Season 5, Episode 5: Fangirl-Itis + If (Genre) Taught Me Anything

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

Bookish Moments: unhauling books and chatting live with a favorite author
Current Reads: dystopia and middle grade and funny memoir and fantasy and graphic novels and murder
Deep Dive: the lessons we learned from certain sections of the bookstore
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!

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1:11 - Bookish Moment of the Week

1:18 - Pangobooks

2:48 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

4:40 - Half Priced Books

5:12 - Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard

6:17 - Fabled Bookshop

7:00 - Current Reads

7:08 - The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan (Kaytee)

7:16 - Tattered Cover Bookstore

8:30 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

12:23 - The Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White (Meredith)

14:25 - Hide by Kiersten White