Season 8, Episode 5: The 4th C: Relaxing Your Chestal Region + Boss My TBR

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

• Bookish Moments: overflowing bookshelves + a fun way to count your finished reads

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

• Deep Dive: we are bossing some more TBRs

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

Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site).

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2:29 - Ad For Ourselves

6:45 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

9:55 - Meredith’s Floor Lamp

10:46 - “The Number of Books I’ve Read This Year” desktop counter from Etsy

13:06 - Our Current Reads

13:32 - A Duke Never Tells by Suzanne Enoch (Kaytee)

16:18 - Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

17:16 - The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North (Meredith) 

18:32 - The Whisper Man by Alex North

22:05 - Ordinary Time by Annie B. Jones (Kaytee)

24:48 - Annie B. Jones on Instagram

25:25 - The Dark One (Vicious Lost Boys, 2) by St. Crow (Meredith) 

26:13 - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

26:36 - The Never King (Vicious Lost Boys, 1) by Nikki St. Crow

30:07 - Shutter by Ramona Emerson (Kaytee)

34:19 - Withered Hill by David Barnett (Meredith)

37:28 - Slewfoot by Brom

38:28 - The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

38:34 - Boss My TBR

From Catherine Bridgewater

40:19 - Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie

40:21 - North Woods by Daniel Mason

40:24 - After the Crash by Michel Bussi

40:27 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

40:29 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher

40:42 - Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

40:43 - Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

From Lisa Stone

44:05 - Broken Country by Claire Leslie Hall

44:08 - My Friends by Fredrik Backman 

44:10 - Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson

44:13 - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaughy

44:17 - The Unseen World by Liz Moore

44:25 - Today Tonight Forever by Madeline Kay Sneed

44:37 - Happy Place by Emily Henry

49:36 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:40 - I wish to become (or really, have already been) a correspondent. (Kaytee)

49:52 - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

51:56 - I wish that for every book it had a perfume-type scent to transport you back to that particular experience of reading it. (Meredith)

52:06 - Ffern | Organic Eau de Parfum

53:40 - The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister

56:35 - Chrissie on Instagram and at Sarah’s Bookshelves

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