The 52 Book Club ¦ 2024 Reading Challenge Journal Walkthrough

Our 52 book club 2024 journal has been out for almost a month now and we are blown away by all the love that this journal has been receiving. Today we're going to walk through the journal and take a look at what exactly is inside. This is going to be helpful for those who are still on the fence or for those who are new and want to take a closer look at what the journal contains before you purchase. It's also going to be really helpful if you've already purchased the journal but maybe you're uncertain about some of the features or some of the pages within and you want a little bit more of an explanation. Let's go. Hey everyone, my name is Liz and today we're talking about the 2024 reading challenge journal. This journal is specifically an accompaniment for our 52 book club 2024 reading challenge. It is a great add-on for those who are looking for a way to track your reads in a physical journal and notebook throughout the year. We've printed this book through Amazon just because we are a very global group and we wanted to make an easy and affordable way for everyone to be able to grab a copy no matter what region of the world that you live in. If you're interested in grabbing one at the end of this video be sure to check the link in the description below and it will take you to Amazon where you can grab a copy. So let's check out the journal. This year we have a vintage theme for our 2024 reading challenge and so we've incorporated and added that into our 2024 journal. You'll notice that the cover has a very vintage library card feel to it. We've got you know some coffee stains, some regular stains, list of names from people who've borrowed and checked out these library books. You may even notice a few easter eggs in the names as some of you have already commented that on the Facebook group so see if you can find any there as well. The inside of the book we have just a basic hello and welcome, thank you for grabbing a copy of this journal as well as a little look at how the reading challenge works. So if you are new here we would really encourage you first to read through how the challenge works but also definitely head over to our website. There's a link here www.the52book.club that will help answer any other questions that you have including a section that we have on our website for FAQs. This is a really helpful place to start and we definitely recommend if you are just finding this journal on its own and haven't had a chance to look through the website that you head there first. The book also has our 2024 reading challenge graphic. This includes all 52 prompts and again basically what we're doing for this challenge is we are matching one book to each of the 52 prompts here on the list. So for this page this is just a fun outline and way to look at the graphic. You're welcome to mark it up, use it as you would like if you like checking it off, crossing it off, writing you know books in the margins, however you like to use it and mark up your journal you are welcome to do so. The next section in the journal is a planning section. So we have different spaces here for all 52 of the prompts in our 2024 challenge. You have a where you can write down options of books that you may want to fit under that prompt. For example you have option one a locked room mystery so you may choose to write an Agatha Christie mystery at the top here and a Ruth Ware mystery here as an option too. Over here in the corner you also have a section where you can choose which of these two books you used for the locked room mystery so your final choice as well as a check box to mark when you have completed that read. We hope that these pages will be useful for those who enjoy planning out your challenge in advance. Not all the pages within this journal are going to be applicable or useful for everyone and that's okay. You're welcome to use this journal as you would like. It is your journal, mark it up, adjust make adjustments as you feel necessary and as you want to use it. As long as it is helpful for you that is the main point of this journal. So some people as they received their journals had asked if it was possible to maybe add more options for future journals. This is a question actually that we've had a lot about future journals, whether we will go back and redo our 2018 to 2023 journals. I know a lot of you do go back and complete those challenges if you're new or have just joined in and haven't done them in the past. This is something that we are definitely working on and we would love to offer for the future. Again we will probably mix things up with future journals but I do appreciate the feedback of having more options available in this planning section. I didn't include it for the 2024 challenge because it did add a lot of extra pages to the journal and we also had a lot of other fun stuff included in the journal already. But if you were looking for more space you're also welcome to add inserts. There are a lot of other creative ways to mix it up and to add to this journal and make it your own. The next section in the journal is specific review pages for each of the 52 prompts on the 2024 challenge. So for example we're going to take a look at just prompt one here. This is a locked room mystery. So for this page you can include the title, author, genre, the date you started your book, the date you finished, page count, star rating. It also has space for you to write a favorite quote or maybe a couple of quotes as well as details about the book whether it's paperback, hardcover, audiobook, ebook, borrowed, owned, reread, a series. We also have just some customized little spaces here for each of the prompts specifically related to that prompt. So for the locked room mystery for example it asks did you guess whodunit and it has little check boxes there for yes or nope. We also have summary spots, review spots, and also a spot for you to write why you chose this book. So these are a lot of kind of standard review things that you would find in a lot of journals or book review journals. So again you can use this as you like. Not all the sections will be applicable for every book or for every reviewer and that's okay. We did have a couple questions about what we would put in for example in the summary section versus a review and again this is going to be totally personal how you like to best review and reflect on your reads. So if this is something that you're going to be looking back at over the course of the year you might want to just jot down some notes to help refresh what the book was about as well as in the review section some ideas as to your thoughts and your opinions on the