Kaytee and Meredith are back in your earbuds with strong opinions and bookish concoctions!

You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each host, and we are TEASES this week. We both have books that we cannot wait to talk about… but we’re not telling you what they are!

Next, we’ll remind you about our Bookshelf Thomasville coupon code for you: CURRENTLYLOVING will get you 10% off from our friends over there through the month of August! You’ve got just a few days left before this code expires, so get on it!

Moving forward, we discuss our current reads for the week. We are mostly GLOWING about our books this week, and we have lots of words about each of them.

We’ve got an update for you on our Slow But Steady reads as well, and we’ve loved having you chime in for what you’re reading for this challenge. Today, we’re also rethinking what Slow But Steady means in terms of content.

For our deep dive, we are discussing book clubs. All the different kinds of book clubs there are. How we feel about them personally. What we enjoy about the idea of book clubs. And some other weird tangents. What are your thoughts on book clubs?

Finally, this week, we finish the episode by Bellying Up to the Book Bar! Our drinking buddy this week is Angie Dawson, and we have LOTS of titles to throw her way. The show notes for this episode are bananas, friends. B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

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

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5:39 - Save Me The Plums by Ruth Reichl

5:56 - Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

9:50 - The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn

10:02 - Want to get in on the Patron action? Patreon!

15:04 - The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames

20:34 - The Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

20:39 - Reese Witherspoon Book Club

24:18 - The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan

24:36 - The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

29:35 - Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

29:44 - Final Girls by Riley Sager

34:29 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

35:03 - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

35:16 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

36:04 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

36:05 - The Stand by Stephen King

36:20 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King

36:27 - War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

36:49 - The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor

37:32 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

37:36 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

37:42 - Stamped From the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibraham Kendi

38:33 - Middlemarch by George Eliot

38:36 - The Fiery Cross (Outlander #5) by Diana Gabaldon

40:35 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

43:13 - Silent Book Club

45:04 - Episode 14 with Amy Allen Clark

45:48 - Have opinions about a CR buddy read? Join the Patreon

47:19 - Us Against You by Fredrick Backman

47:33 - Red Rising by Pierce Brown

47:37 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

47:39 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

47:46 - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

47:58 - Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

48:08 - Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

48:10 - Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

48:23 - The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

48:24 - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

48:25 - The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

48:26 - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

48:27 - Joshilyn Jackson Books

48:38 - The Line That Held Us by David Joy

48:39 - The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir

48:41 - A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams

48:46 - We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

49:02 - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

49:03 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

49:05 - The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

49:37 -This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

50:19 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

50:54 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

51:07 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

51:35 - The Paper Magician (series) by Charlie Holmberg

52:01 - The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn

52:09 - Scythe by Neal Schusterman

53:00 - The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

53:52 - A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner

53:57 - The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor

54:05 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

54:17 - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

54:18 - Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly

55:02 - Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

55:17 - The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

55:23 - Christina Lauren books

55:37 - Jasmine Guillory books

56:05 - Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson

56:30 - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare

57:23 - Want some extra Belly Up to the Book Bar? Patreon!

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