Welcome, readers. We are so excited to continue this new content from the creators of Currently Reading Podcast! This spin-off podcast series will tackle book to screen adaptations in a spoiler-FILLED format. Be sure you’ve read the book and watched the film version before listening to the episode, because we don’t shy away from strong opinions OR from all the spoilers, unlike our regular episodes.

Show notes for this series will not be time-stamped, but will still include links to Bookshop dot org or Amazon for any books or resources referenced in the episode. These are affiliate links, so they kick back a small percentage to us if you buy through them, and help support the work we do on Currently Reading.

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The Dry by Jane Harper

1:07 - Here’s the Setup

3:41 - Previews

Book Name and release date. Sales info and awards.

The Dry by Jane Harper

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

The Exiles by Jane Harper

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

Movie name and release date. Box office and awards.

The Dry (2021)

Force of Nature (coming 2024)

6:57 - The Cutting Room

Pivotal Book scenes and how they translated to the screen

Historical flashbacks

The actual dryness

Catching Scott Whitlam

Aaron Falk’s ostracization

Anything left out that shouldn’t have been

There are pieces of the movie that don’t make sense without the book

Clyde PD

Grant’s role in Ellie’s death

The note that implicates Aaron/his dad

Defacing Falk’s car

Love triangle/sexual tension

Luke’s death details and the bike tire marks

Added to the movie

Suspense building elements

Mushy middle

Weird product placements

Pub room versus big hotel

Casting and mis-casting

A few non-Australians were cast! But very few

Falk - Simon Baker, Ryan Kwanten

Gretchen - Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Margo Robbie, Toni Collette, Naomi Watts

Raco - just a Hemsworth

Whitlam - another Hemsworth, let’s go with Chris

Gerry - Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Mel Gibson

Problematic elements

Discussion of the “gay f-word”

44:06 - Award Season

Worst and best parts of the adaptation.

The note that implicates Aaron

Mushy middle

Cinematography and score

The dryness, and the climax scene

Worst and best actors.

Young Luke

Raco, the actor

Eric Bana as Falk

Worst and best book characters.

Mal Deacon and Grant Dow

Luke Hadler

Raco

Karen Hadler

Aaron Falk

1:01:27 - Book/Flick Energy

Book scored on a 5 star scale.

Book on Goodreads

Movie scored on a 10 point scale.

Movie on Rotten Tomatoes

1:05:07 - A Leftover Popcorn Kernel

If you were to commit a murder, do you think you could get away with it?

And how would you do it?

What’s the scariest thing in Australia: the snakes, the spiders, the wildfires or the drought?

1:09:49 - End Credits

The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way

Available on Netflix - Season 1

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

• Bookish Moments: fun new hobbies and maybe not having a bookish moment

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

• Deep Dive: our love for all things memoir

• 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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1:39 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

8:06 - Our Current Reads

8:14 - Bride by Ali Hazelwood (Mary)

10:29 - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

11:58 - Unhinged by Vera Valentine

12:29 - Renegades by Marissa Meyer (Kaytee)

12:40 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer

15:47 - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune

16:47 - Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (Mary)

19:55 - An Inconvenient Cop by Edwin Raymond (Kaytee)

20:03 - Booktenders

24:51 - A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall (Mary)

28:26 - @ginnyreadsandwrites on Instagram

28:44 - Fairyloot

29:07 - Pango Books

30:16 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

30:34 - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

31:53 - A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (Kaytee)

32:10 - Betty by Tiffany McDaniel

35:29 - Deep Dive: Our Love For Memoirs

36:10 - Sarah’s Bookshelves

39:49 - The Black Count by Tom Reiss

41:43 - My Life in France by Julia Child

42:30 - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling

42:32 - Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling

42:46 - Bossypants by Tina Fey

42:51 - Spare by Prince Harry

43:12 - Becoming by Michelle Obama

43:42 - Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe

43:47 - I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg

44:04 - I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg (young readers’ edition)

44:59 - Waypoints by Sam Heughan

45:31 - Finding Me by Viola Davis

46:20 - As You Wish by Cary Elwes

46:58 - Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

47:50 - Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother by Beth Ann Fennelly

