Season 2, Episode 26: The Varied Bookish Life + Reading Under the Weather

Kaytee and Mindy are handling this week while Meredith recovers from surgery. We are so glad to have Mindy step in during tough times! As we get started, you'll hear our first advertisement on the podcast. We have always said we'd be extremely discerning about advertisers, so Book of the Month was a perfect match for us, since we are both loyal (paying) customers. We hope you'll give them a try and get your first book for just $9.99 when you use the code CURRENTLYREADING! If you're interested, please use our link so they know we sent you. You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each host: a bookish sticker from an online friend, and a "book dictionary" brag that occurred at a local bookstore. Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. Every single book this week was a "turn" from the previous title discussed, so we are running the gamut. For our deep dive this week, we are chatting about reading while sick. Mindy and Kaytee were both battling viruses this week of different kinds, so we talk about how illness effects our reading lives and the tips we have to keep reading while you're not feeling 100 percent. Finally, this week, we are Pressing Books into Your Hands: we've got a brick of a biography and a collection of stories that will open your heart. 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! *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!* . . . . . Announcement: 1:37 - Book of the Month - OUR FIRST SPONSOR! (the following are Goodreads links because we hope you'll check out BOTM if you're interested in any of them!) 2:56 - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare 3:28 - The Holdout by Graham Moore Bookish Moments: 10:11 - @flypaperproducts on Instagram 10:45 - Op.Cit Books in Santa Fe, NM 11:40 - Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale Current Reads: 12:57 - Stay by Catherine Ryan Hyde 15:31 - The Lady From the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara 15:49 - Episode 176 of What Should I Read Next 18:37 - Reading Glasses Podcast 19:01 - The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall 22:14 - Searching For Sunday: Loving Leaving, and Finding the Church by Rachel Held Evans 22:44 - A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans 23:15 - The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall 25:45 - Night Theater by Vikram Paralkar 25:28 - 15 Books by Small Presses article 26:01 - Patreon and the Currently Reading Bookish Friends! 28:55 - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 30:13 - Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 35:59 - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Deep Dive - SIck Reading: 38:54 - Mindy's Bluetooth Sleep Mask 42:36 - How to Survive a Plague by David France 44:26 - Beartown by Fredrick Backman 44:28 - Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen 44:29 - Stay by Catherine Ryan Hyde Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands: 47:05 - Bonhoffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas 50:21 - Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle 51:55 - I'll Have What Phil's Having on PBS