The Currently Reading Podcast

This week we're talking brand new titles, some oldies but goodies and a few bookish surprises.

You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a brand new release finally in hand, and a bookish Christmas tradition.

Next, we tackle what we are currently reading, a few brand new releases as well as a bunch of goodness from the back list.

This week we spend some time discussing how our reading habits change during the holidays, both in amount and substance.

As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands: a rich-family inheritance drama, and a time-travel-esque (no actual time travel involved) book that surprised me.

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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1:30 - Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny

3:53 - The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

4:10 - Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert Barry

5:04 - Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend

5:55 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

9:45 - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

9:58 - Episode 14 with Amy Allen Clark

11:19 - Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

12:18 - Who Thought This Was A Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco

15:09 - A Curious Beginning by Deanna Reybourne

15:19 - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

15:21 - The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

18:10 - Crimes Against a Book Club by Kathy Cooperman

20:42 - Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

20:49 - Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

22:39 - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

23:28 - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

25:27 - Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

26:13 - Jenny Colgan books

27:52 - Shogun by James Clavell

28:39 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

28:43 - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (again!)

30:21 - The Heirs by Susan Rieger

30:38 - The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

33:58 - How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

*Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*

Episode number 15. Does it seem to anyone else like it's getting crazy real? We are having such fun! Tune in this week to hear Meredith and Kaytee discuss three books each as well as something that we read that surprised us!

You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a family road trip listen and a perfect reading moment.

Next, we tackle what we are currently reading, a smorgasbord of titles ranging from YA to fantasy to literary fiction to thrillers. We've got a bit of everything!

Our mini deep dive this week is about the books that most recently surprised us. And you might be surprised as well by one of these titles!

As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands: a sci-fi thriller and a classic children's series.

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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3:03 - The Wondering Years by Knox McCoy

3:11 - Episode Nine with Meg Teitz

5:59 - Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend

6:54 - South of Broad by Pat Conroy

8:52 - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

10:50 - The Price of Tides by Pat Conroy

12:08 - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

12:22 - He Read She Read Podcast

14:30 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

15:05 - Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

16:15 - My Name is Venus Black by Heather Lloyd

16:34 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

20:05 - Ghost by Jason Reynolds

22:21 - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

22:53 - Scythe by Neal Schusterman

23:35 - Thunderhead by Neal Schusterman

23:54 - They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera

26:43 - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

26:49 - Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

29:16 - Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

30:18 - Louise Penny's new book: Kingdom of the Blind

32:13 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

32:19 - Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne

35:08 - 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James

36:23 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

38:35 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

40:04 - Pines by Blake Crouch

41:19 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

41:55 - The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Hayes

42:11 - Boxcar Children Books 1-4 as Box Set

43:25 - The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

*Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*

You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a surprise book present, an accessory to make binge-reading the next big thing, and choosing books for a trip.

Next, we tackle what we are currently reading, just two titles from each of the three of us because that still gives you a whole stack to check out.

Our deep-dive this week delves deep into the ins and outs of running a book club. And this episode is for you whether you have a group of friends that meet at a coffee shop each month or you are looking for a group of bookish friends on the internet so you can "book club" in your PJs! We even toss around some ideas for those of us (like Meredith and Kaytee) who are "book-club challenged" in that our inner rebel shows up whenever someone says we have to read a certain title.

As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. This week we have some classic dude-friendly literature, a lovely little fun romp, and a sweeping American and African family story.

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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0:45 - MomAdvice.com

0:58 - The MomAdvice Book Club on Facebook

2:59 - idealbookshelf.com

3:40 - Ideal Bookshelf on Instagram: @idealbookshelf

4:21 -LEVO G2 Tablet Clamp Stand

9:13 - Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

9:31 - The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

12:46 - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

12:53 - East of Eden by John Steinbeck

13:28 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

14:14 - Serial Reader App

14:35 - Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

15:39 - Heartland by Sarah Smarsh

15:49 - Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

19:00 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

19:18 - The Selection (Series) by Kiera Cass

19:44 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

21:24 - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

21:38 - Wundersmith (Second book in Nevermoor series) by Jessica Townsend

22:34 - Elevation by Stephen King

25:42 - River Of Stars by Vanessa Hua

28:39 - Ghosted by Rosie Walsh

31:29 - Liane Moriarty books (specifically: Nine Perfect Strangers and Truly Madly Guilty)

32:50 - Seven Tips for Hosting a Successful Book Club article on MomAdvice.com

37:07 - Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran

39:11 - meetup.com - LOL it still exists!!

