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Season 8, Episode 10: Squeeze Your Tenders + When Reading Gets Dangerous

Oct 06, 2025

56 min

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On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: bookish wishes coming true and picture books we love Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: Kaytee gets silly about how reading can be da...

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

Bookish Moments: bookish wishes coming true and picture books we love
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately
Deep Dive: Kaytee gets silly about how reading can be dangerous
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).

1:34 - Ad For Ourselves

4:33 - Currently Reading Patreon

5:02 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

5:50 - The Black Wolf by Louise Penny

7:08 - Novel Neighbor

8:09 - Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson

8:17 - Dog Eared Books

9:34 - Our Current Reads

9:54 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Vol.1 by Beth Brower (Meredith)

10:00 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Vol. 2 by Beth Brower

16:03 - A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh (Kaytee)

16:11 - An Unlikely Story

20:09 - 44 Poems on Being with Each Other by Padraig O Tuama (Meredith)

20:18 - Poetry Unbound podcast

24:24 - In the Shelter by Padraig O Tuama

24:40 - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

25:37 - The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown (Kaytee)

26:27 - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

32:45 - Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand (Meredith)

34:18 - Feral and Hysterical by Sadie Hartmann

37:41 - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

38:11 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

38:40 - Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi (Kaytee)

42:16 - Deep Dive: When Reading Gets Dangerous

46:08 - A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

51:05 - Meet Us At The Fountain

51:07 - I wish that more books came in volumes. (Meredith)

51:18 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Vol.1 by Beth Brower

53:10 - I wish to press an Immense World by Ed Yong. (Kaytee)

53:11 - An Immense World by Ed Yong

53:15 - The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

54:15 - An Immense World by Ed Yong (young reader's edition)

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