Currently Reading

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

• Bookish Moments: books as equalizers and kiddos who love books as much as we do

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

• Deep Dive: what we do to keep momentum in our reading lives

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

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

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1:33 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

6:35 - Grassrootz Bookstore 

8:08 - Our Current Reads

8:21 - Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh (Meredith)

10:26 - The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

11:44 - Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

11:55 - Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle (Kaytee)

12:21 - Pounded by the Pound by Chuck Tingle (amazon link)

12:31 - Taken by the Gay Unicorn by Chuck Tingle (amazon link)

12:41 - Aardvark Book Club

16:30 - The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (Meredith)

17:41 - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

22:13 - Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Kaytee)

22:35 - The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

26:16 - Come Closer by Sara Gran (Meredith)

27:42 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

31:08 - It Came from the Trees by Ally Russell (Kaytee)

35:19 - Deep Dive: Losing Momentum In Our Reading

49:21 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:27 - I wish to ask if you can find actual smutty books on the shelves in bookstores (like monster romance etc with the wild covers). (Meredith)

50:01 - The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert

50:32 - Neon Gods by Katee Robert

51:07 - Open Door Romance via Novel Neighbor

51:08 - The Novel Neighbor

51:15 - The Ripped Bodice Bookstore

52:04 - Still Life by Louise Penny (special edition w/sprayed edges, releases Sep. 30, 2025)

52:27 - I wish it was easier to get pretty versions of our favorite books. (Kaytee)

52:35 - The Hunger Games box set by Suzanne Collins (special edition with sprayed edges)

53:23 - Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

53:53 - Quicksilver by Callie Hart (special edition, pre order, releases Aug 19, 2025)

55:11 - The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. February’s IPL comes to you from Fables and Fairy Tales in Marinsville, Indiana!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: booktube and libraries enabling our hobbies

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

• Deep Dive: how to finish a book well

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

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

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1:35 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

4:08 - Megwithbooks on Youtube

6:29 - Blackwell’s UK

6:35 - Our Current Reads

6:43 - All Along You Were Blooming by Morgan Harper Nichols (Kaytee)

9:04 - Oscar Wars by Michael Schulman (Meredith)

13:13 - Whalefall by Daniel Kraus (Kaytee)

15:25 - Orbital by Samantha Harvey

16:00 -  Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

17:08 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

17:27 - A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Meredith, releases April 1, 2025)

21:57 - Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang (Kaytee)

24:28 - American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

25:23 - The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson (Meredith)

26:26 - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

28:37 - Deep Dive: How To Finish A Book Well

38:12 - StoryGraph

39:45 - Currently Reading Patreon (to get the tracker Kaytee mentions)

46:52 - Meet Us At The Fountain

46:56 - I wish it was more socially acceptable to be nosy in people’s reading lives. (Kaytee)

48:49 - I wish everyone would schedule a reading retreat this year. (Meredith)

Support Us:

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. February’s IPL comes to you from Fables and Fairy Tales in Marinsville, Indiana!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: audiobook listening and keeping track of book recs

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

• Deep Dive: we boss some TBRs

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

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

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:10 - Ad For Ourselves

1:16 - Currently Reading Patreon

5:11 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

12:48 - Our Current Reads

13:25 - True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik (Meredith)

14:38 - 100 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

18:48 - Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy (Kaytee)

19:05 - CR Season 6: Episode 40

22:08 - Getting Naked by Patrick Lencioni (Meredith)

22:50 - The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni

26:54 - The Night Ends with Fire by K.X. Song (Kaytee)

26:58 - Bright Side Bookshop

29:18 - The Dragon Wakes with Thunder by K.X. Song (pre-order, releases Aug 29, 2025)

29:44 - The Hike by Drew Magary (Meredith)

32:21 - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

32:57 - Fairy Tale by Stephen King

34:42 - The White Girl by Tony Birch (Kaytee)

34:53 - Garcia Street Books

36:29 - The Dry by Jane Harper

37:47 - Deep Dive: Boss My TBF

From Mari M.

38:38 - Life after Life by Kate Atkinson (pick #1)

38:41 - Life of Pi by Yann Martel (pick #2)

38:44 - Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab (pick #3)

38:48 - The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld (pick #4)

38:51 - The Wildest Sun by Asha Lemmie (pick #5)

38:57 - Cold People by Tom Rob Smith

39:00 - Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

From Judith

44:44 - Still Life by Sarah Winman

44:46 - Eve Green by Susan Fletcher

45:14 - The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah (pick #1)

45:17 - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawking (pick #2)

45:21 - A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (pick #3)

45:26 - The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown (pick #4)

45:29 - Forever Home by Graham Norton (pick #5)

46:03 - Orbital by Samantha Harvey

48:07 - A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos

48:40 - All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

48:55 - Zorrie by Laird Hunt

49:08 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:21 - I wish to let everyone know that A Journey To Three Pines will be coming in February and Wicked will be discussed on February 22nd.

49:49 - The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

50:08 - Wicked by Gregory MaGuire

50:12 - Currently Reading Patreon

54:22 - I wish that somehow Louise Penny would see Inspector Goosemache. (Kaytee)

Support Us:

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. February’s IPL comes to you from Fables and Fairy Tales in Marinsville, Indiana!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: reading resolutions and reading while being tattooed

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

• Deep Dive: all things DNF: how we define it, how we do it, etc.

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

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

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1:59 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

2:43 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

2:59 - Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri

11:17 - Our Current Reads

11:23 - Letters From Cuba by Ruth Behar (Kaytee)

17:33 - Murder Road by Simone St. James (Meredith)

22:41 - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

22:44 - The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James

22:47 - The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

23:12 - The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley (Kaytee)

27:32 - A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush (Meredith)

27:58 - @maryoliversdrunkcousin on Instagram

36:37 - Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Kaytee)

37:14 - @lizisreading_  on Instagram

38:01 - Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

39:41 - The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden

40:21 - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (Meredith)

45:04 - His & Hers by Alice Feeney

45:06 - Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney 

45:34 - Deep Dive: The Art Of The DNF

59:59 - Meet Us At The Fountain

1:00:10 - I wish to hang out with you all at the Tucson Festival of Books in March. (Kaytee)

1:00:13 - Tucson Festival of Books

*Send Kaytee and email at currentlyreadingpodcast @ gmail.com or directly message her person instagram @notesonbookmarks

1:01:39 - I wish to let you know about an app I found to track my Agatha Christie reading journey. (Meredith)

1:01:47 - Agatha Christie Reading List app

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. January’s IPL is a special episode in partnership with All Things Murderful and a total mystery and thriller stack from Fabled Bookshop in Waco, Texas!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Mary and Roxanna are sharing their favorite reads of 2024. We are excited to give them the reins for a full episode, and they bring some awesome reads for you to add to your TBR!

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

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1:24 - Mary and Roxanna’s Reading Year In review

2:06 - Mary read 84 books in 2024, 59% print, 24% digital, 17% audio

2:54 - Mary read 71% adult, 16% middle grade, 7% young adult and 6% new adult

4:29 - Currently Reading Patreon

7:45 - Roxanna read 70 books in 2024, 19 were 5-star reads.

8:18 - Roxanna read 81% fiction, 19%  nonfiction

9:09 - Both Mary and Roxanna want to increase their POC/Diverse reads im 2025.

