Season 3, Episode 35: Prequels and Sequels + Non-Fiction That Reads Like Fiction

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

• Bookish Moments: learning to read and a bookish friend vacation

• Current Reads: prequels and sequels and series starters and books with big warning labels

• Deep Dive: non-fiction that is unbelievable and true

• Book Presses: we’ve got two more true stories that go down easy

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! 

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Bookish Moments:

1:46  - Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann

2:35 - Bob Books set 1: Beginning Readers by Bobby Lynn Maslan

3:35 - The Famous Last Words Bar

3:46 - Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

3:57 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

4:00 - How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

4:02 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Current Reads:

5:59 - Sara’s website Fiction Matters

6:01 - Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century edited by Alice Wong (Kaytee)

9:13 - The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis (Meredith)

9:26 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

14:46 - The Conductors by Nicole Glover (Kaytee)

16:07 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

18:03 - NetGalley

18:25 - A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

18:29 - A Vow so Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer (Meredith)

18:45 - A Heart so Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

20:44 - Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston (Kaytee)

21:11 - Bookshelf Thomasville

22:28 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling 

22:40 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

24:29 - Men in Black by Steve Perry

25:22 - 10 Thing to Tell You episode with Kaytee and Meredith

25:31 - Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan (Meredith)

29:29 - Fabled Bookshop

29:54 - We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly

33:04 - A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler

Deep Dive - Nonfiction that reads like Fiction

34:23 - Educated by Tara Westover

34:48 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

36:01 - Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

36:35 - Endurance by Alfred Lansing 

36:48 - Devolution by Max Brooks

37:02 - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

37:35 - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

37:51 - The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

38:34 - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

39:00 - Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

39:48 - The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

40:05 - Calypso by David Sedaris

40:08 - Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness

40:30 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

40:49 - The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

41:54 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

42:07 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse

42:37 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:

43:28 - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Kaytee)

44:39 - Unbroken (Young Adult Edition) by Laura Hillenbrand

45:33 - The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (Meredith)

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