On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: behind the scenes content and a literary festival

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

• Deep Dive: the best “gateway” books to get a new or struggling reader addicted

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:37 - Bookish Moment of the Week

1:54 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Summer Reading Guide
Sarah’s Patreon if you want access to Summer Shelves 

2:17 - What Should I Read Next Episode 381

4:20 - Pango Books

6:42  - Current Reads

7:11 - What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline (Meredith) 

7:23 - Fabled Bookshop

11:30 - Everywhere That Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline

11:52 - We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange

12:50 - The Comfort Book by Matt Haig (Kaytee)

13:02 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

13:06 - How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

13:32 - CR Season 5: Episode 30

14:09 - Fable App

17:20 - The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Meredith)

17:25 - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

20:24 - The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

21:24 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

22:13 - The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements (Kaytee)

22:19 - The Novel Neighbor

24:23 - Sarah’s Bookshelves 2022 Summer Reading Guide

25:41 - Blue Monday by Nicci French (Meredith)

31:42 - My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson (Kaytee)

33:09 - Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian

34:44 - Gateway Books

37:04 - What Should I Read Next

37:51 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

38:15 - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

38:18 - Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

38:49 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

40:05 - Calypso by David Sedaris

40:13 - The Anthroprocene Reviewed by John Green

41:14 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman

42:19 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

42:31 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

44:03 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

44:05 - All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle

44:37 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

45:12 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King

45:42 - Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

45:45 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

46:57 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

47:09 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

48:10 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

48:31 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow

49:08 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

50:25 - Meet Us At The Fountain

51:39 - The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Whyss

52:46 - I wish someone would write a story about The Forbidden Island of Niihau (Meredith)

54:08 - I wish for a reading cafe. (Kaytee)

Connect With Us:

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Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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Welcome, readers. We are so excited to debut this new content from the creators of Currently Reading Podcast! This limited-edition podcast series will tackle book to screen adaptations in a spoiler-FILLED format. Be sure you’ve read the book and watched the film version before listening to the episode, because we don’t shy away from strong opinions OR from all the spoilers, unlike our regular episodes.

This episode series will introduce you to a new voice on the team, Shad CasConi. Shad is Kaytee’s childhood best friend, and the first show regular we’ve introduced with a Y chromosome. I think you’ll love him like I do!

As you’ve come to expect with all Currently Reading content, Kaytee and Shad will follow a regular episode format, with regular segments, so you know what to expect each and every time. We call these the bowling lane bumpers, and they’ll help guide the conversation and keep us from rabbit trails.

Show notes for this series will not be time-stamped, but will include links to Bookshop dot org or Amazon for any books or resources referenced in the episode. These are affiliate links, so they kick back a small percentage to us if you buy through them, and help support the work we do on Currently Reading.

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3:26 - Previews:

Book Name and release date. Sales info and awards.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Ballad of Songbird and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (prequel)

Buying Your Way onto the NYT Bestseller List

Movie name and release date. Box office and awards.

The Hunger Games (film) - currently on Hulu but this seems to be changing once a month

Credit Song by Taylor Swift, Safe and Sound, with The Civil Wars

7:28 - The Cutting Room:

Pivotal Book scenes and how they translated to the screen.

Katniss’s mockingjay pin

Tesserae, Avox, and Katniss’s anger

Dehydration and the “boring” parts of the arena

Anything left out that shouldn’t have been.

Haymitch’s character development

The finale in the arena

How scary is this for kids? Were there changes made for the rating?

Added to the movie for clarity.

Interviews, the treaty, world-building.

Seneca is pretty.

Film to introduce the games.

Naming and developing additional characters.

Building the arena and behind-the-scenes footage of the capital.

Casting and mis-casting

AI Casting Images

Katniss

Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman, Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johansen, Twilight, Saoirse Ronan, Haley Steinfeld, Chloe Grace Moretz, Emma Roberts, Shailene Woodley, Divergent, Isabel Ferman

Peeta

Josh Hutcherson, Evan Peters, Hunter Parrish, Alex Pettifer, Alexander Ludvig, Liam Hemsworth

Gale

Liam Hemsworth, Henry Cavill

Cinna

Lenny Kravitz, Billy Porter, Matthew Boehmer, Eric Bana, Jude Law, Cheyanne Jackson, Michale Urie, Shrinking (Apple TV+)

Effie

Elizabeth Banks, Amy Sedaris, Jennifer Coolidge, White Lotus (on HBO), Parker Posey, Judy Greer, Kristen Wiig

Problematic elements.

Hollywood so white.

Kids as expendable.

Dystopia come true

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

37:43 - Award Season:

Worst and best parts of the adaptation.

Anger and arena survival.

Mockingjay pin

Behind the scenes arena building

Capital citizens

World-building

Worst and best actors.

Haymitch/Woody Harrelson

Katniss/Jennifer Lawrence

Peeta/Josh Hutcherson

Caesar Flickerman/Stanley Tucci

Cinna/Lenny Kravitz

Worst and best book characters.

Katniss

Effie

Peeta

Rue

56:10 - Book/Flick Energy:

Book scored on a 5 star scale.

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Book on Goodreads

Movie scored on a 10 point scale.

Movie on  Rotten Tomatoes

1:01:10 - A Leftover Popcorn Kernel:

Who is your favorite Beatle?

Shining Time Station

What would you eat as your last meal before entering the arena?

1:05:19 - Outro:

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Jurassic Park (1993) film

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Shad is in the Bookish Friends Facebook group (for Patrons only)

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Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and 

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: summer reading guides and plane reading

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

• Deep Dive: we are chatting about the dreaded book hangover, the ways we deal with it, and what it means about our reading lives.

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:44 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:01 - MomAdvice Summer Reading Guide

2:15 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Summer Reading Guide

• Sarah’s Patreon if you want access to Summer Shelves  

2:22 - Modern Mrs. Darcy’s FREE minimalist reading guide

• MMD Full Reading Guide

2:34 - Paperback Summer Reading Guide w/FictionMatters

2:40 - Kellyhook.readsbooks on Instagram

5:53  - Current Reads

6:13 - Nic Blake and the Remarkables by Angie Thomas (Kaytee)

6:36 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

6:54 - Libro.fm

10:17 - Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson (Meredith)

10:37 - Parnassus Books

14:21 - The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

16:15 - If Only You by Chloe Liese (Kaytee)

20:19 - Drowning by TJ Newman (Meredith)

21:53 - Falling by TJ Newman

22:47 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

24:28 - The Marriage Act by John Marrs (Kaytee)

24:38 - The One by John Marrs

28:52 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Meredith)

31:33 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

33:59 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

34:00 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

35:18 - Furyborn by Claire Legrand

35:20 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

37:21 - The Dreaded Book Hangover (or is it dreaded??)

37:41 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

38:10 - Babel by R.F. Kuang

38:31 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

44:08 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

45:59 - The Wager by David Grann

47:37 - Meet Us At The Fountain

47:45 - If you liked my current reads, I wish you’d go back to each other and read their first books. (Kaytee)

48:04 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

48:14 - Only When It’s Us by Chloe Liese

48:25 - The One by John Marrs

49:07 - I wish everyone would try pink or brown noise to help focus their reading. (Meredith)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee is chatting with a special guest. Lessa Kanani'opua Pelayo-Lozada, the president of the American Library Association is here to talk about:

• Bookish Moments: a bookish feature on TV and different readers choosing their TBR

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

• Deep Dive: Lessa is giving us a brief rundown (which I could have easily made 6 hours long) about the American Library Association and the state of libraries in the US.

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:20 - Lessa’s ALA President Page

3:47 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:13 - Lessa’s Good Morning America article

7:14  - Current Reads

7:30 - Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith (Lessa)

10:31 - Platonic by Marisa G. Franco

10:34 - The Life Council by Laura Tremaine

10:54 - Solomon’s Crown by Natasha Siegel (Kaytee)

14:36 - Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson (Lessa)

19:12 - Sea Change by Gina Chung (Kaytee)

22:45 - Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout (Lessa)

27:13 - The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea  (Kaytee)

27:20 - Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea

27:33 - Santa Fe International Literary Festival

30:02 - Season 5: Episode 23

30:04 - Solito by Javier Zamora

31:46 - All Things American Library Association (ALA)

31:58 - The ALA Homepage

35:49 - Rainbow Round Table

52:11 - uniteagainstbookbans.org

54:19 - Meet Us At The Fountain

54:46 - I'm wishing for everyone to find that one book that changes their life and the way that they see the world. (Lessa)

55:11 - Libby

55:15 - Novelist

55:21 - I wish that publishers would help us get a book with different information on the Library of Congress page. (Kaytee)

55:28 - Library of Congress

57:14 - Lessa’s Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Website

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a mom win via a bookish fail, and fielding reader retreat questions

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

• Deep Dive: we both got a bit of education this week learning about publishers versus imprints and discussing our favorites

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:36 - Bookish Moment of the Week

6:16 - Current Reads

6:20 -  The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (Kaytee)

6:25 - The Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

8:28 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

8:55 - Jaysen Headley aka EzeeKat on Instagram

10:12 - The Senator’s Wife by Liv Constantine (Meredith)

12:00 - The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

14:13 - Dele Weds Destiny by Tomi Obaro (Kaytee)

17:27 - The Twist of A Knife by Anthony Horowitz (Meredith)

18:33 - The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz

19:24 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

21:38 - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Kaytee)

22:55 - Garcia Street Books

23:15 - The Booker Prize

23:32 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

24:51 - The Original by Branden Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal (Meredith, audible link)

25:32 - Scribd

29:22 - Publishing Houses and Imprints

30:17 - Flatiron Books

30:18 - Riverhead Books

30:19 - Tor Books

30:20 - Atria Books

30:22 - Balzer + Bray on Instagram 

30:44 - Penguin Random House

30:45 - MacMillan

30:46 - Hachette Book Group

32:29 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live

32:25 - Minotaur Books

35:03 - Blackstone Publishing

35:36 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley 

36:16 - Simon & Schuster

36:19 - HarperCollins

37:21 - St. Martin’s Press

37:22 - Berkley Books 

37:24 - Harlequin Books

39:18 - Legend and Lattes by Travis Baldree

40:16 - Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

42:27 - Meet Us At The Fountain

42:35 - I wish for everyone to follow Jaysen Headley @ezeekat on socials and reach out to him about coming on the podcast! (Kaytee)

42:37 - Jaysen Headley aka EzeeKat on Instagram

44:10 - I wish everyone would read Bird Box, a great summer read by Josh Malerman (Meredith)

44:10 - Bird Box by Josh Malerman

45:23 - Daphne by Josh Malerman

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: new bookshelves and Bookstores for Bob

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

• Deep Dive: we are bossing our bookish friends into reading the next three books on their TBRs

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:37 - Ad for Ourselves

2:03 - Currently Reading Patreon - just $5 a month! You get the Indie Press List, All Things Murderful, and Trope Thursday along with great community, and you keep the big show ad-free!

5:09 - Bookish Moment of the Week

5:25 - Ikea Billy Bookshelves

5:30 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram

8:22 - Bookstores for Bob Graphic

9:05 - Tag @maryreadsandsips in your shares!

10:35 - Current Reads

10:55 - Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (Meredith)

12:24 - Richard Osman’s books start with The Thursday Murder Club

16:06 - Ana Maria and the Fox by Liana de la Rosa (Kaytee)

18:02 - Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

20:33 - I Have Some Questions for You By Rebecca Makkai (Meredith)

21:47 - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

25:05 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Interview with Rebecca

30:06 - Inciting Joy by Ross Gay (Kaytee)

32:02 - David Sedaris

33:36 - The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf (Meredith)

35:06 - We figured it out! This was recommended by Aubree @mnreadingmama

37:38 - Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang (Kaytee)

37:44 - Cafe Con Libros

40:59 - Boss My TBR

41:06 - Ashley Currin

41:14 - Babel by RF Kuang

41:17 - Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

41:20 - Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Reybourn

41:23 - Scythe by Neal Schusterman

41:25 - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

42:28 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

42:33 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

45:11 - Caroline Francois

45:17 - Upgrade by Blake Crouch

45:19 - Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

45:21 - Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley

45:25 - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

45:27 - We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Berry

50:53 - Meet Us At The Fountain

51:12 - I wish for everyone to try the Generations Podcast((Meredith)

51:15 - @lonestarwords on Instagram

52:24 - @fictionmatters

53:48 -  I wish for people to rabbit hole via books (Kaytee)

54:10 - The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

54:13 - The Devil’s Teeth by Susan Casey

54:26 - Babel by RF Kuang

54:37 - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

54:52 - Zero Fail by Carol Leonnig

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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We are so excited to journey with you to Three Pines, the fictional French-Canadian village created by Louise Penny for her Three Pines series, featuring Detective Armand Gamache. This limited-edition podcast series will tackle each of the books in the series in turn, in a spoiler-FILLED format. Be sure you’ve read the book before listening to the episode.

As you’ve come to expect with all Currently Reading content, Meredith and Roxanna will follow a regular episode format, with regular segments, so you know what to expect each and every time. We love staying focused on the book, rather than conversational rabbit holes. 

