either 😄 So I might set up my September spread today or tomorrow 🖊️

[aarfyie]

I have to say for August "Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers" was my absolute favorite. I was skeptical at first but boy did I love it!

[thelenaelisastory]

Love that date stamp and I hope this layout works great for you. I have "stolen" some of your pages in my own reading journal for next year because I´ve wanted something new and not the same old same old, so thank you for the inspiration :D

[ChantelleArts]

This is so stunning, loving the decoration ☺☺