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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Reading Challenges mentioned:
Dawn’s Read Your Way to 10k goal (download)
RAD Romance Reading Challenge (download)
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
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)
Find us online:
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.)
