A Beginner’s Attempt at Annotating: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

I’ve been wanting to annotate a book for ages now. But I cannot write in books. I cannot dog ear pages. And I absolutely despise those neon coloured flags in every stationery section of stores. Something inside me just refuses to use or do such things.

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You can imagine then, the struggle I faced.

Then I came across this lovely tiktoker with her own business: @girlinread_. She uses stickers. Emoji stickers, flags, and quadrant stickers to mark a whole page. Brilliant, I thought! Stickers are exactly the solution I didn’t know I needed.

Now, I didn’t go out and buy anything from @girlinread_ just yet. I may have been terrified I’d mess something up, ok. I almost always use sticky notes in non-fiction books because it makes sense for that genre, but I’ve never done so with any fiction just for the fun of it.

Suffice to say I was in unknown territory. I knew I needed to start slow and easy. Not just with the supplies I used, but with the book I chose.

Thus, I went with Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. It’s shorter than all my other books on my physical tbr, only about 300 pages, it’s a topic I already knew a bit about, and I knew I wouldn’t have to worry about long…