"The character is also distinctly younger than me" is something I have to remind myself so often. Sometimes I'm frustrated with a book and have to tell myself that I was not the target audience. haha
lol reasons I can’t read any young adult fiction or even new adult fiction 🤣😂 at all! The MCs bother me so much I can’t stand it. I currently stick to manga genres, middle grade and adult fiction.
the rule of thumb with spoilers in the bookish community tends to be “if it’s in the blurb/marketing materials for the book, then it’s fair game” so like the main character, the setup, genres, tropes, general situations are all good and fun to talk about. spoilers are mainly reserved for stuff that’s more of a significant “reveal” (for example: in the hunger games, you’d talk about katniss and panem and the games and even the beginnings of revolution, but not who wins, who lives/dies, other districts’ reactions to the events of the games)
Good to know! 💜 I’m normally the kind of person who enters most books blindly, but that’s probably because things like movie trailers have spoiled me for movies before 😝 I swear nobody makes good non-spoilery trailers anymore!
For books like Fourth Wing and Iron Flame where you want to include a lot of decorations but also a lot of writing, consider putting a tip in so you can write under the decoration (or even the back of the decoration) so you get the best of both worlds.
Wow! I love how you’ve chosen to do your monthly reviews! I love this style of video, even tho we couldn’t be more different in the type of media we consume. I’m so glad you’re doing these monthly reading journal videos and I can’t wait for more! 💜
really enjoying your forays into collage-style journaling! as someone who’s been doing that style for years, my best advice is to keep doing exactly what you’re doing; keep putting stuff on the page and use your eye for color and design to guide you when you feel like it’s not working. but also it’s okay to make collages that don’t work bc the more you make, the more your style hones. a very trust the process craft. but yours genuinely look so great!!!
Thanks! 😄💜 as someone who typically goes into setting up a layout with a full(ish) plan before adding anything to the page, collaging is a bit tricky still 😝 but I’m enjoying learning about it! 💜
This is such a beautiful media journal! I love the inclusion of the games, movies, and TV shows in this! I keep a scrapbook for every year that has all of the dates my husband and I went on (particularly before we got engaged) and I got stickers from all the games we’ve played together and found some for most of the TV shows we watched together as well. ❤️ I am planning on reading all three of the Empyrean books for the first time now that Onyx Storm has been released! I’ve had to keep my night shift co-workers from spoiling it for me, though when we see each other at shift change in the morning!
The way me and my partner play games like Danganronpa and Ace Attorney together is by reading the texts out loud! I am not voice acting inclined and still have a lot of fun voicing characters, and it removes the guessing game of skipping dialogue too fast. I dont know if this would work for you, but wanted to throw in my two cents since playing these types of games with someone is so much fun since you can theorize together
We do the voice reading aloud when one of us needs to leave the room for something 😛 most often though, if we’re saying something aloud it’s just “but can you spell knife!?” (Not sure if you’ve seen that Short, but it’s now a common phrase in our house, along with “Do you understand?” in Celeste’s voice 😝)
Love this wrap-up!! Beautiful work and very inspiring for my reading journal. I don’t mind spoilers because they help me decide if I want to read a book. I listen to most books on Audible, which is usually one a day because I can listen and do a lot of other things at the same time. Really helpful, interesting, and inspiring video. Thank you.
These all came out so wonderfully. All the elements work so well together. This was very inspiring and helped me figure out how I can maybe do something similar. I’ve shyed away because it’s always felt a little intimidating but this style seems very assessable and doable for me.
i feel the exact same way about fourth wing and iron flame, from rating to reasoning. onyx storm though…somehow beat fourth wing as my favorite of the three. i didn’t expect it because i tried not to get too excited (based on how house of flame and shadow by sjm ended up being) but oh my gaaaawd i ate it up and finished on january 22nd. hope you enjoy it as much as i did!! i read 9 books in january and it’s my #1 so far.
Your pages turned out great! Would never have guessed it's a new thing for you :D I usually put as much stuff as possible on my pages and it not always turns out looking good haha yours did!
I've been meaning to continue on with the Shadow Demons Saga for eons, I read the first book like 10 years ago and just never went on lol. Not continuing series is something I struggle with quite often.
