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Season 5, Episode 23: Starting the Year Right + Author Completists

57 min • 9 januari 2023

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

Bookish Moments: a big sale, a reading husband, and 2023 reading observations
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: author completists - the ones we’ve read all of and the ones we want to read all of
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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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2:02 - Bookish Moments of the Week

3:05 - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

3:24 - Upgrade by Blake Crouch

7:52 - Currently Reading Patreon

8:45 - Our Current Reads

9:16 - Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen (Kaytee)

12:15 - Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah (Meredith)

16:19 - The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah

16:48 - Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Kaytee)

17:03 - Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

20:28 - Thornyhold by Mary Stewart (Meredith, Amazon Link)

25:09 - The Once and Future King by T.H. White