Show notes for this series will not be time-stamped, but will include links to Bookshop dot org or Amazon for any books or resources referenced in the episode. These are affiliate links, so they kick back a small percentage to us if you buy through them, and help support the work we do on Currently Reading.

3:50 - The Set Up

Still Life by Louise Penny

4:40 - Putting the Book Into Context

Louise Penny’s age at publication

Publisher rejection

Seasonal settings and Canadian Thanksgiving

Book Awards: CNA New Blood Dagger Award, Arthur Ellis Award, Dilys Award, Anthony Award for Best First Novel

The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny

Glass Houses by Louise Penny

How did it sell

Meredith and Roxanna’s first encounters with the series

No other titles for this volume (but many do have alternates!)

12:17 - A Deeper Exploration

First few paragraphs

Louise’s writing style and character introduction

Our first meeting with Gamache

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Oddness Factor

Diagnosing the end

Exploration of human nature

Overarching themes

Still Life and Still Lives

Pacing 

Is this is a cozy?

50:50 - What Do We Need to Know?

Village of Three Pines

Canadian History

59:28 - Superlatives

Biggest flaw or disappointment

Language around LGBT characters and large bodies

Favorite scene

Best food description

Character MVP

Biggest loser

Favorite foods

1:12:23 - Within the Series

Pivotal or skippable

Favorite quote

1:16:03 - Stop to Avoid Spoilers for Other Books

How it Fits within the series

Recurring visuals

Ruth’s poetry

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannathereader on Instagram - This is NOT what it says in the episode. She got locked out between recording and drop day!

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Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and 

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: book therapy and reading as cardio

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

• Deep Dive: planning a reading retreat with all the details

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:41 - Bookish Moment of the Week

1:57 - Better Help (go to another podcast you love to get a referral code if you’re interested!) This one is my personal referral 

4:25 - Drowning by TJ Newman

4:30 - All Things Murderful is a Currently Reading Patreon Benefit

4:47 - Falling by TJ Newman

6:55 - Current Reads

7:00 - Platonic by Marisa G. Franco (Kaytee)

7:23 - The Life Council by Laura Tremaine

11:58 - Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (Meredith)

14:31 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

16:21 - Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray (Kaytee)

19:34 - The Black Cat Murders by Karen Baugh Menuhin (Meredith)

19:41 - Murder at Melrose Court by Karen Baugh Menuhin

20:01 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

24:43 - Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb (Kaytee)

24:58 - The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

27:14 - Sarah’s Bookshelves

28:09 - All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley (Meredith)

33:07 - Gretchen Rubin’s post about guard shadows

34:05 - Reading Retreat Reconnaissance

39:34 - Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson

44:46 - Snackle Box

50:46 - The Life Council by Laura Tremaine

50:48 - Platonic by Marisa G. Franco

57:18 - Meredith’s Mug Warmers

59:44 - Death at the Dive Bar Game

1:02:30 - Meet Us At The Fountain

1:02:46 - I wish for a “Reading Blinders” invention (Kaytee)

1:03:01 - Book Neck Light

1:03:03 - Noise Canceling Headphones

1:05:05 -  I wish that other readers could deeply explore a book you love together (Meredith)

1:05:13 - Journey to Three Pines debuts on Friday!

1:05:40 - Still Life by Louise Penny

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a collective search and a reading life realization

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

• Deep Dive: how grief affects reading

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:37 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:38 - Thriftbooks.com

3:31 - Trope Thursday with Bunmi is a Currently Reading Patreon benefit

5:46 - The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

8:04 - Candice on Bookstagram

8:20 - Current Reads

8:27 - Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Mary)

9:18 - Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

10:54 - Well, That was Unexpected by Jessie Q. Sutanto

11:54 - The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama (Kaytee)

12:05 - Becoming by Michelle Obama

15:45 - Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson (Mary)

15:51 - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

18:22 - @pieladybooks Instagram

18:58 - Time’s Undoing by Cheryl A. Head (Kaytee)

19:07 - Elizabeth Barnhill @wacoreads on Instagram

21:52 - After This by Claire Bidwell Smith (Mary) - while this title isn’t available pretty much anywhere, it is at many libraries, including Hoopla

25:17 - Libro FM

26:38 - Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J Ryan Stradal (Kaytee)

30:27 - How Grief Changes Reading

32:39 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling

33:52 - The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

34:00 - A Sinister Revenge by Deanna Raybourn (Veronica Speedwell #8)

36:33 - Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jessie Q Sutanto

36:48 - The Kindred Spirits Supper Club by Amy E. Reichert

37:47 - A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

46:13 - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottleib

46:20 - Tell Me More by Kelli Corrigan

46:43 - Healing After Loss by Martha Hickman

47:10 - Good Mourning Podcast and Instagram and upcoming book

47:27 - Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan

47:33 - After This by Claire Bidwell Smith

48:19 - Meet Us At The Fountain

48:31 - I wish everyone would approach their reading slumps with grace and kindness (Mary)

49:55 -  I wish for readers to add these events to their calendars (Kaytee)

50:12 - April 23rd is World Book Day

50:37 - April 29th is Independent Bookstore Day

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: reading mojo and a package of bookish delights

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

• Deep Dive: how do we decide which books to own or keep?

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:21 - Bookish Moment of the Week

3:15 - Parnassus Books

3:34 - Currently Reading Patreon (supporters get access to the IPL each month)

4:16 - Fabled Bookshop

5:32 - The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff (Publishes Sept 2023)

7:09 - Current Reads

7:23 - To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins (Kaytee)

7:32 - Rebel by Beverly Jenkins 

11:30 - A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas (Meredith)

16:46 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

18:11 - Beach Read by Emily Henry

18:54 - The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Davila Cardinal (Kaytee)

19:06 - Schuler Books

21:10 - The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

21:46 - The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow (Meredith)

23:28 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

25:08 - Diving In Podcast

25:37 - The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass (Kaytee)

25:43 - Changing Hands Bookstore

30:27 - The Future is Yours by Dan Frey (Meredith)

34:05 - How Books Make It To Our Forever Shelves

38:19 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher

38:20 - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

38:22 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

38:25 - Search by Michelle Huneven

39:53 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman

41:41 - The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield

42:46 - Still Life by Louise Penny 

43:13 - Babel by RF Kuang

46:15 - Meet Us At The Fountain

46:42 - I wish everyone would read Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman in a Specific Way (Kaytee)

46:42 - Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

47:01 - Fanny Hill by John Cleland

49:04 - Pango Books

49:14 -  I wish I liked putting together Ikea furniture (Meredith)

49:24 - Ikea full size Billy Bookcase

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: the generations after us and before us in our reading lives

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

• Deep Dive: what did we learn from a no-prep current read section?

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:37 - Currently Reading Patreon

3:26 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:52 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule 

8:23 - New York Times article “Reading Around New York”

8:50 - Hot Dudes Reading on Instagram

9:03 - New York Times article “When Listening to a Book is Better than Reading It”

13:40 - Current Reads

13:49 - Cover Story by Susan Rigetti (Meredith)

16:05 - Fabled Bookshop

17:32 - Whistleblower by Susan Fowler (aka Susan Rigetti)

18:13 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett

19:35 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse (Kaytee)

26:27 - Venco by Cherie Dimaline (Meredith)

27:18 - libro.fm

30:17 - Aurora by David Koepp

34:57 - The Attic Child by Lola Jaye (Kaytee)

35:47 - Babel by RF Kuang

39:47 - Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Meredith)

39:52 - I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

45:24 - Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty (Kaytee)

45:36 - Schuler Books

51:24 - Prepping For CR Episodes

52:50 - Venco by Cherie Dimaline

55:38 - Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

58:06 - Meet Us At The Fountain

59:02 - I wish listeners would pick up a book, read the first paragraph, then say “And that’s when the murders started” and enjoy the giggles that ensue. (Meredith)

45:50 -  I wish listeners would support the creators they love. (Kaytee)

1:00:44 - The Popcast with Knox and Jamie Patreon

1:00:48 - Laura Tremaine’s Patreon

1:00:57 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live Patreon

1:01:00 - Sorta Awesome Patreon

1:03:46 - Mindy on Instagram

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: reading addiction and revisiting a favorite book rec source

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

• Deep Dive: the bookish bait & switch - sometimes it’s great, sometimes… not so much

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:24 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:22 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

5:20 - All the Books podcast 

8:19 - Current Reads

8:44 - Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson (Kaytee)

11:49 - The Grace of Wild Things  by Heather Fawcett (Meredith)

12:09 - The Encyclopedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett

14:21 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

16:38 - The Aquanauts by Dan Santat (Kaytee)

20:21 - Kell Gilligan’s Daredevil Stunt Show by Dan Santat

20:40 - McNalley’s Puzzle by Lawrence Sanders (Meredith)

24:57 - Dean Koontz books

25:16 - The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar (Kaytee)

27:50 - All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth (patron content)

28:18 - Black Summer by M.W. Craven (Meredith) Out of stock on Bookshop, but available on AMZ

29:49 - Fabled Bookshop and Cafe

32:44 - Bait & Switch Book Experiences

33:22 - Someday Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli 

34:51 - I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

35:22 - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

35:59 - The Confession by John Grisham

36:10 - Aurora by David Koepp 

37:19 - Babel by R.F. Kuang

39:03 - Pony by R.J. Palazzio

39:29 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

40:10 - Piranesi by Susanna Clark

40:20 - Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakaur

40:49 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman

41:04 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

41:07 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

41:23 - Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

43:29 - Meet Us At The Fountain

43:44 - I wish everyone would read my press and heart-filled book All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle (Kaytee)

45:50 -  I wish listeners would read my press and fantastic classic Shogun by James Clavell (Meredith)
Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a daily quote service and an “apology cake” win

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

• Deep Dive: discussing the range of historical fiction and our favorites in the genre

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:22  - Bookish Moment of the Week

1:48 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

5:26 - Sour Cream Apology Cake Recipe

7:39 - Current Reads

7:49 - The Local: A Legal Thriller by Joey Hartstone (Meredith)

10:49 - The Thirteenth Juror by John Lescroart

13:06 - Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan (Kaytee)

16:27 - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka  (Meredith)

21:21 - Maame by Jessica George (Kaytee)

26:28 - Search by Michelle Huneven (Meredith)

28:10 - From the Front Porch with Annie B.  Jones

32:55 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (Kaytee)

33:16 - Bad Blood by  John Carreyrou

33:21 - Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

33:27 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse

39:12 - What Counts as Historical Fiction? 

39:23 - The Indie Press List (patron content)

40:53 - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

41:49 - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

42:47 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

44:27 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

44:49 - Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

44:51 - Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

44:55 - The Red Tent by Anita Diamante

44:56 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

45:05 - Roots by Alex Haley

45:17 - Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia

45:51 - The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

46:52 - Meet Us At The Fountain

46:57 - I wish British mystery lovers would get a subscription to BritBox (Meredith)

 48:43 -  I wish for more books with behind the scenes glimpses into the writing process for that novel (Kaytee)
Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a deliciously beautiful book subscription and some middle-marriage mayhem

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

• Deep Dive: we are trying a new Boss My TBR Segment!

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:19 - Currently Reading Patreon

3:44   - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:01 - Fairy Loot Book Only Box Adult and YA

4:21 - Spice Road by Maiya Ibrahim 

5:04 - Scythe Series Three Book Set by Neal Shusterman

5:25 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer

9:43 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

10:31 - East of Eden by John Steinbeck

11:16 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

11:18 - Current Reads

11:29 - Laura Tremaine

11:38 - Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (Kaytee)

14:00 - Jason’s Birthday Carrot Cake Recipe

14:05 - Sour Cream Apology Cake Recipe

14:45 - Black Cake Recipe

15:41 - Aurora by David Koepp (Meredith)

20:45 - Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood (Kaytee)

20:54 - The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

20:56 - S4E21 Our Top Ten Books

24:47 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes (Meredith)

24:51 - A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

27:00 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

32:39 - For Every One by Jason Reynolds (Kaytee)

35:43 - All That is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay  (Meredith) 

37:44 - Defending Jacob by William Landay

39:19 - The Local by Joey Hartstone

39:32 - Elizabeth Robinson Barnhill Meredith’s co-host for All Things Murderful (patron content)

40:10 - Deep Dive: Boss My TBR #1  

40:18 - S3E6 Are You Book Bossy? We Are!

