Season 7, Episode 17: Book Dealers + Raising Readers

Currently Reading

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

  • Bookish Moments: book buying sprees and being book pushers

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

  • Deep Dive: how to and how not to raise readers

  • 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)

1:29 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

2:04 - Thriftbooks

2:09 - I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

2:15 - Bookshop.org

5:57 - Our Current Reads

6:09 - Us by Sara Soler (Kaytee)

8:51 - Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

9:47 - Foe by Iain Reid (Meredith)

11:43 - I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

14:40 - The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Kaytee)

16:26 - Hatchet by Gary Paulson

16:45 - CR Season 2: Episode 21

18:13 - Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson (Meredith)

21:24 - Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

22:38 - How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

23:06 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes (Kaytee)

23:15 - CR Season 5: Episode 31

25:07 - A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

25:17 - The Children of Jacosta by Natalie Haynes

26:46 - The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny (Meredith)

30:38 - State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hillary Clinton

37:45 - Raising Readers

40:55 - CR Season 1: Episode 28 w/ Jackson and Micah

45:40 - Dungeons and Drama by Kirsty Boyce 46:29 - The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer (Land of Stories #1) 50:26 - The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

53:23 - Meet Us At The Fountain

53:29 - I wish for someone to pick your next read. (Kaytee)

55:57 - I wish to recommend the book The Family Game by Catherine Steadman (Meredith)

55:57 -​​ The Family Game by Catherine Steadman

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