Season 3, Episode 36: Bookish Friendships + Books About Books and Bookstores

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

• Bookish Moments: A bookish friend gathering and a new relationship

• Current Reads: imperfect picks, and middle grade, and wheelhouse gems

• Deep Dive: books about books and bookstores and libraries

• Book Presses: our favorites in the bookish books category

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:

1:41 - Currently Reading Patreon

3:20  - Fabled Bookshop

Current Reads:

4:44 - Snow and Rose by Emily Winfield Martin (Meredith)

4:50 - Snow White and Rose Red by Brothers Grimm

4:54 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Walt Disney

5:03 - What Should I Read Next Podcast

7:03 - Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan

8:25 - Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan (Kaytee)

8:33 - Episode 39 of Season Two

11:15 - The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Meredith)

14:42 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

16:20 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

16:53 - Never Caught: Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Kaytee)

20:35 - Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin (Meredith)

24:11 - The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith 

24:41 - Landslide by Susan Conley (Kaytee)

Deep Dive - Books about Books and Bookstores

29:11 - Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan

29:41 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

30:24 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Stefan

31:00 - The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

31:02 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth

31:28 - Sally Hepworth on Instagram

31:52 - The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams

32:19 - Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

32:49 - Crime and Poetry by Amanda Flower

33:23 - The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

33:51 - How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry

34:13 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

34:33 - The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennet

34:42 - Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley

34:56 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

35:45 - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

36:06 - The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

36:43 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

36:44 - Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz

36:55 - Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

37:21 - The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

37:31 - Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

37:46 - Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence

38:14 - Booked by Kwame Alexander

38:25 - Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

38:44 - Matilda by Roald Dahl

38:57 - The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer

Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:

39:56 - Pages and Co.: The Book Wanderers by Anna James (Meredith)

41:46 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (Kaytee)

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