Mar 10 2025 54 mins 114
On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: finishing physical books and new learning apps
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Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
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Deep Dive: how we balance our TBRs and new releases
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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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1:27 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week
3:41 - Vocabulary app
7:54 - @Literallybookshop on Instagram
7:20 - Our Current Reads
7:26 - House of Cotton by Monica Brashears (Kaytee)
8:54 - Exile in Bookville
11:50 - The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha (Meredith)
11:56 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
14:44 - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
16:40 - The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson) (Kaytee)
21:33 - It’s Easier Than You Think by Sylvia Boorstein (Meredith)
25:39 - The Best Way To Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale (Kaytee)
25:48 - Booktenders
27:38 - @alexia.casale on Instagram
28:52 - The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore (Meredith)
30:19 - The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
30:21 - The Holdout by Graham Moore=
34:20 - Prioritizing Your Shelves
34:45 - Fabled Bookshop
45:29 - The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
48:20 - Fabled Storybound Subscription
49:30 - Meet Us At The Fountain
49:35 - I wish to press (again) the book Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts. (Kaytee)
49:41 - Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
49:48 - Wicked by Gregory Maguire
51:09 - I wish if you have kids and they interrupt your reading, to try reading aloud to them until they get annoyed and leave. (Meredith)
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