Season 6, Episode 37: New Hobbies + Our Love For Memoirs

Currently Reading

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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