book and on the read itself. So also for this section why I chose this book there are literally thousands of books that could fit each and every prompt on this challenge and so this is just a fun little space to write why you chose this book whether you took it very literally. For example for Bibliosomia there are a lot of very creative out-of-the-box interpretations for how to choose a book for this prompt and so you can yeah write down here in this book why you chose it whether it was a book because it had a physical smell or whether it had scent in the title again yeah just a way to yeah record why you chose the book that you did for this specific prompt. So we have these for all 52 prompts here within the journal and so again you don't have to complete the challenge in order you're welcome to hop around complete these in any order that you like you may decide to wait until you know you've finished three or four books before you start writing you may want to write them in your reviews right away it's totally up to you how you choose to tackle this journal and how you want to yeah how you want to fill it out and complete it. The next section in the journal is for mini challenges there are seven different pages here for different mini challenges. Mini challenges are smaller challenges that we release sporadically throughout the year they are usually month-long monthly based and they include two or three different prompts around a specific theme. So we have provided these blank mini challenge pages for you to fill in and complete as mini challenges are released throughout 2024. They are completely optional they are always add-on bonus you do not have to complete them if you chose not to participate in the mini challenges these are great uh review spaces that you could use to fill in kind of any other books that you might be reading that didn't fit in with your regular 52 books but for those who are completing mini challenges these are spaces that you can use for each of the months that we offer a mini challenge. Next we have our read it watch it challenge which is a another bonus challenge that we've been offering for a couple of years now basically you are going to have four different prompts from our 2024 challenge and they are for 2024 they are a hybrid genre includes a wedding a character driven story and published in a year of the dragon you're gonna find a book that fits that prompt but also has a movie or a tv tie-in so you want to choose a book that you can read and then like the challenge says watch so as you can see on this page there is space for book title date completed and a star rating as well as movie title date watched and a star rating for the movie as well this challenge will be released on our website sometime during the month of December we will include a link in the description for you as soon as that is available our next page in the journal is a fun bingo page it has 25 different prompts from our 52 book club 2024 challenge everything from bibliosomia a smelly book to time frame spans a week or less the goal of this is to get a bingo so you can get it diagonally you can get it horizontally or vertically in any of the lines and it's up to you how you choose to do this you will obviously if you're completing the whole 2024 challenge eventually get a blackout you may decide to try and get a bingo as quickly as you can and that's how you choose your prompts or you may read the prompts as you had already decided and just see how quickly you naturally get a bingo there is space down here for four different bingos you can write the dates how quickly did you get a bingo again just a fun personal challenge you're not competing against anyone else in this challenge except for yourself on this page beside it we have a daily reading log now this is a little bit more flexible and you can choose how you want to use this log but it is basically just a tracker and a way to help you keep track of your reads whether it is by page count by hours or minutes that you're reading throughout the day by what genres you're reading etc so we have a key over here that you can write what you're going to be filling it in so for example you might color this first square green and say green represents if i read zero to 20 pages in the day you might color the next square red red represents if i read 20 to 75 pages in the day then for each of the days of the months and the year here you're going to fill in with the different colors as you mark down on your key so at the end you're going to have a really colorful grid built up that kind of gives you a quick snapshot and overview of your reading for the year again in the corner here we just made note of you can use this page to track your daily reading habits you can customize the key depending on whether you want to track minutes read pages read etc the next page that we have is for our read-alongs we have four read-alongs scheduled for 2024 the first one starting in january we have already announced that you can find all the details on our website we're reading the violin conspiracy if you would like to sign up we have not yet announced our april july or october read-alongs but we will do so as soon as the previous read-along has finished for these sections we have again very similar to the other review page sections where you'll have room for a title author the read-along dates the genre page count your thoughts on the book and also your just thoughts on the read-along as a whole we also have a little space here for your favorite quote and the star rating for the book this is another bonus challenge that we are offering that is an exclusive for the 2024 journal we're not releasing it on our website but again it is just a fun bonus content for those who have purchased the journal so the challenge is how many of these genres can you read in 2024 on these two pages we have 18 different genres a wide variety of genres we have fantasy science fiction mystery poetry action adventure also space for other for one extra bonus one that wasn't already written on here the goal is just to see how many genres you can read over the course of the year it's basically just a fun way to challenge yourself to try genres that you don't normally read this next larger section in the is our month in review section so we have monthly pages for january all the way through to december and this is just a really great way to track and look back on the month see what you've been reading how you've been reading it what prompts you've been completing and just your reading goal and reading logs for the month so these pages contain the total books you've read total pages you've read again not everyone tracks that it's