017: New Year, New Reads

We took a break from our usual format to bring you this special episode FULL of ideas for bookish/reading New Year resolutions, and books to help you with your non-book-related resolutions!

Books to help you accomplish your goals:

Fitness

• The Unapologetic Fat Girl’s Guide to Exercise
• The RBG Workout
• Every Body Yoga (on hoopla)

Organization

• Dot Journaling (hoopla ebook)
• UnF*ck Your Habitat
• Organized Enough
• Simply Clean
• The Power of Habit

Eating better

• How to Instant Pot
• Smitten Kitchen
• The Dinner Plan

Financial goals

• The Index Card (also hoopla audio)
• You Are a Badass at Making Money
• Your Money or Your Life

Bookish resolution ideas:

Listen to MOAR Podcasts

• Teen Creeps — “Join grown-up comedians Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai as they discuss the YA pulp fiction of their awkward, neon youth.”
• Smart Podcast Trashy Books — from those smart bitches
• The Blume Saloon — “a sort-of book club … all things Judy Blume, the patron saint of YA, and anything else that pops into our heads. Join us as each week we cover a few more chapters from a favorite Judy novel.”
• Black Chick Lit — “features in-depth discussions of the latest and greatest works penned by black women. Join Danielle and Mollie as they talk prose, judge every character’s decisions and laugh at their own jokes.”
• By The Book — “half reality show, half self-help podcast, and one wild social experiment.”
• Mental Health Book Club Podcast — books with a mental health theme!
• Unfriendly Black Hotties – “global takes on higher ed, books, TV, movies, fashions, culinary arts… and whatever the hell else they feel like.”
• Overdue - “A podcast about the books you’ve been meaning to read”
• The Oral History Podcast – SEX & BOOKS: TWO THINGS THAT ARE BETTER WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THEM – two YA authors, teen focused but not only for teens, ifyaknowwhatimean

Some ideas for the Book Squad Goals reading challenge for 2018! (Download the PDF)

1. Thriller: The Woman in the Window & The upcoming book by B.A. Paris!
2. #OwnVoices book: No One is Coming to Save Us & Sour HEART (not Sour Grapes, wtf)
3. Book with character’s name in title: Pollyanna & Man Called Ove
4. Book about mythical creature: Pete’s Dragon (ha) & The Last Unicorn
5. Book about nature: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek & The Home Place
6. Book with an LGBTQ+ protag: Bad Boy & Fist of the Spider Woman
7. Non-fiction book on topic you don’t know much about: The Morning They Came for Us & The Soul of an Octopus
8. Urban Fiction book: Justice Hustlers series by Aya De Leon & Heist
9. Anthology of SS by multi authors: Walking the Clouds & Meanwhile, Elsewhere
10. Book by author with disability: The Reason I Jump & Run
11. True crime book / fic based on true crime: In Cold Blood
12. Book set in the future: Never Let Me Go & California
13. Book you’ve been meaning to finish: TELL US WHAT YOU’RE READINGGGGGG

Want even MORE recommendations for this year’s BSG? Check out Meredith’s post.

Insta Book Challenge hashtags:

• #BookSquadGoals2018 — let’s get this goin’!
• #latinxbooks2018
• Rebel Girl Reads
• Victorian Reading Challenge
• #LetsReadIndie
  

Follow Kate  and Polli on insta if ya wanna!

ALSO, from Polli: Cap’n O.G. Readmore PSA, but there are whole stories that he narrates, like Jack and the Beanstalk.

This episode was produced by Jim Barnes in the Sound & Vision studio. Our theme song is by Heidi Lynne Gluck. You can find the Book Squad Podcast on iTunes, opens a new window, Stitcher, opens a new window, or SoundCloud, opens a new window. Please subscribe and leave us comments – we’d love to know what you think, and your comments make it easier for other people to find our podcast. Happy reading and listening! xo, Polli & Kate