On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
Bookish Moments: reading with a partner and making lazy genius decisions about your reading life
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: we are reviewing our summer break
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)
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1:53 - Ad For Ourselves
3:11 - Pounded by Produce by G.M. Fairy
3:14 - Hedging His Bets by Celia Kyle [Amazon link]
5:45 - Currently Reading Patreon
6:02 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week
6:39 - The Bookshop by Evan Friss
7:24 - Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
10:05 - Our Current Reads
10:15 - Playground by Richard Powers (Kaytee)
13:04 - Bill from An Unlikely Story on Instagram (@AnUnlikelyStory)
13:55 - Bill Largent on Instagram (@TheWillToRead)
14:26 - Until August by Gabriel García Márquez (Meredith)
16:43 - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
16:47 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
17:40 - The Council of Animals by Nick McDonell
19:06 - I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Kaytee)
19:12 - CR Season 5: Episode 48 (The Listener Press)
24:33 - The Game Is Murder by Hazell Ward (Meredith)
27:34 - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
27:43 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
28:55 - The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett (Kaytee)
29:21 - CR Season 6: Episode 31
32:18 - The Examiner by Janice Hallett
32:19 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett
33:16 - So Far Gone by Jess Walter
38:30 - Deep Dive: What We Did On Our Summer Break
46:51 - Meet Us At The Fountain
47:15 - Travel to the bookstores a little outside your norm and make time for a bookish journey and bookstore extroversion (Kaytee)
49:24 - Listen to Ep. 272: Best Books of the Year (So Far) of 10 Things to Tell You with Laura Tremaine
50:34 - Laura Tremaine’s Secret Stuff on Substack
50:40 - The Shining by Stephen King
51:21 - A Journey to Three Pines
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