Season 6, Episode 45: For The Love Of Octopus + How To Recommend Books Outside Your Wheelhouse

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

• Bookish Moments: book recs that land with non readers and Kaytee meeting an octopus!

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

• Deep Dive: how we recommend books to readers outside our own wheelhouses

• 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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Season 6, Episode 45

1:27 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

1:50 - Happy Place by Emily Henry

6:52 - Our Current Reads

6:59 - Ready or Not by Cara Bastone (Mary)

10:41 - Secrets of the Octopus by Sy Montgomery (Kaytee)

10:50 - The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World by Matt Kracht (Fabled link, not available on Bookshop)

11:14 - Secrets of the Whales by Brian Skerry

11:16 - Secrets of the Elephants by Paula Kahumbu and Claudia Geib

11:33 - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

13:45 - Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (Mary)

15:51 - Boswell Books

16:55 - Coyote Lost and Found by Dan Gemeinhart (Kaytee)

17:01 - The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

17:13 - Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being In Love by isthisselfcare

22:25 - The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Mary)

25:51 - Drowning by T.J. Newman (Kaytee)

25:57 - Falling by T.J. Newman

26:02 - CR Season 5: Episode 41

30:12 - Deep Dive: How To Recommend Books Outside Your Wheelhouse

32:21 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

32:23 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gayle Honeycutt

36:24 - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

36:30 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley

36:44 - Starter Villain by John Scalzi

36:46 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

36:52 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

39:31 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

39:55 - All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle

41:19 - Breathless by Amy McCulloch

41:43 - The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

44:29 - Drowning by T.J. Newman

48:55 - Meet Us At The Fountain

48:59 - I wish people would give slow and steady reading a try. (Mary)

49:35 - Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

51:30 - I wish everyone would keep a readerly profile. (Kaytee)

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