10:48 - Mary and Roxanna’s Top Reads of 2024

10:57 - The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand (Roxanna #10)

12:15 - The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews

13:23 - The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon (Mary #10)

14:39 - Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

15:22 - Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah (Roxanna #9)

16:51 - How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz

17:45 - Death in the Dark Woods by Annelise Ryan  (Mary #9)

17:51 - A Death in Door County by Annelise Ryan

20:33 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (Roxanna #8)

21:13 - The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das

23:52 - Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman by Patrick Hutchison (Mary #8)

26:27 - It’s Easier than you Think by Sylvia Boorstein (Roxanna #7)

30:18 - A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush (Mary #7)

30:56 - @maryoliversdrunkcousin on Instagram

31:19 - Winter Hours by Mary Oliver

32:03 - Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark (Roxanna #6)

34:58 - The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer (Mary #6)

35:09 - The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

37:24 - Margot’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (Roxanna #5)

40:05 - The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman

41:52 - Heir by Sabaa Tahir (Mary #5)

43:47 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

46:44 - Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski (Roxanna #4)

50:12 - The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Mary #4)

53:38 - In the Shadow of the Mountain by Sylvia Vasquez-Lovado (Roxanna #3)

54:02 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

54:04 - Finding Me by Viola Davis

57:00 - The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night by Steven Banbury (Mary #3)

58:59 - Be Ready when the Luck Happens by Ina Garten (Roxanna #2)

1:02:08 - The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop

1:02:25 - The Baddest Bitch in the Room by Sophia Chang

1:04:36 - A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall (Mary #2)

1:08:22 - Matrix by Lauren Groff (Roxanna #1)

1:08:39 - Search by Michelle Huneven

1:11:15 - Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Mary #1)

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. January’s IPL is a special episode in partnership with All Things Murderful and a total mystery and thriller stack from Fabled Bookshop in Waco, Texas!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: virtual reading retreats and tattoos that lead to bookish convos

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

• Deep Dive: how we integrate our hobbies into our reading lives

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

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

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2:17 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

5:12 - @meg.al.reads on Instagram (Check her highlight called “Virtual R&R”)

8:18 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

9:01 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live

10:09 - Our Current Reads

10:20 - Blood at the Root by Ladarrion Williams (Mary)

12:49 - The Marvellers by Dhonnielle Clayton

12:52 - Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

13:41 - The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton (Kaytee)

13:48 - CR Season 1: Episode 1

13:56 - Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

17:53 - The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon (Mary)

22:20 - Peter Darling by Austin Chant (Kaytee)

26:17 - Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman by Patrick Hutchison (Mary)

27:54 - Downton Shabby by Hopwood DePree

29:09 - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Kaytee)

29:17 - CR Season 7: Episode 14

31:14 - Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterley

31:18 - Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsen

32:12 - @maryrobinettekowal on instagram

32:44 - Starter Villain by John Scalzi

33:27 - Deep Dive: Enjoying Hobbies While Reading

33:55 - The Princess Bride by William Goldman

34:05 - Long Dog Yarn

37:12 - Woobles

42:08 - BookBone

44:32 - @maryreadsandmakes on Instagram

48:44 - Fidget stones

50:18 - The Plan by Kendra Adachi

52:43 - Meet Us At The Fountain

52:52 - I wish we were at the stage in our home reno that I had my bookshelf back. (Mary)

54:42 - I wish for a better way to read one handed. (Kaytee)

54:54 - BookBone

56:18 - Ring kindle remote page turner

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. January’s IPL is a special episode in partnership with All Things Murderful and a total mystery and thriller stack from Fabled Bookshop in Waco, Texas!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are sharing their favorite reads of 2024. This year, we have two lists: favorite reading experiences and favorite books. With so many great reading experiences of… not so great books, we had to differentiate. We had some very surprising mentions, and no overlaps this year!

*Reading experiences are interspersed throughout the episode this year, and those are labeled with “RE”

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

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3:20 - Our Yearly Reading Overview

3:36 - Meredith Read 137 books total, 11% were 5 star reads

6:15 - Kaytee read 230 books total, 10% were 5 star reads

6:52 - 25% non fiction for Kaytee, 14% non fiction for Meredith

10:30 - Both read 60% backlist for the year

14:10 - Kaytee’s biggest recommendation source was Katie Proctor

15:05 - Meredith’s number one recommendation source was Elizabeth Barnhill

15:17 - @mother.horror on Instagram

16:25 - Kaytee’s top publishing houses were Berkely and W.W. Norton

16:38 - Meredith’s top publishing house was Minortaur, followed by Tor and Atria

19:05 - Currently Reading Patreon

20:00 - Our Top Reads of 2024

21:02 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (Meredith RE)

21:13 - Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

23:07 - Colton Gentry’s Third Act by Jeff Zentner (Kaytee RE)

23:33 - Currently Reading Patreon

24:36 - I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (Meredith #10)

25:35 - River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer (Kaytee #10)

25:30 - CR Season 7: Episode 10

26:35 - The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden (Meredith #9)

26:52 - The Booker Prize

28:10 - High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver (Kaytee #9)

28:22 - CR Season 6: Episode 44

29:34 - Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (Meredith RE)

29:36 - The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

31:47 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Kaytee RE)

32:46 - The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland (Meredith #8)

34:14 - Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Kaytee)

34:17 - CR Season 7: Episode 14

35:02 - The Mars House by Natasha Pulley (Meredith #7)

36:39 - Charter Books

36:44 - A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (Kaytee #7)

36:48 - CR Season 6: Episode 36

40:31 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes (Kaytee’s Favorite protagonist)

41:11 - The Odyssey by Homer (Kaytee’s Least Favorite protagonist)

42:42 - The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller (Merdith’s Least Favorite protagonist)

44:10 - Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (Meredith’s favorite protagonists)

44:27 - The Stand by Stephen King

46:19 - The Examiner by Janice Hallett (Meredith #6)

48:21 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett

48:34 - Family Family by Laurie Frankel (Kaytee #6)

48:50 - CR Season 6: Episode 34

49:48 - The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (Meredith #5)

51:24 - The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon (Kaytee #5)

53:41 - The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett (Meredith RE)

55:22 - “In person bookish delight” (Kaytee RE)

55:32 - Roscoe Books

55:40 - Boswell Books

55:48 - The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher

55:50 - The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley

56:38 - Confessions by Kanae Minato (Meredith #4)

58:38 - James by Percival Everett (Kaytee #4)

58:40 - CR Season 6: Episode 39

58:43 - National Book Award

58:50 - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

1:00:03 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Meredith #3)

1:02:58 - An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (Kaytee #3 - The whole series)

1:02:58 - A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

1:02:58 - A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

1:02:58 - A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir

1:03:06 - CR Season 7: Episode 5

1:05:42 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Meredith RE)

1:06:25 - “Letting myself get swept away by series: (Kaytee RE)

1:06:36 - Swift and Saddled by Lyla Sage

1:06:38 - Lost and Lassoed by Lyla Sage

1:06:39 - Wild and Wrangled by Lyla Sage

1:07:25 - The Stand by Stephen King (Meredith #2)

1:09:35 - Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

1:10:12 - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune (Kaytee #2)

1:10:15 - CR Season 6: Episode 35

1:12:34 - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Meredith #1)

1:14:44 - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Kaytee #1)

1:18:31 - Currently Reading Patreon

Support Us:

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. January’s IPL is a special episode in partnership with All Things Murderful and a total mystery and thriller stack from Fabled Bookshop in Waco, Texas!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are taking a look back at their favorite reads of 2020. This year we read the most we had ever read up. to that point, and we had a hard time narrowing down our favorites! Most of these books should be available for you to grab if any interest you after hearing us rave about them four years ago!

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

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10:10 - El Deafo by CeCe Bell (Meredith)

11:20 - Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West (Kaytee)

11:27 - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

12:23 - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (Meredith)

15:07 - With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (Kaytee)

16:11 - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (Meredith)

17:27 - Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (Kaytee)

17:54 - Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

19:12 - Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Meredith)

21:04 - The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart (Kaytee)

22:50 - Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz (Meredith)

23:05 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

24:21 - Know My Name by Chanel Miller (Kaytee)

26:15 - The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi (Meredith)

27:55 - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare (Kaytee)

28:29 - Kaytee’s minisode interview with Abi Dare

28:57 - All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny (Meredith)

30:55 - Lobizona by Romina Russell Garber (Kaytee)

32:42 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Meredith)

34:39 - Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Kaytee)

36:27 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam (Meredith)

39:45 - Here for It by R. Eric Thomas (Kaytee)

40:52 - Greenwood by Michael Christie (Meredith)

43:33 - Pride by Ibi Zoboi (Kaytee)

43:36 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Welcome, readers. We are so excited to continue this new content from the creators of Currently Reading Podcast! This spin-off 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.

