The Page & Thyme Reading Companion

Most reading journals are abandoned by March. Not from laziness — from being built to look impressive on day one.

So this one is deliberately plain, and there are only eight pages.

What's inside

• A bookshelf tracker — colour in a spine for every book you finish, and write the title along it

• A to-be-read page, one line per book, with room to note where it came from

• A book review page that asks three questions instead of fourteen

• A reading goals page that isn't only a number

• A favourite quotes page you can write in one-handed, with the book still open

• A genre tracker, kept honestly rather than aspirationally

• A monthly reading summary — started, finished, put down

• A page for the books you want to remember, and where you were when you read them

How to use it

Print three to begin with. Live with them for a month. Print a fourth when you find yourself missing it.

That is the whole method, and it is the only one we have found that survives a busy year.

A note from us

I built a beautiful one, once. Fourteen spreads, ruled out in January, colour-coded. I had abandoned it by March, which Rowan has never entirely let go of. — Hazel

Free, printable, and yours to keep. No neat handwriting required.