47:55 - Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly

48:06 - Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan

48:10 - These Precious Days by Ann Patchett

49:04 - Soil by Camille T. Dungy

49:15 - An Exact Replica of A Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken

50:29 - Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder

50:37 - What Looks Like Bravery by Laurel Braitman

50:43 - After This by Claire Bidwell Smith (amazon link)

50:58 - Tragedy Plus Time by Adam Cayton-Holland

51:15 - Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottleib

51:30 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

51:53 - A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter

52:02 - At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider

52:52 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

53:05 - The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

53:12 - A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg

53:43 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton

53:45 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

53:48 - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

54:03 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

54:15 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt

55:17 - Meet Us At The Fountain

55:21 - I wish to press the Ember Quartet series, starting with Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. (Mary)

55:30 - Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

56:52 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

56:53 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

57:22 - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

58:38 - My wish is for more bookish board games. (Kaytee)

58:47 - By the Book game

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

• Bookish Moments: learning of new kinds of books and creating outdoor reading spaces

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

• Deep Dive: how we manage our massive TBRs and how we choose our next read

• 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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**We are aware of a sound quality issue with Kaytee’s audio. We are in the works to hopefully get that fixed soon! Thanks for hanging with us through it!

2:55 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

5:56 - Breathless by Amy McCulloch

7:54 - Our Current Reads

8:18 - Confessions by Kanae Minato (Meredith)

11:21 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram

11:22 - @readlexyread on Instagram

11:36 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

12:34 - Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum (Kaytee)

14:57 - 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

15:48 - There’s Something I Have To Tell You by Michelle McDonagh (Meredith)

18:25 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth

19:40 - Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin (Kaytee)

20:08 - The Happier Podcast

23:48 - Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

27:55 - A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (Kaytee)

28:10 - Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

32:01 - Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

32:29 - Deep Dive: Managing Our Massive TBRs

33:09 - Hearts and Daggers Pod

33:43 - Currently Reading Patreon

44:00 - 3 tier rolling cart on Amazon

47:16 - NetGalley

47:51 - Middle of the Night by Riley Sager 

50:53 - Half Price Books

51:55 - Meet Us At The Fountain

52:14 - I wish people would read The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino. (Meredith)

54:31 - My wish is to share a collaboration between Mychal Threets and PBS. (Kaytee)

55:00 - Mychal Threets on Instagram

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• Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry

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

• Bookish Moments: changing up book subscriptions and implementing new technology into our reading

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

• Deep Dive: what would we ask the book fairy to change in our books

• 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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**We are aware of a sound quality issue with Kaytee’s audio. We are in the works to hopefully get that fixed soon! Thanks for hanging with us through it!

1:35 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

1:51 - Satisfiction Book Subscription

2:18 - Fairyloot

2:19 - Illumicrate

2:20 - OwlCrate

3:00 - @Meredithmondayschwartz on Instagram

7:33 - Our Current Reads

7:42 - Betty by Tiffany McDaniel (Kaytee)

7:48 - Booktenders

10:57 - @authortiffanymcdaniel on Instagram

12:02 - An Unlikely Story

12:04 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Meredith)

17:58 - Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones (Kaytee)

20:14 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt

20:49 - Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan

21:49 - Born A Crime by Trevor Noah (young readers version)

22:21 - Rabbit by Patricia Williams

22:46 - The Gathering by C.J. Tudor (Meredith)

24:18 - The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

24:20 - The Drift by C.J. Tudor

26:49 - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune (Kaytee)

28:48 - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune

28:52 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

28:54 - Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

31:35 - The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland (Meredith)

36:14 - Deep Dive: Book Wishes To The Book Fairy

40:01 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

56:38 - First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

49:09 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:21 - I wish everyone would follow @weeklyhomecheck on Instagram. (Kaytee)

50:36 - I wish everyone would listen to the podcast The Canada Reads Podcast (Meredith)

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• Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

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

• Bookish Moments: more efficient book signings and reading when we need to recharge

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

• Deep Dive: an unofficial deep dive into no prep episodes

• 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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:10 Bite Size Intro

1:49 - Currently Reading Patreon

5:10 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

9:43 - Our Current Reads

12:19 - Cold by Drew Hayden Taylor (Meredith)

