Season 4, Episode 44: Book Hypnotism + Family Vacation Book Club

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

• Bookish Moments: a new social media delight and a bookish gathering

• Current Reads: each of us sneakily convinces the other one to read a book that she wasn’t sure about before

• Deep Dive: we are planning the bookstacks to bring on your family vacation so that everyone can read together

• Book Presses: a YA drama from a favorite author and a diverse multiverse sci-fi adventure

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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1:24 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:07 - Mary’s picture book instagram @teenybookshelf 

5:07 - Current Reads

5:22 - Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau (Mary)

9:01 - A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw (Kaytee)

13:16 - When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord (Mary)

15:29 - Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

15:48 - You Have a Match by Emma Lord

16:07 - Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Melinda Lo (Kaytee)

18:46 - A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil (Mary)

18:50 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

18:51 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

21:19 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Kaytee)

21:30 - An Unlikely Story bookshop

24:21 - Deep Dive: Family Vacation Book Clubs

24:42 - @bookliz on Instagram

The Family that Solves Mysteries

27:01 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett

27:28 - Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson 

28:00 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 

28:22 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King 

The Family That Doesn’t Mind Breaking Their Brains

29:26 - The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier

30:07 - Upgrade by Blake Crouch

30:23 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

The Family That Cooks Together

431:07 - Taste by Stanley Tucci

31:24 - A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg

31:42 - Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

32:13 - Save me the Plums by Ruth Reichl

32:17 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay

The Family that Learns Together

32:59 - The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron

33:21 - Gumption by Nick Offerman

33:54 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

34:23 - Kaytee’s book recs for “The Family that learns stuff together”

• The Body by Bill Bryson
• Stiff by Mary Roach
• Packing for Mars by Mary Roach 

The Family That Wants to Include the Younger Generation

34:39 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

35:22 - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

35:32 - The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

The Family That Fancies Themselves Oprah’s Book Club

36:27 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

36:51 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

38:27 - Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

38:43 - Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black

The Family That Goes to the Woods

39:28 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

39:47 - Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman

40:05 - Upstream by Mary Oliver

40:39 - Devolution by Max Brooks

40:43 - A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

The Couples that Read Together

41:05 - The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

41:10 - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

42:18  - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands

42:38 - All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (Mary)

44:01 - Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

45:23 - The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Kaytee)

47:01 - The Hearts and Daggers Podcast Episode 11

47:06 - Holly’s Instagram @birdbrainbooks

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