Season 8, Episode 20: Finding Bookish Twins + Organizing Our Recommendation Sources
On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
Bookish Moments: overwhelming feelings when reading and finding book twins
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: how to organize all the book recommendation sources we come across
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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2:09 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
4:25 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
8:40 - @kaitlynmlilly on instagram
8:41 - @klill01 on TikTok
9:22 - God of the Woods by Liz Moore
10:43 - Our Current Reads
10:49 - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Kaytee)
11:15 - The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
15:25 - Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron Rindo (Meredith)
16:35 - Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
20:06 - Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves (Kaytee)
20:13 - The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
26:30 - Forensics by Val McDermid (Meredith)
27:46 - Foyles
32:53 - I, Medusa by Ayana Gray (Kaytee)
33:03 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
35:04 - Beast of Prey by Ayana Gray
36:40 - The Creeping Hand Murder by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper (Meredith)
38:11 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
38:17 - Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper
41:09 - Murdle by G.T. Karber
42:34 - Organizing Recommendation Sources
43:56 - Currently Reading Patreon
47:21 - @kaitlynmlilly on instagram
48:18 - Fabled Bookshop
51:44 - Literally, A Bookshop
52:37 - Goodreads
52:38 - The Storygraph
57:44 - Meet Us At The Fountain
57:49 - I wish we gave ourselves grace to start small in our reading lives. (Kaytee)
59:04 - I wish you all knew that you can sort podcasts from oldest to newest in Apple Podcasts. (Meredith)
1:01:27 - Crime Time FM podcast
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