I really hope you continue with the embellished reviews with more decorations. I think you made lovely choices and I think I could hear the smile in your voice too. I also wanted to say that I think the yellow to go with the blue of the first book makes the cover pop and is a color pairing I’d have made myself. It was clean and punchy. PLEASE 🙏 don’t stop making these wrap ups! Either has member videos or channel videos, I don’t care. I want to watch your journey into more Freeform embellishing and artistic freestyling. Side note: I know exactly what you mean about the group discussion spurring so many more thoughts and questions. I didn’t think I had much to say, but then I talked with a new friend I made from the book group about it and then with the group discussion… I think a book I gave 3ish stars to is going to need a full spread just to voice my 4 pages of notes on my computer LoL I am actually craving so much more from that universe now. I need backstory for so many characters and I need the stories of our ragtag team after their goal is accomplished. UGH! I’m not one for series. I love standalones but I sure dislike them when I feel like they should be series. 1 quick question if anyone knows the answer. I know the answer has been mentioned before, but I can’t find in which video or podcast. What kind of pen is that and does it play well with TomBows and Mildliners? I’m trying to find a pen that is comfortable to hold, writes well in an A&O, and won’t smudge. The Pigma Microns are great for quick line work but they hurt my hand to write with. 😊 Thanks for reading to the end for anyone who gets this far.
I’ve been using the Zebra MarkON for the bulk of my writing. It’s supposed to be smudge proof with Mildliners, and does a fairly decent job with Tombows once it’s dry 😊 glad you enjoyed the video! 😄💜
Very enjoyable watch this ❤ gave a good idea of what you consumed, like "would I be interested in it?". And just watching you set up layouts is a joy by itself!
Love your wrap up, Jess! I can’t wait to see what you do for your Onyx Storm review. I just finished that book a few days ago so it’s going to be in my Feb wrap up.
Love the collage look, I hesitate doing it because of the bulk it adds - but doing fewer reviews per page would help too. I didn't do a re-read of Fourth Wing/Iron Flame since I was late to the party and just read them in November, so still fresh enough. I did start Onyx Storm on release evening, but I always forget how hard it is to read hardback books and I since I didn't take it with me (to keep it pretty!!), I was reading something else on my kindle app while at appointments....so I didn't finish it until Feb 1st. But I enjoyed taking my time and really picking up all the details in it (and oh look, it fills one of the prompts for Goober Challenge - convenient 🤣).
Rewatching the first season of Arcane before watching the second was a really good decision (and I wish I'd made it for myself too)! I didn't do it, and most of the time I was like "Who are you? I know you were important, but I absolutely cannot remember!", especially with the politics + intrigues 😪
I am the unpopular person who will consume media spoilers or not. Sometimes spoilers make me want to consume it because I want to see how we get there. That said, I enjoyed seeing all of the media consumed in this video.
Love what you did with your journal, makes me inspired🖤 I need to start the Fourth Wing. I look at it each week and tell myself almost menacingly - One of these days I'm going to read you. But then I never do. When it comes to reading series, part of me also doesn't like when it's not finished. What if I like the book so much but there is no continuation?! What to do?! E.g. I've read One Dark Window duology after it was completed. Read them happily back to back. But last year I read Long Live Evil, I adored it, but second book will come out only in September this year, what a bummer. But when a series is not as inspiring it's easier to just read it whenever the mood comes around we can all agree on that.
Yeah I don’t like being left on a cliffhanger that I can’t resolve quickly with reading the next book 😂 I’m practicing working on my tolerance though because it seems my friends and their recs have other plans for me 😝
OMG Two questions Are you a DnD'er? And Are you a critter? I didn't think you could get cooler as one of my favourite bujo creators until I saw that washi
Lol fair I've seen her reading their books and comics. You should look I to them though I think as a gamer and fantasy fan you will appreciate their content
How true Arcane is to the source is debatable considering they retconned most of the League of Legends game lore for the main characters to fit the Arcane universe.
