- It's most fun when you get to choose your own notebook because you really feel it's yours right from the start.
- You can keep one as a family or let everyone have their own.
- Keep some kind of a tally about the different genres or generally the different kinds of books you read.
- Record all the books you read. I usually do that by writing down the date I finished the book, the title, the author, favorite quotes and any other responses I have to the book. Sometimes this response is what I liked about the book (and what I didn't). But there are so many other ways to respond: making a picture of a favorite scene, drawing an advertisement poster for the book, recommending the book to someone, writing a letter to the author or one of the protagonists, just to add a few more examples.
- If you like to make it more of a scrapbook, add bits and pieces from your travels, from the place you read the book at. Maybe you have a plane ticket, a train ticket, a postcard or a picture of the place to add for example.
- I like to use different colored pens so that I can easily find things when I am looking through the notebook ( a trick I learned from the wonderful author Lenore Look); for example I write all quotes in a particular color.
I would love to see your notebooks after the summer. Will you show them to me?