Read, Remember, Recommend....GENIUS!
"If you love to read so much that you often forget what you have read, this book has got you covered! I have a great friend that reads hundreds of books a year yet cannot recommend a title for me because she forgets it as soon as she moves on to the next book! This reading journal contains over 2000 cross-referenced award winning and notable reading suggestions to help you discover great literature and new authors, columns within the lists to help organize and keep track of books you want to read, have loaned or borrowed, and books you wish to recommend. It also contains journal pages to record your thoughts, ideas, and book club discussion points on books and authors. Definitely the perfect gift for the book lover on your list! And even more exciting, they have a new version out for teens with refillable pages...I guess their journal can get quite large since they are starting out early!"
-Jennifer Melnick Carota (2008, November 5th), The Gift Therapist

An Essential Resource for All Serious Book Readers
"I’m a reader and proud of it. I’d rather read a great new book then watch some rehash of a sitcom from last year on the TV. I’ve always been this way, ever since I was little and first learned to read it has been one of my favorite pastimes. Growing up I’d spend my summers out in the yard reading books. Later, as I went through high school I began to tackle all of the “greats.” One entire year I spent reading only Russian authors: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Stendhal, etc. Another time I was really into authors from Latin America, and read through all of Borges, Marquez, Cortazar, and Allende. Now I’m much more eclectic, reading books for a variety of reasons. All through my reading life (literally thousands of books), I’ve never kept real close track of what I read, when, and what I thought about the book in the moment. Sure, I can think back and reflect on whether I liked a book or not, but those personal intimate moments I had while actually reading the book are lost to the dustbin of my memory.
That is why I am so excited about two new books (really more like reading journals) by Rachelle Knight. Read, Remember, Recommend; A Reading Journal for Book Lovers is just that, a handy reading journal that not only works for recording your memories, but also helps you find that next great book. Sure, I’ve tried some of the online reading sites such as Shelfari, LibraryThing, and GoodReads. But those don’t come with you when you are looking for a new book in your local bookstore. Likewise, you can’t access them, log on, and surf to some book you saw the other day during a conversation with friends. Enter Read, Remember, Recommend; A Reading Journal for Book Lovers and Read, Remember, Recommend: A Reading List Journal for Teens.
These little handy reading journals are about the size of a standard trade paperback book or engagement calendar. Pull it out of your purse, bag, or briefcase and flip right to the page where you wrote that note.
On the other hand, what if you want to read all of the books awarded the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction? Do you carry a list around in your wallet that slowly gets crumpled and lost? Again, pull out Read, Remember, Recommend; A Reading Journal for Book Loversand flip to page 14. There it is, author, title, and year going all the way back to 1969’s winner: P.H. Newby’s Something to Answer For.
Rachelle has put together an amazing resource that every reader should have. Not only does the reading journal contain the authors, titles, and years of over 15 book awards, but it also has a Notable section where you can find the 100 Best Novels from Modern Library or the BBC. Similarly, there are pages for you to record books that have been recommended (not more asking the bookstore clerk “My friend recommended a recent book on a dog and its owner but I can’t recall the title, can you help?”). On top of that, the book also has a journaling section, a place to track your reading, and to keep track of the books you loan to friends.
All I can say is that I’m really quite amazed that someone has not done this before. I sure wish I had this reading journal the summer I was trying to read a book each from the best American authors! There is also one for teens, perhaps even more valuable as it not only encourages young people to read, but gives them lists of books to look for and a way for them to track their progress: Read, Remember, Recommend: A Reading List Journal for Teens . Read, Remember, Recommend; A Reading Journal for Book Lovers is an essential resource for any reader. Don’t mess with the online sites or scraps of paper in your purse. Get one of these and take back your reading. I have and I have Rachelle to thank."
- Peter N. Jones (2008, October 22nd), New Great Books That Are a Must Read

“Book journals have come and gone from the shelves at The King’s English for years, but I’ve never run across one as perfectly conceived and executed as Rachelle Knight’s. She has put together enough lists to keep an obsessed reader going for years, enough pages to jot down everything from notes on particular books to recommended titles to author lists to books loaned out (and to whom they’ve been loaned, of course). She’s included not only every important literary award list but all the finalists for each year as well, along with other notable lists from The Modern Library’s to the BBC’s to Oprah’s. And in the final section she’s even provided websites for each! No reader should be without a copy of Read, Remember, Recommend. I’m giving one to everyone I know.”
—Betsy Burton, Owner and Author, The King’s English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, Utah.

