Hey everyone! I just bought a cute journal and decided to make it a book/reading journal. I've already looked up some examples/templates and there's obviously a huge overlap in what parts are present (reading dates, overall rating, review etc). It's likely I'll change what type of things I want to write down as I go along and add in books, but I want to try and make it as fun as possible from the get-go without feeling like I'm leaving stuff out later.

So I was wondering if people who have a book journal want to share some specific/unusual things they add that they really enjoy. And even if you don't you might have some ideas :))

I think this maybe started when the performative male thing was going around, since the "performative male" in question always having some feminist book or work on him; and then possibly spurred itself into this "reading in public is performative" narrative (which I've now seen several posts of).

Reading in public is only seen as performative if you don't read, I think.

We've somehow reached a point where being seen doing something as basic as reading is a pretentious action.

To me it's just as basic as wearing headphones and listening to music in public, so why does reading have such a differing reaction?

I think it's a more subtle form of anti-intellectualism, trying to make it socially embarrassing to be seen doing things like reading.

Edit: added context.