12:54 - From the Front Porch podcast

18:12 - Better the Blood by Michael Bennett

19:21 - Family Family by Laurie Frankel (Kaytee)

19:56 - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

25:00 - One Two Three by Laurie Frankel

25:42 - Everyone Is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf (Meredith)

27:15 - The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf

30:53 - CR Season 4: Episode 30 (about one-night stand books)

31:29 - Come and Get It by Kiley Reid (Kaytee)

31:54 - Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

35:13 - libro.fm

37:38 - First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (Meredith)

44:02 - Evil Eye by Etaf Rum (Kaytee)

44:14 - A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

51:58 - Deep Dive: Talking Through Our Off The Cuff Episode

56:37 - Everyone Is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf

56:38 - First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

59:15 - Meet Us At The Fountain

1:01:26 - I wish everyone would try doing summarizing thoughts immediately after reading a book in some way shape or form. (Meredith)

1:01:58 - I wish for a book recommendation on call service. (Kaytee)

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• Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

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

• Bookish Moments: pastries while reading and huge bookish hangovers

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

• Deep Dive: the ways our reading lives and changed and expanded over time

• 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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1:32 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

3:11 - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

4:45 - All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Releases June 25, 2024)

7:30 - Our Current Reads

7:36 - The Night Raven by Johan Rundberg (Roxanna)

14:09 - The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson (Meredith)

18:09 - The Fact of a Body by Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich

21:54 - Burning Roses by S.L. Huang (Roxanna)

22:51 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

26:06 - Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber (Meredith)

27:14 - Caraval by Stephanie Garber

31:22 - In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (Roxanna)

31:51 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

31:54 - Finding Me by Viola Davis

36:23 - Better the Blood by Michael Bennett (Meredith)

41:24 - Deep Dive: Changes In Our Reading Lives Over Time

47:27 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

48:07 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

49:55 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

50:39 - 10 Things To Tell You podcast w/ Sara Hildreth

50:42 - @fictionmatters on Instagram

53:36 - Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

53:45 - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

55:48 - Burning Roses by S.L. Huang

58:55 - A Dead Djinn In Cairo by P. Djeli Clark

1:00:32 - Meet Us At The Fountain

1:00:45- I wish everyone knows about shepherd.com (Roxanna)

1:00:52 - Strong Sense of Place podcast

1:01:17 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

1:03:19 - Shogun by James Clavell

1:03:28 - CR Season 1: Episode 14

1:04:45 - I wish more people would read Shogun. (Meredith)

1:05:18 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

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We are so excited to journey with you to Three Pines, the fictional French-Canadian village created by Louise Penny for her Three Pines series, featuring Armand Gamache. This spin-off podcast series will tackle each of the books in the series in turn, in a spoiler-FILLED format. Be sure you’ve read the book before listening to the episode.

As you’ve come to expect with all Currently Reading content, Meredith and Roxanna will follow a regular episode format, with regular segments, so you know what to expect each and every time. We love staying focused on the book, rather than conversational rabbit holes. 

Show notes for this series will not be time-stamped except for broad sections, but will include links to Bookshop dot org or Amazon for any books or resources referenced in the episode.

3:45 - Putting the Book Into Context

The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny

Published Sept. 29, 2009 by Minotaur Books

4.20 rating on Goodreads

Seasonal setting - Autum

Book Awards: Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2010

Critic Reviews

Meredith’s and Roxanna’s encounters with the book

Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

10:50 - The Setup

16:22 - A Deeper Exploration

Setup and first paragraph

First paragraph hooks the reader so completely 

Reminds Meredith of the Vera series by Ann Cleeves

The pacing of the novel

The deliberate pulling away from the “quaint village mystery”

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Quality of writing itself - if it could be written as a whole series in today’s publishing

Themes: human behavior, conscience, Thoreau’s Walden, contentment, fathers

p.172 quote about conscience

p. 298 quote about happiness

p.175 quote about Walden

P. 495 quote about fear and contentment

The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

Side plot with Jean-Guy and the notes left by Ruth Zardo

The Oddness Factor (is usually in superlatives but gets talked about early in this episode!)

The Ending

1:15:31 - Superlatives

Biggest Flaw

Character MVP

p. 403

Favorite Character

Biggest loser

Best food description

Fear Factor

1:29:47 - Within the Series

Is this book skippable?

