S08.17: Setting New Year’s Reading Resolutions
As it's the beginning of 2026, we're talking about how we think about our reading years. What kind of strategies does Jen use? How is Sarah (futilely) attempting to control the chaos? Which books are already on our TBR piles for 2026, and how are we structuring our reading year to make ourselves happy and prepare for 49 podcast episodes? We're also talking about some books by romance novelists who are publishing outside the genre this year, so get those notebooks ready!
If you want to talk to more people about reading strategies this year, maybe you want to join the Fated Mates patreon? There, you get an extra monthly episode from us and access to the incredible readers and brilliant people on the FM Discord! Support us and learn more at fatedmates.net/patreon.
Our next read along will be Ruby Dixon’s Ice Planet Barbarians (you’re welcome). Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, your local indie, libro.fm, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
Books Mentioned This Episode
Notes
Vaccinations are good, actually. In between recording this episode and when it aired, Caroline Kennedy’s daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, who wrote about her cancer diagnosis in the New Yorker, has sadly died.
It will shock no one to learn that Jen learned about immunizations from books. In her childhood, the book was The Great Brain by John Dennis Fitzgerald, but now we recommend Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green and On Immunity by Eula Biss.
Amazon is forcing AI tools into the kindle books themselves, and it’s all awful! Use your own brains; we don’t know what else to say.
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