41:35 - Kiara’s Books:

41:46 - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

41:54 - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

41:57 - Light from Uncommon Stars by Rya Aoki

42:01 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

42:04 - The Change by Kirsten Miller

44:17 - The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

47:32 - Shawnna’s Books:

47:40 - 11/22/63 by Steven King

47:42 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

47:44 - Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

47:46 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

47:49 - The House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

50:31 - Meet Us At The Fountain

50:39 - I wish everyone would follow goodreads_reviews on IG (Kaytee)

51:04 - Anne of Green Gables by LMM Montgomery

51:10 - All I Want for Christmas by Maggie Knox

51:29 - Lobinzona by Romina Garber

51:56 -  I wish The Treehouse Series starting with The 13 Story Treehouse by Andy Griffith for MG would be more widely read (Meredith)
Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

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

• Bookish Moments: a joyful poem and bookshelf chats

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

• Deep Dive: ways to bring joy to winter doldrums through reading

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:50 - Bookish Moment of the Week

1:52 - a poem that brings joy

2:56 -  If I Had a Name Like Rosie Fernandez by Wendy Morton

4:06 - Mindy’s Meno Party and book shelf viewing

6:18 - Midlife with Mindy and Meg on Sorta Awesome

8:36 - Current Reads

8:45 - Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown (Roxanna)

10:19 - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 

11:15 - Pirates of the Caribbean 

11:17 - The Princess Bride by William Goldman

12:28 - Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabaneli (Kaytee)

12:38 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live podcast

16:23 - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (Roxanna)

16:38 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

22:09 - The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Kaytee)

26:09 - Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth (Roxanna)  

29:15 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

29:55 - Invisible Child by Andrea Elliot (Kaytee)

30:16 - CASA: Court Appointed Special Advocate

32:32 - A Place Called Home by David Ambroz    

33:53 - Deep Dive: Bookish Help for the Winter Doldrums

35:40 - Light in our spaces (Kaytee)

39:49 - Anwick Book Lamp

35:56 - Glocusent LED Neck Reading Light

36:00 - LED Taper Candles

36:58 - Romp Reading (Roxanna)

37:11 - The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

37:21 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett

37:41 - Reading snacks (Kaytee)

37:47 - Acai Dark Chocolate Blueberries by Brookside

39:24 - Lots of color in our spaces (Roxanna)

40:04 - Fantasy reading in familiar worlds (Roxanna)

40:24 - A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas

41:03 - A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

41:12 - S4E41 Tandem Watch + All Things Roxanna

41:13 - A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

43:14 - Delight reading (Roxanna)

43:27 - The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

45:15 - Inciting Joy by Ross Gay

45:37 - Small doses of reading joy (Kaytee)

45:39 - G’morning, G’night: Little Pep Talks for Me and You by Lin Manuel Miranda

45:46 - The Book of Awesome by Neil Pasricha   

45:47 - Our Book of Awesome by Neil Pasricha

46:06 - The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

47:03 - Winter Hours by Mary Oliver

47:58 - Rereading (Roxanna)

48:11 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 

48:17 - Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

48:25 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher

49:10 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:14 - I wish for a service to send me lines from my favorite book daily (Roxanna)

50:25 - I wish for a book tasting experience for all readers (Kaytee)
Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: and a bookish clean slate

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

• Deep Dive: our first second-part deep dive! Today we are making a travel list based on the (fictional) places we’ve traveled in books

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:43 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:10 - Glocusent LED Neck Book Light

7:43 - Current Reads

6:32 - Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg (Kaytee)

11:23 - Zero Fail by Carol Leonnig (Meredith)

16:44 - My Darkest Prayer by SA Cosby (Kaytee)

17:04 - Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby

17:11 - Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby

19:44 - Adam Lazarre White

21:46 - The Never King by Nikki St Crow (Meredith)

22:40 - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

23:52 - The Popcast: The Nos of Reading

24:20 - Currently Reading patron Facebook group

27:44 - Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee (Kaytee)

27:57 - stephanie.peters.bonin on IG

30:13 - Oregon Trail game 

31:09 - The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth (Meredith)

32:30 - The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth

32:39 - The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

32:40 - The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth

34:27  - Deep Dive: Fictional Travel Inspired by Books

34:34 - S5E28 Travel Inspired by Books

35:12 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

36:16 - (The Narnia Series) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

36:22 - The Harry Potter Series 

36:29 - The Nevermoor Series by Jessica Townsend

37:24 - A Court of Thorn and Roses Series by Sarah J. Maas

38:04 - The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

38:14 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldress

38:57 - Heidi by Johanna Spyri

39:48 - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

39:51 - Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano

40:24 - American Royals by Katharine McGee

41:11- The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

41:40 - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

42:10 - The Tale of Hilltop Farm by Susan Wittig Albert

42:16 - Beatrix Potter series

42:42 - Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

42:41 - Circe by Madeline Miller

43:10 - Tilly and the Book Wanderers by Anna James

44:03 - Meet Us At The Fountain

44:10 I wish to make a wish for our Megan (Kaytee)

45:47 I wish for more of us to be prepared for storms by reading We are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilley. (Meredith)

48:19 - The Childrens’ Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin 

48:29 - Elizabeth Robinson Barnhill on IG @wacoreads

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

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Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a wonderful reading gift and an upcoming literary festival

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

• Deep Dive: today we are making a travel list based on the (real) places we’ve traveled in books

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:30 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:04 - Anwick Book Lamp

4:14 - Santa Fe International Literary Festival

6:18 - Current Reads

6:32 - Silent Voices by Ann Cleaves (Meredith)

6:51 - BritBox

11:10 - The Long Call by Ann Cleaves

11:29 - The Crow Trap by Ann Cleaves

11:42 - Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano (Kaytee)

18:32 - Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Meredith)

23:50 - How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price (Kaytee)

27:34 - The Daily Stoic

27:36 - The Painted Porch Bookshop

29:04 - The Rook by Daniel O’Malley (Meredith)

33:35 - Hench by Natalize Zina Walschots

33:36 - The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett

35:12 - We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (Kaytee)

35:18 - Libro.fm

37:17 - Fabled Bookshop

37:18 - Times Undoing by Cheryl A. Head

38:08 - Deep Dive: Travel Inspired by Books

40:22 - The Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker

41:03 - Violeta by Isabel Allende 

41:49 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

42:17 - Shogun by James Clavell (y’all! I said China. Shogun takes place in Japan. Sentiment still applies, but thanks to listener Erin for pointing out my mis-speak)

43:06 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 

43:53 - The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

44:19 - How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith

44:50 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

45:11 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

45:15 - A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adrianna Herrera

45:34 - BookPeople

46:57 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle Mcnamara

47:41 - A City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller

49:24 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish mediocre books would be saved by turning them into amazing shows. (Meredith)

50:34 - Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber (Amazon link)

I wish every bookstore sold bookstore stickers. (Kaytee)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

Today, we are refreshing your memories about one of our favorite flagship products! The Indie Press List is doing BIG things and we are thrilled to give you a taste of this goodness. If you’d like to get future episodes (plus tons more backlist episodes of this type of content!, we’d love for you to join us on Patreon. To shop: we would love for you to go directly to Bookshelf Thomasville’s website.

Here's a brief list of each of the five selections, but again, we'd love for you to go directly over to the website above - so there are no affiliate links here! Please put "Currently Reading Podcast" in the "information" part of your order so they know we sent you!

Minisode show notes are not time stamped. They are also not transcribed. But each of the titles we mention (the five from the list plus any others we threw out there) is below for your enjoyment. Links go straight to the Indie Bookstore of the month. In this case, it’s the Bookshelf in Thomasville, GA!

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For any titles you are wanting to purchase, please be sure to go through the Bookshelf Thomasville CR Shop and let them know we sent you by putting Currently Reading Podcast in your order comments! If you're using your Library or Libro FM (switch your support to Bookshelf Thomasville!), be sure to shout them out on social media @bookshelftville for these great picks as well!

Shelf Subscriptions are available on their website from the first Tuesday of the month to the last Tuesday of the month. Check them out if you want some Bookshelf Thomasville in your mailbox every month. If you need a great gift idea for yourself or someone else, the Treat Yo' Shelf option is fantastic!

You can hear from Annie and her team every week on From the Front Porch podcast as well. As you know/will see, they are all great at talking books!

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

• Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

• The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers

• The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

• GQ Profile of Chris Evans by Edith Zimmerman 

• Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

• All the Feels by Olivia Dade

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher

• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

• The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

The Golden Season by Madeline Kay Sneed

• Friday Night Lights

• Revival Season by Monica West

• The Sweet Taste of Muscadines by Pamela Terry

• God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

• Breakfast Club

• Fast and the Furious

• Ocean's Eleven

• Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a meeting with an app and a personal audiobook win

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

• Deep Dive: we’ve been asked how it affects our reading lives to have to do it as a “job,” and we’re answering those questions today!

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:19 - Currently Reading Patreon

3:54 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:02 - CR Season 5: Episode 12

4:09 - Fable app

4:11 - CR Season 5: Episode 15

5:56 - Zeel app

8:36 - Current Reads

8:45 - The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (Kaytee)

9:05 - Sea Change by Gina Chung

9:27 - Bookmarks

12:36 - The Getaway by Lamar Giles (Meredith)

14:18 - Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven

14:19 - Hide by Kiersten White

16:14 - Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Kaytee)

18:29 - Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo

20:16 - A Week in Winter by Marcia Willett (Meredith, amazon link)

21:54 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher

25:04 - The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (Kaytee)

29:25 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

31:00 - The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell (Meredith)

31:08 - Hearts and Daggers podcast

34:58 - Deep Dive: When Reading is Your Job

40:48 - NetGalley

40:52 - Libro.fm

47:40 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish everyone knew about the library extension you can add to your browser (Kaytee)

47:47 - LibraryExtension

49:12 - The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

I wish romances would delineate spicy scenes with different colored text. (Meredith)

50:06 - The Popcast

50:11 - The Popcast episode 489 - The Nos of Books

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a great library newsletter and a reading milestone

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

• Deep Dive: taking a look at the feminist rage trope and diving in hard

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:26 - Bookish Moment of the Week

1:40 - Milwaukee Public Library on Instagram

4:21 - Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann

5:07 - Current Reads

5:17 - Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley (Mary)

10:06 - Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylen (Kaytee)

14:00 - Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult 

15:19 - Join the CR Patreon to hear Kaytee’s spoiler filled discussion on Mad Honey w/Sarah from Sarah’s Bookshelves Live

17:09 - Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (Mary)

17:22 - Good Omens by Niel Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

21:35 - The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton (Kaytee)

22:48 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

24:46 - Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

25:43 - Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson (Mary)

28:00 - Storygraph

31:44 - The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff (Kaytee)

32:02 - Fabled Bookshop

35:48 - Deep Dive: Books that Unleash our Feminist Rage

38:51 - The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

40:11 - Circe by Madeline Miller 

40:36 - The Power by Naomi Alderman

40:40 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

41:52 - Vox by Christina Dalcher

42:04 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 

42:09 - The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

42:10 - The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell

42:11 - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

42:27 - Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

43:09 - Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

43:35 - When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

45:15 - The Change by Kirsten Miller

47:43 - Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

48:36 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

49:26 - The Witches of Moonshyne Manor by BIanca Marais 

52:26 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish publishers or creators would create specific ASMR rooms alongside the publishing of a new novel. (Mary)

53:05 - The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling

I wish we could “gamify” our reading lives. (Kaytee)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: TBR evaluation and a great e-reader setup

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

• Deep Dive: an exploration and praise of the Quiet book

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:44 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:14 - Kindle Oasis

4:16 - Casebot Kindle Oasis Case 

7:01 - Kindle Paperwhite

7:38 - Current Reads

7:53 - Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (Kaytee)

12:29 - The Drift by C.J. Tudor

12:44 - The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor (Meredith)

17:52 - The Whisper Man by Alex North

17:53 - The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup

17:54 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

18:42 - Chef’s Kiss by TJ Alexander (Kaytee)

19:18 - Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl

23:35 - The Candymakers by Wendy Mass (Meredith)

25:46 - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

26:53 - Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

27:25 - The Book Scavengers by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman 

27:27 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson

27:53 - The Einsteins of Vista Point by Ben Guterson

28:28 - Violeta by Isabel Allende (Kaytee)

28:34 - An Unlikely Story

32:11 - Never Lie by Freida McFadden (Meredith)

38:02 - The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

38:38 - Deep Dive: Quiet Books

43:00 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

44:07 - The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

45:42 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

47:18 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay

48:09 - Tara Road by Mauve Binchey

48:35 - We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

48:37 - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein

48:45 - The Dutch House by Anne Patchett

48:46 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

50:45 - What Should I Read Next w/Anne Bogel

50:58 - From the Front Porch w/Annie B. Jones

51:30 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish we all had readerly “What Should I Read Next” bubbles that popped up when talking with new readers. (Kaytee)

I wish everyone would shake up their reading formats and do something outside their “norm”. (Meredith)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

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

• Bookish Moments: reading peccadilloes and reading as a race

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

• Deep Dive: questions and answers about a reading partnership, and how that works in the real world of Roxanna and Meredith

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:02 - Bookish Moment of the Week

3:49 - Season 5: Episode 21

8:47 - Current Reads

8:56 - Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Roxanna)

15:36 - Babel by R.F. Kuang (Meredith)

26:29 - The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith (Roxanna)

26:43 - The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

30:56 - The Drift by C.J. Tudor (Meredith)

32:38 - The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

35:41 - The Bodyguard by Katherine Center (Roxanna)

35:56 - Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center

38:11 - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center

39:52 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (Meredith)

42:44 - Glass Houses by Louise Penny (Meredith mistakenly said castle instead of houses)

46:43 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

47:29 - The Long Way Home by Louise Penny

50:45 - If you are interested in a new Louise Penny segment called “A Journey to Three Pines” featuring Meredith and Roxanna, reach out in all the ways to let us know! Currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com, @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram, or in the Bookish Friends Group if you’re a member of Patreon.

