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Trust Issues With Our Reading + Book Budgets (S9E3)

August 17, 2026 · 1 h 14 min

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In this episode of Currently Reading, Roxanna joins Kaytee while Meredith is out playing nurse to husband Johnnie. Roxanna and Kaytee discuss their current reads, a readerly deep dive into the authors that give us trust issues, and talk about something a little bookish before they go.

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0:00 Welcome to Currently Reading

1:45 Bookish Moments of the Week

13:43 Current Reads

13:47 Welcome to Glorious Tuga by Francesca Segal (Roxanna)

18:28 The Names by Florence Knapp (Kaytee)

24:32 Go Gentle by Maria Semple (Roxanna)

29:47 A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar (Kaytee)

39:47 The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen (Roxanna)

45:33 Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby (Kaytee)

48:22 Deep Dive: Reading Trust Issues

1:07:59 Before We Go

1:10:02 - The Art of Indexing Substack article by Priya Parker

1:12:09 Wrap-Up

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