Customer Reviews

Reader's Journal

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I found this book in a museum gift shop and it seemed to be the answer to prayer...I've been trying to make a deliberate attempt to read all the classic works of literature I've missed over the years, and here was presented a way to keep my impressions of each book recorded for my future use.

The journal is separated into five (5) sections: 1. Book Register 2. Book To Read 3. Reading Group Notes 4. Book Stores & Services 5. Passages

I find there are a few more sections than I really need, as I'm not in a reading group and don't have enough books recommended to me to need a separate journal section to keep track, but it would certainly be handy for those who are.

The Register section allows you to record the Title, author, publisher, date read, notes, recommended or lent to and the date, and a rating. I would prefer maybe a little more room in the notes and more pages of the book devoted to this section. There is no room for copious notes...just a few sentences per book.

It's hardcover, with a nice spiral binding and an elastic band attached to keep it closed, making it extremely portable. All in all it's a pretty handy little organizer for those who are serious about their reading.

This is an attractive little book. Spiral bound, with a band attached to the back that can be stretched around to close the book. There are five, tab-delineated sections, as follows:

(1) Book Register. Very attractively designed pages with the following fields: Title, Author, Published, Began Reading...Finished, Notes, Recommended to or Lent to, Rated. This is by far the most helpful section of the book, and the longest, but it is not long enough.

(2) Books to read. 28 pages with room for one recommended book per page. A lot of room for comments on the book, but how many comments will one have for a book one hasn't yet read? Lots of wasted space here that would be better spent on section one.

(3) Reading group notes. Three pages for names and phone numbers, then just under twenty two-page entries for individual books. If you're not in a book group, you're out of luck.

(4) Book stores and services. An address book, with room for three entries per page, and 18 pages long. Who's going to have 54 bookstores they need to keep information for? This is a ridiculous use of space.

(5) Passages. Blank, lined pages for recording favorite passages. This is an okay section.

The ideal book would be a combination of this and A Book Lover's Journal. The layout of Reader's Journal is nicer, and it's spiral bound, but so much space is wasted on stupid things that I don't think I'll be using it. A pity. It's an attractive little book.

Reviewed by Debra Hamel, author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece

There will come a time when we'll all be too old to recall the beautiful books we've read during our lifetime. Well, this wonderful, compact journal keeps a detailed record of all the books you read, whether or not you liked them and why. It is also good if you like to lend out your books (and then forget to whom they went) because it has a place to mark the name and date of a person you lent your precious book to. This is the best idea I have seen yet to help me record the memories of all the stories I read. As a chain-reader, this is a must-have for me. One day I will pass it on to my child and hope that he or she will choose to read a few of the books I read.

This book was very handy for me, an avid reader with a rather poor memory. This book allowed me to keep track of what I had read, and, more importantly, what I had enjoyed and why. Clearly organized and very useful, this is a great gift for young people just starting their journey into the world of literature or for those whose memories have become cluttered with many ponderous tomes.

This is a small spiral-bound journal divided up into the following sections: Book Register, Books to Read, Reading Group Notes, Book Stores and Services and Passages. It is nice that it is spiral-bound because it opens up flat. I found it somewhat limiting, however, because not everyone who journals is in a book group.

Each page is set up for a different review and is organized by title, author, date published, dates read, notes, recommended or lent to, and rating. The beginning of each section has a literary quote.

I have not chosen to use this particular journal because it does not meet my needs. I think, however, that it would be a good choice for anyone in a book group.

i was hoping for a journal that would be good for a bookclub. this one has too many entry areas that are similar and one that is useless (a big section for bookstore addesses...) it's probably great if you like to explore old bookstores while on vacation and you want to keep track of what you've read. for a book club, it's adequate if you change around some of the 'chapters'.