Season 4, Episode 43: Fantastic Summer Reads + The Books From Childhood That Impacted Us
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
Bookish Moments: working with a new bookstore and a reading chair conundrum
Current Reads: we’ve got some wheelhouse reading here today including some non-fiction that we think you’ll love
Deep Dive: the books we read during our childhoods that impacted the readers we are today
Book Presses: two more of those childhood books that we want to make sure you’ve read
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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2:10 - Listener Press Episode: Record a voice memo on your phone with the following details:
Your name, where you’re from, the book’s title and author, a description of it and WHY you are pressing it. These are DUE FRIDAY JUNE 17
4:29 - Bookish Moment of the Week
4:57 - Cafe Con Libros Bookstore
9:08 - Current Reads
10:23 - Taste by Stanley Tucci (Kaytee)
14:28 - Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak (Meredith)
18:07 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett
20:05 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
20:29 - A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll (Kaytee)
20:37 - Lexy @readlexyread on Instagram
20:42 - @thewilltoread on Instagram
24:00 - The Palace Papers by Tina Brown (Meredith)
24:55 - The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
28:16 - HRH by Elizabeth Holmes
29:22 - Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
28:28 - Majesty by Katharine McGee
28:29 - American Royals by Katharine McGee
29:39 - World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Kaytee)
33:15 - Hide by Kiersten White (Meredith)
36:38 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
36:29 - Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven
30:03 - Deep Dive: Childhood Reading that Impacted Us
42:26 - First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple by Cameron West (Amazon Link)
43:39 - Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
44:26 - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien
46:13 - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
46:57 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
48:41 - Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume
48:54 - Deenie by Judy Blume
48:59 - Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
49:01 - Blubber by Judy Blume
49:13 - Forever by Judy Blume
49:55 - Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
50:51 - Maus by Art Spiegelman
50:56 - Night by Elie Weisel
50:58 - The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
52:30 - Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton
52:31 - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
53:36 - West Side Story by Irving Shulman
53:48 - Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare
53:55 - A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
53:56 - Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
55:00 - The Odyssey by Homer
55:01 - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
56:07 - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands
56:28 - The Giver by Lois Lowry (Kaytee)
1:00:05 - The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks (Meredith)
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