Reading Envy 140: Woman Greets Bear (Reading Goals 2019)

Reading goals, old and new!

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Reading Goals 2018


1. Read Canada and Alaska
Canada and Alaska Reading Roundup

2. Complete six book speed-dating projects
I did five!
Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1
Episode 117 - Speed Dating 2018, round 2
Episode 120 - Summer Reading; Speed Dating 2018, round 3
Episode 128 - Poetry and Whale Guts (Bonus episode; Speed Dating 2018, round 4)
Episode 135 - Speed Dating 2018, Round 5 

3. Host two Reading Envy readalongs
Complete!
Episode 118 - Reading Envy Readalong: To the Bright Edge of the World
Episode 137 - Reading Envy Readalong: The Golden Notebook

4. Reading challenges

Reading Women Challenge
Complete!

Unread Shelf Project 2018 (found in Instagram)
Not really! I talk about it during the episode.

5. Keep book data outside of Goodreads
Planner and Google spreadsheet.

Reading Goals 2019

1. Read Asia

Books set in Asian countries I still need to tackle, from my collection

2. Host two readalongs
3. Six themed recommendations episodes
4. Back to the Classics Challenge (see my potential choices)

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Reading Envy 102: The Reading Women and Reading Envy Crossover Episode

Sometime in this past year, I realized that another podcaster, Kendra, lived in the same city as me. Her co-host is Autumn and they host the Reading Women Podcast (more info and links below.) We decided to use the opportunity to talk about the best books we read by women this year.

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"The goal of the Reading Women podcast is to bring previously anonymous women to the forefront of your TBR stack. Each month Kendra Winchester and Autumn Privett pick a theme and then discuss several books in a book club-style podcast. Subscribe today to discover amazing female authors who are giving voice to a part of the world's population that has been largely overlooked."


I (Jenny) am scheduling guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ


Books featured:



The Mothers by Brit Bennett (Riverhead)
Black Wave by Michelle Tea (Feminist Press)
Human Acts by Han Kang, Translated by Deborah Smith (Hogarth)
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay (Grove Atlantic)
Juventud by Vanessa Blakeslee (Curbside Splendor)
Himself by Jess Kidd (Atria)
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (FSG)
Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Deep Vellum)
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf)


Other mentions:

The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo
Tilted Axis Press

Hunger by Roxane Gay
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Turf by Elizabeth Crane
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
David Mitchell
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
The Idiot by Elif Batuman (Penguin Press)
Decatur Book Festival
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Algonquin)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Algonquin)


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Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy
Reading Women Podcast
Kendra on Instagram,  Twitter, Goodreads, and YouTube
Autumn on Instagram, Twitter, Goodreads