Feature and Follow #91 – Planning
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This week’s question is one I came up with a while ago *smiles*
Do you decide in advance what you read for the coming week or month? Why / why not?
I usually don’t decide in advance what I’m going to read for the coming week or month. This is one reason why I don’t participate in very strict challenges where a fixed list of books have to be read in a certain amount of time. I don’t plan too much ahead, because I choose what to read based on my mood. If I’m a little mellow, I might pick up a romance to stay mellow… or I might pick up a fast-paced thriller or UF to get myself energized again. Often, if I try to make a list of books to read and when, I just don’t feel like reading at all, and that’s really counterproductive!
What about you? Are you a planner or a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of reader?
Thanks for stopping by today, have a fantastic Friday and a wonderful weekend.
I am definitely a planner! It’s how I ensure I’ll have content for the blog.
I usually review books very shortly after reading them, and I tend to only ask for ARCs that I really want, so I get excited and read them almost as soon as I get them. But I still don’t think of myself as a planner, Charlie.
I’m a mood reader too! The only time I plan is if I have review books come in.
Have a great weekend Lexxie.
Yeah, I guess I kind of plan when I get a book for review, but usually, I only request ARCs for books I’m really excited about…
Have a great weekend, and a fantastic Friday, Sharon 🙂
Heehee! Nice! I am a flexible planner myself! I plan what I’ll read for the week, but lately I only put one or two planned books for the week so the rest can be spontaneous! Usually it’s review books and ARCs first then it’s whatever I’ve been dying to read while I finish up those review books and ARCs!
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I love that, Jessica! Flexible planner – I’m stealing that right now! Have a fantastic Friday and a wonderful weekend 🙂
I don’t plan too much aside from blog tour reads. I might make a list – rather large list – of books I want to read and then pick from it when I move onto the next book. I guess that’s sort of planning? Right now, I have 3 lists on my calendar…Recs to Read, Netgalley to Read, and Wanna Read. I’ve just been drawing from that. Of course, I’ve been adding things to those lists almost faster than I can mark books off. 🙂
Enjoy the rest of your day, Lexxie!! **BIG HUGS**
Yeah, those large lists I usually only have on Goodreads, but then, I also have different collections on my kindle. But I don’t consider that planning, it’s more a way for me to know which books on there I haven’t read yet… And as soon as I finish reading a book, I put it in the ‘to review’ collection so I don’t forget about it afterwards. I tend to be much better at reviewing ARCs than books I own, and that’s a little sad.
I’m adding so much more to all my lists than what I can read too, I guess that’s part of what will help us live a very long time still, Brandee 😉
Have a great afternoon, Brandee. *BIG HUGS*
I’m a crazed planner, with an Excel sheet that include several tabs lol ! But when a book comes up and really interests me, I won’t care about any reading order. I recently bought a series by Deborah Bladon, Ruin, for the covers alone (take a look, they’re worth it) and I’ll read them soon 🙂
Oh wow! An excel sheet with your future reads, Iza? I think it’s funny that we’re all ready to let go of everything in order to read a book we think will be really interesting, though! And why do you want me to add even more books to my shelves? You know that if I look for the Ruin series, it’ll end up on my kindle really soon, right?
Have a great weekend, Iza!
I fall somewhere in the middle; I maintain an ARC review schedule, but whenever there’s a lull in my request queue, or I’ve managed to get ahead then I’ll just read whatever I want. I’m not a fan of challenges either, for the same reason you mentioned, other than my GR goal & an audiobook one, I didn’t sign-up for any this year. Happy Friday!!
I’m actually participating in a pretty strict challenge next year, and I’ve had to choose 48 books to read in 2015, four each month. I’ve added mostly books I’ve had on my kindle for a long time, and I have no idea why I haven’t read those books yet.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to keep up with that – if not – it’ll be proof that I’m not good with schedules 😀
Have a great weekend, Carmel!
You know I’m a planner but, if we talk about reads, I usually have just a few planned (tours and/or specific requests) during the month and tend to follow my mood for the rest. Otherwise I risk not to enjoy something that could blow my mind. Sure, I can end up not enjoying a book anyway, but at least I know it’s not because ‘I’m not in the mood’, which wouldn’t be good and right.
I don’t take part in challenges either, the only one I do every year is the one with Goodreads.