52:09 - Still Life by Louise Penny

52:52 - Deep Dive: Cultivating a Reading Partnership

56:42 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (ACOTAR #2)

59:11 - Babel by R.F. Kuang

1:00:01 - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

1:08:38 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish to read more contemporary fiction and Own Voices in 2023 (Roxanna)

I wish everyone would realize you can have a fulfilling reading year no matter how many books you read (Meredith)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

Today’s minisode has an additional top 5 list to add to your 2023 TBRs! We’ve got Mindy, Mary, and Roxanna here with their favorite books of 2022, and their conversation is not-to-be-missed! These three had the best time chatting together without any hosts, and we’re so grateful to Mindy for pulling this episode together behind-the-scenes!

Minisode show notes are not timestamped or transcripted, but linked titles are below for you to peruse. 

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your dishwasher detergent!) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*

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How we chose our lists

Top 5 for each of the Show Regulars:

When Stars are Scattered by Omar Mohammad  (Roxanna #5)

Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau (Mary #5ish)

Season 4, Episode 44 Book Hypnotism + Family Vacation Book Club

Cover Story by Susan Rigetti (Mindy #5)

Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale

Bookish Friend Morgan Tallman @literallyreaadingmor

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree (Roxanna #4)

Bookish Friend Betsie @bookishbetsie

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree ALSO (Mary #4)

Angelica Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne (Mary’s Superlative: Most Surprising Book)

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Mindy #4)

Bookish Friend Joy Stallworth @joyinabook

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by  Alka Joshi (Roxanna #3)

Season 4, Episode 41 Tandem Watch and Read + All Things Roxanna

The Ogress and the Orphan by Kelly Barnhill (Mary #3ish)

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

Address Unknown by Katherine Kressman Taylor (Mindy #3)

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (Roxanna #2)

Season 5, Episode 4 Our Books as a Gauge + Reading the World

The Bromance Book Club series by Lyssa Kay Adams (Mary #2ish)

Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau ALSO (Mindy #2)

Forty Autumns by Nina Willner (Mindy’s superlative: Most Surprising Book)

Babel by R.F. Kuang (Roxanna #1)

Indie Press List for Patrons

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (Mary #1ish)

A Court of Thorn and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

The Winners by Fredrik Backman (Mindy #1)

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

Mindy’s trip to meet Fredrik Backman thanks to Bookish Friends

Season 5, Episode 11 The Magic of Bookish Friends + Reading with Guests Around

Season 5, Episode 22 Our Top Ten Reads of 2022!

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a big sale, a reading husband, and 2023 reading observations

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

• Deep Dive: author completists - the ones we’ve read all of and the ones we want to read all of

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:02 - Bookish Moments of the Week

3:05 - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

3:24 - Upgrade by Blake Crouch

7:52 - Currently Reading Patreon

8:45 - Our Current Reads

9:16 - Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen (Kaytee)

12:15 - Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah (Meredith)

16:19 - The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah

16:48 - Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Kaytee)

17:03 - Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

20:28 - Thornyhold by Mary Stewart (Meredith, Amazon Link)

25:09 - The Once and Future King by T.H. White

25:15 - The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

26:24 - Solito by Javier Zamora (Kaytee)

30:12 - How to Sell A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix (Meredith)

32:43 - The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

32:54 - The Final Girls Support Group by Grady Hendrix

37:01 - Deep Dive: Authors We’ve Read Completely or Want to Complete

38:00 - Taft by Ann Patchett

38:23 - The Hangman by Louise Penny

38:31 - State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hilary Clinton

38:56 - The Liar’s Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard

39:34 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

40:12 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

40:37 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

40:38 - Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

41:19 - The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

42:06 - Ghost by Jason Reynolds

44:30 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

44:31 - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

44:41 - Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield (not Susanna Clarke)

44:41 - The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke (correct short stories, Amazon Link)

45:11 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

47:14 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

48:19 - Final Girls by Riley Sager

48:21 - The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

49:18 - Visit Us At The Fountain

I wish to make a record keeper of my kids’ series books. (Kaytee)

I wish Murderful fans would watch The Menu, and someone would write a book like this movie. (Meredith)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are sharing our top ten reads of 2022! Can you guess where we overlap? This is a GREAT stack of books and we are so thrilled to share it with you.

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:31 - Currently Reading Patreon

6:41 - Send your questions for Meredith and Roxanna to currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com by JANUARY 4

7:09 - Our 2022 Reading Recap

13:00 - CR Season 5: Episode 20

18:11 - NetGalley

25:23 - Kindle Oasis

27:25 - Book Darts

29:02 - Murder at Black Oaks by Philip Margolin (Meredith’s lowest rated read)

29:13 - The Harbor by Katrina Engberg (Meredith’s 2nd lowest rated read)

29:58 - Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein (Kaytee’s lowest rated read)

30:05 - PangoBooks

30:36 - The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye (Kaytee’s 2nd lowest rated read)

33:50 - Our Top Ten Ranked Reads of 2022

33:58 - Death in the Family by Tessa Wegert (Meredith)

35:04 - Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (Kaytee)

35:21 - Circe by Madeline Miller

35:22 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

35:23 - The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

36:11 - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Meredith)

37:21 - World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Kaytee)

38:37 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett (Meredith)

40:59 - Breathe and Count Back From Ten by Natalia Sylvester (Kaytee)

41:04 - CR Season 5: Episode 14

42:41 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher (Meredith)

46:14 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Kaytee)

48:09 - The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier (Meredith)

48:17 - The Popcast

51:11 - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (Kaytee) 

52:57 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (Meredith)

55:58 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt (Kaytee)

57:32 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree (Meredith)

1:00:06 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay 

1:00:07 - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers 

1:00:08 - A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

1:00:13 - Downton Shabby by Hopwood DePree

1:01:15 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Kaytee)

1:02:10 - An Unlikely Story

1:03:05 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (Meredith)

1:04:53 - The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb (Kaytee)

1:07:20 - Babel by RF Kuang (Meredith #2, Kaytee #1)

1:14:32 - An Immense World by Ed Yong (Kaytee #2)

1:16:13 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (Meredith #1)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are revisiting the very first Top 10 episode we ever aired. We’ve grown a lot as podcasters since then and our tastes have changed some, so it was a fun trip down memory lane. We hope this episode stocks your TBRs with books that are ALL backlist now, and easy to grab from the library!

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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3:10 - Currently Reading Patreon

4:12 - Deep Dive: Our Best Books of 2018

5:33 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

7:03 - The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

8:56 - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

9:39 - Essentialism by Greg McKeown

10:50 -  The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah MacKenzie

11:36 -  The Read-Aloud Revival Podcast

11:47 - CR Season 1: Episode 7

11:53 - American Marriage by Tayari Jones

13:02 - Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown

14:04 - Educated by Tara Westover

14:58 - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

17:05 - Circe by Madeline Miller

18:02 - CR Season 1: Episode 10

18:52 - Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle

19:59 - Calypso by David Sedaris

21:26 - The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

21:31 - CR Season 1: Episode 3

22:04 - Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman

23:07 - The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz

24:20 - CR Season 1: Episode 18

24:22 - Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

26:11 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

26:19 - Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend

29:04 - The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

31:15 - Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

31:20 - The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

32:12 - Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

32:16 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman

32:24 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

35:07 - Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman

35:08 - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman

40:58 - CR Season 1: Episode 17

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a big milestone and small business Saturday

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

• Deep Dive: we go down the rabbit hole of book tracking

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:58 - Bookish Moment of the Week

3:15 - Garcia Street Books

5:11 - Fabled Bookshop

5:53 - Current Reads

6:17 - The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

6:27 - Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

12:20 - Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition) by Anton Treuer (Kaytee)

12:52 - The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

17:05 - The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier (Meredith)

23:02 - A Lady for A Duke by Alexis Hall (Kaytee)

23:13 - Bookmarks

23:27 - libro.fm

24:50 - Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

27:20 - Rizzio by Denise Mina (Meredith)

28:26 - Conviction by Denise Mina

28:33 - Blackwell’s UK

30:24 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

31:48 - An Immense World by Ed Yong (Kaytee)

32:25 - I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong

34:49 - Fable App

6:45 - Deep Dive: All Things Reading Trackers

42:58 - Currently Reading Patreon

48:26 - CAWPILE Rating System

49:16 - A Lady for A Duke by Alexis Hall

54:58 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish that Three Pines the show doesn’t disappoint me. (Meredith)

55:38 - Still Life by Louise Penny (Three Pines #1)

56:00 - The Hangman by Louise Penny

56:32 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

56:49 - WSIRN Episode 357 w/Louise Penny

I wish to institute Jolabokaflod in my home this year. (Kaytee)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

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Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Mindy are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a bookish car surprise and a triumphal return

• Current Reads: all the great stuff we’ve been reading lately

• Deep Dive: the deets on reading vacations!

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:53 - Currently Reading Patreon

4:26 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:57 - Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau

8:11 - Current Reads

8:17 - Scribd

8:29 - What Can Be Saved by Liese O’Halloran Schwartz (Mindy)

12:41 - The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan (Meredith)

14:50 - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

16:24 - The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Mindy)

19:13 - Garden of Lamentations by Deborah Crombie (Meredith)

23:22 - A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie

24:02 - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Mindy)

24:13 - Denisereads75 on Instagram

24:17 - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 

26:02 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

26:51 - Gilded by Marissa Meyer (Meredith)

28:22 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

30:17 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

30:46 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer

31:27 - Cursed by Marissa Meyer

32:37 - Deep Dive: The Ins and Outs of Bookish Vacations

32:49 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

33:41 - The Winners by Fredrik Backman

40:34 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman

49:46 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish I could find a series that combined police procedural and courtroom drama like Law and Order. (Mindy)

50:49 - Crimson Lake by Candice Fox

50:52 - The Defense by Steve Cavanagh (Eddie Flynn #1)

50:58 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

I wish that small, concentrated book retreats happen in 2023. (Meredith)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: pet conspiracy against Meredith + airport friendships

• Current Reads: A whole slew of books that might be hard to listen to us talk about for various reasons

• Deep Dive: the goodies to buy for the bookworm that doesn’t need books

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:25 - Bookish Moment of the Week

3:12 - HH Holmes Murder Castle Puzzle

8:13 - An Immense World by Ed Yong 

10:13 - Current Reads

10:28 - Glass Houses by Louise Penny (Meredith)

11:10 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

16:53 - Still Life by Louise Penny 

18:45 - The Measure by Nikki Erlick (Kaytee)

21:30 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live Episode 123 w/ Nikki Erlick

23:03 - The Duke Alone by Christi Caldwell (Meredith)

29:22 - The Kraken’s Sacrifice by Katee Robert (Kaytee)

29:52 - The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert

29:54 - CR Season 5: Episode 3

SKIP TO 35:11 IF YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT KRAKEN SEX!!!

35:27 - The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch (Meredith)

37:28 - Fabled Bookshop

42:56 - Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton (Kaytee)

SKIP TO 46:37 IF SEXUAL ASSAULT IS YOUR TRIGGER

45:01 - Know My Name by Chanel Miller 

45:03 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 

46:37 - Bookish Gifts We Want to Give and Receive

48:19 - Mug Warmer

49:09 - Book Darts

49:40 - Pilot FriXion Pens

49:55 - Pilot FriXion Highlighters

50:52 - Sharpie Pen

51:43 - Libro.fm

51:53 - Scribd

51:44 - Bookshop.org

52:10 - Thriftbooks

52:35 - Fabled Story Bound Subscription

53:29 - Currently Reading Patreon

53:37 - Fabled Bookshop

54:24 - Currently Reading Tote

54:51 - Currently Reading Zazzle store

55:17 - Lego Bookstore

55:59 - Galison Puzzles

56:01 - White Mountain Puzzles 

56:27 - Barefoot Dreams throw blanket

56:54 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish, if you are looking for cozy holiday reading, that you read the Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton. (Meredith)

57:32 - Aunt Dimity’s Death by Nancy Atherton (#1 in series)

I wish that book festivals and author events get as much hype as Taylor Swift tickets. (Kaytee)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: travel reading and two great bookish podcast episodes

• Current Reads: buzzy books, sci-fi, and plenty of murder

• Deep Dive: book covers that enhanced our reading experience

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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Season 5, Episode 17

1:34 - Bookish Moment of the Week

1:57 - Kaytee’s noise canceling headphones

4:32 - Episode 126 of Sarah’s Bookshelves Live

5:26 - Planet Money: The E-Book Wars

6:52 - Current Reads

7:17 - A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga (Kaytee)

8:21 - The Martian by Andy Weir

8:25 - The Martian; Classroom Edition by Andy Weir

9:15 - All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Murderbot #1)

10:25 - Peril at End House by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

15:55 - The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull (Kaytee)

17:48 - Brilliant Books 

18:26 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

18:57 - The Harbor by Katrine Engberg (Meredith)

20:11 - The Tenant by Katrine Engberg

20:12 - The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg

22:36 - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

23:38 - Thank You for LIstening by Julia Whelan (Kaytee)

26:53 - Episode 81 of Sarah’s Bookshelves Live w/Julia Whelan

26:53 - Episode 340 of What Should I Read Next w/Julia Whelan

27:17 - The Family Game by Catherine Steadman (Meredith)

29:19 - Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

30:00 - A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny (Three Pines #4)

31:32 - The Nest by Cynthis D’aprix Sweeney

31:33 - The Heirs by Susan Reiger 

32:20 - Book Covers that Enhanced Our Reading Experience

32:59 - The Family Game by Catherine Steadman

34:40 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson

36:09 - The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

37:18 - White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

39:02 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

39:22 - Matrix by Lauren Groff

40:47 - How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

41:54 - Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Elliott Arnold 

42:54 - An Immense World by Ed Yong

43:53 - Blackwell’s UK

44:39 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish for suggestions on perfect holiday romance reading. (Kaytee)

Email Kaytee at currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com or DM her at @notesonbookmarks with your holiday romances! 

