Season 3, Episode 32: A Bookish Field Trip + Streamlining Your TBR

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: attempting to help someone DNF and a tiny reading helper

• Current Reads: murder mermaids and historical fiction and hilarious non-fiction and a bookish field trip

• Deep Dive: streamlining your TBR, how to cull and narrow the field

• Book Presses: putting a few items back on your TBR

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! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

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Intro:

1:20 - 10 Things to Tell You podcast w/ Meredith and Kaytee

2:09 - Currently Reading Patreon

3:29 - Fabled Bookstore 

3:49 - Currently Reading Instagram

4:15 - Currently Reading Episode 24 w/Laura Tremaine

4:17 - Currently Reading Episode 25 w/Gretchen Rubin

Bookish Moments:

5:29 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Current Reads:

8:17 - The Sherlockian by Graham Moore (Meredith)

9:52 - The Baker Street Irregulars

11:13 - The Holdout by Graham Moore 

11:58 - How to be Black by Baratunde Thurston (Kaytee)

16:12 - Adventures in Eden: An Intimate Tour of the Private Gardens of Europe by Carolyn Mullet (Meredith)

19:28 - The Minders by John Marrs (Kaytee) 

19:31 - The One by John Marrs 

19:56 - The Passengers by John Marrs

22:27 - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (Meredith)

27:18 - Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis (Kaytee)

29:21 - Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips

Deep Dive - Streamlining your TBR:

31:00 - Episode 12 of season one

32:48 - Goodreads

37:00 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

40:09 - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo 

40:50 - StoryGraph 

Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:

45:15 - Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase (Meredith)

48:07 - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Kaytee)

48:15 - Season 3, Episode 28: All the Buddy Reads + Genre Convincers

49:06 - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

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