Hope you have a lovely weekend, Lexxie! 🙂
Yeah, I’m good at keeping my tour schedule reads, but that might also be because I don’t sign up for too many, and only books I think I’ll really enjoy.
Have a wonderful weekend yourself, Silvia 🙂
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I’m a mood reader, I try to say what I am going to read the next week but it normally changes so I always say..what I might read..lol. 🙂 Have a great weekend!
See, Stormi we’re like kindred spirits 🙂 Have a fantastic weekend.
I am a planner, just because of the fact that I need to plan around so many other blog and booktube stuff! Yet, I am also a mood reader haha!
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The best of both worlds, then, Kat? I have to find your booktube stuff!!
I am a mood reader as well, planning what to read in advance is difficult for me. I am participating in a meme called My To-Be Read List each month, but then I can still choose 3 books I want to read, which gives me a bit of control over what to read. I really want to participate in the HW2015 challenge, but choosing a set list of books to read for the whole year just seems a bit daunting.
Sometimes I wish I could plan my books a it more, I am a planner in most aspects of my life, but with books it just doesn’t work. And when you have deadlines and review books it can be difficult if I am not in the mood for that book. I am signing up less and less for review books with deadlines and that works well for me so far!
Lola, that’s the reason why I hesitated a little for HW2015, but I figured that choosing four different books from my list of 48 each month might be doable. Maybe I won’t be a good student and get my homework done, though 😉
I agree with picking up what fits my mood. I like to plan what I’m going to read and I LOVE making TBR lists, but, let’s be honest. I NEVER follow them, LOL. I normally end up just reading whatever I want.
Oh, I definitely have lists and shelves, I have one TBR shelf which is filled with books I own, or books in series I love, and have on pre-order. Then I have a ‘might read one day’ shelf with all the books I want to add because blogger friends have written awesome reviews about them 🙂
Have a great weekend, Jules.
I’m definitely a planner! Gah! I feel like a compulsive weirdo; most every blog I’ve visited so far, has rebuked the pesky schedule lol! What do you usually do when you receive an ARC though?
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Don’t feel weird, Claudia!! That was not the intention of the question at all, I’m just really curious about the different levels of planning we do when it comes to reading.
I live in Switzerland, and so far, I’ve never received unsolicited ARCs, and I really only request ARCs for books I want to read. The one difficulty I have with ARCs is that sometimes it takes several weeks between my request and the day I’ll be accepted…
Have a great weekend Claudia.
I definitely agree with you. I’ve never really been able to follow through with TBR. It makes me feel like I’m forcing myself to read something I’m not interested in reading.
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I agree, reading is something I do for fun, and I want to be able to pick and choose… I do own far too many books for my own good, though, Krystianna 🙂
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I’m 90% planner, 20% replanner lol. The replanning I what happens when moods take me in a different direction and I have to reschedule everything! Lol, sometimes being a planner is s bad thing!
I think if you enjoy planning, and it works for you, that’s great, Berls! I hope I’ll be able to stick to the books I’ve chosen for the HW2015 challenge, actually 🙂 However, since I really want to read those books, and they don’t have to be read in any particular order, I think I’ll be OK 🙂
I do both, a bit of scheduling books and a bit of random books I feel in the mood for. I enjoy the combo I have going on. I’m a new follower!
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That sounds like a good way to do it, Elizabeth! Thanks for all the follows 🙂
when I was blogging more frequently I would plan sometimes. If there was a tour coming up that I was participating in I would plan that. A lot of times I would open up my computer and type out a review of a book that I read a month ago, week ago, a day ago. I know that’s not very organized. Lol
Towards the end I started planning about a week or two in advance.
What always happens to me is that I’ll have a group of books that I need to read and then I will get a new book or a few new books in the old books get pushed to the side. That always happens to me! Especially if there’s a book I’ve been waiting for I will easily stop the reading whatever I am reading at the time and pick up the new book. I’ve got a little better about this though. So I guess you can say I am pretty much of a non-planner.lol
I sometimes wish I was better at planning, and then, I think that hey, this is my hobby – not my job! So I keep reading the books I feel like reading at the moment 🙂 As I’m a reader who needs to ‘feel’ something when reading, I need to be in the right mood for certain books, too.
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