Season 7, Episode 39: Brain Farts + Reading Canadian

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Meredith Schwartz

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4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Roxanna are discussing:

Bookish Moments: shifts in our reading and brain farts
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: reading Canadian elbows up style
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:55 - Ad For Ourselves

2:01 - Currently Reading Patreon

7:03 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

7:25 - CR Season 7: Episode 24

12:21 - CR Season 7: Episode 36

12:26 - Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri

12:51 - Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope

14:18 - Our Current Reads

14:24 - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (Roxanna)

18:57 - Coven by Soman Chainani (Kaytee)

19:10 - The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

23:32 - The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe (Roxanna)

28:55 - The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight (Kaytee)

29:17 - Fabled Bookshop

33:28 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

34:03 - The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain (Roxanna)

38:26 - Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell (Kayee)

38:40 - Schuler Books

44:56 - Reading Canadian

48:48 - Canada Reads

48:51 - The Giller Prize

49:21 - The Push by Ashley Audrain

50:06 - Room by Emma Donoghue

50:18 - The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

50:29 - The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue

52:01 - The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester

53:18 - Women Talking by Miriam Toews

55:00 - Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley

55:08 - Finding Me by Viola Davis

55:57 - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

56:49 - Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

56:53 - Three Holidays and A Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley

57:02 - Much Ado About Nada Uzma Jalaluddin

57:32 - Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

1:02:20 - The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan

1:03:40 - Lucky by Marissa Stapley

1:06:24 - Meet Us At The Fountain

1:07:05 - I wish there was an easier way to export and download kindle notes and highlights. (Roxanna)

1:08:57 - I wish to press Happy Place by Emily Henry. (Kaytee)

1:09:00 - Happy Place by Emily Henry

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, readers. Welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend time every week
0:16.8	talking about the books that we've read recently. And as you already know, we do not shy away from
0:21.3	having strong opinions. So be ready. We're light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk,
0:25.9	and our descriptions will always be spoiler-free. Today, we'll discuss our current meets,
0:30.7	a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama
0:35.5	four, living in Arizona, and I mix up books sometimes too. And I'm Roxanne I Kasimkb, a homeschooling mama four, living in Arizona, and I mix up books sometimes too.
0:39.3	And I'm Roxanne Kassamkara, a mom, a marketer, and a mood reader living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
0:45.3	And this week, I'm giving my reading a shot of B12.
0:48.3	This is episode 39 of season 7, and we're so glad you're here.
0:52.1	Roxanna, I am so glad to be here with you. We did have a
0:55.1	slight timing recording snafu, but we made it and we're here and we're excited. All good.
1:00.5	So excited to be here with you, Katie. I feel like we haven't recorded in a while and I brought
1:04.9	some great books that I'm really excited to talk about with you. I brought one that I'm like, people are going to wonder why I did this to
1:11.5	Roxanna, but there's a reason and I'm going to talk through it, so it's going to be okay. I am going to let
1:16.3	everybody know at the top of the show here that we came up with a fun deep dive for this week. We're
1:20.8	talking about reading Canadian, elbows up style. We're going to discuss some stereotypes and some
1:27.3	truths about Canadian reading. And this
1:30.3	is going to be light and fun and hopefully delightful. I'm excited. I'm so excited. And as you can see,
1:36.3	I'm in my closet, my recording closet, and I've got all my flannel shirts lined up here just for you, Katie.
1:42.3	Easy access. Easy access. Just in case there's an emergency flannel shirts lined up here just for you, Katie. Easy access. Easy access.
1:45.5	Just in case there's an emergency flannel situation.
1:49.3	I love that.
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