totally all right you're welcome to use this journal as is helpful for you but this is just space if you would like to use it we also have space here for ratings so you can track how many five star books you read four star three star two star one star books over the course of the month you can also track how many physical books you read ebooks audiobooks as well as just some space for any other notes that you want to track here we have a space for genres so you can record all the genres that you read over the course of the month as well as personal monthly goals your challenge may be one of your monthly goals but we also know that you have a lot of other reading goals and so this is a fun way just to keep track of those to see what you're reading if you're accomplishing your goals and if you're on track with what you set for 2024 your goal for 2024 also might just be to have fun that is a totally perfectly acceptable challenge and goal for the year as well we also have space here for my favorite read my least favorite read my shortest read and my longest read again just a really quick fun overview for your month as you're looking back over 2024 this section here is for completed 2024 challenge reads this section will pair perfectly with your 52 book club 2024 stickers these are created by planetwithstickers.com they have been custom designed and they have a really fun vintage feel that will match your 2024 challenge as well as match your journal perfectly so for this you can include your stickers right here in your challenge page they fit perfectly and there is space for eight different prompts and stickers over each month if you complete more than eight challenge prompts over the course of the month you're welcome to include these stickers in other parts of the journal maybe here on your february reading log in the back in the note section or even on the specific review pages themselves they'll fit nicely in the corner here there's a lot of flexibility again in how you complete and fill out this challenge but this is a really easy way and a fun way to have your challenge stickers included in your journal these stickers are a really fun add-on but they are also entirely optional and they're not necessary to complete the challenge or to use the reading journal so if you haven't purchased the stickers there is room for you to write in the prompt in each of these boxes on this side of the page we have space to track all of the books that you are reading over the course of the month you can track it by title author's name as well as star rating here there are about 20 different lines here if you read more than 20 pages you're welcome to include those at the end in the note section up here we also have added to the tbr so this is a helpful section if you are part of our facebook group if you are on bookstagram or booktalk and you're seeing books popping up and you want to read them just a helpful way to keep track of those to know which books sound interesting that you would like to read over the course of the year we also have a hopeful section and some people like tracking books that they're going to hope to read over the course of the month this would be a section that you might fill out at the beginning of the month and then try and complete over the course of the month you might also decide at the very beginning of the year to go in and write down different books or maybe even prompts that you're hoping to complete that month as part of the challenge this could be a helpful way to help keep you on track for your reading goals for the 2024 challenge after our month in review section we have this really fun book of the year showdown of your favorite 2024 reads to find your book of the year for this you are going to write down your favorite read for each of the months so for january february march then you're going to have a face-off and see which of these three were your favorite you're going to get a semi-finalist you're going to do these for each of the months of the year and then your semi-finalists are going to pair off and you're going to get your finalists for the first half of the year and your finalist for the second half of the year at the end you will have one winner this will be your favorite read of 2024 it's again just a really fun add-on that we've included in the journal and a way to look back at some of your favorite reads over the course of the year the final page in our 2024 journal is our 2024 challenge in review so this is a great way again just to look back over 2024 as a whole we had our monthly review pages and this is over all the year so we have a total books read in 2024 we also have some questions here about the 2024 prompts so you have our favorite challenge prompt our least favorite challenge prompt easiest to complete most difficult to complete the first prompt that you finished in 2024 the last prompt of 2024 and your most creative interpretation we also have a section here for reads that will stick with you so a book you surprisingly loved a book that was disappointing your favorite series read in 2024 books you recommended most often most memorable character books from a genre you don't normally read your favorite new to you author most beautifully written and a book you can't believe you waited this long to read on this side we have accomplishments for the year so if you finish the challenge there's a check box here for you you can also choose i read less than 52 books but hit my personal reading goals and the last one here is i didn't hit my goal but i had a lot of fun we also have space here for you to check off how many 52 book club challenges you have completed all the way from 2018 which was the first challenge that we released up until this new one here in 2024 and a space here as to whether or not you are going to participate in 2025 and at the very end here we have some note pages just for you to use as you would like so that was a quick overview of our 2024 challenge journal we do have a couple extra tips for you including just making sure that you check your pens maybe even in the note section here at the back before you start using it throughout your journal to make sure that they don't bleed through the paper we love seeing all of the creative ways that you have been using this journal and we look forward to more in 2024 be sure to share on the facebook group and tag us on instagram at the 52 book club for more bookish content be sure to sign up for emails on our website follow us on social media and like this video and subscribe to our youtube channel we hope you have a fantastic 2024 full of lots of new books and have a lot of fun tracking it in your 2024 journals happy reading