Season 8, Episode 29: A Website Refresh + Curating A Bookstagram

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

• Bookish Moments: A new bookish metaphor and book moms in the wild

• Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately

• Deep Dive: Explaining a Currently Reading literary society

• Before We Go: our new segment featuring bookish friend posts and a sleeper hit you should read.

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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1:44 - Bookish Moments of the Week

1:52 - Currently Reading Website

1:56 - Books We Want To Press Into Your Hands

3:03 - Best Books for Babies and Kids

3:42 - Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge

5:55 - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on HBO Max

7:12 - Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

7:16 - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin (all 3 Dunk and Egg novellas)

7:55 - Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

8:33 - Current Reads

8:41 - The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon (Kaytee)

11:47 - The Book Wanderers by Anna James

11:50 - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

11:54 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

13:08 - Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Meredith)

15:10 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

15:11 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

15:45 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

22:27 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

24:10 - Six Feet Over by Mary Roach (Kaytee)

27:20 - Gulp by Mary Roach

27:21 - Bonk by Mary Roach

27:22 - Stiff by Mary Roach

28:51 - Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

32:06 - Agatha Christie's Marple by Mark Aldridge

34:18 - The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden (Kaytee)

34:33 - Charter Books

39:00 - Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Meredith)

42:28 - Dracula by Bram Stoker

45:21 - Turning Instagram into Bookstagram

47:25 - Sign up for the newsletter on our website

47:26 - Currently Reading Substack

50:48 - Currently Reading Instagram

50:54 - @HelloSunshine on Instagram

50:58 - @BookRiot on Instagram

51:00 - @NYTBooks on Instagram

51:40 - @Iamblackharry on Instagram

52:10 - Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

52:28 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

52:42 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower

53:42 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

53:48 - God of the Woods by Liz Moore

54:03 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

56:13 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live

58:44 - Before We Go

Meredith highlights a bookish friend post

59:34 - The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

59:54 - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Kaytee's Book She DNF'd:

1:01:22 - The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

1:01:28 - Bookshelf Thomasville

1:02:57 - From the Front Porch podcast

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