Season 4, Episode 22: Goals for 2022 + A Special Kind of Hell

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

Bookish Moments: home library wins and reading your shelves
Current Reads: mystery and fantasy and parenting and romance and family drama, we’re running the reading gauntlet
Deep Dive: setting goals for 2022 in our personal, podcast, and Patreon spaces
Book Presses: a backlist gem and a retelling of a classic

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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0:30 - Currently Reading Patreon

2:00 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:15 - Thriftbooks

6:33 - Current Reads

7:00 - Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner (Meredith)

12:34 - The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (Kaytee)

13:29 - Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, NM

14:24 - The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg (Meredith)

17:28 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

19:08 - Social Justice Parenting by Dr. Traci Baxley (Kaytee)

22:03 - Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

22:04 - Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi