Season 3, Episode 28: All the Buddy Reads + Genre Convincers
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: an Instagram buddy read and freeing up time for more reading
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Current Reads: trigger warnings and fluff and all the in between
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Deep Dive: genre convincers - a new word, we made it up
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Book Presses: a springtime read and a YA Fantasy genre convincer
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Bookish Moments:
1:40 - Books by Selena Montgomery
3:39 - Intimations by Zadie Smith
1:49 - Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
Current Reads:
4:23 - Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance by Jenneike Cohen (Mary)
7:09 - Outlawed by Anna North (Kaytee)
10:00 - Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen McManus (Mary)
11:18 - One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
11:25 - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
12:10 - Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland (Kaytee)
14:22 - HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style by Elizabeth Holmes (Mary)
14:35 - Elizabeth Holmes on Instagram
16:17 - This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith (Kaytee)
Deep Dive - Genre Convincers and Genre Dissuaders:
19:48 - Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
22:09 - Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
23:33 - Kindred by Octavia Butler
25:46 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
27:20 - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
28:43 - Everything I've Never Told You by Celeste Ng
29:45 - Memorial by Bryan Washington
28:48 - All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
31:27 - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
34:01 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
34:02 - Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
34:04 - Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson
34:17 Evicted by Matthew Desmond
34:19 Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
36:38 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (Mary)
38:47 - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Kaytee)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the Currently Reading Podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.2 | read recently. |
| 0:18.2 | And, as you know, we don't shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:23.1 | We're light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:26.8 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.0 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into |
| 0:32.0 | your hands. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico, and I love chatting |
| 0:38.2 | about books with my bookish friends. |
| 0:40.8 | And I'm Mary Hyme, a working mom of one, and I spent the morning making calendar reminders |
| 0:45.3 | for all of the book release dates that I'm excited about for 2021. |
| 0:49.6 | This is episode number 28 of season three, and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.3 | It has been a hot minute since I got to record with you, Mary, so I'm glad to have you |
| 1:00.1 | back here to chat with me again. |
| 1:01.8 | Yay! |
| 1:02.8 | I'm so happy to talk about books with you today, Katie. |
| 1:05.4 | Definitely. |
| 1:06.4 | I'm going to let everybody know before we get into the meat of the episode that today for |
| 1:09.7 | our deep dive, we are going to be talking about the books that convinced us to try a genre, |
| 1:15.9 | and the ones that maybe convinced us to stay away from a genre. |
| 1:19.0 | So I'm excited to get into that. |
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