Season 8, Episode 20: Finding Bookish Twins + Organizing Our Recommendation Sources

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

• Bookish Moments: overwhelming feelings when reading and finding book twins

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

• Deep Dive: how to organize all the book recommendation sources we come across

• 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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2:09 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

4:25 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

8:40 - @kaitlynmlilly on instagram

8:41 - @klill01 on TikTok

9:22 - God of the Woods by Liz Moore

10:43 - Our Current Reads

10:49 - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Kaytee)

11:15 - The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

15:25 - Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron Rindo (Meredith)

16:35 - Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

20:06 - Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves (Kaytee)

20:13 - The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

26:30 - Forensics by Val McDermid (Meredith)

27:46 - Foyles

32:53 - I, Medusa by Ayana Gray (Kaytee)

33:03 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

35:04 - Beast of Prey by Ayana Gray

36:40 - The Creeping Hand Murder by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper (Meredith)

38:11 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

38:17 - Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper

41:09 - Murdle by G.T. Karber

42:34 - Organizing Recommendation Sources

43:56 - Currently Reading Patreon

47:21 - @kaitlynmlilly on instagram

48:18 - Fabled Bookshop

51:44 - Literally, A Bookshop

52:37 - Goodreads

52:38 - The Storygraph

57:44 - Meet Us At The Fountain

57:49 - I wish we gave ourselves grace to start small in our reading lives. (Kaytee)

59:04 - I wish you all knew that you can sort podcasts from oldest to newest in Apple Podcasts. (Meredith)

1:01:27 - Crime Time FM podcast

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