Season 7, Episode 31: New Learning Apps + Prioritizing Our Own TBR

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

• Bookish Moments: finishing physical books and new learning apps

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

• Deep Dive: how we balance our TBRs and new releases

• 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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1:27 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

3:41 - Vocabulary app

7:54 - @Literallybookshop on Instagram

7:20 - Our Current Reads

7:26 - House of Cotton by Monica Brashears (Kaytee)

8:54 - Exile in Bookville

11:50 - The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha (Meredith)

11:56 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

14:44 - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

16:40 - The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson) (Kaytee)

21:33 - It’s Easier Than You Think by Sylvia Boorstein (Meredith)

25:39 - The Best Way To Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale (Kaytee)

25:48 - Booktenders

27:38 - @alexia.casale on Instagram

28:52 - The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore (Meredith)

30:19 - The Sherlockian by Graham Moore

30:21 - The Holdout by Graham Moore=

34:20 - Prioritizing Your Shelves

34:45 - Fabled Bookshop

45:29 - The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

48:20 - Fabled Storybound Subscription

49:30 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:35 - I wish to press (again) the book Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts. (Kaytee)

49:41 - Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

49:48 - Wicked by Gregory Maguire

51:09 - I wish if you have kids and they interrupt your reading, to try reading aloud to them until they get annoyed and leave. (Meredith)

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