I wish those who enjoy it would sink into puzzles and audiobooks this season. (Meredith)

47:00 - HH Holmes Murde Castle Puzzle

47:06 - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: snow day reading + scheduled reading time

• Current Reads: books that blew us away

• Deep Dive: finding your nonfiction fit

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:32 - Bookish Moment of the Week

6:09 - Current Reads

6:16 - A Place Called Home by David Ambroz (Kaytee)

11:20 - Death and Croissants by Ian Moore (Meredith)

12:36 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

15:04 - Blackwell’s UK

15:29 - Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth (Kaytee)

15:37 - The Novel Neighbor

16:45 - Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard

19:19 - My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (Meredith)

22:58 - The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill (Kaytee)

23:14 - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

23:20 - When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

27:24 - Bookmarks

27:47 - Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente (Meredith)

30:45 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

31:05 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

32:44 - Fable App

34:54 - Finding Your Nonfiction Niche

36:59 - CR Season 4: Episode 24

38:32 - A Place Called Home by David Ambroz

38:49 - Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

38:56 - Down and Out in Paradise by Charles Leerhsen

39:16 - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

39:24 - You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe

40:13 - Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig

40:33 - The Palace Papers by Tina Brown

41:12 - Happy At Any Cost by Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre

44:13 - The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

44:25 - The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell

45:04 - Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

46:00 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay

46:12 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

46:16 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

46:19 - The Black Count by Tom Reiss

46:37 - The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

47:39 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish to let everyone know about Everyday Reading. (Kaytee)

47:55 - Everyday Reading blog

48:09 - Everyday Reading Instagram

48:22 - Everyday Reading Christmas Reading Advent Calendar 

I wish everyone would jump on the ASMR bandwagon. (Meredith)

0:33 - The Vault of Ambience on Youtube

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

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Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcastand
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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Roxanna and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a circle-back moment and reading blankies

• Current Reads: lots of great non-fiction and some surprising hits

• Deep Dive: getting out of a reading funk - some strategies!

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:34 - Currently Reading Patreon

3:40 - Bookish Moment of the Week

3:52 - CR Season 3: Episode 5

4:05 - There’s A Rainbow in my Closet by Patti Stren

8:53 - Current Reads

9:01 - The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (Roxanna) 

14:00 - Answers in the Pages by David Levithan (Kaytee)

14:05 - CR Season 4: Episode 48 (Listener Press)

18:15 - Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf (Roxanna)

21:36 - Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

22:43 - Miss Chloe by A.J. Verdelle (Kaytee)

23:29 - The Good Negress by A.J. Verdelle

26:34 - Infused: Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell (Roxanna)

29:01 - Rare Tea Company

31:25 - The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers 

32:31 - In the Shelter: Finding A Home in the World by Padraig O Tuama (Kaytee)

36:18 - Deep Dive: How to Get Through and Over a Book Funk

39:29 - Babel by R.F. Kuang

46:07 - The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

46:13 - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

46:14 - Booked by Kwame Alexander

46:15 - Rebound by Kwame Alexander

49:50 - BookMarks

54:04 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish revisiting books could be a bigger part of our lives. (Roxanna)

55:32 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

I wish everyone would join a bookish app Fable. (Kaytee)

57:25 - CR Season 5: Episode 12

57:42 - Fable App

57:44 - Fabled Bookshop

58:54 - Solito by Javier Zamora

59:07 - Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and
www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: broken reading and reading companions

• Current Reads: some brand new books and a surprising classic

• Deep Dive: our between-book processes

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:20 - Bookish Moment of the Week

3:49 - Laura Tremaine’s Secret Stuff

10:35 - Current Reads

11:08 - NetGalley 

11:19 - Holmes Coming by Kenneth Johnson (Meredith) 

16:47 - Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (Kaytee)

20:28 - Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire (Meredith)

24:14 - Black No More by George Schuyler (Kaytee)

24:18 - Currently Reading Patreon 

26:44 - Black No More by George Schuyler audiobook cover

28:41 - Meredith, Alone by Claire Alexander (Meredith)

31:19 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

31:20 - The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg

31:39 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 

33:54 - Breathe and Count Back From Ten by Natalia Sylvester  (Kaytee)

36:11 - Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester

37:05 - Deep Dive: Our “Between Books” Processes 

41:25 - CAWPILE system explained via Bookriot

42:39 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

42:41 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

44:54 - The Winners by Fredrik Backman

44:56 - Witch, Please by Ann Aguirre 

48:41 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish everyone would read The Ice House by Minette Walters. (Meredith)

49:05 - The Ice House by Minette Walters (Amazon link, not available on Bookshop)

51:04 - BritBox

52:22 - Fox Evil by Minette Walters (Amazon link, not available on Bookshop)

I wish everyone would read Braiding Sweetgrass in November. (Kaytee)

52:43 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

53:54 - Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and
www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: reading genetics and scary saturation

• Current Reads: backlist gems and TBR surprises and bookish serendipity

• Deep Dive: we visit The Wayback Machine to give you books we think would go viral on Bookstagram and BookTok if they came out today

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:12 - Bookish Moment of the Week

6:18 - Current Reads

6:51 - Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (Kaytee)

7:34 - Check Please by Ngozi Ukazu

7:50 - The Sorta Awesome Podcast

10:14 - Read-Aloud Revival

11:07 - Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer  (Meredith)

13:33 - The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

17:18 - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Kaytee)

17:27 - CR Season 3: Episode 47 - The Listener Press

17:31 - The Twin Paradox by Charles Wachter

21:25 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (Meredith)

25:55 - Matrix by Lauren Goff 

30:20 - A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf (Kaytee)

33:17 - Daphne by Josh Malerman 

34:33 - Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates (Meredith)

39:11 - From Below by Darcy Coates

39:54 - Deep Dive: Backlist Books The Would Go Viral Today

40:47 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

41:20 - The Selection by Kiera Cass

41:35 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

43:01 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram

43:04 - Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge

44:40 - The Last One by Alexandra Oliva 

44:56 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 

45:47 - Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman

46:48 - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

48:12 - In the Woods by Tana French

48:58 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

49:45 - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards 

51:31 - The Villa by Nora Roberts

52:38 - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

53:37 - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

53:49 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

53:50 - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

54:31 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish every reader would keep a simple reading log. (Kaytee)

I wish November and December could get here quicker for some highly anticipated releases. (Meredith)

57:18 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

57:41 - Three Pines Series Trailer

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcastand
www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: fall reading to the max and spooky season satisfaction

• Current Reads: some wonderful picks for November and then a bunch of spooky witchy creepy stuff

• Deep Dive: we are chatting about our favorite books under 200 pages that really blow your mind

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:37 - Bookish Moment of the Week

7:51 - The Vampiric Vacation by Kiersten White

8:06 - Current Reads

8:19 - This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan (Kaytee)

8:44 - Garcia Street Books

8:59 - The Sorta Awesome Podcast

11:25 - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

15:05 - The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (Meredith)

19:30 - Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh (Kaytee)

19:36 - Currently Reading Season 5: Episode 6

21:07 - The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud (Misspoke in the episode saying Jonathan Lockwood. The series name is Lockwood & Co.)

21:35 - We Need Diverse Books

22:41 - The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant (Meredith)

30:38 - Witch Please by Ann Aguirre (Kaytee)

34:45 - Bird Box by Josh Malerman

35:04 - Daphne by Josh Malerman (Meredith)

37:22 - An Unlikely Story

37:25 - @anunlikelystory on Instagram

41:39 - Deep Dive: Short Books that Pack a Punch

43:48 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay

45:06 - The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn (Amazon link, cannot locate on Bookshop.org)

45:13 - Book of the Month

45:20 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

46:17 - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

46:19 - A Prayer for the Crown Shy by Becky Chambers 

46:34 - All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) by Martha Wells 

47:01 - A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow

47:02 - A Mirror Mended by Alix Harrow

47:46 - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

48:22 - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

48:31 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

48:42 - 84, Charring Cross Road by Helene Hanff

48:53 - 1984 by George Orwell

48:54 - Animal Farm by George Orwell

49:23 - Passing by Nella Larsen

49:57 - The Governesses by Anne Serre

50:32 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

50:54 - Elevation by Stephen King

51:26 - The Stand by Stephen King

51:27 - Needful Things by Stephen King

51:41 - A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark

52:28 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish for a buddy reading app that allows for staggered reading. (Kaytee)

52:50 - The StoryGraph

53:14 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

54:08 - Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

I wish that more caregivers could use books as physical objects and talking points with their littles. (Meredith)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and
www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mindy are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a bit of bookish magic and a pre-order wish fulfilled

• Current Reads: great books that we couldn’t wait to discuss with each other

• Deep Dive: how do we manage having guests and still making time to read?

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:04 - Bookish Moment of the Week

3:38 - Mindy’s Instagram @gratefulforgrace

5:04 - The Winners by Fredrik Backman

5:16 - Bookshop.org

5:36 - The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

5:53 - Booked by Kwame Alexander

5:54 - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

6:36 - Current Reads

6:45 - Scribd

7:02 - The Rose Code by Kate Quinn (Mindy)

7:31 - Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

10:29 - Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

10:35 - Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon

11:08 - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

11:37 - Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich (Kaytee)

12:52 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

12:56 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

13:24 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

17:02 - The Winners by Fredrik Backman (Mindy)

17:11 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman

18:19 - Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

23:35 - @kraysbookclub on Instagram

23:36 - @jordys.book.club on Instagram

24:57 - My Body is Not A Prayer Request by Amy Kenny (Kaytee)

29:49 - True Biz by Sarah Novic

30:03 - The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon

31:40 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 

31:50 - The Sign for Home by Blair Fell (Mindy)

36:27 - Tumble by Celia C. Perez (Kaytee)

41:22 - Deep Dive: Reading when Guests are Visiting

43:12 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

47:39 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

54:55 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish book jacket copy and summaries would stop ruining the plot for all of us. (Mindy)

I wish that I could put The Once and Future Witches on everyone’s Fall TBR. (Kaytee)

58:05 - The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow 

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcastand
www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: matching reading and values and a library mood boost

• Current Reads: murderful goodness, plus visits to previous beloved authors

• Deep Dive: when you read a bunch of one type of book, do they start to dilute in ratings?

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:36 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:03 - Currently Reading Patreon 

5:21 - Audible

6:04 - Libro.fm

6:44 - Fabled Bookshop

7:34 - Fairy Tale by Stephen King

10:10 - Current Reads

10:51 - The House Witch by Delemhach (Meredith)

12:57 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

17:15 - Year On Fire by Julie Buxbaum (Kaytee)

17:43 - Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

21:40 - Murder at Black Oaks by Phillip Margolin (Meredith)

12:21 - Gone But Not Forgotten by Phillip Margolin 

22:25 - The Associate by Phillip Margolin 

22:26 - Wild Justice by Phillip Margolin

31:22 - The Museum of Ordinary People by Mike Gayle (Kaytee) (Blackwell’s link if you’d like to read it now. Does not publish in the U.S. until May 2023)

31:28 - All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle

36:14 - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Meredith)

41:48 - Sisterhood of Sleuths by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman (Kaytee)

42:06 - The Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

45:28 - Deep Dive: Reading Ruts and Genre Ruts

52:02 - CAWPILE system explained by Book Riot

53:52 - Murder at Black Oaks by Phillip Margolin

55:35 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish people would read The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry (Meredith)

55:42 - The House Witch by Delemhach 

56:11 - The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

I wish that everybody had a local group of readers to get together with (Kaytee)

59:46 - Murder at Black Oaks by Phillip Margolin

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcastand
www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: homeschool book reports and an embarrassment of galleys

• Current Reads: three books from each of us to fill up your TBRs (or sometimes not)

• Deep Dive: finding and heeding trigger warnings

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:36 - Bookish Moment of the Week

1:48 - The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

3:35 - Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

4:19 - Netgalley

9:49 - Jackal by Erin Adams

9:51 - Currently Reading Patreon (sign up to access Trope Thursday!)