Show notes for this series will not be time-stamped, but will still 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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I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

1:29 - Previews

Book Name and release date. Sales info and awards.

I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Glass Key Awards

Movie name and release date. Box office and awards.

Edda Awards

7:34 - The Cutting Room

Pivotal Book scenes and how they translated to the screen

The building falling

The finding of the body underneath the crawlspace

Changes from Book to Movie

The Trio Bringing Benni to Hysteri

Timelines do not line up

Removal of plot points in movie, like an affair and accident for one character

Vandalized church in movie, primary school in book

Renovating vs redecorating

Outcome of Lif and Garðar  

Additional drama around pregnancies in the movie

Left out of the adaptation

Changes in Lif’s life

Explanations of the house or why it was purchased

Putti the dog

Dead brother

Lif’s entire life changes

The title itself is confusing

Added to the movie

Modernized the story - electricity, generators, etc.

Casting and alternates

Freyr: Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson → Carl Urban, Alan Ritchson, Tom Hardy

Dagny: Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir → Toni Collette, Judy Greer, Dakota Johnson

Katrin: Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir → Maya Hawke, Jenna Ortega, Aubrey Plaza

Lif: Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir →  Fanning sisters Dakota and Elle, Chloe Grace Moretz,Sydney Sweeney

Garðar: Thorvaldur Kristjansson → Jeremy Allen White, Glen Powell,

Problematic elements

Lack of diversity

Leaving Sarah to suffer in her own “crazy”

35:38 - Award Season

Worst and best parts of the adaptation.

Katrin’s fate

Should have been scarier

The soundtrack or lack thereof

The sense of place

Worst and best actors.

Lif

Freyr

Worst and best book characters.

Lif

Bernodus’s Dad

Putti the dog

Dagny

47:57 - Book/Flick Energy

Book scored on a 5 star scale.

Book on Goodreads

Series scored on a 10 point scale.

Movie on Rotten Tomatoes

Movie on IMDB

53:58 - A Leftover Popcorn Kernel

Do you believe in ghosts and have you ever had anything supernatural happen to you?

What would make an Airbnb scary enough for you to leave in the middle of the night?

1:00:33 - End Credits

Erasure by Percival Everett

American Fiction is available on Amazon Prime

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

• Bookish Moments: mistletoe horror and book to screen adaptations

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

• Deep Dive: how to fit in reading during the holidays

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

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4:03 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

4:21 - 25 Days by Per Jacobson

8:50 - Wicked by Gregory McGuire

9:23 - The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

9:37 - The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

9:39 - Landlines by Raynor Winn

9:49 - Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

10:43 - Our Current Reads

10:56 - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty (Meredith)

16:15 - The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson (Kaytee)

16:24 - Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

16:37 - Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

16:38 - Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

16:48 - White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

21:00 - Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth (Meredith, amazon link)

25:29 - Many Things Under a Rock by David Scheel (Kaytee)

28:01 - Secrets of the Octopus by Sy Montgomery

28:03 - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

29:05 - The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

33:23 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Kaytee)

35:39 - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

35:54 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

35:55 - Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree

36:56 - Fitting In Reading Around The Holidays

48:27 - Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time #1)

51:37 - Meet Us At The Fountain

52:32 - I wish we would take the time to rate our books by superlatives. (Meredith)

54:00 - I wish to have a holiday book exchange instead of a cookie exchange. (Kaytee)

55:46 - Currently Reading Patreon

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

• Bookish Moments: new book subscriptions and audiobooks coming in clutch

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

• Deep Dive: we make wishes to the holiday book fairy

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

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:10 - Bite Size Intro

1:01 - Book of the Month

1:36 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

1:46 - Aardvark Book Club

4:07 - Book of the Month

6:28 - The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

7:58 - AirPods 4

9:34 - Our Current Reads

9:37 - Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin (Kaytee)

11:33 - Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb

13:48 - The Echo Man by Sam Holland (Meredith)

18:08 - The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup

18:24 - We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado (Kaytee)

24:47 - Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (Meredith)

24:55 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

27:24 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

29:24 - The Night In Question by Susan Fletcher (Kaytee)

31:35 - A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

31:39 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

32:07 - Roscoe’s Books

32:21 - CR Season 6: Episode 48

33:39 - A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews (Meredith)

39:50 - Wishes To The Holiday Book Fairy

50:29 - Meet Us At The Fountain

50:44 - I wish to press The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede. (Kaytee)

50:45 - The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede

52:47 - I wish to remind you about Christmas ASMR rooms. (Meredith)

53:08 - Old Library Christmas ASMR Room

53:19 - Winter Morning ASMR Room

53:36 - Christmas Fireplace ASMR Room

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• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

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

• Bookish Moments: relying on books when sick and bookish themed parties

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

• Deep Dive: bookishness that we are thankful for

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

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1:29 - Ad For Ourselves

1:53 - Currently Reading Patreon

8:19 - Fabled Bookshop

9:13 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

11:33 - Currently Reading Patreon

12:42 - Our Current Reads

13:03 - The Ruins by Scott Smith (Meredith)

14:15 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

17:55 - The Turtle House by Amanda Churchill (Kaytee)

18:01 - Commonplace Books

19:40 - Betty by Tiffany McDaniel

21:09 - Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten (Meredith)

26:56 - Bonk by Mary Roach (Kaytee)

29:43 - Gulp by Mary Roach

31:01 - The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey (Meredith)

36:12 - Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross (Kaytee)

36:27 - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

36:35 - Fairyloot

38:51 - All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

39:51 - The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

39:52 - Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley

40:26 - Bookishness We Are Thankful For

41:47 - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

41:56 - Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh 42:17 - Are You There? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume 43:52 - Matilda by Roald Dahl

44:00 - The Witches by Roald Dahl

44:01 - The Twits by Roald Dahl

44:02 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

45:27 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

45:35 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

47:05 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

48:16 - Lobizona by Romina Garber Russell

51:56 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

52:18 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

52:56 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

53:30 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer

54:26 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

56:04 - The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

56:09 - Meet Us At The Fountain

56:13 - I wish you would consider the new airpod 4s as a gift to yourself this year. (Meredith)

56:16 - AirPods 4

1:01:36 - I wish to press Mr. Dickens and his Carol by Samantha Silva. (Kaytee)

1:01:37 - Mr. Dickens and his Carol by Samantha Silva 

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• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

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

• Bookish Moments: book buying sprees and being book pushers

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

• Deep Dive: how to and how not to raise readers

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

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1:29 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

2:04 - Thriftbooks

2:09 - I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

2:15 - Bookshop.org

5:57 - Our Current Reads

6:09 - Us by Sara Soler (Kaytee)

8:51 - Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

9:47 - Foe by Iain Reid (Meredith)

11:43 - I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

14:40 - The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Kaytee)

16:26 - Hatchet by Gary Paulson

16:45 - CR Season 2: Episode 21

18:13 - Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson (Meredith)

21:24 - Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

22:38 - How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

23:06 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes (Kaytee)

23:15 - CR Season 5: Episode 31

25:07 - A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

25:17 - The Children of Jacosta by Natalie Haynes

26:46 - The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny (Meredith)

30:38 - State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hillary Clinton

37:45 - Raising Readers

40:55 - CR Season 1: Episode 28 w/ Jackson and Micah

45:40 - Dungeons and Drama by Kirsty Boyce 46:29 - The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer (Land of Stories #1) 50:26 - The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

53:23 - Meet Us At The Fountain

53:29 - I wish for someone to pick your next read. (Kaytee)

55:57 - I wish to recommend the book The Family Game by Catherine Steadman (Meredith)

55:57 -​​ The Family Game by Catherine Steadman

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• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

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

• Bookish Moments: disappointing kindles and random things as wrappers

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

• Deep Dive: letting you know the bookish people, places, and podcasts we love

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

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1:50 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

