Season 6, Episode 33: Crumble and Chronicles + Changes In Our Reading Lives Over Time
On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Roxanna are discussing:
Bookish Moments: pastries while reading and huge bookish hangovers
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: the ways our reading lives and changed and expanded over time
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site)
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1:32 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
3:11 - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
4:45 - All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Releases June 25, 2024)
7:30 - Our Current Reads
7:36 - The Night Raven by Johan Rundberg (Roxanna)
14:09 - The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson (Meredith)
18:09 - The Fact of a Body by Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich
21:54 - Burning Roses by S.L. Huang (Roxanna)
22:51 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
26:06 - Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber (Meredith)
27:14 - Caraval by Stephanie Garber
31:22 - In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (Roxanna)
31:51 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
31:54 - Finding Me by Viola Davis
36:23 - Better the Blood by Michael Bennett (Meredith)
41:24 - Deep Dive: Changes In Our Reading Lives Over Time
47:27 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
48:07 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
49:55 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
50:39 - 10 Things To Tell You podcast w/ Sara Hildreth
50:42 - @fictionmatters on Instagram
53:36 - Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
53:45 - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
55:48 - Burning Roses by S.L. Huang
58:55 - A Dead Djinn In Cairo by P. Djeli Clark
1:00:32 - Meet Us At The Fountain
1:00:45- I wish everyone knows about shepherd.com (Roxanna)
1:00:52 - Strong Sense of Place podcast
1:01:17 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
1:03:19 - Shogun by James Clavell
1:03:28 - CR Season 1: Episode 14
1:04:45 - I wish more people would read Shogun. (Meredith)
1:05:18 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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