Season 8, Episode 1: Deciding Once + What We Did On Our Summer Break

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

Bookish Moments: reading with a partner and making lazy genius decisions about your reading life
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: we are reviewing our summer break
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)

1:53 - Ad For Ourselves

3:11 - Pounded by Produce by G.M. Fairy

3:14 - Hedging His Bets by Celia Kyle [Amazon link]

5:45 - Currently Reading Patreon

6:02 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

6:39 - The Bookshop by Evan Friss

7:24 - Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

10:05 - Our Current Reads

10:15 - Playground by Richard Powers (Kaytee)

13:04 - Bill from An Unlikely Story on Instagram (@AnUnlikelyStory)

13:55 - Bill Largent on Instagram (@TheWillToRead)

14:26 - Until August by Gabriel García Márquez (Meredith)

16:43 - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

16:47 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

17:40 - The Council of Animals by Nick McDonell

19:06 - I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Kaytee)

19:12 - CR Season 5: Episode 48 (The Listener Press)

24:33 - The Game Is Murder by Hazell Ward (Meredith)

27:34 - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

27:43 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

28:55 - The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett (Kaytee)

29:21 - CR Season 6: Episode 31

32:18 - The Examiner by Janice Hallett

32:19 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett

33:16 - So Far Gone by Jess Walter

38:30 - Deep Dive: What We Did On Our Summer Break

46:51 - Meet Us At The Fountain

47:15 - Travel to the bookstores a little outside your norm and make time for a bookish journey and bookstore extroversion (Kaytee)

49:24 - Listen to Ep. 272: Best Books of the Year (So Far) of 10 Things to Tell You with Laura Tremaine

50:34 - Laura Tremaine’s Secret Stuff on Substack

50:40 - The Shining by Stephen King

51:21 - A Journey to Three Pines

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