Season 7, Episode 11: Fun Bookish Mail + Fall Books That Are Not Spooky

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

• Bookish Moments: meeting bookish friends IRL and getting fun bookish mail

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

• Deep Dive: fall books that aren’t spooky, scary or academia

• 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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1:57 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

3:25 - Queen Books

7:21 - Amari and the Despicable Wonders by B.B. Alston

7:26 - Blackwell’s UK

7:46 - The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues by Beth Lincoln

7:50 - The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln

8:04 - Silverborn by Jessica Townsend

8:21 - Heir by Sabaa Tahir

8:26 - Libro.fm

8:33 - Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

9:06 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

10:00 - Our Current Reads

10:12 - Fellowship Point by Alice Eliott Dark (Roxanna)

15:07 - Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk by Kathleen Rooney

16:11 - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Kaytee)

21:14 - The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman (Roxanna)

22:49 - Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple

24:42 - The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean (Kaytee)

24:50 - Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

27:47 - Cold Blood Liar by Karen Rose

29:25 - Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis (Roxanna)

31:02 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding

31:03 - Animal Farm by George Orwell

34:14 - A Short Walk Through A Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke (Kaytee)

34:20 - Commonplace Books

36:09 - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

36:49 - Currently Reading Patreon

38:55 - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

40:17 - Fall Books That Are Not Spooky

41:24 - Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

42:58 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

43:28 - September by Rosamunde Pilcher

44:10 - Still Life by Louise Penny

44:54 - First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen (Amazon link)

45:08 - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

45:38 - Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

46:06 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

46:08 - The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory

46:12 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

46:30 - Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

47:22 - The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith

48:03 - The Song Collector by Natasha Solomons (Amazon link)

48:31 - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

49:07 - Search by Michelle Huneven

49:45 - House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister

50:19 - The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

50:33 - Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal

50:40 - Go as a River by Shelley Read

50:56 - Stardust by Neil Gaiman

51:02 - The Princess Bride by William Goldman

51:57 - Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

52:05 - Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

52:31 - The Guide by Peter Heller

52:41 - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

53:20 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

53:36 - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstein

54:14 - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

55:41 - Meet Us At The Fountain

57:15 - Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

57:22 - I wish you would consider re-reading books that bring you joy. (Roxanna)

58:03 - I wish to always have an “in case of emergency” book. (Kaytee)

58:17 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

58:57 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

58:58 - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

59:00 - Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy

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