Season 6, Episode 4: Nasal Adventures + Two Tropes Diverge in a Wood
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Roxanna are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: new library cards and new projects
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Current Reads: so many books we convinced each other to read
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Deep Dive: tropes that we usually like, but might diverge into something we hate
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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2:16 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
3:30 - Roxanna’s Substack The Purpose Project
3:36 - Roxannathereader on Instagram
8:31 - Current Reads
8:52 - Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes (Roxanna)
8:58 - Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes
12:44 - Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb
15:06 - Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
15:44 - Beneath the Swirling Sky by Carolyn Leiloglou (Kaytee)
18:25 - Currently Reading Patreon
21:38 - The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi (Roxanna)
21:46 - The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
21:49 - The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi
27:08 - The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
28:11 - I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Kaytee)
32:13 - Open Book by Jessica Simpson (Roxanna)
38:47 - The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope (Kaytee)
38:53 - Back of Beyond Books
41:02 - Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
42:26 - Deep Dive: Two Tropes Diverge In A Wood
43:30 - Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
43:32 - Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes
43:33 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
44:07 - The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
44:08 - Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
45:26 - Maame by Jessica George
45:54 - Sea Change by Gina Chung
47:16 - Notes From A Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwauchi
47:44 - Open Book by Jessica Simpson
51:44 - Search by Michelle Huneven
51:51 - House of Brede by Rumer Godden
53:25 - The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope
54:07 - The Mermaid, The Witch and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
54:14 - Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
56:25 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
58:00 - Nora Goes Off Script by Ananbel Monaghan
1:00:10 - Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
1:01:13 - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
1:01:25 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
1:03:21 - Meet Us At The Fountain
1:03:53 - I wish everyone would check out the William Hannah Notebook (Roxanna)
1:03:54 - William Hannah Limited
1:07:14 - Filofax
1:08:06 - I wish I could give out staff picks like a bookstore employee (Kaytee)
1:09:07 - The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
1:09:08 - The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi
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| 0:00.0 | Hi readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we |
| 0:17.5 | have read recently. |
| 0:18.5 | And as you already know, we don't shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:23.2 | We're light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.1 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.7 | Today, we'll discuss our current beads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the |
| 0:32.6 | fountain. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom before living in Arizona, and I love exploring a new |
| 0:38.8 | library. |
| 0:39.9 | And I'm Roxana Casamcara, a mom, a marketer, and a mood reader living in Toronto, Ontario, |
| 0:45.9 | Canada. |
| 0:46.9 | And this year, I've got a lot of September energy. |
| 0:49.5 | This is episode number four of season six, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.6 | I am so glad to be here with you, Roxana, and I'm trying to channel your Canadian September |
| 0:59.5 | energy down here to Arizona, where it is still well over 100 degrees, which is disgusting. |
| 1:05.2 | Which, okay, and it's warm here too, but we've already started to get cooler days. |
| 1:10.6 | And so it's not quite September, but also our school year starts in September. |
| 1:15.4 | So for us, it really does have kind of a new energy. |
| 1:18.5 | It's a bit cooler in the morning, school starting, like starts after Labor Day, so September |
| 1:22.9 | 5th, I think this year. |
| 1:24.7 | So you know, you just come into it with a bit of a more back to school energy, which is |
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