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May 5
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Season 7, Episode 39: Brain Farts + Read...

MEREDITH MONDAY SCHWARTZ AND KAYTEE COBB
About this episode

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

  • Bookish Moments: shifts in our reading and brain farts

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

  • Deep Dive: reading Canadian elbows up style

  • 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)

1:55 - Ad For Ourselves

2:01 - Currently Reading Patreon

7:03 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

7:25 - CR Season 7: Episode 24

12:21 - CR Season 7: Episode 36

12:26 - Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri

12:51 - Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope

14:18 - Our Current Reads

14:24 - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (Roxanna)

18:57 - Coven by Soman Chainani (Kaytee)

19:10 - The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

23:32 - The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe (Roxanna)

28:55 - The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight (Kaytee)

29:17 - Fabled Bookshop

33:28 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

34:03 - The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain (Roxanna)

38:26 - Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell (Kayee)

38:40 - Schuler Books

44:56 - Reading Canadian

48:48 - Canada Reads

48:51 - The Giller Prize

49:21 - The Push by Ashley Audrain

50:06 - Room by Emma Donoghue

50:18 - The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

50:29 - The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue

52:01 - The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester

53:18 - Women Talking by Miriam Toews 

55:00 - Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley

55:08 - Finding Me by Viola Davis

55:57 - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

56:49 - Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

56:53 - Three Holidays and A Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley

57:02 - Much Ado About Nada Uzma Jalaluddin

57:32 - Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

1:02:20 - The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan

1:03:40 - Lucky by Marissa Stapley

1:06:24 - Meet Us At The Fountain

1:07:05 - I wish there was an easier way to export and download kindle notes and highlights. (Roxanna)

1:08:57 - I wish to press Happy Place by Emily Henry. (Kaytee)

1:09:00 - Happy Place by Emily Henry

 

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