Hi 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.

And as you already know, we don't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready.

We are light on the chit chat heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler

free.

Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.

I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in Arizona, and I love it when my books come to life.

And I'm Mary Haim, a therapist in mom of one living in Wisconsin, and there is no better feeling

than giving a book as a gift and having the recipient absolutely love it.

This is episode number 45 of season six, and we are so glad you're here.

Yes Mary we are so glad that they are here and that you are here because I've missed you my friend.

I've missed you too I've missed talking about books with you Katie and I am so

excited for this episode today this is gonna be fun. It is gonna be fun because we have a great

deep dive plan it's something we've actually been asked quite a bit about, which is how to recommend books to readers who don't read like you do. They're outside your wheelhouse in one way or another, or maybe you just don't know them that well as a reader. So I'm excited to get into that what kind of tips, tricks and resources we use, but first we'll get started the way we always do with our bookish moments of the week. What is yours my friend?

So Katie, I actually, this bookish moment of the week came to me first and then you offered this episode idea up as one for us to talk about today and I was like ding ding ding ding this is perfect so there is definitely a connection here I know

that you and I and Katie both have a shared love for Emily Henry's release from

last summer happy place well immediately after I read it year, I just felt like I had to send a copy to my college roommate bestie. You know, time, children, marriage, life have really made it hard for us to maintain the kind of friend relationship we had when we slept six feet from each other, but she still remains such a dear friend to me.

So much of what I read in Happy Place just reminded me so much of our friendship. I just really wanted her to have a copy of this book.

Now a caveat, this is not a bookish friend of mine. We do not share this passion, we do not share this

hobby. I had no idea how this would land, but something just compelled me, so I mailed it off to her.

Not only did she read it and absolutely inhale it last year, which of course, like made my whole life.

But she sent me an unprompted text this year that she

bought Emily Henry's newest of her own volition and read it in two days. Y'all, this is a

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