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

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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