On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: talking podcasting with young people and book to film buzz Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately Deep Dive: All kinds of bookish overhype 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) . . . . . :10 - Bite Size Intro 1:36 - Currently Reading Patreon 3:48 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 6:42 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 7:17 - The Martian by Andy Weir 8:46 - Our Current Reads 8:53 - Olivetti by Allie Millington (Kaytee) 10:40 - Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman 11:54 - Zorrie by Laird Hunt (Meredith) 13:07 - Storybound Subscription from Fabled Bookshop 14:31 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry 15:42 - The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May (Kaytee) 16:12 - Wintering by Katherine May 19:31 - No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall (Meredith) 20:21 - What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall 20:23 - Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall 23:17 - James by Percival Everett (Kaytee) 23:36 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 27:01 - Erasure by Percival Everett 27:50 - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Meredith) 31:12 - @thewilltoread on Instagram 31:47 - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan 32:18 - The Bookish Overhype 34:15 - The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 34:20 - Deacon King Kong by James McBride 34:42 - Zorrie by Laird Hunt 35:51 - James by Percival Everett 36:22 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 36:41 - The Fury by Alex Michaelides 37:28 - End of Story by A.J. Finn 39:11 - The Women by Kristin Hannah 39:21 - The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah 41:05 - Middle of the Night by Riley Sager 43:25 - Happy Place by Emily Henry 43:38 - Funny Story by Emily Henry 43:40 - People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry 44:34 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett 44:47 - Meet Us At The Fountain 44:51 - I wish that books that make you question yourself would give an assessment quiz at the end. (Kaytee) 45:03 - The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May 46:41 - I wish everyone would watch the episode of The Twilight Zone called “Time Enough At Last”. (Meredith) 47:08 - Twilight Zone Season 1: Episode 8 (This is Amazon Prime but you can watch on Paramount + as well!) Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. May’s IPL comes to us from Commonplace Books in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: our children reading to the elderly and finally talking to authors Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately Deep Dive: Boss My TBR for two bookish friends 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) . . . . . 1:42 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 4:47 - All The Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby 5:30 - What the Dead Know by Barbara Butcher 6:09 - An Unlikely Story 8:34 - Currently Reading Patreon 9:01 - Our Current Reads 9:06 - Right at Home by Bobby Berk (Kaytee) 12:10 - Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz (Meredith) 16:54 - That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming (Kaytee) 20:13 - That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming 21:03 - The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (Meredith) 26:01 - Game Changer by Neal Shusterman (Kaytee) 26:05 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman 28:45 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King 28:49 - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’engle 32:12 - Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce (Meredith) 34:15 - 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard 37:12 - Deep Dive: Boss My TBR From Becca K. 39:18 - Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman (Arc of a Scythe #2) 39:24 - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (The Empyrean #2) 39:30 - Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (Beartown #2) 39:36 - Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi (Legacy of Orisha #2) 39:43 - The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan (The Royal We #2) 39:57 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman 39:58 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 39:59 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman 40:00 - The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan 40:37 - The Winners by Fredrick Backman From Rachel M. 43:45 - Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher 43:49 - Look Closer by David Ellis 43:52 - The7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 43:57 - The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez 44:01 - The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James 48:23 - Meet Us At The Fountain 48:30 - I wish to press The Guncle into your hands. (Kaytee) 48:45 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley 48:50 - The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley 51:12 - I wish when I am reading a book with a good “house” sense of place, I could go to that place and see, smell, touch, and hear all about it. (Meredith) Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. April’s IPL comes to us from A Room Of One’s Own in Madison Wisconsin! Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

