Do you remember reading buddies, in school? Print out these paper “reading buddies” to keep track of your adventures in reading.
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Do-Lit-Yourself is a column for book lovers with a crafty streak. This pinteresting monthly is penned by LPG Education and Engagement manager Lauren Perruzza.
Do you remember reading buddies, in school? For me, it was always an older, cooler kid to help sound out the hard words and discuss what the book meant to us both. Without that similar reflection, and with the volume of reading we can get to, it’s easy to forget the name of your favourite character was in a novel, what the best story was in a collection, or that arresting line of poetry you’d sworn you’d remember in lieu of dog-earing the page.Enter the Raccoon, wait, the Chrysanthemum… no, augh, confusion. Enter the All Lit Up Reading Buddy – a bookmark where you can easily keep track of the most salient parts of your reading. The bookmark leaves a place for your favourite and least favourite parts, when you started and finished, the publisher who put the book out, and your overall rating.
If you really want to nerd out about it, on an ongoing basis or at the end of the year you can dip into your completed stash of reading buddies and put them into Goodreads or your own reading spreadsheet (BookRiot has a great one that also helps monitor the diversity of your reading). You’ll never be that wide-eyed, silently nodding weirdo in your bookclub, ever again.* You can print out a .pdf with four reading buddies on it, right here. You can use cardstock for some extra snap, and print double-sided if you want to save some paper. *Totally not me.****Okay, that was me.
