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

• Bookish Moments: local bookish get togethers and summer reading

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

• Deep Dive: why middle grade and YA are perfect reads for summer

• 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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4:12 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

4:35 - God of the Woods by Liz Moore

5:23 - Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

6:31 - Literally A Bookshop

7:58 - Our Current Reads

8:03 - Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill (Mary)

10:36 - Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Imiyide (Kaytee)

11:41 - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson 

12:10 - Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abike-Imiyide

14:17 - Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet by Samantha Allen (Mary)

16:16 - Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen

16:36 - Real Queer America by Samantha Allen

17:06 - Deaf Utopia by Nyle DiMarco (Kaytee) 

22:34 - The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by HG Parry (Mary)

25:03 - The Magician’s Daughter by HG Parry 

25:13 - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

25:43 - Twenty-Four Seconds From Now… by Jason Reynolds (Kaytee)

29:55 - Summer Is For The Youths

34:58 - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

39:07 - The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding

39:12 - Fat Chance Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado

41:03 - A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat

41:30 - Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas

41:46 - Starfish by Lisa Fipps

43:12 - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill 

43:13 - The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

44:56 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman

44:58 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

47:24 - The Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White (Sinister Summer #1)

47:28 - The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night by Steven Banbury

49:28 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton (young readers version)

49:39 - Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds

49:44 - Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

50:15 - Punching the Air by Ibi Zaboi and Yusef Salaam

50:28 - The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta

51:04 - Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham

51:45 - The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon

53:02 - Meet Us At The Fountain

53:12 - I wish that everyone would add a middle grade or YA read to their TBR this summer. (Mary)

54:21 - I wish for a bookish road map. (Kaytee)

55:05 - The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

55:19 - After This by Claire Bidwell Smith (amazon link)

55:41 - Infused by Henrietta Lovell

 

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