Reading Journal

A list of reading journal page headings to cut and paste into your notebook.  

Printable Reading Journal from Starts at Eight

Blank Bookshelves

Quote about school libraries from Neil Gaiman

Habit tracker for your goal to read daily

The Reader's Bill of Rights

Elementary Book Review  from  Books, Babies and Bows 

Here's a link to the printable .jpg in black and white if you prefer not to print in color.  

Here's a lovely quote on why you need a reading journal:

WHY YOU NEED A READING JOURNAL

My reason: I’ve forgotten so many books.

I’m deeply saddened by that last sentence.  When I read a book, I feel close to it. I know you get it, my fellow book lovers. The story becomes a part of you as you travel through its pages. There’s a unique cooperation that happens between reader and book. You can walk away from a movie, or TV show, and it keeps playing. But a book needs the reader to enter into a type of covenant. If you close the book, the story stops moving. It stops existing in the mind of the reader.

So, when I say I’ve forgotten books, it’s like claiming an old friend never existed.

I keep a reading journal to keep my old friends alive.