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How to Make 2025 Your Best Reading Year Yet | Tips, Goals and a Challenge (E123)


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In today’s solo episode, I’m sharing actionable tips, personal goals, and an exciting new reading challenge to help you make 2025 your best reading year yet. Whether you’re aiming to read more, discover new authors, or simply have your best reading year yet, this episode is packed with inspiration for all readers.

Episode Highlights:

  • Why reading matters.
  • Set reading intentions:
    • What genres or topics are you curious to learn more about?
    • Is there an author’s backlist you were hoping to explore?
    • Do you want to read to relax? To learn? To challenge yourself?
  • Practical strategies for building a consistent reading habit.
  • How audiobooks can transform your reading life.
  • The value of joining a reading community like the BFF Book Club. 😉
  • Tracking your progress.
  • Details about the 2025 Bookish Flights Reading Challenges for adults and kids.

Join the 2025 Reading Challenge:

This year, we’ve created a fun and flexible challenge to inspire your reading journey.

  • Adults: Complete 12 prompts for 12 books.
  • Kids: Complete 8 prompts with a fun coloring progress tracker!

Resources Mentioned:

  • The BFF Book Club – Join here.
  • Episode 116: Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?
  • StoryGraph and Goodreads
  • Bookish Flights’ book flight database with fiction, non-fiction, and children’s book recommendations

Get Involved:

  • What’s your reading goal for 2025? Share your plans with me on social media 
    • Instagram
    • Facebook 
  • Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for more bookish inspiration and leave a review if you enjoyed the episode!

Thank you for tuning in to Bookish Flights! Let’s make 2025 your best reading year yet!

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