Welcome, readers. We are so excited to continue this new content from the creators of Currently Reading Podcast! This spin-off podcast series will tackle book to screen adaptations in a spoiler-FILLED format. Be sure you’ve read the book and watched the film version before listening to the episode, because we don’t shy away from strong opinions OR from all the spoilers, unlike our regular episodes. Show notes for this series will not be time-stamped, but will still include links to Bookshop dot org or Amazon for any books or resources referenced in the episode. These are affiliate links, so they kick back a small percentage to us if you buy through them, and help support the work we do on Currently Reading. . . . . The Dry by Jane Harper 1:07 - Here’s the Setup 3:41 - Previews Book Name and release date. Sales info and awards. The Dry by Jane Harper Force of Nature by Jane Harper The Exiles by Jane Harper The Lost Man by Jane Harper Movie name and release date. Box office and awards. The Dry (2021) Force of Nature (coming 2024) 6:57 - The Cutting Room Pivotal Book scenes and how they translated to the screen Historical flashbacks The actual dryness Catching Scott Whitlam Aaron Falk’s ostracization Anything left out that shouldn’t have been There are pieces of the movie that don’t make sense without the book Clyde PD Grant’s role in Ellie’s death The note that implicates Aaron/his dad Defacing Falk’s car Love triangle/sexual tension Luke’s death details and the bike tire marks Added to the movie Suspense building elements Mushy middle Weird product placements Pub room versus big hotel Casting and mis-casting A few non-Australians were cast! But very few Falk - Simon Baker, Ryan Kwanten Gretchen - Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Margo Robbie, Toni Collette, Naomi Watts Raco - just a Hemsworth Whitlam - another Hemsworth, let’s go with Chris Gerry - Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Mel Gibson Problematic elements Discussion of the “gay f-word” 44:06 - Award Season Worst and best parts of the adaptation. The note that implicates Aaron Mushy middle Cinematography and score The dryness, and the climax scene Worst and best actors. Young Luke Raco, the actor Eric Bana as Falk Worst and best book characters. Mal Deacon and Grant Dow Luke Hadler Raco Karen Hadler Aaron Falk 1:01:27 - Book/Flick Energy Book scored on a 5 star scale. Book on Goodreads Movie scored on a 10 point scale. Movie on Rotten Tomatoes 1:05:07 - A Leftover Popcorn Kernel If you were to commit a murder, do you think you could get away with it? And how would you do it? What’s the scariest thing in Australia: the snakes, the spiders, the wildfires or the drought? 1:09:49 - End Credits The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way Available on Netflix - Season 1 Connect With Us: Currently Reading Podcast | Kaytee | Meredith Shad is in the Bookish Friends FB Group (for our Patreon supporters) Our Website | Email Us Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Buy Some Merch

