hello everybody apart from language
learning goals this year i've also set
some reading goals for myself
because i am notorious for not finishing
my books i have set up a
reading journal for myself for the first
time to track the 12 books that i want
to read
if you're interested in knowing more
about the books that i've planned to
read for this year you can skip past the
book journal tour
and check out that part of the video
[Music]
hello everybody and welcome to my book
journal video
so this year is the first year that i've
made a journal to track the books that i
am going to be reading
and i'm going to be logging the books
i'm reading when i read them and how
they are
so if i open this journal this is just a
midori journal with yellow pages color
page notebook i just got it from tokyo
hands
uh anyhoodles so the front i just
decorated it with a lot of stickers
right here in the front i have a table
of contents and you'll see i've left two
pages blank so that i can add stuff in
at the end because i don't exactly know
where i want to go with this now but
there's my index and then i'm going to
be making book summaries for each book
that i read
as i mentioned my challenge is to read
12 books and i've categorized them into
a few categories
faith japanese literature life or
learning and design
and art each category has a
corresponding color
and i've indicated the color on the side
here
where i've written the start date here
some of these books i have started last
year and just not finished so i'll be
continuing those so i can finish them
i've also actually added one more in
here we'll see maybe it'll be 13 or more
on the next page i have kind of a year
overview
so i'll be writing what languages i'm
reading in and then the amount of pages
cumulatively that i've read across the
book so if i finish a book or
get to a certain amount i'll track that
for each month
here i have some kind of a gantt chart
thing uh a year chart so i've written
the months here at the top
and on the left side the titles or
shortened titles of my books
and i indicate with a highlighter
just when i read the book so this one i
finished and it took me
about three weeks in january so i kind
of just color that in
so for instance if i'm going to be
reading strange weather in tokyo and
i'll start it in march
then my color will go all the way there
and i'll get to have kind of a visual
view of the entire year to see
when i read what i just think it's an
interesting
visual representation and here are some
more cacao friend stickers
and then over here is my first book
review i just write it for myself i
don't really post these and i feel a
little bit
awkward actually showing you guys this
review
but anyway apart from the review itself
let's
focus on on this part so i put the title
of the book
the author the date i started and
finished it and
uh which page i started on if i kind of
started
last year right so i'm continuing from
page 69
and then a star rating so unfortunately
this book only gets three stars yukio
mishima is one of my
favorite authors but i have a lot to say
about this book
but that's that's not for today's video
and then i have started another book
here um
i also feel a little awkward showing you
guys the title of this book but
hey it's good to be prepared for life uh
right
that is actually as far as it is in my
book journal now i haven't filled in the
titles
for the other books because i don't know
what order i'm going to be reading
them in this is not it in any particular
order so i'll just be filling it in
as i go along let me quickly start with
the list of 12 books that i want to read
this year
i will begin with the one that i just
finished this is uh
the sailor who fell from grace with the
sea by yukio mishima
i've read the sound of waves by mishima
before and i really enjoyed it but i was
disappointed a little bit by this book
but that's for a whole
other day then we have strange weather
in tokyo
whoopsie doodles i just lost my spot in
my book
i started this one near the end of last
year and i am
not even a quarter of the way through so
far so good pretty interesting
we'll see how this goes i have a lot of
english japanese fiction and i hope to
be able to read it
in japanese once i finish the english
version my friend brixton recommended
this book to me hi brunck if you're
watching
uh obasan by joy kogawa apparently it is
really sad and really amazing sorry for
the camera glare
uh i have really no idea what it's about
i'm
purely going on blind recommendation
basis
so there's this one a this one is pretty
interesting i
saw it in the bookstore the other day
it's just a japanese book about how to
use your
smartphone in a more minimalist or
mindful manner
i do like to read non-fiction in
japanese fiction tends to be
harder non-fiction is more related to my
interests and stuff so
we'll see what this one's about next one
design as art by bruno munari
my boyfriend was so sweet to mail this
book to me
all the way from where he lives so this
is his copy
am i creepy uh yeah it's a an
interesting book about
visual graphic and industrial design and
the role it plays in the objects we use
every day so looks like a seminal read
in the visual
arts visual culture study so keep to
check this one out
and next this was my dad's book it is a
hundred
questions and answers about prayer by
benny mustard who is a south african
author i am very interested to know more
about prayer how to pray more
effectively
who to pray for you know what does the
bible say about prayer so
how does prayer work how do you pray for
families
et cetera eh yes so that's another
book uh obviously going under the faith
category from my
uh book log this one i've read about two
sections in it it is a b
is for bauhaus and it's all about things
in post-modern life
uh relating to design so design is a
unique way of understanding the world
this book is an essential tool kit for
decoding contemporary culture
so far so good it seems pretty
digestible because there's one
chapter per a different topic so
next one is uh gary chapman this is the
guy who wrote the five love like or came
up with the five love languages
the book is called things i wish i'd
known before i
before we got married so
okay i'll be reading that one i'm almost
done with it it's an easy read the next
three books that i would like to finish
uh essentialism this has been amazing so
far
it's a pretty much about simplifying
your life and not
taking on too many tasks and just doing
what's essential
so i really need to learn from that this
book has been really great so far i'm
definitely not done
hope to finish it this year and then
i've mentioned this in some of my videos
before it's ollie richard's short
stories in spanish
uh there's a link in the description if
you want this book but uh this is just
to practice my spanish and get some more
reading practice in another popular book
that i think
many people have read is uh thinking
fast and slow by daniel
kahneman buy it fast read it slowly it
will change the way you think
so high hopes for this one all right
then we have two more books
left uh this one obviously also under
the faith category
it is a stormy emotions the power of a
praying woman this is actually my mom's
copy
so it's got her notes in it which is
quite special and then the other one i
was really surprised to find this one
because i didn't know
that mishima had this book i think it
was like
unpublished in english until recently
and of course the tadano ryoko cover
caught my attention he's one of my
favorite japanese graphic designers
so i totally judged this book by its
cover but anyway it's another mishima
book
we'll see how that is called life for
sale so we'll see
so those are all my books and if you
guys want to see an updated book journal
video
near the end of the year uh leave me a
comment and i will
let you guys know how it went i also
have to give credit to a lot of other
youtubers who do have beautiful videos
on book journals mine is really just
it's really nothing but i know a lot of
you were curious about it so
i hope this helps but uh these are not
necessarily my original ideas i didn't
come up with the idea of a book journal
a lot of people are doing it and i
recommend you watch
other videos on book journals too thank
you so much for watching i hope you
enjoyed it and i will see you guys in
the next video
let me know if you have any book
recommendations i'd love to hear what
you guys are reading
bye