10:03 - An Unlikely Story

10:51 - Current Reads

11:20 - The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi (Kaytee)

11:40 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

15:20 - Death in the Family by Tessa Wegert (Meredith)

15:26 - Fabled Bookshop

18:25 - Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

19:42 - The Writing Revolution by Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler (Kaytee)

23:28 - The Silver Crown by Robert C. O’Brien (Meredith)

24:25 - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien

27:49 - We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu (Kaytee)

31:25 - Curfew by Jayne Cowie (Meredith)

36:16 - 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

37:11 - Deep Dive: All Things Trigger Warnings

43:09 - StoryGraph

44:07 - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

48:35 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish that there was a book box subscription that also came with food associated with the book inside. (Kaytee)

49:47 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

49:56 - Still Life by Louise Penny

50:02 - Sourdough by Robin Sloan

50:09 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay

51:40 - The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili

I wish everybody would try gnod.com (Meredith)

52:35 - gnod.com (gnooks.com specifically for literature)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and
www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: finding our best reading time and bookstore trauma double visits

• Current Reads: we thought we knew what we were getting with these books, but we had no idea

• Deep Dive: curating the perfect fall reading ambience, all the goodies and links

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:50 - Bookish Moment of the Week

5:58 - Back of Beyond Books

7:16 - All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury (Meredith’s short story reference)

9:58 - Current Reads

10:17 - The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-Mo (Meredith)

111:46 - Cafe Con Libros

14:43 - We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen (Kaytee)

18:24 - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune

18:26 - Hench by Natalize Zina Walschots

18:46 - The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab

19:03 - Tattered Cover Book Store

19:23 - Child Zero by Chris Holm (Meredith)

21:44 - The Twin Paradox by Charles Wachter

23:01 - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Kaytee)

23:19 - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

23:22 - CR Season 4: Episode 27

23:29 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

28:06 - Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (Meredith)

29:22 - Fabled Bookshop

30:27 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

32:37 - Native Son by Richard Wright (Kaytee)

35:34 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

35:53 - The Street by Ann Petry

37:11 - Deep Dive: Creating the Perfect Fall Reading Ambience

37:48 - Garnet Hill

38:03 - Barefoot Dreams throw blanket

40:54 - Hillhouse Naturals Harvest Candle

42:33 - List of ASMR rooms:

https://youtu.be/N9TefB0gh_k

https://youtu.be/pDccLsIpEe0

https://youtu.be/fnN3mq-Ykos

https://youtu.be/eLc2eNUUOzU

https://youtu.be/xQPak0N-1hU

https://youtu.be/sWCck2OP0uU

https://youtu.be/eDLo4RGbuoA

https://youtu.be/SbaEn7phVKM

43:13 - RainRiderAmbience on Youtube

44:33 - Cackle by Rachel Harrison

46:04 - The Novel Neighbor

47:54 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish I realized sooner to slow but steady my audiobooks. (Meredith)

49:05 - A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris

50:09 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

50:26 - Theft by Finding by David Sedaris

51:24 - Libro.fm

I wish you would follow SparkNotes on Instagram. (Kaytee)

51:57 - SparkNotes on Instagram

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Mary are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: being a beta-reader and a new school routine

• Current Reads: perfectly seasonal reads for your TBRs

• Deep Dive: a discussion of books that M&M had diverging opinions on

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:09 - Bookish Moment of the Week

6:22 - Mr. Delia’s resources for readers

6:54 - Millionaires for the Month by Stacy McAnulty

8:40 - Current Reads

9:06 - The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones (Mary)

13:08 - The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier (Meredith)

13:48 - The Novel Neighbor

13:53 - @novelneighbor on Instagram

14:14 - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

16:09 - The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

17:55 - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (Mary)

18:31 - Book Depository

21:50 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett

22:26 - Booth by Karen Joy Fowler (Meredith)

24:17 - The Booker Prize 2022

24:29 - Blackwell’s UK

28:17 - This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (Mary)

31:33 - The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman (Meredith)

32:07 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

35:14 - Deep Dive: When Opinions About Books Collide

35:26 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

48:47 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron

53:54 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

53:56 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

1:00:31 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish I could let fans of Finlay Donovan know about the Booking Agents series by Cherie Priest. (Mary)

1:01:45 - Finlay Donovan is Killing it by Elle Cosimano

1:01:53 - Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest (Booking Agents #1)

1:02:43 - Flight Risk by Cherie Priest

I wish I could go into reading experiences without any expectations (Meredith)

1:05:27 - Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

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Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

Every once in a while, we love to drop a full episode sample of the kind of content you can get over on Patreon, and this month we are sharing our newest offering: Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi. In this debut episode, we are exploring "Debut Novels That Blew Us Away!" Here's what you'll find inside:

Welcome, friends! This month, we are debuting a new patron bonus that I hope you will LOVE! Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi was a brainchild for about 4 months before this debut, and I hope you can tell the time and attention that went into it. Every month, we will focus on a "trope of the month" and have regular segments that you'll come to know and love. This episode is supposed to be INTERACTIVE. When you've listened, come tell us about your favorite debut novels! Or ask Bumni questions! Or tell us what trope you'd like us to explore! All of that is great fodder for future episodes - although we have roughly 4 years worth of ideas right now, ha!

This inaugural episode is a bit longer than they will normally be, but that's because I want to introduce you to and let you get to know Bunmi Ishola and how this new episode came to be!

Links below go to Bookshop dot org as applicable. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent!) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!

Get to Know Bunmi:

• @bunmi_ishola on Instagram
• Penguin Random House

Book-Adjacent:

Carrot Top Paper Shop (Bunmi)

• Rainbow Quote 
• Fond of Books Mug 

Blue Q Octopus Tote Bag (Amazon link) (Kaytee)

• The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
• My Octopus Teacher on Netflix
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

From the Editor's Desk:

Remarkably Bright Creatures Buddy Read Discussion 

Janet Evanovich, Louise Penny, James Patterson, John Grisham

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

NaNoWriMo 

Brendan Slocumb Minisode 

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

Trope Thursday - Debuts That Blew Us Away:

What Mama Left Me by Renee Watson (Bunmi)

• Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
• Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow (Kaytee)

• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Bunmi)

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (Kaytee)

• Cafe con Libros in Brooklyn, NY

Cinder by Marissa Meyer (Bunmi)

• @marissameyerauthor 

The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

Up Next:

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah (Bunmi)

• 1001 Arabian Nights (HOLY CRAP: Look at this gorgeous annotated version!)

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

• Denton Little's Deathdate by Lance Rubin
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Connect with Us:

Kaytee @notesonbookmarks 

Meredith @meredith.reads 

Bunmi @bunmi_ishola 

Podcast @currentlyreadingpodcast 

Tell Us: What Debut Blew You Away!?

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a new reading habit and protecting a reading life

• Current Reads: books that are joyful (one of us really needed it) and a strange twin theme!

• Deep Dive: seasoned protagonists, who are they are which are our favorites

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:46 - Currently Reading Patreon

4:37 - Bookish Moment of the Week

5:54 - Pangobooks

13:28 - Current Reads

13:50 - The Twin Paradox by Charles Wachter (Meredith)

18:13 - Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi 

18:15 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

19:11 - Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola (Kaytee)

19:21 - Love in Color by Bolu Babalola

10:36 - The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

21:35 - Libro.fm

22:34 - Little Darlings by Melanie Golding (Meredith)

22:40 - The Hidden by Melanie Golding

28:57 - Hoopla

29:28 - In Her Boots by KJ Dell’antoia (Kaytee)

32:48 - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Meredith)

33:27 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

36:59 - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

41:04 - The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain (Kaytee)

42:19 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

42:21 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle

42:23 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley 

42:43 - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

43:58 - Deep Dive: Seasoned Protagonists in our Reading

48:27 - The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-Mo

49:10 - Cafe Con Libros

49:28 - An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good by Helene Tursten

50:18 - Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

50:39 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

50:49 - The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman

53:39 - Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (#1 in the series) by M.C. Beaton

54:00 - The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (#1 in the series) by Dorothy Gilman

54:48 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

54:49 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle

54:50 - The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain

55:08 - The Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory

55:21 - The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg

55:26 - Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

55:43 - The Confession Club by Elizabeth Berg

56:42 - Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

57:35 - The Son by Philipp Meyer

57:51 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher

58:53 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish that everyone would read Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard. (Meredith)

59:23 - Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard

59:33 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

59:42 - Fabled Bookshop

1:00:54 - Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard

I wish that if a book is part of a series, the number is always on the spine or cover. (Kaytee)

1:01:29 - Spirit Hunters: The Island of Monsters by Ellen Oh

1:02:04 - Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: unhauling books and chatting live with a favorite author

• Current Reads: dystopia and middle grade and funny memoir and fantasy and graphic novels and murder

• Deep Dive: the lessons we learned from certain sections of the bookstore

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:11 - Bookish Moment of the Week

1:18 - Pangobooks

2:48 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

4:40 - Half Priced Books

5:12 - Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard

6:17 - Fabled Bookshop

7:00 - Current Reads

7:08 - The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan (Kaytee) 

7:16 - Tattered Cover Bookstore

8:30 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

12:23 - The Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White (Meredith)

14:25 - Hide by Kiersten White

16:33 - The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry

17:03 - The Vampiric Vacation by Kiersten White 

17:58 - Downtown Shabby by Hopwood DePree (Kaytee)

20:18 - Scribd

21:06 - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Meredith)

25:46 - Anne of West Philly by Ivy Noelle Weir (Kaytee)

25:48 - The Secret Garden on 81st Street by Ivy Noelle Weir

26:05 - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy by Ivy Noelle Weir

26:35 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

29:22 - Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard (Meredith)

34:05 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

34:06 - 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

34:08 - Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard

35:10 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

36:03 - Deep Dive: If (Genre) Taught Me Anything

44:29 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish every book came with an interactive experience. (Kaytee)

44:44 - The Violin Conspiracy by Brenden Slocumb

44:46 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt

44:54 - Shine Bright by Danyel Smith

45:39 - Downtown Shabby by Hopwood DePree 

46:59 - Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

I wish Blackwell’s had a section just for popular books with different international covers. (Meredith)

47:36 - Blackwell’s UK

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

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Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

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

• Bookish Moments: reading as a gauge and a library cookbook

• Current Reads: books we’ve been guarding like precious gems

• Deep Dive: reading the world - why and how

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:00 - Season 5: Episode 2

2:04 - Brilliant Books

3:07 - Bookish Moment of the Week

3:57 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

7:28 - Modern Lunch by Allison Day

8:54 - Current Reads

9:14 - Orange for the Sunsets by Tina Athaide (Roxanna)

16:20 - Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith (Kaytee)

16:51 - Season 4: Episode 29

16:54 - The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah Jones

17:21 - Cafe Con Libros

18:07 - Black Girl Songbook Podcast

20:25 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

20:57 - Check Please! By Ngozi Ukazu (Roxanna)

26:41 - Jubilee by Margaret Walker (Kaytee) 

27:17 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

28:58 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

29:00 - The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

29:38 - Kindred by Octavia Butler

31:34 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

31:46 - An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (Roxanna)

36:48 - Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

37:55 - Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer (Kaytee)

38:05 - Tiny Beautiful Things (Dear Sugar) by Cheryl Strayed

40:41 - Deep Dive: Reading the World

40:56 - Currently Reading Patreon (access to the reading log and much more!)

50:41 - Canada Reads

52:14 - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

52:45 - Lallan Sweets by Srishti Chaudhary 

55:00 - BookRiot

55:09 - Get Booked Podcast

55:42 - Strong Sense of Place Podcast

55:59 - The Next Chapter

56:33 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish I had a book with maps that explains the history and events of each place. (Roxanna)

59:15 - The History of the World Map by Map by DK and The Smithsonian Institute 

I wish I could keep better track of books coming to the screen. (Kaytee)

1:01:25 - The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (vol.1)

1:01:33 - Stardust by Neil Gaiman

1:01:35 - Coraline by Neil Gaiman

1:01:36 - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

1:01:38 - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

1:01:41 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: DNF progress and a new way of enjoying a book

• Current Reads: five books we’re excited to talk about and one that might cause some clutched pearls

• Deep Dive: the books we know are terrible but are our secret pleasures

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:43 - Bookish Moment of the Week

6:59 - The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World (Amazon Link) 

9:45 - Current Reads

10:01 - Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales (Kaytee)

14:25 - The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex (Meredith)

16:04 - Blackwell’s 

18:00 - Descent by Tim Johnston

18:01 - The Current by Tim Johnston

18:18 - The Lighthouse Witches by C. J. Cooke

18:19 - The Novel Neighbor

19:17 - When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor S. Schumann (Katyee)

23:35 - Masterminds and Wingmen by Rosalind Wiseman (Meredith)

24:02 - Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman

25:51 - NurtureShock by Po Bronson

28:15 - The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph (Kaytee)

30:24 - How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

31:44 - CONTENT WARNING FROM HERE TO THE FOUNTAIN. LITTLE EARS AND MINDY ARE NOT RECOMMENDED. 

