Season 4, Episode 5: Back to School with Campus Novels
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 48 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: Pages at the Park and picking new curriciula
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Current Reads: following up on a series, going on adventures, and learning through reading fiction and non-fiction
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Deep Dive: back to school - our favorite campus novels
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Book Presses: a foodie memoir and back to school for non-school-age readers
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Bookish Moment of the Week:
1:44 - Amy's Instagram @what_amy_reads
Current Reads:
5:19 - Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Stein (Mary)
8:51 - Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt by Daniel Barbarisi (Kaytee)
11:30 - Collected Works Bookstore
11:47 - Rush by Lisa Patton (Mary)
15:21 - Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar (Kaytee)
18:37 - The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson (Mary)
18:47 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
21:44 - The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
22:58 - Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey (Kaytee)
Deep Dive - Back to School with Campus Novels
28:12 - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
28:54 - Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
29:24 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
30:40 - Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
31:41 - Admission by Julie Buxbaum
32:47 - A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallero
33:05 - Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
33:15 - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abbi Dare
33:53 - Dear. Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
34:41 - Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
35:13 - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
35:29 - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
36:11 - Legenborn by Tracy Deonn
36:56 - Lobizona by Romina Garber
37:00 - Cazadora by Romina Garber
37:03 - Bookshop.org
37:38 - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
37:57 - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
39:11 - The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
39:42 - The Secret History by Donna Tartt
39:49 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
39:56 - The Magicians by Lev Grossman
40:43 - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
42:00 - A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg (Mary)
44:52 - Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (Kaytee)
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Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
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 Curly Reading Podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend |
| 0:15.6 | time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. And as you know, we |
| 0:20.2 | don't shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:23.6 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.9 | be spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll |
| 0:32.4 | press books into your hands. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico, and I've got buddy |
| 0:39.5 | reads up my wazoo wherever that is. And I'm Mary Heim, a working mom of one, and I am |
| 0:45.4 | ready for fall, even if it means that I have to crank up the AC to snuggle under my blankets. |
| 0:50.7 | This is episode number five of season four, and we are so glad you're here. We are so glad |
| 0:56.3 | you're here, and Mary, welcome to your first episode of season four. I'm glad to be back |
| 1:00.2 | with you. |
| 1:01.2 | Hooray, I'm so happy to be back. |
| 1:03.1 | And speaking of going back today for our deep dive, we are going back to school because |
| 1:07.6 | a lot of us are entering that time of year. So Mary and I wanted to deep dive on campus |
| 1:12.8 | novels. So be looking forward to that. But before we do that, we're going to get started |
| 1:16.4 | the way we always do. Mary, what is your bookish moment of the week? |
| 1:21.1 | So Katie, my bookish moment of the week this week actually happened last week, but it |
| 1:25.6 | was still super fun. We have been opening things up just a little bit more, trying to |
| 1:30.8 | do some fun things with Charlotte outside this summer, and a books to Graham friend who |
| 1:35.4 | also happens to be a bookish friend of our podcast is a librarian at a local school nearby. |
| 1:42.8 | Her name is Amy. She is what Amy reads on Instagram. She hosted pages in the park for her |
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