2:07 - Kindle Colorsoft

5:16 - Kindle Paperwhite

10:16 - Our Current Reads

10:27 - The Killing Season by Mason Cross (Meredith)

12:46 - The Book Drop

15:25 - The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood (Kaytee)

17:19 - The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

19:00 - The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand

19:47 - The Grip of It by Jack Jemc (Meredith)

22:43 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

23:35 - House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski 

23:36 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

24:59 - Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abike-Iyimide (Kaytee)

26:46 - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

26:48 - One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus

27:24 - Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

28:22 - Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara (Meredith)

32:35 - Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper (Kaytee)

34:50 - Content Bookstore

35:40 - Spreading Bookish Love

35:53 - @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

37:33 - @wacoreads on Instagram 37:38 - @anunlikelystory on Instagram

37:46 - @mother.horror on Instagram 37:54 - @birdbrainbooks on Instagram 38:12 - @lizisreading_ on Instagram 38:36 - @jessielynnweaver on Instagram 38:38 - @joyinabook on Instagram 38:56 - @fictionmatters on Instagram 39:22 - @parnassusbooks on Instagram 39:34 - @barbarakingsolver on Instagram 39:49 - @novelneighbor on Instagram 39:54 - @fabledbookshop on Instagram 

40:16 - @kingsenglishbookshop on Instagram 40:17 - @charterbooks on Instagram 

40:22 - @schulerbooks on Instagram  

40:30 - @brightsidebookshop on Instagram 40:38 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live podcast

40:39 - Hearts and Daggers Podcast

40:42 - Diving In Podcast

40:53 - @ezeekat on Instagram

41:23 - @monsieurmarple on Instagram

41:38 - @megs.tea.room on Instagram

41:45 - @bookhuddle on Instagram

41:56 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

42:06 - @tbretc on Instagram

42:06 - Book Talk, Etc. Podcast

42:16 - TBR, etc. Youtube

42:24 - @suonnahbooks on Instagram

44:03 - @thisone0verhere on Instagram 

44:15 - @davidgatepoet on Instagram

44:37 - @novelvisits on Instagram

45:42 - @readlexyread on Instagram

47:00 - Meet Us At The Fountain

47:23 - I wish for you to listen to Ep. 243 of Laura Tremaine’s 10 Things To Tell You Podcast. (Meredith)

48:24 - Ep. 239 w/Meredith on Laura Tremaine’s 10 Things To Tell You podcast

48:45 - I wish for everyone to plan their holiday reading. (Kaytee)

49:15 - Christmas in Rose Bend by Naima Simone

49:21 - Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret by Benjamin Stevenson

49:26 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

49:29 - Cold People by Tom Rob Smith 49:30 - Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

49:32 - The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand

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• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. November’s IPL comes to us from Charter Books in Newport, Rhode Island!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

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Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: book talks in the wild and new Louise Penny books

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

• Deep Dive: our reading rituals

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

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1:29 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

2:26 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

3:37 - The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

5:10 - Our Current Reads

5:15 - Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood (Kaytee)

8:29 - Peg and Rose Solve a Murder by Laurien Berenson (Meredith) 

12:50 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

14:25 - Bear by Julia Phillips (Kaytee)

14:31 - Booktenders 

18:24 - Winter Hours by Mary Oliver (Meredith)

19:02 - A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

21:13 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

22:17 - Upstream by Mary Oliver

22:39 - The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown (Kaytee)

27:14 - CR Season 6: Episode 48

25:08 - The Book Wanderers by Anna James

27:12 - Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby (Meredith)

31:36 - Our Reading Rituals

38:47 - Book Darts

45:11 - Dual Side cooling blanket

49:36 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:43 - I wish for you to reflect on your “grades” of your reading rituals. (Kaytee)

54:06 - I wish for you to listen to the Poirot Pals podcast if you are like me and getting through all the Hercule Poirot books by Agatha Christie. (Meredith)

54:21 - Poirot Pals Podcast

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. November’s IPL comes to us from Charter Books in Newport, Rhode Island!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: following us on Instagram and new bookish lego sets

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

• Deep Dive: we are bossing more TBRs!

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

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1:24 - Ad For Ourselves

1:37 - Currently Reading Patreon

5:02 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

5:44 - @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

9:40 - Books Are My Passion Lego

12:23 - Our Current Reads

12:39 - The Hollow by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

16:41 - Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

16:43 - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

17:26 - A Pirate’s Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne (Kaytee)

18:52 - Can’t Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

20:15 - @megs.tea.room on Instagram

20:21 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

21:09 - Daily Rituals by Mason Currey (Meredith)

26:27 - On Writing by Stephen King 

27:07 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (Kaytee)

27:14 - CR Season 7: Episode 7

31:40 - 17 Years Later by J.P. Pomare (Meredith)

36:53 - Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Kaytee)

40:00 - @thewilltoread on Instagram

41:40 - Boss My TBR

From Morgan N.

42:35 - The Art Thief by Michael Finkle

42:37 - Hyde by Craig Russell

42:39 - Diavola by Jennifer Thorne

42:41 - The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman

42:43 - Slewfoot by Brom

42:50 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

42:52 - The Examiner by Janice Hallett

From Katie P.

46:42- Making It So by Patrick Stewart

46:50 - The Dry by Jane Harper

46:52 - Blood & Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (amazon link)

47:02 - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

47:06 - The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

47:24 - This Motherless Land by Nikki May

47:27 - Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London

50:55 - Meet Us At The Fountain

51:30 - I wish books would have shorter chapters. (Meredith)

51:03 - Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

51:11 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

53:13 - @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram (Meredith’s wish #2 is to follow us!!)

53:24 - I wish to press Taste by Stanley Tucci into everybody’s hands. (Kaytee)

53:24 - Taste by Stanley Tucci

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

• Bookish Moments: finding new ways to listen to audiobooks and getting new kindles

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

• Deep Dive: how our spooky season reading is going so far

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

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2:04 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

2:37 - Spotify

2:57 - libro.fm

3:04 - Everand

8:01 - Fabled Bookshop

8:39 - New Kindle Colorsoft

9:15 - Viozon Tablet Stand Pillow 

11:58 - Kindle Paperwhite

12:49 - Our Current Reads

13:19 - Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (Mary)

13:28 - Hearts and Daggers Podcast

18:52 - Someone in the Attic by Andrea Mara (Meredith)

18:57 - All Her Fault by Andrea Mara

21:06 - Fabled Bookshop

22:31 - Blackwell’s UK

23:50 - A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush (Mary)

24:00 - @maryoliversdrunkcousin on Instagram

26:46 - The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga (Meredith)

32:46 - The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night by Steven Banbury (Mary)

34:25 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

36:08 - After Oz by Gordon McAlpine (Meredith)

41:20 - How to be Eaten by Maria Adelmann

42:07 - Book Talk, etc.

42:20 - How Spooky Reading Is Going

44:58 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

45:29 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

48:41 - It’s Easier Than You Think by Sylvia Boorstein

51:16 - Meet Us At The Fountain

51:30 - I wish AI would fill in my reading tracker for me. (Mary)

51:32 - Currently Reading Patreon

55:39 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

55:41 - Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

56:09 - I wish more authors would write series knowing we will read them all. (Meredith)

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• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

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

• Bookish Moments: forgetting how to read and introducing new furry pals

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

• Deep Dive: if we retain what we read and if it matters

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

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1:28 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

8:56 - Our Current Reads

9:00 - Packing for Mars by Mary Roach (Kaytee)

9:16 - Packing for Mars for Kids by Mary Roach

13:16 - Stiff by Mary Roach

14:34 - Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson (Meredith)

16:38 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

20:47 - Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent

21:09 - Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson (Kaytee)

26:24 - The Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas (Meredith)

31:47 - The Duke Gets Desperate by Diana Quincy

32:09 - Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (Kaytee)

35:08 - Content Bookstore

36:31 - I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (Meredith)

36:35 - 10 Things To Tell You ep. 239 w/Meredith

37:52 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

38:10 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live Patreon (her spoiler filled episode about Iain Reids book is on Patreon)

