Episode 022 – Planning and Tracking Your Reading

In our first non-genre episode for 2017 we take on Planning and Tracking Your Reading! We discuss if (and how) we track our reading, how we plan what to read in the future, and reading challenges. Plus: A kitty!

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Notes ‘n’ Things

• The reading spreadsheet Anna tried to use in 2016 – pretty much identical to what Brenna Clarke shared at the RA in a Day 2015 as her tracking spreadsheet
• The reading spreadsheet Anna’s going to try to use in 2017 includes her planning on sheet 1 and her tracking process on sheet 2.
• Brenna Clarke Gray’s reading tracking spreadsheet for 2016
• Goodreads
• Librarything
• Bibliocommons
• Vancouver Public Library 2016 staff reading challenge
• Article about Brenna Clarke Gray’s presentation at BCLA RAIG in 2015
• Blogpost breaking down Matthew’s graphic novel reading in 2015
• Pottermore
• Meghan’s blog post about Reading Resolutions
• A huge list of 2017 reading challenges

Books and Comics We Mentioned:

• Space: Punisher by Frank Tieri, art by Mark Texeira
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• The Young indiana Jones series of books
• Spider-Man: The Lizard Sanction by Diane Duane
• The Ruins of Ambrai by Melanie Rawn
• Idioglossia by Eleanor Bailey
• Congo by Michael Crichton
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• The Transformers: Robots in Disguise by John Barber and others
• The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye by James Roberts and others (this is the one to read if you’re interested)
• Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, and Brooke A. Allen
• John Carter, Warlord of Mars Omnibus by whoever was hanging around Marvel at the time

Questions

• Do you track your reading? How?
• What are your 2017 reading goals?
• What’s your favourite boys adventure media tie-in novel?
• Can you recommend a classic travel narrative for Anna?

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 21st, when we discuss Romance & Dating Non-Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, March 7th it’s the the first of our semi-regular “things we read that aren’t for the podcast (except now they are)” episodes.