Season 5, Episode 27: Popcorn Reading + Joys and Challenges of Reading as Our "Job"

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

  • Bookish Moments: a meeting with an app and a personal audiobook win

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

  • Deep Dive: we’ve been asked how it affects our reading lives to have to do it as a “job,” and we’re answering those questions today!

  • 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!

*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*  

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2:19 - Currently Reading Patreon

3:54 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:02 - CR Season 5: Episode 12

4:09 - Fable app

4:11 - CR Season 5: Episode 15

5:56 - Zeel app

8:36 - Current Reads

8:45 - The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (Kaytee)

9:05 - Sea Change by Gina Chung

9:27 - Bookmarks

12:36 - The Getaway by Lamar Giles (Meredith)

14:18 - Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven

14:19 - Hide by Kiersten White

16:14 - Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Kaytee)

18:29 - Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo

20:16 - A Week in Winter by Marcia Willett (Meredith, amazon link)

21:54 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher

25:04 - The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (Kaytee)

29:25 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

31:00 - The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell (Meredith)

31:08 - Hearts and Daggers podcast

34:58 - Deep Dive: When Reading is Your Job

40:48 - NetGalley

40:52 - Libro.fm

47:40 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish everyone knew about the library extension you can add to your browser (Kaytee)

47:47 - LibraryExtension

49:12 - The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

I wish romances would delineate spicy scenes with different colored text. (Meredith)

50:06 - The Popcast

50:11 - The Popcast episode 489 - The Nos of Books

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