38:29 - Fabled Bookshop

43:18 - Foe by Iain Reid

43:32 - Retaining What We Read

44:51 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

47:21 - A Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

49:30 - The Change by Kirsten Miller

51:59 - I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

52:50 - Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

53:04 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

53:39 - NYT article “At Capacity”

55:02 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

55:49 - Meet Us At The Fountain

55:58 - I wish to let you know about the storyteller word a day calendar (Kaytee)

56:03 - Mrs. Wordsmith Storytellers Word a Day

58:02 - I wish the newest Louise Penny book will be good (Meredith)

58:07 - The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

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• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

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

• Bookish Moments: meeting bookish friends IRL and getting fun bookish mail

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

• Deep Dive: fall books that aren’t spooky, scary or academia

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

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

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1:57 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

3:25 - Queen Books

7:21 - Amari and the Despicable Wonders by B.B. Alston

7:26 - Blackwell’s UK

7:46 - The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues by Beth Lincoln

7:50 - The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln

8:04 - Silverborn by Jessica Townsend

8:21 - Heir by Sabaa Tahir

8:26 - Libro.fm

8:33 - Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

9:06 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

10:00 - Our Current Reads

10:12 - Fellowship Point by Alice Eliott Dark (Roxanna)

15:07 - Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk by Kathleen Rooney

16:11 - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Kaytee)

21:14 - The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman (Roxanna)

22:49 - Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple

24:42 - The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean (Kaytee)

24:50 - Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

27:47 - Cold Blood Liar by Karen Rose

29:25 - Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis (Roxanna)

31:02 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding

31:03 - Animal Farm by George Orwell

34:14 - A Short Walk Through A Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke (Kaytee)

34:20 - Commonplace Books

36:09 - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

36:49 - Currently Reading Patreon

38:55 - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

40:17 - Fall Books That Are Not Spooky

41:24 - Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

42:58 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

43:28 - September by Rosamunde Pilcher

44:10 - Still Life by Louise Penny

44:54 - First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen (Amazon link)

45:08 - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

45:38 - Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

46:06 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

46:08 - The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory

46:12 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

46:30 - Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

47:22 - The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith

48:03 - The Song Collector by Natasha Solomons (Amazon link)

48:31 - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

49:07 - Search by Michelle Huneven

49:45 - House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister

50:19 - The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

50:33 - Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal

50:40 - Go as a River by Shelley Read

50:56 - Stardust by Neil Gaiman

51:02 - The Princess Bride by William Goldman

51:57 - Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

52:05 - Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

52:31 - The Guide by Peter Heller

52:41 - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

53:20 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

53:36 - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstein

54:14 - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

55:41 - Meet Us At The Fountain

57:15 - Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

57:22 - I wish you would consider re-reading books that bring you joy. (Roxanna)

58:03 - I wish to always have an “in case of emergency” book. (Kaytee)

58:17 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

58:57 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

58:58 - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

59:00 - Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. October’s IPL comes to us from our anchor store, The Novel Neighbor!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

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

• Bookish Moments: being the bookish person at work and discussing books in grocery stores

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

• Deep Dive: authors we would take a day off to mourn over

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

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1:24 - Ad For Ourselves

1:28 - Currently Reading Patreon

1:59 - The Novel Neighbor

4:08 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

4:38 - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

4:44 - Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara

6:50 - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

8:14 - Our Current Reads

8:29 - Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer (Meredith)

8:33 - CR Season 6: Episode 48

10:19 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

14:19 - Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly (Kaytee)

14:25 - A Room of One’s Own bookshop

17:12 - Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin

17:16 - An Unlikely Story

17:41 - Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley (Meredith)

17:52 - The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

24:57 - Let the Games Begin by Rufaro Faith Mazarura (Kaytee)

28:15 - Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent (Meredith)

29:47 - Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent

33:08 - River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer (Kaytee)

36:58 - Authors We Would Mourn Over

46:03 - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

50:00 - Meet Us At The Fountain

50:09 - I wish I could sometimes read like my husband does. (Meredith)

51:33 - Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

53:36 - I wish to press This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (Kaytee)

53:37 - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

53:57 - Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. October’s IPL comes to us from our anchor store, The Novel Neighbor!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

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

• Bookish Moments: bookish crafting and annotation gift sets

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

• Deep Dive: diving into research about why reading makes us better humans

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

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

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1:24 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

2:11 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

5:47 - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

5:51 - I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet by Shauna Niequist

5:55 - Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist

6:28 - Annotation gift set by Mr. Pen and Selah

8:43 - Annotation Set option 2

9:38 - Our Current Reads

9:48 - Between Flowers and Bones by Carolyn Leiloglou (Kaytee)

9:53 - CR Season 6: Episode 4

10:41 - Beneath the Swirling Sky by Carolyn Leiloglou

14:09 - Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman (Meredith)

15:06 - Bird Box by Josh Malerman

15:10 - Daphne by Josh Malerman

15:34 - Coraline by Neil Gaiman

20:59 - Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

21:01 - Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

21:05 - We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

21:54 - Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (Kaytee)

26:45 - The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Patrick Lencioni (Meredith)

28:05 - The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni

29:54 - The Five Temptations of a CEO by Patrick Lencioni

29:56 - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

32:47 - Search by Michelle Huneven

34:13 - Unraveling by Peggy Orenstein (Kaytee)

37:38 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (Meredith)

40:16 - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

41:15 - Blackwell’s UK

43:09 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

46:02 - CR Season 1: Episode 37

47:33 - How Reading Changes Us For The Better

Some Stats:

49:26 - The average reading American reads 12 books per year. 

49:50 - The average American spends just $35 on books per year.

50:17 - Reading can reduce our stress levels by 68% in just six minutes.

51:04 - Reading can reduce memory decline by 30% because it activates neural pathways and can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

52:18 - Transportative fiction helps produce the most empathy in readers, but that empathy boost only lasts around 48 hours, so keep reading!

53:10 - Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

54:31 - Audiobooks are reading! Studies have shown that audiobooks activate the same neural pathways and cognitive benefits as print reading.

54:50 - Research shows we are less impatient with audiobooks than print.

56:02 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

57:13 - Meet Us At The Fountain

57:19 - I wish people would celebrate their reading in new ways. (Kaytee)

57:36 - Canon Ivy 2 Mini Photo Printer

57:44 - Storygraph

58:01 - Favorite Books of the Year print - Etsy Shop

58:31 - I wish you would give annotating books a try. (Meredith)

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• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

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Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

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Welcome, readers. We are so excited to continue this new content from the creators of Currently Reading Podcast! This spin-off 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.

Show notes for this series will not be time-stamped, but will still 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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Stardust by Neil Gaiman

1:29 - Previews

Book Name and release date. Sales info and awards.

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Illustrated Version illustrated by Charles Vess

HP Illustrated Editions by JK Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay

Alex Awards

Movie name and release date. Box office and awards.

Stardust on Prime

GLAAD Media Awards

7:26 - The Cutting Room

Pivotal Book scenes and how they translated to the screen

Turning the goats and chariot into the inn

The killings of the brothers

The ending that isn’t

The climax that IS

Changes from Book to Movie

Story timeline

The Power of Stormhold stone

Witch hair

Yvain’s leg

TrisTRAN

Yvain’s hatred of Tristran

Tristran’s “heritage” reveal

Yvain’s attempt to cross the wall

Left out of the adaptation

Charmed, the small hairy man

Unicorn fight with the lion

Nursery rhymes

Another Missing Sister

Una’s freedom

Added to the movie

Gay pirates!

Alberic → Shakespeare

Tristran’s haircut

Climax scene in the Witches’ home

Casting and alternates

TrisTRAN: Charlie Cox → Ben Barnes, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Radcliffe, Shia LaBeouf, Toby Maguire, Hayden Christianson

Yvain: Claire Daines → Sarah Michelle Gellar, Hayden Panetierre, Reese Witherspoon, Brittany Snow

Lamia: Michelle Pfieffer → Tilda Swinton, Nicole Kidman, Emma Thompson

Captain Shakespeare: Robert Deniro →  Burt Reynolds, Al Pacino

Narrator: Ian McKlellan → Patrick Stewart

Problematic elements

Neil Gaiman’s sexual assault charges

The Graveyard Book movie on hold

Good Omens series on hold

Lack of racial diversity as well

Women as property

Women’s inability to lead

35:50 - Award Season

Worst and best parts of the adaptation.

