Season 5, Episode 26: Library Wins + Novels About Raging Feminism

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:

  • Bookish Moments: a great library newsletter and a reading milestone

  • Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately

  • Deep Dive: taking a look at the feminist rage trope and diving in hard

  • The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans!

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1:26 - Bookish Moment of the Week

1:40 - Milwaukee Public Library on Instagram

4:21 - Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann

5:07 - Current Reads

5:17 - Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley (Mary)

10:06 - Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylen (Kaytee)

14:00 - Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult 

15:19 - Join the CR Patreon to hear Kaytee’s spoiler filled discussion on Mad Honey w/Sarah from Sarah’s Bookshelves Live

17:09 - Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (Mary)

17:22 - Good Omens by Niel Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

21:35 - The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton (Kaytee)

22:48 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

24:46 - Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

25:43 - Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson (Mary)

28:00 - Storygraph

31:44 - The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff (Kaytee)

32:02 - Fabled Bookshop

35:48 - Deep Dive: Books that Unleash our Feminist Rage

38:51 - The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

40:11 - Circe by Madeline Miller 

40:36 - The Power by Naomi Alderman

40:40 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

41:52 - Vox by Christina Dalcher

42:04 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 

42:09 - The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

42:10 - The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell

42:11 - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

42:27 - Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

43:09 - Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

43:35 - When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

45:15 - The Change by Kirsten Miller

47:43 - Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

48:36 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

49:26 - The Witches of Moonshyne Manor by BIanca Marais 

52:26 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish publishers or creators would create specific ASMR rooms alongside the publishing of a new novel. (Mary)

53:05 - The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling

I wish we could “gamify” our reading lives. (Kaytee)

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