Currently Reading Season 2, Episode 4: We are Terrible Teases + a New Belly Up to the Book Bar
Kaytee and Meredith are back in your earbuds with strong opinions and bookish concoctions!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each host, and we are TEASES this week. We both have books that we cannot wait to talk about… but we're not telling you what they are!
Next, we'll remind you about our Bookshelf Thomasville coupon code for you: CURRENTLYLOVING will get you 10% off from our friends over there through the month of August! You've got just a few days left before this code expires, so get on it!
Moving forward, we discuss our current reads for the week. We are mostly GLOWING about our books this week, and we have lots of words about each of them.
We've got an update for you on our Slow But Steady reads as well, and we've loved having you chime in for what you're reading for this challenge. Today, we're also rethinking what Slow But Steady means in terms of content.
For our deep dive, we are discussing book clubs. All the different kinds of book clubs there are. How we feel about them personally. What we enjoy about the idea of book clubs. And some other weird tangents. What are your thoughts on book clubs?
Finally, this week, we finish the episode by Bellying Up to the Book Bar! Our drinking buddy this week is Angie Dawson, and we have LOTS of titles to throw her way. The show notes for this episode are bananas, friends. B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
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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5:39 - Save Me The Plums by Ruth Reichl
5:56 - Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
9:50 - The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
10:02 - Want to get in on the Patron action? Patreon!
15:04 - The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
20:34 - The Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
20:39 - Reese Witherspoon Book Club
24:18 - The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan
24:36 - The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
29:35 - Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
29:44 - Final Girls by Riley Sager
34:29 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
35:03 - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
35:16 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
36:04 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
36:05 - The Stand by Stephen King
36:20 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King
36:27 - War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
36:49 - The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
37:32 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
37:36 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
37:42 - Stamped From the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibraham Kendi
38:33 - Middlemarch by George Eliot
38:36 - The Fiery Cross (Outlander #5) by Diana Gabaldon
40:35 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
43:13 - Silent Book Club
45:04 - Episode 14 with Amy Allen Clark
45:48 - Have opinions about a CR buddy read? Join the Patreon
47:19 - Us Against You by Fredrick Backman
47:33 - Red Rising by Pierce Brown
47:37 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
47:39 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
47:46 - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
47:58 - Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
48:08 - Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
48:10 - Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
48:23 - The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
48:24 - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
48:25 - The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
48:26 - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
48:27 - Joshilyn Jackson Books
48:38 - The Line That Held Us by David Joy
48:39 - The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
48:41 - A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
48:46 - We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
49:02 - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
49:03 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
49:05 - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
49:37 -This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
50:19 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
50:54 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
51:07 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
51:35 - The Paper Magician (series) by Charlie Holmberg
52:01 - The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
52:09 - Scythe by Neal Schusterman
53:00 - The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
53:52 - A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner
53:57 - The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
54:05 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
54:17 - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
54:18 - Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
55:02 - Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
55:17 - The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai
55:23 - Christina Lauren books
55:37 - Jasmine Guillory books
56:05 - Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
56:30 - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
57:23 - Want some extra Belly Up to the Book Bar? Patreon!
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