On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are joined by Mary and Roxanna and are discussing: Would You Rather: it’s a game. it’s bookish. it’s fun! 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!  We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop 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. If you’d prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*   . . . .   2:16 - Would you rather read a really great, interesting page turning book that you've been waiting for, with your whole family in the same room at the same time? Or would you rather read a boring book that you're really not into, but you're alone in your room? 6:28 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 6:32 - Would you rather be allowed to only read mediocre ACOTAR fanfic within the fantasy genre or have to give up fantasy entirely? 6:36 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 8:20 - Would you rather have a super spicy romance with a cheesy cover sitting in your office where clients can see it, or have a super spicy audiobook go off while in a playgroup with Charlotte? 10:15 - The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert 11:01 - Would you rather you and I (Meredith and Roxanna) be able to continue to buddy read together for the rest of our lives until we're old and gray? Or would you rather us live down the street from each other, but we could never talk about books again. 12:22 - Would you rather have to listen to romance in your ears, all romance all the time in your ears. Or you have to play the most graphic scenes of your murdery books out loud through speakers in public while you walk around the neighborhood? 14:10 - Would you rather only listen to audiobooks at one speed for the rest of your life or never listen to audiobooks again?  16:08 - Would you rather your children, be entirely suggestible with regard to their reading or your reading partner Meredith, be entirely suggestible with regard to her reading? 18:11 - Would you rather never be allowed to keep a book on your shelves, Libraries are immediate read and pass on only or be allowed to keep whatever books you'd like on your shelves, but never be allowed to organize or categorize them in any way?  19:46 - Would you rather have to reread your least favorite book every month or never read your favorite book ever again? 20:29 - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes 20:40 - Blink by Malcolm Gladwell 20:41 - The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell 20:43 - Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 20:57 - Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell 21:23 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 21:48 - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 21:53 - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 22:04 - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 22:16 - Survive the Night by Riley Sager 22:59 - Would you rather never have to wait for the release of a book again or would you want to always have the opportunity to meet your favorite author in person and have a real conversation with them? 24:36 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 25:23 - State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny 27:19 - Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 27:19 - Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett (Pre-order link) 27:43 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree 28:25 - Would you rather never get to read in the hammock again or never get to read in front of a crackling fire again? 30:28 - Would you rather be a writer who wrote an amazing debut, b