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Season 7, Episode 47: Reading Life Temp Check + Pressing Books Into Each Other's Hands
Category: Arts
Duration: 01:01:47
Publish Date: 2025-06-30 09:00:00
Description:

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

  • Bookish Moments: readerly badges and DNFing books

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

  • Deep Dive: we check in on our reading lives and press book into the other’s hands

  • 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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2:19 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

8:02 - Our Current Reads

8:30 - A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera (Kaytee)

8:46 - A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

8:49 - CR Season 5: Episode 1

8:53 - Cafe Con Libros

8:55 - An Island Princess Starts A Scandal by Adriana Herrera

8:57 - CR Season 6: Episode 6

12:29 - With A Vengeance by Riley Sager

14:09 - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

14:10 - Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

14:14 - The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

14:20 - Survive the Night by Riley Sager

14:52 - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

14:54 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

15:11 - Nine Lives by Peter Swanson

18:29 - Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodges (Kaytee)

22:29 - The Midsummer Bride by Kati Wilde (Meredith)

25:43 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

28:02 - Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (Kaytee)

31:19 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

32:05 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

33:42 - The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Meredith)

37:17 - This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar (Meredith mistakenly titled this book. This is the correct one!)

39:21 - Reading Life Temp Check + Pressing Books Into Each Other’s Hands

40:19 - Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodges

51:38 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

52:01 - All The Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

54:49 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

56:13 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

57:32 - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

57:54 - Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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