Season 8, Episode 23: Slow Reads + How And Why We Rate Our Books

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

• Bookish Moments: experimenting with our reading and taking on choker books

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

• Deep Dive: answering the questions of how or why we rate our books

• 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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2:39 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

3:01- The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

3:05 - Bookshelf Thomasville

3:07 - From the Front Porch podcast

3:31 - It by Stephen King

4:53 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (#1 in the Cromwell series)

5:30 - Footnotes and Tangents on Instagram

6:45 - The Stand by Stephen King

6:47 - Laura Tremaine on Substack

8:52 - Our Current Reads

9:00 - Matched by Ally Condie (Kaytee)

9:32 - The Giver by Lois Lowry

11:26 - The Selection by Kiera Cass

11:30 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

13:04 - Turns of Fate by Anne Bishop (Meredith)

14:45 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

18:15 - Cultish by Amanda Montell (Kaytee)

18:21 - Wordslut by Amanda Montell

21:52 - Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain (Meredith)

23:00 - The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

23:35 - The Painted Porch

23:40 - The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holliday

26:05 - The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

27:37 - When the Tides Held the Moon by Vanessa Vida Kelley (Kaytee)

30:43 - CAWPILE

31:38 - The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark (Meredith)

35:51 - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

36:28 - The Last Flight by Julie Clark

36:50 - Deep Dive: How And Why We Rate Our Reads

37:53 - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

37:59 - Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

38:04 - Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes

38:14 - Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

49:41 - CAWPILE system

51:53 - Meet Us At The Fountain

52:41 - I wish that we would all pick one small way to challenge our reading this year. (Kaytee)

54:23 - I wish you would sign up for our newsletter! (Meredith)

54:25 - Sign up for the newsletter on our website

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