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Jun 2024
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Season 6, Episode 43: Meeting Bookish Fr...

MEREDITH MONDAY SCHWARTZ AND KAYTEE COBB
About this episode

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Roxanna are discussing:

  • Bookish Moments: meeting bookish friends and “salt” books

  • Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately

  • Deep Dive: difficulty in starting new books

  • The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site)

:10 - Bite Size Intro

2:14 - Currently Reading Patreon

5:50 - PLEASE send us your Ask Us Anything questions to currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

6:43 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

11:13 - The Stand by Stephen King

12:17 - Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

14:50 - Our Current Reads

14:58 - Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah (Roxanna)

15:02 - Canada Reads

16:56 - How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz

19:38 - Diavola by Jennifer Thorne (Meredith)

21:35 - @mother.horror on Instagram

24:10 - The Ghoul of Windydown Vale by Jake Burt (Roxanna)

29:21 - In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides (Meredith)

34:15 - Funny Story by Emily Henry (Roxanna)

38:02 - Small Change by Roan Parrish

43:43 - The Mars House by Natasha Pulley (Meredith - Meredith mistakenly said Mars Room initially. Sorry for the confusion!)

45:03 - Charter Books

45:42 - The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

49:51 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

49:56 - Babel by R.F. Kuang

52:16 - The Measure by Nikki Erlick

53:40 - The Difficulty Of Starting A New Book

57:54 - Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

1:01:19 - The Feast by Margaret Kennedy

1:02:07 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

1:02:12 - The One by John Marrs

1:02:21 - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

1:04:07 - Meet Us At The Fountain

1:04:11 - I wish everyone would watch Butterfly in the Sky on Netflix. (Roxanna)

1:04:14 - Butterfly in the Sky on Netflix

1:06:37 - Hello Bookstore

1:07:11 - I wish everyone would reflect on how summer reading affects your reading life. (Meredith)

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