Favorite Quote (gets asked after the skippable portion so I added it here for time stamp sake)

1:34:08 - SPOILERS AHEAD HERE

Next episode’s read: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

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• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

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

• Bookish Moments: book signings and reading retreats

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

• Deep Dive: revisiting what is working and what isn’t working in our current reading lives

• 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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1:23 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

2:45 - CR Season 5: Episode 37

4:17 - An Unlikely Story bookshop

4:45 - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

6:20 - Our Current Reads

6:51 - One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall (Meredith)

12:21 - My Other Husband by Dorothy Koomson (Kaytee)

12:26 - The Friend by Dorothy Koomson (amazon link)

15:23 - Blackwell’s

16:33 - The Golden Gate by Amy Chua (Meredith)

18:15 - The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (Penguin Random House link)

21:42 - @pieladybooks on Instagram

22:43 - A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow (Kaytee)

25:48 - The Deep by River Solomon 

25:51 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

25:53 - Sing Me To Sleep by Gabi Burton

27:17 - Near the Bone by Christina Henry (Meredith)

28:54 - @mother.horror on Instagram

32:10 - No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister (Kaytee)

35:50 - Deep Dive: Revisiting What Is Working and Not Working In Our Reading Lives

44:06 - Eye of the World (Wheel of Time #1) by Robert Jordan

44:18 - @thewilltoread on Instagram

57:14 - Meet Us At The Fountain

57:27 - I wish if you buddy read, find a reader who reads in different genres than you do. (Meredith)

59:32 - I wish to implement SSR in my home. (Kaytee)

1:00:05 - @books.are.word.tacos on Instagram

Support Us:

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. March’s IPL comes to us from our Anchor store An Unlikely Story!

• Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

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The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: puzzle competitions and a new to Meredith podcast

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

• Deep Dive: a recap of Kaytee and Meredith’s annual CR get together

• 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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:10 Bite Size Intro

2:33 - Currently Reading Patreon

4:09 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

5:02 - Puzzle Board (Amazon link for something similar, the Aldi one does not have an online link)

6:19 - Talking Scared podcast

7:23 - Talking Scared Ep. 176

8:43 - Our Current Reads

8:53 - Love in Color by Bolu Babalola (Kaytee)

10:35 - Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola

12:19 - No Way Out by Cara Hunter (Meredith, DI Adam Foley #3)

13:50 - Close to Home by Cara Hunter (Blackwell’s link)

16:59 - Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett (Kaytee)

19:51 - Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

22:00 - A Haunting in the Arctic by C.J. Cooke (Meredith)

23:51 - The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

23:56 - The Nesting by C.J. Cooke

24:06 - I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

24:08 - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

27:16 - I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong (Kaytee)

27:26 - An Immense World by Ed Yong

27:55 - Let Kaytee know if you have a copy of It’s Not Exactly Rocket Science by Ed Yong! 

33:28 - The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett (Meredith)

35:08 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett

41:17 - Deep Dive: Kaytee and Meredith’s Bookish Retreat

46:12 - The King’s English Bookshop

48:12 - Brady @booksbybrady on Instagram

49:00 - Currently Reading Patreon

53:08 - Meet Us At The Fountain

53:14 - I wish that we could visit every Indie Press List bookstore in person, or even every potential IPL bookstore. (Kaytee)

54:53 - I co-sign a bookish friend’s wish for a movie theater, but make it silent reading with snacks. (Meredith, thanks Julie Myers for the wish!)

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• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. March’s IPL comes to us from our Anchor store An Unlikely Story!

• Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

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On this episode of Currently Reading, Roxanna and Mary are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: teaching littles to read and a book press

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

• Deep Dive: tropes Roxanna and Mary want to see MORE of in their reading

• 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

2:25 - Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann

4:02 - The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou (Blackwell’s hardcover link, releases in paperback in the US October 8, 2024. If you want to wait for the paperback you can pre-order HERE)

5:51 - Our Current Reads

5:56 - Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell (Mary)

6:08 - Waterstone’s

10:14 - The Undertaking of Heart and Mercy by Megan Bannen (Roxanna)

11:02 - Under The Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

14:12 - A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter (Mary)

17:46 - Hello Stranger by Katherine Center (Roxanna)

17:54 - Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center

21:20 - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center

21:30 - How To Walk Away by Katherine Center

23:16 - The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

24:30 - @katherinecenter on Instagram

24:36 - The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow (Mary, Amazon link)

27:46 - It’s Easier Than You Think by Sylvia Boorstein (Roxanna)

27:57 - Mary and Roxanna’s Top Ten Reads of 2023 episode

33:52 - Deep Dive: Bookish Tropes We Want More Of

36:30 - Small Change by Roan Parrish

36:41 - Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes

38:03 - Holiday Romance by Catherine Walsh

38:16 - Mary’s Instagram (Holiday Romance is under her “Books Vol. 6” highlight)

39:54 - The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

40:25 - Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

42:58 - Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

43:05 - Hench by Natalize Zina Walschots

43:13 - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center

44:17 - The Change by Kirsten Miller

46:01 - The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

47:01 - The Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White (Sinister Summer #1)

47:07 - The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

49:31 - Happily Ever Ninja by Penny Reid

50:54 - Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather

51:35 - Search by Michelle Huneven

51:43 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

52:36 - Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

52:38 - Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson

54:54 - The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso

55:30 - Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark

57:07 - Meet Us At The Fountain

57:12 - I wish to motivate listeners to spend time with their physical TBR and plan reads or cull books. (Mary)

59:35 - I wish to press Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski. (Roxanna)

59:46 - Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

1:02:18 - Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. March’s IPL comes to us from our Anchor store An Unlikely Story!

• Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

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The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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

• Bookish Moments: bookish festival meetups and poop books for potty training

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

• Deep Dive: answering questions about our thoughts on bookish villains

• 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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2:56 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

3:13 - The Tucson Festival of Books

Please RSVP to [email protected] if you’re going to come Saturday, March 9! 

5:52 - Everybody Poops by Justine Avery

5:58 - Potty by Leslie Patricelli

6:17 - Poopasaurus by Plum Coconut (Amazon link)

6:18 - Dino Potty by Sara Conway

6:33 - P is for Potty by Naomi Kleinberg

6:35 - The New Potty by Mercer Mayer (Amazon link)

6:58 - It Hurts When I Poop! by Howard J. Bennett

7:05 - Bunny’s Big Problem by Simone Majetich (Amazon link)

7:37 - Poop There It Is by Little Hippo Books (Amazon link)

10:08  - Our Current Reads

10:22 - Something Close to Magic by Emma Mills (Kaytee)

10:29 - The Novel Neighbor

10:42 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

13:18 - The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz (Meredith)

15:25 - The Nowhere Bookshop

17:34 - The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

16:36 - Starter Villain by John Scalzi

19:05 - Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz

20:25 - My Friend the Octopus by Lindsay Galvin (Kaytee, Blackwell’s UK link)

23:23 - The Magic All Around by Jennifer Moorman (Meredith)

29:24 - Libro.fm

30:17 - Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina (Kaytee)

30:24 - Capital Books on K

32:02 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson

32:32 - Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina

33:19 - All Her Fault by Andrea Mara (Meredith)

34:43 - Currently Reading Patreon

34:50 - Fabled Bookshop

36:55 - I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh

36:57 - Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips

37:23 - All Things Bookish Villains

40:25 - All Her Fault by Andrea Mara

42:02 - East of Eden by John Steinbeck

42:56 - The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

43:42 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

44:31 - Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

45:06 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

45:08 - The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein

45:24 - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

48:12 - A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

48:58 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

50:21 - Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

51:00 - Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

51:38 - Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

53:11 - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

54:12 - Meet Us At The Fountain

54:20 - I wish to press How the Word Is Passed by Cint Smith into listeners’ hands. (Kaytee)

54:21 - How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith

56:03 - I wish listeners would stop using the Patreon app to listen to our content and add patreon to wherever they listen to other podcasts. (Meredith)

57:02 - Check our Instagram @currentlyreadingpodcast for the video instructions to add Patreon to your podcast feed.

Support Us:

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Bookish Friends Receive:

• The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. February’s IPL is brought to you by Booktenders in Huntington, West Virginia.

• Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry

• All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller

• The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!