@@JashiiCorrin yes, what's there is very interesting, but its always been a bit hit and miss on consistency of quantity/quality. The hope is with the new influx of interest with Arcane they double-down on the world building with these spin-offs 🤞
I really enjoyed the discussion on the books and would like to hear more about what the books about. Spoilers don’t bother me to the point I will read endings. I read for the story itself I guess and if I don’t like the ending I don’t have to waste time reading book
I played Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls on the PS vita in high school but didn’t get far in the other games. I might get back to it again since I remember it being so fun
"The character is also distinctly younger than me" is something I have to remind myself so often. Sometimes I'm frustrated with a book and have to tell myself that I was not the target audience. haha
Yeah, need to put myself in the mind of a 20-year-old 😝 obviously I just need to read more books with older protagonists 😂
lol reasons I can’t read any young adult fiction or even new adult fiction 🤣😂 at all! The MCs bother me so much I can’t stand it. I currently stick to manga genres, middle grade and adult fiction.
the rule of thumb with spoilers in the bookish community tends to be “if it’s in the blurb/marketing materials for the book, then it’s fair game” so like the main character, the setup, genres, tropes, general situations are all good and fun to talk about. spoilers are mainly reserved for stuff that’s more of a significant “reveal” (for example: in the hunger games, you’d talk about katniss and panem and the games and even the beginnings of revolution, but not who wins, who lives/dies, other districts’ reactions to the events of the games)
Good to know! 💜 I’m normally the kind of person who enters most books blindly, but that’s probably because things like movie trailers have spoiled me for movies before 😝 I swear nobody makes good non-spoilery trailers anymore!
For books like Fourth Wing and Iron Flame where you want to include a lot of decorations but also a lot of writing, consider putting a tip in so you can write under the decoration (or even the back of the decoration) so you get the best of both worlds.
That’s a cool idea! 💜 I’ll keep it in mind for next time 😈
Wow! I love how you’ve chosen to do your monthly reviews! I love this style of video, even tho we couldn’t be more different in the type of media we consume. I’m so glad you’re doing these monthly reading journal videos and I can’t wait for more! 💜
Aww yay! 💜 I’m glad you enjoyed it 😄
really enjoying your forays into collage-style journaling! as someone who’s been doing that style for years, my best advice is to keep doing exactly what you’re doing; keep putting stuff on the page and use your eye for color and design to guide you when you feel like it’s not working. but also it’s okay to make collages that don’t work bc the more you make, the more your style hones. a very trust the process craft. but yours genuinely look so great!!!
Thanks! 😄💜 as someone who typically goes into setting up a layout with a full(ish) plan before adding anything to the page, collaging is a bit tricky still 😝 but I’m enjoying learning about it! 💜
i admire you and your plans jess!! since that could not be LESS my style of journaling haha 🤪
This is such a beautiful media journal! I love the inclusion of the games, movies, and TV shows in this! I keep a scrapbook for every year that has all of the dates my husband and I went on (particularly before we got engaged) and I got stickers from all the games we’ve played together and found some for most of the TV shows we watched together as well. ❤️
I am planning on reading all three of the Empyrean books for the first time now that Onyx Storm has been released! I’ve had to keep my night shift co-workers from spoiling it for me, though when we see each other at shift change in the morning!
The way me and my partner play games like Danganronpa and Ace Attorney together is by reading the texts out loud! I am not voice acting inclined and still have a lot of fun voicing characters, and it removes the guessing game of skipping dialogue too fast. I dont know if this would work for you, but wanted to throw in my two cents since playing these types of games with someone is so much fun since you can theorize together
Also I love the monthly review style! Hope you also enjoyed doing them as I look foward for fev's already!!
We do the voice reading aloud when one of us needs to leave the room for something 😛 most often though, if we’re saying something aloud it’s just “but can you spell knife!?” (Not sure if you’ve seen that Short, but it’s now a common phrase in our house, along with “Do you understand?” in Celeste’s voice 😝)
Especially enjoyed this one. It's my first time journaling about my reading and I'm really enjoying see how you prep and layout this content.
Glad you enjoyed it 😄💜 looking forward to developing this as a series for the channel 💪
Jess, I love the collage . You are doing a great job. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! 😄💜 looking forward to learning more as I go 💪
This video contains my favorite books and series!😍 Arcane and Fourth Wing🎉 I am going to read Iron Flame this year and watch Arcane season 2 too🤩
Eyyy awesome! 😄💜 I hope you enjoy them 🤞
For the ones where you don't have four highlights, you can prob just use stickers in between to fill the space. Or even a fave quote. ✨
Yeah I think that’d be a good way forward 👌💜
Love this wrap-up!! Beautiful work and very inspiring for my reading journal. I don’t mind spoilers because they help me decide if I want to read a book. I listen to most books on Audible, which is usually one a day because I can listen and do a lot of other things at the same time. Really helpful, interesting, and inspiring video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed the video 😄💜 good to know where you stand on spoiler talk 👌
These all came out so wonderfully. All the elements work so well together. This was very inspiring and helped me figure out how I can maybe do something similar. I’ve shyed away because it’s always felt a little intimidating but this style seems very assessable and doable for me.
