Season 8, Episode 29: A Website Refresh + Curating A Bookstagram
On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
Bookish Moments: a website refresh and a bookish adjacent show to watch
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately
Deep Dive: how to curate your bookstagram to exactly your tastes
Before We Go: our new segment featuring bookish friend posts and a sleeper hit you should read.
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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1:44 - Bookish Moments of the Week
1:52 - Currently Reading Website
1:56 - Books We Want To Press Into Your Hands
3:03 - Best Books for Babies and Kids
3:42 - Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge
5:55 - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on HBO Max
7:12 - Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
7:16 - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin (all 3 Dunk and Egg novellas)
7:55 - Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
8:33 - Current Reads
8:41 - The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon (Kaytee)
11:47 - The Book Wanderers by Anna James
11:50 - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
11:54 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
13:08 - Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Meredith)
15:10 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
15:11 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
15:45 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
22:27 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
24:10 - Six Feet Over by Mary Roach (Kaytee)
27:20 - Gulp by Mary Roach
27:21 - Bonk by Mary Roach
27:22 - Stiff by Mary Roach
28:51 - Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (Meredith)
32:06 - Agatha Christie’s Marple by Mark Aldridge
34:18 - The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden (Kaytee)
34:33 - Charter Books
39:00 - Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Meredith)
42:28 - Dracula by Bram Stoker
45:21 - Turning Instagram into Bookstagram
47:25 - Sign up for the newsletter on our website
47:26 - Currently Reading Substack
50:48 - Currently Reading Instagram
50:54 - @HelloSunshine on Instagram
50:58 - @BookRiot on Instagram
51:00 - @NYTBooks on Instagram
51:40 - @Iamblackharry on Instagram
52:10 - Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
52:28 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
52:42 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower
53:42 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
53:48 - God of the Woods by Liz Moore
54:03 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
56:13 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live
58:44 - Before We Go
Meredith highlights a bookish friend post
59:34 - The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
59:54 - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Kaytee’s Book She DNF’d:
1:01:22 - The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
1:01:28 - Bookshelf Thomasville
1:02:57 - From the Front Porch podcast
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