40:14 - The Lazy Genius Podcast episode #72: The Lazy Genius Hosts a Book Swap

45:40 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

- and Amy's interview with Anthony

46:18 - MomAdvice Book Club on Facebook

48:00 - Shogun by James Clavell

50:54 - The Book of Polly by Kathy Hepinstall

52:42 - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

55:13 - Amy on Instagram: @momadvice

*Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*

Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds to chat Non-Fiction and some other really wonderful titles!

You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a bookish candle and IRL friendships that are reading more.

Next, we tackle what we are currently reading, just two titles from each of us so we have time to talk about 50 thousand additional books!

Our deep-dive this week centers on some of our favorite non-fiction genres! We throw a whole metric crap-ton of titles at you to get you started in the non-fiction world, if that seems to be a place that you're lacking. Every one of these titles have been vetted by one or both of us (along with many others that we've mentioned in past episodes), and we are all about you picking them up!

As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. This week we have some beautiful fiction as well as a great and FUN contemporary mystery.

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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1:21 - Friday Reads candle from Main Line Candle Company

5:06 - Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White by Melissa Sweet

6:37 - Stuart Little by E.B. White

6:39 - Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

6:56 - The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White

7:35 - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

8:24 - Episode 10 of Currently Reading

9:23 - The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

12:02 - Finding Holy in the Suburbs by Ashley Hales

12:55 - The Art of Neighboring by Jay Pathak and Dave Runyon

15:12 - The Turquoise Table by Kristin Schell

15:45 - Little Free Library!

17:16 - Hens Dancing by Raphaella Barker

17:47 - Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Felding

23:23 - Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner

23:35 - Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines

23:51 - Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan

24:28 - Yes, Please by Amy Poehler

24:31 - Monsoon Mansion by Cinelle Barnes

24:55 - Coming Clean by Seth Haines

25:18 - Educated by Tara Westover

*Other memoirs mentioned in past episodes that I LOVE: As You Wish by Cary Elwes, Born A Crime by Trevor Noah, anything by David Sedaris

26:38 - Disney War by James B. Stewart

27:29 - Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean

27:34 - Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald

27:46 - The Pixar Touch by David Price

28:11 - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

28:55 - So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

28:57 - I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

29:08 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton

29:13 - Evicted by Matthew Desmond

29:41 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

30:08 - Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle

30:10 - Barking to the Choir by Gregory Boyle

31:14 - Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore

32:11 - Start With Why by Simon Sinek

32:17 - Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek

32:24 - Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz

32:44 - Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh

32:58 - 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer and Diana Chapman

33:30 - Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris

35:07 - Essentialism by Greg McKeown

35:38 - Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin

35:39 - The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin

34:50 - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

35:05 - Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

35:07 - Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown

35:10 - Dare to Lead by Brene Brown

36:33 - Fringe Hours by Jessica Turner

37:15 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey

37:28 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Steven Covey

37:45 - Chasing Slow by Erin Loechner

38:20 - Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist

39:06 - Cozy Minimalist Home: More Style, Less Stuff by Myquillin Smith

*Other productivity books mentioned in past episodes: Stretched Too Thin by Jessica Turner

41:00 - This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

44:28 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

45:59 - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

46:02 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moraiarty

46:54 - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

*Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*

Episode 12 comes to you this week. And we're here to talk TBR. The specifics of what drives us to choose the next book off the stack!

You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a group of online readers that saves the day and all about audiobook "stories."

Next, we tackle what we are currently reading: some Capital W-Weird picks, some non-fiction, some YA. We've got a little taste of everything.

We take a mini-deep dive this week into the topic of TBR lists. How do readers in general choose what is To Be Read next? How do we, specifically, choose what to slot into that coveted position?

As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. This week we have a perfect Christmas gift idea (and some wonderful accompaniments) as well as a beloved curmudgeon book for almost every reader on your list.

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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3:17 - Audiobook stories on Instagram: click on the Audiobooks Q&A highlight!

6:05 - The Book of Boy by Katherine Gilbert Murdock

8:52 - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

9:50 - Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians by Brian Sanderson

14:03 - Episode 9 with Meg Teitz

14:32 - Our favorite free Enneagram test: https://exploreyourtype.com/details

15:08 - The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stablile

15:25 - Typeology podcast

15:35 - The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher Heuertz

17:20 - From Twinkle, With Love by Sandhya Menon

17:25 - When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

20:32 - The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell

20:47 - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

20:50 - The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

23:15 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

29:37 - Vox by Christina Dalcher

32:46 - I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel

34:24 - You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero

36:55 - Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

39:06 - A beautiful mug to pair it with

39:10 - The coziest of cozy wraps from Athleta

40:47 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

42:50 - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

42:52 - The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg

42:57 - The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

44:09 - A Man Called Ove movie

45:09 - Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrick Backman

*Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*