Season 3, Episode 36: Bookish Friendships + Books About Books and Bookstores
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
Bookish Moments: A bookish friend gathering and a new relationship
Current Reads: imperfect picks, and middle grade, and wheelhouse gems
Deep Dive: books about books and bookstores and libraries
Book Presses: our favorites in the bookish books category
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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Bookish Moments:
1:41 - Currently Reading Patreon
3:20 - Fabled Bookshop
Current Reads:
4:44 - Snow and Rose by Emily Winfield Martin (Meredith)
4:50 - Snow White and Rose Red by Brothers Grimm
4:54 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Walt Disney
5:03 - What Should I Read Next Podcast
7:03 - Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan
8:25 - Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan (Kaytee)
8:33 - Episode 39 of Season Two
11:15 - The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Meredith)
14:42 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
16:20 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
16:53 - Never Caught: Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Kaytee)
20:35 - Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin (Meredith)
24:11 - The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
24:41 - Landslide by Susan Conley (Kaytee)
Deep Dive - Books about Books and Bookstores
29:11 - Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan
29:41 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
30:24 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Stefan
31:00 - The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
31:02 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
31:28 - Sally Hepworth on Instagram
31:52 - The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams
32:19 - Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
32:49 - Crime and Poetry by Amanda Flower
33:23 - The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
33:51 - How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
34:13 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
34:33 - The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennet
34:42 - Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
34:56 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
35:45 - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
36:06 - The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
36:43 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
36:44 - Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
36:55 - Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
37:21 - The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
37:31 - Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
37:46 - Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence
38:14 - Booked by Kwame Alexander
38:25 - Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
38:44 - Matilda by Roald Dahl
38:57 - The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
39:56 - Pages and Co.: The Book Wanderers by Anna James (Meredith)
41:46 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (Kaytee)
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