Season 3, Episode 12: Big Bookish Feelings + Spoopy Season Reading
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: virtual author events and a library fake out
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Current Reads: books that get better and better and have big emotions
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Deep Dive: what is spoopy season? And what do we read for peak spoopiness?
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Book Presses: spoopy presses for your shelves
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Bookish Moments:
2:14 - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
Current Reads:
6:01 - The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller (Mary)
9:34 - New York by Edward Rutherford (Kaytee)
11:54 - A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green (Mary)
11:59 - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
15:38 - Book 3 - I could find no evidence!
16:19 - Big Friendship by Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow (Kaytee)
16:27 - Scribd: try it out for 2 months free
17:03 - Call Your Girlfriend Podcast
19:29 - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness with Siobhan Dowd (Mary)
23:53 - My Storied Year by Katie Proctor (Kaytee)
Deep Dive - Books for Spoopy Season:
29:23 - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
30:14 - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
31:48 - Sweep: A Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
32:40 - The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
33:48 - Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell
34:45 - Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
34:52 - A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
34:58 - A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock Series) by Sherry Thomas
36:56 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
38:00 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
38:11 - Jane Eyre narrated by Thandie Newton
40:32 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
41:32 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
41:33 - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
41:40 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling
41:41 - Tana French books
42:28 - Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
42:37 - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
44:52 - My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton (Mary)
44:58 - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton
45:09 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
47:42 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (Kaytee)
47:51 - It by Stephen King
47:53 - Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Connect With Us:
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Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. |
| 0:18.0 | And as you know, we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so be ready. |
| 0:22.0 | We're light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk, |
| 0:25.0 | and our descriptions will always be spoiler-free. |
| 0:27.0 | We'll discuss our current reads, a book is sheep dive, |
| 0:30.0 | and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Katie Koppel, a homeschooling mom before living in New Mexico and I am very type A, especially when it comes to reading. |
| 0:39.0 | And I'm Mary Hym, a working mom of one living in Wisconsin. |
| 0:43.4 | And this rainstorm we're having today makes me want to ditch my responsibilities all in the name of a good book. |
| 0:48.1 | This is episode number 12 of season 3 and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:52.4 | Mary, today for our deep dive this one actually we made it just for you. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm so excited. We are explaining and then exploring what is a spooky book and I know listeners I know it sounds like I just |
| 1:06.8 | mispronounce the word spooky but there's a reason for that we are talking |
| 1:10.4 | spooky books spooky books day Spooky book day. |
| 1:14.0 | Say it with me everybody. |
| 1:15.0 | It's fun to say, isn't it? |
| 1:18.0 | It seems like a word that my children would really appreciate so I feel like I have to keep it away from them for a little while. |
| 1:23.7 | But first we'll get started the way we always do with which is with our bookish moments of the week. |
| 1:29.7 | So Mary what have you got for us? So I think I've talked about this a little bit before. |
| 1:35.0 | Getting to attend author events virtually since COVID has begun |
| 1:38.9 | has been so much fun. |
| 1:40.9 | Now, don't get me wrong, I I still I do miss live author events I think it's a |
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