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing: Bookish Moments: fun new hobbies and maybe not having a bookish moment Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately Deep Dive: our love for all things memoir 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) . . . . . 1:39 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 8:06 - Our Current Reads 8:14 - Bride by Ali Hazelwood (Mary) 10:29 - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune 11:58 - Unhinged by Vera Valentine 12:29 - Renegades by Marissa Meyer (Kaytee) 12:40 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer 15:47 - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune 16:47 - Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (Mary) 19:55 - An Inconvenient Cop by Edwin Raymond (Kaytee) 20:03 - Booktenders 24:51 - A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall (Mary) 28:26 - @ginnyreadsandwrites on Instagram 28:44 - Fairyloot 29:07 - Pango Books 30:16 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson 30:34 - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross 31:53 - A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (Kaytee) 32:10 - Betty by Tiffany McDaniel 35:29 - Deep Dive: Our Love For Memoirs 36:10 - Sarah’s Bookshelves 39:49 - The Black Count by Tom Reiss 41:43 - My Life in France by Julia Child 42:30 - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling 42:32 - Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling 42:46 - Bossypants by Tina Fey 42:51 - Spare by Prince Harry 43:12 - Becoming by Michelle Obama 43:42 - Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe 43:47 - I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg 44:04 - I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg (young readers’ edition) 44:59 - Waypoints by Sam Heughan 45:31 - Finding Me by Viola Davis 46:20 - As You Wish by Cary Elwes 46:58 - Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes 47:50 - Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother by Beth Ann Fennelly 47:55 - Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly 48:06 - Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan 48:10 - These Precious Days by Ann Patchett 49:04 - Soil by Camille T. Dungy 49:15 - An Exact Replica of A Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken 50:29 - Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder 50:37 - What Looks Like Bravery by Laurel Braitman 50:43 - After This by Claire Bidwell Smith (amazon link) 50:58 - Tragedy Plus Time by Adam Cayton-Holland 51:15 - Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottleib 51:30 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 51:53 - A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter 52:02 - At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider 52:52 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver 53:05 - The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green 53:12 - A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg 53:43 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton 53:45 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 53:48 - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore 54:03 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 54:15 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt 55:17 - Meet Us At The Fountain 55:21 - I wish to press the Ember Quartet series, starting with Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. (Mary) 55:30 - Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir 56:52 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 56:53 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 57:22 - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros 58:38 - My wish is for more bookish board games. (Kaytee) 58:47 - By the Book game Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. April’s IPL comes to us from A Room Of One’s Own in Madison Wisconsin! Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: learning of new kinds of books and creating outdoor reading spaces Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately Deep Dive: how we manage our massive TBRs and how we choose our next read 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) . . . . . **We are aware of a sound quality issue with Kaytee’s audio. We are in the works to hopefully get that fixed soon! Thanks for hanging with us through it! 2:55 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 5:56 - Breathless by Amy McCulloch 7:54 - Our Current Reads 8:18 - Confessions by Kanae Minato (Meredith) 11:21 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram 11:22 - @readlexyread on Instagram 11:36 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino 12:34 - Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum (Kaytee) 14:57 - 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 15:48 - There’s Something I Have To Tell You by Michelle McDonagh (Meredith) 18:25 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth 19:40 - Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin (Kaytee) 20:08 - The Happier Podcast 23:48 - Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (Meredith) 27:55 - A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (Kaytee) 28:10 - Seven Days in June by Tia Williams 32:01 - Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver 32:29 - Deep Dive: Managing Our Massive TBRs 33:09 - Hearts and Daggers Pod 33:43 - Currently Reading Patreon 44:00 - 3 tier rolling cart on Amazon 47:16 - NetGalley 47:51 - Middle of the Night by Riley Sager 50:53 - Half Price Books 51:55 - Meet Us At The Fountain 52:14 - I wish people would read The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino. (Meredith) 54:31 - My wish is to share a collaboration between Mychal Threets and PBS. (Kaytee) 55:00 - Mychal Threets on Instagram Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. April’s IPL comes to us from A Room Of One’s Own in Madison Wisconsin! Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: changing up book subscriptions and implementing new technology into our reading Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately Deep Dive: what would we ask the book fairy to change in our books 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) . . . . . **We are aware of a sound quality issue with Kaytee’s audio. We are in the works to hopefully get that fixed soon! Thanks for hanging with us through it! 1:35 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 1:51 - Satisfiction Book Subscription 2:18 - Fairyloot 2:19 - Illumicrate 2:20 - OwlCrate 3:00 - @Meredithmondayschwartz on Instagram 7:33 - Our Current Reads 7:42 - Betty by Tiffany McDaniel (Kaytee) 7:48 - Booktenders 10:57 - @authortiffanymcdaniel on Instagram 12:02 - An Unlikely Story 12:04 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Meredith) 17:58 - Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones (Kaytee) 20:14 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt 20:49 - Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan 21:49 - Born A Crime by Trevor Noah (young readers version) 22:21 - Rabbit by Patricia Williams 22:46 - The Gathering by C.J. Tudor (Meredith) 24:18 - The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor 24:20 - The Drift by C.J. Tudor 26:49 - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune (Kaytee) 28:48 - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune 28:52 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune 28:54 - Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune 31:35 - The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland (Meredith) 36:14 - Deep Dive: Book Wishes To The Book Fairy 40:01 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 56:38 - First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston 49:09 - Meet Us At The Fountain 49:21 - I wish everyone would follow @weeklyhomecheck on Instagram. (Kaytee) 50:36 - I wish everyone would listen to the podcast The Canada Reads Podcast (Meredith) Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. April’s IPL comes to us from A Room Of One’s Own in Madison Wisconsin! Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: more efficient book signings and reading when we need to recharge Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately Deep Dive: an unofficial deep dive into no prep episodes 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) . . . . . :10 Bite Size Intro 1:49 - Currently Reading Patreon 5:10 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 9:43 - Our Current Reads 12:19 - Cold by Drew Hayden Taylor (Meredith) 12:54 - From the Front Porch podcast 18:12 - Better the Blood by Michael Bennett 19:21 - Family Family by Laurie Frankel (Kaytee) 19:56 - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel 25:00 - One Two Three by Laurie Frankel 25:42 - Everyone Is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf (Meredith) 27:15 - The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf 30:53 - CR Season 4: Episode 30 (about one-night stand books) 31:29 - Come and Get It by Kiley Reid (Kaytee) 31:54 - Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid 35:13 - libro.fm 37:38 - First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (Meredith) 44:02 - Evil Eye by Etaf Rum (Kaytee) 44:14 - A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 51:58 - Deep Dive: Talking Through Our Off The Cuff Episode 56:37 - Everyone Is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf 56:38 - First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston 59:15 - Meet Us At The Fountain 1:01:26 - I wish everyone would try doing summarizing thoughts immediately after reading a book in some way shape or form. (Meredith) 1:01:58 - I wish for a book recommendation on call service. (Kaytee) Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. April’s IPL comes to us from A Room Of One’s Own in Madison Wisconsin! Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Roxanna are discussing: Bookish Moments: pastries while reading and huge bookish hangovers Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately Deep Dive: the ways our reading lives and changed and expanded over time 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) . . . . . 1:32 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 3:11 - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots 4:45 - All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Releases June 25, 2024) 7:30 - Our Current Reads 7:36 - The Night Raven by Johan Rundberg (Roxanna) 14:09 - The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson (Meredith) 18:09 - The Fact of a Body by Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich 21:54 - Burning Roses by S.L. Huang (Roxanna) 22:51 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 26:06 - Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber (Meredith) 27:14 - Caraval by Stephanie Garber 31:22 - In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (Roxanna) 31:51 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 31:54 - Finding Me by Viola Davis 36:23 - Better the Blood by Michael Bennett (Meredith) 41:24 - Deep Dive: Changes In Our Reading Lives Over Time 47:27 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 48:07 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty 49:55 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino 50:39 - 10 Things To Tell You podcast w/ Sara Hildreth 50:42 - @fictionmatters on Instagram 53:36 - Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese 53:45 - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang 55:48 - Burning Roses by S.L. Huang 58:55 - A Dead Djinn In Cairo by P. Djeli Clark 1:00:32 - Meet Us At The Fountain 1:00:45- I wish everyone knows about shepherd.com (Roxanna) 1:00:52 - Strong Sense of Place podcast 1:01:17 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 1:03:19 - Shogun by James Clavell 1:03:28 - CR Season 1: Episode 14 1:04:45 - I wish more people would read Shogun. (Meredith) 1:05:18 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. March’s IPL comes to us from our Anchor store An Unlikely Story! Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