32:36 - The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert (Meredith)

38:34 - Deep Dive: Books We Want to Hide While Reading

39:27 - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

41:03 - Blackout by Candace Owens

45:12 - The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert

45:27 - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

45:30 - 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James

50:37 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish that everyone had access to a great library card collection. (Kaytee)

51:04 - Libby

51:29 - Libro.fm

I wish everyone could experience fall reading to its fullest extent. (Meredith)

53:15 - Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth

53:23 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron

53:30 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage

53:41 - The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex

53:48 - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

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Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: reading to a new generation and an online event

• Current Reads: six books we read over the summer that we want you know to about

• Deep Dive: slow but steady reading, what works in this format and where do we fit it in?

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

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:38 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:45 - Stanley’s Library by William Bee 

3:54 - @teenybookshelf on Instagram

4:36 - Fabled Bookshop

6:24 - Current Reads

7:09 - American Predator by Maureen Callahan (Meredith)

12:47 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

13:00 - The Amityville Horror Jay Anson

13:32 - The Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Kaytee)

13:40 - Brilliant Books - K Edit: this bookstore is actually located in Traverse City in the LOWER peninsula of Michigan. Thanks to the many (many many) of you who pointed out my mistake. 

13:40 - Brilliant Books Monthly

14:21 - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

16:21 - Circe by Madeline Miller

16:22 - Lobizona by Romina Garber Russell

16:41 - Scorpica by G.R. McCallister

18:08 - The Search by Nora Roberts (Meredith)

23:14 - The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake (Kaytee)

23:33 - Libro FM ALC program

25:10 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

25:23 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

25:44 - The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake (pre-order)

26:13 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldtree

27:00 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher (Meredith)

33:06 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

33:45 - Upgrade by Blake Crouch (Kaytee)

36:57 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

37:00 - Recursion by Blake Crouch

37:15 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

38:17 - Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson

39:17 - Deep Dive: The Slowest and the Steadiest

39:21 - @Marys_bookish_musings on Instagram

41:26 - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

41:34 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

41:48 - Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby (Amazon link) 

41:49 - The New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby

42:22 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

42:49 - Roots by Alex Haley

45:34 - The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili 

45:45 - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

45:48 - Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke

48:11 - It by Stephen King

48:13 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King

48:37 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher

48:56 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish I could implement a family reading time in the evenings. (Kaytee)

I wish everyone could experience what we experience with the Indie Press List (Meredith)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: reporting back on homework and an exciting interview

• Current Reads: some great summer break reads from both of us, and one spicy opinion

• Deep Dive: we report back on how we spent our five weeks off and how much we missed you all!

• Book Presses: one last time - a very Kaytee book and a series starter to keep you going.

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:42 - Currently Reading Patreon

3:40 - The Bookshelf Thomasville

4:06 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:32 - Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume

6:58 - Fabled Bookshop

7:22 - Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard

7:25 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

7:26 - 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

8:33 - Current Reads

8:44 - Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith (Kaytee)

9:56 - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

11:45 - Scorpica by G. R McCallister (Meredith)

15:27 - Circe by Madeline Miller

16:06 - Furyborn by Claire Legrand

16:31 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Kaytee)

17:06 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

17:08 - Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin

20:09 - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Meredith)

22:26 - Half Price Books (They have lots of locations!) 

24:12 - A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera (Kaytee)

24:27 - Cafe Con Libros

27:49 - The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger (Meredith)

29:41 - Fabled Bookshop

31:48 - The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

32:38 - Deep Dive: Our Summer Vacation Recaps

34:57 - Glass Houses by Louise Penny

37:12 - Cinder by Melissa Meyer

37:15 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

41:37 - Season 1: Episode 24

43:36 - Books We’d Like To Press Into Your Hands (For the Last Time)

43:58 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley (Kaytee)

46:04 - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

46:13 - Death at Bishop’s Keep by Robin Paige (Meredith)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Some of our highlights and learning experiences from Season 4. Who can believe we are four full years into the podcast?

• Giving you 12 additional presses to fill up your summer and fall TBRs.

• If you want more presses, an additional 30 will be made available to Patreon subscribers next week!. Join us over at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast !

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:50 - Reflecting on Season 4

3:50 - Season 4: Episode 21 

4:19 - Season 4: Episode 26 

4:31 - Season 4: Episode 34

4:39 - Season 4: Episode 25

5:29 - Season 4: Episode 1

5:33 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

5:40 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

6:13 - Season 4: Episode 37 (the rainbow shelves episode)

6:53 - Season 4: Episode 26 

7:12 - Season 4: Episode 42 w/Kenda Adachi

8:21 - Currently Reading Patreon

17:54 - Email us your suggestions for cap segments at currentlypodcast@gmail.com or DM us on Instagram @currentlyreadingpodcast

18:39 - Currently Reading Patreon

19:23 - Listener Presses Part Two

19:34 - Lacy Eye by Jessica Treadway (Pressed by Beth)

23:31 - The Rent Collector by Camron Wright (Pressed by Mic)

26:49 - Five Little Indians by Michelle Good (Pressed by Francis)

30:08 - Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang (Pressed by Nicole)

30:45 - El Deafo by Cece Bell

30:46 - When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson

30:49 - New Kid by Jerry Craft

32:56 - Vicious by V.E. Schwab (Pressed by Katie)

34:37 - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

34:30 - An Unlikely Story 

35:01 - The Hierarchies by Ros Anderson (Pressed by Amanda)

36:38 - I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

36:39 - The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

36:40 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

37:52 - All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Murderbot #1)

38:04 - The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

38:21 - Beach Music by Pat Conroy (Pressed by Tiffany)

38:25 - Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy

40:08 - Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

41:24 - Answers in the Pages by David Levithan (Pressed by Avery)

44:38 - Afterlife by Julia Alvarez (Pressed by Amy)

46:22 - The Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry (Pressed by Michele)

48:13 - Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

48:40 - The Diddakoi by Rumor Godden (Pressed by Mary Faith, amazon link)

51:24 - The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (Pressed by Madeline)

53:14 - Currently Reading Patreon

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

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On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, we have a very special GROUP Show for you!

• All 5 of us got together to play a Bookish game of Never Have I Ever, and we think you’ll love it!

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:59 - Sorta Awesome Show

3:20 - Never Have I Ever… 

Never Have I Ever… hidden a book or book haul from my significant other

4:24 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

Never Have I Ever… read a thriller

6:17 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

6:25 - The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

6:26 - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

7:22 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 

Never Have I Ever… read a section from a romance aloud to my husband

9:36 - The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

Never Have I Ever… had a dream about a book character

11:18 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

13:02 - Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen

13:07 - A Place For Us by Fatima Fahreen Mirza

13:45 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

13:52 - Still Life by Louise Penny

14:45 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

15:07 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher

Never Have I Ever… lost a book and had to replace it

19:16 - Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allen Ahlberg

20:17 - How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind by Diana K. White

22:31 - Slippery Creatures by K.J. Charles

Never Have I Ever… DNFd a book for sex or violence

27:13 - I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

27:53 - The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

Never Have I Ever… owned less than 50 books

32:48 - Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin

Never Have I Ever… gotten pregnant or had a pregnancy scare due to scenes in a book that motivated my actions

35:36 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Never Have I Ever… read a book in one sitting

37:42 - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

39:28 - The Firm by John Grisham 

40:01 - Pelican Brief by John Grisham

40:07 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

40:28 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Never Have I Ever… lied to a friend about how I felt about a book they recommended to me

46:20 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

46:35 - Book Lovers by Emily Henry 

50:37 - Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony (amazon link)

Never Have I Ever brought a book to a concert or party to read and ignore people

Never Have I Ever hit on a guy/gal because of a book they were reading

58:56 - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

Today’s spoiler-free minisode includes a conversation between Meredith and author Travis Baldree. Travis is the author of Legends and Lattes, which has gone gangbusters through the Currently Reading community. Tune into this conversation with Travis to hear about:

• Emotional support books

• Cozy Fantasy: a Hallmark-style movie set in Dungeons and Dragons?

• The journey to publication

• Favorite characters

• Cover conversations

• Fan art

• The details on his next book

• The last 5-star book he read!

Minisode show notes are not timestamped, but linked titles are below for you to peruse. These are affiliate links, which kick back a small percentage of your purchase to the podcast, which helps support the show!

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree (pre-order at Bookshop, or buy it now at Amazon)

Nettle and Bone by T Kingfisher

Connect with Travis: on Instagram at @travis_baldree, on Facebook, Twitter or at his website

Contact the show at currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com.

You can find Meredith on Instagram @meredith.reads and Kaytee @notesonbookmarks

You can visit our website at www.currentlyreadingpodcast.com

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• 18 fantastic books that listeners want to Press into your hands! Get out your Library hold list!

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:05 - Darling Girl by Liz Michalski (pressed by Jenny)

5:05 - An American Radical by Tamer Elnoury (pressed by Kenzie)

6:57 - A Week in Winter by Marcia Willett (Amazon link) (pressed by Michael)

10:04 - The Ranger’s Apprentice: Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan (pressed by Mary)

12:10 - Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho (pressed by Michelle)

14:02 - A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske (pressed by Kimberley)

16:03 - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

16:43 - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (pressed by Andrea)

21:23 - The Binding by Bridget Collins (pressed by Brianna)

23:59 - The World Gives Way by Marissa Levien (pressed by Tara)

26:12 - The Hunting Wives by May Cobb (pressed by Ashley)

28:14 - In the Shelter by Padraig O’Tuama (pressed by Abigail)

30:17 - The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

30:48 - The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury (pressed by Rachel)

33:44 - When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill (pressed by Elise)

35:52 - Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott (pressed by Lexy)

38:14 - Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane (pressed by Lynette)

41:57 - The Hearts and Daggers Podcast

42:00 - The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner (pressed by Holly) 

42:10 - Holly’s Instagram @birdbrainbooks

44:08 - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 

45:53 - The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova (pressed by Amy)

47:47 - Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu (pressed by Courtny)

47:59 - The Novel Neighbor 

52:35 - Currently Reading Patreon

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a giant buddy read to be proud of and recommending specific books

• Current Reads: a mish mash of books across all genres

• Deep Dive: Meredith and Kaytee go into the specifics of writing a review and sharing it

• Book Presses: last presses of season 4! A violent but huggable book and a mystery that looks like it contains something different

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:22 - The Happier Podcast w/ Gretchen Rubin

13:20 - Bookish Moment of the Week

3:49 - When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor S. Schumann

6:10 - The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

8:06 - Current Reads

8:22 - A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Kaytee)

8:40 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

11:38 - When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill (Meredith)

13:29 - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

14:39 - The Change by Kirsten Miller

15:35 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

17:42 - Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman (Kaytee)

18:45 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

20:25 - Happy At Any Cost by Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre (Meredith) 

21:15 - Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh

21:54 - The Gilmore Guide to Books

24:21 - Love That Story by Jonathan Van Ness (Kaytee)

24:39 - Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness

27:13 - The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager (Meredith)

27:40 - Survive the Night by Riley Sager

32:57 - Deep Dive: How We Craft a Review

41:56 - @lonestarwords on Instagram

43:17 - The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

43:19 - The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

45:56 - When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

46:05 - Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

46:38 - @katieladyreads on Instagram

46:43 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

47:25 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

49:06  - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands

49:31 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (Kaytee)

51:45 - Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan (Meredith)

53:20 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: a new social media delight and a bookish gathering

• Current Reads: each of us sneakily convinces the other one to read a book that she wasn’t sure about before

• Deep Dive: we are planning the bookstacks to bring on your family vacation so that everyone can read together

• Book Presses: a YA drama from a favorite author and a diverse multiverse sci-fi adventure

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:24 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:07 - Mary’s picture book instagram @teenybookshelf 

5:07 - Current Reads

5:22 - Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau (Mary)

9:01 - A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw (Kaytee)

13:16 - When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord (Mary)

15:29 - Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

15:48 - You Have a Match by Emma Lord

16:07 - Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Melinda Lo (Kaytee)

18:46 - A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil (Mary)

18:50 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

18:51 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

21:19 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Kaytee)

21:30 - An Unlikely Story bookshop

24:21 - Deep Dive: Family Vacation Book Clubs

24:42 - @bookliz on Instagram

The Family that Solves Mysteries

27:01 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett

27:28 - Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson 

28:00 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 

28:22 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King 

The Family That Doesn’t Mind Breaking Their Brains

29:26 - The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier

30:07 - Upgrade by Blake Crouch

30:23 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

The Family That Cooks Together

431:07 - Taste by Stanley Tucci

31:24 - A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg

31:42 - Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

32:13 - Save me the Plums by Ruth Reichl

32:17 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay

The Family that Learns Together

32:59 - The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron

33:21 - Gumption by Nick Offerman

33:54 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

34:23 - Kaytee’s book recs for “The Family that learns stuff together”

• The Body by Bill Bryson
• Stiff by Mary Roach
• Packing for Mars by Mary Roach 

The Family That Wants to Include the Younger Generation

34:39 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

35:22 - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

35:32 - The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

The Family That Fancies Themselves Oprah’s Book Club

36:27 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

36:51 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

38:27 - Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

38:43 - Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black

The Family That Goes to the Woods

39:28 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

39:47 - Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman

40:05 - Upstream by Mary Oliver

40:39 - Devolution by Max Brooks

40:43 - A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

The Couples that Read Together

41:05 - The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

41:10 - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

42:18  - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands

42:38 - All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (Mary)

