Episode 44: Bookish Serendipity + the Debut of a New Segment: "Belly Up to the Book Bar"

Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds this week to chat about all sorts of bookish goodness! Continuing Important announcement: we have a great discount code to share with you from The Bookshelf Thomasville! For a few final days (through June 30th), you can get anything on their website for 10% off using the code CURRENTLYREADING (wow!!!) This would be a great time to pick up a Shelf Subscription for yourself or others! You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a book devouring, and validating your summer reading choices Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We're all over the place in genre, age range, and opinions this week, so get out those library cards! For our deep dive this week, we are teasing our new segment for Season 2! Belly Up to the Book Bar will b in our regular rotation next season, and we cannot wait to share it with you, listeners! Thanks to Megan Goodell for being our guinea pig "test customer". As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. This week's pick include some historical fiction about the Spanish flu and a murder mystery from a master. 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! . . . . . 2:28 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer 3:10 - Minisode with Brigid Kemmerer 6:31 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth 9:36 - The Girl in Red by Christina Henry 9:54 - Currently Reading 2019 Reading Challenge 9:59 - Six Stories by Matt Weselowski 12:06 - Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey 12:20 - Episode 16 of Sarah's Bookshelves Live 12:22 - Episode 189 of Sorta Awesome 15:12 - The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dion 16:53 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 18:05 - Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge 18:09 - Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry, and Tobias Iaconis 20:39 - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 22:53 - Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink 24:39 - What Should I Read Next episode 186 about bookish serendipity 25:32 - The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry 25:39 - The Giver by Lois Lowry 28:07 - A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket 29:58 - The Penderwicks by Jennie Birdsall Belly Up to the Book Bar! - Megan Goodell 33:51 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 34:25 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes 35:36 - Prey by Michael Crichton 36:04 - The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 36:20 - The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 36:27 - Circe by Madeline Miller 37:02 - The Physician by Noah Gordon 37:28 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty 37:35 - Beartown by Fredrick Backman 37:36 - Us Against You by Fredrick Backman 38:26 - Class Mom by Laurie Gelman 38:49 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule 38:59 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse 39:10 - I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara 39:43 - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon 39:49 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage 39:55 - Haunted Ground by Erin Hart 40:10 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer 40:19 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 40:27 - Christina Henry fairytale retellings - Lost Boy , Alice , Red Queen , Girl in Red 40:43 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer 40:53 - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab 41:17 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty 41:25 - Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge 41:46 - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty 41:56 - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty If you want to Belly Up to the Book Bar, send us an email: currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com 44:04 - As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner 46:31 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz 46:40 - The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz 48:58 - The House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes) by Anthony Horowitz *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon 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. Thanks for your support!*