Season 6, Episode 40: Accepting Feedback + Our Top 5 Reads of 2024 (So Far!‪)‬ Currently Reading

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
Bookish Moments: accepting bookish feedback and purging our bookshelves
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: our current top 5 reads of 2024
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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1:29 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
9:18 - Our Current Reads
9:53 - The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (Meredith)
17:02 - Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher (Kaytee)
20:29 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartman (Meredith)
20:36 - @mother.horror on Instagram
25:57 - The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe (Kaytee)
28:18 - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
28:20 - One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
29:07 - Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy (Meredith)
30:05 - An Unlikely Story
30:30 - Commonplace Books
32:26 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
33:43 - Sociopath by Patric Gagne (Kaytee)
39:23 - Our Top 5 Reads of 2024 (So Far)
42:36 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
43:24 - Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsen (Kaytee)
43:56 - The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger (Meredith)
44:43 - A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (Kaytee)
44:57 - Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
45:12 - Confessions by Kanae Minato (Meredith)
46:11 - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune (Kaytee)
47:30 - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Meredith)
48:36 - James by Percival Everett (Kaytee)
49:32 - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Meredith)
50:06 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
51:17 - Family Family by Laurie Frankel (Kaytee)
52:19 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Meredith)
54:40 - Meet Us At The Fountain
54:51 - I wish you could bottle up the feeling of reading a book for the first time. (Meredith)
54:56 - Family Family by Laurie Frankel
54:57 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
55:45 - I wish I could press All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle. (Kaytee)
56:17 - All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle
57:11 - Minisode w/Mike Gayle
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