Glad you liked it and that it helped make the process seem easier for you! 😄💜
i feel the exact same way about fourth wing and iron flame, from rating to reasoning. onyx storm though…somehow beat fourth wing as my favorite of the three. i didn’t expect it because i tried not to get too excited (based on how house of flame and shadow by sjm ended up being) but oh my gaaaawd i ate it up and finished on january 22nd. hope you enjoy it as much as i did!! i read 9 books in january and it’s my #1 so far.
Oh awesome! Glad to hear your enjoyed it 😄💜 very looking forward to it 💪
Your pages turned out great! Would never have guessed it's a new thing for you :D
I usually put as much stuff as possible on my pages and it not always turns out looking good haha yours did!
Thanks! 😄💜 I think I’ll still need practice for the more heaving decorated layouts, but I’m pleased with how’s its going so far 🥳
These Pages turned out so cute! Thanks for all the inspiration Jess :D
Most welcome! Glad you liked them! 😄💜
I've been meaning to continue on with the Shadow Demons Saga for eons, I read the first book like 10 years ago and just never went on lol. Not continuing series is something I struggle with quite often.
Can very much relate to that, especially with regards to TV shows 😂 I feel like I never finish them 😅
So fun!! I’m a big collage journaler so it’s great to see you get into it as well!💗
Thanks! 😄💜 I’m enjoying the process so far 💪
I really hope you continue with the embellished reviews with more decorations. I think you made lovely choices and I think I could hear the smile in your voice too. I also wanted to say that I think the yellow to go with the blue of the first book makes the cover pop and is a color pairing I’d have made myself. It was clean and punchy. PLEASE 🙏 don’t stop making these wrap ups! Either has member videos or channel videos, I don’t care. I want to watch your journey into more Freeform embellishing and artistic freestyling.
Side note: I know exactly what you mean about the group discussion spurring so many more thoughts and questions. I didn’t think I had much to say, but then I talked with a new friend I made from the book group about it and then with the group discussion… I think a book I gave 3ish stars to is going to need a full spread just to voice my 4 pages of notes on my computer LoL I am actually craving so much more from that universe now. I need backstory for so many characters and I need the stories of our ragtag team after their goal is accomplished. UGH! I’m not one for series. I love standalones but I sure dislike them when I feel like they should be series.
1 quick question if anyone knows the answer. I know the answer has been mentioned before, but I can’t find in which video or podcast. What kind of pen is that and does it play well with TomBows and Mildliners? I’m trying to find a pen that is comfortable to hold, writes well in an A&O, and won’t smudge. The Pigma Microns are great for quick line work but they hurt my hand to write with. 😊 Thanks for reading to the end for anyone who gets this far.
I’ve been using the Zebra MarkON for the bulk of my writing. It’s supposed to be smudge proof with Mildliners, and does a fairly decent job with Tombows once it’s dry 😊 glad you enjoyed the video! 😄💜
@ Thank you! Now I can get one to try. And yes, absolutely did enjoy it!
Very enjoyable watch this ❤ gave a good idea of what you consumed, like "would I be interested in it?". And just watching you set up layouts is a joy by itself!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😄💜 looking forward to making more 💪
Beautiful journal!
Thanks! 😄💜
Love your wrap up, Jess! I can’t wait to see what you do for your Onyx Storm review. I just finished that book a few days ago so it’s going to be in my Feb wrap up.
Nice! My friends have finished reading it and I feel very behind 😂
Arcane is my ish! I love it so much.
Nice! 💜 I really enjoyed the series 😄
Love the collage look, I hesitate doing it because of the bulk it adds - but doing fewer reviews per page would help too.
I didn't do a re-read of Fourth Wing/Iron Flame since I was late to the party and just read them in November, so still fresh enough. I did start Onyx Storm on release evening, but I always forget how hard it is to read hardback books and I since I didn't take it with me (to keep it pretty!!), I was reading something else on my kindle app while at appointments....so I didn't finish it until Feb 1st. But I enjoyed taking my time and really picking up all the details in it (and oh look, it fills one of the prompts for Goober Challenge - convenient 🤣).