Gay pirates

A feeling of “rushing”

The romance

The pirates - HA

Worst and best actors.

Primus

Victoria

Michelle Pfeiffer

Charlie Cox

Worst and best book characters.

Tristan

The Unicorn

Yvain

48:00 - Book/Flick Energy

Book scored on a 5 star scale.

Book on Goodreads

Series scored on a 10 point scale.

Movie on Rotten Tomatoes

Movie on IMDB

51:31 - A Leftover Popcorn Kernel

Where would you travel with a Babylon Candle?

How would you want to die if your ghost was captured at the moment of death?

54:53 - End Credits

I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

I Remember You is rentable through many outlets

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

• Bookish Moments: Feeling like a lady of yore and how bookstores contain the best people

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

• Deep Dive: answering the question “What is some advice you would tell your past readerly self"?”

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

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

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1:23 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

1:52 - Tubicen Portable Table Lamp

9:42 - Our Current Reads

10:01 - The Clackity by Lora Senf (Meredith)

13:48 - The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

14:29 - Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb (Kaytee)

17:52 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

19:01 - The Night Swim by Megan Goldin (Meredith, Amazon link)

22:57 - Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV (Kaytee)

26:29 - Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe

26:35 - El Deafo by Cece Bell

27:03 - The Mesmerist by Caroline Woods (Meredith)

29:01 - Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

32:11 - All This and More by Peng Shepherd (Kaytee)

32:35 - Bright Side Bookshop

32:44 - The Book of M by Peng Shepherd

35:36 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

35:38 - Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

36:37 - The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd 

39:06 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

40:04 - Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore

40:33 - Deep Dive: Advice For Our Past Readerly Selves

42:46 - CR Season 7: Episode 1

42:48 - Morning Glory Milking Farm by C. M. Nacosta

54:10 - Meet Us At The Fountain

54:55 - I wish there was a searchable database for every piece of content related to books we talk about on CR, books I’ve read, etc. (Meredith)

57:04 - Currently Reading Patreon

58:53 - I wish all authors would just do the right thing. (Kaytee)

59:11 - Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Support Us:

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. September’s IPL comes to us from Bright Side Bookshop in Flagstaff, Arizona!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: How books will always be there for us and how ratings easily influence reading

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

• Deep Dive: answering the question “How do you handle reading a book you’re not going to enjoy or HAVE to read”. from listener Adrienne.

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

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

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.  1:40 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

6:50 - The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield 

6:52 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

6:54 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

6:56 - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

11:34 - Our Current Reads

11:41 - Democracy in Retrograde by Sami Sage and Emily Amick (Kaytee)

12:21 - Betches Media

12:23 - @emilyinyourphone on Instagram

16:13 - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

16:16 - Thriftbooks

17:27 - People Like Them by Samira Sedira (Meredith)

18:52 - Foyles

21:48 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

22:54 - Butter by Asako Yuzuki (Kaytee)

23:03 - The Boulder Bookstore

26:16 - The Secret, Book, and Scone Society by Ellery Adams

27:32 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan (Meredith)

34:26 - Colton Gentry’s Third Act by Jeff Zentner (Kaytee)

37:54 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Meredith)

40:34 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

42:18 - The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields 

44:55 - Deep Dive: Reading Books We “Have” To Read

52:17 - Meet Us At The Fountain

52:23 - I wish to press What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. (Kaytee)

52:29 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

55:09 - I wish to remind you to make a plan for your fall reading NOW before time gets away from you - - AND get your mammogram if you need to! (Meredith)

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• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. September’s IPL comes to us from Bright Side Bookshop in Flagstaff, Arizona!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

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The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

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2:00 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

2:26 - @thewilltoread on Instagram

3:55 - Currently Reading Zazzle store

3:58 - Scary Books Are My Jam mug

5:47 - Our Current Reads

6:03 - The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rasha (Bill)

7:30 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjeh-Brenyah

8:03 - Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

8:05 - Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

9:31 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

11:57 - The Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland (Meredith)

13:26 - The Novel Neighbor

15:30 - The Girls from Corona Del Mar by Rufi Thorpe (Bill, amazon link))

16:55 - Margot’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

18:38 - The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe

19:20 - First Contact by Kim Harrison (Meredith, amazon link)

23:00 - Contact by Carl Sagan

23:59 - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell (Bill)

27:32 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

27:36 - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

28:20 - Instructions for a Heat Wave by Maggie O’Farrell

29:22 - The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden (Meredith)

30:33 - Booker Longlist 2024

30:59 - Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

33:13 - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

33:15 - Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

33:17 - Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

34:32 - Deep Dive: Bill’s Reading Life

35:42 - Currently Reading Patreon

36:18 - Ms. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien

36:30 - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’engle

38:48 - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and John Rutherford (translator)

38:48 - The Shining by Stephen King

39:56 - The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

41:17 - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

41:20 - The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

41:26 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

41:38 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram

47:18 - Dune by Frank Herbert

48:08 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

48:44 - Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

49:11 - Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

49:41 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:47 - I wish you’d go into a book blind more often. (Bill)

50:18 I wish that more men would read out loud and find bookish community. (Meredith)

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• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. September’s IPL comes to us from Bright Side Bookshop in Flagstaff, Arizona!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

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Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

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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 Armand Gamache. This spin-off 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 except for broad sections, but will include links to Bookshop dot org or Amazon for any books or resources referenced in the episode.

2:41 - Putting the Book Into Context

A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

Published Aug 30, 2011 by Minotaur Books

4.32 rating on Goodreads

Seasonal setting - Summer (but to Roxanna June is not very summery in Canada so it might be considered Spring to some)

Book Awards: Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2012

Critic Reviews

Meredith’s and Roxanna’s encounters with the book

11:15 - The Setup

13:03 - A Deeper Exploration

Setup and first paragraph

The pacing of the novel

Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

Louise Penny as Clara

Themes: “play between light and dark -  chiaroscuro”, the topic of AA, “intimacy”

Clara and Peter’s relationship

A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

Back in Three Pines but doesn’t feel very cozy

Jean-Guy’s addiction

58:40 - Superlatives

Favorite Scene

Character MVP

Biggest loser

Best food description

Is this book skippable?

Favorite Quote

No spoilers this episode! 

The next book will be The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

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• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. September’s IPL comes to us from Bright Side Bookshop in Flagstaff, Arizona

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

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The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith an Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: talking books with fictional characters and kindle pillows

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

• Deep Dive: we are bossing the TBR of two. more bookish friends

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

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

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:10 - Ad for Ourselves

1:05 - Currently Reading Patreon 

3:08 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

3:58 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

4:52 - Viozon tablet stand pillow

6:27 - Our Current Reads

6:32 - Baby X by Kira Peikoff (Kaytee)

10:45 - A Dead and Stormy Night by Steffanie Holmes (Meredith)

14:36 - The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

16:00 - All in Her Head by Elizabeth Comen (Kaytee)

19:56 - The Owl Always Hunts at Night by Samuel Bjork (Meredith)

20:53 - I’m Traveling Alone by Samuel Bjork

23:58 - A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir (Kaytee, #4 in the Ember in the Ashes series. Kaytee is recommending all of them as a whole!)

28:39 - Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson (Meredith)

30:13 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live

31:48 - Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

31:51 - City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

32:06 - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

32:30 - Deep Dive: Boss My TBR

From Beth K.

32:58 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

33:01 - Jackal by Erin E. Adams

33:04 - Sign Here by Claudia Lux

33:06 - Death in the Family by Tessa Wegert

33:09 - All Hallows by Christopher Golden

From Samantha T.

