Currently Reading

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

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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1:50 - 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

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. 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, 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

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

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

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. 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

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 - 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

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. 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, 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

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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2:04 - 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)

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. 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

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: 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

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

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

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. 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

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 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

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. 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

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: 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

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 - 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

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. 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

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: 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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• 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

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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:

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. 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!