Episode description

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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