Currently Reading Season 3, Episode 35: Prequels and Sequels + Non-Fiction That Reads Like Fiction
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: learning to read and a bookish friend vacation
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Current Reads: prequels and sequels and series starters and books with big warning labels
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Deep Dive: non-fiction that is unbelievable and true
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Book Presses: we've got two more true stories that go down easy
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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Bookish Moments:
1:46 - Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann
2:35 - Bob Books set 1: Beginning Readers by Bobby Lynn Maslan
3:35 - The Famous Last Words Bar
3:46 - Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
3:57 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
4:00 - How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
4:02 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Current Reads:
5:59 - Sara's website Fiction Matters
6:01 - Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century edited by Alice Wong (Kaytee)
9:13 - The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis (Meredith)
9:26 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
14:46 - The Conductors by Nicole Glover (Kaytee)
16:07 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
18:03 - NetGalley
18:25 - A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
18:29 - A Vow so Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer (Meredith)
18:45 - A Heart so Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer
20:44 - Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston (Kaytee)
21:11 - Bookshelf Thomasville
22:28 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
22:40 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
24:29 - Men in Black by Steve Perry
25:22 - 10 Thing to Tell You episode with Kaytee and Meredith
25:31 - Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan (Meredith)
29:29 - Fabled Bookshop
29:54 - We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly
33:04 - A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
Deep Dive - Nonfiction that reads like Fiction
34:23 - Educated by Tara Westover
34:48 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
36:01 - Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
36:35 - Endurance by Alfred Lansing
36:48 - Devolution by Max Brooks
37:02 - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
37:35 - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
37:51 - The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
38:34 - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
39:00 - Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
39:48 - The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
40:05 - Calypso by David Sedaris
40:08 - Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness
40:30 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
40:49 - The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
41:54 - I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
42:07 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse
42:37 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
43:28 - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Kaytee)
44:39 - Unbroken (Young Adult Edition) by Laura Hillenbrand
45:33 - The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (Meredith)
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