Season 5, Episode 3: Hold Onto Your Butts + Secret Pleasure Reads

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

• Bookish Moments: DNF progress and a new way of enjoying a book

• Current Reads: five books we’re excited to talk about and one that might cause some clutched pearls

• Deep Dive: the books we know are terrible but are our secret pleasures

• The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes over 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! 

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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1:43 - Bookish Moment of the Week

6:59 - The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World (Amazon Link) 

9:45 - Current Reads

10:01 - Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales (Kaytee)

14:25 - The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex (Meredith)

16:04 - Blackwell’s 

18:00 - Descent by Tim Johnston

18:01 - The Current by Tim Johnston

18:18 - The Lighthouse Witches by C. J. Cooke

18:19 - The Novel Neighbor

19:17 - When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor S. Schumann (Katyee)

23:35 - Masterminds and Wingmen by Rosalind Wiseman (Meredith)

24:02 - Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman

25:51 - NurtureShock by Po Bronson

28:15 - The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph (Kaytee)

30:24 - How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

31:44 - CONTENT WARNING FROM HERE TO THE FOUNTAIN. LITTLE EARS AND MINDY ARE NOT RECOMMENDED. 

32:36 - The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert (Meredith)

38:34 - Deep Dive: Books We Want to Hide While Reading

39:27 - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

41:03 - Blackout by Candace Owens

45:12 - The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert

45:27 - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

45:30 - 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James

50:37 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish that everyone had access to a great library card collection. (Kaytee)

51:04 - Libby

51:29 - Libro.fm

I wish everyone could experience fall reading to its fullest extent. (Meredith)

53:15 - Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth

53:23 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron

53:30 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage

53:41 - The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex

53:48 - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

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