Season 4, Episode 43: Fantastic Summer Reads + The Books From Childhood That Impacted Us

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

• Bookish Moments: working with a new bookstore and a reading chair conundrum

• Current Reads: we’ve got some wheelhouse reading here today including some non-fiction that we think you’ll love

• Deep Dive: the books we read during our childhoods that impacted the readers we are today

• Book Presses: two more of those childhood books that we want to make sure you’ve read

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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2:10 - Listener Press Episode: Record a voice memo on your phone with the following details:

Your name, where you’re from, the book’s title and author, a description of it and WHY you are pressing it.  These are DUE FRIDAY JUNE 17

4:29 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:57 - Cafe Con Libros Bookstore 

9:08 - Current Reads

10:23 - Taste by Stanley Tucci (Kaytee)

14:28 - Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak (Meredith)

18:07 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett

20:05 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

20:29 - A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll (Kaytee)

20:37 - Lexy @readlexyread on Instagram

20:42 - @thewilltoread on Instagram

24:00 - The Palace Papers by Tina Brown (Meredith)

24:55 - The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown

28:16 - HRH by Elizabeth Holmes

29:22 - Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

28:28 - Majesty by Katharine McGee

28:29 - American Royals by Katharine McGee

29:39 - World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Kaytee)

33:15 - Hide by Kiersten White (Meredith)

36:38 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

36:29 - Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven

30:03 - Deep Dive: Childhood Reading that Impacted Us

42:26 - First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple by Cameron West (Amazon Link)

43:39 - Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 

44:26 - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien 

46:13 - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 

46:57 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

48:41 - Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume

48:54 - Deenie by Judy Blume 

48:59 - Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume

49:01 - Blubber by Judy Blume 

49:13 - Forever by Judy Blume

49:55 - Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

50:51 - Maus by Art Spiegelman

50:56 - Night by Elie Weisel 

50:58 - The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

52:30 - Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton

52:31 - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

53:36 - West Side Story by Irving Shulman

53:48 - Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

53:55 - A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

53:56 - Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

55:00 - The Odyssey by Homer

55:01 - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

56:07  - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands

56:28 - The Giver by Lois Lowry (Kaytee)

1:00:05 - The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks (Meredith)

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