Season 5, Episode 25: Reading in Other Formats + The Time and Place for a Quiet Book
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
Bookish Moments: TBR evaluation and a great e-reader setup
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: an exploration and praise of the Quiet book
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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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1:44 - Bookish Moment of the Week
4:14 - Kindle Oasis
4:16 - Casebot Kindle Oasis Case
7:01 - Kindle Paperwhite
7:38 - Current Reads
7:53 - Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (Kaytee)
12:29 - The Drift by C.J. Tudor
12:44 - The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor (Meredith)
17:52 - The Whisper Man by Alex North
17:53 - The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup
17:54 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
18:42 - Chef’s Kiss by TJ Alexander (Kaytee)
19:18 - Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
23:35 - The Candymakers by Wendy Mass (Meredith)
25:46 - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
26:53 - Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
27:25 - The Book Scavengers by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
27:27 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
27:53 - The Einsteins of Vista Point by Ben Guterson
28:28 - Violeta by Isabel Allende (Kaytee)
28:34 - An Unlikely Story
32:11 - Never Lie by Freida McFadden (Meredith)
38:02 - The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
38:38 - Deep Dive: Quiet Books
43:00 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
44:07 - The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
45:42 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
47:18 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay
48:09 - Tara Road by Mauve Binchey
48:35 - We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
48:37 - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
48:45 - The Dutch House by Anne Patchett
48:46 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
50:45 - What Should I Read Next w/Anne Bogel
50:58 - From the Front Porch w/Annie B. Jones
51:30 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish we all had readerly “What Should I Read Next” bubbles that popped up when talking with new readers. (Kaytee)
I wish everyone would shake up their reading formats and do something outside their “norm”. (Meredith)
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