We are so excited to journey with you to Three Pines, the fictional French-Canadian village created by Louise Penny for her Three Pines series, featuring Armand Gamache. This spin-off podcast series will tackle each of the books in the series in turn, in a spoiler-FILLED format. Be sure you’ve read the book before listening to the episode.

As you’ve come to expect with all Currently Reading content, Meredith and Roxanna will follow a regular episode format, with regular segments, so you know what to expect each and every time. We love staying focused on the book, rather than conversational rabbit holes.

Show notes for this series will not be time-stamped except for broad sections, but will include links to Bookshop dot org or Amazon for any books or resources referenced in the episode.

3:45 - Putting the Book Into Context

The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny

Published Sept. 29, 2009 by Minotaur Books

4.20 rating on Goodreads

Seasonal setting - Autum

Book Awards: Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2010

Critic Reviews

Meredith’s and Roxanna’s encounters with the book

Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

10:50 - The Setup

16:22 - A Deeper Exploration

Setup and first paragraph

First paragraph hooks the reader so completely

Reminds Meredith of the Vera series by Ann Cleeves

The pacing of the novel

The deliberate pulling away from the “quaint village mystery”

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Quality of writing itself - if it could be written as a whole series in today’s publishing

Themes: human behavior, conscience, Thoreau’s Walden, contentment, fathers

p.172 quote about conscience

p. 298 quote about happiness

p.175 quote about Walden

P. 495 quote about fear and contentment

The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

Side plot with Jean-Guy and the notes left by Ruth Zardo

The Oddness Factor (is usually in superlatives but gets talked about early in this episode!)

The Ending

1:15:31 - Superlatives

Biggest Flaw

Character MVP

p. 403

Favorite Character

Biggest loser

Best food description

Fear Factor

1:29:47 - Within the Series

Is this book skippable?

Favorite Quote (gets asked after the skippable portion so I added it here for time stamp sake)

1:34:08 - SPOILERS AHEAD HERE

Next episode’s read: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

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