Some co-workers were talking about throwback Thursday posts on Facebook and I thought why not post about that here today as I’m not much of a Facebook user.
So before the blog here’s how I was recording my books read and books I wanted to read.
I have three of these journals and am getting a kick out of looking through the entries. I think the furthest back they go is to May 1996. Before these books I know I was keeping track in spiral notebook. I wonder what happened to it.
Anyway, here’s a fun entry. Under the “I” section I mention reading A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving in 1999. It was for my Borders book group and I mention that this is my second time reading it. I thought I had only read that book once! Oh man, so many books and years ago it’s hard to remember the details.
How about you, what did you do before having a book blog?
Update: I just realized I blogged about this back in 2007. Haha. Ok, I think that’s what happens when you’ve been blogging a very long time.
I wish I’d kept reading journals before blogging. Those times I finished the books and that was it. Some I still remember and others I’ve forgotten… I’m so glad I can now record my bookish thoughts on my blog; at least I’ve something to refer to it even when I’ve grown old! ;P
Sorry but that was my comment earlier. In a hurry I’ve forgotten to type out my name, etc, hehe.
I did absolutely NOTHING to record my books before blogging. I started a journal once but it lasted about two books. I suppose if I hadn’t started blogging I’d have joined Goodreads eventually.
How fun! I kept lists of books I read with a short comment on whether I liked the book or not. I have one attempt at a book journal with actual page length entries but it only lasted about 9 months. Blogging struck the right chord for both keeping track of and thinking about books.
🙂 I kept titles in my journals with occasional notes for years. It was haphazard and not too organized, but it was better than nothing.
LOL! I find myself repeating blog topics occasionally, but as many years as we’ve been doing this…no one will remember. Not even us. I did the Yahoo Group thing, and I also kept an excel sheet on my computer with veryyyy brief notes.
I wish I had kept better records! I always meant to journal, but never did very well with it…
I kept a reading journal before I began blogging too, although it doesn’t go back nearly as far as I would like. I wish I’d thought to start sooner.
I didn’t record my reading activities at all before my book blog. Now I keep a notebook with a record of what books I have read (it only covers the past three years. I’d really like to have it be more of a reading journal. I keep lists of books I want to read, books I have bought, etc. I used to have little lists in notebooks and bits of paper stuffed in my purse. Now I’m a lot more deliberate about my reading.
Such a clever idea!
How neat that you used those journals! Before blogging, I never thought about keeping a book journal. For awhile, right before I started the blog, I would jot down the titles of the books I read on a legal pad, just because I couldn’t remember all the titles. Of course, it didn’t help that I lost that legal pad. LOL
Isn’t it fun to look back? I didn’t record anything before blogging. I had the occasional journal but I’d mainly jot down books that I wanted to read or quotes that I enjoyed aside from that .
Before blogging (and Goodreads), I recorded what I read but not my thoughts about it. I love this look back at the past.