"Read, Remember, Recommend is a thoughtfully organized and inspiring one-of-a-kind reading journal. Use it and you'll never again lose track of the 'I've got to read that!' book on your list." —Kira Stevens, author of Good Books Lately: The One-Stop Resource for Book Groups and Other Greedy Readers

"Imagine you're at the library or your favorite bookstore. You know that someone just recommended a book last week and that the list of books you want to read is at least a mile long - but, you can't remember a single title to save your life. This is the reading journal for you. Not only does it have a place for you to keep track of all the books you want to read, your thoughts on those you've read, the books you want to recommend, and who you loaned your favorite paperback to, it also has award lists galore. From now on, you'll know what book you want to read next."

“Read, Remember, Recommend: A Reading Journal for Book Lovers, Rachelle Rogers Knight (Bibliopages; $14.95; available from The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City or www.bibliopages.com) - This volume will assist bibliophiles who want to catalog their reading experiences or work their way through the literary canon. To help readers fill their nightstands, Knight gathers respected lists of recommended books, from Pulitzer winners to Oprah's picks to the Modern Library's 100 best novels. She then creates space for readers to jot down their thoughts about what books they've read and which passages they found most memorable. Filling the pages of Knight's well-organized journal will give any reader a sense of accomplishment.” —Griggs, Brandon (2008, December 15), "Utah Under Cover for Christmas", The Salt Lake Tribune, pg. D5

“One reason I started BOOKGASM was to keep a record of everything I read, because when you consume more than 100 books a year, one can no longer rely on memory alone. But if I didn’t have BOOKGASM, I would utilize something like Read, Remember, Recommend, created by Rachelle Rogers Knight. This spiral-bound reading journal would make a perfect gift for any hardcore bibliophile on your list, with nearly 250 pages of section to help keep reading material straight, separated with handy, full-color, recipe-tabbed section breaks. There’s a section to write down books you’ve read, with space for passages to remember and other comments/thoughts. What to read next? Consult your “to read” list or “author pages.” Loaning out a book? Don’t forget to record it in the “loaner lists” so you’ll know who has it and for how long. The thing that makes Read, Remember, Recommend stand out from the dime-a-dozen reading journals at Barnes & Noble is its enormous amount of checklist up front of award winners and best-ofs; the Pulitzers, National Book Awards, Oprah’s Book Club selections, Time magazine’s most influential novels – they’re all there, and that’s just scratching the surface.” —Lott, R. (2007, December). Read, Remember, Recommend. Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About

“Are you the kind of reader who loves lists of books? Do you read literary fiction? Oprah's book selections? Read, Remember, Recommend: A Reading Journal for Book Lovers was created by Rachelle Rogers Knight just for you. Or, since we're all looking for the perfect gift this time of year, this might be the present for the book lover you know. This is a useful tool for any book fanatic who loves literary fiction. It not only provides a place for them to keep track of their books, but it offers all kinds of suggestions for future reading. The format is very attractive. For each title listed, there is a place for the reader to check if they own the book, would recommend it, want to read it, or want to buy it or check it out from the library. There are great lists. It lists the Pulitzer Prize winners for fiction, winners of the Book Sense Book of the Year Award, and numerous other fiction award winners. There are lists of notable books, such as Oprah Winfrey's book selections, and The Modern Library's list of 100 Best Books of the last century. There are enough book titles here to keep a reader happy for life. There are even a couple pages of website listings for future reference. And, of course, there are the blank pages to journal thoughts about books, comments, and lists. At $14.95, this is a priceless gift for the avid book lover who enjoys literary fiction. I have a family member in mind. —Holstine, L. (2007, December). Read, Remember, Recommend. Lesa’s Book Critiques