Season 6, Episode 37: New Hobbies + Our Love For Memoirs
On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:
Bookish Moments: fun new hobbies and maybe not having a bookish moment
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: our love for all things memoir
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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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1:39 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
8:06 - Our Current Reads
8:14 - Bride by Ali Hazelwood (Mary)
10:29 - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune
11:58 - Unhinged by Vera Valentine
12:29 - Renegades by Marissa Meyer (Kaytee)
12:40 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer
15:47 - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune
16:47 - Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (Mary)
19:55 - An Inconvenient Cop by Edwin Raymond (Kaytee)
20:03 - Booktenders
24:51 - A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall (Mary)
28:26 - @ginnyreadsandwrites on Instagram
28:44 - Fairyloot
29:07 - Pango Books
30:16 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
30:34 - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
31:53 - A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (Kaytee)
32:10 - Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
35:29 - Deep Dive: Our Love For Memoirs
36:10 - Sarah’s Bookshelves
39:49 - The Black Count by Tom Reiss
41:43 - My Life in France by Julia Child
42:30 - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling
42:32 - Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
42:46 - Bossypants by Tina Fey
42:51 - Spare by Prince Harry
43:12 - Becoming by Michelle Obama
43:42 - Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
43:47 - I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg
44:04 - I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg (young readers’ edition)
44:59 - Waypoints by Sam Heughan
45:31 - Finding Me by Viola Davis
46:20 - As You Wish by Cary Elwes
46:58 - Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
47:50 - Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother by Beth Ann Fennelly
47:55 - Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly
48:06 - Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
48:10 - These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
49:04 - Soil by Camille T. Dungy
49:15 - An Exact Replica of A Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
50:29 - Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
50:37 - What Looks Like Bravery by Laurel Braitman
50:43 - After This by Claire Bidwell Smith (amazon link)
50:58 - Tragedy Plus Time by Adam Cayton-Holland
51:15 - Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottleib
51:30 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
51:53 - A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
52:02 - At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider
52:52 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
53:05 - The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
53:12 - A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
53:43 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
53:45 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
53:48 - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
54:03 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
54:15 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt
55:17 - Meet Us At The Fountain
55:21 - I wish to press the Ember Quartet series, starting with Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. (Mary)
55:30 - Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
56:52 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
56:53 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
57:22 - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
58:38 - My wish is for more bookish board games. (Kaytee)
58:47 - By the Book game
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