Season 3, Episode 40: Friendly Get-Togethers + The Tropes We Love

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

• Bookish Moments: A joint bookish moment of gatherings of Bookish Friends

• Current Reads: some YA fantasy, some murder, some short stories, some family drama. We’ve got it all.

• Deep Dive: the tropes we love - what is a trope and which ones draw us in?

• Book Presses: two books that we hugged at the end

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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1:18 - Currently Reading Patreon

Bookish Moments:

3:38 - Fabled Bookshop

Current Reads:

6:52 - 10 Things to Tell You Episode 108 with Kaytee and Meredith.

6:55 - Lobizona by Romina Garber (Meredith)

8:46 - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

9:55 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

10:00 - 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

10:47 - Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (Kaytee)

13:40 - A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell (Meredith)

14:01 - From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell (#1 in the Wexford series)

17:42 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

19:50 - The Arsonist’ City by Hala Alyan (Kaytee)

19:58 - Sarah’s Instagram bookedinadvance

21:17 - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

21:36 - Infinite Country by Patricia Engel

23:15 - The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett (Meredith)

23:24 - Kerry’s instagram @linesiunderline

26:01 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

26:33 - The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennet

27:02 - Night at the Fiestas by Kirsten Valdez Quade (Kaytee)

27:49 - What ARE biscochitos?

Deep Dive - Tropes: Love ‘Em or Leave ‘Em

34:20 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

35:01 - The Black Count by Tom Reiss

36:50 - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

37:10 - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

37:51 - The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Hayes

37:54 - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

37:56 - Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

39:46 - The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

39:59 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman

40:27 - All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:

43:09 - To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer (Meredith)

47:49 - Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah (Kaytee)

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