Reading Envy 107: Reading Goals 2018

It is the very best time of the year, the time to pick new reading goals and to see how we did the last time around. I share progress on the goals from 2017, new goals for 2018, and a few surprise guests join me to offer their ideas for one of my goals. At the end, I rattle off a few statistics from my 2017 reading year.

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Goals for 2018

1. Read Canada and Alaska

(See some recommendations below)

2. Complete six book speed-dating projects

3. Host two Reading Envy readalongs

4. Reading challenges

Reading Women Challenge
Unread Shelf Project 2018 (found in Instagram)
#theunreadshelfproject2018 @theunreadshelf @calsreads @katereadsbooks

5. Keep book data outside of Goodreads

Canadian recommendations from guests:

Lindy recommends: 
Bear by Marian Engel
Half World by Hiromi Goto
Rumi and the Red Handbag by Shawna Lemay
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
The Nest by Kenneth Oppel
Mr and Mrs Bunny, Detectives Extraordinaire by Polly Horvath
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill

Shawn recommends:
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
The Lamb at Noon and Other Stories by Sinclair Ross
Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Break by Katherina Vermette
Brother by David Chariandy
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Memory Board by Jane Rule
We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Hynes
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

Casey recommends:
The Mystics of Mile End by Sigal Samuel
Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway
Canary by Nancy Jo Cullen
Queer Can Lit Links (from Casey's blog)

Additional Canadian Lit Resources:
The Best Canadian Fiction of 2017 (CBC)
The Best Canadian Non-Fiction of 2017 (CBC)
The Best Canadian Poetry of 2017 (CBC)
Can't Lit Podcast
Governor General's Literary Award
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Writers & Company Podcast (Eleanor Watchel, CBC)

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