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Episode 13: Let's Get Nerdy - Setting Reading Challenges & Goals for 2022

December 31, 2021 Roni Loren

RAD Reading Podcast
Episode #13 

Episode Title: Let’s Get Nerdy - Setting 2022 Reading Challenges & Goals

Release Date: Dec. 31, 2021

Episode Summary: 

It’s one of our favorite times of the year—time to set new reading goals and challenges for 2022! Roni is sharing the many nerdy reading challenges that she’s tackling this coming year, and Dawn is firmly anti-challenge but has chosen some goals to enhance her reading year. Also, as always, we have our RAD reading recs of the week!

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Highlights:

  • One of us declares New Year’s their favorite holiday

  • The difference between a reading challenge and a reading goal

  • Can you count a DNF in a reading challenge?

  • Dawn’s audiobook goal

  • Roni’s book subscription addiction & Dawn tries to stage an intervention

  • Reading goal suggestions

  • The pros and cons of reading challenges

  • The personality type that fits best with reading challenges

  • The book Dawn flat out refused to read in school

  • The Pizza Hut Book-It Challenge was our 80s jam

  • Roni’s experience with her Read Wide challenge

  • One of us has strong feelings about the randomness of some reading challenges

  • Roni talks about the personal growth of not finishing one of her reading challenges this year (Update: since recording, she finished it because…personal growth is hard. :) )

  • How to choose the right reading challenge for you

  • Creating or customizing your own challenge

  • Read Your Way to 10k (words not kilometers)

  • Dawn’s reading goals

  • The Bookish Subscription challenge

  • The Indie Author challenge

  • The Romance Roots/Fated Mates challenge

  • Roni’s reading goals

  • RAD Reading recs of the week

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*Note: all book links are affiliate links which means the podcast makes a small commission if you make a purchase, but there is no extra cost to you!





Reading Challenges mentioned:

  • Dawn’s Read Your Way to 10k goal (download)

  • RAD Romance Reading Challenge (download)

  • Roni’s Read Wide challenge

  • Roni’s TBR Backlog challenge

  • Book Riot’s Read Harder challenge

  • Roni’s Bookish Subscription challenge - read 12 books from bookish subscriptions

  • Roni’s Indie Author challenge - read at least 10 indie-published books

  • Roni’s Romance Roots challenge - read 12 foundational romances

  • Big list of other reading challenges from A Little Read blog

Romance Roots challenge
Romance Roots challenge
Bookish subscription challenge
Bookish subscription challenge
Indie Author Challenge
Indie Author Challenge
TBR Backlog challenge
TBR Backlog challenge
Read Wide Challenge
Read Wide Challenge



RAD Reading Recs of the Week: 

  • “Two Tamales, One Tokarev, and a Lifetime of Broken Promises by Stacey B. Woodsen in the Guns and Tacos anthology (Dawn’s pic)

  • One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Roni’s pic)



Other things mentioned:

  • The Book Drop subscription (Roni’s getting the “Bubbly” box)

  • The Bookworm Box subscription

  • Book of the Month club

  • Fated Mates podcast

  • Roni’s Happy for Now newsletter

  • The Romantic Movie Marathon 

  • Strictly Ballroom




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RAD Reading Website

Roni’s Happy for Now newsletter

Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram

Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram



Another note: Because we are both in the publishing industry, sometimes the books we recommend might be by an author we know personally, an author who shares a publisher, editor, or agent with Roni, or an author whom Dawn has edited. Publishing is a small world, so that will happen from time to time. However, we guarantee that we only recommend books we love. We have not been asked to promote any of these books and none are paid ads. However, some books we review may be ARCs (advanced reading copies provided by publishers to reviewers for honest reviews.)

In Reading Upgrade, Show Notes Tags reading challenges 2022, reading goals, new year reading, setting reading goals, bookish challenges, romance roots challenge, bookish subscription challenge, read wide challege, TBR challenge, read 10k, roni loren, dawn alexander, bookish podcast, podcasts about books, podcasts about reading, romance reading, mystery reading, book journals, reading journals, keeping track of your reading, new goals, new years resolutions
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