Haha heck yeah for prompt filling 💪 it’s going to be my February Goober read too 😂
Great reading wrap up
Thanks! 😄💜
Rewatching the first season of Arcane before watching the second was a really good decision (and I wish I'd made it for myself too)! I didn't do it, and most of the time I was like "Who are you? I know you were important, but I absolutely cannot remember!", especially with the politics + intrigues 😪
Would literally have been that for me too if I hadn't have 😅
I am the unpopular person who will consume media spoilers or not. Sometimes spoilers make me want to consume it because I want to see how we get there. That said, I enjoyed seeing all of the media consumed in this video.
Love what you did with your journal, makes me inspired🖤 I need to start the Fourth Wing. I look at it each week and tell myself almost menacingly - One of these days I'm going to read you. But then I never do. When it comes to reading series, part of me also doesn't like when it's not finished. What if I like the book so much but there is no continuation?! What to do?! E.g. I've read One Dark Window duology after it was completed. Read them happily back to back. But last year I read Long Live Evil, I adored it, but second book will come out only in September this year, what a bummer. But when a series is not as inspiring it's easier to just read it whenever the mood comes around we can all agree on that.
Yeah I don’t like being left on a cliffhanger that I can’t resolve quickly with reading the next book 😂 I’m practicing working on my tolerance though because it seems my friends and their recs have other plans for me 😝
OMG Two questions
Are you a DnD'er? And
Are you a critter?
I didn't think you could get cooler as one of my favourite bujo creators until I saw that washi
Haha 😂 sadly I’m not (yet, but highly curious)
That tape from was Monica who is a Critter! 💜
Lol fair I've seen her reading their books and comics. You should look I to them though I think as a gamer and fantasy fan you will appreciate their content
OOOO! What sticker book did you buy for Feb book club book?
The orange-toned set from this collection: www.journalsay.com/products/pet-sticker-greek-mythology-series-vintage-character-castle-landscaping?ref=1
@@JashiiCorrin Ahhh! Very nice! Those will go so nice!
I loved this whole video! Thank you for sharing your process!
How true Arcane is to the source is debatable considering they retconned most of the League of Legends game lore for the main characters to fit the Arcane universe.
Yeah, I've heard that the LoL lore is a bit...messy 😂
@@JashiiCorrin yes, what's there is very interesting, but its always been a bit hit and miss on consistency of quantity/quality. The hope is with the new influx of interest with Arcane they double-down on the world building with these spin-offs 🤞
They should teach kids in school to do this. We were given a small diary to jot down our homework and our teacher would check it daily.
Yeah I do think that proper planning skills would be a great homeroom/formtime activity 🤔
@@JashiiCorrin so creative for kids, love it
I think you did a good job.
Thanks! 😄💜
I really enjoyed the discussion on the books and would like to hear more about what the books about. Spoilers don’t bother me to the point I will read endings. I read for the story itself I guess and if I don’t like the ending I don’t have to waste time reading book
Yeah it’s always a shame feeling like you spent a lot of time on a book only to not enjoy it 😝
So cool
Thanks! 😄💜
I played Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls on the PS vita in high school but didn’t get far in the other games. I might get back to it again since I remember it being so fun
I’m certainly enjoying it, even if it’s longer given the dual-person reading 😛
We have the same reading goal! 😊
Eyyyy! Twinning 😈
Noooooo not Chip and Dan!! 😂😂😂😂😂
@@Cordelia0704p 😂
Always Chip and Dan 😂
Omg Dangan Rompa! ❤
Yup! We’re up to Chapter 4 now from memory 🤔
Google tried to spoil Onyx Storm for me too, what is up with that?!
Super rude of it, honestly 😛 I tried searching “hey Google, can you please not show me Onyx Storm spoilers?”
I don’t think it listened 😂
“How do you want to do this!!” Jess do you watch Critical Role?
Not yet 😝 but Monica does, and she gave me the tape, haha
good
Glad you enjoyed it! 😄💜
I literally just finished the second episode of the Morbid podcast covering Rodney Alcala. What is going on
That timing 👀 dang!