36:57 - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

37:01 - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

37:05 - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

37:08 - Emily Wilde’s Encylopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

37:12 - The After Party by Anton Disclafani

42:19 - Meet Us At The Fountain

43:13 - I wish all vacation rentals came with a comfy cozy space with good lighting. (Kaytee)

45:54 - If you love with great smart crimes and sexy detectives, read the Jackson Brody series by Kate Atkinson. (Meredith)

46:01 - Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

46:13 - Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson

*Help us to grow our listenership by sharing a link to the podcast with at least one readerly friend (or maybe a non-readerly friend who WANTS to get into books but doesn’t know where to start). https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/currently-reading/id1435363675

Support Us:

Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. August’s IPL comes to us from The King’s English Bookshop in Utah!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: reading routines and meeting local authors

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

• Deep Dive: the journey from season one to season seven of Currently Reading

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

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

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1:27 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

5:49 - Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman

6:17 - Changing Hands bookshop

6:18 - Poison Pen bookshop

9:58 - Our Current Reads

10:11 - Five Strangers by E.V. Adamson (Meredith)

11:55 - Novel Memphis

15:56 - Bits and Pieces by Whoopi Goldberg (Kaytee)

16:03 - Libro.fm

18:13 - Finding Me by Viola Davis

19:56 - The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller (Meredith)

28:42 - Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce (Kaytee)

33:46 - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

38:18 - The Silence of Bones by June Hur (Kaytee)

39:53 - Garcia Street Books

41:13 - The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi

41:58 - Deep Dive: The Journey of Currently Reading

46:40 - Currently Reading Patreon 

56:13 - Meet Us At The Fountain

57:06 - We wish to grow the listenership of the Big Show with YOUR help! (Meredith AND Kaytee)

*Help us to grow our listenership by sharing a link to the podcast with at least one readerly friend (or maybe a non-readerly friend who WANTS to get into books but doesn’t know where to start). https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/currently-reading/id1435363675

Support Us:

Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch

Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon

Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. August’s IPL comes to us from The King’s English Bookshop in Utah!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: utilizing AI and getting back into the library swing of things

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

• Deep Dive: our most huggable books

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

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

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1:29 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

4:01 - Lake Travis Community Library

5:52 - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

7:01 - Our Current Reads

7:22 - The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao (Kaytee)

7:35 - The King’s English Bookshop

9:28 - The Change by Kirsten Miller

10:21 - The Unrelenting Earth by Kritika H. Rao

11:15 - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (Meredith)

13:00 - @thewilltoread on Instagram

15:54 - The Stand by Stephen King

17:13 - Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Kaytee)

19:14 - World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukamatathil

21:25 - The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (Meredith)

22:35 - Final Girls by Riley Sager

24:37 - Currently Reading Patreon

25:22 - Faebound by Saara El-Arifi (Kaytee)

25:32 - The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory

29:16 - Fairyloot

31:26 - We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer (Meredith)

35:31 - @booktalketc on Instagram

35:32 - Book Talk, Etc podcast

37:32 - Deep Dive: Our Most Huggable Books

38:28 - All The Only People by Mike Gayle

38:29 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

38:30 - The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

39:12 - Sipsworth by Simon Van Booey

39:25 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

39:51 - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

40:05 - The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

40:36 - The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

40:38 - Charlotte’s Web by E.B White

41:18 - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

41:28 - The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili

41:53 - Babel by R.F. Kuang

42:35 - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

42:29 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

42:56 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

43:28 - Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan

43:56 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

44:14 - Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley

45:06 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

45:19 - The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

45:46 - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

46:03 - Happy Place by Emily Henry

46:29 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

46:32 - Matrix by Lauren Groff

48:48 - Meet Us At The Fountain

48:55 - I wish that we always live in a world where women are celebrated (Kaytee)

56:37 - I wish everyone would try a book flight (Meredith)

Support Us:

Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch

Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon

Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. August’s IPL comes to us from The King’s English Bookshop in Utah!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: morning reading and loving the library

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

• Deep Dive: an update and discussion on the boss OUR summer TBR episode

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

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

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1:28 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

3:54 - Artful Agenda

8:05 - Our Current Reads

8:24 - The Examiner by Janice Hallett (Meredith, pre-order, releases Sept. 10, 2024)

10:07 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett

13:15 - The Examiner by Janice Hallett (Blackwell’s link, pre-order, releases Aug. 29, 2024)

14:15 - The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett

14:16 - The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

14:50 - Search by Michelle Huneven

15:41 - Water by John Boyne (Kaytee, amazon link)

16:06 - Earth by John Boyne (amazon link)

16:08 - Fire by John Boyne (Blackwell’s link - preorder releases Nov 7 2024)

17:57 - The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

19:12 - A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver (Meredith)

23:46 - The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rosen (Kaytee - “It was not obvious to me at the time from looking at the cover that this was actually only two authors, one with four names. Any inaccuracies are my own, but the opinions on the book stand!”)

23:56 - libro.fm

27:21 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Meredith, boss my TBR update)

28:06 - Circe by Madeline Miller

31:43 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

31:44 - Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

33:33 - The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory (Kaytee, boss my TBR update)

40:00 - Deep Dive: Our Experiences with Boss OUR TBR

41:29 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

41:30 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

41:31 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

51:21 - Faebound by Saara El-Arifi

52:41 - Currently Reading Patreon

53:07 - Meet Us At The Fountain

53:22 - The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

53:32 - I wish that everyone would read The Home Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Meredith)

56:37 - I wish for reading recs that pair well with the show Our Flag Means Death (Kaytee)

Support Us:

Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch

Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon

Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. August’s IPL comes to us from The King’s English Bookshop in Utah!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah -  romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan P. Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: reading about new hobbies and talking about books to everyone IRL

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

• Deep Dive: recapping our summer vacation

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

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

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:10 Ad For Ourselves

1:35 - Currently Reading Patreon

4:03 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

4:37 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

4:40 - Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb

4:44 - Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper

7:00 - Our Current Reads

7:05 - Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks (Kaytee)

10:48 - Nine Lives by Peter Swanson  (Meredith)

12:51 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

14:35 - Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nacosta (Kaytee)

18:11 - Unhinged by Vera Valentine

18:16 - The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert

19:44 - Day One by Abigail Dean (Meredith)

21:39 - Girl A by Abigail Dean

23:29 - The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill (Kaytee)

23:38 - The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

28:08 - Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman (Meredith)

29:23 - Falling by T.J. Newman

29:25 - Drowning by T.J. Newman

39:01 - Deep Dive: What We Did On Our Summer Break

35:03 - The Boulder Bookstore

35:10 - Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

38:49 - Half Price Books

49:43 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:57 - I wish for us all to vote in any upcoming election you may have. (Kaytee)

52:18 - I wish that every July Texas would be cloudy and rainy because it does wonders for my reading life. (Meredith)

Support Us:

Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch

Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon

Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. August’s IPL comes to us from The King’s English Bookshop in Utah!

• Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah -  romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan P. Evans

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

We are so excited to preview our newest content for Patreon supporters of the show! Going forward, this episode series will live on Patreon, where you can join us for $5 a month to support the show and get ALL our awesome bonus content!

This is a special series just for the Bookish Friends of the Currently Reading Podcast who love swooning and sexy times. We are thrilled to have you join us for this new bonus content, focused entirely on the best-selling genre fiction in the book world: Romance!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop links unless specified. These are affiliate links that kick a bit of money back to us while keeping your cost the same!

What We Are Currently Reading:

Out of the Blue by Kathryn Nolan (Rebekah)

Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb (Kaytee)

We’re Opening the Door On:

Why read Romance at all?

A Listener Press:

From Katie P. - Colton Gentry’s Third Act by Jeff Zentner

Let Us Light Your Fire:

Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

• The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren (Rebekah’s Pairing)

• Bride by Ali Hazelwood

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur (Kaytee’s Pairing)

SEND IN YOUR LISTENER PRESSES to currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com. We want to hear from you! 

To Get in Touch:

Kaytee | Meredith | Rebekah

Currently Reading on Email | Instagram |Website

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are joined by show regulars Roxanna and Mary and they are discussing:

• Season Six In Review: interesting stats, regrets, and exciting upcoming content!

