On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
Bookish Moments: overflowing bookshelves + a fun way to count your finished reads
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: we are bossing some more TBRs
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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2:29 - Ad For Ourselves
6:45 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week
9:55 - Meredith’s Floor Lamp
10:46 - “The Number of Books I’ve Read This Year” desktop counter from Etsy
13:06 - Our Current Reads
13:32 - A Duke Never Tells by Suzanne Enoch (Kaytee)
16:18 - Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
17:16 - The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North (Meredith)
18:32 - The Whisper Man by Alex North
22:05 - Ordinary Time by Annie B. Jones (Kaytee)
24:48 - Annie B. Jones on Instagram
25:25 - The Dark One (Vicious Lost Boys, 2) by St. Crow (Meredith)
26:13 - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
26:36 - The Never King (Vicious Lost Boys, 1) by Nikki St. Crow
30:07 - Shutter by Ramona Emerson (Kaytee)
34:19 - Withered Hill by David Barnett (Meredith)
37:28 - Slewfoot by Brom
38:28 - The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
38:34 - Boss My TBR
From Catherine Bridgewater
40:19 - Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie
40:21 - North Woods by Daniel Mason
40:24 - After the Crash by Michel Bussi
40:27 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
40:29 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher
40:42 - Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
40:43 - Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
From Lisa Stone
44:05 - Broken Country by Claire Leslie Hall
44:08 - My Friends by Fredrik Backman
44:10 - Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
44:13 - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaughy
44:17 - The Unseen World by Liz Moore
44:25 - Today Tonight Forever by Madeline Kay Sneed
44:37 - Happy Place by Emily Henry
49:36 - Meet Us At The Fountain
49:40 - I wish to become (or really, have already been) a correspondent. (Kaytee)
49:52 - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
51:56 - I wish that for every book it had a perfume-type scent to transport you back to that particular experience of reading it. (Meredith)
52:06 - Ffern | Organic Eau de Parfum
53:40 - The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
56:35 - Chrissie on Instagram and at Sarah’s Bookshelves
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