44:01 - Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

45:23 - The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Kaytee)

47:01 - The Hearts and Daggers Podcast Episode 11

47:06 - Holly’s Instagram @birdbrainbooks

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: working with a new bookstore and a reading chair conundrum

• Current Reads: we’ve got some wheelhouse reading here today including some non-fiction that we think you’ll love

• Deep Dive: the books we read during our childhoods that impacted the readers we are today

• Book Presses: two more of those childhood books that we want to make sure you’ve read

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:10 - Listener Press Episode: Record a voice memo on your phone with the following details:

Your name, where you’re from, the book’s title and author, a description of it and WHY you are pressing it.  These are DUE FRIDAY JUNE 17

4:29 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:57 - Cafe Con Libros Bookstore 

9:08 - Current Reads

10:23 - Taste by Stanley Tucci (Kaytee)

14:28 - Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak (Meredith)

18:07 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett

20:05 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

20:29 - A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll (Kaytee)

20:37 - Lexy @readlexyread on Instagram

20:42 - @thewilltoread on Instagram

24:00 - The Palace Papers by Tina Brown (Meredith)

24:55 - The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown

28:16 - HRH by Elizabeth Holmes

29:22 - Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

28:28 - Majesty by Katharine McGee

28:29 - American Royals by Katharine McGee

29:39 - World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Kaytee)

33:15 - Hide by Kiersten White (Meredith)

36:38 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

36:29 - Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven

30:03 - Deep Dive: Childhood Reading that Impacted Us

42:26 - First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple by Cameron West (Amazon Link)

43:39 - Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 

44:26 - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien 

46:13 - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 

46:57 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

48:41 - Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume

48:54 - Deenie by Judy Blume 

48:59 - Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume

49:01 - Blubber by Judy Blume 

49:13 - Forever by Judy Blume

49:55 - Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

50:51 - Maus by Art Spiegelman

50:56 - Night by Elie Weisel 

50:58 - The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

52:30 - Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton

52:31 - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

53:36 - West Side Story by Irving Shulman

53:48 - Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

53:55 - A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

53:56 - Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

55:00 - The Odyssey by Homer

55:01 - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

56:07  - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands

56:28 - The Giver by Lois Lowry (Kaytee)

1:00:05 - The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks (Meredith)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kendra Adachi is joining Meredith and Kaytee, and we are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: perfect reading weather, winning fifth grade, and bookish nerdiness

• Current Reads: the very first time this has happened in Currently Reading, there’s a double up!

• Deep Dive: we get to Lazy Genius a reading life and it’s the actual best

• Book Presses: and some non-fiction from authors we love

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:04 - The Lazy Genius Podcast 

2:01 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:34 - Currently Reading Patreon (where you get the friend map finder!)

5:28 - Current Reads

5:49 - Book Lovers by Emily Henry (Kendra AND Meredith)

12:01 - People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry 

12:05 - Beach Read by Emily Henry

12:48 - Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart (Kaytee)

15:53 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

16:05 - The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (Kendra)

17:43 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

17:45 - Dog Man by Dav Pilkey

17:47 - Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson

19:04 - The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate

20:42 - The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (Meredith)

22:51 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 

26:19 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt (Kaytee)

28:47 - As You Wish by Cary Elwes

30:03 - Deep Dive: The Lazy Genius Way for Reading 

33:28 - The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi

38:10 - Anne Bogel Summer Reading Guide

38:46 - The Lazy Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi

40:20 - The Seven Ps: Personality, Prioritize, Proficiency(Preferences), People, Pleasure, Process, and Peace

46:33 - Lazy Genius Newsletter Signup

51:27  - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands

51:52 - Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (Kendra)

54:22 - For the Love by Jen Hatmaker (Kaytee)

56:29 - The Lay Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi (Meredith)

1:00:45 - Liquid Index Lazy Genius Podcast Ep 261

1:01:13 - The Lazy Genius Kitchen Youtube Series

1:04:22 - @thelazygenius on Instagram

1:04:24 - thelazygeniuscollective.com

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and get some merch at
www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

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

• Bookish Moments: an Oprah moment and an interesting reading experience

• Current Reads: a beach read with teeth, serial killers, joy as protest, gosh, this episode is GOOD

• Deep Dive: Meet Roxanna!

• Book Presses: a stunning mystery and a chocolate chonker

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:14 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:57 - Season 3: Episode 5 of Currently Reading w/Roxanna

3:46 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

4:45 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

5:54 - Current Reads

6:13 - The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi (Roxanna)

8:24 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

9:30 - The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

11:00 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

11:39 - The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie (Meredith) 

16:13 - Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Roxanna)

21:38 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

22:10 - Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Meredith)

25:35 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

25:37 - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson 

28:25 - Season 3: Episode 38 

28:44 - A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark (Roxanna) (direct link to the story online but it’s also available as a kindle item!)

33:20 - A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark 

35:29 - All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) by Martha Wells

36:16 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree (Meredith)

42:28 - The Fellowship of the Ring (LOTR pt.1) by J. R. R. Tolkien

43:02 - Deep Dive: Roxanna’s Reading Life 

44:49 - What Should I Read Next

45:21 - Roxanna’s TED Talk

46:11 - currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com 

46:42 - Season 2: Episode 47 about book twins

46:58 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

47:48 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

55:57 - Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

57:06 - Currently Reading Patreon

57:34  - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands

58:00 - Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Roxanna)

1:00:22 - The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan

1:02:07 - The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (Meredith)

1:08:08 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 

1:08:48 - @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

1:09:04 - Currently Reading Zazzle store

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and get some merch at
www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: derailed reading and theater nerdery

• Current Reads: We are exceptionally murdery today. Sorry, not sorry.

• Deep Dive: books about all kinds of disasters

• Book Presses: a cozy series we love and a parenting book of joy

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:27 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:40 - Novel Memphis

4:51 - The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede

4:56 - Season 4: Episode 14

6:00 - Current Reads

6:14 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett (Meredith)

11:09 - Blackwell’s UK

11:53 - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (Kaytee)

15:07 - Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule (Meredith)

15:12 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule 

16:58 - Half Price Books

18:53 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse

18:55 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

19:07 - Shelf Subscription Bookshelf Thomasville

19:19 - Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibanez (Kaytee)

23:31 - The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch (Meredith)

24:59 - Holly @birdbrainbooks on Instagram

25:02 - Hearts and Daggers Podcast on Instagram

26:51 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

27:32 - The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks Sarah Pekkanen (Kaytee)

27:44 - The Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks Sarah Pekkanen

27:45 - The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks Sarah Pekkanen

27:46 - You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks Sarah Pekkanen

30:53 - Deep Dive: Disaster Books We Love

33:34 - Ordeal by Hunger by George Stuart (Amazon link)

34:03 - The Hunger by Alma Katsu

35:44 - The Fifth Season by N.K Jemison 

35:59 - The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner

37:00 - A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner

37:05 - As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner

37:53 - The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin

38:35 - We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly

39:35 - After the Flood by Kassandra Montag 

39:51 - Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

40:02 - Seven Years of Darkness by You-Jeong Jeong

40:43 - Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

41:25 - Salvage the Bones by Jessamyn Ward

42:20 - Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson

44:36 - The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

45:10 - Into the Drowning Deep by Jennifer McMahon

45:13 - Devolution by Max Brooks

45:35 - Parasite by Mira Grant

45:58  - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands

46:26 - The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams (Meredith)

49:17 - How to Be A Happier Parent by Kj Dell’antonia (Kaytee)

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

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@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast

Today’s spoiler-free minisode includes a conversation between Kaytee and author Yara Zgheib. Yara is the author of No Land to Light On, a heartbreaking and heart-mending love story of immigration and parenthood and leaving your heart across the ocean. This book was an Indie Press List pick for March from An Unlikely Story. Tune into my conversation with Yara to hear about:

• Writing as therapy

• Turning real world events into novel

• The humanity in every story

• Her personal connections to this story

• Travel and privilege

• How Ph.D.s are so useful

• Her favorite characters

• And of course: a book she wants to press into your hands.

Minisode show notes are not timestamped, but linked titles are below for you to peruse. These are affiliate links, which kick back a small percentage of your purchase to the podcast, which helps support the show!

No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib

The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

Connect with Brendan: on Instagram at @yarazgheibofficial, on Facebook, or at her website

Contact the show at currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com.

You can find Kaytee on Instagram @notesonbookmarks and Meredith @meredith.reads.

You can visit our website at www.currentlyreadingpodcast.com

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: finishing up school and reading when the wheels fall off

• Current Reads: all kinds of books for you today, readers

• Deep Dive: our five (personal) rules for reading

• Book Presses: falling in love with the octopus and a creepy twins

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:31 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:25 - Brave Writer 

5:28 - Current Reads

5:44 - Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl (Kaytee)

9:19 - My Mess is a Bit of a Life by Georgia Pritchett (Meredith)

10:09 - I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott

10:11 - Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott 

10:35 - NPR Interview with Georgia Pritchett

14:19 - The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs (Kaytee)

14:33 - Laura Tremaine’s Secret Stuff 

17:45 - Shady Hollow by Juneau Black (Meredith)

19:41 - Boswell Books 

19:54 - Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

19:56 - The Secret Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams 

19:58 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

20:47 - Cold Clay (Shady Hollow #2) by Juneau Black

22:25 - A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones (Kaytee)

22:32 - First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones (Charlie Davidson #1)

25:20 - Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

25:45 - Still Life by Louise Penny

26:35 - Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie (Meredith)

27:04 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live

31:12 - The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah 

31:20 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

31:24 - Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah

31:32 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

31:55 - Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow

32:19 - Deep Dive: Our 5 Rules for Reading

32:31 - The Painted Porch Bookshop

32:40 - The Daily Stoic

32:54 - Ryan Holiday’s 8 Rules for Reading Video 

33:26 - Season 1: Episode 19

33:54 - Season 2: Episode 37 of Bookend Homeschoolers

34:55 - Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie

47:29  - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands

47:49 - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery (Kaytee)

50:39 - Currently Reading Patreon

51:23 - @Bookishbetsie on Instagram @bookishbetsie on TikTok

51:34 - Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (Meredith)

53:44 - The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 

55:07 - The Shining by Stephen King

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

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@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: delightful Zoom meetings and used books for “complete” shelves

• Current Reads: some thrills, some nonfiction, some YA, and some romance

• Deep Dive: reading during a big life change

• Book Presses: a married people romance and a narrative non fiction gem

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:30 - Bookish Moment of the Week

1:46 - Mary Heim on Instagram

1:50 - Amy of @What_amy_reads on Instagram

5:30 - The Passengers by John Marrs

5:32 - The One by John Marrs

5:43 - thriftbooks.com

7:06 - Current Reads

7:31 - The Arc by Tori Henwood Hoen (Mary)

10:29 - The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta (Kaytee)

11:58 - Libro.fm

13:10 - article from the San Diego Tribune

13:48 - How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind by Dana K. White (Mary)

15:50 - The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi

18:03 - Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett (Kaytee)

19:30 - Long Bright River by Liz Moore

20:21 - Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez (Mary)

24:24 - Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown (Kaytee)

27:10 - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

27:12 - Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown

28:16 - Deep Dive: How We Read During Life Shifts 

28:22 - Season 4: Episode 33

31:49 - Lightseekers by Femi Kayode 

31:53 - The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

32:19 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

34:41 - Dry by Neal Shusterman

34:44 - Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

34:47 - One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

36:37 - Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

37:30 - The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins

38:14 - Wintering by Katherine May

39:22 - Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown

39:24 - The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

40:57 - The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren

40:59 - The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez

41:03 - As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds 

46:13  - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands

46:37 - The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams (Mary)

49:23 - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Kaytee)

49:27 - Season 3: Episode 39

49:31 - Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast.com

@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: new merch and a comfort read

• Current Reads: some books that were directly recommended by readers and ended up being big hits

• Deep Dive: our bookish confessions, in which we essentially play strip poker with opinions

• Book Presses: a book that is singular in its execution and an old school favorite

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your dishwasher detergent!) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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1:40 - Currently Reading Patreon

2:20 - Currently Reading Mighty Networks

4:35 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:48 - Currently Reading Zazzle Store

5:48 - Meredith’s “Scary Books are my Jam” mug

8:09 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

8:40 - Current Reads

8:45 - Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (Kaytee)

13:39 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

14:00 - The Son by Philipp Meyer (Meredith)

17:03 - Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

18:06 - East of Eden by John Steinbeck

18:08 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty

18:55 - Frankie and Bug by Gayle Foreman (Kaytee)

19:24 - If I Stay by Gayle Foreman

19:25 - Where She Went by Gayle Foreman

22:30 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

22:40 - These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant 

23:17 - NurtureShock by Po Bronson (Meredith)

27:00 - Black Birds in the Sky by Brandi Colbert (Kaytee)

28:11 - Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham

30:25 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay (Meredith)

32:07 - Storybound Subscription from Fabled