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

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3:06 - Season Six In Review

The most downloaded episode of the season

4:05 - CR Season 6: Episode 25 w/Jamie Golden and Knox McCoy

5:42 - CR Season 6: Episode 22 - Our Favorite Books of 2023

5:58 - Minisode - Mary and Roxanna’s Top Books of 2023

Favorite individual episodes

7:03 - CR Season 6: Episode 12 - Recapping our European Travels (Kaytee)

7:38 - CR Season 6: Episode 35 - Wishes to the Book Fairy (Kaytee and Meredith)

9:34 - CR Season 6: Episode 2 - Boss Each Other’s TBR (Meredith)

9:50 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

9:53 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Books we brought that added to the experience by talking about them

12:49 - James by Percival Everett (Kaytee)

13:01 - Erasure by Percival Everett

13:34 - The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (Meredith)

14:30 - New Nigeria County by Clare Brown (Kaytee)

15:42 - Unhinged by Vera Valentine (Meredith and Kaytee)

16:30 - @ezeekat

17:27 - Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter (Meredith)

17:27 - Close to Home by Cara Hunter (Adam Foley #1, Meredith)

18:16 - The Exchange by John Grisham

18:44 - Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver (Kaytee)

20:04 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Meredith)

20:24 - Confessions by Kanae Minato (Meredith)

20:46 - Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

27:17 - The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz (Meredith)

21:20 - Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (Meredith)

Regrets from season six?

22:14 - That my podcast listening was impacted by life changes (Kaytee)

26:04 - That I allowed criticism to drown out the positive sometimes (Meredith)

Is there anything new coming to Currently Reading?

32:48 - We are debuting Love and Chili Peppers the day after this episode airs! You can listen to the first episode in the main feed, and then the rest will be on Patreon!

35:28 - We will reintroduce our videos on Patreon

35:46 - Quarterly From The Editor’s Desk with Bunmi Ishola

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• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

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On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are joined by show regulars Roxanna and Mary and they are discussing:

• An Ask Us Anything Episode!: You asked, and we answered!

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

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2:30 - Ask Us Anything

What was the first book that got you hooked into reading?

3:00 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (Mary) 4:59 - Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (Roxanna)

7:07 - Do Not Open by Brinton Turkle (Kaytee)

7:39 - The Witches by Roald Dahl (Kyatee)

8:26 - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (Meredith)

If you could only recommend one book to read for the rest of your life, what book would that be?

10:09 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (Roxanna)

10:17 - Circe by Madeline Miller (Mary)

10:29 - All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle (Kaytee)

10:36 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman (Meredith)

What is the book you ACTUALLY recommend the most to people?

11:03 - This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel (Mary)

11:10 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (Kaytee)

11:19 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (Meredith)

11:32 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Roxanna)

11:44 - The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers (Roxanna)

If you were to do a podcast about something unrelated to books, what would it be?

12:26 - Homeschooling (Kaytee)

13:13 - The joy of being a novice (Mary)

15:11 - Style in the everyday (Roxanna)

17:52 - All things Enneagram (Meredith)

What is your favorite beverage to have while reading? 

19:55 - I’m a seltzer girlie (Mary)

20:27 - Very cold ice water with crunchy ice (Kaytee)

21:45 - Masala Chai (Roxanna)

22:18 - Coffee, preferably Texas Pecan (Meredith)

How many hours a week do you spend reading?

23:36 - I aim for an hour a day (Mary)

26:09 - Ideally an hour or two a day, but sometimes it’s 15 minutes at that’s ok (Roxanna)

28:38 - Around 10 hours a week (Kaytee)

29:23 - Between 90 minutes and 2 hours on the weekdays, and 4 hours total on the weekends (Meredith)

If you could only read one genre for the next year, which would it be?

30:33 - Romance (Kaytee)

30:51 - Women’s Fiction (Roxanna)

32:27 - Mystery - but not gory or true crime (Mary)

33:47 - Historical Fiction (Meredith)

34:50 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

What turns you off of a book almost immediately?

36:22 - Second person narration (Meredith)

35:35 - The miscommunication trope. Go to therapy. (Mary)

36:43 - The lack of quotation marks (Kaytee)

36:55 - Characters that make bad decisions but everyone thinks its fine (Roxanna)

How do you feel about books people recommend to you?

38:29 - I feel like I always do. If you rec it, I won’t read it. It’s all in my head. (Kaytee)

40:08 - IRL I don’t have many bookish friends so I get a lot of “hot” book recs which I don’t read. So I just say “Oh yeah maybe I’ll pick that up!”... and never do. (Roxanna)

40:55 - If from bookish friends or CR listeners, I will take it under advisement and check Goodreads to see if I’d like it. (Mary)

42:44 - I love when people send recommendations. (Meredith)

44:03 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Where are you when recording an episode of Currently Reading?

45:03 - In my small walkin closet because the audio is the best here. I’m located in Toronto. (Roxanna)

45:39 - At my basement therapy office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Mary)

46:05 - Normally i’m in my bedroom in Gilbert, Arizona but today I am in Colorado for a family reunion in a guest bedroom/office. (Kaytee)

44:46 - I always record on the floor of my closet. (Meredith)

What are the mechanics of us scheduling recordings?

48:09 - SPREADSHEETS! (Kaytee)

How do you come up with deep dive topics?

49:55 - A mixture of places. Some come off mic in conversation. Some get emailed or dm’d. Some get brought up in the bookish friends group. If we think of one ourselves, we just pop them into the spreadsheet. (Meredith)

What is your number one bookish recommendation source?

51:57 - A single person would be Katie Proctor but a broader source is the Indie Press List (Kaytee)

52:28 - Instagram (Mary)

53:20 - Backlist podcasts (Roxanna)

54:03 - Elizabeth Barnhill with 19% of my recs so far this year (Meredith)

Support Us:

Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch

Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon

Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. July’s IPL comes to us from Booktenders in West Virginia!

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Listener Presses: This year we have 20 fantastic titles from our listeners. Our TBRs exploded, and we hope yours do too!

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

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2:19 - Your Listener Presses

3:48 - The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown (pressed by Katie)

6:40 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 7:32 - Poison for Breakfast by Daniel Handler i.e. Lemony Snicket (pressed by Kimberly)

10:30- The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore (pressed by Jessie)

12:38 - @thewilltoread on Instagram

12:41 - Reproduction by Louisa Hall (pressed by Bill)

13:32 - Chouette by Claire Oshetsky

13:33 - Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky

14:53 - The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard (pressed by Emer)

18:29 - The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin (pressed by Heather)

18:51 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

21:30 - Go As A River by Shelley Read

22:11 - Zorrie by Laird Hunt

22:49 - The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (pressed by Mirabella)

24:54 - The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

26:18 - Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Azemien (pressed by Matt)

28:05 - Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro (pressed by Ana)

31:08 - Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer (pressed by Amy)

31:14 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

34:35 - In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lovato (pressed by Amanda)

35:48 - A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter

35:50 - Breathless by Amy McCulloch

36:45 - The Body in Question by Jill Ciment (pressed by Alana)

40:40 - The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin (pressed by Avery)

44:26 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

44:27 - All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle

44:33 - The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher (pressed by Kristen)

45:36 - Roscoe Books

46:12 - Hearts and Daggers podcast

46:43 - @birdbrainbooks on Instagram

46:45 - Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka (pressed by Holly)

49:02 - Leaving Coy’s Hill by Katherine A. Sherbrooke (pressed by Aubrey)

50:33 - Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

51:46 - I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalize Sue (pressed by Hannah)

53:01 - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

53:02 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

53:35 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

53:38 - The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel

55:08 - Country Dark by Chris Offutt (pressed by Cindy)

57:25 - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (pressed by Jessica)

59:46 - What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (pressed by Abi)

1:01:17 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe

1:02:03 - Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

Support Us:

Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch

Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon

Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. July’s IPL comes to us from Booktenders in West Virginia!

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

• From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts