On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are finishing up season seven with a look back and a look forward! Season Seven In Review: interesting stats, regrets, and exciting upcoming content! Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) . . . . . 1:24 - Season Seven, In Review The most downloaded episodes of the season 1:58 - CR Season 7: Episode 22 - Our Top Reads of 2024 2:09 - CR Season 7: Episode 24 - Mary and Roxanna's Top Reads of 2024 3:24 - CR Season 7: Episode 4 - Reading Routines + The Journey Of Currently Reading (Our 300th Episode) 4:07 - Ordinary Time by Annie B. Jones Favorite individual episodes 7:44 - CR Season 7: Episode 34 - Reading What We Want + Our Reading Life Temp Checks (Meredith) 8:34 - Burn After Reading by Catherine Ryan Howard (Blackwell’s link) 11:26 - CR Season 7: Episode 29 - Series Completist + Non Tragic Bookish Tragedies (Kaytee) 11:40 - CR Season 7: Episode 39 - Brain Farts + Reading Canadian (Kaytee) 11:51 - CR Season 7: Episode 30 - New Indie Bookstores + Our Six Star Reads (Meredith) 12:41 - Boss My TBR Segments (Meredith) CR Season 7: Episode 2 - Library Love + Boss Our Summer TBR Update CR Season 7: Episode 5 - Talking to Fictional Characters + Boss My TBR CR Season 7: Episode 14 - Bookish Lego + Boss My TBR CR Season 7: Episode 26 - Bookish Geese + Boss My TBR CR Season 7: Episode 32 - Reading Retreats + Boss My TBR CR Season 7: Episode 40 - Bookish Friends Step Up + Boss My TBR Books we brought that added to the experience by talking about them 15:50 - I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (Meredith) 15:54 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (Meredith) 15:59 - 17 Years Later by J.P. Pomare (Meredith) 16:05 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Meredith and Kaytee) 16:09 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree 17:51 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (Kaytee) 19:04 - The Odyssey by Homer (Kaytee) 19:24 - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows (Kaytee) 19:49 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 20:21 - The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga (Meredith) 20:29 - The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Meredith) 21:14 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann 21:30 - The Ruins by Scott Smith (Meredith) 21:32 - The Grip of It by Jack Jemc (Meredith) 21:33 - True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik (Meredith) 22:26 - Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa (Kaytee) 22:30 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Regrets from season seven? 23:08 - I’ve been very distracted by work and work projects, and that has impacted my reading. (Meredith) 24:29 - That I closed a part myself off for many months of the past year. (Kaytee) Is there anything new coming to Currently Reading? 23:58 - Nothing being subtracted, but we’re thinking about what we can add to the big show. 26:43 - Freshening up the big show and Patreon with a little “summer cleaning” brainstorming. 27:31 - Be sure you are following us on Instagram as Betsy continues to try new things, so you can let us know what you’d like to see more of! Be sure to email us any ideas for our Deep Dive — at currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. July’s IPL is brought to us by Booktenders of Barboursville, West Virginia (@booktenderswv). Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry 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 Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans 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!
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