Season 3, Episode 43: Challenging Your Reading + Special Guest Traci Thomas!

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee is thrilled to be chatting with Traci Thomas! We are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: “my whole life is bookish” and a mother-daughter buddy read

• Current Reads: an unexpected mix of fiction and non-fiction this week turns things on their head

• Deep Dive: we have a long chat about Traci’s reading life, her Shakespeare challenge, the podcast, and all the snacks

• Book Presses: a few non-fiction presses that readers will love.

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!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*  

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Intro:

:46 - The Stacks Podcast

1:00 - The Stacks Instagram

1:05 - shereads.com

Bookish Moment of the Week:

2:55 - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

3:30 - The Giver by Lois Lowry

3:34 - The Stacks Ep. 110 (Traci and her mother Sue Thomas)

Current Reads:

3:52 - Long Division by Kiese Laymon (Traci)

4:55 - Starfish by Lisa Fipps (Kaytee)

5:54 - Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh

5:55 - The Stacks Book Club

7:16 - Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (Traci)

9:24 - Traci’s final review of Seven Days In June via Instagram

9:34 - Black Futures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham (Kaytee)

9:49 - Choose Your Own Adventure Books 1-4 by R. A. Montgomery

10:02 - The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

11:15 - The Stacks Ep. 146 (w/Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham)

11:40 - Still Processing Podcast w/Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris

12:32 - Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare 

12:41 - Cymbeline by William Shakespeare (Traci)

13:27 - The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare

13:28 - The Tempest by William Shakespeare

13:29 - King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare

14:17 - You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar (Kaytee)

15:04 - Libro.fm

15:54 - It’s Been a Minute episode w/Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

Deep Dive - Traci’s Reading Life

17:21 - Othello by William Shakespeare

17:25 - New Boy: William Shakespeare’s Othello Retold by Tracy Chevalier

17:33 - Vinegar Girl: William’s Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew Retold by Anne Tyler

17:38 - The Stacks Ep. 10 w/ Vella Lovell

18:23 - Open Source Shakespeare

18:48 - Two Gentleman of Verona by William Shakespeare

18:52 - The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

19:04 - Hamlet by William Shakespeare

19:23 - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

19:29 - Macbeth by William Shakespeare

19:34 - Richard II by William Shakespeare

19:36 - Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

20:01 - Lend Me Your Ears podcast

20:19 - The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

28:11 - Columbine by Dave Cullen

28:14 - Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson

28:18 - Empire of Pain by Patrick Raddon Keefe

28:57 - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

29:14 - Darryl’s Instagram @dsweet_library

34:43 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

35:30 - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

35:48 - Beloved by Toni Morrison

Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:

45:02 - Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres (Traci)

45:07 - A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres (Traci)

48:33 - Here for It by R. Eric Thomas (Kaytee)

48:50 - It’s Been A Minute episode w/R. Eric Thomas

51:10 - The Stacks Pod on Twitter @thestackspod_

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