Season 4, Episode 44: Book Hypnotism + Family Vacation Book Club
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:
Bookish Moments: a new social media delight and a bookish gathering
Current Reads: each of us sneakily convinces the other one to read a book that she wasn’t sure about before
Deep Dive: we are planning the bookstacks to bring on your family vacation so that everyone can read together
Book Presses: a YA drama from a favorite author and a diverse multiverse sci-fi adventure
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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1:24 - Bookish Moment of the Week
2:07 - Mary’s picture book instagram @teenybookshelf
5:07 - Current Reads
5:22 - Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau (Mary)
9:01 - A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw (Kaytee)
13:16 - When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord (Mary)
15:29 - Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
15:48 - You Have a Match by Emma Lord
16:07 - Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Melinda Lo (Kaytee)
18:46 - A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil (Mary)
18:50 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
18:51 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
21:19 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Kaytee)
21:30 - An Unlikely Story bookshop
24:21 - Deep Dive: Family Vacation Book Clubs
24:42 - @bookliz on Instagram
The Family that Solves Mysteries
27:01 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett
27:28 - Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
28:00 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
28:22 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Family That Doesn’t Mind Breaking Their Brains
29:26 - The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier
30:07 - Upgrade by Blake Crouch
30:23 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Family That Cooks Together
431:07 - Taste by Stanley Tucci
31:24 - A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
31:42 - Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
32:13 - Save me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
32:17 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay
The Family that Learns Together
32:59 - The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron
33:21 - Gumption by Nick Offerman
33:54 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
34:23 - Kaytee’s book recs for “The Family that learns stuff together”
The Body by Bill Bryson
Stiff by Mary Roach
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
The Family That Wants to Include the Younger Generation
34:39 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
35:22 - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
35:32 - The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
The Family That Fancies Themselves Oprah’s Book Club
36:27 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
36:51 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
38:27 - Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
38:43 - Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black
The Family That Goes to the Woods
39:28 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
39:47 - Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman
40:05 - Upstream by Mary Oliver
40:39 - Devolution by Max Brooks
40:43 - A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
The Couples that Read Together
41:05 - The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
41:10 - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
42:18 - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands
42:38 - All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (Mary)
44:01 - Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
45:23 - The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Kaytee)
47:01 - The Hearts and Daggers Podcast Episode 11
47:06 - Holly’s Instagram @birdbrainbooks
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