Season 3, Episode 43: Challenging Your Reading + Special Guest Traci Thomas!
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee is thrilled to be chatting with Traci Thomas! We are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: "my whole life is bookish" and a mother-daughter buddy read
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Current Reads: an unexpected mix of fiction and non-fiction this week turns things on their head
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Deep Dive: we have a long chat about Traci's reading life, her Shakespeare challenge, the podcast, and all the snacks
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Book Presses: a few non-fiction presses that readers will love.
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Intro:
:46 - The Stacks Podcast
1:00 - The Stacks Instagram
1:05 - shereads.com
Bookish Moment of the Week:
2:55 - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
3:30 - The Giver by Lois Lowry
3:34 - The Stacks Ep. 110 (Traci and her mother Sue Thomas)
Current Reads:
3:52 - Long Division by Kiese Laymon (Traci)
4:55 - Starfish by Lisa Fipps (Kaytee)
5:54 - Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
5:55 - The Stacks Book Club
7:16 - Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (Traci)
9:24 - Traci's final review of Seven Days In June via Instagram
9:34 - Black Futures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham (Kaytee)
9:49 - Choose Your Own Adventure Books 1-4 by R. A. Montgomery
10:02 - The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
11:15 - The Stacks Ep. 146 (w/Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham)
11:40 - Still Processing Podcast w/Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris
12:32 - Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare
12:41 - Cymbeline by William Shakespeare (Traci)
13:27 - The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
13:28 - The Tempest by William Shakespeare
13:29 - King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare
14:17 - You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar (Kaytee)
15:04 - Libro.fm
15:54 - It's Been a Minute episode w/Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
Deep Dive - Traci's Reading Life
17:21 - Othello by William Shakespeare
17:25 - New Boy: William Shakespeare's Othello Retold by Tracy Chevalier
17:33 - Vinegar Girl: William's Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Retold by Anne Tyler
17:38 - The Stacks Ep. 10 w/ Vella Lovell
18:23 - Open Source Shakespeare
18:48 - Two Gentleman of Verona by William Shakespeare
18:52 - The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
19:04 - Hamlet by William Shakespeare
19:23 - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
19:29 - Macbeth by William Shakespeare
19:34 - Richard II by William Shakespeare
19:36 - Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
20:01 - Lend Me Your Ears podcast
20:19 - The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois
28:11 - Columbine by Dave Cullen
28:14 - Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
28:18 - Empire of Pain by Patrick Raddon Keefe
28:57 - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
29:14 - Darryl's Instagram @dsweet_library
34:43 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
35:30 - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
35:48 - Beloved by Toni Morrison
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
45:02 - Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres (Traci)
45:07 - A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres (Traci)
48:33 - Here for It by R. Eric Thomas (Kaytee)
48:50 - It's Been A Minute episode w/R. Eric Thomas
51:10 - The Stacks Pod on Twitter @thestackspod_
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:16.8 | read recently. |
| 0:17.8 | And as you know, we do not shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:21.9 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions are always |
| 0:25.6 | spoiler free. |
| 0:26.7 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into |
| 0:30.6 | your hands. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico, and I love challenging |
| 0:36.2 | myself in my reading. |
| 0:38.1 | This is episode number 43 of season three, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:42.8 | Today, I'm joined by Tracy Thomas. |
| 0:45.4 | Tracy is the host of the stacks, a podcast about books and reading where she interviews authors, |
| 0:50.3 | actors, activists, and book lovers about the books that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:55.6 | New episodes release every Wednesday. |
| 0:58.1 | She also runs the stacks Instagram page at the stacks pod, host literary events, and |
| 1:03.4 | is a columnist at shereads.com. |
| 1:05.8 | Tracy, thanks for being with me on currently reading. |
| 1:08.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm so excited to get to talk to you. |
| 1:12.2 | You have been an often requested guest by many of our listeners. |
| 1:16.2 | Wow. |
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